The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-10 00:00:00

FORTY-

►jIHE Dili,EC

POOL

_ DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE to the
PUS' PRIETORS, that they have ecchXred a HALF-YEARLY
DIVIDEND, at the rate of £8 per Cent. per Annum, on the
increased paid.up Capital of the Company (being 10s. per Share)
from the Ist of January to the 10th June, 1856 and a Bonus of lbs.
p,r Share; and that such Dividend and Bonus will be payable at
the Bank of the Company. In Water-street, on and after FRIDAY..
the 18th instant, Let, een the houra of Tea and Three on each day.•
Dated at Liverpo.l, this Bth day of July, 1556. •
By order of the Board,
SAMUEL SMITH, Manager.
ach Proprietor will be expected, (if required,) on applying for
'ad, to produce the Certificate or Certit;cates of his Shares.
,fer Hooks will to cicsed until the 18th inst., inclusive.

his Dlv

N.B.—The ANNUAL GENER:• L MEETING Will be also held on the
18th instant, es already a,nounc,d, when the attendance of at least
Thirty Proprietors is requisite to constitute a Quorum.

APPALLING ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.
THE Coroner and Jury who have to inquire
ink the fearful calamity which occurred on Sunday morn-
d whereby ten per ens were killed and a great number
•Gy it.jured, having considerately suggested that
taken to relieve tne sufferers and the Wives and

ing I.:s

Faint les of the

A PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION

Has teen entered into ,or this purpose, healed by the Mayor; and
Contributions are earnestly solicited.

➢iR. JAMES LIVINGsTnNv..nd 1 yviii act as Treasurers.
MR. JOHN YATES, JuN.,

Subs-riptions will be received at the Exchange. Athenaeum, and
Ly. cum Newsrooms ; at the Borough Bank ; at all the tif wspaper
Offices ; and by the Treasurers.

The following Subscriptions have been received :
John Stews) t, Mayor . . .e 5 0 it/Dublin and Liverpool
John B. Aspinall ....... 2 0 0 Steam Packet Co elo 0 0
John Yate4, jun. ...... 2 0 0,1-layman and Son 1 0 0
James Levingston 5 0 tiJohn Pawitt ....
Bernard Trayner
Samuel Towers 1 0 0i Richard Sheil 3 0 0
John M‘GufFe .. ..... 1 1 I, John Bingtry . . 1 1 0
William Humphreys .. 1 0 0 John Chapman Poore.. 1 1 0
Robert Procter
G. E. Cunningham.... 0 10 0 "Dublin"
John Mooney
James Croort .
A. M • Gregor . 010 OW. Pirrie and Co.. .. 5 0 0
J B. Wilson 0 5 0 A Friend 0 1. 0
Frank Hetiry.......• •• 1 0 0 IW. Bingbzm
(Daily Post 1 0 0

RIIIKENHEAD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY,

• COMMITTEE OF /
Mr. George Barri
Mr. John i.ai, d,
Dr. C. 0. Baylis,
Mr. H. Bell,
Mr. J. M' rter,
Mr. T. B. Golborne,

MANAGEMENt.
ison, Chairman.
Mr. J. Carmichael.
Mr. J. It. Dutton,
I Mr. P. M. Dove,
Mr. W. Jones,
Mr. J. Craven.

Whatever doubts may hitherto have existed in the minds of the
publcc as to the propriety or desirability of the establishment of Free
Public Libraries aid Museums thro,lghout the country, and par-
ticularly in large populated towns, must long since have been died-
pated by the great intetest exhibited in these undertakings, the
universal success which has attended their establishment in those
districts where they have alrea,iybeen attempted, and the increas.
ing desire shown to participate in their benefits by the operative
classes, for whose especial benefit they are primarily intended.
It will be in the recollection of those more immediately connected
with Birkenhead, that, in compliance with a aumeronsly signed
requisition, presented to the Poard of Commissioners, a fuhlic
Meeting of Ratepayers was held in the Town-hall, on the 16ch of
February last, when it was unanimously resolved that the Public
Libraries Act should be adopted for the district within tho limits of
the Birkenhead Improvement Acts.

