The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

LOC'AL MEETINGS

Dom COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—PIans of small build-
ings to be erected on the pierhead, to furnish additional
accommodation for the water-guard department, were
submitted, and ordered to lie on the table for a week.—

The sub-committee recommended that, under the pecu-
liar circumstances stated, the British and North American
royal mail steamer America should be accommodated with
a berth in the graving-dock on her arrival here, for the
purpose of being examined by the Admiralty surveyor.
Confirmed.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—The weekly meeting was
held on Wednesday; Mr. Sheppard in the chair. During
an inquiry upon the expediency of giving money to pau-
pers who were desirous of leaving the workhouse, Mr.
Latham, the relieving officer, stated that at the last meet-
ing of the board 10s. was given to a Mrs. Hunter, and in
two hours afterwards she was found lying upon some
steps in Upper Harrington-street, in a helpless state of
intoxication. A gratuity of £25 was given to Mr. Taylor,
of the fever hospital, in consideration of the arduous
duties he performed, the risk he ran, and the small
amount of his salary, which was only a guinea and P half
a week. The Chairman said that there was now £lBOO in
the bank to the credit of the board, and this too at the
close of the year, notwithstanding the great amount of
pauperism which they had had to contend with. Mr.
Harrison prOposed that application should be made to the
Town Council for the amount expended (£300) in the
formation of a sewer in Mill-lane.
SELECT VESTRY.—The usual fortnightly meeting of the
Vestry was held on Tuesday. Mr. Thornely moved that
a return be made of the number of children in the Indus-
trial Schools, and at the Workhouse in Brownlow-hill,
and also at the house in Soho-street, specifying boys and
girls, who are orphans, who have fathers, or mothers, or
both, whether the parents reside in the parish, and whe-
ther they (the parents) have a settlement in the parish.
After a brief conversation, it was carried.—The Sub-
committee reported that Mr. Blanchard's claim would be
met by a payment of £221 Is., and they recommended
that the sum named be paid him out of the voluntary
rate, provided he received that sum in full of his account.
—A letter was read from the vaccinators, repudiating
certain charges which had been made against them at the
last general meeting of the board.—For the week ending
the 26th of February, it was reported that 3,341 Irish
case; had been relieved at a cost of £BO 4s. 6d., and that
the number of fever cases visited in the town and the
workhouse that wi..TIL was 880.
BIRKENHEAD Dock commissioNEus.—The usual
monthly meeting was held on Wednesday. From the
proceedings of the committees, which were read by the
Law-clerk, it appeared that the board had issued a writ
against the commissioners, requiring them to pay a sum
of £3OOO which was owing. it was stated that the bank
held £55,000 of bonds as security against the £3.000. Mr.
ThompPon considered it unfair that the bank should raise
an action against the board at a time of such difficulty and
pressure, and when the commissioners were about msking
an arrangement with the government to carry on the
works. It appeared as though the bank were taking an
unseemly advantage, and wished to obtain some undue
preference by such a proceeding, and the fact ought to go
forth to the public. He thought that Mr. Mallaby, as
chairman of the board, would not sanction any such pro-
ceeding. The Chairman said Mr. Mallaby had no doubt

been ordered by the bank to take proceedings..•
Several
other members considered the course pursued by the bank
as objectionable and uncalled for, seeing that they held
the £55,000 as security.
WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.-At the monthly meet-
ing, on Thursday, the special sub-committee eppointed to
consider the bye-laws, reported the great difficulty which
stood in the way of maintaining the law relating to bath-
ing, and therefore suggested its repeal Several members
thought that no unreasonable impediments ought to be
thrown against bathing ; but ultimately the decision was
deferred for a month. The Law-clerk said the special
Ferry Committee had taken measures for opposing the
bill which was likely to be framed by the crown, relative
to the future docks and great float. In the bill passed in
1844 the commissioners had had a clause inserted, secur-
ing the right of the inhabitants of the 'several townships
to the promenade which was to be constructed, to have
slips constructed in the sea wall, and to have the right of
thoroughfare at Birkenhead. The committee had reason
to believe that the Dock Commissioners had sold their
right at the time they gave up the docks and works to the
Crown. Mr. Mann said it was the duty of the commis-
sioners to watch the matter. The Law-clerk said it was
the intention of Lord Morpeth to frame a bill relative to
the great floodgates, and bring it before parliament.
After some conversation, it was agreed that the Crown
should be petitioned on the subject, and that every effort
should be made for having the privileges sought in the bill
of 1844.

