The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-21 00:00:00

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while laying gas pipes. Fragments of Roman files, le
good preservation, were also thrown up.
A movement is being made en the other side of lie
water to reduce the charges of the Birkenhead a
Claughton Gas Company, which are said to be excessive,
and double the rate at which gas is supplied in the imme'
diate neighbourhood.
PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—On Tuesday evening'
a lecture was delivered by the Rev. W. Cockcroft, incum-
bent of Claughton, in Market-street School-room.
Birkenhead, on the subject, How Popery is opposed to'
Christianity."
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY.—The direct'
tors of this company propose to increase their capita hi
£97,260 by the issue of new shares, bearing a fixed rate
of dividend, which they propose to divide equally amongst
the present shareholders.
An accident, which proved fatal, happened to gr'
Milner, of Churton Heath, near Chester, on Saturday
morning week. Mr. Milner was returning from Chester
market, and being intoxicated, it is supposed he fell froni
his cart and received such injuries that he died on Monday
Two sermons were preached on Sunday week, in St'
James's Church, Latchford, in aid of the Sunday schools
connected with the church : the one in the morning hi
the Rev. James Wright, 8.A., incumbent ; the other ie
the evening, by the Rev. William Daylas Veitch,
chaplain to the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem. The
amount collected was nearly £l9.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ended 12th October :—C. and H. Main Line : Pas'
sengers, £2,314 16s. 9d. ; Parcels, H. C. and D., £B6
ls. 11d. ; Goods, cattle. &c., £591 35. 4d. ; Mails, £575
—Mold : Passengers, £64 lls. 2d. ; Parcels, H. C. and
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D., £2 lls. 3d. • Goods, cattle, &c., £97 4s. Help--
Steam-boats, £427 12s. Bd. ; Parcels. H. C. and At
£l6 3s. 6d.—Grand total, £4,175 ss. 6d.
ORDER OF THE SONS OF TEMPERANCE, CHEST-MU!'
—On Wednesday evening last, the " Good Effect Divi-
sion," No. 34, of the above order, was instituted at gr.
B. Simpkin's Coffee'rooms, New Chester-road, Lower
Tranmere, where upwards of thirty of the Liverpool
brethren accompanied the officers of the grand division to
Tranmere on the occasion. New candidates were initi-
ated, and the officers were elected for the current year.
FIRE AT LISCARD.—At eight o'clock on Tuasday even'
ing last, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. George
Evason, publican, near Poulton-bridge, Liscard. The
fire-engine from Birkenhead was quickly dispatched to
the scene of the conflagration, but fortunately the fire bad
been extinguished before its arrival. A number of people
had assembled, and, aided by a plentiful supply of water,
succeeded in subduing the flames. Property to tbe
amount of £BO was destroyed. How the fire originated
is not known. The premises were only opened as a pub-
lic-house on the Saturday previous.
MRS. MWOUGALL'S CONCERT.—This talented lady
gave her annual concert at the Craven-rooms, Birkenhead,
on Tuesday evening last. The audience was highly re-
spectable. The vocalists announced for the occasion
were Miss Whitnall, Mrs. M'Dougall, Mr. Miranda, and
Mr. Scarisbrick. Mr. Percival (flute), and Signor
D'Harilaos (piano-forte), completed the list of attractions
offered. Signor D'Harilaos was, however, unable to
appear, through illness ; and Mrs. M`Dougall herself,
we are sorry to say, laboured under the effects of a severe
cold. Notwithstanding these little drawbacks, the con-
cert passed off extremely well, and the audience was in"
excellent humour. Miss Whitnall was in splendid voice,
and sang the pieces allotted to her with more than her
usual good taste and skill. Mr. Miranda sang a ballad of
Nelson's called " Madaline," with great success, and in
this, as well as in most of his other efforts, was rewarded
with the frequent plaudits of a delighted auditory.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT CARNARYON.—On Monday

last, at about half-past three o'clock in the afternoon,
a most melancholy event occurred in this town. In
cottage built under the town wall, at the bottom of Green
Gate-street, there was an aged woman, the wife of Keet
Nanney, of Conway, mariner, and also their child, vai°
had come to visit their parents. In a moment a portion
of the scarping at the summit of the wall, measuring
about ten yards long and three feet deep, and weighing
about eight tons, fell on the roof, and crushed it in at a
stroke. One of the children who was on the threshold
was thrown at a distance from the house. The old woman
and the children, with the exception of the married
daughter and her child, were speedily rescued from their
perilous situation with a few bruises. The others remained
however under the rubbish until about five o'clock, not-
withstanding all the exertions made to recover them, and
when found she was bent dow❑ in a sitting posture with
the child in her lap, and the lives of both extinct. The
rain, it is supposed, by moistening the earth and destroy-
ing the adhesive power of the mortar, caused the stones
to unloose.—North Wales Chronicle.

THE BIRKENHEAD RIOT.—PAYMENT OF EXPENSES.
At the Knutsford quarter sessions on Monday, Mr. o•
D. Case moved the payment of a bill by the county
amounting to the sum of £174 17s. 10d., for expenses in'
curred in the efforts of the magistrates to preserve the
peace during the late riots at Birkenhead. It might be la
the recollection of the court that at the April sessions be
had moved for the payment of a bill of £3OO, in liquida-
tion of certain expenses incurred in connection with the
riot referred to. That application had not ban acquiesced
in by the court, but it had directed the clerk of the peace
to take legal opinion whether such an application of the
county funds could be legally made. The clerk of the
peace had expressed his doubt as to the legality of the PO'
ment, and certainly the opinions which had been taken
fully confirmed those doubts. Notwithstanding those
opinions he had now to bring a bill of £174 17s. 10d., made
out by the high constable and passed by two magistrates/
before the court, and of course, knowing all the circum:
stances of the case, he felt no hesitation in moving that'
the bill be paid. It would depend on the determination
to which the court might come on this motion, as to what
other steps the magistrates in case of a rejection of the
bill by the court, might feel it their duty to pursue. [l‘fr•
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Case then read the particulars of the bill. It consisted (),
charges for the services, refreshment, and injury sustained
by the Liverpool police ; the expenses incidental to the
lodging and refreshment of the military who had been
called in, and a bill of between £4O and £5O incurred hri
the high constable as prosecutor, in the riot case whici
was tried at the last Chester assizes, for witnesses, &eV
After considerable discussion, it was moved, seconded
and carried by a very large majority, that the bill show;
be paid out of the usual hundred rate levied on till
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hundred of Wirral.—The chairman (to the court)
and now you have agreed to pay the bill out of this rate'
what will you say if the rate is appealed against.