The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

WIGAN.-MONDAY NIGHT.

STATE or THE Tows,--It is greatly rumoured about
Wigan that a determination has been come to by the opera-
tives of continuing at work a week or two longer, and at the
expiration to give the required notice to their employers, and
turn out again in a body. Should this be the arrangement,
due caution ought to be observed by the authorities to pre-
vent the inhabitants being suddenly thrown into consterna-
tion by the movement. All, however, still remains quiet at
present, and the mills continue to work full time. There
was a much a better market on Friday and Saturday last
than the week preceding, and higher prices were maintained,
and great change is observable by the shopkeepers since em-
ployment was resumed at the mills.
GENERAL LICENSING DAs.—A special general moetiug
of the magistrates was held in the Town-hall this day, for
the purpose of renewing the licenses for the public-houses
within the borough. Only one application for a new license
was made—viz., for a house belonging to Mr. Leighton
Baldwin, opposite the railway station. The magistrates,
however, seemed to be of an unanimous opinion that, from
the number of public-houses and inns already in close proxi-
mity with the railway station, none other was required, and
the application was consequently refused.
GAS INSPECTORS.—A meeting of the Town Council as
gas inspectors was held in the Council-chamber this day as
noon, but no business of importance was transacted. A. new
light has been constructed for the large pillar in the Market-
place, the reflection of which is a very material improvement
upon the old construction.
THE RE GISTRATION .—As a proof of the depression which
has existed in Wigan during the past year, a conSiderable
number of municipal voters have been excluded from their
privilege as voters in the present burgess lists, in
some of their inability to pay the poor's rates. In
the wards the number of persons struck out is important,cone of
and it behoves the conservative party to rouse
t 1
andf rom
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they le
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ready to ascendant t, and quite strong
years, during which our yet to
maintain the position which they ell"ggia'ined in
the few late should-be-liberal
-liberal local
( from the council-
room,ex .th°enier
govaeziaonirsedhanit.e
having sealed their own condemnation by burdening
and conscious of
instead of .‘ annihilating all taxes," 3' burdening the town,
as one of their clique
emphatically declared lie wdo when returned for Queen-
CURIOUS CAPTURE OF A Ci
the sitting of the borough t ARTIST LEADER.--During
Saturday, a man in the magistrates, at the town-hall, on
witnesses in the course of crowd
called out loudly to one of the
to answer a question. This examination, inducing jinn not
should be brought he mistrates directed that he
before theml ! and behold !
when, o
the fellow Proved to be one of the leaders wbo took
part in the late disturbances, and who was generallY em-
ployed to read the
correspondence which passed between the
general bodyat Manchester • He
and the Wigan portion.
was also reco nis behaved in court
g ed as baying previously
in an i Latham,
mproper manner.. The chief constable, Mr.
informed
the bench that the name of the man was Gerard,
and it is quite probable he will he committed, as there is
little doubt of his being identified, from the fact of his
having only one arm. His conduct when brought before the
magistrates was very indecorous, and his answers to the ques-
tions put to him were pert and insulting. He was remanded
to Wednesday.
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If you cannot he happy in one way, be happy in another ;
At the distri-
bution and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from phi_
losophy ; for health and good humour are nearly the whole
in the Eas -
affair. Many run about after felicity, like an absent man
hunting for his hat, while it is on his head or in his band.
winintgbeinsteltineinGai4ivoerfsp:r—ad‘e.s,
buWtioenfionfdtltieheprfiozlelos
ernPyrences, and at which M. Arago was present, he beingt-
at that time in that part of the country, the Abbe F'
Fines, the
director of the establishment, having, in his address
pupils and visitors, observed that scieuee misleads to the
has not revelation for its guide. M. Arago when it
~ lam quite of your opinion, and request rose, and said,
to illustrate it by an example. One of your permission
secretary of the Academy of Science, M. D. Meran. went
1333' predecessors as
a good deal in society. One day a lady
told him that she had been to the Observatory,y of his acquaintance
Cas-
sini, the professor of astronomy, having
and M. raY,
hrough his telescope, she had invited her to look
Staturn and his ring. seen with great distinctnessf
M. de Wrath The ,What is this ring ?' asked the lady o
astronomer
know- ' That was not'aliTnomer replied that he did not
I saw Jupiter with two •, continued the lady ; ' afterwards
south, the other to the north. What are these belts ?" I
said the lady, ,is aid M. de Merlin. 'Of what use, then'
to answer what I being au Academician, since you are unable
Menlo, 'is this-it flak f' The use, madame,' said M. de
B-it enables me to reply Ido not know.' "

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