The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

council would, in the next place,
of 7th

tees last year consisted of Sir Joshua Walmsley", Mr. Lassel,
and Mr. Thornhill; hut, as Mr. Lassel had retired from the
council, three others must be elected.

Sir JOSHUA WA:
from this trusteeshiF

r,EY hoped to be allowed to retire
be bad a great deal to do in attend-

ing upon the carious committees of which he was a member,
and proposed Mr. Daniel Mather in his place.

t of Mr. T

ENCE dec

Mr. Roni

DN prop

I Mr. Alexander Smith.—Agreed

:ordingly consist of
A. Smith.

The MAYOR said the council would next have to appoint
two of their members to execute the powers given to the
mayor and senior aldermen, by the 1,,ca1 . act of 10th Geo.
IV.,_ cap. 15, relating to the School for the Indigent Blind,
at Liverpool, and the chapel attached thereto. Last year
the two members appointed to this office were Mr. Benn and
Mr. Houghton.

motion of Mr. PL.vrr, those gentlemen wer

The MAvon then said, that their next duty would be to
appoint forty-one members of the council as commissioners
to carry into execution the local act of sth George IV., for
the better regulation and encouragement of pilots for the
conducting of ships, and vessels into and out of the port of
Liverpool; and the appointment of three members of the
Council as auditors under the said act. Of the forty-one
members appointed last year, Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Black-

burn, Mr. Duncan, Mr: Currie, Mr. Lasse 11, and Mr.
Segar were no longer of the council, so that others should he
elected in their room.

The fcllowing forty-one gentlemen were then appointed :
The Mayor, Mr. Hugh Hornhy, Mr. Leathom, Sir Joshua
Walmsley, Mr. Shell, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Booth, Mx
Sands, Mr. Sandbach, Mr. Mather, Mr. T. Holt, Mr. Case
--

r. Mellor, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Bushell, Mr. Bulley, Mr
Jordan, Mr. Earle, Mr. J. Holmes, Mr. Barclay, Mr
Thornhill, Mr. G. Holt, Mr. Platt, Mr. H. Lawrence, Mr
H. Holme, Mr. Priestley, Mr. Moon, Mr. 111orecroft, Mr
J. Hornby, Mr. Barton, Mr. Isaac Holmes, Mr. Copeland
Mr, Robinson, Mr. Slater, Mr. Blundell, and Mr. Birkett

Upon the motion of Mr. 'PLATT, the Mayor, Mr. Leathom,
and Mr. Booth were appointed the auditors for the ensuing
year.

AYOR said they had next to apx
ioners under the act of 10th Geo. 11-
iankment of the north-west side of
lasea and Great Meols. The three cot
consisted of Mr. Leathom, Mr. H. Floral
Upon the motion of Mr.• PLATT, Mr. _
Hornby, and Mr. Case were appointed for t
The MAYOR said the last notice on the paper was that of
appointing two of the council to be members of St. George's
Hall Committee, on the part of the council, in lieu of William
'Wallace Currie, Esq., deceased, and William Rathbone,
Esq., not now of the council.

The M

three commis-

, cap. 16, for the em-
Leasowes, in Wal-
rs last year
Mr. Currie.
Mr. li.

.suing year

. .
Mr. James Aikin and Mr. George Hall Lawrence were
appointed to the office; and the council adjourned. The
proceedings only occupied half an hour.

THE FRAUD ON THE BANK OF MANCHESTER,

From the proceedings at the Borough Court on Thursday
last, it would appear the parties, William Smith and Mary
Solman, who were placed at the bar on the previous Monday
upon suspicion of being implicated in this affair, were not at
all connected with the robbery, although Smith was on the
Monday sworn to be the person who received the money-
letters from the post-office clerk. According to the Manches-

ter Courier some facts were brought to Lea on the Tuesday
which clearly proved that the above parties were innocent of
the charge made against them ; and a young man, named
John Bourne, the son of respectable parents, who has been
employed for the last two months in the hosiery warehouse
of Mr. Richard Lowe, of Church-street, was apprehended
under circumstances which left no doubt that he was the real