The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

Nov. 5, 1844. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. On Wednesday a special meeting of the council was held at the Town-hall, for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the municipal year. The DEATH OF THE TOWN-CLERK. MAYOR said his first duty was to announce to tho council officially what they all knbw—the 'death of the Town -clerk. He need not say that the Town-Clerk was very eminent lawyer. and that they all deeply regretted his loss. (Hear, hear.) He died on Friday night last at Leamington. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said they bad in Mr. Radcliffe Imost excellent officer, whose services were unremitting. There was no subject, however difficult or embarrassing, to which he was not at all times ready to employ the vigo rous energies of his able mind ; and there was no demand 'made upon him to which he was not always willing to lend a ready ear. This amounted almost to a fault—he was so courteous, so accessible to them all. When they considered that his services were enhanced with the high est legal talent, and the highest sense of honour, they Would be able to form a just estimate of the excellent man ; and when they remember the difficuities he had to en counter, and with what undeviating consistency be had led them through the intricacies of the Municipal Reform Act, they might, indeed, feel that the council had sus tained some loss. To him (Mr: Lawrence) personally, - -and he believed he spoke the sentiments of the whole c°llr leil—Mr. R a d c liff e had bee n v ery kind, very encou raging : there was no occasion on hich his aid and judi cious advice had not been within his reach ; and he should neglect his duty, and the council would be open to a charge of ingratitude, if they hesitated to record their sense of the services to which he alluded, and failed to put on their minutes some regard for the high ability, zeal, a nd splendid talents which the Town-Clerk so eminently Possessed, and of which it had pleased Providence, in his Inscrutable wisdorrk, to deprive them. He concluded by 13 .:iing a resolution to the effect,—that the council, deep- Y impressed with a sense of the services of the late Town- Clerk, Richard Radcliffe, Esq., embracing the earliest ° PPortUnity of entering on their minutes a record of the Z eal and ability which had ever distinguished his career, and - requested the Mayor to convey to Mrs. Radcliffe, and the other members of the family, an assurance of the i s , 3 Yrnpathy of the council in the decease of this most excel lent officer of the corporation. Mr. AIKIN, in seconding the motion, said that it would be very difficult again to find a man combining the various talents which were so ably enjoyed by Mr. Radcliffe, who 4 0, d not only gr eat legal knowledge, but that fondness for V S Pursuit which induced him to give his time morning, L ""o, and night, to the services of the town. But per haps the indiscriminate praise which had been used was rather unfortunate. He could only lament that any frailty of habit should have at all impaired Mr. Radcliffe's great could utility ; but speaking of him as a publ i c man, he "Ind only again express his fear that it would be hopeless for the council to expect a successor combining all the qualities Mr. Radcliffe possessed. The motion was carried unanimously. APPLICATION FROM THE BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY. The proceedings of tite - finttnce Committee comprised an application from the Birkenhead Dock Company to Purchase the reversion of the corporation in a portion of t he Wallasey Estate. The application, with an accompa nying plan, was signed by the law agent of the company, Mr. Joseph Mallaby. It set forth that the company had agreed, f or 75 y ears , to purchase the property; and that they intended to apply for an act next session to incorpo rate the company, and to empower them to erect ware houses on the margin, They now formally applied to the finance Committee, and offered to pay for the reversion ary interest in a gross sum at a price to be agreed to, or a valuation by competent parties. The Finance Commit tee resolved that this was only a repetition, by a joint stook company, of an offer which had been previously +Bade by the lessees to purchase the reversion ; that the former offer had been declined by the committee, and also Y the council, and that the committee did not feel at li berty,, to enter into any negociation On the subject. The co mmittee recommended the sale of a piece of land, con :Liming about 2,200 yards, in Church-street, Birkenhead, `° a Mr. Wright, at the rate of 355. 6d. per yard, for 75 Y e ars, subject to a deposit of 10 per cent. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE, in moving the confirmation of the proceedings, thought it right to mention that if this Proposal had come from a public body like the Birkenhead C ommissioners, and that if it stated public grounds for the measure, and accompanied it with plans, showing the exact extent for which public warehouses, in connexion With public docks, were required, then, possibly, the Fi nance, Committee might have given it more consideration. ‘No, no.) He said more consideration ; but here was a Proposal, on the cart of a self-constituted company, of Which the council knew nothing. Unless they were fur nished with some pretext—some arguments which might Show the benefit to arise to the corporation estate— (hear)—and the benefit also to the burgesses of Liverpool ""-- (hear, hear)—it was impossible for the council to go further; and, accordingly, the committee thought it bet ter to abide the issue of events, and give a simple refusal to the application. (Hear.) With public grounds, inde- Pendent of corporate interests, the council had nothing to ,do. It was for the legislature to interfere in such matters ; out he thought the legislature would never wrest the pro perty of the corporation out of the hands of the council, Without some more information than the Finance Com- Mittee had been able to secure or obtain. Here was a wholesale application for almost th- whole of the property t hey had leased to the parties at Wallasey Pool, enough to Provide warehouses, not only for the trade to be expected at Birk en h ea d , b ut f or a ll t h e tra d e o f E uro pe! H e hoped the proceedings would be confirmed. (Hear.) Mr. Nicol, sa id it always afforded him satisfaction to hear Mr. G. H. Lawrence, and that he generally ag reed with that gen tl eman ; b u t h e th oug ht th a t upon t his as Well as upon a former occasion, the Birkenhea d peop l e must feel indebted to him for pointing out to them in what w ol f:) , they were to approach the council for the purpose of fore t aming a reversion. (Hear.) When they applied be hl, Mr. Lawrence certainly said that if they had come be in shape—if they came as Commissioners of Bir vvoulep, or in any public shape—the Finance Committee re n ,, ha ve listened more favourably. (Mr. G. H. Law- Mr, Z . ..ented.) appli ed "" a Icor. continued.—They had taken the hint, and Finan ce aioint-stock company, and the chairman of the still alte re rimittee now said that if they came again in a into greete shape, that committee would take the matter the wo r d s : eonsideration—" greater consideration" were ing out to Now he (Mr. Nicol) thought this was point should ad op P t e oPle who wanted no advice, the plans they it to be , and how they were to proceed. He begged under stood that he, as an humble individual, did not concur in th right or fair—fa ose sentiments, nor did he think it quite chairman of r was an improper word to use—in the the Finance Committee in any degree to Pledge the council to any particular course when the Bir . enhead gentlemen came (Hear, hear.) He thought it indecorous so to do ; and he, for one, protested against these conciliatory sentiments being considered as those of the council, when it might hereafter be the duty of the Council to act completely in opposition to them. He thought the granting of the reversion would he doing an injustice to the leaseholders on the Liverpool side — (hear , bear)—and he was anxious it should not go forth to the Public, or to the gentlemen on the other side, that the sentiments they had just heard were the sentiments of the council. s _Air. G. H: LAWRENCE explained. He was sure that Nicol had put an interpretation o n his words which e (Mr. Lawrence) did not intend. He never meant to Invite the Birkenhead gen•lemen to approach the council a g ai n ; but what he said was, that from the manner in Which they had come, the committee could not give them greater consideration. e Mr. AIKIN said he was aware of the difficulty of dis ynesing anythi n g where matters of bargain were involved, I . l t they h a d got an app li cat i on f rom men w h o h a d s h own '-'that they were not in the habit of holding out any idle threats. And this was not a threat. It was simply inti mating that it was their intention to do that in the next ses sion which it was pretty well known already they in tended to do; and therefore the only question with him 'vas this :—.