The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-18 00:00:00

THE CASE OF POISONING

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN- TIME S•.
Sir.—The matter in your to-day's paper, under head of
" Frightful case of poisoning a clergyman," &c., draws
from me a remark. Both men and women require pump-
ing at times of emergency, as well as ships. The latter, of
lesser consequence are, by law, (and strenuous law, too) pro-
vided with necessary instruments for preservation when thus
situated ; why, then, should not doctors to the humin body be
also compelled to be thus provided ? Nature in this case (by
efforts to vomit, through administrations of medicine, and
not succeding, through weakness) dio'ated what was re-
quired for assistance, and that assistance, so vitally nem.
sary—where was it ? This, though bad, is too of4en the case,
and ought not to be. Your observations on this hint in your
paper may do good.
J. 0.
Liverpool, 13th August, 1856.

TO THE PROTESTANT DISSMITERS AND
THE ROMAN CATHOLICS G-1 LIVERPOOL.

Gentlemen.—l make no ailutogy for the introduction of
my subject as your interests are mainly concerned in its
issue.

Yon are, no doubt, aware the Secretary of State has
ordered the parish cemetries to be closed against fur►her
interments, and to provide for this contingency the church-
wardens have called a General Vestry Meeting, for Tuesday,
the 26th instant.
Now, it is to this meeting I desire your attendance, and
if you do not obtain a little insight into the management of
your affairs, on me rest your disappointment for exciting
your attentim to them.

It appears, in 1847, the Select Vestry, without any noti-
fication to the inhabitants, or any pressing receipts at that
period for its requirements, applied for powers—under the
Church Building Act, of July, 18.22—t0 obtain a new
cemetry, Twenty-seven acres of land was purchased at
Walton, and £15,000 was paid for it, by rates imposed
upon the inhabitants at large.
The illegality of this proceeding must be obvious to all
who will take the trouble to read the powers the Seled
Vestry are intrusted with.

In April, 1848, at a general vesiry meeting, it was moved
and seconded, and recorded in the parish books—" That the
Churchwardens, with the Select Vestry, be empowered to
obtain an act of parliament to make this cemetery applicable
for general purposes, under the provisions contemplated by
the legislature" —and the majority of the non-conformists
of Liverpool believe the tenure of this land to be held under
such provisions.
Strange to say, no act wu ever obtained, and after a
period of six years, viz , 1S ,4, this ground was conse.
crated exclusively under the act first recorded, and thereby
becomes the Freehold of the Rector of Liverpool, and who,
by virtue of his office, is the chairman of the Select Vestry,.
I have endeavoured to lay before you this simple narra-
tivewill of facts ;no doubt the meeting will supply others. It
be for you to say whether you will be deprived of those
privileges you have paid for, and are entitled to participate in.
It is intended, if the meeting think proper, to elect a
Bath' Board—constituted under a recent Act of Parliament
—which limits the nutnber to nine.
The duties of this board will be of a very comprehensi%
character ; and I think the first should he an enquiry into
this very questionable transaction relating to the \Valtoa
cemetery.

I believe the Select Vestry have beenadvised of the
illegality of this act by their pre3ecessors In r)(Ref', and if it
finds any defenders in the present b )I'y, the-
y will have an
opportunity of stating their views t, the meeting.
So far as T can learn, the only title depended upon is its
recent consecration; rind however legal this claim may be,
it will remain for the Rector of Liverpool to say what moral
claim he has upon it ; fur it must not he forgot he is the
only
,individual who has a pro%p-ctive benefit in it, and as
the chairman of the hoard, who has perpetrated this wrong
upon others, (I say, not designedly), he should have been
better advised.

I think the ratepayers have a strong moral right if not it
•n•
legal one, that it should be restored o their hands, for, as
yet, I understand no interment has taken place in it.
I hope it is unnecessary to speak of myself in this matter.
My motives are single if in error. lam a churchman, but,
I hope, of that class who wish to do to others as they would
be dealt with themselves.--I am, gentlemen, your most
obedient servant, ROBT. SIDNEY,
Edge hill

N.B.—When I speak of Rectors, Churchwardens, or
Select Vestry, I must be understood as speaking of the
office, and not of individuals

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