Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-04 00:00:00

Walker, G. W. Darsie, W. D. Smith, Wm. W:aimirright
and John Rogers. The minutes of the last m

;inz were

read and confirmed,

The proceedings of thi

committee were read and passed by acclamation. The
surveyor reported that the widening of the road at Smith-
down-lane, and making a cinder footpath there, would cost
more than £lO. He stated verbally, that he thought it
would not cost them anything if he should, in making the
improvement, come to sand, such as the Poor-law Guardians
had been selling, or if the Burial Board would purchase the
soil on the ground. Mr. Woodhead moved, and Mr.
Walker seconded, that the engineer be instructed to carry
out the widening of Smithdown-lane, opposite the Welling-
ton-road, and form a footpath of cinders there.
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cost not exceeding £lO. Mr. Wain
and Mr. Walker seconded, that Mr.

Tright moved,
Muirhead be

elected in the room of Mr. J. It. Jeffery, resigned. Darsie moved, as an amendment, that Mr. William Ev
_ _ _ _ _

of Parkfield, 'be elected in the room of AI

Jeffery

Rogers seconded the amendment, which, on being put to tl
vote, was carried by five to three. Mr. Darsie moved, and
Mr. Smith seconded, that Mr. Eli Hill be elected in tl
room of Mr. Thomas Urquhart, resigned
unanimously agreed to. Cheques were drawn for £lBO,
for the Smithdown-lane sewer, and for £35 to Mr. Avison,
for current expenses. A resolution was entered on the
books, that the commissioners approved of the drainage of
the workhonse. Mr. Smith proposed, and Mr. Woodhead
seconded, " That the Law-Clerk be instructed to apply to
the Mayor, in reference to the widening of S mithdown-lane,
to know if the borough will assist in bearing such part of
the expenses as may be deemed equitable." The motion
was agreed to. This was all the business.

The motion w

A DEAR "QUARTER" OF OYSTERS.—At the Police-
court, yesterday, before Mr. Mansfield, a young fellow,
named John Griffiths, was brought up by officer 559, on the
following charge :---He was on duty in Byrom-street, the
previous night, when he was called to an oyster stall by an
old woman who dispensed such delicacies to the public,
somewhat after the fashion of Madame Blaze, who lent to
the poor, who left a pledge behind the old body, "swopping"
oysters for halfpence. The prisoner, it appeared, had devoured
a quarter of the real "natives," and was smacking his lips
at the flavour, and was walking away. The old lady did
not rightly comprehend this sort of customer, and she hinted
that a trifle of change would be desirable. The young gentle-
man did not seem to pay any particular attention to such a.
reasonable request, but went on whistling, "Were I in
foreign land, you'd find no change in me." The police-
officer remonstrated with the " customer," but the
"customer" told him ho considered his patronage quite
sufficient, and quoted a saying of a celebrated personage, to
-wit," base is the slave who pays." " Oh, but," says the officer,
" that poor woman don't get oysters for nothing, and
you ought not to expect thetas without payment."
That's her affair, replied the young gentleman whose
stomach had been replenished by Vim " natives." Pay her,
said the officer. I'll pay you., sPad he, more than I owe
you, at the same time giving him a kick on the knee that
loosened ,the cap of the joint. Th e next place Mr. Griffith's
found himself in was the "co al-hole," and from that to the
dock was only a step. The prisoner declared that he knew
nothing at all of the affair, as the waters" that he had im-
bibed were worse Jor better] than the liquid of Lethe. Ile
was brought to his recollections, however, by his Worship
telling him to pay £5 fine, or go to certain exercise at
Walton for three months. The prisoner had no alternative,
so he chose the latter 4$ the least of two evils,