Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-31 00:00:00

SAILORS' HOME,

The annual meeting of this institution was held in the
Board-room, at one o'clock, on Saturday, Mr. Crosbie
presiding.
The Chairman stated that the Home had been
peculiarly prosperous during the past year, both in a
Pecuniary point of view and in the appreciation which the
seamen appeared to have of its advantages.
The secretary, Mr. Hanmer, read the

ANNUAL REPORT.
" The lapse of another year reminds your committee
of the duty of laying before the friends and supporter
of the institution a report of their doings during tha
period.

" Considering the great commercial depression of the
put year, the fact of a small increase in the number of
boarders clearly proves that the sailor is more generally
beginning to appreciate the efforts made during the last
14. years to ameliorate and better his condition ; that the
light of philantrophy and Christian principle by which
the promoters of such institutions are actuated is gradually
but surely breaking. in upon him, dispelling his doubts
and prejudices, and disclosing to him his real friends and
well-wishers.
"The following is the table of residents for the last and
Previous years : 1857. 1858.
Men Appr. Total Men Appr. Total
Number of boarders 3566 723 4289 . .3576 748 4324
Number of returned
ditto

__ 1006.. -- _- 1076

"In current account, £14,545 2s. have passed through
the hands of the cashier, and, as usual, a large propor-
tion has been transmitted to relatives and friends.
"The temporary deposit bank transactions have been
more numerous, and the amount deposited by seamen not
residing in the home, viz., £12,278 10s. 3d., is larger by
£937 17s. than that' of the year 1857. The balance
remaining to the credit of seamen is £6,382 4s. 6d. The
balance must necessarily decrease year by year, inasmuch
as the Board of Trade Savings Bank is superseding that
of the Sailors Home, excepting so far as regards tempo-
rary deposits.
"The sailor being greatly benefitted by the free money
order system, and by the "savings bank. established by the
Legislature, your committee have satisfaction in stating
that they are informed by the shipping master that the
first is used to a rapidly increasing extent, and the
second is making favourable progress. _
The funds of the institution have been rather severely
taxed, especially during the last six months, by the un-
fortunately large number of shipping casualties ' • in fact,
daring the last ten weeks 100 shipwrecked men have arrived
here wholly or partially destitute, and consequently un-
able to pay anything for board and lodging. Your com-
mittee strongly recommend all persons connected with
!kipping to interest themselves in persuading seamen to
Join the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society,
the subscription to which is only 3s per annum, so that
in the event of misfortnne they may reap the large
benefits accruing to membership, and maintain thereby
a position of independence and self-reliance.
"Your committee are anxious to set before the mind
of the sailor, that more excellent way of satisfying the
longing for amusement when ashore—of instructing
exalting as well as simply exciting , and in order to this
have the gratification of saying that the ladies and gentle-
men who so kindly the last two seasons gave in the
lecture room of the institution gratuitous concerts, have
continued them this season, to the great satisfaction and
pleasure of the boarders and their friends, and also. that
the band of the Myrtle-street Orphan Aslum has kindly,
=by the consent of the committee of that excellent
institution, given several very pleasing and clever enter-
4ainments.
"In addition to all this, some evenings have been
:occupied with explanations and experiments in electricity,
'galvanism, &c., and in the exhibition of the magic lantern,
with instructing and amusing slides.
" Your committee beg to thank all those ladies and
gentlemen who have so obligingly rendered their aid to
the officers of the institution, in endeavouring to foster
in the sailor sentiments of morality and self respect.
" During the past year your committee have received
books
gifts to the library of the Home some parcels of
&c., which are hereby gratefully acknowledged.
The proprietors of the weekly papers—viz., Journal,
4416i0n, Courier, .AfercurY, Mail, and Chronicle—still
generonsly send gratuitously their papers as published to
the reading room, in addition to which your committee
continue to supply the daily papers, magazines, periodicals,
&c.
theme The attendance upon the Church services of the
much improved, which is a very gratifying
li-11144nm Your committee pray that the administra-
.ens of their chaplan, the Rev. J. J. Butler, may be
"-F.emilpanied with God's blessing, without which it is felt
au,efforts are of little avail.
the ir"r committee last year had to report and deplore
e decease of their late chairman Charles Cotesworth,
; and now this year they have 'to lament the removal
y death of Sir John Salusbury, S.P. chairman of the
provisianal committee, and a
gentleman who evinced a
'Warta interest in the welfare of the sailor.
" Mr. Smart, the able head master of the schools under
the nautical school committee, reports favourably of the
nepartment in which persons desirous of passing the
the
board have such unusual advantages, but in
'" progress of the juvenile school he is somewhat dis-
nPo:ilted, as the anticipations respecting it were very
O Ail; this, however, may arise from a want of its
eeing more
generally known. The establishment of
seools of a similar character having been contemplated
t,°llBl the first by your committee, Trade; interest is felt in
t;to e established by the Board' of the advantages
t...mts offered being apparent to all interested in the ad-
vancement of the sailor.
p°uudse
subscription list is less this year by a few
that a matter not much to be wondered at, seeing
dept. commercial transactins -have been in such a
o
essed condition, but it i s hoped the coining year will
°u•iY make amends for the past, but show a greatly
"le,,
r,eased number of subscribers.
ou
r committee in conclusion, congratulate all the
i!'elicis of the Home in the improved appearance of the
oalance
Sheet, and in the prospect of a much larger
miccess in the several departments of the institution."
r' 13°Yci moved that the report and statement of
ajscounts be adopted, remarking upon the very pleasing
Ca'nge which that and other institutions has introduced
ate the habits of seamen.
Mr. Derbyshire seconded the motion, which was carried
unanimously.
a. Mr. Derbyshire, in moving the next resolution, called
ttention to the fact that one hundred shipwrecked
seamen had been received into the institution without
'any charge whatever. Ile thought the. Government
ttght to do something to aid them in contingencies of
that kind, seeing that if these men were not received
ere they must have been taken into the Workhouse.
6-uttit as that was not the case, he thought they had a very
il•r:g claim upon the public for increased contributions,
__Vnirtch as in the manner he had described they
runeeved the public sometimes from very heavy burthens.
to dal" pointed out that the Sailors' Home had nothing
wito with the shipping of sailors, and had no connection
dateshe Marine Board, which met and discharged its
caoved the verY efficiently under the same roof. He then
Year. appointment of the committee for the ensuing

