Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1875-08-28 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

NEW LIBERAL CLUB. (From the Warrington Ext:tniner.)  The tr ansformation. of Bewsey Hulse into a handsome and commodious clubhouse for the use of the Liberals of Warrington is rapidly approaching completion. It is true that the chime of the workman's hammer, and the various phenomena associated with the mysteries ef tlie building trade, still linger about the edifice, but in a very few weeks Messieurs the plasterers and painters, and furniture makers and upholsterers, not to speak of the artificers of the billiard table, will have surrendered the new clubhouse to its new occupants and proprietors. The changes necessary to convert Beweey House to its new purpose have been leas considerable than might have been expected, for the principal apartments in the old mansion were so spacious as easily to lend themselves to their new tees. The most notable change or addition effected has been the erection of a new billiard room. This structure is wholly new, and consists of a spacious and lofty chamber large enough and high enough for a i place of public assembly, or a church or chapel of no inconsiderable dimensions. The size of the room may perhaps be better realised by saying that it is 68 ft. long by 34 feet 6 inches wide, equal to an area of 2,346 square feet. Its resemblance to an ecclesiastical edifice is favoured by its massive open timbered roof, on each side of which run long lines of skylight. The bane of an ordinary billiard room is its inadequate ventilation, but in the present instance the cubic) feet of air at the disposal of the crowd that on " match " °ccasions are likely to assemble within its walls might earn a testimonial from our sanitary officer, Dr. Joseph. When furnished, the room is to contain five billiard tables, and all round the chamber is a raised platform, from which the spectators may survey the gentlemen who "urge the flying ball" to mysterious collision, and who are specially anxious to put it in the "pocket." The temperature is regulated by hot water pipes placed beneath the flooring, and the players can have, what Mr. Disraeli would call "sun and zephyr" e.t discretion. Adjoining the billiard room is a lavatory, where players can wash their hands before or after a" cannonade."  Besides the great billiard room described, and adjoining it, is a smaller subscription billiard zoom, where a more limited number of players will be permitted to furnish special contributions to the C6I2IMOD. revenue.  The Reading room—the sequestered nook specially I dedicated to the use of political and other students— may be said to occupy the place of honour. Mr. Rylands's drawing room has been dedicated to the use of "the fit, though few," who want to find out the secret of our national greatness, and to master the newspaper details which reveal to us the secret of terrible and horrible wars, and the waste of the sacred proceeds of our national industy. The "Drawing-room', is a spacious and elegant apartment, the walls of which are pannelled, in the centre of which a cunning artist has essayed to tell some historic or romantic story. The studious persons who will spend a casual hour in this peaceful retreat, may lift their eyes from the newspaper story of an elopement, or a wife murder, or a " Collie " squanderer of honest English millions, to the story of Phillipa and the burghers, or the conversion of our barbarous ancestors by Augustine and the monks of Rome to the truths of Christianity, or the touching tale of Jeannie Deans, or Queen Boaciicea patriotically haranguing our painted and imperfectly clothed " foregatherers." We shall be curious to see how these stirring frescoes of Bewsey House inspire and animate the coming political beholder. Of the provision for the material business wants of P uoh an establishment, it is unnecessary to write at length. Bewsey House affords measureless conveniences for the transaction of the business incident to the existence of the club. Rooms for the occupation of committes, and ward captains, and secretaries, and the whole mutcriei of club administration exist in abundance.