The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

PUBLIC MEETING S.

TBE LIVERPOOL Bonovon BANK.—The annual gene-
ral meeting was held on Tuesday, at the Clarendon-rooms.
The report stated that the profits of the past year, after
payment of all expenses of management, and making
allowance for all bad and doubtful debts during that time,
amounted to £56,146 6s. Ild. The report was adopted;
and after the transaqtion of some formal business, the
meeting broke up.
WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The usual
weekly meeting was held on Wednesday; Mr. Roskell in
the chair. Present—Messrs. Abraham. Johnston. Craig,
Jeffeies, Alpass. Pye, Lightbody, and W. B. Jones. The
balance in hand was £268 2s. 10d. Mr. Abraham gave
notice, that on Wednesday next he should move that the
wages of the cook at the Fever Hospital be £lO per annum.
Cheques were drawn to the amount of £432 lls. Gd. A
resolution wes moved by Mr. Alpass. seconded by Mr.
Miller, and carried, appointing the guardians of Toxteth-
park a committee to investigate the mode of giving mid-
wifery orders in the township of Toxteth•park, and to
report to the board. On the motion of Mr. Jones, se-
conded by Mr: Abraham, Mr. Fitzpatrick's bill for extra
medical fees, amounting to £B, was ordered to be paid,
the fee charged for Ellen MtGill being disallowed. The
board then rose.

Dome CommirrEE.—At the weekly meeting, on Thurs-
day, Mr. Littledale presided; and the following members
were also present:—Messrs. Rrnkin, Inbinson, Gregson,
Holme, Dover, Holme, Tobin. Turner, Saunders, Kendall,
Steele, Lockett, Fisher, Molyneux, Bold, Hall, and Jones.
The sub-committee of works reported that they could not
recommend the supplying of any vessel or building for the
purpose of testing the efficacy of Phillip's fire annihilator ;
but they suggested that a site of land at the north end
should be given for the purpose on which to erect a build-
ing, if the parties thought it worth while to go to the
expense.—Mr. Morton, the Liverpool agent, was then
introduced to the committee, and the resolution was read
to lengthy conversation ensued, in the course of
which Mr. Morton requested that one of the warehouses
about to be taken down in Wapping should be appropriated
for the purpose. Ultimately Mr. Morton was referred to
the sub-committee of works.—The consideration of a state-
ment relative to the excessive expenditure in the dock
yards for weekly wages, as brought forward by Mr. Langs-
dale, was adjourned until that gentleman should be pre-
sent.—A letter from Mr. Henry Jump, relative to the
performance of the master porterage of a ship, was referred.
—A let ter from the master carters of Pitt-street Ward was
referred to the harbour-masters' sub committee.

NEWRY, WARRENPOINT, AND ROSTREVOR RAILWAY.
—The half-yearly meeting of shareholders was held on
Wednesday, in the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool; Francis
Shand, Esq., presiding. It appeared from the report that
the payments, under the working contract with Mr. Dar-
gan, had been made to the receiver up to the 9:11 July ;'
that the directors had been in negotiation with the Newry
and Enniskillen Company, with a view cf arranging for a
distribution of the sums received from Mr. Dargan to-
wards payment of the interest on the debenture debt of
the company, and they had at length succeeded in tffect-
ng terms for that purpose, and for staying further litiga-
tion. The meeting had been made special to authorise
an issue of debentures for the purpose of liquidating the
claims of the remaining creditors of the company. Ne-
gotiations were pending between the Newry and Ennis.-
killen, and the Dublin and Belfast Junction Companies,
for the purpose of effecting a junction of the two lines at
Gorab, but the directors would not be in a position to
advise what course it might be best to take for securing
the interests of the company, until an arrangement was
completed.—The Chairman, in moving the adoption of
the reort, regretted the loss which the company had
sustained by the death of Lord Newry, the former chair-
man of the company. In answer to a question, he said
that Mr. Dargan's lease was for five years, one and a half
of which had expired. There was a probability that the
Dublin and Belfast and the Newry and Enniskillen Com-
panies would so identify themselves with them, that
terms more favourable to the interests of the Newry and
Warrenpoint shareholders would be obtained, and that
Mr. Dargan's lease would not be renewed. They might
have placed themselves in a more advantageous position
if they had been able to borrow money.—After the report
and accounts were passed, the meeting was made special,
and a resolution moved and carried authorising the direc-
tors to issue debentures for the purpose of liquidating the
remaining claims upon the company. The meeting then
broke up.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting, on
Thursday, Mr. Alderman Parker, the chairman, presided ;
and the following members were also present :—Messrs.
,Bennett, Fernibengh, Hodson, Lloyd, Beckwith.
Cha-
loner, Johnson, Atkinson, Thomson, and Hornby. Mr.
Johnson drew the attention of the committee to the fact
of a man having been killed by falling into a cellar entrance
in London-road ; and asked if any report had been made
by the police or Mr. Dowling to the borough engineer, or
to the committee ?—Mr. New lands said he had Lot received
any such► report; and it appeared that none such had been
sent to the committee.—Mr. Johnson thought that cer-
tainly a report ought to be made to some committee or
other.—The report of the inspector of nuisances, and that
of the medical officer of health, were read. The report of
the borough engineer, relative to the supply of salt water
for the baths, &c., was read. The engineer enumerated
three different points along the line of docks where pump-
ing machinery might be erected; first, at the north end
of the Queen's dock ; second, near the present site of the
baths ; and, third, at the extreme north end. Reservoirs,
he proposed to form, corresponding with the pumping
stations at Park-lane, Smithdown-lane, and on the high
ground at Everton. The Everton scheme the engineer
puts forth as most feasible ; and he estimates that 1,000,000
gallons of water may he raised into a reservoir there in
twenty-four hours, with spare engine power in case of
accident to form reservoirs capable of holding 10,000,000
gallons, for the sum of £12,000, including the price of
land, and allowing ten per cent, for contingencies. The
committee expressed satisfaction at the report generally.
Mr. Thomson moved that the report. be a:Lir:fed. It was
ultimately resolved that it should be lithographed, and a
copy sent to each member of the Council.—A report from
the borough engineer was read on the extension of bath
accommodation. It embraced four estimates and plans.
The scheme recommended will involve an expense of
£4,350 ; but the new arrangements, if adopted, will afford
a larger increased number of baths of the lowest class, in-
cluding a spacious plunge-bath.

