The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

TOWN-HALL ESTABLISHMENT COMMITTEE.

The proceedings of the committee having been read,
Mr. PARKER said he observed a charge of £270 for
wine for the Town-hall. Last month there was an item
of £7OO. He wished to know if any of this charge went
for American ice to cool the wine?
The MAYOR,---YOll are aware that the Mayor will have
to pay for it hereafter.
Mr. HARBORD.—Yes, the Mayor will have to pay for
it, but it is an acknowledged fact, that although the Mayor
has had to pay for it, all the mayors have not used the
discretion they ought. There is a stock belonging to the
corporate estate and a stock belonging to themselves. If
they used their discretion they would use their own wine,
for the trash belonging to the Town-hall is discreditable.
(Loud laughter.) _

,
The MAYOR.-It is not for me to defend the wine in
the cellar ; but I think there is very good wine in the cel-
lar, and that it does not quite deserve the name of trash.
(Continued laughter.) The wine lately ordered is of ex-
cellent quality.
The proceedings were confirmed.
HEALTH OF THE TOWN COMMITTEE.

Mr. ASPINALL reported that 27,578 square yards of
flagging had been laid down, and 14,832 lineal yards of
channeling in the courts of the town. There were few
courts now in course of erection and there were likely to
be less. Above 1000 hous-s under £l2 a 'year, had been
built within the last twelve months, so that the poor
would not be witnout habitations. The plans of the
new baths of the north had been completed, and the
building would be commenced forthwith.
THE CORONER'S ACCOUNTS.

For the present month, amounting to £62 4s. 2J.,
were referred to the Finance Committee for payment.
Mr. PARKER complained of the sort of persons put on
the coroner's juries, and said they were a set of men who
got Is. 6d. an inquest, and gained a livelihood by lounging
about the office.

Mr. LACE end Sir. T. BRANCKER defended the con-
struction of the juries.

THE VACANT TOWN-CLERKSHIP.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE announced, that on the 9th of
November the Council would proceed to the election of a
candidate for the vacant Town-clerkship. He hoped that
all considerations with regard to a division of the offices
of Town-clerk, Clerk of the Peace, and Prosecuting So-
licitor, would be postponed to a subsequent meeting of the
Council.
Mr. MooRE entirely differed from Mr. Lawrence on
this subject, and thought it should be sifted in all its
bearings before any appointment took place. It would
be premature to select the Town-clerk without knowing
whether the other two offices were to be consolidated or
separated. He believed a Prosecuting Solicitor to be
essentially necessary.
Mr. BIRKETT and Mr. LACE thought there ought to
be one person and only one.
The conversation dropped, with the understanding that
the Council would be ready to give their opinions upon
the 9th of November, as to the desirability of dividing or
consolidating the offices.
VOTE OF THANKS TO THE MAYOR.
Mr, Nicol. moved the thanks of the Council to the
Mayor, Thomas Sands, Esq., for his very efficient, ur-
bane, kind, and conciliatory conduct in the civic chair
during' the past year. The Mayor had entertained Royalty
itself, and other distinguished strangers during his year
of office, and he had done so in a manner that reflected
great credit on the town. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. James LAWRENCE, in seconding the motion, said
he quite concurred in what had fallen from Mr. Nicol.

The motion was carried unanimously.
The MAYOR made an appropriate reply.
Ti.e Council separated soon after one o'clock.

DOCK COMMITTEE.-THURSDAY.

At the meeting on Thursday week, it was agreed to let
Messrs. George Forrester and Co. 8300 square yards of
land, at the north end, on a lease of 21 years, at the rate
of ls. per square yard.
At the meeting on Thursday last the following gentle-
men were present :—Messrs. Moore (in the chair), Nicol,
Barclay, Middleton, Holmes, Smith. Royden, Sandbach,
Kendall, Bulley, Evans, Ripley, Aikin, and Tobin.
Memorandums made by Mr. Aikin during a visit on
the Ist and 2d of October, to Kirk Maybrick Granite
Quarry, were read. They contained suggestions as to
the better and more effectual working of the quarry ; but
the subject was deferred till spring, when a deputation of

the committee is to visit the place, and report. A minute
of the memoranda was ordered to be placed in the books.

Charles Charlton, police-constable, was appointed to
take charge of the' cranes at the docks, in the room of
Matthew Bailey, deemed.

THE TRANSIT SHEDS.

Mr. RIPLEY saiLl he was told the whole of the transit
sheds were likely soon to be occupied with tobacco. Par-
ties placed their tobacco there without passing the scales,
and there it remained without paying any rent.

Mr. Nicol, said that was one of the things they must
get remedied by the new bill.
The CHAIRMAN said it was certainly a great oversight
in the bill. _ _ _

Mr. AIKIN said it was not any oversight. The bill
was forced upon them with all its defects.
The CHAIRMAN.-It has an effect opposite to what
was intended. _ _

Mr. AilKix said that, in spite of all he and others could
say, it was forced on them. It was suicidal as regarded
itself, and injurious to the trade of the port.
Mr. EVANS thought there ought not to be a restriction
only with regard to tobacco. If the warehouse accommo-
dation for the tobacco was not sufficient now, either the
Corporation or the Dock Committee ought to provide
other accommodation. _ _

Mr. IslicoL said the restriction, of course, would not
be confined to tobacco.

Mr. ATKIN hoped that, as they were about to proceed
for a bill, they would seek power to make those sheds as
available to the town and to the trade of the part as they
might be. He then referred to the plan originally pro-
posed, of leaving the quay open, and rooms above in
which to place the goods until they were removed, for
which they might have made a small charge. He thought
some alteration might be made now of the same kind.
Mr. EVANS did not think that would ever be listened
to, for it would entail the expense of a warehouse without
the accommodation of one. _ _ _

Mr. AMIN said the additional expense would be very
little, seeing that they had already gone to the expense of
making an incipient warehouse by erecting these sheds.
Mr. EVANS was about to speak, when he was inter-
rupted by
The CHAIRMAN, who said they were getting into an
irrelevant discussion.

Mr. EVANS thought that, as the discussion had gone
so far, he ought to be allowed to proceed.
The CHAIRMAN persisted in saying the conversation
had gone far enough, when
Mr. EVANS said be had observed that, on almost every
occasion when the Chairman interfered with a discussion,
he selected the time when he (Mr. Evans) was about to
speak, or was speaking • but he contended this subject
ought then to be discussed. They had heard a complaint
about tobacco, but he did not believe it had in any way
interfered with the use of the sheds.
Mr. RIPLEY.—Four sheds out of the eleven have been
in use with it.

Mr. EVANS.—But the other seven were not all occu-
pied at the same time.
The CHAIRMAN said he interfered at the earliest op-
portunity when Mr. Aikin talked of raising the sheds.
Mr. AIKIN said, the view they might now discuss was,
whether they should not, now that they were proceeding
to parliament, get a clause to remedy the evil?
The CHAIRMAN said, the proper time, then, to have
mentioned that was a day or two before, when a special
meeting was summoned to consider the amendments to
be made in the dock acts. This would soon be again
under their consideration, and a parliamentary committee
formed, to whom the matter could be mentioned.

Mr. RIPLEY said they had already let to the Customs
two sheds, and he asked whether it would not be better
to let them others, seeing they could occupy them in spite
of them ?

Mr. Nicol, said that would be a proper question for
the sub-committee ; and here the matter rested.
A suggestion to place a light at the northern extremity
of the new river-wall was adopted, and the marine and
dock surveyors were directed to carry it out.
The Dock Surveyor reported that he intended to let the
Prince's Dock dry on the evening of Thursday next, the
7th of November.