The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

COUNCIL MEETING.—The business of the council
meeting to-morrow is miscellaneous enough, and will take
a long time for proper consideration. Among the pro-
ceedings are reports, on the establishment of a juvenile
offender's asylum, and on the present mode of levying
and collecting poor and local rates. Mr. Thompson will
bring forward his usual motion for the closing of Birken-
head ferry, and another, to the effect that the ship-
builders on this side the Mersey renting yards under the
Corporation, have their rents reduced to fourpence per
yard until a graving dock is provided for each firm, on
the same terms as that granted to Mr. Wilson. Mr.
Freme will move that it be referred to the Markets' Com-
mittee, to report whether the hay-market cannot be made
more available for the use of the public as a play-ground,
after market hours, under proper regulations, Mr. Hen-
derson will move for plans and estimates for laying out,
immediately, as a park, the Wavertree-Hall, Yellow-
House, and Newsham-House estates. Mr Bigharn will
move, that the Pedlar's Market be not removed ; and Mr.
Godfrey will move for a committee, to inquire into the
duties of all paid officers of the Corporation. The follow-
ing notices of motions have also been given :—By Mr.
Councillor Tobin : The appointment of a special com-
mittee to consider the state of the ship-building trade in
Liverpool, and the best means of encouraging it. By Mr.
Councillor Briscoe : That before this Council sanctions
the appropriation of any land belonging to it, or the pur-
chase of any, for the purpose of a wholesale or other mar-
ket, a special committee be appointed to take into consi-
deration whether the application of our existing markets
is beneficial or detrimental to the general interests of the
inhabitants at large. and if any alterations can be made so
as to render our present space sufficient, and to report

accordingly.
THE ELMS TEMPERANCE INSTITUTE.—The weekly
meeting of the above scciety, held on Tuesday evening
last, was well attended, and addresses were delivered by
Messrs. Daulby, Casement, and Hall. The chairman,
Mr. T. Marrs, in introducing the speakers, appealed in
his peculiarly forcible style on the subject. We hear that
the above institute intend celebrating the anniversary of
the cause by a rural fete at the village of Rufford, on the
18th instant, in which all parties are invited to join. The
terms are fixed at a low charge, including a good tea.
WEST DERBY GUARDIANS. On Wednesday the
weekly meeting of this body was held ; Mr. Roskell in
the chair. The allowance of fifteen guineas granted to a
pauper named Cobour, to enable him, with his three
children, to emigrate to one of the British colonies, was
confirmed. Mr. Harrison, in compliance with notice
given, moved that the salary of Dr. Nevens, the medical
officer, be increased from £BO to £lOO a year. The
ground upon which the motion of increasa was based was
the great increase in the number of inmates in the house.
The Rev. Mr. Badnall seconded the motion. Two amend-
ments were proposed, and ultimately the salary was fixed
at £lOO. . .

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THE— WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—A special meeting
of this body was held on Wednesday last at Liscard, for
the purpose of considering the position of the Birkenhead
Dock Bill, in reference to a road which the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests propose making at Scacombe.
The Chairman (Mr. Mann) said the principal question
was, whether the Commissioners should stipulate for an
early period, which, if the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests did not grant, the bill should be opposed in com-
mittee. The Law-clerk and the Chairman were directed
to proceed to London and obtain an interview with Mr.
Pemberton and Mr. Rendell, their attention being called
to the following points :—The making of the road within
twelve months after the passing of the act ; keeping a
space on the north reserve, near the river wall of the
Seacombe Slip, for the use of the public; and that the
sewerage of Seacombe be carried across the crown

