The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-16 00:00:00

can make regulations for it; as Le can for other

grounds.—Yam, Sir, your oUedieftt sertan
James It. Jeffery, Esq., Vice-Chaitmati
the Burial Board, Liverpool.

The Chairman stated that the principal business which
was to occupy the board that morning, was the conside-
ration of the appointment of a clerk, the arrangement as
to a place of meeting for the future, and the providing
of a seal for the laniard.

Mr. Jeffery moved, that the clerk to the board be a
legal gentleman, and that the board proceed to his elec-
tion, at a salary not to exceed £5O a year, with the
approval of the General Vestry.
Mr. Thornley seconded the motion.
Mr. Shaw expressed some fears as to the propriety of
appointing a legal man, and referred to the case of the
former Highway Board of Toxteth-park, where a legal
gentleman was appointed clerk and on the board being
subsequently merged into the Health Committee, claimed
compensation, and succeeded in compelling them to pay
him £2OO per annum. He accordingly moved, as an
amendment, that the party to be appointed be not a
legal man.
Mr. Bairstow seconded the amendment.

The Chairman suggested that a clause should be added
to the resolution, stating that the appointment was to be
terminable at three months' notice, and without any
claim for compensdtioti.
Mr. Shaw said he would accept that suggestion and
withdraw his amendment, provided a rider were added,
to the effect that the party elected give in a *fitten
acceptance of these terms. (Hear, hear.)

Mr. Woodruff, who came in rather late, expressed a
strong opinion in favour of retaining the services of Mr.
Hart, vestry clerk, for the present • but stated that, as
he was not in the room when the discussion opened,
having been detained elsewhere, he would not press his
views upon the board.
The following resolution was then agreed to i—" That
the secretary to the board be a legal gentleman, at a
salary not exceeding £5O per annum, subject to the
approval of the General Vestry. terminable at three
months' notice, and without any claim for compensation,
the -gentleman elected to give in, in writing, his accept—
ance of the situation under these terms."

Mr. Thornlev moved, that Mr. Enoch Harvey, solicitor,
be elected to the office.

Mr. Shaw seconded the resolution, which was carried
unanimously.

Mr. Woodruff moved, that Messrs. Jeffery, Jackson
and Stitt, be app&nted a committee to report to the
board as to a suitable place for future meetings, and as
to the providing of a proper seal for the board.
The motion was agreed to. _

Instructions were given to the committee appointed,
to make enquiries as to a desirable situation for a ceme-
tery, and that they should issue advertisements for offers
of land.

Mr. Jackson suggested that the committee should
make enquiries as to whether dead bodies would be con-
veyed by the railway companies to the site chosen,as this
point would be very material in determining on the spot,
and it had been stated that the railway company would
not convey the dead to Walton.
The Chairman expressed a decided opinion that rail-
way companies, who received so many advantages from
the public, should be compelled to perform this service
at the smallest cost which it was fair to demand.

After a short conversation, it was agreed that the com-
mittee appointed for the selection of land should take
this question into their consideration, and institute all
necessary enquiries regarding it.
Some routine business having been then disposed of,
the board adjourned.

FRIGHTFUL FEROCITY IN A MARRIED

MAN

" A lady, who had been in a bathing machine at South-
end, left behind a gold watch worth £25, and a massive
gold chain, neither of which has been recovered."
A savage, yet married man, reading the above in a
weekly paper, made a series of remarks, which may be
worth preserving as proofs of the ferocity of male nature:—
"Of course she did. A woman would leave her head
behind her, if she had one, and it was loose.

"Besides, what do they care for valuable ptoperty ?
They don't pay for it—it is we who are the victims.
" Recovered I should think not. It was left in a
woman's machine, and a woman followed her. They have
no more common honesty, sir, than—. I'll bet you a
guinea the finder found that Southend didn't suit her
health, or dreamed that her house in town was on fire, or
that the cat had smothered the darling child there, and so
she left Southend next day, and has never looked at
The Times advertisement sheet since.

" Perhaps, it's all a falsehood of the woman's, and she
had sold the watch and chain to pay some milliner's bill,
which she was afraid to show her husband. Won't she
plague his soul out till she gets new ones ?

serve the blockhead right. A man who would
let any woman have a watch worth £25 deserves to be
served out. What does a woman want with a watch like
that ;or any watch, indeed. They only desire to look
fine, and a silver gilt thing at £5 will do that. A
chronometer at a hundred guineas wouldn't make 'em
punctual.

" I believe the whole story's a flam. Women look a
deuced deal too sharp after their trumpery ornaments,
which are the breath of life to 'em. If it had been her
husband's most valuable private papers, or his gold watch
and chain, I could have understood it.

" Women dressed in that style won't go to Southend,
where there is only health and fresh air—they drag you
to Paris, or Antwerp, or Venice, that they may stare,
and show their clothes, and be cheated, and cheat you,
and—"

[But here he became utterly unbearable. and very
properly was turned out of the room.]—Punch.

TYSON'S BANKRUPTCY,