The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-20 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

venience, restrictions, and disadvantages under which the deration of such application be adjourned to the next
shipbuilders laboured—urging that more room was re- monthly tneeting, and that in the meantime counsel's
quired for shipbuilding purposes on the margin of the otiittiOn be taken as to the construction of the clauses of
river, and at a less rent—soliciting the committee to use the bet relating to giving the corporate estate as collateral
their influence wit% the shipbuilders to employ more com- security.
petent journeymen in the building of ships—opposing Mr. FztontrouGu seconded the amendment, which
private patent slips and graving docks—and deprecating was negatived by a majority of 29 to 18.
the lease of land at Birkenhead for shipbuilding purposes. For the amendment,—Councillors Walthew, Chalmer,
The momorial was signed by 1,102 shipwrights. Mr. jun., Woodruff, Bigham, Preston, Atkinson, Godfrey,
Tobin said more men would be employed if they would Avison, Ferguson, Fernihough, Harbord, Jones, Gard-
agree to an alteration in the wages. In other ports the ner, Picton, Bennett, Beckwith, Henderson, Hindley.
wages of shipwrights were 3s. or 3s. 6d. a day ; herethev Against it,—Councillors Langsdale, Thomson, Hodson,
got ss. The memorial was referred to the special sub- Briscoe, Horsfall, Littledale, Tyrer, Holt, Hornby, Bell,
committee on shipbuilding. Rimmer, Wags aff, Tobin, Neill, Lloyd, Johnson, Freme,
NORTH AND SOUTH WALES BANK.—The fourteenth Mann, and Fisher ; Aldermen Hodgson, Swainson,
annusl meeting was held on Friday, at the Clarendon- Sands, Cooper, Wood, Bramley -Moore, Bent, Turner,
rooms, Richard Griffith, Esq., chairman of the board of Chilton, and the Mayor. _ _ _

directors, presiding. The report slated, that during the
past twelve months the ordinary business of the bank has
steadily improved. The following statement was sub-
mitted :

The proceedings were then confirmed, the discussion
having occupied upwards of two hours.
The proceedings of the Church Expenditure Commit-
tee, the Observatory Committee, and the Ferries Com-

For the year ended 30th June, 1849, as stated in last report,
the profits of the bank were £5,859 15s. sd. ; whereas,
for the year ended 29th June last, the
profits were...
Dividend free of income tax to the proprie-
tors at 3 per cent. per annum, for the half-
year ended 31st December,
1849 £3,231 15 0
Dittoditto,for half-year ended
29th June, 1850

mittee, were severally read and confirmed.
The proceedings of the Special Committee for the
Reformation of Juvenile Offenders comprised a recom-
mendation to erect a suitable building, on the property
of the Corporation, at Wallhill Farm, West Derby, at a
cost of £2,808, in lieu of renting premises.
Mr. HORNBY having moved the confirmation of the
proceedings, another very long and irregular discussion
took place, in the course of which several objections
were taken, and amendments suggested ; but, ultimately,
after the time of the Council had been occupied for an-
other hour, the proceedings were confirmed.
The Coroner's account, amounting to £29 18s., and it
being four o'clock, the Council adjourned, having agreed
to defer the consideration of the Library Committee to
the next monthly meeting.

3,231 15 0

-- £6,46310 0

Leaving a surplus of ..
which has been carried to the credit of bad debt account.
The retiring directors were re-elected, and the sum of
£6OO was awarded to the board. A hearty vote of thanks
was also passed to Mr. Rae for his excellent management
of the bank. _ _

