its rateable value was £18,000,000 per year, they had a debt of 

 only £700,000, which spoke well for the County Justices. But 

 they had got the Act and they would have to pay the piper for an 

 administration which would be more costly, although they might 

 get value in other respects. The new Act did not affect the 

 Guardians materially, although it was at first proposed that the 

 members of that body should be paid, but they had got those 

 clauses wiped out, and others inserted, by which, the Guardians 

 will receive certain sums in respect of rates from the County 

 Council, and also from the Borough of Burnley. 



Mr. J. Rawlinson said if they believed in popular representa- 

 tion and the management of public business by popularly 

 elected bodies, then he thought they were all bound to admit 

 that that object and principle had been very well embodied in the 

 Act which Mr. Bitchie had passed. He thought the authorities 

 of Burnley acted wisely and in the interests of the town- when 

 they succeeded in getting the borough made into a county of 

 itself. Apart from other advantages, he understood that the 

 borough, according to Alderman Greenwood, would benefit to the 

 extent of some £S,000 or £4,000 by the Act. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC SOIREE. 



Directors: JOHN BUTTERWORTH, Junr., J.P. 

 S. D. Mc KELLEN. 

 October 30th, 1888. 



' This was an enjoyable evening, the Entertainment consisting 

 of a Photographic Soiree under the directorship of Mr. Jno. 

 Butterworth, J.P,, assisted by Mr. McKellen of Manchester. 

 Mr. W. Sutcliffe and Mr. J. Pickles conducted experiments in 

 Photography. 



MUSICAL SOIREE. 



Director: JAMES ARTHUR WADDINGTON. 

 November 6th, 1888. 



Mr. Jas. Kay, J. P., presided. The Programme was in two por- 

 tions, the first Shakesperian, and the second Miscellaneous. In a 

 short introductory paper Mr. Waddiugton gave some interesting 

 particulars concerning the' xjomposers-of Shakesperian Songs, and 



