The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-30 00:00:00

BOLD moved, " To consecc

_uence of the
hairman be requested

to affix the seal."
Mr. CHILTON' seconded the motion
The board divided on Mr. Bold's motion, when there

The motion was consequently carried. The five dissen-
tients were the Chairman, Mr. Tobin, Mr. Poole, Mr
Robinson, and Mr. James Holme.
The Chairman having still adhe
not to affix the sea

to his resolutiOn

1.,1-111tuN movea that tue unairman's refusal, to-
gether with the opinions of counsel, be recorded on the

The motion vc

s adopted, and the committee adjourned

At the usual Thursday meeting, gratuities were voted to
the masters, mates, and crews of the Point of Ayr,
Magazine, and Hoylake life:boats, for services rendered

ation to the crew of the Liverpool life-boat was postponed,
they having made a claim of salvage. A conversation
took place as to the right of the crews of life-boats paid
for and sustained by the Trust to salvage. It was eon-

were allowed to claim salvage it wty
look more to the saving of property than to the saving of
•

he men wouk

JITC. ten guineas were ordered to be paid to the owners
of the steamer Covenanter, for towing the Liverpool life-
boat to a vessel ashore outside. A new plan of docking
vessels was referred to the Harhour-master's Sub-com-
mittee.—Mr. Nicol said, in reference to the motion of
which he had given notice, for calling the serious atten-.

pozitivn WILLI
the Council, which was about to spend municipal funds
for the rating of the Dock Estates, that in consequence of
the very important matter which took place at the last
meeting, and at the special meeting of Tuesday, and the
••• • •

lave on

"JOCK t_,ommiitee, and its position with respect to the
Council, he had been advised to defer the motion of which
he had given notice, until these proceedings were placed
before the trustees.—Mr. Poole stated that as there was

all oujection in point of form to his motion being enter-
tained, he should defer it till that objection was removed.
His motion was to the effect that the Parliamentary Sub-
committee should not oppose the principle of the bill for
the rating of the docks.—Mr. Dowling reported that the
room offered by Mr. Councillor Thomson for the re-
ception of persons who might fall into the north docks,
was not suitable.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

On Saturday, a rough looking fellow, named George
Evans, was sent for trial, charged with having, Chisen-

knocked doWn Ri'clard Robinson,a mariner,

and stolen from Lim six sovereigns and some silver.
On Saturday, Frederick Lafleur, a Swede, was sent for
.
trial on a ch

of having stolen a musical box from the
E. C. Gaskill, licensed victualler of Han-
-street, where the prisoner was lodging.
Y JUVENILES.—On Thursday, Wm. Brad-
- een nine and ten

ROBBERY
rn and 1

.shop till of Mrs. Jones, Brownlow-hill. (sneoVtAliebpl
soners had only been liberated from gaol about five weel
CoLusioN.—
of collision whic'
Hero, Birkenhe
mere boat was I

n Tuesday, a case
gime, between the

mer, and the Birkenhead

amers were goin

Lie __ ........ nusliton, who had one of t!: ee services of the clergy in their pulpits. The institu- harbour masters sitting by him, decided in favour of the
tion, they truly say, tends to check pauperism by relieving
those whose small earnings have been stopped by the Hero. The damage will be about £6.
emergency of sickness. We may add another plea in be- CAUTION TO MARINE STORE DEALERS.—James Kelly,a marine store dealer, was charged, on Thursday, with
half of this excellent charity, not noticed by the cob- having a quantity of articles in his possession, which, it
mittee, though doubtless known to them. Ti.e ready dis-
was supposed had been stolen. An officer examined the
pensation of medicine and advice by the two dispensaries
to the poor, tends, in numerous instances, to the check-
some valuable ships prisoner's premises,'
and found several bundles of twine,
hawsers, w'-'
,r of disease while it is in the bud - ' thus (in addition
some large brass boiler taps

to the cure of bruises and hurts of a minor nature) re-
lieves our infirmary and hospitals from an influx of parties
who would there claim relief in prolonged illness, at a
higher cost to the benevolent public. The following were
among the gentlemen present :—Mr. Charles Booth, Mr.
G. G. Hornby, Mr. R. A. Payne, Mr. J. C. Ferguson,
Mr. J. W. Williams, Mr. F. Mill, Rev. Cyrus Morrall,
Mr. James Gerrard, Mr. Chalmers, Mr. J. C. Shepperd,
&c The resolutions were passed, and will be found
gst our advertisements.

;ent to gaol foi one

SAD DEPRAVITY.-011 Tues ,
whose heads could scarcely be seen al

Jay, three little boy

)ve the dock were

charged with stealing a pair of stockings from a shop door,
and sent for trial. One of them was stated to be eleven
years old, and the bridewell-keeper said he had been sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation, and had served
three of them in prison. If this be true, the boy would
be about seven years old when transported—the merest
infant.

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE DOCK

ACCIDENT FROM FURIOUS DRIVING.—On Saturday,
Wm. Stopforth and Peter Latham were charged with
furious driving, when drunk. On Friday night the pri-
soners were going, in a spring-cart, at a fearful speed.
through Scotland-place, when the cart came into colli-
sion with the shoulder of a horse belonging to Mr. Wm.
Rose of Maghull. The poor animal was so severely
injured that it died the same night. Mr. Rushton inflicted
for the funious driving a fine of 40s. and costs, leaving
Mr. Rose, by a civil action, to recover the value of the
horse.

COMMITTEE

On Tuesday, a special meeting of the Dock Committee
was held for the purpose of submitting the opinions of
three eminent London barristers as to the obligation upon
the part of the chairman of the committee to affix the
seal of the trustees to a memorial, recommended by the
sub-committee to be presented to parliament, complain-
ing of non-compliance with the standing orders by the
promoters of the bill for the rating of the docks. Mr.
Henderson presided.
The CHAIRMAN having briefly announced the object of
the meeting.

DEFICIENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—On Wednes-
day, the Mayor held a court to hear complaints against
persons charged with using false weights, scales, &c. Mr.
Fell, superintendent of the weights and measures depart-
ment, with Inspeclors Kissack and Edwards, attended in
court to give evidence in the various cases. No less a
number than 104 shopkeepers and holders of market
stalls were fined. Since Mr. Fell came into office, he has
obtained upwards of 500 convictions for offences of this
description, comprising monthly batches as above stated,
and showing the immense extent to which purchasers,
and especially the lower classes, are plundered by those
with whom they have dealings.
SINGULAR CHARGE.—On Tuesday, Mr. W. Davies, a
stonemason, appeared before the magistrates, on a charge
of trespass. The manager of St. James s Cemetery said
the prisoner had been carving letters on a gravestone in
the cemetery, and that he had been requested to desist,
which he did, but afterwards came again, when he (the

Mr. NORTH (the dock solicitor) rose and said—ln con-
sequence of the opinion which T was required to give in
this room on Thursday last not having been acted upon, I
thought it my duty to proceed to London, in order to
ascertain, upon the best authority I could get access to,
whether I was in error in that advice or not. I went up
on Friday night, and returned the next night, bringing
with me the opinion which I hold in my hand. It is
signed by Mr. Watson, the Queen's counsel, an eminent
member of the common law bar, by Mr. Wilde, the well-
known conveyancer and parliamentary draughtsman, to
whom, for the last twenty or thirty years, this committee
and the Town Council have entrusted the drawing of their
acts of Parliament, and by Mr. Quain, the special pleader,
a younger but very able man, and also very well versed in