The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-13 00:00:00

SHIPBUILDING COMMITTEE.

The proceedings of this committee comprised a recom-
mendation to divide the frontage between the Steam-tuz
Company's yard, and the reserved quay of the river craft
basin into four yards, with equal frontage, and to let the
same to the present tenants, at the rent per square yard
now respectively paid by them, and upon leases for four-
teen years, the tenants having the option of giving up
possession at the end of seven years oa giving sit calendar
months' previous notice, the tenants erecting all such
buildings as they may require.
The recommendation was confirmed after some expla-
natory remarks from Mr. TOBIN, the chairman of the
committee.

The Coroner's account, amounting to £32 18s., was
submitted and passed.

A communication from the coroner's jury, complaining
of the state of the dead house, the expense attendant on
their office as jurymen, and the omission of merchants to
serve on the coroner's jury, was, after some discussion,
referred to the Finance Committee.—A memorial from
the committee on the model of the docks, requesting the
Council to grant a further sum of £213, to defray addi-
tional expenses incurred by them, was also referred to the
Finance Committee.

THE SELECT VESTRY AND THE COUNCIL.-APPOINTMENT

OF ADDITIONAL BOROUGH MAGISTRATES.

The following communication from the Secretary of
State, as to the appointment of additional magistrates for
the borough, was next brought forward :--
" Whitehall, 7th June, 1852.

" SlR,—The Vestry of the Parish of. Liverpool having
represented to Mr. Secretary Walpole the expediency of
appointing additional magistrates for that borougb, and
recommended `that the following gentlemen should be
placed in the commission of the peace accordingly, viz.—
The Rev. Jonathan Btooks,
The Rev. Augustus Campbell, .
Jemes Stitt, Esq.
Thomas Darnley Anderson,
Daniel Mather, Esq., and
Francis Alexander Hamil'on,
have to request that you will inform Mr. Walpole whether
the Town Council of Liverpool have any observations to
offer in reference to this recommendation.
" T have the honour to be, Sir, .
" Your obedient servant,
" H. WADDINGTON."
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Mr. PARKER, Mr. J. B. LLOYD, kr: S. HOLME, Mr.
GODFREY, Mr. BECKWITH, Mr. FERNIHOUGH, and
several other members of the council spoke in strong
terms of the impropriety of the step taken by the vestry,
denouncing it as an act of discourtesy towards the
council.

Mr. BRADLEY (member of the Select Vestry) ex-
plained why the communication had been made with the
Home Secretary on the subject. It was in consequence
of the present magistrates refusing to sit at the offices in
Brownlow-hill, in cases in connected with parochial
officers.

Mr. WOOODRUFF, in an energetic address, protested
against the feeling which had been marifested by different
members of the Council towards the Select Vestry. He
had had many years' experience. as a member of the vestry,
and he begged to remind the Council that that body had
even more important interests than themselves to guard.
He justified the course which the Vestry had taken in this
matter.

Mr. Alderman TURNER defended the magistrates from
the charge brought against them by, Mr. Bradley.
Mr. S. HOLME, without meaning anything offensive to
the gentlemen named in the communication of the vestry
to the Home Secretary, would put it to any gentleman
present whether either Archdeacon Brooks or the Rev.
Rector Campbell had leisure to attend to the duties
devolving upon a magistrate for this borough ?

.
The MAYoR said that the same day the communica-
tion was forwarded to Mr. Secretary Walpole from the
vestry a copy of it was sent to the magistrates, who met
and passed the following resolution :
" That the mayor be requested to acknowledge the
letter, and also to write to the Home Secretary, stating
that the bench bad received such memorial, that it does
not admit all the allegations contained in it, and does not
concur in its prayer."

After some further discussion, Mr. J. B. Lloyd moved,
and Mr. Fernihough seconded, that a resolution to the
following effect should be forwarded to Mr. Secretary
Walpole, in answer to the communication received from
him, namely :—" That if any additional magistrates are
required for this borough, the Council conceive that
they have it in their power to lay before Mr. Secretary
Walpole a more eligible list than that sent up to him by
the Select Vestry of Liverpool.

The resolution was carried unanimously, and a memo-
rial from the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners'
Royal Benevolent Society in London, requesting pecu-
niary aid, having been referred to the Finance Committee,
the Council broke up at a quarter to four o'clock, having
transacted all the business on the paper.

HORTICULTURE.