The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-07 00:00:00

MEXICO

news from Mexico is unimportant. The expedition
f
conquest of Yucatan promised to be a failure.
e r
of the troops destined for the expedition had died of
ManyorT ht
he
the black vomit.
The dates from Buenos Ayres are to the 10th of July.
Bons had re-assuined the functions of government. Ad-
miral Brown sailed in haste from Buenos Ayres on the 26th
of June, with five vessels, a cannonade having been heard
from the island of Martin Garcia. It was found afterwards
that three Monte Videan vessels bad managed to pass the
island, and entered the Uruqua ;
Y, with a view to construct
a battery at Punta Gorda. No tidings had been received
from Admiral Brown since his departure.

ERRORS IN HISTORY.—In laying the foundation stone of
the new works at Cologne Cathedral, posterity
informed by the inscription that the Kings of anovserthe and
Wirtemberg were actors in the solemnity ; whereas
is
Sovereigns were unable to attend ; and the inscnoPny
is gravely
an
took
dated, " Tertio ides Septembris," while the re
place on the fourth. We need scarcely wondeecrsea
unsol-
vable riddles and inconceivable discrepancies it nmtvhoel ved ii
the chronicles of the past.
THE WEST INDIES.—FALMOUTIft OCT. 4, 1842.—The
Royal Mail Company's steamer Dee Captain
,' k
her appearance this morning at about 11
o'clock,
Hemsley,having left made
Vera Cruz on the 13th of August,
off New Orleans on the 21st Ha
ber, Nassau on the 6th, Bertmuedvaannnnathheonllththe,lsatnodf
FayalSepte inni;
Ist of October, from which
to h bear up on the 27th ult., from
thelatt latter ' placea hsdh eCw°ar
490 9L6 dollars and six serous of
on freight , .
gales. She has
of 17 cabin passengers and 33 super-
sunnnbalign
about 20 leagues west of Ushant, owing to strong easterly
cochineal, independent
Medway steamer left Nassau for the Gulf
super-
numeraries.
6th of September, which vessel had brought
A steamer, supposed to be the Teviot,
•erna..s
cotTiCheoernunna on the Ist inst. on her outward pas-
int aster of the Helen, of Belfast, died at Tampico
sage. The master
August; and the master and nearly all the
15th o
uw ofpa
sM theg enxiJincagomoa ni
on the
crew of the brig Native,
feverative w
, ofas
prevailing Exeter had
to adied e
great
tt
degree.il avan
O n a h ,
which place the
'4,...,TTER-i-JUIST . • . —On Monday morning last week Mr. Dun,
of KilgYuY,
was surprised to hear his dog barking at a furious
rate, and
running round a cart which happened to be dis-
nisistled of its wheels and set apright against one of the stead-
ing walls. On looking to see what was the matter, to his
great astonishment he observed that a very large otter had
taken Possession of the cart, and was determined to dispute
his right of place, cost what it would. No sooner did the
creature perceive Mr. Dun than it made a supden spring at
him, but it fortunately missed. On getting it out of the cart
a splendid hunt ensued (another dog having by this time made
its appearance) ; but neither had any chance—the otter turn-
ing first one over, and then the other, with the greatest ease
—and, had Mr. Dun not come to their assistance, it would
have beat them both, and getfairly off. Ultimately, however,
the otter was brought to bay, and "died game," after a fierce
resistance. But the query is, how did it get there, and where
did it come from ? as there is no water nearer than the Eden
or Cash Loch, save a small rivulet which runs clot* by Kit-
gour, and which has been long dry,—Caledonian Mercury.

PUBLIC-HOUSE REGULATION.—On Friday, at the Police-
court, a number of informations were heard against beer-
house keepers for having their houses opened past the legal
hour; and in the great majority of the cases conviction ensued,
and a penalty of 40s. inflicted. In one case, where a defence
founded on falsehood, was set up, the court marked their
sense of it by imposing a fine of 60s. There were also a few
informations against licensed victuallers, for selling liquors
during the prohibited hours on Sunday. Mr. Rushton, in
deciding on one case, amid that the fact of a fine being imposed
on the keeper of a house, which was ordinarily so well con-
ducted, would show the public that the magistrates were de-
termined to enforce the new act rigidly ; for it was an act
which brought with it blessings to all parties. During the
month of September, 500 persons less had passed through
bridewell than in the month of August, and all owing to the
operation of the act for closing public-houses on the Sunday.

