Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-14 00:00:00

Poor,Law Board, Whitehall, (S W.,) Ist Aug:, 1857

Sir, —I am directed by the Poor 1.4.1 w Beard to inform•yon that

they have received front Mr. Wm. Cleaver a report of his
ap-
pointment to the office of ch rk to the Guardians of the Poor of the
township of Toxteth Park, lam directed to observe that Mr.
Cleaver alreaiy holds the office of clerk of the West Desk!
Union ; and that, looking to the extent and popu'ation of rho
township of Toxreth Park, it appears to the Board 'desirable
that the office of clerk for that township should not be held by
a gentleman who fills a similar appointment.. Upon general
grouids, the Board think it .inexpedient that the same parson
should act as a clerk to two•unions;• Rues 'ions and differences
may arise between them, particularly when the Unions adjoin
each other, and. are so populous as ia tbis case; and if the clerk
be the officer of both, he. is not in a position to give that.incle-
pendent advice to.the Goa-dians, which is one of the objects. of
his appointments. In the case. of
.Mr. CleaVer, it has been
represented to the Board that independently. of being clerk to
the Wert Derby Union, he has other avocations which must
fully occupy his .time, and prevent his giving that personal
attention which is desirable to the duties of the office to which
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the guardians have now elected him. For these reasons, the
Board aro indisposed to give their consent to the appointment
of Mr. Cleaver;, and must rcquest that the Guardians will be
good enough tore-consider the propriety of the applintment,
having these reasons in view. Lam directed to transmit, for
the information of yourself and' the oilier Guardians, the'
accompanying copy of a letter which the Board have received
from Mr. John Wilson on th 3 subject. —I am, sir, your ohdt.
seivant, COURT NAY, Secre'ary.

G. H. Horsfall, Esq.., Chairman. of the Board
of Guardians of the Township of Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

[cory.]

33, Ft. James'E-place, Totteth-park, Liverpool,
July 21, 1857•

My Lords,—An order has been recently issued. by your
Board to separate Toxtzth-park Township rtom the West
D.lrby Union, and in pursuance of which order the Guardians
selected by the ratepayers met yesterday, and appointed as
their Clerk, Mr. William Cleaver, at a salary of L6O per
annum. I beg to submit to yonr honourable Board, that
such an appointment is not calculated to benefit the township
for the following reasons :-Ist. Mr. Cleaver at present
holds the appointment of Clerk of the West Derby Union,
also the offices of Clerk to the county nugistrate.,
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sutperintendent registrar of the West Derby distric, clerk to
the visiting justices of several lunat'c asylums, together with
other offices, and is, therefore, of nrceisity, unable to devote
any time to the performance of the most important duties of
the office of clerk to the Board of Guardians of this township.

2nd. Mr. Cleaver, continuing to hold the office of clerk Jf
the West Del hy Union, is not in a position to act independently

on behalf of the township of' losteth—Park in matters of
business occurring bet Ween that Union and this township, in

