Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-04 00:00:00

purpose;

Dr. Parr: Then I beg to say that such a written
notieehas never been served.

The Chairman : It is a very small piece of paper.
Dr. Parr : I never saw: such a paper at my house.
Mr. Holnies said he Was very glad that Dr. Parr had

spokematter,for lie chit m like to elitTonit, of the
as he • was the chairman of the finance comiittce,
He had in his hand a notice, which said that the collector
would ,he at the dice from 9 to 11 o'clock to receive

It was well known there were gentlemen in the
parish such as Dr. Parr had spoken of, and it was very
true he had received a letter from Mr. Beggs. 11-, -
read the letter, in which Mr.Be9-

:s justifie-d his conduct

before the finance committee with respect to the case of
Dr. Parr

After some observations from Dr. Parr, in which he
mentioned that he did not think it was necessary to come
to the collector's office., as it had never been the custom,
The Chairman said he thought it was a very ridiculous
small piece of paper to leave at any house.
Mr. Pooley said he thought, as elected members of that
board, and representing the ratepayers, it was their first
duty to show themselves willing to comply with the
resolutions that might be adopted. He could scarcely
credit the fact that some of the members were the last to

he might say that the m
the statements had been made, were sailing in
the same. boat . with Dr. Parr. Ile did not deny that

pay their rate
to whoth

istrates

respectable, but their re
was of that kind that plain honest men did no
have any claim to. He goes before the magistrat
gets in a great passion, and he (Mr. Pooley) could not
have thought him to he the bird to defile his own nest
that he had been in making such statements. (Dr. Parr:
Repeat them.) There was the collector, and he rendered
his bill not only once or twice, but.three times, and in-
stead of issuing summonses at once. Dr. Parr had him-
self stated that the collector had written to bins a note,
but that it was an impertinent one. He believed that
Mr. jleggs was incapable of writing an impertinent note.
Dr. Parr had gone before the magistrates and escaped the
expense of one and sixpence. He was very sorry that the

these men were h

)ceurred, and. with a member of that Woard. He

would not occur again

The Chairman said the subject wasan nnplea,,,ant one,
ind it would be as well to let it drop
The .p

Ty coru►nittc

receiicd a comm

Messrs: Colburn signifying their w
the board to sell off their interest i

were reae

ication from

aznesi to treat with

Mr..Pooley moved the confirmation of the p.
the committee, and Mr. Daunt seconded it.

The business then ended

THE ,RAILWAY QUESTION

(From a Co

rpondent.)

When the " steam horse " upon the I
and Manchester Railway was thus, in tin

not only expeditious but able also to compete, in.

point of economy as well as in extent of traffic,
with the slow haulage upon the canals, competition
between the two modes of conveyance brought the
rate of carriage to Liverpool frequently as low as
5s per ton. After various conflicts, the Railway
having passed into the hands of a new company, a
truce was made, and an agreement was entered-

into between the companies, by which the traffic
was divided, and the rate of carriage from Man-
chester was raised to lOs per ton.
At this period there was only one line of Rail-

way from Manchester to London, and that line
in possession. also' of the London and North
Western Company. Its length was 200 miles, and

the rate of carriage W4S, then based upon a con-
sideration of diitanoe. Nature not having de-
signed, London to be the proper outlet for the

before entered into the heads of the directors to
endeavour to divert the stream of exports through
London. Their calculation at that time, no doubt,
,was—What rate will pay the shareholders ?—and,
that was then their legitimate guide. At length
the mania for gaining "new territory," for leasing
and amalgamating with other lines, became the
rule at Railway boards generally. and considera-
tions of a paying rate for traffic were fbrgotten it;
the desire, amongst other objects, for a large
" weekly gross total " return of traffic.

It is proper to bear these considerations in view

in discussing this question, because when the
London and North-Western Company first began
to stimulate the London and Manchester traffic,
it had to reduce the carriage to rates which, after
paying the terminal expenses, must 'MIT left fi
positive loss upon every ton conveyed by that
route, as it had not, at that time, its East and
West India Dock branch, by which to economise
the terrific London terminal charges. In due time
that costly branch was added. Whether it pays
any dividend to the main line, is a very doubtful.
question.

