Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-08 00:00:00

BURIAL BOARD.

The weekly meeting of the Burial Board was held in
the Workhouse Board-room, at ten o'clock yesterday ;
Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Chairman, presided ; the other
members present were—Messrs. Bairstow, Jackson,
Corbally and Thornley.
Reports were laid before the Board from Mr. Newlands,
Mr. Wylie, and Mr Beloe, in reference to the Newsham
House Estate, the, Walton Cemetery, &c., which
contained the following extracts :
Liverpool, October 29, 1857.

Sir,—ln pursuance of the ins:ructions of the board, I
have carefully examined the condition of theoNevvsharn-
house estate in respect to outfall, and have taken such
levels asienable me to report, i❑ general terms, on the
means by which effectual drainage may be obtained.
The following modes of obtaining a drainage outlet pre-
sented themselves for consideration : first, an extension of
either of the Liverpool outlets at present in course of con•
str►►c:iou ; second, the natural outlet of the surface
drainage by Dig-brook and Tue-b. ook.
It the first of these modes had been possible, the
problem would have been easily and satisfactorily solved ;
but, unfortunately, neither of the outlets are deep enough
to overcome the disadvantage of the inward tall of the
country. I have shown, by a blue tint on the plan
accompanying this, the limit of the area of surface
drainage for which these outlets are available, and also,
by the deeper tint, the limit of drainage area at the depth
of ten feet below the surface.

The natural drainage or the ground lying to the east of
the Liverpool ridge is by Dig-brook and lue-brook, which
latter falls into the river Alt, near Clock-house bridge.
The ground throngh which Tue-brook runs is nearly
level, and the course of the brook is very circuitous, and
its fall very slight.
If it is unnecessary to have a covered conduit as an
outfall for the purßoses of the board, the section A B,
across the part of Newshana-house estate, which
?ccompanies this, shows that the brook will afford an
outlet tor its drainage to the depth of ten feet below the
surface.

But if it is necessary to provide a covered conduit as
an outlet, then the course of rue-brook is not the best
line that can be adopted ; for, by a cutting of no great
depth through the high ground which connects the rise of
Walton with the summit immediately beyond the Borough
Gaol, a much shorter, better, and less expensive outlet,
can be obtained—one which would serve for the greater
part of Waterloo, Seaforth, Linacre, Bootle, Litherland,
and Orrel, Walton, Fazakerly, and West Derby. The
gradient of this outlet would be 1 i❑ 240.
The objections to this project, considered simply in
reference to the requirements of the board, are its mag-
nitude and cost, for its cost cannot be less than £12,000.
But if it is regarded in the light of a great sanitary
measure for the districts enumerated, and as a means of
making the Corporate property of Newsham-house avail-
able for building purposes, and if there were any means of
obtaining contributions from the owners of property to
be benefi' ed, commensurate with the advantage afforded,
I think it recommends itself forcibly to the consideration
of the board,—l have the honour to be, sir, your most
obedient servant, _

JAS. NEWLAND3, Borough Ecginaer.
To the Chairman of the liuriat Board.

Borough Engineer's Offlei,, Liverpool,
10:11 November, 1857•
. _ _

Sir,-1 beg to lay before you the folio wing supplimented
report on the nature of the soil in that part or the New
sham house Estate referred to in my former report.
Referring to the accompanying tracing it will be seen
that six:7pits':have been sunk to a depth of 13 feet 6
inches, and in such situations as fairly to test the nature
of the ground. It appears that the pits one, two, three,
four, and six, the soil is stiff clay, so that it may! be fairly
concluded that all the upper portion or the ground, or
about three-fourths of the whole, is clay. In pits three
and five sand was met met with, in tha former at the
depth of eleven feet six inches, and in the latter at nine
feet six inches; but, again, in No, 6, the pit was sunk in
clay throughout its depth. There is thus only a very
small portion of the whole land in wt,:icti sand is found,
and that only at a great depth.
The nature of the soil therefore, And the difficulty and
cost of drainage, render the land trieligibl3 for the purpose
of the Board.—l have the honv,ur to be, sir, your most
obedient servant, ,JAress NEWLANDS.
To the Chairman of the Bu'..ial Board.

