The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-28 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL TOWN DUES. MEETING IN MANCHESTER (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) A.tneeting, convened by advertisement, of the merchants and m anufacturers of Manchester and the surrounding towns Was held in the. Town-hall, Manchester, yesterday, for the purpose of organizing an association to obtain the right appropriation of the Liverpool Town Dues. The Meeting arose out of a preliminary meeting held some 4 aYa since of gentlemen interested in the . question, for the POrpose of considering " the propriety or organizing an association in defence of the measure now before parlia -113.nt, and concentrating the efforts of 'the various localities affected-by the bill, so that by evid"nce and oth erwise before the select committee of the House of e n th ° ll s the case o f the promot e rs may be sustained." A 7 14° %'h the me e ti ng was summone d f or e l ev en o'clock it was considerably past that time when the proceedings commenced. A considerable number of gentlemen were then present. The chair was taken by iw Thomas Bazley, president of the chamber of "Make roe, The C ha:irman having read the advertisement calling ih‘ b„,,, lneetl og, said—The collectors of town dues in various i' n - ' lB of the United Kingdom appear to be determined still t V l l l TTopriate to private municipal purposes taxes which s Y Sather from public sources. The government of the had wisely brought in a measure which would !erred these abuses, which we have assembled this morn lea ° g t°rornote the removal of. But I have to regret, in sh04:11 a ea with yourselves, that the administration has of .;, want of administrative courage. (Loud cheers.) e ll e've ther e h as been a fickleness evinced upon the part 84 Majesty ' s Government, which has been unueces till?, for if th ey h a d f or a s i ng l e momen t ,r e ll e ct e d th a t 1 ' were supporting the interests of the many, merely .ValUst the private possessions and aggrandisement of the Iv ' t hey would have felt strengthened in the 'opposition Which tbeY assumed. Now, the time has arrived, in my °Pi4l ° ll , When we should ass um e, i n th e manufact u ring thistrixh, an important attitude. (Hear, hear.) Deeds, —lo t words, should characterise us.' We must be up ii 1 1 . da ing; and I hope art organisation-will be called into 1 - 7 11 !e to-day, which will never cease its labours until 11 . 1 ,,`"na gathered from public sources are applied unlver "‘"Y to public convenience and for the advancement of Pahlie objects only. (Hear, hear.) I trust that we shall Z i t3e to see Liverpool, and some other ports of the United ai .. n g„ (l °ln, adorned and possessing municipal advantages i ; le cost o f th e people o f E nglan d , and t h at every com - Itai tY, as this community does, will be called upon to Pay for the social requisites which are necessary for their self-r o th p • , ertunent, and the well-being of the people whom her epresent. (Hear, hear.) N. Wood proposed the first resolution. He clerk Although, sir, the kindness of yourself and the town mach h _ .3 placed me in this position, I cannot but very 41 re gret that it has not , fallen to the lot of some gentle ", Who has taken a more active and prominent part in ution e . earl Y proceedings upon the subject to move this reso . 1, 'ea I can only say, that although I have not ta k e nan active part in it, my own feelings upon the sub- Jett are clear and decided. I believe, sir, that the griev ,44lee which we are now seeking to have removed, is a cer 'lna relic of old times, of a state of things which has now used a way, and it is a grievance which must speedily re moved by the advancing knowledge and intelligence t he present day. When I have travelled, sir, it has always :road to m e th at great rivers were the natural highways tile world, and that as such. they ought to be open to (near, hear, and cheers) There is a growing ten tieneY to this all over the world. There is probably, sir, ° lle in thi s room w h o h as not o f ten travelled along that k 'atitiful river, the Rhine, and who had not contrasted its Present state, where innumerable st e amer s p ass u p an d 4 °Wii on her every day, transporting not merely passen 'l.er% but merchandise of every description, with the relics of former times which its banks bear, and which attest na w , at an earlier day, that river (which is now the scene of friendly intercourse and peaceful commerce ) was for 'erly the scene of war, of rapine, and of plunder. Every ovvuhere, sir, I believe you will find the same thing going • e d , r° .o will find friendly intercourse existing and ex tben- 1311 Will find all the obstacles of intercourse log will ; and although I do not compare the town of Liverpool w i th the f ormer wars u.,,0n the Rhine,3lr ye Liverpool I believe that the principle is very much the same. , sir, h ave lately been contending at another corner of th world, and more recently, I suppose, we have been e° • iltea ding at P ar i s, f or t h e f ree nav i ga tion of the Danube. m w a g e a re contending , upon a similar principle, for the free N eation What natural the ' 3 ' lersey. (Hear, hear.) I ask, sir, by -ur right, upon what principle of equity, the iiPoration of Liverpool are authorised to impose a duty ai l:n the free use of the Mersey for all who inhabit its fil b . 8? I Will not longer detain this meeting. I have a conviction that this is a work of time ; we are -•gva ne . .eiPle t ng a principle somewhat new. Like all new prin kla Ito use:the language of a g reat English statesman — i ' s ° be abu se d , di scussed, and filially adopted. (Hear, an - d r) ?aye n o d ou b t t h at our perseverance, our energy , s lice the Justice of our cause, w ill ensure f or us a fi na l 'e xp ess . Mr. W oo d then propose d t h e reso l ut i on, w hi c h th e r eBse d the regret of the meeting at the withdrawal of th e ig,ercolent bill for the abolition of passing tolls and thi t t -eg m ul ation of town dues on shipping, and their opinion infti c ' :* l6 importance o f th e subject, and the injustice P a rt `ed by those;d ues, calle d f or a spec i a l e ff or t u p on th e . of that 5 district to support the government in carry. corn.to ef fect the rec ommen d a ti on o f th e s hipping dues , rnissio ners. Th e spea k er a dd e d t h a t h e was i uc li ne d ii l iZelieve th e withdrawal of the bill was attributable tneli t , More to the house of commons than to the govern - i iti fL lv . latch sh owed the necessity of constituencies r i g h tly subject, 7'14 a nd directing their representatives upon the . . air, see_ In doing -- e ,on, of Ashton,: seconded the resolution. so, he strongly commented upon the fact, that not on e b m ember for the whole of Lancashire, or for that oro e le , e ugh. had raised hisvoice in support of the Govern hin,`LaPeasure. The withdrawal of the bill appeared to b e — Inevitable after the silence of the Lancashire me.mt re T he , ZartYThe people of Manchester had a powerful antagonis . . , able, ever on the watch . to attack their trade in eh-03412art, and therefore their members of parliament u be told that they were placed in th House to be di !r to reply to those attacks. The ise s rlet people s of that -ad made up their minds that the question s hou ld _ o 417 they at rest TO attain this end, they would have to d agitat e done had done before, to organise, subscribe, and agita te, with e e — te i rt one single session, but session after session, rained perseverance, untilthe question was fairly treakt rest He believed the justice of their cause . was ele.,ltt,rent thatthey would have no need to retain some Vli a i ',.' i n'er in the house to defend it. ( tosti o ,, wlth oppressive factory bills, and L . iverp'eol ex th ' B, and threatened despotic education bills, he . the o i o e ght tl,, manufacturers of that district would need ail endunanimity and all their perseverance to keep their 01 „„.