The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-06 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

At the meeting of the West Derby Guardians,'on Wed-
nesday, a call was ordered to be made on the several
townships in the union for payment of county rates.
COLONIZATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
—On Wednesday another meeting, for the above object,
was held at the Mechanics' Institution, when there was a
large attendince. Mr. William Rathbone again pre-
sided. and Mr. Copway addressed the meeting, after
which Mr. Rathbone suggested a subscription ; but the
hint was not responded to. Thanks were then voted to
Mr. Copway and to the chairman, and the proceedings
terminated.

The annual meeting of the Liverpool Borough Bank
was held on Tuesday. The net profits of the year were
stated at £51,263, from which two half-yearly dividends
have been paid at the rate of five per cent. per
annum, amounting to £24,953, causing the reserved
fund, which at the last report was £3,381, to amount at
present to £25,747, after making a further reduction of
£3,339 in the valuation of the assets on the doubtful debt
account. The paid-up capital is now £500,000, and a
proposition was agreed to for an issue of 50.000 new
shares of £lO each, to be paid in calls of £1 per share, at
intervals of six months.

UNION MILL AND BREAD COMPANY.—The annual
meeting of the shareholders in this abortive project was
held on Tuesday, at the Clarendon-rooms. Mr. White-
man, of the Brunswick Hotel, presided, and the attend-
ance was exceedingly numerous. The report of the
directors was to the effect that they had failed in finding
purchasers for the land • the obstacle being the resolution
passed by the shareholders, that the payment should be
made in full at the time of the purchase; and that they
recommend bolding on the land, in the hope that the
dock extension at the north would soon tend to enhance
its value. The balance-sheet exhibited the sum of £163
9s. sd. in favour of the company. A discussion then
took place, and it was decided to sell the land at once by
auction, at a reserve price of ls. Id. per yard.

THE WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—The first meeting
of this body since the election was held on Thursday.
The following members were present :—Messrs. J. Parry,
R. Parry, Meadows, Bryce, Stringer, Mann, Hill, Dean,
Halliday. Banner, Littledale, Lester, Webster, Penny,
Callow, Barton, Blundell, Healing, Maddock, and Holland.
Some doubt having arisen as to the legality of Mr. Mann
being allowed to act 93 chairman to the new board after
his retirement and re-election, the Law-clerk submitted
an opinion of Mr. Crompton, which was to the effect that
he might continue in office. Mr. Mann was then appointed
to the chair. The committees were appointed as follows :
—lmprovement Committee : Messrs. Meadows, Stringer,
Bryce, Maddock, Penny, Ewart, and R. Parry. Finance
Committee : Messrs. Hill, Barton, Blundell, R. Parry,
Callow, Banner, and Lester. Health, By-law, and
Watch Committee : Messrs. Barton, Holland, Hill, Ha-
liday, J. Parry, Littledele, and Healing. Mr. Bryce
proposed a resolution that a special committee be appointed
to consider the question of the powder magazines, with a
view to their removal from the parish, and make an early
report and recommendation thereon. The resolution was
adopted unanimously.

COLTNCIL MEETING.—At the monthly meeting to-
morrow, the Health' Committee will recommend the
appointment of Mr. Comenius Davies, now head of the
surveyor's staff in the engineer's office, to the situation of
assistant local surveyor, at a salary of £3OO per annum, in
the place of Mr. Thomas Duncan, lately appointed
engineer to the water-works. The Special Committee
appointed to consider the subject of the reformation of

juvenile offenders recommend the erection of a suitable
building, on the property of the Corporation, at Wall-hill
Farm, West Derby, at a cost of £2,808, in lieu of renting
Library Committee report as to .ben-net.

