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

THE LATE MR. BROTHERION, M.P.

Mr. Brotherton was born on the 22nd of May, 1783,
at Wittington, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a place
celelirated in the annals of history as the spot where the
revolution of 1688 was concocted. His father Mr. John
Brotherton, kept a boarding school, and was also .in the
exciss. About the year 1788, Mr John Brotherton was.
remoted by: the board of excise to Manchester, and
but a short period elapsed before he commenced
the spinning of cotton, taking a room or two in
a factory, then known as Duck's factory. He
also occupied a small mill in Copperas street, and then
relinquished his office in the excise, taking into
partnership with him the father of Alderman Harvey,
and Mr. Booth. About the year 1797, a mill was erected
by the firm in Canal s;rect, Salford, which mill is now
owned and occupied by Mr. Alderman Harvey and his
sons. In 006 Mr. Booth died, and Mr. Joseph
Brotherton was taken into partnership with his father
a-A Mr. Harvey, when the firm became " Brothertons,
Harvey; and Co," About 1810, Mr. John Brotherton
died, and the business W 45 carried on by Mr. Joseph
Brotherton and his brother, Mr. Harvey then becoming
a sleeping partner: The usiness was thus conducted
until 1819, when Mr. Wm. Brotherton, brother to the
deceamed member, died, and Mr. Joseph Brotberton re•
tired from the concern. The late member has not since
been engaged in business avocations. While connected
with !he mill, Mr. Joseph Brotherton took a very active
part in the buying and selling department, his brother
William looking more particularly after the practical
part of time business. In. 1819, Mr. Harvey
(the present alderin in) took the concern into his
own hands, and shortly afterwards was joined by Mr.
Tyson, when the firm became Harvey, tesoe, and Co."
In 1811 or 1812, Mr. Joseph Brotherton was overseer of
the borough of Salford ; :Led at the time it occurred to
him to investigate the appropriation of the monies arising
from the various charities in Salford. Through his
exertions 'the arrangement was obtained which now
exists !with regard to the distribution of the
charities,. Since -that period he has taken an
active part at' various times ie procuring local
bills. He became acquainted with Mr Cowherd, the
minister of Christ Cliurch, King street, Salford, in 1805,
and about 1808 or 1809 he was led to adopt the veges
tali= regimen, and total abstinence from all intoxicating
drinks. Up to the time of his decease he continued a
strenuous advocate of these principles. In 1816 Mr
Cowherd died, and was succeeded by Mr Schofield, who
was followed by Mr Clarke. Upon Mr Clarke leaving.
England for America, about 1819, Mr Brotherton
took the whole of the dtfies of minister, without
remuueraion, though they were attended with considerable
labour and anxiety. He continued to °Wei mte, except oa
the Sundays, when he was absent through the pressure of
parliamentary duties, and as recently as Sunday morning
last, he did duty in the chapel. Mr. Brotherton was
married in 1806 to Miss Harvey, his own cousin, and sister
to -Mr. Alderman Harvey, He leaves issue one son, James
Brotherton, who now holds an appointment a's receiver
general in the Inland Revenue Office, London, and two
daughters, one unmarried, and the other married to Mr.
Martin, corn merchant, of London. The energy with which
Mr. Brotherton had devoted himself to the work of reform
and improvement in Manchester and Salford, especially
between 1820, when he retired from business, and 1832,
when the Reform Bill gave Salford a member, at once
pointed him out to the elf ctors as the man who deserved
parliamentary honours at their hands. Out of this very acti-
vity as a local reformer was raised the opposition to him
on the part of the conservatives, who felt too keenly the
influence which he had succ,etsfully
,exerted against
their predominance to let him into the House of Commons,
without a. battle for the seat. 'The Salford Conservatives
played their cards well. They brought forward Mr. William
Garnett, a local gentleman of great wealth, highly respected
as a member of an old Manchester family, and as a warm
supporter of benevolent institutions. Moreover, Mr. Brother-
ton was a dissenter,while Mr. Garnett was a churchman, and
at that period all merely political considerations gave way
with many, before the cry of "The Church in
danger." The Salford refermers had a tough battle to fight,
but they fought it well, and put Mr. Brotherton at the head
of the poll, by a large majority : the numbers being, for
Mr. Brotherton 712; for Mr. Garnett, 518. On the dis-
solutioa in the spriag of 1835, the conservatives brought
the late Mr. John Dugdale. calico printer, a thorough
conservative, into the field, but Mr. Brotherton gained as
good a victory as in 1832, the numbers who
polled for him being 79.5, against 572 for Mr.
Dngdale. In the general election of 1837, Mr.
Garnett's friends again induced him to contest the seat.
The borough had in the interval been extended, especially
in the Broughton or ".respectable" portion of it ; and the
infusion of a larger nongervative element in the electoral
lists gave hope of a conservative trionph. No stone was
left unturned towards 'securing this object but, a third
time Joseph Brotherton wes at the head of the poll, by the
-scanty Majority of two voter, one of them, we believe, being
his own:`. The numbers were, Brotherton, 890 ; Garnett,
888. A third time, in 1841, Mr. Garnett essayed to be
member for Salford, but was once more defeated, Mr.
Brotherton having 990 votes, to his oppononts 873.
From that period down to the last general election no
inlvidital nor party has thought it expedient to attempt
to alienate Salford's affections from its first political love.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTIC3:IIIIO snin of £lO,OOO was
paid last year on account of agricultural statistics, and
£7,000 in the preceding )ear.

