The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

PUBLIC MEETINGS.

WEST DERBT GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting
on Wednesday, Mr. Roskell presided. The other mem-
bers present were the Rev. W. Badnall and Messrs. J.
Harrison, Bunting, Alpass, E. Johnson, Lunt. Tattersall,
Mountfield, John Jones, Shaw, and Jefferies. The returns
chewed, at the close of last week, 650 paupers in the
Workhouse, and 47 in the Fever Hospital. Checques to
the following amounts were given to the relieving-officers:
Mr. Allen £75, Mr. Stain £3O, Mr. Potts £lO5, and Mr.
Shearson £lB. The balance in the hands of the treasurer
was stated to be £296 10s. 10d. A committee was formed
to report to the board on the subject of the purchase of
land for a burying-ground and hospital for the union.
Mrs. E. A. Huxley was appointed as nurse in the schools,
at a yearly salary of £lO.
HEALTH COMMITTEE.—The usual weekly meeting was
held on Thursday, Mr. Parker in the chair. Mr. Fresh
reported the registration during the week of 557 lodging-
house applications, under the new lodging act, making in
all 1731 of such applications registered up to this period.
The medical office!: reported that the number of deaths
for the week ending the 15th instant was 221, against 222
in the previous week, and an average of 206 in the cor-
responding week of the preceding four years. A license
was granted for a slaughter-house in lower Milk-street.
Tenders were received for sewering the following streets :
Norfolk-street. Drury-lane, Liverley-place, Brick-street,
Finch-street, and Rathbone-street. An application for a
flagged approach to St. Thomas's Church, Warwick-street,
was referred for consideration.—The clerk read a letter
from the Secretary of State relative to certain regulations
as to lodging-houses. It appeared that the Secretary of
State declined to confirm certain regulations which the
Council wanted to carry out. The matter was referred to
the town-clerk. Mr. Johnson was appointed on the Gene-
ral Purposes Sub-committee.
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,—The third
ordinary meeting of this society was held on Monday
evening last ; J. B. Yates, Esq., presid, nt, in the chair.
Messrs. Edward Banner, J. Carter Redish, R. Worall
Anderson, George Hunt, and Wm. Bean were balloted for
as members; Mr. Newlands. the borough engineer, was
proposed as a new member. Mr. John James Moss ex-
hibited a fine specimen of the lower jaw of the Teleosaurus,
from the Whitby has formation.—The Rev. Dr. Hume
exhibited the neck of a clay vessel found at Warrington,
of Roman manufacture ; also a curious chain, made of
vegetable matter from Ferdinand Po, and the head of a
spear with inverted prongs, like the barbs of a fishing-hook,
from the same coast; likewise the head covering used by
the natives of Madeira.—The President read a communi-
cation from Mr. Lassell, the distinguished astronomer,
upon his discovery of two new satellites of Uranus, and
exhibited an engraving of the new ring of Saturn. The
proceedings concluded with the reading of a paper by the
Rev. Dr. Hume on the popular literature of the day.
THE LIVERPOOL FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.—A public
meeting of this society was held on Tuesday evening last,
in the Concert-hall, for the purpose of announcing the
Purchase of their first estate, a plot of freehold land near
Kensington, and at present occupied by Mr. Whalleyas a
nursery ground, comprising twenty -five acres. The cost
of the purchase is £14,000, and the price per yard, includ-
ing sewering and the formation of streets, it was stated,
would be about four shillings. The society will get pos-
session of the land in February next, when it is intended
to lay it out in 574 allotments, each lot being of the clear
yearly value of forty shillings, thus giving to the purchaser
a right of voting for county members. There are at
present 349 members in this society, who hold 597 shares;
and as their first purchase falls short of supplying the
members of shares already taken up by twenty-three, the
committee are in treaty for another Estate; and as the
members increase, other purchases will immediately fol-
low. The present fee for entrance is one shilling, and a
weekly payment of Is. 6d., until the value of the allot-
ment is paid for.