The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-06 00:00:00

THE WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.

WHITSUNTIDE—" the jocund wake of Whitsuntide—is
the great holiday of the manufacturing districts, and the
swart artisan, cooped up the rest of the year in a close,
heated, and noisy mill, yearns instinctively for a holiday.
The sun, for many weeks before, piercing the dusky frames
of his workshop window, has been inviting him out to
renew his acquaintance with the green fields ; but the sea,
" the blue, the fresh, the ever free," has charms peculiarly
grateful to the inland citizen; and hence it is at these
times that a flood of excursionists is poured into
Liverpool. These periodical visitors increase numerically
every year, just in proportion as links are added to the
railway chain connecting this important place with the rest
of the empire ; and to nowhere could they come which
could afford cheaper and better outlets for pleasure trips
than Liverpool. What more delightful "out' than to the
Menai Straits, and a stroll over Baron Hill: What
more interesting and romantic, than a journey to North
Wales ?—or what more health-giving than a sojourn, the
longer the better, to " THE ISLAND," whose arms, or
rather legs, " Quocunque jeceris stabil ?" and yet all this
can be accomplished, to .say nothing of the facility of
speed, for a sum which would not have sufficed to have taken
our ancestors one-eighth of the distance. Wordsworth. who,
poet-like, was naturally afraid when the Kendal and Win-
dermere railway was making, of a torrent of invasion
into the sylvan retreat, which happened to be his own
home, and who saw fancifully a second eruption of Goths
from Lancashire, broad-accented, clog-shod, and smelling
abominably of oil, asked if " there is no place of English
ground secure from rash assault ?" We in Liverpool do
not share in his fears. Our shopkeepers are not at all
alarmed at such " assaults" as seeing a multitude of ad-
miring faces peering at their goods ; and the ferry-boats,
andtheap-trip steamers, &c., &c., while giving facilities
that afford delight, reap a rich reward from Whitsuntide.
The flood of visitors sends out no freshet to indicate its
coming. It bursts out on Whit-Monday, and yesterday
it opened in strength. Exclusive of those pleasure-seeking
passengers who came by the ordinary trains, the arrivals
yesterday were by cheap special trains, at
LINE-STREET STATION,
six trains in the course of the day. The first from Man-
chester, with about 700 or 800 passengers ; the second
from Crewe, 400 ; from Leeds, 400; Stafford, 300; and
from Birmingham and Wolverhampton 1500.
TITHEDARN-STREET STATION.
By the East Lancashire line about 5000 people arrived
from Preston, Colne, Accrington, Burnley, &c.; by the
Lancashire and Yorkshire 4000, from Normanton, Miles
Platting, and other places. An excursion train, with
about 1000 persons, left here in the morning for Preston,
and a like number from Preston arrived here in the after-
noon, on a trip.
Fester:: , ' was like a country fair, and the
boats, . iusly, were filled with passengers.
About .t the Woodside gate on Sunday,
and ye. • aught that the receipts would
reach 13,

Traame k place, with a little less disorder
than usual , pitiable to observe towards evening,
by the returi. , the number of country women who
were in a state of semi-intoxication. About eight o'clock,
as the Birkenhead and Tranmere boat was leaving the
landing-stage, a man in the dress of a mechanic, in
attempting to leap on to the vessel fell overboard, and had
his leg seriously crushed against the sponsons. He was
conveyed in a car to the Northern Hospital. Indeed, it is-
wonderful, considering the vast concourse of people con-
veyed and the recklessness of some of them, that no more
serious accident should have occurred.