The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-24 00:00:00

cH.EsHIRE AND 'WALES.

COLONEL WILBRAHAM (son of Randle Wilbraham,
Esq., of Rodchall, Chester,) was too ill to take any active
part in the battle of Alma : his post as Assistant Acljt.-
General was taken by Major Lysons, of the 23rd Royal
Welsh Fusiliers.

Joux BRADBURY, late agent for loan societies at
Stalybridge, has been committed for trial at the Chester
assizes, charged with forging three several receipts of
£2 10s. each, for money which he had received from
James Mycock, and should have paid to the clerk of the
Liverpool Tradesmen's Loan Society, at Manchester.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAIENAY.—The traffic for
the week ending 15th October, 1854, was as follows
Passengers, parcels, &c., £3,041 13s. Bd.; steam-boats,
£491 18s. sd. ; total, £3,533 12s. ld. Goods, £1,795 ss. sd.
Total, including Carnarvon traffic, £5,328 17s. 6d. Cor-
responding week last year, passengers, parcels, &c., £2,755
9s. ld.; steam-boats, £441 15s. Od.; total, £3,197 4s. ld.
Goods, £1,496145. ld. Total, including Carnarvon traffic,
£4,693 18s. 2d. Increase, £634 19s. 4d.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held on
Saturday,before Mr. Henry Churton, coroner, on the bodies
of two of the children of Mr. Davies, farmer, of Capen-
hurst, in the vicinity of Great Saughall, whose deaths had
been caused by falling into a boiler of hot whey and meal.
The accident took place on Monday week. One of the
children survived until the following Thursday, and the
other died on Friday, The jury returned a verdict of
" accidental death."
SifOCSING CASE Or BuliNtgG.—On Thursday some
children, whilst amusing themselves on Runcorn-heath,
ignited a quantity of gorse, and in playing about the fire

a-boy, named William- Hibbert, fouryearsOf age, was acci-
dently pushed into the burning mass. His clothes took
fire, and before assistance could be obtained he was burned
in a dreadful manner.—The bowels of the little sufferer
protruded.—His father is a labourer residing at Weston.—
Chssier CO urani.

REVIVAL or AN OLD COURT.—The Neston wappentake
court, which had fallen into disuse for some years,
has again been revived, and held its first sitting on Mon-

day, at Great Neston. The steward, or judge of the
court, is Mr. Morton, attorney, of Liverpool, who has ap-
pointed Mr. Robert Grace, attorney, tb be his deputy.
Mr. Samuel Spencer, late district officer of the Birkenhead
county court, has been appointed high bailiff of the court.
The objects of the wappentake court are the recovery Of
small debts ; and it will, we hear, besides sitting at Nes-
ton, hold adjourned sittings at Birkenhead and Liscard
for the convenience of suitors.

FIGHTING AT ROCK FERRY.--At the Birkenhead Police-
c•lurt, on Thursday, three boatmen, named Joseph Han-
son, Thomas Hanson, and Ralph Williams, were sum-
moned, at the instance of Mr. Huntriss, of the Rock
Ferry Hotel, for being drunk and fighting on Sunday
evening. Thomas Hanson stated that he had been sup-
plied with sixteen glasses of whisky, on Sunday, at the
complainant's house, the effect of which was that he
became so drunk that he did not know what he was doing.
The other defendants partly corroborated this statement,

adding that they were in the habit of getting drink at the
complainant's house at any hour on a Sunday, whenever
they wanted it.—Mr. Huntriss denied this, and said he
never permitted drunkenness in his house, which could be
corroborated by the police-officer.—The Rev. R. M. Fielden
said it was monstrous that any person should serve
such a quantity of drink as that spoken to by Hanson.
However, that did not exonerate the defendants from the
charge of -fighting. The magistrates then ordered an
information against Mr. Huntriss for Sunday trading;
and the defendants, Joseph and Thomas Hanson, were
ordered to find two sureties in £lO each, or one surety in
£2O, to keep the peace for three months. Williams, against
whom the charge of fighting was not made out, was dis-
charged.

