Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-08 00:00:00

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With Silk.

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( opposite Old Post Office Place.)

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Lever) for stamping note paper with Initials; crests, or
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WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The weekly meeting of this board was held yesterday
in the Board-room of the Workhouse, Mill-road. 'Mr.
Parkin presided ; and the other members present were
Messrs. H. Edwards, Ledger, Pilling, Roscoe, J. Ed-
wards, Mawdsley, Abrahams, Richmond, Smith, Med
calf, and Wareham.

Cheques for out-door relief were granted to the
amount of £l3O to Mr. Potts, £l4O to Mr. Olney, and
£22 to Mr. Lythgoe. The governor reported that the
number in the house last week was 691; admitted
since, 30 ; born, 2 ; discharged, 53 ; died, 2. This
week 668, against 701 in the corresponding week of
last year. Mr. Hall, master of the hospital, reported the
number under treatment in that establishment, to be
last week 103; admitted since, 13; discharged, 9 ;
died, 1.
Letters were read from Mr. Shepherd, publican, and
Mr. Allen, relieving officers, in explanation of an account
furnished to the board by the former for wines, spirits,
&c., supplied upon orders written by the latter. Mr.
Shepherd attended in person, and after Mr. Potts gave
his explanation, the members of the board expressed
themselves satisfied as to the correctness of the account,
but as it extended over a longer period than allowed by
the consolidated order, Mr. Cleaver was instructed to
write to the Poor-law Board for permission to pay it.
Mr. CLEAVER said it would be necessary to raise
£10,430 to meet the expense of the union, and on the
motion of Mr. ABRAHAMS, calls to that amount were
ordered to be made on the several townships.
On the motion of Mr. PILLING, Mr. Marshall was
re-appointed for one month as relieving-officer.
A communication from the Secretary of the London
Union, together with a copy of a report of the com-
mittee upon the order of the Poor-law Boari, relating
to the religious instruction of orphan children in work-
houses, were read, and Mr. Cleaver was instructed to
write to the London Union, and also to the Poor-law
Board, stating that the guardians agreed with the views
of the committee.

Mr. LEDGER expressed his belief that the Poor-law.
Board interfered more frequently than they should do
with boards of guardians, who knew better what was
the state of certain cases that came before them, than it
was possible men in London could do. He was much
struek the other day, when - reading a trial before the
judges in the .Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, that they
decided that the Poor-law Board could not make any-
thing a law by a sealed order which had not been a law
before; and the result was, that in the case then being
tried, the commissioners had to pay the money out of
their own pockets.
This was all the business of any interest.

COUNTY COURT .-YESTERDAY.

(Before J. K. BLAin, Esq., Judge.)

INSOLVENCIES.

The following petitions were heard and disposed of
at this court yesterday.
Silas Bond, shoemaker, Prince Edwin-street, applied
for his final order ; he was supported- by Mr. Gray.
Final order granted.
George Kirk, beerhouse keeper, in Athol-street, sup-
ported by Mr. Gray, applied for his final order, which
was granted.
Joseph Leftwich, shoemaker, St. Anne's-street, sup-
ported by Mr. Gray, passed his first examination ; and,
had his Anal order fixed for the 11th of January.
James Redmond, draper and shipping-clerk, came up
for his first examination. He was supported by Mr.
Daly, and opposed by Messrs. Hime, Pemberton, and
Gray. The petition was dismissed in consequence of a
deficiency in the schedule.
Mary Hatch, shopkeeper, appeared on her first ex-
amination. She was supported by Mr. Hime, and
opposed by Mr. Grocott. Her final order was fixed for
the 11 th of January.
Maurice Doyle, builder, supported by Mr. Gray, came
up. for his first examination. The petition was dis-
missed.

John Hewitt, beerhouse keeper, Salisbury-street,
supported by Mr. Gray, had his final order fixed for the
11th of January.

NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS BE-
. TWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND
LIVERPOOL.

