Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-15 00:00:00

WORKHOUSE COMMITTEE

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The usual weekly meeting of this committee was held
yesterday, Mr. Churchwarden Cropper in the chair. The
other gentlemen present were—Messrs. Critchley, Owen,
Syred, Scott, Denton, Broome, Williams, Byford, Peck,
Smith, and Jones.

The medical officer reported that the number of deaths

occurring in the establishment during the week ending sth
April was 22. The total number of patients during last
week was 625 ; new cases admitted since, 153 ; cured and
discharged, 102 ; now remaining under treatment, 654 ; of
whom 42 are fever, 20 itch, and 4 small-pox cases.
Dr. Gee suggested that it was desirable to have a
gymnasium erected in the school-yard for boys and girls, as
he believed that the means of obtaining severe and regular
exercise in the children's yard would, under proper super-
vision, materially contribute to the healthy development of
the physical and moral condition of the children.
The master of the vagrant sheds reported that there were
relieved in this department, during the week ending the 9th
inst., 239 destitute persons, of whom 148 were males, 79
females, and 12 children. This showed an increase of 36
over the previous week, and a decrease of 12 under the
corresponding week of last year. '
The governor's return showed that the total number of
paupers in the establishment last week, was 2,112; number
this week, 2,030, being a decrease of 82 on the week; num-
ber in the corresponding week of last week 2,540, being a
decrease on the year of 428.
Mr. Denton drew the attention of the committee to the
articles supplied by contract to the house, in contrast to the
samples laid before the committee when the contracts were
entered into. He said that he and Mr. Critchley had
visited the house during the week, and they found that the
tea and coffee which were being supplied to the house were
vastly inferior to sample. The coffee was so bad that it
was sent back at once. He submitted a quantity of the
tea being supplied.
Several of the members examined the tea, and found it to
be very inferior' to the sample previously supplied.
Mr. Denton moved that the matter be deferred for a week,
and that in the mean time the bills be not settled.

This was agreed to.
Mr. Jones called attention to a number of bills that had
been furnished for work done in the house, especially
building work. He said he held in his hand bills to the
amount of £550, for the most part for stuff and time ; and
it was extraordinary that of between three or four hundred
pounds worth of brickwork, a large portion of the materials
were obtained in the most tame way they possibly could.
There was £5O worth of mortar charged at the rate of 6d.
per hod. (Maul, awful.) There was the article of drain
pipes, which were usually sold in lengths at so much per
piece. They could get them for Bd. or 9d. per length, and
yet they had been paying Is. 4d. a length for them. They
would have nothing to do but send a cart down with an
order to any establishment in town, and they would get
them at the outside for 10d , the best selected. There was
cement, which was sold at from Bs. io 9s. per barrel-
Mr. Williams : 11s.

Mr. Jones said they were charged 15s per barrel. Time
was charged at the rate of 5s 6d per day. Messrs. Smith
and Travis had done most of the work, but had not enjoyed
a perfect monopoly, as there was a small bill from Mr.
Tonikinson, who charged 5s 4d per day. There was a job
of pulling down old brickwork. They had able-bodied
paupers in the house, and yet this work had been done by
Messrs. Smith and Travis, by 23 labourers, at 3s Gd per
day. He did not say that Messrs. Smith and Travis were
to blame in this if they got the order, but it was scandalous
to have work done at this rate while they had able-bodied
paupers in the house. There was neglect on the part of
somebody. There was some masonwork, to the extent of
9d per day. There was no work that required
vial tools. They might have got a couple of
journeymen at the ordinary wages:, but instead of that they

nd in a few weeks they had £5O worth Of
mason-work, in violation of the regulation that all work
amounting above £lO should be contracted for. H(
thought it would be well to have a report from Mr. Haggez
vice it I as to the or(

blven in each case, and compare that with
the bills, and somebody ought to be held responsible for
the difference. (Hear, hear.) He woild like to know
what check had been kept, and by whom it was kept, and
in what manlier the men's work was k6pt account of. It was
a scandal that so much work should be done without a
single contract being had, and the most of that work being
done by one individual, without even the advantage to the
barish of competition. lie did not know who was to
lame, but he hoped steps would be taken to put a stop to
this in future.

The Chairman said a resolution had been passed by the
committee that none of the small jobs should be done by
those who had large contracts in the house, and also that
the bills should be ,brought in as soon as the work was
'n order to check the amount.

y exonerated the committee from

me. They had watched this matter carefully, and
it arose from the surveyor himself. There was a standing
order on their books that no work above-L*l9 should be done
without a .eontract. Mr. Wylie had recommended so
and so to be done, which appeared to him small at the time,
but, when the account was furnished, it had Amounted to
ten times the Amount.

Mr. Owen : Give in an instance
Mr. Denton said there was the instance of tl
was stated at first that it would cost about 42, and when
the bill was furnished it amounted to 427.
The Chairman corroborated Mr. Denton.

The Surveyor was called in, and he stated that he bad
no regular check on the stuff and time, further than the
bills supplied by the tradesmen at the end of the week, and
his own judgment.
In reply to Mr. Scott,
The Surveyor said, in his opinion, the bills were fair and
reasonable.

Mr. Smith attended before the• committee, and answered
several questions put to him as to the prices charged. He
said he never got less than ad per hod for mortar.
Mr. Jones moved that the matter be postponed for a
week, so that the order might be attached to each bill for
comparison ; and he urged that, when the bills were to be
paid, a large discount should be urged upon, which might
be very well allowed.
The subject then dropped, and this was all the business of
public interest.

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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE NORTHERN
DIVISION
OF' THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER.
GENTLEMEN,—In consequence of a vote of the
House of Commons, which interfered in an unusual manner
with the regular stages of the Bill for Amending the Representa-
tion of the People, the Government has recommended to her
Majesty a dissolution of the present Parliament.
I take an earlyopportunity of again tendering to you my services

as one of sour Representatives,

After a rather long tenure of my present post, my opinions on
most public questions must be too well known to you to need
reiteration, but you will naturally require that I should state my
views on that measure which at the present moment is so pro-
minently before 'the country.

Had the Reform Bill been allowed to proceed in the usual manner,
it was my intention to vote for its second reading. In Committee I
should have supported an enlargement of the present right of voting
for Members of Parliament, by extending the County and Borough
Franchise; I should have voted for the transference of Seats to
more populous Constituences, and I have already taken measures,
in conjunction with Lord Hartington, to promote the claims of two
large bodies of my Constituents to Seats rendered vacant by the
disfranchisement of Sudbury and St. Albans, but I should have
been unable to give my assent to the prin3iple of uniformity of
Franchise contained in the Bill, or to the pa.vision which affected
the Forty-shilling Freeholds in Boroughs.

I will only add that, as regards your general interests, I continue
to believe that I am best conducing to your welfare by promoting
every measure which tends to the extension of commerce and the
consequent greater employment of labour, and that these objects
are best attained by the Government of this country pursuing a firm
but conciliatory and peaceful line of policy throughout the world.
I remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

London, April 6th, 1859,

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