The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-01 00:00:00

'RE LIYIRPOOL STANtilli.

?Loral gattvs.

The pew-rents in St. Andrew's Church, Renshaw-
street, are immediately to be reduced 20 per cent.
On Christmas-day Mr. Robert Hughes, of Birkenhead,
distributed nearly 100 geese to his numerous tenantry.

The Liverpool-Pilotshave very liberally stibscribed.£6o
for the widows and children of the pilots who were lost at

Shields late

workmen of the Liverpool
.
Apothecaries Company have presented the excellent
manager, Mr. William Aburrow, with a handsome piece
of plate.

.s, anc

Last week, a painful accident occurred in Birkett-street.
A parish coffin, containing the body of a poor woman and
her infant, who had died in childbirth, burst on being
carried into the street for interment. Decency was dread-

fully shocked

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday morning, Joseph Ed-
wards, in the employ of Messrs. Ingram and Clark, Pitt-
street, proceeded to his work about half-past eight o'clock,
apparently in his usual health, but at nine o'clock was
found lying in the warehouse quite dead. _ _

EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES. —At a
meeting of the board of examiners held on Friday, Captain
William Martin, matter of the Abigail, of Liverpool, and
d Bell, late master of the Eliza Caroline,
were found duly qualified for first-class

ptain Edv

certificates

ST. ANNE'S CHURCH, BIRKENHEAD

Most of our readers must have seen and admired St. Anne
Church, Birkenhead, between Price-street and the norther
boundary of Birkenhead Park, certainly one of
ecclesiastical edifices that have recently
that locality. The building, which is gothic ...
fine hewn stone,—with a well-proportioned spire, _
mained interiorly unfinished, and, from adverse
stances, apprehensions began to be entertained that it wo
fall into the hands of parties in reli

he finest

been reared i

whose use it was intended,
siderable sum. The buildi

n style, and
—has long

to those

s it now stands, with tt

t about .e 6,066; and it was just on the point
being sacrificed for one-third of that amount. But a wortt
parishioner of Liverpool, Mr, George Ark le, has timely reszu(

Jesting of the cirt
.cessary advances on the
ds. His spirit as a c

it to church purposes,
promptly made the ne,
money, and secured the
not Ond here_ it rAmi

nstance
cl ; paid t

Mary's, Birkenhead, had wished to purchase the church, and
Mr. Arkle handsomely ceded the purchase (without gain) as it
stood, and further arranged for the exterior to be forthwith
completed, and expectations are entertained that he will hand-
somely contribute towards its interior completion. It is said
that Mr. Knox immediately offered the first presentation to his
friend the Rev. Mr. Wall, who, until recently, had kept up
divine service in the school-room at St. Anne's, at his own
cost. It is gratifying to record

Lch instances Of generosity I

EMIGRATION TO ANTIGIIA.—The following letter has
been addressed to the editor of the Times. " Sir, under
your report in the Times of December 25, received by
the the West Inds and Mexican mails, vou have copied
from the Antigua Observer newspaper, 'The ship Phoe-
nix has arrived from Liverpool. via Madeira ; she brought
94 Portuguese immigrants from the latter pla,
ri and children, not at all, (says the Obse
d to be of any service to the agricult

r) cal

Allow ui to contradict so
The Madeira people, per Phce-
-17 women, 10 children under