The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL HUMANE SOCIETY.

The committee of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane
Society met on Tuesday and Wednesday, and passed the fol-
lowing resolutions :
A gold medal to Captain Clegg, for saving a number of the
passengers and crew of the William Huskisson (the highest
reward of the society,) and XlOO to be distributed by him
amongst his officers and crew....

A gold medal to Captain Collins, of the Roscius, for saving
the crew of the Scotia.

Ten pounds to Captain Schabilling, of the Dutch galliot
Harmony, and £l5 to be divided amongst his crew, for saving
the crew of the Heath, on the 18th ultimo, off Tuskar, and
for his kind treatment till he landed them at the Isle of Man.
_ .

Ten pounds to the captain of the sloop John and Grace,
and 50s. to each of his crew, for taking the crew of the Eli-
zabeth from their boats, and bringing them to Liverpool. The
Elizabeth was from Liverpool to Trieste, and was run foul of
near Holyhead, and abandoned. The John and Grace was
bound to Dundalk, from Chester.
Two pounds to the master, and £1 to each of the crew of
the Hoylake Life-boat, for saving the crew of the Hector,
when she was sunk on West Hoyle.
Several sums were given to assist the passengers of the
Wm . Huskisson.

We understand that a resolution was passed to authorise
the payment of £lO to the Steam-tug Company, when any of
their boats go out to save life ; this, however, to be irrespec-
tive of any remuneration for services rendered ; the Steam-
tug Company engaging to take out a life-boat when advisable.

MEETING OF THE. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS

On Tuesday last; the usual weekly meeting of the Guardians
of the West Derby Union took place at the Board-room, in
the Poor-house, the principal object, pursuant to advertise-
ment, being to elect an auditor, at the salary of twenty
guineas per annum. _

A very full meeting of the guardians was assembled.
The ordinary business having been disposed of,
Mr. WM. WINSTANLEY, the chairman, begged the atten-
tion of the guardians to the appointment of an auditor of the
accounts of the board.

Mr. Join.; SANDERS, clerk to the Union, read applications
from the following persons :—Mr. Rhind, the master of the.
Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Mr. Price Davis, Mr. J. F. Par-
ker, Mr. Joseph Pennell, Mr. P. Mitchell, Mr. Homer, and
lastly, Mr. Joseph Harding.
The Rev. Rector BROOKS wished to know how the board
intended to proceed as to the election. It was a matter of
material importance, whether any of the candidates for the
office tvere or were not the paid agents of the union. He
thought that the conduct of the board should be above all
suspicion ; and if the accounts of such a paid individual were
to be audited by himself, it appeared to him a perfect ab-
surdity to make such an appointment from the list of candi-
dates. He would, therefore, move, that no person who is
a paid officer by the union should be eligible to the situation
of auditor. .

Mr. SANDERS stated that Mr. Pennell and Mr. Homer
were both paid officers of the union.

Mr. JotiN C. THOMPSON observed, that Mr. Homer was
merely a district registrar.
The Rev. Rector BROOKS would emphatically state, that
his question had been answered in the affirmative. He cared
nothing about the office the party might hold, but, he re-
peated, it involved a perfect absurdity to elect a person to
guarantee the correctness of his own charges and vouchers.
Mr. THOMPSON.—The accounts are such that never come
before the board.
The Rev. Rector BROOKS.—I care not for that. I object
to the principle. I do not consider the men, and am sorry
that their names have been given.
Mr. BIRCH agreed with the Rev. Rector Brooks, and re-
marked, that the reverend rector's objection must, iu his
(Mr. Birch's) opinion, be fatal to the election of either of the

Mr. WILSON required to know from Mr. Sanders, the
clerk to the board, whether, in his opinion, the parties who
were named were eligible ?
Mr. SANDERS.—I will refer to the clause in the act.
The CHAIRMAN remarked, that, in his opinion, the poor-
law commissioners should be written to.

The Rev. Rector BROOKS would not consent to that. He
had no notion of writing to the poor-law commissioners upon
every little matter which the guardians had the full power to
determine.

Mr. THOMPSON said he should move that Mr. Homer was
a fit and proper person to fill the office of auditor.
The motion was seconded.

The Rev. Rector BROOKS said, having referred to the books
handed to him by the chairman, it was quite clear that the
auditor must examine the accounts of the district registrar.
Mr. Homer held that appointment, and he should move an
amendment, in effect—that no paid officer of the union should
be appointed to fill the office of auditor.
The amendment having been put, and afterwards the origi-
nal motion, the former was declared to be carried. The ap-
plications of Mr. Pennell and Mr. Homer were then dismissed.
A long debate then ensued upon the fitness of the respec-
tive candidates. Ultimately, the votes were taken by ballot,
and Mr. Harding was duly elected.

A protest was afterwards read by Mr. Thompson against
the appointment, and he concluded by moving that it be re-
ceived.

Mr. SANDERS supported the motion.
An amendment, that the protest be ordered to lie on the
table, was proposed by Mr. Riley, and spconded by
Eccles.

The amendment was carried by a considerable majority,
and the guardians adjourned.

AUCTION EXTRAORDINARY.

(From the Times of Yesterday.)
Russell and Peel have the pleasure of informing the public,
that they have received instructions from a great house to
offer for sale on the Ist of April, 1840, at the Crown public-
house, near Constitution-hill, that magnificent pile of build-
ing hitherto used as courts of justice, and known as,West-
minster-hall, the business formerly transacted there being re-
moved to the House of Commons.

A very fine old copy of Magna Charta and several lots of
acts of Parliament will be sold as waste paper, being of no
further use.

