The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

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On Tuesday, a man, named Peter Burns, fell into the
Clarence -Dock, and was drowned.

On Wednesday, the foundation stone of the National
School at Fleetwood, to be erected as a testimonial to Sir
Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, was laid amidst great rejoicing.

On Tuesday morninz. a child named Fagan was found
dead in his bed, in Marquis-street ; and another child
named Ramsden, in Park-street.
On Tuesday, a boy named Lowe, broke his arm whilst
playing with ether boys on some waste ground, near
Northumberland-street.
A contract has been entered into for taking down and
rebuilding the parish church at Runcorn. The work will
be proceeded with immediately.

On Monday, Sarah HaHain. aged thirty-seven, residing
in Lionel-street, was found dead in bed. She bad been
labouring under pulmonary consumption for three years.
On Sunday week. as a boy named John Hitchman, was
bathing in Tranmere-pool. be got out of his depth, and
was drowned.

The Blackburn factory operatives have signified their
approval of the determination to work the mills only four
days a week, adopted by the masters, and call upon the
later to assist. thew F. obtaining a tcn bums bill.

On Sunday week James Holden, a weaver, whilst eat-
ing voraciously at a beer shop in Oldham-road, Manches-
ter, was choked by a piece of beef, and died almost im-
mediately.

CRICKET.—A match was played on Thursday between
the aympus, of this town, and St. Helen's cricket clubs,
on the tOrcner's ground, Tosteth-park, which was won by
the Olympus, with eight wickets to go down.
Mr. Justice Wight man finished the criminal business on
Thursday afternoon, and was occupied during the whole
of Friday in trying civil causes. On Saturday morning he
returned to London.

QUICK WORK.-Mr. Pollock, barrister, left the Crown
Court on Thursday morning at a quarter past ten o'clock,
went to Manchester by railway, attended the Salford ses-
sions, dtfended a prisoner, anti was again at two o'clock
performing the same office for a prisoner in the Crown
Court of this town.

The masters of the steam-packets frequenting this port,
have presented to Capt. M'Bride, who has recently been
promoted from the Clarence to the mastership of the
Alpert Dock, with a gold snuff box, as an expression of
their approbation of his gentlemanly conduct during a
period of sixteen years. _ _

It will be seen be an advertisement in another part of
our paper that the Rev. M. Adolphe Alonod will deliver
a lecture at St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle-
street, on Friday evening next, on the state and prospects
of evangelical religion ou the Continent. We understand

he will also preach in the same church on Sunday nest,
BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY. The half-yearly
meeting of this Company was held on Wednfsday, when
the repot of the state of the works, &c. read to the pro-
prie'ors present, was deemed very satisfactory. Mr.
Ambrose Lee was elected a director, in the room of Mr.
13oolby, who has resigned in consequence of not residing
in the neighbourhood.

The United Order of Forresters had a grand field day
on I'hursday. The morning was fine, and the members,
attired in complete custonne, formed into procession, and
Paraded the principal streets. They then gathered to the
Zoological Gardens, the centre of attr act,on—where old
British sports were indulged in through the evening. The
Concert Hall was thrown open, and dancicg was. conti-
nued for upwards of an hour.
STONEMASONS.—A meeting of the operative stone-
masons of this town and neighbourhood was held on
Tuesday. Resolutions were passed pledging the meeting
to '' continued exerriongS, until the masons of England

have one and HA become members of the association,"
and recommending, "for defensive purposes, that a (;o-
operative Building Association be formed, in order to
secure employment for the masons when they are unable
to obtain it elsewhere on fair and honourable terms."

PRINCE A LBEaT.—H is royal highness having expressed
himself much gratified wit.: the works of art executed by
Mr. John It. Isaac, of Castle-street, on the occasion of
the royal visit, has been pleased to appoint him his
medalist, lithographer, and engraver at Liverpool. His
royal highness was presented, through Mr. lvaac, with
the gold medal, accompanied be an address. beautifully
iliumiaateal ..n tudium, rind emblazoned in a v ry elegant
manner, which was solely executed by Mr. Isaac.

IMMKNSE PLACARD.—At the Pik', office, Preston, on
Saturdao; a placard of immense dimensions was suspend-
ed. It contained the words, " The Pilot is now enlarged
to 48 columns," and covers paper to an extent of twenty-
four feet long by thirteen wide. The letters of the word

altog,.tfier is of a s'ze never t qua!led in a provincial town.
Printers will understand its magnAtrle when we state
that it is forty•eicht sheets of double royal.
EXCESSIVE MORTALITY IN MANCHESTER.—A let-
ter addressed to the Mayor of Manchester, by Mr. O. K.
Holland, appears in the Manchester Guts-than of Sato--.
day, in which it is stated that aii unusual amount c f fat I
disease is now prevalent in Manchester, hei►,g principahy
in various forms of bowel complaint. It appears from a
table given, that in eight of the ten registrars' districts
(which comprise what is popularly called Manchester).
the ordinary number of deaths is about GOO per month;
but that, in Jay last, it was 1,034, of which 389 are
stated to have been caused or accompanied by bowel com-
plaint. If the deaths of London-road and Deansgate
districts were added to the above, it is probable that the
excess of deaths, caused by this class of diseases, would
be loomd to exceed 120 weekly.

