Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-20 00:00:00

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the board their testimony as to the utility of 'the bearitig,
and the, benefit l'he.boar'd would confer uponlhe shippin
interest by having them kept in permanent order.

A motion upon this subject stood on the paper, of which
notice had been triven'hy Mr. Graves, but, in consequence
of the absence of that genleman, the consideration of the

question was postponed until the nex

A letter from Messrs..M•lver was read, applying for the
exclusive use of one of the wires of the electric telegraph to
be laid down along the docks; and suggosting, in the
event of numerous applications being made for a similar
privilege, that the wires which the board •were prepared
thus to dispose of shmild be let by a iction •to the highest

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THE NORTHERN TIME'S

THE REV. RICHARD DOYLE AND MR
CIIURCHWARDEN JONES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIM M.
Sit,—As you have given publication to the pro-
ceedittgs in which I have noticed Mr. Jones's attack
upon me, I shall feel obliged if you will publish this
reply to him.—Yours, &c., Riau= DOYLE.

TO MR. WILLIAM CHU RCHWARDEN JONES

kt the meeting of the Select Vestry, yester-
day, all the newspapers agive in the report of your
speech, and I must take it for' granted that you
have made the follo wing charges against me :
First, that I am in. the habit of 'bringing charges
before the committee against themselves —of

" motives, not facts." Secontfiy, that I have
accused the committee set' outraging the rights of
the children. Thirdly, -that I have accused the
committee of dermoralising.theliltildren.

Nov, I do not thinklgere ave many persons who
read the daily papers so obtuse of mind as not to
see that in Tay letters there arc no grounds
whatever to bring such.charges against me.
(I admit these letters have been untouched,
except as regards the italicising.) With yon,
4owever, It appears :to me, to be different
to the rest of mankind, turd that your intellects
require an annual sharpening, I, therefore, beg
your attention to the above compendium of your
speech, and, recollect, it is quite personal, for it is

entirely your own.
With regard to ti.e first point, I have made no
chargz,, against the committee, nor against the
motives of any man. T stated two facts : one, that
children, named White, had been registered on
the books of the workhouse as Roman Catholics
while their mother was there, but when they had
lout her they had been registered as

come ba

the cas€

Reverse it, another
is no parallel to it, which is also the case. The
second fact I stated was, that there is a girl in the
schools who made a statement, which is corroborated
by her aunt. That is a fact on two legs, and which
cannot he denied. So much for your first charge.
Your second charge against me is likewise un-
grounded. I have not complained that the commit-
tee outraged the rights of the children ; but I said
these children had a right to be classed as Roman
Catholics, and that it was an outrage upon their
rights not to have them so classed. I am of the

ill, and I applied to the committee
not to make charges, but to put it out of the power
of any one individual to change the religious
denomination of one or more children without an
investigation on the part of the committee

opinion st

Some

one of your former committees said there was too
much power in this respect in the hands of the
Governor of the workhouse. I agreed with him at
that time, and I agree with him still.
In the third place, I beg to state, more fully
to you than I have done to the committee, that
it is quite true that there has been as many as eight
or nine girls, who had -been brought up in the
schools, at the same time, in the borough gaol—
that there are at present some of them there - that
I know one of them who has been in it six times
since she left the schools, and that she has stated to
me, on this very day, that there are thirteen or
fourteen of them in the streets of this town. Now,
I have not accused you, much less the committee,
of that demoralisation. God forbid I could be
capable of it. Were I capable of such. a shocking
and horrid insinuation, you might justly charge me
with acting in an unchristian and ungentlemanly
spirit ; and I should feel ashamed of myself, and at
once make any apology and reparation that would
be in my power. I appeal to the letters which
were published in yesterday's newspapers, to
say, whether I am open to such an insinuation.
I have known that these things are going
on by those who have been brought up at the
schools, and I have tried to remedy it without even
mentioning it. I have, so long since as three years,
asked for a school-mistress and Roman Catholic pupil
teachers. It was then said, by some person
common in sympathy with vou, that the Roman
Catholic ch;ldren had all tha't was required, but,
with much a-do, a resolution was passed, that two
Roman Catholic boys and two Roman Catholic girls
should be appointed as pupil teachers. Strange to
think that, out of about two hundred girls, for three
years, one girl cannot be qualified for the appointment
of a pupil teacher.

