The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

LOCAL MEETINGS.

BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—The usual monthly
meeting of this board was held on Tuesday. From the
minutes of the Ferry Committee, it appeared that the
receipts for the past month were £1260 14s. 9c1., and
for the corresponding month of 1847, £1609 16s. 3d.
from the 23rd April to October 31, in 1847, £12,240 18s.
9d., and. in 1848, for the same period, £9280 13s. 2d.
The total expenditure for the same period was £8319 Bs.
sd.—Mr. Bentham inquired whether the committee had
taken into consideration the propriety of advancing the
ferry contracts.—Mr. Williamson said the committee had
had the subject under their consideration, but in the pre-
sent state of affairs he did not see how they could be ad-
vanced with propriety.—Mr. Bentham said he was much
influenced in his view of increasing the contracts by finan-
cial considerations. If he was not mistaken, he was
afraid the receipts of the ferry would hardly meet the
expenditure and pay the interest of the debt.—Mr.
Greene differed with Mr. Bentham as to the propriety of
increasing the contracts, as he felt convinced that if they
were doubled no more money would be raised.—Mr.
Williamson said he was happy to inform the board that,
under the reduced rates, the receipts of the ferry would
reach between £16,000 and £lB,OOO a year, and the ex-
penditure., including the interest to Mr. Price, would not
exceed £12,000. (Hear, hear.)—Mr. Hicklin moved that
a committee be appointed for the purpose of carrying into
effect the provisions of the " 1 uisances Removal and
Diseases Prevention Act of 1848," within Cie limits of
the commissioners' acts; and, in doing so, announced to
the meeting that his connexion with the township was
about to cease. He thanked the commissioners for the
attention and courtesy which he had always experienced,
and expressed a confident opinion, notwithstanding the
sneers of parties on the other side of the water, that the
return of prosperity to Birkenhead was not far distant.—
Mr. Williamson seconded the motion, which was adopted.

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
THE ELECTION OF MAYOR.

The first meeting since the late municipal election was
held on Thursday. The first business was the election of
Mayor.
Mr. PROCTER, in proposing Mr. John Holmes, said
that the claims of that gentleman, which were second to
none in this great community, had been long neglected.
He was one of the oldest Liverpool merchants—a gentle-
man with a large stake, and of high standing and respect-
ability in the town, and he had been a continuous mem-
ber of the Council ever since the passing of the Reform
Bill. He had performed his duties to the rate-payers for
a period of forty years as Chairman of the late Highway
Board, distributing their funds to their entire satisfaction,
and enjoying their full confidence, and shown by his re-
peated re-election during that long series of years. Mr.
Moore's claims to civic honours were undeniably great,
but, compared with those of Mr. Holmes, they are but as
dust in the balance, and as this was probably the last time
the Council would have the privilege of doing honour to
his venerable friend, he hoped they would avail them-
selves of the present opportunity for doing so. He (Mr.
Procter) felt that he was in no ways deserting his Conser-
vative principles by nominating a Liberal, and that he was