• (Hear, hear.) Mr. Mason passed a high eutio of.''' uPon the speech of the Town clerk on the occasion _ the recent meeting in Manchester upon the subject and li?e general value of that gentleman s services, and con cluded by seconding the resolution. The Paanimously Chai r rnan put th e resolution, which was carried Mr, Thomas Fairblirn moved th e second " resolution, ithich expressed the high approval by the manufact . uring . districts of in the services rendered by the corporation o f Manchester that came, and declared it to be the duty 'F the manufacturing district earnestly to co-operate W i th - the co r p orat i on i n order to secure th e abolitio n , () due appropriation, of the town - dues. Mr. irairbairn expressed his full sense or the grail 'Pelode which .the manufacturing district , owed to corporation of Manchester, and to their excellent loestrovvreclerk for the measures they had taken upon that ion. He eulogised the speech of Mr. Lowe, in intro reing the govermnent _bill as being the outpouring' of an 41onest man, thoroughly convinced of the iniquity of a tertain Pleasure, and anxious to put it down. 11l re to to the second portion co: the resolution, he urged stirt°,llgly upon the manufacturing district at laree, not ° leave hew ork altogether on the hands of the Man eoester corpation, but to give their general and ener getic assistance. . le:Mr. James Aspin all Turner seconded,the resolution. eie thought they would all j for theoin in heartilex er tions the Y praisin g th e e i ° rPor at i on of Manchester, y h vnatie in support o f t h e bil l, an d t h eir efforts in endea ad ou Znuld r ine to d o away with that objectionable tax. He not distres s th e t own - cler k b y any further allusion ° h im a , becaus e h e k new that that g en tleman was b traught 'erY m st ode man, and would blush, n o d oubt. ..... ••-- Cr.)l nut ' the town-clerk might rest 114 quite assured that he had made an impression 111 man minds on the occasion referred to most favour ,ii'e in his great talent and assiduity in working out that etir ti on• (Hear, hear.) The Chamber of Commerce, and in , Commercial Association, had also exerted themselves 11,1,1_ furtherance of the object. The meeting and the district _o_ p_l(l.not now be contented making speeches and saying Liurd vvords, but they should now raise a fund, and have 410 efficient c ommittee to work the question in the same V aY that many public questions had,been already worked in that • Until the il3utcl' and never relax their exertions object was ,accomplished. (Hear, hear.) They should call not only on the gentlemen present, but upon vast numbers who were absent, and who would, he hoped, listen to the voice which would go forth from that room, and join hand and heart until the impost of which they com plained was abolished. The country had been recently engaged in a great war, of which one of the objects seemed to have been to open the navigation of the Danube. He hoped now that by a little, not blood shed, but hearty co-operation together, and fighting with one heart and mind against that which they thought —whether those who imposed it thought so or not—an unjust taxation, they would open another great river, and see the boats which had been stopped at the mouth of that river, not exactly by deposits of sand, but by the tax-gatherers who waited upon them immediately on their entrance, a llowed to proceed along the course of the river free, and without taxation. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) The Mayor of Salford (Mr. Molls) in a few words sup ported the resolution, bearing testimony to the high ability displayed by the town clerk, and adding that although he was not given to agitation in general, he thought that question one of the instances in which they might agitate for an object so beneficial. Mr. Malcolm Ross proposed the third resolution, which was to the effect that an association, to be called an "Association to obtain a right appropriation of the Liver pool Town Dues " be formed for the purposes mentioned in the preceding resolutions, and that the support of the leading merchants and manufacturers, by subscription and otherwise, be solicited. The resolution contained the names of a president, vice-president, and committee, the latter an exceedingly numerous body, formed of representatives from a great number of towns in the district around. In proposing the resolution, Mr. Ross alluded to the recent debate in the house of commons upon the - town dues question, and compared Sir Frederick Thesiger's defence of the impost to Sir Charles Wetherall's defence, twenty-five years ago, of the old borough mongering system. In Sir Charles Wetherall's speech Gatton and Old Sarum appeared to be considered as identical with the British constitution, and their destruc tion was pointed out as the destruction of the empire. In the same manner, it would appear from Sir Frederick Thesiger's speech that if the town dues were abolished, a general alienation of property, and the destruction of the British constitution, must be the result. Twenty-five years had shown the fallacy of Sir Charles Wetherall's arguments, and he hoped a far less number of years would demonstrate the fallacy of Sir Frederick Thesiger's. He contended that there was a strong feeling in Liverpool. itself among those who were well-informed upon the subject, against the town dues. There were some enlightened merchants there who did not wish to pocket what did not belong to themselves, and to see a mal—appropriation of the money, in addition to the wrong done in levying it. He held in his hand a paper drawn out by a Liverpool merchant, who was well known to the corporation, bat whose name he did not wish to mention. So far, however, from wishing to hide his in formation under a cloud, he had sent the paper to be laid before the meeting that it might demonstrate that there was a feeling in Liverpool opposed to the vigorous attack made upon Mr. Lowe. Mr. Ross then read the heads of several items of complaint from the paper he held in his hand, commenting upon %tame of them as he went on. The first complaint was that the .corporation had not appro priated the town dues for the extension of facilities to shipping. The Liverpool town clerk, Mr. Ross observed, wished it to be impressed upon the public that the cor poration were not called upon to do so. A. statement of Mr. Samuel Holme, in the Liverpool Town Council, was quoted to show that the corporation had neglected their duty in this respect, so far as regarded the Wal lasey embankment, and its present condition. The corporation, it was complained, who fined small huxters for incorrect weights, provided no means them selves for . the correct measurement of goods shipped there, which were the subject of constant fraud and deception. Mr. Ross said upon that point he could speak personally. On a late occasion he had reason to com plain that bales packed in Manchester iu the morning weighed twenty per cent more in Liverpool than they did when they left.the warehouse here. Unfortunately, the goods were got on board before any redress could be obtained, and although such over-charges were as much a fraud as any other fraud, yet the corporation could practise them with impunity. The letter then complained that the corporation preferred employing their receipts in widening the interior streets of the town than those connected immediately with the docks, and which alone were used Ly the traffic from the manufacturing dis tricts. An immense amount of the town dues, it was also urged, was collected upon no tariff printed, circu lated, or known, but was left to the discretion of clerks, who frequently differed in their views, and the uncertainty arising from this fact offered a tempta tion to pilfer to young men, chiefly apprentices, who paid 'the dues. The writer enumerated, a long. list of articles in the Customs' bill of entry for the previous day (Tnesduy), which he found had been entered on that day alone, and for which there was no charge specified in the published tariff—among them were nitrate of soda, tin ore, tapioca, isinglass, hats, twine, saddlery, plated w are , guns, gas