Now-, with such facts—for these are facts, and not
motives--before you, do you really blame me for
requesting some assistance—not for making charges ?
Look me full in the face and repeat now your
calumnies against me. Not the old ones, but these
fresh ones you have brought against me. You are
not the man you think yourself. You cannot, for
shame, and I hope you will not, have recourse to
your old dodge of slinking. currishly behind the
committee, for, I repeat, it is purely personal. I
think, having been at issue with you so frequently,
and you having found yourself always in the wrong,
it ought to induce you to refrain from saying
anything at all about me.

One word more : You boast of the courtesy of the
committee to one. Will you kindly inform me, was
it with your good-will, or against it, the committee
paid me that courtesy in admitting me to "take a
part in their investigation ? " Haveyou not insulted
me for offering a remark while present at one of these
investigations, which makes me decline your courtesy
ever since ?

Leaving the public—to whom you have, against
my will, introduced me, but, indedendently of whom,
I feel bound to act solely on my own responsibility,
rendering account to no earthly, but to a Supreme
Master, and seeking from Him, and from Him alone,
direction and government in my dealings with those
committed to my care, and with those who are more
or less responsible in their regard—to decide between
you and me,—l beg to subscribe myself, very
humbly, RICH? ID DOYLE,
155, Great Homer-street.
Liverpool, Nlay 18th, 1859.

No SIM' SIIOTILD GO TO SEA without one of Saunders
and Co.'s Patent Sett-cleansing Charcoal Filters, cased and
fitted-up expressly for use on board ship. Note the address,
SAUNDERS & CO., 16, Parker-street, Liverpool.
ECONOMY IN FUEL IN MARINE STEAMING.---The screw
steamer Thetis, fitted with Rowan and Co.'s patent, sailed
from Greenock on Saturday night, with 500 tons cargo on
board, and made the passage to this port in 221 hours, and
burning only three tons of fuel. The ordinary rate of con-
sumption of fuel in a vessel of this size in the same time
would be about 20 tons. The Thetis is fitted with engines
of the nominal power of 100 horses ; gross tonnage, 580,
and register tl80; length 192 feet, breadth 26 feet 6 inches,
depth 15 feet 9 inches ; capable of carrying 25 days' coals
and 650 tons cargo. Practical men acknowledge that the
above consumption of fuel is astounding, and less than one-
fourth of that on board steamers with the ordinary engines.
The following is a description of the machinery :---The
boiler, which is divided into several compartments by stacks
of vertical tubes, is worked with fresh water returned con-
tinuously from the condenser, and the economy is obtained
principally by the means of very slow combustion of the
fuel, as in the Cornish boiler, and by carrying expansion to
a very considerable extent. To enable this to be done
there are on each engine three cylinders, the pistons of
which are connected by a cross-head, and move simul-
,taneously. The centre cylinder, which is comparatively
small, receives the steam direct from the boilor, on the
upper side of the piston, After propelling the piston
'downwards, the steam is permitted to pule to the opposite
side of the two large pistons, which are acted on solely by
the expanding steam, and have no direct communication
with the boiler. the object of having three cylinders is to
obain equality of pressure and simplicity of arrangement,
the general features of which are little different from an
ordinary mercantile screw engine to those of the common
inverted cylinder engine. The surface condenser is used
mainly for the sake of obtaning pure distilled water for the
boiler, as it would not be safe to work with so high pressed
steam and salt water ; indeed, if salt water were used, the
incrustation would soon put a stop to further proceedings.
The boiler has been certified to be safer with 1201bs pressure
than nine-tenths of ;the common marine boilers with 151bs,
and is not at all liable to get out of order. The crew
required for the engine-room is the same, as regards
engineers, compared with an ordinary engine; but for a
steamer of 100 to 150 horse-power only one-fireman would '
be required for each watch, so that under this head there is
,a very considerable saving, apart front Palo,