The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-20 00:00:00

ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD.

Tun annual Trinity Festival of this parish was cele-
brated last week, and created considerable interest, not
only amongst the parishioners, but also amongst the inha-
bitants of the surrounding district.
On the previous Friday, the examination of the Daily
Schools connected with the Rectory took place, when the
children of both sexes were tested in various branches of
their instruction during the previous half-year, before
'their parents, the members of the committee, and others
who take an interest in the schools. We have, on a former
occasion, drawn attention to the re-establishment of these
schools at the beginning of the year, and it is satisfactory
to notice the .great progress made by the children in so
short a time. The general demeanour, cleanly appearance,
and discipline of the scholars reflected very great credit
on themselves and the master and mistresses, whilst their
replies 'to the numerous questions put to them, especially
in Sacred and English History and Geography, showed
the diligent 'care that had been bestowed on their moral
and mental education. The singing of rounds and glees,
which in the daily routine marks the 'changing of the
classes in the school, was executed in rca,ll.y excellent style,
the time and tune in part-singing being well preserved,
and its harmony affording great delight to those assem-
bled. At the conclusion, the Rev. Shirley Woolmer, in a
'brief address to the parents, insisted upon the absolute
'importance of their enforcing the regular and constant
attendance of their children at the school, as well as of
setting them a good example at home. James' Billinge;
Esq., the churchwarden and chairman of the school com-
mittee, expressed his thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Chapman,
(late of the model schools, Canterbury,) for the very effi-
cient manner in which they had performed their duties.
At the conclusion, the schools broke up for the Midsummer
holidays—their numbers in both schools having increased
from about fifty at the beginning of the year, to more than
a'lmndred and fifty.
On Trinity Sunday, being 'the festival of the dedication
of the church, the annual sermons were preached in behalf
of the school fund ; that in the morning by the Rev. Shir-
ley Woolmer, the curate 'in charge of the parish, --(the
rector, the Rev. H. H. Sherlock, being absent on the -con-
tinent from' ill health, which his unremitted exertionstin
former years in behalf oflhe parish have occasioned). The
sermon in the afternoon 'was preached by the Rev. Thomas
Berry, ineumbent of Christ Church, Bolton. Collections
were made after both services, which, together with the
subscriptions and donations, amounted to upwards of £3O.
A considerable deficiency, however, still exists, owing to
the expenses which were unavoidably incurred in replacing
the
,schools in a thorough state of efficiency. Jackson's
Service was performed for the first time in the church by
the choir, in a very skilful and creditable manner, led by
Mr. John Byrom. Setween the services nearly three
hundred of the school children walked in procession to
Downhall-green, where they sung the Doxology and the
National Anthem. After the evening service theehildren
were regaled with a plentiful supply of buns, in the pre-
sence of a goodly array of visitors, who were highly grati-
fied with the correct-and pleasing manner in which several
pieces of church music were executed by the .youthful
choristers.
On Trinity Monday,the members of the Ashton Rectory
Friendly Society qa_ club established in connexion with
this church and schools), celebrated their fourteenth anni-
versary with the 'usual festival. After service in the
church, the meedhers sat down to tea in the spacious
school-room, whence they afterwards proceeded to the
ornamental dell which forms part of the picturesque gar--
dens of the rectory, and upon the greensward, to the enli-
vening strains of a band, the youthful portion " popped
the weasel," and 'danced other contra dances. Shortly
after eight, the thib returned to the school-roorn, which
was tastefully decorated with flowers and evergreens, and
where the tables were then graced with bread and beef, and
jugs of foaming aleor milder ginger-beer, a prelude to the
toasts and speeches that succeeded. " The health of the
Rector in his absence," was received with " nine times
nine," and many were the demonstrations of affectionate
attachment and dceires for his speedy physieg recovery,
and his return In ?peace_ The church choir er-tiag appro-
priate glees after -each toast, and the zealous and able
secretary of the society, Mr. Thomas Crompton, on return-
ing thanks for himself and the officers of the ,club, stated
that, notwithstanding the heavy drains which the unusual
prevalence of sickness and mortality had, during the last
year, made upon -614ir common purse, yet the:club had
steadily progressed; that its numbers already exceeded
two hundred, and bid fair soon to reach two hundred' and
forty--the nuMber which their London actuary (who had
originally drawn- uptheir table of allowances, framed upon
a sliding scale,) had -pronounced to be necessarfin order
•to insure the payments of the club being made according
'to the highest average, .as well as its perpetuity as: a corpo-
ration. The meeting broke up at half-past ten, after having
enjoyed a most pleasant and unanimous festival.
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Barnett Blake, of Liverpool,
delivered a lecture in the School-room on " The War with
Russia." The Rev. Shirley Woolmer was in the chair,
and abbut two hundred and fifty Of the pariihioners were
present. The lecturer, after stating the importance of the
subject, that all should 'become acquainted with the,cause
of an expensive war in which all had an interest, inas-
nmee. as the Chancellor of the Exchequeer had made it
intelligible to them even in their cups by his tax:upon
malt, proceeded to detail 'the various circumstances which
had led to the quarrel that threatened to involve all
Europe 'in deadly conflict. After a brief review of ,the
condi6on 'both' of Russia and Turkey, he described the
religion :of each country, und explained the meaning.of
the balance of power, which was the chief object in view.
He compared the present war with the last one in which
thii country was engaged, .and said it was a gratifying-
circpmstance that now commerce was all free, and there
was no disturbance nor interference with peaceful pursuits,
the vast empire of Russia being hemmed in from the
ocean by our :fleets in the Black Sea and the Baltic. It
was to the' credit of England that she was animated by no
selfish motive,lfor there was no tangible advantage to be
gained, either .immediate or prospective. It was the
mighty. cause -of truth and justice,.and England, the great
centre of Cluistianity, assumed •Ifi.e responsibility of her
high mission, and boldly dictated-to despotism, ignorance,
and fanatici,sni. 9Are ,may. appear; though it is but appear-
ance, to favour Mohammedanism, its task had, however,
been accomplished; and as it had been promised that the
knowledge of the glory of the Lord should cover the earth
as the waters 'cover the sea, the war might be a step to
realise this prophecy, and the false prophet surrender, not
to the sword of the squally anti-Christian Russia, but to
'the peaceful mission of :Christian England. The lecturer
'was listened to throughout with deep attention, and at the
conclusion he was greeted with a burst of cheering, fol-
lowed by three cheers for the Queen. ThiS was the first
attempt of the committee to introduce popular lectures,
and it was considered to be eminently succesdul.

