The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

CHESHIRE AND W

ALES

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tin Wednesday, the 23rd instan

CHESHIRE MILITIA.—c .ppointffients : Haab Horatio
Seymour, Esq., to be Captain ; L'eut. Edward Spencer
Harrison to be Captain ; Henry John Ffoulkes Taylor,
gent., to be Ensign.

SCOTLAND having complained of the shameful treat-
ment of her lion in the English standard, the complain
will, it is understood, he followed up by Wales, the F
lish heralds having entirely ignored the Wel:
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CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ended 30th Jan. 1853 :—Railway : Passengers,
parcels, &c., £1784 7s. 2d. ; goods : £llO3 Is. Iod.
Steamboats : Passengers, parcels, Sec., £175 93
total, £3062 18s. 93. Increase as compare
responding week last year, £7OO 93. 10d

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BIRKENHEAD CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTE.—
This society is satisfactorily progressing, and the good
attendance at the lectures shows that they are becoming
aenerally appreciated. On Friday next the Rev. Dr.
B iylee will deliver a• lecture on the Philosophy of the
Bible.

IMPROVENENT IN KERB STONES.—The Birkenhead
Commissioners intend applying for a patent for a new
invention applicable to footpaths and kerb stones. When
the footpath is worn out, and the water collects in pools, a
small guttering is cut between the joinings of the kerb
stones, which, with a little supervision to keep them open,
runs off the superfluous water.
THE RAILWAYS,—The long contest between the
Shrewsbury and Chester and Great Western and London-
and Northwestern Railway Companies is now, we hope,
terminated. At the meeting at Shrewsbury, on Monday
last week, it was arranged by the directors and the com-
mittee of shareholders that each company has the option
of redemption at par, which will no doubt be exercised.

A Miss BRASHER, a daily governess, at the Chester
County Court, on Thursday, claimed £9 7s. 6d., three
weeks salary and a quarter's notice, from Mr. R. Jones,
in whose family she had been engaged at a salary of £3O
a year, and from which situation she had been summarily
dismissed on its becoming known that she was betrothed
to a pervert. His honour gave a verdict for five guineas.

BIRKENHEAD FOOT-PATHS.—We have received several
complaints of the disaraceful state of the foot-paths in
this town. The inhabitants very justly consider that the
amount of rates which they pay for this purpose entitles
them to a better means of walking through the streets.
The surveyor should also look to the gratings over the
areas, several children having been much hurt by c•
Waterloo-place

BIRICENHEAD.—We are informed that the eminent
builders and contractors, Messrs. A. and G. Holine, of
Liverpool, have taken a lease of land on the margin of
the Float from the Dock Company, adjoining that recently
leased to Mr. Laird, and purpose the immediate erection
of saw-mills and other conveniences of a similar character,
the want of which has hitherto proved such a serious
obstacle to the extension of the timber trade and
_ship-
building at Birkenhead.

BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—It is reported that the screw
steam-ships of the South American and General Steam
Navigation Company, for Rio do Janeiro, &c., will be
despatched from Birkenhead. This is one of the most
important movements that has yet taken place to inert
and, establish the trade of this place, and t
'clock, township, and railway authorities connected wi
Birkenhead should follow the good example set them
'Southampton, and encourage in every possible was'
undertakings.
Woonsiog FERRY RECEIPTS.—The ferry r,_
°the past month were reported, at the meeting of Com,
sioners, on Tuesday evening, to be £1,899, against £l,Bll
in the corresponding month of 1852. The receipts from
'the 24th of Aura to the 31st of January last were £17,136,
against £16,733 in the corresponding period from the 24th
of April. 1851, to the 31st of January, 1852. The expen-
diture for the past three-quarters of a year amounted to
£16,087. An appeal had been lodged against the poor-
rate assessment, and £59 paid to the sick fund.

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THE WELSH CIRCUITS.—These circuits will be held by
Mr. Justice Maule and Mr. Justice Wightman as follows :
--Montgomeryshire, Monday, 14th March, at Welchpool ;
Merionethshire, Thursday. 17th March, at Bala ; Car-
narvonshire, Saturday, 19th March, at Carnarvon ; An -
gleseY, Wednesday, 23rd March, at Bcaumaria ; Den-
bighshire, Saturday, 26th March, at Ruthin ; Flintshire,
Wednesday, 30th March, at Mold ; Cheshire, Saturday,
2nd April, at the Castle, at Chester ; City of Chester,
Saturday, 2nd April, at the Guildhall of the City, at
Chester.

