The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-05 00:00:00

SELECT VESTRY.

Thy , usual fortnighflt roethae of this body was held
yeitetday, at the parish offices in lirownloW-hiii.l The
Rev. t ector Campbell presided ; and the other members
present were Mesirs. CrOpper, Smith, Satchell Light-
bound:. A., Byford, Bairstow, Peck, Hughes; Cooke,
Goodacre, Williams,-Critchley, Syred, and Owen.

Thp proceedings of the Workhouse, Industrial Schools,
and Finance oOnimittees, which contained nothing of
speiial intel7ett; mere recd and
,coull,rmed j and on the
motion of Mr. Crtippet, Mr. Peter kling;:•.of, sfoi
11, Oiford-street, was elected a member of the Select
Vestry, in the place of Mr. Gair.
It was agreed that advertisement should be issued for
tenders for the half-year's supplies.

THE BIIRIAL. BOARD AND THE PARISH.

' Mr. Hagger, the Vestry Clerk, announced that the
Burial Board had served an order on the overseers for
£917 Alt eXpOses.in carrying out the Act.
,MF,,l!Eclt,(i6erted pafit g money Without
knying e:=.4;pridecl.
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Mr. VA:rim►
-Yr saki tk'st t an oiiportniiitt
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last week of learning that at the annual meefing,pf
Burial Board; and in reply to questions from
Owen, said that the whole of the amount demanded was
on X:51,000, which they bad borrowed for
for interest,'
' ",ire would
the land.. At the egumpt orisTovemner
be another of X 2,400, to meet payment 'of interest, and
repayment of the principal; and the charge upon the
trildf fated *ottld t idle& £4;000- alear. Of course
they did Plot eipeet that diet three e.ats there *Mild be
.00" poor rate. ffntil the cemetery
were opened, the !demand .upon the parish would he
about a ptlnuy in, the pound.
Tr., thomhgl,btqAAnenoYe plans, and
deptitatioris doing about the country. • ~\ll .that mif4
have cost money. Did it form no pottioft of the Stint
now claimed ?

Mr. BA/RSTOW—No portion. Certificates had been
sent there-before. He thought on the last occasion
there was one for £1,600 odd. That included the oda-
veyance of the land, law charges, premiums for designs
for the cemetery, and all expenses up to that day. It
also included the commission to Mr. John Stewart for
the purchase of the land.

The CHAIRMAN said that was simple enough ; but he
really thought the Burial 'Board should produce an
account to the Vestry when they came for the money.
.Mr. Hauer said the Vestry were not recognised at
the da. The/ did riot come to the Vestry, but
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to the overseers, an thek couid,tiot help themselves.

The CHAIRMAN--But the overseers shoin coal for an
account..

Mr. OWEN said it was quite right the parishioners
should know that they (the Select Vestry) supposed to
be the guardians of .the parish purse, hikd no control
over the matter. Then the ratepayers might attend the
Burial Board meetings, and demand an explanation how
the money had been laid out. At the last meeting
ibeie *tilt Mute present but gentlemen belonging to
the board.

Mr BAIRSTOW said had the parishioners asked any
explanation the board were able, and willing, and
desirous to give any required. As to the accounts,
those of the Burial Board were• kept in the nand way.
He was happy to say that one of their churchwardens,
an overseer, was an auditor of the board; and be was
sure that as long as he was. auditor he would take care
that no illegal payments were made. Although he
confessed that the expenditure of the board was rather
high, nothing had been thrown away ; and considering
the magnitude of the operation, that they had been four
years nearly in getting 100 acres in a suitable locality,
he thought it proved to a demonstration that it was a
cemetery which the town and this part•of the country
had every right to be proud of. The wish of every one
must be to make it worthy of the town. A notice of
the Burial Board meeting had been put on every church
and every chapel ; and one gentlgipan observed at the
meeting that it showed the public had confidence in
them or they would have attended. (A laugh.)
Mr. PECK said the board had taken large rooms in
Clayton-square, at considerable expense, where the room
In which they (the Vestry) were now met would have
answered every purpose. It would have been as con-
venient, and more so, for he believed the books were
kept there now.
Mr. BAIRSTOW—They are not.
Mr. PECK—At all events Mr. Nagger has to attend
that board.
Mr. Nagger—No, I have not.

Mr. REcx added, it was a wilful waste of money to
take offices, when those belonging to the parish would
answer their purpose.

The CHAIRMAN-1 think so too.

Mr. BAIRSTOW replied that there was a good expla-
nation. That room might have answered if they simply
wanted a board room ; but it so happened that they had
draughtsmen to employ, and two or three were employed
on the working' plans of the cemetery. They must
have a room for those gentlemen to work in ; for
instance, they were working on a plan which was half
the size of the table before him, and there was no room
in that building which he could find which would be at
liberty for that purpose, so that there was a necessity to
take a room, and there was a room adjoining where the
board meet.

