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THE NORTHERN TIMES MONDAX, JULY 11, 1851

who was in the secret of the-price they should take for the
property that they had to dispose of, should at the same
time becomithe seller of this property. le was_
for strong reasons that ,he was induced 0 make the_
remarks which fell from hno,on Wednesday last. He was
told that be should ban gi*tif Mr. Staiaft notice of his
intention of bringing' this Witter forward. But. intimation
was required-only where -titnA-was- required fair t•erefence 'to
books and d6cuments. Mr. Stewart had all the information

necessary in his person; -and if he had been present, would
have been able to answer: him without_ any.previoas intima-
-4: The absence of a tcntlemen should not defer him, or

?oration, from calling attention
) that in which the council was interested, and by which
is interests. were prejOioed, and in which delay might be
mperious. Re asked, did not Mr. Stewart obtai i information
by virtue of his office as ehairnian of the finance committee. of

which no other inpossession, with reference to the
value of land belonging to the cerPoration,wlietlaer thellerSey
Dock Board bad any interest, prospectively, or immediately
prospectively in the value of land beloning: to that corpo-
ration on the other 'side of the river? Was it probable or
possible that the question.would come before arbitrators' who
might .be sitting in ,judgment to assess the value of the
land? It was, He took‘ it that these were qiiestions he was
justified in answering, in-the-way he had done. ' Was :Mr.
—44'l-- sitting as one of the arbitrators, nominally so
practically an advocate of the Mersey Dock
lie submitted with all due

called, . bu

Boaid?

uererence and respect to
ne-was. Was it his (Mr. Stewart's) duty
to get the property so submitted to arbitration. One or
the other sitting as sellers were represented by an arbitrator,
and endeavouring to get the highest possible price, and the
buyers at the, lowest possible price. He submitted that
snch a position as that in which Mr. tewart was pined
was adverse to the interests of the corporation

—on. He .said,
in conclusion, that he had no intention Whatever of referring
to Mr. Stewart personally ; for he believed there was no
gentleman in the council who commanded more respect
from 'the members individually and collectively than did
Mr. Stewart. (Hear, hear.). He would say, fnrther, that
if he bad a question of property, to be referred for valuation
or arbitration, he would refer it to Mr. Stewart before any
other gentleman in..the town. Mr. Stewart, he. believed,
had more extensive.knowledge, and his judgment was more
sound, than any other gentleman that he knew of in the
town... But in this -case equity would have to be thrown
aside for the purpov of advocating the side for which he
was retained. Whether Mr. Stewart was on the side of
the buyer or the seller, he held that he should. not occupy
a position that was.adverse to the interests of the corpora-
tion: 'Mr. Jeffery was proCeeding to enter into . some
farther explanation on other matters, but the Mayor inter-
posed; as he considered.enough had been said.

In reply to a question from Mr. Jeffery, Mr. Stewart
said. that he had never given his opinion either to the
umpire, arbitrator, or any mortal being, with reference to

M &MEETS' COMMITTEE.
The proceedings of the rcrarliets' committee were read :
Report of the treasurer bn the accounts 'of St. John's
Market. Recommendation to appoint Mr. Isaac Hutchin-
son as inspector of all the markets, at a salary of £250 per
Recommendation to appoint Mr. James Stone-
crer of St • -

