Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-01 00:00:00

The resolution was seconded by Mr. James Harrison

Mr. Charles Melly said, before passing this resolution,
he would remark that, formerly, after passing a certain
amount to the contingent fund, the balance was all
divided. Last year there was a balance allowed to stand
over, on the supposition that there would be some
opposition. But as they could actually pay £l2 per
share this year, he would suggest to the committee
whether it was desirable to allow this sum to be
accumulating, and whether they might not pay at least
eleven guineas. He made no motion, but merely threw
this out for the consideration of the committee.
The Chairman observed that the committee had fully
considered the matter, but they were extremely anxious
to sustain themselves, in the event of any possible oppo-
sition to the new bill.

Mr. Booker asked were they not now in a contest ?
Were they not like a house divided against itself ?
Were not many of their proprietors fighting the
battle against them, and compelled them to spend that
£1,400 ? He would ask them if they were to have
this contest, would they not require more money to
defend themselves ? and where was this money to come
from, if they divided their balance as Mr. Melly would
have it. He thought they should make provision.
Mr. Titherington remarked that the money would not
be squandered by the committee, and it was merely a
disarrangement of the financial year, as to the time when
the dividend would be given (hear, hear.)
The Chairman said that the observations had only
elicited the healthy state of their funds.

The motion was then put and carried.
Mr Titherington moved, "That the thanks of the
meeting be given to the auditors of the accounts, for
their services during the past year."
The motion was seconded by Mr. Harrison, and
carried.

The following gentlemen were elected as members of
the committee, in lieu of retiring members :—Messrs.
Lamonius, Barton, Rigley, James Bateson, Burckhardt,
William Titherington, and Booker.
A resolution was then carried empowering the com-
mittee now appointed to act.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the old committee
for their past services ; a vote of thanks was also passed
to Mr. John Stewart, their surveyor, and to Mr. Thomas
Carson, their solicitor. Each of these gentlemen re-
turned thanks. _ _

The Chairman then made the, following remarks in
reference to the position of the proprietors at present
in regard to the new bill : I have now to bring. before
the meeting a bill, of which notice has been given by
the New Exchange Buildings Company, Limited, and
which it is proposed to bring into Parliament in the
ensuing session. The meeting will recollect that in
the last session of Parliament our company
.applied
for and obtained an act authorising them to increase
the capital of the company £40,000, and to borrow
£30,000, to enlarge the newsroom, and generally to
alter and improve the buildings, and to buy additional
land fot the purposes of the company. By a clause
added to the bill in committee, its operation was sus-
pended until. the Ist of August, 1859, to allow time for
the proposal to Parliament of a more comprehensive
scheme, the expediency of such having been suggested by
certain parties who opposed the bill in committee. With
this clause our act was passed. With reference to the
bill of the New Exchange Buildings Company, Limited,
I have to state that it contemplates the iurchase of the
property of our company—that. is to say, the Exchange
•Butidinge. The bill incorporates therewith the

I):Aridg Clauses Consolidation Act, which will enable the
company to purchase our property, under ,the com-
pulsory clauses of that, act, so that the price
would be fixed by a jury or arbitrator. It also
empowers the company to alter and enlarge the buildings.
The proposed capital of the company is £360,000, with
pbwer to increase it an additional £lOO,OOO, and a power
to borrow £lOO,OOO. The company also seeks power to
purchase 4,000 additional square yards of land, and to
stop up Exchange-street West. These appear to be the
principal provisions of the bill. Having brought the bill
under the notice of the meeting, it will be for them to
give such directions to their committee as they may think
fit. Perhaps the V most expedient course will be to refer
the bill to the committee, with power to take such steps
as they may consider necessary for the protection of the
property and interests of the shareholders of our
company.
Mr. Booker moved, that the bill be referred to the
committee.

Mr. Brook, in seconding the motion, remarked that he
could not perceive, that the Now Bill, with respect to
their proprietory, was a just one. He could not imagine
that the thing was at all called for. The arrangements
of mercantile purposes here were far superior to those in
the City of London, and he did not believe the House of
Commons would sanction such a bill.

