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subject. Mr. Stewart stated that he thought if the esti-
mate of M. Cox to supply the town with gas at an outlay
of £130,000 were to be depended on, it .would be absurd
to purchase the existing companies at an expense of
£700,000 ' • and Mr. Aikin added that so long as the tea
per cent. dividend of the present companies continued
the capital would go on increasing. Ultimately, the fol-
lowing amendment, proposed by Mr. Lace, and seconded
by Mr. Watson, was put : " That it be referred to a com-
mittee to consider if it is desirable that the Council should
purchase the powers and privileges, rights and interests
now vested in the Liverpool Gas-light Company and in
the Liverpool New Gas and Coke Company, and that
they report generally on the question." The motion was
lost, the ayes and noes being balanced, and the question.
remains as it stood on Tuesday. Mr. Robinson's motion.
on that occasion being carried.

MEETING OF THE &ELECT VESTRY.
The usual fortnightly meeting of the vestry was held
on Tuesday last; the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL in the
chair.

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Before the commencement of the regular business,
Mr. EARLE, being obliged to quit the board, rose to
request, on behalf of the Council, that a sub-committee.
of the vestry might be appointed to confer with a sub-
committee of the Board of Health respecting the sanatory
condition of the town. Dr. Duncan had given it as his
opinion, that it would be impossible to carry the Sana-
tory Act into effect, unless the town were relieved of the
Irish paupers. He (Mr. Earle) considered it highly ne-
cessary that something should be done to procure the:
amendment of the Removal Act, so as to authorise them
to send vagrants back.
The CHAIRMAN thought the best sub-committee would
be the existing Irish Relief Committee.
Mr. 4ARLE highly approved of the suggestion.
The ordinary business of the vestry was then proceeded
with. Ninety-five cases of fever were stated to have oc-
curred last. week, and four cases of smallpox. The Ho-
norary Medical Board drew attention to the crowded,
state of the cleansing house. They had found 40 persons
sleeping in four beds in that small ward.
Mr. SCHOLFIELD said, that sheds had been taken which
it was expected would accommodate three or four hun-
dred cases, and beds had been ordered for them. A great
expense would thert-by be incurred, no doubt ; but it had.
been considered imperative to guard against On increase
of fever which was to be apprehended as the warm wea-
ther advanced. The charge for the use of the sheds
would be £9OO a-year.
The proceedings of the Workhouse Committee embo-
died a resolution recommending that the honorary medi-
cal officers should confine themselves to the duty of con..
sultation, and not interfere with the treatment of the .
sick or the management of the house.
Mr. THORNELY proposed that the confirmation of the.
proceedings should be deferred till the next meeting.
Agreed to.
Mr. HORSLEY called attention to the state of the eel..
Lars under the parish-office, in which paupers waited to
be relieved. 'They were extremely dark, filthy, and un-
wholesome, and he moved that the use of them be dis-
continued. As many as 1400 persons were kept waiting
daily, many, of them for several hours, in those cellars.
which were not fit for any human being to be put into.
Several members took a different view, and
Mr. FERGUSON 'moved, as an amendment, that the
subject be referred to the Finance Committee.
On a division, the amendment was carried by 15 to 4.
The CHAIRMAN said, he had received a letter from the
Mayor respecting interments in the parish cemetery,
which, he suggested, should be referred to the Rectors,
the Churchwardens, and the Workhouse Committee.
The present state of.things, he observed, was highly ob-
jectionable. It was worse even than that at Childwall
and Woolton, where the bodies were inclosed in coffins
and put over the walls of the churchyards at night.
In the report of the Industrial School Committee, the
resignation of Mr. an& Mrs. Coates was alluded to.
Their •successors are to receive £l5O per annum, with
house and rations, and they are to have no concern with
the education of the inmates.
The CHAIRMAN then stated the proceedings of the
Irish Relief Committee. The number of persons relieved
during the week had been 9503 ; the total number of ra-
tions, 55,055 ; the value of bread and soup, £223 109.
41d. ; money given, £342; the expense of offices and.
sheds was calculated at £45; makirg the total expense of
last week £6lO. Previously, the average expenditure
had been £5OO per week. The arrivals from Ireland from
the 13th of January to the 13th of March had been 63,942;
the average for the last fortnight had been 1444 per day.
A great number of these had emigrated, and many had
gone up into the country. Mr. Scholfiehl having report-
ed that five large sheds had been engaged for the recep-
tion of fever patients, some gentleman would perhaps
move a resolution sanctioning that measure.
The resolution was proposed accordingly, and carried,
as was another, authorising the Irish Relief Committee
to communicate with the special sub-committee of the
Board of Health.

The CHAIRMAN then read a letter which be had re-
ceived from the Home-office, with reference to the vacci-
nator for Vauxhall district, who was charged in Dr.
Duncan's report to the Health of Towns Board with a
total neglect of duty during six weeks. This was followed
by other letters, including one from Mr. Whitley in reply
to him (the Chairman), in which he positively denied the
charge, and asserted that, during the six weeks referred
to by Dr. Duncan, he had vaccinated eighty eases. On
the receipt of this letter, he had written to Dr. Duncan
to know on what evidence the charge against Mr. Whitley
was founded. The answer was, on that of the registrar
of the district, at whose office the vaccinations should be
performed.
Some member remarked, that the registrar for Vaux-
hall district was one of those who did their duty by de-
puty.

Mr. FERGUSON was of opinion that there was too great
a wish on the part of Dr. Duncan to curry favour with
the higher powers—to stand well with Sir George Grey—
rather than to apply to parties on the spot whose business
it was to attend to such matters. His report was nothing
more than a combination of the daily medical reports
made by the parish officers.
The business of the day being concluded, it was agreed,
on account of the general vestry occurring on the ith of
April, that the board should meet this day (Tuesday), at
twelve o'clock.