The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-09 00:00:00

EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Infants

The proceeding;of—theEdt;;tion Committee were next
read. The numbers in attendance in the schools, from the

21th of July to the 30th of August, vero gotoil to bo
low :

NORTH SCHOOL

SOUTH SCHOOL

239 80y5...
190
Girls...
179 Infants,
TOB 1

The numbers on the books viere set forth as follow :-
NORTH SCHOOL. SOUTH SCHOOL.
Established Church.... 627 Established Church...
Protestant Dissenters.. 213 Protestant Dissenters,
Roman Catholics....... 50 Roman Catholics....

Mr. SANDS moved the confirmation of the proceedings.
Mr. PLATT seconded the motion, which was adopted
unanimously.

BOROUGU COURT COMMITTEE.
The proceedings of the Borough Court and Court of Re-
quests Committee were read and confirmed.
COURTS OF LAW COMMITTEE.

The proceedings of the Courts of Law Committee having
been read,
Mr. LLOYD moved their confirmation, and in doing so, pro-
ceeded to shew that no want of courtesy had been exhibited by
the Courts ref Law Committee towards the Watch Committee,
as had been alleged at the last meeting of the Council, but
that on the contrary, their surveyor had been sent to explain
and receive suggestions in reference to the plans.
Mr. THORNHILL considering the plans improper, said
that neither Mr. Whitty nor Mr. Ashlin had been ever con-
sulted about them.
Mr. BIRKETT discredited the charge of discourtesy, but
denied that the corporation had any money in their possession
to incur a further expenditure.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE expressed a hope that the
Counsel, for the sake of £lO,OOO, would not shrink from
procuring the best stone.
Mr. PLATT thought it would be wretched policy if they
had not the best stone, provided the money could be had.
Mr. HODGSON said it would be better to stop the building
altogether than to construct it with a material which they
were told beforehand would not be equal to what was re-

quired.
After a few words from Mr. Bramley-Moore, Mr I.
Holmes, Mr. Sands, and Mr. Bright, the proceedings were
confirmed; audit was agreed that the proceedings of the Watch
Committee be approved, with the reservation of the resolu-
tions as to the removal of the Watch-office, which are re-
tained for consideration after the report thereon of the Courts
of 'Law Committee, to which committee the same have been
transferred by the Watch Committee ; and the resolutions
of the Highway Board be referred to the Courts of Law
Committee.

TOWN-HALL ESTABLISHMENT COMMITTEE

The proceedings of the Town-hall Establishment Com-
mittee were read and confirmed. The committee decided on

not taking a lease of the judges' lodgings in St. Anne-street,
but on renting it for another year, and hiring the furniture
for the same period.
The proceedings of the Observatory Committee, and of
the Church Expenditure Committee, were next read.

DOCK COMMITTEE

The proceedings of the Dock Committee having been read,
Mr. SANDS moved their confirmation.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE asked when the transit sheds
would be ready ?
Mr. SANDS said they were ready at present.
Mr. BRAMLEY-MOOKE complained of the crossings at the
Prince's and George's Docks as being very inconvenient for
passengers, and suggested a mode of remedying it.
Mr. SANDS said the subject had already undergone con-
sideration.
Mr. AIKIN said it was a mere matter for the police, who
were always stationed at the places mentioned.
The proceedings were confirmed.
APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES.

The TOWN-CLERK said the next subject on the paper was
the appointment of committees to execute the powers and
provisions of the act of last session for the improvement,
good government, and police regulation of the borough. The
resolutions he submitted were to the effect that the act be
referred to the Improvement Committee for widening streets
and making streets more commodious—to the Watch Com-
mittee as far as regarded the constables and Fire Police of
the borough—to the Lighting Cleansing Committee as far as
regarded the cleansing of the old borough—that Mr. George
H. Lawrence and the other gentlemen of the Finance Com-
mittee be appointed a committee to make, alter, and repeal
all by-laws authorised, and that the act be referred to the
Finance Committee to include the provisions not referred to
the other committees.
Those several resolutions were unanimously adopted.
ENROLMENT OF INDENTURES. _ _

The TOWN-CLERK stated that he had received fifty appli-
cations to allow, under speciel circumstances, the enrolment
of the indentures of apprenticeships.
The applications were referred to the Finance Committee
to report to the Council.