Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

THE VALUATION OF THZ UNION.

A lett-r was read irow Mr. Inspect,r Mainvvaring, stating
that he had appointed Messra. Atkinson, architews, of
York, to make a valuation of the Workhouse, the Hospi-
tql, and other property belonging to the Union, with the
cost of the erection of each establishment, with a view of
nil:king an estimate of what Proportion the Tcxteth Park
guardians were to pay of those expanses.
Several gu-irdians exp-weed it as their opinion that a
local valuer shook' hove been employed, and it was ordered
that the Clerk should write to the Inspector, requesting
him to reconsider that portion o his letter.
WHAT HAS BZCC•ITS OF 11111 OFFICIAL DoCUMICNTS ?

Mr. SHAW, seeing the chairman of the Visiting Commit-
tee present, he wished to esk him if he had got any
document which bad been sent to the committee, but which
had not been brought b fore them ?
Mr. WENSLEY: I have no documents. If I ever
received one, I handed it over to the chairman of the
Officers' Committee. .

Mr. SHAW : That won't do. Did you receive a letter
complaining of the conduct of an °Eller of the union, and
which letter has never been produced before the Board?
Mr. WEN3LEY I know of no document,
Mr. SHAW: D d you receive one ?
Mr. WENSLICY : I believe there was one, but I do not
know its c utter tg.
Mr. SHAW : To whom did you give it ?
Mr. WEINLEr : To either the chairman or the deputy
chairman of the committee.
Mr. SHAW : To which ?
Mr. WaNsLey: I do not know ; but it had better stand
over until those gentlemen are present, and they will be
able to tell you about ir. Fur my part, I had forgotten
all about it.
Mr. SHAW thought such proceedings very irregular.
The thing had been standing over three or four months,
and nothing was heard of it, and would not have been if
he h-d not asked the question. He went on to charge
Mr. Wensley with a breach of trust in not giving the letter
up when he was cal'ed to order. After smne further
conversation—in the course of which the Rev. Mr.
Tattersall thought that Mr. Shaw had better introduce the
thumbscrews for the purpose of extorting expressions from
the guardians—the matter was allowel to stand over for
a time, Mr. Shaw and Mr. Wecsley interchanging some
remarks that neither added to their dignity as guardians
fr as gentlemen, and concluded by the latter person
observing. " You have stated a lie, air."
After transacting some routine busines., the Board
djoirned.

THE B.S. GREAT BRITAIN.-It iS said that the screw
steamer Great Britain. belonging to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright
and Co., of Liverpool, has been tendered to the East India
House for the conveyance of troops.

INDIA.I( RELIEF FUND.—CONTKiBUTION OF THE EMPEROR
NAPOLEON.—The Emperor has addressed the following
letter to the French A.mbassadar : I send you £l,OOO
sterling its my personal subscription, in favour. of the
officers and soldiers cruelly afflicted in India. I also send
you £4OO, the result of the subscription of the Imperial
Guard. We have not forgotten the generous subscription
of the Queen and of the English people, at the time of the
inundations."

