The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL IMPROVEMENTS.

Tnt Town Council justified the good opinion enter-
tained of them, by rejecting the scheme for a new street
from the end of Temple-street to St. John's-lane. A far
greater improvement would be the widening of White-
chapel and Paradise-street, so' as to form a commodious
thoroughfare from the Custom-house to St. George's
Hall. The bottom of Duke-street should be widened, and
this would relieve the traffic through Bold-street. The
north end of Park-lane also requires more room, and either
of these would be more valuable improvements than the

new street_ which the Town Council has so properly
rejected.

LIVERPOOL EYE AND EAR
INFIRMARY.

THE annual meeting on behalf of this excellent charity
was held yesterday, at the Clarendon-rooms. William
Brown, Esq., M.P., presided.
Mr. HENRY CROSSPIELD, the treasurer, read a state-
ment of the accounts, from which it appeared that the
total expenditure was £6OB. The subscriptions had been
£366, donations £B6, the Corporation £lOO, which, with
one or two other petty sources of income, made the ac-
counts stand with a balance due to the treasurer of £6l
3s. 4d.. It was explained, however, that the finances
were in a good condition, the expenditure taking in four-
teen instead of twelve months.

Mr. JOSEPH HIDWEN, the honorary secretary, then
read as follows

THE REPORT.

In presenting to the subscribers their report for the past
year, your committee feel tbat it is unnecessary to enter into
any lengthened detail : they have no new feature on which to
dwell. The object of the institution i 3 well known, and its
extended usefulness fully acknowledged Ind largely appreci-
ated by those for whose benefit it was originally established.
The number of patients seeking relirf for diseases
of the eye have been 3540
Ditto for diseases of the ear 3406

Total 6946
In addition to the above, there have been 99 in-patients
boarded and lodged in the house while undergoing surgical
treatment, and 132 operations have been performed within
the Infirmary, the successful results of which have been alike
gratifying to your :committee and creditable to the skill of
your medical officers ; while the benefits conferred upon the
sufferers, many of whom have been, by means of your libe-
rality, rescued from a life of dark and dreary idleness, and
enabled again to labour for the support of those near and dear
to them, can hardly be too strongly described.

The opportune relief that has been thus extended by your
charity in mitigating the sorrows and alleviating the sufferings
of the poorer classes, when attacked by the painful maladies
which affect the organs of sight and hearing, has on many
occasions elicited from the recipients grateful acknowledg-
ments, which have been very pleasing; and your committee
has satisfaction in expressing its conviction that in most of
the cares permanent benefit has been derived. The increasing
operations of your charity have, however, entailed on your
medical officers duties so laborious, and involving so serious
a tilt on their time, that your committee was induced, in
September last, to recommend to a general meeting the ap-
pointment of a third honorary surgeon, and the selection then
made of Dr. Hibbert Taylor has, your committee believes,
tended fully to maintain and strengthen the high position in
whic't the skill of its medical officers has for so many years
maintained your Infirmary.
Mr. Robert Hamilton. who held the office of honorary as-
sistant surgeon, having resigned, the committee, after
mature consideration, concluded that the daily work of the
infirmary required a more regular attendance than could be
expected from an honorary officer: they accordingly ap-
pointed Dr. Nevins to the office of paid as istant surgeon,
and feel confident that thus the efficiency of the charity has
been greatly increased by this arrangement.
These changes have involved considerable increase in the
expenditure of the institution; and although its financial
position shows a slight improvement, yet this has mainly
arisen from donations, and from the liberali• y of the corpora-
tion, which your committee beg gratefully to acknowledge.
The income derived from these benefactions being, however,
of a precarious nature, cannot be calculated upon with the
same confidence as that derived from annual subscrip-
tions, in the amount of which your committee regrets to
notice a falling off; and as the extent of the operations of the
institution must mainly depend upon the latter source of
income, the committee, while thanking those friends whose
efforts have been directed to obtain additional subscribers,
would solicit a continuance of their aid, believing that the
merits and claims of this useful but unostentatious charity
require only to be brought more fully before the public in
order to ensure a much larger share of sympathy and support
than it has hitherto enjoyed.

The subsequent proceedings were of a purely formal
character, and for the resolutions passed we beg to refer
to the advertisement. The report and statement of ac-
counts were adopted, and ordered to be printed, and the
thanks of the meeting voted to the Corporation, the pre-
sident, vice-presidents, and committee, and also to the
medical officers for their services.
Mr. NEILL called attention to what he considered a
mistaken resolution, which had been placed on the books,
as to the exclusion of cases alleged to be of an infectious
character from the benefits of the Infirmary, to which a
promise was made that the committee would re-direct
their attention ; and the proceedings closed with the usual
compliment to the chairman.

THE HoN. H. T. LIDDELL, M.P., will be at the Town
Hall to-morrow and the two following days, and will be
happy to meet any of his constituents who may be desirous
of communicating with him.
INFANTICIDE.—Two more inquests were held before the
Deputy-Coroner, on the bodies of infants who had been
overlain by their mothers during Thursday night.
MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SO-
CIETY.—The committee of this society have decided that
the meeting of 1854 shall be held at Altrincham, and that
it shall take place on the Bth day of September, the trials
implements being made on the previous day as usual.
The Earl of Stamford and Warrington has accepted the
presidency.
BLUE COAT HosPITAL.—On Saturday the boys were
treated, by Mr. Thomas, to the morning performance of
his admirable band, and seemed to enjoy themselves most
enthusiastically.
CLAuGnroN CURLING CLun.—The annual dinner was
held on Saturday, at the Monks' Ferry Hotel, where an
elegant repast was served.
WELCH BANK.—The making up of the affairs of the
Monmouth and Glamorgan Bank, which suspended pay-
ment in 1851, will shortly be brought to a termination,
with a more favourable result than was anticipated two
years ago.

GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE OF ROMISII PRIESTS.—It
will be seen by our advertising columns, that a petition is
in course of signature against the recent appointment of
Romish chaplains by the Home Secretary.
THENEwMERCEIANTS' DINING-ROOMS, in Castle-street
is one of the features of modern Liverpool. Epicures
should consult the bill of fare in our advertising columns.
DEATH FROM BURNING.—About a fortnight ago, Ellen
Evans, an infirm woman, 74 years of age, residing in
Sumner-street, was left by herself for a few minutes. On
the return of one of the inmates of the house, her cap was
discovered to be on fire. She died yesterday, from the
injuries received.

EAST GLoucEsrEnsurus ELECTION.—The election for
a member of parliament for East Gloucestershire, in the
room of the Duke of Beaufort, took place on Monday,
last week. The candidates were Sir M. H. H. Beach, a
Conservative, and Mr. Edw. Holland, a Radical. The
show of hands was in favour of the latter, but at the close
of the poll, which took place on Thursday, the numbers
were—Sir M. H. Beach, 3,363 ; Mr. Holland, 2,344 ;
majority, 1,019.
D4pwlcED.—On Saturday night last, Hugh lirCroney,
from Londonderry, who was about to return to Ireland by
the steamer Blenheim, fell into the water at the south-east
corner of the Clarence Dock. He was seized before he
sunk, but died in the receiving-house from the effects of
the exposure.—Yesterday forenoon, the body of a man
unknown, was found in the canal lock, Great Howard-
street, and taken to the dead-house. It was there identified
by the mate of the Westmoreland, lying in the Prince's
Dock, to be his captain. He had last seen him on Satur-
day evening.

EMANCIPATION PROM TUE RAZOR! " WHY SHAVE?"
—Under this title, Mr. Dickens has published a very
interesting and talented article, as a dissuasive from shav-
ing—sheaving the injury done to the chest, the teeth, the
nerves, the appearance, and in fact the constitution, from
man's depriving himself of the protection nature has
afforded for this part of his frame. It appears to us quitt
as rational that man should shave his head or his eye-
brows as his chin and his lip. Where nature (that is, the
God of nature) has placed the protection, depend upon it
it is required, and man acts to his own injury and in de-
fiance of nature's laws to remove that protection. We
earnestly commend Mr. Dickens's article to the attention
of our readers.—Correspondent.
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SlllClDES.—Yesterday morning, a watch finisher named
James Chambers, 57 years of age, and lodging at the house
of Mr. J. W. Jones, Luke-street, Toxteth-park, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Mr. and Mrs.
Jones were awakened about four o'clock, by a heavy fall
in the lobby leading from deceased's bed-room to his work.
shop, and on obtaining a light found Chambers lying
bleeding with an extensive wound in his neck, the jugular
vein having been quite cut through. The police were
called in, and also a surgeon from the dispensary, but in
a few minutes life was extinct. Deceased had been drink-
ing heavily since Christmas, and had been threatened with
the consequences of keeping watches which had been sent
to him to repair.—On Thursday last, George Walker,
38 years of age, a cabinet-maker and dealer in joiners' tooLs,
residing in No. 5, Headlane-buildings, Ranelagh-place,
hung himself behind his bed-room door, whilst labouring
under delirium tremens..

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COMMERCIAL 4 MONETARY NEWS.

MONDAY NIGHT.

THE Public Funds, during the week, have been
slightly affected by the conflicting reports from the
seat of war in the East, but the fluctuations have
not been to any great extent, owing, perhaps, in
some measure, to the purchases of stock after the
payment of the dividends and the little confidence
displayed by speculators for a fall. This has been,
no doubt, induced by the feeling that the late suc-
cesses of the Turkish forces may have the effect of
prompting the Emperor of Russia to a pacific
settlement of the dispute. The returns of the
Bank of England, in the London Gazette on Fri-
extent of £21,827, but, as there is a decrease in
the Public Deposits of no less than £3,117,940,
arising from the payment of the dividends, the
very slight diminution in bullion may be considered
virtually as an increase. Money, for commercial
purposes, has been comparatively easy, but no
change has yet taken place in the rate of discount.
A statement of the exports of bullion from Lon-
don, during the year 1853, shows the total to have
been £21,196,600, of which £5,745,800 was in
silver, and the remainder in gold. Of this aggre-
gate of gold and silver, the proportions were—to
India, China, and Mauritius, £5,923,300 ; to Aus-
tralia and New Zealand, 24,006,500; to the Conti-
nent, £9,420,800; to the Mediterranean, £1,080,200;
to the West Indies, £375,000 ; to Brazil, £286,000;
and to Africa, £104,800. With the exception of
£530,600 sent to the Continent, almost the whole
of the silver was to the east.

The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 7th of Jan., gives the following
results, when compared with the previous week
Public deposits ... £8,291,993; DecreaseE3,ll7,94o
Other deposits ... 12,744,634; Increase 1,703,585
Rest ... 3,247,894; Increase 29,068
On the other side of the account--
Government securities £14,833,299; Decrease £211,031
Other securities ... 16,736,409; Decrease 839,714
Notes unemployed ... 7,800,600; Decrease 301,620
The amount of notes in circulation is £21,348,200,
being an increase of £270,340 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £15,831,072, showing
a decrease of £21,827, when compared with the
preceding return.