The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

MIIETING OP THE BIRKENHEAD
COMMISSIONERS.

Wednesday evening, the molal monthly meeting of the
Commissioners of Birkenhead rr>s held at the Town-
hall William Jackson, Esq., presided.
It appeared from the proceedings of the Market Com-
mittee, that tilt extras to Pox, Henderson, and Co. for
tht New Market, amount to £2,850 16a. over and above
the original estimate. _ _

The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the receipt of a letter
from Fox and Co., in which they stated that the delay in
the construction of the New Market bad been occasioned
by a want of decision on the part of the matket com-
mittee. He then deprecated the delay, and said that the
inhabitants of the townships were absolutely obliged to
bring provisions from the Liverpool markets, owing to
their being unable to obtain them at that side of the
water.

Mr. M'l`ficor, defended the market committee, and
*rid that they had used the moat strenuous exertions to
communicate with Fox and Co., but that their letters
were treated with contempt.
Air. J. ;4‘. JACICAON Shill, it 'Mild be one of the finest
markets in the kingdom, and arked when it was likely to
be opened ?
Mr. WATSON hoped to hey. it completed by Christ-
mas. The delay, if injurious in one respect, ked, he
said, been serviceahle in auolier, as it had afforded time
for the bricks and walls to set.

The uroceedingq were contlresed.
The Ferry Committee reported, that the *rain of the
ferry contiuned as pr Isperous as before gated, and that
the receipts were on the increase.
Mr. WOODS asked whether the accounts were regularly
published ?
The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative, and said
that every ratepayer, on the payment of sixpence, was
entitled to a copy. It would be gratifying to the public
to know that the Commiesiorfers of Birkenbead were
actually receiving more as a township from their ferry
than Liverpool was from all its town dues, in prol:ertion
to population and aa.essreent.
Mr. M'Nicor, hoped they should not fall into the
error of the Liverpool people with regard to their Gill-
street market, for he believed that that market would
tNh,eitmotion e
ifoifv•Mdrth. Wat
ionoinnsn,ireeeaconontd,reitdbibyyre
shortly he to let in consequence of the high rents of the
APUrp:To report
of the receipts of the Woodside Ferry De read, and
pared with the receipts of the corresponding corn-
month of
this past year,

Mr.
J. S. JacKsom then read a statement to the effect,
that the receipts at the ferries for the past month had ex-
ceeded those of the corresponding month of last year by
£5OO.

From the proceedings of the Finance Committee it ap-
peared, that ten additional policemen had been ordered
for the township.

A letter was read from certain ratepayers, requesting
that George's-street and Taylor-street might be lit with
gas. It was referred to the Watch Committee.
Another letter was read from Mr. John D. Grayson, of
Liverpool, suggesting that certain alterations might not
be made in Ivy-street, to the ivjory of his property. It
was referred.

The CHAIRMAN said that, as they had gone through
the business of tie evening, he wished to acquaint them
that the Railway Commissioners contemplated the making
of another approach to the docks and warehouses, be
means of a tunnel under the town. Proper plans and
sections would be submitted to the Commissioners for
their approval, so far as the propcsed tunnel affected their
property. It was intended to connect the Chester and
Birkenhead Railways with the docks and warehouses, so
that the railway would run the whole length of the road
approachng to Wallasey, thereby communicating with
the north and south ends of the townships. They were
already aware, that a railway was contemplated—in fact,
the company had been formed, to connect Manchester
with Birkenhead, also Warrington and the port of Run-
corn ; steps had been taken to form a company to meet
the Birkenhead line by means of Chester, Shrewsbury,
and Welchpool, and thus to make a branch to the mineral
district of Mold. so as to give coals to this and the adja-
cent cii,tricts. (Hear, hear.) All these plans would, he
Rought, give railway communication to all parts of the
kingdom, sufficient to satisfy the desires of a small town-
ship- like Birkenhead. (hear, hear.) But there was
more yet to be done : it was in contemplation to make a
canal from the upper end of Wallasey-pool, through
Bidston-marsh, to the low lands skirting the river Dee,
taking the water-level all the way, and joining the river
Dee by means of lock-gates on the Flintsiiire side of th e
Dee. By rorning the canal parallel to the great mineral
district of Flintshire, they would confer a great boon, not
only on Birkenhead, but on Liverpool, by being able to
ship coal, so as to get them through the Wallasey dock
without transhipment. (Hear, hear.)
The board then adjourred to Thursday.