BIRKENHEAD HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.—On Sun-
day week, two sermons were preached in St. Mary's
Church, Birkenhead, by the Rev. A. Knox, and the Rev.
H. Gaythorn, in behalf of the above valuable institution,
r, and the sum of £33 15s. 9J. collected.
ing of the supporters of the charity was
evening, in the Town-hall, the Rev. A

The annual meet-
I held on Monday

of the institution, in the chair. The report
the institution was in debt to the treasurer, R. Bryans,
Esq., to the extent of £42, and that there were about £36
in outstanding accounts to be paid. Out of a population of
25,000, the numbers did not exceed 300. The subscriptions,
however, have increased during the past year
THE LARGE LAMP opposite Gough's Woodside Hotel,
instead of being a means of enlightening the Cheshire
public, is only a constant source of discussion amongst
the Birkenhead Commissioners. On Tuesday, Mr. Bailiff
entered into a long history of the unfortunate lamp,
which had been twice extinguished since 1844. and had
subsequently been removed, being in so rickeftv a con-
dition that no one would undertake to clean it. It was to
have been relighted, in compliance with a resolution, On
Monday evening, but to his astonishment he observed,
on Thursday, that there was scaffolding up ; that the
lamp, which had cost the commissioners £56 175., had
been taken down, the scroll-work removed, and about
three feet had been cut off from its head

BIRKENHEAD AND WALLASEY

BUILDING SOCIETY.

A numerous party of the members of this society and
their friends, dined together on Tuesday last, at the
Castle Hotel, in Chester-street, to celebrate its successful
establishment, one of the principal features in the repast
being a magnificent turkey from the United States, which
was brought over in the Mail steam-ship Asia, from New
York, expressly for the occasion. Mr. Blake was in the
chair, and amonz the guests were Messrs. J. D. Hore,
Smith, Black, Alford, Brown, Hume, Gavin Poe, J. Allan,
Stananought, Griffith, Iloskingv Howard, Bodley, Quick,
Barnicoat,_r Wilson, &c. The Chairman read a letter from
M . Joseph Russell, regretting, his absence, and begging
the acceptance of a dozen of wine as his contribution to
the feast.
After the customary loyal toasts, the Chairman, in pro-
posing success to the society, which now seemed placed
beyond a doubt, stated some of the advantages which were
enjoyed by the members. As a secure investment for sav-
ings it was far preferable to any other mode, while to those
who are desirous of purchasing real property, or effecting
a mortgage on that which they possessed, the society
offered facilities which could not be attained in any other
way. There was not only a diminution of the ordinary
charges for Bonveyance, but the redemption by monthly
instalments was to many a-great advantage, not otherwise
obtainable. But even in cases when the money for the
Purchase of property could be paid at once, the society
offered advantages in the examination into the validity of
thanitles, and the valuation of property at a much less charge
vronld be paid by private individuals without such
aid, while the fact that house property had been subject to
a Building Society, gave it an additional value in the
bmeen arket. The Birkenhead and Wallasey Society had now
een on a firm foundation, and he had no doubt
that its value would be fully appreciated in a town like
Birkenhead, which, perhaps, more than any other required
such an institution.
Several other toasts followed, and the evening was spent
with much conviviality and cordial feeling.
On Wednesday, the second general meeting was held
for the payment of monthly subscriptions. A number of
new members joined the society, and the Chairman an-
nounced that the total amount received was £l6O. It was
resolved that a sale of shares should take place at the next
monthly meeting, which will be held on the 2d of March.

HORTICULTI

The Conservatory
to keep it up to the mark at tn.
cpulition will the best test of the management of the g.
decoration
From
the frames a regular supply of materials for
ecoration
:h should be easily obtained, such as moss and
itnhters°3es, lilies of the valley, violets, primulas. 1-
tn"', 37 other similar things.
gardeners of 11-
for the supply of
ing a great large conservatories :it consists in forc-
number of hardy shrubs, not only the Lilacs,
but eve
Deutzias W;gex
—as,Sce usually employed for that purpose,
n the scarlet and, other ornamental varieties of the
hawthorn, Laburnum Honeysuckl, the sinen-
-Bis, in Pots, trained on trellises, Sweeset-briar,Wistaria Scarlet and
Pink Cydonia (Pyrus
several ) japonica, Cytissus racemosus, and
saved others ; for this purpose they are carefully culti-
inen in pots, and are trained into good forms for orna-
tal purposes. Most of the Berberrys and Mahonias
have been used for this purpose, and are particularly ma-
nageable.
Kitchen Garden,—Wherever the ground is sufficiently
dry, begin without dela
we should y to dig and trench ; otherwise, if
have an early spring, so much work will be on
hand all at once tbat it will be necessarily partially done.
Whatever Pruning remains to be done should be com-
pleted as soon as possible.
TwE

season

Latterly the

T --41,TC11 GOVERNMENT having written to Mr.
T. C. Archer, of this town, upon the subct of a Horti-
cultural Society for France, that gentlemanje forwarded the
required information to M. Fould, the Blinister of State,
who
iin handsome terms thanked Mr. Archer for the com-
muncation, and informed him that it was referred to
the Minister of the Interior,
Archer received a letter from During last week Mr.
that gentleman, conveying
to him the thanks of the
lowing words :
French Government, in the fol-
" J'ai l'honneur de vous offrir mes remerciements, an
nom du Gouvernement, pour cette communication, que
i e feral examiner avec interet.