The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

THE LIVIrWROOL STANDARD.

agreed that it would be for the advantage of the public to
admit vessels from and to Liverpool and Birkenhead re-
spectively on the footing of the nearest English port ; and
that as• vessels from Liverpool are admitted at Birkenhead,
application ba made to the Dock Trust of Liverpool, to
admit a.clause into their next application to Parliament
to that effect, if they have not power to make such ar-
rangement at once. Mr. Bryans moved in effect, that
considering the great amount of money required to com-
plete the works, the commissioners were willing to trans-
fer the trust to any party willing to complete Clem within
a reasonable time. The motion being considered indis-
creet, was withdrawn. _ _ _

SELECT VESTRY.—At the fortnightly meeting on Tues-
day, the case of the tradesmen who had forwarded silver
and copper to Williams, the releiving officer, and had
hitherto got only his I 0U as security, was fully gone into.
The case seemed beset with intricacy and difficulty, and
the Vestry seemed to think it a great hardship that the
tradesmen should suffer loss, trnd ultimately the following
resolution was passed ;—" That Mr. Lowndes be in-
structed to draw up a case for high legal authority, as to
the liability of- the parish to reimburse the money stated
to be borrowed from Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Riley, and Mr.
Fairclough, and as to the liability of Mr.' Williams's
sureties in the matter." It was also resolved that Wil-
liams should be dismissed.—The Committee recommended
that 80,000 yards of land be purchased from Mr. Poole,
for a new parish cemetery, at the rate of is. 6d. per yard.
Rector Brooks said that the parish could not purchase
land for a cemetery without an act of parliament, and
that the Vestry might take a part of St. Michael's bury-
ing ground, but they had a better piece of land belonging
to themselves, close to the present parish cemetery, on
which they had a church already built, so that no additional
expense would be incurred in erecting another. The
proposal to purchase the land was not agreed to, and it was
resolved that a special meeting of the inhabitants should
be called to take the subject into consideration.—ln com-
pliance with the request of the West Derby Guardians for
accommodation for the fever patients belonging to that
Union, it was resolved to grant the use of the Druid
lazaretto; and the Finance Committee were authorised to
settle the terms on which she is to be granted.—The
number of paupers sent from Liverpool to Ireland, from
the 16th to the 21st August, 1847, was 9,547, and from
the 23d to 28th Aug., it was 4,360, so that they are now
being rapidly sent to their own country, not only ,from
the parish but from the interior. 7,960 persons had been
relieved from 23d to 28th August at a cost to the parish of
£227., The expense had been as high as £1,300, so that
the amount is being rapidly reduced.—Mr. Earle then
brought forward his motion for the increase of Mr. Evans's
salary from £2lO per annum to £250. He said that Mr.
Evans was surrounded by paupers night and day—that he
was exposed to great risk—that he had been seventeen
years in the service of the parish, and that the magistrates
considered that he was very inadequately paid. Mr. Hors-
ley seconded the motion. Mr. Riding moved that the
matter be referred to the Finance Committee, and Mr.
Woodruff moved a direct negative. Mr. Riding's motion
‘Vas carried by a majority of 12 to 5. Mr. S. Thorneley
was appointed a vestryman in the place of Mr. M'Gregor,
resigned.

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held
on Wednesday. The proceedings of the Finance Com-
mittee comprised a recommendation to increase the salary
of Mr. Lloyd, clerk to the auditors of the town dues,
from £7B to £lOO per annum, a recommendation that the
salary of Mr. Wybergh, as chief clerk to the justices of
the borough, be fixed at £6OO per annum ' • and the salary
eof Mr. Jameson, as second clerk, at £4OO per annum ;
that the salary of Mr. Taskar, bookkeeper and cashier,
be increased from £2OO to £250 per annum ; and that a
salary of £llO per annum be allowed for an additional
clerk to the clerks of the justices. The proceedings also
comprised the purchase of land from the Earl of Derby
at Fazakerly for the site of a new borough prison—the
price of the land to be £225 per statute acre, and the pur-
chase money to bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent.
from the first of September. Sir T. Brancker moved the
confirmation of the proceedings, and said that the ex-
pense of the magistrate establishment would be less than
formerly, even with the addition now proposed. Mr.
Ellis had a salary of £BOO a year, and Mr. W. Wybergs-
would be £6OO. Mr. Parker dissented from the
proceedings of the Council against Mr. Norris, of Is-
lington, as the law seemed decidedly in favour of that gen-
tleman. Mr. Earle said that Mr. Norris had asked £lO
per yard which was an extravagant sum, and after the
refusal to give it, the Finance Committee offered him
the valuation of Wightman, the surveyor, which was very
much more than an adequate value, and they offered him
in addition a sum of £l2O to repay him the expenses he
might have incurred in the preparation of his plans. Mr.
Lace said that if Air. Norris was still determined to go on
with his building, provided the act was in his favour, he
should move at a later period to go for an amendment of
the act to compel him to set back. (Hear, hear.) The
Town-clerk said the Corporation had not only offered to
compensate him liberally, but to leave it to a jury to de-
cide it. Both offers were declined ; and an offer to leave
it to arbitration, which was made before the trial of Mr.
Justice Wightman, was again declined. The clause in
the Liverpool Improvement Act was taken from Lord
Shaftesbury's bill, and it had been embodied totidesn
verbis in the General Improvement Act for all the towns
in the country. The proceedings were confirmed.
After the reading of the Dock Committee's proceed-
ings, Mr. Evans said that as the year was advancing, and
the time was approaching when Parliamentary business
would come on, he took this opportunity of expressing a
hope that the Dock Committee would take timely notice to
carry out the act of last year, to enable them to build
warehouses upon any of the docks, and also that they
would give the Council the earliest opportunity of exam-
ining into the plans of new docks and warehouses upon
them, and that they would not delay everything to the
last instant, and call upon the Council to come to a hur-
ried and injurious conclusion. Mr. Horsfall expressed
his regret that the chairman of the committee (Mr. Bram-
ley Moore) was not present ; but lie believed he might
say that the Dock Committee were fully alive to the impor-
tance of the subject now introduced. Mr. Evans said
this was perfectly satisfactory; and the proceedings were
confirmed.

The proceedings of the St. George's-hall committee
comprised a long letter from Mr. Elmes, the architect;
it stated that the estimates to this date were £151,072.
Mr. Parker stated that hundreds of thousands of pounds
seemed to be a small item in the expense of the Hall,
£2,500 had been granted at the last Council to repair
some blunder that had been committed at the top of it,
and now it appeared by the proceedings that the cost
would be £3OOO. Hundreds were nothing. Mr. Earle
said that, with reference to the stone to be used for the
pediment at the south end of the wall. he observed a
letter complaining of it in the Mail of Saturday, signed
" A Practical Mason,"—had he signed himself "An

Ignorant Mason," it would have been a more ap-
propriate designation for him. .The proceedings were
confirmed.

Mr. Danson expressed a wish that something could be
done to reform the District County Court, for there were
complaints from every quarter of almost the mockery of
law and equity there.
Mr. Morris was appointed a member of the Markets'
Committee in of Mr. Aspinall, deceased.
The Health Committee recommended that a house and
yards be purchased in Duke-street for the sum of
£lO,OOO, for engineers' offices and stone-yards. This
recommendation gave rise to a long discussion, it having
appeared that if the purchase were made a rate to cover
the interest on the £19,000 would have to be laid upon
the burgesses. The property is situated at the corner
of Duke-street and Cornwallis-street, and is known by
the name of " Morrell's Folly." Eventually, the pro-
ceedings were confirmed, and the purchase was sanctioned.
Mr. Thomas Moore sent a volume called " the Moore
Rental," published by the Cheetham Society of Man-
chester, and, in a letter, expressed a hope that the gra-
phic description of " the good old town," to be found in
the Rental," would be deemed worthy of a place among
the muniments of the borough.—The Mayor said that Mr.
Moore had also sent some very valuable statistics as to
the population of Liverpool, which would be preserved
among the muniments, and for which he should receive
the thanks of the Council.
Mr. Danson submitted the following motion,which
referred to the Finance Committeee—" That the t' reasurer
to the Corporation be instructed to report to the
Council the several amounts received for the parish for
the magistrates' clerks' fees, since the 26th December,
1845." Mr. Danson complained that a sum of £4,000
was missing.