The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-08 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL, vat,te ordinary Council monthly and quarterly meeting of the "an, Esq., Mayor, in the chair. Alt: opinion as one member of the council, lot others think as they please. I for one balky° that to justify the late war in particular, we must ignore the decalogue, and reduce the num ber of commandments from ten to nine. That is my opinion, and with this simple expression of opinion t Shall nit doWn. The motion was then put and c.a.:led. Mr. Brancker moved that the proposer and seconder of the resolution, with the Mayor and the Recorder, he appointed a committee to prepare the address, and that aim nth - gess be presented as the committee might think Most judicious. This resolution was seconded, and alto carried by accla- When the PEAcE.—AnbuEss TO THE QUEEN. 11l ior ie Council had assembled,, Babj eot l una ll er bY rose and said :—Mr. Mayor, I wish to bring a ight t° tal, the consideration of the council which, I think, etterni e „_ ae precedence of all the ordinary proceedings. as ser i"'n re aware that the corporation of London, and a i r othe r 'ads , vat municipal bodies throughout the country, have B ROUGH GAOL. tktifi catioa addresse s to her Majesty on the occasion of the The proceedings of this committee comprised . rarornenens bet ween 6: sa l th e treaty of peace, just concluded at Paris dation to gr a nt t o the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Com and, th , i . tk e sslieen and her Allies, and the Emperor of Russia ; patsy a lease in perpetnity - of the site of the Old Gaol and "et on e of t ',, st r, it will be admitted that, presiding, as we do, adjoining land in 6reat Howard-street . ; and a recommendation ' t 'eabi c h b _" B most important communities of the empire, and to ptiOliase land; and premises adjoining the Old Gas Works ' , se t a to th as always been distinguished for loyalty and attach- in Dale-street, for the sum of £2,200. 1 1, " were sovereign, we should ill discharge our duty if The fir s t recommendation was based on the report of the ,llaje,ty °n ack.ward in presenting our congratulations also to her surveyor, and was thus set forth in the minutes :—" The i ffere neet, t his auspicious occasion. (Hear, hear). Whatever surveyor having, with the sanction of the committee, been in iron°sss thef °Pinion there may be as to the terms and eon- communication with Mr. James Holrne, acting on behalf of 'Niu e. treaty pripeeto ti , ,e ratited e t o just made, there can, I think, be only one the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company for the sale Providence for having at length restored by the corporation to the company of the site Of the Old ?, 11 "l'saa n i te wor ld. No one, I think, with the common feelings Borough G ae l, and certain other land in Great Howard -street, ~ 4 ` l l whi c h y ' ca n reflect upon the sufferings to which the war being the site of the Old Pig Market, and the Flag yard now hit e ls eer row l l , ' l e been engaged . so long, has given occasion, or ' in the occupation of Messrs. Chaffers, containing within o , setae h as , desolation in which it has plunged thousands of the line of improvement about 19,934 square yards, begs to oe r O ,,t•PY families, not only in England and in the countries recommend the following arrangement :—That the company ape, , -tees say ' -t• throughout the dominions of the enemy ; n o s h a ll conv ey to the corporation all that , plot of freehold land at alamit:,ean contemplate those horrors and not rejoice that the coroner of Great Howard-street and Spranger-street, al t h ) grievous has at length been brought to an end ; containing about 3,200 square yards, and shall receive from l'eth ses, the pace which has been concluded, may not, the corporation a perpetual lease, or giant, of the site of the tetinne ltogethi,r satisfactory to evervhodY, we have yet Borough Gaol and adjoining land, containing, as before th s t io at nll °f knowing that it is one which is neither injurious stated, ab0ur'19,934 square yards, paying, therefore, a perpetual T lle eest o r "ll , r t nor detrimental to the real and permanent rent charge of 2s Gd per square yard, calculated on as much !sn'ia li d t ,'_ r t"is country. Whether the great ' objects ' of Eng- thereof as shall remain after deducting the quantity of ground t bie Je .august Ally, the Emperor of the French—whether contained in the before mentioned plot of land at the corner of . lla, wet objects which we proposed to ourselves, in undertaking Great Howard-street and Spranger-street, when the said a t nibiti oo t noajne.laS,'lo restrain within due bounds the immoderate quantity shall have been ascertained and determined—this isa e , i t ' e Powerful enemy we ha roc contend with, has arrangement to be subject to the Lords of the Treasury." 414Prliblee thin ° l. ell'Ay partially and imperfectly secured, it is Mr. Hornby said :In moving the confirmation of the pro to-or,tbne Most sagacious person to predict. But this ceedings of the finance committee, I have first to bring under coral:. e" sh ift - th at h abundantly proved. It has been clearly notice the reconimen ar n g • - dCo to rant to the Lancashire and lon g continuanc e of peace and prosperity which Yorkshire Company a lease in perpetuity of the site of the il Wa terl 3 has enjoyed from tde period of the battle old gaol and adjoining land in Great Howard Street. It is a 'hes 5 ° down to the breaking out of the hos- plot of land very well known to the corporation. It contains th with s ' t th at Russia, a period of nearly forty Years; about 19,934 square yards, and, as the council has . already es ,l'sy e d '4 period of peace and tranquility has neither heard, the terms on which we have agreed to lease it . to the 7°lnle ei n t ° r impaired the. martial spirit of the people of this company, subject of course to the approval of the Council, are, 'al 1y th e is h'S country ; and that England still possesses, not that we are, in the first place, to receive the plot of land con- I tl t againselination, hut the power and ability to protect her taming about 3,200 square yards also fronting Great Howard ours,,seighbt the aggression and rapacity of More powerful street and Spranger-street, to be deducted yard for yard . fr?itn ''nlle tn , o Mr. Mayor, it will be in the recollection of every the plot to be leased ; and that for the remaining quantity, being of h ottt o . vv present, that a year er two More the breaking about 16,700 square yards. we are to receive a perpetual rent OY, a nd with Russia, a very general feeling of inse- of two shilling and sixpence the square yard, or about £2,.080 was k I "' of alarm, was felt throughout the country. per annum. 1 consider, and the finance committee „ate I ' e eling whichpervaded all classes of society,and it consider, that this mode of dealing with the property " t totta il i -- P l e'lllcuce of are belief of the - insufficiencsof our of the corporation, particularly where it is in large _balla sts , defences, and the neglected state of our naval and lots, is particularly beneficial, instead of receiving a wllah,'lnae_stablisinnents of the country. This was a feeling, large sum of money at one time with an irregular and uncer tl'.'l th e e 'rested and declared as it was to the whole of Europe tain income on the renewal of the leases of the property, we nth nle 'lln w t r e e rld s w as, I think, little creditable to the people of will,. by this arrangement, have a perpetual rent of £2,000 ; e "'sr, and still less so to their rulers; but the events of and in this case an undoubted security, .for . in addition . to . the te ch fret, such have just taken place, have put an end to any value of the land, and the works and buildings which will be fist " t n i g for the future. (Hear, hear). I think we may safely constructed on it, we have also got a security in the character of prese t o , ' a t , at all events, during the lifetime of the the tenant. And now in regard to the price. For my part ngi: e tl e d er ., ation of men no such feeling will be experienced when I came into this room to. day, I was under the impression o r e, and that England, while she will always, lam that we had made a most favourable urraigement, but I have libe rt j' es Oily abstain from any infringement on the riehts been told that there has been , an article in one of the daily bl oat :" °f other nations, will always be ready, and, with papers (NORTHERN DAILY Irmas), stating that this sale is, ref n 'crid het.s of Providence, will always be able to protect and in point of fact, nothing more than a job. (Hear, hear.) : 