The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

CHESHIRE A:VD WALES

LORD
_MOSTYN has been appointed. Vice-Admiral of

.th Wales, in the room of the Marquis of Anglesey

AT RisTRAm, the parish church is' about to undergo
repair, and it will remain closed till the necessary opera-
tions are completed. _ _ .

THEFT IN ; FERRY-BOAT.—On Tuesday, a lady, whilst
on the Monks' Ferry packet-boat, had a valuable gold
watch stolen from her side by one of the swell mob.
APPOINTMENT OF REVISING BARRISTERS FOR 1854.
Flintshire, Mr. C. W. Williams Wynn; Denbighshire,
Mr. F. J. Walker Jones; Carnarvonshire and Anglesey,
Mr. F. R. Denton ; Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire,
Mr. Edward Bevan ' • North Cheshire, Mr. Geo. Wilkin ;
South Cheshire, Mr. M. Gaunt.
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BIRKENHEAD Dons TRUSTEES.—At the annual meet-

ing held on Wednesday, at the Dock-Office, Birkenhead,
the report of the directors was adopted, and the following
directors were re-elected :—A. W. Fowles, Samuel Holme,
L. Ames, A. Henderson, Esqrs. ; Sir J. L. Goldsmith,
and the Rev. H. Hawkes.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT BIRKENHEAD.—OD Tuesday,
Felix Wood, an old man seventy years of age, living in
Albion-street, Birkenhead, who had been a teetotaller for
a number of years, came over to Liverpool, and, it is sup-
posed broke his pledge. In the afternoon, he was return-
ing, when he suddenly fell down at Woodside Ferry, was
conveyed home, and remained insensible until his death,
which took place the same night.
TRINMERE DELPH.—This dangerous nuisance is being
rapidly obliterated. about two dozen men are at work
under Messrs. Corris and Harrison filling it up with soil
and rock taken from the face of " the Holt." A new
street will be carried over the site of the quarry, in con-
tinuation of Holt-lane, thus forming an available carriage
access from Lower Tranmere to the new houses on the
top of the- hill.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for
the week ending 6th of August, 1854, was as follows :
Passengers, parcels, &c., £4,235 6s. 11d.; steam boats,
£692 10s. ld. ; total, £4,927 17s. Od. Goods, £1,51R 2s. sd.
Total, including Carnarvon traffic, £5,735 9s. 4d. Cor-
responding week last year, passengers, parcels, &c., £4,575
15s. 7d.; steam-boats, £876 9s. 3d.; total, £5,452 58.10 d.
Goods, £l,lBl 6s. 6d. Total. £1,18165. 6d. Total, inelud-
ing Carnarvou traffic, £5,757 3s. ld. ; steam-boats, £876
9s. 3d. Total, including Carnarvon traffic, £6,633 12s. 4d.
Decrease £lB7 125.11 d.
BIRKENHEAD CommissioNEns:—On Friday evening, a
deputation from the Wirral Agricultural Improvement
Society, consisting of Mr. Neild, Mr. Zeighler, Mr. Turner,
and Mr. Russell, waited upon the ferry committee respect-
ing the necessity of better means of transport of agricul-
tural produce, &c., from Birkenhead to Liverpool. The
interview was most gratifying, and the committee assured
the deputation that the moment Liverpool granted a proper
landing-place, the Birkenhead authorities would proceed
to establish the ferry in question. When the growing
importance of this district is taken into account, the
reasonableness of improving the means of its intercourse
with Liverpool becomes obvious.
THE CONDEMNED MURDERESS AT CHESTER.—SinCe
the conviction of Sarah Featherston, at the Chester assizes,
of the murder of her illegitimate child, she has admitted
her guilt to the chaplain of the-prison, to whom she has
made an extraordinary statement. She says that about
the time she took away the child from the nurse, not
knowing what to do with it, she turned to her Bible for
consolation. She accidentally opened upon a chapter in
Deuteronomy, where it said—" A bastard shall not enter
into the congregation of the Lord." Her uninstructed
mind, applying the words to her own case, thereby be-
came more deeply affected, and as she sauntered along
with the child she- was compelled occasionally to sit down
and relieve herself by a flood of tears. She at last formed
the fatal resolve of murdering it, and tied the bricks up
in its dress as related in the evidence. She then placed it
in the pond, and it floated a little and afterwards sunk.
Becoming conscious of the awful crime she was commit-
ing, she seized a willow branch which lay beside her, and
attempted to drag the child back to the shore, but it was
now out of her reach. She says that her state of mind
then became fearful, and the first relief she obtained was
when she made a confession of her guilt to the officer who
apprehended her. These facts were communicated by
the chaplain to the learned judge who tried- her; and:
who afterwards intimated to the rev. gentleman that
there was no doubt the life of the unfortunate woman,
would-be spared.—Chester Courant.

