The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL..

ON Tuesday, a special meeting of the council was held, his
worship the Mayor (J. A. Tobin, Esq.,) presiding, for the pur-
pose of winding up the affairs of the official year, preparatory
to the municipal elections.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.-ENGAGEMENTS AND LIABILITIES OF

THE CORPORATION.

The proceedings of the Finance Committee contained
several recommendations, among which was one to advance
two several sums of £4,309 and 1;4,208 for the construction of
permanent buildings required by Messrs. Clover and Royle,
and Messrs. Clayton and M`Keverigan, on land leased by
them at Birkenhead, for ship-building purposes.. There
was likewise a recommendation to appoint Mr. Hutton assist-
taut book-keeper in the Treasurer's office, at a salary of 8120.
Mr. HORNBY, in moving the confirmation of the proceed-
ings, stated that the outlay proposed in respect to the
ship-building purposes would yield an annual return of
GI per cent., and said that when the buildings were finished,
the establishments connected with them would be the most
complete of the kind in this country. He expressed a hope
that the recommendation of the committee to abstain from any

new schemes of local improvement Whuld be concurred in by
the Council, stating as a reason, that, during the next munici-
pal year, the new Assize Courts, .the Borough Gaol, and the
courts in Dale-street, will absorb upwards of £40,000; while
£25,000 will be required within the same period towards the
new landing-stage. The large engagements of the Corporation
on the other side of the water .formed another consideration.
of great importance, and, though he 'did not in the least regret
the purchase of the Birkenhead Docks, than which he thought
there was no measuremore calculated to contribute ultimately_
to the prosperity of the port of Liverpool, he could not disguise
from himself the fact that, without great care and good ma-
nagement for a few years, the surplus income of the Corpora-
-tion would be swept away, and a borough rate necessitated.
Under these circumstances, he urged the Council to sanction
heartily the recommendations of the committee.
The recommendations of the committee were adopted, and
the proceedings confirmed.
The proceedings of the Watch, &c., Committee werecon-
firmed.
THE NEW FREE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: MR. BROWN'S
GRANT.
The proceedings of the Improvement Committee comprised
a recommendation that all necessary steps should be taken for
acquiring the property- between Shaw's-brow and Clayton-
street, from Mill-lane to Byrom-street, as a site for a public
library and museum, under the provisions of the Liverpool
Improvement Act of 1855. In connexion with this subject, a
letter was read from W. Brown, Esq., M. P., upon the subject
of his donation of £6,000, promised in 1853, towards the erec-
tion of a building for a free library, and stating that, if the
Corporation did not take steps to purchase the necessary pro-
perty, he should consider that they had declined his offer, and
should adopt means to have the money applied to other edu-
cational purposes. The recommendation of the committee
was carried.