fittings, anchors, lead pipes, and a great number of other articles. The government customs' officers, it was added, were the chief providers of the dues, as they refused to pass an entry until the payment of town dues was marked upon it, and the arrangements for paying the dues in Liverpool were complained of as cualberse and unneces sarily expensive. Mr. Ross commented on the points complained of in the letter, and concluded by proposing the adoption of the resolution. Mr. Ashworth seconded the resolution ; and, in doing so, took occasion to reply to the statement made in the House of Commons by Sir Frederick Thesiger, that the corporation of Liverpool had paid £374,000 for the privilege of levying the dues in the reign of Charles the Second. That sum, he stated, was paid, but not for that privilege alone. it was joined with the purchase of 1,000 manors, and separating the value of one from another he believed the value of the privilege now enjoyed by Liverpool was then valued at about £7OO. Mr. Ashworth at some length repeated many of the arguments already frequently urged against the principle of the town dues. The Town Clerk, Mr. Heron, addressed the meeting at considerable length in support of the resolution. He expressed his entire concurrence in the steps which the meeting was about to take, and his belief in their success. He explained that if the debate on the town dues had been adjourned to a second night, it was the intention of several members to have spoken in support of the bill including Mr. Milner Gibson and Mr. Cobden. On the first night of such a debate it was usual for the opponents of a measure to make erery effort to come forward and spca , r. While supporters usually waited to reply. He declared, however, that the people of Manchester had every reason to be satisfied with the result. The Town Clerk then addressed himself to replying to the speech of Sir Frederick Thesiger, whose statements ha declared . were calculated to deceive the house and the public, and were only intelligible upon the conclusion that Sir Frederick Thesiger was the hired and instructed advocate of Liverpool. He referred to the statement as to the sum of £374,000 paid by the cor to which he replied in th e s ame poration for the privilege, manner as was previously dons by Mr. Ashworth. Having gone over several points in Sit Frederick Thesiger's speecli, lee came to that of Mr. Horsfall, and alluded to the com parison which the latter gentleman had made between the town dues of Liverpool and the market tolls collected by the corporation of Manchester. What the Manchester corpora tion collected, he stated, were market tolls under an act which could be obtained by any town which chose to go to the expense of obtaining it, and building a market. These tolls were paid voluntarily by those who went into the mar ket, for the accommodation they received there. If, as Mr. Brotherton intended to have stated upon a second debate, the Manchester corporation stationed collectors at the entrance of the town, and said to every market gardener, and every other person who came in with goods of the kind, "we must have a toll from you here at the entrance to pay the local expenses of the corporation," and then sent them into the market, and charged them.again there for market toll, then there would be some analogy between the case of the Manchester market tolls and the case of. the town dues of Liverpool. (Hear, hear.) Tlai Liverpool Corporation said they were under no obligation to spend the money for the benefit of commerce in general, and yet on every possible occasion they were struggling to prove that they had been spending it all the time for th benefit of general trade and shipping. If that. were true the meeting would not seek to make any great change in their mode of expenditure. Let them expend it for the benefit of trade and shipping and Manchester would be content. But even admitting, all that Mr- Horsfall stated had been expended for that purpose, it would only come to between £eoo,ooo and £400,000, while the corporation had been receiving the dues for 150 years to an amount which he would hardly venture to calculate. Sir. Hursfall stated, as gravely as posale, that the corporation had in addition spent upwards of one million in repairing and improving the town of Liver col, This created very naturally a laugh in the House of Commons, and the hon. gentleman did not seem to be at all aware that he was stating a most astound lug and conclusive fact in favour of the bill. (Hear, hear.) The town clerk observed that he should he always ready to receive all complaints of the corporation appropriation of the dues from Liverpool merchants ,vbo did not dare to give them publicity within the precincts of their own town ; and whenever he lead an opportunity, lie would promise to give them due publicity, and they would, of course, have a tenfold effect coming from parties best informed of the facts. The town clerk then read extracts from the corpo ration account for (we believe) 1853, to prove that but £3,000 to £4 000 was all which was expended for shipping purposes out cf the whole of the receipts. Amongst the accounts, he remarked that £BO was set down for the chain cable testing machine, which was one of the points prominently dwelt upon by Mr. Horsfall as an instance of what the Liverpool corparation were expending for the general benefit of shipping. The town ele,rrkhealrl'eusiel(ul resolution !several points in the debate upon the bill in the Meuse jef Commute, and finally concluded by supporting the resolution,Chn put, r ijo i n oi d uli l3 o was and carried unanimously naunsek.laey proposed a resolution, t the effect, that the Mr, ,fames Plant eloptei by the meeting be advertised in the And provincial newspapers. ,seconded the resolution, which was carried. The chair was then tat- by the Mayor of it anchester t and a vote of thanks passed 3 the former chairman. This closed the proceedings. fIOIITNNIN TIMEN.-.LITIMPOOL, 111 AYEltAltal 28, 105 HEALTH COMMITTEE.-YESTEADAY, At the weekly meeting of this committee, held yester day, Mr. Alderman Langsdale presided; and there were also present—Messrs. Dover M'Guffie, Robertson Glad stone, Haydock,' Beckwith, Sheil, Crosthwaite, A. C Stewart, Johnsen, Hodson, Godfrey, and Tinne. The Borough Engineer, Building Surveyor, and In spector of Nuisances, reported various particulars of the operations in their several departments during the week, from which it appeared that 130 dilapidated privies and as hpits were altered and repaired; 1,132 cesspools had been discharged; 77 nuisances complained of by inhabi tants had been inspected, and means taken to remedy them ; 809 houses, in the unhealthiest districts, containing 2,691 apartments ; and 278 cellars had been put under examination, with the view of improving their sanitary condition. THE MEDICAL OFFICERS REPORT. T h .P medical officer reported that the returns of deaths for the week ending Saturday last, showed a higher mor tality than for many previous weeks. The deaths, which in the preceding week were 210, rose last week to 251, or 10 more than the average of the same week during the previous eight years, corrected for increase of population. Of the 251 deaths, 161 were in the parish, and 85 in the out-townships. The increase last week was owing in a great measure to an increase in the number of fatal affections or the lungs, and partly also to the greater mortality from scarlatina. From diseases of the lungs, there were 96 deaths, against 75 in the previous week. From zymotic diseases the deaths were 66, and of these 22, ne one-third, were for scarlatina (a greater number than in aoy week of the previous two months), 13 from hooping cough, 8 diarrhoea, 7 measles, 6 croup, 4 typhus fever, 3 syphilis, and none from small-pox. A. fatal case of gout was registered at the age of 66. The deaths of 8 males - and ffemiles, were registered from the infirmities of age. The mean temperature of the week had been, about the average, 44 degrees. CONTRACTS FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE NIGHT