The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-06 00:00:00

THE PRIDE OF LIVERPOOL.

Liverpool may well be proud of her docks and har-
bour. Little more than a hundred years ago, the dock
duties paid at the port of Liverpool amounted to a sum
under £l,BOO. Last year, they amounted to the enor-
mous sum of nearly £400,000. If we take a shorter
retrospect—say for a dozen years back—we find that
the amount in 1848 was under £200,000; so that in
that brief period the receipts have been doubled. Still
farther narrowing the range of our retrospective com-
parison, we find that during the last three years the
tonnage and duties have been steadily on the increase,
while, strange to say, the number of vessels has been on
the decrease, thus :

Tear. Vessels. Tonnage. Duties on Duties onTonnage. Goods. Total.
1858 21,352 4,441,943 £183,637 £164,261 £347,899.
1859 21,214 4,511,969 187,449 179,459 366,999.
1860 21,136 4,697,238 201,032 194,282 397,315.
These figures show a steady increase in the duties at the
rate of about twenty thousand pounds per annum.
'With these undeniable and most eloquent facts before
us, and taking into our consideration the vast and con-
tinually growing demand for increased accommodation
for shipping, along with the remarkable circumstance
that the natural approaches from the sea and the bed of
the Mersey are yearly widening and deepening from self-
acting causes, what may we not anticipate in the future
development of the port—already second to none in the
kingdom ? The past history and future prospects of the
port of Liverpool constitute one of the wonders of the
world.

It appears from a general statement of the affairs of
the Docks and Harbour Board, as at 23rd June last,
that bonds and assignments have been paid off during
the year to the amount of £279,965, and that there i 3
still outstanding £7,593,358. The average rate of
interest for the year has been £4 7s. Bd. per cent.
After giving effect to sundry floating balances for and
against the Board, the debt on bonds and assignments
is reduced to £7,653,390, which is apportioned as
follows :

Expenditure on Works at Birken-
head in 1858, £31,602 12s. Id. •
1859, £200,900 2s. I Id. ; 1860,
£365,578 Bs. 6d. ;by Corpora- £ s. d.
tion £128,175 4s. 4d
Purchase of property, Birken-
head, and Compensation to
Wallasey frontagers, £16,790
15s. 5d.; purchase of north
reserve, £127,000; Commis-
sioners of Woods, &c., for land,
Woodside Basin £8,630 ; on ac-
count of Birkenhead Dock
Bonds, £125,000 ; Parliament-
ary expenses in obtaining the
Mersey Docks and Harbour s. d.
Act, 1857, £17,223 2s. Id 294,643 17 6 1,020,900 5 10
On account of consideration for

town dues
Liverpool expenditure

400,000 0 0
6,132,489 18 3

£7,553,390 4 1
To this amount to be added liabilities under "the
Mersey Docks and Harbour Act, 1357," viz.:—
To Balance of Compensatien in
respect of the town dues,
payable in eleven half-yearly £ s. d. s. d.
instalments of £loo,oooeack. 1,100,000 0 0
Ditto in respect of Birkenhead
Docks bonds, payable in in-
stalments as follows, viz. :
On the 23rd of July, 1861,
£125,000 ; 1862, £446,500;
1865, £446,500 1,018,000 0 0 2,118,000 0 CY

In all amounting to 9,671,390 4 1
The revenue of the Board for the year ended 23rd
June last has been as follows :
Cash received for dock tonnage rates, viz. :
foreign sailing ships, £147,353 15s. 9d. ; ditto
steamers, £27,957 lls. 4d. ; coastwise sail-
ing ships, £7,999 6s. 91. ; ditto steamers,
£19,722 ss. 8d.—£203,032 19s. 6d. Deduct
amount returned on vessels which had paid both
Liverpool and Birkenhead rates, £69 9s. 2d £202,970 10 4
Cash for Dock Rates on Goods : Foreign
inwards, £151,632 145.; foreign outwards,
£42,649 19s. 34 194,282 13 5
Cash received for Town Dues on Goods :
Foreign inwards, £75,316 14s. ; foreign out-
wards, £49,059 14s. 6d. ; coastwise in-
wards. £17,046 45.-9 d, ; coastwise outwards, •
£8,726 189. lld.
Cash received for anchorage dues
Cash received for graving dock rates
Cash received for graving block rates
Cash received for rates on river flats Birken-
head 3 0 0
Cash received for extra cloak rent
Cash received for rents of property
Cash received for miscellaneous : Canal rates,
cranes, weights and scales, damages' weigh-
ing machines, dock stages, dock line of rail-
way, watching lights on board vessels, 14,623 16 10
Cash received from Fitzsimons, Applebee,
Ca., in respect of town dues evaded 4OO 0 U
Amount transferred: from Albert Dock Ware-
houses Account .
Wapping Dock Warehouses do. 9,500 0 0
Stanley Dock Warehouses do. 9,000 .0 0
Birkenhead Dock Warehouses do.
Interest allowed in Bank Account, £3,134 14s
10d.; less commission, £1,872 Is. 7d 1,262 7 3

