Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-30 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL.

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On Wednesday next there will be a meeting of the
Council, in the, Council Chamber, within the Town-hall,
as the second quarterly meeting of the Council, and as
a monthly and special Council, to take into consideration
and determine upon the following subjects, viz.:—
The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the
Finance Committee, comprising :-1. Recommendation
to increase the salary of Mr. Henry Walter, clerk in the
Town-Clerk's establishment, from £3OO to £5OO per
annum, the consideration of which was postponed at
the last monthly Council, pursuant to the standing
orders. 2. Report that a - sum not exceeding £l5O can
be -paid out of the surplus income of the financial year,
for the erection of a Pavilion in Wavertree Park, if
the Council think fit so to appropriate the same.—
The proceedings; resolutions,.and reports of the Watch,
Lighting, Fire Police, Fire Prevention, Hackney Carriage,
Licensing, and Gas Committees, comprising a recom-
mendation to enter into new contract with the Liverpool
Gas Company, in reference to the public lamps for fire years.
The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the Health
Committee, comprising the following recommendations :
1. To appoint Mr. Abrahani Ascroft, clerk in the
Inspector of Nuisances Offiee, at 30s: per week, in the
place of Mr. Cowan, deceased ; 2. To promote Mr.
James M'Donald to Mr. Ascroft's present situation in
the Borough Engineer's Office, at £7O-per annum; 3.
To re-arrange Treasurer's staff, in consequence of the
death of one clerk, and the resignation of another; 4.
To appoint Mr. S. N. Chard and Mr. A. Irwin, clerks
in the Treasurer's Office, to supply vacancies, at £6O
per annum each ; and a report on the Proposed Bye-laws
under the "Local Government Act, 1858," and a recom-
mendation 'to - make and ordain the same as amended.
—The proceedings, resolutions; and reports of the
Courts of Law and-St. George's-hall Committee.—
The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the
Markets Committee, comprising a recommendation to
appoint Mr. William H. Lockhart as collector at St.
John's Market, at the salary of £lOO per annum.—
The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the Educa-
tion Committee, of the Gaol and House of Correction
Committee, of the Town-hall Establishment Committee,
and of the Gardens, Library, and Museum Com-
mittee, comprising 1 : Letter from John Shaw Leigh,
Esq., on the subject of the memorial fOr the ex-
tension of Wavertree-park.-2: ResOlution on the
memorial presented at the last council relative ,to
changes in' the New Library, Shaw's Brow.—
The laying of . a rate under the provisions of "The,
Library and Museum Act, 1852."—The proceedings,
resolutions, and reports of the Water Committee, compris-
ing a recommendation to appoint Mr. IV. E. Edkins and
Mr. Hornsby Billinge to the vacant situations of collectors
of the third class of water rents and charges, their salaries
and poundage money being calculated to realise £l5O per,
annum each; consideration of a bill now before Parlia-
ment for empowering the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses
of the borough of Liverpool, to construct an additional
reservoir on the river Riddlesworth, and other works,
and for other purposes.—The proceedings, resolutions,
and reports of the Baths Committee, comprising a recom-
mendation that the reservoir at Everton Valley be con-
verted into baths, according to plans submitted, at a cost
of £s,ooo.—The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of
the Improvement Committee.—The proceedings, reso-
lutions, and reports of the Audit Committee, compris-
ing a recommendation to accept the policies or bones
of The British Guarantee Society," and of "The
Guarantee Society," in substitution of private sureties
for the officers and servants of the Corporation required
to find security.—The Coroner's account, amounting to
£76 6s. Note : By order of the Court of Quarter Ses-
sions the coroner has been paid the sum of of £66, for
fees on inquests held by him between the Bth day of
December, 1859, and the 2nd day of January, 1860.—
The Mayor's communications.=-The following motion, of
hiclii `due notice has been given by Mr. 'Robertson
Gladstone :—" That he •be allowed to retire from the
Health Committee."

COURT AND OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Saturday, ,Tan: 28.

ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE OF ORANGE.—His Royal
Highness the Prince of Orange arrived at the castle
from Fenton's Hotel, London, this afternoon, upon a
visit to the Queen. Colonel F.. Hugh Seymour,
Equerry to. Her Majesty, attended the prince from
town. Baron Bentinck, the representative of the King
of the Netherlands at the British Court, accompanied
his royal highness to the castle. The suite of the Prince
of Orange comprised Count de Bylandt, Count de Rech-
tern de Rosande, and Major van der Boson.
Lord John Russell, .the Queen's Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, arrived from London soon
after six o'clock. Lord Palmerston arrived soon after-
wards at the castle from the metropolis, accompanied
by Lady Palmerston.
A distinguished circle of visitors have been invited to
meet the Prince of Orange, including Prince Edward of
Saxe-Weimar, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lord and
Lady Dunfermline, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort,
Lord Stanley, Viscount Sydney, and Viscount Bury.
Her Majesty arid his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort walked in the forenoon within the Home Park.
The three elder princesses rode on horseback to-day.
The Queen's dinner party comprised his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Orange, with the gentlemen of his
suite, the visitors who arrived to-day, together with her
Royal Highness the Princess Alice, Sir James Clark,
and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting.
At the dinner the Ist Life Guards' band performed a
selection of favourite pieces.

THE CAEINET.—The Ministers• assembled at two
o'clock yesterday afternoon at Lord Palmerston's official
residence in Downing-street. The Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Somerset, the. Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of
Argyll, Lord Palmerston, Lord John Russell, Mr. Glad-
stone, Mr. Milner Gibson, Sir George Lewis, Lord
Elgin, Lord Granville, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Sir C.
Wood, and Sir George Grey attended. The Ministers
remained in deliberation until half-past four.
Count Persigny, the French Ambassador, transacted
business yesterday, at the Foreign Office, Downing-
street.

A deputation, advocating the abolition of the city coal
duty, had an interview yesterday with the Rome
Secretary.

The Sovereign of the Seas was spoken on the 29th
December, in latitude 7 degrees south.
At a meeting held in the Egyptian-hall, Mansion-
house, on Thursday, the Bishop of London in the chair,
a committee was appointed for the purpose of forwarding
the fund
.for the endowment of the new bishopric of
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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THE LINEN TRADE.--DEPUTATION TO LONDON.—
The Chamber of Commerce have deputed J. Hind, Esq.,
and J. Preston, Esq., to proceed to London to meet
deputations from Leeds, Dundee, and other districts,
and to wait upon the Government, for the purpose of
representing the importance of extending the advan-
tages of the new commercial system .in France to the
linen trade of the United Kingdom.—Banner of Ulster.

Liamcn.—On Friday afternoon, a large, highly
finished, and beautiful clipper-built barque was launched
from the dockyard of Messrs. Metcalf and Son, East
Holborn, South Shields. The ceremony of christening
her was performed in grateful style by Miss Taylor,
who named the vessel the Annie Braginton. She
is 'an admirable specimen of naval architecture, and
appears to have every property to qualify her fully
for the competitive spirit of the day. She is owned
by W. D. Braginton, Esq., of .Knapp, Bideford,
Devon, and has been built expressly for the South
American trade; her commander, Captain Edward .C.
King, is well known and respected in the West Coast
trade, and formerly commanded the Anne Baker, of
Liverpool. The vessel's dimensions are-116 feet keel,
28 feet beam, 17 feet depth, and is 430 tons new, and
453 tons old measurement, and classed 13 years A 1 at
Lloyd's. There was a large number of spectators, all
of whom appeared to be highly gratified with the
symmetrical proportions of this splendid vessel, and a s
she glided in a gallant manner—" like a thing of life"
—into the element she is intended to work in, the
enthusiasm of all around manifested itself by the loudest
" Hurrahs !"

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS are undeniably the best medicine for
debilitated constitutions, disordered liver, bile and indigestion.
The wonderful efficacy of this salutary medicine, and the good
effects produced on patients suffering from the above complaints
would appear most incredible, if not confirmed by the daily
proofs of the cures effected by them, and the permanent
benefit derived from their use. These invaluable ~Pills soothe
and strengthen the nervous system, purify the blood, regulate
the secretions, aid invigorate the constitution. Disease flies
before them. They are composed of vegetable extracts, un-
mixed with a grain of any mineral or noxious substance ; they
may therefore be given with the utmost confidence and with
peifect safety, to delicate females and young children.