TREAT TO THE CHILDREN OF THE CLATTEEBRIDGE
WORKHOUSE.—On Thursday Mrs. H. Neild, of Spital,
treated the children of the Clatterbridge Workhouse,
about seventy in number, to a day's merrymaking, in a
large field attached to Mr. Neild's model farm. The
children walked in procession from the workhouse to the
scene of their amusement, headed by their band, consist-
ing of twelve fifes, a triangle, and a drum, Mr. Colbeck,
the parish-clerk, acting as bandmaster. They were also
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Cross, the master and
matron of the workhouse, of whose uniform kindness and
attentive consideration the looks of the children gave
good evidence. Several flags were carried in the proces-
sion, one bearing the motto "Children's gratitude for Old'
England's protection," and another the third verse of the
37th Psalm, " Trust in the Lord, do good, and thou shalt
dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." Arrived
at their destination, the children spent the time in run-
ning races and other school games, after which they were
regaled in a tent with coffee and home-made plum-cake.
In. the evening they were taken back to the workhouse in
carts and other conveyances, Mr. H. Neild and some gen-
tlemen accompanying them on horseback. Before leaving
Mr. Neild's, the children, were each presented with a bag
of nuts and French plums, which had been purchased for
them by Mr. Neild and his neighbours. They appeared
highly delighted with their holiday.

TAR IE S

A LADY, given to tattle, says she never tells anything
except to two classes of people—those who ask her and
those who don't.

A MORE GLORIOUS VICTORY cannot be gained over
another man than this, that when the injury began on his
part the kindness should begin on ours.—Archl,ithop Til-
lotson.
_" KEEP SILENCE in, the court," said an angryjudge.

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" Why will you not keep silence ? Here we have disposed
of a dozen cases this morning, and have not heard a word
of them."
A QUESTION SoLvED.—"Annette my dear, what country
is opposite to us on the globe !" " Dont know, sir."
" Well now," continued the perplexed teacher,. " if I were
to bore a hole through the earth, and you were to go in
at this end, where would you come out ?" " Out of the
hole, sir," replied the pupil, with an air of triumph at
having solved the question.

MRS. PARSINGTON'S LAST.—" Well," said the old lady,
the other day, as she was engaged with her knitting work,
" I wonder if I ever shall be able to express myself
correctly. It seems to me that I never can use the right
word. Every time I undertake to say anything, I make
some blunder or other. Whenever I open my mouth I
am sure tolputmyfoot into it."

THE MIN who7`rtook a walk " the other day brought it
back again ; but the next day he took a ride, and has not
since been heard of.

HORSE DEALING.—An Irish lawyer, famed. for cross-
examining, was on one occasion completely silenced by a
horse dealer. "Pray Mr.-, do you belong to a very
honest profession ?' " I cannot say. so," replied the wit-
ness,"-for, saving you lawyers, I think it is the most dis-
honest going." _ _

CuniOsiiiEs !—The chair in which the sun seta—A
garment for the naked eye—The hammer which broke up
the meeting—Bark peeled from off the North Pole— Ore
from the mine of knowledge—A buckle to fasten a laugh-
ing-stock—The animal that drew the inference—Eggs
from a nest of thieves—A hair from the head of a river—
A blanket from the bed of the ocean.

