Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-03 00:00:00

THE TOWN COUNCII

at the monthh

meeting of the

will be held on Weduesaay

Town Council, which

The proceedings, resolutions, and report of the Finance
Committee, comprising :—" Recommendation that the
discretion given by, and contained in, the Act of 7
William TV., and 1 Vie., cap. 19, as to the appointment
of an assistant, or deputy-recorder, should, at' the next
sessions, be exercised by the recorder." " Recommen-
dation to sell, subject to the approval of the Lords of the
Treasury, the reversionary interest in a piece of land at
the corner of Drury-lane and the Old Ropery, to the
Liverpool Corn Exchange Company, for the sum of
25.'

The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the watch,
lighting, fire-police, fire prevention, gas supply, and
hackney carriage and licensing committees, comprising :
—" Report of watch and health committees as to
registration and inspection of common lodging-houses,
the consideration of which was postponed at the last
monthly Council." _ _

The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the health
committee, comprising :—" Recommendation that the
salary of Mr. John Evans, one of the surveyors in the
engineer's department, be increased from £l2O to £l4O
per annum." "Recommendation that Mr. T. J. Hughes
be appointed collector of rates, in place of Mr. Peter
Bradshaw, resigned, at the lowest scale of salary, viz.—
£l5O per annum." " Recommendation that Mr. Edward
Fitzgerald, jun., be appointed collector of accounts in
the place of Mr. T. J. 'Hughes, promoted as above, at the
salary of £l5O per annum."
The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the
markets' committee, comprising :—" Recommendation
to appoint the following persons inspectors of slaughter-
houses, meat, and fish, under the provisions of the Local
Acts, and of the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Pre-
vention Acts, viz.:—Mr. Isaac Hutchinson, inspector of
markets. James Stonehouse, John B. Blundell, and
Thomas Thompson, managers of markets."
The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the Educa-
tion Committee.
The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the Gaol
and House of Correction Committee.
per annum."
The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the gar-
dens, library, and museum committee, comprising—
" Recommendation to increase the salary of Mr. James
o£7sestmhbele6rs.
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Mr.
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"Council to be a
Rigby, librarian at the north library, from £75 to £B5
per annum, and of Mr. Peter Cowell, librarian at the
placefromtaßyley, notice of
member of the gardens, library, arid museum coin-
mi,s,oTutttehhee, leiiibnereatt
the
election
which was given at the last monthly meeting by Mr.
Beckwith."

The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the
water committee, comprising a report of the financial
sub-committee on the subject of the charges for the sup-
ply of water ; the coroner's accounts, amounting to
£4-3 10s.

The Mayor's communications comprising a letter from
Mr. Hawksley, resigning the office of consulting engineer
for the Rivington Water Works ; and a letter from Mr.
William Massey, on the subject of better accommoda-
tion to farmers attending the markets.
The following motion, of which notice has been
given :—By Mr. Robert Gladstone, "to direct the
attention of the Council to the necessity for framing
proper bye-laws for the government of persons PliP,l7
in driving cattle in the borough and neighbourhood
the whole
the appomtment of a committee to
subject, and to report to the council."
d neighbournoou , for

LITERATURE

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for October

Edinburgh and

London : William Blackwood and Sons

The October number of this justly popular periodical
has promptly come to hand ; and an excellent one it is.
The opening paper is the second part of Captain Speke's
Journal, describing the discovery of the Victoria
;sTyanza Lake, the supposed source of the Nile
We have then a second part of " Horse dealing
in Syria," in which that interest in the subject
of horse-flesh, so remarkably excited in the former
paper, is not only well kept up, but increased.
" The Luck of Ladysmide" is continued through Part
VIII., and is as entertaining as ever. The recent
publication of a series of excursions by the members of
ereet
to
ii,
sPage,",
ag Ballads" e ,
" The Alpine Club," has furnished the materials for a
very interesting paper on " Mountaineering." "The
Sea Side in the Papal States " is a paper which will be
read with keen interest by those who are in the
habit of seeking sea-side restoration and recreation at
the proper seas
as specimens of the popular traditions of Brittany—one
being
arethe
givenot he
r
"he '
C'u Kisusier's Return." A very humorous piece of Lonou. s
T the e
" l
Irish versification is given
." and a very funny legend
under the title of " The
Legend of Barney O'Carroll,T r
it is. Four lines of the dialogue, with which it con-
eludes, characterise it at once most graphically and
•
amusingly

" An'," says he, "What do you think about it ?
" An',
An' your tale, iv not thrue, sure it's pleasant, ,
An' not at all bad for a dhratne."

The concluding paper, in the present number, is de-
voted to a justly eulogistic notice of the late Sir William
Hamilton, who filled the chair of Logic in the Univer-
sity of . Edinburgh for so many years, with so
much honour ; though his reputation will stand much
higher on the basis of his published works than on that
of his lectures—if we except, perhaps, his Lectures on
Metaphysics, which have recently been published, and
of which it is said, no doubt with truth, that " there
are several of them where there is much to discuss and
quarrel with—much to receive and to be instructed by ;
they are in every way a most acceptable addition to our
philosophical literature."

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIME&

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