The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-07 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

At the monthly meeting, on Wednesday, the Mayor,
Mr. S. HoieuE, in the chair, a letter from the master pilots'
committee, read in the minutes of the Finance Committee,
recommended that moorings be placed in the river for
the accommodation of emigrant-ships. The letter was
referred to the water-bailiff. Mr. BIGHAM asked whether
the Newsham-house estate had been leased for five years.
The MAYOR replied that he was not a mare that it had.
The proceedings were confirmed.
The proceedings of the Watch and Lighting Committee
having been read, Mr. Alderman PARKER called the
attention of the Council to the rather hurried manner in
which they had acted relative to the erection of three
additional bridewells. This would be attended with an
enormous expense. He should, therefore, give notice for
the next Council that there be two, instead of three,
bridewells erected. Mr. BIGHAM said that there had been
no reason given or shown for so hasty an expenditure of
£150,000, the sum estimated for building the additional
bridewells, and £7,000 a-year, the expenses attendant on
them. Mr. GLADSTONE expressed himself favourable to
a delay in carrying out the order of the Council. He
asked whether the Watch Committee, directly or in-
directly. sanctioned the practice of police-officers not
only going in plain clothes to public-houses and beer.
houses, to lay informations for Sunday trading, but whether
they countenanced the practice of the publicans being
tested by the officers to see if they would sell liquor con-
trary to law. Mr. BRADLEY observed that Mr. Gladstone
had anticipated him by his question. He thought such a
practice highly derogatory and pernicious. He cited the
case of a beerhouse-keeper to show the great hardship, by
incurring heavy expenses, arising out of this system. Mr.
AvisoN advocated the system on the ground of expediency.
Mr. TOBIN, the chairman of the committee, replied. He
denied that the officers were instructed to tempt publicans
to violate the law, and said no such case had ever been
proved. It having been stated to the committee that there
were some 300 or 400 houses carrying on an extensive
system of illegal trading, the officers had been instructed
to go out in plain clothes with the view of detecting the
offenders. There were very few cases in which members
of the Licensed Victuallers' Association had been sum-
moned for violations of the law, and in most cases where
they had been summoned the charges had been dismissed.
After the proceedings of the Dock Committee bad been
read, the Mayor said he had received a letter from Mr.
Dover tendering his resignation as a member of the Dock
Committee, and it would, therefore, be necessary for the
Council to fill up the vacancy, either at the next monthly
meeting or at a special meeting called for the purpose.—
Mr. BIGHAM said that in effect the Dock Committee had
been one member short for many months previously, for
Mr. Dover had not attended for the last nine months. He
(Mr Bigham) would, therefore, should it be thought neces-
sary, move a special Council on the subject.—The Mayor
said, if a requisition was made to him to that effect, he
would comply with it. The proceedings were then con-
firmed without discussion. . _

A long conversation, arising out of the proceedings of
the Health Committee, took place on the withholding a
copy of the new Sanitary Bill from the Council. It was
explained that the details rendered it advisable to take the
opinion of the Town-clerk upon the legal technical points,
and the opinions of practical men upon matters affecting
buildings, &c. The bill then to be printed for the Council.
The proceedings were confirmed without discussion.

A power of attorney was given to the Town-clerk,
authorising him to enter into agreements, on the part of
the Corporation with mortgagees, for the continuance of
all taxes at reduced rates of interest.
The use of the Town-hall was granted for the Ladies'
Charity and Licensed Victualler? balls.
The proceedings of the Health-committee having been
read, Mr. BENNETT complained of the meagreness of the
information furnished to the Council relative to the pro -
gress of gigantic works which were involving an outlay of
X 700,000 or £BOO,OOO. Mr. HOLT, the chairman, ex-
plained that the contracts were being carried out under
the direction of the principal and resident engineers.
Nothing, he thought, could be more injurious than the
committee to interfere with the working out of their con-
tracts. The committee kept nothing back from the
Council, having nothing to reserve. The proceedings were
confirmed.
_ . .

In moving the cpnfirmation of the proceedings of the
Library and Museum Committee, Mr. Pic roN entered into
interesting particulars, showing that the library was duly
appreciated by that class of the community for whom it
Was principally intended. The committee were, he said,
'thinking of adopting some scheme for extending the use-
fulness of the library and museum, and of procuring a
suitable building in a suitable locality of the town for the
Purpose. The committee proposed, in reference to a
request for the loan of the model of Liverpool for the
approaching exhibition at New York, that it be granted
after it should have been open for the inspection of the
Liverpool public for six months.—The proceedings were
Confirmed.

