The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

/B 151 ritt Althls.

Dr. Brindl ey delivered a lecture at Ormskirk, on Friday
week, on " The Reformation historically considered."

A number of white rats have lately iieeh discovered in
the Ainsworth colliery, near Bury.
At Preston, last week, a man was fined £5 for biting
off the nose of a man with whom he had had a quarrel a
few hours-previously.
T. B. Addison, Esq., has served the Preston Town
Council with a writ for the recovery of £52 10s., the
amount of his salary as recorder. The Council dispute
the amount.

Mr. Nicholls, the Chester county-bridge-master, is to
have his salary raised from £3OO to £4OO, with the under-
standing that his time and services are to be devoted en-
tirely to the duties of his office.
The magistrates of Southport have fined four men £5
each for throwing burning coals upon a half-witted crea-
ture, named Mary Johnson, and stealing several cakes
from her basket, because she refused to treat them with
drink.

On Sunday W. J. Livingston, aged fourteen years,
preached at the Phonetic Institution, Stanley-street,
Bury. It was stated that he commenced preaching when
he was only seven years of age. There was a large con
gregation.
A QUEER Fix.—On Thursday morning, before day-
break, a policeman on duty in Radnor-street, Manchester,
found a drunken man seated on the ground with his legs
and arms thrust each through a pane of glass in a cellar
window.

The large cotton-miil of Messrs. Wallace and Co.,
Chepstow-street, Manchester, was destroyed by fire on
Friday. The loss is estimated at £22,000. The building
was insured in the Plicenix-office for £6,000, and the stock
and machinery in the West of England, the Alliance, the
Royal Exchange, and the Manchester, for £4,000 each.
An inquest was held on Wednesday, at Rochdale, on
the bodies of two young females, named Martha Farrow
and Sarah Kegg, who had lost their lives by the falling of
a floor in a woollen mill of Messrs. John Chadwick and
Son, Okenrod. A steam-pipe crossing the rcom from
the boiler was broken, and upwards of twenty persons
were scalded.
At the adjourned quarter sessions held at Kputsford,on
Wednesday, the following gentlemen qualified as magis-
trates for the county of Chester : Edward Joynson, Esq ,
Downs-cottage, Altrincham ; William Nield, Esq., High-
lawn, Bowdon ; Edmund Ilaworth, Esq., Sale-lodge, for
the Altrincham district; and Captain Lyon, (the eldest
son of Thomas Lyon, Esq.), of Appleton-hall; Dennis
Brundrit, Esq.,, South-bank ; and Philip Whiteway, Esq.
of Waterloo-road, for the Runcorn district.
CAUTION TO LOVERS OF SHELL FISH.—On Tuesday
evening a son of Mr. Robert Farmer, builder, St. Helen's,
immediately after having eaten about half a dozen whelks.
felt the effect of their poisonous nature. His frame swelled,
his eyes became glossy, his lips turned black, and hard
blotches appeared on various parts of his body. Mr.
Webster, surgeon, was promptly applied to, and under his
judicious treatment the young man• may be said to have

recovered.
MANCHESTER, JAN. B.—A public Free Library and
Museum for the working and other inhabitants of this
borough, is about to be established here. It is proposed
to raise, including the purchase-money of the building, a
sum of about £7500 to accomplish the object in view. 76
gentlemen and firms have given £4319, to which may be
added the sum of £2OOO, which has been appropriated by
the overseers to this purpose, believing that it is essen-
tiallya public purpose and for the public advantage.

A little chim.nei-sweeper has perished at Manchester in
the flue of a manufactory. It appeared at the inquest
that there was a great want of caution in the engineer and
the master-sweeper. The flue had not been sufficiently
cooled and ventilated, and the poor boy was suffocated by
the heated gases, as well as by falling on the hot soot.
The coroner's jury directed that a copy of the depositions
be sent to the Watch Committee, with a request that the
Parties concerned should be prosecuted for using climbing
boys contrary to law.
DOINGS OF THE CONFERENCE PARTY IN BOLTON.—
Since the expulsion of Messrs. Ormerod, Raper, and
Harrison, the dominant party have requested the super-
intendents of the Fletcher-street Sunday-school to dis.
miss Mr. Raper from the office of teacher ; the superin-
tendents refused ; Mr. Raper offered to withdraw if the
teachers thought the interests of the school would be
promoted ; the teachers decided that Mr. Raper should
remain, and if anything could be alleged against him, it
should be done according to rule, at the next quarterly

meeting in February next. The upshot of the matter is,
that the trustees have closed the Sunday school. The
officers of the school are advised that, being the tenants,
and paying the rent, they could command an entrance,
but have refrained from doing so. On Sunday week, the
officers, teachers, and scholars, found the school doors
barricaded and defended ; they stood in the rain till the
chapel opened. Last Sunday, the doors were again
fastened up, the school-yard being filled with trustees and
police-officers (!) stationed in front of the gates. Thus
700 scholars, or an average attendance of 500, are scat-
tered to the winds. The teachers have, however, taken
them to their houses, and instructed them there. It is
rumoured that the school will be opened under new
management on Sunday next —Preston Guardian.