The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-18 00:00:00

DESPERATE. FRACAS_
fellows and a woman were brot

mitting a deep
in Albert-street, Texteti

upon a r

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the statement of the officers, it appeared that about ten or
eleven o'clock a crowd of disorderly characters h-'
sembled in the above street h.-
armed with sticks and stones.
succeeded in dispersing them
of some other officers. In th
400 Of the Irish popul--''
and commenced an
obliged to seek prote
was about striking

piece of timb'er,
when the timber fell

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.eant Butler

the officers

t. One of the prisoners
the hem] with a huge

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d off with I

was fractured by the blow. Another officer was
by a prisOner armed with a poker, who struck him on the
head and arm. Three or four other officers sustained
considerable injury in the affray. A reinforcement of
police being procured, order was with difficulty restored
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which
.ttacked

and _le prisoners were then apprehended. The female,
who appeared much bruised about the head, was discharged;
the other prisoners were fined £5 each, or, in default, to
be imprisoned two months, with hard labour.
On Thursday, James Glover, a carter, was committed
for trial, for stealing a teak plank from a field belonging
to Messrs. Chaloner and Flemine.

... .„.
On Thursday, James Reynelds, of Comus-street, was
fined 20s. and costs, for having I

by which a man. named Joseph SI
down and severely hurt.

oal-grid u:

hepherd, was thrown

On Thursday, John Williams, mate of the Marion
M'lntyre, sued the owners for wages amounting to £lB 58.
It appeared that the captain had put the complainant into
irons for twenty-six days, and afterwards dismissed him.
Mr. Mansfield said he saw no sufficient evidence to
warrant the captain to put the complainant into irons, and
ordered him to be paid his wages as mate up to the 10th
July, and after that to be paid as an able-bodied seaman.

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

We understand that a new cattle fair is about to be esta-
blished at Birkenhead, for the sale of cattle, horses, pigs,
&c. The first fair will take place on the 10th December.
A young man named David Jones has died at Rhyl of
hydrophobia, having been bitten twelve months ago by
a mad dog.
Mr. Alderman Humberston has been elected Mayor of
Chester by a large majority, his opponent, Mr. Turner,
having only six votes.
John Thompson, a smith in the employ of the railway
company at Birkenhead, has been committed for trial for
stealing from the company's yard a lump of coal weigh-
lug 126 lbs.
John Whitter, master of the national school at the
Chester College, has been fined 40s. and 9s. 6d. costs, for
punishing the son of a police-officer with unnecessary and
unreasonable severity.
At the late agricultural show held at Ruthin, for the
counties of Denbigh and Flint. the prize for the best crop
of turnips was carried off by John Webster, nurseryman,
Denbighshire, son of T. Webster, &q, Everton, L'pool.
Edward Cunningham, a guard on the Chester and
Holyhead railway, has been killed at the Bangor station.
He had overbalanced himself and fallen betyveen two
carriages, by which his legs were so dreadfully mangled
that he died in about an hour.
On Tuesday a bazaar was opened at tha
Birkenhead, for the benefit of the Presbyterian Church, in
Conway-street. On the various stalls were displayed an
excellent assortment of good substantial garments, well
adapted for the comfort and cleanliness of the working
class, on others a very choice assortment of fancy work in
general.

,
TRINITY CHURCH, BIRKENHEAD.—The Rev. Joseph
Baylee has, with his accustomed zeal, erected schools in
connexion with his church, the upper story of which is to
be appropriated for the use of members of the Established
Church, native's of Wales, so that they may have the set.
vice performed in their own tongue. Three very hand-
some stained glass windows have been fixed, by Forrest
and Bromiey, Liverpool. The ornament is in exact con.
formity with the architecture of the church;
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ended 9th Nov.:—Chester and Holyhead main line :
passengers, £1,105 12s. 3d.; parcels, 11., C. and D.,
£95 ss. 4d.; goods, cattle, &c., £574 2s. Id.; mails, £575 ;
total, £2,349195. Bd. Mould ; passengers, £32 18s. 4d. ;
parcels, H., C. and D., £2 Is. Bd. ; goods, cattle, &c.,
£99 ls. 4d. ' • total, £134 lls. 4d. Steam Boats: pas-
sengers, £lBB6s. 4d.; parcels, H., C. and D., £27 18s. 2d.;
total, £216 4s. 6d. Grand total, £2,700 15s. 6d.
CARRIAGE ACCIDENT AT OXTON.—An accident of
rather a serious nature occurred to J. R. Shaw, Esq., and
family, on their return from Oxton Church, on Sunday
morning. Mr. Shaw was driving a spirited horse when,
near to a turn in the road called Hulme-lane, a dog ran
barking at the animal, which started off at a rapid speed,
and, before he could be pulled up, overturned the carriage
at the corner of the lane, and threw the whole of the
parties out, who received some severe contusions.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Baker, an eating-house keeper in
Market-street, was summoned before the magistrates of
Birkenhead for keeping pigs in a place adjoining her
dwelling. The magistrates, understanding that she was
willing to abate the nuisance, ordered her to pay for the
summons ; whereon, the defendant commenced a tirade
of considerable energy, declaring that, instead of the pigs
being, as described, dirty, they were such clean animals
that she could admit them to her bedroom. Upon this,
the case was fully gone into, and the nuisance establi:ehed,
whereby Mrs. Baker was mulcted Ils. 6d. in fine and
costs, instead of 2s. 6d.
LARGE CLAIM FOR RATES.—On Thursday week the
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway
Company weresummoned before the Police-courtat Birken-