5 g th e ° 7 ll, (Rear, hear.) I have already trespassed too That we have obtained a . very inadequate price for it, and that t ')/7 ° rho ttrne of the council, and I feel that when I sit we ought to have obtained a much larger one. The price e itya council will st ir , lf; h not be scarcely less relieved than I will that we have obtained, reckoning the rate of interest at four t4t-eera: but I have the satisfaction of knowing, that any and a half per cent., is equal to £2l Ss per square yard, and it will 'fore Ingo that I may have shown in bringing this subject be borne in mind that this land is not all front land. It is a lot will be amply remedied b the gentleman who has of land which rxtends upwards of one hundred yards in depth, noti r 4" , °d ou,er:aka, to be my seconder Y en the occasion. In and although the front lots might sell from £4 to £5 per square •Tatala t s ci : ' May or, I beg to move, g , thatan Addressof Con- yard, there would be very much difficulty in disposing the . ba . ck ofn heM Presented by this Council to her Majesty on the lots at very much lower rates. And backed up by the opinion a,: si P eace which she and her Allies have just concluded of our surveyor, who has as great a knowledge, without except -41.1% (Applause.) ing yourself, Mr. Mayor, as any man in Liverpool, and hacked I ',ehgr a a re all Samuel Holme said Mr. Mayor, I rise with up by your opinion also, and that of several other gentlemen of , 41 orea te - a neation to second the motion which has been just practical experience, the finance committee are of opinion that t " t hate ver _ b Y Mr. Hereby ;. and I quite rQree with that it is a very favourable sale, and, in so thinking, I move that the tr eate ' n ,,y be the opinion of individuals with reference to recommendation be confirmed. 4 bu t (5 ' °I Peace which has just been concluded, there can Mr. Alderman S. Holme seconded the motion.. I 's t o ; l i e °Pinion among all men, that it is advents sous for Mr. Hodson said that ire always listened with very great t ( 4 1 1 - lear e :b e e ' I o a r n ge the horrors of war or that blessings g of peace patience to the remarks of Mr. Hornby, and that if he were in a e Peo n s *) Two years ago, sir at the call of the Sovereign, any difficulty, there was no man's opinion which he would national Country rose up ' as one man, not only to take in preference to Eis ; but he did not think that they 10Ititeptir:::.8attniree dant,l,ogo,aroluhsonur, but to prevent aggression and required Solomon, or his eldest son, to tell them what was file t. spirit of agerandisement7 manifested value of land in Great Howard-street, and particularly that o her tells ' • England, on that occasion, sought no extension of the site of the old borough gaol. (Hear, hear.) No man Cgae tic ll° rY, nor used her power to , oppress; b but she saw a could have lived in Liverpool for twenty years without having throuseas trampling down nation after nation, wading observed the gradual increase in the value of land in that Ila n C e of blood for the purpose of her victorious locality and about the Exchange, nor without coming to the and th "on that city which, of all others the g most central conclusion that if there was one plot of land more valuable than bealiost fair on the surface of the earth (Hear hear ) another for extent and locality, it was that on which the old "tad itussla. succeeded in attaining 'this end ' , what borough gaol stood. He, therefore, did not agree with those ha ve been the probable results ? Sweden gentlemen—whether they wore surveyors, or not, he could not Rletim` enl nark would probably have been the next —wino held that the offer now made was the full value of the ~71 a ek Cur commerce would have been excluded from the land; and he should conclude by moving an amendment to tire Vohas,Sl,,',7-our intercourse with our Indian empire would recommendation. Let any man of ordinary common sense °sa e b e t' n ave been impeded—our trade with tire Levant would look around him, and consider the position of the locality . in t'erla no T l injured or destroyed and this Northern Colossus, connection with the docks ; let him also consider . the would i • e g, as sire then would have ' done, Europe and Asia, impetus to trade which the peace—the blessings would' we ' 1 , 411 probabilit ' pare absorbent Sweden and Norway, of which had been so beautifully , described by tte stod suould soon have n oth ' er Sebastopol, or Sebastopols, Mr. Hornby and Mr. Holme—would give throughout the w `Uila the fiords of an Norway, and the navy of Russia town generally, but in that quarter of it in particular, and he cut ow 0 1_ 7 ! been brought face to face with the eastern ports of would see that the land in question would in a few years . double litosidetiir'gdem. (Hear, hear.) But, by the blessing of itself in value. (Hear, hear.) There _were several circum ,l. °l.tr bY the gallantry of our army and navy, by those stances in this matter that were somewhat remarkable, and ."` the ' d t hand I would particularly allude to the gallantry although he haul the gneatest respect for Mn. James Holune, On this oecasion those intentions have been vet he could not help thinking that a e,•entleman could not i tb , a n d te Russia has b een met f oot to f oot upon h er own serve two masters. (Hear, hear.) Mr. James Holme was a "int e „." sword w hi c h she drew from the scabbard w i t h d i rector o f t h e Lancashire and Yorkshire Compsny, and he d a res, be on of annihilating Turkey, has, by a retributive was no doubt an exceedingly good one. He was a member of th at e n Plunged int o he r own b osom. (Hear, hear.) I the council, too, and a more practical man did not enter it, Is e r LI a r etributiv e j ust i ce h as b een f a i r l y mete d out , b ut i t was a mora l impossibility that any man could f a irly serve a r r , ign e x te 'ne . fleet Las been sunk. Her Baltic fleet two bodies. He should, of necessity, have a leaning to one k.4,o,4t—ttnionslv taken refu ' e under the fortresses side or the other. (Hear, hear.) Well, Mn, S anuel Helm° thee se ad e t • Millions of her trea g sures have been spent. Tens was his brother, and deputy chairman of the finance com saiN °f her sons have sacrificed themselves for her in mittee, and though he was a gentleman whom everybody must `aught bt n e t h as been corn -lied to disgorge—and ' she has been respect, still he was not "infallible," and nothing but human. gmal c i e l- t ; ra ' e cv e e fs , ,.. Irowever p' pliant they may as far as . mere (Great laughter.) Now, let any one ask himself the question, at er ought e . _ is . concerned, are utterly unable to cope with and say what other conclusion could he come to than that it wben e ,, ln the midst of liberty and civilsatinn ; and was impossible for those gentlemen to treat this matter in the • (Rear, t heY come into contact, the serf must inevitably light which he (Mr. Hodson) and the Mayor, who had no 1 1 1 ,•lIst "ear.) She has learned that, if she is to conquer, interest, directly or indirectly, but one for the common good th anaf aet ni• cultivating the arts of peace, by cultivating her of the town in the subject, would view it. In the next place. -111 i th is and her commerce, by her ignorant he was not as well satisfied as some older members of the "ver ° l l i ti o • ri 'se blessing of education, and by exchanging the council with the law that was here carried out, for it was the 45 pe. s t ri °f t he knout for the liberal institutions of Western first time since he had been a member of the council that of th o vaear, hear, and applause.) Mr. Mayor, lam not he had heard of the council granting a lease in ! g n h ; t be s ni c w ho wish for another year of war, that Russia perpetuity; and if they objected to grant leases in per blanls- On of - . h ere deeply humiliated. I was one ' of the half petuity to individuals, ire certainly should object, most taric'or r er sons wire saw that magnificent fleet riding at strongly, to their being granted to public bodies. (Hear, ! for other day at S Ulu ad ; and I heard some say- hear.) He would ask what would be the value of this land, a o l-te ereh et . trt r an °ther brush P with Russia now." But, supposing that Liverpool went on increasing at the same rate tu e e na, ber in -g the hearts made desolate by war— that it had done for the last twelve years . ? Taking the land it ' l 4 •° De e a the horrors of the trenches which at the price now laid by the finance committee, it would, sup the is delineated by the reporters of the posing that Liverpool continued to increase in the next ten re "attles flou 'eulenaberi ng the dead and dying which strew years as it had