The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-01 00:00:00

DOCK COMMITTEE -YESTERDAY.

The usual weekly meeting of this committee was held at a
quarter past one o'clock yesterday. Mr. Charles Turner
occupied the chair, and the other gentlemen •present were—
Messrs. Shand, Palmer, Robinson, Gregeon, Brocklebank,
Rounthwaite, Barber, dames Holme, Holden, Langsdale,
Anderson, William athbone, Rankin, Smith, Robertson
Gladstone, and Lockett.

It was agreed that the offer of Messrs. E. and S. Willoughby,
to renew, for the next year, their contract, for towing the mud
flats, be accepted.

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Tenders for supplying from 10,000 to 12,000 feet of best
Quebec yellow pine were received, Viand it was recommended
that the offer of Mr. R. A. Watson be accepted.:

1 In the marine department, that the salary of the
.keepersuf
the upper Viand. lower Hoylake..lighthouses,be :increased, from
;£45 to /355 per annum. The following recommendations
were also made'and. agreed to :—That a final gratuity of £5,
at 5s a week, be made to the widow of David, Lloyd, late
keeper of the'Formby lighthouse. That John Sharpies be,
promoted to be junior master.of the Formby light-ship, to fill
up the vacancy caused by the removal of William Lawrence to
the north-west light-ship: and that John Roberts be junior
master of the Crosby light-ship, to fill the vacancy caused, by
the death of:Charles Edwards; that. John Graham, and -Donald
WNab, be .appointed seamen on board. the light-ships; and
that the offer.of Meissrs. Ogden and Barnes,. to, make iron
cistinds, required for the tide guage. at Formby be accepted.
Irwas agreed that the office upon the ground floor, occupied
by the clerkof the marine surveyor, be assignedito, the use of
the audit commissioners', and that the former be (removed to
the office up:stairs..

A bye-law, prepared by the so:icitor, with reference .to the
uge of dock 'stages, was read, approved of, and ordered to be
advertised.

It was ordered that tenders for constructing a residence for
the mister of the King's. dock bb advertised for, to be placed
on the north side of the Queen's basin.

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A model of a sheers, for lifting masts, to be placed on the
south side of the Sandon-dock was exhibited. It has a lift of
70 feet, and costs £1,200.

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This was the whole of the general business.

' RAILWAYS IN THE UtitTED STATES. —lt appears from a
return of railways in • the' United •States of America that
21,460 'miles were open for traffic on the 31st of Decembar:
last; being an ircrelse of 2,0;0 miles in 18,5 i. 'On the 31st
of Deem bet, 1850, 8.850 milts were open .for traffic, being
a longer mileage by 600 mites than that now open in the'
United Kineotn. At the end of the year 1851 the mileage
in the United S'ates was 10,880; of the year 1352, 13,320 ;
miles
ofO
orthe year 1813, 16,5101 of 1854, 19.440 ; and of 1855,
'2l 450 ; the mileage oeried in each ye ir hying reap ctively
miles, n3oiiilteSi,B e2lttt
4iO
ate miles,i;
char. the
emi
costle,,
(30,9t3h002 I,miles,4z o
an
railway was about: 140,000,0001., or at the rate of 6,5501
per Mire.' 'The'leugth of railway open for trefin at, the end
iit last year. in the State of New York, was 2,733 miles; in
Ohio, 2,702 ;in Illinois, 2,240 miles; Pennsyr.
in Indiana, 1,590 miles; in Massachn
in New Hampshire, 600 miles ; in
nis'eaetenttie;e' 2;72:0490'mini
miles;tllYin South Carolina, 770 m les ; in Corp
main,;, 520 mile' ; in Maryland, 608 mites.; in North
Carolina, 501 'Miles ; in Michigan, 472 'miles; in 'Ten-
riessee .64 miles ; in New J,reey, 457 miles ; in Vermont,
454 miles; 'in Altbaoia, 336 Wisconsin, 285
miles; in'Xentucky. 232 miles; in Louisiana, 230 miles ;
in 215 miles ; in Missoitri, 138 miles.; . in Rhode
island; 95 miles; ir. lowa, 87 miles; in Delaware, 62 miles;
in Texas; 40 miles; and in Guifornid .21 miles. The number
Of main' lines of railway is 296.; and branches and exten-
sions, 34; together, 330. • • •