The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-14 00:00:00

mittee to notify to yolk officially, that on receipt of your
letter of the 17th May last. stating the desire of the
Mersey :Docks and Harbour Board to purchase the
reversionary interest of the Corporation in the property
at Birkenhead, referred to in the 16th section of the
Mersey Docks and Harbour (New Works) Act, 1858,
the committeexonsidered the subject so important that
it was their duty to submit your application, in the OM
instance, to the Council. This was accordingly done,
and the Council passed the resolution, of which a copy
is enclosed. 'the subject has since received the anxious
attention of one of the sub-committees of the Finance
Committee, who still have it under consideration ; but I
believe that they will be prepared to report, to the
Finance Committee in time to enable the question to
be brought before the Council at the next monthly
meeting.—Yours very faithfully,
SIII.7TTLEWORTH, Town-clerk.

"Chas. Turner, Esq., Chairman of the Mersey
" Docks and Harbour Board."

Attached to the report was a copy of the resolution
passed by the Council, which was in_ effect, that that
body sanctioned the principle of the sale of the rever-
sionary interest of the Corporation, and that it be
referred to the Finance Committee to consider the terms
of such sale, and report to the Council.
The CHAIRMAN hoped, from what _ the Town-clerk
said, the subject would be brought before the next
meeting of the Council, which would be held on the first
Wednesday in October.
Mr. LAIRD hoped so, for every day was a gain to the
Corport4ion, and a loss to-the board. Every shed put
there, or piece of work done, rendered the estate of
greater value, and would be taken into consideration.
The CHAIRMAN hoped not, for that would be taking
an advantage. He agreed with Mr. Laird it was
desirable there should be no delay; but the principle of
the arbitration, of course, must be based upon the state
of things when the first application was made.
The subject then dropped:
CoAgerricAticiris,

A letter was read from Mr. Nathaniel J. Holm, of
London, bringing before the notice of the board the
recent improvements in the electric telegraph patented
by Professor Wheatstone, with the view of their adop-
tion dri the Liverpool and Itolyhead telegraph line. It
was stated that these instruments, besides combining
the advantages of increased speed and great simplicity
in manipulation, required no voltaic batteries, or expe-
rienced clerks to work them,—the messages being
received and trartSmitted in the ordinary alphabetic
language. The letter mill referred to the Marine
Committee, as was also one from :Jr. Jo3htia bill, of
Rawlins-street, Fairfield, calling attention to an oil-gas
apparatus which was stated to possess- advantages for
the illumination of light-houses.
A letter was next read' from Messr. Robert Thorpe
and Co., on behalf of the Otterspool Oil Mill Co., com-
plaining that, being the buyers of several lots of seeds
which He in the Albert Poek Warehouses, they had
been refttseri the iveigdta there, and told to go to the
importer to get them. Re might refer 'to others; and
they should thus be driven from one party to another,
to their great loss and inconvenience.
The letter was referred to the Warehouse Committee.

The CHAIRMAN said the next matter on the paper
was the notice of motion given by Mr. Boult—" That
the accounts of receipts of tonnage on ships, and dues on
cargoes at Liverpool and Birkenhead, be hereafter kept
distinct, niicl Separately retlorted to this board."
Mr. 80x.4.4 said he totiiid the retdriis Which had been
issued by Mr. Jefferson yesterday did give them the
War* ledei* for the diterent &as; and also t'oi
tiritetibead. This mould o stink eiteiit anticipate the
object Alth he had in view, and he should therefore,
with the consent of the board, Withdraw the motion of
.which he had given notice. But he thought it would
be necessary that they should have at the proper time
the total revenue from and outlay on the Birkenhead
estate. He said nothing of last year, because things
were in such a transition state ; but, at the end of the
present year, he should be prepared to move that such a
report be
This *at the *hole of the public business: