The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-09 00:00:00

UNION OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

THERE are some men in the world so apathetic, that they
continue to act as they have been in the habit of doing ;
and thus their experience amounts to persistence in im.
perfection. There are others who are so fond of figuring
as officers, that they create or support petty institutions in
order to retain their own importance. And there are a few
amiable and worthy men with whom we can by no means
coincide, who think that the energy of individual societies,
on a small scale, counterbalances the disadvantages of
separate costs and management, the annoyances of rival-
ship, and the want of moral weight. Our attention has
been drawn to the subject by a series of concurrent facts.
For several years the Rev. Dr. BAYLEE, of St. Aidan's,
has been maturing a plan for increased visitation of the
Poor in Liverpool, but it is not yet complete nor in ope-
ration. The design was to raise a large sum of money
by small payments, for the support of a large number
of Visiting Clergy, Dr. BAYLEE himself being the Director.
About £lOO has been collected already, but there is no
positive assurance of a steady income. In the mean-
while, the Clergy of Liverpool have decided that their in-
creased visitation shall be by laymen, they have esta-
blished a Scripture Readers' Association, it has certain
prospects, and it is already in full operation. It is evi-
dent, therefore, that the support which was promised to
Dr. BAYLEE, in good faith, will be turned -in most in-

stances, or in all, into the new direction ; and, therefore,
the propriety of amalgamating his scheme with some al-
ready-existing one is no longer doubtful. If he prefer
the portion of it which requires increased visitation, the
funds might be united with those of the Scripture Rea-
ders' Association ; while, if he attach much importance to
clerical visitors, his society could be made auxiliary to the
Pastoral Aid or Curates' Aid Society.

We have heard that one or two meetings have been
held to bring about a union of the Dispensaries in the

town. There is the ancient and valuable institution
known as the Dispensaries (North and South), and the
vigorous, but more modern one, called St. Anne's Dis-
pensary ; yet, for want of concentration, they cover in part
the same ground, and discharge in duplicate the same du-
ties. We know well the excellence of all the three Dis-
pensaries, and the energy and economy with which they
are worked. With an unreasonable prejudice against
them in the minds of several of the public, they relieve
more than ten times as many as the llnsnitnla of th.
town, and are deserving of a much better degree of sup-
port than they have ever yet received. A union could
eumbine 181 existing advantages with others yet untried ;
but if the crotchets of any of the committees should pre-
vent it, they will all regret it in the end, and the town
will be the sufferer. A legacy left to " the Dispensaries"
will be claimed by the two oldest, and by all three ; and,
after an interesting but costly action at law, it will be de-
cided that the oyster is most excellent, each of the claim-
ants being entitled to a shell, on payment of their respec-
tive costs.

A few intelligent and spirited gentlemen at Warrington
are desirous to procure a reunion there, during the spring,
of all the societies in the two counties which embrace the
subject of antiquity. There is the Chetham Society in
Manchester, the Historic Society of Liverpool, the Ar-
chaeological Society of Chester, and the Natural History
and Antiquarian Society of Wirrington. It is a step in
the right direction, and might eventually lead to a union
of two or more.

The great success of a conversazione, lately held at New-
castle.upon-Tyne, under the auspices of the Literary and
Philosophical Society there, has suggested that a similar
meeting might be held in Liverpool, under the manage-
ment of a committee from the councils of the four learned
societies of the town. It would be easy to combine, in
short papers, the distinctive subjects of inquiry ; and also
to give some other subject not usually embraced by any
of them. It would also tend to foster the fraternal sym.
pathies and community of kind feeling which should always
exist; and might remove the impediments to a union of
two or more of them.

The present is not a fitting time to allude to the some-
what painful subject of a union of Museums ; but to that
we must eventually come. We cannot, of course, foretel
the date, as we do not know how long men may be in
perceiving the beauty of enlarged views and great general
principles ; but of the simple fact the only doubt is, that
it may be postponed till its value is lost.
appears that id the Medical School of this town

there is an important deficiency; for while the ordinary
instructions take place at the Royal Infirmary, there is no
opportunity there for acquiring an acquaintance with the
important subject of Clinical Midwifery. We merely
state the fact, entertaining no doubt that an arrangement
could easily be made with the Committee of the Hospital
in Pembroke-place, by which the students might have the
advantages of this branch of education, under the same
central authority that regulates the other portions of their
course.

LATEST INTra,LIGENCE.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING.
CABINET COUNCIL—A Council was held this afternoon
at the Foreign Office.

Amounts from the Continent: Exchanges are on the
whole favourable ; prices generally well supported.
West India advices, by a Government steamer, do not
notice any important change in the weather or the crops.
HAMBURGH. STH MARCH.—Exchangeon London 13-7;
Bills in request.
There has been frost for about three days, and much
floating ice on the river, so that sailing vessels can only
pass with the assistance of steamers.

