The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

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Messrs. Lawe and Sidgreaves, bankers, Preston, are
about to open a branch establishment at Ormskirk.
Elizabeth Kirby suddenly dropped down dead in her
shop, at St. Helen's, on Monday
Mr --

Thompson, of Church-street, St. Helens, has
been appointed distributor of stamps.
The Queen has granted a pension of £lOO per annum
to Mrs. Liston, widow of the eminent surgeon ; and £5O
to the widow of Mr. Sturgeon, of Manchester.
The Mayor of Manchester is working hard, in con—
junction with the Dean and Bishop, to establish a Frees
Library and Museum in that city.
Preston, among other phenomena, has a " Peaceable
Burial Society." Do they bury in churchyards where
there is no quarrel about baptism ?
On Thursday morning, about half-past six o'clock, the
boiler at Holm-house colliery, near Wigan, exploded,
and a man and woman lost their lives, while several others
were severely but not dangerously scalded.
Mr. Catterall, the manager of Messrs. Tomlinson,
extensive corn-millers at St. Helens, was found dead its
his bed on Friday morning week. Only an hour previously
he had been talking to his wife.

The people of St. Helens have presented Mr. Henry
Wolfenden, the agent in the passenger department of the
St. Helens and Runcorn Railway, with a handsome gold
watch and appendages, as a mark of their esteem.
Messrs. Pilkington, the extensive glass-manufacturers,
of St. Helens, intend to transmit to the Exhibition one of
the most magnificent specimens of workmanship in glass
ever yet produced. Tt is intended to represent St. Michael
and the Angel ; a subject taken from the Revelation.
HIGH SHERIFF.--Thomas Percival Heywood, 'Esq.'.
eldest son of Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart., of Clare—
mont and Blackpool, has received the appointment of
High Sueriff of this county for the present year. Messrs.
Wilson, son, and Deacon, solicitors, of Preston will be
the under sheriffs.

On TfiuiZ'y—lir. Brindley delivered the first of a series
of lectures, under the auspices of the Literary and Philo—
sophical Society at Preston. The subject was " Men of
Genius." Mr. Higgin, who occupied the chair, compli—
mented the learned doctor on the taste, erudition, and
skill he had displayed.

A billiard match for £lOO, between Mr. James Tabley;
of Bradford, and Mr. John Smith, of Manchester, took
place in the large room of the Exchange Buildings, Brad—
ford, on Thursday evening last. The playing commenced
at half-past six o'clock, and closed at eleven. The game
was 100 up, and it is needless to say that it was of a-
first-rate character. At the conclusion, Mr. Jas. Tabley
was declared the winner by 146.

THE ST. HELENS SAVINGS BANK.—The collieries
which belonged to the Messrs. J. and W. Johnson,
actuary and sub-actuary of the St. Helens Savings Bank,
and which have, since the discovery of the frauds, been in.
the hands of the bank trustees and managers, have been
disposed of for £14,000 to parties in Liverpool and North-
wich. Soon after the new bill becomes law, it is under-
stood that another bank for savings will be established in
St. Helens.

MORE FIRES AT MANCHESTER.—On Tuesday evening
a fire broke out in a mill belonging to Messrs. Shatwell
and Co., Pinmill Brow, which terminated in its partial
destruction. The fire, it is supposed, originated in the
top storey, but from what cause cannot be ascertained.
Whilst a number of the fire brigade, with the senior cor—
poral, were engaged on the top of the staircase in laying
the pipes, a portion of the building gave way, just clearing
the edge of the staircase, and leaving it erect, with the
brigade men standing upon the top of it, and they were
obliged to remain in this perilons position for some time
before they could with safety descend, The prop-

eoperty is
insured for £6,000, but the loss, it is stated, will be much
greater than this.—Another fire broke out on the same
evening in the cotton factory of Messrs. Robert Mars—
land and Co., Ancoats, which destroyed property to the
amount of £5,000

AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.—Margaret Morris, a
married woman from Ramsbottom, was brought up by the
police at the Haslingden Police-office, on Monday last,
under the following circumstances. She was found, about
half-past two o'clock in the morning, crawling on her
hands on the road near Haslingden, and, not knowing
who or what she was, she was taken to the police-office,
where she was locked up for safety. On being asked by
Mr. Turner who she was, and what she was doing there,
she stated that she set off from Ramsbottom on Sunday
night for the purpose of going to confess her sins to the
catholic priest, near Rawtenstall. When she got to the
priest's house, however, she did not see him, and after
coming on to the road again she met with a man and
a woman, who put her into the road for Haslingden.

when, as a penance for the sin she had committed-, she
had crawled on her hands and knees. She stated that the
Angel Gabriel had appeared unto her, and had ordered her
to go to the priest. She said she was a true catholic, and
there was only one true church, which was theirs, and all
the rest were pretenders. The woman's hands, one fit
particular, appeared to be worn through the skin, and her
knees were much hurt. Her dress, which appeared to be
a good one, was worn through, and the petticoats were
all covered with dirt. The police were ordered to take her
back to her husband at Ramsbottom.—Blackburn
Standard.

THE DOINGS OF A PICKPOCKET.—WE extract the fol-
lowing morceau from the written statements of a convicted
pickpocket, named John Flanagan, alias Thomas Norris,
as given in the annual report of the chaplain to the Pres-
ton House of Corrortinn •—., Th. h... —l.—_ e

ries are the railway stations, entrances to the theatres and.
-concerts, banks, auctions, (especially in private houses,)
American and other packets at Liverpool, and Hamburgh
packets at Hull. There are to this day in Liverpool, as
well as Hull and other seaports, police ' made right'
(conniving or facilitating.) You may put confidence is
nna np fm... ..n C...-

never tried it u. In Hu it
, op more 1
is something inzur the same way as Liverpoopl, but not ll
for
getting so much money. Now in summer, at Hull, me
and three more men might get six or eight pounds a week
a piece, but we had to keep very steady, and a sharp look
out, for it's very gammy' (a town where thieves are taken
sharper than elsewhere—a compliment to Mr. M`Manus
and the police.) If men go on the same line in Hull, they
must split out' (separate.) When I was in Hull, be-
sides the ' mob' I was with (a mob consists of any num-
ber of associated thieves, between three and seven or
eight) there were eight or ten mobs more working the
packets and railway stations. All the time I was in Hull
I was never got into by the police, for I always kept good
hours, whilst the men who were with me went out at
night screwing' (housebreaking.) All the time at Hull,
and twenty miles round, I was very fortunate, with only
a cross at Brigg statute fair. At a public-house they said
I was trying to pick the landlady's pocket, and some farm-
labourers in the house attacked me, knocked me down
and kicked me like a football. I should have been killect
but for a young farmer who came up. I was had,
long time afterwards. Nir"..\l

east fithitg.

-flaying all her deadweight now on board, can receive light
freight only.—Loading east side Prince's Dock, and will sail
in all this week

POTTER