The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

Mr. JUSTICE WIGHTMAN

The Council of the Borough of Liverpool, on the grounds
and for the reasons stated in the memos ials of the attorneys
of Liverpool, and the Liverpool Law Association, most re-
spectfully deprecate any alteration in the plan of taking the
West Derby and Salford lists, each first alternately, at the
Liverpool assizes • save so far as modifications are suggested
by those memorials.

Whether your lordships give your voice for or against the
removal of the Salford hundred causes to assizes to be held
at Manchester, will depend on the sound judgment of your
lordships.

Your lordships will no doubt take into consideration all the
circumstances of the case, the advantages and conveniences
that Liverpool affords—that the council are disposed to pro-
vide every possible further accommodation—that the present
courts were materially improved for the assizes, altogether
costing the corporation £2s,ooo—that the lodgings cost the
corporation, annually, upwards of £600; and that the council
have commenced a hall to contain courts for the judges, the
vice-chancellor, and the sheriff, with rooms for the bar, all
on the most extended scale, and at a cost to the corporation
of not less than £100,000; the council having in view the
erection of an edifice for the public administration of justice
which shall be worthy of the southern division of the county.
By order of the Committee of the Courts of Law,
RD. RADCLIFFE.

Town-hall, Liverpool, August 23, 1841
THE DOCK COMMITTEE

The proceedings of the Dock Committee were next read
and confirmed.

THE MAYOR'S COMMUNICATIONS.

The Mayor read an application from Robert Hurley, one
of the 'messengers of the Town-hall, praying for an increase
of salary. At present he has 21s. a-week—referred to the
Town-ball Committee. He then read a letter from the Com-
mittee of the Northern Mechanics Institution, thanking the
council for the loin of the North Corporation School. He
next read an application from the Officers of the Court of
Requests, praying for an increase of salary. They stated
that they had only 21s. a-week, that their duty in serving

to the danger of catching fevers, from the filthiness of the
places they had to visit—referred to the Court of Requests
Committee. He next read a similar application for an in-
crease of salary from the assistant-execution officers—referred
to the same committee. He next read a communication
from the householders of Great Nelson-street, Bertles-street,
and the neighbourhood, praying that a door• for foot passen-
gers might be made in a certain wall which had been erected
at the North Haymarket.

Mr. ISAAC 140LNIES and Mr. PARKER supported the
prayer of the memorialists.

- Mr. JORDAN considered it quite a shame and a disgrace
to the magistrates—(a laugh)—to grant so many new licenses
to persons in the neighbourhood.
The memorial was referred to the Markets' Committee.
VACANCY IN THE COMMITTEES.
_ _ _

Mr. JOHN SMITH, in pursuance of a notice of motion to
that effect, proposed that Mr. Parker be elected a member of
the Watch, Lighting, Cleansing, and Fire Police Committee,
in the room of Mr. George Quayle, who had ceased to be a
member of the council.

Mr. KiLsnAw seconded the proposition.—Carried unani
m ously.

REMOAAL OF THE BRIDEWELL, &C

Mr. EVANS, in the absence of Mr. Aikin,'moved that it be
referred to the Courts of Law Committee, to inquire into and
report upon the expediency of removing the Police Court, the
Court of Requests, and the Watch Committee Rooms, and
the main Bridewell, together with the offices connected there-
with respectively, from their present sites to the site of the
Islington Market, and land in Shaw's-brow adjacent to that
market, or to the site of the Old Infirmary, or part of the in-
tended new building thereon, or any new site; and to inquire
and report whether the space required cannot be afforded in
such new buildings ; and also to inquire and report upon the
cost of the requisite erections and alterations, and the value
of the sites near the Town-hall, which, by such removal,
would be placed at the disposal of the Council.

Mr. EARLE seconded the motion ; and after a few obser-
vations from Mr. Mellor, Mr. Freme, and Mr. G. Holt, it
was unanimously adopted. A special committee, consisting
of the members of the Courts of Law Committee, together
,with Mr. Evans and Mr. Aikin, was then appointed to in-
quire and report upon the subject.