The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

Plitz.—On Pride), afternoon, about flute o'clock, a fire
was discovered in Mr. Hampton's patent amber malt ware•
house, in Grayson-street. Before the flames had obtained
any great head, the police fire-engines were in attendance,
and extinguished the fire in a few minutes. It is supposed
that it originated in a kiln which is chiefly used for the dry-

ing of malt upon the premises. The kiln was occupied by
cotton, which had been placed there for the purpose of being
dried, and, whilst undergoing that process, combustion took
place. The flames extended to the roof of the kiln, which
they destroyed, and then communicated with other cotton
which was in the upper room of the warehouse. Here some
two or three bags were destroyed, but the active operations
of the engines prevented• further damage and subdued the
flames.

A FIFTII OF NOVEMBER CASUALITY.—James Bradley,
a youth, aged about seventeen years, was placed before Mr.
Rushton, on Saturday, charged with having committed an
offence against the law which prohibits the use of fire-arms
within the borough. A gentleman produced a hollow iron
tube, about half a pound weight. It had originally been part
of an iron gaspipe, but one end had been closed up, and near
this end a hole had been partly filled and partly drilled, so
as to make a rude sort of cannon, about six inches in length,
and half an inch in the bore. This the prisoner had dis-
charged in a piece of vacant ground in Burlington-street.

Such was the force of the recoil that the tube had flown a
distance of thirty-five yards, passed through the window of
Mrs. Barton's public-house, and struck a settle within one
of the appartments, after which it dropped near the feet of a
gentleman, who appeared as a witness. The prisoner was
fined 10s. and costs; in default of payment, he was to be im-
prisoned five days. _ _

LIVERPOOL CALEDONIAN FREE SCHOOL.—OD the 14th
ult., Mr. Thomas Macgill, ex-president of the Caledonian
Free School of this town, forwarded to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert copies of two original anthems, written for and
sung by the children of the above school, at the celebration
of her Majesty's coronation and marriage. The anthems
were accompanied by a letter, stating that 350 children, of
Scottish parentage, were receiving education suited to their
sphere in life at these schools, and concluded as follows :
" Should your royal highness be pleased to direct that a bible,
with your autograph. be sent as a donation to the library of
this charitable institution, in token of your approval of the
sentiment contained in the anthems, it would have a happy
effect on the young minds of the scholars." In consequence
of this letter, his royal highness, through his secretary, Mr.
Anson, has forwarded a small bible to the school, and on the
guard leaf is the following inscription :—" Albert, Windsor
Castle, October 21, 11342."

THE NEW BANKRUPTCY Acz.—The Gazette, of Friday,
contains an order dividing the kingdom into seven districts
for the purposes of the act. The following relates to the Li-
verpool districts

" LIVERPOOL DISTRICT.

" The Liverpool district shall comprehend all places in-
cluded within, or to be considered as forming parts of the
southern division of the county of Chester, as the same; is
settled and described by the said last-mentioned act ; and all
such places locally situated in the county of Lancaster, as
will not be included in the Manchester district, hereinbefore
described ; and all places locally situated in any of the
several counties in 'Wales, hereinafter mentioned, that is to
say, _ .

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Tne county of Anglesea,
The county of Carnarvon,

The county of Denbigh,
The county of Flint.