Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-12 00:00:00

TO THE BURGESSES OF LIME-STREET WARD

GENTLEMEN
THE period of my 'delegated trust as yourrepresentative
in the Town Council is about to expire. A deputation
of your body has done me the honour to wait• upon me with a
view to its renewal. 'With pleasure I accept their invitation
and deem it therefore no less a privilege than a dEty to addrei

a few words to ,you on the oceasiozi.- Whether they shall be
parting words, or•merely preliminary to a continuance of our
connection as constituents and representative, is a question for
your sole decision.

My conduct as a member of the Town Council for the last
three years, ifs before you. It is for you to decide how far that
conduct has exceeded or fallen short of your expectations.
But this I think I May venture to say—all that I promised,
when, in compliance with a numerously-signed' requisition, 'I
placed my services at your disposal, has been zealously and
faithfully .performed. What I under. ook to do, if you con-
ferred upon me the.honour of representing you, was simply to
discharge the important duties thereby devolving upon me to
the best of my ability. Perhaps I may be allowed to add,
without incurring the charge of presumption, that even your
opponents and mine cannot deny that this pledge has been
fully redeemed.

Should tkere be, however, any doubt on this point, I shall
be happy to render the fullest possible account of my steward-
ship, whenever and wherever the opportunity is afforded.
The matters to which I alluded three years ago, when, at
your request, I • ffered myself as a candidate for your suffrages,
ave certainly not diminished in importance ; nor do they re-
quire less unremitting attention on the part cf your represen-
tatives.

The Town Dues question has been settled, ;f not exactly as
we could have wished, and as justice demanded, still in a man-
ner far short of absolute confiscation. The part I took in
effecting a compromise, when nothing less than such spoliation
was sought by. some of our envious opponents in the neigh-
bouring towns, is known to you all. For property held by as good
a right as that on which some of our assailants enjoy their private
estalcswe have obtained some compensation, though by no means
an equivalent. This question having been thus settled, it seems to
me a matter worthy of eopsideration, whether we should not
now endeavour to come to some similar arrangement with re-
spect to the River Weaver Tolls, which are so heavy a burden
on one important branch of the trade of Liverpool: These
Tolls are far in excess of what is necessary to maintain the
navigation, and the surplus is applied to county purposes.
This may be a very convenient arrangement for Cheshire
landed proprietors, who seldom have to pay a county-rate of
more than a penny in the pound, but it is not exactly in confor-
mity with the principle on which they assailed the Liverpool
Town Dues.
The precise information relative to the Corporate Estate, ,
ordered to be furnished on the motion of Mr. Robertson Glad-
stone, of the non-compliance with which order, after a lapse of
twelve months, I complained three years ago, has not yet been
supplied. It is most important that, wherever the hitch lies,
and whatever may be the motive for withholding it, thisinfer-
mation should be forthcoming ; and should you again return
me to the Council, I will continue to use my best exertions to
obtain it.

I have endeavoured, as you are aware, to prevent the adop-
tion of a new mode of disposing of Corporate property, which
I consider most unjust to the present ratepayers, since it
inflicts upon them increased taxation for the benefit of pos-
terity entirely uncalled for; and, failing in this attempt, at
least to insure publicity and fair competition on all occasions
of sale or lease, so as to obtain the best possible terms for the
public, and prevent even the suspicion of collusion and jobbery.
The importance of this question can hardly be over-rated.
With proper administration of the Corporate Estate, annually
increasing in value, and judicious economy in expenditure, I
believe there will be no necessity for a borough rate ; but that,
otherwise, it will be unavoidable.
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Although a complete separation between the Corporate and
Dock Estates has been effected, the interests of the two are,
and must ever be, so interwoven, that a member of the Town
Council, anxious to do his duty, will always have to keep a
watchful eye on the proceedings of the Dock Board; and the
Council-Chamber is certainly the place in which he should
direct the public attention to these proceedings whenever he
considers it necessary. so to do. Ard this duty has become all
the more important since the transfer of its jurisdiction from-
the Corporation to a body of gentlemen, many of whom hays
no interest in the permanent welfare of either estate.
The time may not be far distant when some determined
stand against the extravagant expenditure of a body so con-
. 3 ;11 - e^ ;ally on t' -

stituted will be necessary, and especi-,ne part of the
owners of fixed property, who are the persons most interested
in the proper management of the Dock Estate. Should such
necessity arise, I trust that I shall never be found wanting,
either as your representative, or, if that honour be denied me,
as a simple member of this great community very largely in-
terested in its welfare.

