The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-02 00:00:00

COURT OF REQUESTS COMMITTEE—Number of Meetings
11, of which

attended
Mr. Evans
Bright
Toulmin
Cooper 7 Copeland
LAW COURTS COMMITTEE—Number of Meetings 15, of
which

attended
..

attended

Mr. H. Ho! nby
H. Lawrence
Earle..
Barclay
Sandbach

7 Mr. Shell
8 Sir J. Walmsley
14 Mr. Gladstone .
12 i A. Smith .
9

attended
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6
10
11

THE LANDING OF PASSENGERS AND PASSING OF THE

DUBLIN MAIL

The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK read the following report of
the special committee appointed to take into consideration
the best means of facilitating the landing and embarkation of
passengers at Liverpool, and to secure the continuance of the
passing of the Dublin mails through Liverpool.—
" The committee, appointed 3rd June last, to consider and
report on the best means of facilitating the landing and em-
barking of passengers at the piers, and adopt measures to
secure a continuance of the passing of the London and Dub-
lin mails through Liverpool, have to report—
" That, although every effort was used both here and by
deputation in London, the committee were unable to prevail
on the Post-office, and other government authorities, to
withdraw from the arrangement already made for the em-
barkation of the Irish mails at Woodside.
" The committee have no doubt, however, as the advantage
expected have not only not been realised, but that increased
expense and positive disadvantage have been the result, that
by renewed exertion these mails may again be restored to
their former and natural channel through Liverpool.
" That strongly impressed with the necessity of improve-
ment and of affording every facility to passengers consistent
with the safety of the navigation, as the only sure means of
securing for Liverpool the desired preference, the committee
have had considerable discussion and consultation with the
dock surveyor, the marine surveyor, the harbour master, and
the corporation surveyor, and with other parties of practical
knowledge, and have maturely considered various plans to
accomplish the object ; among others, the committee beg to
call the attention of the council to one of a permanent stone
projecting pier at the Prince's-parade, together with sections
of the banks along the whole of the river walls, prepared by
Mr. Hartley, the dock surveyor, which have been of much
use to the committee, and will become hereafter of great
value ; but taking into consideration the impediment such a
projection must have to the navigation, and the effect it might
have upon the river itself, and further in the expectation of a
material change being effected on the banks by the completion
of the continuous line of wall about to be formed by the new
dock, and the probability that a permanent pier may then he
more advantageously placed, the committee deemed it ad-
visable to postpone each erection for the present, and in-
structed the surveyor (Mr. Franklin) to prepare a plan of a
sliding scale from the Seacombe slip, which, though only
temporary, will be effectual in furnishing the means of land-
ing and shipping carriages, &c., at all times of the tide, with-
out the use of small boats.

" The committee beg to refer to the plan of the said stage,
and to the surveyor's report thereon, and to recommend it
for adoption by the council.
" The committee also recommend another and more suit-
able barge to be substituted for the Boydell off George's Pier,
and that arrangements be made so that passengers may land
by one stage and embark by another ; and, further with a
view of relieving the occasional great pressure' of so many
steamers resorting to that pier, the committee recommend
that the Runcorn packets, and steamers with passengers on
excursions to the mouth of the river, shall be required to
take on board and disembark their passengers on the pier
called the New Wall, to the west of No. 2 and 3 Graving
Docks, where they have water to go alongside at halt flood
and half ebb, the usual periods of their departure and return.
With a view to carry out these recommendations, and for the
prevention of accident, the committee suggest the propriety
of directing the town-clerk to revise and to improve the bye-
laws affecting the landing-places and ferry boats."