The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—On Wednesday the usual
weekly meeting was held ; T. F. Roskell, Eq., in the
chair. A letter was read from the secretary of St.James's
Cemetery, stating that no interments of paupers from
Toxteth-park could be permitted after October next.
Mr. Musker was unanimously elected to fill the office of
collector and assistant-overseer for Bootle. The nuisance
committee reported that they could not recommend the
appointment of an inspector, and a motion for his ap-
pointment WEIS negatived by 8 to 6.
HEALTH COMMITIEE.—At the usual weekly meeting,
on Thursday, Mr. Hornby occupied the chair. Mr. Fer-
guson drew the attention of the committee to a complaint
from the inhabitants of West Derby, relative to a deposit
for night soil in Kensington, which was a great and inju-
rious nuisance. The report of the medical officer of health
reported, for the week ending the 15th instant, a decrease
of 137 on the general mortality of the borough, and of
136 in the deaths from cholera, the deaths from all causes
being 591 against 728 in the previous week, and from
cholera 352 against 488. The decrease in the deaths
caused by the epidemic was general throughout the bo-
rough, with the exception of Castle-street, St. Peter's,
and South Toxteth Wards, in which there was a trifling
increase. One-half of the deaths in the parish of Liver-
pool occurred in Scotland and Vauxhall Wards. A large
proportion of the choler a deaths still continue to occur
among females, the numbers last week being 148 males
and 204 females; and, from all other causes, 117 males
and 122 females. The epidemic still continued to de-
cline, the new cases reported, during the first four days
of the present week, being 279 against 456 in the four
previous days.
SELECT VESTRY.—The usual fortnightly meeting was
held on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector Campbell in the chair.
A discussion took place upon the subject of the charges
brought against the Vestry by the General Board of
Health and the reply of the Medical Relief Committee,
and, after some discussion on the subject, a committee
was appointed to prepare a condensation of the report for
publication. A discussion followed as to who was to
pay the costs incurred by the committee appointed at the
Special General Vestry. It was stated the expenses were
to be bcrne out of the voluntary rate. In reply to a ques-
tion from Mr. Earle, it was stated that the voluntary
rate was collected by the ordinary collectors, and could
not be applied to parish purposes, whereupon Mr. Earle
stated that it was his intention to represent this matter to
the Poor-law Board. Mr. Harbord told Mr. Earle that
he might obtain the information about the amount of the
rate at the Mercury-office, whereupon Mr. Earle said, in
his usual sharp manner, " I won't ask him ; I will go to a
better source if I am to ascertain it—so I wish you good
morning." Here Mr. Earle took up his hat and abruptly
left the room, amidst loud laughter, from the other mem-
bers of the board.

HOUSE-OWNERS' GUARDIAN SOCIETY.—On Friday
evening, a meeting of this society was held in the Claren-
don Rooms, to consider the course which the Overseers
and the Select Vestry were now taking to collect poor-
rates, as it affected the owners of cottage property.—Mr.
George Sumners presided, and explained the hardships
which the new system entailed on cottage owners.—Mr.
Bradley, surgeon, proposed a resolution to the effect that
it was the duty of every man to contribute to the parish
rates according to his means. The cottage-owners were
now made, in effect, to pay the rates of their tenants, and
he blamed certain members of the National Confedera-
tion for this. (The speaker was called to order on his
allusion to any body of individuals.)—Mr. Duckworth
seconded the resolution, and it was passed unanimously.
—Mr. Casement moved the second resolution (see ad-
vertisement), which he supported in an effective speech.
—Mr. Pedder, in seconding the resolution, said that if
the system complained of were pursued, the owners of
cottage property had better give it up to the parish autho-
rities.—The third resolution, moved by Mr. John Bennett
and seconded by Mr. White, and other resolutions, were
unanimously passed, and the meeting dispersed.
MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICUUTURAL SO.
CIETY.—On Thursday a special meeting of the members
of this society was held at the Neptune Hotel, Clayton-
square, to award the prizes for farms, crops. &c. The
Right Hon. Lord de Tabley, president of the society,
took the chair ' • and amongst those present were, W.