TILE WOMAN who undertook to scour the woods has
abandoned the contract, on amount of the scarcity of sand
and the high price of soap.
Tnn FUND FOR SOLDIERS' NlTivEs.—Our readers will
be surprised to learn that, of the large sum collected for
this fund, not more than £2O is ascertained to have been
contributed by Roman Catholics. This is a strange fact,
but we are assured it is as true as it is strange.—Morning
Advertiser.
THE PRICE OP PAPER.—The• following advertisement
appeared in the Times of Monday last week-: " One
thousand pounds reward.—The proprietors of a leading
metropolitan journal offer 'the above reward to any
person who shall first succeed in inventing or- • dis-
covering, or discovering the means of using, a cheap sub-
stitute for the cotton and linen materials now used by
paper makers, subject to the following conditions :-1.
The material must be practically unlimited in quantity,
and be capable of 'being converted into pulp of a quality
equal to that which is at present used in- manufacturing
the best description of neWspaper, and at a cost emteris
paribus, not less than ten per cent lower. 2. It must
be tested, approved, and adopted by three eminent manu-
facturers of paper (two of them to be named by the 'ad-
vertisers), whose certificate shall entitle the inventor to
the payinent of the reward. 3. This offer to be in force
only for a period of twelve months -from the 26th of May,
1854.
GUANO IN Mtx.rce.--7lt appears that the government
of. Mexico have recently granted • for ten years to Senor
Jose 0. Forns and others, representing a. body to be called
the Mexican Guano Company, an exclusive privilege for
the exportation of guano from all the coasts and islands
belonging to that country, with the exception of . three
islands in the Pacific known under the name of the Manias.
Circulars have accordingly been issued, notifying the con-
ditions on which it may be obtained, the professed object
of the proprietors being to leave the trade as open as pos-
sible consistently with their own claims for remuneration.
The quality of the guano existing on the Atlantic side of
the coast, has been more thoroughly examined than that
on the other, owing to several cargoes having already been
taken thence to the United States, as well as a few to
Liverpool, and is stated to be entirely distinct from the
Peruvian descriptions, its richness consisting in 60 per
cent. of phosphate of Bine. That which exists on the
islands and promontories of the Pacific coast and in the
Gulf of California, is described as of a more varied
`Character, some-parts of which are rainless-being expected
to supply high qualities, while in others the descriptions
are inferior. Thus far, however, there-seems to have been
no accurate classi4eations of the respective sorts, nor any
reliable estimates as to the quantities obtainable. The
discovery of these deposits- as regards the Atlantic portion
is only of recent date. The islands containing the principal
amount are called the Triangles, near the c6ast of Yucatan ;
and no knowledge of the circumstance seemed to have been
possessed by the Mexican government until very lately,
when, after two American vessels had filled there, one of
them, with more than 200 tons on board, was stranded in
a storm on a neiglit'nring. Point, and tll Mg* Wigs
brought to

