The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-03 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

The monthly meeting of the Town-council was held on
Wednesday. There were ,not forty members present. In
consequence of the absence of the mayor, Mr. Alderman
BARCLAY was called to the chair.

- The minutes of the previous meetings of the month having
been read over by the deputy town-clerk, the proceedings of
the Finance Committee were next submitted to the council.
Mr. CURRIE moved that these should be confirmed, with
the exception of that part of them having reference to the
memorialising of the lords of the treasury for permission to
borrow money. He stated that the memorial was not yet
prepared, because it was first 'necessary to take the sense of
council on one or two points, and the town-clerk was of
opinion that a special council ought to be called on that day
week, for the purpose of taking those points into their con-
sideration.
The motion was seconded and agreed to. _ _

The proceedings of the other committees were read, and
agreed to without observation.

THE MAYOR'S COMMUNICATIONS

Mr. Alderman BARCLAY laid before the council the com-
munications addressed to the mayor. _ _

The first communication was the following letter from
Lord Normanby _ _ „

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" Whitehall, June 23d, 1840.
" Sir,—l have had the honour to lay before the Queen,
the loyal and dutiful address from the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Burgesses of Liverpool, and I have in command to assure
you, that her Majesty is deeply sensible of the loyalty and
affection of her faithful subjects.
" I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed), 6` NORMANDY.
" To the Mayor of Liverpool. '
The following is the reply to the addre§s to the Duchess of
Kent :

" Ingestrie House, 23(1 June, 1840

" Sir,—l have the commands of her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, to convey to you an assurance of the heart-
felt gratification with which her Royal Highness has received
the address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Li-
verpool, and of their loyal and affectionate sympathy in the
merciful preservation of the Queen, from the atrocious at-
tempt upon her Majesty's sacred life.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, &c.
(Signed) " E. COWPER.
" Joshua Tralmsley, Esq. Mayor of Liverpool."
A note was read, containing a resolution of thanks from
the Committee of the Ophthalmic Infirmary to the Council,
for having granted the use of a house in Hartford-street, for
the purposes of the Charity.
A memorial from Mr. Joseph T. Dutton, of Mill-street,
Toxteth-park, was read by the Deputy Town-clerk. The
memorialist complained of the mode in which the business of
the Liverpool Academy is conducted, especially in reference
to the annual exhibitions, and called upon the Council, either
to withhold its contributions and support, or to exercise a
controlling power to do• away with the partiality that is ex-
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ercised.
The memorial was referred to the Finance Committee.
The consideration of the recommendations relative to in-
creasing the salaries of certain clerks in the Court of Re-
quests, was further postponed, and on the motion of Mr.
Morecroft, the subject was referred back to the Court of Re-
quests Committee, in consequence of a further memorial
having been sent in.

BATHS FOR THE PEOPLE

Mr. HENRY LAWRENCE, who referred to a former motion
be had made on the same subject, proposed " That it be re-
ferred to the Finance Committee to report whether any ap-
propriate situation can be found for bathing, in consideration
of a trifling payment." He thought that it would be a decided
advantage that admission to the public bath should be gained
by the payment of some trifling amount. In answer to a
question, Mr. Lawrence stated that Mr. Franklin had, on
the former occasion before alluded to, drawn out the plan of
a bath, which seemed to have been generally approved of.
Mr. RATHBONE seconded the ►notion.—Agreed to.

Mr. ISAAC HoLmEs observed that there were many
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places on the banks of the canal where a warm bath might be
erected at a very trifling expence, and he hoped that the Fi-
nance Committee would be instructed to take the suggestion
into their consideration. The erection of walls and a shed
was all that would be required, and was sure that the money
that would be received would pay all the expences.
The council consented that it should be an instruction to
the committee to take this point also into their considera-
tion.

CLOCKS ON THE REVENUE BUILDINGS

Mr. PLATT again brought forward his motion that the re-
venue buildings should be provided with a clock or clocks.
In his opinion there ought to be a clock at the west end for
the Custom-house, one at the east end for the Post-office,
and one at the north end for the Dock-office. He considered
these so necessary for the due transaction of business, that
the expence, even if it should amount to £lOOO or £l2OO,
ought not to be begrudged. Without them, a building which
had cost hundreds of thousands of pounds would be incom-
plete. There was some difference of opinion as to who should
be at the expence, seeing that government had advanced a
portion of the funds for the erection of the building ; but the
town-clerk thought government would do nothing towards
the fitting up of clocks ; and he (Mr. Platt) therefore thought
it ought to be done by the council. He moved—" That it
be referred to the Finance Committee to consider the propri-
ety of placing a clock or clocks on the revenue buildings, for
the Custom-house, the Post-office, and the Dock-office, and
to report."
Mr. JOHN SMITH seconded the motion.
Mr. CURRIE said that there were two or three things
which the council ought to consider. In the first place, the
buildings now no longer belonged to the council ; they were
the property of the government. Again, there was a portion
of the building appropriated to the use of the Dock Corn-
, mittee, and perhaps it ought to be recommended that they
should provide a clock for their own part. A clock was also
asked for the Postoffice ; but it was the business of that de-
partment to give every facility to the public, and it was there-
fore very proper that a portion of the expense should fall on
the Postoffice. Lastly, there was a question whether it was
desirable, after the corporation had incurred a surplus ex-
pense of £70,000, besides giving the site, that they should
incur an additional outlay of £3OOO or £l2OO. Mr. Franklin
had calculated the expense of .one clock at £420. It would
have to be imbedded in the stone, as no preparation for it
had been made in the erection of re building, and then there
would be the expense for illumination.
Mr. RATHBONE hoped that the Finance Committee would
take into consideration the means of having in the town a
really scientific clock—a chronometer, in fact ; for at present
there was not a public clock that could be referred to as a
standard, in case of dispute ; and also whether that clock
might not be such a one as would be heard over the whole
town, in the same way as St. Paul's was heard over the whole
of London. . .

The motion was agreed to without a division.
THE BOTANIC GARDEN.
Mr. LASSELL, who had made a mistake in the time of
giving notice of his motion relative to the Botanic Garden,
was in consequence unable to bring that motion forward. He
would give proper notice on Friday, and the subject could
be taken into consideration at the adjourned and special
meeting of Wednesday next.
The council adjourned shortly before one o'clock, until
Wednesday next at eleven o'clock.