Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-04 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.—AvousT 3

We have no'change to notice in Sugar ; 50 hhds. grain
Demerara, have been sold ex pay, price not reported, and
4,000 bags Mauritius, to anave, at 395. 6d.'per cwt.
Of Molasses, about 1,000 Ipuncheons, lying in London,
have been recently sold, deliverable here, at 165...9d. for
Cuba Muscovado, 14s. 6d. for Demerara, 15s. for Trinidad,
15s. 6d. for St. itts, and 14s. 3d. per cwt. for St. Lucia.
Nothing has occurred in Ruth or Coffee. •
' 6,200 bags.old Necransie.Rice are reported at:7s. 9d, and
500 tons afloat, open charter, price not transpired.
At the public sales this morning, 900 bags Cutch were
disposed of chiefly at 285., a small lot of Shmoac at 6s. 3d.
per cwt., 70 tons Savanilla Fustic at £5 2s. 6d. to £5 Os.,
50 tons African Black Ebony, all faults, at £l2 10s. to £l3,
and 120 tons Barwood at £3 ss. per ton, cx qnay.
Wd have also to notice 100 bags Pimento, at 3d. per lb

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—AucrusT 3.
There has been a flat market for Cotton. to-day, without
quotable change. The sales, including 70 Pernambuco, at
81d. to 9fid.; 70 Bahia, 7-z-d. to 8d..; '23 Maranham, 84d.
to 9d. 280 Egyptian, lad. to 100. ; and 400 Surat, 60.
to 54d., are reported 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 are on
speculation and for export.

LONDON TALLOW MARKET
The market is firm. Town tallow
cash; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 55
tember, 555. to 555. 3d. ; October to December; 56s
separately, 565. 6d.

A.UGUST 3

is quoted

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET,

2s. nett

Aigust to Sep-

—AuGusT 3

Sugar : The market continues dull, at yesterday's prices.
Coffee': Prices have been irregular, yet a full amount of
business done. Middling to. good 'middling Plantation
Ceylon, 695. to 765. ; Native Ceylon' good ordinary picked,
565. 6d-. to 595. 6d. ; Costa Rica, 70s. 6d. to 755: 6d.
Tea : The market is very firm, although inactive.
Rice-sold in public sale at a shade lower prices. Dacca,
at 9a. 6d. to 9s. 9d. ; Rangoon sold at 9s. 6d. ; Nairanza
Arracan, at 9s. 9d. •
Cotten is steady ; no sales reported.
Pimento, fair quality, sold at 31d. per lb.
Saltpetre remains out of demand.
Rum dull in demand, and sales are difficult to be made
at last week's prices.
Cochineal remains steady.
Markets generally continue dull.

LONDON MINING MARBET.--AuGusT 3.
In the Mining market to-day, shares in East Wheal
Russell have recovered to 10. There have also been a
',umber- of transactions in shares in Wheal Clifford, Lady
Bertha, Wheal Trelawney, Wheal Margaret, and Unity
'lines. In the Stock: Exchange, East Bassett shares are
i_narked 176 and 177, ex div. ; Wheal Margaret, 661 ;
..c_Tteridge Consols, 10s. ; Vale of Towey, 12s. 6d. ;' and
W h al 'rrelawiley, 261, ex div.
Fortuna Mining sh4a,res have been dealt in at 2,3, and
at 15s. Foreign descriptions generally are. very
Ingle:l.ll4a

SALFORD CATTLE MARKET,—AuGysT 3.
The slippy to-day consisted of 1,507 beasts, 11,662 she 9
and lambs, and 104 calves. There was a moderate demand,
at
ditto the
6d. annexed prices :—Beat beef, 6d. to 7d, ; middling
74.4. ; ewes,' 4d. , to;64d. ;to Old.; lamb cows, 4d. to sp. • best wedders, 61d. to
to 7d. per lb. s,
ea. to 71d.; calves, sd.

GLASOW.OORN MAltlitT ''
.—Auoucyr3
At our market to-day Wheat met w
Fr a
with littlulncliryi
closed dull at the prices of this day week,
,land
ur
brings prices in retail, owing to a cessation in 811
other descriptions were rather cheaper. There Nvel.T eives7
buyers of Barley, and prices were rath6r alue of
-Beans and Peas were unchanged. Oats difficult to sell at a
seduction of 6d. per 2401b8, Oatmeal 10, per 1944 cheaper.

