The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

settlement.

This difference between two influential bodies,
thus brought to the issue of a popular contest, does
but confirm the opinion we have previously ex-
pressed, that it would be advantageous to all par-
ties if such an important property were removed
from the arena of rivalry, and placed under the same
efficient management which has rendered the Liver-
pool Docks the wonder and admiration of the com-
mercial world. There is no real ground of anta-
gonism, and the rapid increase of trade to the port
will fully require the occupation of both sides of the

Mersey. For the present, however, the question is
left to the ratepayers of Birkenhead, many of whom
will, no doubt, be guided in their votes by the
simple fact that to the blue party who have at
present the ascendancy in the Dock Trust is owing
the progress which is now being made to render the
dock property more available by completing the
outer works. We can quite agree with Mr. POWLES
that the interests of all parties are identical, and it
is to be hoped that this feeling will not be kept out
of view in the forthcoming election.

WORKING MEN'S CHURCH ASSOCIATION,

Tae object of this association is to provide additional
Curates for Liverpool and the neighbourhood, whose
week-day labours are to be limited to pastoral visitation,
and who are to be engaged on Sundays in forming new
congregations amongst the working classes. So successful
have been the operations of this association, that it has
already more than thirteen hundred families of the work-
ing classes who are subscribers, and two new districts
have been formed in Liverpool—one at the North Docks,
entitled St. Aidan's, after the College at Birkenhead, of
which the Rev. Dr. Baylee, the director of the associa-
tion, is the principal, and another out of the districts of
St. James's and St. Bride's, under the joint superinten-
dence of the Rev. H. Hampton and the Rev. W. Ai.
Falloon. Exertions have also been made to extend the
working of the association to the district of Birkenhead,
and with such success that the income of £lOO a-year,
required to be raised by weekly subscriptions not exceed-
ing 2d. each, in order to secure a prior claim to an ap-
pointment , is very nearly accomplished. At the ordina.
tion held by the Lord Bishop of Chester, on Sunday, at
Cheater Cathedral, four students—one from St. Bees'
College, and three from St. Aidan's College, Birken-
head—were admitted to holy orders, for the work of
this association, three of them for Liverpool and one
for Birkenhead. The success of this association reflects
the greatest credit on the working classes of Liverpool
and the neighbourhood, who have raised the pecuniary
means for the spiritual instruction of themselves, and we
recur to the fact in order that it may stimulate those who
have the means to assist in the good work.

GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL TO AN OVERSEER OF
THE POOR.—On Monday evening, the 16th instant, the
inhabitants of Newton-in-Mackerfield testified their
respect to Mr. Richard Owen, overseer of the poor of that
parish, by presenting him with a superb silver teapot,
together with a silver goblet and a purse of gold, as a mark
of their esteem. The teapot bears the following inscrip-
tion, a similar one is also engraven upon the goblet:—
" Presented to Mr. Richard Owen a silver teapot, together
with a silver goblet and a purse of sovereigns, (by the
ratepayers of Newton and friends,) for his faithful and
efficient services as assistant overseer and collector of rates
In the mid: or Newt9A-ip-Mackerfield for nearly thirty
years,"