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

ELECTION OF FOUR DOCK COMMITTEE MEN

The coutiol then pi oi..e-ded to appuint tour members
of the Council to be members of tb, committee for the
ffatrs of the estate of the Trustees of the Liverpool
Docks, in the room of Mr. R. S. Henderson. Mr. C. S.
Middleton, Mr. I'. B. Horsfall, and Mr. J. Bestriley-
Wore, who retired from that committee by rotation,
pursuant to act of parliament, on the 3d instant.

MR. NICOL moved the re-tlection of these gentlemen
M . MoLYNEux s coniltd the motion.

Mr. H. tiquNnir did n t rise to oppose it, because
constituted as the Council was at present. opposition
would be useless. Yet, without casting the slighte.t re-
firction upon any of the Len Irmen proposed for re.eler-
firm, there was one gentleman in that room preeminently
fitted fora si.uatinn on the Dock Committee; and be
thought the Council would perform an act sa isfactory to
the town at large if they were now to appoint 9•lr. Evans
on the committee. (Hear hear.) No one could have
been present at the Albert Dock on a late occasion with-
out considering that the magnificent pile of building thete.
wlitcb, besides being ornamental, would be of the utmost
us.- and service to the town, was. principally owing to the
nothing exertions, the grtat ability, and the persevering

zealot that gentleman

Messrs. rieilderson, Middleton, Borstal, and Bratn-
ley-Moore were re-elected.

ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN OF THE DOCK COMMITTER

The Council then proceeded t hppoint one of
the thir-
teen members of the Dock Committee appointed by the
Council to be the Chairman of that committee in the
place of Mr. J. Bran,ley-Moore. who retires from the
committee by rotation.

Mr. Nica movtd that Mr. Bramley-Moore be re-
elected chat' man of the Dock Committee, and said it was
unnecessary for him to add one word in the shape of a
ree,rnmendation of that gentleman. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. MOLYN aux seconded the motion, and Mr. Bram-
ley-Moore was ui.animously rt.-elected.

COURTS OF LAW COMMITTEE

The proceedings of the Courts of Law and St.
George's Hall Commitee comprised a report on t e re-
ference from the last Council rel Live to the design of !V. r.
Cockrell for the nt of the c .t...

south portico. They unanimuusly recotniliendedti;l4;i;
des;glis of Mr. Cockrell, which will cost a sum of about
£3 500, be accepted.

Mr. SmwART moved that the reports be adopted, and
s,id the deaigns wcre writ worth the r'spense.

Mr. RATH-BONE regretted to be obliged to oppose the
motion, because he entert .ined a very high regard f r Mr.
Corkrell's talents. But the funds of the Corporation
ought to be devoted at pree.ent to purposes of a useful in-
stead of an ornamental description. He moved, as an
amendment, that in the present state of the Corporation
funds it was inexpedient to iucrea•e the expense.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE agreed in Opinion with Mr.
ittithbone. and said that in the course of a year or two
tt e corporation surplus might be sufficient to bear the
expendi

Mr. PROCTER said there was not a aentleman in Liver-
pool who could blow hot ar,d cold so well as the chairman
of the Finance Committee. (Laughter.) At a recent
pubbc meeting Mr. Lawrence stated that the corporation
would have plenty of money. hut now he was getting Into
his old habits again (lauchter), for he Was Saylog It at the
corporation could not afford to spend a burn of £3500 on
a beautiful work of art.

Mr. ROBLNSON supported the mnt'on, nn the gruund
that it would he something likr budding a vessel utithout

a. ugurr-nrati, to erect at. tieorpe's.hall and
without a handsome pediment. (Laughter.)
Mr. BIRKELT said it really appeared to him 'that every
member of the council had some hobby or other of his
trivrr. Mr. Chalmer, for instance, wanted to wash the
people with salt water; another man, of the name of
Martin, wanted to wash them with fresh, and so they
went on. (Laughter.) Where was the money to enure
from' for all these hobbies ? In a neighbouring town, the
other day,, their goings-on had r b i4ed them to lay a ho-
roma' rate of ss. in the pound up:di the-inhabitants; arid
in Liverpool, if the councilcouncildid not take especial care to
keep their expenditure within their Income, they would
not Only get into troelil , hut absolutely the est ite-woutd
be taken out of their hands. There were some members
in the council who would not conduct their ()win businp..

in the way they conducted the business of the town.s'"
Mr. ROBINSON.—Mr. Birketr spoke before.
Mr. BraxErr.—l realty think Mr. Robinson must
have been a,leep. (Loud laughter.) He must have bee,
thinking- of himself. I did not speak before, sir.
Mr. PARKER Said the roueicipal tcotiorty 11l Mr. Bir.
kett had Fut him in mind of a sketch in Punch last week,
in which they saw political eennotoy, or Lord John Rus-
sell dress( d in Sir Robert Peel's clothes. (Lo.ughter.)
He hoped they were not soing to spoil a great public
building, which was the admiration of every stranger, and
particularly of the— Prince the other (1,,y, by refusing to