Being firmly convinced, after much inquiry and serious
reflection,' that the rating of the Dock Estate, and all other
public property, towards the support of the poor, is a measure
recommended not less by its justice than by its expediency, I
need hardly assure you that I shall persevere in the use of my
best efforts to accomplish that object, in whatever way they
may seem to be most likely to be available.
In conclusion, gentlemen, I venture to hope that no further
exposition of my sentiments or intentions will be deemed neces-
sary from me in this address. At your Ward Meetings, I shall
be happy to afford any other explanation which may be required.
For the present, therefore, I will only say that what you hive
found me in the past, you will, if you think fit to renew my
trusteeship, find me in the future,—a zealous and painstak-
ing friend and advocate of every measure calculated, in my
judgment, to promote the prosperity of the town and port, and
the yenerll wellbeing of the inhabitants.

I have the honour to be, gentlemen, yours, very respectfully,

JAS. R. JEFFERY

Compton-hou,e, October 3, 1859

SOCIAL SCIENCE

INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF THE EARL OF
SHAFTESBURY.

The proceedings connected with the third annual
meeting of this association commenced at Bradford on
Monday, and will be continued throughout the week.
St. George's Hall has been placed at the disposal of the
association, but the accommodation it affords has been
found insufficient for the carrying on of all the business
connected with the association, and consequently the . ar-
rangements made for the departments are as follows :
Jurisprudence, the Court-house ; public health and
social economy, Sion Chapel ; education, the Saloon of
the Hall ; and punishment and reformation, the Court-
house. The arrangements made by the local committee
are most complete, and, from the programme of business
in the departments, valuable results- may resonably be
expected to accrue from the meeting. Bradford has
given a hearty welcome to the association, and on Mon-
day afternoon many hearty peals of bells were rung in
honour of the occasion .

The proceedings were inaugurated by a special service
in the Parish Church on Monday afternoon. The church
was crowded with a respectable audience, a large num-
ber of those connected with the association being pre-
sent. After the usual evening service had been gone
through, the Lord Bishop of Ripon ascended the pul-
pit to preach the sermon. His lordship took his text
from the 4th chapter of Hosea, and part of the'6th
verse : " My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."
The service terminated at half-past five o'clock.
THE GENERAL MEETING.

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The general meeting of the members and friends of

OCTOBER 12, 1859.

bury, the president of the
half--fast seven o'clock, am

Lord Brougham ; the' Bishop oflipon ; the Right Hon:
C: B. Adderley, M.P. ; -Mr. Monekton Milnes, 31. F. .r
Sir _Charles Hastings, Mr. Akroyd, Mr. Hill; Mr-.. Rath-
bone, the. Rev. Canon Richson, Sir F. Goldsmith/ Sir
John Ramsden, M.P., Mr. G. MelleY, Mr. Steinthal, and
Mr. AVilliam,Chambers, of Edinburgh.
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Lord Shaftesbury, on rising to deliver the opeliwg
address, was loudly cheered. He said this was the
third anniversary of an association which' had-been re-
ceived by the public with more than usual favour. Their
last meeting was attended by 666 members, and 891
The interest had extended to foreign coun-
luable

associates

corresponding members, and their home list exhibited
many of the best in the land in all the vari?us.
de.partment of -public, political, commercial,
scientific, and social life. The seats of the ope-
rations of the association were worths, of note',

