The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS

A meeting of delegates from the Lancashire and
Cheshire Mechanics' Institute, was held in Liverpool on
Wednesday, when a resolution for a general union of the
different Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Cheshire
was proposed. Dr. Hodgson was appointed secretary to
the meeting, with power to name the day on which it will
next assemble.

LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.-This society
held their annual meeting on Tuesday, J. B. Brancker,
Esq., in the chair. The property of the society amply
covers the debt. The retiring members of committee and
officers were re-elected, with the exception of Mr. Leyland,
in whose place Mr. Thomas Littledale, jun., was appointed
on the committee. The new hall, capable of holding 2000
to 2200 subscribers, will be completed in about eighteen
months.

WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.--At the monthly meet-
ing, on Thursday, Mr. Holland brought forward a motion
to rescind the resolution passed at the previous meeting,
" Confirming the proceedings of the Improvement Com-
mittee, except so much as related to the payment to Mr.
West, the surveyor, of £35, for assisting to prepare plans."
Mr. Holland characterised the resolution as a personal
attack on the surveyor, which Mr. Goldsmith denied with
great warmth. Mr. Holland's motion was carried by a
majority of ten to seven ; and he then brought forward a
motion to rescind the resolution dismissing the sur-
veyor, and this was carried by nine to eight, and the
surveyor was accordingly reinstated. Mr. Crump sent in
his resignation, on the ground that he was unable to give
proper attention to the office. It was ultimately resolved,
to till up the vacancy, along with that occasioned by the
resignation of Mr. Fisher, at the general election in July.
THE NEW HEALTH COMMITTEE.—This committee,
appointed under the new act for improving the sanatory
condition of the town, consists of the members of the
Watch Committee, of the members of the old Health
Committee, and of the special committee for sanatory
purposes, with the addition of Mr. John Holmes, who for
so long a period officiated as chairman of the Highway
Board. Mr. Ambrose Lace has been appointed chairman
of the general committee ; and it has been decided to
divide the committee into five sub-committees, viz., for
paving, scavenging, finance, construction of dwellings, and
general purposes. Mr. Tinne has been appointed chair-
man of the Paving Sub-committee; Mr. Parker of the
Scavenging Sub-committee ; Mr. H. Hornby of the
Finance Sub-committee; Mr. A. Lace of the Sub-com-
mittee for the Construction of Dwellings ; and Mr. Josias
Booker of the Sub-committee for General Purposes.
DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The plans for the
entrances and passages at the new north docks were ap-
proved.—There was a long conversation relative to the
new graving docks at the north end. The question to be
decided was whether, on the ground set apart for these
docks, five or six docks should be made. It was ulti-
mately decided, by a majority of ten to three, to build six
docks.--A letter was read from the Shipbuilders' Asso-
ciation, suggesting certain alterations in the arrangements
as to the graving docks, and calling attention to the defi-
ciency of dock space, especially in the centre of the town—
there having been lately three times as many vessels on
the list as berths. The letter was referred to the Harbour
Master's Sub-committee.—The marine surveyor submit-
ted his new survey of Liverpool bay, made during the
season of 1846, showing some alterations in the banks.
The survey was ordered to lie on the table for a fortnight,
for the inspection of the pilots, previous to the alterations
as to buoys and lights recommended by the surveyor being
made.
BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS, TUESDAY.—The Ferry
Committee had requested the manager to furnish plans
and specifications for a new boat, to be less than the Nun,
and larger than the Eliza Price, and with ten horse power
extra. They had also a more strict observance of the law
against indiscriminate smoking on board the ferry boats,
with a more defined space for the practice. They recom-
mended the division of the crews into classes, with an in-
crease of wages for long service. They also recommended
the increase of the salary of Mr. Young, the head engi-
neer, from £l3O to £lBO per annum. Confirmed.—The
report of the Postoffice Reform Committee complained
that, notwithstanding various additions and new arrange-
ments at the Birkenhead Postoffice, it still continued in a
very unsatisfactory state ; partly because the government
did not appear to be fully acquainted with the rising im-
portance of Birkenhead in a mercantile point of view, and
partly from the present postmaster having no inclination
in any way to second the views of the committee as re-
gards improvement. The Committee were instructed to
take such steps as they thought proper to produce more
satisfactory results.

