The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-04 00:00:00

John Shimmin, William Barton, James Tyrer, Thomas
Ridley,
\V.
P. 'effreys, Thomas Wagstaff, John Rogers,
James Johnson, George Nickson, and R. M. Beck-
with.-20.
THE EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE.—THE BANQUET TICKETS.
The proceedings of this committee having been read,
sfits also a memorial. from the volunteer officers,
a'sking if there would be a general holiday on the 18th,
cB the occasion of the opening of the Free Public
Librrq.
Mr. lircerthl fat' to. ash the Council whether it was
their, as it was the gefibeal, wish;, that there should be a
holiday upon that occasion
Mr. Alderman BaAmix-rlfoolit wished to know
whether the sub-committees coriddetinm the arrange-
ment for that day reported to the t'Conheil.-
had understood that the committee of arrancienient
consisted of 150 persons. There were 64 geAkirjoi
belonging to the Council, and he would ask if it
*Mild not have been considered as selfishness if each
of tee gentlemen had asked for six tickets each to
attend the ban Vet, There was no doubt but that the
Corporation had a right to have seats reserved for them-
that tliby Were entitled to. hot there was 150 on the
make gao''perion. Be Wished to knnv• what was to
conitattee acid they had each siit tickets, which would
become of the public:. For his own part, he should
have been ashamed td take sik tickets; and he thought
he made a very great streteh When he took four
—(Cries of " Oh, oh !")—and these he had &Versed
amongst those who would be an ornarnent tog the
banquet, and who but for that would not have been there.
(Oh, oh). He did not think it right that each man
should have had six tickets appropriated to his own use,
tint he was actually told that some had as many as a
dozen; some twenty, and some thirty.
Mr. JEFFERY—AIR/ some forty.
Mr. BlLislqtx-ie-Motyvt; How many have you ?
(laughter.)'
Mr. JEP'PElri—f !IVO only six in my own right.
("Oh, oh," ancl laughter.)'
Mr. BRAISILEY-MOOHE Said that was not a direct
answer, and from it he inferred that. he bad a great
many more. He then showed the difficulty there even
was in getting the tickets, because some of the gentle-
men had gone before the hour appointed for procuring
them, and the rushing and pushing to get at them was
very great and disgraceful. He said the whole arrange-
ment was disgraceful in the extreme, and the public
were entirely shut out from participating in the banquet.
PICTON then gave a very long explanation, and
atteiatted to exonerate the arrangements committee
from any blame in the matter.
Mr. Alderinan Pknitml thought the Council were
rightly served. A committee had come .and asked the
Council for £2,000, and they had deputed the spending
of it to others. For his part, he had gone for a ticket ;
but when he found he was to be placed at one extreme
corner, he came away without taking it; and he had
not got a ticket, nor did he wish to have one.

Air. J. R. JEFFERY, in a speech of considerable length,
reviewed all that had taken place, in reference to the
arrangements committee, and accused Mr. Bramley-
Moore with acting unjustly, in attacking the "out-
siders," one of whom was Mr. George Arkle, the chair-
man of the conirffittee, when he was not present to
defend himself. lie said the reason the chairman at
the Dock Board had not had his ticket before the pre-
lions evening was, because all could not be sent out,
end denied that it was an after-thought sending him
ate, f 4.4 bad been suggested. Ile then stated that the
ettra tike be had sot, were those of gentlemen who
did not require the Ax, and as he had so many applica-
tion's' fOt tickets; Ire had asked them for those they did
not reqiiire.; and. he lied between Wen and sixteen,
which, he had no' diurbti mould be distributed amongst
the respectable ratepayeYS' of the' tovrtr.
Mr. &LEM said the Council WI by this arrangemen
learned what should be done on nth' occasions, and

what should be avoided, and severely atitnudyerted
upon the whole misarrangemeuts. He was one off those
who had no ticket.

Mr. Alderman COOPER was one of the original mem-
b'er's of the committee, but he had never been summoned
to aftepti a single meeting. lie had applied for a
tidal but the first time he was too soon, and the next
time he Wit's' teb•lvtd.. Ile was perfectly ashamed of the
whole affair.

Mr. CLARKE ASPINAiL' VOVkltg also spoken in con-
demnatory terms of the whole" aiCir it his usual
sarcastic style, and stated that one of 6.1 members of
the committee had said he would be sati'sfied with
twenty-five tickets if he could not get forty, which' was
the cause of the six being allotted to each gentleman.
/onNsox said that when he took two tickets
instead of six, he. believed he was serving the public,
but in'skld of that. a member of the committee took the
other four.
Mr. TOBIN suggested to fitore gentlemen who had
not made use of thew tickets, that ail except those they
really required should be sent to the thntraittee for them
to dispose of in the best way they could, so as to prevent
the great inconveniences which must arise from tlis• pre-
sent system. He was willing to do so.
Mr. GRAVES agreed with Mr. Tobin ; but urged that
the whole of the tickets should be called in, and a new
arrangement should be made for the disposal of the
tickets.
After a few more brief speeches from several council-
lors, each of whom complained of • the arrangement
" lotgly and deeply,"
Mr, Pieron replied, and insisted that the committee
had acted in the best passible way, and that, notwith-
standing the complaink everything. would go off suc-
cessfully on that day.
The subject then dropped.
GENERAL HOLIDAY.

It was unanimously agreed that the Mayor should
issue a proclamation calling upon the tradesmen to give
their employees a general holiday on the •18th, which he
said he should have much pleasure in doing.

THE WATER COMMITTEE.
The p.Meetlirigs of this committee, appointing Mr.
George Parry de atsistant-secretary of the engineer's de-
partment, at a salary o'f 1'2;50 per annum, was confirmed,
as was also the proceedings of tire Maths Committee.
The coroner's account was ordered to Ire paid.

ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH. - -
The memorial to appoint an organist to this clintrch,
as heretofore, was, after a brief discussion, referred to

Le Finance Committee.

The Council then broke up.

AVti!,T DERBY GUARDIANS.

The usual weekly meeting of the West Derby Board
of Guardians was held yesterday, at the Workhouse.
The chair was occupied by Mr. Ward ; the other mem-
bete present were, Messrs. Heyes, Wood, • Shaw,
Williamson, Garrett, Pilling, Jeffreys, Roberts, Ledger,
Abrahams, Ward/am, Medcalf, H. Edwards, Green, J.
Edwards, Whitby, Clarke, Bolshaw, and Wensley.
The following, cheques were drawn for out-door relief,
Mr. Potts, £112; Mr. Lythgoe, ; Mr. Roberton,
£3O.

A letter was read from the Poor Law Board, stating
that they had no legal power to sanction the payment
of the expenses entered into by Mr. Gough, the Go-
vernor of the Workhouse, in the inquiry before the
Coroner into the death of Mary McDonald from chloro-
form.