The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-13 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

,oral anti probinrial griDs.

The Lo
ds have agreed to the Wallasey Improvement
with amendment.
„ At Chester, on Monday, a boy, from Liverpool, was
drowned in the river Dee, by going to the causeway with
boat, when the current was strong after the rains. •
The workmen at the principal glass-bottle manufactory,
at Warrington, who are extremely well paid, have turned
out for an advance of wages.
On Thursday, a butcher in Byrom-street, named Rim-
be. Ver wasa fined £5, for a cowardly assauit on Mrs. Jones,
wof Mr. Jones. draper, Old Haymarket.
kiThe brickmakers of Birkenhead have struck for wages,
ll,the joiners of the same lace have given notice of a
l'a4o unless their wages are r paised from 21s. to 265.
4 new Roman Catholic chapel, described in the Popish
;alpers as a very splendid building, was opened on Tees-
maY, at Blackrock, near St. Helens.
tJtcrhE.—On Monday night a female, named Jones,
:aiding in Brooke-street, committed suicide by hanging
erself from the bed-post.
b,Clo Tuesday, David Reece, a pauper in the Liverpool
olichouse, was committed to gaol for twenty-one days
rot refusing to work.
_CAUTION TO JuvesuhEs.---On Tuesday, David Voss
saB fined 2s. and costs, for playing at pitch and toss in
nelor-street, on Sunday. Two other boys were also
t! ')s. each for throwing stones in Lime-street.
ihIintiCENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—LittIe was done at
monthly meeting on Tuesday, in consequence of the
:absence of the Law-Clerk. A letter was read from Mr.
otansfield resigning his place as a member of the board.
that
will be seen by an advertisement in another column
'ar Mrs. Hamilton, the professor of phrenology, is for a
'non time practising in this town. She is about to deliver
a lecture, which, no doubt, will be numerously attended.
~,Lord Francis Egerton has been appointed Provincial
:of Tand Master of the Freemasons, in the eastern division
Lancashire, and Stephen Blair, Esq., late boroughreeve
ur Bolton, his deputy.
Amongst the calls to the Bar, on the 2nd instant, we
onotice the name of our townsman, Mr. John Dunning-
n Fletcher, M.A., Christ's College, Cambridge, eldest
'llll of John Fletcher, Esq., of St. Michael's Mount,
ear Liverpool.
park-street
Webster, the owner of some houses in High
Lark:street, as fined, on Tuesday, £5 and costs, for an
"Yasion of the Building Act. The offence consisted in
#l,lllolg down a wall after it had passed the inspection of
4•41 e surveyors.
CIO Thursday, a boy, about fourteen years of age,
named William Walls, who had been twelve times brought
',hP. once committed, and eleven times discharged, was
`urothitted for three months' imprisonment for stealing
some copper nails from a vessel.
The Committee for Parks in Manchester, have pur-
chased for a public park, the Endham-hall estate (which
'adjoins the Harpurhey Cemetery, on the Middleton road,
Alad how in the occapation of Mr. Jonathan Andrew,) in-
cluding the hall, conservatory, and outbuildings, and
about thirty acres of land, for £7,250.
CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM COMPANY.—At the half-
'early meeting of this company, a highly satisfactory re-
!rot from the board of directors was adopted. The report
ated that several new vessels, on improved principles,
fere in course of construction, and concluded by recom-
It coding the usual dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per

;seizes The prisoners Jones and Bibby, convicted at the last
of conspiracy to defraud the revenue, were toed by the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday last,
e former to twelve months' and the latter to six
r'l?nths imprisonment in Lancaster Castle, for which
aice of confinement they left London on Tuesday even-

The usual monthly meeting of the council was held on
Wednesday.
The Finance Committee detailed eight reasons why
they had opposed that part of the Birkenhead Dock Com-
pany's Bill which sought for compulsory powers to ob-
tain reversionary interest in the land on the other side of
the water. They expressed their regret that the commit-
tee of the House of Commons should have decided that
the reversionary interest must be granted, and the cor-
poration would now be obliged to part with their land
either by agreement, or arbitration, or the verdict of a
jury.

Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE moved the confirmation of the
proceedings, and the appointment of Mr. Richard Hough-
ton as collector in the treasurer's office, at a salary of
£l5O per annum, in the place of Mr. Joshua Smith, re-
signed ; the grant of a small additional slip of land to the
Northern Ilospital, and the grant of the reversion of the
site for a Presbyterian chapel at the corner of Bedford-
street and Canning.street.
Mr. PARKER expressed his surprise at the cool manner
in which Mr. Lawrence allowed the works on the other
side of the water to be passed over. If there was any-
thing that was disgraceful it was the proceeding of the
council on the other side of the water. The finger of
scorn was being pointed all over the country at the Liver-
pool Corporation, for they had sold their birthright, and
now the reversion was taken out of their hands. He ob-
jected to the expenditure of the money of the burgesses
to carry on the late opposition in parliament. He thought
the conduct of the Finance Committee very reprehensible;
and it was the cry out of doors, not only by the burgesses
but the country at large, that that committee had almost
betrayed the public interests by sacrificing the property on
the other side.
Mr. H. HORNTBY called on Mr. Parker to be a little
more explicit and to state to what he objected.
Mr. PARKER said he objected to the whole proceeding
—first, to the sale of the land, and secondly, to the late
opposition in parliament.
Sir T. BRANCKER thought it a great pity that the Fi-
nance Committee had not the benefit of Mr. Parker's
talents and learning, for then they might come to differ-
ent conclusions from those at which they were in the ha-
bit of arriving.
Mr. HORNBY thought Mr. Parker must have forgotten
all the transactions of last year, when every attempt was
made, but unsuccessfully, to prevent the construction of
works at Birkenhead, which might interfere with the na-
vigation of the river. The council never objected to the
commissioners of Birkenhead improving their property,
but they objected to what they considered an invasion of
the rights of the corporation—the taking of the freehold
by compulsory powers ; and they objected on this ground,
that upwards of £12,000,000 of money were invested in
warehouse property in Liverpool, on the same terms as
the property was originally taken by the Birkenhead
tenants. He regretted that the late opposition of the
council had been unsuccessful, but they had used their
utmost exertions to forward the interests of the corpora-
tion ; and if Mr. Parker disapproved of their conduct he
ought to have brought forward a distinct motion of want
of confidence in the Finance Committee.
Mr. BIRKETT expressed a hope that there was not ano-
ther member of the council who would give utterance to
the same opinion as Mr. Parker had—namely, that it was
the duty of the council to let their birthright go without
making any attempt to retain it.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE defended the conduct of the
Finance Committee, and said the recent Act of Parlia-
ment which granted the reversion, was one rather of
spoliation than of justice. He thought the legislature had
done wrong in wresting the property out of the hands of
the corporation. But he was not afraid of the rivalry on
the other side. He offered the Birkenhead gentlemen a
friendly defiance. He was sure the authorities of Liver-
pool would do their duty and show as fine docks as could
be shown on the other side.
A MEMBER.—And cheaper too ?
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE.—Yes, and cheaper too.
The proceedings were confirmed.
The TOWN-CLERK read the alterations which had
been made in the Dock Bill by the House of Commons.
The bill, as amended, was approved of; and the Mayor
was authorised to affix the common seal thereto, with a
view to the presentation of the bill to the House of Lords
by the dock solicitor.
The proceedings of the Education Committee comprised
the appointment of Mr. Harris, as first master of the
Evening Schools, at a salary of £25 per annum, the con-
sideration of which was postponed at the last monthly
council, pursuant to the standing orders, the appointment
of T. A. Pinckney, as assistant teacher at the Evening
School, at the salary of £lO per annum, the appointment
of Sarah Padley as assistant mistress in the South Girls'
School, at the salary of £3O per annum, and the appoint-
ment of Mary Wells as assistant mistress of the South
Infant School, at the salary of £3O per annum. The
average attendance at the schools during the past month
had been as follows :

