The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of the
committee of this society was held on Thursday last, for
the purpose of electing six delegates to represent the
Prrotectionists of Liverpool at the approaching aggregate
meeting, which is to take place in London to-day, for the
advocacy of protection to native industry. The gentle-
men selected were Messrs. E. Molyneux, H. C. Chapman,
J. A. Tobin, T. Bold, Harold Littledale, and Graves.
The annual vestry meeting was held at Walton-on-the-
Hill, on Tuesday ; the Rev. T. G. Leigh, rector, presi-
ding. The accounts, which showed a balance in hand of
£265 15s. 5d., were passed. The churchwardens nomi-
nated were Mr. R. Squires and Mr. Johnson. The gra-
tuity of £2O a-year to the late organist at the church,
Mr. W. Clark, it was agreed to continue ; and a resolu-
tion was also passed, granting an increase of wages, from
£6 6s. to £8 83. each annually, to the ringers. A church-
rate of a halfpenny in the pound was ordered.
MINING ADVENTURERS IN LIVERPOOL.--A meeting of
adventurers was held at Liverpool, on Tuesday, for the
purpose of re-opening and working the Cockley Beck
Copper-mine, near Coniston. It was originally in the
hands of a small and weak proprietary, whose perseverance
was ultimately crowned by cutting into a body of solid
copper ore, eighteen inches wide, which realised £l4 per
ton in the rough unwashed state, to Vivian and Sons.
The water at this stage utterly overpowered all the petty
appliances they ventured upon for its reduction ; conse-
quently, the mine was suspended, with a view to obtain
more wealthy proprietors, prepared to encounter the ne-
cessary outlay for the due prosecution of the works.
Such was the favourable result of the inspection, that
three-fourths of the mine (being the number of forfeited
shares) were immediately taken up by parties with ample
means and resolution to meet the difficulty. At this
meeting the constitution was re-modelled ; a call of 20s.
per share mode on 10,i 0') shares ; and Captain John
Boundy, late of Wheal Ellen, appointed to the manage-
ment.—Mining Juttrrtal.
DOCK COMMITTEE.—The usual weekly meeting of the
Dock Committee was held on Thursday, Mr. Thomas
Littledale in the ch-air. Lieutenant Lord, the marine sur-
veyor, who has been unwell for some time, was granted
four months' leave of absence. A charge was ordered to
he made against the steam-ship Atlantic for the time the
Huski•sson Docik had been used as a graving dock in con-
nection with tile repair of the vessel. The tender of Mr.
P. M. Mactaggart, of Bold-street, for the supply of cloths
to the pier-masters, dock-gatemen, and landing-stage
constables, was accepted. A memorial was read from the
Operative Porters' Association, praying that Mr. 'George
Wright, Jun., who had delegated his office as a master
porter to another, might be suspended, and pointing out
the evil effects which arose from the course pursued by
Mr. Wright. The matter was refered to the Master
Porters' Committee. A communication read from Mr.
Joseph Swart, suggested that the letters at the telegraph-
office, indicating the state of the wind at Holyhead, should
be made sufficiently large to be discernible by a telescope
from vessels in the river.

KIItICDALE SESSIONS.—The business opened on Thes-
,ay, in the House of Correction, Kirkdale, before J. W.
Harden, Esq., chairman, and D. Bromilow, R. Theak-
--. J. S. T. Greene, S. H. Thompson, J. Lawrence,
Silvester, J. 'Bourne, and J. Green, M.D.,
.usq., magistrates. The Rev, W. Hollingworth, of Skel-
-sdale, took the usual oaths on his presentation to that
The chief constable
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2,602, of whom 641, rather a smaller proportion than
usual, were discharged 'by the bench, and of this number
629 were apprehended for vagrancy, and /99 of them dis-
charged. The offence of vagrancy was also stated to be
much on the increase.of late. The country districts were
more infested now than heretofore, in conequence of the
stringency of the rules lately adopted at Liverpool having
driven them from that town. The increase in the last
quarter exceeded the number of the corresponding three
months of 1850 by more than 100 vagrants. The general
opinion of the court seemed to be that this increase was
the result of the leniency with which these vagrants were
dealt with. An immense number -of persons had been

3 police had taken into

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custody 388 as drunkards and disorderlies ; 485 had been
examined on summonses issued by, the constabulary, and
16 on the complaint of other parties. Of the 889 ex-
amined, but four had been discharged without fine or
imprisonment. The total number of persons summoned
by the constabulary, for the qtarter, was 1,542, and by
parish authorities, 3,764, of the latter of whom, however,
1.514 were for non-payment of the poor-rate. A reduced
scale of allowances to constables as witnesses was agreed
to. Recommendations of the visiting justices were also
adopted to petition for remission of sentences pas, ed on
two prisoners. The calendar contains the names of-58
felons and 6 misdemeanants. ,Of these, 14 read and write
imperfectly; 9 can read, 5 can read and write well, 34 con