The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-22 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE•

ACCIRILNT.—A man at present unknown fell off a
scaffold at Mr. Jack's foundry, in Boundary-street, and
sustained a compound fractured skull.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday, the coroner held
an inineat on the body of a child named Ford, three
weeks old, that was overlain in bed by its mother in
Bastock-street. The mother is only 23 years of age,
and haeawo other 'children ; she is a very drunken wo-
man, and it was proved that she was quite drunk on
Tuesday night, when the child was suffocated ; the
evidence was clear enough that the child was smothered
While the mother was drunk, and the jury returned a
verdict of " found suffocated;" at the same time they cen-
sured the mother very severely.
THE HAVRE AND NEW YORK LINE. A most
sumptuous dinner was giver, on Saturday last, at the
Trois-Freres, in the Palais-Royal, by the American
citizens in Paris, in honour of Captain Comstock, of the
steamship Adriatic. His Excellency, Mr. Faulkner, the
American Minister, was an invited guest, and presided
at the entertainment. After the covers were removed,
many toasts were propesed and speeches made. The
Adriatic, which had recently commenced running regular
trips between New• York and Havre, is one of the largest
and finest steamships on the ocean.
TOXTETH BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The usual weekly
meeting of this board was held yesterday, at the Public-
offices, Park-place, Mr. H. S. Alpass presiding. The
other members present were—Messrs. Harrison, Carter,
lisynes, W. Lapland, John Wilson, Joseph Wilson,
Hughes, H. Leyland, Ogden, and Hunter. The
number of paupers in the house was reported to be
356, against 348 last week. The following tenders for
supplies for the house were accepted :—Meat, Mr. John
Cross, Park-road ; groceries, &c., Mr. H. Boot, Park-
road ; flour, Mr. John Huntington ; iron bedsteads,
Thomas Jones and Co., Grafton-street, Palk. There
was no other business.
GREAT SALE OF PROPERTY.—By orderof the devisees
in trust of; the late Thomas Merecroft, Esq., Mr. J. F.
Griffiths offered for sale, at the Clarendon-rooms, yester-
day, a number of shops and other property, situated iu
this borough. Lot 52, a dwelling-house, No. 85,
Crown-street,' was sold for £315 ; lot 49, a dwelling-
house, No. 28, Blackfield-terrace, Kirkdale, was sold
for 030 ; lot 50, two dwelling-houses and shops, Nos.
207 and 209, Brownlow-hill, Liverpool, were sold for
£1,070 ; two other dwelling-houses and shops, in
Brownlow-hill, Nos. 211 and 213, were sold for £1,200.
The sale was well attended, but the bidding was rather
slow.
CHARGE OF CRUELTY AGAINST A BIRKENHEAD
POLICE-OFFICER.—At this court, yesterday, before R. M.
Fielden, R. Bryan Barton, and J. B. Case, Escps., a charge
wail brought against a police-officer named Smith (No.
25) by a gentleman, called James Burns Mason, for
cruelty towards a drunken man on Saturday afternoon
last. It appeared that the officer had been called in by
Miss Woods, who was attending the bar, to separate
two men who were creating a disturbance, one of these
parties being the man in question. From the statement
of Mason, it would seem that the officer seized the
drunken man by the throat and dragged him outside the
hotel ; that when upon the pavement, he raised him up
and thea pushed him so that he fell down, his hoed
coming in contact with the flags. He also described a
series of minor cruelties, all of which, however, were
disproved by the statements of bystanders, who bore
Witness to the proper conduct of the officer, and who
testified to the uncalled-for interference of the prosecu-
tor, who, they deposed, was himself in a state of
drunkenness. The ease was accordingly dismissed.
We understand that a summons will be taken out
against Mr. Mason for interferring with the officer in
the. discharge of his duty. At the same time a charge
of cruelty to a. horse was preferred against Henry
• Oakley, carter, in the employ of Joseph Hassell, who
was alp, charged with allowing the cruelty. The
Offence took place en the 13th. Oakley was dismissed,
and Hassall was fined 10s. and costs.—James Percival,
master of the flat Laird, for obstructing P. C. James
Boggle in the execution of his duty, was fined 20s. and
costs.
