The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

BARRER V. CAMPBELL

The plaintiff was Charles Barker. and the defendant
was William Campbell. The plaintiff was an advertising
agent in London. and the defendant was a provisional
director of the Jamaica Atmospheric Railway, upon Ell-
brow's prineiule; and the action was brought to recover
a sum of £731 for advertising the railway in the London
papers, at the instance of the defendant. The defendant
was a director from the first. He attended meeting after
meeting, signed the book, and gave the orders, and, there-
fore, it was contended that he was as clearly liable as any
tradesman could be under similar circumstances. The
orders to insert the advertisements were sent to Mr. Bar-
ker, and they were inserted accordingly. Mr. MARTIN,
in opening the lase, stated that the directors on the rail-
way in question had allotted five hundred shares each to
themselves, and they also passed a reaolu'ion that they
should divide thirty guineas among themselves for every
meeting they attended. A verdict was returned for the
plaintiff for £350.

RIDGWAY AND ANOTHER V. HARRISON AND ANOTHER

This was an action brought by Robert Ridgway and
William Hoare against James Harrison and Sarah Bradley,
for the recovery of a sum of £6O, which was owing to a
money-club of which the plaintiffs were the trustees. A
verdict was returned for the plaintiffs.

SELECT VESTRY PROCEEDINGS.-TUESDAY

Mr. John Smith and Mr. George Holt waited upon the
Vestry, as a deputation from the committee of the Night
Aselum, to solicit the assistance of the parish in obtaining
a building in lieu of that in Freemason's-row, which they
have received notice to quit on account of certain altera-
tions. They had advertised for a suitable place, but had
not yet been able to meet with one.

The Vestry-clerk wai instructed to obtain the opinion
of the poor-law commissioners as to whether the board
could legally grant the request of the Night Asylum com-
mittee.

The following report from a sub-committee appointed
in consequence of serious complaints by the visitors, as to
the quality of the 'ood, and the general management of
the industrial Schools, was then read by the chairman :
" I our sub-committee proceeded to the schools on
Thursday last, for the purpose of entering upon this in-
quiry. They examined the superintendent at considerable
length, in the presence of the surgeon, and they regret to
find, from the admission of Mr. Coates, that, with the
exception of Friday's rice dinner and Saturday's scouse
dinner, the directions of the committee with regard to the
dietary have not been complied with. For instance, the
milk for breakfast and supper ordered to be boiled, has
been served cold and unboiled, nor has beer been given
them for supper except on one occasion. Mo. cover, the
dinner prescribed for Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays,
consisting of meat, potatoes, and broth, singly, has been
cooked together, along with cabbage, &c , and served
mixed up as one dish. Pea soup for Monday's dinner
has been made with only half the number of cow-beads
ordered ; and for Wednesday's dinner broth has been
given with suet pudding, instead of sauce.

" Thus the directions of the committee upon this most
important subject have been almost wholly disregarded.
Food which it was intended should be given the children
in varied forms, for the promotion of their health, has
been almost entirely served in one form—a liquid, or
semi-liquid state, instead of solid and liquid alternately,
according to the dietary.
" The reasons urged by Mr. Coates for this systematic
departure from the otdeis of the committee are that
knives, fork, and plates, of which none had been supplied,
are indispensable to the observance of the dietary ; that
milk, when boiled, curdled ; and that beer was disconti-
nued in consequence of several boys having been found
drunk. Upon this your committee would observe, that
even if good and substantial reasons eiti,ted in the mind
of Mr. Coates against the use of the dietary, or any part
of it, it was his bounden duty, in a matter of so much
importance, before enti ring upon so wide a departure from
the written rule, to have submitted those reasons to the
committee.

" With regard to the consumption of meat, your com-
mittee, and, from an account furnished by the Vestry-
c'erk, that aQsurning the stock on hand on the lit August,
as given by Mr. Coates, to be correct, the quantities of
meat supplied the school, according to the invoices, is ac-
counted for by the consumption—which consumption
appears to be on the average per week, for 18 weeks no to
the above period, as follo:vs :—By the officers, (37,)
weekly average consumpt ion, 71b. 14oz each, cost 3s 54d. ;
by the children, (372,) ditto ditto, 11b. 3oz. each, cost 64,1.,
(not including cow-heads, costing weekly Id. per bead
additional.)
" In conclusion, your committee would recommend—

" Ist. That knives and forks be at once supplied fur the
use of the children.
" 2d. That in certain minor matters, which your com-
mittee will explain, the dietary be altered, and the quan-
tities given as fur food ready prepared.
" 3d. That a dietary for the officers be forthwith pre-
pared.

