The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.-At the meeting of this
Board, on Wednesday last, it was agreed to offer a reward
of £5 for the discovery of the mother of an infant child,
deserted in Toxteth-park, on the 17th instant. The
security of the Guarantee Society for £lOO, in the case of
Mr. Tomkins, relieving-officer, was accepted. Directions
were given that four pauper lunatics should be charged to
the common fund. A wall is to be built across the stable
yard at the Workhouse, to prevent all communication
between the children's and the men's wards. Mr. Bunt-
ing gave notice that, at the next meeting, he would move
that the salary of Mr. Johnson, medical-officer, should be
increased £lO per annum. It was resolved that Mr. A.
B. Claytcn be employed to prepare plans and estimates of
the intended hospital, under conditions that, if the build-
ing be proceeded with, he be paid a commission of five
per cent. on the outlay. If not proceeded with, he is to
receive a premium of £3O. The weekly return showed
the number of paupers in the workhouse to be 692.
LIVERPOOL 'ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAIOLOGICAL
SocleTy.—Tlie fortnightly meeting of this society was
held on Wednesday evening, at the Royal Institution,
Colquitt.street ; Mr. Picton in the chair. After several
lithographed plans, &c., had been submitted, Mr. Frank
Howard exhibited and explained five drawings or designs
of candelabra, which he bad executed in the incredible
space of one day for the Goldsmiths' Company in London.
These designs were each adapted to a particular cost, the
highest of which was calculated at £3,000, and the prin-
cipal subject of which was Richard 11. granting the char-
ter of incorporation. Mr. WlCenzie exhibited, by a
drawing, the machinery by which St. George's Hall is
supplied with cold and hot air. Mr. Walker considered
the whole system had a great deal of complexity about it;
he thought it might have b, en made more simple. Two
or three members thought that the working cost of the
machinery would be expensive. Mr. Bennett considered
that they might perhaps be justified in going to such an
expense if the building was used every day ; but as it was
only occupied a few times in the course of the year, they
might have submitted to a little inconvenience. It was
stated by Mr. M'Kenzie that it required a week to get
up the proper temperature.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting, on
Thursday, Mr. Alderman Langsdale presided ; these were
also present Messrs. Lloyd, Atkinson, Beckwith. Nichol-
son, Johnson, Chalmer, Dover, Godfrey, W. K. Tyrer,
and Clayton. The annual report of the borough surveyor
contained a return of the number of houses and ware-
houses erected, or in course of erection, mithin the muni•
cipal borough, from the Ist of January to the 31st Dec.,
1851 :—Under £l2 per annum, 101; from £l2 to £25,
578 ; from £25 to £35, 88 ; from £35 and upwards, 70 ;
total, 837. Warehouses, 11. A comparative statement
of the number of dwelling-houses erected within each year
since 1838 showed the following results:—]B3B, ],052;
1839, 997; 1840, 1,576; 1841. 1,761 ; 1842, 2,027; 1843,
1 390 ; 1844, 2,450; 1845. 3,728 ; 1846, 3,460; 1847,1,220;
1848, 656 ; 1849, 446 ; 1850, 420 ; 1851, 337 ; total, 22,020.
The medical officer reported that the mortality of the
borough during the last week was below that of any week
of the preceding four months. The registered deaths were
207, being 10 less than in the previous week, and 26 below
the average of the same week of the four preceding years.
The deaths in the parish were 148, and in the extra-
parochial wards, 59. The decrease was owing to the
comparatively small mortality from diseases of the lungs,
which amounted to only 66 against 106 in the previous
week. Scarlatina also showed a diminished mortality,
having caused only 19 deaths. From typhus there had
been ten deaths ; from measles, 5 ; small pox, 4 (2 after
vaccination); hooping cough, 8; croup,4; and erysipelas,2.
SELECT VESTRY.—At the fortnightly meeting cn Tues-
day, at the Parish Offices, Brownlow-hill, the Chairman,
the Rev. Rector Campbell, undertook to write to the
magistrates on the subject of transferring the pass business,
'now conducted in Rigby-street, to the Workhouse, as
there were now accommodations for the purpose, and the
removal would save £4O or £5O a-year to the parish in
rent. On the recommendation of the chaplain, Eliza Sul-
livan, of the North Corporation School, was appointed
head-mistress of the Workhouse. The twenty-eight boys
for whom the chaplain had obtained situations w, re all
reported as behaving in a manner perfectly satisfactory.
On the 15th instant there were 670 sick cases in the house,
109 being of fever and 74 of itch. The total number of
admissions to the Vagrant-sheds during the past week had
been 1,149. Minutes confirmed. The numbers in the
Industrial Schools during the week were reported to be
1,065, maintained at ls. 104 d. per head per week. Miss
Musker, temporarily engaged to supply the place of Miss
Porter, assistant-schoolmistress, is to be paid at the rate
of £2O per annum. The Building Committee reported
that they had paid Messrs. Holme £l,BOO on account of
their contract for the new Workhouse Buildings. The
new Lunatic wards were stated to be very dark and other-
wise objectionable, which elicited an explanation that they
were intended only to accommodate lunatics in the Work-
house for one night, prior to their removal to Rainhill.
For the appointment of governor, it was reported that
there were no less than 109 applicants, whose testimonials,
a ponderous bundle, were referred to the Workhouse
Committee, with instructions to select not less than three
for the decision of the general hoard.

