The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

A T a MEETING of the PILOT COMMITTEE,.
/X held this 7th day of October, 1841,
It was ordered,
That alter this day the sai mmitt4ineet each Mon-
day, at Twelve o'clock uori; and tLat Notice hereof
be given in the public Papers.

.D. ROWLAND. Secretary.

PHRENOTYPICS, OR THE NEW ART OF

M EMORY
1/ER. T. F. LAWS begs to inform the Friends of
IVA Science in Liverpool that he teaches the above Art
in Four Lessons, at Mr. SWAN'S, Carver and Gilder, 75,
Renshaw-street, corner of Oldham Street.
TERMS.

One Pupil..
Icveer juy
Select Parties of Three and u Ards.. 0 12 6each
Select Parties of Six upwards .: 0 10 Oeach
One Pupil, at his o residence
Public Classes, at alf-past Eight, p.m. 0 5 oeaeh

LA POLKA.
VrESSRS. HARWOOD and SON, PROFESSORS OF
IV-L DANCING, have OPENED their EVENING
CLASSE S, for the practice of the above popular
Dance, on TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS, in Nelson-street ;
and, on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and SATURDAY AF-
TERNOONS, at their Rooms, Brandon-street, Woodside.
PRIVATE LESSONS in the P and Valse a deux
Temps every Evening upon icaVon.
Juvenile Classes eve HURSDAY and SATURDAY
Afternoon.
42, Nelson-street, Great George-square.

IAT G. POOLE, (late with Messrs. Lowndes and Co.,
s of Brunswick-street.) begs to announce that he
has commenced business as an ACCOUNTANT, at No.
164, Mill-street, near Park-street, Toxteth-park, and
desires to return thanks for the numerous promises of
support he has received.
Builders' and Tradesmen's Acco attended to, yearly
or otherwise, and Insolvent es, &c., wound up.
Reference to Messrs. LLIAMS and JONES, House
and Estate Agents, 2 , edford-street.

MROUSERINGS, in the greatest variety, in French
and English DOESKINS, at 110, BOLD-SMEET.
DANITLIARI DAVIS,
TAILORS ND DRAPERS.

AUTUMN AND WINTER NOVELTIES.
STAIR KERR has the honour to announce his return
from the LONDON and other Markets, where he
has personally selected (and has now ready for inspec-
tion) a beautiful variety of FRENCH and BRITISH
CASHMERE DRESSES, FRENCH,
NORWICH, and PAISLEY SHAWLS, FRENCH
and ENGLISH RIBBONS in the newest styles, SILKS,
_gA-T11..1.5.,--.9.ATINETT&S,--ENGLISH and FRENCH
MERINOES, in every col quality; GLOVES,
HOSIERY, DE LA PRINTS, BLANKETS,
FLANNELS, LI , 8, UMBRELLAS, 'and every
other Article in General Drapery and Family Mourning.
N.B.—An AssortMent of EVENING DRESSES, and
FRENCH and ENGLISH FLOWERS.
30, BOLD-STREET.

TO MILLERS,
THE ORIGINAL PATENT BOLTING CLOTHS
without Seams, for DRESSING FLOUR; manu-
factured by BLACKMORE and CO. (late C. & P. W.
Blackmore), Wandsworth, Surrey.
BLACKMORE & CO. beg to return their thanks to their
Friends, and Occupiers of Flour Mills generally; for the
continuance of their favours, and beg to rem:um:Aid their
Patent Bolting Cloths again to their notice, and trust,
from the unremitted attentio to making the article
as perfect as possible, the i:1 fully nswer their purpose
in the Dressing of Flo .

The Cloths cont
Wandsworth, Soil
Agents, viz. :
BRYAN CORCORAN & CO.,
Manufacturers of Wire Machines, French Mill Stones,
&c., 36, Mark-lane, near the Corn Exchange, London.
LIVERPOOL.. . A. MYERS, Limekiln-lane.
Manchester J. W. Evans, 80, Oldham-street.
Oswestry R. Powell.
Shrewsbury flazledine and Co.
Warrington G. Artingstall and Co.
Wrexham.. T. C. Jones. .

petre to be sold at their Manufactory,
•ey, and may be had of the following

AT REDUCED PRICES.

T. WALKER'S
WINDOW-BLIND MANUFACTORY,

135, WIIITECHAPEL,
Oppo!ite Great Charlotte-street.

ESTABLISHED BY
FRANC' INNEY.
ENETIAN SHADE BLINDS.

IN STOCK, 200

Gauze Wire and all other l?linds, Wholesale and Retail

LONDON CHAIR WAREHOUSE.

