The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—At the last anithal meet"
ing of this institution, the directors were requested to con-
sider the practicability of throwing open the Evefiing
School to all who chose to attend, at charges varying,fron!
three shillings to ss. per quarter. The reasons assignee
for this proposal were, that it was very difficult for the,
class of adult mechanics to pay the yearly subscription 0j
twenty-one shillings in one sum, and that they often bee
to pay for a year, but were unable, in consequence of cji:.;
cumstances affecting their employments, to attend the. MIL
time for which they had paid. The directors have con-
sulted the wants and convenience of the working classes:
and at the same time retained to them all the privileges
membership, by making the yearly subscription of one
guinea payable in quarterly sums, by those who attend
the Evening School. We perceive, also, that two yes
interesting lectures are announced, one by Mr. Pepper,°,
London, on Light and Polarized Light, in the course o!
which a great many experiments will be introduced, an
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another by Mr. Melville, of London, on Invertebrate('
Animals, to be illustrated by living specimens collected
on our own shores.
LIVERPOOL ANTS THE HEALTH BILL.—On Tharsdalf
in the House of Commons, on the discussion of the
Health of Towns Bill, on clause 1 (excluding London Pa
Westminster from the operation of the act, and extending
it to all other parts of England and to Wales) having been
put, Mr. Cardwell, in whose name stood a motion for the,,
insertion of a clause to except Liverpool from the act, Pl-"ci
to allow any superintending iuspector to report upon, a°
to superintend the mode in which the local sanatory Acts
are carried out, and to include it under the act on a Pell
Lion from the Town Council to that effect) suggested
the government that the great town which he had the h°,l
nour to represent, possessing, as it did, several local se"
for drainage, sewerage, and water-works, should be r!:;
garded in the same light as London, which was exempt
from the provisions of the bill.- and that no extension °'
those provisions to Liverpool should take place until°
special inquiry had been made into the state of the town'
and into the way in which the present sanatory regula-
tions were conducted,—The Attorney-General was under-
stood to say that as to Liverpool, a preliminary inquill
might be instituted, and a special report presented to tbeg
house, on which they could act as regarded the town °1
Liverpool, but there was no analogy between the cirennl"
stances which effected it and London and Westminster,
because the very complicated arrangements existing in the
latter had no parallel in the few local acts which had bed
passed for Liverpool.—Mr. Cardwell remarked that the
town of Liverpool possessed a sanatory act, framed on the
model recommended in former commissions, which W 0
much more efficient than that at present before the house;
inasmuch as it had been passed with a regard to local Or;
cumstances, and was not a mere general bill.—Viscour"
Morpeth thought the reply of the Attorney-General
quite sufficient to satisfy the honourable member for
verpool. There was at present a commission of inane*/
into the special circumstances connected with London,
but no such inquiry existed as to Liverpool.
BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPLETION BILLS.—The
liamentary Committee on these bills resumed on Mondt
Lord Charles Wellesley in the chair. Our locannena'
were present. The opposition of the coasting trade 715
proceeeed with, and it appeared from Mr. Caninh
chairman of the Coasters' Association, that there was 0°
sufficient beaching ground at Woodside, but if the vr°l,
were completed as proposed that would not be eneug,
Others gave similar evidence. A claim was put in
Wr. Pollard and Mr. Hosker to the land attached to tilege
frontages in the Pool, down to low-water mark—adr's
to the crown—but this was opposed, and the claim 0"A
gone into. It was stated by Sir John Rennie and other!!
that to make the works efficient £580,373 would ra
required. One witness stated that if the inner pool Witmade, he doubted the possibility of keeping the onte
pool clear by sluicing, and dredging would be very col:
Mr. Gordon, professor of civil engineering, of Glasg°4s
thought the contemplated outlay on the outer w°',l.
would be useless without the completion of the intlio
works. Mr. Barnett, who represented bondholders_.,
the amount of £30,000 or £40,000, said they had °7ll,
given to understand that there was a possibility of Olio'
gamation with the Liverpool Docks, which they ri°.,t,
much prefer to the works being carried on by the 8351
ance of Government and subscriptions. They Wel° td
ed
sale or an amalgamation with Liverpool. It WEIS stand_
that the " Home port clause" would be withdrawn, ~°0
that the promoters proposed to except all vessels !rev,
wharfage rates up t 0,200 tons—so that so far as theLlvoil
pool Dock petition goes the opposition ceases.
Thursday the committee again met. Mr. Barnett Plat
posed an adjournment should be consented to, 5° ool'
negociations might be entered into with the LiverPtaol
Dock Trustees, which he believed might result in 111,i,Iiers.
advantage. He applied on behalf of the bondb°l wed
Mr. Webster said the question could not be entert!rties
by the committee. After the bills were passed the P'o.reca
might negociate. After some conversation, it was 3;sdaY
that the committee should stand adjourned until 1"
the 39th instant.