The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

SANATORY REFORM.

TO THE NOBILITY, CLERGY, GENTRY, AND INHA-
BITANM GENERALLY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

HILE much may-be-done-by the Legislature-to
V raise the health of Society to its highest
.possible stan-
dard, the attainment of this desirable object is much more
dependent upon the cultivation of individual health. The
welfare of the social whole, is made up of the welfare of its
tarts. A becoming attention to personal health, then, is an
important means of advancing the great cause of Sanatory
Reform •, and this attention cannot be more beneficially directed
than to the correction of all irregularities in the functions of the
Digestive organs, and to the removal of the
.first symptoms of
the many dangerous and fatal disorders which cut short, and
render painful, the existence of man. These objects can only
be attained by the use of medicinal agents ; and we respectfully
inform you that we are the proprietors of one which, for twenty
years, has been most celebrated.
MOXON'S EFFERVESCENT MAGNESIAN APERIENT
is the most agreeable and efficient medicine ever discovered,
containing all the properties of the best Saline Purgatives, with
the palatable qualities of a glass of SODA WATER. Pleasant
from its effervescing form, febrifuge in its influence on the
stomach, and system, certain in its operation on the bowels,
whenever a purgative is required, this elegant preparation
is the best that can be used.

It is especially adapted for the relief of Habitual or Casual
Costiveness, Bilious Affections, Indigestion, Heartburn, Pains
in the Head, Lowness of Spirits, Nausea, Irritation of the
Stomach and Bowels, Piles, Fistula, the effects of excess either
in eating or drinking, &c., and, by its occasional use during
the summer months, for the prevention of those serious dis-
orders, Cholera, Diarrhxa, and Dysentery.
Thousands of those who, from habits of life, or hereditary
constitution, are subject to that painful and, in the end, dan-
gerous disorder, the GOUT, have found astonishing relief (rein
the use of this preparation. If taken regularly, its cocling,
antacid, and corrective properties will altogether prevent the
accession of this disorder; and, if taken during the fit, will
speedily relieve the pain and limit its duration. Many Medical
Authors of great celebrity, have recommended it for this pur-
pose. Extracts from their works, and many other testimo-
nials, are contained in the bill wrapped round each bottle.
Visitors to Hnrrowgate, Cheltenham, Leamington, Bath, and
other Spas, find it to be of great service in assisting the opera-
tion of the waters. __ • ..

It is sold in bottles at Is. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lls., the latter
containing five of tbc: first size.
We also prenare a concentrated form of the celebrated
" COMPOUND DECOCTION OF SARSAPARILLA"

of theConifonParmacopcei;,Which we declare to contain all
the alterative, antiscorhutic, and restorative properties of that
decoction, in an enduring and portable shape. It is sold in
bottles at 4s. 6d., 125., and 12s. ; equal, respectively to 6, 16,
and 32 pints of the London Decoction.
All respectable Medicine Vendors ....ell our Medicines, and we
undertake to forward any quantity amounting to 20s. or more,
to any part of the Kingdom, carriage free, on receipt of a
Ppstoflice Order for the amount.
We remain. your obedient Servants,
MOXON and SONS, Chemists, Hull.

