The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-04 00:00:00

Captain Huish next read the accounts. In the capital ac-
count the total receipts appeared to be £2,273,354 4s. 10d.,
and the balance with the bankers £14,299 10s. sd. The
total receipts and expenditure in the income account have
been already set forth in the abstract of the report. The nett
proceeds of the half-year is £136,827 16s. 10d. ; the reserved
fund, with interest, £9OOl 19s. 2d.; total, £145,829 lOs. ;
less amount set aside, £5000; equal to £140,829 16s. The
number of shares entitled to a dividend amount to 22,033
hundred pound shares, which at £6 per share, gives £132,198,
which, deducted from £140,829 165., leaves £8631 16s. for a
reserved fund.

The CHAIRMAN, after some introductory remarks, said,
there was one subject to which he might allude. It wns the
apportioning of a certain sum for the purpose of building a
church at Crewe. He hoped that step would meet the appro-
bation of the shareholders. The project did not originate
with them ; they had but followed the example of the London
and Birmingham Company. The step which that company
had taken had given great satisfaction, and it might be
thought that they were not doing their duty if they did not
do the same.

JOHN Moss, Esq., moved, •' That the directors be em-
powered to subscribe the sum of £l,OOO towards the erection
of a church or chapel at Crewe, for the accommodation of
their work people and their families ; and that any proprietor
of the concern objecting to the outlay be paid, upon applica-
tion to the treasurer, 11d. per £lOO share, or in the same
proportion for halves and quarters, at the ensuing half-yearly
meeting, being the proportion which will be required from
each £lOO to raise £1,000; and that the treasurer keep a
particular account of these payments, which will be made
good by voluntary subscriptions." Mr. Moss said, he had
great pleasure in moving that resolution. He thought unless
they complied with it they would be failing in their duty.
To remove so large an establishment suddenly from a place
like Liverpool to a spot where there was no place of worship
within two miles and a half, called for consideration, and he

conceived it was as much a duty to build a church for them
as it was to build cottages for them to live in. lie had great
doubts as to the propriety of making free seats for the men.
He thought it would be better to reserve a portion of the
church to let off to them at a small rental. Workmen did
not like free seats. They had built a church in his neigh-
bourhood and this plan had been adopted, and it was found
that the people preferred paying a small charge, and going to
church on an equality with their more wealthy neigbours,
much better than going into free seats.

Mr. LEWIN MortiiY said, considering the position in
which he was placed as one of the directors, he would take
upon himself to explain why this proposal had his entire
tiPprovsa. As a citizen of th,, ...,r,„1,1 he could not lint he aware
of the influence which Infected the moral conduct of men,
and as it was his desire by every means to improve the morals
of those men whom the company employed, he thought, as
they were about to move them from the place where they had
ready access to religious worship, they could not better com-
pass the object to which he had alluded than by building a
church. On that ground, and on that broad principle, he
bad given his support to the proposition, and he had now
great pleasure in seconding the resolution proposed by Mr.
Moss.

The CHAIRMAN said, in reply to Mr. George H. Law-
rence, that he had no doubt that schools would be ultimately
established ; but it would be impsosible, out of so small a
grant as £l,OOO, to build both schools and a church. After
some further conversation the motion of Mr. Moss was car-
ried amid loud applause.

Mr. H EYWORT El moved that a dividend, after the rate of .£6
per cent. upon all shares (the proper amount of interest being
deducted as respects the unpaid £25 shares), he declared and
made out of the clear profits of the undertaking up to the
31st day of December last, and that such dividend be payable
on or after the 15th day of February instant.
A SHAREHOLDER seconded the motion, which was carried.

The CHAIRMAN, at the request of Mr. Hardman Earle, read
letter from a liberal clergyman, residing in the vicinity of
Crewe, stating, that in the school attached to his church they
had no tests whatever, and, in consequence, the school was
attended by children of persons of all parties, sects, and de-
nominations, and was the instrument of much good. It was
attended by children of the Established Church, of Roman
Catholics, Chartists, Socialists, &c. None of them were
forced to use the Catechism, yet it was regularly used in the
school, and the Bible was regularly read. The reverend gen-
tleman expressed his willingness to go over to Crewe at any
time, and help the directors in their work of providing for the
education of the children.

Mr. TAYLOR wlscecliO know how the receipts were going
on this year as compared with the last.
The CHAIRMAN said in the month they were some £4OO
or £5OO short of the corresponding period last year. Much
depended on the opening of parliament, and another week
would probably make up the difference. He, however, re-
minded the meeting of the difficulties of the times, which af-
fected the railways as well as other descriptions of property.
Mr. LAWRENCE HEYWORTH moved the following:—
" That in consequence of parties entitled to fractional parts
of the quarter shares created August 1840, not being able to
arrange them from various causes, the sum of £55 135., which
appeared to the credit of the last account, be divided amongst
the parties who were entitled to such fractions."
Mr. Moss seconded the motion, which was carried.

