Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

TOXTETII BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of the Toxteth Board of Guardians
was held at half-past four o'clock, last evening, in the
parish offices, Park-road. Mr. H. S. Alpass presided
The other guardians present wars Messrs. Siddeley,
Batten, Miller, Griodrod, Jones, Ewing, Wilson, Briscoe,
and Robinson.

Chequestothe amount of £llO were ordered to be
paid.

Mr. BATTEN moved that the following gentlemen be
appointed the Finance Committee of the Board : —Messrs.
Robinson, Jones, McNicoll, Miller, and Briscoe.
Mr. SIDDNIALY seconded the motion, which was agreed
to.

Mr. BATTEN moved that the Visiting Committee consist
of the following gentlemen :--llessrs. Grindrod, Siddcley,
Robinson, Wilson, and Batten.
Mr JONES seconded the motion, which was carried.
It was agreed, also, on the. motion of Mr. Batten, that
the chairman and vice-chairman be members of every
committee.
The following gentlemen were appointed as a deputation
to visit, according to the act of parliament, the lunatics
confined at Lancaster, and charg:able to that -union :
Messrs. Jones, Robinson, Siddeley, and Wilson, -with the
Chairman and Vice-chairman.
This concluded the business.

A FUGI, IST Is TROUBLE.— 'it the Public Office, on
Tlesday, before Mr. Kynnersley, a well known local
breiser, named George Beasley, residing in Palmer-street,
was charged with having wilfully damaged 2,000 bricks
and 1,000 quarries, the property of Mr. Jemes Bond, re-
tail brewer, 43, Glover-street. The coaeplainant stated
that the prisoner had winked for him in his brick-yard
in Garrison-lane, but discharged himself a few weeks hack,
having to go into training for a fight in which he was to
take part. The fight cam: off on Monday week, and
Beasley 'was rai I to have WOO it Withetit losing a drop of
blood. On the following eight he and some friends were
celebrating the victory by libations of beer at prcseutor'e
house, and because Mr. B end would'nt draw them any
more drink after the legal hour for closing, Beasley
knocked him down and gave him a thrashing. Not satis-
fied with this, however, he said (though with more em-
phesis than we need print), " I'll serve you the same as I
served the others; your bricks and quarries shall go to
smash before the week is out." Mr. B aid on going to his
brick-yard next morning, found that 2,000 or 3,000 un-
burnt hicks and quarries had been trampled upon and
rendered useless. Of course Beasley was st,spected. A
couple of detectives went to his house and examined his
feet and boots, found them encrusted with clay, and die-
eote!ed a stocking the fellow of which had been left in the
brick-yard by whoever destroyed the tricks. Mr. Kyn-
nersley said there could not be the slightest doubt of
prisoner's gent, and Stied him 31. for the wilhl damage,
and 2/. for the assault. In default of payment, he will go
into training at Winuoti• green for four months.--lair.
mingham Journal.
Comutvi. AL OF A SHAM BARRISTER.—On Wednesday,
at the Wakefield Court House, a respectable looking man,
named John Lundy, Wll3 charged with having on the
25th of August last, unlawfully and falsly pretended that
he was a barrisfr-a--law. From the evidence of Mrs. Days
wife of D:ys shopkeeper, of Wakefield, it ap-
peared that the prisoner called at her house on Tuesday
afternoon last, and engaged rooms, saying that he was a
barrister-a'-taw, and that he had come to Wakefield sessions
to defend prisoners. He partook of tea and supper. and
the next morning, after breekfast, said he was going to
the Court House. He returned again about five o'clock,
and had tea and sapper. On Thursday morning he took
some meat and bread with him, saying it was for a woman
he was going to defend. When he came home on the
evening of the third day he said he hat g.it three prison-
ers of that day. On the sauna evening he also borrowed
some money, promising to repay it when he had got his
cases over, and on the next (Fridat) morning he borrowed
some more money, observing, while at breakfast. that he
was going to defend a woman who wad charged with
stealing £7O; that he knew she had the money in her
pocket, but he did not wish it to be known. Later in the
day, the "barristers" landlady wishiarr, no doubt, to see
her lodger in his wig and gown, and to hear how he might
defend the woman for stealing the X7O, went to the Court
House • but i7slead of finding him seated at the barristers'
tatle, ;he saw him sta 'ding in the body of the court. She
made her way to him, ano said, "I thought you would
have been amoagq the white wigs." He said, " I have been
but my case is over." He also said he was waiting to hoar
a caeo that was then going on. That evening he wished
to borrow some more money; but her suspicion bang
aroused, she refused to lend any,—William Days corrobo-
rated his wife's alter/sent, and said, in addition, that the
prisoner had engaged him as his clerk at 255. $ week. He
had also made proposals of marriage to his daughter. Ho
said his carpet bag containing his wig, and gown was at
Mr. Wainwrights, the solicitor. The prisoner was fully
committed to take his trial, bail being refused.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.

