The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-09 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL ACADEMY—(Sevent4Notice)

CHESHIRE AND WALES.

No. 92. " Mill at Anil:ilesid(

Jr. A. 1J

The Bishop of Chester has intimated his intentien of

holding a general ordination in the cathedral church of
his diocese, on Sunday, March 27, 1852.

naaed ; but the foreground, with figure bathing feet, is
well painted.
93. " Portr

Berry HOrsfall, Esq.!' By Mr.
Jno. Graham Gilbirt, R.S.A. Admirably painted, and
the likeness most happily rendered. The thoughtful fea-
tures and gentlemanly bearing of our highly-esteemed
townsman are represented true to life.
94. " Landscape at Bromborough." By Mr. Robert
Tonge. A very creditable production, with fine broad
effect, and good colouring.

Mr. Andrew M'Harg has been appointed, by the Bir-
kenhead Commissioners, invector of lodging-houses for
that place, at a salary of 255. per week.
C. K. Mainwaring. EQq., of Oteley, has reduced his
rents in Cheshire, at the Leche, near Chester, and Brom-

bro', in Wirral, to the extent of 12i per cent., at his last
rent audit,

The commission of Josiah Higginbotham,' gent., es
cornet in the Earl of Chester's Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry, vice Robinaon, deceased, has been signed by the
Lord-Lieutenant of the county palatine of Chester.

95. " Game." By Mr. W. Davis. This Subject re
Aires masterly treatment to make it tell well. This is

but a moderate attempt

from Nature—on the Tees." By Mr.
T',is may be a true sketch of a view on
the artist's talent in finding

96. " Study
W. J. Blacklock.
the Tees if so, it she

On Thursday morning, a dis Charged errand-boy from
the service of Mr. Slraggs, draper, Birkenhead, feloni-
ously entered his late employer's premiies, through the
coal-grating, and stole a quantity of wearing apparel.

Ithe most u npieturosque spot we ever
_s.

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The Government Co.rmissioners of Emigration have
arranged that the ship M tngerton shall sail" froM.Birken-
head, with government emigrants, to Australia. • This is
the first vessel which they have despatched from the Mer.
sey, with emigrants, to ttat part
.of The world.
The Rev. Edward Evans, the recently appointed rector
of Halkin,'met with a most serious accident and narrowly
escaped with his life, as he was• returning from • Mold, a
few days ago, by the falling of his horse. He had just
been sworn in and constituted a magistrate of the county
of Flint.

painting, in which the artist has evinced

Herapalh's Journal says, " We lately said that the
Chester and Holyhead Company had purchased the land
for a competing line to the Cheshire Junction Company.
The fact, as stated to us since; is, that the !andowners
have all assented to the new line, if not actually settled
the terms of sale."

The monthly meeting of the Improvement Commission-
ers of Birkenhead was held last Tuesday, at the Board-
ro 'm, in Hamilton-square. Mr. Green took the chair,
and present were, Messrs. Milnes, Bailiff, Graham, Tyler,
Lightbound, Webster, Watson,. Barbour, Mills, Pike,
Thomson, Appleton, Cook, Rae and Gough.
TEA-PARTY AT BIRKENHEAD.—A tea party will take
place on Friday eveninv next, in the school-room attached
to the independent Chapel, Hamilton-square, Birken-
head, at which the newly-appointed minister of the
chapel, the Rev. James Mann, will be introdeced to the
coneregation.

WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—At a monthly meeting,
on Thursday evening, it appeared that £2OOO had been
borrowed for the improvement of Carrion-lane. The
offer of Mr. Marsden of a piece of land fronting the
Magazines as a site for water-works, at 3s. 6d. per yard,
was accepted conditionally. Another attempt to alter the
hours of meeting was defeated by a majority of IO to 5.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ended 30th November, 1851 :—Chester and Holy-
head Main Line : Passengers, £826 19s. 6d. ; parcels.
H. C. and D., £BO Os. 4d. ; goods, cattle, &c., £707
Os. 3d. ; mails, £575.—M01d : Passengers, £34 Bs. 4d.;
parcels, £2 9s. 9d. ; goods, cattle, &c., £92 lls. sd.
Steam-boats : Passengers, £l3l 7s. Bd. ; parcels, £l4
13s. Bd.—Total, £2,464 10s. Ild. '

We regret to learn that Lord Skelmersdale is seriously
ill at Rode-ball, of erysipelas in the head. The Hon.
Col. Wilbraham, the Countess of Derby, and other
branches of the family, are with him. Dr. Gwynne,
M.D., of Sandbach, Mr. Davenport, surgeon, of Tunstall,
and the medical attendant of the family from Ormskirk,
are in constant attendance upon Lord Skelmersdale.—
Chester Courant.