LIVERPOOL MARINE SOCIETY.-At the annual meet-
ing on Tuesday it was resolved, on the motion of the
chairman, W. Potter, Esq., to increase the annuities to
the four captains to £27 10s. each, to the eighteen widows
£22 each, and to the orphans £lO each. The annuities
paid during the past year to 18 widows at £2O each, and to 4
captains at £25 each, had amounted to £431. The inte-
rest on the stock account had realised £453, the honorary
subscriptions were £l6 145., and from the marine mem-
bers, 35 in number, £142 had been received. The sum of
£11,965 was deposited in the National Debt Fund, and
there was a total balance now in hand of £12,268. The
average age of the annuitants was—captains 70 years, and
widows 66. The directors for the ensuing year were then
appointed, Mr. Potter being re-elected president,. and
James Stitt, Esq., and C. Cotesworth, Esq., vice presi-
dents. The Chairman said, that from want of information
or some other cause this society was not popular among
the masters of vessels, though, perhaps, so far as money
went, it was richer than any society of a similar descrip-
tion. It was all the better for its own members that it
should continue in its present prosperous condition, at
the same time it was not of that extensive use amongst
the class of society for whose benefit it was designed that
he was sure all who took an interest in its affairs would
wish it to be.

WEST DERBY UNION.—The weekly meeting of the
Guardians, transferred from Tuesday, on which, from the
formation of the Union, it had previously been held, took
place on Wednesday last, the day fixed for its future
weekly meetings. There were letters from the Poor-law
Commissioners. The first of them sanctions the appoint-
ments, recently made, of the four medical officers for the
districts, into which Toxteth-park, for this purpose, has
been divided. The second inquired into the qualification
of a medical gentleman recently chosen to one of the
more northern districts of the Union, and a third, from
Austin, the Assistant-Commissioner, announced his in-
tention to attend at the board-room yesterday, at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of investigating
the charge of neglect by one of the relieving-officers, of
the ease of a
poor man on Edge-hill, who died the day
after he had applied for relief. • Mr. Harbord, one of the
the duties of the' office as his reason, that
in medical officers of Toxteth-part lately elected, sent
his resignation alleging,
worthy retention
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the appointment
Harbord's deauctteydininaan.otearr
Draw-
bridge, who for many monthsand Mr.
district of the Park as Mr.
letter, as a candidatesin
appointment, announced himself, by deputy
for the vacated office. The medical officer of the Fever_
house, under date of Tuesday, the sth instant, reported
that, in the course of the previous eight days, eight pa-
tients had been admitted—that five had been discharged
cured—that there had been. no death, and that fourteen
remained in the house. He further added, that most of
the patients. were likely to do well. There was not any-
thing of material interest to the public before the board at
this sitting, save that the number of poor applicants, es-
pecially from the Park, were manifestly on the increase.
It was announced by the master that the workhouse,
which was calculated to accommodate 450, was nearly full,
there being then 444 inmates.
THE BENEVOLENT EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT SOCIETY.
—There is no subject of the present day of paramount
importance to that of providing for the sound education
of the growing classes, and ameliorating the condition of
our working population. We therefore hail with enthu-
siasm any effort, however humble, that may be made to
advance that object, feeling a confidence that the visible
wants and increasing thirst for knowledge--founded on
the true and untarnished Scriptures—will ultimately be
the means alone by which this country will maintain that
powerful pre-eminence she has hitherto held over other na-
tions. The Benevolent Educational District Society has
originated from the long-acknowledged want of an adult
and juvenile scholastic institution, in connexion with the
Church of England, in the districts of St. Anne's and
All Saint's ; and as an earnest of their future efforts, a
tea party was held at Lassells' Rooms, Great Richmond-
street, on Thursday evening last, at which there were con-
gregated nearly four hundred residents of the district.
The object of the meeting being to raise funds for the es-
tablishment of the society, the tea was simple, but the ar-
ticles composing it were so excellent that general satisfac-
tion was expressed. Several ladies volunteered their ser-
vices at table, and Mr. Massey, of the St. Anne's Coffee-
house, kindly prepared the tea. George Jones, Esq. took
the chair ; and after the repast was removed, he called on
the. Secretary to read the report, which -fully illustrated
the lamentable condition of the districts—the wretchedness
and poverty, destitution and depravity, of the poorer
classes. It stated the objects of the Society to be the
establishment of a Sunday school for adults and children ;
the appointment of voluntary Scripture readers, who can
fully expound the Scriptures in the English, Welsh, and
a-inrishlanguages ; to form an evening school for children
concert
d adults ; for the delivery of occasional lectures • to
"'nu a library • and to promote the soundest religious' in-
structi°ll.• Tile report was carried by acclamation. A
ofer sacred music from the "Messiah," was then
conunene
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them were Mrs.
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y vocalists, male and female, as well as
instrumental performers, whose names we could not learn.
Mr. Jackson sang the song, " Every valley," a difficult
but admirable compositio •n, a manner passing excellent.