annum

olan's, and all the other markets in
-the Centre of the town, at a salary of £2.20 per annum.
Recommendation to appoint a manager of St. James', and
all other markets in the southern division of the town, at a
salary of £125 per-annum. Recommendation to appoint a
manager of marketsin the northern division of the town, at
.a salary of £125 per annum. Recommendation that two
.persons be appointed as ,collectors of St. John's, and the
central markets, at the salary of £lOO per annum each.
Mr. Johnston, in moving the adoption of the report cif
the treasurer on the accounts of St. John's Market, said the
proceedings of the markets' commit: ee were very long; and
in proceeding to move their adoption, he would remark,
first, that the treasurer had submitted an account
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ueraications that he had been able
to.discover, the average amount of which was £3,197 ls. sd.
These defalcations had been going on from 1848, about the
second quarter from the appointment of Mr. Bally as
auditor. The treasurer had also gone through the books of
Mr. Hutchinson, of the south market, and also through the
books of Mr. Stonehouse, of north market, all of which
were found to be correct, and kept in a manner highly
creditable b them. The next was a resolution to appoint
Mr. Isaac Hutchinson as inspector of the markets.
Mr. Jeffery asked if the chairman of the markets' com-
mittee was about to take up the several recommendations
seriatem. He did not think that he was right in bringing
in his report under six heads.
Mr. Stitt said' he could not see how such defalcations
could have taken place without collusion on the part of the
other officers. From the report it appeared that, instead of.
the parties mentioned being simply requested to send in
their resignation, they should have been peremptorily dis-
missed from their places. He could not see on what
ground they deserved such consideration.
Mr. Jeffery said he thought the report justified the
of some members who found themselves in the
minority on a former occasion. On that occasion those who
were in the minority thought that the markets' committee
should be constructed, and he thought-at the present time
that was- the opinion of many gentlimen then in the
majority.. He believed those who voted with him would
have found themselves in the majority, instead of
being in the minority, and every gentleman in
the council would vote as he pleased, and according to his
own conviction of what was right.
Mr. Turner : That is a serious charge.
The Mayor : Mr. Jeffry, Mr. Jeffery, you are too warm.
Mr. Jeffery : I think, Mr. Mayor, you are a little hotter
than I am.
The Mayor : I am not, sir.
Mr. Jeffery went on to say that some members of the
council allowed their feelings of sympathy to control their
-votes, instead of doing their duty. That he took to be
perfectly parliamentary. He had it from the lips of several
gentlemen who were found in the majority on that occasion.
He hoped that, after the long report which had been read,
gentlemen would no longer Allow their feelings or their
sympathies to supersede their duty as public men, but that
their duty should stand paramount to every other considera-
tion. He concluded by hoping the committee would be
reconstructed.
Mr. Hodgson thought the markets committee were
to blame in the whole matter. It was a very
remarkable fact that, according to Mr. Tweedie,
alterations had been going on from year to year.
It was perfectly clear, under these circumstances,
the committee was to blame. There was not a shopkeeper
in Liverpool that would allow such defalcations to go on
without discovery. Why blame this man or that man after
he had ran away ? and not till he had ran away had it been
discovered that he was deficient one shilling. Men came to
the council who were members of the markets committee,
and spoke of their great prudence and all that; and yet
these very men never knew that this man had robbed them
of thousands of pounds. They never knew that the books
were kept in such an order that a common potato shop
would have been ashamed of then!. He would ask how
many, members of the markets committee had examined the
books from week to week, to see if they were correct or
'otherwise ? He was sure not one of them, or they' would
have seen that all was not right.
Mr. Johnston said : Mr. Hodson had alluded to the
heglect of the markets' committee, in not looking at the
books regularly. He would ask the town-clerk whether
they had not recorded resolutions on their books from time
to time, calling on the auditor to know whether he had a
perfect check on the accounts ; and his unvariable report
was that he had found the books all correct. He would ask
any other committee if they had their books laid before
them and examined weekly ?

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Mr. Hodson : Yes.
Mr. Johnston : I would say no, not the full books, but
abstracts.

-The resolution was then confirmed.
Mr. Gladstone then proceeded to move the next recom-
mendation.

Mr. Gladstone said, before going farther with the matter,
he would like thal the town-clerk should read a resolntion
which had been 'kissed, condemning the appointment of a
superintendent.

The Town-clerk then read from the minute-book a re-
solution, bearing date of February 2nd, the effect of which
was that so much of the resolution as referred to the
appointment of a general superintendent be referred back
to committee for further consideration.

