The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

TIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, MARCH 30.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Lonie and Hudson, Liverpool, sharebrokers—Whiteside and
Powell, Liverpool, tailors—lorns and Austen, Oxford-street
and Thayer-street? Manchester-square, linen drapers—J. and
W. Chadwick, Liverpool, lime burners—W. Reid and Son,
Leith, booksellers.
DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.

J. Dodgson and G. Bradbury, Bishopsgate-street, Loudon,
ironmongers.
Victoria Colliery. _

T. Badger, Shelteld, tailor.
_ BANKRUPTS.

Thomas Sivill, Liverpool, publican, April 16, May 7, at 12, at
the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy. Solicitors, Messrs.
Cheeter and Co., Staple-inn, London, and Messrs. Avison and
Co., Liverpool. Official assignee, Mr. Bird, Liverpool.
Edward Marshall, Clifton-street, Sun-street, Finsbury, Lcon-
don, pewterer.
William Heath Bonds, Deptford, licensed victualler.
Henry Howell, Shrewsbury, draper.
Augusta Sophia Tipper, Henry Roe Tipper, and Alfred Tip-
per, Upper Thames-street and of Horton Mills, Buckingham-
shire, wholesale stationers.
George Atkins Soar, Great Marylebone-street, London, glass
cutter.
John Haly, Surrey street, Strand, London, merchant.
William Swain, Cheltenham, builder.
Joseph Chatterton, Manchester, coach builder.
James Sharp, Bingley, Yorkshire, coal merchant.
Jeremiah Burrows, Sutton-in-Ashfield, farmer.
Stephen and James Chappel, Hunslet, Leeds, earthenware
manufacturers.
William Hodgson, jun., Leeds, licensed victualler.
John Jebb, Baschurch, Shropshire, grocer.
James • Tranter, jun., Uttoxeter, Staftlordshire, timber mer-
chant.
Wm. Henry Lovatt, Wolverhampton, factor.
DIVIDEND.
April 23, W. Longbottom and R. Bentley, Rochdale, wool
merchants—April 23, J. Mackay, Liverpool, tailor.
CERTIFICATES
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to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the
day of meeting.
April 20, N. Thompson, Liverpool, factor—April 20, J. 11.
Gandell and J. Brunton, Birkenhead, commission agents.
CERTIFICATES
To be granted by the Court of Review, unless dose be shown
to the contrary on or before April 20.
J. Griffiths, Liverpool, wholesale stationer—J. Blunden, Ba-
singstoke, baker.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. Craig, of the Horse Repository, Glasgow.
1). C. B. Fleming and R. Chalmers, Glasgow, iron founders.
J. Robertson, Denny, grocer.
W. Wallace and A. It. Wallace, Glasgow, merchants.
J. Cochrane, Glasgow, mason.
W. Maclaren, Glasgow, perfumer.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY.
PARTNERSIIIPS DISSOLVED.
Fairclough -and Frost, Liverpool and Winsford—Dixon and
Clarke, Liverpool, coopers—P. Marrow and Co., Liverpool
corn Merchants; as far as regards W. W. Worthington.
DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.
T. Wyatt, Oxford-terrace, King's-road, Chelsea, builder.
J. Fogy d, Birmingham, hosier.
J. Spencer, Denholme-in-Thornton, Yorkshire, worsted piece
manufacturer.
E. Hodgson, Richmond, Yorkshire, iromonger.
H. Cochrane, Manchester, merchant.
R, W. Openshaw, Prestwich-cum-Oldham, Lancashire, com-
mon brewer.
S. Puckering and W. T. Matins, Kingston-upon-Hull, wool-
len merchants.

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Entrance

The interesting proceedings, of which the town of
Birkenhead was yesterday the scene, well calculated as
they have been to impress themselves permanently upon
the memory of all those by whom they were witnessed,
will in all probability be forgotten by the next generation,
and left recorded only by a few passing remarks. by the
historian. But the objects which those proceedings were
'designed to celebrate—for which the noble, the eloquent,
the elevated in worth, in wealth, and in beauty, were
yesterday attracted together—will remain as monuments
of the enterprise which has called them into being. Be-
fore proceeding with our duty, as journalists, of giving to
our readers a description of those proceedings, and of the
various works which they were intended, as it were, to
usher into public usefulness, we may be pardoned if we
glance back for a few moments upon the past condition
of the locality, and thus enable the reader to estimate
the amount of that enterprise which has produced the
splendid and triumphant results which we now see
around us.