The half-yeqrly meeting was held oa Wednesday, at
Manchester, Mr. U. W. Wickham. M.P., the chairmv ol
the directors, presiding: abstract of the half-yearly
rep!rt and statement of accounts hue already appeared in
THE NORTHERN TIMES.

The Chairman. in moving the adoption of the report,
was glad to be able to congratulate the shareholders on
the increase of traffic, which had amounted to .£40,665
oa the Lancashire and Yorkshire line proper. Of this
sum £25,562 was in passengers, and £13,548 in goods.
The increase in goods had not come up, to the expectations
of the directors, but was, reve,theless, considerable,; while
the increase in passengers had been a most noticeable
feature is the traffic since the commencement of 1856,
previous to which there had been no increase in this de-
partment during several years,. Luring the last half-year
the increase hall been general over the whole of this
company's lines, and very, little of it was attributable to
the Art Treasures Exhibition. The total increase in
working expenses wire £2o„442—(hear, hear)—of which
£4,000 was expended in ripair and maintenauce of loco-
motive stock, £2,113 in the coaching department, £5,959
in the merchandise department, £5,839 in tnainte-
nance of the line, and £1,500 in law expenses incurred in
oppo,ieg the Blaokburn Company's proposed extension to
'llanchester, and the Greet Northern Company's Doncaster
and Wakefield line, the opposition having been in both
cases successful, The increase in working expanses would
have been much larger had not the strictest economy beers
exercised, and was attributable to the great increase of
traffic. The saving is consumption of coke, oil, and tallow,
as compared with 1352, was nearly £lo,o'lo, while each
locomotive was earning nearly one-third mire than at that
period. 'Since January, 1854, 481 miles of sidings had
been added at the dtfferent stations The direc'ors
had offered to the Blackburn Company such terms
as they considered highly advantageous to that
company, ie order to settle the disputes be-
tween them, but the offer bad not been accepted.
By an arrangement jest concluded, this company's pay-
ment to the Sheffield and B trnsley Company would in
future be at the rate of £13,500 per annum. Thiarrange-
meets for a lease of the Aire and Calder Canal by this
company and the North-Eastern were on the point of
completion, the measure being now of the more importance
to this company, owing to the unhappy quarrel among
some neighbouriug companies. The directors would have
been glad to defer the question of a new lice from Oldham
to Rochdale, but the inhabitants of the district were
very pressing in the matter, and a survey had been ordered
with a view to the adoption of whatever route
seemed most advantageous to the greatest amount of
population. So far as experience he'd shown, there
was every reason to be satisfied with the agreement
with the East Lancashire Company, sanctioned at the last
half-yearly meeting. It was proposed in future to hold
the half-yearly meetings of this comoany on the third
Wednesday in Ih. bruary and the third Wednesday in
August, and to make the dividends peyabl.e on the Ist of
March and the let of September. Mr. Stuart, the vice-
chairman, seconded the motion. The Chairman, in reply
to inquiries from a shareholder, said the great irecrease of
traffic had rendered necessary a greater expenditure in re-
newals than was contemplated some years ago. Tnis
might continue for two or three years longer, it being of
the utmost importance that the line should be in first-rate
working oondition, but he did not expect an increased
outlay in any half-year as compared with the present.
Mr. Hernby, M.P., as chairman of the Blackburn Com-
pany, felt it his duty to protest against the directors'
statement that their offer to his company bad been advan-
tageous to the latter. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Com-
pany had not carried out their agreement with the Black-
burn, and they had entered into arrangements with the
East Lancashire which they had ne right to make without
consent of the Blackburn, to which those arrangements
were iojuri ,us. He should not be content with his line
in it.s present depressed condition, and next year should
again prosecute, he hoped successfully, the application
to Parliament for a new line from Bolton to Man;
chester. Mr. Hargreaves, Mr. Stu irt, and Mr. Fielden
(directors) assured the shareholders that Mr. Horaby was
mistaken in his impression that the board of this com-
earl were not anxious to act fairly by the Blackburn
Company. (Applause.) It was true that the agreement
between the two companies had not quite answered Mr.
Hamby's expectitiene, though the Blackburn traffic was
at length improving, but the directors had offered full
compensation for any injury that might have been unin-
tentionally inflicted. Mr. Taunton, a director of the
Blackburn Company, but lamely interested in the
Lancashire and Yorkshire, considered that it was a
suicidal pelicy on the part of the direc ors to run the
risk of the threatened competing lino from Bolton to
Manchester. He contended, also, that this company
had worked the Blackburn line not "as their own,"
but "for their own." Mr. W. Evans recommended that
the dispute between the two companies should be referred
to arbitration. This company had evidently not worked
th 3 Blackburn line as an integral portion of their system,
as they were bound to do; and they should therefore seek
by a peaceful settlement to avoid the retribution which
must ul imately attend upon them as the wrongdoers.
The chairman said the terms proposA by the Black-
burn board were such as the shareholders of this company
would certainly not sanction. It had been calenlated that
they would involve a loss to this vmpeny in six years of
£70,000. Mr. Horaby said it had been calculated, on the
other hand, by persons who were, perhaps, as well able to
calculate as these acting for the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Company, that the loss at the en __l of six years would be
only £B. (A laugh.) The motion was then carried unan-
imously; as were also a resolution declaring a dividend of
£2 103. per £lOO stock for the half year, and the various
greference dividends, all payable on the 15th inst., and a
subsequent resolution, authorising the directors to 'oppose
all bills in Parliament prejudicial to the interests of the
company. _ The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks
to the chairman.

