The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-15 00:00:00

THE LATE MR. RUSHTON

MEETING OF MAGISTRATES.
AT a MEETING of the MAGISTRATES. held in
the Council Chamber, Town hall, on Thursday, the 10th
day of April, 1851, at One o'clock, to receive the Report of the
Sun-committee of Magistrates, appointed to consider the best
means of offering a Testimonial to the late Edward Rushton,

PRESENT

- The MAYOR in the Chair, &c &c., &c.,
The following Report was read:-_—: y*"

" T yn-ball, 7th April, 1851
"At a Meeting of the Sub-comn ee of Magistrates appoint
to consider and report the est means of an adequate
morial to the late Edwa Rushton, Esq.,

veiItESENT :
" The 1 OR in the Chair, Sze.
" The following Report was agreeg upon :

• Your Committee are desirous, in the first place_
their sense of the deep personal obligations which t
their brother Magistrates owe to Mr. Rushton, for the valua
professional advice which they have from time to time sought
and obtained from him.
" For this ads ice and assistance there was nothing in his
appointment which prevented him from receiving the usual
profess,onal fees; but, through fear of lessening his moral
influence, and, consequently. his means of usefulness, he al-
ways refused them, though repeatedly urged upon his accept-
ance.

.0 recor

" ' As such an objection unfortunately now no longer exists.
your Committee are anxious to acknowledge this debt in any

form that may meet the approval of their brother Magistrate;.
" Your Committee, having given this part of the subject
confided to them their best consideration, recommend that a
Testimonial be presented to the Family in acknowledgment of
the many services, official mid otherwise, they have received
from Mr. Rushton, as well as of affording a substantial mark
of their appreciation of those services, and of the high estima-
tion and co•dial affection which his conduct, official and per-
sonal, has ever inspired.

" In reference to the Reformatory for Juvenile Delinquents,
your Committee feel the difficulty of making any suggestions
which might, even in appearance, trench upon the privileges

of the Town Council. At the same time they desire to express
an opinion that there could be no tnorefit and enduring monu-
ment of the moral virtues of Mr. Rushton—none that would
be so much in harmony with his own feelings—than to connect
'his name with an Institution which has for years occupied his
best attention, and from the successful accomplishment of
which he anticipated great benefits, both to the objects of the
Institution as well as to the community at large.

" Your Committee, however, feel assured-that, without in
any way interfering with the province of the Town Council in
this matter, their brother Magistrates will unite with them in
a rommon tf.eliroi of nhliffsition. to avail themselves of every

fitting opportunity to urge forward the completion of the In-
stitution, so as to secure the success of the object, evince the
sincerity of their desire to fulfil the cherished wishes of their
departed friend, and so prove the monument to be worthy of
him, and of the best interests of his native town, to which his
energies were ever devoted.'

"JOHN BENT, Chairman."

Resolved,—That the Report be received and adopted; and
that, as a testimonial of the respect and esteem in which the
late Mr. Rushton was held by his brother Magistrates, and in
acknowledgment of his very eminent services, a FUND be
raised, to be applied as may he most agreeable to his Family.
That a Committee, to consist of the following Magistrates—
The Worshipful the Mayor, James Aikin, Esq., Wm. Ratlibone.

Esq., Robertson Gladstone, Esq., and Thomas Booth, Esq., be
appointed to carry the object into effect, with power to asso-

Tint Mr:Rathbone and Mr. Aikin be requested to act as
Treasurers, by whom contributions will be received.
WYBERGH and JAM ESON,
Clerks to the Magistrates.