Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-16 00:00:00

bone, requesting statistics from the committee as to ,all. questions to them, coMpare their opinions with
the sanatory condition of the town. It was stated that practical Then, and make their
,judgments accordingly
the committee could afford Mr. Itathbone no more infer- Mr. S. Holme was, at last, an aavocate for free-trade in
mation than was contained in their weekly reports. licenses, and talked about men having more than one
In answer to Mr. Beckwith, the Chairman stated that license. He talked about men of , straw; which WAS a.
on, the occasion, of their interview with the Chancellor perfeetaabsurdity, because, a man with £l,OOO in a house
of the Exchequer, he promised, the committee that there would lobk much sharper to the 'character of the man
should be no unnecessary delay so far as he was cork- ,he put in than the. Magistrates could do. He, contended,
cerned, in regard to finally deciding respecting the site that , there was nothing in the present state of the law
of the new post-office, in Dale-street. • that would prevent the magistrates from acting to the-
There was no other public business, and the reporters satisfaction of themselves and .the public ; but so long
as they went on without a system, the present abusts
would continue. He was quite mire there were memorials
in the baskets at the magistrates' room with the seals
unbroken, and it was not Fair that people- should be put
to all the trouble to no purpose. He concluded by-
stating a great amount of the drunkenness at present
existing, was attributable to thd maladministration Of
the 'magistrates themselves,
The resolution was carried; and on the motion of
Mr. Allinson, seconded by Mr. Calderbank, the follow—
ing gentlemen were appointed as a committee :---Messrs-
C poward, HOrnby, T. Jones, Lund), Curwen, the chair-
. .
an, .and the trustees.
Thanks were voted to the Press, and the meeting
separated:

withdrew

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' MEETING

A speeial meetipg of the comniitt

appointed by this

;rday, in the institution, V

'est Derby 7

Mr.. Matthew .‘Tarriner presiding. The other

members of the committee, present were—Messrs. H.
Lumb, W. CoiVard, T. Calderbank, H. klornby; W.
Glover, W. Crane, Thomas Jones, J.:Rathe, J. Morn-

ton, and H. Curwen,

followirig tritaees

POLICE COURT

.--YESTERDAY,

[l3efore Mr: PRESTON.]

-11013 BING A TILL—A lad about ten years of age;
named Alfred Wells, son of a ship-carpenter, was charged
with stealing the sum of is. from the shop-till of a Mrs-
Atherton, Moorfields. Mrs. Atherton keeps a small
shop for the sale of edibles, and the lad was noticed be-
hind the counter on Wednesday. He had no business
there, and he was asked what he was doing. He said
he wanted to know the price of some bacon. He Was
told what it was, and went away. Some time after this,

•otii the till

of 7s. was missea The lad Was
subsequently apprehended, but the money was not found.
He was sent-to prison for three days, to. be well whip-
pet,. and afterwards to be delivered up to his parents.
/ROBBERY BY A SHOP-BOY.—Peter Boswell, a shall"
t‘nd intelligent-looking lad, -about fourteen years' old,

was charged under the fol
boy, it "appeal* had 'been in- t

ming circumstances. The
employment of lr•

nometer make

-street: for

m that he was detingdishortestiv, as