The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

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The petty sessions at Knutsford have been postponed
to to-morrow (Wednesday.)

Ellen Rigby, the infant daughter of Mr. Robert Mars.
den Rigby, twine-spinner, of Freckleton, has two grand.
fathers, two grandmothers, and four great-grandmothers,
all now living.—Preston Chronicle.
On Sunday night week, the schooner Ebenezer, of
Preston, from Dundalk, with grain, was wrecked off
Southport. A passenger was drowned, and one of the
crew died shortly after being brought on shore by the
Southport life-boat.
The captain of a Prussian vessel, at Lancaster, having
committed some breach of the by-laws, was summoned
before the magistrates. Mistaking the policeman for the
mayor's own man, he accepted the summons as a formal
invitation to dinner, and ordered his flag to be hoisted.
He was, however, speedily apprised of his error.
ROMANISM HATRS INSTRUCTION.—The Daily News
informs us that the Manchester and Salford Municipal
Education Association—the promoters of the plan ushered
into the world by the Rev. C. Richson—has met with its
first serious check by the secession of the Roman Catho.
lics in a body. A declaration has been issued, in the form
of a circular, signed by the whole Roman Catholic priest-
hood of Manchester and Salford, in which they state their
objections to the scheme.
ORMSKIRK ANNUAL STEEPLE CHASES.—The annual
steeple chase at Ormskirk took place on Wednesday, over
the New Park, under the stewardship of Sir T. G. Hes-
keth, Bart., Capt. Anderton, and Randolphus de Trafford,
Esq. The Ormskirk Open Steeple Chase : The Hero, I;
Jesuit, 2 ; Nelly Brown, 3. Newburgh and Ariadne also
ran.—The Hunt Stakes : Denison, 1 ; Saltpetre, 2. Cash
and Chieftain also ran.—The Selling Stakes : Falcon, 1 ;
Young Liverpool, 2 ; Laurel Bell, 3. Vauxhall Buck
and Miss Jeanette also ran.

WARRINGTON CORPORATIONEXPENDITURE. —Thefol-
lowing estimate of expenditurefor the ensuing Council,was
readat the meeting lastweek :—On account ofsanatory com-
mittee, £162; watch committee, £200; fire engine com-
mittee, £lOl 10s. ; finance committee, £llO ; general
purposes committee, £2O ; balance of present liabilities,
£ll7 18s—a borough rate for which sum was directed to
be laid. The estimate for lighting amounted to £340 7s,
and for this a rate of 3d in the pound was ordered to be
laid, which, it was expected, would produceabout £37212s
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH !—A case of affiliation inves-
tigated at the County Sessions Room, one day last week,
was deemed of such importance by certain of the inhabi-
tants of Wingates, Westhoughton, that the services of a
pigeon were called into requistion to convey the intelli-
gence of the result of the inquiry, immediately on its
termination. The parties, it is supposed, were unable to
" read writing ;" and, instead of attaching a note to the
foot of the bird, a string, merely, was used, upon which
were four knots—one for every sixpence of the weekly
order. The news was faithfully conveyed, via " crow
road," in a few minutes. the distance being by that route
three or four miles.—Bolton Chronicle.
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—OR the 18th of Fe-
bruary last, a boy, named James Wilson, between 12 and
13 years of age, was attacked in Wrightington, near
Wigan, by a strange dog, which bit his right hand. A
surgeon washed the wounded part and applied caustic to
it He, however, did not see him again until about three
weeks afterwards, when the wound had healed up. The
boy then did not complain of anything. On Monday
last he was quite sensible, and complained of his hand,
arm, shoulder, and neck. The pupils of his eyes were
dilated, and about every five minutes he was seized with
convulsive fits. Some tea in a cup was offered to him,
but what little quantity he took came back. The symp-
toms were those of hydrophobia.
SCENE IN A WILD BEAST SHOW.—On Saturday even-
ing week, there were about 150 persons in Wombwell's
menagerie at Rochdale, and while one of the keepers was
shewing the lion cubs at one end of the place, a dreadful
crash at the other end attracted the attention of the visi-
tors. A South American tapir had broken loose from its
den, and walked majestically forth in the open space as-
signed for the visitors. The people were terribly alarmed,
and ran about in all directions, jostling one another, while
the other animals were much excited by the noise, and
the whole place appeared to shake in consequence of the
sounds uttered by bipeds and quadrupeds. The keepers
at length succeeded, in restoring order, by assuring the
people that the animal was quite harmless, and might be
approached with safety. The keepers were about twenty
minutes in securing the animal, and in replacing him in
his den. No accident occurred, and all present expe-
rienced no whet harm than fright.
THE MANCHESTER BOILER EXPLOSION.--The ad-
journed inquest in this case was held on Wednesday. Mr.
W. Fairbairn, the eminent engineer, who took part in
tne construction of the Britannia-bridge, presented
a report, founded uron investigations which he has
been at great pains to make, after an inspection of the
premises and the fragments of the boiler, as to the cause
of the explosion. A good deal of dissatisfaction prevailed
as to the supposed insufficiency in point of strength of
and
many of the boilers recently constructed in the neigh-
bourhood. It is a very general plan to give out orders
for boilers upon estimates which have previously been
sought, and a practised man assured him that he had seen
boilers constructed at lls. 6d. to 12s, per cwt., which
could not possibly be made of the proper iron for the
purpose at less than 15s. to 16s. per cwt. It was stated
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the maker £5 or £6. In these cases the temptation was
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known to be of such inferior metal that they would not
bend with the ordinary process of rolling.

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