done, at the expiration . of . that time, bring £5 s ,, j e l t hate ar " 1 , ever where men came together in one mortal the square yard. Gentlemen might smile, but there was ono cs ws of 'n ' ete hering tine mothers deprived of their sons, the gentleman in the room who had told him that at. the end of 'tehritetribeetheir husbands and the children of their p 'rents— five years he would have no hesitation in giving £5 a square sile nt 4l g t°o s sir, tire agony of the military hospitals, and yard for it ; and that ended the case. If the committee had Aptogbr.aves upon Catheart's Hill, where so many of come to the council and said they had leased the land for 2s 6d . l a land's loalry have laid down their lives as the victims of a square and for the first five years, 3s 61 for the second five h ill e i th , an kful that, without the national honour of years, and 6s for the third five years, when the value of the ti o to dicta tarnished, but the reverse, we are in a condition land would he much increased, as all the corporation property tar_e_asnure, ~r le an with peace, after the exeenditure of was increasing in value, then he would say there was sone pegFd the seas and the ' commerce of the world thing reasonable in it, and might merit their approval. (Hear, bc ' s 4 'ut It e s B .. ll o and trade following into its natural channels, hear.) But nothing of the kind was done, the committee t h at ', s ad a °7 in interference, or Russian prescription. (Hear, went to the company and concluded the negotiation, and if the thli4isagriePe wits th Pe rra t me, before I sit down, to say council now sanctioned it, all power of improving the north end atia wa r . °se who say we have not gained much of the town ! which was the most important thing that could fil erin eark . e have gained much. Sweden, Norway, deserve their attention, would rernoved from them. tho l\ u 'o t 'l)t , 4ighboin will now 1, 0 secure against their power- gentleman' could drive along Great Howard-street la I N, a s., r s (Rear, hear ) The Danube has been seeing the difficulty of transit there, and yet they were now - du lvs, t i e la)e. `nrilhWert,huxit. the trade .- of the south - eastern Part of asked to give . up the power which would alone enable them to an d no tne will now be free to the ships of the make those improvements which were so necessary for the le at „ sw ath t ±'•ussian navy, i n domineering power, shall commerce of Liverpool. He thought the council should not, lit er the tile seas. (Hear, hear ) Turkey, too, has for a moment, sanction such a proposition, and he would tvh e o tt ? to -othneeleessity of liberality, and of granting religious therefore move as an amendment, that so much of the proceed 'retvd the People ; dueh 30 millions of hab itinhabants ings of the committee as had reference to the sale to the of o n a e enntries of t lesser Asia, living as now Lencashire and Yorkshire Railway Comyany of tle an thar nir 100018civilised state, will begin to want the productions occupied by the site of the old borough gaol, be not confirmed rese ,ngwith the no doubt, a large trade with us, inter- at present, but that it be postponed for one month, to give n . me (;'4 Apish manuf a ctures of our skill for the coin- to the corporation and the town to consider the whole ques , tion. tt ) ,, ar .) A n " their own rich and fair country produces. He thought that was not an unreasonable request —(near, l e , to eorri nsere when the wounds of war are healed, I trust hear)—because, if it were a good bargain the town would soon eat : ed, tha t e w ill again ex and and that Europe will have find it out, and would be satisfied with it, and if it were not, S ir tra toei _ AiLle France and England are united, no nation then the council would soon get a stimulant, particularly those have con i ry e nnder foot the rights of others. (Hear, hear.) of them, who, as aldermen and councillors, would have to r " ee ing tl Wa sit 'Med n the anxiety and the responsibility which obtain a renewal of their houses, which would make them view iu I„ ai l!nri our gracious Sovereign, and not being back- silo matter inn another light. (Hear, hear.) „ e,r u e 'tlti en ',1171 which the throne, I most heartily agree with tine Mr. Beckwith seconded the motion. voi eo tb at „ e _. l Mr. Hornby has just propose, and lam Mr. Alderman Dover said, that as one of those fortunate, ),\,,• (N o this Mr. council there will not be one dissenting or p es hap s unfortunate, individuals, who would have . to ascer. 11 1 ,.,' t t e ll o b er a ,_ o l hear, hear, and applause.) tain next November whether or not he would longer continuo subje'es n wa Gladstone : I was not aware, Mr. Mayor, - to bo a member of the council, he would risk .i i his chance of se des,o ati n to hold a place among tire matters for the honou t r o by art e o r n t ce (he declaring ,ri that e approved of t lllen 4 'teed to Y , or else I should certainly have the sale o p p y , ]rear) or salon in fact it was. eon st_hoett heuestiPorne.pare myself for a few observations I (Hear, hear.) If they took the interest at 4 per cent. (and but g to I had, unhappily, not arrived they had no right to value money, in the long run, higher than e arn 40 _ leer of what fell from Mr. Hornby, at tine rate of 4 . per cent., for that . was the rate that was e,,,try'ou% character other s that his remarks were of that temperate calculated by Life Insurance Companies), they would find I os Y 0c,610 which generally distinguishes him upon that they got for the whole of the land, less than i n to quantity te ' ," 4 very tn ,,•,_ The concluding remarks of the last speaker . received " in exchange, without having to . cut it up for streets, ti th f it t e t r re u ly p at : o e t n i d isposed to agree with. lam not going now , £3 2 s 6d per N ear° yard. If the bargain wer e ratified, they haeit: ntrileterSumb war as opposed to peace, or to would, as Itlr. Hornby had told them, receive £2,000 a year matters which were th e c au s e o f th e p r e se nt war, at once for land that was now unproductive and lying waste, vi e j y ee p t ro o te r st, even if I stand alone, against and he (Mr. Dover) contended that if the land had first to be t at Irtlß aristocratic (Hear.) I believe that we were the cut up into streets, then after the waste of land that should ocratic mismanagement, and I merely pl a ce this take place for that purpose, they would have to get for every _rotest anion hn a ;! are going gt e various expressions of opinion square yard6d, to realise the price now offere . d. th., that is Pen to forward. I think the question involved is (Hear, end cheers.) And lie would ask any man, he h . e of maj°lit . o „ great difference of opinion. I admit that owner of property, merchant or builder, whether any man in s. potrthheer I a t l t i e e j country are in favour of war, and approved his senses would give for that land any such price ? Those w i co a n r n ti : i b . ut that circumstance can by no means who refused to confirm the arrangements with the company, eparta , or a acientious scruples of the minority. lam were bound to show the council a better and more valuable lany discussion, and I merely desire to record appropriation of it. They had no right to come forward and oration FIN ANCt: COMMITTEE-SALE OF THE SITE OF THE OLD e „„ i 6" Dace s Bill 3 ' nag e ' 1 intea ir eadY of thig spili ell th e tO ~, ftllll .0 cal . 0 ;e, a s th T wo', 1 , 0 for , st ' bres ry is ! at ta tir raw' of ° bee n 'U a, bas p ,t th e `. I lua • 0 *lat e g, , a , r a grea ts olpv°,l.o 1 o o 1 0 NOLTIIEZN 77110.-LIVERTOOL, THIJESDAY, MAY 8, 180. ' say it was a bad sale, without proving the way in which it ; could be made better. (Hear, hear.) Theire dais ho Other I way so far as he could see, of di,posing, in that neighbourhood, I cf to large a pled° of land at one time, and in regard to that point, Mr. Hudson was entirely wrong. At one time, indeed, land was more valuable there than it was vow, and belieted, ; that if in former ears is had been offered for warehouse property`; It have been worth £5 the square yard, but certainly no capital i would now invest his money in any such situation, and for such a purpose. (Hear, hear.) The council were now, however, appropriating it at its full value, and were establishing, in the very centre of the toivn, a most important trade. (Hear, hear.) They were establishing a most important trade there, and without bringing any nuisance with it, which was a very important consideration, and he had no doubt whatever, that if they refused to confirm the present sales, years would elapse before they would again have an (del for the laud. (Cries of " hear, hear," and" oh, oh !") It was offered before for sale to the public, and they could not obtain a single bid on it, (Cries of " Divide it.") Now with regard to the value of the land. It was quite true the land might improve, but it also might not, and gentlbnen should know, that c' cry year the land remained idle, £4 or £5 tit the expiration of that time would not be as much for it as 2s 6d now. But he was not quite sure that the land would increase in value, because it was a remarkable fact, that other land near the central docks did not increase in value, but rather decreased and he was, therefore, one who thought, that under existing circumstances, this land was not likely for some years to improve. With regard to the improvement of the street, which had been referred to by Mr. Hodson, it would bo fully effected ; and, in'conelusion, he should say that Mr. James Holum was nota member of the finance committee, and that even if he were, the other members would not be improperly influenced by him. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Brancker wished that the may would explain to the council the position of the matter, and also express his opinion on the value of the property. Mr. Hodson objected to the mayor doing so. It was for the council to decide the matter, irrespective of him. Mr. Ilornby held that the mayor had a perfect right to express his opinion on the matter, and that when it was asked he was bound to give it. Mr. Alderman Parker concurred with Mr. Heruby. Mr. W. Earle said that he had a great respect for the mayor's opinion, and would be glad to hear it in the matter. At the same time, he was not bound by the mayor's opinion. He (Mr. Earle) owned souse property in the neighbourhood in question, and he was sorry to hear, according to some gen tlemen, that it was worth only 50, the square yard. Ho regretted it exceedingly, on account of his own purse. (Laughter.) He had some land in Oil -street, not as gaol a situation as this in question, and he rather thought that he would get the square yard for it. He did not think that they had made the railway company pay the full value for this land. It was, no doubt, desirable, and of advantage to the town, that they should encourage such a company, but still, they wanted the land, and they should be made to pay the full value for it. (Hear, hear.) Mr James Holum then rose to speak in explanation, when Mr. Thine suggested that the point raised by Mr. Hodson as to the right of the mayor to speak on the subject, should be first decided. The Mayor replied that he would exercise his undoubted privilege of giving an opinion in the matter, but in giving it he would confine himself to the report of the surveyor. Every gentleman conversant with largo blocks of land knew that it they had a piece of laud in Great Howard-street, Or any other valuable street, they could not simply on that fact put a value on the land without any regard to its extent, its boundaries, its approaches, and its evenness with other streets. He enter tained an opinion that Great Howard-street was exceedingly valuable, and that that line of streets would increase rather than diminish in value, as being the leading thoroughfare to the extension of tile northern docks, but he differed with tire opinion which he heard enunciated, that the front of Great Howard-street would ever be occupied by commercial ware houses. If he recollected right, the land in question was, a great portion of it, considerably more than a hundred yards in depth, having no fair casement, no approach whatever to it, and that the only way in which it could be occupied was by sacrificing a considerable portion of it to make streets, and that after they had made those approaches then they would get into a blind street, so that they would have to return back the the same way to get into Great Howard-street. A very great body of land which would be thus shut out would be of little value, being altogether out of the line of traffic. They were told that by the arrangement a rent of £2,000 a year woul I be secured, but that did not convey the whole truth, for they were also to get nearly £lO,OOO worth of freehold land as a substitue for the very land which they would have to sacrifice in making, if they were required to do so, their own land ap proachable. It would be most difficult to sell the land in plots, and for this reason, that they would have to commit themselves at once to some plan, and he, therefore, anticipated that a great many years should run before they could dispose of it in that snowier. Mr. Hod son was right in saying that it was not usual for the corporation to give leases in perpetuity, hut he should recollect that they were now dealing with an incorporated company, who could only hold land in fee, and that in such cases the corporation always deviated from the usual course. If gentlemen would look at the plan, they would see that it was an extremely awkward plot of land, having no access, and that the piece of land to which Mr. Earle alluded had a front both to OD-street and Great Howard-street. Mr. Earle observed that there were other pieces of land there for which ho got 3:. The Mayor replied that they were in small lots, which made a material difference, and concluded by expressing a decided opinion in favour of the recommendation of the committee. Mr. James Heinle than rose— M:. Gladstone objected to Mr. James Holme taking any part in the debate, and the mayor busily ruled in favour of the objection. Air. Samuel Heinle said his name had been alluded to, and he was not in the positio:r of his brother, not having a single railway or gas share, or anything which cou'd prevent him from speaking in tho council perfectly free and unfettered. He had to express his surprise that gentlemen like Mr. Hodson, of universal genius, who represented a mercantile community in the council, and who pronounced an opinions upon the value of property, and all other questions, should not, when they came to find fault with the proceedings of the finance committee, did not evince a little more courtesy of spirit, and give other gentlemen credit for the sans() hearty desire to benefit the corporate estate, and the sane sincerity, as they themselves claimed. (Hear, hear.) He contended that Mr. Hodson was guilty of throwing out imputations against gentlemen present. He said that Mr. James Holme, who was a member of the committee, had an interest in the direction of the company, and that his brother, Mr. Samuel Holme, was the deputy chairman of the finance committee. Now, what did the council understand from that ? He stood there in stern defiance of Mr. Hodson and of public opinion, and declared that no act of his life had ever been tainted by a job--that he gave his opinion in the finance committee on that question, having heard the statement of the surveyor—being intimate from his youth with the very land in question, and having watched the progress of events in all parts of the town, and having examined the very elaborate statement of Mr. Weighttnan—and being canvinced the cotnenittee were making a bargain most advantageous to the corporation, and one which he individually was willing to take the responsibility of advising the council to accept. The mayor had anticipated, in his able explanation, very much of what he (Mr. Holme) would necessarily have had to say. The mayor had spoken of the extent of the land. He had spoken of 3,060 yards of land which the council must necessarily have taken out for streets, but which he (Mr. Holme) believed to be realily less than they should require. The council would recollect that the amount which they were to receive was a serpetual sum of £2,087, together with tho value of 3,234 rards of land further up, which they were taking in exchange, ,and of about equal value. Tiro council would also bear in mind that the amount they were receiving, taking it as was usual in Manchester and other places,_ at twenty-five years' purchase, was really equal to £3 2s Gti per square yard for the land which they proposed to lease. As the subject had been mooted, he saw no reason for the slightest concealment, and he should therefore bring before their notice tire opinion of the surveyor, of which he had procured a copy. Mr. Hoirna read the following calculations made by the surveyor : Should the land be disposed of in detail, it would have to be laid out on some such plan as now submitted, affording the largest area for sale, with due regard to access, and the estimated value may be .alien as follows:- 8,850 yards fronting Great Howard-street, having a depth of 30 yards, at £4 10s. per yard 12,678 yards, fronting Cross-street, the depth of each lot being about 31 yards, .e 2 5s Total 2,205 yards absorbed for streets. 