`• Is there a chance of that body of men ob tialining such a bill and if they do obtain such a bill for a t h ch they will endeavour to show will be of great Public utility to the trade of the kingdom, then are we r i pw in the position of getting more than we would be then t hey get their bill? (Hear, hear.) He was not an ac illarY, nor much acquainted with the subject, but he ac'ught it quite probable that the council might now get v ery large sum. He threw it out as a hint that it might be well, and wise, and judicious, instead of spending thou sands in a fruitless opposition to bills, to endeavour to get tho usands i n th e i r p oc ket s for property, which property ~ `"lght be taken from them. I Mr. LACE said the terms on which all the corporation t t a ses were granted were these—that the parties taking em would so i m p rov e the property as to make it more valuable. If, th en , an e s timate of the Wallasey Estate ere to be made now, would any surveyor put any extra ( Hear on reversion of what was hereafter to be done ? be e now, As a mere matter of prudence, if they were to h e _ now, they must get less than ff the irnprovenients had comple ted ;heady upon the • for what man c land ? t tel They would get l how to value e 7 t was not e_ m ere naked value of the reversion. It was not to be I,:erPected in his opinion, that parliament would give to a _ e joint-stock company rights which they had not been to others ; and when the Liverpool warehouses had built on leases for 75 years, why not pursue the same Pilsen the other side? (Hear, hear.) h oe EusHELL did not believe the council would ever tolerated the sale of the land at Birkenhead, if it here believed that such a question as the present would great sz) be considered afterwards. (Hear, hear.) The °lnducement with him to sell the land was, that uld be made valuable—that its value should be in its edand that the council should have the prospect of Price t h a t; with this increased value. Hence the low an .. r h t was accepted for it. Much higher prices than hoidgbaduated scale for 75 years were offered for the free- InitteeY parties who put in tenders ; but the Finance Com and he never thought of entertaining such a proposition, entertai a.s sorry that Mr. Aikin or any body else, should posed warehouses it for a moment. He contended that the pro priv on the other side were for the benefit of individuals, though handed together, and that it e il iovv Possible to b r i ng b e f ore par li amen t an y a r g uments yet to be th at . the country would be b ene fi tte d qy w h a t was e d one. Th e pu b lic benefit was con f erre d w h en e forb ock " apace was conceded ; and all future benefit would (Hear, I:enadi!viduils, or collective bodies of individuals. Yer ewe lai r' .) Therefore he hoped the council would ne t the least, he n ever Present question for a single moment, at n er would for one. (Hear.) --nivi PARKER said that if Birkenhead continued to ad- Were e at the rate they were told it would, the land they fort to Mr. Wrighto welli ng lent v a would be double its pre pleased with the s pi rited the heart of the town. He was tlthe PPiication aide of the water 'tinted reply of the Finance Committee o the joint-stock company on the other . That reply did them great credit. He hoped they would never be frightened. The day might come when the Wallasey Estate would come back to the corporation. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE thanked Mr. Parker for his compliments to the Finance Committee, and hoped this would not be the last time that gentleman would do so in the council chamber. (Hear, and a laugh,) The land proposed to be sold to Mr. Wright was on the south side of Woodside Ferry, and fronted, not to the river, but to wards Church-street. He should not be surprised to hear next week that the same lot had been sold for £5 a yard, for such was the fever at Birkenhead that there was no way of accurately estimating the value of the land. . The proceedings were confirmed, and the Birkenhead Company are to be informed that the council see no rea son to alter their previous resolution. WATCH COMMITTLE.-THEHEAD CONSTABLE. From the proceedings of the Watch Committee it ap peared that a sub-committee had been appointed toinquire into the present efficiency of the police force of the bo rough, and whether the rules and regulations were carried out. They stated that the Head Constable, Mr. Miller, had been guilty of flagrant disobedience of orders in the following respect :—An application had baen made to allow a portion of the force to attend at Birkenhead on Wednesday last, the 23d instant, the day of the stone laying; the Head Constable was directed to send fifty men, with the usual complement of inspectors. Mr. Lay cock wished to have the services of the Head Constable also, but the chairman of the Watch Committee, in the presence of some of the members, refused the latter appli cation, thinking that Mr. Miller would be required to keep order and regulation in Liverpool, and to superin tend the arrangements during the disembarkation in the evening. But, notwithstanding positive prohibitions, Mr. Miller thiught proper to go over to Birkenhead, and breakfast with Mr. Laycock, and not to return until three o'clock in the afternoon, thereby setting an example of insubordination. The committee then received the report of the sub-committee, previously appointed, concurred in opinion as to Mr. Miller's inefficiency, and came to the resolution that his services be dispensed with, but that he he allowed to resign forthwith. Thanks were given to Mr. James Lawrence, the chairman of the committee, for his exertions to preserve order on the piers during the night of the 23d instant, and for his valuable assistance during the past year ; and Mr. Dowling was appointed pro tern to the bead constableship. Upon the motion of Mr. ASPINALL, seconded by Mr. THOINHILL, the proceedings were confirmed without any discussion. Mr. Miller will therefore be allowed his sa lary to the 27th of February next, in conformity with the resolution of the Watch Committee, inserted in our last. DOCK COMMITTEE. Mr. MooRE, in moving the confirmation of the pro ceedings of the Dock Committee, took occasion to con gratulate the council on the present posture of the dock affairs. He said, that during the past four months, end ing on Thursday last, there had been an increase in the tonnage entering the port of 114,420 tons, and an increase in the receipts of £18,024 lls. 10d., when compared with the corresponding four months cf the past year. This, he was sure, would be received with great satisfaction by the council. (Hear, hear.) Mr. ASPINALL asked whether any accommodation had been made for the shipbuilders in consequence of their being removed by the new works. Mr. MOORE said the subject had engaged the attention of the Dock Committee on various occasions lately. Land had been offered to all the parties, and in convenient si tuations for carrying on their works. The arrangements with Mr. Wilson were matured, and would be carried out this week, with satisfaction to all parties. Accommoda tion would be afforded to the whole of them. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES said he had been informed that for a few thousands the bar or shallow part of the Rock Channel could be deepened to the extent of three feet, if not more. That channel was far safer than the new one, and a more rapid cut. Mr. MOORE said the subject was constantly under the consideration of the Dock Committee. The two entrances were frequently examined by the marine surveyor, and the Victoria Bar was in a better state than ever it was at any former time. He challenged the whole kingdom to find a port so well marked and buoyed as the port of Liverpool. 33,000 vessels had gone in and out of the harbour last year—only three very small craft were lost, and this was a sufficient answer as to the duties of the Dock Commit tee, in taking care of the entrances. Mr. NORTH said that if the Rock Channel could be deepened it would be beneficial ; but it was contrary to the laws of nature, for in proportion as the Victoria chan nel was deepened the other lessened in depth. They could not have two very good channels with the same scouring power. The proceedings were confirmed. EDUCATION COMMITTEE. The average attendance at the schools for the past month was stated to be as follows: — NORTH. SOUTH. Boys 240 . . Girls . Infants .......... 