The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-14 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL PATRIOTIC FUND.

The Liverpool subscription, as at present advertised,
amounts to £6,522 13s. 9d. There are no less than
twenty-six douath)ns of £3OO each, and one of £2OO.

As some indication of the really patriotic spirit
which animates the public of Liverpool in reference
to the present war, we have pleasure in noticing
that the officers and servants connected with the Health
and Water Committees have, through Mr. Newlands, the
borough engineer, contributed the handsome sum of
£ll3 45., being the amount of a day's pay from each one
employed in these departments. So desirous were these
parties of contributing, that even the days' wage men
voluntarily came forward and insisted on paying in their
quota, although in the first instance it was not intended
to solicit their aid. One man in particular deserves to be
mentioned. He is in receipt of 12s. per week, and after
having paid his 2s. returned, saying that his son was in
the employ, and received 10d. per day, and for this youth
he insisted on paying a shilling into the fund. The
officers and servants connected with the Cornwallis-street
Baths have also, through Mr. Clarke, their superinten-
dent, contributed each a day's, pay, amounting to 18 3s. 6d.
Both of these sums were yesterday paid over to his Wor-
ship the Mayor, to be added to the general fund.
The boys of the Royal Institution School have raised
£5 ; and those of the Mechanics' Institution lower school,
£3, towards the fund.
A vocal and instrumental concert, by favourite local
artistes, in aid of the Patriotic Fund, is to be given in the
lecture-room of the Mechanics' Institution to-morrow
(Wednesday) evening.
The congregation of the Baptist Chapel, in Myrtle-
street, contributed one hundred guineas, on Sunday week,
after an appeal from the minister, Mr. Stowell l3rown.
At a meeting of the Huyton and Roby harmonic society,
held at Roby on Tuesday, a subscription for the patriotic
fund was commenced, and it was resolved that the inha-
bitants of that neighbourhood be solicited to contribute
to that fund. In order that all the inhabitants of Broad-
green, Roby, Huyton, and Rainhill might have an oppor-
tunity of contributing, subscription books are placed at
the Stanley Arms' Hotel, Roby, and the Grapes Hotel,
near the railway station, Lime-street ; and the residents
of the above localities are requested to call at one of those
houses and pay their subscriptions. The total amount so
collected to be transmitted to the treasurer for the Liver-
pool fund.

THE REv. JOHN CONOR'S LECTURE.—The Rev. J. R.
Conor, military chaplain, delivered an animated and cha-
racteristic lecture, on Tuesday evening, at the Concert-
hall, Lord Nelson-street, descriptive of the battle of the
Alma, it being arranged that the receipts should go in aid
of the Patriotic Fund. The lecture was illustrated by
solos from the band of the pensioners, who played, at
different portions of the lecture, the " bugle call,"
" reveille," " pas de charge," " Hearts of Oak," " The
British Grenadiers," and other appropriate airs and mar-
tial strains, The Mayor presided.
ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The general meeting
for November was held at the Club-house, Duke-street,
on Tuesday. The meeting was well attended, and it was
unanimously resolved to hold a ball on Monday, the 4th
December, the proceeds to be given in aid of the " patriotic
fund of the joint services." Application has been made
for the use of the Town-hall rooms for the occasion.
LIME-STREET WARD.—The first meeting of the com-
mittee of Lime-street Ward Patriotic Fund was held on
Friday, at the office of Mr. Picton, Clayton-square, when
subscriptions to the amount of about £126 were an-
nounced as having being received.

Alderman J. Hayward

Turner and.the councillors of this ward convened a meet
ing for Friday evening, at St. Philip's School-room, it
Pleasant-street. The weather, however, was very wet
and stormy, and, consequently, the attendance was but
small. At the meeting it was determined by those pre-
sent to adjourn until .this (Tuesday) evening, when it will
be held at Lynn's Waterloo Hotel, the proprietor of which

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