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

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

CROSS, shoemaker, living in Sandford-street,
Birkenhead, has obtained a verdict of £2O damages against
its landlord. Mr. John Maincvaring, for an irregular and
excessive distraint.
AN INDECENT ASSAULT was committed the other day
11)t Rock Ferry on a female by Matthew Brennan, who has
apprehended and lodged in prison at Birkenhead.
Hens also charged with stabbing William Sparks, who
came to the rescue of the woman.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffie for
Parcals, &c.
the week ended 6th March, 1853 :—Railway: Passengers,
£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-
clesfield have been discharged, and a man named Edward
Roberts,, alias M'Cormick, who is believed to be the
Chesterd gleaer, hass been committed for trial at the next
assize.
DESTRUCTION OF SEA BlRDS.—SingUlar as it may
appear at this season (remarks the• Carnarvon Herald.)
the beach at Morfa Bychan and Harlech has been lately
strewn with dead puffins and razor bills. A question
here arises for ornithologists, as to whether these birds
are migratory or not, or whether this is the result of the
severe westerly gales experienced during the last winter.
, HOLYHEAD HARBOUR.—The recent heavy gale has
teen productive of a fearful loss of property at the New
Harbour of Refuge, Holyhead. Every one of the piles
for the south pier have been washed away, and large tim-
bers strew the shore in every direction. Such was the
violence 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
Connexion with the " Loyal Orange Institution of Great
Britain," was opened at the house of Mr. Clarke, the
Liverpool Arms, Chester-street, Birkenhead. The Grand
'Secretary and the Liverpool North District Master were in
attendance, and at seven o'clock the business of the even.
in; commenced by the solemn :inauguration to their re-
spective offices of the master, deputy, secretary, treasurer,
and the 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
secure the formation of a junction, and this auspicious
event will, no doubt, tend much to the practical develop-
ment of the principles of Orangeism, and otherwise aid
materially towards their stability and permanence in this
Country. 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 an early hour. So numerous, in Birkenhead,
have been the demands for admission into this loyal so-
Tety, that three additional warrants have been already
issued for that district, and these will immediately be
brought into active requisition. In response, also, to
Pressing solicitations from many respectable residents, it
is contemplated further to extend the operations of the
institution to Wallasey, where the necessary preparations
are being made for the establishment of a lodge.