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

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 trifling character,
and a very great deal of discussion ensued, at the conch!.
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.—On 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 TILE 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 fbr their recovery.
LIVERPOOL STEAM-TUG COMPANY.—The half-yearly
meeting of the Steam-tug Company was held on Wed-
nesday last, at the Clarendon-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 Cieir 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 be
mentioned the case of a shipowner that he 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 keling 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.