The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-08 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY

On Saturday week a boat was capsized in the river
Medway, and two parsons—father and daughter—were
unfortunately drowned.
COINCIDENCES.—It is ascertained that Mr. Moore
Capes paid a visit to Littlemore, immediately after join-
ing the Roman Catholic Communion.

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A gentleman who took a large dose of laudanum, re-
cently, at Nottingham, and was apparently dead, was re-
covered by the application of galvanism.
At a meeting of the iron masters at Glasgow, on Tues-
day last, the price of pig iron was fixed at 80s. The
speculators' prices were 675. 6d.
LONDON AND NEWCASTLE AGAIN.-It is understood
that a match is being made on the part of the Claspers,
against the picked London Watermen for £2OO.

The Lords of the Treasury have refused to incur the
expense of a weekly mail to Spain, Portugal, and Gibral-
tar, o❑ the ground that the object is not of sufficient im-
portance to justify the increased expenditure.

The steam-ship Queen, which arrived at Southampton
on Friday, brought over a very fine tiger, as a present
from the Queen of Portugal to her majesty Queen Vic-
toria.

Two privates of the 4th Dragoons quarelled, in Glasgow,
on Thursday last, and fought. One of them, Searson,
struck the other, Cunningham, a blow behind the ear.
Cunningham fell and expired.
The curious have inquired as to the manner in which
the crew of the Great Britain distinguish her six masts.
We are told that they are jocosely called after the days of
the week, beginning with Monday.
The Caledonian Mercury mentions the death of a young
man from a swelling of the face and throat, supposed to
have been occasioned by the bite of a bug, near the eye, a
fortnight ago.

A young woman, named Fanny Long, from St. James,
has eloped with a fellow of the name of Foster, of the
same place, the former taking with her about £3OO, and
the latter leaving three children and a wife nearly ready to
be confined, unprovided for.

ELECTRIC AGRICULTURE.-Dr. Foster, of Findrassie,
near Elgin, produced one hundred and four bushels of
chevalier barley from a single acre by the application of
electricity. The cost of the electric apparatus was £1
per acre, and it will last twenty years.
The coat and waistcoat which Nelson wore when he
fell at Trafalgar have been discovered in the possession of
the widow of a late alderman of London, and purchased
by Prince Albert for £l5O. They are to be presented to
Greenwich Hospital.

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THE MEDICAL BILL.—We may congratulate the pro-
fession on the abandonment of Sir James Graham's Me-
dical Bill. It is asserted, on the very best authority, that
this obnoxious measure will be one of those t he desertion
of which will be officially announced by Sir Robert Peel
on M onday.— Times of Saturday.
On Sunday week, upon the congregation assembling at
the Independent Chapel, Swansea, they found the doors
fastened by a padlock, which had been put on by five in-
dividuals of the church, who disagreed with their preacher
as to certain points of doctrine: and were, moreover,
averse to him because he was a teetotaller.

Loss OF THE ()RHINE, OF BOSTON.—The above un-
fortunate vessel was lost near Filey, on Saturany week.
Up to the present time only one body has washed on
shore. It is believed that the other four sufferers were
gentlemen on a pleasure trip ; nothing, however, has yet
washed from the wreck to identify them.

On Friday, a meeting, convened by the Lord
.Mayor,
was held in London, for the purpose of promoting the
subscription for the sufferers by the fire at Quebec.
Several members of parliament and many of the leading
merchants in the city attended. A handsome sum was
raised in the room.

THE CARLTON CLUB.—Notice has been given at this
" Conservative" establishment, respecting a costly ex-
tension of the club house, and a meeting of the club is
summoned to consider this measure. A noble duke and another trustee have meanwhile posted up at the club no-
tice of an amendment to the effect—" That no proceedings
be taken involving such outlay until after the next general
election;" a signal of a split, which has created no little
consternation, accompanied as it is, with a loud rumour,
that a new party, headed by Mr. Bankes and others, is
organising upon the Protestant and Constitutional basis,
and to which above 100 M.P.'s have already given in their
adhesion.

