The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

Drstall ,
-Moore, J. H. Turne

J. Bratiales

Aldermen

The following committee was then appointed to investi-
gate the case of Mr. M`Donald :—Messrs. D. Hodgson,
D. A. Tobin. Turner, Dover, Fernihough, and T. Lloyd.
On Mr. HOLT'S name being proposed he said that if
appointed he could not treat it in an unpredjudiced man-
ner. It was the most insolent and impudent document
which had ever come before the Council.

'hat was become of the

,osed of, he would

Alderman J. B. MOORE asked
memorial ? If it was not already di
move that it do lie on the table. He
such a character that it was due to the (
Council that no notice whatever should be taken of it

second the motion of Alderman
Moore, as he agreed with him in the observations which
he had made.
Mr. BENNETT explainec

t it was of
pity of the

r. FRE

Mr. M'Donald had been
neil

tly means of
41,1pr_

induced to memorialise the Cu. the
obtaining the amount which he claimed, and askeu
man Moore if this explanation would not have the effect
of softening his feelings in reference to the memorial ?
Alderman J. B. MOORE, in reply, said that the memorial
or he had gone into so much'about the water question, had ripped

up the whole of that question in such an imprudent man-
ner, and contained so much self-laudation, that his feel-
ings were only strengthened upon it. It contained so

much insoler

hat he felt it due to the

rial should lie on the table

ordere

to lie o

man Moore in his opinion of that document.
The momorial was then ordered to lie on the table
the remainder of the proceedings were confirmed.

THE OBSERVATORY CO

JITTEE

On the proceedings of this committee being read,
a memorial was presented from the Literary and Philoso-
phical Society of Liverpool, stating that in order to make

Anemomete

and ar

lectrometer should be purchased

Mr. NEILL, in moving the confirmation of the pro-
ceedings, suggested that the Council should offer a
premium of £2O a year for the best chronometer—an
instrument which was of the utmost value to the seamen

frequenting the port; and entered into a variety of in-
teresting details connected with the working
Observatort

of the

Mr. PARKER said that as this was a bantling of the
Dock Committee, that body should support it. _

Mr. FREME supported the views of Mr. Parke
that he had ever heard connected with
convinced him that the expense of this est
supported from the wrong fund

hment was

Mr. FISHER, in seconding the confirmation of the
proceedings, urged strongly upon the

situ of supporting this institution

Mr. BIGHAM thought that the expense of this institu-
tion ought never to have been saddled on the Council. It

should from the first have been supported by the Dock
Committee. He moved that that part of the proceedings
which recommended a premium for the best chronometer
be referred back.

Mr. CHALMERS seconded the amendment

mr. A. E. JONES, in a speech, supported the
confirmation of the proceedings ; and, after a few words
from Mr. Hornby and Mr. T. L. Hodson, the amendment
was put from the chair, when the following was the
result :

For the amendment

Against it

Majority