The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

The commissioners for better paving of that part of the
extra-parochial place of Toxteth-park, which is situate
beyond the municipal boundary of the borough of Liver-
pool, met on Friday, and fixed the rate for paving at ten-
pence in the pound.
On Tuesday a special meeting of the Birkenhead Com-
missioners was held " To execute the agreement entered
into by the Commissioners with F. R. Price, Charles
Potts, and Thomas Dixon, for effecting certain aarange-
ments for the lease and purchase of the Woodside Ferry."
EXHIBITION, 1851.—A meeting of the Liverpool com-
mittee was held on Thursday at the Town-hall; his Wor-
ship the Mayor in the chair. The secretary, Mr. Gran-
tham, read a report of the proceedings of the committee
up to the present period, and an executive and finance
committee were appointed, who are to report to the gene-
ral body as to the best means of forwarding the interests of
the exhibition. The Mayor was requested to confer with
the Dock Chairman on the subject of the proposed dock
model. His Worship also expressed his intention of sub-
scribing £5O to the exhibition.
Dom( COMMITTEE.—This committee held its usual
weekly meeting on Thursday, Mr. Holt, in the absence of
both the chairman, and deputy-chairman, presiding. The
sub-committee of works presented a statement of the
amount of money due by the Manchester and Leeds Rail-
way Company to the dock trust for land which had been
sold for the railway arches, &c. The account, amounting
to £2,706 10s. 5d., was ordered to be sent to the company.
The usual notices were ordered to be given preparatory to
running the Harrington Dock dry, on the 17th instant.—
The sub-committee could not recommend the return of
the dues paid on the brig Thetis, which entered the King's
Dock on the 9th of July. and afterwards was taken over
to Birkenhead. Mr. Bold said the bill of lading clearly
showed that the captain only followed his instructions in
docking at Liverpool. It was ordered that twenty-seven
capstans should be placed in various convenient situations
at the new dock. The shed on the south quay of the
Salisbury Dock being in the way of vessels going to the
graving docks, was ordered to be removed to the Coburg
Dock, at the cost of £lso.—The expenses of the police
force for the quarter were stated to be £496 13s. 10d.

PITT-STREET WARD RATEPAYERS' ASSOCIATION.—A
preliminary meeting of the ratepayers of Pitt-street Ward
was held on Tuesday evening, at Mr. Henderson's, Cleve-
land-square. There was a good attendance of influential
ratepayers, including three overseers and several gentle-
men of the select vestry.—Mr. M`Millan was called to
the chair, and stated that the meeting had been called for
the purpose of considering the propriety of forming a rate-
payers' association, having for its object the equalization
of the rates of the ward. He was glad to see three or four
of the overseers present, and he hoped they would co-
operate with the association. Another object they had in
view would be the revising of the lists of voters, municipal
and parliamentary. Party feeling would be completely
laid aside, and henceforth candidates would be selected,
whether for the vestry, town council, or parliament, who
would attend to the interests of their constituents. Mr.

Brown, Mr. Manight, and Mr. W. P. Jeffreys, over-
seers, promised their best efforts, and threw out valuable
suggestions. A committee was formed for carrying out
the objects of the association' and subscriptions made for
paying the expenses. The large amount subscribed in
the room, nearly £2O, indicates the feelings of the rate-
payers in the movement.
WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the'usual weekly meet-
ing of this board, Mr. Griffiths, builder, attended before
the board with reference to the completion of the fittings
of the chapel and the schools of the Workhouse, the cost
of which exceeded the sum for which he undertook to do
the work ; and on the motion of Mr. Betteley, seconded
by Mr. Tattersall, Mr. Griffiths was authorised to com-
plete the work according to the specification, with the
exception of the ornamental painting, for the sum of £167.
Mr. Shaw was understood to object to the motion.—On
the motion of Mr. Peers, seconded by Mr, Hartison, it
was agreed that the sums recommended by the committee
to the several medical officers of the union for their ser-
vices, &c. during the prevalence of the cholera, should be
paid, with the exception of the sum awarded to Mr.
Chalmers, the medical officer for Everton, the considera-
tion of whose claim was postponed till next week. An
altercation of a personal nature arising on this subject
ensued.—A communication was received from the General
Board of Health, forwarding a copy of a report presented
to the board by Mr. Rawlinson, superintendent inspector,
on the subject of the complaint against the Fever and
Cholera Hospital, by certain owners and occupiers of the
property adjoining it ; and the board recommended the
adoption of Mr. Rawlinson's suggestions. It was agreed
that the report should be referred to the Local Board of
Health, to carry out the suggestions therein contained. _

LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—The annual
general meeting was held on Wednesday evening,—the
president of the year, George Holt, Esq., in the chair.
The first business was the distribution of the prizes, of
which the following were the chief awards :-Ist Section.
—English, M. Guthrie • writing, (composition,) W.
Weiss ; arithmetic, P. Woodfine. 2nd Section,—Eng-
lish, John Jonas ; writing ; arithmetic, A. Armour and
J. Cullington ; mathematics, G. G. Walmsley and Thos.
Miller; landscape drawing, W. J. Mason, &c. A num-
ber of honorary certificates were granted to pupils who had
shown industry and talent in the several departments in
which they had been successful. A number of other
pupils were also honourably mentioned. The report was
then read, and showed that,—

The total receipts for the year have been .-'4078 10 2
The payments for the same period 4447 12 1

Leaving a balance not met by receipts of 369 1 11
And balance due to treasurer at Ist March, 1849 236 5 7

Together £6os 7 6
owing to the treasurer at this date.
The directors have also to report that the sum of .'B9 10s. 4d.
now stands at the credit of the account for the liquidation of the
mortgage fund, which is thus practicallyreduced to .530 Os. Bd.
The number of life members entered for the year is four, the
roll now amounting to 634.
The number of annual members is 505, being a decrease of
235 as compared with last year. The number who have declined
to renew their tickets have been 412, the number of new mem-
bers entered 177.

The evening school is to be made self-supporting. The
number of lectures given during the year was fifty-three.
A comfortable reading-room, attached to the library, had
been provided by applying £250 given by Mr. Brown,
M.P.-170 volumes have been added to the library,
partly donations. In some of the schools there was a
slight decrease in the number of pupils during the year.
The directors have issued a pamphlet, embodying a com-
plete statement of the privileges enjoyed by those con-
nected with the institution, and of the importance of
those privileges to the several classes of persons in this
great community. This is preparatory to asking for sub-
scriptions towards the liquidation £1,200 of debt. The
report was adopted, and after the usual votes of thanks
to the directors and teachers, Thomas Blackburn, Esq.,
was appointed president, and George Holt, Esq., vice-
chairman. The meeting then terminated.