MONEY SENT BY POST.—On Tuesday an application
was made to one of the metropolitan magistrates to see if
any redress could be afforded to the applicant, who had
remitted £lO to his father, at Aberdeen, in a letter which
he had duly registered at the General
Post-office. The
letter came duly to hand, but without the money, which
had been abstracted, as was ascertained, before the letter
left London ; but the actual thief had not been traced.
The magistrate said he could not advise or assist the ap-
plicant. It appears that the registry of a letter is merely
a guarantee for the delivery of such letter only, and has
no reference whatever to the contents, of which the post
office cannot be cognizant.

FRAUD BY A STOCKBROKER.—A cruel case of fraud
has been discovered, in connection with the recent insol-
vency of a member of the London Stock Exchange. The
broker in question was employed by a lady to invest
£5,000 in the Three per Cent. Consols, which he did, and
handed her the usual receipt. He, however, intimated to
her that she had better, to prevent fraud, accompany him
to the bank and accept the stock. In the meantime the
broker sold the stock, had a transfer ready, and, when
his unsuspecting employer accompanied him to the bank
to accept the stock, as she believed, she actually signed a
transfer, by which the broker was enabled to receive and
appropriate the whole amount. By his insolvency the
party thus defrauded is precluded from all chance of ever
recovering the money.

PRIVATE BILLS.—From a parliimentary return it ap-
pears that the gross total estimate of the expense of the
various undertakings proposed to be carried out by pri-
vate bills introduced in the course of the present session,
amounts to the enormous and almost astounding sum of
£95,748,529; the projectors proposing to raise £96,566,893
by capital stock, and £32,168,782 additional, by borrow-
ing in case of necessity. Of the above sums of £95,748,529,
£92,921,779 is required for railways ; £176,190 for navi-
gation and canals ; £613,452 for water-works ; £1,653,000
for ferries and docks ; £331,050 for piers and harbours ;
£49,500 for bridges ; and 3,558 for roads. The capital
stock proposed to be raised for railroads alone, amounts
to £94,812,813, or about one-ninth part of the entire na-
tional debt.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON DUELLING.—The
Duke of 'Wellington has addressed the following note to
one of the hon. secretaries of the "Association for the
Discouragement of Duelling," in reply to the circular is-
sued by the committee suggesting a measure for deciding
disputes on points of honour by reference to arbitration:
—" London, June 20. F.M. the Duke of Wellington
presents his compliments to Captain Hope. The duke
having been the person who, in the performance of his
duty, recommended to her Majesty the issue of the rules
referred to in Captain Hope's letter, his desire to put an
end to the practice of deciding disputes by fighting duels
cannot be doubted. Every gentleman can form as correct
a judgment as the duke can upon the benefit likely to be
derived from an association such as is described."
POST. OFFICE MONEY ORDERS.—The increase in the
number and amount of money orders issued and paid in
England and Wales, since the reduction in the charge,
and the introduction of the penny postage, is enormous.
From a return, ordered on the motion of Mr. Hawes, the
member for Lambeth, dated 29th May, 1845, we give the
following facts :
Quarter Number Amount
ending Money Orders.
s. d.
sth April, 1889 .... 54,623 .... 92,734 0 5
sth April, 1844..., 1,146,192 .... 2,495,423 11 11
sth Jan. 1845 .... 1,276,209 .... 2,572,661 5 6
The commission on money orders was reduced, on the
20th November, 1840, for any sum not exceeding £2,
from 6d. to 3d. The penny rate of postage came into
operation 10th January, 1840, and with stamps 6th May,
1810.

"Beauty soon fades," says an ancient adage ; and the
preservation of a gift so fair yet so fragile becomes an ob-
ject of first-rate necessity and importance. No surer foes
to beauty ; no causes calculated more certainly to dim its
lustre and hasten its decay, exist than those which affect
the skin, and, by inducing freckles, tan, sun-burns, and
the long list of cutaneous evils, shorten the triumphs of
the fair one, and bring her empire to a premature termi-
nation. It is fortunate, that modern ingenuity and per-
severance have discovered a remedy for these evils, and
that a specific has been discovered, composed of choice
exotics culled by the hand of science and skill, which
affords a safeguard against the dreaded result. Row-
LAND'S KALYDOR needs only to be mentioned, to insure,
in its praise, the suffrages of the fair sex, and the general
encomium of the public."—See addl.

