The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-06 00:00:00

RETURNS

The Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting, which
were confirmed, and also reported that the books of the
several officers had been examined, and found correct..

The master of the hospital reported, that last week
there were 108 patients in that establishment, this week
110, and for the corresponding week last year, 94.
The master of the workhouse reported, that last week
there were 718 paupers in the workhouse, since when,
30 had been admitted, and 36 had been discharged, leav-
ing for this week, 712, and fur the corresponding week
last year, 708.

Cheques to the amount of £214 were voted to the
relieving officers, for the relief of the out-door poor
within their several d striets.

OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES,

A decent looking woman, of the name of (Manuel!,
living in Clyde-street, Park, was brouzht before the
board by one of the relieving officers, under the following
circumstances. She had been only confined two weeks,
—her husband was in the hospital, and she had been
relieved by the board with 2s per week, but it watt
ascertained that during the month, she had received Ins
from a club of which her husband was a member. Up
to the last she bad denied that she had received the
money from the club, but when proved, she admitted the
fact. When before the board she expressed her regret
at what she had done.
Some conversation followed, when, on the suggestion
of Mr. Cleaver, it was decided that the former resolution
of the board, which had directed that she should be
prosecuted, should be withdrawn on the conditions that
she should refund the 8s she had thus falsely obtained
from the hoard, and sign a paper acknowledging
her guilt, which was to be placed in the relief office, as
a caution to others. It was intimated that a great
number of women, particularly the wives of sailors,
were in the habit of thus obtaining money, and that it
would be necessary to prosecute, in order to put a stop
to such a practice.
The woman consented to comply with the suggestions,
and after being severely admonished by the chairman,
was discharged, and the subject dropped.

A DISORDERLY CHILD

The girl, whose cage was brought before Mr. Mans-
field, and (in consequence of her misconduet)discharged,
as reported under our police news, was brought before
the board by the governor, who represented her (although
so young) as a most abandoned character, and requested
that he might be permitted to keep her from the other
paupers:
The board assented to the request.

Several tradesmens' bills were ordered to be paid,
and, in answer to the chairman, the clerk said there was
a sufficient balance in the hands of the treasurer to meet
the present requirements of the union.

STONE BREAKING,

On the motion of Mr. Harrison, it wag decided that
the outdoor superintendent should tike the whole of hit
stone breaking stuff to the Toxteth-park burial ground,
for the purpose of breaking some stones there.
Mr. Edwards inquired of the out-door superintendent,
how many paupers he had in his employ ?
The Superintendent : I am paying for 25
Mr. Edwards: I was at the yard yesterday, when I
only counted 15.

The Superintendent: I don't come here to make any
misrepresentations, and I don't see why you should, in
your place at the hoard, find fault with me.
Mr. Edwards: I am not finding fault with you.

The Superintendent : You have no right to do it, and
I dispute your authority to do it. [He then left the
board room.]

THE SPECIAL DIETARY

Some short time since, in consequence of the large
number of idle and refractory paupers, the governor of
the workhouse, with the medical officer, was directed to
prepare a special dietary table for such characters. The
table was accordingly prepared, and submitted to the
board, who thought it highly satisfactory ; but before it
could be adopted and carried into effect, it was neces-
sary that the sanction of the poor law board should be
obtained, therefore it was, on the 18th ult , submitted to
that board, from whom the following answer had been
received :

" The board state that the guardians would not be
justified in treating any particular pauper as perma-
nently idle or refractory, and in prescribing for them a
specific dietary table by way of punishment, in the
manner proposed ; and although the board regret to
differ in opinion with the guardians on this subject,
they think it their duty to decline to sanction the adop-
tion of the dietary in question, which, in the opinion of
the medical officer, ought not to be imposed in any case
for more than a week, without his special sanction."
The Clerk having read the above communication,
The Chairman said : Then there is an end to our
dietary?

Mr. Taw: Yes; I suppose it will not be of any use
going further in the matter?

