The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-01 00:00:00

MUCH-ADMIRED ALMOND FLAVOUR,

A few drops of this Flavour, added to Custards, Pud-
dings, Cakes, Wines, Jellies, &c., communicate a most
delicious taste of Almonds.—Sold in Bottles, with Direc-
tions, Is. 6d. and 3s.

PRIESTLEY'S FURNITURE PASTE,
For Cleaning and Polishing Furniture without labour or
trouble. This paste is used for cleaning and polishing
every description of Furniture ; whatever preparation
may have previously been used for that purpose, it adds a
high lustre to French polish.—Sold in Pots at Is. each,
or Three Pots for 2s. 6d.

GENUINE METALLIC LUSTRE.
This article is recommended to Housekeepers for clean-
ing all manner of Gold and Silver Plate, Metal Teapots,
Pewter Measures. Brass Fenders, Candlesticks, Stair
Rods, Brass Plates on Doors, Tin Covers, &c., &c.. with
half the usual labour which is generally required with other
preparations, the above lustre leaves a beautiful polish on
the Metal.—Sold in Squares, 6d. and Is. each.
OBSERVE.—The above Preparations are said only at
52, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

anb Vrobittrial D,CIDS.

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We are sorry to hear that Shaleross Jaeson, Esq. in-
tends to resign his office as vice-chairman of the Cheshire
Quarter Sessions, in consequence of the death of his son.

A respectable tradesman, named Casson, died on Sun-
day week during the service in St. Anne's Chapel, Lan-
caster.

WATER WORKS.—A sale of shares in the Liverpool
and Harrington Water Works Company took place on
Wednesday, Mr. Branch officiating as auctioneer, when
six shares were offered, and all of them sold, three pro-
ducing £620 each, the others £615 each.
The New Doctor, Bolton and Blackburn coach, was
upset on Tuesday morning last, whilst leaving the former
place, and all the :passengers were injured more or less.
The accident was occasioned by the breaking of an axle-
tree.

It has been determined to enlarge the Manchester
Infirmary one hundred beds, involving an additional
expenditure of £3.000 a-year ; to meet which, and a pre-
sent deficit of £2,000 a-year, an extensive canvass was
resolved upon.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The late refreshing showers
have made these gardens really delightful resorts. The
spectacle of Mount Hecla, now that the pyrotechnists
have become quite apt in their duties, is most attractive;
and the music by Stubbs's excellent band excites univer-
sal approbation.

DARING ROBBERY.—On Tuesday last the shop of Mr.
Pickle, tobacconist, Bolton, was robbed of upward, of
£2OO during the absence of the servants at dinner. It is
supposed that an entrance had been effected by some per-
son acquainted with the premises through the cellar; and
that, having secured the booty, the thieves left the pre-
mises by the front door.

CHEAP TRIP TO PARIS PER RAILWAY AND STEAMER.
—This delightful excursion, the time for which is now
drawing nigh, begins 0 cause considerable attraction to
those bent on pleasure as well as business, and we doubt
not that the arrangements made by the contractor, who
has just returned from the continent, are such as to en-
sure approbation.
A LONG LE A SE.—The ecclesiastical living of the parish
of Altcar in this county, is described as follows in the
parliamentary inquisition made in MO :—" Alker.—A
parish itself, but hath no parsonage, vicarage, or glebe
lands, or other ecclesiastic benefice, save the tithes of the
town, worth yearly three score and ten pounds, held by
the Lord Molyneux by lease for ten thousand years."