Amount
The charges against revenne.paid during that period
have been as follows .
Cash paid Corporation, interest, consideration •
for town dues
Ditto, ditto, in respect of Birkenhead
dock bonds 15,895 0 0
Cash paid on account of interest on bond debt 321,551 17 0
Ditto on annuities
Cash payable to Corporation, interest, on Ist
July, 1860, on £l,l 0 000; balance of consi-
deration . for town and anchorage dues,
£24,750 ; cash payable to Corporation,
interest, on 23d July, 1860, in respect of
Birkenhead dock bonds, £15,895 40,645 0 0
Cash paid police
PO
.
ditto at Birkenhead
~ general repairs 69,901 1 6
f 9 ditto at Birkenhead
3. salaries - 24,072 1 5
~ wages and clothing of dock gate-
men, Ste.
"ditto at Birkenhead
Cash paid miscellaneous: Landing stages, tran-
sit sheds, weights and scales, weighing .
machines, cranes, cleansing steps and qu tys,
law expenses, stationery and printing, public
charities, insurance of property, &c.
Cash paid for miscellaneous disbursements,
Birkenhead
Total expenditure on revenue account , 576,310 2 7
Cash Balance—Surplus of general receipts qqr
tied to capital account

£682,06616
These and other general statements of the accounts
of the Board have been published along with most
copious and in every way satisfactory details, all duly
audited and certified as correct. The manner in which
these accounts for the year have been prepared and,
submitted to the public redounds to the credit of the
Board and its employes, and cannot fail to interest the
whole mercantile community as affording one of the
best proofs of our continued prosperity and prospective
advancement.

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

(Before Mr. RAFFLES.)

