The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-18 00:00:00

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churches had been erected, which could not have cost less
than £200.000 ; £40,000 had been paid by the society.
The statement of the accounts showed the following re=
sults :---Balance to the' society at the close of last year,
£10,13.3 14s. 7d. received. £1,678 9s. 9d.; ;interest,
£.338 17s. 3d. ; .;, fetal, £12,151 Is. 7d. ; grants paid,
X 3,850; expenditure, £4345. sd. ; balance, A:8,257,175. 2d. ;
out-standing grants, £6,500; annual subscriptions, £l,
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757 17s. 2d Several resolutions of a formal character
Goon NEWS FOR BIRKENHEAD.-lii the house of were passed, and one, conveying the thanks of the meet-
Commons, Lord Morpeth has moved for and Obtained ing to the most Rev. the Archbishop of Cantfrburv, for
leave to bring in a bill to empower the commissioners of the important benefits which had been derived from his
woods and forests to reclaim the crown lands, and aid the countenance and direction.
completion of the docks and other works at Birkenhead, SELECT VESTRY.--On Tuesday, the usual fortnightly
and all the important documents which have passed be- meeting of the Select Vestry was held at the office, Lime-
ween the government, the dock commissioners, and the street. The Rev. Rector Campbell presiaed. The Fi-
-,lthlished by order of nance Committee reported that the Magistrates' Clerks
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had no objection to allow him 2s. 6d. a night, being the
highest fee he had ever given any patient for such service.
The defendant denied that he - had received the least
benefit from the treatment to which he had been subjected.
The commissioner thought there was sufficient reason for
directing that the costs of the suit should be divided.
The defendant must pay £2 15s. 6d., (2s. Gd. being de-
ducted for each appearance in public,) and half of the
costs.

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100 l have been

Ihenson, the eminent civil engineer, to examine

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flocks and works, and his report is to the effect that the that there was a sum of £7153 owing to the bank, and
corks are the best he has seen--that more work has been , that rates to the amount of .t:11,03-1 were still owing, in
done is the time which has elapsed since their commence- consequence of 'the necessary warrants and summonses
ment than he bad ever before known—and that they have not having been conp!?!ed.-:-There were reported to be

'tided for less money than any works of

lar description. He-has also given in an estimate for their his office as a merooer of the -oeteet vestry ; suet It wo
completion without having had any previous knowledge of understood-that his successor would be appointed at the
that of Mr. Bendel, and is within £3,000 of the calcula- general Easter Vestry.-Mr. Riding gave notice that he
tions of the latter gentleman, statink, at the same time, would at, the next Meeting move the appointment of a
that his own estimates are for the extreme cost. Lord collector, in the rood of Mr. Wade, deceased.-:---Mr.
Morpeth has also obtained from Mr. John Stewart his Riding moved, pursuant to notice, that the resolution
valuation of the crown reserve, on the north or Seacombe adopted at a former meeting, relative to the medical staff
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side of the docks, and though the contents of his report at the Workhouse, be nesonded, and that in future one
have not yet transpired, so much has oozed out as to show in-door medical man and two out-door medical men be
that the laud is more than sufficient to secure the money
necessary to finish the works. Mr. Stephenson repOrts thought there ought to be two medical men always in a
appointed,- -Mr. Avison seconded the motion.
that Mr. Rendel's plans are most perfect and most eom- house which contained 1700 inmates. A letter was read
prehensive for mercantile purposes. We hope that they from the in-door medical officers of the house, advising
will prove efficient in restoring the prosperity of Birken- that, whatever be the reduction in the number of the
head, as it would be lamentable that the property invested medical staff generally, there should be two resident stir-
there should be lost, and that the grandeur of the contem- geons in the house, to have the entire charge and respon_
plated improvements should be converted into a monu- sibility of the medical duties there, in ordinary times ;
ment of mistaken rather than successful enterprise.—Mail. and that the number should be increased, as may be re_
EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT ON LIVER AND STOMACH
, quired, in times .of extraordinary disease; they also sng-
COMPLAINTS BY HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Extract of a Rested that some of the most experienced medical men in
latter dated 30, Princess-street, Glasgow, Feb. 18, 1847. the town be requested to form a consulting staff in cases
Professor Holloway, Sir, 1 have taken your pills Mr a dis- of difficulty. .The, board divided upon the question
.of
ease of the Liver and stomach, from which I had long rescinding the former. resolution of the Vestry, passed
suffered. When I commenced the use of them 1 was in upon the motion of Mr. Johnson, that two resident• me-
a most wretched condition, and humanly speaking, 'they dical officers -only be appointed. There were—For re-
have saved my life. I had consulted many medical men scinding it, 14 ; against, 6. An amendment to Mr. Ri-
-to no purpose ; lam now perfeJly restored to health, to ding's -motion was afterwards carried. It was to the effect
the surprise of all who witnessed the state to which I had that one oon-resident and two resident medical.officers be
been n.(lE:Tr] hy the disease !fleeting tlie liver, anil,stootch. appointed 4 otr;Wllit:ltDr. Burgetsi as senior Otit -door
Signed—Charles Wilson. officer, was retained,