The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held on
Wednesday.
On the recommendation of the Finance Committee, it
was resolved to increase the salary of Mr. Wyberg, 'the
treasurer, from £5OO to £7OO :—Mr. PARKER and Mr.
HODGSON stating their disapproval of the job that was
perpetrated by the Reformers—that of giving £5OO to the
Man who discharged the duties of treasurer, and £5OO to
the man who did nothing.
Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE called the attention of the Coun-
cil to the Holyhead Harbour Bill, (the flagrant character
of which we exposed in our last) and asked if the at-
tention of the Finance Committee had been called to the
subject, for the company were seeking an exclusive power
over the passage traffic by preventing any competition on
the part of general steamers.
Sir Tnomns BRATqcxun said that the attention of the
Finance Committee had not been called to the subject,
but that the. Mayor had received a communication relative
thereto from Mr. C. W. Williams, and it was resolved
that that report should be referred to the Finane3 Com-
mittee.

On the Dock Proceedings being read, Mr. BRAMLEY-
MOORE said, he might just observe, with reference to the
Albert Dock warehouses, as that was the last occasion
upon which he might notice them, that owing to the un-
tiring exertions of the sub-committee, under whose ma-
nagement the Albert Docks principally were, the public
appreciated them, and they were now constantly occupied
and full. (Hear, bear.) He had received a letter from
Mr. W. Potter, stating that a clause would be introduced
into the Birkenhead Dock Act, to disqualify any member
of the Birkenhead and Herculaneum Dock Company from
being a member of the Liverpool Dock Committee. He
thought that it would be quite in order that every proprie-
tor of the dock company over the water should be dis-
quali;led from acting here as a trustee. He would not
disqualify him from sitting and acting as a councillor, but
he would prevent him from voting on or exercising
control over the affairs of the Liverpool Dock Estate.
They net .there to promote the interests of the town and
trade of Liverpool : and if any Birkenhead proprietor
were there he would not be free from that bias to which.
human nature was subject. (lar.) He had now to an-
nounce that the 24th of last month completed nine months
of the official dock year. They commenced their official
year on the 24th of June. And, notwithstanding the
great falling off in the importation of the staple article of
the port—cotton—compared with previous years, and the
large diminution in the imports of guano, he had the high
satisfaction of acquainting the Council that our tonnage.
compared with the nine months of the previous year, had
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beenoff brought
by 113,523 tons. It showed the Council that,
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that the trade
here must and would continue to in-
crease ; and when there was an
ordinary
increase in the
imports of cotton, the inc
considerable. NotwitlistaZlisnePt‘tonnage would be very
reduction. in the dues
on foreign bottoms from
33 2s. 3d. on ships to is. 3d. or
per cent., the increase in the money department of the
port was £ll,7B7—(hear, hear.) .
Mr. PARKER bore testimony to the highly successful
exertions of the Albert Dock Sub-Committee. , He had
gone throUgh the Albert Dock the other day, and every..
thing there was so unlike Liverpool that he was perfectly
astonished. It was one of the lions of the town,—(lleac,
hear.)
The proceedings of the St. George's Hall Committee
contained a variety of communications betweeD the Town-
clerk, the committee, the musical professors, the archi-
tect, and Mr. Samuel Holme. Mr. Holme justified the
statement he made at the last Council, 'relative to
.the
expensive manner in which the building was erected, and
Mr. Elmes characterised Mr. Holtne's statement at the
last Council as the statement of a "disaffected contractor."
Mr. J.B . LLOYD, in moving the confirmation of the pro-
ceedings, said that Mr. Wightman had reported on the
building, that it was an ornament to the town and was
not " a thing of shreds and patches." The Committee
recommended the Council not to expend £6,000 or £7,000
on the organ, until the hall was completed.—Mr. S.
lIOLME said that he would reiterate what he had previ-
ously said as to the cost of the building. The estimate
given in April 1841 was for £92,000, and in August 1844,
after a number of additional sums had been voted, a new
estimate was sent in for £145,000. He denied that any
of the materials he had used in, the building were of an
inferior description, and was willing that any portion of
the bricks and mortar should be cut out and examined.—
Mr. Jas. Hoi,mE moved for certain returns connected
with the building, but the motion was withdrawn on the
understanding that the returns could be obtained, and the
Council adjourned until Friday.

The adjourned meeting was held on Friday.
The MAYOR brought before the notice of the Council
the report of the Health Committee, an important portion
of which was Dr. Duncan's report on the present state of
the public health. It went to prove the existence of
typhus fever, but not of a very dangerous type: It was
nearly exclusively confined to the Irish residents, 73 out
of 90 cases of infection b.,ing Irish. Lace-street, occupied
exclusively by Irish, was named as being in a most filthy
condition : forty-eight cases had occurred since the com-
mencement of the year in that street, and there were at
present twenty-seven. In the Exchange and Vauxhall
districts, there were at present 75 cases under treatment.
The report went on to recommend the adoption, if possi-
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ble, of some measure to prevent the further influx of Irish
paupers as absolutely necessary to preserve the health of
ther town. As a precautionary measure, it advised the
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manpdantiheasttoarratunrngetmheenwt,satbeer
on daily, instead of three times a-week, as was done at
present. It also
pointed to the necessity of providing
extra accommodation for.the infected, as well as addi-
tional medical aid. A letter from Sir George Greys, rela-
tive to the appointment of Dr. Duncan by the- Town
Council, was read, by which it appeared that. the Seem--