The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

,COUNTRY OFFICES

Birmingham _,...
£ 8,278
Birmingham District ...... 3,151
Bristol (discontinued) 3,407
Bristol Union
Caledonian 6,185
Essex Economic
Essex and Suffolk
Hants, Sussex, and Dorset
Kent
Leeds and Yorkshire .
Leicestershire
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.. 5,886
New Norwich Equitable 1,512
Norwich Union 66,873
North British
Reading
Salop
Sheffield 2,600
Suffolk East I United
Suffolk West
West of England 32,422
• Yorkshire
York and London 11,583
Scottish Unipn 20,502
Hibernian(discontinued)
Irish Offices 1 National
Patriotic ......
THIRTY-FOUR FIRE-OFFICES (chiefly those lately esta-
blished) have discontinued their business.

11,296

The Royal Agrietiltural Society of England has put the
sum of £2OO per annum at the disposal of the Veterinary
College, for the express purpose of improving the system of
education in reference to the diseases of cattle, sheep, and
Pitts•

MEETING OF THE DOCK

COMMITTEE

Yesterday the weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was
held in the Revenue-buildings. The following members were
present :—Messrs. Leathom, Mellor, Barclay, Holmes,
Horsfall, Thos. Bolt, Martin, Benn, Middleton, Smith,
Aikin, Tobin, Geo. Holt, and Evans. Mr. Leathom occu-
pied the chair.

The minutes of the preceding meeting having been read,
several accounts were read and ordered for payment; after
which several grants and allowances were made.

me report of tne bub-committee of Works, with refer-
ence to the accommodations afforded to the British" and
North American Steam Navigation Company, was then read.
Various improvements about the Brunswick Dock, &c.,
suggested by the company, were then ordered to be carried
into effect, in accordance with the recommendations of the
Sub-committee. It was also resolved that the company be
informed of the same.

Mr. ToutN and several other gentlemen entered into a
conversation upon the subject of the working of the dredging
machines, from which it appeared that the process of dredg-
ing could be carried on with much greater rapidity than for-
merly.

The tenders of the Soho Company were then read for sup-
plying the light, ship with three new lanterns, the cost of
which, with all' their appurtenances, was estimated at £476
each. A desultory conversation ensued on this subject.
The report of the sub-committee was referred back, in order
that the contract might be fulfilled as speedily as possible.
A motion for a gratuity to the crews of the life-boats (see
our last report) was then acceded to.
A report was then read, suggesting the propriety of memo-
rialising the Trinity Board, on the subject of having a beacon
erected on Harry Furlong's Rock, near Beaumaris, and de-
tailing numerous losses which had taken place on that
Report confirmed.

nst, the Prince's

The complaint of Henry Hughes, pilot,
Dock pier-head master, for using insulting la

;stage, was

referred to the Harbour-Master's Committee:
A long discustion then ensued on a report-of the Finance
Committee, recommending an improved mode of keeping the
accounts of the trust, in accordance With the suggestions of
the British and North American Association. The report
was finally agreed to.

Mr. 110 PALL asked permission to read a letter, with
which Mr. Chapman had favoured him. He was as anxious
to deal fairly by Mr. Chapman as he was by Mr. Hartley,
or any other gentleman ; and he inclined to think from the
concluding expression in the letter, that Mr. Chapman would
expect it to be read to the committee. Mr. Horsfall then
read the following letter :
" 85, Jermyn-street, London, Jan. 4th, IH4I.

" Sir,—l have this morning received a Liverpool Mail of
the 2d, in which I perceive in the report of " The Meeting of
the Dock Committee" you have in my absence made allu-
sions to the charges I brought, in writing, against the Dock
Surveyor, and which, on the clearest evidence, were admitted
as proyed by the sub-committee, of which you were a member.

" The case being so long disposed of I am at a loss to
know your motive in again introducing the subject, when a
special committee has been appointed to enquire into the old
system of management, the system being what I complained
of. I distinctly disclaimed any'reflection•on Mr. Hartley's
honesty, but, on the contrary, commended him for good in-
tentions, and gave him every credit for being a good stone-
mason, but I considered him inefficient in design as an en-
gineer. _ _

" It appears from the report of your speech that you were
instrumental in appointing him; and consider yourself re-
flected upon. If this he the case I think it .only right to
mention that it is scarcely fair that you should be a member
of the special committee now sitting for the purpose of en-
quiring into the old system of management, which I have for
years past considered very faulty ; anti no wonder, when the
Surveyor, as a proof of his own capacity, publishes "the
thanks of the Dock Committee voted to him for his able re-
port in MC," but to which is added, their regret that "they
had not. had time to examine it, or go into detail."

You are now in possession of my real charges and senti-

—I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
"HENRY CLEAVER CHAPMAN

Liverpool

.• • •
Mr. Horsfall, (in. continuation) referring to the charge of
his speaking on the subject to which it alluded in Mr, Chap-
man's absence, observed that he (Mr. Horsfall) attended
the committee on that day fortnight, and found Mr. Chap-
man absent, and he did not then think it necessary to defer
further what he had to say; As to Mr. Chapman's saying
that it was not fair for him (Mr. Horsfall) to be one of the

"Special Sub-committee of Enquiry," the fact was well
known to all the gentlemen present, that he, although he
had been named on that committee, had immediately desired
his name to be withdrawn from the list and it was with-
drawn accordingly.

It was then resolved, on the motion of Mr. EvANs, se-
conded by Mr. HORSFALL, that the salary of Mr. Mason,
the Secretary, should be increased from £4OO to £5OO, per
annum, to commence from the lith of December, 1840.
After Mr. MASON had briefly returned thanks for this
mark of approbation of his labours, the Committee sepa-
rated.