167 The numbers on the books were :—North, 714 ; South, 624. The committee recommended that Miss Wil!cock be appointed head mistress of the North School, at a sa lary of £75 per annum. The proceedings were confirmed. GARDENS COMMITTEE. The proceedings of the Gardens Committee, comprising a resolution to authorise the committee to erect an iron fence railing, at the cost of £2BO, on the east side of St. James's-walk, were read. Mr. G: H. LAWRENCE said the Gardens Committee had committed a blunder on a former occasion, by put ting the railing up at a wrong side—on the western in stead of the eastern. (Laughter.) There was no earthly occasion for a railing at the walk. Mr. HARBORD hoped the present railing would be re tained, for it had been of great benefit, as the children from a neighbouring school were in the habit of rolling down the inclined plane. Sir T. BRANCKER.—There ' s no great harm in that. (A laugh.) Mr. HARBORD.—You would not like your own children to roll down there. Sir T. BRANCKER.-1 often rolled down there myself. (Loud laughter.) Mr. lIARBORD. - I dare say you were a very unruly boy. Boys are in the habit of pushing girls down there. (Great laughter, in which Sir Thomas joined heartily.) I dare say Sir Thomas has done the same. (Roars of laughter.) The proceedings were confirmed. TOWN-HALL ESTABLISHMENT COMMITTEE. The proceedings of the committee having been read, Mr. PARKER said he observed a charge of £270 for wine for the Town-hall. Last month there was an item of £7OO. He wished to know if any of this charge went for American ice to cool the wine? The MAYOR,---YOll are aware that the Mayor will have to pay for it hereafter. Mr. HARBORD.—Yes, the Mayor will have to pay for it, but it is an acknowledged fact, that although the Mayor has had to pay for it, all the mayors have not used the discretion they ought. There is a stock belonging to the corporate estate and a stock belonging to themselves. If they used their discretion they would use their own wine, for the trash belonging to the Town-hall is discreditable. (Loud laughter.) _ , The MAYOR.-It is not for me to defend the wine in the cellar ; but I think there is very good wine in the cel lar, and that it does not quite deserve the name of trash. (Continued laughter.) The wine lately ordered is of ex cellent quality. The proceedings were confirmed. HEALTH OF THE TOWN COMMITTEE. Mr. ASPINALL reported that 27,578 square yards of flagging had been laid down, and 14,832 lineal yards of channeling in the courts of the town. There were few courts now in course of erection and there were likely to be less. Above 1000 hous-s under £l2 a 'year, had been built within the last twelve months, so that the poor would not be witnout habitations. The plans of the new baths of the north had been completed, and the building would be commenced forthwith. THE CORONER'S ACCOUNTS. For the present month, amounting to £62 4s. 2J., were referred to the Finance Committee for payment. Mr. PARKER complained of the sort of persons put on the coroner's juries, and said they were a set of men who got Is. 6d. an inquest, and gained a livelihood by lounging about the office. Mr. LACE end Sir. T. BRANCKER defended the con struction of the juries. THE VACANT TOWN-CLERKSHIP. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE announced, that on the 9th of November the Council would proceed to the election of a candidate for the vacant Town-clerkship. He hoped that all considerations with regard to a division of the offices of Town-clerk, Clerk of the Peace, and Prosecuting So licitor, would be postponed to a subsequent meeting of the Council. Mr. MooRE entirely differed from Mr. Lawrence on this subject, and thought it should be sifted in all its bearings before any appointment took place. It would be premature to select the Town-clerk without knowing whether the other two offices were to be consolidated or separated. He believed a Prosecuting Solicitor to be essentially necessary. Mr. BIRKETT and Mr. LACE thought there ought to be one person and only one. The conversation dropped, with the understanding that the Council would be ready to give their opinions upon the 9th of November, as to the desirability of dividing or consolidating the offices. VOTE OF THANKS TO THE MAYOR. Mr, Nicol. moved the thanks of the Council to the Mayor, Thomas Sands, Esq., for his very efficient, ur bane, kind, and conciliatory conduct in the civic chair during' the past year. The Mayor had entertained Royalty itself, and other distinguished strangers during his year of office, and he had done so in a manner that reflected great credit on the town. (Hear, hear.) Mr. James LAWRENCE, in seconding the motion, said he quite concurred in what had fallen from Mr. Nicol. The motion was carried unanimously. The MAYOR made an appropriate reply. Ti.e Council sep a r a ted soon after one o'clock. DOCK COMMITTEE.-THURSDAY. At the meeting on Thursday week, it was agreed to let Messrs. George Forrester and Co. 8300 square yards of land, at the north end, on a lease of 21 years, at the rate of ls. per square yard. At the meeting on Thursday last the following gentle men were present :—Messrs. Moore (in the chair), Nicol, Barclay, Middleton, Holmes, Smith. Royden, Sandbach, Kendall, Bulley, Evans, Ripley, Aikin, and Tobin. Memorandums made by Mr. Aikin during a visit on the Ist and 2d of October, to Kirk Maybrick Granite Quarry, were read. They contained suggestions as to the better and more effectual working of the quarry ; but the subject was deferred till spring, when a deputation of the committee is to visit the place, and report. A minute of the memoranda was ordered to be placed in the books. Charles Charlton, police-constable, was appointed to take charge of the' cranes at the docks, in the room of Matthew Bailey, deemed. THE TRANSIT SHEDS. Mr. RIPLEY saiLl he was told the whole of the transit sheds were likely soon to be occupied with tobacco. Par ties placed their tobacco there without passing the scales, and there it remained without paying any rent. Mr. Nicol, said that was one of the things they must get remedied by the new bill. The CHAIRMAN said it was certainly a great oversight in the bill. _ _ _ Mr. AIKIN said it was not any oversight. The bill was forced upon them with all its defects. The CHAIRMAN. - It has an effect opposite to what was intended. _ _ Mr. AilKix said that, in spite of all he and others could say, it was forced on them. It was suicidal as regarded itself, and injurious to the trade of the port. Mr. EVANS thought there ought not to be a restriction only with regard to tobacco. If the warehouse accommo dation for the tobacco was not sufficient now, either the Corporation or the Dock Committee ought to provide other accommodation. _ _ Mr. IslicoL said the restriction, of course, would not be confined to tobacco. Mr. ATKIN hoped that, as they were about to proceed for a bill, they would seek power to make those sheds as available to the town and to the trade of the part as they might be. He then referred to the plan originally pro posed, of leaving the quay open, and rooms above in which to place the goods until they were removed, for which they might have made a small charge. He thought some alteration might be made now of the same kind. Mr. EVANS did not think that would ever be listened to, for it would entail the expense of a warehouse without the accommodation of one. _ _ _ Mr. AMIN said the additional expense would be very little, seeing that they had already gone to the expense of making an incipient warehouse by erecting these sheds. Mr. EVANS was about to speak, when he was inter rupted by The CHAIRMAN, who said they were getting into an irrelevant discussion. Mr. EVANS thought that, as the discussion had gone so far, he ought to be allowed to proceed. The CHAIRMAN persisted in saying the conversation had gone far enough, when Mr. EVANS said be had observed that, on almost every occasion when the Chairman interfered with a discussion, he selected the time when he (Mr. Evans) was about to speak, or was speaking • but he contended this subject ought then to be discussed. They had heard a complaint about tobacco, but he did not believe it had in any way interfered with the use of the sheds. Mr. RIPLEY.—Four sheds out of the eleven have been in use with it. Mr. EVANS.