The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

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Average weekly number in the house, C 9.

LOCK HOSPITAL.

In the house, Ist January, 1830
Admitted during the year

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In the house, Ist January, 1851

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The financial statement not being prepared, was not read.
The treasurer, however, stated that it would be satisfac-
tory in every respect but one ; he regretted that the
annual subscriptions had decreased in the last year by the
sum of 4500.

The first resolution—which, with all that followed,
will be found in another part of our impression—was
proposed by R. HARBOBD, Esq., and seconded by C.
W. READE, Esq.
The second, proposed by Rev. Joux STEWART, and
seconded by ROBERT HUTCHINSON, Esq., was com-
mented on both by the mover and the chairman, the
Rev. J, II Monk. He regretted that Mr. Edward Gib-
bon was about to retire from the office of president—an
office which he had discharged with the greatest energy
and efficiency during a period of forty-two years. Mr-
Gibbon's services were so well known and appreciated by
the gentlemen present, that it would be unnecessary for
him (the chairman), to dwell on them ; they had been so
arduous and untiring, that he feared Mr. Gibbon's suc-
cessor would find himself in an invidious position. (Hear,

hear).
The third resolution was moved bir JAs. BOLD# Esq.
and seconded by ARTHUR THOMPSON.

HaNRY AlooaE, Esq. moved and J. CROPPER, Esq.
seconded the fourth resolution.

The fifth was moved by CHAS. WILSON, Esq. and se-
conded by J. BOLD, Esq.
The sixth was moved and seconded by CHAS. LANGTON,
Esq. and H. BANNER, Esq.
ALFRED NORTH, EN., the treasurer, in proposing the
seventh resolution—a vote of thanks to T. J. Tarlton
Esq.—said that they sere aware a large donation hitA

been made to the Institution during the year. T. D.
Lewis, Esq., a gentleman formerly resident in Liverpool
had, during
his lifetime, given a sum of £lO,OOO between.
seven institutions in the town : this munificent legacy
was left to Mr. Tarlton, with a request so to dispose of it
at his death.
Mr. JAS. BOLD observed that the money came to Mr.
Tarlton merely accompanied with the "request" to dis-
pose of it in that mode.

Mr. NORTH continued : there was merely a written re-
quest as to the mode of its disposal ; it had been invested
in dock bonds, and during the past year the president of
the infirmary had communicated with Mr. Tarlton, who
bad s'gnified his wish to have one seventh of the whole
sum secured to the infirmary. In pursuance of this wish
measures had been adopted for securing the sum of
£1428 Ils Gd to the benefit of the infirmary. J. CROP-
PER, Esq. seconded the resolution.
The Bth resolution was moved by Tuos. HOPE, Esq.,
seconded by C. W. READE, Esq.
The next resolution—the appointment of J. Cropper,
Esq.,_ as president for the ensuing year, was proposed by
C. W. READE, ESQ., and seconded by W. M'CuAcKAN,
Esq.
The next resolution was moved by THOMAS BOURNE,
Esq., and seconded by C. W. READE, Esq.
The next resolution was moved by RICHARD Gaisom,
Eiq., seconded by JOHN Boi 1), Esq.
JOHN CROPPER, Esq., moved an alteration in law Bth.
Dr. DICKENSON, in seconding the resolution, explained.
the objects of the alteration. It was necessary that
such an alteration be made, in order to render gentle-
men eligible, at any future election of physician,
who, although in. every respect competent, might
not come within the restrictions of the old law, which
was obviously imperfect. The institution now held as
rank second to none in the kingdom, and it was intend-
ed to render it as perfect as possible in every department.
According to the old law not only were fellows of the
Dublin College ineligible, but fellows of the College of
Physicians of London. It was also intended to substitute
the degree of Doctor of Medicine for that of Bachelor, as
it at present stood, for the reason that the latter degree
was obtainable after a comparatively superficial examina-
tion, while the former was not granted without good evi-
dence of the medical attainments of cendidates.
Mr. NORTH observed that the object was merely to rec-
tify- an omission in the old law; the usual 15 days' notice
had been given. _

On a recommendation being made that a committee be
appointed to take into consideration the decrease in the
annual receipts,
The CHAIRMAN said, while he regretted the fact, it did
not excite any great alarm in him, as he thought the fact
of their being needy was a sure recommendation to the
benevolence of the public.

A gentleman observed that the other charitable institu—
tions had increased their receipts during the past year.
The vote of thanks to the chairman was proposed by
Arthur Thompson, Esq., seconded by J. Cropper, Esq.

TRAVELS OF MAHOGANY LOGS.-A correspondent
has sent us some particulars of three fine logs of mahogany
recently sold by auction in Liverpool. They were grown
in St. Domingo. One of them was purchased for France,
and sent, according to the French customs regulations,
to Rotterdam, and thence to France. Another was pur-
chased at the same time in London, with a large parcel,
forwarded by railway to Liverpool, shipped with a full
cargo of mahogany to Alogador, and thence to Havre.
From an error in the formalities of the papers, the cargo
was not admitted in France, and had to be re-shipped to
New York, and again imported from the United States to
Havre, where the log was purchased by a Paris timber
merchant, and cut into planks. These three logs, cut
into planks, were selected for the embellishment of Ver-
sailles, and an enormous price paid for them ; but the
French revolution prevented their original destiny, and
they were bought on speculation for this market.—

Builder.
POPISH RELICS.—At Pembal we saw our Lady's oven,
where annually a fire is kindled, a wafer baked, and a
man, the Shadrach of the town, walks round the glowing
oven and comes out unhurt and unsinged, by a special
miracle of our Lady of Cardal. At Tho mar is a statue of
St. Christopher on the bridge ; three grains of his leg,
taken in a glass of water, are a sovereign cure for the
ague ; and poor St. Christopher's legs are almost worn
out by the extent of the practice. Torres Vedras is the
place where Father Anthony of the wounds died—a man
suspected of sanctity. The pious mob attacked his body,
stripped it naked, cut off all his hair, and tore up his nails
to keep for relics. I have seen relics of all the saints—
yea, a thorn from the crown of crucifixion and a drop of
the redemption blood.—Southey'a Life.
A SQUATTER'S LIFE IN AUSTRALIA.—Lest the reader
should not have formed a clear idea of the squatter's life,
let me place it concisely before him. Removed from
society, and the refinements of life, he becomes careless
of his appearance and manners ; nay, he becomes heed-
less even of those comforts of life which are within his
reach. With hundreds of cattle, he has no butter, or
cheese, and very often no milk. With a rich soil around
him, he has no garden ; not any vegetable or fruit to
drive away the scurvy. With grain, he has no poultry ;
with a gun he has no game ; with hooks and grasshop-
pers, he has no fish. Make a hole with your toe and
throw a peach stone in, or drop one on the ground, and
in three years it bears fruit ; stick a vine-cutting into the
earth, and in fifteen or sixteen months clusters of fine
grapes are hanging from its boughs ; and yet the squatter
seldom does the one or the other. He certainly has
good reasons for not making his station too attractive,
but it cannot be denied that his life is often much more
cheerless end comfortless than it need be. Few of the
stations are adorned by a female. Wherever this is the
case a great improvement is perceptible. The squatter's
dwelling is frequently a hut no better than those of his
men, with a bark roof, an earthen floor, a hotbed of ver-

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