SOIL, &C. The following tenders were the only ones offered for the removal of the night soil, and refuse in the various dis tricts named : 14001. K'dale. E'ton. W. Derby. Tcx P. Refase . Mr. Rose £1,500 £5OO £1,200 £1,700 £2,100 £lOO Ellison Pickering 3OO 440 70 The lowest tenders were accepted, namely, Mr. Rose's for Liverpool ; and for Kirkdale, Mr. Pickering's ; for Everton, Mr. Pickering's ; for West Derby, Mr. Elli son's ; for the Park, Mr. Rose's ; for the market refuse, Mr. Ellison's. The following were tenders for the removal of street sweepings and sewer refuse : in No. 1 and 2 districts, of the whole town distinguished respectively, as:south and north of Dale-street. Name. Sweepings. Refuse. Mr. Ellison's, No. 1. Do. No. 2 1.900 Mr. Riding 1.377 Mr. Rose Mr. Pickering Mr. Ellison's being thelonly tender for No. 1 district, (South of Dale-street), was accepted ; and Mr. Riding's tender was accepted for No. 2 district. UNHEALTHINESS OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBER-PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT. The sub-committee on this subject submitted a report recommending that the chamber be enlarged by taking in the ante-room and passage on the south side, thus making the room 39 feet square, and giving a full council 370 cubic feet of air to each member, instead of 260 feet as at present. The proposed change would involve the re modelling of the ceiling, the conversion of a portion of the lobby, adjoining the keeper's room, into an ante-room, and other alterations. Mr. Robertson Gladstone moved the adoption of the report, observing that he felt convinced that people out of doors would not find fault with those representatives who did their duty for going to the expense of altering the room in which they assembled ; it were strictly necessary, in order to render it a healthy apartment. Mr. Beckwith seconded the motion, which was carried unanimouly. THE CLOSING OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCHYARD AS A BURIAL- SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES CROWN COURT.-YESTERDAY (BEFORE MR. BARON MARTIN.) MANSLAUGHTER OF A CHILD BY HER STEPMOTILER.-. Elizabeth Siddall, 32, housekeeper, was charged with the manslaughter of her step-chill, Ann Siddali, four years old, at Manchester. Mr. Blair prosecuted ; the prisoner was undefended. Thomas Siddall, a bay of fourteen, a brother of the deceased child, deposed that he remembered on one Sunday night the prisoner beat the child with a walking stick, in the presence of her father, because she was crying. His father got up, knocked the prisoner down, and took the stick from her. The prisoner afterwards kicked the child. Six or seven weeks after this took place he missed the child altozether. He had frequently seen his step mother beat the child, though he was not much at home after six o'clock in the morning. Margaret Delahoyd, an elderly Irishwoman, deposed that she lived with the Siddalls eight months previous to the Ist of March. The deceased scorned to be a healthy child when she went there. About a month after she went there she saw the prisoner strip the child and lay it down upon the bed-room floor, and place one foot upon the child's head, pressing it down. The child's nose bled after this treatment. The prisoner beat the child after that many a time, by thumping her hands on the chest and belly of the deceased. She used also to put one hand round the child's neck, and the other over her nose and face, and strike her, as she said, " to stop her bawling." She made its nese bleed with that treatment. The chill afterwards had the measles, and while she was marked with the pock of the measles, the prisoner took her down into the cellar, and dipped her into a tub of water. It was very cold weather when she did this. One day she took the poker to strike the child, but witness interposed, and the poker struck her (witness's) wrist instead of the child, and bruised it severely. The child never had sufficient food ; it was continually picking up crumbs or what it could get hold of. His Lordship : Have you had any quarrel with this woman ? Witness : No, I never quarrelled with her. His Lordship : Why did you not tell the father all this? Witness : I told the son (rhe previous witness) to tell his father that if it was not taken away it would be killed. His Lordship : Was he (the father) fond of the child ? Witness : He seemed fond of it when be saw it, but he did not take mud, notice of it. Mazy Eyres stated that she stayed a week at the prisoner's house, in May, 1854, while out of place, with an acquaint-. ance who was servant there. She often saw the prisoner punish the child by jumping upon it ! Once she dragged it out of bed and said, "You stupid devil, you sleep your senses away," and then she beat it. Mr. James Taylor, chief constable of Salford, said, that in consequence of having been informed by her neighbours that the prisoner was in the habit of ill-treating her stepchild, he went to her house and asked her about it. Another person was present at the time, and he asked her also. The prisoner replied. " I am not on my oath, and I shan't spy anything about it." Emma Harris; a very old woman, deposed that the prisoner's husband brought the child to her cellar, on the 2nd of March, saying that the prisoner neglected ber. The child was very sickly-looking, and afterwards died. The house surgeon of the Manchester Infirmary said he had made a post mortem examination of the body. There was a livid mark on the forehead, as if from a blow. Internally he found the cheat healthy, except the lungs. There were tubercles on the lungs, and other evidences of consumption. He could not tell how long these symptoms had existed, but they ,had been very rapidly accelerated, recently, before death. The want of proper food, and being dipped in cold water, would have accelerated the disease. The prisoner in her defence said that what had been stated by the first two female witnesses was totally untrue. The child had been very delicate before ever she saw it. Mrs Harris being re-called said, in answer to his lordship, that the prisoner had been married two years. His Lo , dship, in summing up, told the jury t divest from their minds all prejudices thee had been raised against the prisoner, by what they had heard. It seemed an omission, on the part of the prosecution, that none of the neighbours had been called to speak to the ill-treatment, as one would have thought they must have witnessed it, if it had been so continual as deposed to by the witnesses. It was strange that the woman, Delahoyd, should have lived in the house for ei L lit months, without mentior.ing it to the police, or somebody e'se. However, they had the evidence of the surgeon before them, and the only question for them to decide was, whether the death of the child had been wilfully accelerated by the conduct of the prisoner. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and, after an absence of a quarter of an hour, returned into court with a verdict of guilty. Sentence deferred. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK. —3 oseph Kearns, 44, a man of respectable appearance, described in the calendar as a clerk, was indicted on a charge of embezzling the sum of 9s 4d, the property of James Radley, his employ( r. Mr. Radloy is a colliery proprietor, at Eccleston, near St. Helens, and the prisoner was employed by him as machine clerk. On the Ist of February, the prisoner received 93 4d on his master's account, which he had not accounted for. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Simon, who called several witnesses as to his previous excellent character. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but added a strong recommen dation to mercy. His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to one month's confinement in gaol, remarking that the dis grace of his being placed at the bar oa such a charge, was far worse punishment to a man in his position than could be any term of imprisonment. Bffiamv. —M,rgarct Clarke, a stout middle-aged woman, surrendered from her bail to stand her trial on a charge of bigamy. A witness from Inverness stated that he was present on the 9th Nov, 1836, when the prisoner was married to John Clarke, by the Rev. Mr. Macpherson, Presbyterian minister, They afterwards lived together. He produced a copy of the marriage register. Il had seen Clarke alive last December, at the police court in this town. Cross-examined by the prisoner : Was I married according to the laws of Scotland ? Witness : Yes you were, as far as 1 know. (Laughter.) Prisoner : Wt ra you married that way yourself ? (Laughter.) Witness (cautiously) : I believe I was, but I'm not so sure, though. (Roars of laughter.) Margaret Willis, wife of a seaman in this town, deposed that she was daughter of the prisoner by her hus band John Clarke. Cross.examined by the prisoner ;Do you know he left me without bed or blanket ? (I aughter.) Witness : Yes. His Lordship : For how long ? Winess Four years. (Laughter.) In answer to further questions from the prisoner, the witness replied that her father left the prisoner once or twice. The last time he left her he sold all her furniture before going away. A letter came a day or two afterwards to say that he was drowned in the Cale donian canal. He, however, came back himself two or three days after, and was seen by the prisoner. Mr. Riley, a liceneed victualler of this town, deposed that he was pre sent at St. Martin's church, Liverpool, on the 26th June, 1854, when the prisoner was married to James Ferguson. The Rev. Mr. Forfar, Presbyterian minister, gave evidence as to the custom of marrying in private houses in Scotland. This was the evi dence for the prosecution. The prisoner then said she was sorry for what she had done, and threw herself upon his lordship's mercy. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy. His Lordship : I really want to know who got up this prosecution ? Mr. Henry Walters (the prosecuting officer) : The information was given by the man Clarke, my lord. His Lordship ; It appears this woman was deserted by leer husband, and supported herself and four children, for years, by her own industry. He never went near her until he made this charge. I don't think it is a case for punshment at all. The sentence of the court is, that you be imprisoned for five I days. MANSLAUGHTER.—Mmy Ann Doyle, a woman about 21 years of age, was indicted for the manslaughter of Ellen Kelly, at Manchester. It appeared that in an affray in a public house, on the 13th of December last, the deceased had been stabbed in the neck by the prisoner. She was taken to the infirmary, where She died on the 30th December. In the interval before the death of deceased, prisoner had been triad at the Manchester S(ssions for the assault, convicted, and sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment, the term of which is yet unexpired. Mr. Cobbett prosecuted. His Lordship asked if he ever remembered an instance in which a person had been indicted for an offence for which a previous con viction had been obtained ? Mr. Cobbett admitted that he did not recollect any such case. The evidence then pro ceeded, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence deferred. STABBlNG.—Christopher Bradley, 24, a tailor, was indicted for stabbing Mr. Makin, a collier, at Parr. Mr. Windle and Mr. Loresche prosecuted. Mr. Tindal Atkinson defended the prisoner. The prosecutor stated, that on the night of Saturday, the 9:1 of February, he was at a public houso at Parr. The prisoner, whom he had never seen before, was there too. About half-past eleven he (prosecutor) went outside, and while standing with his trowsers unfastened, the prisoner came out, seized him by the thigh, and made a stab at him. His trowsers and shirt were cut through, bat his leg was not pierced. Ike fell down from the force of the blow, however, and immediately felt blood flowing copiously from hi,:wrist. lie was helped to rise, and he ran after and caught his assailant. On cross-examination by Mr. Atkinson, the prosecutor admitted that he had been three times before the magistrates, once for theft. Other witnesses were called for the prosecution. For the defence it was contended that the prosecutor had grossly provoked the piison_r in the house, and that a general scuffle took place, in which the prisoner him , elf was also stabbed in the leg. 4 verdict of Guilty was returned. Sentence deferred. _ STABBING.—Parker Whitehead, 28, a coloured seaman, was charged with having, at Liverpool, on 23rd December, stabbed Gilbert Sere ent, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm; and also with stabbibg Jeffrey Jackson, with intent to murder him. From the evidence, it appeared that Sergent, who is also a coloured man, a cooper on bard the 4na; c rican ship Progress, on the day named, went in company with a man named Hubbard to a boarding house in Gas. coigne street, to see Jeffrey Jackson, who' is also a eolotired seaman. Hubbard and the prisoner were on bad terms, having quarrelled a few days previously, In the court near the boarding house, Sergent and Hubbard met the prisoner, and some words took place between the latter and Hubbard. Jackson was also present. Sergent tried to induce Hubbard to go away, and while he was talking, the pri soner `came up and struck him in the shoulder with a dirk, a two bladed instrument six or seven inches in length. Sergent turned round and made a blow at the prisoner, but it did not strike him. Jackson then came up and seized the prisoner by the coat collar, upon which the latter turned round, stabbed him twice in the breast, and then ran away. He was pursued, and caught about fifty yards from the spot. '1 be prisoner was found guilty. His Lordship said it was perfectly unjustifiable for any person to carry, and far worse to use, such an instrument as that produced in court, and he hoped that the sentence he was about to pass would show sailors that they could not be allowed lo make use of such weapons. His Lordship then sentenced the prisoner to undergo six years penal servitude. STREET ROBBERY AT BOLTON.—John Sanderson, 28, cabinetmaker, and Richard Stafford, 21, factory worker, were indicted for assaulting Roger Walsh on the night of the 15th September last, at Bolton, and stealing 15s. from his person. Sanderson was brought up at the last assize=, but as Walsh did not then appear, he was remanded. Mr. Wheeler defended Stafford. Both pri.mers were found guilty, and then commenced crimi nating each other. A previous conviction for felony was proved against Sanderson. Sentence was deterred. ELI reference to this case, Sanderson's brother, a publican at Bolton, stands indicted on a charge of keeping Walsh out of the way dining the last assizes.] RUBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.-George M•Dawell, 21, and Patrick Irvin, 22, both porters, were indicted Copperas : hill,_ Liverpool, about half pit t for having, in night of the 15th December la , t, violentor _ Alderson, put him in bodily fear, and , itolen from him a tobacco b:)x, a knife, a bunch of keys, and 6d, his property The prosecutor had picked out the two prisoners amo❑g several other men, at the police office, as the persons who had robbed him. About three hours after the robbery the prisoners were apprehended together in a brothel in Oak-street, and M`Dowell had the prosecutor's tobacco box in his pocket. Two women from this house were called to prove an alibi on the part of M`Dowell, who accounted for the pesssession of the box by saying that it bad been given to him in that house by the prosecutor. Two witnesses to character were also called in his behalf. Both prisoners were found guilty. Sentence deferred. Martha Midgeley, who was convicted on Wednesday of bigamy, under peculiar circumstances, was brought up again before the court rose last night. His Lordship said he found that she had scarcely lived with her first husband at all, and that he himself, moreover, had stated that he had taken another woman to live with him, by whom he had a child twelve years old. Under these circumstances he would pass a very light