—But the other seven were not all occu pied at the same time. The CHAIRMAN said he interfered at the earliest op portunity when Mr. Aikin talked of raising the sheds. Mr. AIKIN said, the view they might now discuss was, whether they should not, now that they were proceeding to parliament, get a clause to remedy the evil? The CHAIRMAN said, the proper time, then, to have mentioned that was a day or two before, when a special meeting was summoned to consider the amendments to be made in the dock acts. This would soon be again under their consideration, and a parliamentary committee formed, to whom the matter could be mentioned. Mr. RIPLEY said they had already let to the Customs two sheds, and he asked whether it would not be better to let them others, seeing they could occupy them in spite of them ? Mr. Nicol, said that would be a proper question for the sub-committee ; and here the matter rested. A suggestion to place a light at the northern extremity of the new river-wall was adopted, and the marine and dock surveyors were directed to carry it out. The Dock Surveyor reported that he intended to let the Prince's Dock dry on the evening of Thursday next, the 7th of November. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE NEW FORT. The CHAIRMAN reported that he, the Deputy Chair man, and Mr. Middleton, had had an interview with the Board of Ordnance, who showed every disposition to meet the views of the committee as to the site for the new fort. The probability was, that a site would be se lected beyond the land belonging to the estate, it being more desirable to purchase land for the purpose further north, than to give up any of the land at present in' the possession of the estate. A proper person would be sent down to survey the place, and then the matter would be decided. Mr. Nicol. said they received very favourably the sug gestion of placing cannons on the river-walls. Their only objection to the tort being further north was, that after vessels had passed both forts there was no protection ; but they seemed to jump at the idea of placing cannons on the river-wall, and wished the position for such cannon to be pointed out. . . . Mr. HARTLEY said the river-walls now constructing were more adapted for this purpose than the others. Mr. RIPLEY hoped there would be no encroachment on the public righ s by this arrangement. The CRAIRMAN. — None whatever. LEASE OF LAND TO MR. WILSON. The CHAIRMAN mentioned that Mr. Wilson acceded to the terms for a lease of the land offered to him, with the exception that he wished a clause introduced, giving him compensation for the buildings erected, only provided he was removed in seven years. A long and desultory conversation ensued. Mr. RIPLEY contended that some limit ought to be pot to the compensation, and be moved that it should not ex ceed half of the seven years' rent. Mr. SANDB von seconded the motion. Mr. TontN, seconded by Mr. KENDALL, moved, as an amendment, that the compensation should not exceed the whole of the rent. Upon a division, only three—Messrs. Kendall, Tobin, and Royden—voted for the amendment. The original motion was then put, and the voting was the same, ex cept that the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman voted against the motion. The numbers then stood, 9 for the motion and 5 against. After the subject had been dis posed of, Mr. Nicol was allowed to propose another amendment as follows :—" That the buildings to be erected by Mr. Wilson must be submitted for the appro bation of this committee, and in the event of Mr. Wilson being removed at the end of the first seven years, every claim for compensation for such buildings to be ascer tained by arbitration." The votes were then taken, when 7 appeared for and 7 against. The amendment was then declared negatived for the day, but afterwards it was arranged that the words " such compensation not to ex ceed one-half of the seven years' rent" should be added to the amendment. It was then carried without a divi sion. _ _ A letter from Messrs. Wcod and Ritson, as to further shed accommodation on the west side of George's Dock, was referred to the Sub-committee of 'Works. A letter from Messrs. Brown Shipley, and Co., re questing a stage berth for th e Philadelphia line of packets, was referred to the Harbour-master's Sub-committee. The receipts at Runcorn for the last month on 219 ves sels, and of 10,949 tons, were stated to be £55 14s. 10d., being a decrease of about 10s. as compared with the cor responding period of last year. CORRESPONDENCE. SHIP-BUILDING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR, —My last, as a necessary introduction on ship building, commenced with a few remarks on displace ment, the resistance of fl uids, which is now resumed. To illustrate this from practical results, we will state a case or two, having before shewn that the weight of all floating bodies are equal to the weight of water by them displaced, from which it must be obvious that the faster any vessel passes through the fluid the greater the resist ance, until the propelling power can no further overcome : it is then said the vessel is at her greatest speed. This resistance is more or less felt, either from the ship's ful ness or sharpness forward, or from its depth in the water, produced through the flatness or sharpness of its bottom. Full-bowed vessels being at this time almost universally adopted, the reason assigned is either from the velocity of a fish, or that of a taper spar, which is said to tow fastest with the butt foremost. These hypotheses are enforced with the view of establishing a theory: as it respects a fish, this has been already, and in some future observa tion shall again be taken up, by shewing the danger of pursuing such a principle in the erection of merchant ships. In following up this important subject, it will be necessary to examine how far the towing of a spar, with the butt or large end forward, can in any way be a guide in the formation of a ship, or through it prove advanta geous in giving them full'bows, whereby to promote their sailing qualities. Here permit a small digression. It is now a well-known fact among seamen, that ships with foul bottoms have the greatest proportion of foulness from their angle of resistance to their after parts, showing their foulness in a greater degree in those parts where theorists would determine they should have the least. It has been proved from demonstrative evidence that along the whole streight of the side, up and down, the grass and weed grow the fastest, and often in long voyages (before coppering came into general use) to the length of six inches or more. It is also an established fact, when the vessel is going at her greatest rate of sailing, those weeds remain stationary, and at right angles from the . ship's side, from which it is evident that, independent of common or natural resist ance, all vessels draw or attract along with them a column of water, the extent or breadth from the side increasing or decreasing in proportion to their speed. To lessen this friction, it would be advisable to observe two things, as necessary to the construction of vessels; first, by placing the dead flat as near the half-length as possible, through which an easy entrance is effected, shewing a greater dis tance from the stern to the main direction or resistance of the fluid, whereby the water is divided with greater ease. Theorists may say, that the resistance, as it respects the immersed part, is equal in sharp as in full-bowed vessels, (then would a blunt wedge act with the same power as a sharp one); but be it so, yet the former is much relieved from the effect of the sea forced up by a bluff bow, with out taking into account the down pressure from the weight of water constantly passing over her forward ; whereas the deepest parts of a ship under a heavy press of canvass, whose dead flat is in midships, with the bow fairly ar ranged, is round the windlass. This hypothesis is not in tended as advocating sharp ships, but as . the practical means in reduci ng f r i c ti on . Se c ondly, that in construct ing a ship's after body, it would be advisable to adopt as many changes in her form under water as possible ; this can be effected only from the point of resistance being as near the centre of the vessel as a well-formed body will admit. I know the principle is opposed to the present theorists, on which there will be further occasion to en large. My reason for k ee pi ng this in view when con structing a vessel, in established on the law of fluids. It is a generallysreceived opinion, that all water-fluids are composed of an assemblage of small globular bodies, pressing in all directions for relief from the pressure of its fellow; those particles are acted on, and put in motion, by any force applied or resistance given. It is also an es tablished fact, that there is no vacuum in nature; there fore the greater the variation in the form of any vessel's after body under water, the greater the tendency in pro moting a rush of the fluid against those variations, to speed her velocity, as shown in copper. bottom ships with hollow runs, from the copper in those parts being always bright and clear. Returning to the towing of a taper spar, with the butt end foremost, a great deal has been