The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-10 00:00:00

than £10,500; stipends to the reco der; t 6 assessor;
and the stipendiary magistrate ainprinten 10,42,225 ; to
clerks there was paid £10,176 ; and he had lie‘fo're him
two other items of £5,140 and t 4,1Q9 each. These
amounts included all salaries in all departments. Now,
in committee, the report was not unanimously adopted,
fdr theti'Were. sOnie gentenid Wks thoright a; much
less sum. would suffice, and it was for the Council to
say whether they would have plans in accordance with
part
•their previous rccslution,or Whether they would have a
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A. tvohiDseosil bouilikiseicuoE,:sciea erected
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th 497 motion 1 .44 the remainder at-
Mr. H
a future day:
moved, and Alderman Parker seconded,
that the,cdusiderat!on of the report be deferted'Uniil the
next nautili)? Meeting of i ie Carina,
After some remarks from Mr. Alderman J. IL Turner,
Mr. Farnworth, Alderman Dover, Mr. Stitt, Alderman
Woodreiff Mr. CliN“- Mr. Arr ffoci
• • - • . nisiM.,
• AU, • 149,- vr•l, ; 7
Son, Mr. Cooper, Alderman Gardner, Mr. Hickson, and
Mr. Clarke Aspinall,
Mr. JEFkzwy replied. The question, had been before
the Council and the public for over six years, and at the
present tinte, Whilst.the land was lying idle, there was
an actual loss to the ratepayers of neatly £l,OOO every
month: He therefdre deprecated all Unnecessary delay,'
because there Imild be artlple. time between' the'plans
being preParecl and the nest Ootiripil.nreetini far a pub-
lic meetingto express its opinions. All the comntittee.
asked. was,that the might obtain plans for a building not
to exceed £60,000, and•when the planssame before the
f Council the Council could say whether they would
accept those plans of
The amendment was carried by 25 to rg. The votes
were as follow :
For—The Mayor; Aldermen James Parker, Joseph
Coo Per, J. Hayward- Turner, John Woodruff, Raymond
W. Houghton, Samuel Hahne;
.Councillors J. Johnson
Stitt, Clarke ASpinall,William.Barton,_Thos. Littleclate,
Charles. Turner, Thonas Avison, Henry. Christie Blloe
W. P. Jeffreys, Thomas Wagstaff, John Rogers, john
Hays Wilson, Thomas Pulley Jah,, !Tama A. Picton,
Joseph john Farnwerth, James Robertson,.
Thomas Vernon; and J. dihboirisjelvingOon

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Against—Aldermen William Bennett, Thos. Dover,
Richard C. G,irduer; Councillors James Crellin, Richard'
Sheil, C. J. Corbally, Reg'et ,llaydock, Edward F,till,
James Steains, Charles T. Bowriug, Thomas Ridley,
Robertson Gladstone; James Johnson, Jamesll. Jeffery,
T. Llewelyn Hodson, George Nickson, R. M. Beckwith,
Francis A. Clint, and J. W. Cropper.
• The coroner's account, amounting to £44 13s. 6d.,
was referred td the Finance Committee for payment.
Note.--Ily order of the Court of Quarter Sessions,
the coroner has been paid the stint of £72 for fees on
inquests 13i,d by him- betwen the 3srd day c'f March,
and the 10th day of April, 1860.

si#on'st'
' A letter from lir: bodge, Pre,.iident of the
Law Society, respecting the arrangemetti. Vnsines:; iu
the Magistrates' Courts, N 9.4 read, and a copy ordered
to be sent to the magistrates:
The account of the costs of prosecutions at Itc
Borough Sessions, held in April last, amounthrgf
109 2s: 4d, ; also an account for the maintenance of
convicted prisoners for the half year ending 31st March,
1866, amounting ti7i 41,45 19s. ed:) *as presented by the
Town-clerk, and the 11.14.dr tiy3 reltiestcdn to fotWard
.the same to the Treasury for payment.

A memorial from owners and occupiers of property in
Marybone, Bevington-bush, Limekiln-lane, and neigh-
bourhood, requesting the improvement of those thorough-
fares, was read and referred Co the Improvement Com-
mittee.

