The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

St. Stephen's Church, in Byrorn,Street, has recently
undergone a thorough cleansing and renovation ; and by
the sanction of the bishop and the incumbent, the Rev.
A. Hume, LL.D., is at present the officiating minister.
On Monday Bartley Welsh, a lad nine years old, was,
with a companion, fishing for crabs at one of the Pottery
Docks, when, in endeavouring to push a piece of timber
into the water, both fell into the dock. Bartley sunk, and
his body was not recovered until some time afterwards.
His companion was rescued.
A Foomstr MAN.--James Fowles, of Higher Tran-
mere, was, the week before last, robbed by a prostitute of
ninety sovereigns in gold. He went into a field at Tran-
mere on Thursday night week with a woman named
M`Taggart, who relieved him of the large sum above-men-
tioned. M'Taggart and two accomplices were arrested as
they were about to depart by the packet for Drogheda.
M`Taggart had £95 in her possession. She and Mary
Woods and Mary M`lver were, on Monday, committed to
Chester for trial.

FATAL COLLISION BETWEEN A STEAMER AND A SHIP.
—We noticed last week that the Prince of Wales, Fleet-
wood and Belfast steamer, and a sloop called the Jane and
Jessy, had come into collision on Sunday morning week,
and had both got on shore on the Point of Ayr, at the
mouth of the Dee. The crew of the smack (now on shore)
were saved by floating ashore upon a spar. The Prince
of Wales got on the beach, but has since been got off.
Amongst the passengers in the Prince was Mrs. Gaskell,
wife of Mr. Milnes Gaskell, M. P., who came to Liver-
pool yesterday week, in great anxiety, having heard that
the whole of the passengers were lost. Most of the cattle
on board swam ashore. Her place, in the meantime, has
been supplied by the Fenelia, a fine steamer, and the
transit between Belfast and Fleetwood, the usual line of
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LOCAL MEETINGS,

SPECIAL VESTRY.
On Thursday, a special general meeting of the

aarish-

ioners of Liverpool was geld in St. Nicholas's Church,
for the purpose of receiving the report cf the committee
appointed at the last Easter Vestry, to take into conside-
ration the question of rating the Corporate and Dock pro-
perty. There was a numerous attendance of the trades-
men of the town, and the proceedings were of the most
unanimous character. The Rev. Rector Brooks occupied
the chair.

Mr. LOWNDES read the advertisement calling the meet.
ing, and also the report of the committee appointed at
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Mr. FERGUSON moved that the report of the Rating
Committee be adopted. At the last general Vestry the
parishioners appointed a committee, for the purpose of
bringing to charge the corporate and dock estates. The

committee had taken step; which, if sanctioned by the
parishioners, would lead to a very favourable result ; and
he had, therefore, great pleasure in moving that the re-
port be adopted.
Mr. T. DOVER had great pleasure in seconding the
motion. When they looked around them, and saw the
miles of sewerage about to be made ; when they found
they were to get, at an immense expense, a supply of
water from Rivington Pike, and when they heard the
chairman of the Finance Committee say he was about to
call upon the ratepayers for money to build a gaol—al-
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nough, ne way„ie si, a like to know what they
were going to do with the money they would get for the
present gaol—when they saw all these things, he thought
reasons were afforded for desiring that all the property
existing in the town should contribute to the local rates.
(Applause.) The wealthy classes were fast leaving the
town. (Hear.) How few merchants, comparatively, now
lived in Liverpool! They were living at Aigburth or
across the water. What kind of property was now gene-
rally being erected here ? Cottage property; and that,
they all knew, did not contribute to the local burdens.
Those of them who unfortunately remained ratepayers of
the town, notwithstanding the increased ra`es with which
they were threatened, would have to make up the defi-
ciency of those who were fast leaving their residences..
Ought not, therefore, all property of the town, whether
public or private, be compelled to contribute to the pub-
lic burden ? He had a sort of pleasure, he must confess
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