The motion was passed, after which a vote of thanks
was passed to the chairman, and the meeting then
separated.

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGEMCE

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD,

THE MUTINY ON BOARD THE ENOCH TRAlN.—Officers
Layeock and Carlyle, brought up seven more black men,
part of the crew of the above named ship, charged with
mutiny, and threatening Captain Rich, the commander of
the vessel. The evidence of
.the officers, and the case
generally, was the same as that given on Saturday, and
one of them named Beckett was pointed out as the ring-
leader, and the man who had
.induced the others to
mutiny. Beckett made a speech, and said he was not
treated as a man by the mate, and that the captain
threatened to sell him when he got to New Orleans._ The
captain utterly denied the statement. The
prisoners all made several excuses, but of 'a
petty description. Carlyle said Beckett ham-
mered one of the men on board, because he turned
to and done his work. His Worship said he did not
credit a word of what the prisoners had said. The
captain said he would withdraw the charge against any
Of the prisoners who wished to go in the ship, but they
all refused. They were fined £5 or two months imprison-
ment each.

THE GLASS TO ITS WRONG 'USE.—James Hicks, a well-
dressed young man, was =charged with a violent assault
on a black sailor, named Moses Hunter. Mr. Bluck
defended. It appeared that on Sunday the complainant,
-along with another man, went into a public-house kept
by a Mr. Ellis, in Great Howard-street, where they
were drinking and smoking. The prisoner entered,
and asked Hunter to pay for some drink, which
he refused to do, and, as the evidence went
to show, the prisoner struck him a blow on the face with
a tumbler glass, inflicting two wounds—one on the fore-
head, and one across the nose. Mr. Blink produced a
witness, who swore that the black man struck Hicks first.
The prisoner was fined £2, or two months' imprisonment.
THE MAN AND THE TIGERS.-officer Caldwell, 482,
brought up a person named John Williams, described as
a master of a ship, charged for having assaulted him.
The officer said : I was on duty at the menagerie, at
Shaw's-brow, on Saturday night, when the priso-
ner came behind me, and gave me a blow on the
head.. I turned round, and saw he was intoxicated,
and I then wanted him to go home, when he called me a
thief and pickpocket, and said I robbed a church, and
struck me again. The prisoner said it. was all the fault
of the drink and the tigers. He was fined lOs and costs.
Jonx THOMPSON'S PEA-SOUP.—Sarah Davies, was
charged by John Thompson, a soup shop-keeper, in Lower
Parliament-street, for having smashed a bowl, after
drinking the soup, and for also smashing two squares of
glass in his windows, and for an attempt to smash in his
own day-lights—to wit, his eyes—into the bargain. Mr.
John Thompson is a very little man, with very great
whiskers, and a powerful looking nose, modelled
after the fashion of the 'Wellington system, and
a head that put one in mind of the leg of a peg-top
trousers, whilst Sarah Davis was a pale, bilious, and in-
teresting looking matron of 28 years of age, with a
"boa-constriction" about her neck. Mr. Thompson told
a story 'about a peculiar knack he had of making pea-
soup, and the narrative forcibly reminded one of George
Rollin's advertisements. According to Mr. Thompson
the peas were specially grown for his particular use—no
other peas could be produced like them - although every one
knows the comparisons made between the likeness of two
peas. The water that glomorated the peas was not
pike water, so much the better for the soup. Without
going through the variety of the excellence of the
materials which composed Mr. Thompson's pea-soup,
according to his account of it—if his account be true,
and there is no reason to doubt that it was the ne plus
ultra, the "beau ideal," the factotum, of all the soup
that was ever produced, from turtle to egg broth—Mrs.
Davis and a friend of hers, went to Mr. Thompson's, on
Saturday night, to luxuriate on two penny bowls of this
" godess-feeding" beverage. The very bowls in which it
was served, were unique and original, with quaint figures
and sylvan scenes painted thereon. Whether it was the
contemplation of these fine arts, or the enjoyment of the
fine composition of art that they contained, certain it was
that they stopped no less than three-quarters of an hour
over the soup. It coming up to closing time at this period,
Mr. Thompson hinted that it was time to be going. The
ladies had no objection to depart, but a little difficulty
prevented their marching, namely, the payment of a
penny a bowl for the illimitable compound. Mrs. Davis
thought it was quite enough to patronise Mr. Thompson,
without paying him ; but Mr. Thompson preferred pay-
ment to patronage any day out of the 365, and he told
her so, in as plain English as "General Kennedy" would
have done in Irish to a native of the Irish Highlands.
Instead of reimbursing the proprietor for the famous pea-
soup, she hit him a lick in the face, and broke two squares
of glass in his shop window. Mrs. Davis called her com-
panion, who said it was all about a trifle of mustard. They
went in to have some penny bowl of soup, and when they
asked for some mustard to put in it —(laughter.) Mr.
Mansfield : Do you use mustard in pea soup ? Witness :
Every " lady " has her liking, you know, sir. (Renewed
laughter.) His Worship intimated to Mrs. Davis, that
she had no right to take a liking to smash Mr. Thompson's
windows, after partaking of his wonderful pea-soup, and
ordered her to pay ss. and costs, or to be imprisoned for
fourteen days.

