The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

MEETING AT THE ROYAL INFIRMARY.

The annual meeting of the Trustees of the Liverpool
Royal Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum, and Lock Hospital,
was held in the Board-room of the Infirmary, yesterday
morning, at ten o'clock; Edward Molyneux, Esq., in the
chair.

Mr. ALFRED NORTH, the treasurer of the institution,
entered into a lengthened and lucid statement of its posi-
tion and prospects, from which we gleaned the fol-
lowing facts :

In the house. Ist January, 1852
Patients admitted during the year .

D ischarg,cd

Do. relieved and at own request
Made out-patients
Irregular

1175
364
317

Rcmaining in house, January, 1853,
Total

Average weekly .....
Admitted out-patients
Surgical casualties ...

LUNATIC ASYLUM
In on Ist January, 1852....
Admitted during the year ..
T0ta1.... ..

The Rev. Christopher Newman Hall, minister of an
Independent congregation at Hull, was next called, and
stated that the prisoner called upon him on the 9th
November, representing himself as a minister of the Inde-
pendent congregation at Monrovia, and that he had been
sent over to England to collect money for their church,
and wanted £2OO. He then showed witne-s documents
which he at the time believed to be authentic. He said.
" I have a congregation of 2,000 persons in Monrovia.
George and Eliza Harris, mentioned in Uncle Tom's
Cabin, are members of my congregation. George Harris
is an engineer. They live in a house.like the houses in
England. Cassy, mentioned in the same book, died six
weeks after ber arrival in Monrovia ; I visited her during
her illness. She died a very happy death."
Mr. John Needs, an inspector in the Manchester police
force, deposed to apprehending the prisoner in
.Liverpool
in February last, on the charge of having obtained £l5
from Mr. Fender, shipping merchant, at Manchester,
under false pretences, having represented himself to be a
missionary from Liberia. Oa that occasion he said he
was connected with the Commercial Banking Company of
Monrovia. He was discharged because evidence could
not be procured in consequence of the distance of Liberia
from this country.
Mr. George "Wright, of this town, was next examined,
and said :—" I am a general merchant and shipowner at
Liverpool. I know the prisoner at the bar. He arrived
at Liverpool in the autumn of 1851. He arrived in the
barque Clyde-side, Captain White. This vessel belongs
to the firm in which I am a partner, Messrs. George
Wrieht and Co. She came from Western Africa. The
usual passage money home Ido not know. I should say
the captain ought to ask £5O for a single passenger from
Liberia to England. There was a person in his company
said to be his wife. He called upon me and stated that
lie was the passenger in the Clyde-side. The substance
of what he said was that he had come out as a missionary
of a Baptist Society, to collect funds for the repairs or
re-building of a chapel. I did not introduce the prisoner
to any gentleman in Liverpool. lam acquainted with the
signature of the President of Liberia, Joseph Jenkins
Roberts, and know him personally. I know his writing,
and have seen him write. He is a man of colour. I
believe that the signature attached to the document pro-
duced, is not the signature of President Roberts. The
reason why I doubt the signature is, because I have seen
many letters from President Roberts, and there is a wide
difference between the " R." here, and any that I have
seen. lam acquainted with the seal of the republic of
Liberia. Ido not believe that the seal attached to this
document is the true seal of Liberia. Indeed I may say
Ido know that it is not. I have a document, sealed by
President Roberts, in my presence in London, in 1848.',
The Rev. Augustus William Hansen, a Clergyman of
the Church of England, who resided in Monrovia, from
the 11th of November, 1850, to the 2d of May, 1852, and
acted as British Consul, stated that he knew the prisoner,
who was the pastor of Providence Baptist Chapel. His
congregation would not exceed 200. Prisoner told witness
that he was coming to England to solicit funds. He
(witness) refused to give him any testimonials. There
was no such seal in Liberia as the one attached to the
document produced.
Mr. Hanson, the British Consul at Monrovia, during
the time the prisoner resided there, deposed to his
knowledge of him, and said that the prisoner was at one
time chaplain to the Senate of Liberia, while witness was
there. The signature of the President of Liberia, as wall ,
as the other signatures on the documents produced, were
all forgeries. There was no church in Monrovia called
the Providence Independent or Protestant Church of
Christ. Did not know that there was £2OO required by
any religious body there. If there had been any edifice
constructing for the purposes of any religious body in
Monrovia during witnesses stay there, he could not under
any circumstances have failed in knowing it. Prisoner
came from America to Liberia with immigrants. When THE JOHN KNOX, AUSTRALIAN EMIGRANT SHIP.—
witness went to the colony the prisoner was there. Had Some rumours having been industriously circulated of
been in prisoner's church, but not during service. The disaster having occurred to this vessel, we have authority
entire population of Monrovia was not more than 1,500. for stating that, since her departure from this port, which
Mr. SEYMOUR, in a
jury for the prisoner, contending speech of two hours' and a half I was on New Year's Day, no intelligence of her whatever
duration, addressed the
I has been received, and there is not the slightest reason for
that the evidence on behalf of the prosecution hail failed supposing otherwise than tha; she is pursuing her voyage.
in
and establishing
erefore the negative of the
acquit him. and was in every respect well provided.
The RECORDER having summed up, the jury retired,
and in about half an hour returned into court with a
I FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last, several seamen
verdict of guilty on each of the three counts. belonging to the Arctic steam-ship went ashore for the
The RECORDER was about to pass sentence upon the I purpose of spending the afternoon. The ship was then
lying in the Huskisson Lock, which had been let dry, but
prisoner, when he asked permission to make some as a warning to passengers, three fires were lighted on
remarks. Permission being granted,
. the quay. One of the seamen, named Daniel M`Kenny,
The prisoner addressed the court as follows :—" Feeling ' went to one of the fires for the purpose of lighting his
conscious that
.I have acted in accordance with m.y duty, I
, pipe. Whilst he was applying the light he had obtained
and with the dictates of my conscience, and having left , to his pipe, he walked forward, and incautiously went too
the republic of Liberia to seek in this country that aid
I far, dropping into the lock. He was picked up bleeding
which my poor suffering people were unable to afford. for very much from the head and conveyed to the Northern
the completion of their house worship ; and the jury Hospital, where he died of the injuries at eight o'clock
having now pronounced their opinion that I am guilty of , one hour after his admission. a crime for the way in which I have acted, I have only to
say, that however various and complicated may have been , LECTURE IN LIVERPOOL BY THE Rev. T. D. GREGG.
that testimony upon which they have recorded their —lt affords us great pleasure in being
.enabled to
verdict, and whatever may have been right in the eyes of announce that the Rev. T. D. Gregg, of Dublin, the cele-
brated controversialist, and eloquent expounder of. sound
this honourable court—(placing his hand upon his heart,
and elevating his voice with earnestness)—no pain or Protestant principles,. has consented to lecture. during the
present mouth in the town,.
.on the " Heroism of the
remorse lies here. Under these circumstances I have but
sacred character, as contradistinguished from that of the
one word to add. It is simply in the discharge of a duty
to my poor church that I have come and endeavoured Co profane, illustrated. by the life and acts of Jeremiah,"
solicit aid from those who in England could give it. We anticipate seeing. one of the most crowded. meetings
Upon that I have been convicted. I humbly submit, and that have been held in this town, on the occasion of the
merely crave your lordship's mercy." rev, gentleman's lecture. We shall be in a position to
, name the exact date and place in our next. In the mean-
The RECORDER, in passing sentence upon the prisoner
said that, with one exception, it was the most distressing time we may say that is expected the Rev. Dr. Blakeney,
case which had come before him, since he had sat as re- of Claughton, will preside.
corder in that court. He would not harrow the prisoner's BURSTING or A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE.—An extraor-
feelings by dwelling upon what he concluded to be a most dinary accident occurred on Saturday on the Midland
heinous offence in the ejes of God and man. He had Railway, about two miles and a half from Bristol. The
come to this country to prey upon the religious feelings goods train, which starts at eight o'clock in the evening,
of the benevolent of this land, and by taking upon himself happened to be unusually light, carrying only 74 tons and
a name entitled to our profound reverence, Ile bad made , a few empty pickle-trunks, but it was drawn by two
it merely an instrument of unprincipled money making. engines, the boiler of one of which exploded with terrific
He (the recorder) should not dwell at greater length upon I violence, shattering everything connected with it to atoms.
his case. He felt deeply his degradation, and he would Both the engineer and the stoker bad jumped off the
fain hope that the prisoner might feel it too. After a engine to chock the wheels, or they must have been blown
feeling and suitable admonition, the learned recorder said, to atoms,

