The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-06 00:00:00

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Mr. Robinson
wo:Jld meet the

And by adopting such a regulation you

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Mr. Smith : But observe the (I ifficulty
steamer running from here to Dublin, a two or
three voyages in the week. It you say she is not to rem lin
on the lists unless while she is in port, you keep her three or
four weeks waiting for a turn. That would appear a very
arbitrary act upon the part of the committee, and would
compel the owners of a coasting steamer to keep her lying
up for three or fuur weeks, which would be a v-ry hard
thing.

Take the case of a

I,,fr. Evans : I think we ought to be all greatly indebted
to Mr. Smith for the great enlargement of elementary
knowledge he has been giving us. 1 rather think we all
knew these matters before, and I do not see how these
explanations were required.

Mr. Smith said he was sorry if he had stated anything
superfluous, but he thought where so important
change was recommended, it was necessary to explain
the grounds upon which that recommendation was made.
Mr. nankin thought one or two docks might be appro-
priated with advantage to steamers. He would be in
favour of allowing coasting vessels to go on voyages for
two weeks, and having a dock appropriated to them. The
fact was, that under pi esent regulations steamers could
command the docks at any time they thought proper, no
matter whether there was a pressure or not. They went
into dock and did their work at a time of pressure, when
they might just as well wait until there was a slackness.
It was quite ascertained that the docks were not sufficient
for the trade of the port, and it was only by regulating
them that they could be made applicable to the general
requirement at all ; and, therefore, if steamers were
allowed such a privilege, it must be necessarily and
unavoidably to the exclusion of sailing vessels.
After somo further conversation, it was considered
expedient that the question should be referred back to
the committee, in order to consider it more fully and
ascertain general opinion in reference to it.
Mr. Gladstone referred to the state of the pavement on
the east side of St. George's dock, to drive over which, in
a carriage, he declared could only be likened to sailing on
a rough day in the Bay of Biscay. Portion of this pave-
ment was under the c ire of the corporation, portion
under the health committee, and a small portion under
that of the dock estate. He wished to suggest for con-
sideration whether it would not be possible and advan-
tageous to have the whole under one head. He could not
see why it should be under the care of three different
parties, where one party would be perfectly competent to
contract for the whole work.

The Chairman promised that the committee of works
would consider the question.

This concluded the general business,

ASSES AND DONKEYS.—If President Pierce should suc-
ceed in attempting to set England and America by the
ears, surely the ears of both America and England must be
very long.—Punch.

MUSICAL MOVEMENTS.—The Sunday Puritans may join
trumpets with the " Pope's Brass Band," for it is very
evident that they are playing the Pope's game by render-
ing by their harsh measures, the Protestant religion as
distasteful as possible to the people.—Punch.
TILE PALMER PORTRAITS.—A. correspondent of the
Newcastle Guardian says : --" There arc, as you will sup-
pose, none of them of very great accuracy; but the most
atrocious of all is one which, some twelve or thirteen
years ago, when the corn law agitation was at its height,
did duty for a portrait of Mr. Cobden. Some scoundrel
of a print seller, it seems, has got hold of the plate, has
hammered out the name of Cobden, and inserted that of
Palmer, and in that condition the rude cheat is selling
about the streets at a penny."
Miss BURDETT COUTTS' PEllsrcurron.—At the Marl-
borough-street police court, on Wednesday, Mr. Richard
Dunn, the Irish barrister so well known to the public in
connection with his pertinacious pursuit of Miss Burdett
Colitis, said he wished to make a complaint of a very
painful nature against a lady residing within the juris-
diction of this court—Miss Burdett Coutts. His charge
against the lady was that for a series of years she had
persecuted him in every conceivable way ; had got him-
turned out of eleven lodgings; had caused him to be
pursued by a lunatic fresh from a lunatic asylum armed
with a loaded bludgeon ; and lastly, had entered into a
conspiracy with his landlord and landlady to get him
turned out of his present lodgings in Pimlico. It was
this last piece of persecution that had induced him to
come forward and to ask the magistrate to grant him a
warrant or a summons against the lady in question.
Mr. Bingham, the sitting magistrate, said the persecu-
tion was stated to have occurred in Pimlico. That place.
was ( tit of his district, ai-,d the application must be made
to the Westminster police court. Mr. Dunn insisted
that this court was the proper tribunal to apply to, as lie
was sure the lady resi,le•l within the jurisdiction of the
court ; and having argued the point at some length,
concluded by asking for a warrant or summons. Mr.
Bingham : I decline to issue either. Mr. Dunn, angrily
Then I'll have a criminal information against you. The
applicant then quitted the court in high dudgeon.