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held on
Wednesday.

It appeared from the Finance Committee's report, that
Mr. Neilson had been sent to Manchester to obtain the
charges there for coroner's inquests, and he reported that
the aggregate charge for the last five years in Manchester
was £2895, whilst in Liverpool it was £9309. Adding
one-sixth for Manchester, to make the population of the
two towns equal, £482, that would make £3377, and
would show an excess, supposing the populations to be
equal, of Liverpool over Manchester, to the amount of
£5932. In Manchester no allowance is made to jurors,
whereas in Liverpool every juror receives for every in-
quest Is. 6d. In Liverpool, too, more money is paid to
surgeons than in Manchester, in the proportion of £B7
to £24.—Mr.. G. .11. Lawrence hoped some reduction
would be shortly made in the coroner's charges, but as
the matter was still the subject of negotiation, discussion
ought to be avoided.

The proceedings of the Education Committee were
confirmed, after Mr. Aikin and Mr. Rathbone had com-
plained of the small salaries given to the teachers in the

schools

When the Health Committee's proceedings had been
read, Mr. Harbord called the attention of that committee
to the necessity of passing some stringent regulations with
reference to the wretched lodging-houses of the town.
He said that shortly the spring tide of emigration would
be commencing froi Liverpool, and that the emigrants
would be sent in a state of fever on board ship, by stay-
ing after their arrival here in those lodgings.—Mr. Tinne
admitted the importance of the subject, but said it had
been postponed in order that the by-laws might receive
mature consideration in the first instance.—A watch rate
of one penny was laid upon Liverpool, Everton and Kirk-
dale, and those parts of West Derby and Toxteth-park
which are within the borough.—A rate of 3-16th parts of
a penny was laid, under the provisions of an act of par-
liament for the establishment of museum....

Mr. Earle moved the appointment of Messrs. Earle,
Hornby, Morris, Cooper, Bennett, Parker, .Danson,
Turner, Tinne, and J. Holme, as a committee, to report
whether any alteration in the present system of laying
and recovering parochial and other local rates be advisa-
ble. He complained that many persons able to pay rates
failed to do so, and that they, particularly the cripples,
came whining and crying before the committee, repre-
senting that they could not pay, when they really had
plenty of money. He therefore sought for a change, and
hence the necessity for his motion.—Mr. Tinne seconded
the motion.—Mr. Harbord said that hundreds of thou-
sands of poor wretches were systematically robbed in
Liverpool by the landlords promising to pay rates for
tenants, and then declining to do so.—The motion was
carried. _ _

A motion by Mr. James Thompson, for the opening of
Burlington-street from Love-lane to Great Howard-street,
was referred to the Finance Committee.—Mr. G. H.
Lawrence said, however, that the improvement was im-
practicable, and that the landlords were asking such im-
mense sums for the property that £12,000 would not
effect it.—Mr. Parker thought that Limekiln-lane ought
to be improved before Burlington-street was opened.

Mistrat

There is a monster Irish repeal meeting announced to
take place in the Free-trade-hall, Manchester, on Satur-
day, the 18th instant.
On Tuesday, factories at Ashton-under-Lyne, with
steam-power equal to 1200 horses, were reduced to short
time.

