The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-29 00:00:00

PUBLIC MEETINGS.

WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.-Mr. Roskell
presided at the meeting of the board on Wednesday. It
was resolved that a call should be made on the several
townships of the union for their amount of the county_
rate, as per precept from the clerk of the peace, dated the
21st instant.—Mr. Alpass moved, and Mr. Miller seconded
the resolution.—On the motion of Mr. Alpass, seconded
by Mr. J. Birch, Richard Shaw was appointed, on behalf
of the board, to examine and sign, if found correct, all
bills submitted to him occasionally by the master of the
Workhouse, pursuant to one of the regulations of the
consolidated order.—This comprised the chief business of
interest.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting of this
body was held on Thursday. Mr. Alderman Parker pre-
sided, and the following members were also present :
Messrs. Atkinson, Godfrey, Hodson, Beckwith, Chalmer,
Thomson, Johnson, Langsdale, Fernihough, and Hindley.
Previous to the admission of the reporters, Mr. James
Langley was appointed solicitor of the local rates, in place
of Mr. Wm. Carruthers, deceased.—The tender for print-
ing was given to Mr. Thomas Brakell, and that for sta-
tionery to Mr. George M'Corquodale.—The report of the
medical officer of health stated there was an increase in
the mortality of the town over the previous week. The
number of deaths for the week was, within the parish,
148 ; and, in the extra parochial wards, 45, making a total
of 193 ; being a decrease of 23 on the corresponding week
of the three previous years, exclusive of the time of the
prevalence of cholera.—Mr. Beckwith observed, that a me-
dical officer of health was again not present ; on Tuesday,
he was in the court, and it was now said he was ill in bed.
It was a capital berth, he wished ho (Mr. Beckwith) had
been a doctor.—Mr. Fernihough said Dr. Duncan's evi-
dence in the Passage Court certainly appeared in the
newspapers in the sausage case.—Mr. Thomson thought,
perhaps, the sausages might have disordered the doctor.
(Laughter.)—A memorial was read from Messrs.Wifliams
and Jones, requesting that the name of Paul-street should
be changed.—The Chairman : " Now, what in the world
can be their motive ?" (Laughter.) The memorial set
forth that the object was to obtain for the neighbourhood
a more respectable class of tenants. (The whole committee
became convulsed with laughter.)—A memorial was read
from the inhabitants of Blackstock-street and neighbour-
hood, requesting to have that and several other adjoining
streets adopted.—Belvedere-road was adopted by the
committee.—A letter was read from Mr. Thomas Mills,
treasurer of the School for the Blind, requesting that the
land at the back of the institution might be inspected by
the surveyor, with the view of abating a nuisanee.—Mr.
Wilkinson was elected superintendent of the Pierhead
Baths.

THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—At the weekly meeting, on
Thursday, Mr. Littledale. the chairman, presided, and
the following members were present :—Messrs. Moly_
neux, Sandbach, Rankin. Steele, Langsdale, Tobin, Bold,
Kendall, jones, Hall, Fisher, Lockett, Robinson, and
Gregson.—The committee decided to prosecute Messrs.
M'Lean and Co. for employing an unauthorised indivi-
dual to perform the duty of master-porter for the steamer
Livorno.—An application was made from Messrs. More-
ton, of London, for the use of some old building, or hulk,
wherein to demonstrate the effect of their " Fire Annihi-
lator."—Some angry conversation arose upon the subject
of the payment of £lOO per annum for the cleaning of
offices in the dock-yard. Mr. Langsdale provoked the
discussion by objecting to the amount when read over
amongst the weekly payments. Several members of the
committee deprecated the course which Mr. Langsdale
was taking, inasmuch as he was placing himself in oppo-
sition to the sub-committee, of which he was a member.—
The Committee of Works produced the annual report of
the Surveyor, concerning the general state and progress
of the dock works, and the expenditure which had been
incurred during the year ending 24th June, 1851. The
total expenditure upon new works was stated to be
£217,556 15s. Bd. ; the repairs, &e., altogether amounted
to £22,014 17s. id. The stock of iron, Scc. on the 20th
June, 1850, was estimated at £35,012 Os. 3d. ; while, on
the same date of the present year, it was £23,153 163. 11d.

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THE SELECT VESTRY.—At the fortnightly meeting on
Tuesday, the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks presided, and the
following members were present ----Messrs. Whitby,
Clarke, Denton, Gardner, Bradley, Fairhurst, Johnson,
Shakeshaft, Woodruff. Savage, Troughton. Mellor, Hand,
Ireland, Pemberton, Wylie, and Luff. The minutes of
the Finance Committee showed that the giving of remu-
neration to the collectors of the voluntary rate had been
referred to the Equitable Rating Corn mittee. Mr. Ham p-
son, a collector of rates on cottage property, had been
dismissed ; but a motion of Mr. Woodruff to prosecute
him for malversation, had been negatived. Mr. Lodge,
another collector, had received a month's notice to leave,
owing to neglect of his duties, occasioned by illness. The
sub-committee appointed by the Parochial Committee to
seek for a reduction in the amount paid by the parish in
magistrates' clerks' fees, submitted a communication,
showing a gradual increase in the amount of these fees
within the past few years, and maintaining that there was
a call for revision. A mere copying clerk could prepare
the necessary documents. The charge for summonses
was not only a hardship upon poor ratepayers, but the
cost interfered with the attempt now making to collect the
cottage rates. Mr. Woodruff moved, and Mr. Denton se-
conded, the confirmation of the proceedings : it being ar-
ranged that the portion relating to Mr. Lodge should be
referred back, in order to allow him to show that he had
collected more money within the last quarter than any
other collector, except Mr. Downes, who had a larger dis-
trict. Mr. Johnston, in reference to the communication
on the magistrates' clerks' fees, said that a deputation had
waited on the Finance Committee of the Town Council on
the subject, but no satisfactory arrangement could be
made. The parish was now paying from £2,000 to £4,000
per annum in these fees, and if such heavy charges were
persevered in, they would prevent the collecting of rates
from any but first-class property. He thought that a sub-
committee should be appointed to consider the matter.
Messrs. Johnson, Dover, and Carne wereappointed a second
deputation on thesubject. The miscellaneous businesscom-
prised few items of interest. Mr. Denton proposed the mo-
tion of which he had given notic3—" That so much of the
minutes of the Workhouse Committee, and confirmed by
this board on the 21st of January, which relate to the
alteration of storekeeping in the house, be rescinded."
Mr. Hand seconded the motion, and, after some little dis-
cussion, Mr. Mellor moved, and Mr. Ireland seconded, an
amendment, " That the further consideration of the mat-
ter be postponed until the next meeting." The amend-
ment was lost.