The Clerk : No,

CONTEMPLATED AGITATION AGAINST CENTRALIZATION,

Before the above business was wholly disposed of,
The Chairman said he really thought that the time
was come when something should be done with the
general board, for their conduct was most arbitrary and
tyrannical. (Hear, hear.) He would most certainly
protest against their acts, but did not know which would
he the most effectual way of doing so : whether through
their local members, who could ask a question of the
President of the Poor Law Board, or by consulting with
other boards, and getting up an agitation on the ques-
tion. It was quite clear, however, that something must
be done to check the system of centralization which wag
being carried on, for unless they were prepared to put
their faces against the system, all power and control
would be taken out of their hands. He had been given
to understand that the board in London had so inter-
fered with the marine board of Liverpool—he did not
know exactly whether it was true or not—(The Clerk ;
It is true,)—but the members had all resigned.
He would not say whether he was right or
wrong on that poirA, but it was evident that
there was, even by the police bill, a centralising feeling
manifested by the legislature that could not be tolerated.
(Hear, hear.) He would ask are all local boards to be
ridden Over ? Such a state of things ought not to be
submitted to. They could not recommend a dietary
table, or the increase in an officer's salary, without its
being opposed, and being told that the board would not
sanction it. (Hear, hear.) He would protest against it,
and he thought it was the duty of the board to do the
same and take some steps in the matter.
Mr. Edwards : We are quite the humble slaves of the
board above.

Mr. Ledger rose for the purpose of asking the clerk,
whether the board ever returned any answer to the
guardian's communication relative to increasing the
salaries of the two relieving officers, Lythgo and Olney ?
With regard to the officers for the foxteth-park district,
they had had an answer, therefore, it was, as he thought,
the duty of the guardians to have an answer about the
others. (Cries of Hear, hear.) He fully agreed in
all that had been stated by the chairman, and he
wonld say that, in not having received any answer to
their former communication, that the board had not
treated them with the respect that they were in duty
bound to do. (Cheers.) Surely they, as a local board,
must be much better able to judge of what was necessary
and what was required, than a few gentlemen sitting in
London, many of whom were never in the district. He
concluded by moving that the Clerk request the board
to forward an answer to their former communcation on
the subject.
Mr. Edwards : The conduct of this board is most
arbitrary. He thought the guardians were the 13:tat
judges of what they were to pay their servants.
Mr Pitts : On that subject I think the board was
right in the opinion they came to.
ewriting
betreatment, agitated
t
o th e them
Mr. Edwards : That is only your opinion. The
gnardians, by a large majority, thought otherwise. We
haveiil.fhre.n olcvrieli;gni
ilsirlitenytaon: s:lusbrrii
tnh icotrstiaoi
such
jyc uset
mustdifferent local hoards, or by the members of the ?bily tu
House
of Commons.
Mr. Abrahams • Writing to them will only bother
them.

Mr. Edwards : They are rid for being bothered. If
we longer submit to such treatment we must be coward.
and slaves.

The Chairman: They ought to be put right. For my
part 1 don't care for any commissioner or any man in
England.
The motion was agreed to, and the Clerk was instruc-
ted to write to the board on the subject.
After disposing of some routine business,
Mr. Harrison rose, for the purpose of moving the
appointment of a committee, to carry out the provisions
of the 18th and 19th Victoria, relative to the education
of pauper children, but on the suggestion of the Chair-
man the matter stands over for the present.
The board then adjourned.

DISSOLUTIONS or PARTNERSHIP.---17. rearnley and S.
Wainwright, Bradford. Yorkshire, stonemasons. J. Case-
ment, jun., Liverpool, painters.
meth
Sarah Clegg, and J. Clem Todmorden-
anrt,
asecol.e,gg, and J. Casement,
within-Langfield, Yorkshire, rope makers. W. Gallop and
W. Wainwright, Liverpool, and Charlton, Cheshire, cattle
dealers. E. Rowell and J. Porter, Manchester, accountants.
IL Arnold and 13. Sunderland, Leeds, licensed auctioneers.
C. Kurtz, J. W. Cropper, and A. D. Keightley, Liverpool,
tar distillers, so far as regards A. D. Keightley. G. Gibson
and H. D. Dc Vitre, Leeds, cloth merchants. S. B.
Williams and W. Mud, Liverpool, tailors.

