The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

The cost of calming out the higlc level, would b
by meatis of the New Street, £142,500, togethei

Baying submitted to the Council these observations, on the
two plans, the Committee report their opinion, that the rapid
increase of the traffic of the Town will very shortly, render
both improvements requisite ; and having maturely consi-
dered the subject, they therefore,' recommend the Council
to apply to parliament for powers to carry out both plans,
and also the improvements recommended in the resolution
of the 12th inst. Having also, considered the reference
from the Council, as to improvements in Burlington-street,
Bostock-street, Eldon-place, Bevington-bush and Lime-
kiln-lane, your Committee recommend the Council to
carry out all those improvements, except Bostock-street."
The MAyou then read a resolution from the Improve-
ment Committee, appointed at the Town's meeting, ap-
proving of the plans submitted to the Council.
Mr. GLADSTONE asked if that were not the time to read
a memorial, very numerously and respectably signed, which
he had been requested to present to the Council.
The MAYon replied that it was ; and the memorial was
accordingly read. It was from the inhabitants of Dale-
street, Byrom-street, and that locality; and it very strongly
stated the objections of the residents in those streets to the
High Level Bridge. The resolution passed in the Session-
house, on the 11th June, 1852, expressive of the propriety
of applying the surplus revenue of the Corporation to obtainf
an act to carry out the improvements agreed to, was also
read. It was forwarded to the Mayor, with a request that
he would lay it before the Council.

Mr. BEN NETT then rose to move the adoption of the report
of the Improvement Committee. He said he was glad that
these two documents had been read, and that now that the
subject was before the Council, and before the bill was
framed, the Committee would have the advantage of hearing
the opinions of the different members of the Council who
took an interest in it. In accordance with the instructions
of the Council at its last meeting, the Improvement Com-
mitte had gone very fully into the consideration of the im-
provements referred to them ; and the minutes which had been
read, had been almost unanimously carried in the Committee.
There was a difference of opinon, certainly, amongst the
members as to the desirability of constructing a bridge over
Shaw's Brow, in preference to the cutting off of a portion of
the Brow, so at to get moderate levels without the con-
struction of a bridge at all ; and as the Council would decide
between them that day, so, of course, would the bill be
drawn. He would now read the list of the different im-
provements, omitting those which had been agreed to at the
last Council, and the estimate set down for each. The first
which the surveyor had put on the list was the estimated
cost of the proposednew street, twenty four yards wide, from
Dale-street, opposite the end of Moorfields, to the top end
of Roe-street, including all the property between Queen's-
square and St. John's Lane—the total cost being estimated
at £142,500. The next was the estimated cost of the
proposed new street on the high level, from Shaw's Brow,
to Dale-street, 22 yards wide, including the bridge over the
end of Byrom-street, £90,600. The other estimates were,
the cost of widening Hatton-garden, £15,150 ; the comple-
tion of the improvement at the bottom of Water-street,
£7,250, and of Hardman-street, £1,500 ; improvement of
Limekiln-lane, £13,000 ; of Bevington-bush and hill 'from
Banaster-street to St. Barbington-street, £27,800;

provement of Eldon-place, £2,400; and 'improvement of
corner of Barbington-street and Love-lane, £1,370; the
estimated total cost of all the iMprovements being £301,570.
The report entered rather fully into the advantages of all
the improVements which they recommended the Connell to
adopt; and the more he thought on the subject, the more
fully was he convinced of the economy of doing these things,
and at once. There would, in the first place, be a great
increase in the traffic from the southern pediment of St.
George's Hall to Dale-street, and in.proportion there would
be an increase in the value of rateable property. by that
means. He had no doubt that the property would be im-
proved by several thousands, and that when the streets were
completed, the rate to be raised would amount to some
thousands more than the property which it was proposed
to pull down, at present yielded. He had tried to make
some calculation as to the number of persons who would
use this street, and taking the number of persons who
crossed the river as his basis, and who were calculated at
8,000,000, he thought that he would be safe in setting down
the number who would pass backwards and forwards through
this street, at that figure. The interest upon the proposed
outlay would not amount to a farthing a head upon that
number of persons, and he would ask any gentlemen present,
whether he would not cheerfully pay that farthing to get to
the neighbourhood of the Exchange, along a wide mid open
street, rather than run the risks, he at present ran? in
getting from St. George's Hall to that quarter. Objec-
tions had, however, been raised to this *street on the score
of the level. He had, therefore, taken some pains to
ascertain how the levels would run, by comparing them
with the streets at present in use for large traffic, and he
had found that the level of this street from 'Whitechapel
to St. George's Hall would be 1 in 27, and from Whitechapel
to Dale-street, lin 40. He would now tell the Council-how
that was, as regardei the levels of other streets. The
level of Lord-streetwas 1 in 30 ; of Bold-street 1 in 33 ;
and of Ranelagh-street, 1 in 22 ; and the Council could
easily see that these levels were by no means bad levels. As
regarded the property through which the street would pass,
it was altogether property of little value ; for with the ex-
ception of that coming out into Thile-street, there was
scarcely any property on the line which could not be,pur-
chased at a very moderate rate. A great deal of it was of
the character of the house which fell down in l'recott-
street—houses which, if not taken down very soon, would
fall of themselves. Another advantage of this road was,
that it would interfere with no public bi iildino, except the
old Fish Market, and the Milk Market, buildings already
in the hands of the Corporation, and of very little value.
On the score of health, no street could be made in any, por-
tion of the town, possessing this advantage more thoroughly
than the street which he advocated—(hea:r' hear)—and it
would further drive from Peter-street *ll'l'oton-street,