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and althOugh the commissioners might not

this clause into operation, it was still ver
not be suffered to pass without defining in what cases drai
age should be authorised. The twenty-fifth clause reauir

owners to pay for sewering opposite to their
in every street, certainly, however, not in of
in five yearly instalments. By the 27th clause
that any cost or outlay under th(

property

rate upon lands and tenements ; i
should pay, but he presumed the owners were to pay, for be
found in clause 29, a power to distrain either upon the owner or
occupier for the rate. It was desirable, therefore, that the
commissioners should be restrained in the power of dis-
training upon the goods of owners, for an outlay which was

& tenants

altogether unnecessary,
hear.) The chairman then referred to the .build...b
The fourth clause of this bill enforced from the bi

arbitrm.

the payment of certain fees to the surveyor—appointed
by the commissioners. To some parties these feed would
amount to a serious sum. For a first-rate hous
£3 10s; second rate, £3 ; third rate,
; fifth rate, £1 10s, and sixth rate
alteration one-half of the above fees we
would be most obnoxious, as and

fourth rate
Id for every

system

buildings were surveyed only by the corporation surveyor,
who was paid out of the public money. Clause 14 enacted
that houses should not be built above the level of the streets
without an area—and, as they all knew, it woul
with considerable expense to make areas both
and back. The benefit arising from this enactment

the front

not be commensurate with the outlay it would recidri.
The 16th clause, by imposing upon the owner the
necessity of making areas to the front of cellars, would at
once shut up every cellar habitation in Liverpool. Clause
17 imposed a fine of £1 a-day for every day that a cellar was
let not in accordance with the act ; and by the 18th clause,
houses in courts were not to be built back to back, but there
must be a clear space of 20 feet between them ; a very unjust
and improper infliction upon owners. The 19th and 20th
clauses enacted, that no courts should be of less width than
20 feet, and no street of less width than 10 yards. These
dimensions he considered unnecessary, and their enactments
most unwarrantable interference with the owners of ground.
In fact, there were many points in these bills which shewed
that the legislature wanted information upon the subject
from practical men. This bill transferred the powers of our
local commissioners for paving and sewering to central com-
missioners, a change to which he strongly objected ; but the
local commissioners might be authorised to carry the bill into
effect with the additional power of putting it into force all
over the borough. He ought to inform the meeting that un-
der the direction of the town council, there was a bill now in.
the House of Commons, emanating from the Health Com-
mittee, undertaking all the respousibilty of sewerage, the
same as imposed by Lord Normanby's bill, but in a milder
degree, inasmuch as the Commissioners were not to enforce

the act except when they might deem it as quite necessary.
If the power were transferred to the corporation instead of
to the commissioners, there would only be one surveyor to
consult instead of two, as there must be if this act came into
operation, and the fewer men owners had to deal with in
this matter the better.—The chairman, after a few further
remarks, said the meeting would not object to the bill
brought in by the town-council, but that they could not
avoid feeling a strong repugnance to Lord Normanby.
Mr. E. KN APPER, in a speech of considerable length,
moved the 'first resolution, which, with the rest, will be
found advertised. He had no doubt that when Lord Nor-
manby brought in his bill for the regulation of buildings he
had the good of the community at heart, but instead of bet-
tering the condition of the poorer classes by such legislation
as this, he would deteriorate it.—Having referred to the re-
port of the Health Committee of the Council to prove that
both bill,wo old be impracticable and inexpedient if practicable,
the speaker further objected to them, because they would be
retrospective in their operation, entail an unjustifiable ex-
penditure upon owners, which would materially affect the
security of mortgagees, cause a cessation to all buildings in

cottages, thus compelling two or three families of the poorer
classes to inhabit one house, reducing the value of large
houses, thereby increasing the danger of cont

gious maladies

and reducing the standard of morality.
Mr. JOHN JONES seconded the motion, and after a fe
words from Mr. THoMPsoN, it was carried.

Mr. DUCKWORTH proposed the second resolution, and
supported, by an excellent speech, full of practical knowledge,
the views of these two bills taken by the chairman. He
strongly condemned general legislation upon such a subject.

Mr. 'l'. C. BEw seconded the motion, and it was adop'te
On the motion of Mr. DUCKWORTH, seconded by M

KNAPPER, a petition against the two bills was agreed. to be
presented to the /louse of Commons.
By the next resolution, the meeting agreed to enter into
subscriptions to defray the charges of entering into this op-
position.

Mr. GIBSON, in an excellent speech, for which we regret
our inability to find room, proposed that the resolutions be
advertised.

Mr. KNAPPER seconded the motion.—Carried unafti-

mously

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Thanks were then voted to Mr. Ford for his able conduct
in the chair, and the meeting separated.

Vottrp.

THE LAIRD OF COW-LOON'S.
iations, done into verse, by CHARLES FROTHEY, Esq

ap, in the West Countree,

the Governor of Hong Korn

give you a song

But I do not think 1 shall he so long
-refore, good folks, I'll

Kbout my negotiations

As I understand, that very soon
I shall simply write my name Cow-loon,
Which you all must think but a trifling boon
For my negotiations.

If once made a Peer, I shall not care a Pin
For Lord Palmerston, or Commissioner Lin ;
In my sleeve at the pair I shall heartily grin,
Hurrah for negotiations.
taken Cliusan,
Ind I was just the man,
-iaper, we forthwith began
Milk and water negotiations
as the great Peiho,
most terrible blow,

I had scarcely landed and
When the Mandarit

gips once g
e I might 1