The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

THE Two WOMEN condemned to death at the last
assizes for Chester have been respited during her Majes-
ty's pleasure.
MAJOR WILLIAM DAVENPORT DAVENPORT, late
Major in the 26th Cameronians, and in the Ist Regiment
of Royal Cheshire Militia, has been appointed Lieutenant-
Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia.
CHESTER CHEESE FAlR.—Wednesday, Apr4l 20.—
There was but a small quantity of cheese pitched, which
met with a very ready sale at prices ranging from 583. to
68s. Some even fetched higher prices.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.-Traffic for the
week ended April 17, 1853 :—Railway : Passengers, parcels,
&c., £2,101 Ils. 7d.; goods, £1,127 Is. sd. Steamboats:
£282 15s. 10d. Total, £3,511 Bs. 10d. Increase as com-
pared with the corresponding week last year, £562 4s. Id.
THE BISHOP OF CHESTER has instituted the Rev.
J. S. Whiteford, M.A., to the rectory of Taxall, near
Macclesfield, rendered vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. J. Champion, M.A. ; and has licensed the Rev. J. J.
Nash, M.A., late Curate of Whitchurch, Salop, to the
curacy of St. Michael's Church, Macclesfield.
CHESTER RACES.—The meeting will commence on
Tuesday, the 3rd of May. The Marquis of Waterford,
Viscount Clifden, and C. Greville, Esq., stewards. The
programme, which has just been published, ought, from
its gigantic size, to satisfy the craving appetite of the
most ardent sportsman. We observe for tho first day five
events.

THE WHITCHURCH POSTMASTER.—The hearing of the
serious charge of embezzlement against Mr. Richard
Crosse, the Whitchurch postmaster, stands further ad-
journed. The prisoner has had a very serious attack of
delirium tremens, and if the authorities had been pre-
pared to go into the case this vt ould have prevented them.
We understand, however, that he is much better than he
has been.—Chester Chronicle.

THE RATEPAYERS OF BIRKENHEAD.—•At an adjourned
vestry on Thursday, the poll for an additional assistant-
overseer was announced to be :—For Mr. Shillinglaws,
423; Mr. Sweeney, 416; majority for Mr. Shillinglaws,
7. Mr. Sweeney requested a scrutiny of the votes, on the
ground that persons not eligible had voted, and that
several personations had taken place. Agreed to, the
scrutiny to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday.
CHESTER CATTLE FAlR.—Thursday, April 21.—The
number of good horses at the fair this day was small.
The number of cattle were : bulls, 11 ; cows, 529 ; calves,
9 ; sheep, 310 ; and pigs, 651. The prices for fat cattle
were fully 6J. per lb. There was a good demand for
calving stock, but not many good beasts shown. Scarcely
any fat sheep were offered, and store sheep were at very
high prices. Barren cattle made a slight advance on
former rates. Pigs also were a little dearer than at last fair.
A LOVE-SICK SWAIN SWINDLED.—An Irish pedlar,
named John Malarney, recently swindled Mr. William
Carter, jun., of Shipbrooke, Cheshire, out of the sum of
£4O, by an ingeniously devised plan, which wrought upon
the over-sensitive heart of the verdant young farmer.
On the 16th of March the prisoner accosted the prosecutor
while ploughing in a field, and told him in the most
mysterious manner that a young lady, a perfect Venus,
who delighted in the name of Smith, and who resided at
Over Whitley, in that county, and whose paternal parent
lived upon his own estate, and kept sixty cows, had often
seen him (the prosecutor) at Northwich, but had never
had an opportunity of speaking to him; that Miss Jane
Smith wished to marry him, and to take a farm called
Belmont, which would keep fifty beasts ; and that she
wished to know if he would meet her the following Sun-
day at the Cock, in Great Budworth, to talk the matter
over. The pedlar got the meeting put off; established
himself as confidante of the supposed young lady, and as
messenger to the delighted Carter, from whom he ob-
tained sums of money from time to time for various pur-
poses, including expenses of travelling, &c., amounting
in all to £4O. Eventually, it appears that the fair Miss
Smith was a mere phantom of the pedlar's wicked inven-
tion ; and so Malarney was brought up at the Knutsford
sessions, on Saturday week, and sent to jail for twelve
months.

GLASS.—At a meeting of the :window-glass manufac-
turers, held recently at Newcastle-on-Tyne, it was re-
solved not to increase the price, although at present unre-
munerative, lest an advance should lead to the introduc-
tion of glass from the continent.