oecause ,Lamed the approval and support --
large bodies of enlightened men and good citizens.
Birmingham had received the association in its infancy'
Liverpool, as they had emerged from it; and now the
good old town of Bradford encouraged them in their
strengthening age, offering them an hospitality in which
he singularly rejoiced, seeing that it was the scene of
his earliest labours, and the commercial field of some
of his most valued and efficient friends. Much of the
favour they had met with must be ascribed to the prat;
tical character of the association, to the nature an
variety of the topics it handled, to the recognition of the'
large surface it perhaps covered, to the minute space,
nevertheless, to which its principles might be applied, to;
the fact that so many, it might be asserted that all, et
every calling, condition, and degree, had an individual
and equal interest in the work ; that it reached the Peer
and the poor—the man' of leisure and the son of toll ;
that it spread through all the hearts of the country'
that it called forth such abundant and hearty co-opera-
tion, in speech, and writing, and pccsonal attendance'
under the conviction that all these efforts were directed
to the removal of evils, and the institution of revvedjea
which physically and morally would restore comfort, -de-
cency, and assurance to the palace homes and the COt..
tage homes alike of our own old England ; but not a
little was due to the share that women had taken in the
business of this society. It had enlisted their feeliiir
and their exertions in its behalf. Local committee
and branch associations for general or specific action'
consisting of ladies, had been established in several,
places. They had seen profitable results in the publi-
cations women had issued, replete with feminine acute-
ness of observation, and minuteness of detail, written
in a clear and winning style, and- calculated to render
sanitary science and practice acceptable in the daily
and hourly walks of the humblest life. This was n°
trifling advantage to have gained the whole female se '
He said nothing of having added to their forces one
half- of the creation, but he insisted on the value ef
their assistance, Men might discover principles and
write treatises, and indicate what must be done nn'
a large scale, but the instant the work became minute'
individual, and personal—the instant it' left the open
t
field and touched • the home, the instant it required tart
and sentiment and delicacy—from that " instant I
passed into the hands of women: That was essentially
their province, in which might be exercised all their
moral powers and intellectual faculties. It would
r'
them their full share in the vast operations that the No
has yet to see. While the multiplication'of Great gas-
terns, Atlantic telegraphs, and Lord. Rosse's telescope,
departments of intellect arrogated to themselves (the
male sex) inventions to give greater ease to the already
"easy" of mankind—Lwhile those added to the wonder
and .activity of the inhabitants of every clime, wowed
would' to save millions from neglect, and ive"'
labour to show us that the mint and anise and cumint.i:
where as much the care of a mighty Providence as We
mightiest of the cedars of Lebanon. (Cheers.) or
would not be supposed to decry archaeology, science'the
geology, or anything -that exercised or enriched
dance
understanding, anything that would give the aseend,aLlue
over the sensual part of man. He admitted their 'isave
—nay, their necessity, as it was iadispensable tua e
es a...
something to improve the tastes and, mental qIT.
but on the
tions of each
nn i acversary to his bent and genill'a
called
to such as that, they were
to consider the greatest amount of interest and inil?r°Ve-
ment for-the greatest number, and the pursuits to
which he had alluded could not touch the mass as deeply
as those which affected their very life. They were more
the business of leisure and education, whilst the subjects
which the association took up were -only preliminary
to an enlarged state of things, and those studies might
be more generally adopted, because more easily plat
sued. Let them see and teach the people to see thact
their social, but their removable discomforts fretted and
enfeebled, and rendered them unfit for higher. though en'.
wh
Nor were the wealthier and more refined cla.sses,/ and
duly informed of these matters, without' ti°,ra „Ale
material interests in them. (Loud cheers.) The rigs
chairman then at great length offered such rant his
as he thought requisite to introduce the labours of
colleague, and of those gentlemen who had contributed
their industry and experience for their amusement uld
instruction, touching up.Rn every
.topic which vi
come within the range of social science, and concludedof
by -saying that, whilst they-might differ - in' phasics
thought, and modes of action, and expression of feel;
and the stamp and colour of their opinions-1010.111c
those differences appeared on the surface, colfdord min.
be beneath; and they might -all 'strive, strive, though in vane
ous ways, to be really and effectively combined for t.
one grand and final consummation—,, Glory to God In
the Highest." (Loud cheers.)
The address occupied an hour and a half in the delivert
The Right Hon. Lord Brougham then rose, anlids
immense cheering. He said he would not affect to
suppose, though he well might, that the kindly reel;
tion which they had given him, was because they kne
what resolution he had to propose, namely,- that the
thanks of the association be given to the late presidenti
Lord John Russell, for his conduct during the Pas
year ; but he would believe that it was partly fr,nel
old friendship, and from his once having represent" f
in Parliament the county of York, being the friend °
civil and religious liberty, and the enemy of the, in:
fernal slave trade.. (Great cheering.) It was no she;
whirh thaw hart haatnurorl iinnn him he nlaano

