The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-27 00:00:00

LANDING-WAITERS' HUTS

The Head Constabie,iti a letter to the committee, enclosed
reports from several police inspectors of the landing-waiters'
huts left open during the night on the dock quays. Com-
plaints had been made of the police not reporting the huts
when found open ; but, by the reports of the inspectors, it
appeared that they had very frequently been reported, and
copies of their reports were now read. Great numbers had
been left open during the night, some for the accommodation
of watchmen, but the greater part from negligence.
Mr. UORSFALL suggested that these reports should be
sent to the Inspector General of the Customs, in order to
satisfy him that the complaints made in this respect are
groundless.

The committee acquiesced in this course, and the Secretary
was instructed to act accordingly.

LIFE-BOAT AT SOUTHPORT

The Secretary read a letter from Messrs. Chapman and
Willis, requesting a contribution from the committee towards
defraying a debt incurred by them for a life-boat at South-
port. There was no life-boat on that station, and, since
1839, they (Messrs. Chapman and Willis) had, at their own
risk, placed one there. This boat had been instrumental in
saving many lives during the late storm, particularly eight
seamen belonging to a Glasgow schooner. The cost of the
boat had been £ll4 Is. 2d. ; and the subscriptions amounted
to £75 Ils., leaving a debt of £35 10s. 2d. remaining. The
committee of Lloyd's had contributed ten guineas. As
Southport was in the legal jurisdiction of the port of Liver-
pool, they, (Messrs. Chapman and Willis) hoped the Dock
Committee would have no objection to discharge the debt
remaining. The names of the subscribers and other vouchers
accompanied the letter.
Mr. RIPLEY inquired whether it was correct that South,
port was in the port of Liverpool?
Mr. HORSFALL replied that it was.
Mr. TOBIN had never heard anybody but Mr. Chupman
ever say before that Southport was part of the port of Liver-
pool. It might have happened that the stone which was
called the boundary, had been moved; at all events he (Mr.
Tobin) had never heard of Southport being part of Liver-
pool before.
_ _

Mr. HonsFALL repeated that Southport was in the legal
jurisdiction of the port of Liverpool. Mr. Walker, the en-
gineer, in his survey of Fleetwood, came two miles into the
port of Liverpool, and he was requested to withdraw on that
account,

Mr. EvANs observed that if Southport was part of the
port, it was only reasonable that the committee should pay
this charge.
Mr. RIPLEY was of the same opinion.
It was then resolved, that the committee should pay the
amount requested by Messrs. Chapman and Willis.

, which,
CORPORATION NEW BYE-LAWS.
The Finance Committee, in a letter dated the 18th instant,
requested the Dock Committee to favour them, in writing,
with any suggestions
in their opinion, might tend to
improve the existing regulations relative to stevedores, por-
ters, and cartage rates.—Referred to the Transit Shed
Committee,

RUNCORN Dugs.
The receipts of dues at Runcorn for the month ending
the 24th instant, were reported to amount to £2t 12s. 9d.
The committee then proceeded to transact some financial
business, and shortly afterwards they
separated.

POST OFFICES.—The Post-Master-General has acquitted
all persons connected with the Cork Post-office, of any share
in the recent abstractions. We have heard that in one Office
in Ireland, there is in the last quarter, on the sums returned
as received for unstamped letters as compared with the num-
ber of such letters that actually passed the Office, a deficit of
£3OO. It is pretty confidently stated, nevertheless, with the
addition, moreover, that the Post-Master of the district has
been required to make good the deficit out of his own pocket
—a rather hard requirement, considering that the persons
who, as clerks, have the handling of the letters, are persons
whom he is obliged to take without any voice in their selection,
any proof of their capacity, or any guarantee for their integrty.
Cork Constitution.

THE CURRENCY QUESTION.—Amid all his public avoca-
tions, the Premier has found time to maintain a controversy
with the currency-men of Birmingham, represented by the
Chamber of Commerce of that town, who publish the corres-
pondence. It is carried on by memorials and letters in the
name of the Chamber on the one side, and letters from Sir
Robert Peel, addressed to Mr. G. F. Muntz, M.P., and Mr.
Richard Spooner. It began at the close of July last, with
resolutions passed by tile Chamber, and transmitted to the
minister, calling his attention to the depressed state of trade
and the condition of the people; and the Chamber soon hint
that the establishment of a new paper currency issued by the
government is the only remedy. Sir Robert Peel at first
seems to hold back from controversy ; but the legislator of
1819 cannot resist the opening made for palpable hits, and he
is soon in full tilt. The Chamber are voluminous in their
essays—Sir Robert Peel's replies are briefer, but compre-
hensive, frank, and very neat—aiming at essential points 1
except that he is betrayed into 4 subordinate controversy as
to what were the opinions of Locke, whom he recommends
the Chamber to study. Sir Robert Peel's last letter is dated
12th December, 1842. In consenting
to the publication of
the correspondence, he requests his antagonists to append to
it a definition of the sense in which the word " pound" will
be used in their inconvertible paper—what it will represent,
to what it will be equivalent, and what it will imply ? The
Chamber comply, with more good faith than success, by
describing the peculiar kind of paper currency which they
recommend—issued by government alone, a legal tender,
receivable in payment of taxes, and limited to 20,000,0001.,
about the amount which they consider requisite for the pur-
poses of trade.—Spectator.
THEsse
WEDNESDAY EVENING.—A
ng
Castle this morning, from town,
messenger
COURT.—WINDSOR, iz,
with the intelligence that it was considered very improbable
that the life of Mr. Drummond would be prolonged but fora
very short period after the letter was despatched from
with the painful communication
Grosvenor- street. Another special messenger reached the
ortunate victim of assassination
Castle at a few minutes before 1 o'clock (liavir!g left Padding-
ton
o iiheyr thema
jle2s o'clock
thattae thre inni)i
f,
had breathed his last very few minutes after the first mes-
anied by the Earl of Jersey, and
senger had taken his departure for Windsor. Upon the
the first moment
receipt of this melancholy intelligence the Queen immediately
), and the Prince
commanded an express to be sent off to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert (who was out shooting in the Royal preserves
immediately attended
in the Great Park, accomP
the Queen was informed of the diabolical attempt which had
been made upon the life of Mr. Drummond, her Majesty and
Lieutenant-Colonelreturned t
o the
Castle.B 0 u vFerroi
From
the Prince manifested the deepest and most intense anxiety
for the fate of the unfortunate sufferer. The Earl of Morton
(Lord in Waiting upon her Majesty) left the Castle this
morning for Grosvenor-street, immediately after the
arrival
of the first messenger from town. His Lordship returned
this afternoon. By the Queen's command neither the mili-
tary, band, nor her .Majesty's private band of musicians, will
be in attendance at the Castle this evening. Admiral Sir
Robert Otway is expected to arrive at the Castle to-morrow,
to relieve Colonel Drummond, as the Groom in Waiting upon'
her Majesty. Colonel Drummond remains in town, and will
not return to Windsor until after the funeral of his lamented
brother. Covers were laid this evening for 18. The follow-
ing will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party:--
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of
Norfolk, the Hon. Misses Liddell and Lister, the Earl and
Countess of Jersey, Lady Clementina Villiers, Lady Fanny
Howard, the Earl of Morton, the Rev. Lord Wriotheslev
Russell, Viscount Anson, Lieutenant-Colonel Bouverie, Mr.
G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, the lion. C. A. Murray,
and Dr. Prcetorius.