MARRIED.

Lately, at St. Mithael's Church, by the Rex. C. Morrall,
M.A., Mr. James• Daly Butler to Miss Margaret Ann
Tudor. .

On the 23rd Febraary, at Adelaide, Mr. J. Malcolm, of
Kirkaldy, N. 8., to Mary Ann, daughter of M-r.-J. Knight,
of this town.

On the 3rd inst., at .-St. Mary's, Truro, by-the Rev. W.
Harvey, Mr. J. W. Berwick, of this town, to ili7abeth
Andrew, only daughter of the late W. Christoe; Esq., of
Truro.

On the 10th inst., at St. Philip's Church, by license,
by the Rev. C. H. Burton, Captain Leonard Waller, to
Eliza Ann, only daughter of the late Frederick Cert, Esq.,
merchant, of this town.
On the 10th inst., at Si. John the Baptist's Church, by
Ilie,ense, J. Homersham, Esq., of Herne Bay, near Canter-
:bury, to Thomar, second daughter of ➢lr. Cornwall, of
Toxteth-park.

On the 11th inst., at :St. Philip's Church, Mr. T.
'Hughes to Miss J. Williams.

On the 12th inst., at St. Philip's Church, Mr. R. K.
Hargreaves to Miss M. A. Downs ; also, Mr. J. Foulkes
to Miss A. HuOles.
On the 12th inst., at St. Michael's Church, by the Rev.
(1 Morro'', Mr. J. Proter to Mrs. M. Reynolds.
On the 12th inst., at St. John's Church, Mr. T. Fair to
Miss H. Lawrenson.

On the 12th instant, at Nottingham, Mr. Thorp, of this
town, late of Manchester, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of
the late Mr. W. Munks, of Grantham.
On the Itth instant, Mr. Richard Brakell to Miss Luey
Stott, daughter of Mr. Henry Stott, White Mill-street.
On the lath instant, at St. John the Baptist's Church,
by the Rev. J. Hassan, M.A., Mr.. Daniel Keeton, of
Princes-park, to Miss Ellen Butterworth.
On the 12th instant, at Hale Church, by the Rev. W.
Stewart, M.A., incumbent, Mr. James Grayson, of Augh-
,ton, to Mary, and Mr. William Barton, of Woolton, to
Sarah, both daughters of Mr. William Plumbley, of Hale-
wood.
On the 13th instant, at St. Bride's Chuneh, by the Rev.
W. Pollock, incumbent of St. Mark's, William Waring,
Esq., of Brussels, eldest son of John Waring, Esq., of
Haworth-hall, Rotheram, Yorkshire, to Bessie, daughter
of the late Baillie Arkle, Esq., of this town.
On the 13th instant, at Ormskirk, by the Rev. W.
Caldwell, Mr. John Smith, veterinary surgeon, to Eliza-
beth Mary, eldest daughter of A. B. Goss, Esq., of Brook-
house, Houghton.
On the 13th instant, at Tintwisle, by the Rev. J. A.
Page, M.A., incumbent, John Wood, jun., Esq., Glossop,
to Emma, eldest daughter of William Sidebottom, Esq.,
of Etherow-house, Cheshire.
On the 13th instant, at St. Mary's Church, Walton-on-
the-Hill, by the Rev. H. Marlen, A. 8., Mr. James Buck-
ley, of Rycroft-hail, Ashton-under-Lyne, to Martha
Abbott, only daughter of the late Mr. John Abbott
Kaye, of this town.
On the 13th inst., at St. John's Church, Mr. Alexander
Duggin to Miss Sarah Bennett ; also, Mr. James Edward
Knott to Miss Hannah Dearden.
On the 14th instant, at Hale Church, by the Rev. E.
Hinde, 8.A., curate, Mr. Hugh Gore to Miss Mary O'Neill,
both of Much Woolton.
On the 14th instant, at Chester, Mr. G. W. Corkhill, of
this town, to Miss Jane Hodges, of Chester.
On the 14th instant, at the Parish Church, Prestwich,
by the 'Rev. IL M. Birch; rector, Mr. T. Leatherbarrow,
of this town, to Ellen, only daughter of Mr. John Clough,
of Prestwich.
On the 14th instant, at the Parish Church, Blackburn,
by the Rev. H. Marlen, incumbent of All Saints, in this
town, father of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev.
T. Hayes, M.A., vicar of Bracewell, the Rev. Henry
'John Marlen, M.A., incumbent of St. John's, Blackburn,
to Emily, only daughter of Robert Hopwood, Esq., of
Rockliffe, Blackburn.
On the 15th inst., at St. Philip's Church, Mr. Joseph
Evans to Miss Catherine Owens.
On the 15th inst., at Holy Trinity Church, Walton-
.breek, by the Rev. Goodwin Young, William Harrison to
Matilda, second daughter of the late Thomas Medealf,
Esq., of Kirkdale.
On the 15th inst., Mr. Henry Fletcher to Miss Harriet
Griffiths, Southend-house, Seaforth.
On the 15th inst., at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev.
F. F. Chamberlain, Carlisle Harrington, son of Colonel
lateSPe ddn
Josephg; whsecointedhadvaeung.hter of the
On the 15th inst., at St. James's Church, by the Rev.
CpheeliltriEhagrmem,
thontA,nntheare,
H. Hampton, Mr. John Jones, estate-agent, Bedford-
street, to Miss Rowlands., Llanelian, Anglesea.
On the 15th inst., at St. Michaers-in-the-Hamlet, Mr.
Joseph Whaley to Martha, eldest daughter of the late Mr.
Samuel Wright, proprietor of the Warwick-street _ Saw-
mill.
On the 15th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead,
the Rev. R. Powell, 13,A,, ctiratc of St, John's, Ur,

