The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-31 00:00:00

TN THE MATTER OF RICHARD MILNE'S
CHARITY.—A VACANCY having occurred in the Reel-
pietas of the Benefits of this Charity, Notice is Hereby Given,
that an ELECTION to fill up such Vacancy, under the scheme
directed by the Court of Chancery, will take place on THURS-
DAY, the IGth day of February next, at the Office of Messrs.
Thorley and Robinson, 3. St. James's-square, in Manchester.
The Candidates must be Clergymen of the Established
Church, and married, and either natives of, or officiating in,
the county of Lancaster.—Applications for the printed forms
of questions necessary to be answered most be made to me in
writing, and the same must be returned to me on or before
the 10th day of February next.
GEORGE THORLEY, Secretary.
3, St. James's-square, Manchester,
18th January, 1854.

AT a PUBLIC MEETING OF THE IN-
HABITANTS of the BOROUGH of LIVERPOOL,
convened by the Mayor, held in the Sessions House, Chapel-
street, on THURSDAY, the 26th day of January. 1854, in
compliance with the request contained in the resolution passed
at a meeting of Gentlemen, interested in the question of the
PREVENTION and CORRECTION of JUVENILE DE-
PRAVITY,
JOHN BUCK LLOYD, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair.
The resolutions requesting the Mayor to convene this
meeting were read.
The MAYOR read a letter from the Hon. H. T. Liddell, M.P.,
expressing his concurrence in the objects of the meeting, and
his regret tliat engagements in London would prevent him
from attending.
Similar letters were also read from the Earl of Harrowby,
the Earl of Derby, and Lord Stanley. M.P.
It was also notified to the meeting that the Earl of Sefton
and the Earl of Ellesmere regretted their inability to attend,
the former from 11l health, and the latter in consequence of
absence from the country.
It was moved by the Rev. AUGUSTUS CANIPRELL, seconded
by WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., M.P., and resolved unanimously,
—"That the large and increasing amount of juvenile destitu-
tion, ignorance, and vice, existing in this country demands
the most serious consideration of a Christian people; pro-
shining a mass of positive and even professional crime for
which- the system of prison discipline is found by experience
to afford no adequate remedy; and that additional legislation
for the suppression of this evil by more approved methods is
imperatively called for."
It was moved by THOMAS BERRY HORSFALL, Esq., M.P.,
seconded by J. SMITH MANSFIELD, Esq., rktid resolved unani-
mously,—" That whilst the establishment of Reformatory
Institutions, in lieu of Prisons, for children convicted of any
offence, appears expedient and desirable, it is the opinion of
this meeting that no measure will prove really effective, or he
satisfactory to the country, which does not also provide for
the better training and protection of those children, who,
though not yet amenable to the law, are,. by reason of parental
neglect or failure of parental influence, in danger of becoming
criminals."
It was moved by JOSEPH POLLOCK, Esq., seconded by the
Rev. Dr. APNEILE, and resolved unanimously,—" That this
meeting adopts the opinion of the Select Committee of the
House of Commons on Criminal and Destitute Children, that
the required institutions should be founded and supported
from public funds, and that large encouragement should he
extended by Government to Reformatory Schools already
established and supported, or hereafter to be established by
voluntary contributions ; all such institutions, of both classes,
however founded, to be under local management, but suhject
to Government inspection."
It was moved by JOHN CROPPER, Esq. seconded by the
Rev. JAMES MARTINEAU, and resolved unanimously,—
"'That, as a check to any possible encouragement offered to
parental negligence, the whole, or a portion, of every child's
cost of maintenance, when subjected to preventive or refor-
matory discipline, should be recoverable from the parents."
It was moved by WILLIAM RATHBONE, Esq., seconded by
HENRY RONIILLY, Esq.,—" That a Petition, embodying the
substance of the foregoing resolution, to be signed by the Mayor
on behalf of this meeting, be presented, at the earliest period
of the Session, to both Houses of Parliament—that to the
House of Lords by the Earl of Harrowby, and that to the
House of Commons by the Members for the Borough."
JOHN B. LLOYD, Mayor.
The Mayor having left the chair, it was moved by JOSEPH
HUBBACE, Esq., seconded by JOHN BRIDGE AsrINALL.
Esq., and resolved unanimously,—" That the best thanks of
the meeting be given to the Mayor, for his kindness in cabling
sad presidips o'er $144 Plectiq.".