SAD CASUALIIY OFF THE OLD HEAD OF KINSALE.-0a
Sunday morning, about two o'clock, the American ship,
Western Star, came in collision with a barque, between the
Old Head aid our harbour, and, sod to relate, havitig
struck her about midships, is a few militates she went down,
and the Western Star passed over her. Not one of the
crew have been saved, and from the accoaats given by the
sailors of the Weitern Star, many of them were on deck
at the time of the collision; they also state that they were
French or Spanish. The Western Star was towed into
the harbour to-day, and taken to Brown's dock with the
loss of cut-water, and she was hound from Rio to Cork for
orders ; her cargo is rice and sagar.—Cork Reporter.
ALUM/SD NEURD:in AT STOtJEBRIDGE, COMMITTAL OF
THE ACCUSED.—A preliminary inquiry into the circum-
stances attending the death of a woman named Sarah
Hart, was held last week at Stourbridge, and arljoarned
after some formal evidence was received. On Tuesday
the inquest was resumed, at the Bell Inn, before Ralph
Docker, Esq. It appeared that, on S;turday week, the
deceased was taken ill, and in the allienc..e of her husband,
was attended by a female named Hall. She was ill all"
night, and on Sunday Hart arrived at home in a drunken
state. Mrs. Hall then left hith with his wife, and informed
him of the illness she was suffe.ring from, and the remedies
she required. He heorilessly wished she was in " h----'s
limes," and refused to provide brandy for her. In the
afternoon Mrs. Hall returned, and Lund deceased and
Hart in bed together. Hart bad his band over his wife's
mouth, and she was black in the face and quite dead. He
was fast as!eep with his legs across the dead body, and
was roused. Whe❑ asked if °he knew his wife was dead,
he made no answer, and, rolling over, went to sleep again,
The opinion of the surgeons who made the post mortem
examination was, that the deceased had died frorn•
suffocation. The husband was -taken into custody. The
jury, after a prolonged consultation, returned a verdict of
" Wilful murder" against Hart, who was then committed
for trial at the next Worcester astizes. •

A NEWSPAPER.--What is a newspaper ? A collection
of sentences—pictures of thought which all who are
! capatie of reading, and who will take the trouble to buy
or borrow, can enjoy in common, the poor as well as the
riche the low as well as the high. It is a most convenieut
medium by which the vender can inform the buyer what is
the character and what the amount of the goods and
chattels he has for sale. And the buyer can, by the same
means make known the nature of those things he wishes to
purchase. It records the researches of science and the
triumphs of enterprise. Bat the newspaper is a great
moraliser. See yonder light house near flu+ sunken rock
or the coral reef, it well-defined light is well understood
by the weather-beaten pilot. See the cautieu wish which
the helm is managed, as the driving wind and surging
waves endanger the safety of the buoyant barque, with its
valuable cargo and living freight. By his persevering
caution his vessel is at length brought to the desired haven
in safety. So the newspaper displays the follies, vicv, and
consequent miseries of thousands, as so many beacons, con-
stantly burning, to I urn others from the rock on which they
split. The story of one friend murdered by another in a
duel or drunken brawl, is related in order to dissuade
foolish men from jea'ousr, suspicion and auger. The erec-
tion and occupation of the gibbet, or the awful end of the
suicide, is mournfully related to canion the gamb'er, the
profligate, the seducer of female innocence, to stop at once
in,the road to rule. What an impressive lecture on the
necessity of frugality and economy is read in the list of
auction tales of 'hemme,. furniture, and estates ? Take a
newspaper, consider it well, pay for it as an honest man,
encourage your household' to read it. Nest to the Bible
prize the Newspaper.