July 8, 184

AMATEUR NEWSPAPERSHIP.—In a bankruptcy case On Monday, in London, a man named Chalk' 1.1,
last week, it came out that the Ten Towne messenger : committed to prison for having killed his own sonyvafieui
paper sunk capital to the amount of £750 in eighteen thirteen years of age. The parties worked in a bri" k
months, or between £9 and £lO per week. The Rev. and the boy having disobeyed his father, the latter knochi
Mr. Eckersale, rector of All Saints, Worcester, was pro- him down, kicked him, and jumped upon him, of if
prietor and editor—rather an unprofitable speculation. injuries he died.
I,address'
PROGRESS OF ROMANISM.--It is said that the Roman THE LATE FATAL DUEL.—Mrs. Hawkey ..as
be is
Catholics have obtained a lease of a large portion of ground a letter to the Morning Post on the subject ofhtnt M
at the head of Burntsfield Links, Edinburgh, for a semi. fatal duel at Portsmouth, in which her husband sts"- sat
nary on an extensive scale. Their present college at Seton. Of course, her object is to absolve Mr. Lis ,i
Blairs will be removed to it. The plans include the de- as much as possible from blame. She says
e co
sign of a magnificent cathedral.deuce at the inquest was very one-sided, and th 00
SUICIDE BY A COACH PASSENGER.—On Monday week lenge emanated from Mr. Seton, and not from Mrn% 041
a gentleman named Stalker, who was a passenger on the key- Mrs. Hawkey leaves it to gentlemen converse ~eto
Rapid coach, which runs between Lancaster and Carlisle, such affairs to determine how far the second of M.r:f„si
got off the coach at Milnthorpe, and immediately ran off was, by the understood laws of duelling, justified. 1.1 Pei
to the river at a short distance. The driver and a pas- mitting his friend to deliver a second shot after n's_„sl
senger followed him, but when they arrived at the river shot had been received and not returned by his antag_uomo.l
the gentleman was drowned. who thereby received two shots but delivered only u
Hawkey then enlarges on what she calls " the mbar;
SINGULAR DEATH.--A man died in Guy's Hospital on Mrs.
second "
ant manner" in which her husband and his , s
Wednesday whose death, in the opinion of the medical _ been pursued, in their absence, by„certain persons' heel
attendant, had been occasioned by a anion, which had been
' Portsmouth, both "due and undue means having
set to his arm, creeping into a wound, where it died, and
prosecution.
employed to procure witnesses for the ,
undo!
was not found till some days afterwards. The wound became poisoned, inflammation ensued, and the poor CLUB LUXURY FOR LAZY SENATORS.—The itzeth
fellow's death followed.
clubs are furnished nightly with a novel species of g. bib
t who, w it
for the convenie
nce of members of parliamen,
to k'3°
SUDDEN GAIN OF WEALTH.—A poor woman, named indulging themselves at their clubs, are anxious
es s foal
Boothby, living in Seven Dials, has been discovered to be what is going on in the house. The gazette app r A
the rightful owner of very extensive freehold property,
eaPd'
times every evening : it contains all the speeches
ker ; sli
situated in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, which
densed ; marks the time occupied by each speaker;
13y
she will shortly be put in possession of, the value being
announces. by what hour a division may be expected. eat
by
tbe'l
£30,000. She was previously gaining a precarious living this means, absent members are enabled to enjoy
.100
by needlework, and was at times unable to procure food.
club luxuries till the latest moment ; and, as the eiv re
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APPALLING MURDER.—A few days ago, a poor woman is to them the rno-it important part of the evening, t"%ste.
named Lees, aged 82 years, was murdered by her daughter enabled to be present at it without enduring the deua
at Galashiels, in Scotland. The murderess was labouring or making any other personal sacrifice. We have bees
,a
under a fit of insanity at the time of committing the of arguments for the abolition of the house altogeth to
dreadful deed. She pounced on her mother while the but it is clear that the lazy members d avouring f
that thetes
latter was in bed, and thrust her hand into her mouth afford one for the abolition of the debate. As " a sloe
and throat, producing death by suffocation. the times," and the progress of selfish luxury, we 'sop
SHORT HOURS.—We understand that the Kelvin, thought the above worth recording.—Cihurch
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Rock Villa, and Burnside Weaving Company, have re- EDUCATION BASED ON RELIGION.—The recent e_ii,
duced their time of labour half-an-hour per day, and fession of Sir James Graham of having received noWit
contemplate a further reduction of another half-hour per gious instruction at Oxford is perfectly in keeping wi jt
day in a short time.—Glasgow Argus. The Glasgow declaration of Lord Althorp regarding Cambridge; air
