The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

The Mayor (John Bent, Esq.) presided at the adjourned
meeting on Wednesday.

The Markets Committee's report went to show that as yet no
definite site had been obtained for the aepOt for slaughtering
cattle ; the Chairman (Mr. Cooper), however, intimated that an
arrangement was likely to be effected with the dock trustees.
The Town-hall Establishment Committee recommended the
payment of £5O per annum to Mr. Houlton, sword-bearer, for
the charge of the wine, &c., at the Mayor's entertainments ;
and the appointment of Thos. Poole as porter at the Sessions-
house, at a salary of £1 is. per week, in lieu of Thos. Smith,
deceased. Some discussion ensued upon the former recom-
mendation, but ultimately it was carried.

The proc'eedinn of the Health Committee comprised a report
on the Pierhead 'baths (which has already been made public),
with a recommendation to re-construct the same; a recom-
mendation for the withdrawal of the Sanatory Amendment Bill
for the present session; and a recommendation to appoint Mr.
Wm. Culshaw to assess the new property erected within the
borough since the last year's poor-rates. The report relating
to the Pierhead baths was referred back to the committee, with
the understanding that a conference take place between the
Dock, Health, and Finance Committees, in reference to the
subject, and the advisability of removing the baths altogether
from their present site, in order that the whole of the space
might be devoted to docks.

The Water Committee's report, which stated that the result
of three years showed a balance of upwards of 4%00 at the
disposal of the committee, was read, 111 r. Holt, the chairman,
remarking that the works were generally in a satisfactory con-
dition. Mr. Gregson was elected a member of the Water Com-
mittee, vice Mr. Bennett ; and Mr. Picton, who had retired on
a former occasion from the committee, was induced to resume
his seat.

The reports of the Church Expenditure and Observatory
Committees being passed, that of the Library and Museum
Committee was read. The Council went into committee for
the discussion of the bill now before parliament, for the trans-
fer of the Museum and Library of the Royal Institution to the
Corporation. The clauses as far as the 11th were gone through,
the only alteration of importance being the exclusion (in the
9th clause) of associate members of the Liverpool Academy
from a share in the direction of financial affairs.

The remaining proceedings comprised the reception of the
report of the Car and Coaches Committee; the appointment of
Mr. Wm. Nicholson as a member of the committee, in the
place of Mr. Dover, who is retiring; the rejection of a motion
by Mr. Henderson for a committee of inquiry into the expenses
of parliamentary applications, and the postponement of a mo-
tion by Mr. Picton relative to juvenile vagrancy.

POPERY IN IRELAND.-MEETING AT Till

CONCERT-HALL

A meeting was held, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-
street, on Friday evening, for the purpose of receiving a
deputation of clergymen from Ireland, who have come to
Liverpool with a view to solicit support in carrying on the
work of the Reformation in Ireland. The body of the hall
was thrown open to the public; the admission to the
gallery was by ticket, purchasable. The body was densely
crowded, and the gallery was respectably filled. On the
platform were the Rev. Josiah B. Lowe, incumbent of St.
Jude's, the Rev. Henry Carpenter, of St. Michael's, the
Rev. S. Minton, the Rev. Thomas Atkinson. Prebendary
of Doon, the Rev. W. A. Darby, the Rev. Edwd. Carre,
the Rev. Robt. Fiabbourne, &c. &c.

The Rev. J. B. Lowe, the chairman, called upon the
Rev. S. Minton to offer up a prayer ; after which he ad-
dressed the meeting to the following effect :—He com-
menced by reading a letter from the Rev. C. W. Law-
rence, tho incumbent of St. Luke.'s, apologizing for his
absence, and enclosing a subscription of Xl. 'rule rev.
gentleman said, they had assembled there to receive a
deputation from Doon, in the county of Limerick, a dis-
trict which had been distinguished in a singular manner
by the mercy of God, and in which they were all aware a
remarkable work of scriptural reformation had been and
was then being carried on. He said itwds a most signal
work of scriptural reformation, because in fact it had been
carried on by the simple power of the Word of God—by
opening the Bible to the people. It was not, however,
his intention to go into details on that branch of the sub-
ject, because the meeting would be informed on that point
by the deputation. Ho knew there were. persons who
complained of such frequent appeals for Irish objects, but
lie confessed he could not sympathise with them, for he
believed it was rather a ground for thanksgiving. And if
it were true that deputations from Ireland did come fre-
quently to England for aid. in carrying on the good work,
it was no proof that the domestic resources was not ap-
pealed to, but that they were willingly applied to their
utmost extent, and being exhausted, foreign aid was ren-
dered necessary. He showed that England was acting a
consistent part in furthering the work of evangelization in
Ireland, which, in fstt. was now the battle ground of the