Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-10 00:00:00

TILE LADIES' CHARITY

The sixty-third meeting of the subscribers to the
Ladies Charity, or institution for the relief of poor
married women in childbed, was held yesterday, in the
office of the Blue-coat School. The chair was occupied
by Henry Royds, Esq., president.
The Secretary read the following

REPORT

" The committee regret having again to deplore the
small revenue arising from the annual subscriptions,
which only amounted la the past year to £391 19s 6d, a

smaller sum than any received since 1800 (except last
year, which it only exceeded by a few shillings). In
that year, when the charity was in the fifth year of its
existence, the objects of relief were only 954, against
1,531 during the one now under review.
"This, they are sure, might be obviated if each indi-
vidual subscriber would exert herself to obtain a few
more subscriptions, as they feel certain the object of the
charity must call forth the kind feeling of all the well
disposed:
"The committee, on the other hand, have to congratu-
late the subscribers on the very handsome legacies and
donations received, amounting to £720 15s 2d; and they

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take the opportunity of tenderin(r their grateful acknow--
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lodgments for them. •
" The committee beg to call attention to the increased
number of cases in which relief has been afforded during
the past year, and hope that by an increased income, the
charity may be still further extended. In 1868 the
number of patients relieved was 1,513; in 1857, 1,414.
The number of children vaccinated in 1858 was 1,151 ;
in 1857, 971."
From the statement of accounts read, it appeared that
the total income of the charity, from all sources, was
£1,313 .5s sd, leaving a balance of £lB9 in the bank,
after investing £5OO in a dock bond.
Mrs. Shuttleworth moved that the report and accounts
now read, be adopted and published.
Mr. H. Banner seconded the motion, which was carried.

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The Chairman moved that the thanks of the meeting
be given to the lady patroness and to the ladies' com-
mittee.
Mr. H. Banner seconded the motion, which was
earried.
Thanks were then voted to the medical officers ; the
committees were appointed; and thanks were voted to
Mr. Royds for his kindness in presiding.

LAUNCH AT CARTVALIL -On Saturday afternoon,
Messrs. Blackwood and Gordon launched, from their
building-yard, at Cartvale, a large iron screw-steamer of
beautiful proportions, and built with a view to tarp
carrying capacity. Notwithstanding that the enterprise
of Messrs. Blackwood and Gordon has. rendered such
launches from the banks of the Cart no novelty for
years, still there was a large concourse of spectators
assembled in the yai.d. and on both sides of the river. All
preliminaries having been completed, theword was given,
and the vessel glided majestically into the river, amid
the cheers of the spectators. As she left the ways, the
vessel was named the Kurrachee, by Miss. Mary 11°dg-eft,
daughter of John Hodgart, Esq., Bombay. The Kurra-
chee is of 54,2 tons burthen, old measurement, and will
be fitted up btv the builders with a pair of direct-acting
engines of 120-horse power.. She has been purchased for
the Bombay Steam Navigation Company, and will be
employed in carrying mails and passengers from Bombay
to Kurrachee, and other parts of India. The vessel
seems well adapted tor her work, us she has a large and
handsome deck cabin fitted up amidship. She will be
barque-rigged, and will proceed to India under canvas,
lier engines ar nearly finished, at Messrs. Blackwood
and Gordon's A.bercorn Engine-works, and she will very
shortly be ready for sea. The Messrs. Blackwood and
Gordon. have also on the stocks a very beautiful screw
steamer of 200 tons burthen, which is likewise intended
to proceed to the East Indies, having been purchased by
Mathew liodgart, Esq., Paisley, for a diarent company
in India. She is to be fitted with direct-acting engines
of 30-horse power, and will, it is expected, be ready fgv
launching in about UlO4l, • 9tortf gait,

LIVERPOOL POLICE,INTELLIGENCI

i3EFORE UR. MANSFIELD,

&must: BELLS, &e.—Rose Fitzpatrick, John Binson,
and JOhn Walker, were brought up on the following
charge: Mr. Bluck defended the woman, who is a
marine-store dealer, in Northampton-street, and who
seemed' respectable. From the evidence of officers
Bibby and McCulloch (detectives), it appeared that;
An. some time past, a number of unoccupied houses, in
the neighbeotirhood'of Cannino•-.? street, Upper Parliament-
street, and the adjoining localities; had been entered, and
gas-fittings, bells' and -bell-hangings; water-pipes. and
such like property was stolen. They were on '
out; and on the previous night they saw the temak
prisoner in .the locality, with .a quantity of gas-fittings,
bell4ires, bells and.. the like, and they took her into
custody, as she could not say where she got them. They
then went to her shop and saw a female there, who told
them the prisoner had purchased the things from two
young men, whom she expected soon with more. They
waited,..whcn the tiVom male prisoners entered the shop
with a quantity of the:same sort of articles, and were in
the act of putting thorn into a scale to weigh, when they
arrested them. There was a quantity of the like articles
found in, the female prisoner's place. In reply to Mr.
Black, the officers stated_ that the girl at the store told
them the truth. They did not know of anything against
the . female prisoner, as she was only a short time in
business, and they believed she had come recently from
America. There Were some of the things that she had
purchased front the'other prisoners entered in her book.
She had entered the brass at fourpence per pound. The
prisoners were remanded ; but, on the application of Mr.
Bluelt:11is Worship agreed to let the woman out on bail
of £20..

