The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-11 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

Docx COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting of the Dock
Committee was held on Thursday. After the accounts
had been gone through it was ordered that the Meteor,
Crosby light-ship, which has been at that station for
about four years, should be brought into port, to have her
bottom repaired, and that the Queen, light-ship, should
be placed in the Crqsby Channel in her place. Some
conversation having arisen upon the subject of the new
landing stage, which it was stated was now afloat, and
would be opened for the use of the public on the 13th
inst., several members of the committee expressed a hope
that the manager of the present landing stage would be
appointed to take care of the new one. The chairman
gave notice of a motion for the next meeting. It was to
the effect, that a special committee be appointed, to be
composed of the finance committee, and three other mem-
bers of the general committee, to take into consideration
and report upon the expediency of a suspension or reduc-
tion of the dock dues on cotton wool, and a modification
of any other dues or rates which are now levied by the
dock trustees, to the end of the 24th June next, which is
the end of their official year. The chairman further stated,
in answer to a question from Mr, Tobin, that the reason
for this proposal was the flourishing state of their revenue,
the receipts for the last ten months being £28,000 more
than in the corresponding ten months of any previous
year. Mr. Horsfall also gave notice of a motion to com-
pel the master porters to charge the rates fixed by the
Council.

THE FEVER SHEDS.—Another meeting of the inhabi-
tants of Abercromby Ward was held on Thursday. Mr.
Cooper, surgeon of the Infirmary, occupied the chair.
Dr. Sutherland, who, at the request of the last meeting,
formed one of the deputation which waited upon Sir
George Grey, on Tuesday, detailed the result of the inter-
view with the home secretary. The Chairman said he
understood the lazarettoes would hold about 750 patients,
An unanimous vote of thanks was passed to the members
of Parliament, to Dr. Sutherland, and the other members
of the deputation, for their services on the occasion. Mr.
Neill referred to the fever sheds in Great Howard-street,
and said in passing them that day the smell of his poor
unfortunate rotten countrymen was intolerable, and there
was little doubt that when the fever wards in Mount-
pleasant were brought into use, a similar offensive odour
would be experienced, and wherever that odour was per-
ceptible no doubt danger existed. There were only four
upper windows to great Howard-street, in the whole line
of that immense building. Dr. Watson said he met with
a surgeon who had been in the sheds that day, and he said
that unless they were better ventilated, that would be the
last time he would visit them. A long conversation en-
sued, in the course of which the most determined feeling
of opposition to the use of the fever sheds now erecting
in the ward was displayed, and upon its being intimated
that there was a probability of the offer of the Govern-
ment to lend the lazarettoes noting be accepted, a de-
putation, consisting of the Chairman, Dr. Sutherland,
Mr. Neill, Mr. R. Gladstone Mr. Ald. Griffith, Mr.
Procter, Mr. Kaye, and Mr. Aid. Nicol, was appointed to
wait upon the Select Vestry, with the following resolu-
tion, which was passed unanimously, "That the inhabi-
tants of Abercromby Ward respectfully but earnestly re-
quest the Select Vestry to avail themselves of the offer of
Government, to place the fever patients, without delay,
in the lazarettoes, on the Mersey.
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thought it advisable not to call a public meeting, con-
sidering that it would answer no end; as nothing could be
done more than the simple presentation of a petition.
The prevailing sentiment of the meeting was, that another
memorial should be presented to his worship, urging upon
him the necessity of a general meeting of the inhabitants
being called, to petition government to adopt some • mea-
sures to prevent the influx of paupers, who were spreading
disease in the town.--A resolution to this effect was
passed.—ln addition to the mayor's comniunication to
the council on Wednesday, we learn that his worship was
informed on Thursday that instructions have been given
to the Customs authorities, to direct that all passenger
vessels arriving from Ireland shall be boarded by the
tide-surveyors, who shall cause the yellow flag to be
hoisted, and kept flying at the mast head, until such ves-
sel shall have been examined by the medical staff ap-
pointed for the purpose, and until the sick, if there be any
such on board, shall have been removed direct to the
lazaretto. In order, still further, to carry out these strin-
gent regulations, a notification will be given to the corn-,
manders of all passenger vessels from Ireland, that should
any of their vessels arrive here a second time with sick on.
board, they will be subjected to quarantine for a certain
length of time. Of course the mail packets, which do
not bring over the Irish poor, will be exempted from this
regulation. As a still further proof of the determination
of Government to give relief, two experienced medical
officers will be sent here to co-operate with our local
medical staff.

BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.--At the monthly
meeting on Tuesday, an improvement rate of ls. was
laid.—Mr. Churchill attended the meeting for the pur-
pose of asking the Commissioners to use their influence
to obtain a second mail train on the Chester railway, so
that the inhabitants of the town might have the benefit of
a second London mail both ways. The Chairman said
the Commissioners would use their influence with the
railway company, and he hoped before Mr. Churchill left
the next day to be able to effect the required arrangement.
The proceedings of the Health Committee contained a
long statement respecting the state of fever in the town,
and the fact of the Commissioners having offered a stone
house on Flaybrick-hill, as a fever hospital.—ln answer
to a question from Mr. Thompson, the Chairman said
£5166 4s. 64-d of the new street accounts remained to be
collected, but the sum had been very much diminished
lately.—The proceedings of the Gas and Water, and Par-
liamentary Committees were read ; the former contained
several letters respecting a negociation for the purchase or