The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-19 00:00:00

THE WORKHOUSE ACC ,MMODATION.

Mr. Arthur liolme attended before the board to explain
cort.in'plans which he had been requested to prepare, in order
to .giie increased accommodation for the sick poor in the
workhouse. It' was contemplated to remove the stables, the
piggeries, and the workshops. He had divided that space into
three wards, one portion of which was to be appropria.ed to
ophthalmic, anther to general diseases, and the third to itch
eases. These Wards would each have a nurse's room, water
closets, and baths, and there would be a separate communication
to the itcL ward. They would ho properly ventilated, and'
warmed by pipes from a boiler. Mr. Holme then described
the plan most minutely, and referred to the proposed plan he
had drawn:

The Chairman said he had no doubt but that each of the
guardians had examined the plane, therefore it would be
unnecessary to go further into them, but that if any gentleman
wished to ask any question upon them, he had no doubt but
that Mr. Holme was prepared with an answer.
Mr. Abrahams wished to know what additional accommoda•
tion would be given by the alteration.
Mr. Holme replied that ho had given a space of five feet for
each bed, which was really more than was required. But
according to his calculation he had given 15 beds in the
ophthalmic ward, 15 beds for the general ' disease ward, and
10 beds for the itch ward, making in all 40 beds,
' The Inspector : How is the drainage provided for ?
Mr. Holme explained, although he was not thoroughly
conversant with the drainage of the premises, except as he had
been told, that there was a sufficient fall to answer all purposes.
He also stated that he should draw out a plan of the airing
yards prior to submitting the plans to the general board for
approval.
A Guardian And what will this alteration cost ?
_ _ _

Mr. Holtne : I should say about £8:10. I had intended to
have had the specifications here to day, but they were not
ready. I will not be bound by that amount, as it is impossibly
to say exactly whit it will cost, but I should say that it 7;71 be
rather under than over the amount I have stated.
Mr. Callis : Could nor some of the Pau.P'-s be employed ?
Mr. Hohne said he had talked wi°,l the governor on that
subject, and had been promiseri. men to dress the old bricks
and dig the excavations. lout he thought anything further
would seintelfvre wi.:a the contractor that it would lead to
difficul ties.
After_snie further conversation on minor details,
tiarrison moved that the plans be received and adopted,
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a:„-at .that copies thereof be prepared and forwarded to the
general b 'Old for their approval.
Mr. U. Edwards seconded the proposition, at the same time
expressing a hope that no time would be lost in carrying the
works out.

should be appointed at the next meeting, but that the vacancy
should not be advertised:

AN ASSISTANT MEDICAL OFFICER.
The visiting committee recommended the reappointment of
an assistant to Dr. Nevins, and that he should prior to being
discharged receive one month's notice.
After a long and irregular discussion, in the course of which
`several propositions were made, it was decided, in consequence
of Dr. Wilson, the present assistant, having declined to act as
such if he was to be called a dispenser, that the consideration
of the appointment should be postponed for cne week. Dr.
Hume's motion, that three mouth's notice be given being
negatived by a majority of ten to twelve.

Mr Whitby thought that it would be advisable to postpone
tte consideration of the plans until they ha 4 heard the argu-
mervs with regard to the divi,ion of the union.
Mr. fatten expressed a similar opinion.
Mr. 11. Edwards said it bad already been decided that th
• works should be carried out.
Mr. Oaths doub.ed whether the former decision of the board
had been legal, as no notice .had been given of it prior to its
being brought before the committee who had recommended
those alterations.

The Clerk explained that all the business had been legally
conducted, but from the resolution passed at the last meeting
it was for the board to dec:da whether they would or would
not accept the plane.
Mr. C this ; Should not a week's notice have been given ?
The Clerk : There is no notice required.
Mr. H. 114::dwards: If the guardians were not present when
the subject was discussed, it is not the fault of the board.
Mr. Batten again urged the necessity of postponing tho
diseussi,sn. Indeed, he said he had a plan himself to propose
which might.he more aceep•able to the board.
The Chairman replied that it had already been decided by a
large majority that the union should be divided ; therefore
they could not again go into that question.
The Inspector said that he had understood that such was
the case.