Guardian publishes the names of six more weaving firms will be remembered that when the dissenters in 1831 es.
in Glasgow who have consented to abridge the hours of deavoured to induce Parliament to open the two tie'. .
rai
labour by half-an-hour or an hour daily. sities to them, they were opposed on the ground of Pe ha
CUBA AND PORTO Rico SUGAR.—On Tuesday even- ciple, to the effect, that one definite creed could Lilo!) ti;
ing Sir Robert Peel laid before the House of Commons recognised by the Universities in connexion ya!tica.
the application made by the Spanish government for the Church, and the cry was loud and frequent that " ef; the
admi.eion of the augers of Cuba dud Porto itic,o i.eo thin tin mu,/ ”.4. h. bond
0. ..,7;.9;.” " w"t I.: ate
country, on the terms on which free-labour sugars are meaning of this cry ?" asked Lord Althorn, the" that
now admitted. The answer of the English government is leader of the House of Commons. " I can only saey,o
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in the negative, and denies the right of Spain, under the all the time I was at Cambridge nobody ever spok
fte_eo
provisions of the treaties alleged to be in force, to demand about religion ; and I dare say that if other gen lul'it or
were as candid they could say the same." No like
admission for the sugars of her colonies.
member of the house had the candour to make a ,_„
REPORTED Loss OF THE APOLLO TROOP SHIP.—Ac•
confession at that time ; but au excellent and witty c.!ca
counts received at Lloyd's on Friday from Newfoundland
hat nobodl ila
gyman afterwards expressed his regret t ,
_..oke
contain information relative to the Apollo troop ship, had the presence of mind to say, " Then, if noboaVF
noble
from Quebec for Canada, which gives reason to believe
to him aboutat Cambridge,why did the 110
his religion
~ y
that she has been lost, with from 60 to 80 persons
ma t
lord k tutor a bishop ?'
drowned. The Apollo left Quebec on the Ist June, with
artillery and drafts for Canada, and on the 6th informa-
tion was received at St. John's, Newfoundland, of her
having been lost at St. Shots.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday morning, a
man, named Whalley, was accidentally shot at a public-
house in Blackburn. He was sitting up all night with
some companions, when one of them took hold of a gnu,
and, putting it to his back, said in a jocular manner, " If
thou doesn't hush, I'll shoot thee." Unfortunately the Sr Slate ti
gun went off, and the contents passed in a sloping direc-
tion right through the neck, coming out in front of the
throat. Death was instantaneous.
The Rev. Dr. Wolff continues much indisposod from
the effects of his perilous mission to Bokhara. We lately
stated that he h d suffered much through swellings in his
feet occasioned by the worm called rishta, the nature of
which we !have described. Latterly' his right hand has
been disabled by a most painful sweiling in the wrist.
Fortunately Sir Benjamin Brodie called upon the doctor,
and opened the wrist where it was most affected, when a
long Bokhara worm made its appearance, which Sir Ben-
jamin extracted by winding it round a piece of paper.
To LESSEN THE COMBUSTIBILITY OF HOUSES.—A
correspondent of the Builder proposes the substitution of
iron for wooden lathing in all cases where wooden laths
are now used for partitions, ceilings, studding, &c. In
every hquse that is burnt the lathing supplies the train.
The fire creeps up the walls, ignites the joists and floors,
and, in short, prepares the bonfire with perfect pyrotech-
nic art. No fire could possibly pass from a room without
combustible laths on wall or ceiling (or wainscotting,
which is rare in modern houses) to any other room.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday week, Mrs.
Hounsfield, the wife of a gentleman at Huddersfield, was
accidentally killed by a gun-shot wound, the gun acci-
dentally going off while the stock of it was in the hand of
her son. When he we into the room where his mother
and a young lady were sitting, his mother asked him if
the gun was charged. He replied it was, and she said,
" Pray take it away." He said he would, and was going
to clean it a little, and fetched a little rag out of the
kitchen to put some oil on ; he took the gun up, and in
doing so it went off, and shot his mother.
MAYNOOTH.—The following is a cop y of the letter
from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Bishop of
Ripon, dated June 16th, 1845 :—My Dear Lord,—On my
return from Kent, on Saturday evening, I found on my
table the memorial which your lordship transmitted from
the clergy of the diocese of Ripon, expressing their disap-
probation of the permanent Endowment of Maynooth
College. I received with much satisfaction this proof of
their attachment to our church, and of their dislike of a
measure which tends, in their apprehension, as well as
my own, to perpetuate the errors and corruptions of the
Church of Rome."