A new fire-escape, was exhibited at Manchester on
Tuesday last. It resembles a very long hammock, with
one end let down, and is, in fact, nothing but a slide or
inclined plane of canvas, from the window to the ground.
Several persons descended the escape in perfect safety;
and enough was done to show that if such an apparatus,
which could not cost more than from £3 to £4, were kept
in the upper floors of large hotels and inns, and of lofty
mills and warehouses, it would afford ample means of
escape in the event of stairs being on fire, or otherwise
impassable.
CHARGES OF THE OFFICIAL ASSIGNEES.—In the
Liverpool Court of Bankruptcy, on Wednesday, in the
case of Messrs. Brocklehurst, Dircks and Co.'s bank-
ruptcy, Mr. Lowndes, solicitor, brought before Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow a question as to the charges made by the
official assignees of the Court of Bankruptcy for re-
ceiving the proceeds on the !sale of bankrupts' property.
In the case before the court the official assignee had re-
ceived a sum of about £2BOO in one payment, and he
claimed to break this into parts, and to charge a graduated
scale of commission upon the parts of this sum so broken,
namely, 2i per cent. on the first £500; 1 per cent. on the
next £lOOO ; and per cent. on the remainder. This Mr.
Lowndes contended was indefensible in principle. The
commissioner entered into the subject at a considerable
length, but the parties subsequently came to an amicable
arrangement.

THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHlP.—This splendid
v?ssel arrived in Kingstown Harbour between one and two
o'clock on Sunday week. The following particulars of
her trip to Ireland may prove interesting :—She left Ply-
mouth dock on Friday, and passed "The Land's End"
at nine o'clock, when she hailed the Devonshire steamer,
for Dublin, and passed that vessel more than two knots an
hour. Shortly after this it was discovered that something
was wrong in the machine-room, and, on examination, it
was found that the condensing air-pump was injured, hav-
ing the guard and four two-inch bolts broken. At three
o'clock, on Saturday morning, she started with one pair of
engines, and made five knots an hour against a strong
head wind. She stopped at nine o'clock, when the valves
were opened and tried, and after this she made up to eight
knots an hour against a head wind, and till she reached
the harbour. The Great Britain will remain at Kingstown
until Thursday next.
PAVING AND SEWERAGE COMMISSIONERS, THEIRS-
DAY.—An application having been received from the Rev.
C. Lawrence, wishing a drain to be made from St. Luke's
Schools, in Cropper-street, it was decided that the chair-
man should give directions accordingly.—Mr. Thos.
H sigh appeared to complain of the want of sewerage in
Fraser-street; on his withdrawal it was recommended
that the street in question should be one of the first at-
tended to next year.—A letter was received from Mr.
Housley, the contractor for the sewerage in Castle-street,
stating that he hoped the commissioners would not hold
him responsible for damage in the shape of broken win-
dows, occasioned by the blasting. It was considered
that he must be held liable according to the terms of the
contract.—A gratuity of £2O was ordered to be given to
Ann Thomas, the widow of the unfortunate man who lost
his life a week or two ago at the Green-lane works. A
further sum of £7 was also ordered by the members of
the board.

MANCHESTER TEN CHURCHES' ASSOCIATION.—A
meeting of this association was held on Wednesday, the
Bishop of Chester in the chair. It appeared that the
erection of four churches in two years had absorbed
£20,478, leaving a balance in hand of £4 673. Three of
the churches were stated to be filled ; that in Butler-
street, Ancoats, being only in the infancy of its existence.
From 1795 to 1805 not one church was consecrated in this
immense parish; from 1815 to 1825, only two; from 1825
to 1835 only five (four of which were built out of the
million parliamentary grant) ; while from 1835 to 1845,
the number consecrated or in course of erection, or about
to be built (the money being already subscribed), is 28,
including the entire rebuilding of three, so that the
churches of this parish, which in 1835 were exactly 30,
may be said to have been doubled in number since that
time. A grant had been made in aid of the endowment
of St. Barnabas of £1,616, and the perpetual curate has
£l5O a year secured to him.
THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES OF ROMISH ORIGIN.--
At the meeting of the British Association,i on, Wednes-
day last, a paper was read from Dr. Black on certain
traces of Roman colonization in Lancashire. Mancunium,
or Manchester, was garrisoned by a Roman auxiliary co-
hort of 760 Frisian soldiers, who, with their wives and
families, resided in the country, remaining behind after
the Roman power was extinct. Although they soon be-
came identified with their Saxon successors, they still re-
tained many of their own customs, with much of their
peculiar dialect. Many of the inhabitants of this district,
especially in the inland and rural parts, have long, and do
to this day, show a distinctive variety of form, feature,
and vernacular dialect from those in the other parts of
England ; and the men of Heaton and the Lancashire
witches, both in the locality of the original settlement,
still retain distinction, the one for the picturesque in man-
ner and speech, and the other for their characteristic
beauty.

