The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-29 00:00:00

WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The guardians of this board held their weekly meeting at the
board-room yesterday, Mr. J. HARRISON in the chair. The
guardians present were Messra. Heyes, Roskel, Brown, Lunt,
Mountfield, Craig, Carter, Smith, Kirkus, Mac Gee, Horsfall,
Roberts, G. Harrison, Abrahams, Medcalf, and Jeffreys.
The governor of the house reported that there were 669
paupers in the house, and that for the corresponding week last
year, there were 731. There had been one death in the house.
Cheques to the amount of £l9B were drawn by the four re-
lieving officers for out-door relief.

The CLERK laid before the board several letters received
from the unions, instructing that board not to relieve paupers
belonging to these districts ; and the clerk was instructed to
request such unions to receive their paupers without the regular
removal order. The new board-room was ordered to be in-
sured in the Royal Insurance office for £5OO.
There being no other business the board separated.

A fire took place on yesterday, in the warehouse of a
cabinet maker, Hill-street, Finsbury, London. The whole
premises and stock were consumed.
A disastrous fire occurred at Wolverhampton, on Thursday
last, on the premises of Perry and Son, tin and Japan ware
manufacturers. The damage done will reach £2OOO.
IT IS WELL TO MEND.—The Christmas show of meat at
the butchers' shops in Burton-on-Trent, has been unusually
good, and free from the prevailing fault of former years, of
more fat than meat.— Wolverhampton paper.
RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. —Mr. Broughton, a gentleman
formerly connected with the Grand Junction Canal Com-
pany, has been appointed traffic Manage: in Birmingham
for the London and North-Western railway, in the room of
the late Lieutenant Eborall, R.N.
DINNER TO SAMUEL Low, ESQ., MAYOR OF WALSALL.
—A complimentary dinner to the mayor of Walsall, who
in November last was unanimously re-elected to that office,
was given at the George Hotel, Walsall, on Thursday
evening last.
John Walters, said to be an Irishman, has been com-
mitted from Wolverhampton, for the murder of Thomas
Price, a butcher, in June, 1852. He had since absconded.
The cause of the attack was, that the deceased inter
rifled to ea-re a -woman, whom Walters and another were
a busing.
GOING TO THE RIGHT SHOP.—The London police re-
ports publish rather a grave joke upon the hon. Mr. Norton.
Upon Monday last, it appears a man appeared in his court
and presented him with a letter requesting his advice res-
pecting the steps he should adopt towards his wife whom he
accused of entering a " coffee shop" with a middle aged
gentleman. The worthy magistrate received the petition
with great calmness, but does not appear to have given any
satisfactory advice to the applicant.
EVRRTON CHURCH MISSIONARY SOClETY.—Yesterday a
sale of fancy and useful articles commenced at the school
room, Mill-lane, the proceeds of which are to be appropriated
to the funds of the Church Missionary Society. Three of
the upper rooms were most tastefully fitted up as sale-rooms,
with most beautiful specimens of needlework, and fancy
articles of every description. The ladies taking. an interest
in the missionary cause, residing in the distrnt officiated
as saleswomen, and from the zeal manifested they doubtlessly
obtained high prices and numerous customers. The sale
will continue this day and to-morrow.
SCOTTISH AGRICULTURE.—The exhibition of agricultural
produce at the corn exchange, Edinburgh, is a sight calcu-
lated to fill with pleasure and pride the heart of every lover
of his country. The noble building is lightly and gracefully
decorated with a profusion of evergreens, most tastefully
disposed, and a great variety of ornate inscriptions, shields,
convolved ribbons, with mottoes, arranged, designed, and
executed by Mr. George Potts, with marvellous celerity and
effect. The exchange was this day crowded with the elite
of the proprietary of the land, as well as the actual producers,
who were not one whit more excitedly interested that their
associates.—North British Mail.
GARROTTE ROBBERIES IN BIRMINGHAM.—At about half-
past twelve o'clock on Thursday night, as a man named
William Malone, of Newhall-street, in that town, was pro-
ceeding along Bath-street, he was stopped by two men and
a woman. One of the villains held him by the throat,
while the others rifled his pockets of £6 10s. in gold and
silver, leaving him insensible in the street. On Tuesday
evening, about six o'clock, as a boat-owner, named John
Dance, of Gloucestershire, was in the neighbourhood of
New Canal-street, in a state of intoxication, he was met
by three men, one of whom held him by the throat, whilst
the others took from his pocket a purse containing fifteen
sovereigns.
INDICATIONS OF A SEVERE WINTER.—If there be any
truth in what old people say respecting large flocks of birds
being an indication of a severe winter, we have never seen
stronger symptoms of one than in the present season. Large
and numerous flocks of wild geese, wild ducks, widgeons,
teal, and wild fowl, have, within the last few days, been
observed to pass over the city ; and we have observed that
they are very numerous in the vicinities of the Wye and
Lugg. Fieldfares, redwings, starlings, &c., were never known
to be more numerous, or in larger flocks ; and, within the
last few days, we have known an extraordinary number of
the latter kind of bird killed at a single shot. The season
appears to promise :plentiful sport for minor sportsmen.-
Hereford Journal.

