The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

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lenaants were tined zio ana costs, two
cases were dismissed, and others were postponed. It was
stated by Mr. Riley, who appeared for the contractors,
that it is quite impossible to perform the contract, the
contractors havingbeen completely deceived and astounded
by the quantity of filth that has been allowed to accumu-
late in the middens of Liverpool.

EMIGRANTS' CASE.—At the Police-court on. Tuesday,
Mr. Thomas Frost, owner of the ship Lady Milton, was
summoned at the instance of Lieut. Hodder, government
emigration agent. Mr. Frost was defended by Mr. Har-
vey, solicitor, and the facts of the case were deposed to by
Murtagh Brunti. He had paid £l4 12s. 6d. for the pas-
sage of himself, his wife, and four children to Quebec.
The vessel sailed from Liverpool on the 22d April, with
emigrants, for Canada, and in consequence of damages
received in bad weather returned to this port, having been
nine days at sea. She had since been refitted, and sailed,
leaving the witness and about 143 of the other passengers,
behind. He went out with the ship the second time. but
some of the family being left behind to procure provisions.
he returned in the steamer. He had engaged his paSsage
in Belfast from Mr. Pinkerton, agent for Mr. Saul, pas-
senger agent, of Liverpool, and had paid £4 there, and
the remainder when he came to Liverpool. He had asked
the captain when the ship was to sail, and he told him he
did not know, he must ask the shipwrights. Mr. Harvey
called the attention of the magistrates to the position in
which Mr. Frost stood in regard to the vessel. He had
chartered her to Messrs. Byrnes and Co. so far as the
passenger space was concerned, the vessel to be fitted up
by the owner, and to carry as many passengers as the act
of Parliament allowed, £5OO being the charge of Mr.
Frost tc, Byrnes and Co. Byrnes and Co. had re-let their
interest in the vessel to Mr. Saul, who was the real char-
terer of the party, and responsible for the passengers' loss.
After a long discussion upon the subject, Mr. Rushton
said-7" acquit Mr. Frost. The emigrants must go to

Mr. Saul, who is bound to furnish then:, with board' and
another ship."

LOCAL MEETINGS,

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—On Wednejday, amongst
the number of applicants for relief was one of a somewhat
novel character; it was that of the wife of a pilot, of the
name of Joseph Price, who having been committed to
Lancaster Castle for the non-payment of income tax, she
and her five children had been totally deprived of their
means of support, and it was therefore on these grounds
that she was under the necessity of applying for relief.
Inquiries having been made by the relieving officers as to
her statements, it appeared that the family possessed no
lodgings.furn t ur u
e whatever,nderth
these
et
circumstancesth at they i•esitdheed
binnarfduratheeedd
to allow her five shillings a week for a short period. 'Mr.
Smith stated that he had made an inspection of the house
lately occupied by Mr. Lowndes, at Mount Vernon, and
he thought, from its contiguity to the present one,
its
capaciousness and cheapness, and its airy situation, that
it was the most eligible and advantageous how* for the
purpose of a fever ward they could possibly have. The
Rev. Mr. Badnall said he had a motion to make which
would obviate the necessity of taking a house at all, as
they were liable at any time to be turned out of it. His
desirableeatchcaotma
msuoidtaabtiloenbuilding
niitoi
ns
for th
mrish." The report of the surgeon to the
be motionere etwedasb—;;lTeha union
of the patients were in a

fever hospital stated that m
very favourable state, and thl

it there was accommodation
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that ti

recommended by Mr

rental of £5

SELECT VESTRN
day, Rector Brooks pi
Mr. Alderman Griffith, Mr. Counci
Councillor Kaye, Mr. Rpbertson Glads
land, Mr. Neill, surgeon, Mr. Cooper,
cauley, and Mr. Bage, attended on beh
tants of Abercromby ward, for the purpose of
the views of the vestry relative to the occupation or not
occupation of the sheds in Mount-pleasant with fever 11
tients, now that the government had placed the lazaretto
on the river, as receptacles for persons labouring under
that disease. The interview lasted a considerable time,
and at the close of it a motion was submitted that the

At the fortnightly meet

on Tues-

.sided. A deputation, cOnsisti

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the following resolution, drawn up by the chairman, with
a view of doing something to meet the wishes of both par.-
ties, was carried :—" That the sheds in the workhouse, and

the lazarettoes in the river, be fitted up with all possible
despatch, and that they be used for fever patients,
special regard being had to the use of the lazarettoes for
that purpose." The meaning, of this, he said was, that
if all the patients could be put on the river they would be
put on it, if not, the sheds would be used.—The Work-
house Committee reported that a young woman in the
Lock Hospital, of the name, of Fanny Hullett, had, by the

orders of one of the medwal men, uceu tutu), rm.% aziu
drinking rice, milk, two eggs, a pint of tea, two glasses of
wine, and six glasses of brandy, at a cost to the parish of
18s. 3d., exclusive of medicines, and. in addition, she
wanted to have porter and fish. (Loud laughter.) An-
other inmate ww ericatino• rho narish 13s. 4d., and she was

allowed six glasses of wine. The committee recommended
that the honorary medical superintendence of the house be
dispensed with, that an official medical staff be at once ap-
pointed to the duties, and that stipendiaries only be em-
ployed.—Mr. Riding was sorry to say that the honorary
medical board did not act in unison with the committee.
Mr. Austin said he was for having responsible paid officers.
The Chairman.—your mind is rondo in with reEard to

tne propriety of doing away with the honorary medical
board altogether, and having respectable paid officers ?
Mr. Austin.—Certainly ; but at present I cannot suggest
the permanent arrangement. The state of the house now
requires the constant and prompt attention of the vestry.
The board agreed to meet every Tuesday during the pre-
sent emergency_