After some further desultory conversation,
Mr. Whitby asked if the plans were to be carried out at any
expense. Last week it had been stated that the expense
would not exceed £5OO, but now £BOO was talked about, and
perhaps it might go on to double that amount.
Mr. Holme denied that he had ever before stated any
amount, for the simple reason that he had not any idea until
the specifications were prepared.
Mr. 3. Etwards then m0v,..,d that the adoption of the plans
supplied be postponed for a fo►tnight.
Mr. Mawdsley seconded the proposition.
At the suggestion of Mr. H. Edwards, the proceedings of
the visiting committee were read, which stated that the gover-
nor had been requested to prepare a return of the greatest
• number of persons in the house at the time Mr. Lythgo was
governor, and the numbers that he had bad there.
The governor, Mr. Gough, said the greatest number of sick
peer in the workhouse at the time Mr. Lythgo was governor
was 131; since he had been so they had been 246. The
largest total number in the house had been 749, against 790
for the same period.
Mr. Bolton thought it was extremely paradoxical that after
4E9,000 had been ex?ended, that there should not be more
accommodation after expending so much money. He contended
that the workhouse bad been turned into an hospital, for which
it never had been intended, and that if increased accommoda-
tion was required, additions should be made to the hospital
and not the workhouse.

Mr. H. Edwards could not see the difference in expending
the money to make the workhouse a complete establishment,
or in making additio. s to the hospital.
The board then divided on the question, when 19 guardians
voted that the plans be received; and 7 for the postponement.
The guardians in the minority were Messrs. Mawdsley, Shaw,
I. Edwards, Almond, Lunt, Whitby, and Batten,

Directions wero then given to Mr. Holm° to prepare plans
and specifications for the general board for their sanction.

THE RESIGNATION CF THE CHAPLAIN.

The Rev, 'Mr. Moore then read the following letter, ten-
dering his resignation: --
- " West Derby Workhouse, 18th Feb , 1857.
To.the 'Chairman and Guardians of the West Derby Union.
'4 Rev. Sir and Gentlemen,—Having been appointed incum-
bent of the church of St. Stephen the Mariyr, Edge hill, in
the parish of West Derby, I beg to resign the office of chaplain
to the West Derby Union, which I have had, the honour to
hold for a poriod of nearly eight:year s. I cannot, however, tender
my resignation without expressing how much I have been
indebted to ail the.guardians for the uninterrupted confiience
with which they hnve favoured me during the whole of the
time I have been their chaplain, and for the ready support
which -I have received from them on all ereasions, in every
matter necessary for the comfort and spiritual improvement of
the inmates of the workhouse and Bospital. I have also to
thank the officers with whom I have had to co-opTrate, for
their kind and ready assistance at all ,•It is not without,
a feeling of regret that I leave associations which have been so
dear to me ; and called, in the providence of God to the
uties.of another. sphere, I shall always look back to my
connection with your union as one of the happiest, and, I
trust, not least. useful portion of my llfe.—l have the honour
to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
THOMAS MOORE.

THE DIVI4ION OP THE UNION.
The Chairman having apolog;sed for having kept the poor
law Inspector waiting for so long a time, requested that the
next business transacted should be that with regard to the
separation of Toxteth Park from the union.
At the tequest of the Poor Law Inspector, Mr. Cleaver
read the letter received from the Poor Law Beard, announcing
that that gentleman would attend on that day to hear the
opinion of the board on the question of tho division of the
union.