19 1534 yards. Deduct sewerage and paving streets..... £48,100 £47,100 Nett proceeds... If sold in lots within four years, with one year's credit, the deferred payment would average about three years, and the present value of such deferred vayment would be about.. £41,872 And the value of the reversion of the laud and of the build ings, which might be erected thereon, may be calcu ated not to exceed Total value in present money If sold at £2 155., the amount would be .t 54,618 Its The present value of which, due at the end of one year . £52,600 would lie about, -- - This calculation, he contended, showed an advantage' to the corporate estate of z£3,000 in accepting the offer of the Lan cashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. Gentlemen talked of the increasing value of land. He was awaro that land at Wapping was sold many years back for a much larger figure than had been realised at public auction lately. Th ere were instances some years ago in which lan.l was s o ld at Wapping for nearly double the value it would realise now. When Mr. Hodson talked of the probability of land improving as a reason for not leasing it in perpetuity, he forgot that that might be said of every lot of land which they leased for seventy-five years, because that too might equally improve in value. Could the corporation deal with the land in any other way than individuals ? Did parties givo a large price for laud merely because it was public property ? Nothing of the sort. The corporation were just in the same position as sellers, as members would be individually, and the public would only deal with them as they had an interest to do. It nas said that the land would double itself in value within ten years. If that really were the case in any other people, who possessed quite as much discrimination as Mr. Hodson, they would have come to the sale, and bought it—oven if would double itself in twenty years. (Hear, hear.) He gave it as his opinion that if, instead of .elliug land at seventy-five years, they were to sell the, whole of the perpetual ground rent, as in Manchester, it would be amazingly to the benefit of the corpo ration. (Cries of "Bear; hear," and "No, no.'') He, for one, should be prepared; when a proposition was brought forward for letting the land, riot by lease for seventy-five years, but upon a perpetual chief rent, in the same manner as the wise men of Manchester did, who knew how to manage the business quite as well as the Fople of Liverpool, to give it his support. lie did not know what was the explanation his brother was going to give, beyond this, that he knew that the survt yor suggested to him that the land would suit the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company and he also knew, from a conversation that he had With a director, that tire latter objected to the purchase of the ground, for the company hul about 1,000 square yards of land down close to the north dock- , , and they could do very well without the corporation land. He was sure he did no more than any gentleman would do, acting in a fraternal spirit, when ho said that if there was any man in Liverpool clear from any imputation of a job—if there were any man who always acted with honourable feeling. He did not hesitate to say his brother Vas that man, iiis brother who had been preVentect from giving his own explanation, and to whom Mr. Hodson had thrown out allusions, which a man of sensitive mind could not but feel when applied to himself. (Hear, hear.) He would not pursue that topic. He was perfectly satisfied that the arrange ment proposed was a good one, and that the public of Liver pool, as well as the corporation, would hereafter regret it, if they did not now avail themselves of the offer, many years ago, he was requested by one of the greatest ironmasters in the world, to offer to the corporation a sum amounting, he believed, to four guineas per square yard, for a very large lot of land, The council of that day refused to confirm the pro• eeedings of the finance committee, who recommended the agreement. What was the result? The proposition was made that the value of the land should be tested by public auctio There was not a bid made at the public auction of half the amount he was empowered to offer on behalf of the baronet, and the consequence was, that the latter became so much dis gusted with the whole proceedings that he withdrew his offer. The corporation kept the land for twelve or fourteen years, and, to the best of his recollect'on, it was subsequently sold for little more than half the sum which he was requested to offer. He had no interest in the matter. His desire was, as well as that of Mr. Hodson or anybody else, to do the best he could for the corporate estate, under the responsibility which rested upon him in common with all other members. If the council rejected the proposition, they took a step they would subse quently regret, and he contended that a very much smaller sum of money would accrue to the corperation if they cut the land up and sold it in detail, than they would give if they accepted the proposition new made by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. (Hear, hest). Tinder these circumstances; Mr. Holme contended that the proceedings of the finance com mittee ought to be confirmed. Mr. Shiel thought the observations which had been made with regard to Mr. Hodson were quite uncalled for. It' there were any fault in alluding to gentlemen placed under peculiar circumstances, the fault was not in the council, but in the law of the laud. The law did not seem to think that members of that council were liable to error and to failings as well as oiler men, and that they had not undergone any sort of fermentation, which purified them when they cause into that room, from the failures to which all other members of the community were acknowledged to be liable. If gentlemen were so exceedingly sensitive—and he admired them for being so, and was very glad of it—they really ought to have taken more pains to keep them out of the way of such observations. When the municipal reform bill was introduced into the House, a clause was contained in it that no corporation should have the power of disposing of the property of a town for a longer period than 31 years. The corporation of Liverpool, and the people of Liverpool, made a remonstrance to the House of Commons, stating that it had always been the prac tice here to dispose of property for a term of seventy-five years, and that an alteration would be attended with very serious inconvenience. On that application the bill was shaped as at present. This proved that it was felt desirable to put a con siderable degree of restraint on those entrusted with the management of corporate property. That restriction continued up to the present time, and now the council was asked to act in direct opposision to that law. He could not help saying that the finance committee bad acted with a degree of want of caution at which he was very much surprised. He believed Mr. James Holme to be as incapable of doing a wrong thing as any man in the room, himself included. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) But he would say, decidedly and boldlr, that if he were a director of a railway company, he should not take upon himself the office of negociator for the purchase of cm porato property, knowing that ho was liable to failings and error as well as any other man. If the council Caine to a conclusion to-day to agree to the proposition, they must go to the Treasury to ask for permis sion; and he put it to the mljority of the council whether they were yet possessed of sufficient information to justify them in making such an application ? He thought Mr. Hodson's proposal a just and reasonable one, and he could not believe that a nvijority of the council would refuse to delay a month in order that they might have an opportunity of enquiring fully into the que , tlon before they made up their minds for and against it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Holt said if the amendment were really for tha purpose of consideration, and not in order to get rid of the question, ho did not see much objection to it ; but if, after the expiration of a month, the committee returned to the council recommending the same course, he should support them. Mr. Robertson Gladstone asked what change had come over the spirit of the dreams of the financo committee? Flow was it that on a sudden they were roused from their lethargic inactivity ? Was the curse an occasional glimpse of the Newsharn House estate, which was