DOCK COMMITTEE.
The Dock Committee held their usual meeting on
Thursday ; Mr. Charles Turner presided.
Mr. MASON read the decision of Mr. Samuel Holme on
several matters mutually agreed by the Health Committee
and the Dock Committee to be referred to him.—They
had reference to the paving of Sefton-street. the wall at
the Stanley Dock, the sewerage of the new North-road,
in continuation of Regent-road, &c.

The Solicitor's Annual Report, as to the bills intended
to be prosecuted in the ensuing session of Parliament, was
read. It stated that the present position of affairs at Bir-
kenhead seemed to make probable a parliamentary contest
of unusual severity and interest to the parties imme-
diately conneeted therewith ; but the proposed bills did
not affect, in any novel or important degree, the Liverpool
Dock Estate. The bills adverted to in the report were—
The Birkenhead Dock Trustees' Bill ; the Bill to Alter
the Constitution of the Trustees of the Birkenhead Docks ;
the Bill for making further Provision for the Completion
of the Works of the Trustees of the Birkenhead Docks,
and for other purposes; and the Liverpool Sanitary Bill.
A letter was read from Mr. J. M. Wood, addressed to
the chairman and members of the Dock Committee, com-
plaining of inefficient police regulations for the preserva-
tion of property in ships in the docks, and requesting that
the committee would inquire into the subject. It appeared
that on the 18th instant a quantity of copper was stolen
from a brig called the Elizabeth Wood, whilst she was in
dock. Mr. Dowling having made a report to the commit-
tee on the case, it was resolved that a copy of that gentle-
man's report be sent to Mr. Wood.

Mr. MASON read a letter from Mr. E. W. Walker, se-
cretary to the Colonial Land and Emigration Commis-
sioners, requesting that the Dock Committee would al-
low placards to be posted about the docks, warning emi-
grants of the frauds to which they were liable at the hands
of persons called " runners," both in Liverpool and New
York.—Agreed to. _ _

A memorial was read from 880 owners of property and
ratepayers at the North End, who objected to the esta-
blishment of an Emigrants' Home by the committee, as
injurious to their interests. Referred to the sub-com-
mittee on emigration.

ALLEGED EVASION OF DOCK DUES.
Mr. NORTH, the dock solicitor, read a lengthy rPport
of the sub-committee of finance on certain charges against.
Messrs. Giannacopulo and Cochilani and Mr. George
Wright, respectively, for evading the payment of dock
dues, referred to such sub-committee for investigation and
decision. The charge against Messrs. Giannacopulo and
Cochilani was that of having shipped 86 packages of goods
by the steamer Brigand, in September last, without pay-
ing any dock dues thereon. They denied at first that they
had bad any intention of committing a fraud, and blamed
their clerks, at the same time offering to produce their
books and clerks before the committee. This they did
not do, but afterwards they made the following offer, which
was accepted :—" In order to make a short et,d of the
question, and as the dock dues had certainly not been
paid, owing, however, to causes already explained, and
without Messrs. Giannacopulo and Cochilani's knowledge,
they would pay double duties, and £2O, being the extent
of the penalties imposed by the act of parliament, as re-
coverable by a prosecution,"
" The charge against Mr. George Wright was that of
short-paid dues to the amount of £2B 14s. 6d. upon 73
consecutive shipments of iron, by as many different ves-
sels to America. made by him as the forwarding agent of
Messrs. G. B Thorneycroft anti Co., of Wolrerhamptop,