The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-08 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL MEETINGS.

ON Tuesday, a meeting of the Council was held for the
purpose of appointing trustees, &c., for the different local
institutions : —ln compliance with the terms of the trust,
the Mayor was appointed a trustee, under a local Act of oth
Geo. IV., for enabling the trustees of Mrs. Ann Molyneux's
Charities, in Liverpool, to grant building leases, and for
better vesting the estates in them.—The Mayor and Messrs.
Fleming and Gregson were appointed trustees, under the
local Act of 7th Geo. IV., for establishing St. James's Ceme-
tery.—The Mayor and Mr. Alderman Bennett were chosen to
execute the powers given to the mayor and senior aldermen
by the Local Act of 10th Geo. IV., cap. 15, relating to the
School for the Indigent Blind, at -Liverpool, and the chapel
attached thereto.—The next proceeding was the appointment
of forty-one members of the Council as commissioners, to
carry into execution the Local Act sth Geo. IV., for the better
regulation and encouragement of pilots, and the appointment
of three members of the Council as auditors under the act.
All the members were re-appointed, except in those instances
where there had been changes in the Council, in which cases
Mr. J. M. Wood, Mr. J. Bigham, and Mr. J. Moss, all of
whom had left the Council, were succeeded respectively by
Mr. J. Lawrence, Mr. Sheil, and Mr. Roger Haydock.

PERILOUS CONDITION OF THE WALLISEY EMBANKMENT.

On the motion for the appointment of the Commis-
sioners of the Wallasey Embankment, Mr. Samuel Holme
called attention to the great danger which the embankment
had of late sustained from severe gales, accompanied by high
tides. The damage resulting from this cause last quarter it
would take upwards of £3,000 to repair. The total amount
of rates which the commissioners were enabled to levy
amounted to £3,000 only per annum. The commissioners
had had to incur a debt of nearly f 04,000 at the bank, the
result of the damage done in one year alone, and more than
half the rates which they were entitled to raise during the
next year had already been disposed of._ . Under these circum-
stances, and considering the rapid decay of the foreshore from
the incursions of the sea, he urged that the Dock Committee,
who were owners of a large amount of property on the other
side of the river, should unite with the Corporation in the
erection of a sea-wall, beginning at Seacombe, and ending at
Hoylake, a distance of about eight miles, which would cost
about £400,000 or £500,000. The appointments were then
filled up as follows :—The Mayor and Messrs. Hornby and
Samuel Holme.

Forty-one members of the Council were then appointed
commissioners, under the acts relating to the churches of St.
Paul and St. John. The members were re•elected ; except
Mr. John Aikin, appointed in the place of Mr. Arthur Hen-
derson ; Mr. Farnworth in place of Mr. W. J. Horsfall ; and
Mr. John Lawrence, in place of Mr. J. M. Wood. The gen-
tlemen who had served last year as commissioners to inspect,
audit, and adjust the accounts of the Trustees of the
Liverpool Docks, under the Dock Acts, and the appointment
of commissioners under the Income and Property Tax Acts,
were re-elected.