The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-08 00:00:00

able to his taste and skill. Including men, women, and
hoys, 1500 persons partook of dinner, tea, and supper.
The evening was wound up by fireworks.

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

LECTURE AT CLAUGHTOS.—On Wednesday evening,
the Rev. R. P.- Blakeney, incumbent of Christ Church,
Claughton, delivered a lecture against Roman Catholi-
cism. There was a numerous audience. The subject
was, " Popery hostile and dangerous to the British in-
stitutions and liberty.

SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RIILWAY. -It is
stated, to us, on authority by which we have never been
misled, that the London and North-western Company
have formally offered to take the Shrewsbury and Chester
line on the Ist of July, and pay the shareholders off at
par.—Morning Herald.
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HOUSE REARING.—On Thursday a dinner, of which
about sixty persons partook, was given at the Castle
Hotel, Tranmere, on the occasion of the " rearing" of a
splendid mansion at Spittal, which has been built by Mr.
Routledge for the residence of Mr. Johnson, of Liver-
pool. The dinner was served up in Mrs. Fernyhough's
best style, and included every delicacy of the season.
CHESHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—The Earl of Ches-
ter's Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry marched into Ches-
ter on Thursday morning, at eleven o'clock, under the
command of Lieutenant• Colonel the Right Hon. Lord de
Tabley. The regiment will be reviewed to-morrow (Wed-
nesday) by Lieut.-Col. Tench, of the 2d Queen's Dragoon
Guards.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ending May 30, 1852.—Chester and Holyhead Main.
Line ; Passengers : £1,515 169. 9d. ; parcels. H. C. and
D., LOG 2s. 103. ' • goods, cattle, &c., £545 7s. ld. ;
mails, £575. hold : Passengers, £59 4s. Id. ; parcels.
H. C. and D., £1 IGs. 9.1. ; goods, cattle, &c., £67
05. 53. Steam.boats : Passengers, £421 Bs. 53. ; parcels,
H. C. and D., £25 9s. 6d. Total, £3,307 ss. 103.

RATING OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—In the action
lately brought against the trustees of the Birkenhead
docks for payment of poor-rates, the Court of Queen's
Bench took time to consider whether the trustees were
entitled to exemption. The ground of the claim for ex-
emption was, that the docks were established for the use
of the public, and that any profit which might accrue was
to be applied for the public benefit. On Thursday, Lord
Campbell delivered the judgment of the court, to the effect
that the rate was valid. The judgment was, therefore,
for the respondents, but without costs.
RAILWAY INJUNCTION.—III the case of Winch v. the
Birkenhead, Lancashire. and Cheshire Junction and other
companies, the Vice-Chancellor has decided that the
plaintiff is entitled to an injunction to restrain the Bir-
kenhead Company from making over to the London and
North-western Company the lines, plant, and property of
the Birkenhead Company, or any part thereof, upon the
footing of, or in accordance with, the proposed agreement,
and to restrain the London and -North-western Company
from taking possession of such lines, plant, and property
upon the terms of the proposed agreement.
WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—The monthly meeting
of this hoard was held in the Queen's Hotel, Liseard, on
Thursday evening. The total expense of making the
sewer, which would be connected with the Birkenhead
great float, was stated to be £6,998, and the cost of con-
structing the road was estimated at £6,230. From the
main culvert a branch sewer was contemplated, which
would discharge itself on the eastward side of the wall on
the north reserve. The meeting was adjourned to next
Thursday evening. In the meantime, the Town-Cleric
will communicate with I\lr. Gore, the Commissioner of
Woods and Forests.

UNIVERSITY HONOURS.--WC are gratified in recording
the names of three other gentlemen, formerly pupils of
the Collegiate Institution, Tarvin-hall, who, within the
last few days, have greatly distinguished themselves in
their academical career Medd, who is one of the
five composing the first class at the Oxford University,
Easter examination ; Mr. Moreton, who has been declared
head of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, ranking first in
the four principal subjects for examination, and awarded
the prize offered by the Physical Society, of London, for
his paper read before that body; and Mr. David Long,
who left the Institution, at Tarvin, in October last only,
and who has just been inducted into the senior scholarship
at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. It will be seem
that the annual examination will take place at Tarvin on
Tuesday next.

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