The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-11 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.

The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held
yesterday. There were present—Messrs. Sands (chairman),
Horsfall, Barclay, Holmes, Smith, Molyneux, Nicol, Bul-
ley, Tobin, Shand, Chilton, Royden, Aikin, and Evans.
The CHAIRMAN stated that the Committee of Works had
no reports to make.
The sub-committee for the department of the marine sur-
veyor recommended that Thomas Hughes, second keeper of
the telegraph in Chapel-street, be appointed keeper of the
telegraph station in Hilbre Island, in the place of Thomas
Matthew, deceased, at the salary of £75 per annum and the
use of the house. The sub-committee also recommended
that David Rowland, jun., be appointed second keeper of the
telegraph in Chapel-street, in the place of Thomas Hughes,
at a salary of £6O per annum. Both recommendations were
confirmed.
On the recommendation of the same sub-committee, the
sum of £lO was ordered to be paid to Elizabeth Matthew,
widow of the late keeper of the telegraph on Hilbre Island,
as a remuneration for the expenditure by her late husband
on the house and garden ; and also £2O as a gratuity in con-
sideration of her destitute condition, and of the satisfactory
manner in which her husband discharged his duties.
The sub-committee further recommended that a tender of
£8 for the condemned life-boat lately belonging to the Hoy-
lake Station be accepted.
Mr. TOBIN and Mr. ROYDEN intimated that the tender
was very little.
The CHAIRMAN and other members said it was about as
much as the boat was worth.
Mr. BARCLAY said if it had been an iron boat, a good
deal more might have been got for it. (Laughter.)—Con-
firmed.
A ton of coals was ordered to be supplied at the com-
mencement of each winter, for the use of the Telegraph on
Puffin Island.
On the Tecomniendation of the Sub-committtee it was
unanimously resolved that the new iron Light-ship, which
will shortly be ready for launching, should be called " The
Prince."
The Sub-committee reported that Salthouse Dock bad
been re-opened for the admission of shipping, and they re-
commended that the Master of Canning Dock be instructed
to take charge of it for the present, and that the six dock-
gatemen attached to it, who had been dispersed among the
other docks when it was closed, be directed to resume their
duties.--Confirmed.
On the recommendation of the Sub-committee, James
Larnpfold and John Carfield were appointed gatemen to
Toxteth dock, in the place of Hugh Jones and John Lancas-
ter, dismissed for misconduct.
Mr. CHILTON mentioned that Mr. John Hartley, son of
the Surveyor, had been appointed consultiug engineer to the
Hull Dock Company.
The CHAIRMAN read a letter from the Surveyor, an-
nouncing the appointment of his son. This letter was dated
the Bth instant, and in it the Surveyor stated that the ap-
pointment was the wore gratifying to him, inasmuch as
neither his son nor himself had made application, directly or
indirectly, for it. About _one-fifth or one-fourth of his time
might be required by it or business connected with it. The
Chairman added, that he supposed Mr. Hartley would be
called the consulting engineer.
Mr. Ca ILTON said that was so. A resident engineer had
been appointed the same day ; and Mr. Hartley would hold
the same situation there as Mr. Walker held here. _ _

The communication from the Surveyor was then ordered
:o lie on the table.

Messrs. Fielden Brothers, in a letter to the committee,
stated that a new line of packets consigned to them had
commenced running between this port and New York, the
first of which (the Rochester) had already arrived : they were
intended to sail on the sth of each month, and the present
application was that the accommodation afforded to the other
liners in Waterloo Dock might be extended to them.—The
application was referred to the Harbour Master, to report
thereon.
An application from Mr. John James Melhuish, agent for
the London and Liverpool Shipping Company, reqaesting
permission to occupy a stage constantly upon George's Dock
Quay, without being fined for not removing the same, was
declined, being contrary to the dock regulations.
In reply to some observations from Mr. TOBIN, the CHAIR-
MAN stated that the lengthening of the Clarence South Gra-
ving Dock would be proceeded with, and that the Surveyor
would report next week.
Mr. ToBIN said this matter had been under discussion three
or four months, and nothing was yet done. He considered
the delay to be mere trifling with a decision of the committee.
Mr. HORSFALL said there was no real delay, and the work
would be proceeded with.
Mr. Tonix repeated that too much time had been lost al-
ready.
Mr. IloasrALL gave notice that at the next meeting of
the committee, he should move for a return of the expense of
keeping the statistical account of the several docks during
the last twelve months, to see whether it were worth while to
go on with it, of which he had his doubts.
Mr. EVANS said he could never see the use of it.

