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

LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, MARCH 30.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Lonie and Hudson, Liverpool, sharebrokers—Whiteside and
Powell, Liverpool, tilors—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, Sheffield, tailor.
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• 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 Messfs. Avison and
Co., Liverpool. Official .assignee, Mr. Bird, Liverpool.
Edward Marshall, Clifton-street, Sun-street, Finsbury, Lon-
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, budder.
Joseph Chatterton, Manchester, coach builder.
James Sharp, Bingley, Yorkshire, coal merchant.
Jeremiah Burrows, Sutton-in-Ashfieid, farmer.
Stephen and James Chappel, Hunslet, Leeds, earthenware
manufacturers. _ _

—WciiiiiTii-i4odgson, jun., Leeds, licensed victualler.
JOhn Jebb, Baschurch, Shropshire, grocer.
James Tranter, jun.; Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, timber mer-
chant.
Wm. Henry Lovatt, Wolverhampton, factor.
DIVIDEND.

April 23, W. Longbottoni and R. Bentley, Rochdale, wool
merchants—April 23, J. Mackay, Liverpool, tailor.
.CF.R.T I Fl CATES
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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. H.
Gandell aftd J. Brunton, Birkenhead, commission agents.
CERTIFICATES
To be granted by the Court of Review, unless cause be shown

to flee contrary on or before April 20.
I. Griffiths, Liverpool, wholesale stationer—J. Blunden, Ba-
singstoke, baker.
SCOTCH "SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. Craig, of the Horse Repository, Glasgow.
D. C. B. Fleming and R. Chalmers, Glasgow, iron founders.
J. Robertson, Denny grocer.
W. Wallace andA. it. Wallace, Glasgow, merchants.
J. Cochrane, Glasgow, mason.
W. Mac!aren, Glasgow, perfumer.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Fairclough and Frost, Liverpool and Winsford—Dixon and
Clarke, Liverpool, coopers—P. Marrow and Co., Liverpool
corn merchants; as fares regards W. W. Worthington.
DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.
T, Wyatt, Oxford-terrace, King's-road, Chelsea, builder.
J. Ford, Birmingham, hosier.
J. Spencer, Denbolme-in-Thornton, Yorkshire, worsted piece
manufacturer.
E. II odgson, Richmond, Yorkshire, iromonger.
ll.Cociirane, Manchester. merchant.
R, W. Openshaw, Prestwich-cum-Oldham, Lancashire, com-
mon brewer.
S. Puckering and W. T. Alakins, Kingston-upon-Hull, wool-
len merchants.

BANKRUPTS,

Henry Jones, Grosvenor-row, Pimlico, and Smith-street,
King's-road, Chelsea, oil and colourman.
Henry James Cook, Hedge-row, High-street, Islington, linen
draper.
John Barlow, sen., and James Gill, of Calvert's-buildings,
Southwark, and Maidstone, hop factors.
John Jebh, Baschurch, Shropshire, grocer.
Andrew Birrell, Salford, vinegar manufacturer.
Robert Macon)), Bolton, cotton spinner.
George Jones, late- of Rough-mills, Bilston, Staffordshire,
victualler.
John Jones Price, Built!), Breconshire, tanner.
DIVIDENDS.

April 23„T. Kirkpatrick, Newport, Isle of Wight, banker—
April 23, J. Rigmaiden, Liverpool, wine dealer.
CERTfyicATEs

To be granted, unless cause be sholvn, to the contrary on the

.
day of meeting.
April 23, H. Lan ridge, Liverpool, stay manufaCturer—April
27, J. Lewis, Dawley-green, Shropsbire, butcher.
CERTIFICATES

To be granted by the Court of ReVielti, unless cause be shown
to the contrary on or before April 23.
W. G. Grossmith, Romsey Extra, liampShire, brewer—J.
Leipold, Birmingham, music seller—J. Thnmis, Newcastle-
under-Lyme, common brewer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

R. Grainger, Glasgow, upholsterer.
J. and W. Clarke and J. Scott, Glasgow, merchants.
J. Macauley, Glasgow, chemist.
D. Maclean, doctor of medicine, Kinlochepelve, Argyleshire.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL.

