Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-08 00:00:00

rooms, were summoned before the magistrates, for violations
of the act of parliament. Some of the magistrates con-
victed and some of them acquitted the defendants on the
same sort of evidence ; some were of opinion, inasmuch as,
seeing that prostitutes could not be got rid of, that it would
be better for them to be in•houses than on the streets. With
these conflicting opinions and decisions of the magistrates,
and the strange conduct of the police, it was clear that there
was certain influence at work somewhere, and that there
was something clearly wrong, so far as the working of the
police was concerned. The was a sort of squabble between
the justices ; upon the evidence that one magistrate convicted
on this day, the magistrate the next day dismissed the com-
plaint. One was found one day, and the next Mr.
Robertson Gladstone dismissed a similar charge on the same

Kuowina tha

le parties, who were at

hand work in the -case—whoever tbey were, would be
irritated at this, as the decisons that were unfavonrable did

corruption

mewhere on, the park of the polic
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policemen were as

;kepi by mhos,

it appeared

)e none to remedy it. The
rder they were acting ? but

they would not tell, in point of fact they said they wet
raider no authority at all. So it was clear there was
'llll.'b on with the police, and with
.e of opinion that existed in the
.o no other course left to protect the
baracter of justice than to issue the order. He would

some underhand work

and the differe

only offer these observatio:

present, but as the discussion
perhaps have some further remarks to

Mr. Castellain said that Mr. Anderson. had gone so fully
into the subject, that he would only offer a few observaT

Mr. Sheil objected to any further observations, until there
was some motion before the chair.
Mr. Anderson said he paid great deferent
Mansfield, and it was not desirable that th

'to Mr

magistrates

should come into collision with him, but the question
had assumed great importance ; and the public think,
because the houses and prostitution increased, the magis-
trates would not do their duty. He would therefore move,
"That, in consequence of the great increase of the sort of
houses alluded to, and the increase of prostitution, that the
wder of the 19th June be cancelled."
Mr. Castellain seconded the motion. 1.
ge of houses of the sort mentioned had been seventy-two
year, and from Octoberto.February the incree

said, th

was fifty-three, and an increase of 400 prostitutes in four
months, and all chiefly in the locality of Lime-street and
Copperas-hill. He was not aware of the order of June
last, until November. He was one of the magistrates who
fined Barnard, of Lime•street, on the clearest evidence,
and he did not then know of the order. He thought
Mr. Mansfield might have taken the opinion of the
magistrates on the question before he made the order.
Mr. Wybergh read the following,
,handed by Mr.
Castellain

SE HEAD CONSTABLE

,PECIAL REPORT BOOK,

22ND JUNE, 1858.
I order that no more informations shall be laid by' the polic
against coffee-house keepers and eating-house keepers, upon the
ground that they permit prostitutes to meet and remain together,
unless there are circumstances in the ease different from those
which the Court of Queen's Bench held to have warranted the
magistrates to acquit the defendant. I have further to remark
that the recent frequency of these informations laid by individual
from the magistrates, watch
'mated to create suspicion

bout directions

highly prejudicial to the efficiency of the polic