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said that whenever money be-
d—rest now given would be

Mr. BRAMLEY

ame plentiful,

lowered

rate of in

He assured the Council that every possible
exertion had been used by the committee to render the
Albert Dock war houses as efficient as possible, but it
was utterly impossible to expect, with a dock surrounded
..arehousei and with only two stacks open, that they
old judge at all of its working. There was so small a
portion open that they had no means of judging. There
had been imp()• ted into the Albert Dock 15,320 tons.
The average tonnage of the vessels that went in was 323
tons each, and the average time of discharging them was

forty-one hours. If these vessels had gone into the ca-
sual docks thir discharge would have occupied, not forty
hours, but forty days. Here, then, there was a clear gain
to the ship owner, and there were numerous instances in
which ship owners had spoken of the economy and the
dispatch, and said that they could discharge at the Albert
Dock cheaper tha❑ they could at the open docks. (Hear)
Mr. Moore read a letter from Messrs. Jones, Mann, and
Foster, in which they spoke of the facility afforded them
at a sale of indigo at the Albert Dock, and he concluded
Ilenging any one to cite an instance in which any
Ling had been sent to the committee that
estigated and redressed immediately.
gs of the Fire Committee having been

complaint in wr

The proceedin
read,

Mr. HORSFALL moved, pursuant to notice "That it
be an instruction to the Fire Committee to report upon
the desirableness of holding an inquiry before the coroner
in all cases of fire occurring within the borough." When
he stated, that during the last five years not less than a
aPillioia of property had been destroyed by fire in Liver-
pool, be thought the Council would be disposed to enter-
all calculated to arrest the progress

Ain any proposition

uch a state o

judicial inq

all cases of tir

gases of fire on

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Mr. RATRBONB explained, and said that in the re-
marks which had fallen from him, he never meant them
to apply to Mr. Horsfall's tespected father. But there
were a great many abuses under the unpaid magistrates of
Liverpool. (Loud cries of no," and "yes.")
Sir T. BRANCKER had been an unpaid magistrate, and
knew of no abuse; and he thought the charge very un-
just, and very unworthy of Mr. ttatbbone.
Mr. H. HORNBY disagreed with Mr. Ratbbone, be-
cause he believed the former magistrates of Liverpool
discharged their duties admirably.

Mr. HOLME regretted that any subject connected
with the solemn administration of justice should be treated
with any degree of lightness, and that the dignity of the
council should be lowered by any personal remarks what-
ever. It had been his misfortune to be summoned, not
only before Mr. Rushton, but before the magistrates of
by-gone days, and while he would yield to no man in admi-
ration of the independent way in which Mr. Rushton per-
formed his duty, at the same time, he was only stating
what he knew, in saying, equal independence and justice
were evinced by magistrates in former years. With an in-
creasing population of three hundred thousand, and the
great increase of informations which must take place,
it would be utterly impossible for any man, whatever
his physical strength, to undertake the labour
that must be laid on the stipendairy magistrate in
that borough, for some time to come. There were great
complaints in Toxteth-park, especially amongst the timber
merchants, of being dragged up to the Town-hall; and
kept one or two hours waiting for their summonses. He
trusted the courts would be entirely removed fro that
neighbourhood, and either that they would centralize
them or erect one at the north and another at the sc nth
end of the town. When the subject came fully before
them he would be prepared to go more into detail, but at
present he should have been glad if a committee had been
appointed to inquire into the whole of the circumstances
of the case and to report at a future day. He believed
the town, if appealed to, would decide in favour of pro-
viding an assistant by an enormous majority. It was not
the magistrates, but the Council who would have to pay
the increase, and the Chairman of the Finance Commit-
tee told them they bad no funds to pay for the most pal-
try improvements. Mr. Hall, as efficient a magistrate as
ever sat in a chair, had only £l2OO. and other police ma-
gistrates had only £lOOO. He believed he was correct in
saying Mr. Maude, of Manchester, had only £l2OO, and
he did think Mr. Rushton, with all his merits, who re-
ceived £lOO a year more, could scarcely be said to be
underpaid.
Mr. Arius: was satisfied Mr. Rushton did render the
bench of magistrates at the present day almost an hono-
rary office, but he wa. also satisfied there was not an in-
vidual member who sat beside him who did not acknow-
ledge the admirable manner in which he presided. His
fame was not confined to Liverpool, but had spread
throughout the country. He did not att3mpt to say Mr.
Rushton was overworked, but if any person were there to
argue on that ground, he (Mr. Aikin) was prepared to
show he was paid less for the work done than they would
find paid to a similar officer in any borough or town in
the kingdom. If they took the amount of work, the way
in which it was done, and the expense of doing it, they
would find that, although Mr. Rushton got £lOO a-year
more, yet the expenses of the whole establishment were
less, owing entirely to the manner in which he conducted
the business of the court.

