The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-13 00:00:00

Mr. Crurrun •expressed -his surprise that sukh a me-
morial should have emanated from Mr. Picton, who•was him-
self in actual receipt of benefit from the work of which he
complained. He had had plans and sections of the•work sub-
mitted to him before it was'begun, and he concurred in it.
To his mind, the memorial-seemed the production of a dis-
contented man. If Mr. Picton was dissatisfied, that he could
not sit with them, and participate in their deliberations, it
was no fault of any member of the board. It was his own in-
attention to the duties•: of the board which had occasioned his
disqualification.
The CHAIRBIAN explained that Mr. Picton had stated his
absence was occasioned by no carelessness of the interests of
the board, but had been-caused by unavoidable absence in
London and other places on business. The • subject then
dropped.
Several bilis were ordered to be paid, and after the transac-
tion of some roatine'business the meeting separated.

BODY or Air INFANT FOUND.—Yesterday, the body of
a newly-born child was found in St. John's churchyard by
the sexton. The body was enclosed in a smalrbox.
CHILD SCALDED TO;DEATIL—On Friday last, Elizabeth
Wilson, three years Old, who resided with her parents in
Salisbury-street, was so-scalded,- by the accidental upsetting
of a tea kettle, as to cause her death on the following day.
SUPPOSED SUICIDE.—On Saturday night, a labourer
named James Forrester, who resided in Short-street, was
found suspended by thegleck• in his bed-room, and quite dead.
Deceased, who was about forty years of age, and had been
much addicted to liquor, had several times threatened that he
would put an end to himself.
LITERARY AND PIIPLASOPHICAL SOCIETY.—A meeting of
this society was held last night, at the Royal Institution, Col-
quitt-street, the Rev. H.;H. Higgins in the chair. Mr. Richard
Brooke was elected an ordinary member. The Rev. J. Robberds
read an interesting paperon 'Poetry, and its application to
Common Life," which was followed by an animated discussion.
The meeting shortly afterwards broke up.
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.--011 Tuesday, the 30th of last
month, a child named John Gilbertson, two years old, who
resided with his parents in Bell-street, was left along with
another child of three years old in the house by the mother
of the former. While she was absent the two seem to have
',been tampering with some paper and the •fire, when the
,olothes of the youngest caught fire, and he.was so burned that
he required to be taken to the Southern Hospital, where he
died on Saturday night,
FRENCH TABLE D'HoTE.—'The lovers of .a good and palate-
, ble dinner a la Francais will 'find themselves amply accom-
modated and gratified at the Diable d'hdte of Mr. Morrish, at
the Merchants' Dining-rooms,; Lancaster-buildings. At this
establishment an admirable dinner of five or six courses, con-
_ sisting of soup, fish, and made dishes, together with fowl, may
be obtained on the same scale as the :celebrated three-franc
dinners of the Parisian restaurateur. Dinner-wines of a
light character and fine flavour may be had,ii.la carte.
Mira BRIGHTON, NEAR WATERLOO.—On Tuesday last,
the new school, which has been in the course of erection in
this place, was opened with a series of most interesting ser-
vices. The building is in the Gothic style, and, for its size, is
one of-the handsomest and most convenient edifices of the
kind which we remember having seen. It has.been built after
a plan gratuitously made by Messrs. J. W.. and a. Hay, archi-
tects, Cable-street. The ground was generously given for the
purpose by Thomas Eccles, Esq., of Little Brighton, by whom
this good work was devised, and by whose ezertituis, mainly,
it has been brought to a successful issue, The building was
opened by anneting in the morning, at half-pastn
After
nine o'clock,
.at which the Venerable Archdeacon donee
.prayer had beeffered for God's blessing on presided.en
no
addresses were delivered by the Chairman, the undertaking,
verGeoirnge
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Troughton, the Rev. J. R. Conor, Thos. Eccles, Esq, and the
Rev. S. 13. Sutton. At one o'clock, a most substantial dinner
.of roast beef and plum pudding, and several other good things
of a like nature, was given to the children, and to the workmen
,employed in the erection of the school. At six o'clock, there
was a tea meeting for the parents of the children, and the in-
habitants of the place. The admission was by ticket, but both
entertainments were given by Mr. aid Mrs. Eccles, who have
always shown such deep interest in the spiritual welfare of
their poorer neighbours. After tea, the Rev. Geo. Troughton
tdbk the chair, and addresses were delivered by the Rev. Dr.
Hume and the Rev. S. B. Saton. The proceedings through-
out were of the most pleasing and interesting kind, and we
sincerely hope they will prove the commencement of great and
lasting good. There is still a debt of £l5O, and we hope the
Christian public will generously and speedily remove it. There
was a large bonfire and a display of fireworks at the conclusion
of the proceedings, which gave great satisfaction—especially to
the juveniles.
HISTORIC SOCIETT.-011 Thursday, the first meeting of
the literary section of this society was held in St. George's-
hall, Dr. nom in the chair. Dr. Hume exhibited an ancient
sheep bell, found near Holyhead; also a crystallised stone
formed by the action of are, resembling the basalt pillars for-
ming the Giant's Causeway.—Mr. Danson read some written
remarks, as criticisms on Mr, Buxton's paper on the Saxon
element in our poetry, read on the Ist instant.—Mr. Buxton,
who bad seen Mr. Danson's criticism, read a reply, supporting
the views he expressed in his original paper, and expressing
an opinion that the difference between him and Mr. Danson
was more nominal than real.—Mr. Danson, in a brief reply,
admitted that he had misunderstood some portions of Mr.
Buxton's paper.—Mr. Danson read a paper on the area and
the increase of the population of Liverpool during the last 60
years. After tracing the increase of population in Liverpool
through the eighteenth century, he rejected the area of the
parish or the out-township as a basis for estimating the popu-
lation, and laid it down as a principle that the area of a town
increased with the increase of population, and then asked the
question, What degree of density constituted a town ? He
assumed an average density of 100 persons to the acre consti-
tuted a town, and a density of 10 persons to the acre consti-
tuted a suburb, and a density of 50 persons to one hundred
acres the country. He assigned the area of 21 townships in
Lancanshire and Cheshire as the area of the population of
Liverpool, and based upon the assumption of population before
stated, he showed by a series of figures the progressive increase
of Liverpool and Birkenhead, when the latter ceased to be-
come country, assume the appearance of a suburb, and eventu-
ally that of a town, remarking that the apparent decrease of
population in the town of Liverpool, or rather an apparent
standstill in the increase of its population, was caused by the
facilities of locomotion in the present day, and the place of
sleeping being the place for which the census returns were
made.—A discussion followed, in which the chairman, Mr.
Boult, Dr. Hume, and other gentlemen took part, and the
business concluded.

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