sentence—that she be imprisoned for three days. She was then discharged, the imprisonment counting from the commencement of the assizes. GROUND, Mr. M'Gowan said that a numerously attended meet ing of the commissioners of St John's and St. Paul's churches was held that morning at the parish offices, Low hill, upon this subject, which had been adjourned for a fort, night. After a brief discussion relative to the provisions of the Intramural Burials Act, the town-clerk was instructed to write to the commissioners of St. John's church, request ing them to take immediate steps for closing the church yard as a place of interment, in compliance with the recent order in council. This concluded the business "7, MEETING AT TRANMERE, LAST NIGHT Tie annual meeting for the appointment of officers for the township of Tranmere was held by adjournment at the Britannia-rooms, Lower Tranmere, Mr. Charles Hill occupied the chair, and there was a full attendance. A long and noisy discussion arose on the question of appointing a Highway Board to cmduet the sanitary affairs of the town ship, in place of surveyors. Ultimately it was resolved, on an amendment proposed by Mr. H. Cumming, seconded by Mr. Samuel Lightbound, " That the Nuisance Removal Act of 1855 be adopted in the township of Tranmere," and the following gentlemen were appointed the committee for carrying out the resolution : Messrs. James lioughton, Samuel. Jones, John Langley, Robert Ross, William Courter, J. Nicholson, H. Cumming, J. Routledge, D. Ross, H. J. Syred, A. Blaylock, and E. G. Willoughby. On the motion of Mr. G. Lloyd, seconded by Mr. C. Woodward, it was resolved that the following list of persons be returned to her Majesty's justiecs of the peace for the county of Chester, as fit and proper persons for the office of assessors of assessed taxes for the township of Tranmere during the ensuing year, viz.:— Mr. E. G. Willoughby, and Mr. Richard Jones." Oa the motion of Mr. C. \Woodward, sec9ndt.d by Mr. T. D. Walker, Messrs.W. Courter, Hugh Cumming, Samuel Jones, Robert Bradbury, and Richard Lee, were appointed ovetseers of the poor. Messrs. Richard Heist)) , and Wright were then appointed constables for the district of Holt Hill and Clifton Park ; Messrs. Hugh Lewis and Thomas Lloyd for Higher Tranmere district ; Messrs. William Dickenson and James Smith, for St. Paul's Road district ; and Messrs. W. Reynolds and John Sewell, for the district of Lower Tran mere. The ollector was instructed to sue the Electric Telegraph Company for the amount of their assessment to the poor rates, for that p)rtion of their wires passing through the township. TRADE REPORT.—TmonspAy LIvERpOOL. Corrox The market continues steady, without much animation, ,the demand has been fair, the supply liberal, and prices are unchanged. The sales—including 70 Pernambuco, 60 to 7d ; 60 Maranham, 6k - 1 to 6P ; 200 Egyptian, 64-,d to 8d ; 600 Surat, 411 to 4id—are reported 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 aro on speculation and for export. SCOTCEI Pm Inorr: Our markets for warrants closed at 663 6d to 675, cash. Sedan : Our market is without any material change ; the sales consist of 50 hhds grainy Demerara at 40s to 433 6d, 3,500 Bengarat 44s to46s far Benares, and 40s 6d for Dates, 1,200 mats Mauritius at 41s 3d, .and 3,500 bags Pernams at 23s to 23s 6d per cwt. Mor,Asses ; Nothing has taken place. HUM : 50 puncheons Demerara have brought previous rates. COFFEE : _NVe have no transactions to notice, Tss : A fair amount of business 13;s been concluded in Green out of the last arrival, but in Congou not much has transpired. Ripß: 1,000 bags Bengal, partly all faults, were sold at 93 9i for sound of low quality, and a few tiercea Carolina have brought 22s Gd per cwt. SAFFLOWER : We have to report a few bales of Bengal at 95s per cwt. INDIGO : 37 serous Guatemala at 33 10d to 5s 3d per lb. L ON DON. Simian ; The market is steady, at yesterday's advance of 61 to is on last week's prices. Refined firm. Grocery lumps, Ms to 533. COFFEE : We are without public sales to-day, and the market remains inactive. _ TEA : The public sales went off heavily, and the bulk was bought in. General quotations are not altered. SPICES : The small public sales did not give quotations. COCHINEAL has boon in good demand, and full prices have been paid. SALTPETRE: A parcel of fine, refraction 2, sold at 37s 3d. NITRATE OF SODA sold at 18e. RICE : 2,000 bags of pinkey Madras sold at 101. COTTON remains neglected. In other articles no material alteration. TALLOW : The market continues firm, with an improving demand. Quotations are es follows :—Petersburg Y.O. on the spot, 7s Cd; March to April, 47s 6d ; April to June ; 478 3d3 October to December, 48s qd. yESTERDAY'S mARKETS. CORK CORN Red Wheat, 20e to 30s sd; Barley, 193; Oats, 115 9d to 123.; ditto, 123 to 14s; Pork, 463. IslawaY CORN : o.it9, 63 2d to 6s 6d ; Wheat, 13s 6d to 143 Gd ; Barley, 83 to 93; Oatmeal, 7s Gd to 13 3 . DnoLIN CATTLE : The supply of every specie of stock was large; demand active for prime . qualities, and p r ic es steady; - naidAing and superior were difficult to sell, and in some eases lower flgures were submitted to. The demand for pigs for the English markets still continues . active. GLASGOW CATTLE : We had, to thy, the largest supply of cattle ever shown in Glasgow. Prices lower, but nearly all sold. A small supply of sheep, with ready sales, at an advance of 2d per lb. Best Scotch bullocks, Gd ; 2nd quality, 51d ; best Irish, Id ; 2nd quality, 5d to std ; inferior, V i d to 4:1 ; best mutton, 7-1- , 1 ; 2nd quality, 6d to 7d per lb'; sinkink of Beasts, 1,167 ; sheep, 1,050. ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT. —There are premoni tory symptoms of a termination of the labours of the encumbered estates porntnisOon. On Monday a notice was issued by the Court, announcing that up further postings for sales of estates would be signed by the Com missioners afl er Thursday, the 2t3th day of June next. The arrears of business, however, which still remain to be disposed of must necessarily occupy a great deal of time, end it is very probable that there will be a vast addition made to the business before the ensuing end of the_ensuing three month. NISI PRITTS COURT.-YESTERDAY (BEFORE MR. JUSTICE WILLTB On the sitting of the court at nine o'clock, the cause of JACKSON v. RAISIN, which was partially heard on Wednes day'. was resumed. The question involved was simply one of boundary, the plaintiff alleging that the defendant, in altering his premises, had extended his building five inches beyond the party wall, upon land belonging to the plaintiff. Mr. Hill, Q. C., with Mr. Ovens, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Atherton. Q.C., with Mr. Cobbett, for the defend ant. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. ' BECKE-IT AND OTHERS ♦. ROWELL AND ANOTHER.— The question' involved in this action was whether certain goods seized under a writ of fc fa, by the sheriff, were the plaintiffs or not. Mr. Monk, with Mr. Wheeler, appeared. for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, with Mr. Fearnley, for the defendants. James Beckett, one of the plaintiffs, is an assistant stationer in Manchester, and he and his me,ther, brother, and sisters live together. In 1848 his father and mother, who then lived together, kept a public house at Ardwick, near Manchester, and a person of the name of Rotert Dickens, carrying on the business of a drysalter, lodged with them. In that year differences having arisen between them they separated by consent. The mother with her children removed to Devonshire-street, Martehester, and there also Dickens contini.ied to lodge. The furniture with which the house was furnished belonged to the eldest son, Jamie; Beckett, it having been given to him by his father. After living at No. 33, Devonshire-street for two years, they removed to No. 65 in the same street, but before being allowed to enter the house, the landlord required that Dickens should guarantee the rent, which he did. They soon after removed to Rumford -street, ana there the furniture was seized by the sheriff, to satisfy the debt due by Dickens to the defendants, Me srs. Rowell and Porter, who are bill brokers of Manchester. The plaintiffs claimed the property as theirs, and hence the present action. Af er the case had proceeded some time, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins said that he would consent to a verdict for the plaintiffs for VO, to be apportioned in such a way as would be deemed satisfactory by all parties. A verdict was accordingly entered for the plaintiffs for that amount, with costs. MOSS AND ANOTHER V. Moss.