The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

The Court remains at Windsor Castle, and no variation
of importance has taker place in the royal circle since
our last.
On Saturday her Majesty and Prince Albert, left
Windsor Castle for Claremont, to visit the Count and
Countess de Neuilly.
Prince Albert is re-arranging the grand armoury at
Windsor.

Eitstritt 114115.
The Bishop of Chester will hold an ordination at
Chester, on the 24th December.
The Preston Pilot of Saturday notices the receipt of
some very beautiful ripe strawberries, gathered from
plants in the open air, near that town.
At the Lancaster sessions, Daniel Elletson, Esq.,
Parrox Hall, Fleetwood, qualified as a magistrate for this
county.
The two floors at Messrs. Rylands factory, at Wigan,
fell on Wednesday, with the ponderous weight of ma-
chinery. Only one female was seriously hurt.
On Sunday week, Mr. Henry Bell, of Preston, returned
thanks in church for the restoration of his eye-sight. He
had been operated upon for cataract by a surgeon in that
town.
The foundation stone of St. Paul's Church, Daneßridge,
near Northwich, Cheshire, was laid on the 12th ultimo,
by the Rev. Richard Greenall, M.A., incumbent of Stret-
ton and Rural Dean.
The young people prepared by the Rev. C. F. Smith,
Incumbent of Pendlebury, near Manchester, for the last
confirmations on the 24th ult., held by the Bishop of
Manchester, consisting principally of factory girls, and
sons and daughters of colliers, have presented that rev.
gentleman with a very handsome pair of silver candle-
sticks.
A CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—On Saturday
week, J. Smith, a mechanic, was travelling by the Man-
chester train, and on arriving at Pendleton, his arm,
which was resting on the window of the carriage door,
with the elbow projecting about three inches over the out-
side, was caught by the doors (which had been negligently
left open) of an empty train, standing on the side rails,
and broken in two places ; his hand and fingers were also
severely lacerated by the plate glass. Smith has a wife
and six children.
A LANCASHIRE CANNIBAL.—Early on Sunday week.
a police-officer observed a man, having the appearance of
an excavator, busily engaged searching in a field, off Shore-
street, Manchester, for something which he appeared to
have lost. The dicer went up to, and questioned the
man, who at first seemed remarkably taciturn, and indis-
posed to answer questions; but at last he gathered that
the fellow he was addressing had that morning been en-
gaged in an up-and-down fight, Lancashire fashion, and
that he was looking for one of his ears—which his ant ago-
nist had bit off! Commiserating the poor wretch, the
policeman assisted him to look for his ear, valich after
awhile he found, when the officer strongly advised him to
appear at the Borough Court next morning, to apply for
a warrant against the brute who had so maimed him.—
'"
Noa, noa,' rejoined the fellow, coolly denositing his
stray ear in his waistcoat pocket, " aw'st do now't at
soart ; it war a fair gradeley stand-up battle, un aw wunt
nother law nor warrant."
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—On Friday, a man and woman,
named Thomas Cooke and Eliza Jones, were brought be-
before the magistrates at Manchester, on suspicion of
murder. The prisoners reside in a court in Dole Field,
in which, at the bottom of a fight of stone steps, a man
was found during one night at the end of last week, with
a feariul contused cut at the back of the head. He was
carried in a state of insensibility to the infirmary, and
died almost immediately. The evidence against the pri-
soners was that a woman living in the court heard a cry
of " Watch I " on the night in question, which was sub-
sequently repeated, or repeated in part, the word being
suppressed when half uttered, Two little girls were the
next witnesses, and said that they saw the male prisoner
drag a man who lay at the bottom of the steps into his
house and bathe his bead with water. and afterwards take
him back to the steps and leave him there. The pri-
soners denied all knowledge of the affair. A surgeon from
the infirmary, who had examined the head of deceased,
said the wound might have been caused by his falling
backwards down the steps, or by a blow from behind.
The evidence against the prisoners, or rather against the
male prisoner (for there was nothing against the woman),
was considered insufficient, and the case, after they had
been put back in the dock several times, that fresh evi-
dence might be obtained if possible. was dismissed.