Discharged cured ....
Do. at friends' request relieved
Dead

.. .........
In house Ist January, 1833

Average weekly number

LOCK HOSPITAL
In house Ist January, 1852
Admitted during the year ..

Discharged cured . :-.1 :: :1::
Relieved and at own request
Sent to Workhouse
Do. Penitentiary .. ..
Do. Benevolent House
Dead..

In house Ist January, 1653-

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Mr. North said the accounts for the year were not yet
made up, owing to the early period at which the annual
meeting was held, but there was a falling off in the sub-
scriptions, amounting to about £4O. The subscriptions
now were £423 less than they were seven years ago ; but
the total amount of money received during the year was
greater than usual, owing to some large donations and a
legacy. These, however, it had been deemed advisable to
invest for the benefit of the institution, as being a source
of income which did not usually occur. The balance last
year in the hands of the treasurer was £5OO, this year it
was £350.

The usual resolutions (for which see our advertising
columns) were then moved and passed unanimously.
ALTERATION OF LAWS.—The Rev. J. B. Monk then
rose, for the purpose of bringing forward a motion of which
he had given notice, for an alteration of the law, the
object of which was to determine the appointments of the
medical officers, at the end of twenty-one years from the
date of their appointments, but such officers to be eligible
for re-appointment. This was a subject which had oc-
cupied his attention for nearly twenty years, but
circumstances had occurred which prevented him fromgoing on with the matter. After referring to the satis-
factory working of a similar law at the Northern and
Southern Hospitals, and to the advantages likely to arise
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present medical officers, and the valuable services they
had rendered the Institntion, Mr. Monk concluded by
moving his resolution, to the effect that the law be so
altered that in any future election of either physicians or
surgeons, such elections should determine at a period of
twenty-one years from the date of such appointmenst.
Mr. E. GinnoN, jun., conceiving that such a measure
would be of advantage to the town at large, as well as to
the Institution, had great pleasure in seconding the
motion..

Mr. HARMOOD BANNER said be believed all were
a7reed that such an alteration was required, but he was
about to move an amendment with regard to the time at
which such appointments should terminate, and also with
respect to their being eligible for re-appointment. The
great object of his amendment was to limit ,the time to
fifteen years, and to prevent the physicians and surgeons
from being eligible for re-election.

Mr. CoioN-seconded the amendment, and after some
conversation it was put and lost.

•
Another amendment was then moved by Mr. Langton,
anti seconded by Mr. Shand, to the effect that the term
should be fifteen years, but that the medical officers should
be eligible for re-election. This on being put was also
lost, and the original motion, which will be found in our
advertising columns, was carried.

After a vote of thanks had been passed to the commit-
tee and to the president, the meeting separated.