HEALTH CommirrEE, THURSDAY.—At the weekly
meeting the medical officer of health reported that the
deaths in the borough last week were 247, being an in-
crease of 17 over the previous week, but exactly the aver-
age of the same week during the last two years, cholera
cases deducted. There were 65 deaths from bowel com-
plaints, 57 of whom were children. Of the total number
of deaths, two-thirds, or 165, were children.—Bostock-
street was ordered to be sewered.—The altering and re-
pairing of Dale-street at the lower end, the estimated
expense of which was £3OO, was postponed.—The flagging
of the footway from Basnett-street to Williamson-square
was ordered to be relaid.—A letter was read from two
persons, named M'Andrew, of Aigburth, and Lionel, of
West Derby, complaining that, since the reduction in the
admission to St. George's Baths, they were now crowded
with the " lower orders," and that after some of the cheap
trips, the water was so filthy that " gentlemen" were
deprived of the use of baths, to which they formerly sub-
scribed. The young gentlemen modestly suggested that
the ladies should be deprived of their plunge bath and
that it should be open to the " gentlemen," at an increased
charge for admission. Mr. Thomson said he never heard
a more selfish letter in his life. Mr. Bennett said he had
gone over the baths with the engineer, and he found the
statements in the letter not at all exaggerated. He found
that the plunge baths were a good deal used by the ladies,
and, of course, these could not be granted. The chairman
(Mr. Parker) conceived they could not draw a distinction
between gentlemen and others. The medical officer of
health said salt water baths were conducive to the health
of the poor, and to appropriate them exclusively to the
use of gentlemen, would be contrary to the principles
upon which the committee acted. Mr. Hornby said the
committee ought to do everything to promote the cleanli-
ness of the lower orders, and let the gentlemen take care
of themselves. These baths were constructed by the
corporation for the use of the poor, and not for the use of
the rich. Mr. Hodson said they must provide salt water
accommodation for all classes.
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.—The annual meeting
of the shareholders was held on Thursday. The attend-
ance was very considerable. Mr. Charles Turner occu-
pied the chair. Mr. Dove read the report, from which it
stnpeared that the amount of fire premium for 1849 was
£34.469 lOs 4d., exceeding the sum received under that
head in any other year since the company was established.
The premiums collected during the first six months of
the present year amounted to £19747 12s. 3d., exhibiting a
still more striking advance, as they showed a surplus,
when compared with the corresponding months of 1849,
of ro less than twenty-five per cent. The amount re-
ceived in the life department, which so recently as 1846
only reached £1574, was in the past year £7044 lls. 2d.,
and it was expected that for the present year the sum of
the premiums would be between £BOOO and £9OOO. The
total number of deaths in the five years bad been but
four, whilst, if there had been the estimated rate of mor-
tality, there ought to have been ten. The report for
]B4B stated that after the adoption of the plan proposed
of capitalising £89,280, and paying a dividend of 2s. per
share, there would remain but the sum of £10,433 14s lld
as a re-assurance fund to meet any possible contingency.
It would be gratifying to the shareholders now to learn
that the amount of the profit and loss, as' the result of
the business of 1849, was £27,809 17s. ld. The direc-
tors had, therefore, to propose a dividend of 3s. per
share, free of income-tax, being five per cent. on the ac-
cumulated capital of the company, which would be equal
to 71 on the amount of the £2, originally paid by the
shareholders only five years since. The payment of this
dividend would absorb £13,512 of the amount of profit
and loss, and leave a sum of £14,297 17s. ld., which
should be carried at once to the credit of the re-assurance
fund. The balance of`hat account would therefore he
£24,731 125., which sum, the directors considered, should
be kept apart to meet any claim of unusual magnitude
which might arise. After some remarks by the chairman,
Mr. G. H. Horsfall, and Mr.' S. Holme, the report was
unanimously adopted, and the dividend declared. The
retiring directors and auditors were re-elected.