becoming ruinous, and was likely to return to its primitive state, covered with brushwood, and with the beasts of the earth concealing themselves under brambles, and the branches of trees ? How was it that, at this particular juncture, the finance committee suddenly discovered that they had a large plot of id in Great Toward-street, nhich it w . as very desirable to disposo of, and after quite a new fashion ? He confessed that he was surprised when he received the summons-paper on Saturday, and saw that the finance committee proposed to recommend to the council that they should dispose of perhaps the most valuable property, speaking presently and prospectively, which they had within the whole limits of the borough—that they proposed to dispose of it on terms wholly inaclevate, having no analogy whatever to the value of property in the immediate vicinity, and that, too, in a mode which was entirely new, and at a time when all their property, when all but their existence was placed iu jeopardy, when they were on their trial in London. and the most sanguine of them looking to the results of that trial, must fear that they could not, and would not, come out of it unscathed, was that a time to propose a new mode of disposing of the real state of the corporation? If there ever was an occasion when it was absolutely necessary that they should bargain for money in selling their property, that time was the present. Ho had listened to what had fallen from the various speakers who supported the recommendation, and without at all desiring to impute anything to them, he could not bat think that their better judgment had been warped on the present occasion. He had heard the mayor's description of the property, and he attached the value of that opinion to which he knew it was entitled. But it was a matter upon which he thought every man who reflected at all was perfectly competent to form an opinion. (Hear, hear). Hero was a property of 19,000 square yards in extent, in the very centre of Liverpool, or, if not in the very centre, what would ho the centre ere long, and where, he contended, there was really no back land at all ? What was called hack laud was a considerable frontage of some 175 yards to the canal, and a frontage to the railway. Was that to he called back land ? They would each treat it as if it were his own. It was within the first length of cartage from the Prince's-dock —a situation of greater advantage than, perhaps, almost any other, for the erection of warehouses for cotton and corn. He spoke more plrticularly of corn—if that town should, as he trusted it would, become the great depot for supplying the various nations in that part of the globe. Did it not stand to reason that such a situation should be a most advantageous one? Various gentlemen had spoken of the value of land in the immediate neighbourhood. He had been told by a member of the council, who sat not far from me, and who spoke to him very independently on that subject, as he did on every other, that ten years ago he paid as much as £l2 a year for house property nearly opposite the borough gaol. Another gentle man, also a member of the council, had a warehouse imme diately opposite the borough gaol, for which, about ten years - • ago, lie gave i per square yard. They had heard from Mr. Earle, that in hie own locality, Oil -street, he rented his land at 3s per square yard. Now, were the finance committee prepared to show that the value of . property in that neighbour hood was something like what they had asked as a price from the railway company ? Was any one prepared to show that £2 10s. was the price per square yard of land in Great Howard street? He understood that another member of the council was building two warehouses, something like half a mile further north than the site of the borough goal, and was payirig 2s. 6d. per square yard as a consideration. That gentleman had addressed the council in virtuous indignation on the subject, as if the decision of the finance committee could not be questioned for one moment. Again, a mile, and upwards of a mile distant from that spot, the docks had been paying Ll the square yard for land. He certainly could not help admiring the manner in which the chairman of the finance committee had calculated the value of the land. A declaration had been also made that the property was put up to public auction, and that there was no bidder. No wonder that there was no bidder for that or any other property of the same kind, when money was paying a price of from 8 to 10 and 12 per cent. Was it reasonable to expect people to come forward and give a fair value for land? But did he understand from the finance committee that adopting, as they were bound to do, the principle of public auction, the property was put up to a private buyer at 2s 6d per square yard, per annum, in per petuity, and that they put it up to public auction on a seventy five years' lease ? (Hear, hear.) If that was tho fact, tie committee had failed to perform their duty to the corpora tion, for they had no right to treat on any new basis with pri vate individuals. Public property must be put up to public auction on equal terms to all. He had no hesitation in stating, that if the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company was fortunate enough to become the possessors of that sire, their stock would be honestly worth one half per cent more than it was the preceding day. Consider the advantages they obtained. The canal, the railway, the central situation, the immediate conti guity of the docks. What also would they have ? Everything was centered in that very spot. Looking at the extraordinary progress of Liverpool for the last few years, the immensity of its accommodation, the boundless prospect which was still befbie them, the position which that port filled in the corn- Meree Of the world, when nearly half the exports of the whole country, in poltit of value; tossed through it; he asked whether 2s 6d per square yard wits a fair consideration for land in the very centre of a town where such mighty deeds were going forward ? (Cries of hear, hear.) He had such a strong opinion on the point, that, it' he stood alone, he would in his own person, petition the Treasury to interfere with that an st,ige— meet. (Hear, hear) He had himself very strong perso.,ll interests, which ought to lead him the other way. Ono of his owr family wits largely, interested in the Lancashire and York third R illway but lie hoped that; without making a boast of his honour, he should, at least, be docently honest, without talking about it. (Hear, hear.) It disgusted him, abode all things, when he heard people talking about their honour and their conscience. It was the man who did what was right who should hold * the high position, not the man who was always talking about what he was, and what he did. (Hear, hear.) It nauseated him to hear such things. (Hear, hear.) Ile asked the, totincil calmly to reflect whether that was the moment when a poPtion against their proceedings should go up to Parliament, already sitting in judgtnent upon them, and whether that was the time, of all others, when they ought to sell property for ever. Mr. Gladstone concluded by support- ing the amendment. Mr. J. B. Lloyd supported the finance committee, on the ground that, Since 1834, he had been engaged in endeavouring to dispose of a plot of land a little more to the north, but containing the very 8,000 square yards which the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company iauw intended to exchange with the corporation, and up to that moment it itas Unsold. Mr. Alderman Parker vehemently supported the finanec committee. Mr. Aiken said if the committee won:d be in the same posi tion as regarded the offer a month hence, he would support the postponement. He felt quite convinced th tt the threat which Mr. Gladstone held out would not influence their decisions, and he trusted that it had not been offered in the spirit of intimidation. (Hear, hear.) He regretted that personal remarks should have fallen from Mr. Gladstone and from other gentlemen, more especially as the ether remarks of Mr. Gladstone Were entitled to very great weight., few being more competent to judge tither of the value of land, property, or of the rate of interest on money. If, in the opinion of the Chairman of the finance committee, they would not be in the same position a month hence, then he should support their recommendation. • Mr. Woodruff urged the postponment for a month, taking into consideration that less than half the members of the finance ' committee were present on the occasion when the recommen dation was adopted. Mr. Alderman Bennett thought there were so many advan tages :o be derived, arid the general property would ha so much benefitted in the neighbourhood if the railway company were allowed to occupy that site, that the mere money considertttion should be held a secondary one. He considered the proposed arrangement a fair one, and one which would be a great benefit to the town in general, as ho hoped and trusted to the spirited proprietors of the railway thediselves. Mr. Anderson supported the postponement. Mr Banner,. while in favour of the finance committee's viewp, approved of the postponment. 