The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-22 00:00:00

PUBLIC MEETINGS.

ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS FOR TOXTETII-PARK.
—On Friday morning, a meeting was convened at the
Public-office, Toxteth-park, for the purpose of electing
commissioners in the room of gentlemen whose periods of
office had expired ; when the chair was occupied by Mr.
Gregson. Upon the motion of Mr. Richard Rathbone,
seconded by Mr. Allpass, the following gentlemen were
unanimously chosen " highwaymen" for the township :
Mr. Thomas Avison, Mr. Andrew Brown, Mr. William
Peacock, Mr. Thomas Tippin, and Wm. Ibison.
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF LOCAL INTER-
ESTS.—On Wednesday, the first meeting of the council
of the Burgesses and Ratepayers' Association for the
Protection of Local Interests was held at tile Queen's
Arms Hotel, Dale-street. The meeting was numerously
attended by deputations from the different ward com-
mittees. Mr. M. A. Gage was elected president, Dr.
James Collins and Mr. T. Bott vice-presidents, and Mr.
G. Colt treasurer. The objects of the association are
indicated by its title ; several thousand members already
belong to it, and, if attention be directed to the legiti-
mate objects of the association, it cannot fail to be suc-
cessful.

MEETING OF ROMANISTS.—On Tuesday night, an
" aggregate meeting" of the Roman Catholics of Liver-
pool was held at the Concert-hall, "to unite, in mea-
sures• for establishing, on a firm basis, a journal which
shall be devoted to the promotion of Catholic purposes,
and the defence of Catholic rights and interests." John
Ronson, Egq., of Moor-hall, was called to the chair, and
strongly advocated the proposed measure. The Rev.
Mr. Noble moved the first resolution, enunciating the
necessity of establishing a Romanist newspaper in Liver-
pool, as his brethren were now misrepresented by the
press, their faith belied, and their conduct as citizens
misconstrued. The Rev. Mr. Duggan seconded the
motion, which was unanimously carried. Mr. M'Con-
very, late of the Belfast Vindicator, and who is establish-
ing the proposed paper here, made a very long speech,
and Dr. Cahill also addressed the meeting.
WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.--The guar-
dians held their weekly meeting cm Wednesday, at the
Workhouse, Mr. Roskell in the chair. Present, Messrs.
Harrison, Alpass, Craig, Carter, Abraham, Lunt, Bun-
ting, Biown, Miller, Johnson, Ledger, Tattersall,
Jeffreys, T. Smith, J. Birch, Pye, J. Jones, Lightbody,
James Birch, Shaw, Pilkington, and W. B. Jones. The
balance in hand was announced to be £627 153. The
clerk made his customary report in reference to the exa-
mination of the various books. Cheques to the amount
of £697 4s. 7d. were ordered. On the motion of Mr.
Alpass, seconded by Mr. Abraham, a resolution was
passed that every-board day the paupers admitted into the
workhouse during the preceding week be examined, in
order to ascertain whether they were chargeable to the
common fund. The motion for a subscription of £lOO
per annum to the Southern and Toxteth Hospital, of
which notice bad been given on the 2d instant, was lost.
The tender of Messrs. Evans and Sons, for the supply of
drugs and medicines during twelve months, commencing
on the 17th instant, was accepted. There was no other
business of interest.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.—At the meeting of the Health
Committee, on Thursday, the medical officer reported
that during the week ending the 12th instant, 199 deaths
were registered in the borough, against 187 in the week
previous, and an average of 206 in the same week of the
three preceding years, deducting cholera. The deaths in
the parish were 136, and in the extra parochial wards 54.
Diseases of the lungs caused 46 deaths, three more than
in the previous week ; while in diseases of the zymotic
class, which caused 53 deaths, there was a decrease of
six. Of the 53 deaths, 31 were from bowel complaints
and fever—that is, 18 from the former and 13 from the
latter. 'Of the 18 from bowel complaints, 15 were below
five years of age. Scarlatina was fatal in four cases,
measles in three, croup three, erysipelas one. Only five
died from small-pox, and of these two were after vaccina-
tion. More than thirty-one per cent. of the total mor-
tality occurred in infants below the age of twelve months.
A cooper died in Watkinson-street at the age of 106. The
temperature was below the average on every day of the
week. The meat reading of the barometer was 29 92
inches—slightly above the average. The wind was from
the north-west throughout the week, and the mean daily
horizontal motion of the air was was 218 miles.
THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—The usual weekly meeting
of the Dock Committee was held on Thursday.—present,
Mr. Littledale presiding, Messrs. Rankin, Molyneux,
Robinson, Steele, Holmes, Jones, Holt, Langsdale,
Tobin, Fisher, Turner, Bold, Kendall, and Sandbach.—
The permanent labourers in the Albert Dock warehouses
applied for a week's holiday (with pay), that they might
visit the Exhibition. There were said to be 55 of them.
The application, so far as the payment of wages was con-
cerned, was declined.—The annual account of the treasurer
respecting warehouse management for the year ending the
24th June, was submitted and laid upon the table.—Six-
pence per day extra was recommended to be allowed to
three or four men employed in sugar sortinz and sampling
in the warehouses. Their present wages are 21s. a week,
whilst those of the common porters are only 18s.
Declined.—Other recommendations by the warehouse
management committee to raise the wages of particular
persons were also refused, Mr. Halms remarking that the
committee appeared to have been quite carried away
with a little prosperity.—The Chairman announced that
himself, Mr. Sandbach, and Mr. Fisher, had together
revised the list of dock ratepayers, and there had been
brit one new claim.—lt Was announced that a conveyance
of land to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company was
now ready for scaling; and the board soon afterwards
adj turned.