Their were onnathe loot

ROBBERY or Corro.q.—Edward Trainer; damaged
cOtton, dealer, of Silkhouse-lane, Margaret O'Neill, a
forewoman in his employ, and George Riley, a cotton
porter, Were charged with being in possession of cotton
for which they could not satisfactorily account. Mr.
Pemberton appeared for the prisoners. Detective Lay-
Cack stated that in consequence of information received at

the police-office, he and Detective Patrick went •on
the previous evening about six o'clock to watch
the premises occupied by the prisoner Trainer.
Seeing a man carrying two small samples of cot-
ton. enter Trainer's warehouse, they followed, and
found • two 'parcels of cotton, -similar to those which
they
.had seen in the man's possession, lying on
the floor, but the man had escaped through another
entrance. The female prisoner was watching at the doer
when they arrived, and when asked by whom the two
parcels of cotton were brought, she replied, that they
,must have been brought 'there by some one in her ab-
sence. Witness and Ins brother officer concealed them-
selves,
and in a few minutes R!?ley entered, carrying
three samples. The officers immediately presented them-
solves, and asked him what he was going to do with the
cotton.. The prisoner replied that. he was in the employ
of Mr. Beasley, and was ordered to - leave the cotton in'
master's room, which is in the same building ; but he

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'subsequently stated, in the presence of Mr. Beasley's
clerk, that he received the cotton from one of Mr. Beasley's
men, 'with instructions to carry it to Mr. Beasley's ware-
house. Ho could not tell the man's name, or anything
about him. Upon a further search they found two large
bags of cotton not stiohed up in the room, and. on inquir-

in from the female who had brought tnem there, she
said she did not know. Detective Patrick having
corroborated the preceding evidence, said that he fouu
a number of bags of new cotton which had been
recently sewn up. Haying taken the prisoners to the
police office, witness subsequently saw Mr. Trainer, who
stated that he had purchased the cotton from a man
named Parry, a twine-maker at Kirkdalc, who was intro-
duced to him as a respectable man by a person named
Goodall. Mr Trainer and witness were searching for
Parry until a late hour on the previous evening, and
not succeeding in meeting with him, he locked Trainer
up for not accounting. Mr. Beasley stated that
Trainer rented the room he occupied from him. The
cotton produced was quite perfect, and worth about 61d
per lb. Patrick Kehoe, warehouseman to Mr.
Beasley,"said that the prisoner Riley was not employed by
him at any time. At the request of Mr. Pemberton, the
man Goodall, who, the prosecutor stated, had introduced
him to the party for whom the cotton was purchased,
was called as a witness, and was highly indignant at
some questions put by Mr. Clough as to his antecedents,
protesting that a respectable man like himself shoUld not
be called upon to answer such questions. Mr. Clough
stated that no doubt inquiries would discover the owner
Atoll, and for this purpose the prisoners were
remanded. Trainer being released on entering into his
own recognizance to appear that day week
BEFORE MESSRS

HUTCHISON AND CASTELLAINE.
SANITARY AND SMOKE NUISANCE riA SES.—The owners
a large number of bellars were summoned by the sani-
tary. officers for having let them for bedrooms. The
magistrates in all cases inflicted fines, so that it would be
much cheaper for the owners to have left them without

