Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-24 00:00:00

, Tho,first weekly meeting' of the guardians of this newly
The u, nal weekly meeting of this committee was held At elected Board was held yesterday afternoon, at the public
One o'clock yesterday, in the Dock-offices, Mr. CaARLO offices Toxteth Park, Park road. Mr. 4lpass, the Deputy
iftreger: in the chair. Other members present:—Messrs. Chairman presided. The other guardians present were
Vrocklebank, Palmer, Chaloner, Clint, Mondell, Barber, Mwsrs, Briscoe, Ewing, Wilson, Robinson, Batten,
Efilikack, Robinson, J. Holme, Holden, Smith, Halhead, Siddeley, Leyland, Pickup, 'Ogden, Mercer, Grindrod,
Lockett, Robertson Gladstone, and T. Littledale. McNicoll, and W. B. Jones.
The minutes of thelast meeting were read and confirmed. The minutes of the last meeting were read, and
The Warehouse Sub Committee recommended that the confirmed.
salary of Mr. Harrison, principal cover and foreman at The government Inspector, Mr. Manwaring, attended
the Stanley-dock warehouses, be raised from 40s. a week the Board, and offered some suggestions as to the future
to £l2O a year, and that John Saunders be promoted to operations of the guardians, expressing it as his opinion,
the position of foreman cooper, at 40s a week. Confirmed. that all financial and other matters should be kept distinct
Tae Marlins Sub-Committee recommended that the from all other accounts, kept either by the West Derby
committee undo-take the general management of the new Board, or latterly by the overseers of the township.
landing stage, Prince's-pier; that the staff for working The Board divided for the purpose of disposing of all the
the stage consist of a master, a first and second officer, and relief cages,•l9o in number.
twelve men—the first and second officers and men to be This business having bean disposed of,
paid weekly, and supplied with clothing; that all bills,
THE GENERAL Bustaxsa
when checked by the committee, be forwarded to the wasroceeed with, at least as soon at the General Board
Town-hall for pas went ; and that the existing bye-laws ofp
the present lan In pursuance of a request made at a late meeting, theding-stage be adopted. had re-assembled.
Mle r. icKerr observed that the sub-committee considered
committee then appointed announced that Mr. George
that, as the expenses of the landing-stage would be purely
a corprate account, it was not desirable that they should Thompson had consented to act as the treasurer, and as
pass through the Dock Committee's book. For that he was a banker no security was required from him to the
reason all the accounts in connection with the stage would Board.On the motion of Mr. ROBINSON, seconded by Mr.
be forwarded to the Council for payment.
McNicoen, an order was made upon the overseers to pay
The recommendation was confirmed.
The Harbour Masters' Sub committee recommended that over to the treasurer the sum of £5OO for the immediate
use of the Board, that being the amount deemed sufficient.
John Jones, gateman at the Stanley Dock, be appointed to
On the motion of Mr. Roetasoa, seconded by Mr.
take charge of the entrance cf the canal lock same dock, PICKUP, it was decided that Mr. Cleaver, the Clerk to the
wages 275. per week —Confirmed.
From a return of the Harbour Master. it appeared Board, should fled security for £lOO, this being required
that front the 7th March by the Poor Law Board.
to the 14th inst., 95 vessels had
been placed on the King's Dock gridiron. The Board also decided on acceptingthe offer made by
Mr. MONDELL hoped the Press would give circulation to the West Derby Union to the overseers of the township
this for receiving all paupers into the West Derby Workhouse
fact, for it was not generally known that such a
gridiron was in use. Even Mr. Clint, a large and Sick Hospital, on certain terms that had been sent in,
shipowner, and a member of the committee,
—the cost of maintainance, and a portion of the expenses
not know it until that day. There had been
did of the establishments.
On the suggestion of the Inspector, the relieving officers
great diffioulty to get the gridiron, and they had been told
were instructed to enter all the cases under their charge
that no vessel would use it, and yet within a period of four in the application book, before the nest meeting cf the
months, no less than 95 vessels had gone on it. So that if Board, in orde- that they might then have the full autho-
rity of the Board to act.
they went on a' that rate for twelve months, one-fourth of
all t` e vessels entering the deck would use the gridiron. A. Finance Committees, consisting of the Chairman, the
The CIIAI,MAN informed the committee that four of the Deputy-Chairman, and the Vice-Chairman, Messrs.
twelve members elected by the council would retire from Robinson, McNeoli, Grindrod, and Lord, was then ap-
the committee rn the first of Augest next, namely, Messrs. pointed, to take into consideration all matters connected
Robinson, C. Turner, T. Chilton, and Anderson ; and that
wish that department in futute.
on the sth of August, Messrs. BrocklebAnk, Mondell, In answer to Mr. Briscoe, the Clerk replied that there
Lockett, and Chaloner would retire by rotation. was no vacancy iu the office of Superintendent-Registrar
The election-for new members will take place on the of births, deaths and marriages.
same day.
The CLERK was then requested to apply to Messrs,
A report was read from the Dock Surveyor as to the Chaloner and Co., engravers, for a design for a seal and
state of the Dock Works, for the year ending 24th June cheque-book, both of which were required.
last. From the summary accompanying the report, it
After some routine business, atitongst which was to
appeared that there had been expended on New Works, instruct the clerk to apply to the Poor-law Board to enable
-'244,433 124. 5d ; repairs, £71,990 3s. 103. ; increase of that B )ard to administer the relief cases in sections, instead
crock, 16,587 16. 21. ; Birkenhead, 2,11,1 83. 9d ;
warehouses, £487, 8s 9d. ; and Corporation landing-stage, of by the whole board, the meeting adjourned.
.£559 59. 6d.