Tatton, Esq., M.P., and several leading members of the
society. A discussion took place relative to the privilege
of the life members of the late Manchester society, which
ended in a resolution to the effect, that as the society
named was dissolved before its amalgamation with the
Liverpool society, the privileges of the life members had
become extinct. The main business—the adjudication of
prizes—was then proceeded with. After some " agricul-
tural" discussion as to succession of crops, the first prize
of the society's silver medal, to the owner and occupier of
not less than 150 acres, was awarded to Mr. John Owen,
of Lower House, West Derby. The second medal, for
the best cultivated farm of not less than 60 acres, was
awarded to Richard Watt, Ezq., of Speke. The third,
for 150 acres, to Mr. William Longton, of Rainhill. A
medal was awarded to Mr. Robert Birch, of Netherton,
for the second best farm. Amongst the other prizes were
the following :—Thcs. Atherton, Speke, farm of 100 acres,
£8 ; James Langshaw, Speke, farm of GO acres. £8 ;
James Birch, Sefton, farm of 150 acres, £B, for drainage;
John Birch, of Orrell, farm of 100 acres, £6, for drainage ;
John Birch, of Orrell, subsoiling, £5 ; Richard Jackson,
Noctorum, near Birkenhead, irrigation, £1; Wm. Boyes,
Speke, laying down grass, £4 ; Win. Morris, Knowsley,
marling, £2 ; James Birch, Sefton. hedges, £6 ; Wm.
Atherton, Speke, hedges, £4 ; Sir Thos. Hesketh, Ruf-
ford, crops, (Swede turnips, silver medal ; Thos. Atherton,
Speke, mangel wurzel, £4 ; James Birch, Sefton, mangel
wurzel, £3. Officers were appointed for the ensuing year,
and the meeting broke up.

VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE
OF CAMBRIDGE TO LIVERPOOL.

On Tuesday afternoon his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge arrived here by the Chester and Birken-
head Railway, on a visit to Thos. Berry Horsfall, Esq.,
ex-Mayor. On the arrival of his Royal Highness, h 3 was
met by the Mayor and Mr. Horsfall, at the great Landing
Stage, and conveyed in the Mayor's carriage to Mr. Hors-
fall's residence, Mill-bank House. On Tuesday evening
his Royal Highness dined with Major-General Sir Wm.
Warre, and a select party who had been invited to meet
him. After dinner he returned to Mr. Horsfall's. On
Wednesday his Royal Highness, accompanied by the
Mayor, Mr. Horsfall, Sir Wm. Warre, and Baron Knes-
beck, his Royal Highness's aide-de-camp, visited the
institutions and public buildings in Liverpool. Amongst
the places visited were the Custom-house, the Sailors'
Home, St. George's Hall, the Blue Coat School, the
new Philharmonic Concert Hall, the Blind Asylum, St.
James's Cemetery, Mr. Hausburg's establishment, &c.
He afterwards visited several of the docks on board the
Satellite, and inspected the splendid steamship Canada.
At half-past three o'clock the Royal Duke appeared on
'Change, where a number of the principal merchants and
others had assembled to welcome him. The Royal visitor
was shown through the spacious news-room of the Ex-
change, and on appearing again on 'Change the crowd
which had assembled testified their loyalty to the House
of J3runswick by giving three hearty cheers for the Queen,
the Duke of Cambridge, and the Royal family. Whilst
on 'Change, h s Royal Highness, who is seventy-five
years of age, walked arm-in-arm with Mr. T. B. Horsfall.
He appeared in the enjoyment of excellent health and
spirits. The Mayor, General Sir W. Warre, and Capt.
