The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-28 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE

The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held
re ste rday. The following members were present :—Messrs.
Sands, Horsfall, Barclay, Middleton, Molyneux, Holmes,
:3andbach, Nicol, Mellor, Evans, Martin, Shand, Aikin,
Tobin, Chilton, and Ripley. The Chairman of the
committee, Mr. Sands, presided.
The Sub-committee of Works reported that an agreement
had been made with Messrs. Mackerel and Son for ten land-
ing stages.—Confirmed.
The same sub-committee recommended that 200 feet of
shed be placed at the north-east end of Queen's Dock quay,
and 125 feet in length added to the south end.—Agreed to.
The Sub-committee for the Department of the Marine
Surveyor reported the services of the Life-boat Establish-
ment, from the 16th instant to the 23d instant.—lt was
ordered to be entered on the books.

The Harbour Masters' Sub-committee sent in a report of
stages that had been used at the several docks since the com-
mencement of the system in September to the 31st Deena-
ber,—and also of the amounts deposited when they were
taken out, the amounts repaid, and the amounts in the hands
of the dock-masters. This latter item was stated to be £ll6.
After a brief conVersatian, the report was received, and the
sub-committee were further instructed to report to the next
meeting how far the system had answered the purpose it Was
intended for.

The dues received at Runcorn in the last month were re-
ported to be £32 ls. 9d.

- The agent to the Drogheda Steam Packet Company ap-
plied for the end of the shed in the quay of Clarence Dock,
used by that company to be boarded up.—Referred to the
Sub-committee of Works.
The Rev. William Maynard, incumbent of the Mariners'
Church, requested permission from the committee to place a
patent stove within the vessel during the winter months, as
the severe cold rendered the minister and congregation very
uncomfortable and proposed, in order to avoid all danger,
that the stove, when heated, should be locked up and the
key deposited with the police-officer on duty.
Mr. Alderman EvANs would avail himself of that oppor-
tunity of stating, that if the committee could get rid of the
vessel used as a church, and build a church upon land in the
neighbourhood of the docks, in all likelihood they would
save money.

Mr. HORSFALL said this was a very good idea.
Mr. SANDBACFL asked Mr. Alderman Evans whether he
was prepared to give notice of a motion to this effect ?
Mr. Alderman EVANS said he was not exactly able to do
that at present.
_ . .

The discussion then terminated, it being understood that
the committee could not accede to the application.
The committee then separated.

A boy, ten years of age, slipped out of a sky-light window
in the roof of a house, Rue de Faubourg St. Antoine, on Sa-
turday morning, and rolling towards the caves of the roof
was caught by the gutter pipe. Here he remained suspended
for some time, in the most imminent danger of falling and
being dashed to pieces ; but a man succeeded in approaching
him with a rope, and in hauling him up safely into the house.
The boy's mother was so much affected that she swooned
away, and was a long time in a state of total insensibility.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.7OH Saturday evening, the
15th instant, between seven and eight o'clock, as one of the
Coast-guard boats was crossing the ferry at Castle Townsend,
having on board two of the men named Longmead and Mur-
phy, with a boy, who was servant to the chief officer; such
was the fury of the gale, then blowing from the south-west,
that the boat was either upset or swamped, and the three
perished. Longrnead and Murphy were both married : the
former has left three children, and the latter five, the eldest
of whom is not ten years of age.—Cork paper.
QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE KING OF PRUSSIA.—The
present King of Prussia and Queen Victoria are great grand-
children of the same maternal parent, inasmuch as the
mother of the late Queen Charlotte (the consort of George
III) was the grandmother of the late Queen of Prussia, (the
mother of the present King,) and, consequently, great grand-
mother of both Queen Victoria and Frederick IV. Queen
Charlotte was, of course, the aunt of the late Queen of Prus-
sia, and great aunt to the present Sovereign. The late Queen
of Hanover was also, we believe, one of her nieces.