Mr. Johnstone said, it ougVio-1; remembered that, at
that time they were saddled with old officers. They had
Mr. Luya at the time, but they now proposed to be relieved
of them, by putting Mr. Hutchinson as general superin-
tendent over all the markets at a salary of £250 a-year ;
put Mr. Stonehouse in his place at the south market;
making such general change as will only cost the council
£920 a-year for the salaries. There were some reasons why
the matter should not be left standing over to the next
monthly council:

Mr. Gladstone said, he thonght there was a question which
would take precedence to that matter, which was whether
the occasion of advertising for the best man had not been
overlooked ? In the first place, the council had nothing
before it to satisfy the mouths of those who were not mem-
bers of the markets' committee, that Mr. Hutchinson was the
best man, and the most suitable person, It appeared that he
had held the
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so far as he was aware, he had discharged his duty very well ;
but it must be remarked that he had met with a ceimure
fronrthe committee. ;* HOwever; whether he was a fit person
or not, he ought to have been exposed_to the competition of
other men. The reason.he said, was, that he thought public
offices•should be filled by 'public competition. The chairman
ofi the committee had mentioned _his reasons for proposing
.him. It was, however; with some degree of pain,
and ,of Very bitter regret, that he refused again
to ;what took place on various occaisions, but he wouldsay
that the gentlemen who retired from the markets' committee
aetea on that 'occasion in -a discreet, judieious, just, and
honourable. Course, and he Would defy any Man to prove
otherwise. He concluded by moving that the appointment
of Mr. Hutchinson be deferred, and that the markets'
committee be reqUested to advertise in the newspapers in
the usual course for a general superintendent for all the
.markets. • '
Mr.. Jeffery said,
,he believed when the committee
advertised before for a person to fill the office of general
'superintendent, there were no less than 100 applications
received. He wished to know• whether these applications
had received that degree of attention to which they
were . entitled, and which the apPlicants had a right
to demand ? He wished •to know: how many .of -the
se applications had been taken out of the pigeon-hole,
and the dust shaken off them since they were received.• He
could not say whether Mr. Hutchinson was an hongt man
.or not, but for anything, he did, know he was a perfectly
honest man.
Mr. Earle said it would be seen from Mr. Jeffery's lan-
guage that no one had ability to perform a public duty but
Mr. Jeffery. He for one was rather surprised to receive a
castigation from such a master.
Mr. Woodruff said.they had heard a great deal from Mr.
Stitt, Mr. Hodsen, and Mr. Jeffery ; and he would like to
know from Mr. Hodson, as chairman of the water com-
mittee, what he knew of the collectors' books ? He
would ask Mr. Stitt, as a member of the health
committee, how much he knew of - the 'books of that
committee ; and he might put a similar question to
Mr. Jeffery ? Which of them . had examined the
books; he would venture to say not one of them.
Mr. Hodson : I have as chairman 'of. the water
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committee.
Mr. Woodruff said, he was a member of the water com-
mittee, and he begged to say that Mr. Hodsondone nothing
of the kind. , The circumstances of the markets' committee
were not at all at present as they were three or four months
ago. They saw the necessity for a man to act as superin-
tendent of the markets.' Mr. Jeffery had asked what had
become of the testimonials that were received in application
to the last advertisement, but he had to tell Mr. Jeffery that
the committee had acted according to the resolution of the
council, in sending them back to the applicants ; and to
have opened them and examined them would have been
going beyond their duty. With regard to the remark
as to whether the men who had left the
committee were right, those who had acted with himself
had seen and said that Mr. Luye was in a situation, and the
question was, if he was fit for that situation they did not
want another; but if he was not fit he should not be there
at all. In the treasurer's report they had 'everything that
was right,
•with both Mr. Hutchison and Mr. Stonehouse.
Mr. Hutchison would rather keep the situation which he
now held than make any change, but the committee con-
sidered it would be to their advantage to make the proposed
change.
Mr. Bowring said, when he -brought forward a resolution
considering that Mr. Luya was unfit for duty, and that he
should be examined, Mr. Woodruff was the first who said
that they were condemning a man unheard, He was not
one of those ivho thought that an old servant should be
neglected to make room for a stranger, conSideriug
all other things equal, and he would vote for Mr. Hutchin-
son ; but, at the same time. he would say of thosegentlemen
who had left the committee that their opinions were corn-
pletely stifled. He was of opinion that had their view been
taken of matters Mr. Luya would' long before have been
found out. He• considered the parties to blame were the
members of the executive of the committee.
Some further, discussion took place, during which Mr.
Mosley, Mr. Stitt, Mr. Parker, Mr. Clint, Mr. Turner, Mr.
Ridley, Mr. Beckwith, Mr. Kitchen, Mr. Ryley, Mr.
Crellin, and Mr. Stewart expressed their opinions on the
subject. The council then proceedod to the vote.
The amendment was then put, when there appeared—
For—Councillors Stitt, Corbally,-Steans, Ryley, Mozley,
Job, Gladstone; Jeffery, Kitchen, Hodson, Clint, Beckwith,
and Cropper; Alderman Turner; the Mayor.
_Against —Councillors Anderson, Woodruff, Crellin,
Shimmin, Haydock, Holden, Avison, Hohne, Bowring,
Rae, Jeffreys, Ridley, Johnson, Robertson, Farnworth,
and Anthony ; Aldermen Parker, Cooper, Gardner, and
Holme.
The amendment was therefore lait
The appointment of Mr. Hutchison, as Inspector, there-
fore stands over to the next council, in accordance with the
regulations.
The appointment of the other managers also were allowed
to stand over.
Mr. Johnson moved that two collectors be appointed at
£lOO a-year each.
Mr. Bowring thought the salary too low; and proposed,
as an amendment, that it be £l2O.
Mr. James Holme seconded the amendment, believing
that the additional £2O would procure a very superior class
of men.