Black, also accompanied the Royal Duke, who, on leav-
ing the Exchange, proceeded to the Town-hall, where he
remained for about half an hour, and then proceeded in

the Mayor's carriage to the residence of Mr. Horsfall,
where a select party was invited to meet his Royal High-
ness at dinner. On Thursday his Royal Highness visited
Manchester, in company with Mr. Horsfall, and returned
to Liverpool in the evening, when his Worship the Mayor
had the honour of entertai ing the Royal Duke and a
circle of friends to dinner at the Town-hall. The follow-
ing is a list of the company present :—His Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, the
Hon. A. F. Egerton, Sir R. Pigott, Bart., Major-General
Sir Wm. Warre, Lieut.-Col. Garrett, Colonel Falconer,
Capt. Black, Capt. Mitchell, Major Mathias, Admiral
Grenfell, Capt. Ireland Blackburne, John Ireland Black-
borne, Esq., Baron Knesebeck, Leopold Cast, Esq.,
Captßevis, R.N. Col. Philips, H. Boulton Fennell,
Esq., Rector Campbell, Rev. J. S. Howson, principal of
the Collegiate Institution, and W. Fosbery, J. B. Yates,
A. Swainson, T. L. Whitehouse, T. B. Horsfall, J. H.
Sanderson, E. Rushton, T. A. Curtis, J. Stewart, W. R.
Coulborn, S. Holme, James Tyrer, Adam Hodgson, R.
Rankin, T. Bold, E. Molyneux, J. M'lver, W. Imrie,
T. Moss, F. Shand, and R. Horsfall, Esqrs., &c., &c.
In the course of the evening, his WORSHIP, in propo-
sing the 1 ealth of the Duke of Cambridge, took occasion
to comment upon the progressive prosperity and affluence
of the country under the reign of the house of Bruns-
wick; and, in connection with that subject, mentioned,
as a curious circumstance relative to the visit of the Royal
Duke, that on the 18th of September, 1806, the then
Prince of Wales (afterwards George the Fourth), accom-
panied by the Duke of Clarence, honoured Liverpool with
a visit. This was exactly forty-three years ago ; and he
took that date from which to draw a comparison between
the town and port of Liverpool at that time and the pre-
sent day. which would give a striking view of the rapid
and continuous progress which Liverpool had made as a
commercial emporium. In the first-named year, 1806,
the number of vessels which entered the port was only—
but at that time doubtless considered a large number--
4,676, having a tonnage of 507,805 ; whereas, in the nre-
sent year, 1849, the vessels entered numbered 20,723,
with a tonnage of 3,639,120;—showing an increase in the
number of vessels of 16,047, and in the amount of ton-
nage of 3,131,315.
His ROYAL HIGHNESS graciously and appropriately
replied to the compliment paid him by his health having
been 'llk to, and felicitated the port and town upon the
progressive prosperity of their commercial pursuits.
After one or two other toasts,
His ROYAL HIGHNESS again rose, and, in a few hap-
pily selected phrases, proposed " Prosperity to the Town
and Trade of Liverpool," connecting with it the name of
his hospitable host, Mr. Horsfall, whom he highly com-
plimented for his kindness and urbanity.
Mr. HORSFALL acknowledged the toast in his usual
eloquent and feeling manner.
The MAYOR then gave " The Shipping Interest of Li-
verpool" ; and, in alluding to the mercantile marine of
England, described it as the nursery of those seamen who
would be found ever ready to protect the country. He
coupled with it the name of Mr. Rankin, whom he de-
scribed as one of the largest shipowners in this or any
other country.
Mr. RANICIN acknowledged. the toast.
On Friday morning his royal highness paid arather un-
expected visit to the Collegiate Institution. About eleven
o'clock, the mayor, who had agreed to meet his Royal
Highness, arrived in his. carriage. He was accompanied
by the Honourable Algernon Egerton, son of the Earl of
Ellesmere. In a shot time afterwards the prince arrived
in Mr. T. B. Horsfall's carriage, behaving been the guest
of that gentleman aims) his stay in Liverpool. With the

Prince were Mr. T. B. Horsfall, Esq , the Rev. J. S. Howson,
the Principal of the Institution, and Baron Knesbeck. A
number of gentlemen were assembled to meet the Prince,
and amongst them we noticed the Rev. Rector Campbell,
the Rev. F. Barker, Mr. W. Gregson, Mr. Adam Hodg-
son, &c. The company would have been much more nu-
merous had the intention of his Royal Highness to visit
the institution been generally known. Several of the
teachers, with the secretary of the institution, and others
of the officers, were present when his Royal Highness ar-
rived. _ . _

On entering the hall his Royal Highness, who looked
remarkably well. was received by the gentlemen above
named, and conducted by the Principal up the large stair-
case to the landing opposite the lecture-hall. The Prin-
cipal here explained to his Royal Highness the nature and
objects of the institution, the studies pursued, and the
mode in which the pupils were classified together, with
any other particulars that were of interest. The pupils,
headed by their teachers, were passed from the various
rooms to the lecture-hall in view of his royal highness,
who expressed himself highly gratified with their general
appearance and demeanour. The pupils being assembled,
the Principal, in a very appropriate manner, asked if his
Royal Highness would be pleased to pay a visit to the lec-
ture-hall, with which he most readily complied.
