Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-09 00:00:00

NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS,

On the 41oWance of these accounts, some. discussion
arose as to -the cost of prisoners in Lancaster: Castle.
and Mr. Addison drew attention to the propriety of

sending more prisoners to Lancaster, owing to the want
of more accommodation for female , pHsoners in the
house of correction. ,At present they were utterly un-
able to put them under that doscription which was so
essentialto their reformation.

Mr. P. CATTERALL said, .that opened.out the question
of enlarging the Preston House of Correction.
After sonic further discussion the accounts were al-

COUNTY TREASURER,

Some desultory.. discussion then took place as :to the
absence of the county treasurer, Mr. Saunders stating
that he wished 'to have asked the treasurer some ques-
tions as to the duties 'of his office ; but added, that he
did not wish to cast any reflection upon that gentleman
in the least, as be believed the county accounts were
kept in a satisfactory state.
The-CnAin.siAN read a letter frOin -.Mr. Wilson, the
treasurer, accounting for his absence through indisposi-
tion. . The matter•then dropped. •

4.PPOLNTMENT OF COMMITTEES, &C

Various committees were next appointed, viz.:-The
General Purposes Committee, the Finance Committee,
and the Standing Militia St.-rehouse Committee. The
appointment of the Visiting .Justices • of the several
ens, and also. the several ewnmittees for other,public
purposes, were subsequently made.

APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF-CONSTATILE FOll TIIE COUNTY.
For this office these were forty-ieven. candidates.
The ConstabularyCommittee•reported that it was not
expedient to make any change_ in the duties. -

As to the mode of election, whether it should be
viva voce, or by ballot, all the magistrates present, with
the exception of three, voted in favour of the former
method.

This was followed by a discussion on the question
whether the gentlemen who had only sent copies of tes-
timonials, instead of the original ones, should be con-
sidered as candidates for the office.

The CHAIRMAN thought that neither the act of par-
liament nor the standing orders required that the testi-
monials should be sent in.

Mr. PEEL thought the standing order referred to
alluded to original testimonials, and 'IA to copies, and
he contended that, if that were so, the gentlemen who
had merely sent in:capies.of their testimonials would be
disqualified. • •
Sir.J. K. SuuTrimwouni, -without wishing to disturb
tho former arrangements of the court in dealing with
this question.' thought that in future a committee should
be appointed with the view of considering the claims of
the various caniidates. = For himself,. he only knew
three of the candidates, out of the 47, and those not
personally ; he only knew them by their services to the
county. If a committee were appointed in future to
'consider the claims of the different candidates, by the
report . that committee would make, every magistrate
would at once become familiar with the claims of all the
candidates. . • • . •

The votes were then taken, with the following result:
—Captain El,,,free, of the. 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia,
C 123 ; JaMes C. King, Preston, assistant thief constable
of the county of LancaSter, 66 ; Captain Fenton, Burn-
ley, of the sth Royal Lancashire Militia, 18 ; Henry V.
Bowles, Sidmouth, Devonshire, twelve years in the Rifle
Brigade, 3 ; Henry Segrave, Wolverhampton, chief
constable of Wolverhampton, 1. .
The eIIakIRMAN declared Captain Elgee duly elected.

SUPERANNUATION MONEY TO CAPTAIg SHEPPARD,

.. The Rev; J. :S. BIRLEY then. moved that.' an annual
sum of £350,, by way of superannuation allowance,
under the provisions of the statute 19 and 20 Victoria,
c. 69, .v. 13, be granted out of the police rate to Captain
Thomas Walker Sheppard, late chief constable of this
county, upon' his retirement from the force on account
of an infirmity of body, arising from an injury received
whilst in the actual execution of his duty.
The motion having been seconded,

Mr. THOMSON, orWray, near Lancaster, presented a
memorial to the court from the ratepayers of Caton,
near Lancaster, praying that the allowance to Captain