The amendment was lost by seventeen to seven. The
recommendation was therefore carried.
The general proceedings were confirmed.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE.

Mr. Anderson moved the confirmation of the proceedings
Mr. Gladstone said he believed, and he hoped it was the
case, that the children of the Corporation Schools were not
allowed to walk in that most silly procession which once
a-year traversed the most crowded thorotighfares of the
town, causing great danger of accident. He begged to ask
if that was the fact ?
Mr. Anderson was sorry to say that he could not give a
positive answer.
Mr. Alderman Gardner said he could answer it. The
children were not allowed to walk in the procession. (Hear,
hear.) ,
The proceedings were not confirmed.

TOWN HALL ESTABLISHMENT COMMITTEE

The prOceedings comprised a recommendation that the
public rooms and staircase of the Town-hall be re-painted
and decorated at a cost of £2,500.
Mr. Alderman Holme, in moving the confirmation,
stated that the present expenditure was found to be neces-
sary in consequence of the present state of the rooms and
staircases.
Mr. Alderman Cooper opposed the motion.
Mr. Jeffery suggested some delay, as it was not yet
certain how far the occupation of the Town Hall might be
affected by the erection of the new public offices in Dale=
street.

Mr. Ryley supported the motion, believing the present
state of the rooms a disgrace to the council and the town.
Mr. Stewart, Mr. Woodruff, and Mr. Gardner, supported
the motion.

Mr. Gladstone suggested that the re-decoration should be
confined to the entertaining rooms and staircases, and moved
an amendmedt to that effect, which was seconded by Mr.
Cropper ; and being pat to the vote, was negatived by 19
to 10.

The proceedings were then confirmed.
GARDENS, LIBRARY,. AND MUSEUM COMMITTEE.
The proceedings contained a recommendation that the
care of the several Square Gardens should be placed in the
hands of the police ; that the gardens should be closed at a
certain hour, and night-locks affixed, the keys of which
should be placed in the hands of the police. The further
consideration of the subject had been deferred.
Mr. Avison asked why parties were prevented from play-
ing at cricket in the Corporation Park ?
Mr. Alderman Holme said, he had received a very well-
written letter upon the same subject that morning, com-
plaining that piing men were not allowed to play at cricket
there, even up to nine o'cloek in the morning, which would
be a great advantage to those who were occupied in busi-
ness all the day.

