The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-16 00:00:00

CARRY:WO ♦ MAIL

"EAGLE" LINE OF PACKETS FOR AUSTRALIA.
To the consignment of limner BaOTIIII & Co., landing their
Passsngers, Luggage and Carr immediately on the Vessel's
arrival in Hobson's Hay.

FOR MELBOURNE,

Forwarding Passengers to DNEY, HOBART T3WN,
GEELONG, ADELAIDE, LAUNCEiTON, &c.
Tls, celebrated Clipper Ship
EAGLE,
1,010 tons, Capt. MURPHY.
'1 Well known as one of the Fastest Vesrels afloat.
Guaranteed to sail on the 24th July.
The ships of this old-established Line are famed for the superiority
of the Provisioning, and excellent Passenger accommodation.—
Apply t

GIBBS, BRIGHT and CO., Liverpool

LYNX

NOTICE

Saturday

LYNX.... Thursday

LYNX

ader:—

N.B.—Goods shot'
on other d.

JULY,
Tu-slay

eurtlEv.

tinfta etattt.

Freight by the. Mail steamers to Belifax and Boston, and to New
York direct, J 64 per ton and 5 per cent primage.
Freight on Parcels ss. each and upwards,accordinp to size.
ReacaLs for different Condlgnees, collected and made up in single
packages, addressed to one party for delivery in America, for the
purpose of evading the payment of freight, will, upon exam nation
In America by the Customs, be charged with the proper freight.
BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL

STEAM SHIPS
APPOINTED BY THE ADMIRALTY
" 1\ TO SAIL BETWEEN
pv' t.&.. LIVERPOOL & NEW YORK, DIRECT,
.....
AND BETWEEN
LIVERPOOL AND BOSTON.
The BOSTON Ships only CALLING at HALIFAX, to land and
receive Passengersand her Majesty's Mails.
Captains. Captains.
PERSIA .C.H. E. Judkins. I AFRICA .. Neil Shannon.
ARABIA James Stone. AMERICA.. J. G. Wickman.
ASIA Edwd. G. Lott. I NIAGARA.. Alex. Ryrie.
CANADA W. T. C. Lang. EUROPA .. John Leitch.
CAMBRIA .. . .. Captain Douglas.
The under-noted or other. Vessels are appointed to Sail
From LIVERPOOL.

CANADA.... For Boston Saturday, the 21st June,
AFRICA .... For New York Saturday, the 28th June.
NIAGARA .. For Boston
PR RSIA . .. For New York ...... ... Saturday, the 12th July.
ARABIA .... For Boston
ASIA.... For Now York ......... . Saturday, the 26th July.

M AMERICA

AFRICA'.... From New York
NIAGARA From Boston
ARABIA .... From New York Wednesday, 25th June.
AMERICA .. From Boston .. Wednesday, 2nd July.
A51A........ From New York Wednesday, 9th July.
Passage Money from Liverpool to Halifax and Boston:—Chief
Cabin, Twenty-five Guineas; Second Cabin, Fifteen Guineas. To
New York, direct:—Chief Cabin, Thirty Guineas; Second Cabin,
Twenty Guineas, These rates include Steward's Fes and Provisions,
but without Wines or Liquors ,which can be obtained on board.

Otrinanr.

Dogs charged Pius Pounds each.
These Steam-ships have accommodation for a limited number of
Second Cabin passengers. . . . . .

Passengers are allowed twenty cubic feet of personal luggage,
free of freight, but the agents do not guarantee to reserve room
for more than that quantity, and they will be charged freight
on their personal luggage when it exceeds half a ton measurement.
Pareelswill be received at the Office of the Agents here until Six
o'clock on the Friday Evenings previous to Sailing.
• _

♦pply, in Haliras, toSamiiel-Cunard ; in Boston,to B.S. Lewis;
in New York, to Edward Cunard; in Havre,to Donald Currie, 21,
Qua! d'OrleaAs; in Paris, to Donald Currie,l7, Boul. des Italiens;
In London, to J. B. F00rd,52, Old Broad-street; in Glasgow, to G.
and J. Burns; and in Liverpool to
D. & C. MAC IVER, 14, Water-street.

The CANADA, for HALM X and BOSTON. will sail on Satur-
day next, the 21st inst. The steam-tender SATELLITE will leave
the Landing-stage, opposite the Baths, George's Pier, at Ten
o'clock. morning, of that &ay, with the Passenger■ for tke
CANADA.

STEAM TO NEW YORK AND (TIA JAMAICA) TO
CHAGRES.