" That wooden troughs, similar to those used at the
Workhouse, be provided to convey • the various meals,
when ready for distribution, from the kitchen to the din-

ing 111,01, or other part of ihebuilding

" sth. That such of the domestic servants as are not
unavoidably prevent d, be required to give their assistance
at the children's meal times, on the conveyance of the
troughs to the dining hall, and otherwise to expedite to the
utmost the serving of the food to the children while it is
warm ; and that they be accordingly required to take
their own mulls at some subs-quent period.

" HUGH "M
U LINNEUX.
" THOMAS AVISON."
Mr. BRIGHT remarked, that two months ago that
Vestry had passed a resolution directing knives and forks
to be provided. Who had prevented that order being
carried into execution ?

A letter was read from Mr. Gardener, teacher at the
liidustrial Schools, tendering his resignation, on the
ground of " not heing.able to contend against the oppo-
sit,on he had met wi

Mr. RIDING gave notice of a motion for the appoint-
ment of a successor to Mr. Blackburn, who had vacated
his seat at the board by non-aitrndance. The appoint-
ment ciil be made at the next meeting.
On the motion of Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. Townsend, of
Bold-street, was elected a select vestryman, in the room
of Mr. Peck.

The appointment of a surgeon to the Workhouse will be
made at the next mePtine.

MODEL OF ANCIENT JERUSALEM

It affords us much satisfaction to state, mai.
of Liven 00l will next week have an opportunity of in-
spewing this interesting and instructive exhibition. Mr.
Brunetti, the ingenious artificer, is a citizen of Dublin,
who, to itHulge his own ardent aspirations for a just
..I,;pis the mr Atery of mnn'c

redemption was vtrought, undertook and executed this
model as a labour of love, with no view to its exhibition as
a work of art. Our Dublin contemporaries designate the
model as. according the authority of the most competent

judges, an extremely accura e representation of the ancient
city. The Mail says :—" The model represents Ancient
Jerusalem as it stood in the days of the Redeemer—not as
it now stands—the ruin of its former greatness—the ghost
of its pristine beauty. The details are, therefore, made
up par ly from the descriptions found in Holy Writ,
partly from the accounts of contemporary historians, Jew-

ish and Heathen, and partly from the descriptions and
charts given by travellers in all the subsequent ages to the
present. The striking features of the ancient city—the
everlasting hills which on three sides enclose it—the for-
tified' walls which ran round about it—the ravines or
valleys Which hemmed it in or divided it—the highways
by wh-ch it was approached—the palace of the Great King
—the temple of the Hole God—the awful scene of the
Cruchixion—the Holy Sepulchre—the Tombs of the
Prophets—the brook Kidron—the Gardens of David—the
gates and iuwers of the Wall and of the Temple—the
Sheep. Gate—the Beautiful Gate—the Pool of Bethesda—
the Hail of Judgment—tile Theatres and Circuses of
Roman structure—in short, every locality—and they are
trln Inc tr.

11...C11,US to mention—recorded in the Sacred Volume,
or in the old histories, as belonging to Jerusalem or its en-
viroms, is there to he found laid down (as fir as the most
stringent examination of documents appears to justify) in
its proper placeand proportions relatively to the general
scale. It is not, of course, pretended that the minute de-
tails of sireets and private horses are more than the fill-
ing up of the great outlines in the manner west suitable
to the ingress and approach of the inhabitants to the

greater structures, accommodated to the inclination of
the ground, and according to the artists' conception of
the arrangements of the eastern city. But these smaller
points are all managed with such skill and subserviancer
to the great and well-ascertained features, as to give to
the whole an air of verisimilitude, which would be want-
ing if tha interstices were not filled up according to our

usual nations

The Evening- Packet says—" The moulder has, with
the most pains• taking assiduity, consulted every plan,
map, and other record that survives, and has not only ar-
riv d at a. representation of the city itself, but of the sur-
rounding hills and valleys tondered memorable by sacred
recollections. The model is very beautiful, and as a
mere week of art, dissociated from the loftier feelings its
contemplation. must excite, is entitled to the highest
praise. The meddler has studied, tco, with the eye of
a painter, the effect produced by tha arrangement of the
landscape ; and the city with its backgrounds of gradually
rising hills, as viewed from several points, presents a
most picturesque appearance. It must have been a work
of considerable labour, studded, as it is with temples, pa-
laces, and magnificent edifices; with the Great temple
rearing its noble proportions above them all. The model,
which will hear the closest examination, requires to be
studied with care, and we have no hesitation in recom-
mending our readers to inspect it and judge for them-
selves.

THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.

TO
.THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.

Sl,R,—Observing in the list of notices of motions for
the next session of parliament, that Mr. Ewart has given
notice of one for the entire abolition of the punishment of
death, I beg leave to wiggest to him to add to his motion
the entire abolition of the crime of murder; for surely
nobody can think it just that a man who feloniously de-
prives a fellow creature of his life, should be permitted to
retain his own. AN ELECTOR OF WIGAN.