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

On Wednesday, the usual monthly meeting of the
council was held at the Town-hall.
The Finance Committee recommended the approPlt
tion (subject to legal considerations) of 1,000 yards
land, at the east end of Canning-place, as a site for th
Sailors' Home, at one-half the price at which such lan
may be valued by two surveyors.
Mr. G.
H .
r
proceedings,
of the Sailors' Home had repudiated the foregoing Pr°P%
eWx REeNs
sCeEci i
h s
e ogvrientg
tthhae t ctohnefi rcino t
ini ointt oefe
the
sition, because the site was not offered to them as a fret
gift. He stated that the committee were unable to grB„—f
it freely. The 1,000 yards of land were: worth from it'll',
guineas to £5 per square yard ; and by only charging !,,g
half of that sum, the corporation were, in reality, gitl'
the committee of the Sailors' Home a valuable done°n
of £2,500.

A very long conversation followed, and questions artore
as to the legality of complying with the wishes of
committee of the Sailors' Home.
The TOWN-CLERK was of opinion that the surplus of
the corporation at the close of the current year would o,e" °
exceed 2,soo—that in any grant which might be trader
the surplus could not be exceeded, and that, in his °it,
nion, the Sailors' Home would not be a public building
within the meaning of the Municipal Act.
Several amendments were submitted and withdravith
and, eventually, the whole subject was referred back to
the Finance Committee.

THE COUNTY RATE.
The following was entered amongst the proceedings of
the Finance Committee The Town-clerk reported thy
11011
particulars of an arrangement made with theCo
Treasurer and Clerk of the Peace for the county, in re-
spect of the county rates, which have been in disPnt
since the year 1836, showing that the orders made 11P°0
,
the borough, during that period, amounted to £320„."1
Is. Id., which had been reduced, by the adoption of tile
principle laid down by Mr. Neilson, on his late examil!!:
tion of the accounts at Lancaster Castle, to £25,7,11 11511
id., and that the payments made by the Council amount!,
to £26,000 ; that the correctness of Mr. Neilson's s'A
count had been admitted by the County Treasurer an!:
X2P
Clerk of the Peace, acid that an overpaid balance of ~
Is. lid. now remains due from the county to the borougn•
Mr. TINNE asked what arrangement had been come td
with Mr. Abbott.
of
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said that at a former meeting e
the council Mr. Abbott was requested to discontins
private practice. With that request he had cornPlie,
He had disconnected himself entirely from his business d
- a law stationer, and now devoted his time to the business
of the Town-hall.

