The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

LIVERPOOL UNION MILL AND BREAD COMPANY.—
On Tuesday the annual meeting of this company was held
at the Clarendon-rooms, Mr. Francis Boult in the chair.
The chairman opened the business of the meeting by
reading the report of the directors, which stated, amongst
other things, that the directors regretted they could not
announce that any progress had been made during the

past year, in the erection of the mill, or otherwise in car-
rying out the designs of the company. Mr. R. Rathbone
moved, and Mr. Jos. Williams seconded, the following

resolution, which was passed unanimously : " That the
directors be instructed to take the most vigorous measures
to collect the first call, and that a special general meeting
be then summoned, to consider what further course shall
be adopted." The accounts showed that the total amount
received for calls, interest, and sundries was £2914 IGs.,
and disbursements amounted to £lBB6 ss. 4d., including
£5OO deposits on land, and £7OO paid to Mr. Fairburn,
as per special agreement, leaving a balance to the credit
of the company of £lO2B 10s. Bd.
AMALGAMATED GAS COMPANIES.—The first meeting

of the `• United " Gas Company was held on Thursday
W. Fosberry, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that
the capital of the company already raised and paid up,
and which amounts to £423,750, has been divided, as i
required by the act, into 7140 shares, namely, 3270 share
of £lOO each an

4870 shares of X 25 each, so as to corre-
spond with the shares of the late companies. The Amal-
gamation Act confers no additional benefit on the share-
holders of the late companies as respects the appropria-
tion of shares. The company have now four stations for
the manufacture of gas—the Dale-street, Vauxhall-road,
Athol-street, and Grafton-street. The directors contem-
plate dispensing with the Dale-street station, and dispo-

sing- of the entire property in that and the adjoining
streets. They propose also to centralise the offices and
management at Newington. £5OO per annum was voted
for the directors ; and Mr. H. Steele was appointed trea-
surer and manager to the new company, at his former

salary. Mr. Carson and Mr. Lloyd were appointed law-
clerks, at salrries of £2lO per annum each, but not to.be
entitled to charge any legal business except parliamentary.
Mr. L. Mozley stated that the directors had ample means
of paying the ordinary dividends, and they had an im-
mense reserve fund to make up deficiencies.
THE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.—On Tuesday the
twelfth annual meeting of the shareholders in the Borough
Bank was held at the Clarendon-rooms. There was a

with the liberty of the subject. lam responsible for what
I do. (To Cuddy :) You must be committed ; I will take
care that it shall be for as short a time as I can possibly
arrange.—Cuddy : Can I have bail ?—Mr. Rushton : No.
You, too, O'Brien stand committed.—O'Brien : There is
nothing against me--I think otherwise, sir. The boy
Kavatt may remain here, (with a view to his discharge.)
I think he has been an instrument in other hands.—Sub-
sequently Cuddy again appeared at the dock.—Mr. Rush-
ton said : I have received your note, and cannot comply
with your first request. There is against you another
class of evidence which it is of importance should be pre-
pared. Your other requests may be complied with ; you
may have all that is necessary for your health.
STABBING.—FEROCIOUSASSAULT.—Threemen, named
Patrick Grimes, Henry Kelly, and Anthony Kelly, with
two women, Bridget Sheridan and Bridget Searle, were

placed in the dock, charged with a serious assault upon,
and stabbing John Joyce. From the evidence it appeared
that on Sunday night, the 16th instant, about twelve
o'clock, a quarrel and conflict took place in Sawneypope-
street. The prosecutor, according to his own statement,
ran out, hearing that his brother was almost killed, when
he was immediately set upon by Grimes and both the
Kelleys, receiving a serious stab from each. The female
prisoners, it was stated, had furnished the men with the
knives, accompanied with the charitable injunction, " Go
to work with them : cut his belly out !" Joyce was re-
leased from their grasp by police-officers attracted by the
noise, who took him to the dispensary. He had been
stabbed in two places in the back, and also in the right
breast. He bled profusely, and his boots were found to
be filled with coagulated blood. Mr. Lyr.ch, surgeon to
the dispensary, stated that he was not yet out of danger.
A document on behalf of the defence was produced, to
show that Joyce had agreed to compromise the matter for
.#3 Ids. which he admitted he had received. Mr. Rush-
ton said he would have no murder or bloodshed of that
kind in the streets of Liverpool. He ordered the evidence
to be taken as far as it had gone, and remanded the pri-
soners.

CORRESPONDENCE

THE WATER QUESTION

TO HENRY

DANSON, ESQ,

SlR,—During the debate on the Water Question at
the last Council meeting, you are reported to have said
that the reports addressed by me to the Water Committee
were a mass of trash and rubbish, and that they appeared
to have been written by a man not in his right mind.
In thus, Sir, taking advantage of your position n the
Council Chamber to insinuate a charge of insanity against
an individual who had no opportunity of vindicating him-
self, you have perpetrated an outrage which I feel assured
will be reprobated by every right thinking man, whether
in the Council or out of it ; and I am well convinced that
no other member of the Council would have made a
statement so calculated to wound the feelings and damage
reputation of the meanest servant of the Corporation.
thus, Sir, publicly charging me with insanity, you
'l4-^,,d some proofs that you were war-
Why not put the Council and the

ited in so doing

public in possession of the documents on which you
ground your accusation ? Do this, Sir, and I shall
willingly abide their fiat as to the extent of the madness.
This, however, you have not done, and until such time as
you do so you must excuse me if I tell you that you have
made a statement to the Council which is an unmitigated
calumny. In making this accusation, Sir, you had evi-
dently forgotten that I had feelings ; that I had a family
and friends, both here and at a distance, to whom such
an announcement made, under such circumstances, must
necessarily have caused unqualified pain ;—you must also
have forgotten to what an injurious extent such a state-
ment might operate on my future prospects in life. But
above all things you had evidently forgotten that circum-
stances had placed you in a position demanding at you 4
bands conduct and language becoming a gentleman.
I trust, sir, that no portion, either of my reports or con-
duct, throughout the arJuous and unequal contest in which
I have been engaged, will admit of the construction you
have been pleased to put upon them ; unless indeed, an

individual is to be set down as insane, 'who honestly and
earnestly endeavours to perform his duties to the public.
Such, sir, may possibly be your opinion.
In acting as I hare done throughout this affair, I have
studied only the interest of the Corporation, and the well-

fare of the ..._ _„. Laverpooi. And with the
ledge which I possessed of the extent of our local water
supply, I should have. grossly failed in the faithful per-
formance of my duties If I had suffered the Council to be
misled by certain parties in regard to that supply. I re-
gret exceedingly, that the course which I have felt it in-
cumbent on me to pursue in respect to this question,
should have given offence to individuals whose good
opinions I have laboured so long. and earnestly to gain.
And I regret also, the probable injury I may have entailed
upon myself by acting as I have done. But I have the
satisfaction of feeling that I have been influenced by no
motives, save and except, an ardent desire to promote the
best interests of that community whose servant I have so

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