The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

ADJOURNED MEETING.

The adjourned meeting was held, as appointed, on Fri-
day. Mr. Laird, the newly-appointed chairman, pre-
sided ; and there were present Messrs. Pritchard, Nicholls,
Hicklin, Bentham, Pike, Adamson, Cole, Bryans, Gol-
borne, Williamson, Ravenscroft, Appleton, Hughes, and
Stevenson.

The Law-clerk read the clauses of the amended act, re-
quiring that the trust should consist of 13 persons, viz.,
7 bondholders, 4 Commissioners of Birkenhead, and 2 of
Wallasey. The new act would confirm the powers of the
old one. The effect of the bill will be that several of the
trustees will remain in office till 1851. The various alter-
ations in the clauses were discussed, and one clause was so
amended as to require the monthly meeting to be held at
Birkenhead, but leaving a discretionary power to hold
meetings elsewhere, if necessary. It was decided that
either three or four should make a quorum. One clause
allowed sums of money to be borrowed for banking up
Wallasey Pool, and all plans, &c., are to be submitted to
the Admiralty. One clause gave clear indemnity in re-
spect of all loans hitherto received. Another provided for
the protection of the Woodside Ferry, and others pre-
vented the trustees reducing the level of water below cer-
tain points. If the Liverpool dock trustees purchased the
dock, the bill would be unnecessary, but it was considered
advisable to proceed with it.
The election of four commissioners was discussed, but
it was agreed upon that the meeting should be adjourned
till Monday.
Mr. LAIRD produced the report of the committee up to
the 7th of June. He stated, that owing to the immense
expenditure occasioned by the retention of highly paid
functionaries, through a long period in which really no
work had been done, the question had arisen whether re-
trenchments could not be made ; and it had been pro-
posed to dispense with the services of Mr. Rendall, the
engineer, as well as those of Mr. Brown, and his two
clerks. It had been proposed to make these alterations
immediately. He explained that independently of the
large salary paid to Mr. Rendel, and the heavy sums paid
for his travelling expenses, that gentleman made extra
charges which he was entitled to, but which they would
save were he to resign his duties at once. Mr. Brown
had gone to London, and charged his expenses, though he
declined to state the object for which he went. After
some discussion, a motion by Mr. Laird, in accordance
with what he had stated, in opposition to an amendment
by Mr. Bentham, to the effect that the officials referred
to should have timely notice, was carried. The meeting
then adjourned.

WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—OR WedDeS-
day, the usual weekly meeting of the above board was held ;
Mr. Roskell in the chair. Mrs. Ross, late of the Fever
Hospital, Liverpool, was appointed matron. On the mo-
tion of Mr. Appleby, it was ordered that the salary of Dr.
Whittle should be 30s. a week, and also that that gentle-
man should be put Qu the same footing as tht uther stir,

geons. Mr. Mayers, registrar of deaths in the district of
Toxteth-park, appeared before the board to complain of
the conduct of Dr. Whittle. Mr. Mayers stated the
charge at some length, which was of a trilling character,
and a very great deal of discussion ensued, at the conclu-
sion of which it was moved by Mr. Sidney—" That, in
the opinion of this board, the complaints made by Mr.
Mayers, registrar, against Dr. Whittle, are not only
groundless, but frivolous and vexatious, and that this
board do, therefore, acquit him of all the charges." Mr,
Edwards seconded the motion, which was carried.
THE CORPORATION RATES IN KIRKDALE.-011 Tues-
day evening a public meeting of the ratepayers of the
township of Kirkdale was held at the large room at the
Factory, Boundary-street, to consider the heavy amount
of the paving and general rates levied on them by the
Council of Liverpool. The chair was occupied by Mr. J.
F. North. He said that heretofore the taxation of Kirk-
dale was 9d. ; then it rose to Is. 9d. ; and now it sprung
to fever heat in the shape of 3s. in the pound. He thought
that such an amount of additional taxation was intolera-
ble, unconstitutional, and unjust. (Applause.) Mr.
Roskell showed that the roads that heretofore paid £BO
a mile, now pay £294.—Mr. Dover strongly denounced
the conduct of the Corporation. The meeting now stared
with astonishment at 3s. in the pound ; but what would
they say when he informed them that the Council was
about to pay £2,000,000 for water, and £2,000,000 for
drainage ? He contended, with reference to the working
of the Liverpool docks, that the shipowner was making
the burgesses pay the rates. He also contended that
whatever port charges were made, trade would come to
Liverpool. A number of resolutions were moved and
carried, and a voluntary rate was laid to defend the
interests of the ratepayers.
THE COUNTY AND THE POOR RATES.—On Friday, a
meeting of the guardians of the West Derby Union was
held, to take into consideration the mode in which the
poor rate is at present raised and applied. It appeared
from statements made that in several parishes and town-
ships in the county, the county rate was paid by the over-
seers of the poor out of money collected by them as poor
rates. In 1843, the guardians procured a statement, to
be made from the accounts of the union, showing the
sums raised during the previous three years, with a view
to expose the amount really paid for the relief of the poor,
With this view the townships of Everton, Kirkdale, Tox-
teth Park, and West Derby were omitted, as the expen-
diture in these townships is, in some instances, mixed up
with the borough rates. But the union comprises twenty-
three townships, and it was found that the sum paid for
the relief of the poor in the whole of these nineteen town-
ships was (including salaries of officers and expense of
establishment) only £5552; while the amount paid in the
same townships towards the county rate alone was £9936.
A resolution was passed to memorialise the county magis-
trates on the subject. One clause of this memorial affirms
that the poor rates have, from the causes above stated,
become so burthensome, that, in some instances, the
overseers have been proceeded against for their recovery.
LIVERPOOL STEAM-TUG COMPANY.—The half-yearly
meeting of the Steam-tuo. Company was held on Wed-
nesday last, at the Claredon-rooms, Charles Cotesworth,
Esq., in the chair. The report having been read, the
chairman, in alluding to that part of it where mention is
made of some of the shareholders, as well as many ship-
owners, employing other boats in preference to theirs,
because they charged rather less, pointed out the folly of
doing so,—as, though they might be towed out all safe, if
their ships should happen unfortunately to get ashore out-
side, or on the ceast of Ireland, they would find that no
boats but those belonging to this company would be sent
to Emir assistance, and that though the company might
charge more for towing ships in and out than some others
might do, still the superior class of boats belonging to
them, as well as the great advantage of having such an
establishment to resort to in case of accident to their
ships, fully deserved the extra pay. In proof of this he
mentioned the case of a shipowner that lie knew, whose
vessel was towed out by one of the cheap boats, which
happened to get ashore at the Wicklow banks, when the
company had to send one of their boats to get her off,
and bring her back to Liverpool to be repaired; which
was done, whereas if there had not been such an esta-
blishment, most probably the vessel would have been a
total wreck. He also mentioned that he was glad to
say that the feeling against sending ships to sea on Sunday
was gaining ground very fast, and that the directors
hoped soon to be able to decrease the number of their
boats now employed on that day.