PHRENOLOGY IN HARMONY WITH 'THE
SACRED SCRIPTURES.
MR. EDEN, LECTURER, and TEACHER of PRAC-
TICAL PHRENOLOGY, attends Daily at his Rooms,
12, UPPER ARCADE, Renshaw-streq,
from Ten till Foair, and from Five till Nine.
Mr. E. will prove that man can alter his organizations
and rise to every eminence the mind can desire,—that
many persons possess the germs of moral and intellectual
greatness, which remain dormant, till discovered by a
phrenologist, and matured by those possessing them.
Are we about to marry? Phrenblogy will tell us the
character and disposit. of those we think of uniting
with in this life. ave we children? Phrenology will
point oat their sous capacities, so that we may adapt
the occupation to the faculty, that each may excel in his
trade or profession. Do we desire to know the true cha-
racter of clerks, shopmen, or other servants ? Phrenology
will teach it us. s. d.
Terms for pointing out a suitable trade or profession 2 6
For ditto, with a full analysis of character
For ditto, with a full written sketch of character
A VACANCY for an educated YOUTH. Premium
expected.

IMPORTANT SALE OF WINTER GOODS,
AT JONES'S,
4, OLD HAYMARKET, .
nOMPRISING Lama and Cashmere Dresses, Merl-
‘...) noes, Coburg Cloths, De Laines,'Flannels, Blankets,
Shawls, Gala Plai 'rints, &c., &c.
These Goods are ,ck, and will be
Sold full 30 per icturers' prices.
A. considerable p, the newest de-
sign and of super will find this a
decided saving, t.
NOTICE—JONES'S, 4, OLD HAYMARKET.
N. 8.-279 Figured and Plain Orleans Dresses, 2s. Bd.
the Dress, good quality.

C. H. CHADBURN,
71, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL,

ANtFACTURER of SPECTACLES,
TELESCOPES, MICROSCOPES, and all kinds
of OPTICAL, MATHEMATICAL, NAUTICAL, and
PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS, APPARA-
TUS, &c.
Manufactory, (establish upwards of forty years,)
effield.
Town made IN UMENTS, GLOBES, &c. may
be had from C. H. C. at the same prices as in London,
Carrilge Free.
Export and Country Orders executed with liberality
and despatch.

WEBSTER'S FURNISHING WAREHOUSE,
25, BOLD-STREET.

CARPETS, FLOOR CLOTHS, DRUGGETS, DA-
MASKS, MOREENS, FURNITURE PRINTS,
FRINGES, HAIR SEA : INGS, CURLED
HAIR, &
THE EXECUTORS of ate JAMES WEBSTER
d.....re"drict--,,
return their since thanks to the Inhabitants of
Liverpool and its Vi • Ity, for the liberal and kind sup-
port experience y the Family, and respectfully
solicit a continuance thereof on their behalf. To those
who do not know their Stock, and that they sell akood
Article at a small profit, for Cash, they ask for an in-
spection.
To FAMILIES FURNISHING, with Ready Money,
they offer peculiar advant4ges.
Experienced Upholsterers sent to all parts•of Liverpool
and Neighbourhood, Wales, Isle of Man, &c. &c.

DESSERT FRUITS, AT THE FAMILY FRUIT
WAREHOUSE.
6, Parker-street, second .hop from Church-street.
j MIDDLEWOOD is ccnstantly supplied with
• English PINES and GRAPES, of the choicest
sorts'; also, a fresh arrival of TP ates, sell ng at ls.,
and New Turkey Ditto d. per lb. ; fine Dessert
Raisins, in boxes, at' . d. each; also, 30 Boxes of the
large White and R ortugal Onions, per box and retail
at 2s. per stop fl 4 lb. ; the best Kent Walnuts, Fil-
berts, and Cob nts ; New Tamarinds, Preserved Ginger,
Marmalades, Pickles4Sauces, &c. A great variety of
Wine and Fancy Biscuits, from London.
Just arrived a quantity of fine Malaga and Lisbon Gar-
den Grapes, the choicest sorts Black and Green ; American
Apples, large Melons, Pomegranets, &c., &c.