KEEPING.iN IMPROPER Hou3E.—John Seddon, 22,
and Mary Seddon, his wife (who appeared to be his
mother), were charged for keeping an improper house at
7, Glover-street. Mr. Black appeared for the prisoners.
The difference in their appearance, caused Mr.
Mansfield to ask, is this mother and son ?
Ile was informed that they were husband and wife, and
that the young fellow recently married her, for the pur-
pose of living idly by the income of the infamous house.
The charge was proved, and his Worship said he would
send them for trial. Mr. Bluck asked if his Worship
would not conclude according to law, that it was supposed
the wife was acting under the control of her husband ?
His Worship said he would let both out on two sureties
of £lO each.
FATAL ACCIDENT—CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
Henry Roberts, a carter, was brought up by officer 667,
on a charge of having caused the death of a boy named
Thomas Karmode, aged four years. Mr. Black was for
the prisoner. From the evidence of the officer, and a
person named Neill, it appeared that about half
past two o'clock on Saturday, the prisoner was driv-
ing a heavy laden float down Mersey-street, and
that the child was crossing the street, and Mr. Neill said
he saw the horses knees knock the child down, when he
attempted to stop the horse, but fell under the shaft of
the float ; the child tried to get up, when it staggered
and fell under the wheel, which passed over the head,
and killed the poor little thing on the spot. A witness
named Haily, gave a different version of the case, and
said the child fell ten yards from the float, before it went
over the child. A young man named Mills spoke as to
his seeing the transaction, and gave a rather different
account of it from the two other witnesses. All the wit-
nesses, in reply to Mr. Black, said the carter was sober,
and driving very slowly at the time. They did not
attribute any blame to him. His Worship said it was an
unfortunate and melancholy accident, but it was clear the
prisoner was not to blame, and he therefore discharged
him. (He was subsequently brought up at the Coroner's
Court, on the inquest, but was there discharged also, as
the jury found it was an accident.)

A SCOUNDREL INDUCING A SON TO ROB HIS FATHER.
—James M'Namara, a boot and shoe maker, who lives at
10, Sun-street, was brought up by officers Laycock and
Carlyle, on a charge of having stolen and received about
£4OO worth of leather, the property of Mr. Robert
'Lawson, leather dealer, &c., of 17, Pembroke-place, and
Joseph Lawson, a boy 14 years of age, son of the prose-
cutor, was charged with stealing the leather in conjunc-
tion with 111.‘„Namara. Mr. Cobb defended.. There was
'about £2OO worth of the leather in the court.. Carlyle
said, from information he and Laycock received, they
went to the house of the prisoner M'Namara, at 10, Sun-
street, and asked him if he had any leather that did not
belong to him ? He replied he had not. They said they
suspected he had, and must search the house. He asked
them for their warrant, and dared them to search with-
out one, They told him they would search, and he defied
them, and said he would not allow them to do so, as he
was an old INiblin policeman, and knew the law better

THE NO_KfilErN -TiJESDaYi, PtI3RLTARY 1, 1859