Thanks were voted to the chairman, and theneeting se-
parated.

THE LATE HURRICANE.-TWENTY-THREE
VESSELS WRECKED.-LOSS OF LIFE.

Within the last three or four days accounts of the most de-
plorable description have been received by the authorities at
Lloyd's, respecting the loss of an immense number of vessels
during the late frightful hurricane on the evening of Wednes-
day week, which has not been equalled for many years past.
The sacrifice of human life has been very great, and it is
feared, from the immense quantity of wreck that has since
been washed on the coast, that many vessels foundered
during the violence of the storm. It has been ascertained
that upwards of twenty-three vessels were wrecked during
the night of the 26th ult., as will be proved by the following
particulars :—Shortly after the commencement of the storm
a large smack, called the Alicia, belonging to Cork, drove
amongst the rocks off St. Bride's Bay, near Milford, and
almost immediately becaine a wreck. The first person who
left the vessel was- a seaman named James Trance, but he
had scarcely reached the roads before a tremendous sea over-
whelmed the vessel, and she was seen no more. The re-
mainder of the crew happily succeeded in saving themselves
except the mate, who failed in his attempt to reach the shore,
and met with a watery grave. The vessel was laden with
ballast, and was not insured. She was on her voyage from
Youghall to Newport; in Monmouthshire.
Amidst the fury of the storm, and about half-past ten
o'clock at night, the brig Vermillion, laden with a general
cargo, and belonging to South Shields, which place she only
left the night betore, ran on the rocks beneath Pitch Point,
at Flamborough Head. The crew fortunately saved them-
selves through the assistance of the coast guard, but the ves-
sel became a total wreck. About the same time another
vessel, called the Kerton, a brig, belonging to Sunderland,
was driven on to the Corton Sands, off Great Yarmouth, and
subsequently sunk in deep water, a complete wreck. Her
crew, consisting of seven persons, had barely time to jump
into the long boat before the vessel sunk, and were not picked
up till late the following morning. The Braganza steamer,
Captain Lewis, which arrived at Falmouth, on Saturday last,
with the mails from Gibraltar, during the hurricane picked
up the crew of the brig Chance, of Stockton, from Liverpool,
which was lost at the commencement of the storm—and
about the same hour, the pilots and coast guard, stationed on
the coast at Falmouth, saw a sl- f--

op Wunder within ree
miles of the shore, and all on board perished. 'Fromth ac-
counts received from Limerick, dated the 26th of January, it
appears that the damage done by the hurricane to the ship-
ping lvinQ, in the d._ 1,1 A /lAA • • . . .

rie_.
I,a-;; ...(3••, uai uour exceeas xiu,uuu, and similar inju-
ccWaterford. The diantiatghethehsatrobromuraraat
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vesselsthe swhriepcpki e ndg
as follow .—The Druid,
belonging to Workington, lost at
the mouth of the river Fleet, near Kirkenbright. The ship
Stag, belonging to Liverpool, from Beaumaris, wrecked on
the rocks near LeasoweCastle. The brig Peruvian, Capt.
Carrell, on her passage to London
from South Shields, lost
on the sunken rocks near thelighthouse at Flamborough
Head ; crew saved by the
The schooner Craig's
Eliza, Captain Patterson, totally wrecked on the rocks un-
derneath Tynemouth lighthouse; c
Manby's life apparatus. The Honouil:ewof saved by Captain
St. Ives, wrecked
on the coast off Wexford, and also the schooner Sarah, be-
longing to Wexford ; all of the crew, except
perished.
The ship Ceres, Capt. Pecker, having on oarodei
tons of
sugar, and a cargo valued at £20,000, lost on
her voyage homewards ; one sailor was killed by the fall of
the mast, and another was drowned. The Arethusa, from
Dublin, wrecked at St. John's Pier, Workington ; crew
saved. The Margaret, belonging to Liverpool, from Con-
way, laden with a valuable carp, lost off Hoy's Lake, at
Mostyn. The French brig Corriere di Malta, belonging to
Venice, laden with sugar, lost on the coast near Calais. The
smack Nympth, belonging to the pilots of Llanelly, lost off
that harbour. The Centurion, Capt. Johns, from Amlwch,
was lost on the coast of Grenfield, at Mostyn, and the mas.
ter arid three men met with a watery grave. Several other
wrecks occurred on the coast during the violence of the gale,
but their names are not correctly made known.