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

p, which

will shortly-be ready for launc

The Sub-cort

should be called

reported that Salthouse

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
Lampfold 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, bad been appointed consulting 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 more 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. CHILTON 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
to lie on the table
Art.

ssrs. 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, requesting
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-
of the Clarence South Gra-
md that the Surveyor

stated that the 1
Dock would be proceeded w

would re

)ort next NI

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 witb
M

TOBIN repeated that too much time had been lost al-

Mr. HORSFALL 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
)übt, but in a pecuniary point of view_ it was of no use.

vice to the d

aid the account was of the most essential ser-
:estate, and when the time came he should

)e prepared to shew its value

TheCriAinmAN 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 equalise 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, nothing was stolen but the account books. A
few days afterwards information was conveyed to Groves, one
of the police, that a bundle of hooks 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 be 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 oTered a reward of .ZlO for the recovery.

PRETTY SIMILE.—The favours which you pursue are like
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 Mr. 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.

AN AMERICAN WIFE.—" You ought to marry." " Ne-
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 had 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

sCra bby isle o

do you not find

we confess our&

Ise 01 toe magnificent position which this
Ibion holds among the nations of the earth,
be bottom of them ? And much as
!bted to old King Alfred, do we not
3finitely more indebted to old King

acknowledge ourselves _ _
Coal ?—Blackwood's Magaz

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
yin applied through an influential channel. The pithy but
" The Duke has anticipated your
• 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 " has not forgotten his old
followers.—Limerick Chronicle.

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