The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL IMPROVEMENTS.

Tn Town Council justified the good opinion enter-
tained of them, by rejecting the scheme for a new street
from the end of Temple-street to St. John's-lane. A far
greater improvement would be the widening of White-
chapel and Paradise-street, so as to form a commodious
thoroughfare from the Custom-house to St. George's
Hall. The bottom of Duke-street should be widened, and
this would relieve the traffic through Bold-street. The
north end of Park-lane also requires more room, and either
of these would be more valuable improvements than the
new street which the Town Council has so properly
rejected.

LIVERPOOL EYE AND EAR
INFIRMARY.

THE annual meeting on behalf of this excellent charity
was held yesterday, at the Clarendon-rooms. William
Brown, Esq., M.P., presided.
Mr. HENRY CROSSPIELD, the treasurer, read a state-
ment of the accounts, from which it appeared that the
total expenditure was £6OB. The subscriptions had been
£366, donations £B6, the Corporation £lOO, which, with
one or two other petty sources of income, made the ac-
counts stand with a balance due to the treasurer of £6l
3s. 4d.. It was explained, however, that the finances
were in a good condition, the expenditure taking in four-
teen instead of twelve months.

Mr. JOSEPH HADWEN, the honorary secretary, then
read as follows

THE REPORT.

In presenting to the subscribers their report for the past
year, your committee feel that it is unnecessary to enter into
any lengthened detail : they. have no new feature on which to
dwell. The object of the institution h well known, and its
extended usefulness fully acknowledged end largely appreci-
ated by those for whose benefit it was originally established.
The number of patients seeking relief for diseases
of the eye have been 3540
Ditto for diseases of the ear 3406

Total 6946
In addition to the above, there have been 99 in-patients
boarded and lodged in the house while undergoing surgical
treatment, and 132 operations have been performed within
the Infirmary, the successful results of which have been alike
gratifying to your :committee and creditable to the skill of
your medical officers; while the benefits conferred upon the
sufferers, many of whom have been, by means of your libe-
rality, rescued from a life of dark and dreary idleness, and
enabled again to labour for the support of those near and dear
to them, can hardly be too strongly described.
The opportune relief that has been thus extended by your
charity in mitigating the sorrows and alleviating the sufferings
of the poorer classes, when attacked by the painful maladies
which affect the organs of sight and hearing, has on many
occasions elicited from the recipients grateful acknowledg-
ments, which have been very pleasing; and your committee
has satisfaction in expressing its conviction that in most of
the cares permanent benefit has been derived. The increasing
operations of your charity have, however, entailed on your
medical officers duties so laborious, and involving so serious
a tut on their time, that your committee was induced, in
September last, to recommend to a general meeting the ap-
pointment of a third honorary surgeon, and the selection then
made lof Dr. Hibbert Taylor has, your committee believes,
tended fully to maintain and strengthen the high position in
whiel the skill of its medical officers has for so many years
maintained your Infirmary.

Mr. Robert Hamilton. who held the office of honorary as-
sistant surgeon, having resigned, the committee, after
mature consideration, concluded that the daily work of the
infirmary required a more regular attendance than could be
expected from an honorary officer: they accordingly ap-
pointed Dr. Nevins to the office of paid as: istant surgeon,
and feel confident that thus the efficiency of the charity has
been greatly increased by this arrangement,
These changes have involved considerable increase in the
expenditure of the institution; and although its financial
position shows a slight improvement, yet this has mainly
arisen from donations, and from the liberality of the corpora-
tion, which your committee beg gratefully to acknowledge.
The income derived from these benefactions being, however,
of a precarious nature, cannot be _calculated upon with the
same confidence as that derived from annual subscrip-
tions, in the amount of which your committee regrets to
notice a falling off; and as the extent of the operations of the
institution must mainly depend upon the latter source of
income, the committee, while thanking those friends whose
efforts have been directed to obtain additional subscribers,
would solicit a continuance of their aid, believing that the
merits and claims of this useful but unostentatious charity
require only to be brought more fully before the public in
order to ensure a much larger share of sympathy and support
than it has hitherto enjoyed.

The subsequent proceedings were of a purely formal
character, and for the resolutions passed we beg to refer
to the advertisement. The report and statement of ac-
counts were adopted, and ordered to be printed, and the
thanks of the meeting voted to the Corporation, the pre-
sident, vice-presidents, and committee, and also to the
medical officers for their services.
Mr. NEILL called attention to what he considered a
mistaken resolution, which had been placed on the books,
as to the exclusion of cases alleged to be of an infectious
character from the benefits of the Infirmary, to which a
promise was made that the committee would re-direct
their attention ; and the proceedings closed with the usual
compliment to the chairman.