The subject then dropped, it being understood that Mr,
Sands will bring forward a by-law next Council day.

IRELAND,

The Limerick papers contain accounts of a very despe-
rate attempt to assassinate a gentlemen of the county of
Clare, for sending his wheat to market.

A man named Connor died on Wednesday, at Skib-
bereen, of exhaustion, nine days wages being due to him
from the board of works.

Skibbereen workhouse has been closed against further
admissions, the number now within its walls being 828, of
which 130 are in the fever hospital. The deaths are daily
increasing. _

The Cork repealers are quite dissatisfied with Mr.
O'Connell's unmeaning reply to their address for recon-
ciliation of the Young and Old Ireland parties. They be-
lieve Mr. O'Connell determinedly adverse to the re-union.
An Irish landholder. in a letter to the Times, asserts
that much of the waste land in Ireland consists of peat,
possessing a strong antiseptic principle, which will require
great expense to reclaim, and continual cost to prevent its
falling back into its old state.
ADDRESS TO TOE LANDED PROPRIETORS.-Mr. Ralph
Osborne, M.P., has just issued his " manifesto" directed
to " the proprietors of small landed estates in Ireland."
Mr. Osborne complains that this class is unre-
presented in thelmperial Parliament, and on this ground,
besides others, he conceives that, even yet, there is ample
time for holding the meeting in Dublin which was prema-
turely, he thinks, abandoned on the appearance of Mr.
Labouchere's letter.

THE GUN TRADE! ! !—Since the 3d of last month, we
understand, that ONLY one thousand one hundred and
thirty•eight stand of arms have been disposed of in Clon-
mel. The trade, it will be seen, is brisk, and the price
moderate. A man can procure a very handy gun for 18s.
The " Fowlers" on Sunday last were most industrious ;
from day dawn they fired away, and scarcely five minutes
elapsed without " a bang." Prospects are cheering !
Tipperary Convtitution.
At the usual weekly Repeal Meeting, on Monday, Mr
Ambrose Sullivan, an attorney, was in the chair. Mr.
O'Connell repelled the " lying" atta .ks made upon him
by The Times respecting his tenantr3 ,—urged the work-
ing out of repeal,—enlarged on the terrible prospects of
the country.-.-denounced the Tories. 0 ranaemea. phYsiosi
force, and the patriotic pretensions of the Young Ire-
landers,to whom he attributed the" arming in the South,"
—and concluded by referring to his measures for national
relief, especially the protection of tenants. The rent was
only £46 14s. sd.
END OF REPEAL.—Conciliation Hail has at length
confessed its bankruptcy. Mr. O'Connell made the fol-
lowing statement of insolvency on Monday. We give his
words as they are reported in the Freeman:—" Before we
proceed further in the business of the day, I wish to state
as a matter of fact, for the information of all whom it may
concern, that the tenth general audit of accounts of this
association is now completed—the vouchers all authenti-
cated and signed, and the balance struck (cheers). lam
sorry to say that the balance is in my favour—the associa-
tion owes me £97 10s. 9d." Here then is the end of the
monstrous system of embezzlement which has already
swallowed the large sum of three hundred thousand
pounds ! Considerable more than a quarter of a million
vanished, and the association actually in debt !_

MONSTER MEETING OF THE "YOUNG IRELAND"
PARTY.—On Wednesday evening the appointed meeting
of Young Irelauders was held in the great room of the
Rotunda, Dublin, which was crammed to overflowing with
a body of men—the great majority of whom had the ap-
pearance of the best class of tradesmen. On the plat-
form was assembled about two hundred gentlemen, many
of whom were active members of the Repeal Association,
and of the 'B2 Club. This room is capable of accommo-
dating two thousand persons, and it was inconveniently
filled all night. The speeches of Messrs. O'Gorman,
Meagher, and Doheny, of Kithers O'Carroll and Meehan,
were really finished and most exciting harangues. One of
the priests spoke to the piety of Mr. Duffy, which, it
seems, was never questioned except by Mr. O'Connell ;
the other (Dr. O'Carroll) testified that the bishops were
far from being unanimous with O'Connell, and that some
of them had, even at his own (DA% O'Carroll's) table,
professed himself a Young Irelander.