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

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL.

AN adjourned meeting of the Town Council was held
on Wednesday last, for the purpose of considering the
clauses of the Amended Sanitary Bill, and of the proposed
bill for establishing a Police Superannuation Fund. The
. chair was occupied by his Worship the Mayor. A memo-
rial from the Houseowners' Society was read. It com-
plained that many of :the powers sought under the
amended bill were oppressive and unjust ; and prayed
that the Council would not sanction the passing of the
bill. The Council having resolved itself into a committee
on the bill,
The MAYOR stated that the principle of the bill having
been adopted at the last meeting, the business, that day,
was simply to consider and adopt or modify the clauses.
He also intimated, that, at a future meeting of the Coun-
cil, notice might be given to reject the bill altogether.
The first, second, and third clauses, of a merely formal
nature, were adopted without alteration or discussion.
On the fourth clause being read,
Mr. Alderman COOPER objected to its adoption, as it
went to lessen the time required for notice being given of
intended paving or sewering operations, from twenty-
eight to fourteen days, and did away with the necessity of
affixing a notice in front of the Town Hall. It then went
on to repeal the 81st and 82d clauses of the Sanitary Act,
the first of which gives to an aggrieved party power of ap-
peal to the Quarter Sessions. He concluded by moving
that the 81st clause, which gives the power of appeal, be
retained. After some discussion the amendment, that the
81st clause remain, was lost by a majority of 33 to 12. He
then moved that twenty-eight days' notice be given, and
that a copy of the notice be served upon owners. After
some further discussion the clause was agreed to, with an
addition, that a notice in each case be posted in the pub-
lic offices, Cornwallis-street.
Clause 5 was then passed, as also clause 6, which pro
vides that, if the Medical-officer certify a street to be
unhealthy, it shall be sewered by the Council.
Clause 7 provides that parties laying out new streets
shall give 90 days' notice. By the existing act, 42 days'
notice is only required.
Clauses from the 7th to the 18th inclusive, were then
read and passed.
The 19th imposes a penalty of £5 a-day, during the time
the offence is committed, on all who shall occupy, or suffer
to be occupied; cellars in courts

The next, the 27th, relating to the consumption of
smoke, created a very long and animated discussion. It
was to the effect,—" That the sanction of the Sanitary Act,
126, be repealed, and in lieu thereof it be enacted that all
furnaces employed in working engines by steam, in manu-
factories, and on steam boats while in the river, should, in
all cases, be constructed and altered so as to burn the
smoke arising ; and if any person so negligently used his
furnace that it was not consumed, and an unnecessary
quantity of smoke was occasioned, every person so offend-
ding, and the owner and occupier of such place, should
forfeit and pay £5 for every day that the nuisance con-
tinued ; provided that the words " consume or burn the
smoke" should not be held to mean consume or burn all
the smoke ; -and the magistrates might remit the penalty,
provided that the person altered such furnace, &c.
Mr. W. J. HOuSrALL contended that it was practically
impossible to consume the smoke in some manufactures.
and that it was the duty of the Council, before imposing a
penalty, to point out the mode.
' Sir JOHN BENT opposed the clause on the same ground,
and moved, as an amendment, either that it be modified
by the allowance of twenty minutes or half-an-hour after
the first lighting of a fire, or that it be struck out alto-
gether. _ _ .

Alderman PARKER seconded the amendment. The
Council divided on the question, when it was decided that
the clause should stand as part of the bill by a majority of
30 to 17.

A second amendment was then passed, that the clause
be referred back till the meeting on Wednesday next, for
further consideration ; as was also, after some discussion,
the clause limiting the width of carriages to seven feet
six inches.

The 32d, or rating clause, also gave rise to considerable
debate. This provides that the owners of all tenements of
£lO, and under, in value, shall compound for payment of
the rates of their tenants at two-thirds of the assessment ;
and that a like option be given to those owners of houses
up to £l3 inclusive.
After opposition from Mr. Thomson, Mr. Moss, and Mr.
Beckwith,
Mr. LANGSDALE showed that of the number of 67,000
assessments in the borough, 26,000 only paid, and 41,000
escaped. He showed that small property paid better than
other descriptions, and said that if the clause were carried,
the Liverpool rate, which was now is. 6d., would be re-
duced to 14d. ; Kirkdale, now 2s. 3d., to ls. Bd.; and Ever-
ton, now ls. 10d. to ls. sd. ; West Derby, now Is. Bd., to
ls. 4d. ; and Toateth-park, now 2s. ld., to ls. 241. The
clause was eventually passed, an amendment that it be
struck out being lost by a majority of 29 to 11.
The remaining clauses of the bill were then passed.

The Council afterwards took into consideration the Police
Superannuation Fund Bill, which was passed nem. dis.,
the only suggession thrown out being one that the market
constables be included in the benefits.

The Council then adjourned.

RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.

THE sixth annual Liverpool Ragged School Union was
held, on Thursday evening, in the Clayton-hall. The chair
was occupied by his Worship the Mayor; and on the plat-
form were—Mr. W. Brown, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Hume, the
Revs. W. F. Taylor, T. Carter (chaplain of the gaol), and
Alex. Cromar, J. Kelly ; Mr. J. Cropper, Mr. E. Heath,
Mr. J. B. Broughton, Mr. R. Ratcliffe, Mr. J. King, Mr.
T. Matheson, Dr. R. H. Taylor, &c., &c. The body of the
hall was numerously filled.

