Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-30 00:00:00

WqH.,E',D4IL:y TWS.

that the reeelpts, including S2K, the balance from last
year; 'were-T.781 195.; 2d. -11‘exeess of the enpenditurs,
the last reamed aniount being .the :balance in head. The
deposits by seamen in the hank aiming the year:amounted
to £12,066 13s. ld. ; £5,000 had been invested in dock '
bonds, and the balance in- hand was £5,979 13s. 4d.
Mr. Bowan, in )moving ,the .adoption •c "the re-pert,
said that the intelligent statement of the,chairman at
the commencement of the meeting, and the well dravin
up report, left very little for him to do but ttkcongratulate
the committee on.having taken'advantage of the sugges-
tion thatthe whole of the accounts connected with that
institution Should he audited by competerd'persoes. ,It
was commencing a good stem, and setting at example
to the rest of- our institutrons. Nothing was more easy
than to draw up a report, and nothing was more difficult for
gentlemen, coming in -as they did, •to find out the real
gist of the matter. He concluded by moving that the
reportiof the committee for 1859 be approved, that the
treasurer's . account he passed, and that the same .be
printed and circulated in the usual manner.
Mr. TINNE seconded the resolution, and said he could
not help, saying, as chairman of the Nautical' School
Committee, that they felt themselves Under great obli-
gations to, the Board of Trade for the assistance which
had been rendered by that body from time to time, in
the way of providing competent masters, 'and 'alsO for
the liberal footing upon which the board had placed the
committee. He was sorry as well as the others present,
that the schools had not been taken advantage of by the
town at large to the extent to which they might do, par-
ticularly as regarded the juvenile school. The other
department of the nautical school for the preparation
and-education of adults had been going on verfsteadily. ,
The terms were extremely moderate, and he believed
that the school, so far as related to-adults, needed no im-
provement. They had ene of the best masters at the
head of that department—Mr. Smart—perhaps to be
found in the United Kingdom, and he was surprised
that-the benefit which he was capable of rendering to
the mercantile classes of this town; .lead not been more
taken advantame of. They had hoped that to the
juvenile school they should be able to take those young
people who required educational preparation for the ,
sea. Some of them were not very, sanguine when it
was first instituted, but whatever the cause had been,, it
had not succeeded as well as the opportunities at their
disposal had justified them in expecting. There was a
reluctance on the *part of parents generally, and of
mothers especially, to send their children to. sea, and
this was rather strange as regarded Liverpool, which is
one of the first ,seaports is this country. Perhaps, to
some extent, their want of success had been owing to
this. Having observed that he thought the interference
of the Gorernment in the working of. the Savings-bank
connected with the institution was unnecessary, hecon-
eluded by seconding the adoption of the report.
Mr. atILBYSKIRE thought the. boys in Liverpool
intended for the sea were taken, from too low a class,
and that when 'they returned they did not like to come
near to the Sailors'. Home on account, of the restraints
He had found that boys whose, parents did not reside in
:Liverpool were always the best 4onducted. Boarding,
house-keepers would take the boys, perhaps, at ten shil-
lings a week; but if a few shillings a week were saved,
the boys lost the benefit of the education they might
receive at the Sailors' Home. . He had- boys who had
always come to the Sailors' Home, and .he .had always
found that they were the best boys '- awl- the sailors .got
froM the Home were the best conducted he could get.
(Hear, hear.)
The report was then adopted, and votes of thanks
having been tendered to the officers of the institution—
Captain .Ainley, Mr. Hamner, and Mr. Williams—and to
the chairman for presiding, the proceedings terminated.

RATS, Mier; AND, COCKBOACIIES.—Their extinction in one
night, or a few hours, by Greer's Patent Anti.:Vermin Mixture,
2d., 3d., 6d.vand!ls:, at the Anti-VerMin Office, 49, Brownlow-
- ARE VOLUNTEERS TOLL FREE ?—A case of con-
siderable importance, involvinc, the above question,
was tried at the Castle of Exeter, on Friday, before
C. Gordon (chairman), Sir J. Y.. B. Duckworth, Bart.,.
D. B. Davey, W. Miles, A. Stowey, J. R. Griffiths,
and J. Pitman, EsCirs. Mr. Gardener, lessee of tolls,
was summoned by Capt. Dennis Moore,- of the Exeter
Volunteers, for demanding and taking ls. as toll on a
carriage, and two horses—".the said carriage. conveying
volunteer infantry, dressed in the uniform of their corps,
and haying their arms and accoutrements.'! Captain
Moore appearedin person, and complained of the demand,
under. the act 3 Geo. IV., c. 126, sec. 32, which exempts
any carriage conveying volunteer infantry, or any horse
ridden by any person belonging to volunteer infantry,
having their arms and accoutrements at the time of
such exemption being claimed.. Captain Moore proved
that he, with two brother officers, Lieutenants Valance
and Clarke, went in the caxriage and pair to Exmouth
for the purpose 'of inspecting the .Volunteer Corps, and
that he was on duty. There had been no order given for
their, attendance, but that day he drilled the-.company-
there, and hii brother officers assisted him. He was regu
lated and sworn in under the Volunteer Act, 44 Geo. 111.

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Mr. Toby appeared for
.the lessee, and contended that
the Highway Act referred to by Mr. Moore did not
apply ; that they were sworn under the Volunteer Act,
and that the exception (if any) should be claimed under
that Act; that the 3rd Geo. IV. only referred to a
carriage when hired by. the parties for conveying
volunteer infantry on their march,• or otherwise, and
that it would be monstrous to contend that any gentle-
man might dress himself in his, rifle uniform,•go into a
carriage and say he was on duty. The Bench retired,
and after a short time returned, deciding that the
carriage was not a carriage conveying volunteer infantry
within the meaning of the exemption clause.
STRANGE DISCOVERY OF A ROBBER.—We find the,
following in Gatignani :—" The perpetrator of a rob-
bery which took place about five years ago has just'
been discovered in a rather singular manner. A
.gentle-
man named M—, having to make some inquiries en.
tusitesa matters at the residence of a person he knew,
found him absent from home, and wishing to ascertain
his probable hour of return, knocked at the door of an
adjoining apartment. ,The door was operied by a female,
who answered the inquiry, and while she was doing so,
the attention of M. M— was attracted by a portrait
which hung up in the room, and which he requested
permission to examine more closely. On doing so,
he immediately saw that it was the portrait of
his father, which, with other articles, had been
stolen from him five years before in a furnished
hotel. The female said that the portrait was that of her
husbani's father, In that case,' said M. M—, ' your
husband must be a brother of mine of whose existence I
was not aware, for the portrait is certainly that of my
father.' He then left, and being certain that he was on
the trace of the person who had robbed him, soon
returned with a police agent. The husband having in
the meantime come in was immediately recognised as
the waiter at the hotel, who at .the time of the robbery
went with M. M— to give inforMation to the commis-
sary of police, and expressed his suspicion that the thief
was a foreigner, who had left the hotel in the morning
of the day it took place.' After several contradictory
accounts as to the manner in which he became possessed
of the portrait, he at length confessed to the robbery and
was arrested." - •