Warwick-chambers, Hanover-street, Liverpool,
December atl, 1857.
Gentlemen,—Agreeat,ily with your instructions, I had
several pits sunk in tine land adjoining the west side of
the Walton Ccmeter.y; and in all of them, with only one
exception, the `sub soil was found throughout stiff
retentive clay

One of the v.mts was sunk to a depth of 13. feet, and the
others averf.,iing from seven to ten feet. In one of the
pits, nearl'i one half of its length was sunk through clay,
and the other portion through sand. This pit was sunk
nearly./ eight feet deep, but this was evidently only a small
ba,s'in of sand, embedded in Ihe clay field, as water par-
ef.,lated through the veins as time pit was sunk. The land
was not tested by boring, as from the deep pits it was
evident the strata was precisely similar to the land in the
Cemetery enclosure, and the only diffmence was that the
land to the westward sloped gently to the west, while the
Cemetery tended to slope to the east.
, . .

The 1e hilt of co-nuorst to thrt rife
beinE, sunk without compensation, which was promised
him, his claim being two guineas.—l am, Gentleman, your
obedient servant, THOMAS WYLIE.

The "Lands Committee" of the Liverpool Burial Board.

Liverpool, Oct. 4, 1857.

Dear Sir,--I address you as chairman of the Burial
Board, in the reported proceedings of which body I
observe that negociations are on foot with the Corporation
for the purchase part of Newsham House Estate for a
cemetery. _ _

However eligible the site may be, I venture to protest
against any such purchase ; and I do so upon two simple
grounds:-Ist. That the Corporation can only be con-
sidered owners of the Newsham House Estate as trustees
for the benefit of the inhabitants of Liverpool. 2nd.
That if it be competent for the Corporation to present
the town with a site for a custom-house, a sailors' home,
or a park, it is equally competent for them to give that
which is required for a cemetery.
I would, therefore, respectfully urge upon the board,
through you, the importance of conducting any negotia-
tion with the Corporation for possession of any part o;
Newsham HouSe upon the principle that the ratepayers
of Liverpool have a right'to the use of their own property,
when required for public purposes, without taxing them-
selves to payfor that which the Corporation can part
with without loss to the. borough fund, inasmuch as the
rent is only nominal; and I would, further suggest that, if
it be needful to comply with legal requirements in making
such an acquisition of land, the payment should be a
small ground rent over a period of 75 or more years.—l
have the honour to be your obedient servant,
To Robertson Gladstone, Esq. HENRY C. DELOE.

Tho Clerk stated that a revolution had been received
from the Finance Committee of the Town Council, stating
that, in the event of the Burial Bard purchasing part of
the Newshaln House Estate, the Council would ba
prepared to join in any general system of drainage,
Mr. Jackson said, that was not what the Board wanted

Mr. Bairstow moved that Mr Newlands, who was
present, be requested to report generally upon the various
sites in the vicinity of Liverpool and their suitability for
the purpose of a burial ground.
The resolution was agreed to.
Mr. Thornley moved that a communication be addressed
to the Government, requesting to know whether in all
cases covered drainage was requisite.
This motion was also agreed to.
Mr. Jackson gave notice of a motion to be brought
forward at the next monthly meeting of the Board, to the
effect—that if the Clerk could discover no legal difficulties
immediate steps be taken for the transfer o the Walton
Cemetery to the Burial Board.

The Clerk gave it as his opinion, after having carefully
considered the act, that, although the terms of the
clauses ware not very clear in their applicability, there
was no legal difficulty to such a transfer.
The Board soon after adjourned.