head; to show cause why they refused to pay the commis-
sioners the sum of £285 Os. Bd., township rates. The case
was heard by J. D. Case, J. R. Shaw, and R. Barton,
Esqrs., Wm. Hall and Wm. Jackson, Esqrs., declining to
sit, on the ground that they were shareholders. The
commissioners were represented by Mr. Wain, town-clerk,
and the railway company by Mr. J. B. Lloyd, their law-
clerk. The bench took time to consider their decision,
and the case was adjourned to Thursday last, when it was
further adjourned for another week.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Sunday evening last, as
Mr. Mitchell, of Calveley Hall, near Handley, was driving
Miss Jones and Miss Mitchell, of Bretton, in a gig, towards
Chester, the horse suddenly took fright near the Black
Dog, at. Waverton, and ran away. Mr. Mitchell tried in
vain to stop the animal, and on turning a sharp corner the
horse ran into a ditch, where the gig was smashed to pieces,
and all its occupants thrown out with great violence. Miss
Jones received a severe concussion of the brain, and Miss
Mitchell had her shoulder dislocated, and received several
minor injuries. Mr. Mitchell was comparatively unhurt.
Miss Mitchell, we are happy to say, is gradually recovering,
the dislocated limb having been immediately reset; but
Miss Jones lies at present in a very precarious state.—
Chester Courant

TAI EACH.-11ORRIBLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—An
occurrence of an awfully melancholy character has befal-
len a fine young woman, about 22 years of age, daughter
of Thomas Francis, of Tai Bach. It appears that her
father is employed as an . overman at Messrs. Vivian's
Morfa Colliery, and he usually sent his daughter, on pay
days, to receive his wages. She visited the colliery for
that purpose. The parties in the office being busily en-
gaged at the time, the young woman remained to warm
herself near the furnaces, at the mouth of the pit. On
leaving the place she forgot her shawl, but returned in a
minute or two for the purpose of fetching it. Either from
becoming confused by the glare of the furnaces in the
dark evening, or through some unaccountable means, she
fell into the pit, which is abdut It3o yards deep. The
poor girl was precipitated with great violence against a
cross beam, and thence to the bottom of the pit. Her
body was literally dashed to pieces. An alarm was raised,
and her father, who happened to be near the shaft of the
pit at the time, proceeded to gather up the fragments of
her body. His feelings may be imagined, when, he was
informed that the mangled corpse was that of his child.
POISONING OF IA FAMILY IN MACCLESFIRLD.-011
Thursday last, considerable sensation was caused on the
Common, in consequence of the sudden illness of a man

named Rainy and his six children, together with a neigh-
bour's child, who had been Olaying about his house, all of

whom seemed to be labouring-under the effects of some

irritant poison

They had partaken of

me peas•soup

for dinner, and in a short time afterwards they were

simultaneously seized with faintings, perspirations, cord

retching' s

The sym

idly assumed so

alarming an appearance, that medical aid -was deemed
expedient, and Mr. Bland was called in, who foun3 the

family, even to the child which was in arms, in a most

distressing state of agony, with a death-like expression of
countenance and prostration. Immediate remedies were
. .

employed, and such antidotes administered as would
counteract the effects of poison. Fortunately the prom pti-

_ .
tude with which assistance had been called in, caused the
means used to be successful ; and though the patients are

still labouring under severe indisposition, they are going
on well, and it is hoped that they will all recover. The
wife, who was indisposed at the time, did not partake of
the peas. From the fact of the attacks coming on so
soon after dinner, it would seem that the soup was the

exciting cause. The peas were bought at a respectable
shop in Sutton ; and it is possible that they may form
part of a crop in a district where the habit of soaking
grain in arsenic or corrosive sublimate to protect it from
ravage and disease exists. However, a portion of the peas,
together with the soda used in them, are being
cnninnta~ to etlnitlnia fn es,".

which had nearly proved fatal to s
field Courier.
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uses of an occurrence

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THE READING-ROOM AND SCHOOLS IN CONNEXION
WITH THE MARINERS' CHURCH. GEORGE'S DOCK.—The
,leventh annual report of this useful institution has just
le its appearance. The number who have attended

,he navigation school is 904

Id 591 apprentices ; of the; , 76

Lye been promott

tee have

purchased a sixtar

rUCted 311 navigatior

to enab

us. The room is comfo
lit and books, and is ODE

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of bribes