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

lITESDAY, JITNE 13, 1854.

• BANKRUPTS. - James Rankin, Liverpool, wholesale
clothier, June 26, July 17, at 12 o'clock, at the Liverpool
District Court of Bankruptcy: solicitors, Messrs. Ander-
son and Collins, Liverpool ' • and. Messrs- Sale, Worthing.
ton, and Shipman, Manchester; official assignee, Mr.
Morgan, Liverpool. Hugh Barclay, Liverpool, com-
mission agent, June 56, at 12, July at 11 o'clock, at
the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy f solicitor,
Mr, Yates, jun., Liverpool; official assignee, Mr. Morgan,
Liverpool.—Wm. Wilkinson,' Samuel, and John Bawling,
Manchester, curriers, June 23, and July 14, at 12
o'clock, at the Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy:
stdieitors, Mr. Barker, Huddersfield; and Messrs. Bell-
house and Bond, Manchester; official assignee, Mr. Her-
naraan; Manchester.—Samuel Potts, Hove, Sussex, car-
penter.:—George Butler, late of Nicholas-lane, Lombard-
street, auctioneer.—John Allen, Gourthorpe-terrace, Ber-
mondsey New-road, and York-place, Kent-street-road,
grocer.—William Speller, Warwick-road West, Padding,
ton, builder.—William Adam, Great Tower-street,' mer-
chant.—Thinnas Robinson Ward, Wisbeach St. Peter,
Cambridge, scrivener.—John Greatwood, Birmingham,
confectioner.—Thomas Stone Begley, Tiverton, grocer.—
Obadiah Wiliam and Henry Rawson, Leeds, cloth mer-
chants. _ _ _

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PARTNERSRIPS DISSOLVED.—A. P. Jacob and L A.
Smith, Liverpool, auctioneeii.—H, W. Carr and Co.,
Birkenhead and Seacombe, coal merchants.—J. and J.
Walmsley, • Chowbent, Lancashire, butthers.—Ormerod,
Brothers, and Co., Newchurch, Lancashire, manufac-
turers; and Ormerod, Brothers; Manchester, commission
agents; as far as regards J. OrnicrolcV--J. Kirkham and
Co., Livesey, near Blackburn, power loom cloth manu-
facturers.—Kay, Pickup, and Co., Forest of Rossendale,
Lancashire, woollen printers. -
CERTIFICATE.-July 5, P. W. Robinson, Southport,
Lancashire, printer.