Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

TIIE FINANCE COMMITTEE,

From the report of the proceedings of this committee, it
appeared that the Surveyor had been requested to report
on the value of the lamps on the Aigburth-road
at the time the present Board took possession of
them in Decembe:, 1833. From that report it ap-
peared that there were twenty-three lamps en the
road, and the value of them tv,ts Sc each, mek;ng a tot-J. of
£9 4s. Since then the sum of £2 2s had bees paid for
the repair of the same. The further consideration of the
matter was referred to the General Beard.

`the committee ale) reported that the subject mooted by
Mr. Thult, for annexing the Toxteth district with the
borough of Liverpool, would be taken into considerati-n
at a special meeting of the committee, to be held ou the
16th inst.

After a brief desultory convarsaion, in the course of
which the chairman stated tha the Bromborough stones
were purchased at the cheapest and most economical rare,
costing, including carting only 635 d per ton
Mr. La.ou explained the po3ition in which the Board
stood in reference to the lamp posts from which it ap-
peared that the Gas Company had, in the first in-
stance, made a claim of £26, but had subsequently reduced
it to £l6, and w.:.re willing to take any fair recompense
On the motion of Mr. Briscoe, seconded by Mr Currie,
it was resolved to pay over to Mr. Leigh the 61121 of
£9 4s 6d, the value of the lamps, as it was that gentleman,
from the fact of his having undertaken to collect the money,
that the GAB company had been " dunning."

THE SEW/CRAG& c,)mmirrEET
Tnis committee rec .mmeaded the purchase of 132 yards
of land at 5s per yard, for widening and improving the
entrance to Grove Park. Also, the acceptance of
Messrs. Jones' tenders, amounting to £2 072, for severing,
&c, the same district. Also, a tender of £6BO for
making a road in the same district, a plan of which was
submitted by Mr. Newlands to th 3 Board, and which
stipulated that the owners on etch side the road should
agree as to the giving or taking of the land, and that the
Board should make the road. On the motion of Mr. Boult,
seconded by Mr. Currie the report was unanimously
adopted. noaaowtNa bi )2411Y.
At the suggestion of the Chairman, the Finance Com-
mittee were instructed to apply to the Public Works Loan
Committee for a loan to carry out the system of sewerage,
&c., and, in failing to obtain it there, to make application
elsewhere.

After transacting more routine business, tie Board ad.
journed.

At LEWD & COMP kNY'S, Ranolagh-str.-et,
BOYS are C LO iIIED from the Ages of Six to 1 wenty Years.

A GRUB AMONG TIM PUIP.ICANS.—Th9 Morning Star
has an eche tisement which professes to he the preliminary
anatomic went of a new paper, the A nglo Saxon.
promi ed jr7utnal will be eevo'ed to the discussion of the
scientific and ethical departmen's of the temperance Ties-
Con, and to the il'usA-ati n of the principles of in'( !Lethal
and social progress. This paper is to be edited bf Edward
Grubb !—.l. name not unknown in Preston. This platform
Ithuriel says that the idea ,:f starting en indepeenent tem-
Frame publication, differing in many resp cts frets those
already established, was suggested by a report of the gear-
terly meeting of the Liconted Nrietzale s' Defence League,
held in the Mitre Inn, Preston, where that body resolved to
establish a newspaper, as thr special organ of the " trade."
That meeting op-rnly avowed that the true end of govern-
ment was to p,omote the interest of the liquor seller,
rather than consult the general goo 1 of the community.
They unblushingly based t'reir theory of government and
national prosperity up m the pernicious maxim that
" Frivate vies are public leeefita." Sere was en oppor-
tunity f:sr showing the wickedness of their morel ideas,
and theinfamous character of their traffic, but they were
overlooked at the time, or perhaps excluded as too stale
and unprofitable for modern temperance men. , From this
it would appear that Mr. Grubb has bad a little quarrel
with his old friends ; bat he learns, no (I.9ubt, on that head,
as he proceecP, in not over elegant style, to consider the
existing teetotal papers and the t-mperance readers. Poor
Mr. Grubb "sees with alarm that a noble mavemen',
based on the principles of eternal truth, has now become a
commercial spscn!ation. He has lived, like others, to see
the day—for the shameful thing mutt be spoken—Wan
those who have devour( d the forgotten trifles, or rejected
nonsense of other teen, s2cure a higher e,mmercial value
than the original product'ons of an honest mind." The
ora'ors wail thus procr eJs .—" We were prepared to witness
a defecdoa from the principles of the temperance movement,
but we were not prepared to expect that our pseudo-leaders,
and the conductors of temperance peri idicals, -would— turn
their hosti;ity to the enemy against the oldest of our advo-
cates—least of all against one who, for five and twmtv
years, has 'carried his cup upright,' and walked the world
with clean hands. James Teare has been att .ckel in a
initialed temperance paper!—the veteran who has never
neglected or betrayed the cause, but, true to the instincts
of his miscirm, has wandered like a pilgrim to establish,
ex end, and keep calve its spirit—against whose reputation
malice i'sr:lfe,uld bring no impeachment, and whose integ-
rity and manliness have won for him the noble designation
of 'Hones James Teare. " We are informed that "In the
first issue of our publication will appal' the comtnencein -nt
of a se lei of critic al papers on the • Oratorical Composi i-
ons of J. B. Gough, Esce illustrative of a-
new mode of speech-making, and adapted to the
weakest capacity. The readers of the .4nglo-
Saxon will learn What are the points in whiPh they,
as temperance men, ought to arraign his julgtaelt
.and
coidemn his taste. Beide% cwoinntaeiiniybitspaenciaalulebd:ies:raTii
to.• at the same time
classification' of all his
his te.mhing, t'eese pap
showing
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_s(lll,ject quite as well as the
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subject of the title-page
it will b' for others
aided an3tltine• to
been completed, i,toh determine examinationwhether
his
prolix
and
verb°'e
declamation
1111 high-iounling
our information, or his affected appeu
ment—entitle•him, in the honest meaning pass.ges—taken from other men withouto'wof atheeknteerwinl:dtgo-
the reputation of an orator." Grubb concludes by an
earnest appeal for assistance in his new crusade ao•aiLsr, his
old friends and-foes.—Prestota Guardian. rdia n.

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