THE LATE EARL OP DERBY'S BEQUEST.—SPECIAL
COUNCIL MEETING.—A special meeting of the Town
Council was held on Wednesday last, to take into consi-
deration the best means of fulfilling the late Earl of Derby's
intention (as contained in the letter which we published
last week), in brqueathine his valuable museum to the
town of Liverpool. Mr. Picroer thought that, as chair-
man of the Museum and Library Committee, it would not
be deemed presumptuous if he took the liberty of propos-
ing a resolution on the subject. He then went on to
trace the connexion which had existed between the
Knowsley family and the town of Liverpool for a long se-
ries•of years, observing that the interests of Liverpool and
the house of Stanley had waxed and increased together.
True it was that Liverpool could now stand by itself, and
needed no lordly patronage, yet there were times when
the support of the noble family under consideration was
necessary to its growth and prosperity. The late exl had
srent a long life in the pursuit I,f that of which he was so
fond, end the result of that study was the splendid collec-
tion he had now so handsomely bequeathed to Liverpool,
for the instruction and amusement of its inhabitants.
It, would be remembered that on the occasion when he
(Air. Paton) had the honour of proposing to the Council,
in the first instance, the establishment of a library and
museum, he made allusion to this very collection of the
Earl of Derby ; and suggested that it was not altogether
improbable that, whenever it should please Providence
to remove that noble lord from this stage ofexistence, this
collection might be bequeathed to the town of Liverpool,
if they had a place in which to locate it. He did not ex-
pect that his words would have proved prophetic in so
short a time, though such had been the case, although be
had received no intimation previously of the noble lord's
intentions. There could scarcely, he thought, be two
opinions upon the present subject. It seemed as if cir-
cumstances almost forced upon them the necessity of es-
tablishing a museum of natural history and various other
things, calculated for the amusement and instruction of
the inhabitants of the town. Not only popular opinion,
but circumstances to which lie need not further allude,
seemed to place it before them as a matter of duty; and
he wns sure they would feel it a pleasure and delight to
administer thus to the intellectual wands of the town. He
bad great pleasure in moving, " That this Council desire
to record the grateful sense entertained by the Corporation
for this munificent offer of a collection so well calculated
to afford the means of amusement and instruction to the
inhabitants of this borough and the public ; and it is re-
solved that it be referred to the Library and Museum
Committee to confer with the Right Hon. the Earl of
Derby as to the best mans of carrying into effect the
wishes and intentions of the late Earl, and to report
thereon to the Council." The motion having been se-
conded, several members of the Council spoke in the
warmest terms of the feeling towards the town of Liver-
pool which had suggested the bequest.. The resolution
Was of course carried unanimously.—The.next resolution
was a recommendation to the Finance Committee, that a
proposal of the Deck Committee as to the new street in

lieu of Wapping be accepted, viz. that four yards be added
to the average width of the present street, at the expense
of the Corporation, the Dock Trustees making the like
addition of four yards so that the new street may be of the
width of twenty-four yards and ten inches. Mr.iIORNBY
moved the confirmation of the recommendation, which
was carried unanimously. This being the whole of the
business, the Council broke up after about half an hour's
sitting.