of onshore rocks make room for an accumulation of beach or a greater stretch of agreeable sands, but their disappearance would also tend to certain sanitary improvements, whilst such absence would be of immense benefit to boating and bathing.
The Watchhouse. At a special meeting held on the 1st of April, it was resolved that the watchhouse attached to the gaol in Bourne street be heightend (sic) by an additional storey.
Condolence. At the same meeting, Coun. Harvey said that although almost unable to stand in consequence of illness, he nevertheless rose to propose that a letter of condolence be sent to the widow and family of the late Ald. Emary. Coun Ross said that never had he heard anything calculated to excite in his breast so strong a feeling as that of a person like Mr. Harvey moving, as he had done, in reference to their late very worthy alderman, since it was not long ago he set about a report that Mr. Emary had hanged himself (Sensation). Coun. Harvey asked for proof. Ald. Ticehurst remarked that he had long since ceased to be surprised at anything Harvey said or did, and the fact that he denied the accusation was another proof of the great degredation(sic) to which he had fallen. Coun. Ginner was sorry the subject had been mentioned, but at the late Mayor’s dinner, Mr. Harvey said Mr. Emary had hung himself, that he was cut down and was nearly gone. Ald. Clement said he was present, when Mr. Harvey, in a joking, nonsensical way, asked “Have you heard that Mr. Emary has hung himself, and that Mr. Clift has drowned himself?” and so he went on in the same strain as anyone else might ask, Have you heard that Mr. Ticehurst has tumbled out of his carriage and broke his neck: Mr. Harvey afterwards saying “Nor have I.” It was really all in a joke, and he (Ald. Clement) was sorry the case had been mentioned. Coun. Burfield enquired if Mr. Ticehurst had said “I hope Harvey will die now he is ill?” Ald Ticehurst replied that the question was irrelevant, but if asked at the proper time and place, he would answer it. Coun Harvey retorted that his being publicly attacked did not alarm him. He attributed the treatment he had received to the chagrin of Mr. Ross and Mr Ticehurst, who he believed would cut his throat if it were not for the protection of the law. (Sensation). He had never denied that at the dinner after the cloth had been removed, he asked Mr. Ginner if he had heard that Mr. Emary had hung himself: and that when Mr. Ginner said “No!” he (Mr. Harvey) said “Nor have I.” And now, after what Ross and Ticehurst had said of him, he would say that there were no two men in the Council whom he had held to be more despicable. (Confusion). Coun. Ross was proud of his company; but was it not disgraceful in the extreme that such a man as Harvey should sit in the Council? For himself, he could say that he never got drunk -
