The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

Market was closed at twelve o'clock, and % nt tre
opened until Saturday rnornine, with the exception of
about two hours on Friday. The cons, owl:ices were very
disastrous to the keepers of stalls ; for the butchers and
poulterers, in anticipat.on of a great multitude of peopir
c g to Liverricol, had made very ample preparations.
He would not detain the council by telling them how the
poulterers had denuded the fowls of their feathers, or
how they had r+ised their breast-bones and thured them ;
but he woul.! proceed at once to state that the bu chets
and soul erers had suffered very severe losses, arising fr ,rn
the closing of the m-rkets, and also arising from the
state of the atmosphere, sa,urated as it was with electric
fluid. Under the stall of one butcher he had been shown,

.vered with cloths. same of the tmtst beautiful meat he
had ever rem in a sta'e of putrefaction, and that man
had ruff red to the extent of somet:ting like 6561br. weight
of meat. The suff,rers did not agege anything against
the Prince, who, by his atniabilty of deportment, had car-
ried with him the hearty good wishes of every inhabitant,
(hear, and cheers,) but they con plaided against whoever
it was that caused the market,. t be closed; and he
thought they had a right to come to the council and claim
some compensatiim. tie troved that it he a leconim n-
dation to the Markete t ommittee to make inquiry into
the logs-s sustained by the individuals, and to irport to
the council, f •t• the purpose of considering whe her corn-
oen-ation ou...:ht to be rendered to the injured parties.
l-le believed £l5O or £2OO would cover the whole of the

Mr. THORNHILL.—Oh ! you don't know what it will
be; it teas be thousands.
Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE said, that he had seen the
chairman of the Markets Co mittee (Mr. Aspinall) the
oat/ be ore, goi, g out on a sh 'thing exciirsi in, and that
he sail he had not given any. ()tilers to close the markets.
The markets, so far as he was aware, were not closed by
order of the Markets Committee; in fact they had no
power to order then) to he closed.
Mr. KILSHAW. Mr. PARKER, and other members of
the Markrts Ct mni tee, al.» assured Ito- con,cil that
that committee had n it issued any orders to close the
markets. They al-o stated that they had not, in their
individual Capacity, ordered then) to be closed.
Mr. Illootxs thought sufficient had been stated to
tre:llv he y. in order that h
derac,%sfearreticeotthe suhjectiteoy
mightthec,in ascertain whoteeessen
i
it was that had ordered the cl

Mr. Chaltnei's motion was not pres-ed, it bin under-
stood that the c mnittee would makr pri.rnpt inquiries.

HEALTH OF TOWN COMMITTEE

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The proceedings of the Firalth of Town Coonmq.tee, in.
cluMn.,,,Wash -nooses. and Banta. comprised the appoint-
moot of Mr. Clarke aasuperinfendent. and of Mrs. Clarke
is matron, of the new baths in Psol-street, which appoint-
ments were postponed at the last monthly Cont.cd, our-
-u .nt to the standing order. and a recommendation to ap.
Thomas Wilkin.ott, as sopprinte,ident. and lathe.
rin • Wilkn.son as Mate on. of the baths in Frederic-street,
in lieu of Mr. and Mr,. Clack-.—Cot firmed.

CO. ONER'S ACCOUNTS

Tt e Coroner's act omits fur the moloh, amounting to
£76 9. 21, wrre pas.wd ; so, a1,,9 wrre bye-laws to. regn-
-I.tooz ..teem b,•ats u.ing the Egrewont slip and pier, and
the Seacumbe slip and pier.

NEW LANDING STAGE

The Mayor's communications c •mpri,ed a letter from
llr. AI- xander 11. an, Chairman of a meeting of a
mitrer held a► the Public-office, Toxteth-pack. on the 7 h
July last, on the necessity ot• providing a !tinning stage
near the site i f the old Cockle-slip, opposite the loot of
Stanhope-street.

Upon the rn tion of Mr. Mann, Fecondid by Mr. J
Lawrence, it was referred to the Ferrirs' Committee to
thquire and report.