The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-09 00:00:00

MR. BOLD AND MR. MANSPIRLD.

Mr. Bold said : Mr Chairman, before proceeding to
the business of the day, I am very happy to have it in
my power to state that the time of the committee will be
saved going any further into the discussion adjourned
from the last meeting.- (Cries of hear, hear.) Since
that time, Sir, I have received a letter from the stipen-
diary magistrate, saying that he made the statement hp
did in his court under a total misapprehension of the
bearing of my remarks, and that he most willingly
expressed his deep regret that he should have said any-
thing in his court offensive or disagreeable to myself.
(Cheers.) I, sir, had equal pleasure immediately in
replying to that note, in saying that I willingly with
draw anything which I might have said here which was
discourteous to him. So ends, I hope, the unpleasant
subject which I felt it my duty to bring before the
committee last week. But in snaking the statement I
did last week, I find I made a mistake, which I think it
right to correct, because the correction will have a more
favourable bearing upon the case as against
myself. I stated that the average of the fines at the
north end was 9s lid. I only got the return just before
I came into this committee last Thursday, and I had not
time fully to examine it. In the returns which were
laid upon the table the costs are added to the amount
given at the north end, but not at the south end, eouse
quently the average is increased by that addition to the
fines, and, therefore, in stating the average at the north
end at 9s l id, as against 4s 71d at the south end. I was
wrong. The average at the north end is 5s 4d. I think
it only right to state this, and I believe that was the
only error I made. Ido hope, sir, that I may be allowed
to add one suggestion. I have sat here, now, for fourteen
years, with the exception of fifteen months, and I never
heard any conversation or any remark which passed
in a sub committee brought up before the general
committee, except during the discussion at our last
meeting. Ido hope that this may never occur again.
Mr. Rounthwaite : I did intend to have made some
remarks upon this subject, but as Mr. Mansfield has
made a reply so very honourable to himself to Mr
Bold, I think I shall do much better by not making any
remark. I shall put myself in communication with
Mr. Mansfield, and I doubt not that he will send me a
letter equally honourable to himself as he sent to Mr.
Bold. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Rankin said, it gave him a great deal of pain tc
preside at the discussion last week. The result now
arrived at was very gratifying to him.
Mr. Smith said probably it would be as well to state
the grounds upon which the misapprehension arose.
The Chairman suggested that as a very unpleasant
matter could be now terminated in a manner pleasing
to all parties, it would be better not to make any further
remarks. (Hear, hear.) Mutual explanations having
passed, he thought the less now said the better.
The matter was then allowed to drop. _

Tenders were recommended and aceep'ed from Messrs.
Jones and Jump, to make and fix skylights and slides
for the shed on the east quay of Huskisson dock, and
from Messrs. Gladstone, Oklham, and Co , to supply
sails for the dock flats.

The warehouse committee reported the resignation by
Mr. Gibbs, of his situation as superintendent of the
Stanley warehouses, which they recommended to be
accepted.,