The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-11 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

BIRKENHEAD MISSIONARY AssociATioN.—The an-
nual meeting was held on Friday, at the Craven-rooms,
Birkenhead. The attendance was numerous. The meet-
ing was addressed by the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, the Re*, 14.
Carpenter, and other ministers.
BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—The monthly meeting
was held on Tuesday, Richard Bryans, jun., Esq., in the
chair. It appeared from the minutes of the Finance
Committee, that a sub-committee was appointed to ar-
range with the trustees of Mr. F. R. Price for the sale of
the Park land, and, if necessary, to go to parliament for
an act to enable the Commissioners to dispose of the Park
land. From the proceedings of this committee it appeared
that an arrangement had been made by which the boats
were to be run during the whole of the ni'ht, but that
each passenger should pay 2d. ferryage. The boats are to
run from Woodside at 121. 14, 24, 34, 44, and 54, and
from Liverpool at 12. 1, 2. 3,4, and 5 o'clock. Mr.
Mallaby congratulated the Ferry Committee on the in-
crease in the receipts. They were as follow :—For the
month ending 31st Aug., 1848, £1405 ss. Bd. ; 1849,
£1684 7s. 7d. Total receipts from the 23rd April to the
31st August :-1848, £6705 12s. sd. ; 1849, £8063 is. 4d.
Total expenditure troni 23rd April to 31st August, 1849,
£8352 4s. Id.

WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS, THURSDAY.—Mr. Mann
in the chair. Alter some minor business. Mr. Meadows,
in conformity with the notice he gave last month, moved
that the salaries of the law-clerk and other officers be
reduced. He moved that the salary of the law-clerk
should be reduced to £lOO. Mr. Richard Parry seconded
the motion. Mr. Holland, in proposing an amendment
that the salary be reduced to £l5O, did not consider Mr.
Hassall overpaid at his present salary. A deputation,
however, had waited upon Mr. Hassall, to consult him
upon the reduction of his salary, and that gentleman had
willingly consented to the reduction. The amendment
was carried. Mr. Meadows then moved that the salary of
Mr. Kerr, the treasurer, be reduced from £125 per annum
to £lOO. Mr. Richard Parry seconded the motion. Mr.
Holland moved, as an amendmant. that the salary be
reduced to £ll5. Mr. Ewart seconded the amendment,
which was carried by a majority of 14 to 5. Mr. Meadows
withdrew his motion tor a reduction of the salaries of the
other officers. In conformity, however, with his notice of
motion at the last meeting, he moved that the surveyor he
dismissed. Mr. Bryce seconded the motion, which, on
being put, was negatived by a majority of 2.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At Cie usual weekly meeting
the report of the medical officer was read. It appeared
that there was no material change in the mortality of the
borough. For the week ending Saturday, the deaths from
all causes were less than the previous week, but since
Sunday there had been an increase. Deaths from all
causes, 641, previous week, 680 ; cholera, 383, previous
week, 408 ; diarrhoea, 69, previous week, 74. There had
had been 290 deaths in the parish of Liverpool, and 93 in
the extra-parochial townships. In Everton and Kirkdale
there were 18 deaths ; in West Derby, 8 ; and in Tox-
teth.park, 67. Half of the deaths had occurred in Scot-
land and Vauxhall wards, and 1-60th in Rodney and
Abercromby. Dr. Duncan alluded to a discrepancy in the
reports of the cholera ca:es, as given in the newspapers ;
the London Times had on one day given 5 deaths, when
he sent up 48. In reply to a question, he said the cholera
appeared to advance when the temperature of the weather
increased. Mr. Hornby said that what had been stated as
to the proportion of cholera cases in Liverpool, compared
with London, was incorrect. There were not half so
many in London, in proportion to the number of inhabi-
tants. Dr. Duncan said the mortality was greater in
Liverpool than in any part of England ; but it must be
recollected that in,many places the disease was oniy com-
mencing.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS, WEDNESDAY.—Mr.
Chalmers, medical officer fur Everton, appeared before
the board, aria stated that cholera was rapidly increasing
in that township. On Tuesday he had five cases, and
that morning he had visited four. He had been unable
to procure an assistant, and he suggested the employment
of two intelligent persons, not medically qualified, to go
from hotise to house, and report the cases to him. Mr.
Chalmers was empowered to appoint two persons, in
accordance with his suggestion.—A letter from Mr. Alpas,
of Toxteth-park, was read, complaining that the nuisance
arising from some brickfields in the township had not been.
abated.—Mr. Sidney gave notice that he would move,
next Wednesday, the appointment of a person to see that
the nuisances, ordered by the Health Committee, were
removed. The salary to be £BO per annum.—Mr.
Gilmore, district medical officer for Toxteth-park, ap-
peared before the board in explanation of the charge
brought against him for having neglected to attend a
patient on the Sunday morning week. Mr. Gilmore
stated that, on the Sunday in question, he went into
Cheshire to see his family, leaving a properly qualified
person to attend to his duties, and had made, as he
thought. every arrangement. He could not explain how
it was that the woman had been neglected.—A con-
siderable portion of the time of the board was taken up
with an inquiry into a charge brought against Mr.
Johnson, medical officer for Kirkdale, by Mr. Medcalf,
for having made a false return of the number of visits he
had made to his patients. After a long investigation, and
a great deal of discussion, Mr. Johnson explained himself
entirely satisfactorily to the board. It appeared that Mr.
Johnson had mistaken the order of the Poor-law Board
as to filling up the return sheet.
THE SELECT VESTRY.—This meeting took place on
Tuesday, Mr. Churchwarden Harbord in the chair, The
proceedings of the Medical Relief Committee having been
read, Mr. Abraham (chairman of the committee) rose,
and said he was sure no member of the Vestry could have
seen or read, with anything but feelings of pain, the ex-
tract from the Board cf Health, recently published, re-
ferring to the epidemic which now prevailed in this town.
He was not going at that moment to enter jnto the merits
of the question, but he wished the Vestry to understand
that the committee were not going to let judgment go by
default. He felt much satisfaction in saying that they
had an answer to all the allegations contained in the
statements put forward by the Board of Health, and he
hau every confidence that when that answer was before
the public, a very different complexion would be put
upon the facts of the case to that asserted by the Board
of Health. Mr. Hodson said that he was not content
with the little Mr. Abraham had said in reference to the
attack made upon them by the Board of Health: He had
looked over the report, and found that it contained no-
thing more than a tissue of falsehoods. Mr. Woodruff
thought, as it was understood that they were to have a
special meeting on the charges preferred by the Board of
Health, it would he better to postpone all discussion upon
it at present. The chairman thought the matter had
better he referred to a special meeting of the Vestry, to
be fixed by the Board. After some further discussion, it
was agreed that a special meeting of the Vestry be
I called as soon as the report of the Medical Relief Com-
mittee was ready for submitting to the board. Mr.
I 'Woodruff complained of the partial manner in which the
testimonials of the candidates for the office of secretary

