The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

THE CORONER'S ACCOUNTS.

A letter from the coroner, praying for increased accom.
modation, and also the coroner's accounts, amounting to
£lOl, were referred to the Finance Committee.

THE PICTURE OF THE CRUCIFIXION.

Mr. NORTH moved, pursuant to notice, " That the fine
picture of the Crucifixion, on the Town-hall staircase,
considering its sacred character, is very inappropriately
placed there, and that it be presented to some church ;
and that a committee of three be now appointed to in-
quire, and report their opinion, in what church it would
be most appropriately and suitably placed." He thought
this was a proposition of self-evident propriety ; his re-
spect was for the picture alone, and for its own sake; his
object was to secure it from profanation ; and he bad no
sympathy with the late revellers at the mayor's parties.
The MAYOR.—I beg to say I have none, sir. (A laugh.)
Mr. NORTH—Or with the larger assemblies at the tom.
fooleries of the fancy ball. (Great laughter.)
A long discussion followed, and at the close the council
divided, when there appeared—

For the motion 10
Against it .. .. • • .. 33
The motion was consequently lost.
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THE LANDING PLACES.
Mr. NORTH next moved, pursuant to notice, " That a
spcial committee be now appointed to take into considers.
lion, and to report upon, the more effective regulation and
management of the ferries, ferry-boats, and landing.
places; and that it be also an especial instruction to such
committee forthwith to inquire and report their opinion
as to the necessity and propriety of promoting, by all
means within the power of the councii, the establishment;
by act of parliament, of an efficient inspectorship of all
steam-boats carrying passengers, with a view to their
greater security and sea-worthiness."
Mr. TINNE seconded it.

This motion also gave rise to a lengthened discussion,
at the close of which the council divided, when there ap.
peared—

For.
Against it
The motion was consequently declared to have been
carried ; and the seven following gentlemen were appoint-
ed at the special committee :—Messrs. Aikin, Wood,
Royden, Gladstone, Blackburn, Stewart, and North.
The following motion, of which Mr. Isaac Holmes had
given notice, was referred to the Finance Committee:
" That the committee on bye-laws for the regulation of
the slips and stairs and landing-places, be instructed to
take into consideration the passing of a bye-law for ex-
tending to forty minutes the period of twenty minutes,
allowed to steam and other boats usually employed in
carrying goods or passengers beyond the port to remain at
the slips, stairs, or other landing places, for landing or re-
ceiving passengers, luggage, or goods, each voyage, pro-
vided that such extension shall be limited to one landing
or receiving in the twenty-four hours."
The only remaining motion on the paper, that of Mr.
Blackburn's, respecting the schools, was postponed until
the next meeting of the Council, which it was understood
would be held in the course of a week, when the Dock
Bill will also be submitted.

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The Council adjourned at twenty minutes to four.

DOCK COMMITTEE.

On T )ursday the following members were present at the
usual meeting of this body ;—Messrs. Moore, (chairman,)
Nicol, Molyneux, Smith, Holmes, Holt, Barclay, Royden,
Bold, Kendall, Sandbach, Ripley, Bulley, Moore, Aikin,
Evans, Tobin, and Chilton,
A letter was read from Messrs. M'Tear and Hadfield
respecting the dirty state of the dock quays, some part of
which, it appeared on enquiry, was said to have been caus-
ed by the complainants themselves in landing a cargo of
hides. Instructions were ordered to be given to the dock
constables to see that they be properly swept.
An application from the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway Company respecting a railway line between the
station yard and the King's Dock was referred to the
Harbour Master's Committee.

THE NEW DOCK BILLS.

The CHAIRMAN observed that, having been lately in
London, he could state that the proceedings relative to the
new dock bills were going on as favourably as could be
desired. A question had been put to him as to whether
any of the members of the Dock Trust were proprietors
of the Harrington Dock Company, and he put it to the
gentlemen present to say whether such was or was not
the case, so that he might be enabled to give an answer
on his return to London at the next examination.

No one answering, he said he must take it for granted
from their silence that none of them were proprietors.
The CHAIRMAN then referred to a certain allegation
contained in petitions which bad been presented from
Liverpool against the Dock bills, to the effect that several
members of the Trust were proprietors of the Harrington
Estate, that the object of the scheme was to destroycom-
petition and restore monopoly, as well as to give to the
Corporation and Dock Committee an immense profit on
their estate. He said that five or six petitions had been
presented, and the allegation was in several of them ; the
question which he had put showed, however, that it we
false.

Mr. EVANS said, allusion had been made on Wednes-
day to members of the Dock Committee who signed the
petition. There was no such allegation so far as the pe-
tition he signed was concerned.
The Cn AIRMAN said Mr. Evans's name was not in the
document before him.

Mr. AIKIN said the impression on Wednesday was
that members bad signed the petition, and having opposed
the measure it was deemed far better that they should
have resigned. Whatever the impression was, it seemed
to be the opinion that members having signed the petition
were unworthy of confidence. If it turned out that those
parties never signed the petition, there was an end of the
allegation.
The CHAIRMAN.—I merely said members had been
promoting opposition.
Mr. EvANs.—The impression was that they were false
allegations.
Mr. IttrrEv said an explanation ought to go forth. He,
as well as other members of the Dock Committee, was
mixed up with a petition in the remarks which had been
made in the Council, a petition which they did not sign.
Mr. EVANS.—I am an active opposer of the scheme,
and use all my influence, and will continue to do so. It
is stated as if there were something criminal. I have never
yet been guilty of hole and corner opposition.

CONVERSION OF THE THREE-AND-A-lIALFS.--The
contemplated conversion of the Three-and-a- Halfs has
alraady thrown the money market into sixes and sevens.
The Bears and the Bulls are down on all fours ; and the
result is so doubtful that it is quite a toss-up with the
Bulls whether they will come out losers by the transac-
tion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer also contem-
plates the conversion of the short sixes into long fours, fof
he from experience that the fours give a much better light.
and the sixes will consequently be gradually extinguished,
It is generally believed that the conversion of the Three-
and-a-Halfs is preliminary to the abolition of the income
tax. It might as well be said that the invasion of England
by the Romans was preliminary to the inttoduction, or
railroads.—Punch.