April. Hour.
6, James Duncan (2nd) District Court, 12
7, Richard Benson (Ist) Ditto; 11
7, Hewson Dutchman (Ist) Ditto, 11
9, John Jones (audit)
9, Golborne and Dobbs (audit)
9, Molyneux, Witherby, and Co. (audit)
9, James Mackay (2nd)
9, John Gillon, jun. (2nd)
9, David Williams (2nd)
9, Thomas Slattery (Ist)
9, John Weston (proof and div.)
9, Seddon and Jordan (proof and div.)
10, Molyneux,Witherby and Co. (proof and div.) Ditto, 11
12, Jesse Francis (Ist) Ditto, 11
12, Andrew Birrell (Ist) Ditto, 11
13, Robert Duncan Wilmot (special) .... Clarendon Rooms, 11
13, James White (Ist) District Court, 12
16, John Pierce (2nd) Ditto, 11
16, Joshua Faber (2nd) . —Ditto, - - 11
16, Thomas Stockdale and John Stockdale (2nd) Ditto, II
16, Gaskell Johnson (audit) Ditto, 12
16, Thomas Sivill (Ist)
16, John Leasor (special) Mr. Thoinpson's, 12

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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 he 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 CO 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.
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 nvm&er of its population
in 1801), the total length of which is 29 miles 110 yards,
of which 26 miles 860 yards are Cowered; 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-
sided 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 have 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 proNided 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 need of compliment.
Pani passu 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 yisited its principal points of note-7-cannot

OPENING OF THE 111111iENHEAD WKS, WAREHOUSES, EXTENSION

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Mentous.day which we have just seen passed in festi•.ities
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

Tin D'OCKS. •
It will be in the recollection of our readers,' that,' (ac-
cording to a typographical plan, presented to them hy.us
in October, 18110 the Commissioners purposed to -con-
struct, and obtained parliamentary sanction to proceed
with, a number of dock works on the Mersey, between
Woodsisle Ferry and Seacombe,—whieh works were, in
addition to the sea or river enclosure, to comprise a Great
Floating Dock, running up, or being in what is called
Wallasey Pool,—the latter alone having an area of 150
acres with a large depth of water. It will be also recol-
lected that the Birkenhead Dock Warehousing Company,
who possessed the whole belt of land on the south side of
the pool, up to what is called " Corporation-road," pur-
posed to construct warehouses, yards, quays, &c., of the
most approved description, for the anticipated traffic and
convenience of the town. These objects have to a great
extent been now 'accomplished : two of the inner docks
have been completed, the outward, or inner wall-work is -
in rapid formation, and the warehouses may be said to be
more than half finished, and already tenantable.
The two docks already constructed are the " Passage
Dock," near Woodside Ferry, and the " Bridge End
Dock," now so called from its being on the site of a
'small valley, formed originally by a rivulet, or more cor-
rectly by a creak or armlet of the sea, the tide having •
passed up it, under a bridge, time out of mind.
The walls of both of the new docks are built of •red
freestone, principally quarried on the ground, and with
ashler bindings. There are a number of arches (facing
the river) of the upper dock, on each side of a tongue
forming a quay running westward, which protect the
mouths of the sluices, intended to scour out the Great
Basin, yet to be constructed on the east. These arches,
apparently about twenty in all, and also the piers, "are -
beautifully built of Bolton and Lon ;ridge stone. The
whole of the hollow of the gates are of Anglesey lime-
stone, as well as the rubbing-hands round the piers and
entrances. There are two sluices on each side of a thirty- •
feet lock for scouring the outer basin. The bridge across •
the seventy-foot passage is to have three roads—two for
carriages, and one for the extension of the Chester and
Birkenhead railway.
To the quays and landing slips of the Great Low
-Water Basin, the whole of- the stone work is set with
mortar of the best quality, and for elegance of design,. and
substantial execution, is not to be excelled in the kings
dom. The dock gates into the " Passage Dock," out of
the Woodside Basin, are principally constructed of green-
heart, and are as strong and substantial as timber and
metal can make them. The entrance is 50 ft. wide in the
clear, and the sill the same depth as that of the Prince's
Dock. The other entrance is seventy feet wide. The
water was first let into the docks on Saturday evening ,
week (March 27). Such is the firmness of the work, that •
the leakage upon the large area, of seven to eight acres,
did not exceed half an inch within the twelve hours.
We have heard, but cannot vouch for the precise accu-
racy of the statement, that the force of the water for
the cleansing purpose stated will be equal to 480 -
horse-power. On Friday, at high water, there was a
depth of about twenty-three feet of water at the south
entrance. From the dock works and the adjacent build-
ings and streets, the whole aspect of Birkenhead—so re-
cently almost a barren shore—has become completely
changed and renovated, when we regard the Woodside •
and Monk's Ferry, the town itself, and especially the ope-
rations along the coast and penetrating into Wallasey
Pool. A magnificent line of sea wall, with quay space
three hundred feet wide, will be formed to the river from
Woodside to Seacornbe, and this, it is understood, by •
nautical and scientific men, will, in plsee of injuring the
navigation of the port. conduce to the outward scouring of _
the outer channels, by the clearer reception and dis-
charge, (from the great basin of the Mersey towards Run-
corn) of the tidal flow. We were much struck on our vi-
sit•to the locality on Saturday with the pleasing prospects
that everywhere presented the- selves, both land and
marine. From a point at the nTh-th end of the now con-
structed • docks, tile view was, notwithstanding the unu;
sual inclemency of the wcather, at this.advanced period of,
the spring, truly delightful. Liverpool had the best of it
—the sun impinging upon her buildings, spires, and othei
erections, and giving the whole a silvery and beautiful ap-
pearance, which a narrow inspection of her inlets, outlets,
streets, courts, &c., would scarcely justify. Westward
were to be seen the rising land of Birkenhead and the.
conjoining townships, terminating in the ridge of hill.
known as Bidston; and southward, as well as northward,
the wide expanse of the Mersey, studded with vessels of •
all kinds at anchor or quiescence, or bearing numbers of
others on his bosom under full sail or steam. Directly-
" opposite " to the Birkenhead Docks—but we hope all
jealousy on that score will die out—we observed most
clearly and distinctly the Albert Dock warehouses •, the
dome of the Custom-house ; St. George's spire.; the dome
of the Town-hall; the beautiful Gothic tower of St. Ni-
cholas; the top of the dome of-St. Peter's; the immensely
tall chimney of the vitriol-works in Vauxhall-road—" that
bristle on the back of nature "—and beyond these Ahe
structures on Everton heights, Bootle, Waterloo &c.
The most romantic and insatiate eye had wherewithal: to
feed upon.