The great Clear Grit organ, the Toronto Globe, has
dee'ared against the report of the Committee Of the House
of Commons on th Heds m's Bay q testion and of course
the smaller fry will follow sui-. What party writers or
orators may chance to say in the matter can be of little
weight in the estimation of any one who knows bow such
things are treated in Canada; but the question itself is one
of grave inn ortance in corm, ction witn the future
.rf the
country. The American Association presents, at this
moment, metal more attractive to the Montreal public than
a discussion on the rather hackneyed subject of the
Hudson's Bay territory ; but we shall, by and by. have to
trouble our readers with a few remarks on the decision
arrived at by the Committee of the Horse of Commons, as
embodied in their report.— Afon;lrcal Pilot.
MELANCHOLY CATASTEV)PNE —Much painful excitement
has been caused in the rural hamlet of Timble Great,
about six miles from Otley, by the following sad occur-
rence. On Friday last four lads were engaged in reaping
a field near the former place until afternoon, when two
of them, named David Teal and J. Holmes, went away with
the inie !vim of going to Titub'e to get acme refreshment,
leaving the other two, whose names were Abraham Teal,
age 15, and John Teal, his nephew. snmswhat older, being
17 years of age, and a son of Mr. Josh. Teal, of B:uhber-
houses, eheemaker, in the field. The parties had taken
With them in the morning an old gun, with which to shoot
small birds. David Taal and Holmes had not g)t beyond
'the length of two fields from the sp .t before they heard the
report of a gun, upon which they turned back and found
that John Teal had gone, takieg with him the gun, while
his uncle, = brahani Teal, was seen lying in or near the
hedge. Thinking he was merely hiding h'inself, Homes
said, " Come out, we see thee." The uncle not moving,
Holmes called out to h' us in a louder tine, Is t h u asleep?"
Sill recuiving no reply, Holmes and his cotnpnnion then
went up to trim, took off li; rap, and discovered he was
quite dead, having been shot through the head. The body
was subseqeently removed to the house of Mr. Stephen
Teal, shoemaker and farmer, of Timble, the father of the
deceased. The nephew, John Teal, did not mike his
appearance until dusk the same evening, and was in the
greatest mental eugnish at the shocking occurence,
the dee,ased and be having been from ctilelhoed on the
most affectionate terms. His explanation of the dreadful
affair is, that it was purely the result of an accident ; that
they were sitting under the hedge toge!her, when his uncle
said, " There are three birds (partridges) gone over our
heads, you must have a shot at them ;" that both of them
got up simultaneously, when the trigger of the gun (which
was then in his heed) caught a twig in the batik., went
off, and his uncle vets s'eet —Leeds Mercury.
REMARKABLE SUICIDE —Two brothers, named Wiliam
and Henry. Adaufe, sons of John Adam!, a cabinet-maker,
residinz Devonshi,e-s:reet, Sheffield, have been found
drowned under singular circumstances. From inquiries
made by the race, it eppeats the*, on -Wednesday last.,
Henry Adams, who is fifteen years of ege, had a quarrel
~cith his father, wh', it is, all ged, either struck or pushtd
hire, at d angrily 'told him to leave the shop. This was
atmt four e'elock in the afternoon. and shortly afterwards
the youth went to the Victoria Reilw,y station to carry a
parcel fur some Mende Ho returned home, refused to
partake of tea, and, having watched a favourable oppor-
tunity for speaking to his sister, told her ho should not
again be seen alive, and went away. He was not aftot-
wards seen alive. Ott the following; day (Thursday), about
five o'clock, William Adams, who is twenty-one years of
ego, else lett home, as is al'eged, plortly after having had an
altercation with hi; fitter. He went will £2 to pay te
poore' rate. nod instead of retuning home with the receipt,
forwarded it through the post, with an intimation that he
too should never be again seen alive. On receivieg this
intirnetion en the Ft i lay, Mrs. Adams repotted the absence
of William the elder son, at the police-dice, but, s'rengely
enough, said.nothing at that time of the younger son, who
had gone away on the Wednesday. Nothing mere was
heard of the brothers until Monday morning, when the
body of the younger eon, Henry, whose absence had not
-been at first reported, vies found in the canal, jast at the
outskirts of the. town. On Tuesday rnoraieg the body of
the Eller •soe Willem was found floating in the canal
about hill a mile further from Sheffield than the place
whe-e his brother his found. Theca are the circumstances
connected with the melancholy event, so far as they have
at present transpired. The only cease assigned for the
rash conduct of the younger sots is the altercation with his
father; while with regard to the elder son it is thought
that a severe illness from which he bad been suffering for
some months might have bad an influence on his mind. An
inquest will, however, beheld, when the circumstances will
be more fully investigated.