to the Vestry-clerk had beer. received, and after some dis-
cussion, the election of Mr. Price, one of the candidates
recommended by the Finance committee, was confirmed.

INCORPORATED NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF THE
POOR, &c., &c.
A meeting of the friends and subscribers of this society
was held on Wednesc:ayf the sth instant, in this town,
the'Venerable Archdeacon Brooks in the chair.
Ilresent :—Revs. A. Campbell, Rector, F. Parry, H.
H. Higgins. C. Wray, W. Pollock, J. Stewart, (West
Derby,) J. North, R. Leicester, T, G. Leigh, C. Wor-
rail, J. S. Hawson, S. Fenton •, Mr. Adam Hodgson, Mr.
Harmood Banner, Mr. R. L. Baily, Mr. Edward Banner,
and others.
The Chairman stated that the object of their coming
together, was the simple one of forming a District '
As-
sociation in aid of the National Society. For many and
obvious reasons, he was glad that the society was aware
of the importance of some local organization, and he was
most happy to assist in the work. A gentleman:had been
deputed by the Committee of the society, who would
make a short statement, and then he would call on those
gentlemen, who had so kindly undertaken the office, to
move the Resolutions which had been drawn up.
Mr. Warren then read extracts from the recent reports
of the society, and from the result of the recent Church
School Enquiry, showing what efforts had been made
during the last ten years towards providing Education for
the Children of the Poor. In the year 1837 there were
only 10,800 daily schools in connexion with the Church;
that number had been increased to 17,000. The number
of Scholars at the first period amounted to 558,000 ; now
it reached to 955,000. During nearly the same period
seventeen training Colleges, for Teachers, have been
founded, from which not less than 209 teachers have been,
for the last five years, sent forth annually ; various dio-
cesan boards of education have been formed, which, with
the National Society as their centre, form a system co-ex-
tensive with the wants of the population. In reference
to St. Mark's College, Chelsea, one of the five training
institutions, supported out of the funds of the parent
society, he quoted the recent testimony of the Bishop of
London, as to the excellence of the training; and also to
the witness borne to the same effect by Archdeacon
Allen, who, in his capacity as one of her Majesty's in-
spectors, had had experience of the pupils of St. Mark's
College, in various parts of England. He had, he said,
found them at work with clergymen of various shades of
opinion, and his experience of them had been uniform.
Testimony, equally satisfactory, had been given as to the
general character of the teachers sent out from Battersea
and Whiteland's School, which, did time allow, be would
lay before the meeting. Mr. Warren, in conclusion said,
" The position I have assumed, and I trust made good, is
that the National Society has laboured zealously and well
in the great cause for which she was instituted, and
therefore deserves the increased support of all Church-
men."

After the moving of the Ist Resolution, (for which see
advertisement,) the Rev. Win. Pollock rose and said, that
as a sincere friend of the Society, he felt bound to raise
one or two questions, and if he could not receive a
satisfactory answer, to move the following amendment :
" That the National Society, considered as the organ of
the Church at large, is bound in all its institutions, care-
fully to avoid the adoption of any symbols or practices,
which have the tendency to identify it with any particular
party in the Church."
A long conversation then ensued, in which Messrs. A.
Hodgson, Banner, the Revs. D. D. Stewart, Parry, Wray,
and Higgins, took part, and the cuestion seemed to re-
solve itself into the appropriateness of the manner in
which the service of the Chapel, at St. Mark's College,
was conducted.
The Chairman here begged to remind the meeting that
St. Mark's was essentially a Collegiate Institution, the
Chapel essentially a College Chapel, and that therefore,
in conducting the service in the manner in which, from
time immemorial, our Cathedral and College Chapel
services had been performed, the principal was taking the
very course, which, in his opinion, should exempt him
from the charge of party. Rector Campbell then said a
few words to the same effect. The Rev. 3. S. Howsou

then drew attention to a matter of far greater importance.
He had lately visited the College, and conversed with:the
principal, and he firmly believed that " Party," in regard
both to the doctrine taught, and the discipline carried out
in the College, was unknown.
The amendment was then withdrawn, with the under-
standing that Mr. Warren should convey to the Society,
the feeling expressed at the meeting,—and the original
Resolution was carried unanimously.