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

THE WAREHOUSES. '
-These are situated at the north side of the docks, and
form a street towards Wallasey- Pool. Twelve of them
are already built, in one block, and six more are in course
of erection. They are only two stories high—the first
story twenty-one feet in height, and the second about
fourteen feet. They reach baAwallls, from the street,
JIG feet. and 4n reLt wide. There arc jigger lofts at ead
end, with four doors for receiving and discharging, at L
a railway from the docks to entiolteloioefir,yweintliptoot,ertntretatai;:btcrkicikwlo%i;:rokssa
The architect was Mr. llendal. The lower floors Rs—
asphalted, the roofs are well timbered. and there are
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patent skylights in the upper rooms. No pains, it
ideed,
hate been spared to render the whole most In
salable
and easy .for commercial purposes. The gro
and is
well drained, and consequently dry. The bri
(of which the warehouses
executed by Messrs. Morris and Hilton, an 4 nppears
to us to have been atiem!ed to with great i care and
credit to them—strangers to ns. - The walls are of such
a thickness (2; bricks Mow; and three t".
the lower wall,) that the warehouses
raised to any requisite height.
‘,Thr.:.,d . (Tuesday)
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architectural superinteudeot of the 'w0.,4-3 •is Mr. S 1
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Jhe pre-eminence of the Mersey as the resort of the
shipping of Great Britain, and of the world is to be
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concentrate our attention to our own locality, and
to withdraw our notice from some of those general
questions which would otherwise have met with
due consideration at our hands. All labourers,
whether their services are devoted to the public, or

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of their own interests, have
their occasional holidays ; the members of the two
Houses of Parliament are at this moment relaxing
themselves from their severe labours of political