-Sheppard should' be le-Ss than the anm propocd." He
(Mr •Thomsou) pointed out that the court had only
allowed £250, as a.retiring pension to the Rev. J. Clay,
deceased, late chaplain at Preston House of Correction,
a gentleman Who devoted forty years of his life to the
service of the county. ~ He concluded by moving, as an
amendment, that the sum should be £250, instead of
£350. "

Mr. J. CROSSiEY seconded Mr. ThornsOn's amend-

ment.
Mr. FENTO* (Reclidale,) while not subscribing tc
all contained in the memorial, said he agreed with the
memorialists that the sum proposed was too large.
Mr. R. WOOD spoke in favonr of the original pro-
position.
<Mr. T. R..INOHAm was in favour of £250, and called
attention to the fact that the whole of the sum, whether
£250 or £350, would come out of the police-rates.
The Rev. J. O. PARR expressed himself in favour of
the Original motion.
Another magistrate expressed himself in favour of
allowing Captain "Sheppard £3OO a-year. -
Mr. T. B. ADDISON, as Chairman of the Constabulary
Committee, said he had frequent opportunities of seeing
how Captain Sheppard discharged the duties of his
office, and he must confesS that he • had seen much to
admire in him. He strongly regretted the argument
that he should be put on half-pay.
Mr. J. PEEL also addressed the meeting in favour of
Captain Sheppafd, and after some further remarks from
other magistrates, both pro., and con.,
The. Rev. J. S. BIRLEY then replied on- the argu-.
Merits advanced, contendingthat the case was not likely
to pass into a precedent, and that the act of parliament,
under theie especial circumstances, allowed them the
power to grant the full amount of his salary to Captain
Sheppard, as a xetiring pension.
On the amendment being submitted to the vote, there
appeared—font, 15; and 51 against it. The amend-
ment was consequently lost.
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full amount of his pay at .the time of his accident, as
u nidierr: the ?c't ofPA Rp
Ra
rEI iRa ma er argued that Captain Sheppard,
under the act of parliamen tu, rSechetpaetrhde
assistant chief constable. Mr. Parker then moved that
instead of 1350, there be paid to Captain Sheppard the
full amount of pay he was then receiving, which was
£250.
• Mr. WHITTAKER seconded. Mr. Parker's amendment.
Mr. T. B. ADDISON said the act did-not state that
the court had power to give a pension to an officer
when he received an injury, but when he quitted the
service under ordinary courses.
Mr. PETER CATTERALL moved that the pension be
two thirds of Captain Sheppard's salary, on the ground
that such sum was in accordance with the real inter-
pretation of the aet—that at least was his interpretation
of it.
Mr. Parker's amendment was then put to the court
and lost, and Mr.. J. Thomson then seconded Mr.
Catterall's amendment.
Mr. J. PEEL thought the difference between that and
the sum proposed ,was so slight that it was scarcely
worth while dividing the court on the point.
This amendment was also lost, as was another amend-
ment propoied by Mr. W. Fenton, that the allowance
should be £3OO.
The original motion was then put, and carried by. a
large majority.
The proceedings terminated at half-past three o'clock..

I DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN;

The i Great astern. got sip her steam at an early
hour
.yesterday morning; and "weighed -NOM!. at a
quarter after eight o'clock; having held her ground
during the night without the slighOst change of position.
To protect her, if it had been ncc,:ssary, from touching
the north shore ledge -While.: swinging, with the.lide,
the four attendant , steam;tugi remained' by the' 'ship
A
during the night; but 'the- Spot' select by the pilot
for her anchorage had been so well -dwelt that 'their
aid was not required. The paddles made their .fi ist re-
volution at twenty minutes' to nine o'clock; but"it was
nearly ten minutes later before the Ship st2amed a-head
slowlfand majestically down the river in the direction_
of the Rising Sun Point, opposite to Gre
where great care in the nav:gation of the ship was .
required. This point was sueeesfullv rounded at 9,15.
a.m.
-
The
Broadness Point,' opposite to *Grays, was'
'
safely passed at 9.40 aim., and she will steam direct' by
Gravesend. • A telegramreached the office 'of the Great
Shipping
at the Norc at twenty-three minutes
past
one,
been got tip to 'aid the
e rsa ownly steam having Company, yesterday afternoon, that thevaisel
arrived fe