tenants.
IMPORTANT TO BAKERS.—FIRST PROSECUTION UNDER
TILE Acr or 1851.—Mr. McGowan appeared on behalf of
the Health Committee, to proceed against Mr. Robert
Sheraton, a baker, having his bakery in Heath-street,
and who was summoned by Mr. Wignall, the smoke
inspector, under the local act of Parliament passed in 1854.
This was the first proceeding under the act, and caused a
good deal of attention, as there were a number of bakers
present. There were two informations preferred against
the defendant by Mr. Wipell, but although he (defen-
dant) is not the actual occupier of the premises in
question, he is-made liable under the act, and the Health
Committee had the option of taking either the owner
or occupier, as will be observed. In .opening the
case, Mr. McGowan said the information ' was laid,
and the summons brought, under an act of Parlia-
ment obtained by the Corporation in 1854, which
was specially procured for the purpose of dealing
with a nuisance that was much complained of, and
arising out of bakery establishments, from the ovens.
For :long time the nuisance was complained of, but a
difficulty arose as to the carrying it out ; but he would
now lay evidence before the Court, to show that there was
no difficulty. The Health Committee, after some time,
made enquiry in London as to 'the working of the Act of
'53, and it appeared that it worked admirably. The
Health Committee then sent some of' its members to
Landon to see and enquire into the matter, for they were
very unwilling to proceed in any seeming harsh way
against the tra°ders'Of Liverpool, but they saw in London
that the thing could be very readily done,
and what was done there could be done in
Liverpool. The Health Committee then sent their officer
to the bakers to explain the matter, and to point out the.
apparatus'that could be used, so as to destroy the nui-
sance ; but, with some half dozen exceptions, the bakers
refused. to adopt it, and remained wedded to their old
system. In Liverpool, the practice of the bakers was
to heat their ovens with what is called "chaffers, •
and this caused a vast deal of smoke. (He
explained it.) He then called attention to the
24th section of the act, which dealt with the
offence of smoke, &c., and provided a penalty of £5 for
the offence. The act mentioned a " furnace," and Mr.
M‘Gowan went on to say that the bakers had got some
one who had given them over-ingenious advice
on that point—because the " chaffer ". was a move-
able thing they said it was not a furnace.
If it was not a furnace, it was a nuisance, so• that in either
way the act of parliament, caught them. Neighbours did
not like to proceed against neighbours, although there
were hundreds of complaints; yet, when the officers asked
them to come forward, they were usually met with, "Oh,
we don't wish to appear against our neighbours, although:we
are much annoyed by thenuisance." However, in this case,
the people in the locality could not bear withit any longer,
and as the act gave the authorities power over the occu-
pier or owner, he (Mr. M‘Gowan) thought it better to
bring the latter before the bench, as he understood the
tenantry in the case of bakehouses was very short.. After
some further observations he called Mr.. Inspector
Wignall, who said, ou. the 27th January he saw
dense volumes of black smoke. issue from the
defendant's baking premises from 2.12 to. 2.26,
and it continued without intermission all that
time. He went inside on the premises, and found
a furnace with a " chaffer." (Described it.), From ex-
periments he made, it was utterly impossible to preventit smoking, as, at present made. Efforts were made in
Preseot-street to do away with the smoke in one of thd
hese,
but it utterly failed. Saw the other apparatus that a
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top of the
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in
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June,ining
and
drotohme windows,
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When the wind ponies that way, we can't keep the bee.
room windOws open -it is a very great nuisanec._
smokeimt
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y
it has not been so bad lately, as there is now a sometlo)ao
than the chi:lneyeOf-
on the top, but still it is extremely bad. The
emtihtemoreell
wprasivatetwge. levntlemfaenet.
d high,fen defendant said,
dsaniodt,
iangyeri great nuisancel. from it
sniaza o: s
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sg
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still. Sarah Mason, cook in r. A--
that the clothes, furniture, bed elotrna I s house, proved
London,
rooms,
quite dirty with the smoke. Anne t, an(iis, &c., were
two or three
other servant maids living in the locality,
and their evidence went to o that were examined,
prose s
great. Thomas William vtiar _ at the nuisance was
, froze was
amined, and his evidence went tq show that be is all
oven-builder
e .I!eltie4. goTcllitTiciit in re v:€l. fa the

queitimi in London. In the latter- he had put
up six rr seven thonsand ovens, and it.was no disad-
vantage to bakers, but a great advantage to have them.
These ovens were put up by him in -Paris, Gravesend,
and other places, and there was nothing but complete
success attending on every one of them. lie described
his apparatus, which is simply 4 side furnace, which can
heat any part of the oven ; it would only take three-
quarters of- an hour toheat it with this, whilst with the
chaffer, it could not be heated under two or three hours ;
it was ten per cent. cheaper, and ten per cent. cleaner
them the chaffer, and did not generate any smoke at all.
The cost has been from £2 108 to £5. In reply to the
defendant, he said he had a pateht for this apparatus, but
there were nine other patents as well as his. Mr. M'Gowan
said the Health Committee had no wish' to punish the de-
fendant, but hoped it would go forth to the public, that the
bakers ,eould not be allowed to create and sustain a
nuisance, by being too much wedded to their old system,
whilst they could prevent the nuisance. This was for
their own benefit, as well as that of. the public, and he
hoped they would, in future, see the necessity of adopt-
ing a remedy—he cared not what remedy —that
would benefit all. Mr. 'Wood, a baker, " was examined,
and he proved the 'superiority of the furnace
over the chaffer. lie did, not think it was so good,
perhaps, for the bread, but it was a great saving of fuel,
heated the oven much sooner, and was very much more
clean. In reply to the defendant, he said his did not cost
£lO. Mr. Gardiner, a baker, said the new f
far superior to the "chaffers." Mr. Salt

ranee was
a baker,,