The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-30 00:00:00

SALFORD TO IVN.COgiva.-SZECIAL MEET.=

A special meeting of the Salford town council was held
hi the council chamber, town-hall, Belford, on Wednesday,
when his worship the mayor, (William Ross, Esq.,) presided.
The TOWN CLznx read a report from the general pur-
poses committee, in which they propose to introduce to
parliament a bill to authorise the' appointment andl•emu-
nerate a stipendiary magistrate for Manchester district and
for clerks to the magistrates of Manchester and Salford.
The Manchester clerk to have £5OO a year, 'and 1 guinea
a day while attending sessions. Report received and en-
tered on the minutes.
STIPENDIARY JUSTICE FOR THE DIVISION OF MANCHESTER.
The council proceeded to consider the draft of a bill
"for making provision for the appointment and remu-
neration of a stipendiary justice for the division of Man-
chester, and of clerks to such justice, and the justices for the
borough of Salford, and for other purposes.
In answer to a question put to him, the town clerk stated
that the quota of the stipendiary magistrates' salary payable
by the borough of Salford would be £420.
Mr. Councillor GENDALL.moved a resolution to the effect
that the copy of the bill read be, approved of, ate' adopted
by the council.
Mr. Councillor SANKEY seconded the resolution, an i after
a short conversation it was agreed to.
On' the motion of Mr. WRIGLEY, seconded by Mr.
PFaxarr, the council Unanimously adopted a' petition to the
House of Commons for leave to bring in the said bill, and
the common seal of the corporation was ordend to be affixed
thereto.

APPOINTMENT OP INSPECTOR OP LODGING-HOUSES.
- • Mr. Edward Longbottori; police-constable, wavappointed
inspector of common',lodging-houses, in the- room of Mr.
Tattersall,- appOintell police' inspector of the borough.
ESTIMATES FOR BOROUGH RATE.
The financ.a.cammittee-made -the follewing report, in
reference to the catimutea for the,borough rate :
The several committee& having the expenditure of the
borough fund .4Fs. privaqd.an,,estimate of their probable
expenditure' from -November _9th, 1853, to August 31(35
1854, a summary of, which is appended hereto. The esti-
mates are inade.Tor" ten months ; .and the ordinary expendi-
ture amounts to £7,906118. 10d., tO which is added the total
cost of obtaining the borough extension act,. 1853, amount-
ing to 4,919 25.,. Making together X12,825'135: 10d.: from
-which is deducted 100,' the estimated balance of assets in
debts of Noiember 9th, leaving the balance X 12,725 13s. 10d..
.th'be:made up by a boiough- rate. -Your committee have,
therefore, to recommend the council to order a borough
rate to be laid to raise that amount. The borough rate this'
year will extend for. the first time over the whole of the dis-
tricts inclUded in the Salford borough extension act, 1853 ;
and it is satisfactory to your committee to observe that the
total estimated ordinary expenditure for, the ten months is
only equal to about 51d. in the pound on the gross annual
value of property in the borough (say £322,000,) or 6.96"inl
the pbundlor the year. •
Summary of the borough estimate, for ten months ending,
August 31st, 1854.
Estimated 'nett expenditure. '
£2,040 6 8
4,348 10 0
712 4 0
805 11 2

The finance committee
Watch committee
Park committee . . .
Museum and library committee .

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£7,906, 11 10
Expenses of obtaining:the Salford borough
extension act, 1853

£12,825 13 10
Less estimated balance of assets in debts
at November 9th, .1853

100 0 0

£12,725 13 10
On the motion of Mr. Councillor AINSWORTH, seconded
by Mr:Councillor. LOFTHOUSE, the report was ordered to be
entered in the minutes of the council's prOceedinas.
. Mr. Alderman MAIFD EN moved that . the sum of
£12,825 13s. 10d. be raised by.borough•rate for the period
between the 9th of November, 1863, to the 3lst of August,
1854. The worthy alderman went into a financial statement
which was founded ,upon the report of the committee. The
gross amount of the rate was £12,825 1113. 10d. of which
£7906 lls. 10d. was for the ordinary borough-rate, being
5 9-10 per pound, and the expense consequent upon obtain-
ing the Incorporation Bill was £4919 2e.'':The rate would
be .9 5-10 per .pound. • The assessment of the entire
borough was £322,000. The assessment for Salford alone
was £195,000, and its proportion would ,be, therefore,
£7767 2s. 2d. ; , the assessment of Pendleton was £68,000,
and its proportion would •be £2708 14,-;9d.-; the assess-
ment of Broughton was £57,000, and its .proportion would
be £2270 78. Bd. ; the assessment of Pendlebtkry was £2OOO,
and its proportion would be £79 13s. 2s:— The rate virtu-
ally was 9 5-10 per pound, but the oveiseers of Salford
would have to lay a rate of 13d. in the.'pountl, but there
generally was in Salford a deficiency of-25 per cent., in
consequence.of there being so large a quantity of cottage
prOperty. In Broughton, where the depreciation of pro-
perty was not so great as in Salford, the rate would be 100.
in the pound.
Mr. Councillor Lorrnousu seconded the motion.
Mr. Councillor PELL= expressed regret that in the dim',
charge of his duty he should do anything that was calculated
to create disunion in the council, but he objected to the
payment by Salford of the cost of the opposition to the
Incorporation Bill. The proportion of the cost of that
opposition set down to Salford was o,oo', 'against payMent
of which he strongly protested, nainitig as in amendinent
that that amount be expunged from the estimate. •
. Mr. Councillor GBNDALL seconded the amendinent.
A discussion followed in which' Messrs.• Cawley,
Myers and others .took.part, and the • -opinion generally en-
tertained
was, that the motion be withdrawn,:; and thus
unanimity maintained in the council. Eventually the
amendment was withdrawn, and the original motion carried. •
Mr: Alderman WANXLYN congratulated the council on.
coming to the decision they had done in a harmonious spirit.
PAVING AND SOUGHLNG.
The Salford district paving and- soughing committee,
presented a report of the ordinary character, which. was ap-
proved of and adopted.