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COURT AND OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:

• The. royal dinner party at Balmoral, on Tuesday, in-
cluded the Princess Alice, Lord and Lady John Russell,
Sir George Grey, and trie ladies and 'gentlemen or the
householdi • . _ -

His Excellency Major General Sir Henry C. 13,awlin-
son, K.e.8.-, the newly accredited Minister to the.ooait
of Persia, left on Taesday for his poit, accompanied by
Dr. Dickson, attached to her Majesty's Legatii4 at
Teheran. . .

Mons. Alexander Kolemine, • conseiller d'Etat;.in the
service of the Emperor of Rtnssia, has arrived at •Gralicof s
Clarenthin, Hotel from Moscow.

The Duke de Chartres; who returned to his family in
England after the penee of Villafranca, is shortly to
return to Turin, to rejoin his regiment.
The Count of Paris-and- suite passed through Magde-
burg on the 2nd inst., on his way to Dresden.

It is expected that the. Prine,e Regent will leave
Ostend fOr Baden-Badenand•Coblentz on the 28th hut:,
and on the 30th inst:, the' birthday of the Princess of
Prussia will be eclebrated. .

ECCLESIASTICAL- INTELLIGE,NCE

,
The Dean and Chapter of Bristol are about to carry
out great improvements in their cathedral, involving a
complete re-arrangement of the interior.
The Bishop of7tincoln has instituted the Rev. E.
,Reginald Mantel! to the Rectory of Gretford with Wils-
thorp ; the Rev. David Hunter to the Rectory of Howell,
Lincolnshire ; the Rev. Henry John Dodsworth to the
Rectory of Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire ; the Rev. Albert
Sidney Wilde to the Vicarage of Louth, Lincolnshire;
and the Rev Humphrey Pountney, Cheshire, to the
Vicarage of Headon with Upton, Notts.,.

A return of the number of leaseholds in the severa
dioceses of England and Wales, in respect of which
applications have been made for the purchase of the
reversion or for the sale of the term, or for both in part,
&e. (in continuation of parliamentary papa., No. 339,
of Session 1856), has been issued on the motion of Mr.
Ingham, M.P. We subjoin the number (in each
diocese) of applications in which terms have been agreed
to,—viz., in Canterbury, 150 ; in York, 76 ; in Chester,
none as yet; in Ely, 47 ; in Exeter (no application) ; in
Gloucester and Bristol (no application) ; in Hereford, 5
applications—none as yet agreed to ; in Lichfield, 2;
is Lincoln, 9 in 1859, 7 in 1856 ; in London, 19 ; in
Norwich, 36; in Oxford, 1; in Peterborough, 12; in
Rochester, 8 ; in Salisbury, 1 ; and in Winchester, 66.
Similar returns have been made by sundry deans and
chapters.
The Rev. J. Dugard, who has been for some time past
curate of Haggerstone, has intimated his intention of
retiring from the ministry of the Established Church,
with the view of establishing a free church of England
at Hackney. Mr. Dugard was formerly curate of Ports-.
mouth.

A church is now being built at St. Petefsburg, in
which divine service will be performed in French.

