The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-05 00:00:00

THE MERCHANTS' NEW DINING ROOMS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR —As my name appears in the list of bankrupts pub
lished in Tuesday's Gazette, I think it desirable that my
friendly creditors (to whom I fee! much indebted) and the
public should know that I was no party to that proceeding,
and that my great anxiety has been to do all in my power to
pay my debts in full. With the view of doing so, in July last
I assigned all my effects, including house furniture, &c., over
to trustees for the joint benefit of my creditors, entertaining
the hope that long before this time I should have been re-
stored to my accustomed health and energy. I hesitate not
to say here that, had my health been spared, the Merchants'
New Dining Rooms would hare become a most profitable
and lucrative business; as, indeed, the receipts at the period
when I was seized by illness and confined to the house suffi-
ciently testify.
With the view of obtaining the advice of some of the most
eminent surgeons, I went recently. to London, at the solicita-
tion of several friends, never anticipating after the arrange-
ments made at the meeting of creditors that hostile proceed-
ings would be taken in my absence. My surprise and
sorrow can be imagined. therefore, when informed by my
solicitor, Mr. Pemberton, that I was made a bankrupt, and
that an officer of the court bad taken possession of my
dwelling house. I was then, as the medical gentlemen can
testify, in a very unfit state to leave my bed; but being
unable to remain away from my family under such distressing
circumstances, I left London at once.
I am now in a very Painful position, as the loss of my busi-
ness as well as private effects is inevitable. It is to me a
great source of regret and suffering that the establi,hment
which cost me nearly twelve months' labour, toil, and anxiety
to prepare for opening, should now pass away from me.
I may state, in conclusion, that although the " dining
rooms" were only under my personal superintendence for a
few weeks after their opening, the success which attended
these efforts warrants me in believing that if I were at pre-
sent able, through the assistance of my friends, to re-assume
the management of them, they would soon realise all the suc-
cess which I anticipated.—l remain, sir, your obedient
FERNY ser-
J.

vant,
Park-field, Birkenhead, Nov. 29th

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL.—At the monthly meeting.
to-morrow, the following subjects, besides the ordinary
reports, will be taken into consideration :—The proceed-
ings of the Church Expenditure Committee, comprising a
recommendation to accept the resignation of Mr. Ashlin,
organist at St. Martin's Church, and that the salary of his
successor be £3O per annum; consideration of the report
of the Special Committee on Juvenile Reformatories, the
consideration of which was postponed at the monthly
meeting of the Council held on the 30th October last ; the
account; amounting to £33 3s. ; the Mayor's
communications, comprising a letter from the chairman of
the Company of the West Lancashire Institution for the
Education and Advancement in Life of Distressed Free-
masons, requesting the use of the rooms in the Town-hall,
for a ball' in aid of the funds of that institution ; a memo-
rial from the Local Board of Health for the district of
Wallasey, relative to the improvement of the approaches
to the town from the present and proposed Landing-stages;
and a letter from the secretary to the Fire Annihilator
Company as to the discontinuance of their machines in
this borough. The following motion, of which notice has
been given by Mr. Alderman Parker; will also be consi-
dered : —" That the Watch and Fire Prevention Committee
make a return of the number of fines levied for breach of
the bye-laws .ender the Fire Prevention Act (stating the
time when the carrying out of the said act was handed
over to the Watch Committee,) up to Nov. Ist, 1854, and
also the number of fines since November, 1854, to the
present time; and also a report on the late calamitous
fire in Lancelet's-heyl'

Coroner's