The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-25 00:00:00

SELECT VESTRY.

Yesterday, a special meeting of this board was held at
the public offices, Brownlow-hill, for the purpose of dis-
posing of the general business. The Rev. Rector
Campbell presided. The other select vestrymen present
were—Messrs. Woodruff, H. Jones, Satchell, J. Jones,
Mellor, Denton, Owen, Bold, Bradley, Bairstow, Shaw,
Blair, Rawle, Chesney and Clarke.
The Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting, which
were confirmed.
THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

The proceedings of this committee were read and
confirmed.

Mr. Denton expressed his regret that so much time
should have been occupied in ascertaining what child was
a catholic and what was a protestant.

TELE WORKHOUSE COMMITTEE

From the report of this committee, it appeared that on
the 'l9th inst., they were 2593 paupers in the workhouse,
of whom 667 were sick, including 2•3 fever cases, and 69
itch cases ; also 312 vagrants had sought shelter in the
sheds, of whomjlB4 were males, 103 females, and 25 were
children. The report also detailed the various meetings
that the committee had held, relative to the charge made
by the clerk of the West Derby Union (reported in this
journal) as to an alleged case of cruelty to a woman and
child, which was found to be (as the committee thought)
incorrect.

In reference to the above subject, the following corres-
pondence and resolutions were read :
Liverpool Workhouse, March 13, 1856.

To the Chairman of the Workhouse Committee

Sir,—My attention has just been called to a statement
in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES of this date, by which it
appears from the proceedings of, the West Derby Board
of Guardians, that a woman was forced to leave this
workhouse a fortnight after her confinement, without
clothing for her child, which was, therefore, sent out
naked.

I hasten to give this statement the most point blank
denial. Never, on any occasion, did anything so inhuman
occur in this house with my sanction, as to torce a person
out, or even to permit her to depart under such circum-
stances ; but it would be more satisfactory to me that a
rigid inquiry should be at once instituted by your com-
mittee into the truth, or otherwise, of this charge.
In the meantime, I beg the committee will be good
enough to suspend their judgment till such times as this
inquiry takes place.—l remain, sir, your very obedient
servant, GEORGE CARe, Governor.
Resolved,—That a special meeting be called for Monday
nExt, at ten o'clock, to investigate the matter. Air. Clea-
ver, the Governor, and the respective witnesses to be
present. _

At an adjourned special :meeting: of;,the workhouse
committee, held on Thursday, the 20th day of March,
1856, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon,
Present, Mr. Churchwarden Shaw, Chairman.; Mr.
churchwarden Woodruffe; Messrs. Blair,
_Chesney, Bair-
stow, Bradley, Denton, Hand, Henry Jones, Luff, Mellor,
Whitty, and Whitby. • Also .the governor of the work-
house, Mr. C eaver, clerk of the West Derby Ward, and
with him Mr. Charles Bitten, a member thereof.
The woman Willis, as also Mrs. Assinder and Hannah
Connor, Charlotte Harrison and- Ann Myles, nurses in
the house, were in attendance, and; were examined touch-
ing the statement respecting
_Willis which,was made to
the West Derby board by Mr. Cleaver, and reported in
the newspapers; and such examination having been con-
cluded, it was by the con-anittee:

Res'olved,—'That Mr. Cleaver's statement stands
uncorroborated in any material point_by the evidence now
adduced.

had been given as to the lunatics and idiots. He concluded
by asking who seconded the propositiou made by Mr.
Bradley ?
After some hesitation, Mr. Blain said he would second
the original motion. .
The Board then divided, when all present, with the
exception of Mr. Bradley, voted for the amendment, con-
sequently the further consideration of the subject was
postponed.

THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

The proceedings of this committee were confirmed without
any discussion.
A letter was read from Mr. Barton, the contrac'oz for
potatoes, complaining of the loss he had sustained by the
vestry not taking half so many potatoes as they had led him
to suppose when he made the contract.
The Vestry then proceeded to open the tenders for the
various necessary articles for the supply of the Union, and
after deciding which tender should be accepted, broke up.

THI NOIVIIINR7I TIMES..4IIIIIIPOOL, TIJZSDAY. MARCH 261

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES,

CROWN COURT.-YESTERDAY,

The business of the crown court opened at eleven o'clock
yesterday, before his lordship Mr. Baron Martin. The follow-

ing gentlemen were sworn in as a

GRAND JURY.