written on this subject, and it may be true that it passes through the water with less resistance, and with greater speed, than the reverse end foremost, from the continued resistance during the whole length •, therefore it cannot be admitted that a trial of this kind can give a point in favour of the main transverse section being,one third from the stern. Let the spar question appear in another shape, through which it may be more clearly defined. Take a spar whose length is equal to the spar to be towed with its butt foremost, let it be the same in diameter in the mid dle that the other is at the butt, of which form a double cone, (as a ship's yard) ; let them be equal, move them with equal power, and the result will show that the double cone will pass through the water one-twelfth faster than the spar towed by the butt. Velocity has its bounds, and is governed by fixed laws. As it respects the passing of a ship through the water, there is a point over which ve locity cannot step, and where power ceases to act. Hence a six-oared boat cannot pass a two-oared boat of the same build faster than as seven is to six; neither can a stesm vessel of two hundred horse-power increase in speed over one of one hundred horse- power greater than as eleven is to nine. Without entering into the opinions of wise men to establish a theory of least resistance, whether it is that of a cone, a sphere, or a triangle : all these are foreign to the correct formation of a merchant ship. In your paper of the 22nd instant, in the scale of di mensions for a ship of 185 tons, my omission of the ex treme breath, which will show 25 feet 4 inches.-1 am, sir, &c. JOHN COCK. Pembroke Dock, 26th Oct. 1844. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, was with no small degree of pleasure that I noticed in your last paper a communication from Mr. Cock, of Pembroke, respecting ship-building. Were I a stranger to the " good old town," 1 would have thought, from the great importance of the port of Liverpool, and the extent of its mercantile marine, that instead of being the pupil it should be the leacher of such places as Pem broke. But I am very much afraid that we stand only in too much need of receiving lessons from wiser seats of ship-building, and that all th,,se employed in the construe. Lion and repair of vessels in our port would do well to study with attention the great principles on which their work should by based. Practical men have a natural and perhaps inevitable contempt for theories; they make ex perience their sheet-anchor, and swing by it in every gale and against every current. It is true that experience is the best and safest guide; but we are often apt to fall into the sad error of trusting nobody's experience but our own, and thus blundering on until we arrive at something which is correct. Now all the theories or principles laid down for the building of a ship, or a house, or a locomotive en gine, or anything else, are nothing but the results of the long and great experience of real practical men, and it is much better to accept the correct results of their labours, than to go blundering about to produce results of our own. I think therefore that it is of the utmost import ance for the ship-builders of Liverpool to acquire a know ledge of such principles of their art as Mr. Cock has de veloped, so that the Mersey may soon stand foremost not only as the first entrepot of modern commerce, but as the first seat of commercial ship-building.—l am, sir, &c., A FRIEND TO SKIP-BUILDING. THE POOR BAPTIZED JEWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Strt-,—As considerable doubt seemed to dwell on the minds of some of the speakers, at the late anniversary meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary Society for Promo motin Christianity amongst the Jews," as to the best and safest mode of affording temporal relief to poor in quiring and baptized Jews,—a duty about which all seem ed to be agreed, and indeed cannot be consistently denied by any Gentile Christian, who takes the Scriptures for his guide, after the plain declaration of St. Paul, that " their debtors they are: for if they have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things," (Rom. xv. 27,)—1 venture to request that you will kindly insert in your columns the following extract of a letter, which I ad dressed to the Rev. R. Herschel! on the subject, in the month of December last, and which appeared in the Record newspaper of the 11th of January ; wherein a plain, scriptural, and practical mode of supplying the requisite relief is clearly pointed out, after much prayer ful consideration; and which, if adopted, could not fail to bring down the blessing of God upon the society. I can truly say, from several years' happy experience, that there is no just foundation whatever for the apprehensions which some persons uncharitably entertain, that baptized Jews are disposed to impose on the benevolence of Chris tians, more than any other class of converts. On the contrary, the very fact of their " giving up fathers, mo thers, brethren, and sisters," and all their nearest and dearest connexions, tor the cause of Christ and his Gos pel, ought to be considered a sufficient guarantee for their sincerity, and a complete protection against such unwor thy suspicions. . (EXTRACT.) " I shall now proceed to endeavour briefly to anticipate, and an swer the inquiry, . By what means can temporal relief be safely ad ministered to poor baptized or inquiring Jews ?' l would at once .say, nothing can he more easy. The London Society is now so ex tensively supported throughout the kingdom, that there is scarcely a town of any importance, where any Jews are to be found, that an auxiliary is not established. All that would be required, then, would be to instruct each auxiliary to form a sub.committee, whose exclusive duty it should be to receive applications, and search into and investigate the cases of these poor Jews, in their respective dis. tricts; and then to afford relief to such as may appear to be proper objects, according to their several necessities, out of the funds in the hands of the local treasurers; 'without the trouble or delay of com municating with the committee of the Parent Society, except on especial occasions. Then, as to the mode or measure of relief, there are a variety of ways in which very small sums, seasonably and judiciously applied, (and it is only small sums which would be ge• nerally required for individual cases,) might be of the most essen tial value. For instance, no poor Jew can at present attempt to get his bread by selling a few wares without having a hawker's license, and this requires an annual cost of .£4 • and without it, he both sins in defrauding the revenue , and is also liable at any time to be seized by the police and taken to prison; but where is he to get the money from to procure it? an advance, therefore, of only this small sum would, in such a case, be a boon of the highest value. So, again, when trade is bad, or their little stock of goods is exhausted, or they are visited by sickness; or where a poor Jew, who is unable to suc ceed in one place, may wish to remove to another, where he may hope to find friends and do better; in any of these cases, the supply of a few pounds would at once obviate much of the evil which is now complained of; and would remove from these poor patient sufferers the reproach of being such a burthen on the Christian public, as they are at present, alas ! too commonly considered. And may I not ask, why should not the society also appropriate .C2OO or £3OO a year to the object, which you so pathetically advocate in your appeal,' to be applied to the general relief of poor Jews (whe ther converted or unconverted) according to the new commandment of love, bequeathed to us by our Divine Master? lam fully per suaded that such a practical proof of what Christianity really is, would induce them to lend a more willing ear to the instructions in its soul reviving precepts • for although a few might perhaps at first come for the loaves and fishes,' as they dii to our blessed Lord himself; yet who can say how many might be drawn by these • bands of love' to become eventually sincere believers and partakers with us of the marriage supper of the Lamb.' " Another and most important mode by which the spiritual and temporal advantages of the poor Jews might also be essentially pro. moted, would be, by the London Society taking our bumble little unpretending institution for inquiring and converted Jews at Li ' verpool,' more cordially under its wing. At a small annual expense of only a few hundred pounds, (collected with great difficulty,) we have hitherto been enabled to keep up the establishment, and to board and lodge from eight to eleven inquiring Jews successively for