—ln this action the plaintiffs sought to recover from their mother, the defend ant,the title deed relating to some property situtete in Oldfield-road, Salford. The deed was seen in the possession of the defendant, and the plaintiffs had already established their claim to it. Mr. i%Jonk and Mr. Leeming appeared for the plaintiffs. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, with whom was Mr. Wheeler, consented to a verdict for the plaintiffs for £5OO, the defendant to be relieved from it on delivering up the deed, BOOTH V. WIIITTASEII.—This action, which was brought by the plaintiff to recover compensation from the defendant for havi!!g wrongfully impeded the progress of light and air situate in Hyde-street, Manchester, by to his propert _, erecting an arch. over a passage, was referred, in order , that the p:caiises might be inspected. A verdict was accordingly entered by agreement for the iltintiff for £lOO, subject to a reference. GILBERT AND ANOTHER V. OPENSHAW.—The plaintiffs, Messrs. Gilbert and Sharpe, of Leese -street, Manchester, are excavators, and tho defendant is a manufacturer, also of Manchester. Being possessed of some property in Sedgely park, he was desirous, in 1355, of erecting a building on the land, and he accordingly engaged Mr. Risley, architect, of Manchester, to prepare the plans and conduct the work. That gentleman employed the de!endants to make the necessary excavations, the prices to be 2d per superficial yard, for the surface soil, which was not to be removed from the land, and Sd per cubic yard for the excavation of the foundation, the soil to be removed to a " tip" elsewhere. After some time this contract was altered, and it was agreed that they should receive, altogether, is 3d per cubic yard, for the whole of the surface excavated. In the first instance, they had to take the surface to a "tip" some distance horn the excavation ; but subsequently they obtained permission hone the owner of the adjacent land to deposit it there. On seeing that, the defendant wanted them to reduce the price ; and, on their refusing, he would not Bellow them to proceed further with the work. They accordingly brought the present action to recover payment in the terms of the contract, for the work done. Mr. Hill, Q. 0., with Mr. Millward, appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Atherton, 4.0., with Mr. Russell, for the defendant. Verdict for the plaintiffs, £147 17s 4d, with costs. POLICE COURT.-V.ESTE RFLAY (BEFORE MR. J. H SMITH. SINGULAR CASE OF BURGLARY.—Detectives Laycock and Gristhenwaite, brought up three persons named John Moore, George Clarke, and Joseph Young, on a charge of having broken into the warehouse of Mr. Samuel Gardi ner, provision dealer, ship chandler, and spirit merchant, Bath-street. Mr. Snowball appeared for the prisoners. The case was a curious one, so far as the evidence given to connect the prisoners with the offence, and in the affair the officers showed the greatest tact; for out of Cie most trifling things, they succeeded in bringing home to the prisoners, in the clearest'manner, the commission of the offence. These two officers have frequently proved their superior intelligence, by the manner in which they have succeeded in arresting criminals, and it may be remem bered that recently they succeeded in arresting the per sons charged with the murder of the sailor in Chisenhale street, and establishing a chain of the clearest evidence, almost before the fact of the murder was reported through the town. In the present ease it will be seen that the safes of Mr. Milner have stood successively . another test. The details of the case are as follows,—lt appears that Mr. Gardiner is a ship-store and provision dealer, and spirit merchant, having his office at No. 2, Bath-street, New Quay. The prisoners, Moore and Young, had been in his employment for some time, but about six weeks ago were discharged. Some time between Tuesday n i gh t and Wednesday morning, the stores and counting house were tbhreokceonunitnintgo. house — ere on a e r , e a t s w in o a s u a fi fe r s e. ( p m r o a o d f e one, by 3 t l h l e l fl o e t r h )) e i r li , a large " thief-proof safe," weighing seven hundred level with the wall. This safe ash and other valuables belong weioght, to built ooo tl ir o to t , h a e nd o use ing to the house. The burglars succeeded, with great labourer in breaking the wall, and actually dislodging the it had with used a every sledge on all large safe from its place. Having got into th e e ry effort Counting house, thiety,opiteow.as They quite battered apparent, to force sides, bent it in every way, but all to no purpose. It evi dently suffered a tremendous attack, but all in vain, for it remained unopened, and the thieves were not able to get at its contents, which were stated to be large gold and notes. On Wednesday morning, the two officer proceeded to the place,and on examination Laycock picket up!a small piece of iron, the top of aZpoeka-knife blade, and a button. These he took into his possession, thinking some thing might come from the articles, thoucrii ap parently worthless. The officers then proceeded to a cellar in Dickenson•struet, where Moore lived, and there they found him in b(-d. In his pocket, Gristhenwaite found a knife, of which the top of one blade was broken off, and the small piece picked up by Laycock fitted it exactly—indeed it was the very piece which had been broken off. They also found a crow bear la the cellar, and from the top was broken a piece —the piece also that Laycock forma in the counting-house fitted exactly- The button which he found was one of rather a peculiar description, and when he arrested Clarke, he discovered , on his vest a set of the same sort, but one was missing, 1 and this proved to be the one which the officer had found. InMoore's cellar was also found a „ Jemmy," that is a a piece of iron made like a chisel, and used as a lever to break open safes and drawers. In the counting-house of Mr. Gardiner were some wooden drawers, • that had been forced .by such an instrument, and the blade of that found agreed exactly to - the marks, ,which ;ums in were left. Moore was at once put under arrest, and the officer found, on inquiry, that the other two prisoners, along with Moore, had come to the cellar about four o'clock on the morning of the robbery, and that they had quarrelled about a gold ring which was stolen from the premises of Mr. Gardiner. They (the officers) then went in search of the other two, and found Young in Scotland place, and Clark in bed in a house in Burrows-gardens. The latter told them that, along with Moore, he had broken into the warehouse, and that at his father's, at 41, Frederick-street, they would find a pistol that he had stolen out of the office. This turned out to be correct. They also found in Young's possession another pistol that had been stolen, and i❑ Moore's cellar was discovered a peculiar box ofsnatches which had been in the office of the prosecutors. The pistols and matches were identified by Mr. Gardiner, who said that a cheese and some. bottles of champagne had been taken from the office. but owhig to the security of the safe the thieves did not get any money. The magistrate said there never was a clearer case laid before him, aad the officers had acted most creditably in the affair. He' fully committed the prisoners for trial at the present assizes. (BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.) THE CHARGE OF SHOOTING ON BOARD