This having been done, the Inspector said he wished it to
he understood why he was present on that occasion. He
would therefore explain the reason. On the 7th of January
the guardians had sent up a resolution to the general board,
that they were deeirious of having Toxteth Park separeed
from the union, On the receipt of that resolution, the ge ieral
hoard had requested to have the reasons for such a division.
Those reasons were fo warded to the board on the 27th; and
the reports were handed to him. On looking over the map of
the union, it occurred to hint that there were three or four
smaller townships which might be attached to Toxteth Park in
the formation of that union. Those parishes were Allerton,
Childwall, Garston, and Wavertree. The Inspector then
briefly gave the population of each pat ish, and the proportions
it paid to the rates of the union, and was about to go further
into the subject, when
Mr. Whitby said it was unnecessary, as the guardians had
made up their minds on the subject.
The Chairman denied that such was the case, as he should
protest azainst Wavertree being added to Toxteth Park.
Mr. Harrisen explained that Toxteth Park did not require
any of the smaller townships to join them—all they wanted
was to be left alone, and to manage their own affairs, and to
keep their own poor.
The Inspector said, front looking at the map, such a separa-
tion as he had suggested Would be advisable, as if these
parishes were to belong to West Derby, it would interfere with
the duties of the relieving and medical officers.
The Chairman explained that such would not be the case,
as Toxteth Park had its own relieving and medical officers,
who did not interfere with the other townships.
Mr. 11. Edwards hoped the inspector would have mercy on
the am 11 townships, and not join them with Toxteth Park.
If he did, they would soon be seeking some whir masters.
The Chairman : If they belong to Toxteth Park they will
be swamped at the board.
The Inspector : They will be no more swamped by Toxteth
Park than now, by being at the West Derby Board.
Mr. Shaw spoke in favour of the four townships being added
to Toxteth Park. •
Mr. H. Edwards opposed it, and said that the parishes were
perfectly satisfied with their present masters.
After some conversathAt
Mr. Shaw move': that the four parishes named be added to
Toxteth Part 'Union.

Lunt seconded the proposition. '
'Mr. Batten protested against the small townships being
saddled with any additional expenditure, when they did not
seek it.

The Board soon after dividvd, when there were 13 for the
fur parishes joining the Tosteth Park Union. and 10 against
it ' • the motion was therefore carried.
The Chairman entered his protest against the motion, and
stated that he should do all ho could to prevent any separation
of the union, and thought that the guardians had acted most
ungratefully to the small townships. He indmated his
in'ention of calling a meeting of the ratepayers of Wavertree to

protest against theseparation.
Mr. Shaw having directed the attention of the inspector to
the inequality in the number of guardians for Toateth Park
and those returned for Everton, West Derby, and Kirkda'e,
said if the union was not divided it would be essential that an
adlitional number should be added to the latter, if the former
was not aparated from the union, to secure justice to all parties.
The clerk having been instrnered to forward the result of
the meeting to the general board, the meeting separated.

LIVERPOOL ARCHITECTURAL AND
ARCHXOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The usuatperiodical meeting of the members of this society
was held last evening at the Royal Ins'itution, Colquitt street.
Mr. S. Higgins presilcd. Mr. Giorge Atkins was unanimously
elected an associate member. The secretary announced that
he had received as donations to this society, the January part
of the minutes and proceedings of the Royal Institution of
British Architects, and f►om the editors the third vol. of the
Building News, and No. 35 of the Building Chronicle.
The secretary then read two letters from the committee of
the London Architectural Society on the subject of the late
competition for the design of the Liverpool Free Public
Library, the result of which they did not approve of, and
considered this very reprehensible, and hoped that the decision
of the local committee would bo reconsidered ; also a similar
letter relative to the Middlesex Schools, &e., in which the
magistrates of that county had likewise come to a decision
averse to the opinions of the London committee.
' Mr. Boult .moved that the secretary be instructed' to
ackowledge the receipt of the two communications, at the
same time stating that, with regard to the local library, this
society had no wish to interfere with the decision already
given ; and with regard to the Middlesex schools and buildings
that was under the consideration of the council.

Mr. Horner moved an amendment to the efftet that the
secretary reply to the common:onions, stating that the society
did not think it advisable to interfere in either of the cases.

This motion was seconded by Mr. Rinamer, and adopted,
after considerable discussion, iu the course of which Mr.
Picton stated, in order to set the subject tight with the public,
on the two assumptions contained in the letter from the London
Society, in reference to the Free Public Library, in which they
bad made]two assumptions, both of which were incorrect. They
first assumed that Mr. Allom's plan was about to be carried into
effect, and that the commit tee of the Free Library had the full
control of it. Neither of these was correct. Mr. Allom's
plan was not beirg carried oat, neither had the committee the
control of it, for the plan was selected by Mr. W. Brown, and
he had the control of carrying it out.
This subject then dropped.
Mr: Picton then read an amusing account of " the Cooper
institution," founded by Mr. Cooper, of New York, which had
been sent to him from America by an unknown friend.
The paper of the evening, " on Modernism or Medimval-
ism," by Mr. W. H. Leeds, of London, was then read.
An animated discussion followed, after which the meeting
separated.