EXTENSIVE FRAUD BY A WOLVERHAMPTON CLERK.—
A respectable-looking young man, named James Smalley,
late in the employ of Messrs. Morton and Langley, merchants,
of Wolverhampton, was brought up yesterday (Tuesdly,) at
the Public-office, Birmingham, charged with obtaining an
immense quantii,y of goods from various manufacturers in
Birmingham, under the false pretence that they were for
Messrs. Morton and Langley, of Wolverhampton.—Mr.
Powell appeared for the prosecution, from which it appeared
that about £2OO worth of goods had thus been obtained by
the-prisoner. The young man admitted h's crime, and has
been seat for trial.— Wolverhampton Herald, Wednesday.

THE COAL AND IRON TRADE.—The coal trade maintains

unexampled activity, and in the districts west of Dudley
colliers remain quiet, but east of Dudley some of them are
very restless, and threaten to strike for an advance of wages.
The iron trade retains its active character, and the demand
still continues very great. Some of the ironmasters are not
satisfied with existing rates, and at the preliminary meeting
which will be shortly held, the present state of the trade will
be fully canvassed, with a view of further regulating the
price, so as to meet the exorbitantly high charges upon coal
and mine. Hot blast mine pigs are realising £5 per ton,
and cold blast from £5 10s. to £5 15s. Good ironstone is
fetching Vs. per ton, and is in great request. The state of
the district is good, and labour in high request.— Waiver-
han2pton Herald.

MAN KILLED. —On Thursday evening shortly after the
passing of a down train along the Caledonian railway near
to the farm of Gain, in the parish of New Mon kland, Airdrie,
the cries of a person evidently in great distress, were heard
by a man at the farm house. He went to die spot from
whence the sounds proceeded, and found there a man writhing
in the last throes of death, from having been frightfully
mutilated by the train passing over him. In answer to
inquiry he was only able to say that his name was West,
when he expired. The body was carried to the Coatbridge
police station-house, where it lies for identification previous
to interment. It is thought that the deceased had been the
worse of liquor at the time the train came in contact with
him, as the body had a strong smell of drink.
INQUESTS.—Yesterday, the coroner was occupied in hold-
ing inquests upon the bodies of the following persons, whose
deaths were occasioned under the circumstances detailed be-
low :—Elizabeth Slater, a child who died in the course of
the preceding evening, from being suffocated while in bed
with its parents. On the body of a seaman, name unknown,
whose body was found in the river, near the south bridge of
St. George's dock. Edith Parker, an illegitimate child,
who died from convulsions, brought on by purely natural
causes. John Richards, while in a state of intoxication fell
down stairs, and recei-ed such injuries on the head that he

never recovered. James Gratly, who died on Christmas-
day, while getting his dinner. His death was occasioned
from a small portion of goose which stuck in his throat, and
caused suffocation. David Rutherford, from a disease in the

lungs. Amelia Dwyer, an inmate in the workhouse, who
who died from an extravasation of blood on the brain, from
a fall. Thomas Quaile, who expired suddenly ; it has
since been ascertained that he was suffering from a disease
of the heart. Morton Dimond.—The deceased was the son

of the man who was unfortunately killed on the 18th
at the Wapping dock. He was at work with his father at
the time the wall fell, and received such injuries that ho

died on Monday night, at the Southern Hospital. And
also on the body of Dominick Barrett, who expired at the
Northern Hospital, yesterday morning. It appeared that
on the 9th of November, the deceased, with several other

persons, were quarrelling in the spirit vaults occupied by
Mr. Berry, in Vauxhall-road, when a scuffle ensued and
the deceased fell, by which he broke his leg. He was con-
veyed to the Northern Hospital, where he has lingered ever
since, refusing, as did also his family, to have the limb am •
putated, which, the surgeon was of opinion, would have
spared his life. The
•jury in each case returned a ver-
diet in accordance with the facts detailed in the evi-
dence.

THE IRON TRADR.—The total produce of pig iron for
the year 1850, was estimated at 2,330,000 tons. In order
to produce this quantity there were consumed 9,500,000
tons of coal, 2.500,000 tons of ironstone, and the ores oper-
ated upon could not have been less than 7,000,000 tons.
But the most remarkable fact in connection with the iron

trade is the immense weight of atmospheric air required in
the various blast furnaces, and which, although generally
considered as so light in its nature, has yet considerably ex-
ceeded in weight that of all other materials consumed. One
of the large furnaces of South Wales consumes 12,503 cubic
feet of air each minute in supplying the oxygen necessary to
the combustion of the fuel. To supply the air consumed on
an average in each furnace requires an engine of 25 horse
power. Engines of nearly 12,000 lorse power are con-
stantly employed to drive the " breath of life " into the
glowing masses within furnaces of the United Kingdom.
Each furnace on an average sucks in 17,000 gallons of air
per minute, or five tons weight per hour. The number of
furnaces in blast in 1850 was 459 ; the aggregate weight of
air, therefore, required during that period to keep life in
these fiery monsters was not less than 55,080 tons daily, or
20,049,000 tons during the year—a quantity exceeding in
weight the totals of the coals, ore, and limestone consumed
in the process of smelting. .

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