AT the SPECIAL GENERAL VESTRY, held at
ST. NICHOLAS'S CHURCH, the 31st day of August, 1848,
The Rev. Rector BROOKS in the Chair •
The following Report from the Committee appointed by the
inhabitants, on Easter Tuesday last, having been read, viz.:—
" The Committee appointed by the Inhabitants in General
Vestry on Easter Tuesday last, ' to receive, manage, and
apply the Voluntary Rate for the bringing into charge of
all Property within the Parish, and for effecting an equita-
ble adjustment of the Parochial Burdens,' present the
following Report :
" Your Committee have held several meetings in furtherance
of the objects for which they were appointed. At their first
meeting they took into consideration the doubt and uncertainty
which prevailed in the town, in regard to the question whether
the clause for the rating of the proposed Dock Warehouses
could be inserted in the Dock Bill, the standing orders of the
House of Commons not having been complied with. They
determined, in a matter of so much importance to the interests
of the Parishioners, to act for themselves, rather than rely
upon the assurances of the Dock Committee in reference to this
clause. They accordingly deputed Mr. Ferguson and Mr.
Dover, with the Vestry Clerk, to take such measures in London
for procuring the insertion of the clause, as to them might
seem necessary.
" The deputation, upon their arrival in London, learned from
Mr. Cardwell that no difficulty really existed in regard to the
standing orders, and that himself and colleague had only en-
tertained the proviso proposed by the Dock Committee as a
substitute for the clause itself, in the belief that the Vestry were
a consenting body. It would indeed appear that the Dock
Committee suggested, and were themselves the promoters of
the supposed difficulty. The proviso so unnecessarily put
forward by them, was stated by the professional gentleman
engaged by the deputation to be utterly worthless as a supposed
concession, its object being to delay, and ultimately to evade
the rating of the warehouses ; for the remedy in the case of the
proviso being violated by the Dock Committee, namely, an
injunction from the Court of Chancery, involved a tedious and
expensive legal process sufficient to deter from recourse to it.
The Rating Clause passed, in all its integrity, the Com-
mons' Committee on the following day, and has since received
the final sanction of the Legislature, a result which your Com-
mittee believe to be entirely owing to the proceedings adopted
by the'General Vestry in regard to the clause.
" The Deputation applied, through their Counsel, for the
insertion of an additional •clause, to render the D. ck Commit-
tee liable until the proposed warehouses should be built, to the
Payment of the rates upon the property which would be pulled
down for their erection, but the application was unsuccessful,
through the opposition of the Dock Committee.
" Your Committee are, however, of opinion that even this
clause would have been obtained had more timely means been
adopted with regard to it, and that a measure of justice to the
Ratepayers for the loss which they will for some years annually
sustain of the rates upon property valued at not less than
.*'30,000, recognised as it has been in the Lands Clauses Conso-
lidation Act, would, in tbepresent instance, also have received
the sanction of the Legislature.

" The Committee, asirous of securin~x the advantage of Mr.
Lowndes's professional skill and ability in furtherance of their
objects in Parliament, have appointed him to be their Law-
clerk.

. " Amongst the measures for equitable rating which have
engaged the attention of your Committee, the rendering of the
Dock and Corporate Estates contributory to local burdens, has
held a prominent place ; and .they resolved at their. .meeting
held on the sth of July, to apply in the ensuing Session for a
legislative measure for such purpose. The Rating Committee
of the Town Council recommending, in the report which they
presentedto that body at their last meeting, the joint applica-
tion for such measure by the Council and the Vestry, your
Committee memorialized the Council in support of such re-
commendation. The report, however, was rejected by a ma-
jority of two votes.

" Your Committee are, indeed, aware of the great advantages
which would be derived in such application by the concurrence
and participation of the Council ; and they strongly recommend
I that active measures be now taken by the rate-payers them-
selves, to indnce the Council, through the representatives of
the different wards, to take the initiative in such application.
" As a practical illustration of the benefit to be derived from
the proposed ',measure, your committee would represent, that
under the belief in the present liability of these two estates,
they have this year, similarly with ottier property, been charged
in the assessment with poor and church rates, amounting in
the whole to .-'30,811 15s. ; but the corporate and dock autho-
rities refusing to pay—denying their liability—an additional
rate of Is. in the pound will be immediately required to make
good the deficiency. Thus, it would appear, that every rate-
payer is saddled with an additional burden of Is. in the pound
for these rates alone, over and above what he would have to
contribute should the measure be obtained from Parliament.
" Signed in and en behalf of the Equitable Rating Commit-
tee, " JOHN FERGUSON, Chairman."
It was resolved unanimously, on the motion of Mr. Church-
warden FERGUSON, seconded by Mr. THOMAS DOVER,
" That the Report row read be approved and adopted."
It was resolved unanimously, on the motion of Mr. JOHN
SMITH, seconded by Mr. JOHNSON,
" That William Bennett, Esq. be respectfully requested to
lake the requisite preliminary, steps for submitting for the re-
consideration of the Town Council, at its next meeting, the
propriety of the necessary measures being adopted by the
Council, and the parochial authorities conjointly, for rendering
contributory to the local burdens the entire corporate estate ;
and to move, at such meeting, that the consent of the Council
be given to the adoption of such measures accordingly."
The following memorial to the Town Council having been
read, _

" To the Mayor and Town Council of the Borough of Liver-
pool.
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"The Memorial of the Iphaliitauts of the Parish of Liverpool

in Special Vestry assembled

" S'howeth,—That your memorials have learned that the sub-
ject of rating. the Liverpool Corporate Estate to the poor and
other rates, is to be submitted for re-consideration at your
neat meeting
• - _ _

"That your memorialists respectfully submit, that at the
present time when trade is so much depressed, and with the
certain prospect of still increased local burdens, for sanatory
and other purposes, the adoption of energetic measures for the
alleviation and equitable distribution of such burdens, is espe-
cially called for.

