The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-13 00:00:00

DIVISION OF THE CITY OF CHESTER INTO
WARDS.

The barristers, Messrs. Hall and Youngs, appointed to divide
Chester into wards, according to the provisions of the municipal
corporation act, devoted a fortnight to deliberation and inquiry
on the subject, and to the receiving of evidence, to elucidate
various points. At last, they determined to cut the good old city
into five parts, and to apportion six councillors to each. There
was a string party who advocated a four-fold division, and who
contended that the ancient lines of intersection ought to be ob-
served, namely, the principal streets, which formerly, no doubt,
divided the city into four equal parts. Mr. John Faulkner, jun.,
stood alone, for the five-fold plau, and Doped, as well as proved,
that by its adoption, a more equal division of the city, as well
as of the number of individuals, eligible to serve the office of
town councillors, would be the consequence. After a deal of
disputation and wordy warfare, the commissioners said they were
coin pelled to acknowledge that the farts and reasons, as well as
arguments, were all on one side, and the numbers on the other.
Of course. they then decided in favour of the Live-fold plan. The
division of the'five wards is as follows:
ht.—The whole of the city to the east of a line, to be drawn
through the centre of the road leading from the river, past Miss
Peacock's school, through St. John's church-yard, to Love-
street, taking the centre or Love-street, to Foregate-street, ;nto
Frodsham-street, to Cow-lane bridge; down the centre of the
canal, to Egerton bridge, along Egerton-street, to Brook-street,
and thence to Flookershrooke bridge, including, of course, Great
Boughton, within the parliamentary boundary.
2d.—From Love-street down the centre of 'Poregate-street, to
the Cross, thence, down the centre of Bridge-street, to the Old
Bridge, and thence, through Handbridge, along the centre of
Eaton Road, all to the east of that line, betweeu, and the first
ward.

34.—T0 the west of the last line, to the Cross, thence down
the centre of Watergate-street, to the Watergate, thence outside
the city walls, to the embankment of the New Bridge, and along
that bank to the river, and down the river to the boundary'of
the city, including all to the east of the last line. •- '
4th.—To the north of the last line, to the Cross, from thence
up the centre of Northgate-street, down the Liverpool Road, to
the Bache.
_ . .

sth.—To the east of the last line to the Cross, thence down
the centre of Eastgate•street, to Frodsharn-street, the boundary
of the first ward.
The first ward is to be called
.Boughton Ward, the second St.
John's, the third St. Mary's, the fourth Trinity, and the fifth St.
Oswald's.—Chester Courant.

ANTIQUITIES.—The following is communicated to us by our
valued correspondent, Mr. Counsel:—on Tuesday last, as the
workmen were employed in digging out the foundation of a
dwelling-house belonging to Mr. Toeby, situate on the north
side of the Westgate-street, in th iscity, they discovered at about
seven feet from the surface of the earth, the lower part of a
beautiful column, nearly three feet in diameter. It was of free-
stone, finely executed, in a perfect state of preservation, and
weighing a ton and a half. It was ornamented with a double
torus, having, what is very unusual, fillet, above and below. The
column stood on a plinth six feet long, four feet wide, two feet
thick, and weighing two tons eight hundred. The column must,
from its size, have been part of a building of great consequence,
but as its capitol was missing it isimpossible to ascertain to what
order of architecture it belonged. About seven years since,
two columns of exactly the same dimensions and style of archi-
tecture, were found in digging for the foundation of Mr. Bough-
ton's house, situate in the same street, and distant in a direct
line from the one before mentioned, about eighty feet. It is a
singular circumstance that none of the records belonging to this
city make mention of any public edifice in that situation.—
Gloucester Chronicle.

AFFLICTIONS.—That eminently pious man, the Rev. John
Dod, who died in Northamptonshire, in 1645, at the advanced
age of ninety-six, used to say to his sick friends, "Afflictions
are God's portions, which we may sweeten by faith and fervent
prayer; but we, for the most part, make them hitter, putting,
into God's cup the evil ingredients of our impatience and un-
belief. In all ewes of suffering, the people of God should con-
sider—l. God wills them, and sends them; now the will of God
is perfectly righteous, and what he does is en well done, that it
could not be better done. 2. There is need of them, or we
should not have them. 3. Their.nurriber, measure, end con-
tinuance, God deter Mines; and comparatively speaking they
are but for a moment. 4. The Lord will he sure to support us
under them. 5. They are not too many, too heavy, or too long,
as S ,tan would have.themt nor too few, too short, or too-light,
as our corrupt nature would have them 6. Their end is a weight
of glory, and the crown that attends them is everlasting."

Einperiat I)arliamtrit.

1-1015 ST: OF LORDS

On Tuesday the period of the prorogation of Parliament ha,-
ing.expired, goth'Houses of Parliament met pro yi,r,nza. .Two
o'clock was th 4 hour named, the commissioners being Lords
Melbourne, Denman, and Gleneig.
•The commission having been read, the Yeoman Usher of the
Black Rod (Mr. Putman) was directed to summon al> attend-
ance of the commons. There appeared at the bar, Mr. Rick-
man, the second clerk of the table, attended by the Attorney-
General, &c., and several of the officers of the House of Com-
mons.
The cqmmission directing the further prorogation of the Par-
liament hayinf, been read,

Lord DENMAN said,
" My Lords and Gentlemen,—By virtue of his Majesty's com-
mission, under the great seal, to us and other Lords directed,
and now read, we do, in his Majesty's name, and in obedience
to his commands, prorogue this Parliament to Thursday, the
17th day of December next, to be then here holden. We have,
therefore, to declare, my lords and gentlemen, that this parlia-
Ment is accordingly prorogued to Thursday, the 17th December
next."
The lords theree.on bowed, the commons retired, and the
lords commissioners quitted the woolsack.
There were many strangers below the liar. The house is un-
dergoing considerable alteration in the arrangement of the
seats. Some of the stoves have been removed, so as to afford
more accommodation for seats in the body of the house. The
staircases to the lords' galleries have been entirely removed;
it may be remembered that they materially encroached upon
the bar; and those galleries have been much curtailed, and are
approachable by staircases out of the body of the house. There
is also a large new window with a northern aspect.