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at the Brokers

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biniensidns i —I
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t. Now

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A Ships

By Order of the Trustees

FOR SALE BY AUCTION, This day,
ITAN„ the tth inst., at One o'clock, at the Brokers'
.;tirotC4,, <l6 e, Wal ner—build.ngs, Water street, the barque
SARAH, 538 tons, built at Yarmouth, Nova
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LOADING BE

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AUSTRALIAN

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DF BRITISH AND
MAIL PACKETS.

ent to convey the Royal Mails
h. and to make the passage in

LIVERPOOL TO MELBOURNE,

( faking Goods for Gs ELONC

PACKET of the sth of APRIL.
Receiving goods until the 31st March, if not previously full,
The magnificent Clipper Ship
JAMES BRINES,
CHARLISS WDONNELL, Commander;
2515 tons register, 50(0 tons burden. This vessel's maiden voyage
from Liverpool to Melbourne of 6i days, w..s the gill; kes ever made

by any saihng ship or stearnA. in the world. She was built exprLssly
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the Lightning, Champion of the Seas, Great Tasmania, &c. Her
accommodations surpass in comfort and spl ndour any other ship
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JAMES BAINES & CO. 6, Cook-street.

Succeeding Packets.

LIGHTNING ......2,094 tons, Captain ENTRI oar, sth May.
5CH0518EKG....... 2,600 tons, Carain Foaßas .sth June

" BLACK BALL" LINE OF BRITISH AND

AUSTRALIAN PACKETS

Under engagement to her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners,
TO SAIL ON THE 24TH INSTANT,
d no goods to be received after the 2Ath instant.
FOR SYDNEY,
P-04; The fine Clipper Ship
BEN NEVIS,
Wss. HERRON, Commander;

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CO POLO

is a most eligible

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conveyance tor goods and pa: se
JAMES BAINES & CO., 6, Cook-street

WHITE STAR" LINE OF LIVERPOOL AND
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Under contract with the Post Master General to conveyher Majesty'.
Mail on the 20th of each month to dustralia.
LIVERPOOL TO MELBOURNE,

Forwardine Pass,>ngers to Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart Town, Laun-
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when pr. cticable

PACKET OF

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THE 20TH MARCH,

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the conveyance of mails, argo, and
spate' ed on her appointed day. St.e
,
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line she has bee i in his Line exceeded 80 days to or from

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limited number, and the arrangements for all classes of passengers
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the owners,

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MERSEY" LINE OF AUSTRALIAN

PACKETS

,ned will despatch the following and
other first.c'ass Ships, punctually on their advertised

32" dates

Captain

HEARD,
RAY ...

Tons. To Sail.
t 59.. March 20
909.. April 1

drranre,

STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LIVERPOOL

AND HAVRE.
MARGARET Captain Joust HARRISON,
DELTA Captain LITTLE,
Or ether suitable steamers, are intended to sail
• (with or without pilots) from the Huskisson (or
-.irt._r-Y.7!•"' other) Dock, as follow:—
FROM LIVERPOOL to HAVRE, DIRECT.
DELTA Monday..... March 10, at 12 o'clock, Noon
(0- Shippers must describe in their Shipping Notes the contents of
their Packages.

F ARES —Cabin, 25s

Forfreight or passage apply, in Havre or Paris, to Donald Currie;
in London, to J. B. Foord, 52, Old Broad-street ; in Glasgow, to G.
and J. Burns,9, Buchanan-street; In Manchester, to John Walker,
77a, Market-street; or here to
BURNS & MAC IVER. 16. Water-street.