The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

APPREHENSION Of
Wednesday night. Mr. Superintendent Fanning

A GANG OF B

county police, and Murphy, of the I
force, assisted by Sergeant Pickering

recent outrages an

htburne, and George Tudor. Oliver and Tudor
are well known poachers, and have been previously con-
victed. On Searching Oliver's house, a gun and bludgeon

RGLARS.-Ofl
of the

James I

quantity of powder,

previously ap-prehended by the

n the outr

MOCK AUCTIONS AGAIN

magistrates on Tuesd

—A young man applied totho

experienced at an auction-room in Castl

A chain was put up, and tt

belonging to the shop agkedj

vatioti to him. He replied thnt it

son beside beside him. A scene was then got up, and the atuc•
tioneer ordered him into custody. Mr. Rushton said the
only remedy was an action for false imprisonment. The
best way was for people not to go near them. There were
complaints every clay of their conduct, People went in,

and were not only treated as the

.onaplainarit had been,

but worse

YESTERDAY

A SERIOUS " LARK."
and Charles Jones, three pauper inmates of the West
Derby Workhouse, were put to the bar under the follow.

—James Claytc

John Cart

house, stated that on the previous afternoon his attention
had been drawn to a disturbance going on in the young
men's ward; he then saw the prisoners dragging a pauper
named William Lowrie, whose hands were bound, and
who was struggling and calling out vigorously ; they eon-
t- st him forward to a 1-

tinned to thrun until they came large
boiler used for the reception of cold water, and which at
the time had in it 150 gallons ; into this boiler they
plunged the bound man head foremost, with his feet up,
and left him, and had it not been for the immediate assist-
ance rendered he would undoubtedly have been drowned.
The prisoners designated the matter as " alark." Clayton
and Carter who had previously been before the magis
trates for disturbances in the workhouse, were ordered to
pay £5 each, or, in default be imprisoned for two months;
and Jones 50s. and costs, or be imprisoned for one month.

DESPOILING POST-LETTERS OF THEIR STAMPS.—
An elderly man named John Hemingway, in the service
of Mr. Hughes, solicitor, Lime-street, was charged by
his employer with having taken a number of prepaid
stamps from letters which had been given to him for the
purpose of posting. Mr. Hughes stated, that in conse-
quence of having been advised by several of his agents
that letters received by them, and which bore evident
marks of having had Queen's heads attached to them,
had been charged 2d. each postage, in consequence of the
stamps having been removed from them, he took means
to detect the person who removed the stamps. He
applied to Mr. Clough, who placed Tuck, one of the
detective officers, on the watch near to the post-office at
the railway; and whilst so watching, the prisoner was
sgen to remove a stamp from a letter, which he posted.
The prisoner was then taken into custody. The magis-
tratesharness.
remanded him for seven days.
STEALING GIG HARNESS.—John Lloyd and Philip
Sweeney, two fellows well known to the police, were com-
mitted for trial on the charge of having stolen from the
coach-house of Mr. James, Huskisson-street, on the
twopre-
betteernrieangetelamps,
saiodudsles d, a L
&c. &e.
seTtsheofeogai
h
means of false keys, and the prisoners were detected with
the property in their possession,
v

Bigtrirt petus.

Mr. Noble, the Successful competitor for the Salford
Peel Monument; has obtained the commission to execute
a similar work at Tamworth.

Mr. Thomas Patten, of Warrington, brassfounder,
built, in 1766',. the first battering-mill for copper and brass.
He was grandfather of the present member for North
Lancashire.

On Thursday a ploughing match took place at Tarleton,
on ,the ground reclaimed on Martin Mere by Sir 'l'. G.
Hesketh. The first prize was won by the hon. baronet's
ploughman.