A Fnw ODD QuzsTroxs.—Can a very pale young lady
be considered the pink of fashion.? Are the currents of
the ocean always green, and are they very fruitful ? Can
a man with propriety be called a ghost when he's a gob-
ling (goblin)? Why is a heavily-laden river barge called
a lighter ? Is it constant night in Algiers, now that the
dey has ceased to reign there ? How can members
reasonably comply with the standing orders when parlia-
ment is sitting ? Since the Americans are so clever at
ship-building, may they not be appropriately designated a
tar-nation set of smart fellows.?—Punchinello.

A BLIND FISHER.—Some ten years back, at Sowerby,
I met a man perfectly blind from infancy. His chief
amusement was fishing on the wild, uneven banks of Eden,
and up the difficult mountain streams. His friend, a
dexterous card player, also stone blind, knew every gate
and stile in the district. John Gough, of Kendal, blind,
is not only a mathematician, but an infallible botanist and
zoologist, correcting mistakes of keen sportsmen as to
birds and vermin. His face is all one eye.—Coleridge..
AUSTRALIAN BAROA.INS.—Among my letters of intro-
duction I found two useful and several very civil. But it
was astonishing how every one had something to sell me,
an extraordinary bargain. One had a farm ; another a
lot of sheep ; and a third, a famous mob of cattle ; and all
were ready to take part cash, and part on my bill at a
long date. Having firmly made up my mind to buy
nothing, there was no harm done : but it was amusing to
find, by comparing notes, that the farm had no water,
the sheep had the scab, and the cattle were so wild that
they had not been mustered within the memory of man.
Sidney's Gallops and Gossips in the Bush of Australia
THE FOLLY OF PRIDE.—Take some quiet sober moment
of life, and add together the two ideas of pride and map :
behold him, creature of a span high, stalking through in-
finite space in all the grandeur of littleness. Perched on
a speck of the universe, every wind of Heaven strikes into
his blood the coldness of death ; his soul floats from his
body like melody from a string ; day and night, as the
dust on the wheel, he is rolled along the heavens, through
a labyrinth of worlds, and all the creations of God are
flaming above and beneath. Is this a creature to make
for himself a crown of glory, to deny his own flesh, to
mock at his fellow, sprung from the dust to which both
will soon return ? Does the proud man not err ? Does
he not suffer ? Does he not die ? When he reasons, is he
not stopped by difficulties ? When he acts, is he never
tempted by pleasure ? When he lives, is he free from
pain ? When he dies, can he escape the common grave ?
Pride is not the heritage of men ; humility should dwell
with frailty, and alone for ignorance, error, and imperfec-
tion.—Rev. Sidney Smith.

NATIONAL CHARACERISTICS.—The Englishwoman is
respectful and proud ; the Frenchwoman is gay and agree-
able ; the Italian is ardent and passionate ; the American
is sincere and affectionate. With an Englishwoman love
is a principle ; with a Frenchwoman it is a caprice; with
an Italian it is a passion; with an American it is senti-
ment. An Englishwoman is anxious to secure a lord; a
Frenchwoman a companion ; an Italian a lover, ; an
American a husband. The Englishman respects his lady ;
the Frenchman esteems his companion; the Italian adores
his mistress ; the American loves his wife. At night the
Englishman returns to his house ; the Frenchman to his
establishment; the Italian to his retreat ; the American
to his home. When an Englishman is sick, his lady visits
him ; when a Frenchman is sick, his companion pities
him ; when an Italian is sick, his mistress sighs over him ;
when an American is sick, his wife nurses him. When an
Englishman dies, his lady is bereaved ; when a Frenchman
dies, his companion grieves ; when an Italian dies, his
mistress laments, when an American dies, his wife mourns.
An Englishwoman instructs her offspring; a French-
woman teaches her progeny ; an Italian rears her young, ;
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