From a very old inhabitant of Birkenhead, Captain
Lace, (and it is a singular fact that close to Birken-
head Ferry, where Captain Lace resides, the two oldest
captains out of the port of Liverpool, Captain Lace himself,
and Capt. Ferguson, are at present living,) we have derived
the following interesting particulars of the locality as it
existed upwards of GO years ago. In 1792, when Mr. Lace
first went out of this port Captain of the ship " Joshua,"
as he has shewn •us from his diary, Birkenhead consisted
of the old priory, the house of Mr. Price, lord of the ma-
nor, a little to the north-west, probably near to the top of
Ivy-street, and a small fisherman's hut upon the shore,
not visible from Mr. Price's house, and between the pre-
sent Monk's and Woodside ferries. A house was at the
time in course of erection, by Dr. Rowlandson of Chester,
upon the site of the present Monk's Ferry ; and one story
was reared. There were also two or three cottages to the
north of Woodside Ferry. The ferry itself was first kept
by Mr. Blundell ; next by Mr. Roberts, who was suc-
ceeded by Mr. Williams. Its later occupants will be re-
membered by most of our readers. The first steamer to
ply to the ferry was built in 1807, by Mr. Geo. La French.
She was laid down upon the model of an Otaheitean boat
with two sterns from amidships, the paddle working be-
tween, and the deck being railed over above. She was
named the Etna ; and her first freight was a few cart-loads
of hay.

OPENING OF TUE BIRKENHEAD Di&ES,. WAREHOUSES, EXTENSION

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In the commencement of the present century, Birken-
head was an inconsiderable hamlet, inhabited chiefly by
fishermen, and approachable only from this side of the
Mersey by fishing-boats. It contained in 1801 only 101
inhabitants ; and at the end of twenty years it had only
increased to a population of 200 souls. From this period
the establishment of regular ferries, and subsequently of
steamers, enabled it to progress ; and it was extensively
resorted to by the inhabitants of Liverpool and others,
from the.excellence of its hotels,' and for the recreation
of the sail across the river. Up to the year 1838 it had
increased its.population so as to number 5057 inhabitants.
And now commenced the developement, in Birkenhead
and its neighbourhood, of that energetic and well-directed
enterprise, -which has produced the results which we have
to. describe. A few spirited capitalists entered upon the
task of developing the resources of the locality. Amongst
the first of these were the Messrs. Jackson and the
Messrs. Laird, and they have . subsequently been joined
in their efforts by Wm. Potter, Esq., and other influen-
tial parties ; and to these gentlemen belongs a large por-
tion of the ownership of the land, the buildings, and the
works of the various kinds now rising up.
During the last five years the progress made has been
wonderful, and the locality a perfect hive of busy indus-
try. Streets, squares, markets, churches, and public
buildings have sprung up as if by magic ; until, at the
close of the past year, the town contained 99 streets (or
nearly as many streets as the number of its population
in 1801), the total length of which is 29 miles 110 yards,
of which 26 miles 860 yards are sewered ; and the total
population of the town has risen to 18,210 souls. But it
is not alone in the growth of streets and population that
Birkenhead has progressed. Since the period when the
town began to be materially extended, it has been pro-
vided with a railway approach to Birmingham, London,
and the whole South and West of England. The exten-
sion of that railway approach to the new docks and ware-
houses, which was yesterday opened, we shall hate to
describe hereafter. A pool (Wallasey), which for ages
has served only to absorb a portion of the tidal waters,
to be returned at the reflux of the tide, leaving some
hundreds of acres of barren mud to send up their noxious
vapours to permeate through and infect the atmosphere
around, is fast being converted into docks, in which
fleets may shortly ride safely at anchor, with valuable
quay room and building land for their accommodation.
One of these docks, and the handsome and commodious
warehouses attached to it, we shall have also to describe
to our•readers as yesterday opened to the public. •
In addition to these adjuncts to the mercantile progress
of the locality, the Commissioners of Birkenhead and the
influential gentlemen connected with it have not been
inattentive to the recreation and health of the population
which they have been gathering around them. Upon the
site of a most unpromising tract of land, north-west of
' the town; a splendid park is now completed, and was
yesterday opened with the usual formalities. Of this
place, now rivalling some of the most beautiful localities
of the sort in the kingdom, we shall also have to furnish
a description, as well as of the beautiful erections and
building sites which have been provided in its neighbour-
hood.

Upon one subject, connected with the direction of the
enterprise -of the Birkenhead people, we cannot refrain
from tendering them our humble meed of compliment.
Pari passe with the business enterprise which has been
so signally displayed in the progress made in the town-
ship, it is pleasing to see that care for the supply of the
religious wants of the community here congregated, and
to be increasingly congregated, has not been wanting.
Those who have watched the growth of this place—those
who yesterday Visited its principal points of note—cannot

ING THE SUITE OF ROOMS IN WHICH THE DEJEUNER AND BALL TOOK PLACE.

have failed to notice the beautiful erections now rising to
the honour of God and for his worship, in various portions
of the town and its park and outskirts, the work of indi-
vidual munificence. It is pleasing to witness such a re-
cognition of the truth that man may sow, but that it is
God who giveth the increase. Private speculations car-
ried out in such a spirit deserve success, and, we trust,
will achieve success.

With this brief introduction to the topics of the mo-
mentous day which we have just seen passed in festivities
deserving of the occasion, and promoted with a liberality
most creditable to the authorities of Birkenhead and of
all parties concerned, we must now proceed to a descrip-
tion of the various works ; and, first in order, we proceed
to give a description of

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