ELECTION OF TWO ROUSE SURGEONS.

The vestry then proceeded to the election of two
medical afters, to be resident in the workhouse. There
had been eleven applications; out of which the Work-
house Committee submitted for selection four names :
those of Mr. Sherer, Mr. Hocken, Mr. Clement, and
Mr. Mallet. The voting was taken in the usual way,
when there appeared—for Mr. Sherer 13 votes ; Mr.
Clement 9 ; Mr. Hocken 4 ; and Mr. Mallet 4. The
two former gentlemen were consequently elected.

SUPPLIES TO THE WORKHOUSE.

Mr. GOODACRE suggested several alterations and im-
provements in their mode of soliciting tenders for sup-
plies, particularly in reference to groceries. A great
saving, he thought, might be effected if their coffee were
roasted in the house; and he suggested improvements
of a technical kind in their.mode of contracting also for
soap and tea. He mentioned the matter, however,
merely in a preliminary way, and. with the board's per-'
mission, would enter int 9 details at the meeting of the
Workhouse Committee on Thursday.
The board then adjourned.

REMARKABLE DEATH. AT FROME FROM A BLADE OF
GRASS.—A young man named Henry P. Harding, a
miller at Vallie, has met with his death under extraordi-
nary circumstances. The deceased was walking in his
garden three weeks since, when he put in his mouth
a piece of common grass, and while chewing it he felt
the prickly end penetrate the skin beneath the tongue.
He asked his wife to pull it out, but she was unable to
perceive anything, and for some days nothing more was
thought of the matter. The tongue soon, however.
began to swell, and recourse was had to a homoeopathic
practitioner. On Friday last he became worse ; Dr.
White was called in, and found the tongue much in-
flamed and swollen, an abscess having apparently formed.
No immediate danger was apprehended; but on Satur-
day night, about eleven, o'clock, the deceased suddenly'
sprang from his bed, fell into his wife's arms, and in a
few minutes expired.. The gathering had. burst inter-
nally, and had suffocated him, The singularity of the
Occurrence, and the fact that tha deceased was much
respected, has caused his melancholy death to excite
great consternation.

THE IRISH CHANNEL STEAMERS.—The new steamer
Leinster was engaged specially on Saturday for the
conveyance of the Lords of the Admiralty from Holy-
head to Dublin. Steam was got up at ten o'clock, and
shortly before eleven o'clock his Grace the Duke of
Somerset (first Lord), Admiral Eden, Admiral Pelham,
and Mr. Whitbread, attended by Messrs. West, Spalding,
and King, secretaries, went on board, when the Admi-
ralty flag was hoisted at the main. At 17 minutes past
eleven o'clock the Leinster started from Holyhead, and
in five minutes after she was going ahead, full speed for
Kingstown, agahast a stiff breeze from S.S.W. On her
course over, her speed reached 24 miles an hour. As
she "slowed" and rounded the East Pier light, at 40
minutes past two, their lordships' flag was saluted by a
salvo of 19 guns from her Majesty's ship Ajax, and the
Leinster was brought admirably alongside the Carlisle
Pier, under the able direction of Captain John Williams-
The Leinster made the run from "light to light" in
3 hours and 23 minutes. Their lordships expressed the
highest opinion of the ship as they were taking their
departure for town. Prior to their lordships proceeding
to town, they inspected the naval dep6t, in charge of
district-carpenter Hartley ; the customs' station, in
charge of Mr. Taylor ; and the coastguard station, in
charge of Lieutenant Foster, R.N. Their lordships
will leave town this morning for Cork.
RETURN OF THE 8r (KING'S OWN) REGIMENT.--
• The Clara, hired troopiship, arrived at Spithead last
Monday evening from Calcutta, from which porp she .
sailed on the oth of May, calling at St. Helena, and
sailing thence on the 21st of July. The Clara brings
the head-quarters of the Bth (King's Own) Regiment.
The Bth King's Own embarked at- Portsmouth for
Bombay in April, 1846. Out of 34 officers, and 868
non-commissioned officers and men who were present
with the colours when the regiment embarked, only six
officers and 110 non-commissioned officers and men are
now borne on the muster-rolls of the battalion. During
the service of the regiment in Hindostan, the kingdoms
of the Punjab and Oude, and the seaboard provinces of
the Burmese empire, have' been added to her Majesty's
Indian empire. The King's Own did not form pad of
the force employed in the Punjab, nor of that employed
in the Burmese campaign ; bat during the whole of the
late terrible struggle with the mutinous Sepoys of the
Bengal army, and with the insurgent population of
Oude, from the time the first atrocities were committed
in May, 1857, until the last shot was fired in February,
1859, the regiment was constantly in the field, and in
the most notable achievements of these twenty months
it bore a conspicuous part.

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