" General" Tom Thumb, notwithstanding all the puffery,
does not draw. The Times does not notice him at all—one
of its most creditable acts for a long time.
Amongst the many incidents caused by the rise in the
colonial and produce markets, and mentioned in commercial
circles, says the Bristol Advertiser, we hear that a firm in
Bristol has sold a moiety of its supply for raw hides, to
arrive during the year 1857, at a profit of £ )5,000.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH A AIERICA. —A
communication received from Mr. Hemans, C.E , and read
at the last meeting of the Harbour Board, holds out the
strongest hopes that Galway will be seleoted as the
terminus of the Ametican telegraphic communication.—
.
GalwayVindicator.'
THE Loss OF LIFE IN TEE CRIMEA..—From the sailing to
the return of the Beitish expedition to the East, we lost
21,400 risen, of 95,000 of all racks who were sent out; and
of these some 3,000 were killed on the field of battle, while
some 2.000 more died from wounds received in action. It
was quite enough, goodness knows, though not within
forty per cent of the deaths of our allies.
Daring the past year the United States Coast Survey has
been carried on in all the States and Territories of the
Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific Coast. • The su--
vey is more than half fiuisheJ on the Atlantic and Gulf
Coasts. Professor Bache estimates that from ten to twelve
years will find the field work essentially completed in all
the sections but two, which have been recently commenced.
A. general hydrographic reconnaissance has been made of the
coast of California and Oregon:
PAttiptrt. EXPERIMENT.-The Lyons, New York, _Repub.
scan says a lad in that village wished to ascertain how
, tight his wet tongue would stick to an axe that had been
lying in the woodshed all night. - Ihe experiment was suc-
cessful, and the illustration of the tenacity of a frosty axe
to a wet tongue faternare_forcible then pleasing. The little
o
fellow's cries (or attempts t brought his father to his
assistance, and the bow, withertVe axer 'sticking fast to his
unruly member, was carried into the house, and it was some
time before they could be made to part company.
SINGULAR SPORTING PEAT.—An extraordinary feat of
horsemanship was performed in Kilkenny on Wednesday
night, by Mr. Courtney, of Bellyedrnond, connty Cork. In
pursuance of a wager, laid for a considerable sum with a
brother member of the Kilkenny Hunt Club—Captain
Bernard, it is said—while at supper in the club house he
sent for his well known grey horse, White Lion, and hav-
ing mounted the animal in the olub house hall, proceeded
deliberately to ride up stairs—two flights—itto the club'
room, round the supper table, and having leaped a fire
screen, set up for the purpose in his route, he rode down
stairs again in perfect safety, and without White Lion once
stumbling or evincing for a moment the slightest indication
of a 8011E0 that he was called on to perform an uncommon
feat.

'Mr. Abrahams moved that the resignation be accepted, and,
in the course of his remarks, testified to the valuable services
the reverend gentleman had rendered to the union since ho
had been connected with it, and expressed the deep regret that
all must feel at the separation, but, at the same time, rejoiced
that he was about to better his condition in this life.
Mr. Callis seconded the motion, and, in suitable terms,
complimented the rev. gentleman on his future prospects, but,
at the same time, regretted the loss the union would sustain
at his resignation.
Mr. Batten, in supporting the motion, passed a high and
deserved compliment on the Rev. Mr. Moore for his zeal and
untiring devotion to the poor since he had been connected with
the union, and expressed a hope that his life might be long
spared to pursue his career of usefulness.
The Chairman in putting the motion, which Was unani-
mously carried, expressed the deep regret he felt at the
separation, and expressed it as his opinion that it would be
long before they met with so good and useful a servant, and
one who would be so deeply regretted by the poor, by whom he
was much beloved,

At the request of Mr, Voore, it was deeided that a successor

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