The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

MEETING AT THE ROYAL INFIRMARY,

The annual meeting of the Trustees of the Liverpool
Royal Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum, and Lock Hospital,
was held in the Board-room of the Infirmary. yesterday
morning, at ten o'clock; Edward Molyneux, Esq., in the
chair.

Mr. ALFRED NORTH, the treasurer of the institution,
entered into a lengthened and lucid statement of its posi-
tion and prospects, from which we gleaned the fol-
lowing facts :

INFIRMARY.
In the house, Ist January, 1852 ...
Patients admitted during the year

▪ 194
2025
- 2219
.
364
317

Discharged ..
Do. relieved and at own request ..
Made out-patients
Irregular ..
Dead
Remaining in house, January, 1853,
Total

Average weekly
Admitted out-patients
Surgical casualties

LUNATIC ASYLUM,
In on Ist January, 1852
Admitted during the year . ...
Total

Discharged cured..
Do. at friends' request relieved

Dead .
In house Ist January, 1853

Tot-al .
Average weekly number

LOCK HOSPITAL,
In house Ist January, 1852 . .....
Admitted during the year ..

Discharged cured
Relieved and at own request
Sent to Workhouse
Do. Penitentiary .
Do. Benevolent House
Dead
In house Ist January, 1853....

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Mr. North said the accounts for the year were not yet
made up, owing to the early period at which the annual
meeting was held, but there was a falling off in the sub-
scriptions, amounting to about £4O. The subscriptions
now were £423 less than they were seven years ago ; but
the total amount of money received during the year was
greater than usual, owing to some large donations and a
legacy. These, however, it had been deemed advisable to
invest for the benefit of the institution, as being a source
of income which did not usually occur. The balance last
year in the hands of the treasurer was £5OO, this year it
was £350.

The usual resolutions (for which see our advertising
columns) were then moved and passed unanimously.

ALTERATION OF LAWS.—The Rev. J. B. Monk then
rose, for the purpose of bringing forward a motion of which
he had given notice, for an alteration of the law, the
object of which was to determine the appointments of the
medical officers, at the end of twenty-one years from the
date of their appointments, but such officers to be eligible
for re-appointment. This was a subject which had oc-
cupied his attention for nearly twenty years, but
circumstances had occurred which prevented him from
going on with the matter. After referring to the satis-
factory working of a similar law at the Northern and
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present medical officers, and the valuable services they
had rendered the Tnstitntion, Mr. Monk concluded by
moving his resolution, to the effect that the law be so
altered that in any future election of either physicians or
surgeons, such elections should determine at a period of
twenty-one years from the date of such appointmenst.
Mr. E. GIBBON, jun., conceiving that such a measure
would be of advantage to the town at large, as well as to
the Institution, had great pleasure in seconding the
motion.

Mr. HARMOOD BANNER said he believed all Wero
agreed that such an alteration was required, but he was
about to move an amendment with regard to the time at
which such appointments should terminate, and also with
respect to their being eligible for re-appointment. The
great object of his amendment was to limit the time to
fifteen years, and to prevent the physicians and surgeons
from being eligible for re-election.
Mr. CoxoN seconded the amendment, and after some
conversation it was put and lost.

Another amendment was then moved by Mr. Langton,
and seconded by Mr. Shand, to the effect that the term
should be fifteen years, but that the medical officers should
be eligible for re-election. This on being put was also
lost, and the original motion, which will be found in our
advertising columns, was carried.
After a vote of thanks had been passed to the commit-
tee and to the president, the meeting separated.

THE JOHN KNOX, AUSTRALIAN EMIGRANT SHIP.—
Some rumours having been industriously circulated of
disaster having occurred to this vessel, we have authority
for stating that, since her departure from this port, which
was on New Year's Day, no intelligence of her whatever
has been received, and there is not the slightest reason for
supposing otherwise than that she is pursuing her voyage.
She had a crew considerably above the usual complement,
and was in every respect well provided.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last, several seamen
belonging to the Arctic steam-ship went ashore for the
purpose of spending the afternoon. The ship was then
lying in the Huskisson Lock, which had been let dry, but
as a warning to passengers, three fires were lighted on
the quay. One of the seamen, named Daniel M`Kenny,
went to one of the fires for the purpose of lighting his
pipe. Whilst he was applying the light he had obtained
to his pipe, he walked forward, and incautiously went too
far, dropping into the lock. He was picked up bleeding
very much from the head, and conveyed to the Northern
Hospital, where he died of the injuries at eight o'clock
one hour after his admission.

LECTURE IN LIVERPOOL BY THE REV. T. D. GREGG.
-It affords us great pleasure in being enabled to
announce that the Rev. T. D. Gregg, of Dublin, the cele-
brated controversialist, and eloquent expounder of sound
Protestant principles, has consented to lecture during the
present month in the town, on the " Heroism of the
sacred character, as contradistinguished from that of the
profane, illustrated by the life and acts of Jeremiah."
We anticipate seeing one of the most crowded meetings
that have been held in this town, on the occasion of the
rev. gentleman's lecture. We shall be in a position to
name the exact date and place in our next. In the mean-
time we may say that is expected the Rev. Dr. Blakeney,
of Claughton, will preside.

BURSTING OF A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE.—An extraor-
dinary accident occurred on Saturday on the Midland
Railway, about two miles and a half from Bristol. The
goods train, which starts at eight o'clock in the evening,
happened to be unusually light, carrying only 74 tons and
a few empty pickle-trunks, but it was drawn by two
engines, the boiler of one of which exploded with terrific
violence, shattering everythingconnected with it to atoms.
Both the engineer and the stoker had jumped off the
engine to chock the wheels, or they must have been blown
to atoms.