The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-20 00:00:00

FIIPLNCK COMMITTEE.

Mr. Shaw moved the confirmation of the proceedings,
and requested that the usual course might be adopted with
regard to the applications for the office of assistant col-
lector. The applications to be all referred back to the
committee, who should select two and lay them before the
beard on the next day of the election of one.
Mr. Whitty remarked that the number in the house had
decreased, while those on the outdoor list had increased.
In consequence of that fact, he believed some gentlemen
on the relief quorums had endeavoured to remove the
discrepancy by striving to reduce the outdoor list. The
result was that, within his own observation, lately persons
well deserving of out-door relief, and who still
possessed some feeling of independence which rendered
them repugnant to entering the workhouse were offered
the alternative of coming in or being removed from the
list. It appeared an extremely strange course that gen-
tlemen of the quorums should order the admission into the
workhouse of persons receiving 2s. a-week, when they
would cost in the house 3s a-week. He w tuld therefore,
suggest that it ought to be an instruction from the Board
to the gentlemen composir g the quorums that they should,
as far as possible, alter that mode of proceeding in cases
where transferring a party to the house wou.d not produce
a saving to the ratepayers but the contrary.
The Chairman said the subject had been before the
Finance Committee on one or two occasions, and the com-
mittee had ordered reasons to be appended each week to the
outdoor relief list for its decrease or increase. He thought
it more than probable that one very sufficient reason was,
that at that season of the year they were unwilling to give
any orders for the house. During the inclement season of
the year they offered the house to as many as possible, but
in summer a little outdoor relief extra would be observed.
Mr. Jackson said a very large amount of the out-door
relief of late had arisen out of the very great prevalence of
easterly winds, by which a great number of persons about
the docks were kept out of employment. He hoped now
that a change of weather would diminish those cases.

Mr. Bairtitow said there were thousands of people in
Liverpool of such idle and dissolu e habits that if they
could get is 6d or 2s per week they would never work.
(Hear, hear.) It was absolutely necessary in a great num-
ber of cases to test that description of poverty by offering
the house. Once get persons into the house, and find that
they were industrious, sober, and cleanly people, and then
they could easily let them out again, and give them the
out door allowance.

Mr. C,ellin said the fear of coming into the house would
drive a great many idle persons to work.
After some further conversation, the proceedings were
confirmed.
A letter was read from the Leeds guardians, inviting the
cooperation of the Board to oppose the bill at present
being introduced with reference to industrial schools.
The Chairman called attention to the fact that whereas
formerly any bill coming before parliament affecting the
parish interests was at once supplied to the board at a
small expense, by an arrangement in London. They were
now precluded from incurring any expense for that pur-
pose, and suffered some disadvantage in consequence.
Mr. Denton said the last time that subject was intro-
duced it was referred to the Voluntary Rate Committee.
He asked what progress had been made with reference to
the amount of that rate in bank, in the names of the
former churchwardens.

The Chairman said it remained in precisely the
same position as it had been in for the past two or three
years.
Mr. Bairstow said Mr. Denton being one of the com-
mittee himself might have known the fact.
Mr. Denton said he was aware of it, but the public was
not, and he thought it right the public should know that
the committee had been doing all they could to get
the money from the late churchwardens, bat could not
succeed.

Mr Luff believed Mr. Carne was willing to sign an
order for the money, but Mr. Hutchinson had still some
doubts. He thought if the chairman was to see the late
churchwardens the matter might probably be managed.
The Chairman said it was a matter of regret that when
bills game on affecting the interest of the parish, the
vestry .could not spend £l, even where-it might save
£l,OOO.
The subject then dropped.
Mr. Byers gave notice that at the next meeting he would
move for a committee to enquire into some of the causes
01 pauperism, and to consider the best means of removing
them.
This concluded the business.

GSNERAL TODTGRBEIC—This distinguished Russian
engineer has fixed the first week in September for visiting
England and attending the banquet to be given to him in
London by the officers of the Royal Engineers.
A short time since two workmen, deputed by their
comrades at Chattellerault, came to Paris, to offer to the
Emperor a magnificent sword manufactured there. His
Majesty received them most kindly, told them to thank
their comrades from him, gave to each a handsome gold
watch, and presented 5,000 f. to the general aid fund;
NSW RZMEDY FOR EPILEPSY.—Sir Charles Locock
made known a very im.rortant fact with regard to the
tizatuaent of some forms of epilepsy, at the meeting of the
Medical awl Chiturgical Society last Tuesday. la cases
of hysterical epilepsy in young women, he has found the
bromide of potassium, in doses of from five to ten grains
remarkably efficacious. Of 15 cases in which he had tried
it, it had failed in only one.
Among the passengers by the Orinoco (arrived at South-
aniptor ), was a Haytien princess, also the Duke de Paul
and the Baron de Luistante (envoy to the Court of St.
James) and M. t'Espinasse. Many of the Haytiea passer-
gars, most of whom are black, are handsome and intell:-
gent-looking men. The princess is a half caste, with a
pretty face and petite figure, and dressed in the most elegant
European fashion. She appeared to be about twenty years
of age.
NATURAL CURIWIT Y.—A citizen, while enjoying the
luxury of a duck's egg, a few mornings ago, was wonder-
struck, when, on the third insertion of the spoon, he
brought out an infant egg, in size and shape like a dove's.
and, from its weight, apparently full. We challenge the
Dumfries Courier to produce anything equal to this. The
same duck, the other morning, presented its owner with
an egg measuring 8 inches lengthwise, and 64 inches in
circumference. The eggs lie in our office for the inspection
of the curious.—Selso Chronicle

Tig PREMIER AND THE JEWS.—" Why, sir, I have
heard of maryJews who have turned Christians," (elegant
phrase) "but it never yet fell to my lot to bear of a
Christian who became a Jew."—Lord Palmerston on the
Oath Bill, Friday evening. Ole would have thought that
the noble Gallic), from his iuteresting relations with Lord
Shaftesbury and the bishops, would have remembered
Lord George Gordon, the hero of the Protestant riots,
some 70 years ago, who was admitted among the "people,"
and underwent the rite of initiation. In the last number
of the Hebrew Observer the conversions from Christi,:nity
to Judaism, on the continent, are declared to be as nu-
merous as those from Judaism to Christianity.
THE PROTECTION TO WOMEN Acr.—lt is understool
that the chief clerks of the different poli3i courts have
been required to make a return of the number of convic-
tions under the Protection to Women Act, in such a form
as to show whether the act has been of use or otherwise in
diminishing the number of assaults on women. The
return from Marlborough-street Police-court will show
that the number of cases, instead of being diminished, has
largely increased of late. The penalty of imprisonment
appears to have very little effect either as a punishment or
preventive, fur a number of the last batch of convictions
refer to husbands who have been over and over again
;Quieted and imprisoned for ill-treating their wires.