The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-18 00:00:00

DOCK COMMITTEE -YESTERDAY'.

The usual weekly meeting of this committee was held
at one o'clock yesterday, in the Dock offices. Mr. Charles
Turner, chairman, in the chair. Other members present
were—Messrs. Palmer, Rounthwaite, Robertson Glad 4
stone, Lockett, Anderson, Bold, James Holmes, Brockle•
bank, Rankin, Mendell, Gregson, and Barber.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and con-
firmed.
The warehouse committee submitted a list of stores
necessary for the working of the Wapping warehouses.
Approved of. _ _ _

A letter was read from Lieut.-Colonel Certrante of ihd
engineers department, stating that the corporation had
granted a piece of land adjoining Liscard magazines, Is
a site for a battery, for the protection of the part; and
requesting to know if the committee would, permit the
life-boat house to be included within the enclosure'
wall.

The Chairman thought there could be no objection to
such a plan, and the secretary was directed to communi-
cate with the writer to that effect.
Mr. Mondell observed, that though he had no objec-
tion to the present plan, yet as to the erection of batteries
on the other sites, granted some time since by the com-
mittee to the government, they should remember that
on
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every such construction w oul
the committeedbea‘‘blister
commerce of the port. Hethought
determine
ment had forfeited the sites alluded to, in not having
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built on them within a reasonable time.

The Solicitor gave it as his opinion, that the govern-
ment could not now enforce their right to those sites.
which were granted in time of emergency brit not
availed of, and the matter was accordingly allowed
to drop.

The Harbour Masters' Committee submitted a pled
for a gridiron on the river side of the tobacco warehouses.
It is intended to make it 300 feet long, and the estimated
cost is £2,500. It was approved of by the committee,
it was suggested by Mr. Brocklebank that i t
should be placed a little further north, than marked in
the map.

A letter was read from the African Mail Steamship
Company (William Laird and Co ), intimating that it
was their intention to dispatch their line of mail steamers
now sailing from London to the coast of Africa hence-
forward from Liverpool, and rtqnesting that a permanent
berth for loading and discharging might be alloted to
them in the Nelson, Collingwood, or Coburg Dock.
There will be an arrival and departure in each month.
They also proposed to work their line of steamers
between Liverpool and Hamburg, in connection with
the same berth. In reference to the importance of this
latter trade, the letter stated that the annual exports of
twist from this country to Hamburg amounted to 40,000
bales, and that it now found its way there through other
routes than that of Liverpool. The letter was referred
to the harbour masters' committee, and their tavourahle
consideration to it requested.
A letter from the Spanish Consul, as to an alleged
overcharge on a Spanish steamer, late an English vessel
(the Arabia), now in dock, was referred to the solicitor.
It appeared that the vessel was re-measured at the
request of the captain, and that she was found to be 480
tons: in place of 406 tons.

The annual report of the Audit Commissioners on the
leftc
dock accounts, made up to the 24th June last, was raid.
Among the matters which it mentioned as requiring
alteration in the present system was the payment of the
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odd, had not been accounted for until a short time since.
account,
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through the cut connecting the docks and canal at the
north end, and which is made use of by the company, a
considerable quantity of traffic passes which is nut paid
for.

The Chairman observed, in regard to the money
received for the cranes, that a return of it should be
made fur the future, every month, and that the amount
of sales on left goods would always hereafter pass
through their accounts. The chairman of the watch
committee was anxious that the proceeds of those sales
should go to the police superannuation fund ; but for
finance committee considered that so indefinite a au__.
secretary Lancashire and
should not be suffered to be applied for that_ purpose.
though though it might be a proper object for a contribution
the part of the dock committee.
was directed to
communicate
on i thee ate canalllith dues,the
d theire c
waresetoror
that point.
Yorkshire Company in reference
warehouse commitee should
It was agreed that the we
to consider their complaints in reference
master coopers,
d to go into the Albert dock to do
to not being allowed to
the cooperage work there.
This 1
abusiness.
receive, on Monday. at on
.o'clock, a. deputation of
This concluded the g

7 A LADY.--On Tuesday
TnErr B Jane Hampton, aft
elderly female, who described herself as a lady of inde-
pendent property, was
placed before Mr. A'Beckett at the
Southwark Police-court, charged with stealing two books
from the stall of Mrs. Connelly, the newsvendor at the
London and Brighton Terminus, London Bridep.

Luise. A.
detective officer stated he saw the prisoner take the books,
The Illustrated Life of Palmer," and " Ttie Christmas
Tree," from the stall and place them under her cloak. The
prisoner said she was merely taking books to the waiting
room to examine them, but when she was charged with
having the stolen property in her possession she denied
the fact. Mr. A Beckett sentenced her to two month'
imprisonmeut.