MERCHANTS' TEA COMPANY,
87, GREAT GEORGE-STREET.
IMPROVE ‘IENT IN THE Mi,THUD OF
ROASTING COFFEE.
THE excellency of Coffee depends in a great measure
on the skill and attention exercised in Roasting it.
If it be too little roar edit is devoid of flavour, and if too
much it has a dis eeable burnt taste. We wish to im-
press upon the n ds of our friends that we have erected
an Improved Aiiparatus for Roasting on the Premises, by
which the strengthand flavour is retained, which otherwise
evaporates; so by this means we are enabled to sell a
better article at a lower PRICE.
We grind it, free from adulteration, immediately after
having been roasted, and put into One Pound Tin Canis-
ters, which retains the fine aroma for a considerable time.
GOOD CEYLON COFFEE is. to Is. 2d.
FINE OLD EAST INDIA is. 4d., much recommended. •
FINE LA GUAYRA Is. 6d., a very choice article,
and strongly recommended.
FINE JAMAICA Bd.
GENUINE MOCHA, and
FINEST JAMAICA .... ft
sTehs
se steh qa
et iaersopmo
as
El:Rre dshaignhdlycroec.ommended.
T. WABlalinl,Td
GREAT GEORGE-STREET.
Observe the Steam Engine in the Window, for Grind..
ing Coffee fresh as wanted.

aids, Printed Orleans, PI
e part of a Ban Sto(
r cent. be e Man fat
poi-tio the Lot are of t
;ri luality. Purchasers
the sacrifice beine enormou

BIRKENHEAD;

ITS PROGPJ AND PROPOi;ED IMPROVEMENTS.
41Vilh a PLAN praentcd to the Readers of the
STANDARD.)

There is perhaps no place in England which has, within
the same comparatively short period, taken such rapid
strides frorna small begiuning as Birkenhead. Our own
town of Liverpool—on the immediate opposite shore of
the Mersey—though, in common parlance, called "the
good old tosn," is, as compared with some of the older
cities of the realm, of but recent dote, yet has advanced
m an astonishing degree. A few centuries ago. she was
little mere than a small fishing village, with the single
parochial church of Walton-on-the-Ed!, and St. Nicho-
les's (now a parish church) es a chapel of ease, under the
'termer. Her advancement has been rapid and great,—
especielly oflate years—from her maritime advantages, the
growing wants of society, and the enterprise of her inha-
bitants to supply them from every land ; and, latterly her
splendid ranges of docks and warehouses, as well as a cor-
respcncline increase of public and private buildings, and
the capital that has flowed into her, have rendered her
second only as a port to the metropolis, in her own re-
,eources, ar,d in the revenue derived from commerce
which she annually throws into the national treasury.
Twenty-five years ago, Liverpool, per se, contained but
about (JOAO inhabitants. She has now, together with the
'populous outskirts !het have since, by proximity, been
welded to her, a population of little short of 300,000.
This increase, great a; it must be considered—(and she is
still speed'ly advancing)—is not, however, equal in pro-
portionate'rapidity to that of Birkenhead, which, about
15 to 18 years ago could number but a few straggling
• houses, including the then few ferry stations, on a coast
-and surrounding landscape for the most part bleak, sterile,
and unpromising. That locality hes since risen into a very
considerable, handsome, and intereetieg tcwn ; with nearly
15,000 inhabitants ; with numerous spacious streets,
senates, and public edifices ; besides vast clusters of
Louses, villas, and other detached residences, planted in
every direction on the ac: livities to the westward. The
land, moreover, his been greatly improved by• drainage
and force of culture, and the whole aspect of the neigh-
bourhood improved to a degree of warmth and verdure,
both in field and forest, that was little expected, though
•it is but yet partially reclaimed. Ilirkenbead has in fact
almost at once risen from infancy to approaching manhood,
'and liay at least be raid to be a " bran new" town. The
genius of speculation has alighted upon her, and already
she has her railway, her projected new railways and canals;
bas commenced the construction of extensive docks; is
proceeding with an extensive public market, and project-
ing a new town-hall (ere the former ones were well sea-
soned); and other public edifices of considerable extent
-and elegance of design. The capital embarked has, it
must be remarked, been provided to a greet extent from
this side the river; and so far as the proOrietarygoes, it
may be considered an offshoot of the town of Liverpool.
From the facilities of steam conveyance across the river,
many of our merchants, professional men, (and their de-
pendants,) and others in business or retired, find it an
agreeable end easily accessible locality in which to domi-
cile; and not a few of the wealthier of them have made
purchases of land from which, in the rapid increase of
value for building and other purposes, they have realised,
ac anticipate, a large reversion. The salubrity of the lo-
cality, and the adaptation of the shore to several usefnl
purposes, maritime and commercial, no one can deny ;
and unless some untoward event arise to check its pro-
gress, Birkenhead will, in a few years, become a thriving
and representative town. That it will ever rival Liver-
pool we neither hope nor imagine but it will, in
ether respects, be to a great extent an adjunct to this port.
Be this as it may, we entertain no jealous feeling of its
prosperity. We have had occasion conscientiously to op-
-pose some portions of the dock scheme of Birkenhead,
which we thought to be of so costly and speculative a cha-
racter that parties who were induced to embark io it might
possibly stretch their arms further than they could readily
draw them in. Parliament, however, has granted the bill,
after the frailest investigation : this has spurred the cor-
poration to the immediate construction of additional docks
elm this side—showieg that there is nothing like a little
sompetition—and we feel disposed to await the result,
with the best wishes for the success of all parties, provided
they promote the general public good. With these views,
a:nd knowing the interest which begins to be directed to
Birkenhead, end the works there in progress, we this day
present our readers with a Plan of that town, and its in-
tended docks and improvements, executed at our office,
autirely in *typography, on a new principle of our own,
and time clearness of which will, we trust, be admitted.
The names of the proprietors of the land arc given in every
instance where they could be obtained ; the intended
docks, streets, and roads. are marked out with as much
accuracy' es possible, and corrected (by authority) up to
the time of publication,—the almost daily mutations of
.property rendering this no easy task. We begin (though
perhaps the least important, because best known,) with

