The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-21 00:00:00

THE MARQUIS OF Wa
and the Marchioness of

:STMINSTER has contributed £lO,
Westminster £5, towards the fund
n obituary window and memorial in St. Mary's
:ster, in honour of the 23rd Welsh Fusileers.

for placing
Church, Cl

—.xtrem Cutrucir RATE.—Wrexham was on Thurs-
day and Friday last the scene of contention upon the
subject of church rates. At the vestry meeting on
Thursday, Sir R. H. Cunliffe, Bart., proposed a rate of
twopence in the pound, and Mr. T. Taylor Griffith se-
conded the motion ; which was opposed by Mr. Darby,
Mr. Rawlins, and others, and supported by Mr. John
Lewis. The poll closed on Friday, with the following
result : For the rate, 450 ; against the rate, 294;
majority for the rate, 157.

CHESTER, AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for
the week ending 12th November, 1854, was as follows :
Passengers, parcels, &c., £2,460 Os. 4d.; steam-boats,
. 5d.: total, £2,871 9s. 9d. Goods, £1,793 19s. 7d.
, including Carnarvon traffic, £4,665 95. sd. Cor-
responding week last year, passengers, parcels, &c.,
£2,142 18s. 2d. ; steam-boats, £289 18s. 9d.: total,
£2,432 16s. 11d. Goods, £1,519 4s. 6d. Total, including
Carnarvon traffic, £3,952 ls. sd. Increase, £713 7s. 11d.

ACCIDENT

SIN GULAI

On Tuesday forenoon, as a
cart laden with straw was being drawn by two horses out
of the Woodside Hotel stable-yard, it tilted back so that
the shafts were almost upright, and, the band beneath
giving way, the horse was literally hanged by the
neck. It is said that "in the multitude of counsellors
there is safety," but the poor animal did not find it' so,
for while several schemes to restore the cart to its position
were ineffectually tried, he was choking. At length a
man forced out the kecker, by which the shafts are con-
fined to the body of the cart, and the horse suddenly fell
to the ground, where he groaned heavily, and shortly after-
wards died.

THE LATE MR. STEVENSON, OF BIEKENTIEAD.-Mr.
M`Bride, of Liverpool, has just completed the bas-relief,
which, with the rich architectural decorations, will be
immediately fixed in St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead.
The subject of the bas-relief was suggested by the text,
" Sick, and ye visited me." It represents the deceased
watching over and tending a beautiful maiden, whose
relatives are represented as earnest and anxious spectators.
The relief is canopied and surrounded by work of a gothic
character, 'in Caen stone, to harmonise with the character
of the church. The inscripfion tablet is fixed below the
relief, and is as follows : Sacred to the memory of
William Stevenson, of Birkenhead, surgeon, who died 6th
June, 1853, aged sixty-four years. This monument is
erected by public subscription, as a record of the esteem
in which he was regarded by his fellow-townsmen." The
work reflects high credit upon the sculptor.
CI uisTrelarr AIiONGST TIIE JEWS.--61 Wednesday,
a meeting of the friends of the Society for the Promotion
of Christianity Amongst the Jews, was held in St. Mary's
School-room, Priory-street, Birkenhead. The chair was
occupied by the Rev. A. Knox, and there were several
other clergymen present. The meeting was addressed by
the reverend chairman, the Rev. Mr. Howlett, secretary,
and the Rev. Mr. Hurst, who gave some very interesting
details of the progress which Christianity was making
amongst the Jews. Resolutions favourable to the objects
were passed, and the meeting separated with a vote of
thanks to the chairman.

APPLICATION OP SEWAGE.-At a meeting of the Man-
chester Town Council, a few days ago, a letter was read
from Mr. Samuel Brooks, in which that gentleman made
the handsome offer of placing £l,OOO at the disposal of the
council, to be expended in preliminary inquiries, and
premiums for plans and experiments, as to the value of the
nightsoil of the town. Mr. Brooks estimated the annual
value of the sewage of the town of Manchester at £lOO,OOO
a-year, and his letter referred to the importance not only
of properly disposing of it for agricultural purposes, but of
rendering it subservient to other useful objects. The
thanks of the council were unantmously voted to Mr.
Brooks for his offer.

MORTA.LITY IN LANCA.SIIIRE AND CIII3IBIIIRE.—From
the Registrar-general's returns of the last quarter, we
learn that Cheshire, except in Runcorn and Wirral, expe-
rienced less than the average mortality. In Lancashire,
the deaths in Liverpool and West Derby, in the three
summer quarters of 1852, 1853, 1854, were 3,537, 2,701,
and 4,563 ; and the increase is referable to the epidemic
cholera. The deaths from all causes in the summer quar-
ter of 1849, when the cholera was epidemic, were 8,021 in
the two districts. The population of Liverpool and West
Derby in 1851 WAS 411,515. The deaths in Manchester
and Salford during the last quarter were 2,789 ; the popu-
lation was 315,956 in 1851. Diarrhoea has been the pre-
vailing form of disease in Manchester, and the mortality
has not been considersle.

LORD HARDINGE AND TILE TWENTY-THIRD Frst-
LIERS.—The promoters of the special subscription on
behalf of the bereaved survivors of the 23rd have felt the
declaration of those who oppose the scheme (that the
regiment is chiefly composed of Irishmen and Scotch)
almost as a libel on their countrymen. Their sense of
injustice has reached the ear of the Commander-in-Chief,
who, in a private letter to a friend, thus refers to the sub-
ject :—" I send the last return of the Welsh Fusiliers,

signed by its gallant and distinguished leader, who fell so
nobly at its head in the action of the Alma. I wish the
return had specified Welshmen, and I shall give directions
that, in the Welsh Fusiliers, the four countries shall be
separately and distinctly recorded. The number was 969,
of which only 8 were Scotch and 182 were Irish. But the
Welsh Fusiliers have always been a remarkable regiment,
and their conduct on every occasion has shown that they
have in no instance degenerated from their former fame.
The Welsh Fusiliers were engaged at Albuera, and, by a
curious coincidence, they lost 14 officers, killed and
wounded, the same as at Alma ; but the loss of men was
greater at Albuera, namely, 324 men, and at the Alma
196 men." The above has given the greatest satisfaction
to those who felt that the bravery of the Welsh was
detracted from by being draughted into other regiments
nste„,ftd tip3t Which bears their name.