HOW MISS JORDAN GOT HER EYE INTO MOURNING!
Miss Mary Anne Jordan is a maid of all work and general
information, and lives in a public-house in Hurst-street, and
it would appear that sometimes she gets paid in other than
current coin of the realm. dames Scully keeps a boarding'
}lease at 5, Salthouse-lane, and sometimes went to have 1114'
beer at the house where Miss: Jordan dispenses her information,
For that purpose he went there on Tuesday afternoon, and
whether the bitter ale soured his temper or not, it was stated
that a " difficulty" took place between him and the maid of all
work. The "scrimmage" originated inside, but concluded
outside, where a policeman saw him exercise the muscles of his
right arm on the left optic of Miss Jordan, and that blue peeper
immediately became shrouded with sable. In reply to Air-.
Bluels, who appeared for the defence, the offices' flail he sA
that transaction as clear as tvso and two nardia vt4t the
female aggravated him very reuch asid welted him with her
tongue, which he said was as nimble as an eel, and went every
way at one time. Mr. Muck . Was she sober S Yes, she was
sober, but he was drunk. The fair complainant with the toil
eye, was then examined, and said that the man without any
prorogation, gave her a thump in the face. In reply. to, Mrs
Bluck, she said there had been some quarrel between her
mistress, her daughter, and the defendant, but she had
nothing to do with that affair. Mr. B;tick +aid the real faeV
of the case were these : The defendant was a boardingsheuie
keeper, and formerly used to send some of his boarders t'
patronise the public-house where complainant :served; but
lately he withdrew his custom from that establishment, and
that caused an ill-feeling towards him on the part of the hinds
lady and her daughter. He went there theprevione day to get
a glass of ale, as he had a right to do, but instead of heist
served with the liquid, he was served out by the landlady, her
daughter and a sailor, who made an attack on him, and they
were joined by the complainant, and in defending himself, his
arm flew out, and by pure accident his hand went against her
eye, and that was how it happened. He called a man named
Alexander Baxter to try and carry out this statement; but
his worship thinking the assault proved, fined the defendant
£2 and costs.
PLUNDER BY A WAREITOUSn;:—
t 415,
William Decks, warehouses:l;in t 0 'gents. Geller and Coa of
Slater's-court, Calllo-11treet, Nod reerchallt4:
waS brought uR by 4eteatiyessafficers Eaten and Lees an 4
charge of having stolen age empty (Vaionia) bags, the property
Of that firm. Eaton said, from information received by the
police he and Lees went to watch Messrs. Geller's warehouse,
Man' sty's-lane, and after some time they saw a porter and
carter take 500 bags from the warehouse to the store of a Mr.
Roche, in South John-street, where they delivered some of
them, but then they stopped the parties, and the porter pro-
duced an order from the cheque-book-written by the prisoners
and stating that he sent him with the bags to be repaired,
The officers then went to the prisoner, and asilsed him had be
iy authority
for sending out the bags, and he said one of the
firm had
given him orders, but this turned out not to be true.
i d
The prisoner wes then arrested. William Oldfield; a porter in
the emPlOynient of Messrs. Geller and Co., said; the prisoner,
to whose orders and authority he was subject, sent bins with
the Order now produced, and the bags, to Mr. Roche's, takykaB.
the bags' were to be repaired. Mr. Mark Roche said he was ill
sack, bag,' and cotton' dealer, in South icatn-street,.tind knoWe
the prisoner, but he had not made any arrangement with hint
to have bags sent to lit's phiee, nor had he ever spoken to him
on the subject.: The prisoner land no right to send bags to his
place to be repaired, as he does not repair bags for any one
except himself. Never had any dealings with the prisoner.
Knew nothing whatever alas% the bags in question... Mr.
Andrew Miller, one of the firm, of Geller and Co., said the
prisoner was in the employment over a, year, and had the entire
charga of the property in the warehouse. wad ao right or
authority to send out the hags to he repaired, for in fact the
bags did not require to be repaited. He Predqced the ware-
house cheque book, and it seemed there had been some slips
taken out of it, without leaving the counterpart, and one of
these was sent with the bags to stoche's. It further appeared
that Mr. Roche was not at John-street when the bags yrs
sent, and that a boy who was there knew nothing' ahoes
I to the
being sent to his master's.
charge, said he sent the bap ue repaired. Mr. Raffle'
said it was of great inr„nriance that warehousemen should bg
honest, had so much property entrusted to their etire;
The priseuels, ta
ys. them
lie considered this a serious offence, and as he was put odthal
bench for the nurpcse of protecting e piiblie,she *mid, dela
very severely with persons who mere brought before bin)
undet 4144 carsainstanses. $e asked the prisoner if he wished
ull to .plead, gt,Y, or not before-him 3 • The prisoner pleade
guilty: 'Mr. Miller begged his worship to deal leniently. witn,
him, on account •of his wife and family. Mt. Rates said":„
was of the-utmost • larportaute that merchants Sisciuld he pro.
tested ; he did' not think that anything less than the full
ametutt of Prolistrnerit which the law allowed him to inflict
would be suflacien.t in this case. He sent the prisoner to Se 4/
far six months, with hard labour.
(Before Messrs. J. B. LLOYD and T. RATIII3O.)
OBSTRUCTIONS AND ASSAULTS.
John Anson and Anne, his wife, who keep a boarding-how,:
in Jordan-street, were charged by Police-officer '5ll
having obstructed him in the discharge of hiestuty. ' He said
there were two sailors fighting in the 'street, when he later'
fere4, sass tbell the defendants came and rescued them. It
Was ahoWn, on the part. 01,the, defendants, that the sailor'
were not in cult .dy at the time, and the complaint was d 15.7
missed. Mr. Lightfoot said'he was instructed tar the defence.
Mr, Cobb then-appeared to prosecute the Among, and also t
Ann e J
woman named filahey, for having assaulted a female names
ones, the servant of another boarding-house keeper
the same street. The affair originated out of the row above'
stated. It appeared that at the tight of the sailors a crowd
collected, and as one of them boarded at the house of lon°,
mistress, she endeavoured to get him away. The Ansons tried
t get him to their house, and thus a squabble ensued. The
girl was km:4o down and kicked by both the Ansons, and
the svgats galley struck her with a last on the head. n''s'.
.Pobb ealled witnesses to sustain the case, and the Bench el„
„
eluding that the assault' was committed fined the defendan -
£1 and costs each. The fines were paid at once.