The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-04 00:00:00

BIRKENIIRA D DOCKS' COMMITTEI

Mr. Alderman Holme moved that the proceedings of this
committee b. confirmed, and mentioned that applications
for tenders for the deepening of Wallasey Pool had been
s'nt out to some of the first contractors of England. The
tenders would, he hoped, be laid before the council at their
next meeting.
The proceedings were confirmed.

The Coroner's account, amounting to £3B 33, was passed

MAYOR'S COMMUNICATIONS,

A memorial was real from the members of the bar,
practising upon the Northern circuit, drawing the attention
of the council to the offensive exhalations from St. John's
churchyard, which frequently penetrated St. George's-ball,
and requesting that the burial ground might be closed,
and a foot or two of earth laid over the recently-opened
graves....

Mr. Alderman Dover explained that an order in council
had just arrived, ordering the greater part of the cemetery
to be closed, and placing such restrictions upon the use of
the remainder as amounted almost to an absolute pro-
hibition.

The memorial was referred to the health committee.
A memorial was read, signed by a large number of influ-
ential ratepayers, praying the council to take into their
favourab!e consideration the opening of a street, commencing
on the site of the old borough gaol, and running south-
wards.

Mr. Kitchen moved that the memorial be referred to the
improvement committee.

Mr. Alderman Bennett seconded the motion

Mr. James Holme hoped that the question would be
seriously considered. It was quite time that either the
improvement committee, or the finance committee, took into
their consideration the improvement of the communication
of that locality. Great Howard street up to Victoria road
was much too narrow for the traffic there. He hoped the
committee would consider the matter, and not come back
with a blank form. ([Tear, hear.)

The memorial was then referred to the improvement
committee.

Memorials from Mr. Clarke, superintendent of the Corn-
wallis street baths ; and Mr. Morris, of the St. George's
baths, praying for increase of salaries, were referred to the
baths' committee.

An application for increase of salary from Allan Blunt,
employed in the borough engineer's office, was referred to
the health committee.

A memorial was read from Mrs. Allan, widow of Charles
Allan, employed for twenty years under the corporation,
praying for some assistance, was ordered to lie on the table,
the council having no power to make a charitable grant of
that nature.

A memorial was read from owners of property and resi-
dents in Hope street, praying the council to take steps to
prevent the establishment of an hospital for epidemic
diseases in that street. The memorial was referred to the
town clerk, to consider whether the council had any power
to take steps in the matter.

CORNWALLIS STREET OFFICES

Mr. Fernihough moved t he following resolution, of
which he had given notice :—" That so much of the resolu-
tion of the Council of the 6th August last, as confirms the
recommendation of the Joint Sub-Committee of the Health
and Water Committees for the removal of the Public
Offices from Cornwallis-street tl the South side of Dale-
street, and the purchase of land for that purpose, be
rescinded." He urged that this was simply the pet project
of the health committee, and that there were other works
of far more importance which required to be carried out in
Liverpool. He considered that they should improve the
existing thoroughfares before they opened cross streets, and
that the widening of Park-lane, and the making of a better
approach to the end of Dake-stree, was a work which far
more urgently called for execution than that now contem-
plated in Dale-street.

- Mr. Alderman Parker seconded the resolution, and
supported it by like arguments.
Mr. Alderman Dover considered that Mr: Fernihough
was laying down a bid and improper precedent, in calling
on the council to do and undo the same thing in the course
of a month or six weeks. (Hear, hear.) It was not the
intention of the health committee to press the work
hastily forward ; and he conceived that it would b 3 a
question with the finance committee, whether, even in the
absence of existing circumstances, they would sell the land
in the face of the public intimation, that before long a new
post-office would be required.
Mr. Hall also objected to the precedent attempted to be
established by Mr. Fernihough, and suggested that it would
be well, in carrying out the contemplated works, to have
regard to the requirements of the town for a new post-office,
which should unquestionably be erected in the course of a
few years.