DOCK COMMITTEE.

TOXTETH PARK UNION.

Mr GLADSTONE afled if the railway along the docks
could now be used from end to end ?

BIRTHS.

Mr. BRCCKLEBANK replied that it could, and that plans
were before Mr, Hartley, and the railway companies, to
make the necessary connections as soon as possible. It
would have been done before had not Mr. Hartley's time
been taken up with other pressing matter.
14l r. GrAnsroNE said that he mentioned the cutjec. t
eh )w the pubic, that the committee had not lost sight,
but, that they considered it a most important matter.
(Hear, bear.)
This concluded the general business.

Os the list inst., at his residence, Cirstsworth-street, the wife of
Hr. I homes Clarke, jan., of a son.
On the 22ad inst., at Baker-s rest, West Derby-road, Mrs. James
Warnoe'c, of a son.
Cn the 22nd inst., at 39, Hamilton square, Eirkmhead,:the wife of
Walter L. Franklin, Esq., of a son.

MONETAIii A 1415 COMME-OCIAL

LIVERPOOL, Thursday tvet,Ling,
busineass continuesounting to 12
tob,ooedo leobnadin z
nearlyCotZon,
theA slatillet.7to-day amounting
all to the tre'de (oorntl), a (only 1,000
tr
being,oeoxoemerates.
specula=n on specula=
tion and for fa:p
The same duiln'esl previously reported prevails in
the Liverpool Slnere Market. The amount of
business going forwared is very meagre, and prices
continue to droop. The following were to-day's tran-
actions :-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshir
694 ; Caledonian, 38f; Chaster and Holyhead, 18
Eastern Counties, 114 ; Great Western, 63i ; Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 1001; London and North
Western, 1031, 1038, 1031, 103 ; Midland, 811;
North British, 111 ; North Eastern, 24 : North
Western, 7 13-16 ; Dover, 221. 221, 221..221, 221.
221, 224, 221, 22g ; Dutch Rhenish, 3,11 ; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 13 13-16, 13.1„ 13 11-10 ; Great
Western of Canada, 21i ; Great Luxemburg, 8.2 ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 101 shares,
12 3-16 ; Atlantic Telegraph, 105 d. Tho
following were the closing prices :-Blackburn, 71, 8
Chester and Birkenhead, 69-Ze 69il ; Caledonian, 34.
381; Chester and Holyhead, 184„ 18 ti- ; Eastern
Counties, 11 7-16, 11 9-16 ; East Lancashire, 964, 97 ;
Do. 91. shares, -I-:, 9-16 p; Great Northern, 24k, 244;
Great Western, 631-, 63a; Lancashire and Yorkshire
Stock, 1003, 1001; Do. 91. shares, T-7„ I p; Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport, 191, 194 ; London and
North Western Stock, 103,1 e 1031 ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 431, 431; Midland
Stock, 831 838; North British, 1.14, 111; North
Staff adshire, 44, 41 d; North Eastern-Berwick,
221, 22i ; York and North Midland, 36-1, 36e1-; Leeds
Capital Stock, 211, 22i; South Eastern and Dover;
22 5-16, 221; Scottish North Eastern, 14, 12',4 ,
Buffalo and Lake Huron, 41- xd, 41 d ; Ditto New
Shares 41 xd, 4d ; Dutch Rhenish. 31 xd, 31 d ;
Great Western of Canada, 21;a, 211; Ditto New
Shares, 1., 1 p ; Great Luxembourc, 84, 81;
Grand Trunk of Canada, 13 11-16 xd, 131. .
The Funds suffered a further decline to.-day,
owing to continued rumours that government are
in possession of unfavourable news from India.
Consols for Money closed this afternoon at 91g to
911, and for the Account at 91-8- to 914. The some
fieures were current after official hours. Exchequer
Bills were dull and closed at 7 to 2 dis., and tire
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 911 to 02.
In the London R tiiway Share Market very
few sales took place to-day, and prices were
barely supported.
Tile closing prices were as
follows :-Caledonian, 751 761; Eastern Coun-
ties, 110, 111 ; East Lancashire, 961, 97f ;
Great Northern, 98, 99; Do. A, 911 to 921 ;
Great Western, 631, 631 ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 1001, 1004; Leeds Northern, 43, 41;
London and North Western, 103, 1031; London
and South Western, 100, 1001; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, 43, 433; Midland Stock,
831, 831; North British, 45, 46; South Eastern and
Dover, 741, 75 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick.
911, 921; York and North Midland, 73, 74;
Oxford. Worcester, Szel , 344, 351; Great Western of
Canada, 214 223 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 17i. 171.
After official hours the transactions were at the
following quotations : - Caledonian, 76, 76,t;
Eastern Counties, 1171, 11i; East Lancashire,
962, 971; Great Northern, 98, 99 ; Ditto A, 913, 9.21;
Great Western, 63),-, 631 ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 100 g, 1001 ; London and North Western,