THE How. H. T. LIDDELL, M.P., will be at the Town
Hall to-morrow and the two following days, and will be
happy to meet any of his constituents who may be desirous
of communicating with him.
INFANTICIDE.—Two more inquests were held before the
Deputy-Coroner, on the bodies of infants who had been
overlain by their mothers during Thursday night.
MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SO-
CIETY.—The committee of this society have decided that
the meeting of 1854 shall be held at Altrincham, and that
it shall take place on the Bth day of September, the trials
implements being made on the previous day as usual.
The Earl of Stamford and Warrington has accepted the
presidency.
BLUE COAT HOSPITAL.—On Saturday the boys were
treated, by Mr. Thomas, to the morning performance of
his admirable band, and seemed to enjoy themselves most
enthusiastically.
CLAUGHTON CURLING CLUB.—The annual dinner was
held on Saturday, at the Monks' Ferry Hotel, where an
elegant repast was served.
WELCH BANS.—The making up of the affairs of the
Monmouth and Glamorgan Bank, which suspended pay-
ment in 1851, will shortly be brought to a termination,
with a more favourable result than was anticipated two
Years ago.

GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE OF ROMISII PRIESTS.—It
will be seen by our advertising columns, that a petition is
in course of signature against the recent appointment of
Romish chaplains by the Home Secretary.
THENEWMERCHANTS' iNG-Booms, in Castle-street
is one of the features of modern Liverpool. Epicures
should consult the bill of fare in our advertising columns.
DEATH FROM BURNING.—About a fortnight ago, Ellen
Evans, an infirm woman, 74 years of age, residing in
Sumner-street, was left by herself for a few minutes. On
the return of one of the inmates of the house, her cap was
discovered to be on fire. She died yesterday, from the
injuries received.

EAST GLOUCESTERSIIIRE ELECTION.—The election for
a member of parliament for East Gloucestershire, in the
room of the Duke of Beaufort, took place on Monday,
last week. The candidates were Sir M. H. H. Beach, a
Conservative, and Mr. Edw. Holland, a Radical. The
show of hands was in favour of the latter, but at the close
of the poll, which took place on Thursday, the numbers
were—Sir M. H. Beach, 3,363 ; Mr. Holland, 2,344 ;
majority, 1,019.
DROWNED.—On Saturday night last, Hugh M'Croney,
from Londonderry, who was about to return to Ireland by
the steamer Blenheim, fell into the water at the south-east
corner of the Clarence Dock. He was seized before he
sunk, but died in the receiving-house from the effects of
the exposure.—Yesterday forenoon, the body of a man
unknown, was found in the canal lock, Great Howard-
street, and taken to the dead-house. It was there identified
by the mate of the Westmoreland, lying in the Prince's
Dock, to be his captain. He had last seen him on Saw-
' day evening.
EMANCIPATION PROM THE RAZOR ! " WEEP SHAVE ?"
—Under this title, Mr. Dickens has published a very
interesting and talented article, as a dissuasive from shav-
ing—shewing the injury done to the chest, the teeth, the
nerves, the appearance, and in fact the constitution, from
man's depriving himself of the protection nature has
afforded for this part of his frame. It appears to us quite
as rational that man should shave his head or his eye-
brows as his chin and his lip. Where nature (that is, the
God of nature) has placed the protection, depend upon it
it is required, and man acts to his own injury and in de-
fiance of nature's laws to remove that protection. We
earnestly commend Mr. Dickens's article to the attention
of our readers.—Correspondent.

SUlClDES.—Yesterday morning, a watch finisher named
James Chambers, 57 years of age, and lodging at the house
of Mr. J. W. Jones, Luke-street, Toxteth-park, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Mr. and Mrs.
Jones were awakened about four o'clock, by a heavy fall
in the lobby leading from deceased's bed-room to his work•
shop, and on obtaining a light found Chambers lying
bleeding with an extensive wound in his neck, the jugular
vein having been quite cut through. The police were
called in, and also a surgeon from the dispensary, but in
a few minutes life was extinct. Deceased had been drink-
ing heavily since Christmas, and had been threatened with
the consequences of keeping watches which had been sent
to him to repair.—On Thursday last, George Walker,
38 years of age, a cabinet-maker and dealer in joiners' tools,
residing in No. 5, Headlane-buildings, Ranelagh-place,
Ihung himself behind his bed-room door, whilst labouring
under delirium tremens..

PHILHARMONIC-HALL.
LAST WEEK BUT ONE!
MISS RANSFORD,
the inimitable English Ballad Singer,
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