and party, Mrs. Mason and party, Mrs. Tinley, Mrs. H.
Barton and daughters, Geo. Corner, Esq., Joseph Okell,
Esq., and lady, John Herd, Esq., Mrs. Haselden and
party, Miss Dowson, Henry Jerkins, Esq., Mrs. Dodson,
Mrs. and Miss Straw, the Misses Copeland, Owen,
Esq., Henry Walford, Esq., the Misses Willis, Mrs. T.
Aspinal and daughter, James Campbell, Esq., Mrs.
Banks and party, Wm. Bolderston. Esq.,— Hayes, Esq.,
Wm. Fox, Esq., J. T. Raynes, Esq., and lady, Mrs. L.
Hardman, Geo. Brown, Esq., Wen. Buchannan, Esq., P.
Sowerby, Esq., Samuel Sharman, Esq., Mrs. and the
Misses Morecroft, T. Kent, Esq., and numerous others.
The splendid band of the 52nd Regiment added in no
small degree to the pleasures of the day, and the greatest
satisfaction was expressed at the successful termination of
the Floral fete, which will lead to a repetition next season
of one or more similar treats. The prizes were awarded
as follows :—To Henry Winch, Esq. (Mr. Young, gar-
dener,) Ist prize for six exotic ferns, Pteris hastata, Pteris
serrulata, Doodia c,audata, Gymnogramma chrysophyllum
(the. golden fern), Adiantum cuneatum, and Blechnum
corclovadense ; Ist prize for six pelargoniums; Ist prize
for four pelargoniums; Ist prize for four Achimenes;
2nd prize for four Exotic Orchids :—Vanda multiflora.
Oncidium leucochilum, Oncidium Wentworthianurn and
Epidendrum Cochleatum ; 2nd prize for eight stove and
greenhouse plants, consisting of Achmea fulgens, Fran-•oa
zermosa, Lilium lancifolium rubrum, Cuphea platycentra,
Cyrtoceras reflexus, Achimenes grandiflora, and Pitcairnia
punicea.

Ist prize for four stove and greenhouse plants.—Statice
sinuata, Achimenes longiflora ; Ist prizn for six calcco-
larias ; Ist prize for a bouquet for the hand ; 2nd prize
for a single specimen of Exotic Orchidacese, oncidium
sanguineian (?) Ist prize for single specimen of Pelargo-
nium, and also for a fancy Pelargonium ; Ist for calceo-
laria, for pine apples, for nectarines, and 2nd for melons.
To Harold Littledale, Esq., (Mr. Taylor, gardener,) Ist
prizes for six heaths, Erica Macnacbbiana roses E. am-
pullacea major, E. excinia, E. Vestita roses, E. tricolor
dumosa, and E. Banksiana. For eight stove and green-
house plants, Ixora cocbinea Gloxinia alba-sangninea.
Vince roses, /Eschynanthus grandiflorus, Torenia asiatica,
Lantana mutabilis, Euphorbia Boleri and Cegonia fuch-
sioides. For six roses in pots,—Don Carlos, Triomph de
la Guillotiere, Safrano, Eugene Beauharnois, Theresita,
and Mrs. Bousanquet. For single specimen of heath,—
E. exinia and single stove plants, Gloxinia rubra. For
black grapes, peaches, and gooseberries,-2nd prizes, for
six exotic ferns, Gyrnnogram ma chrysophyllum, Blechnum
corcovadense, Pteris lanceolate, P. Lastata, Adiantum
formosum, and A. Cuneatum. Fcr pine apples, necta-
rines, and apricots,-Ist prize to J. T. Raynes, Esq.,
(Mr. Williams, gardener,) for six fuchsias, Serratifolia,
Empress, (Halley's,) Lady Sale, Elegantissima, Acantha,
and Flavescens,—for single specimens of fuchsias
(Corralina) of Lilium (L. lancifolium rubrum) and
greenhouse plant (Nerium Splenders) ; 2d prizes, four
stove and greenhouse plants. Zauschneria Californica,
Gloxinia Passinghamii, Begonia undulate, and Erica
ampullacea, for collection of plants in basket ; for single
specimen of Erica E. ampullacea, and an extra prize for
a collection of eight stove and greenhouseplants, consisting
of Tritonia aurea, Lilium speciosum rubrum, Plumbago
capensis, Statice sinuata, Erica ventricosa superba,
Cestrum aurautiacum, and Primula Sinensis. S. Liar-
rison, Esq., (Mr. Jackson, gardener) Ist prizes, for four
fuchsias, Smithii, Dr. Jephson, Purity, and Corallina--
for twelve panzies, and for parsnips ; 2d prizes, for six
fuchsias, six pelargoniums, for single dahlia, and single
fuchsia. W. Hall, Esq., (J. Dickenson, gardener,) Ist
prizes, for six verbenas, for cut flowers, Apricots, Cher-
ries, Plums, collection of hardy fruit, Apples, curled
Parsley, and Turnips. T. Johnston, Esq., (Mr. Hughes,
gardener,) Ist prizes, for four exotic Orchids, Peristeria
elate, Cattleya Crispa, C. Loddigesii, and C intermedia ;
for single specimen Stanhopea aurea, a splendid specimen,
with three large clusters of bloom—(these orchids formed
the gem of the collection) ; for melons and apples, and
2d prizes, for Black Grapes. Joseph Finch, jun.,
Esq., (Mr. M'Cord, gardener,) Ist prizes, for basket of
Plants, for twenty Panzies ; 2d prizes, for six Roses in
pots, for twelve Panzies, for a Rose in a pot, and for
Herbaceous plant in pot. J. W. Harden, Esq•,l (Mr.
Redfern, gardener,) Ist prizes, for Herbaceous plant in
pot, and for carrots; 2d prizes, for six Verbenas, and for
Leeks. Mrs. Swan, (Mr. Roberts, gardener,) ]st prize,
for cut Roses. William Sharp, Esq., (Yr. Williams.
gardener,) Ist prizes, for six Dahlias, sit gle specimen
Rose in pot, Pears, and Celery ; 2d Tyizez, for cut
Flowers, Hand Boquet, and collection of 113t,iouse and
Wall Fruit. Rev. R. M. Fielden, (Mr. Golden, gar-
dener,) Ist prizes, for an elegant del ice in flowers, made
by the Misses Fielden, in which the (010 irs were most
tastefully arranged ; for Black Currai Is a id Cucumbers,
and 2d prize, for Leeks. J. W. Swan, Esq., (Mr.
Hanmer, gardener,) Ist prizes, for welve uahlias, single
specimen Dahlia, White and Red Cur -ants, and Red
Beet-root; 2d prize, for six Dahlias. John Herd, Esq.,
2d prize for Lilium lancifolium roseum. Mr. Huntriss,
Ist prize for Cabbages.