a limited time, (about five or six months,) of whom the Lord has graciously given to us, in the short space of five years, thirty-eight sincere converts, who have been all baptized in the faith of Jesus Christ, and are all continuing, as we have reason to believe, to walk steadfastly in the truth, and several of whom are preparing for the ministry, and likely to become eminently useful, as "burning and shining lights" in the Church of Christ. Now, if the London So ciety would only kindly come to our help, in a brotherly spirit, and give us a small annual grant, it would enable us at least to double our present number of inmates, (for which we have many appli cants,) and so to look, with the Lord's blessing, for a proportionate increase in the number of our converts; and if they would, more over, treat our institution more in the light of a handmaid to the Parent Society, (as it has a fair claim to he considered,) in facilita ting the,reception of our converts, after baptism, into their college d a i n ffi d eu C l lp ty er i a n ti a ve cc ts p t l i i t s t h it iiw Institution, have facilitateh found our mutualgreat ) greatly object of promoting both the spiritual and temporal welfare of our 'no beleved brethren of the house of Israel. The society might also greatly relieve the present burthen on the Christian community, by receiving some of the converted Jews into their service, iu some of the numerous departments of their establishment, where 1 conclude they must require clerks, porters, warehousemen, or other similar servants ; as 1 am credibly itiformed, however anomalous it may appear, that although professedly a Jewish society, they have not at present a single Jew in their employ, notwithstanding the large and continually increasing number of them, iu all parts of the kingdom, who are in want of work. But only let the restriction against tem poral relief be once effectually femoved, by expunging the obnox ious rule,' and the details of the new operations might be easily adjusted by the committee of the Parent Society, assisted by com munications with the several auxiliaries; for I have merely thrown out these few hints to show that the plan is perfectly feasible; and I would only add, that such is my confident assurance in the fulfil ment of the promise, ' there is that scattereth and yet increaseth,' that lam fully persuaded that the funds of the society, with the blessing of the Lord, which maketh rich,' would be more than pro portionably increased, were the appropriation of a part of them to the proposed benevolent and truly Christian object to be adopted. "A LOVER OF ISRAEL." EARLY CLOSING OF SHOPS IN ORAISKIRK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In your last I noticed a statement, respecting the public meeting which was held here on the 11th inst. for the purpose of considering the subject of early closing of shops, in connection with which appeared in a brief form the resolutions which were passed. Those resolutions were promptly and almost unani mously adopted the same evening. It was interesting, and almosEamusing, to see the activity which manifested itself the moment the church bell commenced the signal for 8 o'clock. I know not whether the rattle of the shutters, or the sorund of the bell, was most noisy ; but the former certainly produced the most harmonious music in th e ears of those who were engaged in tun i ng them. I said the resolutions were almost unanimously adopted, as I am sorry to say . that one person, and but one, has de clined to comply with the resolutions. I am glad to say that the persons who decline to co-operate with us in our endeavours to rescue an hour or two from our otherwise incessant occupations, to devote to physical and mental recreation, are those who, being totally devoid of either literary or scientific tastes , cannot imagine why young men in the present day should be so anxious to have a fe w hours leisure at their disposal , in order to follow such pursuits. Such persons are pitiable, not only for their own mental deficiency, but for their selfishness and illiberality, in at tempting to deny to others those privileges and opportuni ties which they have wantonly or ignorantly wasted, and thrown away. But for their own sake, I would hope that ere long they will conform to the general practice, if it be from no other motive than to save themselves from the lash of public odium which is already beginning to descend upon them. Amongst those tradesmen who have taken the greatest interest in the movement, and have publicly exerted them selves in order to bring about the reformation, I may make honourable mention of Messrs. A. B. Goss, Evans, Harkness, and Garside ; these gentlemen have manifested a zeal and energy in the cause worthy the imitation of all liberal-minded and enlightened men. I need not apologise for thus trespassing upon your space, as I am aware the subject is one to which you are ever willing and anxious to give your utmost aid in devo loping and advocating, in common with all others tending to alleviate oppression and dispense justice to all man kind.—l am, sir, &c., VERITAS. Ormskirk, Ocl. 19, 1844. SHIPPING MASTERS. TO THE E OITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Sin,-1 beg your kind insertion of this letter in your valuable piper as being a proof that the shipping masters may be dispensed with. I shipped all my own hands on board the ship, gave them their notes, and without any agent or shipping master. I have been detained three tides, and each time they have all been on board, ready to start—sober, willing, and ready to go ; and now, without any trouble, I find them ready on board, and apparently a good crew. If any of your contemporaries extract this fact, it may do much to d.) away with the abominable practice of shipping masters.—l am, sir, &c., JAMES GORDON, Commander of the barque Spencer, of Liverpool. LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS. Mr. W. B. Hodson t o Secretary to the Mechanic's In stitution, has been appointed principal of that establish ment. There was not a single arrival on Sunday, a very un usual circumstance at the port of Liverpool, and but one from a foreign port on Saturday. William Christian, Esq., landing waiter at Limerick, is promoted to Liverpool, and is to be succeeded by Mr. Richard Davis, from Liverpool. A young man, of the name of James Murdoch, late a teacher of a school at Manchester, has been committed for trial at the ensuing assizes in this town, for forging the name of a gentleman to a bill of exchange, for £4OO. Mr. Macready, the actor, arrived here in the steam ship Caledonia, from Boston, on Wednesday morning, having made a highly-successful professional tour in the United States. THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.-it should be remembered that the Act 3 Geo. IV. c. 126, makes it illegal to light a bonfire or discharge fireworks within a distance of 80 feet from the centre of a turnpike-road. CHANCERY COURT OF LANCASHIRE.—Josepb Briggs Dickson. Esq. of Preston, solicitor, has been appointed to the office of clerk in court, vacant by the death of the late Charles Buck, Esq. The otker four clerks in court are R. Palmer, Esq., C. B. Walker, Esq., W. Hopkins, Esq., and John Wilson, Esq. FIRES.—Two fires took place on Wednesday night— one at a shippon, kept by Mr. W. Dixon, at the corner of Brownlow-hill : and the second in the lodging-house of Mrs. Bridget Eustace, in Launcelot's-hey. The roof of the shippon and some hay and straw were destroyed ; and a flock bed at the lodging-house was burned. WILL OF DR. DALTON.—The statement given in the Britannia was erroneous. Dr. Dalton may be said to have died possessed of upwards of £B,OOO personal pro perty, besides the realty, &c., in the six houses bequeathed to Mr. Alderman Neild and Mr. Peter Clare, two of his oldest friends. HEAVY IMPORT OF TIMBER.—SO many vessels were discharging timber last week that the quays became in conveniently crowded. Though all the teams were in operation, a sufficient number could not be obtained to effect the removal and yarding. This caused an accumu lation at the docks which led to many of the importers being heavily fined. WOOL TO ENGLAND.--011 board the ship Patrick Henry, which sailed on the 6th instant, for Liverpool, were one hundred bales of fine American wool, which were selected in this country from our finest Saxony fleeces by a Scotch manufacturer. For some of it he paid as high as sixty cents per lb. The quantity was about 20,00016s.—New York paper. A MODEST REQUEST.—On Tuesday, a woman was brought up, c'iarged with being drunk and disorderly. She excused herself by saying her husband was at that moment lying drunk at home in the shop. Upon being ordered to gaol for a few days, she bowed to the bench, and, in the coolest manner possible, said, " Will some of you gentlemen there go and mind the shop ; for really my husband is so drunk he can't attend to it." GUANO.