which the respective interests of such Union and township are •••••••••••• ,•••
opposed. 3rd. Mr. Cleaver, being' clerk to the magistrates ,
Ledru Rollin has caused the follsose wing letter to be pub-
before whom all the parochial business of this township is
lished. in our London morning pete
transacted, and benefitted thereby, is consequently interested mporaries :—" thanks
to thennanimity of the Englishapee
in creating contention between the township of West Dail is, and the sympathetic
echo it has met with in
.-gib
Union and the township of Toxteth-Pmk, for the purpose of a, Switzerland, and the
whole of Germany, ihere is an i nd of that plot, so poin-
incrcasing haemoluments as such magistrates' clerk. 4th. advertised, the tale of,. vii
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The salary of £6O, assigned to Mr. Cleaver as clerk of the PouslY ich was to spread terror
e Euro; ridicule,. even
all over p
guard ans of this township, is a mere memorial one, inasmuch a
stilled it. ~- - --. more than contempt, has
as there is an understanding that it will be increased in thel should, tireiez‘irt4 - net have reverted to it arty
were
same ratio as the West Derby Union Guardians may diminish
longer,not to state ono( , more, by two facts generay
the salary of Mr. Cleaver, as clerk to that Union, which last unknown, theit weakness .a a-.?
7ernment. Not on 4 veer( • cewardice of the imperial
named salary being now £3OO per annum, and this
allowed exaetlky to reporesthes ,the French newspapers not
3 exeminations of the accused,
township having, in point of expenditure,' hitherto
their reports .►lavinghad3to-
- nearly hal of such Union, therefore the ratepayers undergo the trial of ministerial
actually forbidden to report the
tp, hat they were
of this township may he ,called upon to pay annually censorship,
half such £3OO in addition to the £6O before mentioned. defence of t, le advocates: Whilst thus ties foreign proms,
coti, in
sth. The township of Toxteth-park is of sufficient magnitude With inereal ied indigned on, will learn that Birol
(having upwards of 70,000 inhabitants), to render it desirable his answers I before the.' court, the only reliable ones, d©
that its Clerk should not hold a multiplicity of offices, it was elated 'la e had so Lsi perfectly noticed the Frenchman,
in fact one of the reasons urged for the separation, th.t the_ whose nr.me he. prow unced in five different ways, that he
ratepayers of the township would be benefited- by having the could no longer affiter whether he ,had moustachios or unit;
management of their own poor in the hands of officeis uncon- at all v vents, t'llis.sti auger took his departure at the very
mow rat when he,, 1 lerolotti, entered the room, and
nected with any other township, and a salary of .t.. 100 per
with-
annum is beyond doubt sffieient to obtain a clerk for the out a single w d being uttered in his presence'—
Guardians, who will devote his whole time in the discharge of it only remain, with me solemnly to remind
the duties, which otherwise, in all probability, will not be thf) public ii* ,at this deposition, even in its
disc.arred efficiently. I have heard with much satisfaction, rat rdified andissi Lally inconclusive shape, is untrue. It is
the your Board has recently refused to sanction an appoint- o'ntirely thorouf ;lily false that I ever met with Bartolotti,
went similar to this. I therefore trust, that on consideration 'either at Maze; ai's, or elsewhere. The accusation against
of the matter, your Board will be induced to withhold its me being thl43 irreparably destroyed, aul one of the I,oeale.,
sanction to thie.—l am, &c., (Signed) RCN WILSON. sots havingj sized the opportunity, with a few words, to
To the Poor Law Board, London. break offelat sole tie by which I was intended to be entan-
gled with lb e trials, nothing else was left but to forbid the
rmenace or suspension, to it rake the slightest
Mr. CHARLES BATTEN said he had prepared a rese 'e re Imo i
lotion, which he intended to move, and in so doing he
.o7entary evidence; the aceAsation itself has
this part of the debate. Nothing, then, against
said lie would be as brief as he possibly could, but he felt "may no dof
it was a duty to reply to some of the statements made in , it; no oral evidence au y further, however
the letter. In the first place, it was objected that Mr. !imu:ukt4r774l:Y. ig a
Cleaver was clerk to the magistrates. It was true that he .dect . sorthy; nothing absolutely. brit that abominable
,L.,„7 slum of indirect and moral complici,y (complicite
was s-,, but only in matters relating to the Poor Lam? Board.
magi -.nye-reale et 92torale) branded by nee, sixteen years ago,
It was also true that he was clerk to the visiting
trees, which occupied him about sixteen hour?, in the in the trial of Dupoty before the High Court of
'Peters. That exhumation of the middle ag 33 morally
course of the yetr. Thera Were several appointmenta he
trilled the Government of Louis Philippe ; - will it not
held; to which he need not refer, but he would say, thot crntribute to destroy. Mr. Bonaper •te's ? Perhaps moro so
some of them, for instance, the hon. Secretary to, tee than all his crimes, for there-see political blunders less par-
Northern Union of Clerks, by which he vies enabled to
donable, fa the eyes of the clever, than real offences.
obtain a great deal of knowledge, which others, not so . Woe,' says itlachiavallis,. 'to him whose. badly-aimed
situated e mld not obtain. Be then argued than ne.ne of
strokes fall bark upon himself; whilst losing his reputation