FXTRNORDINARY BIRTH.—On Wednesday, Mrs. Gray, of
19 Oakfieid terrace, was safely delivered of four daughters.
The mother and family are doing well.—Glasgow Paper.
LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—The monthly
meeting of council was held yesterday, Christopher
Bushell, Esq., the vice-president, in the chair. After the
routine business had been disposed of, the resolutions of
the general meeting, as to the proposed amalgamation of
the East Lancashire with the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company, was referred to the committee on
dock arrangements and export trade. On the motion of
Mr. Danson, seconded by Mr Cooke, it was ordered that
the petition praying for the insertion, on the proposed
committee of the House of Commons, of the names of a
large number of members connected with, and known to
possess an extensive and practical knowledge of the
manufactures and commercial. interests of the country,
be forwarded to the borough members, for presentation to
Parliament. The resolution of the Chamber on the Bank
Acts of 1844 and 1845, was referred to the Committee on
the Monetary System. It was referred to the Communi-
cations' Committee to suggest napes for a special com•
mittee, to consider the re-organisation of the government
of India. On the motion of Mr. Macfie, seconded by Mr.
Rawlins, a special committee was appointed to communi-
cate with the Exchange Buildings' Committee, on the sub-
ject of the improvements in the Exchange Buildings. The
committee elected consists of the President, Messrs: Dan-
son, Hubbaelc; Made, Gibb, Lamport, Loutham, 8. Boult,
Totiason, Rawlins, and Bouche. Among the communi-
cation received, were letters from the General Post. office,
on the postal arrangements with the Continent : referred
to the Postal Committee;—and from the Foreign Office,
and Omani Sabine, as to the proposed survey of the
Zambesi river.

CHESTER ASSIZES v
-_ESTERDAY♦

(BEFORE MR. BARON CRANNEL.)

PosT-OFFICE ROBBERIEX—This morning, John Owen
Jepson, one of the chief clerks at the post-office at Chester,
and who had been in the service of the Government at
Chester for nearly 28 years, was placed in the dock on the
charge of defrauding the revenue at the Chester post office,
by stealing a number of postage stamps. Mr. Welsby con-
ducted the case on the part of the prosecution, and, from
his statement, it appeared that the prisoner had for a long
series of years, in the course of his duties, received money
for postage stamps at the post office in Chester, and had
been in the habit of tearing off defaced stamps from letters
and placing other stamps upon them, stating that when
these several letters came into the post-office at Chester
they had no stamps upon them. In many cases it was
charged against the prisoner that when one stamp had been
originally placed on a letter, he had affixed several. and in
this manner had from time to time accounted for the
stamps embezzled. After the C 390 had proceeded for some
time, it broke down, the prosecutor not being able to bring
the actual enbezzlement home to the prisoner. A verdict
of acquittal was therefore taken, and His Loe.ship ordered
his immediate discharge. It appears that the prisoner is
highly respectably connected in Chester, and that from
his great length of servitude under the Government, in the
Post-office department, he would have been entitled to a
retiring allowance in the course of a few months
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY AT BIRKENHEAD.—Andrew W.
Tucker, a clerk in the Post-office at Birkenhead, was
charged with stealing a silver pencil-case, the property of
the Postmaster-Ganeral, at Birkenhead, on the 15th of
February, 1857 ; and also with stealing a letter, containing
half a-sovereign, the property of the Postmaster-General,
at Birkenhead, on the 15th of October. The details of the
case appeared in the NORTHERN TIMES, when it was be-
fore the magistrates at Birkenhead. The prisoner was
found guilty. Sentence deferred
After two other trials, which possessed no features of
local or general interest, the court adjourned to this morn-
ing,-when velien the Bramhall parricide case will commence. We
understand there are thirty-eight witnesses on the part of
the prosecution, and that there is little or no probability
of the Case terminating before Wednesday evening,
although it is not intended to call any evidence on the part
of the prisoner, but to rely on the speech of Mr. Sergeant
Parry.

LANCASHIRE WINTER ASSIZES.