NURSERYMEN'S PRIZES

.04
Eight Greenhouse Plants-Ist prize to Messrs. Hen-
derson and Brown, of Oxton-hill Nursery, for Erica
Hartnelli, E. eximia, E. tricolor superba, E: aristata
minor, E. ampulacea, Crowea saligna, Plumbago larpent,
and the Otaheite orange. They had also a large basket
of plants, a collection of very choice named Hollyoaks,
Phloxes, and a variety of showy things. Ist prize to Mr.
Kellock, Oxton Nursery, for t enty-four superb Dahlia
blooms, all distinct varieties, and the finest we ever
remember to have seen ; and an extra prize for a large
specimen of Fuschia Riccartonii : he also had fine col-
lections of Hollyoaks, Phloxes, Roses, and French
Marigolds. 2d prize to Messrs. Dickson, of Chester, for
twenty-four Dahlias : they also exhibited several novel-
ties, as Chaetogastra strigosa, Hoya campanulata,
Dichorisandra ovate, Chironia glutinosa, a handsome
new annual called Euchnidium Bartonidides, and the
now well-known Scyphanthus elegans. Messrs. Whalley,
of the Fairfield Nursery, Liverpool. had a most beautiful
seedling fuchsia, one of the best dark ones we ever saw,
and a collection of Anterrhiums. William Moon, Esq.,
of Oxton, sent two remarkably flu e bunches of Black
Grapes, which, as they were not for competition, were
not rewarded with a prize. We are happy to state that
the exhibition was most successful in a pecuniary sense,
sufficient funds having been realised to pay off the old
debt, which was a great impediment to the society.