26 OCTOBER 1844, Page 9

A great meeting of merchants was held at Liverpool, yesterday—the

Mayor being Chairman—to promote a public subscription for establish- ing a "Sailors Home." The object is, to erect a building which shall comprise lodging, board, reading-room, savings-bank, and other means and appliances for providing the sailor in port with a refuge against the temptations and improvidence that beset him. It is not meant to crush the lodginghouse-keepers, but to keep a wholesome check upon that class. Mr. Rushton the Magistrate, the Reverend Hugh M'Neile, and other leading men, addressed the meeting ; and the effect seems to have been satisfactory.