May be viewed, until the day of sale by tickets, which may
be procured on application to Lord John Russell, at the
office, or Sir Robert Peel, at his private residence (for the
present), Privy-gardens.

SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS.—The next concert of the
series will combine such a host of first-rate talent, that the
admirers of music must necessarily do their feelings violence
if they do not attend. Signora E. Grisi, Madame Balf,
and the inimitable pianist, Thalberg, &c. are announced.
The Festivals excepted, how seldom is it that such eminent
names are associated in one concert in Liverpool ?
LIVER THEATRE.—The announcement in another column
will detail the novelties which the spirited managers of this
little Theatre are about to produce. That they deserve sup-
port no one who has witnessed the performances will deny ;
and we are confident they will receive it. In our next we
shall be able to speak of the newly introduced performances,
and of the pieces in which they will appear.
INSTITUTION FOR THE CURE OF DISEASES OF THE EAR.
—This day a public meeting will he held in the Clarendon
Rooms, for the purpose of ;establishing the institution for
the cure of diseases of the ear, as a public charity, of Liver-
pool. The design has our hearty concurrence, and we hope
that the projected charity, which is much wanted, will long
enjoy the support of the liberal and generous inhabitants of.
Liverpool.
THE NEW POSTAGE PLAN.—The number of letters re-
ceived at the Post-office in this town, under the penny rate,
is somewhere about one-half more than the number posted
under the fourpenny rate, and double the number received
under the old scale. The deficiency in revenue aom the al-
teration, in this town alone, is likely to reach the large
figure of fifty thousand pounds per annum.
The Earl of Sefton has been pleased to appoint the Rev.
James Hassell, M.A., Minister of St. John the Baptist's
Church, Toxteth-park, to be one of his lordship's Domestic
Chaplains.

Housz WARMING.—On Wednesday evening last, at the
rearing of a handsome edifice, in Everton, erected by Mr.
'Woolridge for Hays Pyke, Esq., the latter gentleman enter-
tained the whole of his tradesmen and workpeople with a
most substantial and excellent supper. After the cloth was
drawn, Mr. Pyke eloquently p-oposed " the health of her
Majesty," declaring that his politics were decidedly Tory,
as were those of his regretted parent before him ; and, con-
sequently, it was impossible that any other feeling than that
of loyalty," even to the death, could pervade his political
conduct. He also took occasion to remark, that in affairs of
local government, he claimed for himself the independent
right of supporting such men, as without reference to poli-
tical bias, he conceived most likely by their practical know-
ledge and standing in society, to serve the town—Mr.
Pyke's conduct in local election matters having been latterly
much animadverted upon by some of his respected neigh-
bours—he thought it only justice to himself to render this
explanation to his friends. Several good old songs were
sung, one of which, so illustrative, of what British feeling
really is when roused, we could like to hear much oftener.
A verse, in allusion to the invasion by the celebrated
" Spanish Armada," was uproariously encored. Here
it is :

" The Spanish Armada,
Sent out to invade her,
Quite sure if they ever came nigh land,
They could not do less
Than tuck up Queen Bess,
And have their full swing in. the Island.
And it's oh ! the poor Queen and the Island ;
The Dons came to plunder the Island ;
But—snug in the Hive,
The Queen was alive,
And " Buzz" was the word in the Island." .
When it was known that " the Queen was alive,' we thought
the storm of applause would have blown the roof off.
" Smiling Mirth," we understand, presided, until the
" Sma' wee hour ayont the twal."

CHURCH RATES.—IMPORTANT FACT.—It was stated in
the House of Commons two years ago that nineteen-twentieths
of the church-rates were paid by churchmen. The whole
amount for that year was estimated at £600,000, of which
£570,000 was paid by churchmen, and £30,000 by dissenters.
In the same year the sum of £25,000 was voted by parliament
to dissenting teachers, and a further sum of £24,000 towards
the erection of dissenting meeting-houses and the popish
college at Ivlaynooth. Out of these two last' sums the
churchmen paid seven-eighths, or £43,000; therefore church-
men are actually paying £13,000 more in one year towards
the support of dissent than the dissenters are paying towards
the established church.—Courier.

PRINCE ALBERT.—The following are the terms of the
notice of Colonel Sibthorp, as entered on the Commons'
books yesterday morning :—" In Prince Albert's Annuity
Bill to insert the following clause :—' Provided neverthe-
less, and be it enacted, that, in case his Serene Highness
Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha shall survive her
Majesty, such sum or sums as may be granted by Act of
Parliament, by way of annuity, to his serene highness during
his natural life, shall altogether and wholly cease and deter-
mine, in case his serene highness shall reside for a less period
than six months consecutively in each year within the united
kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or shall ally himself
in marriage with any foreign princess or foreign person, or
shall cease to profess and adhere to the Protestant religion as
by law established within these realms.' "—Herald
At a time when " chartism" and " socialism," instigated
by whig treachery to upset all sound principles of govern-
ment, are endeavouring to break down all respect and reve-
rence for the laws of the land and all constituted authority,
it is a most lamentable thing to see conservative leaders in
Parliament assisting the whig ministers and their radical
and Romanish friends, to bring into public contempt the
courts of justice, and destroy all veneration for our.
judicial institutions in the minds of the people. We %;111;d
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the virtuous and patriotic monarch Georg
render the judges independent of the Croewecnithefhoar
Why, but to establish that high and honour
mind which
for the administration of justice in publicthe
to break
the House of Commons is apparently labouring
HE down. Here is the King's own deelarano AND
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