The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS

HARRINGTO'N WATER WORKS.—At a meeting on
Wednesday, for finally winding up the affairs, a dividend
of £9 5 per share was declared, and a vote of thanks car-
ried to Mr. Stanistreet, the able secretary of the company.
SELECT VESTRY.—The Select Vestry met on Tuesday.
The chair was occupied by the Rev. Rector Campbell.
The total number sick in the house was stated to be 458.
Mr. Steains sent in a letter tendering his resignation as a
vestryman, on account of his health. The affairs of Nel-
son, the late collector, it appeared were under examina-
tion, the Vestry having taken legal advice on the subject,
and applied to counsel for an opinion from which it was
expected they would be able to prosecute the defaulter.
William George, jun. and his wife were elected to the
situations of book-keeper, store-keeper, and porteress at
the Industrial School. The Medical Relief Committee
reported the resignation of Dr. Torbuck, who requested
that Mr. Kelly might be appointed, he having engaged to
pay Dr. Torbuck a certain sum of money advanced by
himself. This arrangement was declined. On the sub-
ject of cholera the Rector said they were informed that,•
should we be visited with it, Liverpool was better pre-
pared than when it was last here. He did not think
there was any cause for alarm.

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—AIIIOIIeSt the .bills
ordered for payment was one of £704 4s. lOd., for extra
watching at the docks, from the 14th of March to the 11th
of April, and from the 12th of July to the Ist of August.
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been paid, would make a total of £llOO with which the
surireyor's department of the Dock Estate had been taxed
in consequence of the recent apprehended disturbances
Mr. Henders •
curred by the

shipowners in extra watching.—An applica-
tion was made from the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, for
the use of the life boats on the occasion of the approaching
regatta, the applicants to pay the men. The committee
viewed the application favourably, and it was left in the
hands of the sub-committee.—lt was reported that on
Tuesday last two flats with lighted fires on board, passed
through the cut from the canal into the docks, and that
the captains stated that they were ignorant of any regula-
tion to the contrary. Public notice was ordered to be
given of the regulation for preventing fires on board of
vessels in the docks.—The receipts of dock and light dues
at the port of Runcorn for the past month were stated to
be on 242 vessels, of 12,709 tons, £53 Os. 9d.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the meeting on Thursday,
the following returns of deaths were read :
Parish of Liverpool. Extra-parochial Wards
This week. Last week. This week. Last week
"161 184
10 11

All causes 52 57
Fever 0 1
Scarlatina , , 10 12
Diarrhoea .. 45 12 12
Total deaths this week, 213 ; previous week, 241; de-
crease, 28.—The opinion of Mr. Cowling, barrister, had
'seen taken as to interment- ' 'ice. It --- "

s in pits, was the opi-
nion of the learned counsel that the magistrates had pro-
perly declined in the case of St. Patrick's burial-ground,
but that the act of parliament would enable the committee
to sustain an indictment if, after any interment, the earth
was removed from the top of the coffin. The Town-clerk
was directed to give notice to the various sextons that
this course would be adopted without further notice.—A
letter was read from Mr. North, reminding the Health
Committee that the memorial of the inhabitants of Kirk-

dale, on the subject of the rates, was referred by them to
the Council, and requesting their prompt attention to the
wishes of the memorialists. The applicant was informed,

that the Sub-committee to whom it was referred would
be prepared to report to the next Council.—Mr. Har-
bord, seconded by Mr. Parker, then moved that reporters
a- L I_ .• • •

mittee

Leta w sue imure meetings or the
On a division the numbers were,

for the ad-

mission of reporters 8, against 4, namely,—For, Messrs.
Danson, Harbord, 9Holme, R-ade J. Walthew, Parker,

bone, 2

ris, Tinne, Harbord will have to obtain
the confirmation of this resolution from the Council.

Etztratllls.s.

prison for four months, for " drilling" persons at ➢Zot-
tram to the use of arms.

The Nat Bank Cotton Mill, near Heywood, was de-
stroyed by fire on Friday. It was occupied by Mr. Pilling,
who is insured for £2OOO in the Liverpool office. The
loss is estimated at £3OOO.

Mr. Pierrepoint, dentist, of Manchester, has a turkey
cock which, is now bringing up ten chickens with the

utmost tenderness, after having, with gnat pride, regu-
larly sat on the eggs with every attention, until the pro-
cess of incubation was completed. _

During the late heavy rains, the soldiers in the encamp-
ment at Manchester, at present about 900 strong, have
suffered severely. The canvass, of which their tents are
composed, has proved unable to resist the rains, and every
article within has been constantly saturated. An imme
diate change is anticipated.

LORD J:RUSSELL'AND THE WOMEN.—Mrs. Theobald,
the female insurrectionist, who spoke at a Repeal meeting
at Manchester on Tuesday, announced that 100,000 females
were ready organised in London, and were prepared to
march as a body on Lord John Russell. Heaven help
the_pi emier !

WANT OF ACCOMMODATION AT THE " PIKE."—At
the Bolton licensing sessions, last week, Mr. Brownlow.
solicitor, applied on behalf of Mr. Radcliffe, for a license
to a house at Riviugton Pike, and produced a memorial
signed by all the publicans in Horwich, overseers, guardi-
ans of the poor, and other parties ; and it was urged that
as the " rude and antique" spot, commanding such splen-
did views, had now become a place of such favourite re-
sort, it was necessary to have a place for refreshments;
and, again, that the resort would be still more famed when
the Rivington Pike water scheme was carried into effect
at Liverpool. The magistrates, however, declined to
grant the license.
ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS.—We understand that it
is in contemplation to divide the Lancashire district, now
presided over ecclesiastically by two prelates, the Right
Rev. Dr. Brown, bishop of the district, and the Right
Rev. Dr. Sharpies, his coadjutor bishop, into two sees,—
one to be called the see or bishopric of Liverpool,—of
which Dr. Brown, it is said, is likely .to be the bishop ;
and the bishopric of Salford, under the care of Dr. Shar-
pies. On Thursday, the Right Rev. Dr. Hogarth was to
be appointed bishop of the Durham District, and it is
was supposed would be installed in Usher College, near
Durham.—Manchester Guardian.
MEETING OF ORANGEMEN DEPUTATION TO THE
AUTHORITIES.—Owing to the late outbreak in this town
a very numerous meeting of the members of the various
Orange Lodges in the Ashton district, assembled at
Ashton a few days ago, when it was unanimously agreed
that a deputation should be appointed to wait upon the
magistrates and inform them of the willingness of the
body of Orangemen to aid them in the suppression of any
disturbance that might take place whenever called upon.
The deputation was courteously received, and the autho-
rities expressed their thanks for the loyal feeling mani-
fested by the members of this loyal order.