The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

CHESHIRE AND WALES

Birkenhead,
CROSS, shoemaker, living in Sandford-street,
Birkenhead, has obtained a verdict of £2O damages against
Ilia landlord. Mr. John Mainwaring, for an irregular and
excessive distraint.
AN INDECENT ASSAULT was committed the other day
tt Rock Ferry on a female by Matthew Brennan, who has
4e4 apprehended and lodged in prison at Birkenhead.
is also charged with stabbing William Sparks, who
cattle to the rescue of the woman.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the Week ended 6th March, 1833 :—Railway : Passengers,
&c., £1,868 12s. 9d. ; goods : £1,109 17s. 7d.--
Steamboats : Passengers, parcels, &c., £215 14s. 2d. ;
total, £3,194 4s. 6d. Increase as compared with the cor-
responding week last year, £704 4s. 10d.
THE MACCLESFIELD ROBBERY.—The four men first
apprehended on the charge of the recent robbery at Mac-
'esfield, have been discharged, and a man named Edward
Roberts,q alias M'Cormick, who is believed to be the
ringleader, has been committed for trial at the next
ester assizes.
I DESTRUCTION OF SEA BlRDS.—Singular as it may
Sue
at this season (remarks the Carnarvon Herald,)
ue beach at Moth' Bychan and Harlech has been lately
Iltreivn with dead puffins and razor bills. A question
here arises for ornithologists, as to whether these birds
!te migratory or not, or whether this is the result of the
'evere westerly gales experienced during the last winter.
HOLYHEAD HARBOUR.—The recent heavy gale has
been productive
Productive of a fearful loss of property at the New
. arbour of Refuge, Holyhead. Every one of the piles
for the south pier have been washed away, and large tim-
Oers strew the shore in every direction. Such was the
11lolence of the sea, which raged most furiously for more
than 20 hours, that on the north pier the piles, staging,
and even the stonework were swept away. Hundreds of
workmen have been thrown out of employment.
ORANGEISM.—On 'Wednesday evening a new lodge, in
tninezion with the " Loyal Orange Institution of Great
astteitvc'eernaerAi:a4roy ri WA a opened at the house of Mr. Clarke, the
ing
attendance, and
Chester-street, Birkenhead. The Grand
Y and the Liverpool North District Master were in
at seven o'clock the business of the even-
spectiemn'eneed by the solemn ,inauguration to their re-
and
thee offices of the master, deputy, secretary, treasurer,
executive committee of the lodge. Communica-
tions were read from the Grand Lodge of Ireland, with
which the Institution has recently been so fortunate as to
se
cure the formation of a junction, and this auspicious
event will, no doubt, tend much to the practical develop-
Merit of the principles of Orangeism, and otherwise aid
Materially towards their stability and permanence in this
:°llntrY. Twenty-seven applicants, duly certified for,
were initiated into the mysteries of the craft, and the
general business having been disposed of, the brethren
seParated at a early hour. So nmerous, in Birkenhead,
h4/e, been then demands for admission into this loyal so-
that three additional' warrants have been already
issued for that district, and these will immediately be
preught into active requisition. In response, also, to
• teseing solicitations from many respectable residents, it
IZiertemplated further to extend the operations of the
itpition to Wallasey, where the necessary preparations
eing made for the establishment of a lodge.