Mr. Beckwith (who moved the confirmation of the pro-
ceedings, in the absence of the chairman,) said, the com-
mittee had had a great number of complaints made of
boys always playing cricket in the park everywhere,
which rendered it perfectly unsafe for people to
walk there and still more unsafe to send their children
there. The committee never gave any permission for the
playing of cricket there. Three or fonr years ago, when
application was made for permission to play it in the various
parks and gardens, it was refused, in consequence of the danger
which must attend it.

Mr. Alderman Gardner suggested that a portion of the
park should be railed off for the purpose. (Hear, hear).
Mr. Alderman Turner called attention to the very serious
complaints made of the irregularities in the Falkner-square
gardens.

Mr. Jeffery said, a subscriber to those gardens called upon
him, complaining of boys having races within the railings
of those gardens, to the great annoyance of parties who
had a right to be there for the purpose of promenading, and
entirely to the destruction of what was intended to be the
use of the gardens.
Mr. Beckwith said, representation of that character had
come before the committee, and the committee did every-
tbing ft) their power to put dpwp such mainly practices.

They were informed that parties were running races in the
gardens " in'the buff." (Ggreat laughter.) Yes, "in the
buff" he supposed gentlemen knew very well what
that meant. (Laughter.) The committee thought the
best plan they could adopt to prevent, not only those nui-
saneeCjiit-other nuisances caused by some parties having
keys to the;gardens—servant girls having keys, and taking
in their paramours. (Great laughter,), And other nui-
sances of a somewhat similar description would be, that the
watch committee should be requested to place the Square
gardens under their management. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Clint was sure the watch committee would be happy
to lend every aid in their power.
The proceedings were then confirmed.

WATER COMMITTEE

The proceedings of this committee were r
Hodson moved their confirmation.

cad, and Mr

Mr. Alderman Parker said he had hoped that the chairman
would tell them something respecting the price of the water.
He understood that a committee had been appointed to con-
sider the matter in regard to the price of the water, and as
tu:the general supply of manufacturers by metres.

Mr: Hodson said the matter wa
and he thounilt thdt on that day I

to tell what was done

now Under investigation,

Mr. Duncan had not been

Mr. Beckwith asked whetl,
accustomed to take discount off certain
consulting the members of the committee.

mints without

Mr. dint also asked a question in reference to the com-
plaints made with respect to the supply of the fountains..
Mr. Anderson said the dock board was surprised to and
that the Water committee intended to make a charge for the
supply of fountains proposed to be erected inside. the dock
walls, and no explanation given. The fountains were not
designed fur the use of the workmen employed by the dock
board, but all who worked about the docks. He believed
the works committee were, going to wait upon the water
committee on the' subject, to ascertain the particulars as it
was considered that there must be some inisapprehensiOn- on
the subject.

Mr. Parnworth said, he had been abseht when this subject
was before the committee, and he had therefOre some diffi-
culty in bringing it forward, but he was very much surprised
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board for water for public purposes, while other fountains
were supplied gratuitously.

last two speaker

Mr. Anderson said ;they were astonished that the dock
board had received no explanation ; the chairman of the
dock, board was present on, the occasion and took part
in the discussion. He should be very sorry to deprivb
Mr. FarnworthN of his reasonable recreation, bnt,
if it came to this, that • whenever a resolution was
carried in Mr. Farnworths absence and he came
to the council afterwards, and upset, as be had done on a
former occasion, he thought it would be better for him to
stay away altogether. The supply of water to the Mell
fountains was paid for by the

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te.e, anc

the matter was

reterred back to the engineer to fix tb'e 'price which the
water would cost, and that price the committee agreed to
give it for, and he wondered how the dock board, who had
taken the whole dock estate out of their control, could have
the modest assurance to refase-to pay such a small sum as
£42 a year to supply their people with water, and which
was for the good of their own estate.

Mr. Jeffery said, whatever might have been the disposition
of the water committee, they had not it in their power to sup-
ply this water gratuitously They were deficient in revenue
£23,000 and they were obliged to charge for all water used
He thought if Mr. Farnworth had sought for information
on the subject, he would not have opposed it to-day. It
was their poverty more than their will that obliged them to
make the charge. Before Mdly's fountains were established,
the inhabitants only paid ld in the pound for watering pur-
poses, but these fountains formed a peg on which was hung
another penny, and wrung out of the poc6ts of the rate-
payers. It was a necessary, nay a compulsory, charge on
the part of the water committee.