ST. HELEN'S CANAL AND RAILWAY.—On Tuesday,
the annual meeting of the shareholders in this company
was held at the Railway-station in St. Helen's. Gilbert
Greenall, Esq.. M.P. for Warrington, presided. The re-
port showed an increase, when contrasted with the cor-
responding previous halt-year, of £2,017, the total work-
ing expenses being only increased £505, to wh ch had to
be added the increased interest on preference shares and
loans £643, leaving a net profit of £869 in excess of that
shown for the first half-year of 1850. There remained for
preference and other dividends £8,926 2s. 5d., out of which
the directors proposed that a dividend should be declared
for the past half-year, payable on the Ist of August, of
£1 per old share, which would amount to £1,200; of 10s.
per half-share, £528; of £3 10s. per £lOO preference
share, £5,040 ; and of Sc. sd. per £25 do., £2,(.38 ss. 7d.,
making a total of £8,1306 ss. 7d.,' and leaving a balance of
£ll9 16s. 10d., to which must be added the balance left
after payment of the dividend declared at the last general
meeting, £367 Is. 3d , making a balance to be carried to
the next account of £468 18s. ld.—Tlie Chairman said
there were very few directors who would have the same
satisfaction which he and his colleagues felt in meeting
their proprietors upon the occasion of the termination of
the half-year ending June, 1851. They now laid before
the meeting accounts which exhibited an increase of -in-
come of £2,017 upon the half-year, as compared with the
corresponding half-year of 1850, and showed that they
had an increase of profit on the present occasion of £869.
They had also laid aside for the maintenance and renewal
of the permanent way this half-year £250, instead of the
£l5O which was put aside fcr that purpose in June, 1850.
They knew £13,430 represented the value of the rolling
stork in June, 1.50, whilst it was now represented by
£19,421 ; and it was well worth that. He was able to
tell them that the Garston and Widnes line was nearly
completed : three-fourths of it were already laid, and the
directors expected that ere many months were passed the
entire line would be open for the conveyance of traffic.
The docks at Garston were also approaching completion.
When they took into account the heavy nature of the
works, they were proceeding to completion as rapidly as
the line itself ; and he wished indeed that every proprietor
of that company had had the advantage which their direc-
tors had had in seeing those works, and in judging for
themselves of the very great value which the board
thought. those docks and works would be to the company.
(Applause.) He would call attention to the great
advantage which he thought the 'Warrington and
Altrincliam line would be to that company. Their line
would form a junction with it at Warrington ; and by
their dock at Garston they would have a clear, continu-
ous, and uninterrupted highway, as he hoped and expect-
ed, from the Mersey to the Humber. He believed tnat
the advantages to the river trade were scarcely to be de-
scribed, which would flow from the development of the
route which had been traced from the Humber to the
Mersey.—The report was unanimously adopted.—Mr. C.
Holland said, that in proposing the very gratifying reso-
lution which had been confided to him, for the payment
of the dividend named in the report, it was highly satis-
factory to know that in their case the large and steadily
increasing traffic was not due to any temporary and tran-
sient cause, hut was only the legitimate development of
the large and increasing sources of traffic of which they
could not be deprived; and which must continue to grow
in a corresponding decree : that the directors were con-
vinced that a great additional impulse must be given to
the traffic of St. Ilelen's and the surrounding distric's,
particularly to that in coals, when the greatly improved
facilities which would be afforded to them by the comple-
tion of the railway and docks at Garston were brought
into operation. It was proved that 2,000 coasters and
foreign vessels, averaging 100 tons each, passed Garston
and discharged at the Runcorn docks, a great portion of
which would be certain to avail themselves of the Garston
docks, provided their cargoes could be forwarded to the
interior. He moved, " That a dividend be now declared
of LI per original share, 10s. per half-share, £3 10s. per
£lOO preference share, and Bs. sd. per £25 share ; and
that such dividend be payable on the Ist August nest,"
which was carried.—Mr. W. C. Fosberry stated that the
number of passengers in the first half-year of 1849 was
59,775 ; 1850, 91.941 ; 1851, 124.165, or mere than double ,
the number in 1849. Then as to the goods and coal by
canal and railway. the first half of 1849 they had conveyed
379.871 tons; IESO, 401,282; and 1851, 447,769.—After
the usual votes of thanks, the meeting broke up.