4TTEMPTED MURDEB.—About half-past eleven o'clock
litt Saturday night, a quarrel took lace in a beer-house,
rNn ewton-in-tbe-Willows, in the coorse of which a pat-
te
...maker in a foundery there struck another man with
itti Pitchfork in the head, then effected his escape, and has
v°t since been apprehended. The wounded man lies in a
47 dangerous state.
,LbEATB BY SCALDING.—An inquest was held, yester-
Vs, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Georgiana
kria,oek, a child fourteen months old. On Thursday
r:ex last, a female was taking a coffeeot across the
tPM from the fire, when the handle cam-pe out, and the
eeeased was much scalded by the contents. She was
I.ati to the hospital and dressed, but died on Saturday
fol the injuries. Verdict, " Accidental Death."
04 man named Patrick Farrell, living in Adlington-
Zeet, was ordered to find bail, on Thursday. himself in
0, and two securities of £lO each, to answer, if called
;stP°flt a charge of stabbing a countryman of his owe,
'coed Flaherty. Farrell had made himself unpopular
iron his neighbours who assailed him with stones
I:ttal laud, and in the heat of passion, he drew a knife
• ir.ta his pocket, and stabbed two of the ringleaders.
thisurrisri GUANO.—The Hampshire Chronicle states
at guano is being manufactured in immense quantities in • --- 611 473
The numb74rs2on the books were—north,bt 769 ; 614.
Liverpool, from sand, tanners' waste, sulphate of am- ,
ebaosobkeseno f 94 h. e evening school,
Z.c2ja, and a brown substance, This rubbish, costing a 'Thereh
the re
average pllp
attendance °n t
cire trifle, is sold to careless country people at £4 to £5 andt
The proceedings were confirmed, so also were the pro-
,4tosn, while the genuine guano is worth between £7 and
ceedings of the Watch, Improvement, Courts of Law,
t4l, If this he true, the dealers in genuine guano should
Markets. Church Expenditure, Town-hall Establishment,
17 expose the imposition.
ICHu Health of the Town, and Fire Committees.
kr nen EXTENSION AT BIRKENHEAD.—TWO bills I The proceedings of the Gaol and House of Correction
Wain progressing through Parliament—one, to enable Committee comprised a report on increased salaries to
b. Tract' Potter, Esq., to erect a Ch.urch at Claughtan, to certain of the turnkeys and officers of the prison, in ac-
en-a4,‘dicated to St. John the Baptist, and the other to cordance with the scheme of progressive increase approved
tsw Jackson, Esq., to erect a Church in the same by the council on the ith February, 1844, and the ap-
es nahltr, to be dedicated to St. Andrew. Another pointment of a schnolnmster for the prison, in the room
b,_4ureh is in progress near Wallasey Pool. to be erected of Mr. Miles, dismissed.
Y Messrs. ?otter and Jackson, and the Messrs. Lairds. Mr.' PARKER - hoped the proposed increased salaries
s The following noblemen and gentlemen have been were according to the scheme, for some of them seemed
sale
b. BtB of Sir William Stanley, at Hooton, during the to take very wide jumps?
e'gat Week :—Lord Chesterfield, Lord Eglinton, Lord The MAYOR replied that they were, and that there
adbrooke, Marquis of Normanhy, Lord Macdonald, was a decreased expenditure at the gaol of nearly
13„°ite George Bentinck, Lord Duncannon, Sir Richard £2OO a-year.
1rk",..14e,1eY, Hon. G. Foley, lion. Colonel Anson, Hon. G. The proceedings were confirmed, and the committee
q.-„guati, Hon. G. Greville, Hon. Mr. Cod rington, Hon. were authorised to recommend a schoolmaster for appoint-
"7llg. Hon. Mr. Villiers, George Payne, Esq., John ment.
annleY, Esq. The Coroner's account, amounting to £95, was re-
Vh,"IRKENHEAD POLICE COURT.—On Thursday, a young ferred to the Finance Committee for consideration and
o named James Brown, was fined 10s. for an assault payment.
qa'ildthe police-officer on board the Woodside boat, who The sub-committee appointed on the 2d ult. on the
41 requested the defendant to cease from smoking. A subject of the supply of gas for the borough, submitted
41.11,named Dodd, was charged by Inspector Hall with a report relative to the amalgamation of the two ex-
'4"Blog him whilst taking a prisoner to bridewell, on isting gas companies, and the reduction of the price of
li-eauay last. The defendant said that the officer was gas to 4s 6d per 1,000 feet from and after the Ist of Janu-
kpiefully illtreating a prisoner, jumping on his body, ary next.
tom, almost choking him ;he (defendant) came up, and The MAYOR read letters from Mr. Richard Earle,
4,7 the officer that he was a damned scoundrel, &c. chairman of the Liverpool Gas Light Company, arid from
Weral persons corroborated the defendant's statement. Mr. Wm. Fosberry, chairman of the Liverpool New Gas
wojiarden said, that as th- summons was not properly and Coke Company, promising, in the name of their res-
titip,‘"„d, the charge against Mr. Dodd, could not be main- pective companies, to make the reduction from and after
lik"eo; and as to the charge against Mr. Hall, it would the time mentioned.
the referred to the Watch Committee. It was the duty of Mr. HODGSON moved that the report be approved of
eh„ Public to assist the police, and if any body had a and entered on the minutes of the council.
etctge against an officer, he should come to him, and he Mr. J. BRANCKER said the town was indebted to the
Ittld report it to the proper authorities. Guardian Gas Company for the reduction which had al-
fer.llquEsTs.—On Tuesday, five inquests were held be- ready taken place, and which, he hoped, was but the fore-
Lathe Borough Coroner. The first was on view of runner to a still greater reduction.
ry Norris, an old woman who resided in Bankfield- Mr. HODGSON expressed a hope that the two companies