BEAUMARIS REGATTA.—The race for a purse of £l5,
for yachts of eight and not exceeding twen-y lons, was
won by Mr. F. Little's Jilt, beating the Hon. Col. Pen-
nart's Diamond, Mr. W. W. Shand's Petrel, Mr. H. Ty-
rer's Nautilus, Mr. W. Owen's Samuel Smith, Mr. Jo-
seph Edward's Editha, and Mr. R. B itley'a Dickey Sam.
The principal prize, of £5O, for yachts not exc,edmg
thirty tons, was won by Mr. bating
Mr. Moss's Phoebe, Mr. J. Grindroil's I eander, and Mr.
H. Be.iver's Zoe. A prize of £25 was contested for by
yachts exceeding fifteen tons, and not exceeding th;rty
tons. Four s'atted—Mr. It. Batty's Dickey Sam, Nlr.
W. W. Shand's Petrel, the Hon. Col. Pennant's Dia-
mond, and Mr. F. Little's Jilt. Immediately after.start-
ing the Jilt took the lead, and kept it the whole way, win-
ning by seven minutes, Diamond second, and Petr, 1
third, Dickey Sam having resigned, being at the time lull
a (latter of an hour behind ht.r opponents.
SHOCKING SUICIDE AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On
Thursday morning great sensation was created in t!-,e
neighbourhood of Ancoats, Manchest,r, by a man who
cut

had Ws own throat attempting to destroy also the Me
of his wife. The man's name is Abraham Ashworth, and
it is state I that soon after 7 o'clock on Wednesday morn-
ing the wife was awoke by his untying the strings of her
night-cap, and perceived to her great horror that her

band had cut his throat, and was attempting to reach her
own with the same razlr. It is said that she instantly
rose from the bed and ran into the street, pursued by the
husband, where some passers-by interfered, and the as.
sailaut was easily disarmed, t

from the loss of blood. A suig on was sent for, but the
unfortunate man, who is supposed to have been labouring

posed to have been the

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deceased's mind. He was a weaver by trade, and only 18
years of age. His wife is only 16 years old.
EETING OA THE HIGHWAY COMMI3SIONERS.-011
Tuesday, the usuil weekly meeting of the Conimi-sioners
of Highways was held at the Parish-office Mr. John
Holmes presided. The following members were present :
Whitby, Denton, Walthew, Leyland, Ktlshaw, 'fume,
Morris, and Lawrence. Mr. Duncan reported that the
walls of the engine-house in Green-lane were nearly up to
their height, but that there was a want of stone for going
on wilt their works. At the suggestion of Mr. Mason,
the board sent a written communication to the Dock
Committee to know when the dock-works at Wapping
would be commenced. A letter from the. BooVe Water-
works office announced that one of their pipes had been
broken by the town-water-woo ks in Litherldrot-alley. Mr.
Duncan made the following report on this subject :
" The iron pipe referred above cannot, in fairness. be
charged to the commissioners. 1 can prove that it was of
so defectkte a character, and so injured by some chemical
agent, th 4 I actually cut a portion' of it with my knife.
The Bcotle Water-works Company ought rather to pay
the commissioners for finding it out." At the suggestion
of Mr. Lawrence, a water report, handed by Mr. Simp-
son, to the parliamentary committee some time since,
was or.lered to be laid on the table. The bo.ird soon
after adjourned.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The Collins family have been
charming the audiences at the gardens during the past
week. On Tuesday, the United Ancient Order of
Foresters held a grand fete, of which we have elsewhere
artemnted a brief sketch; and for this week the celebrated
silver sac-imrns, since their first appearance, has attracted
bTtcsMhopohat much
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THE SHO TING SEASON —ln ailo her part of our raper
will he found an advertisement of a gun, made by Mr.
Bentley, of South Castle-street. in this town. The ad-

vantages possessed by this gun ovrr those in general use
"re So 'baldest, that they will be at once adrnAted by all
who take (he trouble to inspect it. But what 'enders it

an Improvement upon all others is the mode of fixing the
nipple or touchhole, which is so cent rived that an accident
wit., that particular part—hitherto the most unsafe pat t of
the fowling piece—is rendered impossible. Colonel llam.
r aud the late Mr. Johnson. of this town. were of opinion
that a t, ode of discharging a gun try driving the flame horn
the Priming directly to the centre of the charge was
great desideratum; and this, with the improvement we
have jo-t noticed, is now srfunnttliNhell by Mr Bentley.
Wp Icpqpitzpend our spotting rrtt4t, to cull upon him.