The CHAIRMAN said it was an interesting document to
doubt, but in a pecuniary point of view it was of no use.

Mr: AKIN said the account was of the most essential ser-
vice to the dock estate, and when the time came he should
be prepared to shew its value.
The CHAIRMAN said he could not see how it would lead
to profit. •
Mr. ATKIN replied it would be of service if they were to
go to parliament, or if they came to reduce or cqualise the
rates.
After a few words from several of the members, the sub-
ject dropped, and the committee separated.

SINGULAR ROBBERY. —During the night of Saturday last
the counting-house of Mr. Williamson, of Tranmere, was
broken into, and although there was a quantity of valuable
property, nothinr, was stolen but the account books. A
few days afterwards information was conveyed to Groves, one
of the police, that a bundle of books had been found on the
shore at Wallasey ; and on the officer going to enquire at the
house of a person named Davis, after encountering some
difficulty he succeeded in recovering the lost ledgers, &c.
The books had probably been in the river, as they were quite
wet and tied together, so that it would seem to have been the
intention of the party to destroy them. Mr. Williamson
had offered a reward of £lO for the recovery.

PRETTY SIMILE

Simm.--The favours which you pursue are A.
your own shadow. Follow them, you cannot catch them
turn away from them, they will follow you.
A DREAM REALIZED.—It is related in " Collins's Peer-
age," that a certain unmarried lady once dreamed of finding
a nest containing seven young finches, which in course of
time was realized by her becoming the wife of a 111 r. Finch,
and mother of seven children. From one of these nestlings
is descended the present Earl of Winchelsea, who still retains
the surname of Finch.
" " Ne-
AN AMERICAN WIFE.—" You ought to marry•
ver." " I know a good girl for you." " Let me alone."
" She is young." " Then she is sly." " Beautiful." " The
more dangerous." "Of good family." " Then she is proud."
" Tender hearted." " Then she is jealous." " She has
talents." "To kill me." " And one hundred thousand
dollars." " I will take her."—American paper.
If you desire to know whether the day will be fine, take a
walk of a few miles into the country, until you come to a
field where cows are grazing, and if the animals turn their
tails to the wind, be sure it will be stormy, if they turn their
faces it will be fine ; but, if some stand one way, and some
the other, you bad better toss up, and accordingly as the
coin gives you heads or tails, you will be able to solve the
problem.
THE FIRESIDES OF OLD ENGLAND.—GO as deep as you
please in the cause of the magnificent position which this
scrubby isle of Albion holds among the nations of the earth,
do you not find coal at the bottom of them? And much as
we confess ourselves indebted to old King Alfred, do we not
acknowledge ourselves infinitely more indebted to old King
Coal ?—Blaektvood's Magazine.

Some months ago, an old Peninsula and Waterloo officer
applied to Lord Hill for an ensigncy for his son without pur-
chase. The candidate's name was placed on the crowded list
at the Horse Guards, with a promise of early notice. On
the Duke succeeding Lord Hill, his Grace's old follower
again applied through an influential channel. The pithy but
gratifying answer was, " The Duke has anticipated your
wishes." The lucky candidate will be gazetted to an old
and distinguished corps on the Indian station in a few days.
Here is a proof that " the Duke " bas not forgotten his old
followers.—Limerick Chronicle.