The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-03 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

EVERTON AND KIRKDALE WARD.—A meeting of the
electors was held on Friday evening, at the Everton
Coffee-house, to adopt measures to secure the election of
Francis Shand, Esq., as a representative of this ward.
There were present Messrs. G. H. and W. J. Horsfall,
Mr. Councillor Bennett, Mr. Kerford, and other gentle-
men of influence in the neighbourhood. Mr. Maddock
occupied the chair. Mr. Bennett, in a brief compli-
mentary address, proposed Mr. Shand, whose past ser-
vices entitled him to the renewed confidence of the
electors. Alr. Kerfuni warmly seconded the motion, and
it was unanimously carried. After some conversation on
other points, irrelevant to the meeting, a committee was
appointed to take measures to secure Mr. Shand's elec-
tion. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, who
feelingly replied, stating that, in the cause of old toryism,
he should always be at his post.
RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.—The thirty-fourth an-
nual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary to the London
Religious Tract Society was held on Tuesday evening
last, in the Portico, Newington, the Rev. H. Hampton,
the incumbent of St. James's, occupying the chair.
After the Rev. Mr. Kirkus, of the Necropolis, had im-
plored the Divine blessing upon the meeting, and a state-
ment of the accounts to the end of the society's year
had been read, the Rev. W. W. Ewbank, the Minister of
St. George's, Everton, moved the first resolution, which
was seconded by Mr. William Jones, the esteemed super-
intendent of the parent society's operations, who gave a
brief but exceedingly interesting statement of the trans-
actions both at home and abroad. His address was lis-
tened to with great attention. Subsequently, the meeting
was addressed by the Rev. Mr. Carpenter, of St. Jude's,
and the Rev. Mr. Brown, a missionary from Africa, who
urged the claims of the society, on the ground of the va-
luable assistance rendered to the missionary in his benevo-
lent endeavour to elevate the character of the degraded
and swarthy sons of that long-injured continent. The
Revds. Messrs. Kirkus and Graham briefly addressed the
meeting, after which a collection was made for the Lon-
don Religious Tract Society, which, we fear, would be
but trifling, in comparison with its claims upon this large
community.

MEETING OF THE SELECT VESTRY.—A special meet-
ing of the select vestry was held at the Parish-offices,
Lime-street, for the purpose of electing a registrar of
births, deaths, and marriages, for the district of Great
Howard-street, in the room of Mr. Charles Chubb, dis-
missed. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Rector
Campbell. It appeared from the proceedings of the
Finance Committee, that there had been thirty-nine
candidates for the vacant registrarship; and the commit-
tee, after having inspected the various applications and
testimonials, recommended one of the three following
candidates, namely, Mr. Henry Schroeder, Mr. William
Salmone-and Mr. Thomas Parr, to be appointed to the
office of Registrar of St. George's district ; and they
further recommended that Mr. George Gurdon, the
present Registrar for St. George's district, be promoted
to the more lucrative district of Great Howard-street or
Vauxhall. Mr. Seward moved that Mr. Gurdon be ap-
pointed to the district of Great Howard-street. Mr.
Avison moved, as an amendment, that Mr. James Board-
man, who was an old and deserving officer of the parish,
be elected to the Great Howard-street district. Mr.
Woodruff, seconded by Mr. Shakeshaft, proposed Mr.
Henry Schroeder to the vacant office ; but shortly after
Mr. Woodruff withdrew this amendment. The voting
was then taken, when there appeared :—For Mr. Gurdon,
19; for Mr. Boardman. 5. Mr. Gurdon was accordingly
elected to the Registrarship of Great Howard-street ; and
the filling up of the vacancy for St. George's district was
postponed until official notice of that vacancy had been
first declared.

LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.-A most inte-
resting meeting of the directors of this institution was
held, on Thursday, in their board-room, for the purpose
of taking leave of the Principal, the Rev. W. J. Conybeare,
and of receiving his successor, the Rev. J. 5, Howson.
The Chairman, (Rev. A. Campbell) on behalf of the
board of management, in handsome terms expressed thei
sense of Mr. Conybeare's services, their regret at his der
parture, and their sincere wishes for his future welfare.
Called upon (said Mr. Campbell) to execute an import-
tant, but hitherto, perhaps, untried experiment, an expe-
riment in which the board have endeavoured to aid your
efforts without restricting your discretion, you have evinced
not only a marked ability, but a conscientious zeal which
has deserved and met with their cordial approbation. In
the language of St. Paul you may say I have fought
a good fight," and if our joint endeavours have not been
crowned with perfect success, the partial failure which has
only been a financial one, may be ascribed, not to any
want of zeal on your part, but to the commercial embar-
rassments of these most disastrous times. Mr. Conybeare,
in returning thanks, said the duties in which he had been
engaged for the last six years had been to him delightful,
and he owed the directors a deep obligation for the confi-
dence they had intrusted in him in the appointment of all
the masters. He concluded by introducing, in a compli-
mentary manner, his successor, the Rev. J. S. Howson,
to the meeting. Mr. Howson, who was received with
cheers, warmly acknowledged the confidence reposed in him.
He said " It is no slight encouragement, gentlemen, to be
trusted from the first by those whose confidence I might
have been glad to earn by continued exertion ; and it is
no slight encouragement that I shall find here a body of
fellow-masters in whom I have myself the utmost con-
fidence, some from a personal knowledge now of some
years' standing, and others from the opinion I have heard
expressed by my predecessor, who appointed them ; but
I-find my highest encouragement and greatest advantage
in that excellent organization of the schools to which he
has, by his judgment, and energy, and patient toil, in the
six years (or nearly six years) during which he has pre-
sided here, successfully brought them." Mr. Adam
Hodgson said, that, as a parent who had placed several
children in the upper school since the opening of the in-
stitution, he should not be doing justice to the exertions
of the Principal, or his own feelings, if he did not express
the deep sense which he entertained of the care and at-
tention which the Principal had taken of them. The
Albion adds—Having had several of our own children in
the middle school for some time, we may state, with
Mr. Adam Hodgson, that we should not be doing justice
to our feelings if we did not join with that gentleman in
an expression of our thanks for the care taken of them by
the retiring Principal.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—The sub-committee of Works
reportgd that they could not recommend the erection of
dwelling houses for the respective pier masters. Mr.
Tobin argued that the residences were as necessary
as those for the dock masters. Mr. Nicol said that it
was not considered desirable to have the wives and fami-
lies of the men running about the pier-beads, and they
had huts sufficient to go into. Mr. Tobin : You and I
would not like to live in a hut, and I would not ask them
to live in a hut. Mr. Aikin thought it was perhaps an
error in finding houses for the dock masters, and he
would not go further. If any alterations were made at
all, he should like to see the principle adopted of having
a certain number of men appointed for each dock to
remove ships, and do away with the system of employing
shipkeepers. As it was now, he believed they were pav-
ing for a set of plunderers. Mr. Tobin moved that
houses be erected for the dock gatemen, but, finding no
seconder, the proposition fell to the ground.—The sub-'
committee for the marine department reported that they
could see no reason to alter their recommendation to dis-
pense with the services of Mr. Cox, the temporary as-
sistant to the marine surveyor. The same sub-committee
also reported that that they could not recommend any
increase in the salary of Lieutenant Lord, the marine
surveyor. Mr. Tobin said he was one who took the
lead in raising Mr. Lord's salary from £4OO to £6OO, and
that sum he considered a handsome' emolument for the
services performed.—The arrangement with Mr. Bailey
to rent the top of Tower-buildings, for the telegraph, on
a lease of seven years, at £7O a-year, was confirmed. By
the removal of the telegraph, signals will be passed along
the line to Formby--An application from Messrs. Vernon
and Co., for the use of the Clarence Graving-dock for
the Prince of Wales steamer, was granted, on conditions.
—The harbour-masters' sub-committee recommended
that Mr. William Foyle, aged 31, should be appointed
master of George's Dock, in the place of Mr. William
Gerrard, resigned, at a salary of £250 a-year. Mr.
Tobin objected to the placing of new and untried hands
over the heads of old and deserving servants. He men-
tioned Mr. Horsfall, master of the Canning Dock, who
had risen from the situation of gateman, as a man every
way qualified and entitled to the situation. It came out,
in the course of a lengthy conversation, that Mr. Hors-
fall had been before the sub-committee, and that the only
objection to him was that he was not quite so genteel in
his manners as some of the members desired, and this by
some was deemed sufficient to stand in the way of his
promotion to an increase of salary to the extent of £lOO
a year. Mr. Tobin admitted that if they expected a man
to make a long speech on a small matter Mr. Horsfall was
not the man. In reply to the argument that the master
at George's Dock had to come in contact with the public
in the frequent opening and shutting of the dock gates,
and therefore ought to be a little polished. Mr. Royden
said if a man dropped from the clouds, with a head on at
all, he was quite able to take charge of the bridge. It
was only like a man turning a grind-stone handle, and
required no great refinement of scientific skill. (Laughter.)
Mr. Tobin then proposed that Mr. Horsfall be appointed
to George's Dock, and on a division the motion was car-
ried by a majority of 10 to 7, namely, for Mr. Horsfall,
Messrs. Lockett, Kendall, Tobin, Mann,"Horsfall, Shand,
Royden, Wood, Aikin, and Robinson ; against, Messrs.
Sanders, Bold, Gladstone, Molyneux, Chilton, Nicol, and
the chairman. A division then took place on the ques-
tion whether Mr. Foyle should be appointed to the Can-
ning Dock, or the subject referred back to the sub-com-
mittee, to see whether some other old servant could not
be promoted. Singularly enough, Mr. Kendall and Mr.
Tobin, who strongly advocated promotion in the one case,
opposed the reference back again, but the committee pre-
served its consistency by referring the subject again.—A
letter which created some little amusement was read from
a Dr. Trail, offering to lend the committee £72,000, to
which the applicant alleged he was entitled for services
in Greece and Portugal, the only condition being, that
the committee should get the money for him.