WOODSIDE FERRY.—The statement of accounts, at the
last Commissioners' meeting, showed that the receipts for
the month ending the 30th November were £1,234,
against .£1,327 in the corresponding month of 1850. The
receipts, from the 25th April to the 30th November, were
£13,620, against £13,959 in the corresponding six months
of the previous year. • The expenditure, from the 20th
April to the 30th November, including working expenses,
was £6,661 ; rent, 2.354 ; making a total of £9,015.
PROPOSED TABLET TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV.
DR. BYRTH.—A tablet is about to be erected to Dr.
Byrth's memory, in Wallasey Church, bearing the fol.
lowing inscription:—

TO THE
MEMORY OF
THE REV. THOS. BYRTH, D.D., F.A.S.,
FOR FIFTEEN YEARS
RECTOR OF WALLASEY,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
OCTOBER 28, 1849,
AGED 56 YEARS.
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED
BY HIS PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS,
IN TOKEN OF THEIR GRATITUDE TO GOD,
WHO GAVE TO THIS PARISH
A TEACHER SO EARNEST AND ELOQUENT,
A FRIEND SO FAITHFUL AND AFFECTIONATE,
AN EXAMPLE SO BRIGHT OF A CHRISTIAN LIFE

HE IS PURE FROM THE BLOOD OF ALL MEN; FOR HE HATH
NOT SHUNNED TO DECLARE LTNTOLTSALLTHE COUNSEL OF GOD

PUBLIC ?%lEETIEG AT TRANMERE.—Tie annual meet-
ing of the ratepayers of Tranmere, under the 3d and 4th
of William the Fourth, chap. 98, for watching purposes,
was held on Wednesday evening, at the Star Hotel, in the
southern division of the Limekiln-lane district, for the
purpose of auditing the accounts for the past year, electing
inspectors in place of those who retire, and voting money
for the next year. It appeared, from the accounts of the
treasurer, that during the last year, the amount paid by
the overseers was £l6O, which had all been expended ;
and there was a balance of 19s. 7d. due to the treasurer.
It was ordered that £lBO should be collected for the
ensuing year, being equivalent to a rate of in the
pound upon the assessable property in the township. The
meeting then proceeded to, the appointment of inspectors,
Mr. Pritchard, the chairman, having announced' his inten-
tion of retiring, and there being two other vacancies.
Mr. J. H. Bailey, Mr. R. E. Gorst, and Mr. Henry Pat-
tinson were elected, after considerable discussion, the other
inspectors being Messrs. C. Woodcock, E. Lewis, and

John Robinson

ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT OF PATENT.—III the Vice.
Chancellor's Court, last week, Mr. Laird, of Birken-
head, applied for an injunction to restrain the lessees of
the Rock Ferry from plying with the steamer Nymph,
which he alleged had been constructed in accordance with
an invention of his, arid an infringement of his patent.
One of the imp, ovements for which Mr. Laird obtained
a patent related to a mode of supplying two rudders, one
at each end, to a steam or other vessel, with an iron guard
passing from the deck of the vessel down to the keel, and
attached to each rudder, for the purpose of protecting it.
It was alleged that the defendants first aprlied to the
plaintiff to know the nature of his improvement for the
protection of rudders ; and afterwards, without further
communicating with him, had a vessel constructed in ac-
cordance with his invention.—Sir J. Parker said the ques-
tion of the infringement of the patent must be decided by
a jury. The motion must, therefore, stand over until the
result of an action at law should be known, the defend-
ants undertaking to keep an account of the receipts and
expenditure of the vessel, and to submit to any order the
court might make as to the compensation, if any, to be
made by them to the plaintiff in respect of the acts com-
as to the mode of ascertaining

