The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-01 00:00:00

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114 f year, endin;

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ler 31st, 1853.

Increase £3,327

lalf year, ending

Oth, 1854-

£60,037
£59,461

Increase, £3,903

year ending June

30th, 185.5

£4,989
£4.944

Decrease,

Total increase on the year, £3,858

ei, "'ay, 'Jere remark that I think the charge for repairing
teters should appear on the Debit side of the account,
and riotree„i
r as at present, be deducted from the gross
e P'• Tb 9 receipts for coke, &c., also show an increase,
I'cl th° ft`-`lllie cempe:ed as follows : —Coke, £11,608 9s ld ;
~l'lr, £2,926 19, ld ; Ammonia, £BOO —£15,335 8s 21.
'i3 ano,,tut turther exhibits a profit on fittings of
41,700 63 4;1. The fitting account is first debited with the
Stock on 'eland at the commencement of the year, as also
1/itht all goods pm chased, wages, &c., and credited with all
kales and charge& fur labour, as also with stock on hand,
the brelance hein...; profit. The item of house rents,
4381 e 6s 21, Is for sundry cottages adjoining the works of
the co:nple,y, and let off to tenants. For general informa-
-1 !neer here state that the unclaimed deposits which are
red to protect the Company are carried from time to
) the credit. of the bad debt account, the total amount,
-, is very trifling. That the capital invested in
by, the two companies, to June, 1848, was
.325 12s 93, which has subsequently beoa increased to 8.412 Os 93, and that the nett receipts of meter rents
Jr the year ending June 30th, 1855, would pay 8,1 per
ceet, on the capital invested. The amount paid to the
careered )n for paving and re-paving was, for the last year,
1,620 IBi 6d. The company have not incurred or paid
!ley penalties, and finally the number of customers have
Increased from 23,486, in 1849, to about 30,000, in 1854 5.
The result of the account is that the Shareholders have
received the full dividend of 10 per cent. The reserve
tend 'has been completed by a paytnent of £3,328 is 6d,
Iled there remains a surplus balance of £l5l 8s 10d.
. Tien REeßavn FUND.—This fund is now complete, and is
Invested as follows :—£2,046 Os. 9d. invested in consols at
September 10th, 1852 ; £3,441 11s. Id. invested in
consols at 92, September 18th, 1855,—the balance being
Cash in the hands of the company. 1 may be permitted
't, gain to express my regret that this fund has not been
Invested in dock or corporation bonds rather than in con-
Sole, by which the ratepayers would derive not only a larger
re'dividend, but the company would be protected from losses on
sale of stock which on nrevions occasions have amounted
the large item of £1,168. Having thus noticed in detail
the various items of account, I proceed to lay before you the
CoMplaint4 of the consumers and the reply of the gas cam-
Nal-% Appended hereto, and severally marked B, C, and
11, you have the following docunaents.Repert of the
Select. committee appoirted by the town council of the
borough of Liverpool on the s tion, dated 30th Oct.,
1855. c. : Reply of the Liver ooqlues United Gas-Light Corn-
P%nv.to the report above mentioned, dated 4th December,
1855. D. : Letter from the toresbolerk, dated 21st January,
from the secretary of the gas company,
1856 ; end the reply
dated 29th January. In these three documents the grieve
an
comolained of seem to be thoroughly discussed, and I
:11tVe felt it to be my duty to lay them before you ; but, inas-
m!ch as the several questions thaLbave sen can scercely be
" The actual
5i3 to some within the scope of a report upon
I do not
Ile and condition of the concerns of the company,.
'nose following in detail the arguments used by either
-‘ra,ether the meters. of the company have or have
''este,i, or whether Ware or impure gas
:ter, are scarcely
ectered pertinent to my enquiry.
.o notice the illuminating power of
supily of suburban districts, I have
J arse have the company exceeded the
'dory ; but, cn the other hand, I pre:
doubted that the supply of these districts
:et events, a temporary burthen upon the
in Liverpool ; bat, if I recollect rightly,
%en rued that the inhabitants of the nut •
,pfried in the act are entitled to the benefits of
. quelly with the inhabitants of Liverpo 1
'o,r'pm,
o ,1i,,,,,:1:.ris that the charges for management en-, L. c
~A.lr. L. Kaye, after' 4d.
,;t :.: companies were separate, as preferred Liverpool.
iier.tiomii in their report (page 9), seems to be 6t6bew2oi
ihiatlit
J.,aactksuoisn,szsiqd.e,netz,,
aKOedn
orily explained by the company in their reply (page Wiliam Jackson and James Ronald.
Lite consumers, in their report (page 12), state that James's-street and Edge-lane.

