The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-13 00:00:00

SUDDEN DEATHS.-0a Friday morning, Thomas Bolton,
aged 70 years, residing in Sydney-street, Birkenhead, was
suddenly taken ill, and before medical assistance could be pro-
cured he expired—The same evening, Thomas Bestwick,
clerk of Mr. T. B. Golborne, Hamilton-street, was found dead
in Ins office. He had been suddenly seized with death whiLst
at Ins desk, as a pen lay alongside him on the floor.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWA.Y.—The traffic for the
week ended November 4th, 1855, was as follows:—Passengers,
parcels, &c., £2,428129. 6d.; steam-boats, £346 2s. sd; goods,
£3,322 ls. 9d.; total, including Carnarvon traffic, £6,096
16s. Bd. Corresponding week last year:—Passengers, parcels,
&c., £2,476 3s. 3d. ; steam-boats, £471 Os. scl. ; goods,
£1,584 Ss. 6d. ; total, including Carnarvon traffic, £4,532
Is. 2d. Increase, £1,564 155. 6d.
THE LATE MR. VIIARG,—A meeting of the committee
for disposing of the fund collected for the benefit of the widow
and children of the late Mr. James 111'llarm, superintendent of
police at Birkenhead, was held on Thursday,' Mr. T. B. Gol-
borne in the chair. The treasurer reported that £l7l ls.
had been collected, and the expenses amounted to £l2 155.,
leaving a balance of £l5B Os. 641. To this there was added
£lOO, by the commissioners of the township, making altogether
an amount of ,2258 6s. 6d. It was resolved that Messrs.
M'Whirter, Haughton, and Willoughby be the trustees, and
that £l5O be invested in a building society, and the balance
(after paying funeral expenses, &c.) be placed in the North
and South Wales Bank. Thanks were voted to Mr. Wil-
loughby as chairman of the committee; to Mr. McNerney and
Mr. Sweeney, for their exertions in the collection of subscrip-
tions ; and to Mr. Golborne, for the important part he had
taken in obtaining the grant of £lOO from the commissioners.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS.

BIRTHS*

On the 22nd ult., at Prospect-vale, Fairfield; the wife of the
Rev. Dr. Hellmuth, of a son.
On the Ist inst., at Rosemount, Oxton, Mrs. Rainie, cf a son.
On the 3rd inst., in Erskine-street, the wife of Richard Kay
Smithson, of a son.
On the 4th inst., the wife of Mr. A. G. Creap.:ll, of twins.
On the 4th inst., the wife of Mr. J. Ellis, tide-surveyor, of
a daughter.
On the sth inst., in Warwick-street, the wife of Mr. John
Jeffes, chemist, of a son.
On the 6th inst., at the Palazzo San Teodoro, Naples, the
Duchess of San Arpino, (Lady Burghersh,) of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at Bootle, the wife of Mr. W. H. Corkhill,
of a son.
On the Bth inst., at Mount-pleasant, Mrs. A. B. Steele, of a

son.
On the Sth inst., at 21, Netherfield-road, North, Mrs. Edwd.
Browne, of a daughter.
On the Bth inst.' in Wesley-street, the wife of Thomas
Goldsworthy, Esq., shipowner, of a son.
On the Bth inst., in Smith-street, Kirkdale, the wife of
Captain Alexander Mackey, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., at Lower Mersey-view, Mrs. John G. Gilks,
of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., in Hereford-street, London, the Lady
Catherine Weyland, of a son.
On the 9th inst., at Bury, Lancashire, the wife of the Rev.
J. Masheder; A.M., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.
Lately, at St. Clement's Church, Windsor, Mr. William
Evans, of this town, to Miss Elizabeth Bowman, of Aigburth.
On the 29th ult., at St. Bride's Church, Mr. Edward Jones,
pilot, to Margaret, daughter of Mr. W. M`Lachlan, builder.
On the 31st ult., at St. Saviour's Church, Falkner-square,
by the Rev. G. W. Warr, Mr. R. R. Shields to Miss C. Blun-
dell.
On the 31st ult., at Bebington, John, son of Mr. John Se-
well. butcher, Lower Tranmere, to Sarah, widow of Mr. Wm.
Hogarth, butcher, New Ferry.
On the 3rd inst., at St. Augustine's Church, by the Rev. J.
Herbert Jones, Charles John, second son of the late Isaac
Hadwen, Esq., to Ann, daughter of the late Henry Disley,
Esq.
On the 4th inst., at St. James's Church, Mr. Richard Tel-
ford to Martha, eldest daughter of the late Capt. Bruce, Stan-
hope-street.
On the 4th inst., at St. Jude's Church, Mr. James Richard-
son, hat-manufacturer, to Frances Ann, daughter of the late
Mr. Edward Johnson, surgeon.
On the sth inst., at Walton, Mr. J. Carran to Miss Sarah
Broadbent.
On the sth inst., at St. Philip's Church, Mr. A. G. Creagh,
of Cork, to Maria Louisa, only daughter of the late Mr.
:11attliew Lennox, of Cork.
On the 6th inst., at St. Catherine's. Church, by the Rev. J.
Tobin, John Grey, Esq., of Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees, to
• Marianne, third daughter of E. Arnaud, Esq., Abercromby-
square.
On the 6th inst., at St. Mary's Church. Chester, by the Rev.
1 W. H. -Massie, Mr. John Ward, spirit merchant, to Ilarriet,
youngest daughter of the late Mr. Robert Walton, brewer,
Chester.
On the 7th inst., at the Parish Church, Manchester, John
Francis, Esq., of Manchester, to Anne, only daughter of R.
Jones, Esq., of Oswestry.
011 the 7th inst., at St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic
Chapel, by the Rev. O'Carroll, Mr. A. Robinson, of Cat-
terick, Yorkshire, to Enuna, third daughter of J. Walker, Esq.,
Springfield, Great Crosby.
On the Bth inst., at the Parish Church', Wallasey, George
Percival, Esq., to ary, daughter of Win. Darlington, Esq., of
Egremont.
On the Bth inst., at Walton Church, by license, Robert
Duckworth, Esq., architect, to Amelia, only daughter of the
late Edward Williams, Esq.