PAID OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION
OF LIVERPOOL

FIRST REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE,
appointed by the Council, en the 6th May, 1842, to inquire
into the present duties of the Officers and Servants of the
Corporation, with their respective Salaries, and report
generally on any alteration or addition being made in any
of the departments.
In compliance with the resolution of the council, the se-
veral committees who were directed to appoint one of their
members to form the special committee, proceeded to the
selection, and the following gentlemen were appointed :
Mr. Thomas Bolton, from the Finance Committee.
James Lawrence, „ Improvement ~
Ji.mes Proctor, ~ Watch /1
John Bramley Moore, „ Courts of Law„
John Kilshaw, „ Markets
Thomas Brockhurst Barclay, „ Town-hall ~
John Buck Lloyd, „ Borough Court ~
The committee, at their first meeting, on the 16th May,
appointed Mr. John Buck Lloyd the chairman, and on the
19th May proceeded to inquire into the present duties of those
officers and servants who are not under the immediate direc-
tion of any committee of the council.
The committee believe that they are in possession of mate-
rials sufficient to enable them to make a full report on the
following officers and departments :
THE RECORDER.
James Clarke, Esq. was, previous to the passing of the
Municipal Corporations' Act, and is at present, the recorder ;
and by the provisions of the above act, he is the sole judge
of the Court of Quarter Sessions. His salary is £525 per
annum. There have been six sessions held in each year since
1336.
It is contemplated to increase the number of sessions to
seven or eight, in consequence of which the recorder has
applied for an addition to his present salary, and the council
has passed a resolution to allow £5O to him for each session
beyond four, that may be held during the year. The com-
mittee consider that the duties the recorder is called upon to
serform, even if there were eight sessions in the year, are
sufficiently remunerated at the annual salary of £525; but as
the council have already agreed to make the allowance of .£5O
for each extra session, as above mentioned, the committee
recommend that in future the sessions should be put upon
the same footing as the assizes, and that the extraordinary
requests of the recorder, in being furnished, previous.to each
session, with a copy of the depositions, which upon an ave-
rage, including the binding, cost the corporation £6 a session,
and of having a clerk from the town-clerk's department pro-
vided for him, be disallowed.
There is also another annual charge on the borough fund,
which is incurred in providing refreshments at the sessions.
When the mayor, with the regalia, presided in the courts,
there was some ground for incurring this expense, but as the
Municipal Corporations' Act made an entire change, the
mayor no longer presiding there, the committee recommend
that all refreshments at the Sessions-house be discontinued.
The committee believe, if the council confirms the above
recommendations, the borough fund will be relieved of an
annual charge of, at least, £l2O.

£sp per
THE ASSESSOR OF THE BOROUGH COURT.
Charlesoo
Crompton, Esq. fills this situation at a salary of
E,, in annum. He succeeded the late Henry Roscoe,
, q., 1836. From the known high professional character
of the assessor, and his standing at the bar, the business of
the court has greatly increased, as appears in a subsequent
e
part of this Port.
The assessor four courts in the year.
"E STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE.
Edward Rushton,
ceeded Thomas James Hall,
holds this appointment. He suc-
of £1,300 Per all, Esq., in 1839, and has a salary
annum, This is a new office since the Ist
January, 1836.
The stipendiary magistrate presides in the Police-court,
which sits daily.
THE TOWN-CLERKS DEPARTMENT, EMBRACING THE
OFFICES OF THE TOWN-CLERK
CLERIC OF THE PEACE,
REGISTRAR OF THE BOROUGH
SOLICITOR. CLERK OF COMmr,C:URT, PROSECUTING
1,-", CRIER OF THE
Ey•BTARILIFFS AND THE
COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS, su
CLERKS AND OTHERS EMPLOYED
list of offices,
several It may appear to the council, from thpeerteEnvmae•
that the committee have classed more
might
under
From the
have been
nil
thatcfused
this head than is necessary, and that
they
considered as in distinct departments.
mixture of offices and duties, the committee
cannot separate them, and are obliged to consider the
above
offices in one department.
Throughout the entire of this department the committee
much regret that they have to report the total want of ,v
s-
tem ad arrangeroent, and that no check has been kept
the Treasurer of the Borough Fund on any of the fees reY-

coved. so large a mass
To arrange and digest into a concise form
of evidence, which the committee has been obligedhtaos tbaekeen,
comprising so many different heads of information,
a work of no ordinary labour to them.
The committee beg to call the serious attention of the
council to the various topics that are embraced under
this
head of their report, as it is evident that no committee
has been formed, since the passing of the Municipal tha
Corpo-
rations Act, to report on this department, have considered
the duties which each officer has had to perform, but have
allowed the report of the officer himself on his own duties, or
of the head of the particular office to which he was attached,
to he the substance of their report; and in cases where the
salaries of officers and servants in this department have been
increased since 1836, thee have been made on the value
which the officer or servant has put upon himself, without
considering the duties he was called upon to discharge, nor
inquiring how efficiently those duties could have been per-
formed
by a person at a less salary than the parties applying
for an increase, then had.
The committee arrive at the above conclusion, observing ,
that at the present time some of the provisions of the Muni-
cipal Corporations Act have not been carried out, and in
the appointments made under the act, the respective offices,
with theduties, have not previously been sufficiently consi-
deie'd;siedo defined.

-' T 1 consider the following persons to be con-
nected with this department :