The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

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the Horse Rock Cos

WAY

Mr. James

Bancroft,
the Secretai

rman or
tad read t

the direct()

the auditors v

expenditure of the corn-

Daily, and urged the adoption
rho expense of the Chester s

led Co,

ted th a

appointed, to ascertain where and what reductions could

:veral it

expenditure.

The re
the hrt

It referred to the opening c

from Chester to

alluded to

he late contest which

n going on between the

Shrews

ary and Chester and t

ury and Bir.

company, an

career was before the company if the proprietors were
united. The Chairman moved the adoption of the
report and accounts, which passed. The receipts on
capital account to the 30th June last were stated
to be £1.900,408 9s. 41, and the expenditure
£1,410,402 10s. 9d. The balance due by commissioners of
Birkenhead was stated to be £21,787 16s. 7d.; the balance
required to make up dividend to 31st December, 1849,
£94,964 12s. (together £116.752 Bs. 7d.) ; and discount

3 10s. ; in the gross,
for the half year
13,444 7s. Id.,

X 490.006 8

and bonus on shares issued
7(1. The traffic receipts
were £27,094155. 7d., and the expel
leaving a balance of £13,650 Bs. 6d

Itur
A strong c

ICUSSMII
Nnrth

the agreement with the London

Western-Company ensued, the forfeitul

confirmed, and tsio audito.rs chosen, after which the

meeting
COAL

separated.
—Several conveniences have

•ecently been

adopted( by the coal-owners for the purpose of faci-
litating the transport of that commodity to this town
and, among others, Messr

, Mackay, who, for the last
two years, have been working a colliery near Ri.ii.ford,
deserve great praise. The coal found is of remarkably
good quality, large in size, possessing great power of
heating, and free from dirt. The shaft is under 100 yards
in depth, and the mine so far very satisfactory. Every pre-
caution is taken to give sufficient ventilation, and up to the
present moment not one of the men employed have met
with a single accident. In the Victoria mine there are
several fine seams, three of which are now being worked,
the whole of the mine extending over sixty acres, sufficient
to furnish more than 200 tons daily for the next fifty years.
As soon as the coal reaches the pit's mouth in wicker
baskets it is taken to the edge of an elevation, where w-
gons are placed with two boxes on each to co--
tons per box.
.When a sufficient number of _ waggor

-
ry three
re

loaded, an engine comes, takes them on the main line,
and transports them in the course of half an hour to
Messrs. Mackay and Co.'s derOt, Slate-street, Great
Howard-street. Here they have lately erected a new and
exceedingly useful machine, which easily lifts each box of
coal from off the truck and lowers it instanter

thirty-five feet. The bot, om in the meantime __
sened, and the coals are dropped without breaka
into a cart in the yard, the empty box returning
the truck on the railway by means of a balan,,
weight, the contents of each box, about three tons oh
coal, being taken from the railway and deposited
in the cart as if at the pit's mouth—the whole operation of
unloading only occupying from three to five minutes.
Three men can by this machine easily convey some hun-
dred tons to the dock quay in a few hours. By this means,
also, there is not only a great economy of time, but. the
cows are saved from breakage. Compared with the old
manner of " shovelling," Messrs. Mackay and Co. can
remove tons in the same space of time that it formerly
took for hundred weights. As the dock is only a few
minutes' walk from Great Howard-street, the coals are
soon placed in the hold of the vessel, in good condition,
at is. fid. a ton. This very low price will in time perhaps
be further reduced, but at present the railway company
charge rather high for the conveniences they afford ; but
as the trade is almost certain to increase rapidly, they will
doubtless see the policy of reducing their present rates.
RE-OPENING OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH.—On Sunday
last this fine edifice was re-opened, after a lapse of two
weeks, which had been occupied in the renovation of the
whole of the oak-carving and oak-work of the interior,
the venerable Archdeacon
lengthohu dlde aeib one
to tt
induced
et rhoreu furnishing
nature and the decoration of such portions as admitted of the
application of the artist's taste and skill. For ador,ments
of such a necessary and beautifying character, (but which
had been unaccountably neglected for mt:ny years,) the
congregation is indebted to the liberality of the church-
wardens, whose efforts will not fail to be appreciated as
e their
ehsti
extent
nh
example
xc
sittings,hao ptthleer
they deserve. An appropriate sermon was preached by
,sttioulfiirn.ioemgmai thetonafdt
of Isaiah, and 4th verse. The venerable archdeacon ad-
improvements, and expressed a hope that the owners of
gsveaetlrl tbeerydy
thesittingst
corporation some
and thus promote the anxious desire of the churchwardees-
to produce one effective and complete harmony in the
whole of the interior. The decorations (which are exe-
cuted in a high style of art) are most conspicuous in the
refreshing an varnishing of the fine oak-carving, parti-
cularly of the splendid and elaborate device over the com--
_ _

munion table, and in the great ceiling and groined

arches, which latter are painted a delic-ate lirac, the cor-
nices, pilasters, and pillars being of a light stone colour,'
and the capitals white, etched with gold. The centre
pieces of the arches are relieved by dead white, with gilded'
.

drops, and those of the great ceiling aro all richly gilt.
Tho effect of this portion of the wall is pleasing in the
extreme, and reflects no little credit upon the discriraina,
tion and skill of the decorator. In the altar window a
tasteful improvement has been effected by the intro(
tio❑ of a crimson bordering, which well accords 'a
rich and florid character 9f tl'e wall itself. The

ai&tnrhe ecsi.
inside of
hnioalefysl
tgi
also
he pi
and pews
wnedsendtgii
the
eag the
eicnnooe
amttfront
renovated
aioannotdf,c theay .sa The r
a,nished,aa
pnn,tuipipes
well as
panelling re-lettered and ornamented in a pleasing style.
The hips and beams of the gallery are newly painted so as
to correspond with the gneral effect of the wood-wall de-
corations. The corporate pews are beautifully furnished,
and, as was referred to by the venerable Archdeacon in
his sermon, it now only requires a little stretch of liberality
on the part of the owners of gallery-sittings to impart the
finishing touch to the enterprise and good taste displayed
by the churchwardens and corporation. The whole of
those masterly decorations have been executed by Messrs.
J. Skillicorn and Co., Park-lane, and c upholstery by
Mr. Hand, Bold-street.