"'Your memorialists are aware that on the passing of the
Municipal Corporations Act, the Corporation of Liverpool
became exempt from the rates for the relief of the poor, to
which they had been previously liable, and that a subsequent
act—the 4th and sth Vic. cap. 48—was passed, with the un-
doubted intention of removing such exemption.
" That your memorialists have been informed, that with the
view of exempting the Corporate Estate of Liverpool from
liability to the Poor Rate, some few words of a restrictive and
ambiguous character were introduced into the act, at the in-
stigation of the legit, advisers of the Corporation of Liverpool ;
and this borough is almost the only borough, if not the only
borough, whose Corporate Estate has not been charged to the
Poor Rate since the last act adverted to.

" Your memorialists trust, therefore, that the Town Council
will be p'eased to join in common measures with the parochial
authorities of Liverpool to bring the Corporate Estate into just
and equitable contribution to the local burdens.
" Signed in on and behalf of the Meeting,
" JONATHAN BROOKS, Chairman."
It was resolved unanimously, on the motion of Mr. WILLIAM
BROWN, seconded by Mr. THOMAS WYLIE,
"'That such memorial be adopted by this meeting."

It was resolved unanimously, on the motion of Mr. THOMAS
PooLE, seconded by Mr. E. P. M'KNIOHT,
" That Samuel Holme, Esq. be respectfully requested to take
the requisite preliminary steps for submitting for the re-consi-
deration of the Town Council, at its next meeting, the propriety
of the necessary measures being adopted by the Town Council
and the Parochial Authorities conjointly. for rendering contri-
butory to the local burdens the entire Dock Estate, and to
move that the consent of the Council be given to the adoption
of such measures accordingly."
The following Memorial to the Town Council having been
read,
. _ _

•' Td the Mayor and the Town Council of the Borough of Lii.er
pool. _

" The Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Liver
_in Special Vestry assembled.

•
" Showeth,—That your memorialists have learned, with much
satisfaction, that the propriety of rendering contributory to the
local burdens of the parish the docks and other property in the
occupation of the Liverpool Dock Trustees, is again to be sub-
mitted for your consideration.

" That, in the present depression of trade, and in the pros-
pect of increased local burdens for sanatory and other purposes,
your memorialists, as ratepayers, naturally look to their repre-
sentatives in the Town Council for the adoption of measures
for the alleviation and equitable distribution of such burdens.
" That your memorialists have ascertained from authenti-
cated sources, that except in two insignificant instances, Li-
verpool is the only port in the kingdom where the docks are
exempted from the poor-rates and local taxes.

" That by reason Of such exemption, the Rate-payers of the
parish are called upon to contribute to such burdens in poor's
rate and church-rate alone, for the present year, no less a sum
than £18,400 beyond the proportion which would be equitably
due from them ; while the docks, and the works connected
with them, attract to the parish an incalculable amount of
additional pauperism.
" That the loss to the Rate-payers of the rates at present
received fro:n the property, valued at £30,000, about to be re-
moved in the formation of the %Yapping. Docks, will be another
means -of adding to the amount of such burdens.

" That your Memorialists resrctfully submit, that however
expedient it may have originally been to exempt the Dock
Estate of Liverpool from such burdens, no valid reason exists,
in the present day, for the continuance of such exemption,
especially as the Legislature has sanctioned the rating of such
estate in the recent instances of the Albert Dock and the Wap-
ping Dock Warehouses.

" Your memorialists, therefore, pray that you will take the
subject into your serious consideration. and that you will be

induced to adopt, conjointly with the parochial autho ities, the
necessary means for rendering the Dock Estate of Liverpool
contributory to the local burdens of the parish.

" Signed in and on behalf o' the Meeting,
" JONATHAN BROOKS, Chairman."
It was resolved unanimously, on the motion of Mr. THOMAS
URRUHART, seconded by Mr. SAM*JEL SEWARD,

" That sorb Memorial.be adopted by the meeting."
It was resolved unanimously, on the motion of Mr. CHALLIS,
seconded by Mr. Rooms,
" That the thanks of this Vestry be given to the Equitable
Rating Committee for the exertions they have used for the in.

terests of the Parishioners."
" JONATHAN BROOKS, Chairman
The Chairman having vacated the Chair, _

It Was resolved unanimously, jn the motion of Mr. FEauu-
so". seconded by Mr. POOLE. _ -

"That the thanks of this Vestry he given to the Chairman
for his able and impartial conduct in the. Chair."
CHARLES IiART, Vestry Clerk,