The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-26 00:00:00

LIYERNX)L STANDARD.

report ut tha proceedings, out of twelve that spoke on the ques-
tiou, there was only oue that did not Oject to the leinovai. Lle
was therefore somewhat surprised at the eh tutee of opiwon. lie
was still satisfied they were legislating fur the few to the meow.,
venience of the many, but he would nut divide the council on
the questiou.
Mr. Councillor EARLS said, in reference to the resolution,
there was a part in which it was meutionect that all public offices
should be in that building, and he hoped satire notice would he
directed to the removal of the Stamp-office. There were rooms
appropriated in the building for the purpose. And in reference
to -Ur. itaiasclen's holier, he wished he and others would peruse
—if they had out already doue it—Mr. Rowland Hill's pamph-
let on Pustoffice reform, and possibly by the next council meeting,
it might be thought necessary to send a further memorial Lu the
Treasury.

Mr Councillor PLATT rose to say that he was one of the twelve
who went down and examined the site of the intended Postollice,
and be assigned as his reason fur opposing the removal that
from the state of the apartments' as tney then appeared, he con-
ceived they were not satisfactory for a Postoffice; but at the
last council meeting it was shuwu that the necessary alterations
could be made at a trifling expense—Mr, Alderman Evans had
stated about 1:100and then he thought they would be unobjectron-
able. It was not to the site but to the rooms that the objectiuns
were made, fur he thought as to the site there could be none bet-
ter, and if the alteration could be made he fully concurred in
the rearo val. If there were a sufficient number of receiving
houses, the letters might even be despatched to the merchants
with as much facility as in London.
Mr. Conucillur WOOLWILIGHT said from the paper in his
hand, it did not appear to be other than the site objected to,
Mr. Councillor PLATT was sure what he had said was com-
pletely contrary.
Mr. Councillor Cutritia.—Well, then, he has changed his
mind.

Mr. Councillor PLATT said he must have been misreported.
The Ms it ott said that discussion was becoming somewhat out
of order, hod he called upon
M r. Councillor SHELL, who had risen to address the council,
said, (handing to Mr. Platt a copy of the Liverpool Standard,
containing the report alluded to,) said he found that in the
paper in the hands of one of the speakers, it appeared the prin-
cipal objection was to the internal arratioeineut of the build-
ing ; that the rooms weae so dark that they could not distin-
guish between a sovereign and a shilling. But now it appeared
that objection could be done away with at so trilling an expense,
that the whole of that part of the argument fell to the ground.
And as the building could be made suitable in every way for the
delivery of letters, the argument respecting the situation was
also done away with. He should have been sorry if it went
abroad uncoatradicted, that so many members of the council
had now changed their views; but according to the report re-
ferred to they never had the views subscribed to them, and
therefore could not have changed them.
Mr. Councillor PLATT again rose, and was greeted with
the cries of "Spoke, spoke." This report, he begged to say,
was quite a mistake. (Loud cries of " Spoke, spoke," amidst
which he sat down.)
Mr. Alderman LEATHOM said Mr. Woolwright had alluded
to him as having led off the discussion, of which he had a report
in his hand. Hs then certainly did state that the internal ar-
rangements were objectionable, the building being dark. He
also considered the locality uot a good one, but titiding that it
was the general wish of the council that the removal should take
place, and looking at the statement of Mr. Shiel, at the last
council meeting, of the enormous expense of that building, of
1.:62,U00 more than the estimated cost of it, he thought they
ought to make the building as available as possible, after spend-
ing so much of the public money, and therefore he could not
divide the council on it, which he thought would be unanimous.
He still thought the locality was not the best.

The MAYOR then put the question to the council, and decided
that the " Ayes" had it.