Mr. TlN:NE—;ked whether a new contract had been
made for lighting the public lamps of the town. Mr. HUGH HORNBY replied in the negative. -el
company refused to light the town at the rate of £4 2s• "
for any shorter period than seven years. The Lightal;
;
Committee considered that such an arrangement would be
very undes rable. The Old Gas Company were
to light at the rate of £4 55., but the committee were 011..
willing to give that sum, seeing that they had an offer bei
fore them for £4 2s. 6d. He thought the committee bed,
not been fairly used by the Gas Companies. He hoped
that at the next council meeting a detailed report would
be submitted on the subject.
the
Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE, in moving the adoption of
Dock Committee proceedings, said he had great gratificirt
tion in announcing that there was a surplus upon the past
year of £42,000, and an increase of tonnage to the extelc
of 318,819 tons. There was a decrease in the extra do
c
rent of £1266, and this showed that there had been In.;
creased prosperity and activity in shipping. He "-c1
happy also to state that the act of parliament obtaine,,
during the present session would be found exceedingly
useful. For instance, the transit sheds had hitherto heeht
comparatively useless. They had cost much and broungto
in nothing • and persons might turn merchandise i
willing
them and keep it there. Now, p.iwers had been taken!
pass merchandise through the scale, after it had lain there
for forty-eight hours, and to compel the owners to Pali
penalty rent. The difficulty relative to the half-deck
the dock warehouses had been got over, and the half-den;ci
was now legalised, The light dues for many years
been collected illegally, but their collection was now
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galised. This was a subject which he could not %It
brought before the council on any former occasion,, 00
now that the matter had been settled he was in a 11°5'1
to state it publicly. (A laugh.)
The MAYOR.—You were afraid to make it WWII
before.
Mr. MOORE said the dues had certainly been expended
_deo.
for the benefit of the public, but as the lights were evie,
strutted without any authority, it became necessary te of
galise them, and to put all to rights, lest the refunding o
a large sum of money might be involved. Then there
,cith
7es,
no power heretofore to permit lights on board steam
sels. Now permission could be legally granted-
for
the view of testing the qualifications of the voters
to
members of the Dock Committee, a regular registry
ot
in future be kept. The erection of a landing star-
George's Pier, about which so much difficulty had aris-be,,
was now in process of being overcome. A stage was the
ing made by Mr. Cubitt ; it would be satisfactory t°44;
public, so far at least as the contracted site would e"-tiop
and it would be completed in time to receive the eall;er,
of the Admiralty and the Lords Conservators of the r-be-
It would be a floating stage. He had every reason toory
lieve that the transit sheds would now become 0f „orsr
great public utility, and that none of the shifwW"hosi•
finding that their freight would be secured, would s f••
tate to avail themselves of the accommodation therebY
forded. tbe
I Mr. TURNER said he had seen an advertisement n the
uies
papers, making it compulsory on the parties to state
names of the persons by or for whom dock rates or d 'art
were paid. He thought this a little arbitrary on the Poor
of the Dock Trustees, particularly as there were 131
merchants who would not like their names to Weer' 00
Mr. MOORE said the clause was so plain that 13,e
surprised to find it had been misunderstood. lined
name were not declared, the party would be disci"fTbe
from voting, his name not being on the register. the
object of requiring the name was to discover whether t of
person coming to vote had paid rates to the amew".,„
£lO.

In reply to a question from Mr. G. H. LAwnEl4cilj;ert
Mr. MOORE said he was unable to say when the A'ect
Dock warehouses would be opened. He saw no pros'
of having them opee for some moths.
A memorial wasn prd esented from the occupiers of the
slate yards near the Prince's Dock Basin, pray!",g, be
U'g "
council not to accede to any application thatof
made by the Dock Committee for the appropriation
that land to other purposes.
singlestrate ttoentshbelempenminotrniarlissrtgsntmheant
ttihne for
Mr. MOORE said that if the land should be required on'
dock purposes, as he believed it would, he should dewed $
•ttee;
The memorial was referred to the Finance Corn,,re_l,o9
Resolutions of the Committee of the Health of I 'ht
Association, relative to the supply of water to the boru,itl)
were read, and referred to the Health Committee, "
instructions to report upon the subject. e 597
The Education Committee reported that there w,e,r,9 on
children on the books of the North School, and the
the books of the South. The average attendance '0"
past month was--North 693, South 508. dditional
The Health Committee recommended that athe
baths and wash-houses should be built as earl Y-ban
corporation finances would admit, as great benefitthere,
their h adinneotnt oardi avla.ne
resulted from those now in use. They reported used
had been a decrease of 2519 in the number of bat" e re.
• during the past year, but an increase of £5O in ,r of
ceipts. There was an increase of 639 in the nualu; tbSo
tubs of clothes washed during the past twelve olurce•
and an increase of £2 in the receipts from this 60 De'
The proceedings were confirmed, and the CO
counts, amounting to £77, were referred to the
Committee for payment.