The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

CHESHIRE AND WALES

CHESHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1833.—The Com-
mittee of the South Lancashire Agricultural Society
intend to hold the next year's cattle show at Tarporley.
CHESTER and the neighbourhood was visited yesterday
week by one of the most terrific thunder-storms that has

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A DEPUTATION OF THE BIRKENHEAD DOCK TRUSTEES,
consisting of Mr. Joseph Bailey, M.P., (chairman,) Mr.
Penny, (deputy chairman,) Mr. Laird, and Mr. Hull,
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Friday, at the Office of Woods and Forests

AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—Tratlic tor the
June 20,1852.—Chester and Holyhead Main

'eek endi

Passengers, £1,683 2s. 7d. ; /parcels. H. C. and
3 15s. 3d. ; goods, cattle, &c., £502 19s. 4d. ;
mails, £575. Mold : Passengers, £3B 4s. Sd. ; parcels.
H. C. and D., £1 12s. Ild. ; goods. cattle, &c., £B6
17s. 10d. Steam-boats : Passengers, £42845. Id. ; parcels,
H. C. and D., £22 19s. Bd. Total, £3,437 16s. 4d.
ICARAGE.—On Tuesday last a beautiful work
was presented to the Rev. Wm. Hayes, by Dr. Brindley,
his family and school, as a token of esteem upon the ter-
mination of his ministerial labours in the parish of Tarvin.
On Thursday Mrs. Hayes was presented by Dr. Brindley,
in the name of the parishioners, with the portrait of her
husband. The children of the national school were after-
wards regaled with tea and buns, and the evening con-
cluded by the children singing several hymns, anthems,
and " God save the Queen."

TARVIN V

DEATH BY FALLING FROM A ROCK.—A most afflicting
circumstance has just taken place near Nevin, Pwllheli,
North Wales. A boy about thirteen years old, son of Mr.
David Ellis, master of the sloop Mary, of Nevin, went
with a companion to a high rock in the locality, in order
to gather seagulls' eggs, which abound in the clefts of the
rock. The boy did not take the precaution of using ropes,
and, intent on his pursuit, the unfortunate deceased missed
his footing, and was precipitated down the precipice. He
fell from a terrific height into the Bay of Posthdinllaen,
and his body has not yet been found.
SHOPLIFTING.—On Tuesday, Sabina Fagan and Ellen
Kendall were brought before Mr. J. S. Jackson, at the
Birkenhead Police-court, charged with stealing shawls
from the shop of Mr. Owen, draper, Chester-street,
Birkenhead, and two pair of stays from the shop of Mr.
Gracie, pawnbroker, Ivy-street. The prisoners had gone
into the shops to price the articles, but being watched at
Mr. Owen's, one was apprehended with several shawls
and a pair of stays under her arm, and the other was
taken into custody at Woodside Ferry, with the other pair
of stays in her possession; Both were committed to the
sessions.

ST. AIDAN'S (THEOLOGICAL) COLLEGE, BIRKENHEAD.
.--MIDSUMNIER EXAMINATION, 1852.—First term-Ist
class, Nemo ; 2nd class, Belcombe ; 3rd class, Vernon,
Ellis, Poole. .zEgrotat Yorke. Second term-Ist class,
Fenton, London, Stevens ; 2nd class, Le Maitre, Wood-
ward ; 3rd class, O'Connor, Wills. Third term-Ist class,
Charinboria;z‘ 3 Clad °Lae, gko;srsleludwl, .. ..
3rd class, Caparn, Woodington, Hazledine. lEgrotat
Weldon. Fourth term-Ist class, Nemo ; 2nd class,
Everett, G. W. Jackson, Newbold ; 3rd class, Nemo.
The following gentlemen were examined previously and
passed :—Alexander Earle, Thomas Jackson, Rogers, and
Tanner. The following gentlemen received honorary
testimonies in their respective terms : Everett, Cham-
berlain, Fenton. Mr. Fenton was elected scholar of St.
Aidan's.

FIRST RACE OF THE FIRST-CLASS YACHTS OF THE
BIRKENHEAD YACHT CLUB.—On Thursday, the first
race of the first-class yachts of the Birkenhead club took
place on our river, under circumstances which imparted
to it a peculiar interest. The model yacht club, it is per-
haps not sufficiently known, has been set on foot for the
purpose of testing, upon an economical scale, the capabili-
ties of vessels built or rigged upon particular models,
suggested by scientific men ; and, on this occasion, it was
known that a crack specimen of the American builders'
art had been imported by Mr. Grinnell, jun., of the firm
of Bowman and Grinnell, with a view to compete for the
prize offered by the club. The competing vessels in the
race were :-Ist. The Fairy Queen, 2 tons, cutter, J.
Parkings, Esq. ; 2nd. The Polly and Ann, schooner. 5
tons. J. Holme, Esq. ; 3rd. The Truant, sloop, 31 tons,
R. W. Grinnell, Esq. ; 4th. Quiz, sloop, 3 tons, Com-
modore. At half-past two o'clock the signal gun was
fired, and the yachts started in the following order—the
Quiz, which was to leeward, first ; the American boat,
Truant, second; the schooner third ; and the Fairy Queen
last. There was little wind prevailing, and from the first
it was clear that the American boat would be the victor.
She is a beautiful model, drawing only about four inches,
without a hollow line in her build, but with a breadth of
beam enabling her to carry a large amount of sail. She
is, in fact, a perfect scallop; and in a sea would have been
very shortly hors de combat. When opposite the llercu-
laneum Potteries, Mr. Laird's boat and the American were
abreast of each other, the former keeping on the Cheshire
shore, and the Fairy Queen overhauling the schooner.
Opposite Bebbington the American boat went ahead, the
light wind favouring a vessel of the kind ; and at Eastham
the following was the time of rounding the boat moored
for the purpose : H. M. S.
Truant ...... ....... 3 6 8
Quiz . •••••
Polly and Ann
Fairy Queen.
The course was from Eastham to the Potteries ; and a
boat stationed there was rounded by the American boat at
3h. 48m. 215., the remainder of the fleet being a long way
astern. The result of the race was as follows :

H. M. S.
American boat (Truant)...
Quiz
Peggy and Ann.........
Fairy Queen...
It was remarked, during the trial, that Mr. Laird's boat
was impeded during her sailing by a yacht to windward of
her, belonging to the fleet of the Liverpool Royal Mersey
Yacht Club. At the conclusion of the match the Ame-
rican boat, the winner, came abreast of the steamer which
bad carried the Commodore and a select party of friends,
and Mr. Grinnell, the owner of the Truant, was presented
by the Commodore, Mr. H. Laird, with two goblets as
the prize. Mr. Laird, in making the presentation, referred
to the family of Mr. Grinnell, who had, at their own cost,
sent out vessels to aid in discovering the locality in which
Sir John Franklin was left in the Arctic regions; and said
that, although they were happy in having to give the prize
to an American vessel, as they hailed the Americans as
brethren, yet they hoped in time to be able to maintain the
superiority of the mother country. Mr. Grinnell briefly
addressed the ladies and gentlemen present, and the cups
were afterwards plentifully " hanselled" with champagne.