LIVERPOOL TOWN COIL NCIL

Yesterday, the monthly meeting *if _the Tom m Covrnal
was held in the Town-hall ; William:Preston, E: xl., mayor,
presiding.

FINANCE COMMIXTES.
The proceedings of this committee :container I the follow-
ing recommendations :—Recommentlation to authorise the
removal of the statue of King George 111. fri ma its present
situation in London-road, to the platform opi hosite the new
Library and Museum, and the erection of a ie Wellington,
Column in Monument-place, London-road; recommenda-
rteec o
hme m
erectedenda<tion that an advertisement be issued for a co mpetent person
tasionau
to at
adopt the
tthhee
psalalanryo
andf el3eovoat.rnr oallf nauwnia 1, ;
on the south side of the new line of strec t, Shaw's-brow,'
and the enclosure of the land in the Old Ha pnarket ; recom-
mendation to purchase a slip of_ laud, cont aining about 250
to the northward .01 laud belonging to the
in Smithdown-lane, at the pri .ce of los. a yard;
corporation,
recommendation '
recommendation to purchase from Mrs.: Payne and others,
for the sum of £1,050, the leasehold int, :rest in premises,
Park-lane; by order, letter from the hoi aorary secretary of
the Liverpool Law Society, enelosing rep ort as to the neces-
sity of the appointment of, an _additional stipendiary magis-
trate, the consideration of which was pc istponed at _the last
monthly council.
The-committee reported that, having considered the re-
quest of the Dock Board, that the corpc ,ration should bear
a portion of the expense.of altering th e present landing-
stages on the Liverpool side of the river , for the purpose- of
could
ddinnegt facilitygrreecaemteLne rhesuotlerteed,tlitieha
tt
objecthey
d in
ecolluearrevYil to cont :
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out of the funds of the corporation.
A letter was received from Sir George. C. Lewis, confirm-
ing provisionally the present. -schedule c .1 fees for
the -clerk
of the peace ; and stating that it would notd lal
be a visa e
fix permanently a schedule of fees unt it the report of the
commissioners of inquiry on this subject: was received.
Mr. STEWART moved the confirmation. of the first s,pecial
resolution on the notice paper, in refere nee to the removal
of the statue of King George.-111.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Sam tuel Holme.

Mr. Alderman Panann said, though ► a member of the
Finance Committee, he differed from the opinion of that
committee. In the year .1822, the h ►yal inhabitants of
Liverpool subgeribed a large- sum of m oney to erect, upon
that elevated and desirable • situation in London-road,
the monument of King George 111. That site was
granted by the council :of the day. He did contend, and
appealed to the town-clerk, whether that council had any
right to supersede and do away with the actions of their
predecessors in council assembled. There was a glorious
feeling of loyalty in those days,,which, he had no doubt,
existed at present ; but he did hope the council would
not sanction the recoutmendation.:He moved that the matter
be referred back to the Finance Committee.
Mr. BENNETT seconded Mr. Parker's amendment. He
looked ;upon this monumeirt in its present position as sacred
as that in a church-yard, and thought it should not he
removed 'without strong;grounds. , It had been stated that
the monument had already -been removed from St. George's-
square. That was not correct.; it never was erected there.
He not only objected to the monument being removed, but
also to its being placed on the platform proposed, as the
time was rapidly approaching when a highway bridge would
have to be erected there, which wad involve the second
removal of the statue of King George 111., and thus be
handed about much to the disgust of the loyal people of
Liverpool. He had no doubt many people would be glad to
see the head of King George 111. taken off, and the head of
John Bright substituted. (Cries of "oh, oh.")
Mr. SAMUEL HOLME : A Bright idea. (Laughter.)
Mr. BeirNzrr thought the statue ought not to be removed
without muckbetter reasons than those Adduced.
Mr. SAmugr, HOLMES said he lead :listened in vain for
anything like argument in favoer of the amendment. He
wished the gentlemen supporting it had as much argument
as loyalty. To pax up loyalty with the removal of the site
of the statue of, George 111. showed that the gentlemen
were very short of argument. If anything could be t'one
by referring this matter back to the Finance Committee, he
would have no objection ; but the matter had already been
considered by them, and some difficulty had:been found in
obtaining a site for:tbe Wellington monument, as it required
for its base thirty-one square feet : and to place it at the
bottom of Bold-strut, or at the top of Lord-street, was out
of the question ; for if they took thirty-one square feet,
which would be required for the base, it would stop up the
thoroughfare. It was,suggested that it should be placed on
the site of the old Islington-square market ; but it was
resolved by the committee that it should not be placed there,
11E7: Re
Ptßgipiake'd itlieirsrateooPkinvgPae‘zfrg: glhe
vicinity of the new library and museum, it would be in the
centre of the town, and on a site where everybody would
see,it: it was very little seen at present.
Mr. RYLEY said, on a former occasion there was a
majority of the council against the removal of the statue in
London-road, and he hoped :the council would not that day

