The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting of
this board, on Wednesday, Mr. Roskell occupied the
chair. The salary of Mr. Deane, medical officer of Tox-
teth-park, was reduced from £BO to £4O per annum, and
that of Mr. J. Bramham, relieving officer, increased from
£52 to £BO. The motion for which notice was given at
the last meeting by Mr. Shaw, for the appointment of
Mr. Reid, architect, to value the amount of the deficien-
cies in the new chapel and schools, was lost by the casting
vote of the chairman.

SPECIAL VESTRY MEETING: —A special general meet-
ing of the Select Vestry was held on Tuesday, the Rev.
Rector Campbell in the chair, to take into consideration
a report of the surveyors, Messrs. Picton and Culshaw,
in reference to the assessment of warehouse and other
property. The object of this report was to rebut certain
charges made at the last Select Vestry meeting as to the
Finance Committee tampering with the assessments. The
result of the meeting on Tuesday was the adoption,
unanimously, of the report, and a vote of confidence in
the Finance Committee.—lt appears that the reductions
in such assessments are made by the magistrates.

WALTON-ON-THE-HILL. -on Thur-sday, a public
meeting of the ratepayers was held at the Black Horse
Inn, to take into consideration "the disgusting uses now
made of the waste lands within the township, especially
that portion called " Mere Green ;" and also for the
purpose of considering what steps should be taken to
preserve the ancient footpaths of the township, which it is
now attempted either to divert or altogether stop up,
much to the inconvenience of the inhabitants generally,
and especially of those going to public worship in the
parish church." The meeting was well attended, and a
committee was formed to carry out the above objects.
Subscriptions were raised.

TRANSFER OF TRH ROYAL INSTITIITION.—A special
meeting of the proprietors of the Royal Institution was
held on Wednesday for the purpose of considering a pro-
posal of the committee to transfer to the Corporation,
for gratuitous public use, that part of the property of the
institution consisting of the Museum and Gallery, and
a stack of warehouses. Theodore W. Rathbone, Esq.,
presided. Archdeacon Brooks moved a resolution, con-
firmatory of the proposition, which was carried. J. B.
Yates, Esq., moved, that be school and school land,
together with the money and securities for money and
shares, shall remain at the disposal of the proprietors.
This resolution was also carried, and, thanks having been
voted to the chairman, the proceedings terminated.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting, on
Thursday, a report was read from the sub-committee as
to the outstanding accounts due from owners of property
for work done under the powers of the sanatory act.
Among those were the names of Mr. W. P. Freme, and
Mr. Chamberlain, of Cheshire. The medical officer re-
ported the deaths in the borough for the week to be 155,
nine more then in the previous week. The disease most
prevalent was scarlatina, from which many deaths had re-
sulted, -.pore particularly in Toxteth-park. The deaths
in the parish were 96, and 59 in the extra wards. Of
these, 99 were children, and 56 adults. The temperature
had been 51/ degrees, being 2 degrees higher than in the
previous week. The barometer was 30.05. A long con-
versation ensued respecting a nuisance complained of by
Messrs. Legg Brothers, of Wolstenholme-square, arising
from water flowing from the pickle manufactory, of Mr.
Pearson, in Parr-street. The property belonged to Mr.
Fernihnugh, a member of the board, and it had. been in-
sinuated that through his influence the previous com-
plaints had been disregarded. The inspector fully ex-
culpated Mr. Fernihough, the nuisance having been com-
plained of before he was a member of the council, and
being besides too insignificant to warrant the laying of an
information. The report of the inspector was adopted.
This being the last meeting of the board for the year,
thanks were voted to the chairman, Mr. Parker, for his
services, and also to Mr. Bennet, vice-chairman.
JOURNEYMEN TAILORS.—On Tuesday night a public
meeting was held in the Concert-hall, to call still further
attention to the evils of the slop and " sweating" systems.
About six hundred operative tailors were present. Mr.
Lawrence Heyworth, M.P., occupied the chair. Mr.
Henry Smith, the secretary, announced that various apo-
logies for non-attendance had been received. Mr. Bdward
Farren, an operative, moved the first resolution, as fol-
lows :—" That this meeting, having heard with regret the
statements of Dr. Mackay, the commissioner of the
Morning Chronicle, on the condition of the tailoring
trade in Liverpool, deeply deplore the misery and degra-
dation to which so large a portion of the workmen are now
reduced by the practice adopted in the trade of the mid-
dleman and sweating system ; also, the danger attending
the making of garments in the fetid courts and filthy
apartments of the workpeople, (as described by the com-
missioner,) conveying disease from the home of the
worker to the abode of the wearer ; and that this meeting
calls upon the gentry and other inhabitants of Liverpool
to give their valuable aid in the destruction of a system
which has produced such an amount of misery, demo-
ralisation, and pauperism, unparelleled and hitherto un-
known." Mr. H. Smith seconded the motion. He pro-
duced a variety of vile cloth, such as the slop-shops use in
making garments. These specimens were handed round
the platform, and the successive rents which they received
at the hands of gentlemen curious to test the quality,
proved their inferiority. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Smith
shewed these establishments make by the trade a profit of
fifty, and sometimes even seventy, per cent. Mr. Thor-
borne, barrister, delivered a lengthy address in support of
the resolution, Mr. Fergie briefly moved the next reso-
lution :—" That it is the duty of the clergy to uphold the
moral and spiritual rights of the community, more
especially of the working classes ; and that this meeting
earnestly entreats that influential body to exercise its ad.,
mitted powers to assist in ameliorating the condition, of
the operative tailors, by discouraging, as far as possible,
the home-working system, as destructive of theitsocial
and physical comforts, and prejudicial to them in euppsort-
ing their families by their labour ; and this meeting hopes
that the clergy will urge the necessity of eYety_insulays

ing the right of observing the Sabbath as a dap of rest,
which, under the present system of home-working, it is
utterly impossible for them to do." Mr. Williams, of
Basnett-street, seconded the resolution. The third reso-
lution was moved by Mr. Allen, and seconded by Mr.
King—" That this meeting entirely approves of the esta-
blishment of the LiverpoolTailors' Institute,' (apart
from the pernicious influence o' the public-house,) having
for its object the advancement of the moral, intellectual,
and social improvement of the journeymen tailors of Li-
verpool." Mr. Atkinson and' others subsequently ad-
dressed the meeting.