The proceedings of the meeting were initiated by a
prayer from the Rev. Dr. Hume.
The M.Kron, in opening the business, alluded to the
great meeting held that morning in relation to the abate-
ment of juvenile delinquency ; and said he looked on ragged
schools as a great means of restraining that blot on our
social condition. He concluded by calling upon Mr. Burt,
the secretary, to read the annual report.
Mr. BURT then read a letter from Lord Stanley, who
had been invited to attend, but who regretted his inability
to be present. He also stated that the Mayor had received
a letter, apologising for unavoidable absence, from Mr.
Horsfall, M.P. He then read the report of the society's
proceedings from May, 1852, to December, 1853, from
which it appeared that the schools connected with the
union continue to be conducted with energy and efficiency,
and the number of children in attendance had increased
nearly 800, chiefly caused by the opening of 8 new schools.
The total average number of children in attendance in the
ragged schools in this town is 3411, of which 2832 attend
the evening and 402 the infant schools, whilst the re-
mainder enjoy the superior instruction of industrial schools,
which are open every day and all day long. At the three
industrial schools the average attendance was 177; the
number that can read is 157 ; 99 have obtained situations;
168 attend places of worship ; and 14 have been drafted to
higher class schools. The average attendance at:the 24
evening andday schools is 2,832, of whom 1,800 can:read ;
134 have obtained situations ; 357 attend places of worship ;
and 120 have been drafted into higher class schools. The
average attendance at the five infant schools is 402, of
whom 97 can read ; 40 attend places of worship, and 25
have been drafted to higher class schools. The report
mentions that, though so many have been brought within
the reach of instruction, it has been computed that there
are 67,000 children, between 2 the ages of 31 and 12, classed
as poor, either receiving or requiring assistance from the
richer part of the community for their education. The
accommodation provided for these is not adequate for more
than 39,500, leaving a residue of 27,500, from which it is
only fair to deduct one-fifth, or 6,600 who are unable to
attend, leaving the large number of 22,000 children for
whom no school accommodation is provided. The report
concluded by congratulating the subscribers to the society
on the deepening and widening interest iliich has been
latterly manifested on the subject of the education of the
poorer children of the community, as evidenced by the
recent conference in Birmingham, as well as the meeting
in Liverpool that morning, from which this subject pro-
mised soon to be one of the leading questions of the day ;
and the committee expressed a hope that the increasing
liberality of their fellow-townsmen would enable them to
extend their efforts still more than they had hitherto done.
Mr. RITCHIE, the treasurer, read the statement of ac-
counts ; and, before doing so, he said that they did not
interfere with the efforts of those ragged schools which
supported themselves. The union was only intended to
aid those schools which could not wholly support them-
selves. The whole amount placed at his disposal during
the year had been £l9B 3s. 10d. In conclusion, he; said it
was a great fact that from 20,000 to 22,000 children, in.
Liverpool and the neighbourhood, were growing up without
education ; and, unless they were subdued by education,
they would subdue society.
The Rev. Mr. ROBINSON moved the adoption of the re-
port, and the re-apppointment of the eommittee of the
Ragged School Union for the ensuing year.
Mr.WM. BROWN, M.P., seconded the motion, and, in
doing so, said that when he saw the rules of the Ragged
School Union he was surprised to find that the 6th appeared
to him to exclude all but evangelical Christians from the
union. On reading that he immediately wrote :to Mr.
Heath, who had invited him to be present, stating that he
could not countenance the society unless it embraced the
children of all denominations, whether Roman Catholics or
Jews, or whatever they might be, who choose to come to
receive instruction. On receiving that note, Mr. Heath
explained to him that it was never intended to exclude any
class of children, and that, in fact, many Roman Catholic
children attended the schools ; but, to remove any doubt,
he stated that the rule would be altered, to the effect that
the union did not exclude the co-operation of any denonli7
nation of Christians. (Cheers.) The resolution was 1:41
and carried unanimously. • n which
The Rev. Mr. CROMAR moved the next resoluatio 'which
acknowledged, with thankfulness to God, the !I
ged school,
had attended the efforts of the Liverpooltahly, had been
and the benefits which, by its instruraeli
town in which
diffused over those poor districts in this
they had been established. which was carried
Mr. HEATH seconded the resolution,
unanimously. • aid of the object of the
A collection was then made in
meeting.
moved
The Rev. Mr. Ksr.zir the next resolution, to the
Ling being of opinion that ragged
effect that "the !'e
schools, conducted the spirit of evangelical truth, and
with a careful regard the condition of the children, were
well calculated to supply the deficiency with the means of
educating the really Poor in. our large
of juvenile delin-
quency, towns, and have a
direct tendency to lessen tne amount
of
strongly recommends them to the support of the
public."
The Rev. Mr. TAYLOR seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously.
Mr. J. CROPPER moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor
for presiding, which was seconded by Mr. BROWN, M.P.,
and unanimously agreed to.
His WORSHIP acknowledged the compliment ; and the
Prooetaugn terminated shortly before ten o'clock.

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