The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The tenderof Messrs.
Bancroft for oil for the lighthouses, &c., was, after some
conversation, referred back for further consideration.—A
statement wag read of the cost for extra watching at the
Albert Dock, amounting to £396, occasioned by the
recent excited state of the town. The chairman remarked,
that there were some further expenses yet to come, and it
was desirable to know to what account the whole should
be charged. After a short discussion, it was agreed that
the amounts so incurred should go to the general charges.
Mr. Molyneux announced that a new book of rates, to
come immediately into force, had been signed by the
Mayor, and would be ready for distribution in a few days.
John Lloyd was appointed assistant in the transit sheds
at the Albert Dock.—A conversation then took place as
to the removal of vessels from the Trafalgar to the new
docks, and who was to bear the expense, seeing that such
vessels would have to be brought into the river. The
surveyor suggested a plan for taking from one dock to the
other by the removal of part of a wall, which was approved
of.—Mr. Tobin asked whether Mr. Ashton, recently
recommended to fill the situation of dock master at the
new docks, had furnished a certificate of his age. The
secretary replied that he had not yet done so, but Mr.
Ashton himself felt confident he should be able to satisfy
the committee.

SELECT VESTRY.—On Tuesday, the usual fortnightly
meeting of the Select Vestry was held at the Parish-
offices, Lime-street. The Rev. Rector Campbell pre-
sided. The committee of the Industrial Schools reported
that, in their opinion, the chaplain should be required to
devote the whole of his time to the moral and religious in-
struction of the children, and give special instructions to
the monitors and monitresses for one hour each day,
varying the course in which the schools are taken every
alternate week. Mr. Swainson observed that there was a
very large deputation from the Manchester schools at
Kirkdale the day preceding, and that they expressed their
entire approbation of the Liverpool establishment. They
stated that they had experienced great benefit by having a
resident chaplain in the Manchester schools. Mr. Ur-
quhart said the chaplain at Manchester watched over the
moral training of the children during the entire day.
Mr. Ferguson stated that when the chaplain at Kirkdale
was originally appointed, it was upon the distinct under-
standing that he was to devote the whole of his time to
the instruction of the children in the schools. The con-
versation dropped, upon the understanding that the chair-
man's suggestion would be carried out, and that the com-
mittee would consider and report without delay upon the
necessity of a more vigilant discharge of the chaplain's
duties. A letter was read from the Poor-law Commis-
sioners with reference to the giving of relief to vagrants.
It stated that the Board had received representations re.
specting the rapid and numerous increase of vagrants in
different parts of the country ; that it was impossible to
come to any other conclusion than that the system of giv-
ing relief to casual poor was a great cause of vagrancy,
inasmuch as the giving of food and lodging to all who
traversed the country diminished the risks of a vagrant
life ; but experience had shown that general coarseness of
fare inflicted injury on the poor but deserving wayfarer,
and that a sound and vigilant discrimination was obvi-
ously the best remedy against vagrancy. The letter went
on to observe that the power of exercising this discrimi-
nation was in the boards of guardians. The communica-
tion was referred to the Workhouse Committee. The
out-door relief administered for the week ending the sth
instant, was read. Compared with the corresponding
week of the previous year, the money expended has been
£l3O less, and the number of cases about 1500 fewer this
year. In reply to Mr. Hand, Mr. Ferguson stated that
the case of Nelson, late one of the parish collectors, had
been submitted to Mr. Lowndes, with a view of ascer-
tain.ining whether Nelson could be sent before the ma-
gistrates on a charge of embezzlement, and that the an-
swer was expected in the course of a few days. The case
was a very important one, and Nelson's defalcations, so
far as was known, was £2l 12s.