The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-17 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL.

The adjourned meeting of the Council was held on Wed-
nesday., Mr. 3. H. Turner, in the absence of the mayor,
presiding, _

Mr. Ir-. B. LLOYD read an extract from a letter which
he had received from Mr. Mackenzie, M.P., defending
himself from the accusations made by Mr. Gladstone at
the last meeting :--" My answer (said Mr. Mackenzie) to
Mr. Gladstone's attack on me is simply this, that I never
ceased trying to make Mr. Walpole appoint the ma-
gistrates in the town-clerk's list, but I could not succeed.
It is not true that I neglected to return the papers which
Mr. Walpole sent into the Treasury to me, as I carried
them into the Home-office with my own hands, and Mr.
Walpole on no occasion wrote to me for them. On the
day after the division on the budget that caused Lord
Derby's resignation, I went to Mr. Walpole, and
earnestly entreated him to appoint the Liverpool ma-
gistrates while he had yet the power. He said it was too
late; that his resignation was made; but he added—'
t have puall the paper,: in a box, with a strong expression
of my opinion, which will be found by my-successor, who-
ever he may be, and:l hope he will carry out my inten-
tions.' borne time ago I received a letter, in my Lord
Palmerston's name (written by a clerk, and not signed
by him), asking me to restore some papers relative to the
appointment of Liverpool magistrates, supposed to be in
my possession. Knowing I had no'such papers, I applied
to Mr. Walpole to know what it meant. He stated that
he would search his papers, and see if he had brought
them away with him. Eefore I received an answer from
Mr. Walpole to enable me to reply to Lord Palmerston,
the appointment of the new magistrates was made public,
having been obviously determined without any reference
to, or conneion with, - the letter to me. This is the
plain truth, and I leave the inhabitants of ,Liverpool to
determine where the culpable negligence is- to be found,
of which I have been accused."

The Council then proceeded to the regular business ;
but, at a subsequent part of the proceedings, a letter hav-
ing been read from the Home-office acknowledging the
receipt of resolutions of the Council, in reference to the
recent appointment of additicnal magistrates for the bo-
rough, Mr. GLADSTONE, who was not present when Mr.
Lloyd read the letter of Mr. Mackenzie, informed the
Council that he should not let the matter rest where it
was, but should lose no time in taking the necessary steps
to substantiate the whole statement which he had made
last week.

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:lug orders. Mr. T. D. Anderson was appointed a member
-of the committee.
• The portion of the proceedings of fthe committee not
included in the confirmation of the last week was read,
,embracing a report as to sailways crossing highways on
the level, and a recommendation to increase the wages
of various workmen employed
,in the borough engineer's
department.
The-report as to railways contained the results of
observations made by Messrs. Langsdale, ;Johnson, and
Moss, who had been commissioned to visit and inspect
various towns. They were of opinion that level crossings
on streets and towns, however carefully worked, would be
attended by no small degree of inconvenience-; but that,
nevertheless, the importance of railway traffic warranted
the sanction of such crossings in certain localities in our
own town, two men being appointed to stand at each gate
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dations and day,'these men being under the contralti of the
minutes Council,
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dations of the committee.
The proceedings of the Water Committee embraced a
recommendation (the consideration of which was post-
poned from the last Council) toincrease the wages of the
superintendent of engines and other servants.
The other recommendation was to accept the offer of
Messrs. Case and Morris, of land adjoining Audley.
street, as a site for the Evertor reservoir, and also the
tender of Messrs. A. and G. Holme, for the construction
of the reservoir and works connected therewith on that site.
After some conversation, the proceedings were confirmed.
Mr. PICTON, after reading the minutes of the Library
and Museum Committee, said that the average attendance
at the institution was pretty much the same week by week,
because they had now got as far as they could with their
present accommodation. The number of readers per day
was about 440. The numbers attending the Museum had
averaged, since the opening, 1,500 or 1,600 per day. The
accommodation for books and readers was now becoming
so extremely deficient that the committee had been
seriously considering what steps should be taken to in-
crease it ; and he hoped that before many weeks they
would be in a condition to come before the Council with a
report on the subject, and propose something for their
adoption.
The proceedings were then confirmed, as were those
also of the Hackney Carriage and Baths Committee, the
recommendation in the former to increase the wages of
Inspectors Thursby and Johnston from 31s. 6d. to 335.
per week being directed to remain over, according to
standing orders. The Coroner's account, amounting to
£2l 55., was passed.
The minutes of the Gardens Committee were confirmed,
as were those of the Church Expenditure Committee, Mr.
HARMOOD BANNER intimating that there were now placed
at the disposal of the poor of the district 300 free seats in
st. George's Church.