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tions with the proprietors of the Royal Institution for the
transfer to the Corporation of the lands and buildings,
with the museum and gallery of art, belonging to the
Institution. The Mayor's communications comprise a
letter from the Southport Improvement Commissioners
relative to placing a buoy on the bar of the channel leading
to the anchorage in the tidal water of Southport, called
Bugs' Hole; memorial from the clergy and magistrates of
Southport, and others on the same subject, and a letter
from the chai man o' the Shipowners' Association,
inclosing a resolution of that body for increased accommo-
dation for shipbuilding at a very moderate charge.
DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—Mr. Nicol presided.
A report was read as to the supply of water to the dock
warehouses ; the cost of laying down the pipes was £928,
and the cost of supplying water, for about two years end-
ing July 12, 1850, was £421 4s. 6d.—A sum of XlO6 was
ordered to be paid for damage done to the barque Irence.
—The Chairman submitted the new regulations and rates
of charges for the master porters, to come into operation
on the 15th instant, which he was happy to say, now met
with the approval of all parties. Agreed to.—A letter
from Mr. Wm, Banks, of .Seacombe, recommending a
local currency, by which a large amount of money would
be saved to the trust, was ordered to lie on the table.—
An application was read from a large portion of the im-
porters
of timber, calling attention to the disadvantages
under which they laboured for the want of dock room,
quay space, and -floatage. Referred.—A letter, inelosing
a resolution passed at the Shipowners' Association, ex-
pressing an opinion that increased space should be afforded
by the dock trustees for shipbuilding, at the north end cf
the town, was referred.—Mr. Tobin said he had asked, at
a previous meeting, for the cause of the decrease in the
dock rates; it was talked of by every body, and he wished
to know if any explanatory statement had been furnished.
The chairman believed the treasurer had given a state-
ment to Mr. Littledale, but he was absent; as to the de-
fwic.nev_in the rates, the imports of enttrm from Amorioa
would account for a great portion, as in that article alone
the falling off amounted to £22,400.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the meeting of the Health
Committee, on Thursday, the medical officer reported
that there was an increase in the mortality of the borough
during the last week, the deaths being 212, more numer-
ous than in any week since the disappearance of cholera,
though not more than the average of the season. An
application from parties in two of the principal streets, to
be allowed to cover their window areas with glass, was
agreed to. It was agreed that a labourer, who had been
injured in the performance of his duty by a flag falling
upon him, should be allowed ss. per week until his reco-
very. A report was read from the inspector of nuisances
on the state of the Dead-house. The place was in a most
filthy state, and it was highly necessary that some mea-
sures should be adopted for putting it in proper order. It
was agreed that the attention of the parish authorities
should be called to the matter. Two reports to the
Health Committee were read relative to the privilege re-
cently granted to the inspectors of lodging-houses of
bathing at the baths in Paul-street. Inspector Haynes
stated that he went to get a free bath ; but as he could
only .have a twopenny one, he declined taking it, and ob.
tained one of a more respectable kind, for which he paid
fourpence. Sergeant Halliday pursued a similar course,
and added, in his report, that he had no wish to become
associated with such characters as those frequenting the
twopenny baths. (Laughter.) The chairman said he
had no objection to the twopenny baths, as they were as
clean as any of the others, but they had no looking-glass
for persons to view themselves. Mr. Hornby thought
that any baths purchased by the corporation were suffici-
ent for an inspector or any member of the force; it was
improper for any officer to say it was beneath him to bathe
in those baths which had been founded for the public.
After some general conversation a motion was submitted
by Mr. Fernihough to the effect, that the officers should
have the same baths as formerly, namely those charged
4d. The motion was, however, lost on a division. Mr.
Fernihough asked whether there was any order that boys
bathing at the baths should have only one towel, while
two were allowed to others. Mr. Langsdale : One is quite
sufficient ; I bathed in the river forty years ago, and what
towel did I want except my shirt. (Laughter.)

SPECIAL VESTRY MEETING.—On Friday, a special
meeting of the Select Vestry was held in the new offices,
Brownlow-hill, for the purpose of taking into' considera-
tion a proposal of Mr. Willmer to rescind a resolution
passed at a meeting of the board last week, referring all
offers to compound the rates on their property, on the
part of cottage-owners, to the finance committee. There
was a very numerous attendance of the board present.
The Rev. Rector Campbell presided. There being only
a few members present at the hour appointed for the
commencement of the proceedings, Mr. Willmer sug-
gested that they should wait for a short time. r.
Cafferata thought there was no reason why they should
wait, and moved that the board adjourn. The motion
having been seconded, Mr. Willmer moved, as an amend-
ment, that all offers of compromise for rates, on the part
of the owners of cottage property, be referred to the
cottage-rating committee sitting in those districts where
the property is situate. Mr. Willmer urged the board to
adopt the amendment in a speech of considerable length.
In the course of his observations, he stated that, if they
had two distinct committees sitting on the different
rates, there would be nothing but collisions. The pro-
ceedings of the cottage-rating committee would be a
failure, if the resolution giving the finance committee
control over a portion of the collection of this class of
rides was not rescinded. If the system failed, it would
be attributable to those members of the board who were
determined to throw obstacles in the way of carrying it
out. Mr. Woodruff seconded the amendment, and
strongly deprecated the course pursued by certain mem-
bers of the finance committee, in thwarting the opera-
tions of the cottage-rating committee. Mr. Brown
pointedly protested against the system pursued by Mr.
Shakeshaft and Mr. Gardner, and other members of the
cottage-rating committee. He charged them with going
personally to the different landlords, and endeavouring
to induce them not to compound for the rates ; and, in a
speech which occupied a considerable time in its delivery,
Mr. Brown made a determined attack upon the whole
system adopted by the cottage-rating committee, insisting
that the rates would not be collected under it, and that
the parish would lose thousands of pounds by continuing
to refuse to compound with the landlords. Mr. Abra-
ham charged Mr. Gardner, Mr. Shakeshaft, and other
members of the cottage-rating committee, with illegally
remitting rates, and sitting on cases where there was not
a quorum. Mr. Gardner admitted it had been so, in one
or two cases, after he had waited an hour for a quorum.
The Chairman expressed astonishment at the illegal pro-
ceedings which Mr. Gardner had admitted. An exceed-
ingly lonz and personal discussion followed ; and, on a
division, Mr. Willmer's amendment was carried by a
majority of 12 to 9. The Vestry voted as follows —For
Mr. Willmer's amendment : Messrs. Clarke, Gardner,
Johnson, Fairhurst, Willmer, Hand, Woodruff, Denton,
Luff, Dover, Shakeshaft, and Savage. Against it: Messrs.
Harbord, Ireland, Molyneux, Abraham, Brown, Cafferata,
Mellor, Hindley, and Jeffery. On the numbers being
announced, the Chairman said—Now, gentlemen, Mr.
Willmer's amendment having been carried, I think it
right to tell you that if these illegal acts are continued on
the part of the cottage-rating committee, remitting rates
when there is not a committee, I shall consider it my'
duty to lay the whole matter. before the Foor-law
Commissioners.