sanction'it

Mr. PicroN said, if the .statue was to be removed, he
quite agreed with Mr. Holme that a better site could not-be
found for it than the one proposed. But.there were several
reasons as to the propriety of not removing it. There was
something offensive in removing, the site of a monument that
had stood for some forty years, that it should be swept away
to give place to another monument. He thought such a
proceeding would lay them open to high censure, and would
do away with all idea of peru.spunce in such things in
future. Re thought it would be setting 0. gad precedent.
It appeared to him that the way the Wellington cone..l++,,
had acted, with reference to the erection of a monument to
the great here of their country, was in wretched bad taste,
and opposed.to, all principles of good sense, in proposing to
place, on the top of a column fifty feet high, a statue whose
features they would be obliged to use a spy-glass to ascer-
tain, on' account of the height. This had met with a great

deal of public animadversion ; and if that -committee would
persist in this design, which was condemned by almost every
person who was generally considered as an authority on the
subject, he would say, let them find a site for themselves.
In regard to the great point, as to the style of the ornament
that would be best adapted to the memory of the great hero,
he thought that.council being called upon to find a site, had
I some ground to take the matter up, even as regards taste.

Mr: CHARLES Tuiusts said the Wellington Monument
had been subscribed to with the express avowal that a
column should be raised. No objection was made to this by
the subscribers at the time. It was a question upon which
people differed, but it must be remembered that there were
a great many columns in the country with statues on the
top. lie did not agree with Mr. Picton that it was no
part of the business of, the council, to find a site for Allis
monument. He thought this rather ungradous.
Mr. JtrrEnv said he would .ask whether the couttca
were competent to interfere with a site once granted in
• •

such a case as this.
Mr. Alderman COOPER said the site for the statue of
King George 111. was granted first in Great George-
square, and preparation was made for its being erected

there.
Mr. STEWAR.T hoped it would be remembered that it was
-his duty to move in the council any resolution come to by
the committee. lie had abstained from offering any
opinion on the subject under discussion.. He thought it
was fairly open td the remarks which had been made. lie
would say for himself, and he hoped he was not doing any-,
thing inconsistent with his duty as chairman of the
Finance Committee, that he regretted very much indeed,
that a site could not be found for the Wellington Monu-
ment which would not have involved the removal of the
statue of King George 111. He would, not mix up
with the politics of King George the third, or that respect
for him, nor did he agree with Mr. Cooper that
the council were competent to remove the site from
Great George-square. It was his duty to move
the confirmation of the resolution, which had been
carried by a large majority of the Finance Committee, but
he would have the eouncil to deal with it as they thought
fit. It was very desirable that a distinct site should be ob-
tained, if pdisible, for the Wellington column. He did not
quite agree with his friend, Mr. nolme, that it was not pos-
sible that because they chose to make their base thirty feet
square that a site could not be obtained. It was very large,
and might be very handsome ; but, if a site could not be
found for so large a basis, the committee could narrow the
dimensioni. (Hear, hear.)
The amendment was then put, and carried by a majority
of 22 to 19.

Mr. STEWART moved the adoption of the next recommen-
dation, in reference to advertising for a competent person as
auditor.,

The.naotion was seconded by Mr. Samuel llOlme

Mr. 'JEFFERY suggested that, an audit committee should
be appointed, as well, to look after the accounts of the cor-
poration, who would "ne responsible to the council. •
Mr. 31,9zrxy.considered £3OO was not a sufficient salary
f6r a competent person as auditor.
'Mr. p, HoLME said it was thought by the committee better
to eominene With £300.; mid if the person appointed proved
on efficient; officer, they could. iiii-ir•Pay) the salary. „Appli
eation9'had been received fron.ReTsoAs:gt:c9nsiderable
perfenc ,c'bja it was thougl?tibeft4rf.!•lA:9AYPrtitqq - - •
Mr: RiLEY thought it would be more wise to say at once
that they would give £4OO, as they would then be more
likely to get a more efficient person to DU the office.