103, 1031 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 431, 433 ; Midland Stock, 83'4, 83T-, ; North
British, 453-; South Eastern and Dover, 741,
741 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 91i, 922; York
and North Midland, 733, 74.
The Corn Trade remains dull. At the markets
held to-day a further decline occurred in Wheat
and Flour, without inducing business to any
extent.
The Grand Produce Markets are rather firmer,
and the demand for Sugar more active than for
some days past ; the sales, however, as yet are
comparatively trifling.
Toe eelehrated clippers belonging to the Austra-
lian Black Ball Line of Packets, Champion of the
Seas, and James Baines, have been chartered to
Government for the conveyance of troops to India.
We understand that a subscription has been
commenced to present Mr. John Clare, jun., with
a testimonial, as an acknowledgment and appre-
ciation of his improvements in iron shipbuilding.
We are told that some of the leading houses in
Liverpool have already contributed large sums in
aid of the fund.
A meeting was held yesterday, in the House of
Commons, of members of Parliament connected
with Insurance Companies, and of the managers of
many ;')f the offices. The object was to consider
the objections to certain clauses of the Insurance
Companies Bill now before Parliament. That the
bill has been drawn up without due deliberation
is inferred from several contradictions which are
apparent] upon the face of it. For instance, one
clause renders it imperative upon the Proprietary
Insurance Companies to register under the new
act, whilst another clause requires the shareholders
to meet upon the question, when the vote of a cer-
tain fixed majority of those present or represented
by proxy is to be considered final. The bill also
gives a remarkable degree of power to the Board
of Trade, inasmuch as it empowers it to issue a
certificate dispensing with any provisions in the
constitution of the companies that would prevent ,
them registering under the new act. At the same
time the bill does not repeal any existing acts under
which the companies arc constituted.
The North Staffordshire Railway Company has
declared a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, per
annum, carrying over a balance of 3,2431, thus
paying, for the first half of the present year, a rate
equal to the guarantee which they were to have
Serena; ay Ilateeraa.-On Tuesday afternoon Thos.
received from the London and North-Western
Whitfield, butcher, Chorlev, committed suicide by hanging
himself in the kitchen of his house. He had been drink- Railway Company.
in g for a week back, and had some liquor on Tuesday. Respecting the movements in Mines during the
He went to bed ou Tuesday noon, and about five o'clock week, Mr. Tredennick, in his circular just issue',
his wife left him in bed • upsedrs, apparently asleep, makes the following remarks :-
About five minutes after she had left hint, a son of the de- The tone of the Mining Share Market is both healthy
ceased came in and found bus father suspended by the and buoyant; the average divs• for the past six months
handkerchief to a hook in a beam in the kitchen. An exceed 16 per cent., whilst the yield of Copper for the
alarm was raised, and Whitfield was cut down. He was year ending 30th June last is not only satisfactory but-
then alive. A surgeon was immediately sent for, but on highly progressive. The price of Tin is also more
his arrival he pronounced life to be extinct. The deceased remuneretive; the 80,000 slabs were sold in Holland at an
had not been low-spirited, and no, cause can be assigned advance of .£lO per ton, and, as predicted by us, English
for his committing the rash act. smelters secured little or none ; the price at home must
, further rise as demaud is active and supply limited •we
CANVASSINTII -The best defence of catuassing-ano, have from time to time called attention to Providence-'
77i
indeed, the only kind of defence that cam be made for much to!t3o, Margaret 63 to 65, each paying .E 5 dividends guar torly,
of the old wild elertioneeringe-is, that canvassing has, Kitty (Uny Lelant) 20, Lelant Consols 4, Margery 11 to
and the wild practices had, a tendency to keep up friendly, 12, and East Margaret Bto 9, all these mines are situate
pleasant, and personal relations between classes. Reduce in the best Tin district in Cornwall, and as long as existing
everything to a matter of business and calculation'', and prices of that metal continue must advance in value. The
half the old English element in life is swept away. It Tolvadden Mine is opening out well, the lode varies in