His Royal Highness was then conducted to the stage in
the lecture-hall, accompanied by the party of gentlemen
who had received him. He seemed much interested at
the appearance of the building, filled as it then was by so
many hundreds of the rising generation, who were receiv-
ing a sound and liberal education within its walls. Almost
immediately on entering he stood forward to the front of
the platform, when the national anthem was sung by the
pupils, the organ accompanying them. His Royal High-
ness seemed highly pleased at this manifestation of loyalty,
and joined heartily in the chorus.
At its conclusion, the Rev. J. HowsoN, the Principal,
addressed his Royal Highness in the following terms :
May it please your Royal Highness,—The boys who are
assembled in this hall are well instructed in the history of
the House of Brunswick. They are not wanting in that
sentiment of loyalty which we all owe to her gracioes
Majesty Queen Victoria ; and they are prepared to receive
a visit from any member of the royal family with lively
and respectful gratitude. But, sir, on this occasion they
have been taken by surprise ; and, therefore, I have
asked permission from your Royal Highness to say to
them a few words, in order that they may be fully in-
formed of the honour which has been conferred on them
to-day. When they are informed that his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, the son of King George the
Third—(cheers)—and the uncle of Queen Vietoria—
(cheers)—has condescended not only to be interested in
the existence of these schools, but to come and visit them
in person, they will feel that this is a day to be remem-
bered—(cheers)—and a new meaning will henceforward
be given to all their lessons in English history and
English loyalty. (Loud cheers.) I now beg, on their
behalf, in the name of all the masters of these schools, t•o
present our united acknowledgments for this act of con-
descension. And with these united acknowledgments, we
des re to express our fervent hopes that it may please
Almighty God, who is the giver of all good things, to
continue to your Royal Highness the enjoyment of health
and happiness. (Loud cheers.)
His ROYAL. HIGHNESS replied, observing that it was a
source of the highest gratification to see so many young
boys assembled around him. (Cheers.) The institution
was one which be had long bad a desire to visit, from the
high character he had heard of it as regarded its general
efficiency and excellent arrangements for promoting the
noble object it was intended to accomplish. Nothing
could be more satisfactory than the description he had
received that day as to its general management. (Cheers.)
It was of the utmost importance to the well-being of
a country that, in the education of the young, they should
be trained up in loyalty and the sound principles of reli-
gion, for every happiness depended upon it, and what-
ever blessings they enjoyed during their progress in this
life must be in proportion as they were guided by those
principles. (Cheers.) By following out such a course,
they would be enabled, in all their future trials and diffi-
culties, to get through them with comparative ease, and
receive their due reward, not only in the present life, but
in a future state, when this life should terminate. He
concluded by saying that, at his request, a holiday had
been granted by the committee to all the pupils. [The
concluding part of his _Royal Highness' speech was, of
course, received with the most enthusiastic applause.]
Three cheers were. then given for the Queen and the
Duke, and the royal visitor, after being conducted
through some of the principal rooms of the establish-
ment, left in the company of the Mayor. Mr. T. B. Hors-
fall and other gentlemen. The illustrious stranger. ac-
companied by the Mayor, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr.
Horsfall, proceeded to the pierhead, and crossed the river
to the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Station. We
understand he proceeded to Plas Newyd, the seat of the
Marquis of Anglesea, where he was a guest previous to
paying a visit to this town.