The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-08 00:00:00

CHURCH EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE

The proceedings of this committee having been read,
their confirmation was proposed by Mr. MOLYNEUX, and
seconded by Mr. S. HOLME.

Mr. BIGHAM complained that there were several items
in the bills paid which were quite illegal; but as the
committee had not met for nine months, it was impossible
to have the matter inquired into.
The TOWN-CLERK explained that the committee had
not met in consequence of the protracted illness of the
chairman, Mr. Ferguson.
Mr. S. HOLME and Mr. PARKER defended the conduct
of the committee in paying the bills which had become
due ; and after a few words from Mr. THOMAS LLOYD,
the proceedings were confirmed.

LIBRARY AND MUSEUM COMMITTEE

The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the Library
and Museum Committee comprised copies of the corres-
pondence which had taken place between the committee
of the Royal Institution and the cc,mmiltee of the coun-
cil, from which it appeared that all negotiation between
the two bodies for the establishment of a public free
library are at an end.

Mr. PIcToN, in moving the confirmation of the pro-
ceedings, stated that the committee were at present en-
gaged looking for an eligible site to erect the proposed
library upon, and he had no doubt but that at the next
Council the matter would be so far forward that the com-
mittee would be able to make a recommendation to the
Council on the subject. There was a matter which had
been omitted, and that was that arrangements had not
been made for paying the Royal Institution their usual
£lOO grant, but he hoped there would be nothing to pre-
vent their doing so._

Mr. Hou,NBY- explained that that arose from the posi-
tion in which they were placed, owing to their recent
negociation with the institution ; but the Finance Com-
mittee would now take steps for having it arranged.
The proceedings were then confirmed.
The coroner's monthly account, amounting to
£2l 9s. 10d., was theta approved of and passed.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE EARL OF DERBY.

The MAYOR said that before the usual communications
were read, he begged to inform the Council that in conse-
quence of the death of their lamented neighbour, the
Lord Lieutenant of the County, he addressed a letter to
Mr. Hale. who has the management of his lordship's
affairs at Knowsley, signifying that if it was the pleasure
of the family, he (the mayor) would attend the funeral
to-morrow (Tuesday). He did so because he felt a
pleasure, as the chief magistrate of this town, and the
chairman of such a body, in doing a duty which he was
certain they would all approve of. (Hear, hear.) In
reply to the communication to Mr. Hale, he had received
a letter from the present Earl of Derby, which he would
read for them. It was as follows :

"Knowsley, July 7th, 1851.
" Stu,—Mr. Hale has communicated to me this morning
your obliging letter of the sth instant, in which you express,
on your own part, and on that of the Corporation, and other
inhabitants of Liverpool, a desire to pay a tribute of respect to
the memory of the late Lord Lieutenant by attending lids
funeral.
"I need hardly say that the assurance thus conveyed of the
regard and esteem entertained for my dear father, by hi,-; im-
mediate neighbours, for the loss we have sustained, are very
gratifying to my feelings and to those of all his family ; but as,
in obedience to his express desire, it is intended that the funeral,
which takes place to-morrow should be as private as possible ;
and as with this view it has been found necessary to restrict
the attendance to his immediate family connexions, I trust you
will not think me either insensible to, or ungrateful for, the
kind feeling which dictated it, if I beg very respectfully and
very gratefully to decline your proposal of an attendance
which I think would be inconsistent with his own expressed
wishes. At the same time I beg you will accept for yourself,
and convey to others, my assurance how highly I value this
mark of your sympathy and kind feeling.

" I have the honour to be, Sir,
"Your obliged and faithful servant,
"The Worshipful the Mayor." "DERBY.
Mr. S. HOLME ventured to say that the Council cor-
dially agreed in the sentiments which his Worship had
expresse towards the Earl of Derby. (Hear, hear.)
He was sure that the whole town of Liverpool would be
unanimous in paying any tribute in their power to their
late lamented Lord Lieutenant.

THE MAYOR'S CO

NICATIONS

The Mayor's communications comprised,—A memorial
from retailers of coal against the system of selling coals in
the streets in carts, and carrying unjust weights—referred
to Weights and Measures Committee ; a memorial from
Mr. John Taylor, against the present dangerous system
of hoisting heavy packages into warehouses by cranes

extending Over the footpaths—referred to the Finance
Committee ; a communication from Mr. Ambrose Lace,
on behalf of the owners of property in Toxteth-park and
Garston, relative to the proposed situation of floating
magazines for storage of gunpowder in the river Mersey—

ordered to lie on the table
the Council adjourned.

This being all t

On Saturday the Royal mail steam-ship Asia, Captain
Judkins, left the Mersey with a full and valuable cargo of
fine goods and 116 passengers
The theory of Free Trade
in the Legislative Assembly of the Frer
which rejected, by a majority of 428 to 199, the proposi-
tion of M. Ste. Bettye to inflict the " rrent 'vneriment"

ustained a rude
Repub!

upon k

At the barracks, Isleworth, a trumpeter of the 4th Dra-
goons committed suicide on Monday, by blowing his
brains out. He joined the army from the Duke of York's
school. In consequence of doubting his wife's fidelity,
who was much his junior, and to whom he had not been
long married, he had become melancholy.
THE ROYAL PALACES. A return just printed of
the sums expended on the Royal Palaces during
1849-50, show, that under various Parliamentary grants
£52,32911s Gd have been expended, of which £13,356 Ss 3d
hwaams upon
Palace.th the enlargement
From
the la andnd
revenues improvement
of
appears to have been £73,404 2slid expended.
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF AD-
DITIONAL CURATES IN POPULOUS PLACES.—The final
meeting of this society for the present season was held on
the of
Crown Bucking-
ham
Monday, the Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair.
From the report, it appeared that the income of the society
available for the maintenance of curates amounted,during
the last year, to £20,237 ls. 5d., a portion of a legacy not
yet paid, estimated at about £1,200, will nearly equalise
the income with that of the preceding year. Meanwhile
the society has no less than 115 unaided cases registered
in its books, embracing a population of nearly 800,000
souls.
REPRESENTATION OF KNARESBOROUGH.-Mr. T.
Collins, long resident in the borough, has started as a
candidate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of
the Right Hon. W. S. Lascelles. Mr. Collins, in his ad-
dress states, "he is in favour of maintaining, in all its
integrity, the Established Church in England and in
Ireland ;" that " he is opposed to the endowment by the
state of the Roman Catholic religion, or to the concession
to Roman Catholic ecclesiastics, of precedency and ter-
ritoral title inconsistent with the supremacy of the
Crown ;" and that " he considers it to be the immediate
duty of the legislature either to relieve the 'agricultural
interest of every special and peculiar burden, or to give to
that interest an equivalent for the taxation which it bears
over and above the rest of the community."