Sir T. B. Birch, The Hayles, M Hughes, Sheadly-hall.
foreman. T. Edwards Moss, Roby-hall.
E. Ashworth, Egerton-hall. S. Martin, Belmont-grove.
Richard Ashton, Limefield. Mark Phillips, The Park.
11. Blair, Outwood-lodge. Joseph Peel, Singleton-house.
Henry Bury, Moorfield. A. H. Rpyds, Mount-Falinge.
J. Bourne, Heathfield-house. John Stewart, Mayor of
Thomas Bolton, Liverpool. Liverpool.
Robert Chadwick, High-bank. Samuel Henry Thompson,
Thomas Cooke, Pendicbury. Tringwall-hall.
John Grundy, Tho Dales. Nathan Worthington, Hollin-
H. Gaskell, Prospect-hill. wood.
E. J. Gregg Hopwood, Hop- W. Benjamin Watkins, Legh-
wood-hall. house.
Michael Humble, Liverpool.

The usual proclamation against vice, profaneness, and
jut morality, having been read,

His Lordship proceeded to charge the Grand Jury. lie
said—Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, I am sorry to see that
the calendar contains the names of 118 prisoners, which I
cannot but think a very large number, considering that the
Assizes have been held so lately in this county, And I
observe also, and it is with some satisfaction, that there is ❑ot

some of the articles in pawn. The Jury found the prisoner
guilty.

INCENDIARISM. —Martin Ford, a small boy, aged 12 years,
factory-worker,was charged with having at Spotland, on thel27th
Dec. 1855 feloniously and wilfully set fire to certain cotton, then
being in. a cotton mill, in the possession of James Pilling
and others, with intent to injure the said James Pilling and
others. It appeared that the prisoner was employed in one
of the card-rooms of the Messrs. James Pilling and Co.'s
cotton mil], at Spotland, Rochdale. The evidolce against
the prisoner was principally given by a little gill, named
Anne Smith, who deposal that she saw the boy go behind
some of the cotton, and heard a match crack. The prisoner
was found not guilty of the malicious intent. His Lordship :
-.Now I will tell you what—if your father and mother will
give you a good whipping the next time you are found with a
match about you, it will be much for your good. The
prisoner was discharged.

NISI PRIUS COtRT.—IrEsTERDAv.
(BEFORE MIL JUSTICE WILLES.)
Business commenced in this court at twelve o'clock, when a
common jury was sworn.

There are in all 101 cases set down in the cause list, but
many of them will, of course, be undefended, and others with-
drawn, or arranged during the progress of the assizes. Ihe firs:
list, or Salford Hundred, contains thirty-two cases, of which
six are marked as special juries, and the second list, or West
Derby Hundred, sixty-nine cases, of which twenty-one are
marked as special juries.

RICHMOND V. BEAttluouE —Title was an act of ejectment,
brought to recover possessio❑ of the Manchester Arms Inn,
Manchester. It was undefended, and a verdict was returned
for the plaintiff, for whom Mr. Manesty appeared.
BRUNT V. HORNE.—This was an action to recover £42,
paid by the plaintiff as a deposit upon the purchase of certain
property, which the defendant represented himself as entitled
to sell. The property, which consisted of several chief-rents
in ➢lanchester, was knocked down to the plaintiff as the
highest bidder, at public auction, but en investigation he found
that the title was bad, and accordingly refused to complete the
purchase. Mr. Manesty appeared for the plaintiff, for whom
a verdict was returned, and Mr. Monck for the defendant.
MEDCALF V. BLAIN.—This was an action brought to
recover the sum 0f.£25, under the following circumstances :
The plaintiff, who was a young man inexperienced in btisiness,
wished to invest £7OO of which he was poss3ssed in some
profitable undertaking, and inserted an advertisement
to that effect in the Manchester papers, on the
29th of last December. He soon received a
Communication front the defendant, and at his request an
interview took place between them on the 2nd of January.
The defendant represented that he had patented a process for
making wadding, that his own profits exceeded 50 per cent.,
and that there was but one other house in the kingdom that
had the same patent. Some time after the defendant pressed
him to bring the treaty to a close, and thereupon the plaintiff
deposited £25, and offered to give his services gratuitously for
a month, in order that he might become acquainted with the
business, promising that, if it were satisfactory, he would enter
into a funkier engagement. The defendant gave a receipt for
the £25 as on account of the stock of wadding then on the
premises, and on the -plaintiff observing that he had no inten-
tion to purchase the stock, he promised to give another receipt.
Failing to do so, and the plaintiff not wishing to continue the
business, the latter brought the present action to recover the
£25, which he alleged he had paid as a deposit. On cross-
examination he acknowledged the existence of a document
transferring the stock to him, when Mr. Sergeant Wilkins,
a ho with Mr. Fearnely appeared in Isis behalf, intimated that he
could not carry the case further. A verdict was accordingly
taken for the defendant, for whom Mr. Hill, Q.C., with Mr.
Ovens, appeared.