The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

TO THE LADIES

CHANGE OP THE AGENCY APPOINTMENT.
VERS. NICHOLAS GEARY, of No. 61, ST. JAMES'S-
J.VI. STREET, LONDON, STAY and CORSET MAKER to her
most gracious Majesty the Queen, to her Majesty Adelaide
the Queen Dowager, to her Majesty the Quee/of Holland
and Royal Family, begs respectfully to an/ounce to the
A
Ladies of Liverpool and its environs, th
,the has found it
necessary to CHANGE FIER AGENT, and bat she has much
pleasure in informing them, that she has a ointed the Misses
WOODDILL, LAWSON, and DIXON, MILLINERS
and DRESS-MAKERS, No. 80, Bold-street, HER SOLE
AGENTS for Liverpool, of whom every description of her
elegant newly-invented Anotomical Dress STAYS, BELTS,
&c. &c., may be had ; and also, that Ladies may rely upon
having none others but those of Mrs. N. Geary's genuine
invention and manufacture, and which are patonised by the
following most eminent of the London and Liverpool Medi-
cal Gentlemen in strong recommendation of her invention,
namely :

Sir Ja-mes Clark, Bart., Physician to her Majesty.
Dr. Locock, Physician Accoucheur to her Majesty.
Dr. Ferguson, Physician Accoucheur to her Majesty.
Dr. Bright, Pysician Extraordinary to her Majesty.

Sir Benj.. Brodie, Bart., Sergeant Siirgeon to her Majesty.
R. Keate, Esq., Sergeant Surgeon to her Majesty.
Sir Astley Cooper, Bart., Sergeant Surgeon to her Majesty.
Sir Charles M. Clark, Bart., Physician to her Majesty Queen

Adelaide.
Dr.ll,lerrinian, Physician to her Royal Highness the Duchess

of Kent. -
Sir Mathew Tierney, Bart., Physician to his late Majesty.
Dr. James Johnston, Physician Extraordinary to his late
Majesty.
Sir Anthony Carlisle, President of the Royal College of
Surgeons.
Sir James E. Anderson, M.D.
Sir James Eyre, M.D.
William Coulson, Esq., Consulting Surgeon to the London
Lying-in Hospital.
LIVERPOOL MEDICAL GENTLEMEN :
R. Bickersteth, Esq., surgeoniT. Blackburn, Esq., surgeon
Doctor Carson !J.Cheesborough,Esq.,surgeon
Doctor Malins !John Ashcroft, Esq., burgeon
James Dawson, Esq., surgeon! King Ellison, Esq., surgeon
Doctor O'Donnell 'John Banner, Esq., surgeon
Doctor Baird Jas. Marshall, Esq., surgeon
Edward Batty, Esq., surgeon F. L. Minshull, Esq., surgeon
S. M'Culloch, Esq., surgeon Benj. Barraw, Esq., surgeon,
&c. &c., too numerous for the limits of a newspaper.
SOLE AGENTS FOR LIVERPOOL,
MESDAMES WOODDILL, LAWSON, and DIXON,
(late Miss CLARE,) No. 80, BOLD-STREET.

Resolved,—That the thanks of this Vestry be given to Dr.
Macrorie, Dr. Gouthwaite, and Mr. M'Culloch, the Hono-
rary Physicians and Surgeon of the Workhouse. and Fever
Ward, for their valuable services during the past year.
Resolved,—That the sum of £5O per annum be paid out of
the Church-rate, in aid of the Welsh service at Saint Paul's
Church, to be divided amongst the Minister, the Clerk, and
the Sexton, in the following proportions ; that is to say—the
Minister, £35 ; the Clerk, £lO ; and the Sexton, £5.
Resolved,—That the sum of £3O be paid out of the Church-
rate towards the expenses of Saint Matthias'.

Resolved,—Thatit be a recommendation to the Poor-law
Guardians, and through them to the Poor-law Commission-
ers, that a gratuity of .£lOO be paid to Mr. Wainewright, for
his valuable services to the Parish of Liverpool. .
Resolved,—That the thanks of the Vestry be given to the
Churchwardens, Sidemen, Overseers, Select Vestry, and
Vestry Clerk, for their efficient services.
JONATHAN BROOKS, Chairman.
The Chairman having left the chair, on the motion of Mr.
JAMES PROCTOR, seconded by Mr. JOHN CLARKE,
Resolved unanimously,—That the thanks of the Vestry be
given to the Chairman, for his uniformly kind, able, and
impartial conduct in the chair.
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M. D. LOWNDES, Vestry Clerk

The following is a Summary of the Accounts:—
Paid on account of the Workhouse £17,513 7 11
Do. Out-poor
Do. Illegitimates 4,462 15 2
Do. General Charges, including Watch-rate 12,906 15 5
Do. Churches 3,831 9 2

Received on account of the Workhouse
Do. Out-poor
Do. Illegitimates
Do. Sundries
Do. Poor-rates
Do. Churches
Balance, 25th March, 1840.

£61,606 7

3,576 8 11
2,750 8 0
3,83 G 17 8
820 2 14
43,540 7 14
3,098 5 114
1,057 3 8

58,679 13 5i
2,926 13 111

Balance owing Leyland aud Co.