TF,STIMEINIAL TO W. B. FERRAND, ESQ.—OR Mon-
day evening last a very numerously attended meeting of
the working classes was held at Devonport, for raising
a testimonial to be presented to Mr. Ferrand, who so
recently contested the borough of Devonport on two
occasions in the Conservative interest. After the open-
ing of the proceedings by the chairman, who dwelt at
some length on the benefits conferred on the borough in
the fearless exposure of existing abuses in the gentleman
whom they now proposed to honour, several other
speakers commented in a like stirring and honest strain,
and the following' resolution was carried with but one
dissentient :-=-" That William Bousfield Ferrand,
'Esq., having done much to free the borough from
Whig bondage and domination, and having exposed
the iniquitous system adopted and carried out by the
Whig clique,, of jobbery, intimidation, corruption, and
the concomitant evils attending these species of degra-
dation—this meeting, chiefly consisting of artisans and
workmen, electors and non:-electors, approves of the
way in which William Bousfield Ferrand, Esq., made
these disclosures known ; and hereby wishes to express
its great and increasing confidence in him, by present-
ing him with some appropriate testimonial; and like-
wise pledges itself to use every legitimate means to aid
him to purge this borough from Whig influence." It
was also agreed that a committee should be formed for
carrying out the objects of the meeting.
ANOTHER TRADE OUTRAGE AT SHEFFIELD.—Another
of those trade outrages, which have of late been so fre-
quent in Sheffield, was perpetrated at 'an early bour on
Saturday moruing,:at Boston Works, MiltinFstreet, the
property of Messrs. Bunting & Son. A fork-grinder,
named Thos.-Rowan, who has for some time refused to
join the union connected with his trade has, during
the last fortnight, *occupied a, room at these works,
having left the wheel he previously worked, from 'being
there, as he supposed, peculiarly exposed to such out-
rages. Bet Ween three and four o'clock eu Saturday
morning, his room 'on the second "story wax entered
through the window, by means of a ladder; and the
man's glazers having been taken off the machinery,
were heapeil together, and set on fire, some boards
having been broken up for the purpose. At four
o'clock the ladder attracted the attention of the
watchman, and led to the discovery of the fire be-
fore much damage had been done., The fire was
kindled on the wooden floor of the room instead of in
the range ; 'and but for its early discovery, would pro-
bably have resulted in a serious conflagration. As it
was, no damage was done to the room beyond the
burning of a small hole through the floor. Only a few
months ago, a trade outrage was committed in the very
same room, powder being placed under the grinding-
stone, which, when it exploded, seriously injured the
grinder.

MANCHESTER AND. lIVERPODL AGM-
CULTURAL SOCIETY'S ANNUAL SHOW
AND• COMPETITION.,

The twelfth annual exhibition of the Manchester and
Liverpool Agricultural Society. was opened yesterday at
Edge-hill. The weather, being rather threatening in
the early part of the day, had the effect of limiting the
company who attended this, one of the most interesting
of the prOvincial shows, which have taken place for
several years past. The show ef this year is remarkable
in many ways. The extent of the local fund, for covering
the costs of the exhibition, and for .providing special prizes
in several departments was large, almost beyond prece-
dent. This, as might have naturally been looked for,
combined with the liberal prize list of the society, and
the eclat attached to successful competition in so im-
portant a field of enterprise, produced a large number
of competitors, and the list of entries we find included
fully 1,600.

The meetings of this society, which possesses great
local interest, hire been generally progressive in the
number, and also in the improving character of the
stock, implements, and produce exhibited, and on no
previous occasion did the various specimens submitted
for competition surpass the splendid display which graced
the show-yard yesterday. "Unfortunately, the weather
was threatening in the morning, and was hardly settled
throughout the day ; notwithstanding which a large
concourse of evidently interested spectators crowded the

show-yard. - -
Amongst the distinguished gentlemen whom we no-
ticed on the ground during the day, were—The Earl of
Sefton, Colonel Hopwood, Colonel Wilson Patten, M.P.;
T. B. Horsfall, Esq., M.P. ;
J. Gre,gsoit, Esq., M.P. ;
Colonel Blackburne, J. Ireland Blackburne, Esq., S.
Gregson, Esq., &c., &c. The number who paid for ad-
mission, during the day, was about 3,000, in addition to
those who were present as members. The whole of the
money taken for admission was about £320.
The following is the list of. Prizes, so far as they had
been awarded by the judges last night :