The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-15 00:00:00

SPRING CARTS.

TO HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR.
YOUR WORSHIP,—I, had much pleasure in seeing
youso interestingly engaged at SL George's-hall on
Monday evening -last, and was delighted to hear you
say, "Where the , Mayor is wanted, there the Mayorwould be," or words to the same effect. We were in
ecstacies, and clapped our hands, and I said, sotte voce,
"We have got the right man in the right place." Now,
Mr. Mayor, if there ever was a nuisance in this town,
and the world says we have many, it is the abominable
spring carts, and the reckless way in which they are
driven through the streets, to the danger alike of
and limb of the inhabitants and many strangers who
visit the town. It has frequently been remarked that
to have the evil obviated you must kill an alderman,
but this morning a very serious accident occurred to an
ex-councillor, Mr. Griffiths, by being knocked down by
one of these spring carts. Mr. Griffiths is very justly
highly esteemed on 'Change, and may he soon be con-
valescent and restored to health.
But, Mr. Mayor, let me entreat you to take this
matter up, and put a stop to so glaring an evil. You
Will then, indeed, merit the thanks of the old and the
young, the blind and the lame. Had Mr. Rushton, our
former stipendiary magistrate, lived a few years longer,
it is well known he would have put the evil down.
Do, Mr. Mayor • do what you can. You will be
seconded by every fatheri and mother in the town. lam
not aware of any such license being allowed to carts of
any description in any other town in the kingdom. We
have an excellent police-officer, in the person of James
Burns, behind the Exchange, where the accident
occurred, but it is impossible that he can prevent all
accidents in his locality. I have seen him prevent many
by his vigilance, but at the unfortunate moment of Mr.
Griffiths' accident he was employed on the other side of
the street. •
Hoping that you may have time to reform this evil,
I am your Worship's obedient servant,
" DICKY SAM."
-nge, Nov. 14, 1860.

Chang

.LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.—New cases receive
advice and medicine at the institution : North, 242 ,
South, 157 ; total, 399. New cases visited at their own
houses and supplied with medicine.: North, 89 ; South,
78 ;• total, 167. Rev. Rector Campbell, A.M., Pre-
sident ; Major Bourne, Vice-President of North
Dispensary; Mr. R. A. Payne, Vice-President of South
Dispensary ; Mr. Francis Mill, Treasurer ; Mr. F. H.
Langley, Secretary.
A Volunteer United Service Club is about to be
established in Liverpool. The prospectus will appear
in a few days ,• officers and members will be
ale admitted
thon
the most moderate subscriptions ; officso of e
regular army and militia will be eligible. A club of
this kind is established in London, and why the great
Liverpool should be without its club we know
it will be
not. If
the club be conducted on first-class piinciples
a great success. Already many leading g
believe
will open on the Ist. December. Subscribers will not
be called on for subscriptions during 1861.
STANLEY WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION. The
usual winter course of lectures connected with this
Institution was commenced on Tuesday last, when the
',Rev. T. Gardner delivered a lecture on " The delay of
the good time coming, and the causes thereof." Owing
to the extreme inclemency of the weather many were
prevented attending, but a considerable nnmber of
working men and boys was present ; and all the listen-
ers appeared much gratified by the rev. lecturer's
expressions of encouragement as to the advantages to be
derived from religious, steady, and sober lives, which
would undoubtedly lead to that " good time " all
appeared so anxious to realise. At the close of the
lecture the Rev. W. T. Newenham made some appro-
priate observations in proposing thanks to Mr. Gardner;
and the honorary secretary of the association conveyed
the especial acknowledgements of tile working men,
whom he represented. The night classes are so active
that the lectures would interfere if given weekly, so it
is decided to continue them at longer intervals.
A FATHER AND DAUGHTER IN TROUBLE.—At the
County Magistrates' Court, yesterday, before Messrs.
Theakstone and Chambers, a respectably-dressed and
connected man, named William Seymour Hart, working
watchmaker, residing in Bootle, and his daughter Mary
Seymour Hart, about twenty years of age, were charged
with having been concerned ,in systematic robberies.
The daughter, although single, is enciente, and it is said
that her other sisters, also single, are in the same con-
dition. She was in the service of a Mr. Riunar, a
shoemaker, resident of Bootle. It appeared that she
took advantage of her position, and earned away a pair
of women's boots from her master's house to that of her
father's, concealing them there. Suspicion of dishonesty
was attached to her, and consequently her father's house
was searched by P. C. Mooney,. who found the boots
there, and a quantity of other articles supposed to have
been stolen. On searching the male prisoner, a silvet
mounted eye-glass was found upon his person. The
eye-glass belongs to Mr. Rinnar. Both prisoners were
compiitted for trial' to the sessions.