The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-29 00:00:00

TOWNSHIP OF TRANMERE.

The annual meeting of the ratepayers of this district,
in the parish of Bebington, was held yesterday (Monday),
in the Assembly-room of the Britannia Hotel, Lower
Tranmere. Mr. E. G. Willoughby in the chair. The
first business was the choice of a list for overseers, to be
submitted to the magistrates at Great Neston, on Friday.
nest. The retiring overseers were Messrs. E. G. Wil-
loughby and C. Woodward, who have been put in nomi-
nation as guardians for the district. After some little
discussion, the following list was approved :—Messrs. J.
IL Barry, Blyth Brown, W. W. Perry, John Williams,
and Joseph Blundell. For surveyors of highways :
Messrs. Samuel Lightbound, and J. Routledge, having
given general satisfaction during the past year, were
unanimously re-elected. Messrs. William Prowse, jun.,
and William Webb, were re-elected assessors. Messrs.
W. Webb and J. Langley were re-elected auditors of the
highway accounts. The next business was the appoint-
ment of constables. For Clifton-park and Holt-hill
district : Messrs. George Spencer and James Kenan were
re-elected ; for Higher Tranmere district, Messrs. G. Mil-
ler and Samuel Jones were re-elected; for Limekiln-lane
district, Mr. H. Addison was re-elected, and Mr. Kenan was-
appointed in the room of Mr. Wm. Evans; and for Lower
Tranmere district, Messrs. Edward Gorris and William
Jackson were re-elected. The committee appointed last
year to assist the overseers was re-appointed, with the
addition of Messrs. Willoughby and Woodward, the re-
tiring overseers. A claim was made on behalf of Mr.
Thomas Dawkins, to be re-paid the sum of £3 55., the
expense which he had incurred for securities for collecting
the highway rate some time since, but as no rate was levied
they had been rendered unnecessary. Upon the motion
of Mr. Woodward, it was agreed that the amount should
be refunded. In answer to an inquiry respecting a gift of
bread to the poor at Tranmere' church, it was stated by Mr.
Woodward that there was a gift tf X 5 year arising from a
field in Tranmere, and which for some years had been
divided between the parish church at Bebbington and the
district church. It had, however, been lately discontinued,
and some inquiry would be made about it at the Bebington
vestry meeting ; but as Lord Cranwerth had a bill before
parliament to vest in the county courts the investigation of
parochial trusts, it was thought advisable to wait nntil
the bill became law. After some discussion it was agreed
to posptone the case for a time, but in the interim the
overseers and guardians were requested to make them-
selves acquainted with the facts. Thanks were voted to the
chairman, and the meeting shortly afterwards separated.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning an office boy
was run over by a cart, in Park-lane. His head was so
fearfully crushed, that death was instantaneous. He has
not vet been identified.
DR. SHERIDAN MUSPRATT has a portrait of Shak-
speare, at the College of Chemistry, which was painted by
a contemporary artist of the bard of Avon.
CONVERT FROM POPERY.—On Sunday evening last,
an intelligent young man, about 20 years of age, abjured
the errors of Popery in the Church of St. James's, Latch-
ford, near Warrington. and was received into communion
with the Church of England by the Rev. James Wright,
the incumbent.
MEETING OF SHIPWRIGHTS.—A meeting of ship-
wrights, unconnected with the Liverpool Shipwrights'
Association, was called for last night at the lecture-room,
Tuton.buildings, Lime-street. A considerable time after
the hour appointed very few attended ; no business was
proceeded with, and those present did not seem to be
aware for what purpose they had assembled.
THE ANCIENT BARDS.—The fine historical picture of
"The Last Fight of the Bards," nowexhibiting in Church-
street, may be seen this week for the last time ; and, in
order to give the working-classes an opportunity of im-
proving their acquaintance with the fine arts, the exhibi-
tion is open in the evenings up to ten o'clock.
AT A VESTRY MEETING, holden in the new Parish
Church of All Saints yesterday, (Easter Monday,) the
minister, the Rev. Henry Marten, appointed Richard
Yates Ackerley, Esq., as his churchwarden ; and the
parishioners, in their own behalf, appointed Robert Pear-
son Manger, Esq. The above gentlemen have already
held office in this church for three years, during which
period, under their prudent management, it has been
blessed with increasing prosperity, and their reappoint-
ment not only augurs well for the future, but meets with
the universal approbation of the congregation.
A Fiat broke out on Sunday afternoon, about two
o'clock, in the cabin of the ship Asia, lying in the San.
don Dock. It was extinguished before much damage
had been caused.—Soon after five p;m., a fire broke out
on the premises of Mr. Ganiscwthryth, outfitter, Great
Howard-street, but it was speedily subdued by the fire.
brigade,