THE TOWN.

'The greater part of Birtenhead=:much, however, is not
yet built upon—is laid ont in streets of great length, some
ret them upwards of 2000 yards in length, and 84 feet in
breadth between the houses, in a direction nearly with the
rever, and intersected with minor streets at right angles to
Ahem. The other principal streets are, from house to house
-6-there being a railed space, as in the others, of 12 feet
en each side-3G feet wide. Hamilton Square, a short
tUatance westwerd from Woodside Ferry, is one of the
*neat squares in Europe. The area of the square is up-
wards of 6, acres, end nearly the whole is now built up
with splenchd mansions in the Edinburgh style, the cen-
tral and the wing houses on each side being thrown into
slight projection by the embellishment of Doric columns,
waringing irom rusticated basements. In the middle
iX3ere is an extensive garden or shrubbery, within iron
rails. The west side of the square is now nearly coin-
-pletdd exteriorly, as is the south side, with the exception
of a apace (marked in our plan) on which it is purposed to
Istlild the new Town flail. The footualks in this square
(which will be completed next spring) arc broad and pe-
culiarly well constructed. In several of the larger streets •
there are handsome ranger of white freestone houses, as
well as cemented buildings, all built to one elevation, and
etlhera to correspond are in course of erection. The num-
ties of new streets and openings laid out to the best advan-
bp is really astonishing to may one who does not reside
on the spot and view the daily opeLaticns of, we may say,
thouaseds of workmen. - Stonemasons, bricklayers,
Diners, painters, and plumbers, are all busily at work in
every direction, and the whole is a scene of unwonted
activity. The manner in which the streets are laid out is
peculiarly worthy of notice; aed it would be well if in all
new parts of towns (for we cannot all have new towns)
corporations would follow the example, and not be com-
pelled, as here, for the public health and convenience, to
•purchare rows of premises densely packed, pull down,
widen, and renovate. There is scarcely a street in the
town of any note under 30 feet wide, end nearly the whole
Lave, a priori, been effectually sewered, or are in progress
esf being so, to an extent already of (according, as we find,
SO Mr. Stansfield's recent pamphlet) 17 or 18 miles in all;
,and, including the" roads in the outskirts, not yet dedi-
teated to the commissioners, the whole sewerage may be
satimated at nearly double that extent. The new streets
are well macadamised ; good fcotwalks, with curb-stones,
are also laid (-town, and an immense extent of water and
gas mains. The area of Birkenhead, including Claurfaton
:and part of °von, as by the Act now annexed to it, is
ahont 1388 square acres, or nearly two square miles.
The facilities for building are great throughout the whole
locality.. There is everywhere abundance of clay, of ex-
cellent quality for brickreaking ; and an inexhaustible
supply of gond hard freestone, white or red, at a short
depth, and almost at every point, even to low-water mark,
tesides that froth the fine quarries of Stourton and &cl-
own. The sand is also abundant, and of good quality for
the several purposes required. A vast quantity of brick
fists this year been merle, yet so numerous are the build-
ings being erected, or decided upon being built, that
twenty or thirty millions more are contracted for, and
already paid for, to be supplied next spring. With all
this, there is not a house but is let ; and the number of
arorkpeoele employed, and immediately to be so, is so
great, that large houses are taken up for their accommo-
dation. where they are necessarily huddled together until
suitable and comfortable cottages can be erected for them.
On Friday last, the day being fine, we took a stroll in
the township, having previously taken several surveys for
the purpose of sketching and correcting the plan which
accompanies our paper of to-day. Passing along Conway-
street (which, as well as Price-street, is upwards of a mile
long in a straight line), we visited