The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-05 00:00:00

THE VILLAGE.

About two years ago only, the site could boast of but
a few detached farm houses. The company (and a few
others) have imparted to it a very different aspect. Their
own land—including the site of the works—is about 30
acres, and the whole is laid out in streets, and nearly
covered with comfortable cottages in varied and distinctive
styles uniform in the several streets, mostly so detached
in two or four together with small gardens as to appear
like rows of separate little villas, with shops here and
there, public-houses, &c. They are of two stories, some
with projecting centre pieces having elevated piqued roofs,
the bottom part of which form porches for two dwellings
others, termed " block-houses" with piqued wings at the
ends in the form of the letter I. These, as the others, are
in the old English style, and consist of 4 domiciles each,
and are apart and enclosed, with their little gardens in
front, enclosed by parapet walls of brick. About twelve
months ago the population was about /000 ; it now
amounts to double that number, of which about 1,150 are
families supported by the employ meet given by the Com-
pany, who own 250 of the cottages and are about to
build many more-33 of them as quickly as possible.
We noticed Prince Albert-street, Sandon-street, Man-
chester-street, Liverpool-street, Copenhall-street, Dela-
mere-street, Chester-street, Church-street, Queen-street,
the Terrace, facing the Liverpool line &c., but we must
not dwell upon the juvenile city lest some of our readers
should become jealous of its threatening importance !
The whole (as well as the works) is supplied with gas
(with street lamps) by the new works of the Com-
pany, and also with water from their water-works, at
which there is an immense reservoir from which it is
forced and filtered. The cottages are chiefly rough-cast ;
covered with blue slates floored with diamond shaped red
and brown tiles, and have a remarkable clean and comfort-
able appearance. The station-houses adjacent are hand-
some and commodious, and there are three fine bridges
over the respective lines here meeting,—the Chester-
bridge (of three arches), the Liverpool Bridge, and the
Crewe Bridge over the general line southward, at the sta-
tion. There is a range of temporary schools in operation
and well attended, for girls, boys, and infants respectively,
and a new pile for schools is in course of completion, also
an assembly-room, committee-room for magistrates, &c.
The Company have fitted up an appropriate portion of
their buildings as a temporary Church of England, and
have appointed their own chaplain—the Rev. Mr. Apple-
ton—who is much respected in his pastoral office as well
as in private life. This is neatly and appropriately fitted
up •, accomodates between three and four hundred persons,
and though there are many dissenters of numerous de-
nominations, including a Wesleyan and a Primitive Christ-
ian Chapel, it is crowded on Sundays to inconvenience.
The locality is undulated, and in summer picturesque and
pleasing. The only present inconvenience to strangers is
the slutchy nature of the clay soil; for though the streets
are laid with gravel, with footwalks, the yet want of tho-
rough drainage is much felt and we need scarcely ad-
vise " dandies " to make a brief sojourn among the
" Creweites." As an instance of the rapid rise of the
village, we may state that the men first sent by Messrs.
Holme to build the works, had upwards of four miles to
go for lodgings.
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Mr. Jones': a teacher in the diocesan school at Chester,
kindly and gratuitously attends every Friday, and instructs
the children in singing, on the Wilheim system ; the
Grand Junction company liberally franking him through.

ST. GEORGE'S, MANCHESTER. —On Tuesday evening
a sermon was preached in this church, by the Rev. Hugh
INl`Neile, and a collection made towards defraying the
debt incurred by the recent repairs of that edifice.

ASSAULT.—Three fashionably dressed young men,
named Hugh Dennely, William and George Hughes, were
brought before Mr. Rushton, yesterday, on a charge of
having, on Sunday night, while in a state of intoxication,
shamefully kicked and maltreated a young lad in front of
St. Thomas's Church. The case having been proved,
they were ordered to pay a fine of 20s. and costs, or to be
imprisoned ten days.

FOUNDERING.—On the 27th of October last the:Ellen,
of Maryport, left Runcorn for this port, with a cargo of
coal, and has never reached her destination. There were
two men and a boy on board—the captain, John Smith
Burnside of Mabie, the mate, John. Ritchie, and his son,
Samuel. The vessel was spoken on the afternoon of the
same day by the Mary Ann Craik, when rounding the
light ship, about 20 miles out of Liverpool. Capt. Smith
was principal owner of the ship, which was not insured.
It is too much to be feared that the vessel foundered at
sea, and that all hands were lost. She was very heavily
laden.—Dumfries Courier.

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.—A charity
sermon in aid of this most valuable institution was
preached at St. Barnabas's Church on Sunday afternoon,
by the Rev. Thomas Nolan, A.M., the incumbent. The
reverend gentleman selected for his text the 48th verse of
the 16th chapter of Numbers: "And Moses stood be-
tween the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed."
The collection, along with one or two donations received
since, amounted to £6l. The Mayor, dressed in his robes
of office, and accompanied by several influential gentle-
men of the town, was present on the occasion. It is a gra-
tifying circumstance, as evincing the interest manifested
by the poor in this admirable institution, that upwards of
three pounds of the sum collected was in copper.