HAnmooD BANNER brought forward his motion,
that the public charities of the town be supplied with
rater by the Corporation gratuitously, from the Ist of
January next, and urged his reasons for doing so. The
charities included the Infirmary, the North and South
,dospitals, the North, South and East Dispensaries, the
,-ulind Asylum, the Roman Catholic Blind Asylum, the
Deaf and Dumb Institution, the Eye and Ear Institution,
the Female Orphan Asylum, the Roman Catholic Orphan
4.1.1Y1um. the Penitentiary, the Ladies' Charity, and the
Council,
The TOWN-CLERK instructed the
'-ouncil, they were mere trustees, and could not legally
supply water free of charge.
The Council then adjourned.

COMPlRlSON.—Australian papers of June 12 an-
nounce in one breath the resignation of Lord John Rus-
sell, first lord of the treasury, and of John Gill, the
Pound-keeper of Armidale !
ELOPEMENT.—The Wexford Independent of Wednes-
day says :—" A circumstance of a very distressing nature
bas just occurred in the western part of this county. A
gentleman of large income has suddenly disappeared with
lady's waiting-maid."

PERSECUTION AT FLORENCE.—On Saturday a deputa-
tion waited on Mr. Secretary Walpole, at the Home-
°face, with a memorial to her Majesty on the subject of
Florence ersecution for religious opinions now carried on al
,s. The deputation consisted of the Earl of Shaftes-
"4l7, Colonel Alexander, Wilbraham Taylor, Esq., Capt.
9iberne, J. Meadows White, Esq., T. R. Wheatley, Esq.,
• B• Seeley, Esq., and J. MacGregor, Esq. The
~mem-
orial was signed by the Dukes of Sutherland and Argyll,
• Marquis of Cholmondely, the Earls of Winchilsea,
_,•corteseue, Ducie, Shaftesbury, Dartmouth, Roden, Wal-
t"grave, Cavan, Bandon, Darnley, Donoughmore, Meath,
ienesley, Clancarty, and Carnworth ; Lords Stopford,
unlo, Lorton, Bangor, Bernard, Monck, Calthorpe,
ttufurley, De Saumarez, Hatherton, Clanrnorris, Downes,
Massy, Moreton, Claude Hamilton, T. Pelham Clinton,
,itparles Pelham Clinton, H. Cholmondeley, Rev. Lord
13jr,iotheslev Russell ; by the Archbishop of Dublin, the
bB4OPs of- Manchester, Worcester, Norwich, Cashel,
tOwn, Ossory, Kilmore,.and Timm ; by 21 ,archmembrs of
time House of Commons, 26 baronets, 10 deans, 8 -
arieae"s, 9 generals, and 94 other officers ; 19 admirals,
other officers of the navy ; 321 justices of the
23ace, 630 members of the profession, 1302 clergymen,
9 dissenting ministers; 11,431 bankers, merchants, and
1,7/ate gentlemen ; and by 8894 other persons, being a
total of 23,172 signatures. Mr. Walpole received the de-
etation most courteously, and promised to lay the ad-
Pees before her Majesty immediately.
4 BRIDE'S IDLE HOURS.—We should think a lady
ti!ver had but two dresses in her life before marriage, by
ine gaantity purchased and made for the bridal. This
4..tindation of dresses is a custom as fixed and unalterable
Oat which insists on every stich in the whole trousseau
4plrt set, leaving the poor bride nothing but folded bands
is succeeded
the wedding-day is over. The hurry of six months
tosucceeded by an appalling calm ; there is not even the
2 of a cap or handkerchief to be sewn on, or any apron
hemmed ; and listless ennui threatens the bride of a
teouhe,i_he
sitC"'• -We have lately beard of one, who was discovered
ia,tig on the carpet of her elegantly furnished apartment
berng solitaire, the cards spread out upon an ottoman
ti_usre her. What a picture—the husband gone to busi-
-11 , the wife tired of the piano, too heedless for reading,
the with an pe empty work-basket ! There is nothing like
td to tranquillise the mind and raise the spirits, if
"ch moderately.