The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-12 00:00:00

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Oieves in North Jo.m-street.
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sent, Messrs. William.]
Appleton, Green, Wat
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provernent Committee re(
should be built in the I
.£5,000. The proceedings

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3f the last month had t

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500, and t

at be had, in order to re-
evils, institutyedth proceedings in Chancery, on -
parishioners at large, under the advice of en.
gal authorities; but be did this in a friendly ment, ~.. _ that he did not attribute blame to the present nued to increase, a.. .a,
lagers of the school. He concluded by expressing a creased number of buildin,
$e that be would be allowed to proceed without inter- ment rate. If the whole re,
ince, and rather be co-operated with, in his views of township purposes, no rate
arging the utility of the institution.—The Rev. Dr. but it had been decided in 1,
rth, the Rector, having taken the chair, a report was to the reserve fund of the ferry
id by Mr. North, to the effect that the committee ap. Mr. Stanfield said that the S
jilted on Easter Tuesday last, to negotiate with the be printed was now ready, and I
vies in the resolution referred to, with a view to pre- a body of matter relative to the
tnt a suit in Chancery, had done their utmost to effect prospects of Birkenhead, includii
a amicable arrangement, but had finally failed in the Wallasey Pool Docks, and the r
ttempt, in consequence of the differing views of the par. with plans, &c. The price vo— •
les interested; that they were still of opinion that the the fact with a view to the
uit should he avoided, from the expense that would arise he estimated at X4O or £st,
ind the dissension it would create ; and that, as they pensary,—in doing which he
.rusted all parties agreed that the common object was to his trouble in preparing the
give a sound religious and secular education to the chil. curred, and returned thanks to _
dress at the school, they earnestly recommended all ar- labonr he ad bestowed, r. A,
ties to unite for that object, and to present a petition to the Wallasb oc
ey Dks, saidM ppl
that no
the Lord Chancellor, so that the arrangements they may them, and that the general belief wa
make might be carried out. —This report was carried una- but one large dock-road, which, if
nirnously.—The Chairman said he bad received a letter, posite ships. would be a five-m•
dated the 6th instant, from Mr. Winch, which was then a pen-and-ink sketch,dividin
read to the meeting. The writer stated, in effect, that he in a string or row.
had gone no further than to file a bill in Chancery, which time to perfect the plans .
was merely initiatory to bringing the matter before the actively engaged on the subj,
court; that when the facts were there, he should be happy were deposited they would ha\
to meet the necessary parties with his proposals for the Admiralty, as well as the Con
future management of the school ; that the proceedings Forests, would have to decide
he had instituted on his own responsibility would be at them,
irrespective of the Coma
his own expense, if no factious opposition were offered; disapprove of the plan handed Ii
but if otherwise, he should not consider himself bound should call it "the Appleton plan
by any pledge in reference to legal expenses ; and that should not like Mr. Appleton's nan
should the funds of the school thereby suffer, the oppo. tolposterity with it—it so resembled
sing parties must be alone responsible for the evils that (great laughter.) The Board then at
might follow.—Mr. W. Healing then moved that the fol- A FEMALE SAILOR.—At the Pol
lowing resolution be printed and circulated :—" That this day, a robust and rather good-100l
vestry condemns the address circulated throughout the though certainly not a "Black-eyed ..
parish under. date of lst December, and signature of garetJohnson was placed at the bar, s
Henry Winch, as mischievous in its tendency, and erro- in charge for striking the captain
neous in its statements; being calculated to undermine Spinks's, the Brunswick tavern, nr
and destroy the confidence of those parents who send The complainant, however, did ii
their children to the Free Grammar School, and to deter and it was stated to the Court 1,-
others from availing themselves of its usefulness. This main bridewell, and seva--'
vestry also disputes the right assumed in the said address been to sea in the garb .
to institute proceedings in the Court of Chancery on be- having, since her return,
half of the parishioners at large, without their authority." fortunate," and thrown up
—Mr. Parry seconded the resolution.—The Chairman pressed penitence for the course of li
expressed his disapprobation cf Mr. Winch's letter, and which she was heartily tired, and the
stated that it ought not to have been addressed to him ; admitted into the female penitential-
that the writer ought to have been present; and that he stated, and information we otherwise c
should oppose its being entered in the parish book.—A as follows :—She is a native of this
long discussion then followed, in which Mr. Woodward, years of age. About twelve months a
Mr. H. Meadows, Mr. North, Mr. Healing, the Chair- to a seaman named Johnson, who left
man, Mr. Mann, Mr. Parry, and others, took part. The on a voyage to British America. She s
Chairman and one or two others did not impugn Mr. herself as a sailor, and went in pursuit
Winch's motives, but the former thought he had corn- ship called the Thetis, to S. Jot
witted an overt act, which, to say the least, was an extra- where in vain she enquired " 01,
ordinary, if not a presumptuous one, calculated as it was - .. F, sow

alf of th
Ipetent 1(
it, and

se of expenditure woul
the staff was now

cornpl

propriatic

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and capacity

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on the to

,vt-- love find ;" for whether from not
to t, .issension in the parish. Some considered the " cruel fate," or from incontinent
language of the resolution too strong ; others (includin
the Chairman) thought the occasion called for the ea- with the Thetis for three weeks,
pressions used. Mr. North wished them to be modified, after a voyage out and home of five n
g another part of the world. Sb,
and that there should be added the words, " particularly whole of which time it does not appe
pending an amicable negotiation for the settlement of the discovered. When she afterwards b
affairs of the school," which was done. The resolution, female," she frequently appea.
as thus amended, was carried by a large majority. Mr. young "man unknown"—in j•
Woodward demanded a poll, but this being objected to this guise there can be no don°,
as illegal, it was withdrawn.—Mr. Mann then moved, adventures, as she had caught ur
' Mr. North seconded, a resolution as follows : castle. A female cornpani,--
.Ing have every confidence in the Rev.
the
d request that he will use his own discre. and may'
it
the bill ; but that she Ras tempted to h.
-motive behalves, out with that muscular
this meetin- •

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the Rector

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stand

I a chance, in ios.

but Mr. R

motion was put and carried nem. con.—The meeting then übytum
of so far wnere
redeet
passed a vote of thanks to the chairman, and separated. good, she may yt