Ths undsrnoted or otherVirst-classscrow-stearn-
.4„ ships. will est] from
LIVERPOOL FOR BOSTON AND NEW
YORK,

Ouse a month, until further notice,
(the extended service being Twice a Month,when the ships new
building ere completed),

JURA Capt Moodie I Al4DES.:.......oaptWArthur
ETNA Cap t Smell
Cap t Miller I EMEU
Passage money to Boston (beyond which port passengerscannot
be booked), including provisions and steward's fee, but without
wines or liquors, which can be obtained on board—Cabin +CM or
at lb, according to theaccommodation ; Second Cabin £l2.
Apply in Halifax to Samuel Cunard; in Boston ,to S. S. Lewis; in
New York,to Edward Cunard ; in Havre, to Donald Currie,2l Quid
d'Orleans ; in Paris, to Donald Currie ,17, Boulevard des Italians;
In Lundun, to J. B. Foord, bs, Old Broad-street; in Glam.
gow, to Greorgrand Jamesßurns,9,Buehanan-strest;andi n Liver.

pool to
D. & C. MAC IVEI, 14, Water.street.
As soon as goons are going for Canada, and any quantity offer for
Portland, these Vessels will call there.

STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWBEN

LIVERPOOL AND GLASGOW.
Unlesr oreventreeby anyunforeseeroccurrence,theund er-notecor

.
other Steamers are intended to sail, (with or without Pilots)
betweenLiyerpooland Glasgow ,with Goodsand Passeegers,as
under:
ni
„...x...mat LYNX .....
..Capt•Hasnix
ZEBRA(charteredtoGoyernment)Captain MITTS
Ai. , PANTHER (now building) ....Captalii MAIN
.;r-' _' FROM CLARENCE DOCK.
JUNS.
YNX.... Tuesday
- . . 17, at *l2 noon

21, at 12 noon

26, at 4 afternoon

1, at *l2 noon

3ErtianZl.

From Clarence Pier-head on days marked thus *

N.S.—(roods for shipment, at both Glasgow and Liverpool, must
be alongside the vessel one hour before appointed time of sailing,
and on days marked thus * Three Hours before sailing.—
Passengers n re requester: to takechargeof thelrown Luggage, as
is not responsibl rln any way fort tssafety. Carriages,
'l
kinds of Vehicles shipped at their Proprletors'risk.
'Tlhed all
eSolliPners ot thesevesselsare no tresponsiblefor loss or Injury to
Horses, Cattle, or Live Stoclr of any kind shipped by them.
Gunpowder will not be carried by these vessels on any terms; and
Aquafortl /4 Vitriol. and other hazardous articles can only be taken by
special agreement. The senders, consignees, and owners of dangez -
ous articles areresponsible under alleircumstancesfor darnageocca-
stoned by or to the same. The contents of boxes and packages
containing Liquids must he specified in the shipping-note before
shipment. Parcels for different persons madeup In single packages
addressed to one party for delivery, will be charged the proper
freight forea,th separateparcel Freight for box and hale goods, 20s
per ton of 20 cwt. Goods from Blanchester and the manufacturing
districts, when consigned to the care of the Company's Agents, 15s
per ton. Flouts—Cabin (Including Steward's Fee),lss; Steerage,
tis. Servants in Cabin, full fare.

Apply to GEORGE & JAMES' BURNS, 9. Buchanan-street,
GIMIROW. ALEX. ➢I`CULLOCH, ge,Gnenock,
JOHN WALKER, 77A, Market-street, Manchester; or here to
C. MAC IVER & CO., 18, Wvter-ztreet.

THE GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL ROYAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.
he LYRA, which has been secured to tare the place of the
Princess royal for the present, has just undergone a thorough
ov-rhaul in hull and machinery, including new boilers, &c.
taLAM BETWEEN LIVERPOOL ANL GLASGOW.

The first-class powerful Stearn-ships
LYRA
• PRINCESS ROYAL Capt M CELERY

Unless prevented by any unforeseen occurrence, the above or
other steamers are int; nded to svil (wnh or. without pilots)
between Liverpool and Glasgow, with goods and passengers, as

FROM CLARENCE DOM, LIVERPOOL

LYRA
LYRA..Tuesday.... June 24, at 3 o'clock, afternoon
LYRA Saturday .. June 28, at 6 o'clock. evening
From Clarence Pl, rbead on days marked thus *
Fares :—Cal in,
nsg Steward's Fee, 15s ; Steerage, 6s.
in Cabin, Full Fare.

,e alongside on days marked * Three Hours,
H Jur, before time of sa'ling.