Air. Dover said, the-distinetion was this, that they sup-
plied no water on private property but that which was
paid for.

- Mr. Hodson said, that the engineer had,' for some time
past, been engaged in levying a rate for water on different
properties ; and a committee of inquiry was now taking
place, and a new tariff of rates, no donbt, would be
produced in a short time; and would prevent
those discrepances which had been alluded to. He
differed from the people of the town if they imagined
that the water committee were to give water wherever it
was sought. To
.produce the water cost a large sum of
money, and he maintained that while they did not give the
water gratuitously to the poor people, and as these dock
fountains were in a great measure to prevent the men from
going outside the gates to get drink, and by which the dock
board would be benefitted, he should charge for the supply
of water.

Mr. Beckwith; amidst cries of "Order" and " Chair,"
said that Mr. Hodson did not answer his question.
Mr. Hodson said he had answered the question, and he
would again repeat that Mr. Duncan had done as Mr. Beck-
with had stated.

BATHS COMMITTEE,

Mr. W. P. Jeffreys moved that the proceedings be con-
firmed.

Mr. Anderson thanked the committee for a prompt
consideration they had given to the memorial of the
inhabitants of Everton. in reference to a plunge bath.
Mr. Gladstone observed that the committee had.resolved
to apply to six coal -proprietors to send in renders for the
supply of coals. He did not see why these tenders should
not be thrown open to competition, and he moved an
amendment to that effect accordingly.
Mr. Jeffery seconded the motion, and Mr. HOlden sup-
ported it.

- Mr. Jeffreys said the committee would not have the
slightest objection.
The amendment was therefore adopted, and the pro-
cedings were confirmed.

SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE,

Mr. Jeffery moved that the proceedings be confirmed

The motioii was carried.
The Coroner's account, amounting to £55, was sub-
mitted.
Mr. Parker drew attention to the fact, that out of sixteen
post mortem examinations, one surgeon was engaged in
eight of them. He objected to one surgeon having so much
of the business and thought it should be more divided.
The account then passed.
The Corporation balance-sheet of the assets and liabilities
up to the close of the last financial year, was laid upon the
table.

Mr. Jeffery requested that a return of the outstanding
arrears of ground-rent should be laid upon the table.
Mr. Stewart promised that the return should be made out.
Mr. Jeffery asked for an explanation in reference to an
amount of £9,083, stated to be due to the corporation by
the trustees of the St. James's Cemetery.
Mr. Stewart stated that, previous to the reformed corpo-
ration's existence, £7,000 was advanced by the corporation
towards the construction of that cemetery, under the act
of Parliament. The money was advanced upon some-
thing like an engagement, that the corporation and other
parties who advanced it, should be paid five per cent.
interest, but never any more. (Hear, hear.) In 1841,
Mr. Henry Lawrence, who always took an active part in
interest
had management of the cemetery, finding that the
had not been paid, proposed to add the amount of interest
which had accumulated so far to the capital, and to make
the interest payable upon the increased sum. The amount,
however, had never been paid. He believed there was no
means of recovering any amount but by selling what might
be called three shares of .XlOO each, which he believed
would not realise much at preseiit.
Mr. Jeffery asked whether the council had power at the
time, to grant the loan, or advance ?
The. Town Clerk said they had. He did not know
whether the bonds or shares were ever delivered to the
council. (Laughter.)
Mr. Alderman Holme said he always looked upon the
amount as a bad debt, in fact, as the council's subscription
to the cemetery.

