The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

kingdom. Every necessary of life is to be purchased
at reasonable terms ; the market is supplied daily from
the rich surrounding district, and the sea and rivers
afford a beautiful and abundant supply of fish.
Some eminent medical men practice in the immediate
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beautiful church has lately been erected, where English
service is performed ; and the magnificent cathedral of
St. Asaph is within a short distance. The Chester and
Holyhead railway station is near the town. The packet
station at the Voryd is about half-a-mile distant, and a
daily communication with Liverpool is kept up by first
rate steamers, which leave Liverpool for Rhyl on three
days of the week, and from Rhyl for Liverpool the three
alternate days, the Sunday being omitted. Omnibuses
and cars from all parts of North Wales ply daily in con-
junction with these packets.

LOCAL

MEETINGS

- - •
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.—An adjourned meeting of
the Council will be held to-morrow, at which the pro-
ceedings of the Health Committee will comprise a report
of the engineer on the various duties of his dem:l4l,pm-

ana the stair necessary for its efficient working, and
report on the claims for compensation under the sanatory
act. The Mayor's communications will comprise a return
to be transmitted to the Lords of the Treasury of the cost
of maintaining certain prisoners in the Borough Gaol.
The proceedings of the Courts of Law and St. George's-
hall Committee will include the further report of Dr.
Wesley with reference to the proposed organ, and the
report of the architect on the progress of the works.
LIVERPOOL EVANGELICAL CONTINENTAL SOCIETY.—
On Tuesday evening last, a public meeting of this society
was held in Great George-street chapel, for the purpose of
receiving intelligence respecting the present state and fu-
ture prosge'cts of the society's operations on the continent.
R. A. M`Fie, Esq., occupied the chair. The Rev. C. M.
Birrell read the report, which was highly satisfactory.
The statement of accounts showed that £lBO 14s. 6d, had
been collected during the past year, out of which sum
£27 9s. 10d. had been remitted to Geneva ; £3O to Brit-
tany, for the purchase of bibles ; £l5 to the Rev. Vierne,
of Paris ; and £l5 to the Rev. M. Punchaud, of Brussels ;
besides £4O which had been transmitted to Paris by the
Ladies' Association. The Rev. J. J. Audebez, of Paris,
addressed the meeting at some length on the present state
of the Protestant Missions in France, and gave some in-
teresting details connected with the operations of the so-
ciety in that country. The Rev. A. Bosst afterwards

dressed the audience, and urged the claims to support of
a French newspaper which had recently been established
for the advocacy of principles of toleration and Protes-
tant reformation.

BIRKENHEAD • COMMISSIONERS.-The usual monthly
meeting of the board was held on Tuesday evening. Chris.
Bentham, Esq. was called to the chair. The proceedings
of the Finance Committee contained an order for the pay-
ment of half a year's interest, due on the township bonds,
to the amount of £6500. In answer to a question from
Mr. Laird, it was ascertained, however, that no part of
the sum had been paid. From the minutes of the Ferry
Committee, it appeared that a' free passage had been
granted to the children of the Mariners School ; and that
the receipts for the past month were stated to be £1753
4s. 5d., and for the corresponding mouth of 1846 £2OBB
ss. 9d. From the 23d of April to the 30th of June last
£4201. For the same period in 1847 £4662. The total
expenditure was £3212. _ The minutes also stated, that

between the hours of eight
eight in the evening thee boat

clock in the morning and
would be continually

plying, one boat to leave each side the water immediately
on the arrival of another. The minutes were confirmed.
A committee was then appointed to consider and report
on the expediency of petitioning her Majesty to grant a
charter of incorporation to Birkenhead. On the motion
of the Chairman, it was ordered that the several commit-
tees be directed to make a return to the Finance Committee
of the names, duties, and salaries of each officer in the
service of the township, and to report whether any saving
can be effected.—The board then adjourned.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BIRKENHEAD COMMIS-
- It was then agreed that the meeting should
d until the first Wednesday in August, and
that the committees should continue to act until that
time ; but previous to the motion being put, Mr. Hicklin
said he wished to correct an error which had crept into
some of the Liverpool papers, to the effect that the Cor-
poration of Liverpool claimed from the Dock Commie_

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bat was an error, as it was f

the
Dock Warehouse Company that the Corporation claimed
that sum. Mr. Lloyd was requested to proceed imme-
diately to London, and co-operate with the deputation in
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On the

Inman' vl mr. Lairu, seconaea. by Mr. Bryans, the fol-
lowing resolution was agreed to :—" That the law-clerk
be requested to write to the deputation and Mr. Lloyd,
requesting them to consider whether it would strengthen
their hands if a public meeting was called, of the inhabi-
tants of this and the surrounding townships, as soon as
possible, to convey to the public boards their sense of the
great importance they attack to the immediate passing of
the two dock bills, as amended by the committee of the
House of Lords, and that the deputation be requested, if
they concur in the views

__g, to name an
lrly day for such purpose." The board then adjourned
DOCK COMMITTEE MEETING, ON TIITJRSDAY.—There
were present Mr. B. Moore (chairman), and sixteen other
members. The, Chairman announced that he had had an

who acquiescea
the propriety of immediately appointing two clerks to pre-
vent the frauds in the dock dues ; one on behalf of

interview

ie other for the Corporation, but with
the understanding that both acted in perfect unison. Air.
Henderson thought the sooner they were appointed the
better. The appointment of the clerks was referred to one
of the sub-committees. Two forcing pumps-were ordered
for the more effectual washing of the new:landing-stage,
A gratuity of £l5 was ordered to be paid to Inspector
Atherton, for collectslight money.. A letter of Messrs.

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