The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

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ing of this association was held on Friday in the Concert
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attended. Adam Hodgson, Esq.,g was called to the chair,
and the meeting was adresse
Ewbank, M.A., and the Rev. Josepyh Beayl v,
W.
Birkenhead), on the progress of the missionsee ini%i Northf -
west America and Ceylon.
WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting
on Wednesday, the governor of the workhouse stated
that there were upwards of 472 persons now in the house.
Mr. J. B. Nevins was appointed surgeon to the work-
house, in the room of Mr. Fell, who died from fever
caught in the discharge of his duty at the fever ward;
and the sum of £5O was voted to his widow, subject to
the approval of the Poor Law Commissioners. The Law-
clerk was requested to advertise for a proper person to fill
the office of surgeon for the district of Litherland. Mr.
Greatrex sent in his resignation as surgeon to the muni-
cipal district of West Derby.
A meeting was held at Woolton, on Thursday, for the
purpose of establishing a Mechanics' Institution there.
Richard Alison, Esq , was called to the chair. A design
of the proposed building, to be erected on a plot of ground.,
belonging to Mr. Roskell, near the smithy on the Aller-
ton-road, was produced. The plan as at present agreed
upon is, to make the lower story consist of two dwellings,
the rent from which will assist the infant establishment.
A properly trained schoolmaster will be appointed at a
salary of £7O per annum, and a schoolmistress at £5O.
The capital to be raised for the purchase of the ground,
&c., is £5OO, allotted into shares of £1 each. The insti-
tution will be supported by annual subscribers of Bs. per
annum, shareholders paying only 6s.

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.-Mr. Henderson al-
luded to a case which had been brought before the sti-
pendiary magistrate, where a captain was charged with
entering one of the docks in the night time when the flag
was up ; the magistrate, however, dismissed the complaint
on the ground that it was impossibte to see the flags
during the night. It was ordered that the attention of
the Harbour-master should be called to the subject. The
chairman said that the Parliamentary Committee liacl
thought proper, in the first instance, to oppose the Bir-
kenhead Dock Amalgamation Bill on two grounds : the
first was, that the title of the Company being " The Bir-
kenhead and Liverpool Dock Company," was likely to
lead to great confusion in many instances ; and the other
was, that proprietors of docks over the water should not
be qualified to sit on that committee. He submitted a
letter from Mr. Potter, in which it was stated that the
name would be changed to the Birkenhead and Hercula-
neum Company, and that the proprietors should be dis-
qualified from sitting at that board. The objections being
thus removed, the Parliamentary Committee would not
oppose the bill any longer. Mr. Mann thought there
should be an extension of the principle, and that the pro-
prietors of the docks alluded to should not be members
of the Council. The chairman said they had no power,
and if anything were done it twist be by a proposition of
the Council.