EA rt., 4 )24 T 21, Water-street, Liverpool,

LIVEEPOOL AND THE EAST SCREW STEAM
SHIPS BETWEEN
LIVERPOOL, CONSTANTINOPLE, AND SMYRNA,
CALLING AT MALTA AND SYRA.

The first-class British Steamers
Tons. I Tons.
..,, \ A. SOFIA . ... 1300 I LACONIA 1200.
."' •Vw ilk N, ARCADIA llOO MACEDONIA ....1300
. l': BCEOTIA .... lOOO ORONTES.
4„..................
"' '''- • "" lONIA l3OO THESSALIA 1200
are Intended to sail (with or without pilots) from Nelson Dock,
Liverpool, with goods and passengers, as follows :
The fine new first class powerful seam-ship
THESSALIA
FOR MALTA, SYRA, CONSTANTINOPLE, AND
SMYRNA.
This steamer has very superior accommodation for passengers:—
For freight or passage apply to the agents,
PAPAYANNI & MUSSABINI,
Fenwick.charnbers, lenwick-street, Liverpool.
The BCEOTIA will *Aimed the Thessalia.

NORTHERN TIMES .-.--. LIVER

'Unita Otattis.

MONDAY

TAPSCOTT'S LINE OF PACKETS.
FOR NEW YORK.
PACKET OF THE TWENTY FIRST JUNE.
Loading in Wellington Dock.
h44s) The new American Packet Ship;
ir
Jr , JOII N J. BOYD,
WS, N. W. C. ST•TUSBURY, Master.

Burthen per register 1,632 tons ; coppered and copper-fastened, and
is a first-rate conveyance for dry goods.—For freight or passage
apply to
W. TAPSCOTT & CO., Old Hall, Oldhall-street.
ALBION, WILLIAMS, will succeed.

" BLACK DIAMOND "
,ip,t LINE OF PHILADELPHIA PACKETS,
gitpv•-: Sailing from Liverpool on the Ist, and from
Philadelphia on the 15th of each Month.
STALWART LUCAS."... 1100 tons.. July I.
PHILADELPHIA PooL .1200 tons—August I.
NONPAREIL. FAuLK l5OO tons.. Sel tember 1.

WM. CHAMBERLAIN.. S ERMAN —l2OO tons...lictober 1

The Ships of this Line are built of the very best materials, nave
superior accommodation for passengers, and ate commanded by men
of experience and a!aility. These ships will take steam up the Dela-
ware. Apply to

RICHARDSON SPENCE & CO.,
Corn Exchange, Brunswick-street

STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LIVERPOOL
AND HAMBURG DIRECT.
Taking Goods for Harburg and Altona.
By the Union Steam Company's First-class
Screw Steamships
,„"it iv. 340 tons.... .. Captain BALSTON.
SAXON. .. ....... 450........... Captain R ROW!.
Bill 10N......... 450.

The Steamship
TT N I 0 N,
Is intended to be despatched from the Nelson Dock, Liverpool, for
Hamburg, on SATURDAY, the 21st instant, at Noon ;
And from Hamburg n the 10th instant, and Ist of July.
Bonded Goods must be shipped the day but one before sailing.
Freights by these Steamers will be found moderate.—For further
information apply to
WM. LAIRD & CO., Agents, 23, Castle-st., Liverpool.

CONSTANTINOPLE, BLACK SEA, AND
Ltfi: THE DANUBE.
frkeiCat The undersigned have the following first-class vessels
~7 ._ now loading for the above destinations, viz t
Ship. Will sail about
For CONSTANTINOPLE AND
t JOHAN ....18th June
ODESSA • •
For ODESSA, direct .. JANE FRIDSON... 20th June
For GALATZ & IBRAIL ELIZA ANN 17th Juic.e
For rates of freight, &c., apply to
B. Bo J. P. SCHILIZZI, Jan., 8, Brunswick-buildings.

STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LIVERPOOL

AND WATERFORD.
oty., • The new powerful and fast•-sailing -team ships
• •it. k • 11 IW. MARS... Captain M. BURNS,
•ND
WILLIAM PENN Captain W. FRY,
Or other eligible ves,el, are intended to sail in JUNE, as under—
FROM CLARENCE DOCK.
MARS Tuesday ..17th June, at g o'clock, morning
WM PENN Friday ....20th June, at 11 o'clock, morning
MARS Tuesday 24th June, at 2 o'clock, afterno
\I PENN Friday ....27th June, at 5 o'clock, aqernoon
Leaving Waterford for Liverpool every Tue day and Friday.
EA RES—Cabin (including Steward's fee). 15.1. Deck, 7. 61.
For freight or passage alply in Waterford at the Waterford Steam
Ship Company, Mall; or it, Liverpool to
GEORGE K, PAYNE, 23, Brunswick-street.