M.ATTHEWS3 THE LATE POLICEMAN.—At the Cheshire
county sessions, on Monday, Mr. W. T. Egerton said he
had been requested by Sir Edward Cust to bring forward
a motion of which Sir Edward had given notice, but who
was absent in consequence of the illness of a member of
his family. It was, " That an annuity of £27 10s. be
granted to the widow and children of John Matthews, late
an assistant petty constable of the hundred of Wirral, who
was killed in the execution of his duty on the 4th Septem-
ber, 1854, for so long as Mrs. Matthews shall remain a
widow and unmarried." Mr. Egerton said the court was
empowered to make the allowance under the constabulary
act, and the death of Matthews was really a melancholy
one. He had left a widow and five children, the eldest of
whom was ten years, and the youngest was eighteen
months old. In fixing the annuity, however, the widow
only had been considered, and as the court would see from
the terms of the motion, she would only be entitled to it
whilst she remained unmarried. Mr. Corbett supported
the motion, and said encouragements of this sort were
desirable, in order to induce the officers to do their duty
fearlessly. The motion was agreed to.
DENBIGHSHIRE RAILWAY.--At a public meeting,
called by the High-sheriff, held in the County-hall, Ruthin,
to adopt measures for forming a railway through the Vale
of Clwyd, and to connect the mining districts with the
great traffic railway, it *as agreed that a line, commencing
at Ruabon, and passing by way of Llangollen, Corwen,
Ruthin' Denbigh, and St. Asaph to Rhyl, would be the
line best suited to the requirements of the district, and
most conducive to its interests ; and that it would form a
good basis for extending railway communication through
the interior of North Wales. A committee having been
appointed to organise local committees, it was resolved,

"That such local committees be formed in each town and
district, through which the line will pass, to collect sub-
scriptions for defraying the preliminary expenses of pre-
paring the surveys, and the necessary notices for Parlia-
ment ; that they communicate the result of their efforts
within a fortnight ; and that any sums so subscribed may
hereafter be appropriated in part payment of shares if the
undertaking proceeds." After a vote of thanks to the
cl ' Mr. West, of Ruthin Castle, the meeting

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CHEER= QUARTER SEsstoNs.—The county business
was transacted at Knutsford on Monday last. In con-
sequence of representations made by different judges,
and to avoid the expense entailed by cases being sent to
the summer assizes instead of to the quarter sessions, it
was resolved that an adjourned sessions shall always be
held the week previous to those assizes, and that the April
quarter sessions be fixed before the assizes whenever prac-
ticable. The following were the estimated demands and
receipts at present sessions and adjournments : —Bridges,
£350 ; Lock-ups, &c., £BO ; house of correction, £3,000 ;
prosecutions at sessions, £3,400; police, £1,700; gaolers,
£6OO ; general payments, £4,100; On the credit side :
Balance due from treasurer, £3,266 ; arrears of rate, £271 ;
balance of county rate, £772; ditto of constabulary rate,
£894; from lords of the treasury for maintenance of pri-
soners, £7,075 ; River Weaver, £5,000 ; fines, &c., £340;
fees, £410; repayment by gaolers, £600; total, £18,629;
leaving a credit balance of £5,009. The estimated receipts
and demands at the January sessions and adjournment
were—Bridges, £350 ; lock-ups, £3O; Chester Castle, general
payments, £2,900 ; prosecutions at sessions, £2,400 ; at
assizes, £2,200 ; police, £1,790 ; gaolers, £600; general pay-
ments, £2,200. On the other side : Balance in hand,
£5,009 ; from lords of the treasury, £1,067 ; River Weaver,
£4,000 ; fines, &c., £340 ; repayment by gaolers, £6OO ;
constabulary rate, £1,747; total, £12,765; showing a
balance in favour of the county of £295. A county rate
of one farthing was then ordered, which will produce
£1,738.