- The Ormskirk Steeple-chases are appointed to come off
to-morrow (Wednesday), under the stewardship of Sir
T. G. Hesketh, Bart., Captain Anderton, and R. de
Trafford, Esq. They are to come off in the New Mirk.
The late Mrs. Butler Cole bequeathed to Mr. Dixon,
surgeon, of Preston, her medical attendant, the sum of
£3,009. That gentleman has, it is said, declined
receive the legacy, and has executed a deed of
renunciation. This sum will be divided among the ne-
phews and nieces of the deceased.
The Illustrated News of Saturday gives a sketch of s
scene in which a poor factory girl was discovered among
the ruins of the cotton-mill after the explosion last week
at Stockport. She had been protected by the way in
which the beams had fallen, from being crushed, but bad
been suffocated by the smoke whilst engaged' in prayer.
She was on her knees, with her hands in the attitude of
supplication—and so her spirit passed away.
THE COUNTY MAGISTRACY.—There are, at the present
time, 440 acting maeistrates for this county,. viz. 57 for
Lousdale Hundred, 27 for Amounderness, 73 tor Bhck-
burn Hundred, 23 for Leyland Hundred, 113 for West
Derby, and 147 for Salford. The three oldest justices are
Lord Skelmersdale, who qualified January 23rd, 1800;
Edmund Hornby, Esq., of Dalton Hall, who qualified
October 6th, 1807; and Matthew Wilson, Esq., of Esh-
ton Hall, who qualified July 20th, 1808,
CHRIST CHURCH, SOUTHPORT.—We perceive that on.
Thursday next this church will be re-opened after its re-
cent enlargement and improvement,. when sermons will
be preached by the Revds. Canon- Stowell and W. Pol-
lock. About 130 free sittings will be gained by the en-
largement, which has of course occasioned a considerable
expenditure of money, a large portion of which has not
yet been subscribed. We believe- that parties leaving by
the ten o'clock train from the Tithebarn-street station
will be in time for the morning service.
TRACT SOCIETY'S PRIZE. ESSAY.—In August, 1849,:a
prize of £lOO was offered by the Religious Tract Society.
for the best essay on " The present state of our manufac-
turing and other working classes, so far as such classes are
affected by moral causes, and by personal character and.
habits, and the best means of promoting their temporal
and spiritual welfare." Fifty pounds for the second best..
The prizes not to exceed six printed sheets, or ab')ut 144 pages of the usual tract size. The Rev. Henry Dunckley,
A.M., baptist minister, of Salford, Manchester, last week
received the highest prize of £100; there being 180 corn-.
petitors. The essay (which will be published shortly) is
entitled " The glory and shame of Britain."
ANOTHER RoILER EXPLOSION AT MANCHESTER.—
On Tuesday the boiler attached to some premises situated.
in Riga-street, Manchester, exploded, totally destroying-
the building,, and causing, it is to be feared, a serious lose
of life. The building, which was of considerable extent,
was underlet to various tenants, who employed together
about forty persons. The explosion utterly destroyed the
building, and the whole of the persons employed were
thus suddenly covered with the ruins. In the alarm and
confusion attending the accident, it was impossible to as-
certain the number who contrived to extricate themselves.
Two persons were taken out dead and frightfully muti-
lated. This unfortunate disaster has proved to be much
more fatal than was at first anticipated. Late on Tuesday
night two more bodies were exhumed, and an Wednesday
four others were extricated, but in none of them were
signs of life remaining. There is still another body
known to be in the ruins.

PROPOSED MODEL FARM FOR COTTON CULTIVATION
IN THE WEST INDIES.—On Wednesday a meeting of
cotton-spinners and manufacturers was held at Farnworth,
near Bolton, to hear a proposal for the establishment of a
model farm in the island of Trinidad. Thomas Bazley,
Esq., president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce,
took the chair. Mr. Walkinshaw, late of Trinidad, is the
gentleman with whom the proposition originated, and the
plan which he submitted to the meeting was that £lO,OOO
should be raised, and lent to him at interest, for the pur—
pose of carrying it out, and for promoting the growth of
cotton in the West Indies generally. It was proposed
that the money should be raised in such sums as might
he convenient to the promoters of the undertaking ; Mr.
Walkinshaw to transmit periodical reports to the lenders
and the public press, as to the progress and results of his
operations. Mr. Walkinshaw's scheme met with the
general approbation of the meeting, and a resolution was
passed appointing a committee to act with him in carrying
it out.

MEETING OF FARMERS..—At a meeting of farmers and
others connected with agriculture, holden at Ormskirk.
on Thursday week last, the following resolutions were
unanimously agreed to That this meeting consi-
ders it would be of advantage to the agricultural interests
of this neighbourhood, and tend very much to simplify
calculations in selling produce, if the weights and mea-
sures used here were the same as in most other districts;
viz., of the legal standard of 112 lbs. per cwt. and the ali-
quot parts thereof ; the stone 14 lbs. or one-eighth part;
and the bushel of potatoes three-quarters of a hundred
weight, that is, 84 lbs., or six of such stones.--2d. That
the attention of the committee be also directed to the long
practised system of exactirg double tolls in the Li%erpool
markets at certain seasons of the year, called fair days,
long after such fair, or any advantage therefrom has
ceased to exist, and to the possibility there may be of get-
ting relief from such burden through memorializing the
town council on the subject. A committee has beer'
formed for the carrying out of these resolutions.
SLEEP.—The poet Young says, " Sleep is great nature's
second course—the balm of hurt minds." Johnson says,
"It is the parenthesis of human woe." Sleep being 'thus
appreciated by mankind, how desirous ought we to be
that all should tranquilly enjoy " sweet repose,!-Lthe ge-
neral obstruction to which is through an unhealthy action
of the liver or other viscera. A little attention to the
" young disease," by having recourse to a mild aperient,
often producesAllt- most salutary effect, and for such pur-
pose Fgampton's Pill of Health stands prominent in
public opinion.
A PERSON SEN

ENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD CURED OF A
D LEG BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—
s. Larenden, of No. 2, Richardson's-h-,'"'

ailclings, Gos—

four years ago, suffered with dreadful wounds in herleg,
and which several medical men both i ratriraiid Eng-
land had been unable to cure ;

weintense,

to her bed. Ultim , y the advice of her friends, she
made trial of way's Ointment and Pills, and these
celebrated edies have healed her wounds, and she can
now wallrabout with the greatest comfort.

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