lained of in the

such compensation

THE GRAND ORANGE LODGE OF IRELAND,

From Ireland we have a very important document,
which is peculiarly appropriate at the present crisis,—an
address of the Grand Orange Lodge to the Protestants of
the empire. It is signed by the Earl of Enniskillen, the
Grand Master, and its ladguage is at once firm, tempe-
rate, and convincing. It commences with an expression
of regret at the death of the former Grand Master of the
Lodge, the King of Hanover, and pays a just tribute to
his gallantry as a soldier, and his consistency and honour
as a man and a politician. The document then earnestly
urges the importance of taking adequate steps to frustrate
the audacious designs of the Papists, and shows that the
act of Parliament passed last session was totally inadequate
for the purpose; indeed, that its provisions are either evaded
or defied, that the Provincial Synod of Thurles have a re-
gularly-organized system for the propagation of Popery,
and that titles are assumed by Roman Catholic bishops,

without any effectual opposition or resistance.
The address insists that there will be dancer to the
Empire, if Papal intrigues be not frustrated, and reiterates
the former view taken by the Lodge that there should be
a further inquiry into those intrigues. • It says—" Our
address of November last year was issued at a time when
the empire at large had been stimulated into an excite-
ment and exasperation which have not yet subsided : we
need not name the cause. At that time, we ventured to
advise that the Protestant people of Great Britain and

hot a few days ago

Ireland should petition the legislature for inquiry into the
papal system, as an indispensable pre-requisite to salutary
legislation. Events have confirmed us in our opinion ;
and we repeat the counsel we last year offered. Despotic
monarchies may meet aggressions as they arise; but where
the government is representative and free, there can be no

less the

character of the system, from which danger proceeds, be
thorowlily ascertained and exposed. Thu Protestants of
Great Britain—indeed, we might say the Roman Catho-
lics—have not adequate knowledge of the system we have
so much reason to dread. We again recommend a call
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again passed upon Sir George Grey,
who, in 1850, refused to present the loyal address of the
body to the Queen, although, with characteristic incon-
sistency, he had presented to her Majesty a similar ad-
dress only two years previously, and could adduce nothing
to justify his refusal bnt an obsolete resolution of the
House of Commons, passed at a period of excitement,
fourteen years ago. In conclusion the address condemns
the annual grant to the Roman Catholic College of May-
nooth, and asks,—" Is it not a grievous anomaly and
wrong, that the British nation, even in the person of the
.xeign, and in the coronation oath, shall swear that the
Aigion of the Church of Rome is idolatrous and damnable,
and that, notwithstanding such a declaration, it shall con-
PUTED RACE AT WARWICK.—As the decision of the tribute from the public funds largely to the support of the
'as, according to the Warwick articles, to be "final," idolatrous religion ? Is it not marvellous to think that
at Young Englend will reci ive the stakes in the dis- many liberal and benevolent men, whose indignation
If, however, it is referred to the Jockey Ciub, it is
hat they will pronounce the race to be void. would be aroused by the thought that a morsel of bread
,e winner of the Free Handicap Hurdle.ltace, at might be made an instrument of conversion even to a true
_...., flaying been entered to be sold for 50 soya., fetched religion, shall place in the hands of sworn ministers of the
guineas at the hammer, adding 110 less than 265 soya. to the Pope, resources by which inexperienced youths may be
"ml. with the sum realized by the sale of Gulnare, bribed to become priests in the Church of Rome ?''
- 9 Free Handicap Steeple-Chase, swelled the
In spite of the dangers which surround Protestantism,
~, the Orangemen of Ireland have confidence that the
~... ... -vat among the greener ~,, 'tacks against it will prove powerless; for, " with light on
by betting on three events connected with Chester the throne—with light spreading through the masses of
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remain long misinformed
Two. of the events Legislature of Great Britain can
they can Toni to let the third go to the acute persons who : as to the duty they owe to God's laws, and the measures
off right for them, ,
which will best conduce to the l-tteres,t of the British
people,"