The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-26 00:00:00

11. NATIONAL SCHOOLS.

TAUGHT BY ➢La. BURKINSHAW.
The following have received prizes for Free-hand Draw

ST. JAMES'S SCHOOL.—Sarah A. Charles, M. J. Kelpoh,
Charles Sanderson, and G. S. Dunbar.

ST. PAUL'S ScnooL —Robert Seel, Thomas Stirlancl. A
.T. White, and Sarah Tate.

Sr. MARY'S ScnooL.—John J. Alston, and W. E. Hing

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ST. BARNABAi' SCHOOLS.—Wm. Baxtington, W. Crowley,
and David Edwards.
ST. LURE's FcHooL.-11cnry Brown, William Jones,
and George J. Williams.
SOUTH CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL.—Thomas Adling-
ton, and Charles S. Lacey.
NORTH CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL.—James Philip
Bryan, and Michael Dyers.
ST THOMAS'S SCHOOL.—Mary -Mullington, C. F. Forshaw,
W. Getty, S. Hogan, H. J. ➢latkin, S. Lloyd Parry, William
Parry, and E. Reynolds.
ST. CllttysosToM'S ScHooL.— John Brooks, David
Griffiths, J. Howarth, A. E. Johnson, Thomas Newton,
Thomas Roberts, William Roberts, and Emily Warwick,
CALEDONIAN SCHOOL.—Arabeila Gibney, Janet Smith, and
John Meakin.

ST. ANDREW'S ScHooL—Richard Caddick, Susan Edwards,
and Thomas 11. Mann.

ST. MARK'S SCHOOL.—Charles Booth, Fred. Booth, John
Carr, William Hynes, Mary Renshaw, Ann Higginson,
Margaret Farlane, and Alice Walker.

Si. BRIDE'S Se Boote, Ann Dunbar, and
John Grove.

Examined at the Collegiate Institution, taught by a private
gentleman of St. Silas's Association— William Collohan,
awarded a prize for Free-hand Drawing.

HOUSEOWNERS' INDIGNATION MEETING

AT WEST DERBY,

Last evening a meeting of the owners of house property, in
the parish of West Derby, convened a public meeting, in a
room in Goulden-street, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration certain grievances, connected with the rating of
property. About half an hour after the time appointed, when
between twenty and thirty persons were present, Mr. Martin
was called upon to take the chair. lie explained to the
meeting that the overseers had, on a previous occasion)
" dogged" the owners of property to compound for the rates,
and this year (after the owners had made their contracts with
the tenants) they had altered their plans—thus playing " fast
and loose" with the owners of property. The object they had
in view was, to appoint a deputation to wait upon the
overseers, and ascertain what 'course was to be pursued in
future.

Mr. Browne read the order of the overseers, from which it
appeared that the collectors had been authorised not to make
arrangements for compaunding for the rates. If he under-
stood the matter, he thought the system would be a
great injury to the owners of property, and would do them-
selves no good, as it would be the means of driving the tenants
from the houses in the district. Ho wanted to know why the
old system had been done away with, when only last year Mr.
Whitty had praised the system ? Besides, he know that they
had allowed one of the West Derby guardians to compound
for some property for which lie was agent. lie advised the
meeting to be united, and to let the tenants be summoned, and
then to take up the cause, and go before the magistrates, and
state the case to them.

Mr. Owen Ellis thought the conduct of the overseers was
downright dishonest, and that they had a right to be ashamed
of themselves. lie complained that the overseers had not
given the landlords notice before taking such a step.
Mr. Cubbon concurred in the observations that bad been
made.

The Chairman considered it a downright " trick" on the part
of the overseers, and should be resisted.
Several other owners of property addressed the meeting,
which resulted in the adoption of resolutions to the followin g
effect :—That for several past years the overseers had corn.
pounded for the poor's rate fund ; that the rents of the pro-
perty compounded for and built since 1855, had been based
on the faith that such a system was a settled principle, but
that without any notice to the landlords, the tenants of
property had been served with demands for the current rate,
notifying that payment must be made in ten days,
_and thatattack the adoption of such a course was an unjusti-
fiable tenantry by the overseers, and
would be the means ,of -driving them (tenants) out of
theerseer houss
es, to the great lossi 'of the owners, and that the
ov of West Pet by, by pursuing the course they had, had
been guilty of a wanton and gross breach of faith, and perilled
the honour of all public bodies ; and suggested that a deputa-
tion be appointed to wait upon the overseerkand ascertain
the precise steps they intended to adopt on the subject.
Several persons were ' selected to form the deputavon to
wait upon the overseers, and it was decided that they should
give their report at some future meeting.
After disposing of the above subject, the meeting formed
themselves into a Householders' Guardian Society for the
protection of all property.
This concluded the business of the meeting.