In our American news of yesterday we briefly noted
the fact that the first mails from the Western States,
contracted for by the United States government to be
carried to Europe via the Grand Trunk Railway and
the Montreal Ocean Steam-ship Company's line of
steamers, were brought over in the Hungarian, in charge
of Gilbert Griffin, Esq., Inspector of Canadian mails.
Hitherto, the whole of the United States mails have
been carried by the British and North American Royal
Mail steamers, leaving Boston and New York alternately
every Wednesday,i but by the new arrangement which
we have referred to, the whole of the correspondence
posted in the United States after the sailing of the
Cunard steamer on Wednesday, up to the sailing of the
Montreal Ocean Steam-ship Company's steamer upon
the Saturday following, will be forwarded by the Grand
Trunk Railway from Chicago and Detroit, including
correvondence from the westward of these points, to
Portland in winter, and to Quebec in summer' for
Liverpool and London direct. The additional faci-
lities thus afforded by the new line of mails
between Europe and the Western states of
America cannot fail to be highly appreciated by the
people on this side of the Atlantic, whose interest in the
population of the " far west" is perhaps greater than,
in
,that of any other district of the United. States, from
the fact that the vast majority of our emigrants now
proceed thither. The interest taken ,in the establish-
ment and opening up of this new and convenient medium
of communication was publicly manifested in the most
marked and enthusiastic manner towards the excellent
agent of the' Canadian post-office, entrusted with the
responsible duty of carrying the arrangement into effect
for the first time; and the people of Liverpool are too
sensible not to feel quite as keen an appreciation of the
importance of this port having been selected as the ter-
minus to so important a postal and traffic route. It
cannot but be gratifying to all parties to observe that
the first despatch has reached its destination so quickly
—it promises well for the future success of the scheme—
the whole distance of above 4,000 miles from Chicago
having been accomplished in twelve days and a few hours.
The following particulars of this interesting despatch will
be readwith interest. The mails left Chicago late on the
night of the 23rd ult., with the correspondence from all
points west of that. On the afternoon of the 26th they
left Portland Bay. The Hungarian, which touched at
Halifax on the night of the 27th,—where the officers
and crew of the ill-fated Indian where taken on board,—
which place the steamer left at midnight. She made
Tory Island, on the north of Ireland, the following
Sunday, having thus made the run from land to land in
about six days. This new postal arrangement so
valuable, especially to the commercial interest on both
sides of the Atlantic, is in a great measure due to the
intelligence and energy of the Postmaster-General of
Canada, the effectual carrying out of the details of
which have been accomplished by the active and expe-
rienced inspector, to whom that duty was comniitted.

..

THE EHPEROE. OF CHINA'S DECREE IN RELATION
TO MR. WARD' S MISSION.—The Pekin Gazette of Aug.
9, contained an imperial decree, in which the mission of
Mr. Ward and its result are thus referred to :—" The
American envoy, John Ward, kept his engagement with
Kweiliang and his colleague ; sailed to the port of Peh-
tang, and begged for permission to go up to the
capital, to present a letter from his government. We
accordingly authorised his admission into Pekin, to
present it, and having this day perused the letters ad-
dressed by the American Envoy, John Ward, to Kwei-
liang and Hwashana, and laid before us by those
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ministers, we find the language so respectful, the true-
heartedness that has prompted them' such, that we
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receive it. As regards the exchange of the treaty, he
ought properly to return to Shanghae and exchange it
there, bat in consideration of the long voyage he has
made we (are pleased) specially to authorise that the
seal be appended to the treaty, and that it be delivered
to Hangfuh to hand in exchange (for another copy)
to-the aforesaid Envoy, that from the date of the ex-
cfiange there may be peace and commerce for ever
'more. Thus do we manifest our great desire to show a
nursing tenderness to the men from afar, and our ap-
preciation of good faith and right principle. Let
Kweiliang and Hwashana signify this our pleasure, to
the Envoy; John Ward, for his information, Respect
this !"