DEATH OF A BREAKSMAN IN THE EDGE-HILL TUN-
NEL.—On Wednesday an inquest was held before the bo-
rough coroner, on view of the body of Thomas Sullivan,
a breaksman. It appeared from the evidence of John
Greaves, a fellow-breaksman, that about half-past three
o'clock the day before, (Tuesday,) a number of waggons
wcre coming down the tunnel from Edge-hill to Wapping
at considerable speed. The deceased was acting as breaks-
man, and was informed before starting that some of the
waggons were placed in a wrong position on the rails, with
the breaks behind instead of before. He said, however,
that they would do very well. Mr. James Knox, book-
keeper, at Edge-hill, stated that the duty of the breaks-
man was to examine the cordon of the breaks, and thento
sign a book that all was right. This the deceased did, but
made no report of the waggons having been reversed.
When descending the tunnel, one of the breaks gave way,
and the deceased fell off the waggons, and was crushed to
death under the wheels. A verdict of "accidental death"
was returned.

ANNUAL GENERAL SESSIONS.—On Thursday, the an-
nual general sessions of the county were held at the
Court-house, Preston, for the usual business, and also to
consider the expediency of providing a County Lunatic
Asylum, or asylums in the southern division. The Rev.
Jonathan Brooks presided, and there was a pretty nutne-
rCus attendance of magistrates. The accounts were read,
and were referred to a committee, and ordered to be printed
and sent, as usual to the overseers of unions. Mr. Ilul-
ton, the county treasure, applied for a roll of halfpenny
in the pound for general purposes ; for the Lunatic Asylum
* of a penny ; for constabulary expenses a roll varying
from a farthing in some of the hundreds to Id., and in one
instance lid. ; for bridges various rolls—that for Kirk-
dale Is. 4d. in the pound, all of which were granted. The
new mode of keeping the accounts was not considered, and
at the wish of Mr. Hulton the court decided that in fu-
ture all monies should be paid over to the treasurer, and
that the Chairman of Quarter Sessions should from time
to time, as required, make orders on him for payment
of certain sums into the bank, which orders shall be his
discharge for the same.—Mr. T. B. Addison said it had
been deemed expedient at the last meeting to establish a
new lunatic asylum ; tbat Newton was considered a cen-
tral and favourable site, and that a liberal tender for the
land required (twenty acres,) had been made by a gentle-
man there. The position of the committee was however
now considerably altered by Lord Ashley's bill relative to
county asylums, and a question arose whether the four
boroughs of Manchester, Liverpool, Wigan, and Bolton,
would be required to erect separate asylums, or contract
with the county for the maintenance of the pauper luna-
tics. Some difficulties fmight arise, as the bill probably
recognized Liverpool and Manchester as district counties
within themselves. If so the necessity for a new asylum
would be done away with. He therefore moved the re-
appointment of the committee, with power to carry out
the resolutions of the last meeting—guided, however by
the issue of the bill. This motion was carried. The rule
respecting the treatment of prisoners under sentence of
death, issued by Sir J. Graham was adopted.—Mr. Earle
gave notice of a motion for the next meeting. in Septem-
ber, that the necessary measures be immediately adopted
for removing the business of the sessions from Pres ton to
Newton. There was no other business of importance,
and the meeting separated.
I3A:res, tepid, vapor, and medicated, always in rea-
diness at the Victoria Baths, Cases-street, three doors
from Clayton-square, and Great George-street, opposite
lamea!* market; Richard Bird. proprietor.