BIWT

On the 2Gthtul
W. C. Woodward,

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26th ul

Consul at this port, of a dat
On the 27th ult., :It Mont,

the wife of R. D. Rusden, Esq., o

On the
On the

7th ult., a
gth ult.. I

roadbridgt, of a son

On the 25t:
Rromby, T.

daughter of the lat
On the 26th ult
'nzton. Esq.,
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daughter a
Leyland.

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the 15th ult., in his
utiq• Esq., 11.13. Dui
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alt., at Rensin •rnn-

That, in May, 1852, a committee of the Liverpool Archi-
tectural and Archaeological Society, which consisted in a
great measure of architects, builders, and gentlemen. practi-
cally conversant with the requirements of the town, also
recommended the construction of a street, to commence on
the site of the Borough Gaol and run thence southwardly.

That, in April, 1854, the committee appointed at the
town's meeting in the preeeeding Jane, suggested that a
street should be made, also commencing on the site of the
Borough Gaol, and to run thence south wardly ; and so
much importance was attached to their report, that the
Town-council voted £lOO to defray the cost of printing it,
that it might be more generally available for the use of the
members of the Council, and of others who were interested
in the subject of town improvements.
That, it appears to your memorialists extremely desirable
that the subject of constructing the street proposed to be
made from Great Howard-street thiough the site of the old
Borough Gaol should now be maturely considered, and a
definite decision pronounced; and that the time, on the
whole, is favourable for such construction, since, though
the Council are indisposed to sanction any immediate appro-
priation of the land in question, the circumstances which
render such appropriation undesirable may, at any time be
changed, whilst the difficulties occasioned by the canal and
railway may be probably modified by negociation with the
respective proprietors ; Ist, The land now occupied,
by the canal 'basin and its branches is every day aug-
menting in value, and is becoming, if it be not already, too
costly for such an occupation ; and 2nd, The damages aris-
ing from the quick double curve on the railway in such
close proximity to the terminus, must necessarily entail
considerable expense and inconvenience upon the proprietors,
from which they can be 'relieved by the substitution of a
single and gradual curve, even if it were not notorious that
they require, and desire to obtain, a greater extent of station
accommodation.

Your Memorialists, therefore, pray that you will be
pleased to take the subject of this, their respectful memorial,
into your serious consideration; and they venture to antici-
pate that, if it be considered dispassionately upon its merits,
and with a due regard to the interests of all the parties
concerned, the result must prove to be beneficial to each and
all of those parties.

If desired, a deputation of the memorialists will be happy
to wait upon any committee to whom the subject of this
memorial may be referred.

street, Bred

-road, the wife of:hfr.

Otto Borchardt, Esq., Prussian

Greenheys, near Manchzster,

e- street, Mrs. R -ben Gillles, of a son
shaw.street, West Derby-road, Mrs,

MARRIAGES

h ult., at Holy Trini•y Church, Hull, by the Rev. Dr.
N. Dean, Esq., of Nfanchester, to Mary Beatson,
• ' t. of Hull.
s's Church, Leyland, William
of Chorley, surgeon, to Mary Ann, eldest
James Fletcher, Esq., of Lostock-grove,

T. On the 26th nit., at the American Embassy, Paris, by the Rev•
Rata , chaplain to the British Embassy in Paris, in the presence
-0"; `,; m'e.itleht Hon. John T. Mason, American Minister, at the court
shia,.ll.. C. Willie ma. E.q., commander of the American packet
Albion, to Mademoiselle Teresa B. Almansic, of St. Remo,

On t 1;; 29th ult., at St. Nicholas's Church, Mr. Henry Harrison, to
isa Jane Jo.ies, of Roger. and Morris's, Church-street.

at Conatanti

1 of forty years pl►,

Titoinas M•duti

, Samu

,per Parliament-stre,

Hamilton square, Birkenhead
i senior partner in the firm e,
cordage manufacturers, &c., o