—The demand, both on the spot and for de livery, is limited. There have been no arrivals since onr last, owing to the easterly gales.. On Wednesday two small cargoes were offered, by auction, for the first lot of which £5 15s. was bid : it was taken in at £6. There are now sellers at the former price for quantity. By the last accounts there are upwards of 250 vessels at Ichaboe: the arrivals in this country are, on an average, a ship per day. The outports are getting well stocked. CHILD MURDER.—A. verdict of wilful murder has been returned against an unmarried woman, named Mary Baster, of Sidney-place, Edge-hill, whose newly-born child was found on Tuesday last in a privy, with a cord round its neck, by which strangulation had been pro duced, for there is no doubt that the child had been born alive, though the girl denied strenuously that she had been delivered at all. She is still in much too weak a condition to be brought before the authorities previous to her committal at the assizes. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT—TWENTY-ONE PERSONS KILLED.—On Thursday afternoon last, the new fire proof WE rAouie of Messrs. Radcliffe Brothers, Oldham, fell in with a tremendous crash, at a time when there were thirty-two persons in it, of whom there is reason to fear that twenty-one have been killed, as the bodies of fourteen had been found and taken from the ruins up to noon yes terday, and seven others were missing. Ot the remaining eleven, fire were more or less hurt, of whom one is not expected to recover: and six escaped with little or no in jury. —Manchester Guardian.— [Subsequent accounts confirm the worst apprehensions. Twenty-one persons have.unfortunately ceased to be.] FIRE AT GREAT CROSBY.—About one o'clock on the morning of Saturday last the house of Thomas Gilbertson, a small farmer, at the village of Great Crosby, was ob served to be on fire. An old mare, in Gilbertson's stable was burned to death. Several stacks of hay and corn, which were to windward, escaped. A cottage adjoining to Gilbertson's, occupied by a poor widow, named Alice Roberts, with her little property, was totally consumed, and she had but time to escape, half-dressed, and without shoes or stockings. The cottages were insured in the Imperial Fire Office for abcut £lOO. INQUESTS.—On Tuesday last, a female infant was found lying dead by the side of its mother, who lives in Gerard-street. Death had been caused by suffocation, and a verdict was returned accordingly.—On the 7th ult., a child, named John Brennen, was severely burnt by his clothes taking fire, and though attended by a surgeon, died on Tuesday last. Verdict—" Accidental."—On Tuesday last, John Brimley, who resided in Sir Thomas'- buildings, went to bed in good health, but was in the morning found dead on the floor. It was ascertained that disease of the lungs was the cause of death, and a verdict was returned accordingly. IMPROVEMENTS AT WEST DERRY.—We understand that that part of the estate of the Molyneux family which lies about the Round House, between West Derby and Knotty Ash, is about to be laid out as a park, and sold in building lots for handsome villas. No house costing less than £l5OO is to be built upon it, and the land will be so laid out that each villa, besides having its own pleasure grounds attached to it, will have access to the walks and drives of the park. It is calcula ted that about thirty villas may be erected on the land. which affords beautiful viows of the woody heights of Kuowsley, Prescot, and Huyton, and from which Ornaskirk and the hills beyond Wigan are also visible. ADULTERATION OF GIIANO.—Four vessels recently sailed hence for guano stations ballasted with gypsum, plaster of Paris. This sub s t ance , we are i n f ormed, is or in tended for admixtu.e with guano, and will enable the parties to deliver from th e vesse l a nice-looking, light coloured article. Parties purchasing guano are very de sirous of having it delivered from the vessel, as they be lieve they obtain it pure. The favourite material for the adulteration of guano, at the present moment, is umber, which is brought from Anglesea in large quantities. The rate of admixture, we are informed, is about 15 cwt. of umber to about 5 cwt. of Peruvian guano, from which an excellent-looking article, called African guano, is manu factured. ' PUBLICAN3' APPEALS.—Two appeals of rather a novel character were tried, at Kit kdale Sessions, on Friday last, against the decision of the justices acting for the division of Ormskirk in refusing licenses to John Parkinson, of the Original Hotel, the first house, it was stated, which was built for public accommodation at Southport, and John Watkinson, of the Blue Bell , at Bur ton , in the township of Downholland. In the first case the court decided that the respondents were bound to support their decision, upon which Mr. Monk, for the appellants, adduced some slight evidence, to show, that, at the time the license was refused, the Original Hotel was very much out of repair, and not in a proper state to be licensed as an inn. Mr. Pollock, for the appellants, proved that the house is at present in a good state of repair; but, as the witnesses did not all swear that it was so when the license was refused, and as it was proved that extensive repairs had been made since that time, the magistrates felt that they were justified in supporting the decision of their brethren, and dismissed the appeal. In Watk'nson's case, Mr. Monk, for the respondents, stated, that, the reasons of the magistrates for refusing the license in this case were threefold. First, that the house was not sufficiently commodious; second, that it was not wanted; and, third, that the applicant was a disorderly character and had fre quent brawls and fights on his premises. One witness only, and that witness a policeman, was called to prove these assertions, but it was elicited from him, in cross examination, that the Blue Bell was by far the oldest victualling-house in the neighbourhood ; that he knew of but one information laid against Watkinson ; that that information was laid by himself ; that it came on fur hearing at the very sessions at which the license was refused; and that the information was dismissed. Mr. Harden, for the appellant, contended that the magis trates had totally f a il e d to justify the decision th e y h a d come to ; and that nothing like a reason had been proved to warrant them refusing the applicants license. The Chairman interrupted the learned counsel, and said it was the unanimous opinion of the bench that the license ought to be granted. PAVING AND SEWERAGE COMMISSIONERS.—THURS DAY.—An application from Mr. Langdale for leave to make a portico and cellar entrance at the front of the Cross Keys public-house, in Regent-street, was referred for further consideration.—A complaint was made re specting the inconvenience arising from the alterations going on at some warehouses in Wapping • and it was ordered that the law-cle r k commun i ca t e w ith the parties concerned in the building, so that the nuisance be re moved. An application was received from Mr. John Tomlinson, to be allowed to place a fence round the Queen's Arm's, (which is about to be taken down,) in Cook-street and Castle-street. Some conversation took place as to the inconvenience of allowing projections in such a crowded thoroughfare, but it was decided that the commissioners would afford every possible accommoda tion within their power. - -A report was read from Mr. Wiglitman respecting a sewer, from Temple-street to Dale-street, for carrying off the waste water from M'Fie's sugar hot“e, which at present is allowed to pass along the surface of the street to an old drain, thereby flooding the cellars, and otherwise injuring property in the neighbour hood. The expense of the sewer would be £250. Mr. Bond appeared, and complained of the injury done to his premises arising from the water, expressing his willing ness to pay a proportionate share, along with others, of the expense incurred in making a new drain. The chair man said the commissioners were willing to do what they could, but it was a matter in which they could not inter fere, and he advised that Mr. Bond should communicate with Messrs. M'Fie on the subject, and state that he had been recommended to do so by the Board. An applica tion was received for a crossing or footpath in St. James's road, opposite the school. The request was ordered to be attended to. The Board adjourned shortly afterwards. LIVERPOOL CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY— The annual meeting of this society was held on Friday week, in the School-room, Cornwallis-street; the