The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL FUND,

The committee appointed at the public meeting of the in-
habitants of the borough, on the 23d of October last, imme-
diately proceeded to exercise the power given to them of
adding to their number, and, with others, added to the com-
mittee the magistrates for the borough, the members of the
town council, the parish authorities and overseers of out
townships, which form part of the borough, making the com-
mittee in number 208. A book was subsequently issued to
each member of the committee for the collection of subscrip-
tions, and books were left at the several banks, newspaper
offices, and newsrooms in the town, advertisements were in-
serted in the newspapers stating where books were deposited
to receive the names of subscribers, and the names of the
subscribers were, from time to time, also inserted in the
newspapers. The committee also considered that it might
have been attended with advantage if ward meetings had
been called, and they passed a resolution requesting the
aldermen and councillors of the several wards to call such
meetings. As this suggestion was not approved of generally
by the aldermen and councillors, no ward meetings were
summoned. _

The books for subscriptions having been called in, the
committee have to report that the amount subscribed is
£5742 75., of which ."5422 75. had been paid to the treasurer.
The committee, at its meeting on the sth of August last,
observing that the requisition to the late Mayor, requesting
him to call the Public Meeting in October last, was nume-
rously signed, but that a great many of the requisitionists
had not subscribed to the Lund, directed a note to be sent to
those whose names did not appear in the list of subscribers.
Notes were sent to 223 of the requisitionists, and eleven only
have recorded their names as subscribers.
The Public Meeting in October last having passed the
following resolution :—" That a public subscription he opened
for the purpose of erecting a Column, surmounted by a Statue,
to be placed, by permission of the council, in some suitable
situation in the town," the committee felt that, with the
amount in the hands of the treasurer, they could not proceed
to carry out the resolution, and therefore called a meeting of
the subscribers on the sth instant. The feeling of that meet-
ing was, if possible, to raise sufficient funds for the purpose
of erecting a Column, and for this object the resolution con-
tained in the notice issued by the Mayor, calling a Public
Meeting for the 20th instant, was unanimously passed.
SAMUEL HOLME, Cnairmt.n.

Town-hall, September 19th, 1853.
It was moved by WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., M.P., seconded
by WILLIAM It. SANDBACH, Esq., and, resolved unanimously,
"That, as the inhabitants of this borough determined, at a
public meeting held in October last, that the local memorial
to testify the sense entertained of the great public services of
the late Duke of Wellington should be a Column surmounted
by a Statue of his Grace ; and, it appearing, from the report
now read, that the amount subscribed up to this time does
not exceed the sum of £5742 75., which sum would be in-
sufficient to erect a memorial of this character worthy of the
town and of the occasion, this meeting calls upon the in-
habitants to subscribe such an additional sum as would en-
able the committee to carry out the object proposed by the
resolution of the 23d of October last."
It was moved by THOMAS 13. IIousFALL, Esq., M.P.,
seconded by JOHN CAMPBELL, Esq., and resolved unani-
mously,
"That books for the names of subscribers be again placed
in the banks and public rooms, in order to afford to the in-
habitants who have not already subscribed the opportunity
of enrolling their names."
It was moved by Jour TORR, Esq., seconded by THOMAS
EDWARD S. Moss, Esq., and resolved unanimously,
"That the committee be requested to continue their exer -
t„ qfibscriptions ; and for this purpose to a"

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a sub-committee to make personal applications, or to adopt
such other measures as they may think Lest calculated to
effect the object of the meeting "

SAMUEL HOLM, Mayor

The Mayor having left the chair,
It was moved by WM. BROWN, Esq., M.l'., seconded by
THOMAS B. HORSFALL, Esq., M.P., and resolved unani-
mously,
" That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Worshipful
the Mayor for his kindoess in calling and presiding over thiS
meeting,,,