Mr. Alderman Cooper supported the resolution. It was
urged, he said, in favour of the removal, that much time
was lost by the members of the council when they had to
attend committee meetings at Cornwallis-street offices. Now,
he had made a calculation, and he found that at every
quarter of an hour daring the day he could take the
members of the council from the Exchange, and deliver
them at the Cornwallis-street offices for is 9d the dozen.
(Great laughter.) If they were of the weights of
Mr. Dover and Mr. Sheil, he could take them
for is ad—(laughter)--but big and little, heavy and light,
he could take them for is 9(1. (Renewed laughter.) It was
absurd to talk of loss of time after that, and to propose a
work which would cost £40,000, and necessitate a borough
rate.

The resolution was then put to the vote, and lost by
sixteen to twenty. The voting was as follows :
For the resolution—Councillors : Messrs. Holt, Ferni-
hough, Jeffreys, J. Gladstone, jun., Wagstaff, Lawrence,
Tobin, Brancker, Picton, Aikin, and Robertson. Aldermen :
Messrs. Bold, Parker, Robinson, Cooper, and Turner.
Total-16,

Against it—Councillors : Messrs. Woodruff, Stewart,
Shell, Haydock, Livingston, Holme, Banner, Shand, R.
Gladstone; Johnson, Kitchen, Hodson, Clint, Beckwith,
Hall, and Halhead. Aldermen : Messrs. Bennett, Dover,
Hoime, and Gardner. Total-2Q.
The council UM broke up.

The following resolution, of which notice was given by
Mr. Picton, was postponed to the next council :—To move
for the appointment of a special committee to enquire and
report upon the practicability of forming a publio park at
the south end of the town.

Puorroougagy.—Last evening a lecture on the above
subject was delivered at the Liverpool Institute, by Mr.
Younghusband. This is one of a series of lectures intended
to be delivered, with a view of forming a class for the study
of phonography. There was a respectable attendance, and
the lecturer was listened to with marked interest,
PRESBYTERY OF LANCASHIRN.—The bi-monthly meeting
of the Presbytery of Lancashire, was held in the Session-
house of St. George's Church, yesterday, the Rev. G.W.
Adam, of Leeds, moderator, presiding. The minutes of
the preceding meeting were read by the clerk of the Pres-
bytery, after which the Rev. Dr. Brown, resident in
Liverpool, and his son, were associated with the Presbytery.
The Itey. Mr. Welsh, of Cannin4-street Church, was
appointed to preach St. Peter's Church vacant, and to act
as Moderator of Session during the vacancy. The clerk
then intimated that he had received from the Rev. Mr.
Connor reasons of dissent from the finding of tl-te Synod, in
regard to the employment of organs in churches, At this
point of the proceedings the reporters were requested to
withdraw.

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.1 HE LIVERPOOL MASTER MARINERS' ASSOCIATION,--A
special meeting of the committee and members of the above
association was held in theOperative's-rooms, 40, Duke-street,
on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of considering the pro-
priety of closing the rooms for the present, in order to
economise the expenditure of the association. It appeared
from the documents of the 4eorstary and treasurer, that
upwards of 160 master mariners have already eipOused the
cause of the association during the first year of its existeaee—
a tangible proof of the desire of that class to unite in
order to elevate their own position in the scale of society,
The committee, consisting solely of retired master mariners,
resolved unanimously to close the rooms in Duke-street,
and to traneer their Zaris et Penates to 24, Great George-
square, where their secretary voluntarily offered to place
2 room, free of any charge, at the command of the
association's committee. No doubt the project of this
energetic committee and their active secretary, whop united
efforts have succeeded in establishing in Liverpool au
association of this kind which has been long felt, will be
appreciated, Merchants would do well in countenancing
this committee in their laudable undertaking. They have
hitherto fought alone and overcome every obstacle. The
association, of which they. have been the founders, is now
before the world in a nourishing state.