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of its enterprising project
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ce of Mr. Avison, the I

sity of Mr. !bight,
1 with the impor-

are nothing to them, eomparc

tance of
want in f

• - -
abortive imitators of Brow
or shoplc3epers of the Brig
of the luminous quality IN
We want common sense,
and prudence, a little sparl

the Ordinary affairs of the we

position o

fortunes of this -community

It is already a recc

-ugh rate of taxation, for th

and of extraneous poor, is as
veniently bear. It is not the

taxation for the year to come i

ncreased—doubled

hably. Now, wl
who have to do with the imp(

the management of the fund
Manifestly they au

taxation

avers, instead of noisy and E

air play" cruise, and

id our mar
ed in savin

ner,inst#

LATEST INTEL
(BY EXPRE:

IITHFIELD

a very great improves

of Is. t

TERDAY

we have to ret
ality. We bav,

OPENING of the BIRKENHE

,t L 'W

T Biain

ion
,fet

RIVER ON TIII

liolyda

rangements had been previously made- to secure a suffi
cient attendance of policemen at the various slip,; an(

:eep order and prevent a
;ay that every possible

John Bull, whe-

_
He hates to be left behind ; and whether going
to storm a battery or assault a good dinner, prefers tread-
ing on the heeh of any one who attempts to take prece-
dence of him to going a head in the manner of ordinary
mortals. As the forenoon advanced the crush became
fast and furious.; and although the proprietors of the

Ferries had put on an unusual quaTitity of steam, and
despatched their boats without regard to regular hours
(thereby making them very irregular characters,) there
was the utmoit difficulty in transporting all the candi-
dates for the sports who put in their claims to the Cite-

) was to I

themselves, with their living freights, packed from stem
to stern, and from cabins to the paddle wheels, was

_
old town began to wear the appearance of a deserted
place, the bulk of its population having emptied itself
into the pool of Wallasey, the park'of Claughton, and the
streets, squares, and lands of the modern Carthage, loca-

' APPEARANCE OF BIRKENHEAD.
For some days previou=ly to the celebration, efforts
. .

must have beeU Making by the sT

Ind a great number of the r
connected with tl

nv docks, the various ferries,
sidences of the leading parties
i abundance.

town, displayed tla
boat dischan

population, became more and more crowded with Peo-pl
the bulk of whom, we fear, neither knew for

le by their comic;

The fineness of the day
doubtless, attracted many who would otherwise have

'es with what could be seen from our

At the Dock Works

Ferries throughout tl:

the Woodsid

powder thus caused, must

.y, the beautiful park

3f its business

thronged with

thOusan

learnt from ocular demonstra
prize by which Birkenhead I;

Oxton

irhood, to put Off time until those

s proceedings, in which they were it
the fireworks, rural sports, &c., sh

s were enl

)ns of various o:

to the doings in these, we must refer in another part of

ARRIVAL OF LORD MORPETH.
)eth arrived at the Railway Station, Lim

and immediately drove to the
)artments had been :prepared for
his reception. He left the Adelphi about half-past eleven
and was driven to the George's Pier, where he embarked
in a steamer which was there in waiting for him. He
id went on board a new iron
which was moored in the
md Monks' ferries. The

steamed across the river, a.
steamer, the Lord Warder

LorA Warden was elegantly decorated for the occasion, a
profusion of the flags of all nations having floated from
stem to stern, from the deck to the topmast of this noble

ECIAL TRAIN FROM LONDO

Shortly after 11 o'clock, a special train, which had been
provided expressly for the conveyance of guests to the
opening of the docks, reached the railway station from
London. It was fully freighted with noble and dis-
tinguished guests. Amongst others who arrived by this

the. I

fester,

EMBARKATION ON BOARD OF THE LORD WARDEN

London, accompanied by the Birkenhead Dock Company
and Commissioners of the township, went on board the
steamer Eliza Price, at the Monks'-ferry, and embarked
in the Lord Warden, and were introduced to Lord Mor-
peth on the quarter deck. His lordship, who was dreSsed
in a blue body coat, blue satin vest, striped trousers, and
A the same time.' blue sat.
hpnith

k, appeared in the enjoyMent of excellent

rapidly, conversing in the most aflame manner vrith most
of the ladies and gentlemen on board, and it was but too
evident that he enjoyed amazingly the fine_ stiff breeze,