Mr. MI rt

THE PARISH ACCOUNTS.-THE HALF-

YEARLY AUDIT

The ordinary half-yearly adudit of the parish accounts
opened at ten o'clock on Saturday, in the Parish Offices,
Brownlow Hill, before the Poor Law Auditor, Mr. Rees.
The only ratepayers present were Mr. S. Thornley, and
Mr. David M'Clelland, who attended for the purpose of
calling the special attention of the auditor to some ques-
tions arising out of the accounts. Mr. Hart, vestry clerk,
was in attendance.

Mr. Thornley called the attention of the auditor to the
fact that., the poor rate and the parochial rate was under
separate headings. He urged the great necessity of some
law to consolidate the different acts of parliament under
which the parochial rate was collected. If the auditor
could by any means extend his authority to examine that
account, it might save a great deal of expense and time to
the parishioners in applying fcr a law to consolidate the
old acts of parliament.
The Auditor said he was afraid his power did not
extend to that rate.

Mr. Thornley : Well, I call your attention to it, and if
you could make it extend I should be very glad.
Some conversation then arose upon the accounts of St.
Martin's Cemetery.

Mr. Thornley said it was reported in the Liverpool papers
that at the first vestry meeting of the Select Vestry for the
year 1855, it was stated by the rector that a fee of two
shillings and sixpence bad always been paid at St.
Martin's Cemetery for private funerals. At the subsequent
meeting the Rev. Mr. Campbell was reported to have said that
ever since their entrance into the rectorage the rectors had
demanded and received 2s 6d at St. Martin's Cemetery for
all funerals, except those ordered by the vestry. Now he
(Mr. Thornley) went to the cemetery, and was informed
that upon every private funeral the sum of 8s 61 was
demanded there. He wanted to know bow that money was
claimed, divided, and appropriated, because the objection
he made last year to the 2s Gd fee being paid to the rectors,
where only 6d was due, had proved to be the correct view,
and there was no difference made in the act of parliament
between private funerals and parochial funerals.
The Auditor : None.

Mr. Thornley : And if the rectors have been receiving
2s 6d ff,r every private funeral, they have been receiving
ton much.

The Auditor : No doubt. There is no doubt about that.

Mr. Thornley said he should like to know, in the first
place, by what authority the amount of 83 61 was fixed
for private funerals, and then how was that sum appro-
priated. _ _ _

- Mr. Hart said it came to the credit of the chuch rate—it
was one of the churchwarden's rates at all events. He
could not state what was the original authority for it.
It had been paid very many years, and before his time there.
Mr. Thornley : How is the money divided ? What are
the receipts of the cemetery, and who accounts for them to
the parish ?
Mr. Hart : Mr. Griffith's receives the half-crowns—he
is the keeper of the cemetery. The half-crown goes to the
parish for the ground, out of the 8s 61. Mr. Griffiths
hands over the money. The fact is, we do not pay at all,
except for the interment of paupers.
Mr. Thornley : What I want to show is, that that 8; 6d
ought to be handed over to this office—that every person
whe has a claim upon it should be paid that claim, and
that any money which remains over should go to the poor-
rate.

Mr. Hart : I differ with you there. I do not think the
auditor has anything to do with these questions.
Mr. Th,lrnley : Then why bring the accounts before him ?

Mr. Hart : We bring the accounts of what the vestry
has paid to the ecclesiastical authorities, the rector and the
churchwa,dens. We have no more connection with the
church than that amounts to.

The Auditor : What do you pay ?
Mr. Hart : We pay 6d to the rector and 6(1 to the clerks.
I was wrong in saying that we paid for the ground, far the
2s Gd comes back to the parish. Where ground is pur-
chased, it is by parties not paupers. A party not a pauper
pays 8; Gd, of which 2s 6.1 is far the ground. The 2s 6d
comes to the churchwardens' accounts.

Mr. Thornley : What. I contend is, that if there is any
profit in the cemetery, it orght to come to the poor-rate.
Mr. Haft : It is not so in law. The rectors and church-
warders ere ine clrporate body, a,,d the vestry another.
Mr. M.Clelland : Have tho parishioners any check upon
the charges made at the cerne'ery ? his the person who
fixed the sum of 8s fid an equal power to fix 18s 6d, or
£B_los,or any other sum ? Is 1-,s any authority ?

Mr. Hart : The rector is the authority.
The Auditor : I suppose if there is any overcharge the
only remedy isio bring a charge of extortion ?