. The subject) was referred to the finance committee, to
report upon.
The consideration of the letter of the Liverpool Law
' Society, as to the appointment .of a second stipendiary
magistrate, was postponed to next council.
The Town-clerk reported that the bill introduced by cart
owners to repeal a certain portion of the sanitary act regu-
lating the width of carts, had passed the House of Lords.
The effect of this would be to allow the power to limit the
width of carts not 'to apply for seven years, as regarded all
carts built previous to the passing; of this last act. The bill
had yet to pass through the Commons, and the council
could, if they thought proper, petition against it in the
Commons, but probably they would regard this as a satis-
factory settlement of the question. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Gladstone suggested that the Town-clerk should
draw up a report, which would explain the nature of the
act to those interested in it, and which might be printed.
The Town-clerk undertook to do so.
The following motion, of which Mr. Hutchison had
given notice, stood upon the paper : " That the sale of
certain houses and land situate upon St. James's Walk,
proposed to be sold by resolution of the finance committee,

of the 27th May, 1859, and confirmed by the council on
the Ist of June last, be postponed."
In consequence of the lateness of the hour, Mr. Huta
ison-agreed to postpone the motion-to the next meeting:
The council then'rose,

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It. is stated that all men who wish to quit the
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The produce market improved, but, as is usual ej
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SHANGHAI, May 14. The improvement has be
maintained in cotton; sales large. Opium dull.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, July B.—The limes correspondent sa ,
it .is generally believed here that the Brit'
government brought about the armistice. The plan.,
of Napoleon for revolutionising Hungary anal
Transylvania is disapproved of by the cabinet
of St. Petersburgh. The war is not generaßli
popular.

LONDON. MONEY MARKET
Consols opened very steady at 951 to

JULY 11
;,

to 95a buyers, and then declined to 954- sellers,
price they are now steady The opinion that the armistice;
will end in peace is growing stronger daily. 'Shares
very strong, at improved quotations. French very fir
Lombards, 10i, 10Z. •

tiwhiv4

LONDON CORN MARKET-JULY
7eather continues• brilliant. Arrivals of foreign grain
moderate, but of English wheat we have a good show, with
a fair attendance of town millers ; but up to this moment
few sales have been made at 3s to 4s decline on English,
y while importers of foreign accept similar decline. Barley
lat and Norfolk flour

oats 6d to is lower than la;t Aidnday
slowly M. 2R.

LONDON TALLOW MARKET—JULY 11. f;
Market very quiet at 54s on spot, and 55s for last three
months; nothing doing.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARBET.--JuLy 11. -I
Supply of beasts only moderate, but show of sheep, lambs,
and calves rather extensive. For all breeds very slow"
trade at perhaps Thursday's currency. Beef, 3s to 4s 641
mutton 3s 3d to- 4s 10d ; lambs, 4s 8d ; veal, 3s Bd3o.
4s 10d ; pork, 3s to 4s 4d, per 811 s, &e. Total supply :
Beasts, 3,735, foreign 860 ; sheep and,; lambs, 28,530 c
foreign, 4 810 ; calves, 291, foreign, 206; pigs, 350.

•
BOROUGH HOP MARKET--JuLy 11.
The accounts with reference to the general appearance of
the bine being favourable, our market is exceedingly heavy'l
and prices almost nominal. The duty is called £210,000.

"PAL MAM QUI MERUIT FERAT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIME

Sir,—As I like to see fair play for everybody, I
cannot be quiet,. though I never wrote a letter to
newspaper in my life, as I think—,that Sir William
Armstrong is getting credit for what another party'
has prior claiin for. I remember seeing plans and
specifications for large rifled ordnance at Birkenheaar

some five or six years since, the invention. of a
gentleman who then held a prominent situation,
under the Birkenhead Comnaissioners, and I happen
to know that he submitted his drawings to the then

government without any satisfactory result. _
tainly appears strange to me, having these facts
patent, that some years subsequently another party
should obtain a knighthood and a government
engagement for what had been shown to the proper
authorities years previously. Surely,there is some-
thing wrong somewhere. I offer no opinion on the
parentage of the Emperor of the French's rifled
e umon ; but I think it is open to suspicion where it
nanated from. I can say a good. deal more yet
but enough for the present.—Yours, &c.,

It cer-

AN ENGLISHMAN

PRISONS IN SCOTLAND.—A blue book has just been issued
containing the usual annual report of the inspector of
prisons. As- usual, this report is rather occupied with
matters of mere detail, of no interest to the general reader,
than with any salient feature of prison discipline. Last year
2,114 persons (1,119 males and 995 females) constituted the
average number of criminal prisoners, and 72 that of civil,
immured, it is presumed, as unfortunate and insolvent
debtors.