On Sunday week, an affray took place in the township
of Leagrim, near Stoneyhur,t, between Henry Greenwood,
gamekeeper for John Weld, Esq., and two poachers,
which resulted in the death of one of the latter.
On Tuesday morning a boiler exploded at the cotton-
mill of Mr. Richard Walker, Blue Pitts, near Rochdale,
by which three persons were killedulmost instantaneously,
and two others seriously injured.
Mr. James Fell, the out-door inspector of weights and
measures in Manchester, has been appointed inspector of
weights and measures for Liverpool, at a salary of £2OO
per annum. Mr. Fell has rendered great service in
Manchester. _ _ _

STOCKPORT.—A gentleman passed through all the
leading streets in this borough one day last week, and
noticed that on both sides of the way, throughout all the
thoroughfares, he did not observe one customer in any
shop.
A young man, named Joseph Johnson, living in Man-
chester, paid a visit, few days since, to some friends at
Huddersfield, and, after leaving the latter town, nothing
was heard of him until Tuesday last, when he was found
in Lincolnshire, having to all appearance been acciden-
tally drowned. How be came there cannot be ascertained.
A RAINY MONTH.—Last month was by far the wettest
February Manchester has bad for the last twenty years.
The average fall of rain in the February of 16 years is
just 1-31 inch.; and ,the month of February, 1848, in
Manchester, has had a fall of rain very nearly five times
greater than the usual quantity falling in February.
At the late Lancaster assizes, a witness was called to
verify the signature to a deposition, by the counsel for the
prosecution, and being rather tardy in entering the box,
Mr. Baron Alderson inquired the cause of the delay.
" She's so deaf, my lord, that she can't read writing, ex-
clairred the crier of the court, without betraying the least
consciousness of the bull he had perpetrated.
MR. COBDEN'S POPULARITY INMANCRESTER.—It was
proposed, last week, to re-elect Mr. Cobden Chairman of the
Manchester Mechanics' Institution, for which honour
the name of Mr. Aspinall Turner also stood for
election ; a vote was taken, and Mr. Cobden was rejected
by a majority in the proportion of five and a half to one,
the numbers being—For Mr. J. A. Turner, 109 ; for Mr.
It. Cobden, 20. Not even Mr. Cobden's boasted in-
fluence as the first man of all the free traders is able to
influence the old proverb that "no prophet hath honor
in his own country." People will soon begin to doubt
whether free trade itself is so popular in Manchester as it
has been represented to be.
LANCASTER ELECTION.—We are glad to see that the
Hon. E. H. Stanley, (eldest son of Lord Stanley, and
grandson of the Earl of Derby,) is a candidate for the
representation of 'Lancaster, vice Mr. Gregson, unseated
for bribery. Mr. Stanley refuses to give any pledges) but

says : I have no hesitation in declaring that I am tirinly
determined to maintain and uphold in its full integrity,
the Protestant church, as established in these realms ;
and to consent to no measure which I may believe to, be
detrimental to the interests of that church ; that I de-
sire to promote and encourage the religious and moral
education of all classes of the community ; and that while
I desire that commerce should be free from all unnecessary
restrictions, I hold myself bound to follow up no theory,
however sound in itself, to an extent which may be prac-
tically at variance with that encouragement which it is
the interest and duty of every government to extend to
the industry of its own subjects." Mr. Armstrong is the
liberal candidate, and the election will take place tomor-
row(Wed nest:ay).

MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SI/-
MEM—The first annual ploughing match, in connexion
with this amalgamated society, took place on Thursday,
at Winwick. One field not being suffioient to accommo-
date the entire entry. two suitable grass fields were
selected for the occasion. The competitors were divided
into two clas,=es, having two separate prizes,—the first for
adults, and the second for young men not more than
twenty years of age. Seventy-two candidates started for
the first class, and six for the second. There was a
numerous gathering of spectators of the interesting scene.
The quantity of land ploughed was about seventy statute
perches for the first class, and sixty for the second; and
the time occupied for the completion of the work averaged
from three and a half to five hours. A dinner took place
in the evening, Robert Neilson, Esq., of Halewood, in
the chiir, when the following were named as the success-
ful competitors
Owners

Ist—Andrew Caunce
2d—James Glassford

Ploughmen.

Ist—John Swinton

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