eroeseent, and who had been suffering for some time past would not permit any trifling circumstances to stand in
441 asthma. On Sunday night she went to lied in tole- the way of a speedy amalgamation.
tor 7 good healtb, and the next morning was found a The report was approved of and ordered to be entered
ttialtsSe. pram a pot mortem examination it appeared on the minutes.
heti the immediate cause of her death was disease of the The TOWN-CLERK read a memorial from the House-
old". The second was on Mary Hilliard, a child 2i years owners Guardian Society, relative to the. inadequate sup-
pkr,who resided with her parents in Bell-street, Toxteth- ply of water for the borough, and urging upon the coun-
Tu.% She was seized with a difficulty of breathing on cil to adopt measures to meet the urgency of the case.
the Y, which continued up to Sunday morning when The Nlavon. read a similar memorial from the Liver-
foil 'tied. The third was on William Bimpson. a child pool Guardian Society, signed by 5,300 inhabitants. The
tl.ll' Months old, who died suddenly in Lewis's-court, memorialists were of opinion that the supply of cheap
Dee el in a convulsive fit. The fourth was on water should be in the hands of a public body, having no
b0:1,,e1 Kelly, an elderly man, who, while working on interest but that of its constituents at heart ; and they
deelu a brig at the Prince's Dock, accidently fell on the prayed the council to take the subject into their own
dies and was so seriously injured in the left side that he hands.
"in the Northern Hospital shortly after. The fifth Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said the parties might be as-
as e
'cholas Cullen, a sailor, who fell into the hold of sured that their memorials would not escape attention,
''ael called the Resolution, lying in the Brunswick but that the council could not be expected to pledge it-
ek
dtty and died in the Southern Hospital.—On Wednes- self to the truth of all the statements contained in the
old: on the body of Mary M 'Farlane, a child nine months memorials, relative to exorbitant charges and oppressive
trbnwl,l3so died of suffocation in bed, and on Robert Irving, modes of collection. He moved that the memorials be
t, killed by being run over by a cart. referred to Messrs. Hodgson, Nicol, and Kaye, three
Niel" COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—Mr. Aikin gave members of the council who were members also of the
tie:ie that he should next week propose that £lOO addi- Highway Board, for consideration, and, if necessary,
fltal should be given to the Southern and Toxteth Hos- for report.
gees: r. Henderson argued for some time on the ne- Mr. BOOKER defended the Harrington Company, and
k„er
-oi additional central graving docks, and a long con. said hat he had tenants in Parr-street who only paid
15g7"0n ensued. It ended in the adoption of the follow- three-halfpence a-week for water, and that the water in
ttek'.esolution :—" That the subject of additional central 1 Liverpool was much cheaper than in many large towns in
taitt.ing dock accommodation be referred to the sub-com- England.
Ilise" of works for a further report." Permission was Mr. Lawrence's motion was unanimously carried ; and
,h.of di to the surveyor to stop the passage at the north end the council rose, having disposed of all the business.
N Leto the
Dock, whilst a two-way bridge is laid down.
eyr FaYment of the reward to the crew of the Point of
fe-boat for services rendered in saving the crew and
he4agers of the Mermaid steamer, it was reported, had
tffestln,Perseded, in consequence of statements to the
Fel s,Loat eiht guns had been fired from the steaer,
le.,?tne lights thrown up, from eight o'clock in the evmen-
in the morning, befoe the life-boat put off,
Ilier.hen not till the vessel ads ent their own boat on
etri,`•. The subject was again referred to the marine sub-
tsiit'atitittee.--The chairman read a letter from Mr. Nicol,
AIDog his situation on the board of works, assigning as
Pliel"'n (41 that absence from town would prevent him from
Aortg that attention to the business which their itn-
Iseeptce demanded. The vacancy will be filled up next
PAv
- AND SEWERAGE COMMISSIONERS.-- On
etilt`TY.: a memorial, signed by 5000_ persons, similar in
srote .rust read in the Council on Wednesday, was read,
e t
nsra ln Liverpool Guardian Society, praying that the
ttlietn't would apply to Parliament for powers to enable
p the give a cheaper and more abundant supply of water
4te,,,P00r. During the conversation which ensued, the
1,411:31)411k, ,eek stated, that, although the commissioners, on
the Council, had power to give water for
tthe
'u
roirris dnitn by n
the public streets, yet they had no power to give
,estic purposes.— Mr. Leyland thought the sooner
Z tattled those powers the better. Mr. G. G. Hornby
tatter ter we go to Parliament and amend the act the
..
141 dot r.Tinne hoped the public would not forget that
.1%4_ °f supplying water was originally thrown on the
Verl t„ rae of private individuals.—Mr. Procter would be
act t the water companies have compensation for
ne 'as, but let the poor have a cheaper and better sup-
-414,
r.wltater.—Or, the motion of Mr. Procter, seconded
4a aPeYland, a sub-committee, consisting of the hair-
'.essrs•
ce'Nnted , •Bold, Brancker, Cooper, and Procter, was
livhfer ‘0 take the memorial into consideration, and to
edet,"sdlth the gentlemen appointed by the Council on
1.44 47. A memorial from the Housenwners' Guar-
Presented some time ago, was referred tn the
diPeetingitnittee.—The board sat upwards of ten minutes
not g
arliye the
de meeting
from the Select Vestry, but as they
was adjourned.