MANAGEMENT OF THE FIRE BRIGADE.
It was resolved and unanimously agreed to, that the Sal-
ford district and town hall comm;ttee, should undeitake the
the entire control and management of the fire engines and
fire department. The council then broke up.:

POLICE COURTS.-YE STE RDAY.

MANCHESTER.

DESERTION' Or A. WIFE BY"IIEk Iltith3AND. —Yesterday, al
the city police court, an eld,-3rly man, named James
Hig-
gine, was charged with deserting his wife and' family,' Who,
had beconie chargeable to the palish. The wife was called
and stated that she had seen her husband, Who is a painter,
only once for four or five months, and that daring that time
she had received nothing from him. The prisoner said that
.he was unfit for work. It was stated in reply, bower er,
' that he was quite able to work, that he had been workinc, at
Oldham, and that he had apent his earnings in drink. He
was commited to prison for a month.
'ROBBERY of Toor.s.---tA slater "named Joltn Wall was
placed in the dock charged with having stolen a box con-
; taining a quantity of joiners tools, the property of Lavvrence
Wood, joiner. The prosecutor stated that he went into the
Volunteer vaults, on Saturday fortnight: Ile had not been
long there 'When he missed his bass containing tools. Last
Monday he Met a bricklayer who pointed ,out the prisoner
to him as the party who took the bass. The prisoner ad-
mitted to him that he had stolen the tools.---The occupier
of a beer-house in' Henry-street;, William Andrews, stated
that on Monday fortnight the prisoner came into his house,
stated that he' had just arrived from Patricroft, and asked
him if would advance half-a-crown upon the tools. He
stated that'lie 'had no objection, and advanced the, money.'
The next morning he came to his house with another man,
who looked. at the tools and said they were the worst he had
seen. The prisoner then asked witness if he would give
him another half-crown for the tools out and out. To This
he assented. Mr. Maude cautioned the beer-house-keeper
against buying tools' again under such circumstances. The
tools, which were. taken from the beer-house, were produced
in court, and identified by the prosecutor as his property.
The prisoner was .fully committed, to take his trial at the
next sessions.

AN UN-ENOLISU Assltuvr.--Christopher .Brody, a
hawker, was -charged with attempting to stop. Michael Ken-
nedy, a warehouse Man, 'on the previous afternoon, AS he
and his wife were on tfteir way.home• to Clieetham. The
prosecutor stated that as they were going home the prisoner
with two other men, followed them, abused them in the
most violent manner, and that eventually. Brady drew a
dagger 'from' au umbrella, with which he attempted to stab
- A witness, named Dwerryhouse, stated that he heard
the complainant call the defendant a swindler, uPon which
the latter drew a dagger from an; umbrella, and said, " I
will let you know whether I am a swindler or not," and at-
tempted to stab him. It appeared •that there had been bad
blood between the' parties for some considerable length of
time, and that legal proceedings had. taken place ,between
them._: Mr.. Maude severely reprinemded• the un-English'
conduct he had indulged in, 'of drawing the weapon referred
to, and told him that had he done a little More; 'he would
I have sent him to take his trial at the assizes. To find two
sureties in £l5 eachto keep the peace.
CARELESS Ditivt..vo.---:-At the Manchester city police
court, yesterday, two persons,' named William Nicholl and
James Houghton, were each fined in ten shillings, and
costs; for being in a. state of intoxication 'white in•charge of
a van, in consequence of which they ran over a lady in Brook-
street, who was seriously injured. The defendants were in-
formed that an action at law could be ' raised against them
to recover compensation in damages fo- the injuries the lady
had sustained through their gross negligence.
femild, named Ellen Amblett, was
charged at the city police-court, yesterday, with assaulting
Mrs. Allen, broker, Great Ancolits-street. -The assauit„which
was a'savage one,' was wholly unprovoked, and it having
been clearly made out, the'iritistratei finecr the defendant,
and costs, or in default to be imprisoned for one month.
TIMBER-STEALING. —,Joseph-Goodnum and Joseph Woodier
who Were brought up at the 'police-court, yesterday, on a re-
mand, were committed to take their trial at the sessions, on
a charge of having stolen from a wharf at Castlefield, three
logs of wood, the property of Mr. Tristram.