TILE CITY OF 2. Marquis Delfs, the cook o f th e A mer i can City of Mobile, was brought up for final examina tion, on a charge of shooting a sailor, named John MomLi sh SeanLa netaita of this case have appeared on former occasions. Mr. 131uck appeared for the prisoner, and said the complainant was now present to state that the transaction was purely accident il, and he did not wish to proceed its the case,• as the parties were good friends. Scanlan came forward and said the.facts were correctly stated. Th►e prisoner was then discharged. ORMSKIIIK UNION The usual weekly meeting of the board of guardians for this union was held in the board-room, at the workhouse, yester day. Mr. It. Maudesley, the chairman of the board, occupied the chair. The other guardians present were—Messrs. Tilsley, Baker, Hunt, Alty, Grayson, Bromley, Jenkinson, Stoner, Clare, Linaker, Howard, Foster, Mercer, Carr, Holcroft, and Parr. The Clerk read tle minutes of the last meeting, which were confirmed ; after which the usual routice (relieving the paupers) business was disposed of, and the following statistics, relative to the affairs of the union, were submitted to the buard by the governor : In money In kind , £ s. d. 32 11 0 1 2 6 Oa account of the Union In money Ia kind ..„ . On account of townships in other unions Leaving a balance in favour of the relieving- 6 6 9 0 14 0 0 15 8 officer of The out-door expenditure on account of Orniakirk alone appeared to be : 9 16 2 In money ••••• In kind The out-door expenditure on account of North Meols alone was : In money 4 0 6 0 ]2 0 In kind 7 0 0 0 10 6 The master's account for provisions for the week Balance in the treasurer's hands of 4 2 li 820 5 7-1 The master's journal reported : Number of paupers in the house last week Number admitted Discharged •••••••• •••••• ••• Vagrants r3lieved Number of pauper 3 receiving out door relief Able bodied .. Not able bodied Children In one case which came before the Board foe relief, that of a female aged fifty years, named Ellen Bullen, who had been relieved with two shillings per wee during sickness, Mr. Stoner inquired of the medical officer (Mr. Simon) whether she was well enough to be removed into the work house, and on being answered in the affirmative, proceeded to move that no more out-relief be granted to her. He stated that she had had two iliegtimate children since the death of her husband, that she had kept a house of ill-fame, and in fact she was a moral pest to society in Orm.kirk, and had never been kzown to stand in a place of worship. The motion was obj,'c ed to, and a discussion took place, when there appeared lane votes for the amendment, five for the original motion, and three of the guardiaus declined to vote, on the grounds that they did not know anything of the Another discussion took place as to whether a pauper out-door relief of one shilling per week, and was the habit of getting drunk, should or should not be gainst out-door nr. Stoner pro en and dissipated characters, hut the Boazd decided by ten to five, that the out-door relief should be continued. The business of th e Board was then procceding regularly, when Mr. Stoner coked if there was a it ouaan, named Howard, in attendance, wad, on being atniwered in the negative, be said, such being the case, he would himself bring the case n went on to state that prior to the and son of Mrs. Howard, the board before the board. lie death of the li or hu statement had allowe,l the f a mily s i x s hilli ngs per wee k , b ut since their death the relief had b een s t oppe d . H e had asked why the relief had been thus stopp e d ? and was informed that the board had been told by the woma n th a t a sou b y a f ormer hus— band, and the oth e r s o n s were' earning seven shillings and sixpence each per week, w hil e s h e h a d two shillings and sixpence weekly com i ng i n. H e t h en state d t h a t the woman liad consult e d w ith hi m, an d h a d to ld hi m t h at s h e had been with one o f t h e guardians, whose name he would not t recs severalat caused d the gu a a p gr o de o in r aen ‘ r v : o l ne burst x a up n r mention, and th a t t h at guard i an had, as she insinuated, mad improp e t ss of e d indignation, their opiniont t h h a e t there course ei N s rof w as not one word of truth in it. A memorial was read from the ratepayers of Latham, requesting the board to petition the Poor Law Board to appoint an extra guardian fur the township of Meols. Mr. stouer contended that the question conk) not be mooted at the meeting, as it was special awl not ordinary business After considerable discussion the subject was postponed for a week, the clerk, on the motion of Mr. Stoner, bii.tag directed to furnish a return of the population in each township within the hundred, the amount of relief administered, and the number of resident paupers. Mr. Stoner then proceeded to move that all Episcopalian and Protestant clergy be admitted into the workhouse, for the purpose of performing parochial duties therein. As a reason he urged that it would be the means of settling the pending dispute between the bishop of Chester and the board, and would be more economical to the ratepayers. The Chairman seconded the motion, but expressed his deterniinatioa of not supporting it with his vote I Mr. Hunt moved, as an 'amendment, that the subject be not for one moment entertained, because it was impossible to carry it out, and it was not done in any other part of the world. Mr, Baker seconded the amendment. Mr. Stoner stated that his father bad, many years ago, been the governor of the Shoreditch Union, in London, and had admitted a Baptist minister to lecture therein. The Chairman : YeF, but that was before the pasiOng of the Poor-law Act. Mr. Stoner concluded by moving that the clerk should write to the Poor-law Board, to ascertain whether such a system wo4ld be tolerated. Not finding a seconder, Mr. Hunt's motion was carried. Mr. Stoner only expressing his dissent. • The Chairman then moved that a resolution, of the 31st of February, empowering Mr. Stoner to take a copy of the minutes, le rescinded. He believed that such a course was. illegal, impolitic, and unjust, and expressed his surprise that they should have been published, and that such slanders should have been placarded on the walls in Liverpool. At the request of several guardians Mr. Stoner—who had demanded the production of some correspondence, which ha had previously asked for, but which, through what he called the neglect of the clerk, was not then " cume-at-ablo'—”moved the adjournment of the board : _ This was seconded by MI matter would then ha finitshed I.usiey, who thought that the Another division took place, when the chairman's motion was carried, with the understanding that a certain corrospon• donee should bo supplied, but that henceforward no 1:1 privilege should be allowed. Mr. Stoner alone objected. no other business, the board adjourned. BANKRUPTCY COURT.—YgsTERDAy (BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER STEVENSON.), IN RE IL binkrupt, a hosier and fancy tie dealer of Liverpool, applied this day for his certificate, His Honour granted him au immediat e certificate of the second class. IN RE R. FORSUAW.—The bankrupt, a beerhouse keeper in Liverpool, also obtained an immediate certificate of• the second class. THE COLD WATER ,Cunt.—The following statement will show that Mr. Knight, the master of the Rugby union house, has effected a great saving to the ratepayers by subjecting all tramps who apply to him for a night's lodgings to a bath previous to retiring to rest. In the year ending Christmas, 1834, before the bath was adopted, 887 persons were lodged for the night, at a cost to the union of 4/ 55 lid. In the year ending Christmas, 1855, during which time the ablution was insisted upon, the numbers " grew small by degrees and beautifully less." Up to March there were 12, tramps ; up to June, 74 ; up to Sept., 47 ; to Dec., 80 ; total 339, at a cost of 19s Id, being a decrease in 1855 from 1854 of 557 persons, and effecting a saving of 3/ 6s WlLL—Birmingham Daily Press.