hey o

ii."-'thm:..!'jree' e situation which was once filled by e
whose advancing years induced him to retire. On 11),„
Russell's merits he would bestow no panegyric, for fr°—,o
him he needed none ; but it was painful for bin' 'd
mention the great losaes which the association 114,
suffered since their last meeting by the death of
James Stephens, and also Mr. Joseph Sturge. ire the.°
moveg, " That the cordial and grateful thanks of
J ill
association be given to the Right Hon. Lord °l-0
Russell, M.P., for his services as president during
past year."
The Right Hon. Joseph Napier rose to second the
resolution, when Lord Brougham cried out, "late 14°r
Chancellor of Ireland."
Sir John R imsden9 NLP., then rose, and 11106401
" That the warmest thanks of this meeting be give,ll to
the president of the meeting, the Right Hon. r
Shaftesbury, for his opening address."
Henry Brown, Esq., Mayor of Bradford, secon_cle#bci
it, and then put the resolution, which was carried Iv."
applause.
The Earl of Shaftesbury briefly returned thank, de-
precating the idea that he was a stranger among the
they were no strangers to him.
The meeting broke up at ten o'clock.

BIRTH.
On the 11th instant, at 34, Susses-street, Toiteth-Par '
the
wife of Mr. Charles Long, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 6th instant, at Panton, Lincolnshire, John Itowbtet
, Barratt, Esq., of Manchester, to Mary Anne, eldest Baugh
of Richard Dudding, Esq., of Panton House. to
On the 6th instant, Francis Nevil Reade, Ist Fusilierjoi.-
Florence Amelia Louisa, youngest daughter of the Hon.
phus Capel, and granddaughter of Viscount Maynard. icu,
On the Bth instant, at Oxford, the Rev. Frederick Me,uvreget
H. M.'s Inspector of Schools, and Fellow of Trinity ,`',4
Oxford, to Marion, second daughter of the late EdWa'
Danvers, Esq. of
On the 9th instant, at Manchester, Joseph Bramwell ..-„-„-.,
of
Droylsden, to Ann, daughter of the late Noah Wood, DS4•'
Wood's Farm, Greenside, near Droylsden.
DEATHS.
On the 29th ultimo, suddenly, at 35, Bedford-street Nbooortt
Miss Slee, Lady Superintendent of the Girls' Collegiate
Sc
On the 7th instant, at her son-in-law's, Thorn Faulcon!_r of
merset, aged 82, Elizabeth Lady Ramsay, second daugh,w4ro,
Duncan Macclonell, of Glengarry, relict of William Chi
of Chisholm, and of Sir Thomas Ramsay, Bart. of
On the Bth instant, at Scarborough, Joseph Lamb, Esq"
Axwellliark, Durham, aged 78.
On the Bth instant, a No. 1, Pembroke..square,
Street, Mary, wife of Mr. T. Q • ed 40 years. d 51
ume, ag
On the 10th instant, at his residence, 161, Islingtun,
years, Mr. John Fowler.
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