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

ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD.

Tin 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 really 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 hundred 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 exertions in
former years in behalf of the parish have occasioned). The
sermon in the afternoon was preached by the Rev. Thomas
Berry, incumbent of Christ Church, Bolton. Collections
were made after both services, which, together with the
subscriptions and donations, amounted to upwards of 230.
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. Between 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 the children
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 Mondaay,the memstablished bers of tin
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Friendly Society ( club e
this -church and schools), celebrated their fourteenth anni-
versary with the usual festival. After service in the
'church, the members 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 centre dances. Shortly
after eight, the club returned to the school-room, which
was tastefully decorated with flowers and evergreens, and
where the tables were then graced -With bread and beef, and
jugs of foaming ale or milder ginger-beer, a prelude to the
toasts and speeches that succeeded. " The health of the
Rector in his absenoe," was received with " nine times
nine," and many were the demonstrations of affectionate
-attachment and desires for his speedy physical recovery,
and his -return in peaie. The church choir sang 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 their -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 up their table of allowances, framed upon
a sliding scale,) had pronounced to be necessary in 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.about two hundred and fifty of the parishioners 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 art interest, inas-
much as the Chancellor of the Exchequer 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
condition both of Russia and Turkey, he described the
religion of each country, and 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
this country was engaged, and said it was a gratifying
circumstance 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, for 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 Christianity, assumed the responsibility of her
high mission, and boldly dictated to despotism, ignorance,
and fanaticism. We may appear, though it is mt.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 equally 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 successful.

TEE. Woulac who undertook to scour the woods has
abandoned the contract, on account of the scarcity of sand
and the high price of soap.
TILE FrIED FOR SOLDIERS' WIVES.—OUT 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,
bid we are assured it is as true as it is strange.—Morning
Advertiser.
THE PRICE or PAPEIe.—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 maker's, 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 cceteris
paribus, not less than ten per cent lower. 2. It must
be tested, approved, and adopted by three eminent mann-
faeturers of paper (two of them to be named by the ad-
vertisers), whose certificate shall entitle the inventor to
the payment of the reward. 3..hfis offer tombthe for
only for a period Of twelve months rom e of May,
1854.
GUANO IN MgXICO.—It appears that the government
of Mexico have recently granted for ten years to Senor
Jose 0. Forus and-others, representing a body to be called
the Mexican Guano Company, au 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 Marias.
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 lime. 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 classifications of the respective sorts, nor any
reliable estimates as to the quantities obtainable. The
discovery of these deposits as regardi the Atlantic portion
is only of recent date. The islands containing the principal
amount are called the Triangles, near the coast 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 wightouring point, and the matter was
brought to light.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

On the 10th inst., at West Derby-road, the wife of Mr.
Charles Purdue, of a son. • •

On the 10th inst., the wife of Mr. Sylvester Williston,
Elm-house, Dingle, of a son.
On the 13th inst., at Ormskirk, the wife of C. P.
Symonds, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., in Pembroke-place, the wife of Mr.
Thomas Dean, secretary of the Working Tailors' Institute,
of a son.

oa the 14th inst., in Boundary-place, the wife of Mr.
John Greenfield, of a daughter.
On the 16th inst., at Bedford-street South, Mrs. Linton
Hughes, of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., Mrs. George Frederic Reed, North
John-street, of a son.
On the 18th inst., at Orton, Cheshire, the Lady of H.
W. Ansdell, Esq., of a son.

THE CHARITIES.—(TreekIy Reports)

ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR
INSTITUTION, 9, ROSE-HILL, JUNE 19.—New patients,
viz.:—Relieved at the institution, 172 ; relieved at their
own dwellings, 48 ; cases of prevailing epidemic, 0 ;
total, 220.
INDUSTRIAL RAGGED SCHOOLS, SOHO-STREET,
JUNE 14.—0 n the books, boys 77, girls 50 ; average
attendance, boys 69, girls 40 ; sick list, boys 2, girls 0;
obtained situations, boys 0, girls 1.
ROYAL INFIRMARY, JUNE 17. ADMITTED:
In-patients, 29 ; out-patients, 6 ; casuals, 12. DIS-
CHARGED : In-patients cured, 22 ; relieved, &e., 14 ;
made out-patients, 5 ; irregular, 4 ; dead, 2. Remain in
the house, 158.,
NORTHERN HOSPITAL, JUNE 17.—ADMITTED :
Accidents, 60; medical and surgical cases, 26; total, 86.
DISCHARGED : Cured, 26; relieved at own request, 14;
attending as out-patients, 42; irregular, 2; died, 1;
remaining in the hospital, 108.
SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL, JUNE
14.—1n-patients, discharged: cured, 23; relieved, and at
own request, 3 ; irregular, 0 ; dead, 2 ; entered, 32 ;
under treatment, 91. Out-patients : aired, 42; entered,
50; under treatment, 65.
BIRKENHEAD HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY,
JUNE 10.—HOSPITAL : admitted, 1; discharged: cured,
1; relieved, 0 ; made out-patients, 0 ; not benefited, 0 ;
irregular, 0; dead, 0; remaining, 4. DISPENSARY.—
Out-patients : admitted, 34 ; discharged, 35 ; remaining,
Go. Home patients : admitted, 11; discharged, 8; re-
maining, 12. Total since Ist January, 1033.

TRADE AND MARKETS.

MONEY AND STOCKS

TUESDAY, JUNE 13.—Bank Stock, 204 6 ; Three per
Cent. Reduced Annuities, 911 4 1 *; Three per Cent.
Consols Annuities, shat, 92i; Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cent. Annuities, 91 211 2 ; Consols for Account, 91*
1 *; Long Annuities, 30 years (1860), 4 9-16 1 • India
Bonds, £l,OOO, 4s. pm. par; Exchequer-bills, £l,OOO, 24d.,
par, 4s. pm. ; Ditto, £5OO, 2*d., par, 4s. pm. ; Ditto,
Small, 21d., 4s. 2s. ss. ls. pm. ; Ditto Bonds, Scrip, 11 pm.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14.—Bank Stock, 206; Three per
Cent. Reduced Annuities, 911 4 4 ; New Three-and-
a-Half per Cent. Annuities, 914 2 14 ; Consols for Open-
ing, 911 ; India Bonds, £l,OOO 4s. pm. par ;‘ Ditto (under
£1,000), 4s. pm. ; Exchequer-bills, £l,OOO, 2td., par ;
Ditto, £5OO, 21d., par, 4s. pm. ; Ditto, Small, 2d., ls.
ss. pm.; Ditto Bonds, Scrip, 4 4 pm.
THURSDAY, JUNE 15. 7-- Three per Cent. Reduced
Annuities, 911 i; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. An-
nuities, 914 2 14 4 s ; Consols for Opening, 911 4 4 14 :
Long Annuities (1860), 4 9-16; Ditto, 30 years (1859),
4 5-16; India Bonds, £l,OOO, is. 3s. ; Ditto (under £1,000).
4s. pm. ; Exchequer-bills, £l,OOO, 2jd., par, 4s. pm. ;
Ditto, £5OO, 24d., par, 4s. pm.; Ditto, Small, 2f d., par,
46. pm. 55.; Ditto Bonds, scrip, l pm.

FRIDAY, JUNE 16.—Bank Stock, 204; Three per Cent.
Reduced Annuities, 91/ 1/ 1; Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cent. Annuities, 91i / / ; Consols for Opening, 91*1 I;
India Bonds, £l,OOO, par ; Ditto (under £1,000), 3s. pm.;
Exchequer-bills, £l,OOO, 2/d., 2s. pm., par, 3s. pm., par.;
Ditto, £5OO, 20., par, 4s. pm., par ; Ditto, Small, 2/d.,
ss. 3s. pm., par ; Ditto, Bonds, Scrip, * pm.
SATURDAY, JUNE 17.—Three per Cent. Reduced An-
nuities, 91 ; Consols for Opening, 91* * -* ; New
Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities, 91i j-; Exchequer-
bills, £l,OOO, 2/., par 3s. pm. ; Ditto, £5OO, 2/d., par ls.
pm.; Ditto, Small, 20., 2s. ss. pm. ; Ditto Bonds, Scrip,
1 pm.