HEAXTH Omani-rem—At the weekly meeting of this
committee yesterday, Alderman Dover presided. The
.other..members present were—ediessrs. Shell, Crellin,
.Crosthwaite„ Nickson, Steel, Bowring, Bartin, Beckwith,
and Ridley.—The medical officer reported that in the
week ending Saturday. last the deaths registered in
Liverpool were 182, being 24 less than in the week
previous, and 34 less than the corrected average of the
same week for the preceding ten years, In the parish
the deaths were 111, and in the out-townships 71.
From diseases of the zymotic class the deaths were 37,
the average.of the same week of former years being 57.
Measles, which are frequently prevalent at this season
of the year, caused 15 deaths ; diarrhcea, 5 ; fever, 4 ;
erysipelas, 3 ; diphtheria, 3 (one of these being an adult) ;
scarlatina, 2; dysentery, 2; croup, hooping-cough, and
syphilis, each one. The fatal cases of lungs diseased
with consumption were 61. A male, aged 28, died from
del:lrian frozen*. The borough engineer, building
surveyor, and iaspeetor of nuisances reported various
particulars of the operations in their several departments
during the week, from which it appeared that 131
nuisances complained of by inhabitants had been in-
spected, and means taken to remedy them ; 1,250 houses
in the unhealthiest distrzets, containing 3,921 apartments
and 685 cellars had been pat under examination, with
the view of improving their sanitary condition.—One of
the members stated that a fountain in Edgar-street 'had
been maliciously pulled down.— There was no other
_public business.
WORKHOUSE CONIXITTEE.—The usual weekly meeting
Odds committee was held yesterday at the workhouse.
,aparchwarden Cropper occupied the chair, and there
ewers present Messrs. Smith, Scott, Critchley, Satehell,
'Witty, Williams, Lightbound, Goodacre, Broome,
'Reek, and Owen. The return of vagrants for the week
was 312, being an increase of 9 persons during the
week, and, as compared with last year's return for the
. corresponding week, an increase of 70 persons. The
medical, report stated that the cases at present in the
hospital were:--Cases remaining since last report, 588 ;
new eases *inee, 151; cured and discharged, 137 ; died,
• 20 ; now remaining for treatment, 582. The accommo-
• . dation returns show that the number of paupers in the
• workhouse daring the week was 1,820, being a decrease
of 6 over the previous week, and an increase of 35
when compared with the corresponding week last year.
-Notices to smokers is the how had been posted over the
rooms, embodying the following resolution of the Select
Vestry—" That such of the bed-ridden inmates who
*Sire to smoke be allowed to do 80 between the hours
„of o'clock at noon and 6 o'clock in the evening only,
ffiskd *at none but the bed-ridden be allowed to smoke
*idle euy of the walls of the house. The governor hereby
Oh PP* every officer in the Liverpool Workhouse to
give effect to phe above resolution, the offenders against
which it will be his doty to punish.. N.B.—Smoking
the yards by those privileged to do so, not to be
objected .o except during working hours. (Signed)
4leo. Parr, iv:Armor discussion ensued as to
who were the privileged persons mentioned in the
- notice, some members of committee expressing an
opinion that smoking was allowed in all rooms except
the sleeping-rooms. Eventually it was agreed that the
words "except those privileged to do so," be expunged.
rip other business was of no public importance.
fTiNo AT CLAUGHTON.—A meeting was held
faStpighp the schoolroom of Christ Church, Claughton,
aidof the I)ritish and Foreign Bible Society. The
liev7 Blakeney, the respected incumbent of the
church, presided; there was a large attendance of
1,140 julaahitants of the neighboarheod. In opening the
ingsting, the chairman remarked upon the great need
there exists for societies like the Bible Society. He also
alluded to the great amount of good which the society
had already done, and expressed his conviction that its
beneficial influence would be extended still further. He
concluded by calling upon those present to aid in the
.fliffusion of the Word of God by contributing to the
faxls. In the course of the evening the meeting was
e.ddressed by Mr. Swallow, who attended as a deputa-
tion frau} the parent soeiety. This gentleman related
many remarkable instances in which the efforts of the
society had been blessed with the most signal success.
The funds, although in an encouraging state, needed to
be still further enlarged before the great amount of good
Which the society was calculated to perform had been
hilly accomplished. The usual compliment to the chair-
man terminated the proceedings.