Finding itself, then, with the water conveyances
from Manchester' to LiVerpool, bound to good.
behaviour—which meant lOs per ton---and to an

agreement to divide that traffic with them, the
notable scheme of fostering the London traffic,
which, it was thought, was all their own,
was entered upon by the North Western Com-
pany, and for a long time goods were taken,
even before the competition on the part of the
Great Northern, at 25s to 30s per ton. It was
not long, however, that the London and North-
Western had this traffic—which, we contend, was
forced and artificial, and had been entered upon
contrary to what would appear to be sound
principles of Railway management—to itself-
The difficulties between that Company and the
Great Northern brought the latter into the " Lan-
cashire territory," and the rates of carriage
from Manchester to London were made, in the
conflict between these companies, as• shifting as
the men on a chess-board, but with the difference
that, looking at the game at different points of its.
progress, you would always find the rate or
carriage lower than at your previous inspection ;
and at one time it marked, according to the
Albion's correspondent, only
per ton. Yes,
10s per ton, from Manchester to
London, to pay
terminal and locomotive expenses, and all other
incidental items. !!!

Was the rate of carriage, during all this time,
between Manchester and Liverpool, reduced ?
Not a fraction. Though good 4 could be taken.
from Manchester to London, 200 miles, at a.
maximum of 255, and down to a point as low as,
10s, to Liverpool, they must be charged still lOs
per ton, and the consequence was a very large
accession to the export trade of London ; and the
loss by so much on that to Liverpool. Never was
a town more ill-used than Liverpool by the com-
panies who were fostered by her, and whose
prosperity, nay, whose very origin, could be traced
to their connexion with her.

Hereafter we shall have some other amalgama-
tion to speak of affecting Liverpool interests. •

hyint_hrre.raTvanoneeos
, Rochdale on.
proprietyhlall of 'mil, is
AT ROO-WALL-The gentlemen
Tile REFORM BILL
statedl n t the
tßroonllibgai rinds enspoatstchhardec
ted with the Lancashire Reform, Union In Roch-
daleconoccurredived
holding
a public meeting on the Government Reform. Bill The
.Non-electors' Association held one on Tuesday evening,
IV edn leicehsedll'ilya evening,in eet
ingt to consider otnhsei d ePublicrtbe
and decided in favour of-taking public opinion upon the
matter. The two bodies will, no doubt, act in concert.

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE -YESTERDAY

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

TAKIXG_A_ROZTIC.
—Archibald M'Corkendale, recently a police officer, and
a well-dressed, -handsome-looking young woman, named
Eliza M‘Donuell (not known to the police), were brought
Mby- officers 271 and 558, on the .fiillowing charge.
r. Block appeared for the prisoners. The Officers
stated that at half-past nine on Wednesday morning, the
prisoner's were extremely drunk, and were lying on the
centre of the carriage way in Pembroke-place, fighting
furiously, the man charging the girl with having robbed
him of £B. • The officers had great difficulty in getting
the prisoners off the street, and when they did so, the
man kicked the officers in the legs. The only defence Mr.
Block said he had to make was this : His client had been
drinking for twelve hours, without intermission, and' he
was utterly insensible at the time. He (Mr. Bluck) sup-
posed that the parties were so tired, and so insensible,
that they imagined the street to be a sofa, and therefore
they lay down to rest themselves (laughter), no doubt
it was highly imaginative on the part of the prisoners
in fact it was a poetic license altogether that they took
with the street. His Worship said, if the male prisoner
had taken a poetic license with the street, he had, no
right to take a poetic liberty with the shins of the police-
men, and therefore he would fine him £2 for having
taken such a lieense. The girl was discharged. ,
A IturFrAx.—A duffer named William liming, was
charged by Charles Slack, and Alice (his wife),
with having assaulted them.. The complainants were
passing along Paradise-street,at twelve o'clock the prennua
night (they keep an earthenware establishment in
Cleveland-square), towards their home, when the
prisoner and another man, not in custody, came up and
tripped up Mrs. Slack; Her husband asked why lie did
so, when they knocked him down, and the prisoner kicked
him severely in the head and face. The other fellow got
away, but the prisoner was captured. He was fined 15
for each assault, or to be imprisoned for three months,
with hard labour.

HEAD BEEAKING.—A rather decent looking young
man, named John Kendal, who lives in Christian-street,
'ged by Eliza Phillips, with having assaulted her.
axed_ that the prisoner, with two females, were

-street, when complainant went up and
would be better fur him to go to a young
two chilEen, whereon