The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

ordered that Mr. Peter Cato should repair the damage
done to the Qin-en Ught-pohip by dry rot. at an espent.e
es irt.ated at about £7so.7ks)nopt.is of the lairs and

regtuartoos ror tne .ttiorr IJOuK were submitieti, and the
discussion upon them adjoui tied till nest week.—A letter
was read from the officers of custom., stain g that it would
be prrmatute to give any minion on the sutject of a new
warehouse at the norh iqui of the town until the prop sed

made. A copy of this letter was ordered- to be sent to
the American Chamber of Commerce, who petition, d the
committee to erect the warehouse at the north end. The
Rect.< tary stated that the old a-emboli-es. when the site
ins are come' will ' 19.0

no, Mids., and that
the greatest stock ever Leld here was 17,000
police report of the fire at ►he Brunswick Dock, on Sa-
turday, was then read. The chat; roan regretted that men
who worked the engines received so poor a remuneration

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upon this point, but it was decided the committee cculd
not interfere, as the matter rested with the Watch COM-
Stirzaker, k. eper of the Crosby 1 ght.

nutter.—Thomas

bhip, was ammintt pity-niasi

ry of 1:

per annum.—

i'e new dot
)rted that ti

k-gatemen were

Col. Tempest's prolerty, at the ninth end, bad been
completed. and that the mow y. £7.820 10,, might be

DP.TItICT PROVIDENT SOCIETY,—The annual meeting
of this society was held on Tuesday. The Rev. Rector
Campbell in the chair. There was an increase of £231
14s. in the amount of the annual suhscrip ions over th,it

committee to cher WI a honet hat the inhabitants to gent ral
of this large and wealthy town were beginning to appreci-
ate more justly the claims of the institution. 'I hey re-
gretted. however, to state, that as far as the present p riod
is concerned, their anticipations have not been reahzed ;
for they find that, instead of any increase, there las been
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a d.fici.-ney in the sub-eriptii,lis doling the past vear ( f
£47 13s. 6.1., their amount hating been t nly £1,'53 18. t.
e amount of donations during the yedr had been
£336 Gs. W.—tall:ll short of that of the year bernre by
the auto of 1302 ISs. 9.1.—a circumstance not to he le-
gimlet' with much sunrise when we rememtter the differ-
ent dtgiees of severity in the two sinters, which always
very sensibly affects this bran. h ott l.e soc'ety's rest wets.

The nun.ber of applications for relief had heen tff. rtt d
matetially by the abundance of employment and the mfid-
ness of the past sinter. In the preceding year. the acpli.
cations amounted to 18,294 ; in the last, to no more than
8,225. befog 10,069 ft wer tha., the former. Of this num-
ber 93 weie rt-jtcted, a

has been 8,102:8i a cost of £435 17s. 6d. Of these. 3,488
were Enviisb, 4,446 Irish. 112 V elsb, 52 Scriteb, and 4
aliens. The numb, r of tickets so!d has been 780. at of e

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penny eat It. f,,r Accor• itte'y, the sumot .135 s has
been rrceiced. The tit lit ts prt cur, the appbe awl- a Niece
of bread at the rffire, airhuut any ingairier berg made at

their own residence. The repent referred veitlebrectet ro
the falling off in the nutr,b.r of visitors. In 1844, the lots
was 46; in 1845, 21 ; and in the last year, 33 : so that in
the short apHee of three years the tori•ty has been de-

irhluable c

-operators, arid there are at the present time
only 215 names left on the hooks. The number of collec-
tots having been reduced, the number of del ositors, had
as a matter of course, fallen ofr. In 1845, the greatest
number in any one u.onth was 3919, duns g the last year it

has been only 3,545, being a deer, 3SC of 3G4
wending this dt ficiel,cy. however, in the number f depo-

Notw,th

tifyine to hotire tto.t there has been an
increase of £452 7s 9d. in the amount of deposes, those
for 1845 having reached 19 583 7.. 10ti., atolst those for
1846 have amounted to 110,05 15s. 7d. Of
.ti's lane
sum £2.529 I4s. 2d., or more than one-fourth pert, has

bit ors, it was a

been received at the office from unsolicited depositors.
There was one circumstance which the commiilee noticed

min mum sanetactinn, showing, as it did, that the t irons
of the society to foster habits bi frugality and prudential
economy, amongst the labouring classts, have not been
ineff,ctual. It had ever been their wish to make the so-
ciety subeervient to the Say ngs Bank, by urging the de.
,ositors, as tar as practi'•-' to remove their r

came, ._ money
when sufficiently accumulated, to that excellent institu-
tion. This was now done, they were happy to state, to a
considerable and rapidly increasing extent. and. during
the past year, no less an amount than £232 175., in sums
varying from XI to £2O, has been thus transferred by
twritty-seven depositors. It appeared that, in „nse_
quence of the slight demands upon the society, (-mini- to
the causes above stated, the balance of £B2 6s. 54-d. last
year remaining in the treasurer's hands, had this year
been increased to £449 ls. lid. The report concluded by
urging on the subscribers and friends of the charity not to
relapse in their efforts to increase the resources of the
could not reasonably expect the labouring
csolacsiseetys,oafs they
the community always to be so fully employed
as they had been during the past year. Fran, the treasu.

ecounts it appeased that the total receipts for the
year. including a balance from the previous account of
£133. had been £1,586. There was at pres:tut a balance

in the treasurer's hands of £226. and in the hands of the
bankers of £223. Some di,cu-sion followed as to the
want of visitors, which was considered as one of the great-
est difficulties will) which the society had to contend, and
by which its operations were very much limited. It was
stated that paid v;sitors might be lbtained, but then they
would not act effectively on the moral feelings of the poor,
and, generally speaking, it was contended thet they did
their writ k inefficiently ; besides. the moment paid visitors
were employed the voluntary visi ors would cease to act.
Addresses were delivered by Mr. Richard Ratbbore, Mr.
Payne, the Rev. W. R. Hunt, Mr. T. Blackburn, and
Mr. Andrew Leighton.