%A letter from Messrs. Nelson and Young, caning
attention, to a memorial (presented a long time back,)
relative to providing a pablie park on the site of Par-
liament-fields, was read and referred to the Improvement
donimi

INSUB:APPn 0 ? PROPER I.
ORr R11I01!/ •
Alderman Woonnurr, in e'Pcorciaige with notice of
motion, moved—" That the town-derk anideifrielOrhe
iiistructed to prepare a return, by the neat mieefirig of`
the Council, stating what buildings belonging to the
Corporation have been, during the last year, insured
against fire, specifying the amount of insurance for each
ettch Wilding, the estimated value of the premises, the
office wherein insured, ad the rate of premium paid.
Also; a return of the buildings heinging to the Corpo-
ration which insured (if any), with an estimate
of the value thereof, and of the total amount of loss (if
any) occasioned by such ii.ti-insurance toi. the same
period." He believed that it thro*n open' fee publiccompetition beyond the local offices, the Corporation
'could insn're their property at a much lov,;er rate than
was no prtiE; in fact, instead of paying from 2s, 6d.
to Zs. per cent., they wotild only
,spay what the parish
paid, viz., Is. 6d. per cent. He toraftmded that the
rates at present paid were extravagant, (" no, no,") and
that they could be reduced by competition.
Mr: CRELLIN seconded the motion.

Alderman .11riitt! deprecated the statements made
by the preceding speaker.
Alderman DOVER also protested atairfst them.

The return was then. oiciered.

LEITER FROM MR. WM. BROWN.

The folloWing letter was read at the request of Mr.
Piet=

Richtit'oricl-10.21, arel May, IESO.

MY DEAR —I feel etl'erit.lely lariat at the discustiOn
which t.Jolt place in the Council yesterday. Mr!' Steains and
other gentlemen will please to recollect that I looked for.
neither statue, portrait, or anything else, as a reward for
huilding the Ftree Library. (Hear.) Voting them was an act
Of the Corporation, not of my seeking. I have received enough
in an approving ethaseierfee, ..-.that I shall leave something
behind me that Will be useful to My fellow townsmen. (Loud
cries of heir, heir.) Ai to the opening,; d cid drily iepeat
what I said before, that, so far. as I inn concerned, I hav'e no
wish for any ceremony on the occasion; on the contrary, it
would entirely meet my view to have the kttilding.completed"
with the least delay,:and have the doors at since opened to, the
(Cries of" Just like lane It9--,Yonrs
His Worship the Mayor of Liverpool. Wii. firtoWn.

Mr. STEATNS said the fact was he deemed it right to
state. that he was very much misrepresented in the
Doily '-Post, and he could only attribute the letter
to the gross misrepresentations in—the Daily Pod,
of the remarks he made at the last meeting of the
Council. He
.meant Rio disiesiiect whiteirei to W.
Brown.

The MAYOR said there was but one opinion in the
Council as to the munificent manner in which Mr.
Brown had acted. (Rear hear.)
• " Mr; JErFnitt said he hoped the Finance Committee,
*at- its nett meeting, Wotild reconsider their previous
decision tis to the gra.dt necessary td gis dtie etect to
the opening of the.Pree Library.
sAliirp.s OF OFFICERS -.AND SERVANTS.

Mr. JEFFERY, in accordance with notice of motion,
Moved "That in the opinion of this Connell the fre-
quency of applications for increased salaries by offiCers
and servants- of the dorPOiation is inconvenient and
Undesirable, and that it is therefore expedient to appoint
a special committee to take the whole subject into con-
sideration, and report.to the Council *tether some better
syiteni cannot be adopted," .
, Mr..KITCHEN seconded the motion.

Mr. CLINT observed that the resolittion ,Voirkl net
include any member of the police force, *hose salaries
arid wages were directed, under the Act of Parliament,
by the Watch Committee, !Subject to the approval of the
Cdtinoi,

l'%E.r:Joli supported the motion; which was opposed by

- Alderman PARKER, who, as an Old itienifier Of the
Corporation, Would rieVei edhniit to give
.Up his opinion
CO be Wielded an any OdMrnittee thptiglit 4t;
After a debate in which Mr. Kitchen, 11ir. .tiickson,
Alderman Dover, Mr. Hodson, and Alderman Woodruff
engaged, the resolution was agreed to.

Mr. JEFFERY then named his coniMittee as follows—
. Messrs. Sheil, Charles Turner, SteafiiS, Beloe,
Tobin, Gladstone; Cliipt Farn*Orili, lohn g
Bole, Kitchen, and Jeffery.
Some discussion took place on the formation the
committee, and ultimately Mr. Jeffery named a com-
mittee coAsistitig of eight members,. -L--Nlessrs. J.
•Stewari, Beloe, Gladstone, Clint, Mosley, t'arti*ortb,
Jetei, and kitchen.
The Council broke up at five o'clock, after having sat
six.houus, and dispOsed of all. the business before it.