In accordance with this re mlution, the Board of.dotitmissioners
have taken the necessary steps to establish a FRLI PUBLIC
LIBRARY, and have investe) the management or the proposed
Institution in a Committee, consisting of the Six Commislioners and
Five Ratepayers whose names appear at the head of tt

The Committee have met weekly sauce their a, pointrnent. to de-
liberate upon the best course to be ar opted to carry out th s desir-
able object. At present they do rof deem it advisable to attempt
mote than the establishment of a Library, but, should their efforts
meet with the encouragement and success they anticipate, a Museum,
Schools for Selene, and Art, and periodical Le tures on instructive
au? jects, may doubtless ere long be established in connection with
the Institution.

The Committee are of opinion that it will be most desirable to
combine a Lending with a Reference Lihrare for though sensibl
of the advisability Of raising the standard of works °tiered to th
public, and fully aware that stmistics bow that the class of books
mo.,t in request in Lendinx Libraries differs considerably from, and
is of a much lighter and ut instructive character than that in demand
In Reference Libraries. they cannot but remember that one book
I,sue.d from a Lending Library maybe the means of keeping together.
and at the same tuna affording amusement and instruction to a whole
family at the r own bane, wnilo it must be admitted a Reference
Library is usually made use of by males only, who are compelled to
quit their homes in order to avail ihemscletti of the advantages held
out to them.

Comma ions and suitable premises in Price-street, In connection
with Mr Skinner's shop, have already been secured as a temporary
Library, p nding the completicn of the more eligible and handsome
building about to be erected in the centre of the town for the pur-
pose of the post-office, when it Is hoped the sanction of her Majesty's
Treanry may be obtained to allow a portion of that bAlding to be
rented for the purposes of the Library,

The
Deets steps
4eptoitnatokenen-ttoowfaardlsibtrahreiafne,rmanadtioonbt.oifntihn:
Institution thaes
t e sanction of her Majesty's Treasury to borrow the sum of 41,000
have
on the security of the Library Rate. It is to this ratell(the income
from whirls it is calculated will be about 4350 a year) that the cern-
mitiee hare ro look for means to enable them effectually to Establish
and carry out the objects of the proposed Institution • but it is to be
feared the greater portion of this sum must necessarly be exhaustad
by the fitting up or the rooms, the payment of the interest on the
loan, the librarian's salary, and other in idental Expenses.
The coirimi• tee, however, be ng now about to commence the Fur-
:en and thus
such
leisurec htl
Books
a:.
are
chase of books and general formation of the library, have every
reason to believe this.. they have only to bring this institution apd
its Landhb e object before Cie public to ensure a decided and liberal
support being manifested to the proposed scheme, not only by the
residents of Birkenhead and the surrounding districts, but also by
tweloseufitdrfioeerniamtcisasof education and the well-wishers of 5 ciety everywhere.
no
m they
ea aremean
l 1 the
nthkatio
theesgtarebal it. hchmaei
nn toof of
education,
taionn bu institution
twin
insure that the teaching and 1, struction infused Into youtlsain. early
n
years tvi'l not, as is too generally the case, be loot sight ofe 200
e swyo
Works of
as the boy goes into the workshop or the office, br.weintal? _
,himrevived
He to
and char shed by means of these libraries,
carry out the great work of self-education
To the public, then, the
an object, by contributions
assist them iii carrying out so desirable
~
of money, to be expended in the p
Books,wou i d
Maps,ear earnestly
most required, ants by Donation'appeal
d other
Contributions, which, it
• ecimens of Natural History, and
Sp
ill feel a pleasure in presenting to a
Committeeof
is hoped, many persons a _
Public Institution which guaranties the free use also benefit of them
to ail classes. , . _ _

rilieC7n-imittee have only to add, their Secretary will gladly re-
ceiveY. or other Contributions, and rfford
any inatnorymosffteior of Bitrhok references
to the Library; that they entertain
a e hone that the proposed Establishment, wholy devoted to
nw, Me
the free use of the Poblic, may be Weil sustainer and enlarged; and
that the appeal which they now venture to make will be cheerfully
and liberally sponged to by all mho take an interest in the social
and intellectual progress of their teilow-n.en.
By orJer of the Committee,
J. Commissioners'-rooms, BROGER DTITTON, lion. SEC.
irkenhead, June 30, 1856.

DISMORE'S 2s. Semi-gold PEN, elastic, yet
firm ; will not alter in the slightest degree by use,
or corrode it left in the ink—a really good, übefu: , and durablepca
Corner of Bold-street..