The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

The monthly meeting of the Council was held 00
Wednesday, the Mayor presiding.
The proceedings of the finance committee comprised
a recommendation to appoint a clerk in the magistrate'f.
clerk's-office, in the room of Mr. Sigston, resigned, at
the same salary of £75 per annum, the consideration of
which was postponed at the last monthly Council, put,.
suant to standing orders ; recommendation to adopt the
following resolution :—" That all weights and measure,
which have been once stamped within the borough 01
Liverpool, shall not at any future period be charged feot
adjusting, where adjusting is required, any price exceed'
big the fees charged for stamping, as set forth in schedule
appended to the act of parliament, sth and 6th William
IV., cap. 63, provided that if materials exceeding half-e:
pound in weight are required for the correct adjustmeni
of any weight, the charge at present made shall continue
as to any such weight ;" report of the probable income
and expenditure of the Corporation for the year cum'
mencing the Ist September last, and ending 31st Augu4
next ; recommendation to grant a sum to each of the
townships within the borough, equal to the amount 0i
watch rate, payable by such townships respectively ; ae°
the recommendation for payment of the usual grail?
ties to public charities.

The appointment of clerk in the magistrate's-clerk's'
office, and the resolution relating to weights and measure*
were confirmed.

The probable income and expenditure of the corporatie°
for the year commencing Ist September last, and endi‘
ofof obligatory3xl ,800.
The expendituresbran cb
of discretionary expenditure on schools, public charities'
31st of August next, formed the subject of a brief repor4 a
the sub-committee. The nett income of the Corporr,
11
Estate from all sources could not be estimated at rnor
a rpamsuounitus
observatory, &c., were stated at £3,547 ; improvernent4
la,n7 3 £6015 ;
8 ,690 ;
leaving
in Bootle-lane and Kirkdale, recommended in the pr„e;
vious year by the health committee, but postponed, £751,1
improvements in Mount-pleasant, Brownlow-hill, as
Upper Parliament-street, £1,280 ; being. a total n•
£5,584, which, if deducted from the above, would leaf°
an available surplus of £26,316.
Mr. HORNBY, in moving the resolution of this coin'
mittee, observed that the balance at the disposal of the
council for any purpose which they might deem fit to use it?
for the promotion of the general benefit of the inhabitants'
and the improvement of the borough, was. £14,773, in the
event of the council agreeing to the annual vote which;
for several years past, had been made for the parish and
out-townships, in lieu of a watch-rate. This being the
case, he had great pleasure in moving that £11,44j
chargeable on the townships as watch-rate, be remitted
to each of the townships in their respective proportion'
The resolution was adopted.
The following payments were made last year under th°
head of gratuities to the charities :—The Dispensaries?
£157 10. ; Northern Hospital, £lOO ; Southern Ditto,
£lOO ; Infirmary, £lO5 ; Ophthalmic Institution. £100;
Refuge for the Destitute, £25; Ladies' Charity, £3O;
Lying-in-Hospital, £3O 3s. • District Provident SocietYl
£lOO ; Royal Institution, ilOO.
Mr. HORNBY formally moved the continuance of the
grants.

After some discussion, an amendment, by Mr. Feral'
hough, for the discontinuance of the grant to the Roy/
Institution, was carried by 33 to 7. The confirmation o
the remainder of the proceedings was then moved by Mr'
HORNBY, and carried.

The proceedings, resolutions, and reports of the watch,
lighting, fire-police, and fire-prevention committee, core,
prised a recommendation to increase the salary of Mr•
James Cooper, surgeon to the police-torce, from £IIOY t 0
£l3O per annum.
Mr. J. A. TOBIN moved the adoption of the proceed'
ings, acknowledging that since their last meeting ter°
officers had been dismissed, for gross misconduct, but
deprecating, and particularly by the press, a censure of the
whole force for the faults of a few.
Some discussion took place, relative to an alleged out-
rage committed by policeman 607 on Mr. Durandu, pro..
prietor of the Zoological Gardens, on the morning of the
7th of December ; and also respecting another instance of
violence on the part of the police upon a man named
Charles Smith.

Mr. TOBIN admitted that in the case of Mr. Durand°
the officer had exceeded his duty, but it was not so with
regard to Smith, whose conduct, as well as that of his soil
had been outrageous ; the son, indeed, threatened to strike
the police with a hatchet.

The proceedings were confirmed.
A motion by Mr. Alderman PARKER to rescind a reso*
lution of the Council of the 6th of October, recommending
the erection of four additional bridewells, was lost by
25 to 32.
A long and animated discussion took place upon certain
correspondence between Messrs. George Baker. and SO;
Standgate, Lambeth, who complained of the injustice 0'
the Dock Committee in advertising for tenders for th°
construction of the Wapping Dock, and then afterward°
adopting the tender of their own surveyor.

Mr. JAMES HOLME, Mr. BIGHAM, and Mr. FERN!:
HOUGH denounced the conduct of the committee in OP
matter ; whereas Mr.TITHNER, the chairman, defended the
course pursued as quite in accordance with the terms of the
advertisements issued, and with the general opinion dela,
committee at the time the advertisements were sanctione
Mr. BIGHAM animadverted strongly upon the condos
of the committee in not laying before the body the fie
letter from the Messrs. Baker ; but the Chairrn%
defended the position which the committee took in th;,,
matter, the question having been already settled by 14 to
On the question being put to the vote, the resolution e'
the committee was vetoed by 42 to 11. e Ave
Mr. Gladstone was then appointed, by a majority 01
over Mr. Anderson: a member of the Dock Committee,
place of Mr. Dover.
The Council adjourned until to•morrow

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