The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The thirty-third
annual meeting of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary
Auxiliary Society, for the Liverpool District, was held on
Tuesday evening, in Brunswick Chapel. The meeting
was numerously attended. J. Robinson Kay, Esq., of
Bury, was called to the chair. The report referred to the
operations of the society during the past year. In New
Zealand, it stated, there were twenty missionaries and
assistant-missionaries. They had 103 Wesleyan chapels,
besides 122 other preaching places. They had 309 local
preachers; upwards of 4,000 full and accredited church
members; 200 Sabbath schools, attended by nearly 7,000
children. There were 115 day schools, with 3,968 day
scholars. The committee looked with peculiar interest to
one mission which had been commenced during this year
among the Waldenses of the Italian Alps in the valleys
of Piedmont. The Rev. Peter M'Owen, the Rev. F. A.
West, of Huddersfield, the Rev. John Scott, of London,
and the Rev. G. P. Mackdonald, of Huddersfield, moved
and seconded the resolutions, which passed unanimously.
The usual collection was made, amounting to £240 17s 6d
against £lB4 is 4d, last year, being an increase of
£57 93 2d.

Misstoris IN INDIA.—On Tuesday. a meeting was
held in St. George's Presbyterian Church to hear details
from two of the missionaries from Hiadostan. There was
a very large assemblage of some eleven or twelve hundred
people. Mr. John Cropper was called to the chair. The
Rev. John Anderson, the head of the Free Church mission
in Madras, in a long address, advocated the cause, and
was followed by the Hindoo convert, the Rev. P. Rajah-
gopaul, who addressed the meeting for nearly an hour in
a speech of singular power and eloquence, dwelling spe-
cially on the claims of India, with her 150 millions of im-
mortal souls—on the sympathies of Christian men in this
land—on the peculiar difficulties of India as a field of
missionary enterprise, and the special adaptation of the
Free Church Mission to the necessities of India. He
pictured in glowing terms the fearful degradation of his
heathen kinsmen, and urged the necessity of more labour-
ers to the harvest in India—as there were only about a
hundred missionaries from all the reformed churches to
the teeming millions of that land ; and concluded by
pleading for the prayers of God's own children that He
would give his spirit to effect the work of changing hearts
to which all missionary efforts were inadequate.
WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—The weekly meeting of
this body was held on Wednesday. John Bramham was
elected to the situation of removing officer, at a salary of
20s. per week. From the report of the fever hospital, it
appeared there were in the house last week, 28; admitted,
9 ; left cured, 5 ; dead, 1; remaining in the house, 31.
The clerk stated that there was a balance of £B3O in the
bank ; the cheques unpresented amounted to £565 ; and
the cheques presented that day £399, making a deficiency
of £l34.—A communication was received from the Poor-
law Board, with reference to a report of a committee
appointed to inquire into the best mode of affording me-
dical relief and out-door relief in the union. They state
that they approve generally of the establishment of the
proposed dispensaries in Toxteth-park ; but they wished
to be furnished with the details of its management. and
with information relative to the proposed decrease of the
salaries of the medical officers. They were not prepared
to come to any decision as to the appointment of relieving
officer, owing to the uncertain state of the question of
settlement and removal, which was about to become the
subject of discussion in the legislature. The commission-
ers sanctioned the payment of £4 15s. to Mr. Reid, one
of the medical officers, for attendance in certain cases
named.

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The treasurer was
authorized to pay £25,280, the costsof the saltpetre sheds
required for the new dock walls.—The surveyor was autho-
rized to provide four new mud barges, and a new sand
boat, at an expense not exceeding 4670 each.. Specifica-
tions were submitted for a new iron N. W. lightship..—A
communication was received from the Trinity. Board , con-
senting to idemnify the trust• for any increased 'expense,
incurred in the rent of, Fillbre Island,. in.nonseg:aence. eta