11r. Godfrey contended that if the property had been put tip to auction on a perpetual lease there would have been scores of bidders. (Hear, hear.) Ile supported the amend ment, and gave notice that if it were lost he would move another. Mr. Hornhy then proceeded to reply, and in doing so, pro- I tested against the spirit and tone in which some gentlemen had made their remarks, and declared that if the sentiments expressed by Mr. Gladstone were generally entertained, and that the finance committee was so undeserving of confidence as he represented them, it was the duty of the council at once to appoint a new committee. He stated that if the council postponed the consideration of the question for a month, it would at once liberate the railway company from the offer they had made. He for one was not willing to liberate them from that offer. (Hear, hear.) He replied to several of the arguments used on the other side, and stated that Mr. James Holtue appeared in the nego elation only as a director of the company, and was received by the committee as any other director. He asked how it happened, if the Pict of no bidder appearing for the borough gaol property was explained, as other gentlemen had done, that other lots sold for 20 or 30 per cent. more than was expected? Finally, Mr. Hornby urged on the council the advantage of adopting the arrangement. A division was taken, but some discussion arose as to whether shareholders of the Southport railway were entitled to vote. The law clerk finally decided that such shareholders could vote, and a second division was taken, when there appeared—twenty-two for tho original motion, and seventeen for the amendment. The amendment was accordingly lost. Mr. Godfrey proposed a second amendment, to the effect, that the proposal of the company be negatived, and that the property be put up to auction on a perpetual lease, condition ally, with the approval of the Treasury. Mr. Woodruff seconded tlie amendment, and a second debate arose, which resulted in the following division on the amend ment :—For, eleven ; against, twenty-four. Mr. Robertson Gladstone then moved as an amendment, that the land ho divided into lots suitable for the erection of ware houses, and that they be put up to public auction in the usual manner on 75 year leases. Mr. Beckwith seconded the amendment. Mr. Hornby offered to postpone the matter for a month if any gentleman of capital would undertake to put the corporation in the same favourable position they were now in, in the event of the railway company going back of their offer. Mr. Hodson thought Mr. Hornby was not justified in making such a proposition, or asking any gentleman to give such an undertaking. Mr. Beckwith observed that ho never knew a man refuse to give 15i. 91. for a sovereign. That was precisely the character of the present sale, and Mr. Hornby need have no fear that the company would ever reftrie to give their 15s. 93. for the corpo ration sovereign. (Hear, and laughter). Mr. Gladstone's amendment was then put and lost by 14 to 22. Mr. Kitchen, Mr. Haydock, and a number of other gentle men having given notice of other amendments, the following amendmeut, proposed by Mr. Hornby, and seconded by Mr. Alderman S. Holme, was eventually adopted. It was opposed, in the first instance by Mr. Roberston Gladstone, owing to a misconception on his part of its meaning :—" That, in conside ration of the necessity that there is for proceeding with the dock committee proceedings and laying rates under the health committee, the further consideration of this matter, and all other matters on the council list, be postponed un'il this day week." The dock committe's proceedings were then read and con firmed, and the paving, snnitory, and fire and watch rates struck after which the council adjourned to next Wednesday. • THE WEST DERBY UNION The usual weekly meeting of this board of guardians was held yesterday at the Board-room, Mill-lane, Ever ton. The Rev. W. Badeall, the chairman, presided. The other guardians present were, Messrs. Harrison, Siddeley, Richmond, Pickup, Rayner, Leyland, Johns, Wilson, Elias, Abrahams, Craig, Weillley, Lunt, T. Edwards, Mawdsley, H. Edwards, Watkinson, Pitts, Roscoe, Callis, and Shaw. The minutes of the last meeting were read. The Clerk stated that the balance in the hands of the treasurer was £249. He also reported that he had examined all the books kept by the medical officers connected with the union, and found them correctly made up, with the exception of that of the master of the hospital. Cheques to the amount Of upwards of £2OO were voted for the relief of the out-door poor. • - --- A letter was read to the poor law board, sanctioning the bye laws adopted at the meeting held on the 25th ult, for the conducting of the business of the . board. On the motion of Mr. Harrison, seconded by Mr. Lunt, it was decided to advertise fora master of the workhouse for the sick poor, the appointment to take place in a fortnight. It was also decided to advertise for tenders for flour, &c., for the ensuing three months. After transacting some routine business, the board adjourned. SINGULAR ACCIDENT Early yesterday morning a heavy set of wind prevailed in London, whieh, together with the weight of water in the Commercial Docks caused the entrance gates to burst open, and as it waa lo;N water in the river at the time, the rush of water was tremendous, and the craft wore hurled against each other ‘N ith the greatest violence. Two boats, which were washed into the river way, are still missing, and it is feared some persons were on board, who may have lost their lives. A barge, named the Bell, was also sank, with, it is feared, several persons on board. THE EAST. The Carmel arrived at Marseilles yesterday morning with advices from Constantinople to the 28th, and from the Crimea to the 26th April. The Times has received letters from the Crimea to the 21st. Kinburn has been evacuated. 20,000 troops are expected to leave during the week. A number of the French troops are so reduced by scorbutic disease and by illness, that a field hospital is preparing for them at Prinkipo in the Sea of Marmora. The Bth Huss ►rs and 17th Lancers were to embark for England on the 26th ult. CHANGE RINGING.—HAND BELL P gRFORNiANCE.—On Monday evening last was rang at Mr. Bates, Boars Head, Drury-lane, Mr, John Holt's old original peal of grand sire triples, consisting of 5,040 changes, in two hours and twenty-six minutes, by the following members of St. Luke's and St. Peter's society, viz.: Geo. Crute, trible and second ; John Heron, jun., third and fourth ; George Helsby, fifth and sixth ; Richard Williams, seventh and tenor. The peal was conducted by John Heron, jun., in the presence of Messrs. John Heron and William Thistlewood. TRADE RE' PORT LIVERPOOL. Co'rrow : There has been a moderately fair demand for cotton to-day from the trade; the market has been supplied liberally, and prices are steady. The sales—including 150 6frl to eid 300 - Egyptian, 611 to ; 700 Surat, 41d to b e d--are reported 6,000 bales to the trade. SCOTCH PIG IRON : Our market for warrants closes at 74- -, 9.1, buyers, cash ; 75s 3d sellers. SUGAR : There has been an active demand, and hither prices have again been realised ; the im. bags D.ltes, at 42s to 44s ; 890 mats Maur us, auction, at 38s to 42 Gd ; 560 bags , at bags Ceara, at 395 to 445, duty paid ; 3) boxes 11, 293 6.1 ; 2,800 bags Rio Grande, at 26 • ; 900 begs Pon.. at 25s ; and 151 cases, 3,900 bags Bahia, chiefly from thu quay, at 275 p-r cwt in bond. MOLASSES : 220 puns of old indirect Cuba Muse , - reported, at 165 64 per cwt. RUM AND COFFEE: Nothing has occurred. TEA We have a dull market, and tew s. but prices are nominally the same ; some half-ches Congou were disposed of at the public sale to-day, RICE : 680 bags now middling white Bengal, r have been taken at 10s, and 1,365 new yellow c at 8s 3d per cwt. Am, at 45Q 9 les to r JUTE : 1,300 bales are reported, az 5s to £2l per ton. LINSEED : We have to notice a sin reel of G 50s per qr. PEPPER : 25 In, Singapore, at 541 per It LOGWOOD : 40 tons Jamaica, by auction, with £6 to £6 2 Gi per ton. LONDOIS SUGAR : There has not been a public ,a; 3-dav, t market has a firm v er)earance, at yesterday' prices. COFFEE : The large public sales are going off prices scarcely supported. TEA : The trade continue 10 buy sparingly, 2,000 bags of black wero offered has a dull appearance PEPPER and nearly all beught in. A small part sOld at 411 to sd. PIMENTO: 320 ba4l3 sold 41 i d to 40. CLovEs : Z tliz:har sold 44.3 to 41d. Corrort : No sal's reported. In other articles no material alteration. TALLOW : The market is steady, with but little doing. Pet, rsburg YC on the spot 13 quoted 453 6d ; June, 45, ; October to December, 45s 9(1 to 465. BOROUGH HOP Messrs. Pe.vnden and Snit the market firm, at late prices. The bines making ; May to progress. CORN. There was not much English wheat at marl morning ; the arrivals of foreign were to a fair extent qualities were held at the full prices of Monday, ' business passed. Flour was Unchanged ; good fresh qualities were fully as dear: Barley scarcely sold so well as on Monday. With large arrivals of oats, the dealers were eriabled to pur_ chase on r..ther easier terms for pod sorts, while secondary and inferior were 6d cheaper. Beans and peas were without alteration. Arrivals into London from May sth to May '7° wheat, 980 qrs English and Scotch, 5,730 qrs foreign • ' 270 qrs English and Scotch, 3,120 qrs foreig:: Irish, 13,410 qrs foreign; malt, 620 qrs English a flour, 560 sacks, 480 brie. All good but not much ),,:tE=, 660 'da y 120 a ; YESTERDAY'S MARKETS. CORK BUTTER lsts, 130 s; 2nds, 1255; 4tbs, 104 s ; stbs, 90s ; 6ths, 75i. CORK CORN : Whits wheat, 33s to 36s ; red do, 32s 3:1 barley, 17s to 18s ; oats, 12s to 15s. GLASGOW CORN: Weather cold and showery. At market there was about our usual attendance of buyers; wheat sold pretty freely, at 6d per 240 lbs advance ; flour in fair con sumptive demand, and 6d to is per brl and sack dearer ; barley dull, and the turn lower; beans in request, at is per 280 lbs more money; oats and oatmeal a slow sale, at former rates. SALFORD CATTLE : There was an advance of 4-d per lb on last week's prices; a good clearance effected. Best beef, 61.1 to 71d; middling, 51d to 61d; cows, 5d to 51c1; best wedders in wool, 8d to 9d; clipped, 64 , 1 to lid; ewes, sid to 64 ,1 calves, ad to 61d. Beasts, 1,244 ; sheep, 8,133 ; c SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL, MAY 8. WIND YESTERDAY—East. es, 469 HIGH WATER—Morn., 1 26—Evert. 1 48 —Heiallt. 17 ft. 4 in OFF THE PORT AND INWARD BOUND Margaretta, Cargey, Cathcart. Lavinia, Patriot King, Endymio ARRIVED. May 6.—Oracle, Bombay—Angelina, Santander. May 7.—Cam bria (ULM S.), Boston Defence, London Bosphorus, Buenos Ayres—Armenia, Bremen—Owen Potter, Bristol—Prince Ar!hur (a.. ), Glasgow—Baltic (U.S.M.S.), Excelsior, E. C. Scranton. Ne.v York— M agrico, .Lisbon—Defence, Paraiba—Balbec (a.s.), H John Spencer, London• SAILED, May 6.—Hersilia, Pernau—Broughty Castle, Hamburg. Ma —Albion, Genoa—Arequipa, Hi) Janeiro—Canadian (s.s.). A )tit —Cornelia, Boston—Lanchester, Arica—Annt Jane, Cape Town 31 Labrador. i ontreal OUTPORTS Queenstown, May 7.---Arrived—Canmore, Kay, from Liverpool for Richibucto, leaky. Greenock, May 6.—Arrived--Ecipse and Jane, Oporto—.E tre madara, Lisbon—Maria, Villa Nova. May 7-Lco, Mo,arlore. Sailed, May 6.—Pestongee Vomaniee, Batavia and Singapore Admiral, Trinidad. laScilly, May 4.—Arrived—rtanntip, Liverpool. MARITIME EXTRACTS Liverpool, May 7.—The Cambria (R.M.S.), L..itch, arr this morning, sailed from Boston 23rd April, and from Hall On the 24th, 5 3!) a m., saw a steamer. 113 doubt the Aral Liverpool and Halifax to Boston; on the 25th, 7.30 p.m , N., lon. 58 W., saw the Persia (R. 11.8.), trom Liverpo 1 t s out 7 days and 9 hours; on the 28th, in let. 43 N., lon. 50 N 1 several icebergs. She has 512.153 dollars in snee'e, of w cis dollars are for Havre, 151,370 dollars for London, end 58,7 for Liverpool. Falmouth, May 7.—The Antagonist, from Hamburg to has nut in here with considerable damage, having been it on the sth instant, off the Lizard, with the Charles Ad Hayti to Havre, which was totally dismasted—f ,te unknown Dublin. May 7.—A very large ship, supposed outwa d hound, Rot on Arleow Bank last night. Steam tugs nave bees sent to her assistance. ax 25th qew Yort passed 30? 061 dollars 1 collision. Crookhaven,l May 4.—The Carpentaria, frofn New Or'eans to Liverpool, has put into this port, w th loss of bowsprit, cutwater, &c., having been in contact, off Cape Clear, with a large ship, f).l ne unknown.—The Montrose. from Glasgow to Quehfc, found-red at sea, in lat. 51 N, lon. 24 W. Crew saved by the Greyhound, font Newfoundland. New York, April 21.—A severe storm raged here yesterday, with violent squalls trom N.E., and accompaniel with very heavy rain; it is feared much damage has been done to the shipping along the coast. Halifay. April 24.—The captain and surviving part of the crew taken off the Blake, by the scho , ner Pigeon, have arriNel in that vessel at St. John, .N.?.—The Laura, Campbell. of i •ds3 from Baltimore to Ireland, put into this port on the 24th, for r 13airs, having cut away her foretopmast in a severe gale or the 7th inst. The Vandal, from Liverpool to Africa, was lost at Cape de Ve. de, April 3. FOREIGN PORTS Ju'ia, hence at Banjowanjee for Shanghae, partially dismasted Maiden City, and Vixen, cleared at Marseilles for Liv.rpool, May 2 Cing a Vrie, hence at Nantes. Mary Anne, Brown, hence at Kiel, Gem. Rosenburg, hence at Christiana. Tres flermsnos sailed from Bordeaux for Liverpool, May 3 Tiber (e.a.), hence at Genoa. Susan, hence at Rouen. Tresherman, sailed from Bordeaux for Liverpool April 25. Jamima Fermechina ; and Jason—both hence at Riga. F.bro 1..), hence at Barcelona. Maria Loui.c. sailed from Barcelona for Liverpool. April 19 Arabia (H.M.S.), hence at Hal fax, and sailed for Boston, A America sailed from Cadiz for Liverpool, April 23. Humber, and Conquest—both hen e at Halifax. Zenobia, Normandy, Pocahontas, and Carlyle—all hence at New Orleans. Arabia, Boutelle; Roger Stewart, Skolfield ; and Portland, Ogg —all hence at Bloblile. Santa Anna, and Annita—both hence at Havanna. R. Robinson, and Oriental—both hence at New York. Chaos, Minton, hence at Savanna. Elizabeth Bibby, Gibson, hence at Portland. Thomas Killam, Cro cy, hence at St. John, N.B. Norval, Scott; and Hermione, Towill—both hence at Newfound land. Bloomer, Rinkertrarn ; and Hesper, Howes—both at Havanna. Carrier Pigeon, hence at Matanzas. Emerald, henc e at New York. Scotia, hence at Baltimore. United stalks, hence at Boston. John G. Coster, hence at Apalachicola. Arago (U.S.M.S.), from Havre at New York. Eulocia, hence at St. John, N.B. BIRTHS On the sth inst , at Rothesiy, Bute, the wife of Charles Maelver, l.sq.. of Liverpool. of a son. On the 6th inst., at 34, St. Anne-street, the wife of Juhu Wharton, Esq., oc a dauehter. On the 6th inst., at Birkenhead, Mrs. James Pringle, of a son. MARRIAGE. On the 7th inst.. at St. George's Church, Everten, Mr C arr , ironmonger, Chowbent, to Ellen, daughter of the late Thum a; I,wis, of 19, Wilton-street, Liverpool. DEATHS. Thom as On the Igth nit., at Weekawken, New Jersey, U.S., aged seven years, Grace, only chid of Mr. William P. Wr;ght, of New York. On t e lot Inst., a, New Brighton, Edwin James; and on the 7th, Edgar Thomas, infant so of Mr, Cobb. On the 4th mat., at Stanhop •-terrace, aged 13, Rose, youngest daughter of Mr. Henry Tolson Poole. ~, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, are only inserted when sent to our Office duly iuthenti'cated. CLOCKS! SWISS CLOCKS! CLOCKS! SWISS LILLIPUTIAN ALARUZ CLOCKS, To be had at ss. Gilt Faces, 6s. Porcelain Faces, AT MESSRS. ABRAHAMSON BROTHERS, WATCH AND CLOCK MANUFACTURERS AND JEWELLERS, 24, RENSHAW-STREET. The Paris correspondence of the Times says that Count Orloff is surprised and dissatisfied on account of the tripartite treaty between Austria, France, and England. The youngest brother of the Emperor of Austria is daily expected at Paris. It is generally believed that the Emperor Francis Joseph will be the guest of the Emperor Napoleon during the summer. A rescript has been addressed by the Emperor Alexander to Count Nesselrode, thanking him for the services he has tendered to the throne and •the country for a period of sixty years. The Emperor desires the Count to retain the Chancellor of the Empire, and presents him with portraits of the late Czar and himself set in diamonds. ~I" e r e Lily' the 'the erll a to n ere , •ter , La V fi¢e1)0.011 AP O) ;e p ` 3; !ter 9 a ; -)I'o gO~~ ,~.ay• ;elte~ " 0 • ' •th w i , egt es