was " our old good humour," as Clarendon calls it, which yield from two to five tons per fm., the shalt being the
made our elections so many Saturnalia in former days, b e sart pot in ndtlo6f
eastoer
and nw. e s
loopstA l d
ell,olllg
especiallyUn Ite d
tthhee lloadt et
eirn
which made the old gentry popular where your modern shaft
whicha is approaching towards the great cross course,
millionaire is only feared, and which, if once it die out, that rendered the lodes so very productive at South
can never be supplied. A man cannot scour his entity en Tolgus, Tolgus, Great South Tolgus, the Buller and the I
a hunter to canvass without seeing more of the people and Basset Mines ;at Buller and Basset United the lode ;:s
being brought into closer relations with them than be four to five feet wide, yielding fine stones of mundio And
well could be in other ways. The excesses of the old copper mixed; these two mines will become the
great
elections are to be avoided, but why should everything be prizes of the district; Buller is looking better, and the
swr pt away ? Abolish personal canvassing altogether and shares have risen to 300 to 325. At, Margery se carbona is
the solemn prig stands as good a chance as the hearty and discovered, that promises to jeer use returns ; with
frank man, not to mention that the gentlemen of the another call of .£1 per share thia
perty next year. At Greats rael)3:l4r
''''.,,.th Tolgus the 60 yields
kingdom lose the advantage which a personal intercourse "" Al become a div. pro•
with the people will always give them over rivals.- seven tons per fm . rise_ tea tons per fm„, and rise
above the 40 fin, level four r
- ens per fm. , the 50 is only six
Quarterly Review. fins. behind, and as they . 4J and 60 fm levels are good,
ARRIVAL OF THE GORGON, WITH RELICS FROM THE success will follow; ,bey 80 's about 40 fi
n.s. behind the dip
RUINED CITY OF HALICARNASSUS.-The Gargon has ore; Dolcoath 250, II
-rAd likelyl to advance, the 220 end west
arrived in the Downs from Asia Minor. She left Bou- is worth -60. per- fa
,n 230 west £5O per fm., and the 242
droum Bay on the 25th of June. This vessel has been east £BO Per fey
~ and west £75 per frn., the winze'below
employed for the last nine months, under the Foreign- the 239, is -a, orth £l2O per fin.. At Grumbler and St.
s.
office, digging at Boudroum, where, about 3,000 years ago, Aubya tit ` 5'.:,4 fm lode is worth £2O per fro. and the points
2 ae are very promising; several cross-cuts are
tamed the celebrated mausoleum, or tomb, of Mausolus, be-Tg,' diven, and it is highly probable that discoveries
e
stood the famous city of Halicarnassus. This city con- of the u)-
the sight of which for many centuries had been lost sight wl-i 'soon be made.
of. Thanks to the energy and perseverance (after several The total value of Australian Gold known to be
months of hard labour) of the officers and crew of the , 'on the way to this country is 1,123,0001. The
Gorgon, the position and event of the mausoleum, has Weep exports of Gold from the Australian colonies, from
determined. Little more than the foundationnow remains, 6th of April to 22nd of May, was to the value of
as in the fourteenth century the Knights of Rhodes
a large castle at Boudroum with the ruins of the tomb. quoted at 401. to 561. Wool was higher, viz :
The foundation and exterior walls have been laid down in 6d
plans and photographed. The whole space
minutely,
by
the mausoleum has been - examined most minutely, and
everything worth having has been broughh home by the
Gorgon. The statutes and bas-reliefs brer.ght home by the
Gorgon alone will form one of the moat interesting collec-
tions of Greek antiquities:in Europe, Her Majesty's' ship is 51 to 2s per lb. Flour and frieghts were
was re-established. - A duty of lOs per lb.
deuce
levied on opium. Gold was selling at
had been _
77s 6d to 79s • •
Supply remains at Boudroum to bring home the stores, per cent. premium.
Lieutenant Smith, R.E,, four Sappers, and the Mitylene
).Juilt 426,4301. In the Sydney Market, Tallow was
unaltered. In the Melbourne Market, the busi-
ness done in ' Imports was very brisk, and confi-
Oi Exchange on London was at 2
The following is a report of to-day's London
vice-consul. The Gorgon goes straight to "Woolwich, and, Wool Sales :-" Messrs. Hazard and Messrs. Dal ~on
I, as she has been three years and five months in commission, have sold to-day. The quantity of Wool d';aposed
I will most probably pay off, after clearing slut her cargo. lof is about 2,600 bales. It has met A `,..,'hod compe-