- PARIS. SUNDAY.—It is believed that the differences
with Switzerland will be amicably settled.

TATTERSALL'S BETTING—MONDAY.
COVENTRY HANDICAP.-2 to 1 agst Merry Peal ;3to 1
agst
Simon ; 6 to 1 apt Aria.

COVENTRY STEEPLE CHASE.-5 to 1 agst Victress ;7to L
agst Oscar.

DONCA,TER STEEPLE CHASE.-9 to 2 agst Miss Mowbray;
5 to I agst Chieftain ; 6 to 1 agst Sir Peter Laurie; 10 to 1 agst
Murton.

NORTHAMPTON HA NDICA P.--6 to 1 agst Cariboo; 14 to L
agst Storyteller.
CHESTER Cur.-23 to I asst Scarecrow.
DERBY.-5 to 1 agst Hobble Noble (taken); 12 to 1 agst Ore-
lio ' • 15 to 1 agst Alfred the Great; 20 to 1 agst Augur; 20 to
ggst ClaverhOuse ; 2L) to 1 agst Kingston.

LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS—MoNnAY.
English market opened steady; Consols 973 I, but declined
a per cent on some sales; various rumours respecting the re-
tirement of AL Walewski, the general opinion !Ting against any
unfavourable results from his departure. Railway Shares are
dull, from want of business and the decline in Consols; prices.,
however, have not materially given way. Gold Mining Shares
flat and neglected. Foreign market tranquil; little doing.
Consolefor Account and Money, 973 3; Three and a Quarter
per Cents, 993 9; Bank Stock 219 4 ; Exchequer Bills, Long and
Short, 62 5. Foreign Stock—Mexicans, 322 3; Spanish Actives,
242 5a ; Ditto Threes, 42 3 ; Ditto Passives, 53. Railway Shares
—London Sock. 1163 17 ; Ditto Quarters, 33 it pm. ; Midland
Stock, 572 84; North Staffiirdshire, 82 3 dis.; South Eastern
and Dover, 204 d ; Ambergate. Notlinuham, and Eastern Junc-
tion, si, it; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. 303 13;
Caledonian, 163 i; Eastern Counties, 73 3 ; Norfolks. 26 8; East
Lancashire. 16 a; Leeds and Thirsk. /5 16; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 283 93; l‘orth British, 6a 3 ; Ditto Preference, 5 #;
Great Northern, 183 19; Great Western, 851 63 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire. 69 ; Ditto Fifths, 63 a; London, Brighton. and
South Coast, 941 53; York. Newcastle, and Berwick, 171 3;
Ditto Extension, 73 3 dis. ; Ditto Preference, 31 3 dis. ; York
and North Midland, 211 23 ; Ditto Preference, 13 04 dis. Mining
Shares—Aqua Fria, 13 2 tim.; Anglo California, 13 pm ; Ave
11aria, 3 dis. par; Nouveau Monde, 3 3 pm. ; Mariposa, 3 dis. par.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—MoxnAv.
The following. are the closiu quotations :—Caledonians,l6ll
Lancashire and York hire, (i 9 ; East An.dian, 3 3-16ths; Pres-
ton and Wyre, 4l x div.; North British, 6i; Midland, 58 f ;
South Eastern, 204.

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—MONDAY.
Closing quotations:—East Lancashire, la}; East and West
Yorkshire, 11 Ia& ; Leeds Northern, 151; North Western, 12
dis; Midland, 584 8.

LONDON CORN MARKET—MosnAY

We have a moderate show of Wheat. Atthe commence-
ment full terms were asked, hot millers were reluctant buyers,
and trade ruled dull at Monday's currency. Foreign : Sales
restricted, but prices are ❑nchanged. Flour, Malt, Brans, and
Peas unaltered. Fine Barley sells at full rates, but inferior is
rather slow of sale. Oats sold slowly, but good corn is fully as
dear. Seeds dull.
English White Wheat
„ Red Ditto
Barley,
„ Grinding
„ Distilling

445. to 495. per quarter.
40s to 455. „
345. to 365. „
245. to 265. „
255. to 28s. „

ARRIVA LS.
En elish. Irish. Foreign.
4200 4511
3604 720 1616
2812 4860 11378
4629
1874

Wheat
Barley
Oats ..
Malt..
Flour

3163
3878 brli.

The market had a dull tendency towards its close, and in
some instances inferior Wheat declined Is. per qr. Other
articles unchanged.

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET

-11foNDAv

Sugar: Foreign is in good shipping demand et full rates;
for refined the home demand is improving, and brown lumps
sell at 445. 6d.— Coffee is in better demand; Native Ceylon,
39s.—Tea: Congou in demand at Bd. to Sid. ; other sorts dull.
—Rice quiet; white Bengal at lOs to lls. 6d.—ln Cochineal
there is less doing.—Cotton is rather higher in price, with a
brisk demand.