The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL,

The monthly Council was held on Wednesday, the Mayor,
Jnhn Bent, Esq., in the chair. The Mayor was appointed as a
trustee for Miss Ann Molyneux's charities. Mr. J. A. Tobin,
Mr. Thomas Fleming, and Mr. Matthew Gregsen, were ap-
pointed trustees for St. James's Cemetery. Forty-one mem-
bersof the Council were placed en the Pilot's Committee. Mr.
Thomas Littledale, Mr. Hugh Hornby, and Mr. Samuel Holme
were appointed commissioners of the Wallasey embankment.
Mr. DOVER, in moving the appointment of forty-one mem-
bers of the Council to be commissioners under the acts relating
to the churches of St. Paul and St. John, complained of the
extravagant expenditure on the Corporation churches.
Mr. BIGHAM observed that an expenditure of nearly .el,OOO,
engrossed by St. Paul's Church, might be reduced to .t'soo.
Mr. Dover's resolution having been seconded, it was carried
by the Council.

FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
The report of this committee comprised the annual state-
ment of the probable income and expenditure of the year,
between the first of September last and the first of August
next. The statement of the financial sub-committee showed
that the nett income of the Corporate Estate, from all sources,
could not be estimated at more than .t 154,530 ; amount of
obligatory expenditure, £122,631 ; leaving a gross surplus of
£31,899. The continuance of branches of discretionary ex-
penditure (the schools and public charities for the public
benefit of the inhabitants hitherto sanctioned annually by the
Council) must be stated at .e 2,437 ; leaving a nett surplus of
£29,462 ; out of which sum the cost of the following works,
already directed by the Council, must be defrayed, viz.:—
observatory, 700 ; reformatory, ,•1700 ; total, .e 2,400 ;
leaving as available surplus £27,062. By the arrangement of
last quarter, relief would be afforded to the ratepayers of the
borough to the following amount :—Parish of Liverpool,
£8,527 12s. .Id. ; extra-parochial place of Toxteth-park.
£1,588 38. 7d. ; township of Everton, Bs. 11d. ; West
Derby, £614125. lid. ; Kirkdale, £258 17s. 4d. If the Coun-
cil this year voted the same amount, .e 11,691 14s. 10d., in lieu
of the watch rates from the several townships in the borough,
there would be still £15,370 ss. 2d. disposable at the discre-
tion of the Council, for the public benefit of the inhabitants,
and the improvement of the borough ; subject, however, to the
interest for the half-year on any further sum which may be
borrowed during the next month for the new gaol, and which
amount will not, in all probability, exceed £4OO. The pro-
ceedings of the committee also contained a resolution that a
communication from the lessees of the gunpowder magazines
at Wallasey be submitted to the Secretary of State, and that a
deputation be appointed to confer with Sir George Grey on the
subject. The committee .also recommended the continuation
of the usual subscription from the Corporation to the chari-
ties of the town.
Mr. HORNBY, the chairman of the committee, having moved.
the adotion of the report,
Earxims HOLME recommended that the grant to the tra
and Infirmary be increased from eao to etoo.