Mr. Thornley : There is no authority in the act of par-
liament to al;ow the rector to receive more for a private
funeral than for a paurer funeral ?
Mr. Bart : No ; 1 agree with that.
Mr. Thornley : And Mr. Campbell states he always
receives 2s 61 for every private funeral.
Mr. Hart : Yes, he does. I believe he has always
done so.

It appeared that, during the past twelve months, there
were 2,721 pauper funerals ; for which a charge of £125
13i 10(1 was made.

Mr. Thornley said there was no authority for building
a chapel there. The church should be used as a chapel.
Mr. Hart said that should have been brought under the
notice of the general vestry o f 1811. It was done then,
and he did not see what result could come from objecting
to it now.

The Auditor said he did not think he had any power in
reference to the charges for private funerals. All he could
do was to see that no more was charged for pauper funerals
than the select vestry was authorised to pay.
Mr. Al' Clelland : You have nothing to do with the
charges made to private individuals ?
The Auditor replied in the negative. The only course
to be pursued was, for some individual to resist the claim,
andpave it decided, or to bring a charge of extortion.
_ _ . _

Mr. Hart said he had nothing at all to do with it. It
was an affair of the churchwardens and the rectors, alto-
gether. CHRISTIAN BURIAL.

- Mr. M'Clelland drew attention to the manner in which
the pauper burial; were conducted in St. Martin's Ceme-
tery. He stated that the coffins were all put into a deep
pit, without any separate graves ; without any designation
or distinction of man, women, or child, upon each coffin,
only a mark in chalk, in some instances, stating that the
body came from the infirmary, or the workhouse hospital.
He visited the place for the purpose, some months since,
with Mr. Thornley, and saw seven coffins brought up in a
van.

Mr. Thornley : Six of these were deposited in the pit,
without any service whatever being read over them.
He asked if the service was to be read, and
the reply was—" No ; they are Roman Catholics."
I do not know how they could discover that
they were so, because there was no mark whatever
upon the coffins. The s ,venth coffin was left on the ground,
with a mark in cha'k on it, stating that it came from the
infirmary, and they told us it contained the body of a young
girl who died in the infirmary, that she was a Protestant,
and there would be a clergyman there at two o'clock to
read the burial service over her body. But the Catholics,
as they called them, were carried up to the grave, and de-
posited alongside of others, deposited the previous day, in a
row, right across the place. When the row was filled they
said there would be earth thrown upon them to cover them
up, and then they would deposit another layer of coffins
over that again. _

The Auditor asked who was to see that they were properly
buried ?

Mr. Thornley : I do not know.
The Auditor : I apprehend the parish is bound to give
decent interment--Christian

Mr. Hart : I don't suppose that the parish authorities
are bound to see that they get decent interment. We send
them there in a decent van.

The Auditor : I apprehend that the guardians of the poor
are liable to the same law as all other parties—the common
law of the land, which obliges any party having a dead
body in his premises to give it Christian burial.
Mr. Hart : We are not bound to dig the graves, or to
attend to any matter concerning the funeral.
Mr. M'Clell Ind : Ought not the name of each party
and the date of the death to be placed on the coffins ?
Mr. Hart : No doubt it is.

Mr. M'Clelland : There was not a mark of any kind
upon the coffins that day—l am speaking of six months
ago. There was just a mark in chalk on one of them, to
state that it came from the infirmary. There was no
intimatior to state whether the boxes contained within
them human beings or animals. Taero came up a van and
delivered seven coffins, and there was no mark of any kind
upon six of th(m.
Mr. Hart : You may depend upon it that all which
came from the workhouse had paper labels on. If they
come from the infirmary the vestry cannot be accountable
for them.

Mr. Thornley : They could not have come from the
infirmary in this instance, because the one which came
from the infirmary, and which, as I stated, contained the
body of a young girl who died there, had a mark on it.

The subject then dropped.
Mr. Thornley and Mr. M'Clelland then contended that
the parish clerks should be made to pay some portion of the
wages of the deputies who performed their duties, inasmuch
as the former did not attend the burials at all to deliver the
responses or perform any other duties.
Mr. Hart stated that a composition had been made by
which the parish clerk received a certlin amount in lieu of
the fees they were entitled by law to demand, and the
vestry found that this entailed a less expense.
The Auditer said it was a question whether the parish
would gain by making any formal objection in this
matter. . _ _

Accordingly no regular objection was made for the pre-
sent by either of the gentlemen in attendance.

In answer to a question,
The Auditor repeated that he could not make any
enquiry into the levying of fees on private interments. That
question must be raised by some private individual on a
charge of extortion, or in some other way.
Mr. Thornley and Mr. M'Clelland then took their leave,
and the routine details of the audit were resumed.