reserve.
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FOR THE DEAF AND Dump.— The annual
examination of the scholars of the Liverpool School for
the Deaf and Dumb took place, on Thursday afternoon,
in the school of the Royal Institution, Colquitt-street.
There was a very large attendance of ladies and gentle-
men, amongst whom were the Rev. Rector Campbell,
(who presided,) Richard Rathbone, Esq., Harmood Ban-
ner, Esq., and W. Lassell, Esq. A most interesting
exposition of the attainments of the scholars was wit-
nessed, although at the outset the master, Mr. Rhind,
stated that some of his best pupils had left the institution,
and that the examination might, therefore, be less inte-
resting, as it would indicate a lower stage of development
than on former occasions. At the close several letters
were read, either written by or relating to children who
had been brought up in the school, which added tl other
convincing proofs of the excellent effects produced by the
training adopted in the school.
Docx COMMITTEE.—The members of this committee
met on Thursday last, Mr. Littledale presiding. A
claim of Messrs. Thompson and Co., for damage done to
one of their vessels by a flat belonging to the dock trust
was, after some conversation, referred back for further
inquiry.—A letter was read from Mr. H. Melling, of the
Liverpool Yacht Club, stating that great difficulty was
experienced, more especially in the night time, in falling
in with the Bell Buoy, as its tolling at times was only
slightly heard. He proposed that the place of the Bell
Buoy should be supplied by a lightship having one light,
and a bell, to be used when occasion requires. The
writer suggested some new arrangements with respect to
the Crosby lightship.—A letter from Mr. Peter Mathew,
in which charges were made against some of the officers
of the dock trust, was referred to the Committee of
Works. Some conversation took place as to the alleged
inefficiency of the gangway at the landing-stage used by
the tenders of the American mail steamers ; but the ge-
neral feeling of the committee was, that the dock trust
was not liable to provide gangways for steamers,
SELECT VESTRY.—The fortnightly meeting of the
Select Vestry was held on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector
Campbell in the chair. The Building Committee re-
commended the erection of section number four of the
new workhouse, at an expense of £5,000. Mr. Brown
opposed the recommendation. Considerable discussion
on the subject took place, in the course of which it ap-
peared, from explanations given by Mr. Earle, that the
object of the committee in erecting this section, was to
enforce the labour test, with the view of eventually eco-
nomising the parish funds. The proceedings were then
confirmed.—Mr. Harbord stated that he had had an in-
terview with Mr. Cardwell in London, in reference to the
Parochial Assessments Bill, now before Parliament, and
had ascertained that the bill was not intended to be pushed
forward, but that the committee of the House of Lords
intended to receive general evidence unon it from all parts
of the country.—Mr. Savage called the attention of the
board to the systematic emigration from Ireland to Liver-
pool for the sole purpose of begging. Mr. Savage con-
cluded by moving a resolution to the effect that placards
stating that the proper parochial relief was afforded, and
cautioning the public against relieving street beggars,
should be posted in the town. The motion having been
seconded, considerable discussion took place. Ultimately
the resolution, as proposed by Mr. Savrge, was passed.
SECULAR EDUCATION.—A meeting was held on Satur-
day evening, in the Concert-hall, of parties favourable to
a purely secular education, supported by local rates, and
managed by local boards elected by the ratepayers. The
meeting was very thinly attended, at no time, we think,
was the room more than half full, and at the commence-
ment of the proceedings, and for a length of time after-
wards, the attendance was miserable, and must have been
most disheartening. Mr. R. V. Yates took the chair,
and the meeting was addressed by Messrs. C. Holland,
Geo. Holt, John Aikin, Stewart, (an operative,) J. A.
Picton, C. R. Hall, A. C. Kup, Cochran, and—Wylie.
Letters were read from Sir J. Walmsley, W. Brown, Esq.,
M.P., Sir T. B. Birch, M.P., T, Thorneley, Esq., M.P.,
W. Ewart, Esq., M.P. approving of the object of the
meeting, and ono from Mr. Cardwell, in which that
gentleman, after expressing his desire " that public pro-
vision should be made in the most effectual manner for
general education," said, " I must frankly convey to you
the expression of my decided opinion, that education
secular only, and not religious, is a most partial and im-
perfect education, omitting that which is of all things by
far the most important. If our differences upon points of
religion were so irreconcilable, and, at the same time, our
spirit so illiberal, that no system of general education
could possibly be devised in which efficient secular teach-
ing night be combined with true scriptural training, it
might be necessary to adopt a national plan which should
accomplish th 2 object of secular education only. But I
have witnessed with great satisfaction of late years a
growing tendency to insist upon those cardinal points
which most classes of Christians hold in common, and
comparatively to disregard those matters of controversy
on which different opinions may be sincerely entertained.
Nay, more, where the differences of opinion are so great,
that a joint education within the same schools must be
considered impossible, the right of the parent to direct
the religious teaching of his child is generally admitted,
and a spirit of charity is exhibited where combination and
agreement are impossible. Under these circumstances,
I cannot bring myself to surrender the earnest hope that
an efficient education, religious as well as secular, may be
afforded to, every class in the community." One of the
resolutions was to the effect that a petition be presented
to parliament, signed by the chairman, embracing the
object of the meeting.
IlsALTit COMMITTEE.—At the meeting of the Health
Committee on Thursday, Mr. Parker presided. The medi-
cacer ported that the week ending Saturday last the