AMr.vonteigham seconded the resolution, which was carried.
of thanks was .passed to the officers of the
Institution, for the efficient manner in which they had
conducted the arrangements of the institution.
The proce d.
chairman. e lag's closed with a vote of thanks to the

00t.NTY MAGISTRATES COURT

-SATURDAY

BEFOREREA, "'Sit& S. HOLME AND W. R. SANDBACH.
farm `4l OF RAILWAY Acr.—Richard Tyrer, a
La er,
ridingres at Formby, was brought up by the
and Yorkshire Railway Company, for having
vrillPted to get on the railway, while in motion, at
aterloo. Mr. Dodd appeared for the defendant. The
guat ,rd (Forest) of one of the Southport branch trains,
4ated that, at about eight o'clock of the 15th inst,
_nahe-
observed the defendant take hold of the train, while it
Was motion, and run along with it, endear oaring to get
h•• He the witness, took hold of Mr. Tyrer and pulled
,1111 off the train, and the defendant then fell upon the
latforni. He could not say whether Mr. Tyrer was
drank., Wm. Davis, the station master, corroborated the
evidence of the former witness ; and stated, in addition,
that he picked the defendant up off the platform, and he
found that he was drunk. In the course of a short time,
however, he got considerably • sobered. Mr. Dodd,
" behalf of the defendant, stated that he had been
assisting several persons into the train, and when it was
111°ving off the defendant then was making, an effort to
get in himself, when the guard took him, in a violent
manner, and threw him back on the platform. Mr. Dodd
Called no witnesses; and the magistrates considered the
offence4os clearly proved—the full penalty for which was
Mr. Rohm made some remarks as to the danger
of such an act, and the wisdom of making such a law to
Prevent the sacrifice of life, and expressed his regret that
a gentleman of Mr. Tyrer's age and respectability should
be placed in such a position. The offence, however,
beingcould do was to
clearly proved, the only thing they
mitigate the penalty, and they would inflict a penalty of
106 and lOs costs. -

The members of the Church of England Young Men's
Priltistian Association, Reading, have blackballed the Rev.
V. Fosberg, refusing to allow hinv to continue one of
the patrons of the association, iu consequence of his