The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

EVANGELICAL ALM ANCE.—On Tuesday evening a meet.
ing was held in the Medical-hall, Hope-street, for the
purpose of receiving an account from the Rev. Dr. Crich-
ton, the Rev. C. M. Birrell, and others who attended the
recent meeting of the Evangelical Alliance at Glasgow as
a deputation from the Liverpool division. The hall was
crowded, and Mr. W. Crosfield occupied the chair. Dr.
Crichton gave a detail of the proceedings in the order in
which they occurred. The chief subjects brought before
the Alliance were Sabbath Desecration, Popery, and In-
fidelity. It was resolved to offer prizes of £lOO for the best
essay on each of these subjects. The Alliance allotted
them into three divisions :—namely, Popery to the Scottish
division ; Infidelity to the south of England division ; and
Sabbath Desecration to the north-western division of Eng-
land, in which this town is included. A member of the
Alliance subscribed £3OO for that purpose, and £6O has
since been subscribed.

WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—On Thusrday night the
usual monthly meeting was held. The report of the
finance committee recommended that a rate of Is. should
be laid for the ensuing year. Mr. Hill, the chairman of
the finance committee, stated as the reason for recom-
mending the Is. rate, that their liabilities would amount
to £1500; that the value of the property assessed was
£32,000, which would produce very little short of the
amount of the expenses required. Mr. Peers seconded
the motion. Mr. Holland, in supporting the motion, was
continually interrupted by Messrs. Jones and Dean. Mr.
Meadows objected to the motion, and proposed as
an amendment that the rate be 6d. Mr. Callow seconded
the motion. Several gentlemen having spoken pro. and
Mr. Dean left the room. He soon returned, and
on taking his seat commenced to interrupt Mr. Hill.
The chairman called him to order, when he said he had a
right to speak. The chairman said he bad no right to
speak. Mr. Ewart said that if the chairman called upon
him he would act as a magistrate. Mr. Dean then be-
came quiet. A motion of Mr. John Peers, that the 9d.
rate be laid, was ultimately carried.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION.
—On Friday evening, a public meeting of the members
and friends of this society was held at the Public Sale-
room, to hear the statements of a deputation from the
London Board, relative to the proceedings of the associa-
tion. The attendance was not very numerous.—Mr.
Jones, from London, entered into a history of the associ-
ation, and furnished statistical statements showing its
increasing prosperity from year to year. The association
had two departments—one for life assurance, and the
other involving a benevolent fund. The assurance was
effected on the mutual principle, and their certain privi-
leges enjoyed by members. The subscription to the life
department also included the benevolent, without addi-
tional charge. The latter guaranteed to distressed mem-
bers, of three years' standing, annuities of £25 each, and
to the widows of such £l5. In Liverpool there were
nearly 100 members, and about £30,000 insured. Every
inducement was offered to prudent and thinking men to
join. The society was supported by the first merchants
of the metropolis, and by many eminent individuals of
the land.—Mr. Welsh said there was no society which
offered so many benefits for so little money. The books
had been investigated, and the association, it was found,
could discharge all its undertakings. The present amount
of liabilities was £13,000, and against that they had in-
vested in government stock £19,000, a security which
offered confidence to these already belonging to the asso-
ciation, and which would inspire confidence in those who
thought of joining. He instanced a case in which a mem-
ber died, whose widow did not know that he belonged to
the association ; but having heard him say something
about it, she applied, and learned she was entitled to
£5OO.—A resolution was passed pledging the meeting to
support the association, and, after a vote of thanks to the
deputation, the meeting terminated.
SELECT VESTRY.—The usual periodical meeting was
held on Tuesday : the Rev. Rector Campbell in the chair.
There were nineteen other members present. In reply to
a question, Mr. Hart said the accounts of the parish were
not yet completed, but would be published as soon as
ready.—Some conversation took place relative to the man-
ner in which the overseers were compounding for the rates
with the owners of cottage property. Mr. Earle approved
of the plan, as a small loaf was better than none, and the
mass of the tenants would not pay. Some remarks were
made relative to certain charges of hardship to tenants
against the collectors. It was complained of that the
House Owners' Guardian Society proceeded in a very ir-
regular and extra-judicial manner towards the collectors ;
and the Chairman said that the latter had a right
to be furnished with the particulars of every charge
brought against them, before they were called upon to
answer it.—The proceedings of the Industrial Schools'
Committee having been read, it was recommended to the
committee to purchase a printing press, for the purpose of
teaching the boys in the school the art of printing.—The
report of the Medical Relief Committee stated that the
cholera had, in Liverpool, ceased to be epidemic. It
appeared that the house of refuge, in Queen Anne-street,
had in no one case been of any use.—Mr. Willmer
brought forward his motion that the correspondence be-
tween Mr. Cafferata and the Poor-law Commissioners
should be expunged from the minute-book. He thought
this necessary to prevent it from forming a precedent
hereafter. Mr. Cafferata had said that he wrote to the
commissioners as a private member of the board ; but it
was so done as to identify the correspondence with the
acts of the commissioners.—Mr. Gardner seconded the
motion.—Mr. Cafferata opposed it, on the ground that
any member had a right to write to the commissioners for
his own guidance, and no decision of the board would
prevent him from doing so again.—Mr. Wylie moved an
amendment—that the correspondence be allowed to remain
in the book, with the understanding that it would be not
admitted as a precedent ; and this was seconded.—Mr.
Woodruff reprehended the conduct of Mr. Cafferata in
writing to the Commissioners, when he knew at the time
that the views and wishes of the board were altogether
against him. Ho said the correspondence would never
have been entered in the books if the chairman of the
workhouse committee (Mr. Cafferata) had not refused to
put an amendment to the committee on these letters.
He (Mr. Woodruff) had in consequence resigned, being a
member of the committee. Shortly after several gentle-
men of the board pressed him to come forward again, and
when he was proposed, Mr. Cafferata moved the appoint-
ment of another gentleman against him, though that gen-
tleman was not known to Mr. Cafferata. He also com-
plained that Mr. Cafferata, during his absence, had said
that he (Mr. Woodruff) bad come back " like a spoiled
child," and wished to be re-elected. Mr. Woodruff then
entered into an explanation of the reasons which caused
him again to become a member of the vestry, from which
it appeared he was strongly solicited, and at length reluct-
antly promised to serve again. Mr. Woodruff, in con-
clusion, said,—l ask the chairman of the Workhouse Com-
mittee how he dared to make use of my name in the way
in which he did, and call me " a spoiled child." (Hear,
hear, and loud laughter.) I tell him to his face, that if
he would do his duty to the board instead of mixing him-
self up with underhand and factious attacks upon indivi-
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worthy of a member of this vestry to impute to others
improper motives in the manner he has done.—Mr. Earle
said that since he had heard Mr. Cafferata's letter read,
he had changed his opinion, as he thought the letter offi-
cious, if not official. He thought nothing ought to be in
the books which had not been sanctioned by the com-
mittee. As to members writing to the commissioners for
their own guidance, that was a different thing. After a
few words from Mr. Abraham, it:support of Mr. Cafferata,
Mr. Willmer consented to withdraw his motion in favour
of Mr. Wylie's amendment, and the latter was carried.