Boys..
Girls ..
Infants

NORTH

... 277
...174
...160

SOUTH
- 181
.. 112
.. 180

THE ROYAL AIE!tSEY YACHT CLUB

The club-room and offices of this association have un-
dergone a thorough refitting and decoration; and at the
monthly meeting on Tuesday evening last, upwards of 70
of the members assembled, and were much gratified by
the tasteful manner in which the whole had been beauti-
fied. The large dome in the centre of the club-room is
elegantly painted, together with the empanelled compart-
ments under it, in delicate tints of ultra-marine, crimson,
&c., blending into an effective and harmonious whole.
The walls are entirely papered, and finished in imitation
of Sienna marble, of a variegated hue, laid in large blocks,
defined by white streaks representing the jointing, and so
varnished as to resemble the polished real material itself.
The columns and pillars in projection at the head of the
room, together with the decorative cornice that surmounts
them, are finished in marble, of a lighter ground, with
gilded capitals, giving a pleasing relief ; and it is contem-
plated that over the centre the arms of England shall be
fixed—emblematic of the royal patronage conferred upon
the club. The apartment, indeed, which is one of the
finest and largest in the town, and cheerfully lighted by
the dome and three large windows facing to Duke-street,
may be said to be a spacious and elegant marble hall.
Several fine oil paintings (marine subjects) and a number
of models of vessels already adorn this apartment.
The proceedings of the last meeting having been read,
twenty-one gentlemen were duly elected. The Commo-
dore read a list of fifty more to be ballotted for at the next
monthly meeting—the largest number yet proposed at any
one meeting. In this list were the names of Sir Thomas
Birch, Bart., of the Hazels, and Meyrick Banks, Esry , of
Winstanley Hall, both in this county. The opening cruise
of the present season was fixed for Saturday next, the 17th
instant, in place of the day previously contemplated
(the 26th), the tides on the latter day not being so favour-
able. The yachts are to assemble at New Brighton at
ten, a.m. Several yachts were immediately entered for
competition on the first club matches—the entries to re-
main open until the June monthly meeting, when the
whole number will be declared. Stewards for the sailing