The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

which the Council

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Every speaker throughout the ,proce _
willing testimony to the ability with which the
ss of the bench is discharged by the stipen-
and the only circumstance to be regretted
ted with the subject is the fact, that the

Lrty motives

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conne

proposition was ever introduced at all, and
the inindirimig nar+ial;+‘,

should have placed him in a mortifying pb,
before his fellow-townsmen.

for the advantage of the
himself

, public and of Mr. Rushton
It is now a fact admitted on all hands,
that he is over-worked, and that his power's are
unfairly tasked. The Council has placed its veto
upon the principle attempted to he established,
•At the work of two men is to be thrown upon
'ho-alders of one in order that that one may
nai(l. We ask that body now, and we
"1 of Mr. Rushton's friends and of

be doubly pall

the borough magistrates, to be consistent. Since
they cannot carry their point in the shape of a

pecuniary recompense, they must resort- to the
alternative of lessening the pressure of his duties.
We do not abate one iota of our demand for an
additional police court, and a division of the

borougt

are, on the contrary, strengthened in the views
which we have all along expressed with respect to
the necessity of such a measure. The convenience
of the public requires that it should be adopted ;

most active advocates of the claim put
torward in behalf of Mr. Rushton's increase admit,
that at no distant period it must be adopted. In
the meantime, however, a middle course is open.
_
trates of Liverpool are now, we

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orough ma

to do t

y, and to relieve the
There can be no

aeir du _
stipendiary of some of his work
difficult

in removing from him i

disor

erly eas,

merely routine (

are in pc

:ession of the hono

upon the bench will devote an occa

hour of their time to the public service

for their over-worked brother magistrate

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

ris:sociauons, unner this title, have wi
ars been formed in the metropolis
" '

ier young men, a

actice of religion ; and

s in .:view, has just beer
id held its first meeting on Fridal
room of the Charitable Institutioi
in Slater-street, which was crowded on the occa2.

formed in Livery

sion. The Rev. W. Fanoon, Incumbent of St. John's
Church, delivered, on this occasion, an impressive lecture,
enforeinc, the precepts of the Gospel on .his audience,
warning the young men present of the danger of indulging,
in sinful habi

and propensities, too common amongst
them,. and urging them to accept the aids to virtue and
religion, and the protection from the temptations by which
they are surrounded, which were offered them by this so-

with great and, of times, almost breathless attention, for
about an hour and a half; and after the thanks of the
meeting to the rev. gentleman had been expressed by ac-
clamation, the proceedings terminated, as they had com-

menced, with prayer

To-morrow week a screw steamer will commence plying
wifh goods only, between this port and Glasgow.
On Sunday last, the sum of £56 13s. was collected in
St. Silas' Church, for the relief of the Irish and Scotch
poor. Unfortunately no notice was given the Sunday

On Sunday last, at St. George's Church, Everton, after
a sermon by the Rev. W. Withers Ewbank, the sum of
£217 was collected for the relief of those, who are suffer-
ing from famine in Scotland and Ireland.
We had at short intervals last week
ch again set in on Saturday night very

THE WEATHER

re frost

BAPTIST'S CHURCH, TOXTETH-PARK
;, after a sermon by the Rev

,unclay last

lief of the podr of this church and district.
ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, WINDSOR.—The congrega-
tion of St. Clements have responded to an appeal of
respected minister, the Rev. F. Parry, in b,
sufferers in Ireland and Scotland, by the
contribution of £lO4 18s. 6d.
On Sunday night, the body of a man unl
picked up in the rivere• . -

half of the

very liberal

1g in the water, and was hooked out by a captain
life. He had on a pair

of lie

troy trowsers, dark waistcoat, and was of

_ morning last, after a powerful and very
tirring appeal from the Rev. 1). Stewart, the sum of
£172 Bs. 9d. was collected in St. Bride's church, for the
relief of the destitute Scoth and Irtsh. £2O of the
amount was given for Scotland, £lO for _ Ireland, and the

remainder
We are

ivas divided equally between the two countries.
;ld.. to leap! that, at Aigburth, the congregation