The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-21 00:00:00

lElubtic otire.
WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL.
TO SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS,

HE Committee Are desirous of receiving
DESIGNS for a COLUMN and S' ATUE to be
erected in honour of the late DUKE OF WELLINGI ON at Liver-
pool.
The amount at present at the disposal of the Committee is about
£6,000, and if their intentions can be properly carried out for that
sum, they are desirous that it should be, but any Artist will be at
liberty to send in a separate design, either for the Column alone, or
for a Column and Statue.

The compe itors must accompany their designs by estimates of the
cost, either for the Column and Statue combined, or separately, and
stating the description of material which they rropose to employ.
A premium of '5(30 will be given for the Design which, in the
opinion of the Commie tee, is the best for the purpose intended.

Each Deign to be marked with a motto or device, and the name
of the author is not to appear, but to he put in a separate sealed letter.
bearing on the outside a c Tresponding motto or device.
The D”sign for wh ch the premium may be awarded to become
the property of the Committee.

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All communications to be addressed to the Chairman of the Corn.
initt.e, at the Town-hall, Liverpool, and the Designs must be deli-
ver. d there, free of expense, on or before the first d y of Novemb it
next.
Town-ball, Liverpool, September 20, 1856.

THE CASE OF MR. L. T. GASKILL,
LATE MESSENGER OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT,

SEVERAL friends of Mr. Gaskill, having taken
his case into consideration, and believing as they do,
um, it is one of great hardship, have INSTII "CITED A SUBSCRIP-
TION on behalf of himself an I family. Mr. Gaskill was summarily
dismissed on the 28th of last IV r .11, since which time he has not
been in the receipt of one shilling having been solely dependent
upon the contributions of a few friends. Mr. Gaskill had held his
situation for fourt.'el, yetis, t.O complaint having ever been urged
against him further t. an having been forced into z prison for twenty-
one days, through being security for cue of the Manchester official
assignees. Mr. Gaskill, there is no doubt, has been most cruelly
treated, as the following extract from one of his letters to the Liver-
pool Journal will tend to show :
With reference to my insolvency, I can point to three registrars of
Bankruptcy Courts in this county who have taken the benefit of the
Insolvent Acts, and yet retained their situations. One messenger
in this county was suspended for twelve months from his office, took
the benefit of the Act, which involved a remand of four months to
Lancaster Castle, and still now holds his appointment. I was dis-
charged in the same court by the same judge, after the usual forms
had been complied with, which occupied five minutes
Mr. Gaskill has received the following letters, by which he hopes
that an enquiry may be instituted into his case:—
From the Right Hon. the Earl of Hatrosyby:—
London August 9 1856

Sir,—l have sent your letter to the Lord Chancellor, and called
his atteution to its con' ents. which seem to furnish matter for Inves.
tigation.—l am, air, your obedient servant, HARROWBY.
L. T. Gaskill. Esq.
From the Rt. Hon. Spring Rice, Sec. to the Lord Chancellor :-
40. Upper Brooke-street, August 16, 1856.

Sir,—I have to ackowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th
inst., and its enclosure, which I wi►l n, ing before the Lord Chan-
cellor. I may add, however, that his lordship has already given much
consideration to your case.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
W. C. SPRING RICE.

The envelope was marked " Cranworth."
From. Talk on 'Change," Liverpool Journal, August 23. 1856
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Talking of judges, thje was some talk about the judges of the
Bankruptcy Court. and It was, that a curious case is likely to be
obtruded speedily on the public; that Mr. Gaskill was recently
dismissed from the office of messenger to the Liverpool Bankruptcy
Court; that he was wrongfully dismissed and his office wrongfully
given to another; that he has made a statement of his case, and that
the Lord Chancellor has it now under consideration; that Mr.
Gaskill has been harshly used ; that it is true he is one oF the best-
natured men living ; that, in a strange disregard of prudence, he
went security for an official assignee; that the official assignee
ran away, and that Mr. Gaskill was called on to pay; that he did
pay a part; that he offered to pay the remainder in time, but that
the parties would not wait, and that the Insolvent Court was the only
alternative; that, during the necessary process of twenty.one days,
Mr. Commissioner Stevenson caused him to be dismissed, but that,
although dozens of Bankruptcy officials have been insolvents, Mr.
Gaskill is the only one who has lost his place by a visit to Lancaster
Castle.

Subscriptions on behalf of Mr. Gaskill and family will be received
at the Liverpool Journal Office; by Mr. W. Pearson, Times Office,
Lord street t Mr. Aylward, News Agent, Lord-street; Mr. E. T
Hall, stationer. South John-street ; Mr. Whiteman, Brunswick
Hotel ; and at Manchester, by G. C. Cady, Esq.