Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-15 00:00:00

e propositior

recom-

mended that the p roposition be carried out by notice.
Mr. Bo'd thou ht it right to call the atteifion of the
Board to .a fact, which would show the high pesition Mr.
Hartnialiilad earned as a scientific man, by his management
of the Eiverpool Observatory. Very recently Mr. Ellis, the
assistant of Pro lessor Airey, Astronomer Royal, visited
the Observatory, with the view of seeing the whole of the,
arran ,gements tb,ere. He brought 'the following letter to
Mr. 114.-xtuup, which he (Mr. Bold) had taken almost by
force from that gentleman:—
" Roya Observatory, Greenwich, London, S. E
"'March '23, t 859.

" Dear Sir,— -This will be delivered to you by Mr. W. Ellis,
who has now t;he charge of the ,gilvanic department of the
Royal Cfbservatory, and also of the chronometers, who ;is
desirous of seeing the excellent arrangements now adopted
in Liverpool for both these departments.
" Ma:. Ellis -will also be glad to see your equataral, and
any otter of the arrangements of the observatory.
" Yon can probably give Mr. Ellis such information: or
introduction, as will enable him to -see and appreciate
thoroughly the plans now contemplated for giving accurate
time,s-hy regulation of clocks and by public time signals, in
and about Liverpool.—l am, dear sir, faithfully-yours,
" To John Hartnup, Esq." " G. B. Amy."
Mr. Ellis accordingly stayed several days, and was perfectly
astonished at the control Mr. Hartnup had over the Town-
hall block, and went away quite surprised that they had not
succeeded to the same extent in London. It would seem
that some of the post-officaclocks in 'London were under the
control of the observatory at GreenWich. These clocks
were'niade to go a little too fast, and -tiren they were able
to stop them; but Mr. Hartnup had a perfect control over
the Tewa-hall clock, and could make it either too fast or
slow, as he pleased. lie (Mr. Bold) only mentioned these
facts ticieause he thought it was due to Mr. Hartnup's great
ability and standing that they should go before the public
(Heari hear.)
Mr.-Bowl

said, England was somewhat behind the age in
In the city of Ghent he saw a clock upon
everylamp in the street telling the hour by electricity.
Theproceedings were then confirmed.
Thevproceedings of the pilotage committee were confirmed
upon the motion of Mr. Moss.

that respect

DOCKS 'AND QUAYS COMMITTEE

A request from Messrs. John Bibby and Co., to be allowed
to introduce a floating workshop into one of the docks, to do
some trifling repairs to one of their vessels,•was refused.
The proceedings contained the folloWing resolution :

" Resaved That inpursuance of the joint-recommendation
of the eummittee for•the management of docks and quays,
and the.committee for the management of warehouses, the
board dolereby resolve, that from and after the 21st inst., the
Albert 'boa, the north and south sides of the Stanley Docks,
and the west side of the Wapping dock shall be, and are hereby
appropriated exclusively to the use of such Tessels as shall
enter

id'docks, fOr the purpose previously declared in
writing to the master, of discharging cargoes into or
shipping the ,same from the warehouses of 'the board in
such docks, or across the quays of such warehouses res
peetively; land after such declaration shall 'have been
made, no vessel shall be permitted to leave any of the said
docks without having so discharged or received her cargo
therein, unless with the permission of the harbour-master,
under special 'circumstances. Provided always that this
resolution skall,not be construed to prevent vessels from
entering the Stanley dock, for the purpose of loading coals
from flats therein, or to prevent vessels loading on the west
side of 'Wapping dock, or passing through the
from adjoining docks, as at present accustomed.
Mr. Lockett moved that the proceedings, inciwding this
resolution, be esnfirmeil

,me to or

Mr. Bold, while agreeing in the former part of the reso-
lution, generally thought there were grave objections to the
manner in which it \was proposed to carry out the object

sought to be obt
in the Mersey at
the whole of the dsel
vessel had been rewo

Iri the *inter, a vessel mi

time when the flans were hoisted upon

as except the warehouse docks.
irted, had paid dock dues, and ye,,
was proposed to deprive her of the power of entering any of
the docks for shelter, smless-a declaration, was made —which
very possibly he world not be in a position to do
he would discharge his ,cargo ;in the warehoueses, or acm.
-the quays. Half the
.produce coining from the East Indies
in .particnlar was consigned to order. Very likely the owner
of fthe vessel might not kitow,fortwo or three days, to whom
the cargo was to belong. Suppose the captain made the
declaration in order to get the vessel into shelter, then came
the.wlstion whether the Board could compel him to pay
the hith charges which they made for discharging cargo
across the quays. Every one knew that cargoes were dis-
charged upon much more reasonable terms by porters
outside ;than by the porterage of that estate. He
thouglit the subject required much more consideration, and
therefore, moved, as an amendment, that the resolution be

referred joack to the committee
Mr-Forwood expressed a

in Mr. Bold'

Mr. Hul
that tilebu
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being m

refe, or the ehanii of getting

masters,

would

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