Mra. PARTINOTON.—" Dear me !" said this lady, " dear
me ! what's a coming next ? I should like to know. This
'ere paper sez that a meetin' at the Irwing House drunk a
toast to the President ! Now, I loves toast, 'specially
were it's brown on both sides ; but I never drinks it. I
Oars thought folks eat toast, and drinked wine; but I
'spose things is changed, and they eats and thaws wine
instead of Linkin' it . but they'd better look out, or they'll
choke theirselves by gittin a piece 'crossways in their jocu-
lar, broadaxe, and die fur a spontanaceous combustion !"
The old lady was silent and relapsed into a slumber, and
dreamt of flat irons and vicious tom-cats trying to claw her
eyes out.—American Paper.
APPREHENSION OF . MASTERS FOR THE ATTEMPTED
MURDER AT CHATHAM.—After evading the police for nearly
three weeks, the sailor, Burgess Masters, who in a fit of
jealousy attempted to murder a private of the Royal
Marines, named Wilkins, in Skinner-street, Chatham, has.
been apprehended, and on Wednesday afternoon was placed
before• a full bench of magistrates at Rochester. The
accused; alter making his escape from Chatham, entered on
board her Majesty's ship Trafalgar, as an ordinary seaman,
and was subsequently draughted to her Majesty's ship
Monarch, at Sheerness, where he was apprehended. The
marine, •Wilkins, has so far recovered as to be able to leave
the hospital. On the application of the superintendent of
police, the prisoner was remanded for a week, in order to
obtain the necessary evidence for the prosecution.
A SQUABBLE ABOUT •A • •POBTRAIT.--The Illustrated
London News thus facetiously sketches a curious trial which
took plebe last week, touching a matter of taste and skill in
art :---" An admiring, husband commissions a portrait of a
beloved wife. The price is not soch as l'Awrence and
Reynolds received, or Sir John Watson Gordon or Mr.
Frank, Grant would now ask, for it was only £3 10s. The
artist engaged was Mr. B—, the sitter was Mrs. T .
The lady chose her own posture and air, the artist selected
his own colours, and went at once to work. How many
sittings Mr. B— required, and Mrs. T— conceded, did
not transpire. Five, at least, we suspect ; but all' to =no
purpose, •foil when tbe picture is sent home the Buskins of
the village declare, unhesitatingly, that ' it isn't a bit like.'
A female critic went so far as to say that the picture repre-
sented 'a twenty-stone woman.' This adverse criticism
determined the husband's course—he would not keep the
picture,. and he would not pay the balance. Poor Vandyck
Brown appeals to compasses in vain ; and lastly, to law, and
equally in vain. The portrait is produced in court. Mrs.
T— appears in court—assumes the attitude in which she,
sat, and asks a sensible English judge and a sensible English
jury to decide, 'ls this a likeness of me ? Is this fairly
worth seventy shillings ? Is it the picture which an admir-
ing husband should hang up in his happy home of a loving,
devoted, and (modestly said) not unhandsome wife ?' Mrs.
complained that the painter had given her a kind of'
infantine moustache. ' That,' replied B—, is only a
Rembrandt shadow,' The jury now became a kind of'
hanging committee of the Royal Academy —glancing from
nature to art, and from art back to nature. Mrs. T—
looked her very best. She was animated—the canvas was
inanimate. It was easy to see (as the jury thought) that
Vandyck Brown was not Vandyck • and. B—, the
portrait-painter of the engaging Mrs. T—, lost his case
and the balance he laid clam to. B—, of course, got
back his picture (it was returned on his hands,) and may, in '
nger, make a public-house sign of Afrs, T----'s Kitkat.