X 61,606 7 5

Errors excepted.
Liverpool, 25th March, 1841.
For the Churchwardens and Select Vestry,
CHARLES HART, Treasurer.
Examined with the vouchers produced, and found correct
JOHN WILKINSON, I
JOHN PATON, Auditors.
MARK RIMMER,

REPORT OF THE CHURCHWARDENS AND
SELECT VESTRY,
For the year ending 25th March, 1841.
The Churchwardens and Select Vestry, in conformity
with usual custom, present to the Parishioners a Summary
of Receipts and Expenditure for the year ending 25th
March, 1811.
Notwithstanding the high price of the necessaries of life,
and the scarcity of employment amongst the operative
classes, particularly those connected with building, in con-
sequence of a section of them being so ill-advised at the
commencement of the last year, as to turn out for wages,
together with the severe and trying winter we have just gone
through ; it will be satisfactory to the Parishioners, as it is
gratifying to the Select Vestry, to observe the nett expenses
not to have so much increased over those of last year as they
reasonably might have anticipated. To this favourable result,
however, they must attribute in part, the timely aid afforded
by the District Provident Society, and the opening of the
soup establishments, from which many honest industrious
families have been supplied with nutritious food at a cheap
rate, whereby they have been enabled to preserve that inde-
pendence of character which the Select Vestry are happy to
observe is gaining ground so much amongst the poor belong-
ing to this Parish.
The Overseers have visited the Parish Apprentices in the
several districts, and have found them as comfortable and as
satisfied with their situations as they had the pleasure to
report last year.
The Churchwardens and Select Vestry have to announce
the resignation of the Rev. H. S. Joseph, the chaplain to
the workhouse.
It is to be lamented that in the course of last year, there
has been in the parish seven cases of death, alleged to have
been caused by the " want of the common necessaries of
life." In several of them, however, money was found upon
the person—one was of a respectable family, and brought on
by imprudence; all the others were entire strangers, and in
no case was any aid sought for from the parish, or any inti-
mation of the distress given in any shape ; but when it is
considered that this being the. principal port of communi-
cation from the Sister Island, from whence the emigration
the last year exceeded that of any former period, and the
consequent disappointment in not meeting that employment
for their families in the manufacturing districts they were
seeking—the wonder is, considering the reckless unprovided
way in which they come, that more of these deplorable casu-
alties have not happened.
The parish cemetery attached to St. Martin's Church,
where all the poor inhabitants have burial ground gratis, is,
in consequence of the nature of the ground being filled-up
clay pits, in some places very wet, at the depth it is proper
the graves should be made. Au opportunity now offers by
the deep sewer made through Vauxhall-road, effectually to
drain it. The same cause has occasioned the foundation of
the chapel, appropriated for the reading of the burial service,
to give way, and requires for the more decent observance of
the funeral rites, and deference to the feelings of the rela-
tions and friends of deceased poor, that a more commodious
one should be erected. The Churchwardens and Select Ves-
try have therefore obtained plans and estimates of the cost of
these improvements, amounting to £916. 16s. Od., an expen-
diture which they trust the parishioners will unanimously
sanction.
In conformity with the instructions which the Select Ves-
try received from the parishioners in Public Vestry, and being
unable to obtain a private Act in reference to the Parish of
of Liverpool, the Select Vestry have the satisfaction of stat-
ing that after considerable delay, and unexpected obstacles,
they obtained the passing of the Act of last session, 3d and 4th
Vict. chap. 28, intituled "An Act to explain and amend an
Act of 2d and 3 years of her present Majesty for more equally
assessing and levying watch rates in certain Boroughs," and
and it is a just subject of congratulation to the Parishioners
that the Corporation no longer possess the power of adding
to the Corporate Treasury from the pockets of the Parish-
ioners, so large an additional impost as £12,000. per annum,
the amount of which they would have been empowered, if
not compelled to levy upon the Parishioners if the Act ad-
verted to had not been obtained.
The Select Vestry have also to inform the Parishioners,
that in conformity with the discretionary powers conferred
upon them by the Parishioners at large, they opposed the
Liverpool Dock Bill in the last session of Parliament and
eventually the Bill was withdrawn from the session.
It will be felt by the Parishioners, that the discretion thus
vested in the Select Vestry was not abused, when they are
informed that although the Dock Trustees would not recog-
nise the demand by the Persil, that the warehouses proposed
to be built by the Dock Trustees, should be subjected to all
the local imposts to which private warehouses were liable ;
vet in the Dock Bill introduced in the present Session of
Parliament, the Dock Trustees have conceded all for which
the Parish contended in the last session.
The Select Vestry also watched the Inland Bonding Ware-
house Bill of last session, but more active means became un-
necessary, from the Bill being withdrawn by Government.
The Select Vestry have the satisfaction to state, that with
the exception of the balance due to the Bank, amounting to
£2,930., and a few accounts of no particular moment that
may be outstanding, the whole of the liabilities of the Parish
are liquidated. To meet this debt to the Parish, the collect-
able amount of the outstanding rates may be fairly estimated
at £16,000., leaving a balance in favour of the Parish of
£13,000.
It now only remains for the Churchwardens and Select
Vestry to announce that their office is at an end, that the ad-
ministration of the affairs of the Parish and the Government
of the Poor are transferred from them to the Guardians of
the Poor, elected under the Poor Law Amendment Act. The
Parishioners in their late Petition to the House of Commons,
have borne testimony to the working of the Select Vestry
System in this parish, and have shown, that under it, the
Poor have been humanely and considerately treated, and at
the same time justice has been done to the ratepayers. The
Select Vestry are not without hope, that the feeling and
wishes of the great body of ratepayers of this Parish, thus
presented to the legislature, will have their due weight, and
will lead to some modification of the Bill now passing through
Parliament, by which the Parish of Liverpool, in common
may be left in the management of its
with other large towns,
own parochial affairs.
Extracted from the minutes fgr the Select Vestry.
JAMES ECKERSLEY, Secretary.

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