The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

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very quiet Way,'to lease away the Wallasey estate ; but no
sooner had the Birkenhead people got possession of the
property than they announced it to be their intention of
building docks on it. They took the estate at 75 years
lease ; but having had all their plans cut and dry, they
went to work to deprive the burgesses of Liverpool of the
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in this by the people of Bolton and Manchester,thie}; went
to Parliament and obtained their bill, depriving the bur-
gesses of the fee simple ; and by that bill they were to pay
the Liverpool Corporation the sum of £llO,OOO, not one-
tenth part perhaps of the value. He wished to know
whether the bill specified the time when the £llO,OOO was

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to know on what grounds thi
—when it was to be paid ?

to be paid ? He wantec
£llO,OOO had not been paid

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what security there was for the payment of it ?—and what
interest the corporation were receiving for it ? (Hear.)
The estate had been got from the corporation almost by
fraud. He would not say by direct fraud, but he would
say by deception; The business on the other side of the
water had been commenced in excitement, and carried on
by false agitation._ (Hear, hear.) Excitement was the

to open the docks ; ana it was thought the people in Lon-
don would bleed, but it was now ascertained that they
would not bleed. (" Hear," and laughter.)
Mr. MANN objected. He thought it beneath Mr.
Parker to reflect upon the manner in which the Birken-
head Docks were opened.

Mr. PARKER said he was givinr, his honest opinion, and
that he should not shrink from the conscientious discharge

Sir T. BRANCKER said that the Finance Committee
neither had nor would part with the Wallasey Estate until
they obtained full satisfaction for it. He could inform
Mr. Parker, for the information of his friends out of
doors, that, as the Corporation were unwilling sellers in
the first instance, if they did not get the money they had

the estate, and would be very glad to repossess themselves
of it—(hear, hear.)

Mr. S. HOLME expressed a hope that Mr. Parker would,
in his usual manly way, withdraw the expression he had
used with reference to " fraud." When that expression
was applied to such men as Mr. Potter, Mr. Glynn, and
Mr. Bailey, 141. P., it could not but be exceedingly of-
fensive.

Mr. PARKER did not say fraud ; but he said it looked
very much like fraud, and that there was a very great
deal of deception used there could be no doubt.
The matter then dropped.

DOCK COMMITTEE

The proceedings of the Dock Committee having been

. tRAMLEY-MOORE said the dock accounts had just
been published, and that there was an increase of £32,648
in the receipts, and also an increase of 255.095 tong in

Ins ratner exceeded what he estimated it
at. when he last had the honour of addressing the Coun-
cil—(hear, hear.)

The TOWN-CLERK reported that, in consequence of
the Birkehhead Dock Commissioners having, by the
clauses of their bills, vested the strand of the Wallasey
estate in the crown, he had consulted eminent counsel,
and had appeared and opposed the bills before a commit-
tee of the House of Lords, when the committee decided
that the claims of the Corporation should not be pre-
judiced, and the clauses were altered accordingly.
Sir. T. BRAISTCKER moved that the proceedings of the
Finance Committee be confirmed, and that Mr. Earle be
appointed a member of that committee, in the place of
the late Mr. Aspinall. He stated that the claim of
£20,000, made by the Dock Committee upon the Corpo-
ration for the wall in front of the Tobacco Warehouses,

had been referred to a sub-committee, to inquire and re-
port.

Some conversation then took place relative to the in-
adequacy of the present gaol for the accommodation of
offenders ; and also about an account of £2OO which had
been paid to Mr. Poolev. on neennnt of th.

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the concurrence of the at s Committee; after which,
Mr. TINNE announced that Dr. Thomas Duncan was
in future to be designated "assistant enffinp,, " to

tinguish him from the several surveyors of the town, and
not to be known any longer as the "assistant surveyor."
Mr. NIcoL said he perceived, by the proceedings, that
the Finance Committee had approved of the elevation of
a new Wesleyan chapel, on the west side of Gill-street,
and he asked whether Dr. Duncan's opinion ought not to
be taken relative to the ventilation of that and other larze
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buildings for public worship
Sir THOMAS BRANCKER said the committee had only
to do with the elevation, and that they had nothing to do

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ie proceedings were t

MARKETS COMMITTEE.
This committee recommended that Mr. Luya shot
~,,,Drintendent of St. John's Market. .4.

per annum ; that Mr. Stonehouse should be appointed
superintendent of St. James's, and that a new superinten-
dent should be appointed to Gill-street, and to act as ge-

neral superintendent.
Mr.THORNIIILL disapproved of ihese recommnndations,
and thought the plan of having a general superintendent
over all the other superintendents would never work well.

Mr. Luya ought to have more t
late Mr. Graham had £2BO.
After some conversation, Mr. S. HOLME moved that I
the subject be referred back for further consideration.--
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