Rev. Augus tus Campbell in the chair. The report of the committee was read and adopted. It strongly appeals to the public, and the friends of the society in particular, for that in creased pecuniary aid, without which the efficiency of the schools cannot be maintained. It sets forth the necessity of education in the principles of the established church, and the inadequacy of the funds, the expenditure having all along exceeded the income ; and adds, that if an in crease do not take place, the number of teachers roust be diminished, and other appliances for efficient management be also reduced. The society has built 15 school-rooms in the poorer districts, in which 2,600 children receive a moral and religious education; and it is earnestly hoped that the enlightened community of Liverpool will not allow it to languish for want of the necessary means. The committee also appeal to the clergy, who, it is hoped, will combine to support, as they combined to establish, a society the grand object of which is to bring up the youth of the labouring classes " in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." Notwithstanding the numerous calls upon them in behalf of other societies, the committee venture to urge the wants of this society as having a primary claim for an annual sermon,—hoping that when the con gregations are made acquainted with the objects in vi w, they will come forward to uphold it. The report then details the gratifying state and good effects so far of the schools, at which 2,594 children attend on Sundays.— From the Treasurer's statement of accounts, it appeared that the deficiency, which in the preceding year was £8 15s. 5d., had increased to £154 15s. 2d. The committee for the succeeding year was appointed, and votes of thanks being passed to those of the clergy who had advocated the claims of the society, the meeting separated. EARLY CLOSING OF SHOPS.—On Thursday evening a meeting of the Assistant Tradesmen of the Scotland road and Byrom-street District, was held at Mr. Dan son's, Scotland-road, for the enrolling of members, and securing co-operation in that quarter, Mr. T. Mirams presided, and urged as the only means of accomplishing the object in view '• constant and energetic appeals to the public." The same feeling that had been evinced in Bold street might, he felt afraid, be found in the north part of the town, and required extra efforts only to elicit it ; for success had ever attended strenuous efforts in the cause. Mr. J. B. Jackson moved a resolution to the effect that nothing was wanted but the combined endeavours of the assistants, and urged that their employer's interests, as well as their own, was on the side of early closing. Mr. W. B. Jones, in seconding the resolution, remarked that all who had addressed, or would address them, that even ing bad obtained the benefit he was anxious should be extended to his brethren ; and they had succeeded merely by ardour and perseverance. The resolution was unani mously passed, as wasanother to theeffect that these present should support the cause by subscriptions. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. 1.1 White, draper, of Great George-street, for his able and efficient assistance in St. James's-street, by which several most respectable shops had commenced closing at seven. Several new members enrolled their names, and the meeting separated.—We learn from a contemporary, that :—" the assistants in St. James's-street have addressed their employers, thank ing them for the disposition t hey have shown to contract the time given to business, but stated that, hitherto, the hour of closing had not been sufficiently early to enable the assistants to avail themselves of those means of moral and mental culture they wish to possess, and respectfully and earnestly calling upon them to agree to close their places of business at seven o'clock, by which their own interests would be promoted, while the happiness and comfort of the assistants would be much increased. Several of the employers have complied." REGULAR versus IRREGULAR PRACTICE.—A case occurred at the Police Court on . Wednesday week, which it may be useful to detail, for the information of such members of our numerous local benefit societies, as may have the misfortune to be under " doctor's hands." A. person named Douglas Clark who is employed in some iron works in the neighbourhood of the park, sua.moned the stewards of the Orange Benefit Society, whose names are William Price and William Cnrser, to show cause why they refused to pay him!sick relief for five weeks, to which he was entitled as a member of the society. From the examination of several witnesses, it appeared that Clark had the misfortune to have his collar bone fractured on the 3rd of September, by a quantity of iron falling upon him, and he gave notice to the defendant that he should require the attendance of the medical officer of the society, who is Mr. Harbord, surgeon. Under the 29th rule, it appeared that a surgeon, in consideration 'of an annual salary, is required to attend all cases within three hours after notice being given to him, and in cases of urgent necessity he must attend immediately, or, in de fault, be fined 10s. 6d. Mr. Harbord was not at home when notice was sent of the accident; but his assistant and Mr. Sorley attended the case, and the fracture was reduced by them in the usual way. When Mr. Harbord returned he visited Clark, saw that the bandages were right and strongly urged him to remain in bed for two or three days. The following Saturday night, however, a fellow workman who wiinessed the accident, recommended Clark to go to a bone setter, named Evan Thomas, which he did, and this person, who is an irregular practitioner, applied such remedial measures to the fractured part as he deemed proper. On learning this proceeding, Mr. Harbord refused to take any further charge of the case, on the ground that he could not act with any person not regularly qualified. Clark then made a formal demand of attendance within three hours, which was refused, as well as the sick relief, and hence the present application to the court. Mr. Rushton, in announcing the decision of the bench, said Evan Thomas might be a clever man, but no regular practitioner would consent to meet him, and the complainant, by listening to the advice of his friend to apply to him, had forfeited his claim. This was the law, and it must be acted upon. SELECT VESTRY PROCEEDINGS.—OR Tuesday, the usual fortnightly meeting was held, the Rev. Rector Campbell in the chair. The expenditure for in and out door poor, as compared with the previous year, was stated as follows :—The number of paupers in the house last week was 1702, which is 30 fewer than last year; the cost, Is. 10d., being 3 d. per he ad more, and £ lB s s. 4 d. h m 3 neY. The number of out-door cases relieved d ur i ng the last fortnight is 6615, at an expense of £743 7s. 10d.; the same period last year it was 6796, and £754 lls., being 183 cases and £ll 3s. 2d. i n money less than at that time. The sick list, dated th e 26 t h i nstant, exhibited the gratifying result of a decrease of ten fever cases and one of small pox, whilst the ophthalmic report is much the same. Mr. Edward Lovatt, jun., 41, Union-street, was appointed deputy to Mr. Edward Lovatt, registrar of births and deaths for Dale-street district, in the room of Mr. Edesbury, deceased. Mr. J. Byerley, one of the honorary surgeons to the Workhouse, having gone to reside at Upton, in Cheshire, sent in his resignation. It was ordered that the vacancy thus rircasioned of honorary surgeon to the Workhouse, should be qlled up at the next meeting of the Board, on the 12th Nov umber ; at which time also the surgeon to the Industrial S hool at Kirkdale will be appointed. Mr. Ford, the member of the Select Vestry, and Chairman of the Building- Committee, sent in his resignation, stating that he could not devote suffi cient time to discharge the duties of the office ; but as there was a unanimous feeling expressed by the Chairman, and all the members present, of their desire that he should continue a member, Mr. Bright, seconded by Mr. Brem ner, moved a resolution to that effect. A return, moved for by Mr. Thornely at the last meeting, of the names, duties, and salaries of all the paid officers in the Parish offices for the years 1811, 1812, 1843, and 184 1 ; for 1841, ending 25th March, 1842, and so on in each year succes sively, and for the current year from the 25th Match to the Ist October was submitted. From this it appeared that the number of officers was 27 ; that the salaries in 1811 amounted to £l7ll 14 s. sd. ; in 1812 to £1839115. ; in 1843 to £1931 2s. Sd., and for the half of 184 1 to £966 10s. 4d. The Rev. 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