the situatioos Mr. Cleaver held, were ineotnpatable with
of elevorness, he exalts his enemy.' If I had succeeded in
his being clerk to the township, 'oat on the c9Ptrary,
being indicted before an English jury, what strange truth
tended eminently to qualify him to fulfill the duties which
would have come out, and how thoroughly the play would
he might be called upon to Perform. He then referred to
have changed! Instead of exile plots against the empire,
a statement which he (Mr. Batten) had made last week,
that the Poor Law Board bad sanctioned one person filling Europe would have•seen plots of the empire agtinst the
the office of clerk to two 17nions, and in.eenfirmatien of exile exposelbeforeher eyes. I should hive shown, for
that statement he read as folleses•— instarece, that wretch Gareau, who acted as a witness iu a
trial to which he. was wholly foreign, making capital out of
Penistooe, near Sheffield, Ifhh,August, 1857. his, old rell utation of patriotiere, by: roleungirg into prison a
Dear Sir,—ln reply to yorir letter, Lbeg to inform you
raltitudfi of. . eredulons republioans. 1 should have
that, on the division of the Wortley, Union, eight of the shown lanneltveng as far back as 181:3; in his qaality of an
townships which had been ece.nprised therein, and seven. other . understrapper. of the imperial police, under the psea-
townships which had not previously beer. in union, were forme,:t drr bm
nsue . appellation, of Aiphonese, concocting the
into the Penistone Union, and, although I retained any ofnce I cc ch aass, in order to betray and sell it afterwards.
as clerk to the Wortley Union, I :vas unanimously appointed
Isihould.. ev
o hare ehon le m in 18°3 applying to me and
clerk of thePenistone Union,,and the Poor-law Board, wAout asking
hesitation, confirmed my appointmcat. to that Union Tshould here l money
and shellatoblo wup Mr. Bea:parte. I
see i
shown, )aim in dos-1, whilst the war against
is another instance where one gentleman holds the 'office of Russia was raging, calling upon mo and offering to shatter
clerk to two Unions, vz, ' , the Hereford Union and the Ware the whole imperial frame, ,if providei with a stun of
Union, both in Herefordshire, of which Mr. N... Lanwane, 3o , f
canes, which he. would. be able to get from the.
solieitor, Hereford, is clerk and superintendent-registrar, as :Russian Embassy, on a.single word spoken by me. In'
well as coroner for the coun.cy of Hereford. lam not aware . variably rebuffed, finally driven out, and publiclye
de-
that
awareaware
any inconvenience whelever has ever arisen &ern my holding flounced by me to the whole Republican
the office of clerk tektite two Unions of Wortley and Penistone ; . thus unmasked, would have been- seen causing y
2°
to
s.
near' CI
_or the perpose of restoring
but, on the contrary, I. know such has, in many intstances,,bern
victims to be arrested, read himself to be condemnedl
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conducive to the benefit of both unions.,---.1 am, dear sir, yews four years 's imi,
risortmiant, f
truly, JOHN DRANSIIap• • his character and cowering himself with a fresh lustre of
He thou con'sended that the objections to Mr. Cleaver's patriotism. Ta con elude, before the public assizes I
,
anvointraret, had arisen solely from the letter sent to the should have he'd the opportunity of bringing
to exposure
Poor Law Board by Mr. Wilser, and argued that the a dozen other tools, women as well as man, playing the
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itioard 'would only be stultifying itself if they permitted odious gi 3of laying snares for the exiles,
themselves to be dictated to by the General Board. flan
any letters they might receive from " out-siders,' lie
next referred to tike utter impossibility gnat existed for the
Poor Law Board to lisnow what was the best interests and
benefits of the locality, and concluded by moving the fol-
lowing (after a few slight alterations) resolution : —" That
this Board having given due attention to the, letter of tie
Poor Lew Board of the Ist instant, and having, as request,
ed therein, considered the propriety of the appointment of
Mr. Cleaver to the office of Clerk to the Beard, have re-
solved—lat. That this Board iseof opinion that there is
nothing objectionable it. principle, to the Clerkship of
the Unioc's being held by the same person. That this
opinion is borne out by that of Mr. Manwaring, Posr
Law Inspector, and that , the Board themselves
have been guided hertofere by a similar opinion, inaseoich
as in two its-stances, there are at least in, this part of the
country is which such principles hat been sanctioned by

TitE Muni, A 7• SETAnwELL —aovernm.?nt has offered
a reward of £5O 'for the a
Nreleasion of M Clusky, the
American ssamar., who-stauls.charged with the murder of
Sorali Hama!tor, ,is a house of ir-fiurra, in Shadwell. On
Monday a dospavili was received i i London fr.-n B.iwol,
stating that v. man answering the de:cciptbr. cf 11I'C'usk3
had been Apprehended. An offier itnmodiqt,ly left fin
Bristol, but the man in custody,.although an !American, ant
very much resembling the murderer, w,s not the person
required. It is Wated the culprit was seen on Saturdai
last by two seamen, in tbe neighbaurhotid of Poplar, ani
that they converted with him Aunt the murder. Althougl
bills have been circulated th,toaghout the metropolis
and n large number of police ii o. scouring the country ii
pursuit of the fugitive rola ilAstice, up IA last night h
had not been cap!ufesh