Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-10 00:00:00

the committee

It being now within a few ,minutes of five 0
and several members having left the room, 31r,
moved an adjournment of the Council
o'clock this morning, which was agreed to
sion, in which 22 members voted for and 15 ag

adjournment.
The Council adjo'

trned accordingly

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LADVERTISEMENT.
FRIENDLY SOCIETY REVELATIONS

A meeting of the officers and friends of the .O"J.,
Philanthropic Society was held last night at the oti,ll,
of the society, Finch-street. The Secretary, in 0pe12,1
the proceedings, said that the present meeting 'te
called to inquire into certain false and malicious st•go
meats which had been circulated with the vie, :1
injuring the society. Placards had emanated lirsc
another society, and were two in number. The foh°

ing are the Main facts of the first cas
the placard. Michael McHugh entered
as a member of the Philanthropic Society
ing to the rules was entitled to the sum of £3 in tie
six weeks from the time of his entrance. The f't
in-law died on the

very day twenty-six weelcs aT'sl
had entered the society. The son thinking hlnit
entitled to the funeral allowance, made application t°i
secretary, who told him that he was not entitled t°11;
allowance, as his father was two days short of beidoz

half member. Such was the subject of the firs, Theo
ment, to which was appended the son's mark. wig
was also a postscript•to the effect that, after below -voo
to the society for some twelve or thirteen years 0 Tbß
penny was received on the present occasion.
't°
secretary, after reading the placard, proceeded
__:ls
plain how the case really stood, which, he said, d jot°
follows :--The father-in-law, J. Hutt, was en tere 141'13
the society three years ago by his son, and wssioa.i do
entered by the daughter some twenty weeks Pre,,,- e, BcP_A,
his death. The claim of the son being a just "refann
paid, that of the daughter not being valid illy vrll,—re
He produced the books of the society, ;fr,4 °4.-ho
it was apparent that the twenty-six If: t,11• and
not completed at the time of Hutt's a"--nlbel
second placard related to Barbara M`Ctietl
bore her mark. It stated that the s°:teaa
refused to pay a just claim of £l2, givin(re' meetwA'e,
£6. Mrs. M'Coombe present at crliLctly "„j
and, in reply to the secretary, most al.,s;eat, s",t
nied having affixed her mark to the doe" differe;
added that the one read to•her was of utrY
nature. The secretary. said that by the eaould,
the time of the man's entrance his
death, be fifty, in which case £6 "I. could
allowance. allowance. given now, if sufficient evl r
brought to show that the man was younge
quite willing to pay the balance. He thouc
most unjust and dishonest for any society to take `1
tage of a woman's ignorance by making her sign W ,;)
age: the Pr°,l
she did not believe. The placards having been pubus
he thought it but justice to the society and the 1
should be published also. 0
thought that such infamous documents could onli
originated from spite, and he would warn the pa"
be on their guard against any society which had rd
that the refutationl
to such schemes for blackening the character rd
honest society like the present. After some fartb.,
cussiou, a refutation of the placards was drs„,/ree
signed by Barbara M'Coombe ; after which the P-t.
separated.

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„f risell
.HIGH PRICE OF FISH.—In consequence, 100 \55.,
which have recently prevailed, the price of 0 of Si es al
so much that codfish fetchedthe enormous 01,111,111'
yesterday morning, in Billinp.:szate Market'

Wednesday. tl_
nif1.„.11.11,01' 0,1
excitement
trioeusestablishment whichsia cm ehna ss recently enne
auriferous
been
mining created
comp
SPURIOUS " SPECIMENS OF QUARTZ."-- VP"
e
quartz of 0 citi
manufactured and distributed as the produce, ,t thebee,
reefs. A case of this kind was investigate(' has et*
police
-etanrupt, wfohrenobataminaningnammeodneEy ho
false
erol#
admitted having manufactured Sundry spec,illicrefic
telling a slight quantity of gold into th-e,,hoP:th
quartz stones. On his premises being sear;eatlf
ber of pieces of quartz were found al),l3°'"
Course of preparation.—Australian gait. 0 olus,'
mbpyson, „ret
SWINDLING AND ROBBERY BY AN I:43l3';ooCl",fte,
FORMATORY.—Ou Monday, at Wakefield, a .'sos
young woman, named Harriet Hartley, bog 'l,
with having obtained a quantity of COles:11,4",1
fringe, stockings, and other articles, *o'll ' Wa'`,,f'"
dlet-On and Glop; drapers, Cross-squat
under the represTntation that she was sent J, Aest
Nicholson, superintendent of the West lti(111:17e
tory. The prisoner had served her time lilt to tPt.d,,
tory, and on the Ist of November she Ncetl,sistv,
and obtained the goods from one of the,:l.
they, were entered in the name- of -1 a'
That lady denied that she had ever give' ft.,ooot;
any authority. to get goods in her name.
retui
peared that after the prisoner had left the 3i*.v4b141 to
she engaged herself as a servant with Di gate'
the landlady of the Bay Horse, in Kirks
not been long there when she said her I:ry
see -her at Manchester. She left for th'' JO'
after her departure, Mrs. Laing disco ood,
robbed her of some articles of clothing.Aoo";tc.
'boots..—The prisoner was committed fort, frt. stil toll,'
A MASTER RESPONSIBLE FOR 0;0'00
NEGLECT.—In the Glasgow Sheriff's 00'1
has been tried which arose out of an acts C,‘
some nine months ago, at the laying of ho del!,
Water Company's new pipes. Apo rtion fell into o.
I',
ment of the trench which was being dag„,oll3l
workmen, carrying with it two of the: ro.secij'lco't
which were lying ready to be laid, eaus',ll,faia?, org,„-f
to the. plaintiff; and the accident, it sv's "(4010
place in consequence of the want of "railthe °Vitt
fillPPort by wooden props or planks t° 001:
trench. The judgment is interesting c' 01' 0 0
deals with a new and difficult oint of cito
master liable for injury and daPmage cauttscegligell,
workmen through the carelessness orii 1000 the
manager or foreman ? It is nosy we'usea has 50
master is not liable if the injury is_neS it 1315101 r
lessness of a fellow-workman; and 1 afe a +1
argued in this case that a foreman is ogl:.
de, an
man, although perhaps of a higheoi:
,e3heid re
that ground the master could n
eer °/)
It was decided, however, that a
Inwork7oll'
is not in the position of a fellow-0 „se alas
to be the direct representative
.._uforoi
absence, and the master is responsiblv

carelessness on his par