SUICIDE AT EDINBURGII.—On Monday evening, about
half-past ten o'clock, Mr. John Adie, optician, a gentleman
who has been long established in business in Edinburgh,
suddenly rase fr2m the table where he had been playing at
whist with some female relatives, went up stabs to his bed-
room and shot himself with a double barrelled gun. His
friends and some medicAl gentlemen, h-aring the report
of the fire arms, went to the room, and after breaking open
the door, which be had locked, found him lying quite dead
beside the bath, the shot having entered the ear, and the
roof of the skull being completely blown off. Deceased
had been in ill. health and desponding spirits.
PftEgIRFATION OF GAME.—It is not generally known,
even by experienced sportsmen,when the season for shooting
grouse ends, nor are people aware how severe are the penal-
ties fot a violation of the law. From the 10th of December
to the 10th of August, any one killing, or offering for sale,
or having in his possession a grouse, is liable to a fine of £5.
It matters not whether he be a licensed sportsman or not—
he is jest as liable to be prosecuted as the poacher. The
season foe sho sting partridge will end on the lOth of this
month, snrl will not open till the 20th of September. Tne
law is just a, strict as in the ease .ot grouse. A man
employed by the Game Preservation Satiety every day
watches the Cork market, and any one offering a grouse
or partridge for sale will certainly be prosecuted.—Cork
Constitution.

SOUTHIMPTON ELecrtorr.—Mr. Falvey, the suspended
Southampton stamp distributor, has, it is stated, received
communications f►o:n some of the most eminent members
of the bar assuring him that lie has not violated the statute
passed in the ninth year of Queen Anne (under which be
has been disgraced and punished), by taking part in the
preliminary proceedings of the forthcoming election in the
above named town. He has also received numerous letters
from members of the civil service, imploring him to stand
by his order and secure the rights of nearly 20.000 civilians
from unnecessary and illegal restrictions. The Southampton
custom horse officials have been reprimanded and cautioned
for interfering in the election in that town. They were
partisans of Mr. Andrews, a fact which they allowed to
become too apparent at a meeting of Mr. Weguelili'd sup-.
porters.

SCOTLAND Gana MAD.—A large* proportion of the
English press have been expending their gaul (sic) on the
monument to the great Soottish hero about to be erected at
Stirling; nor is their maddened language the mere vaca-
ticnil result of h tying nothing, else to write about. The
name of Wallace is ha►eful• to English ears. At the distance
of same 40 years Waterloo is not a pleasant draught for a
Frenchman to swallow. At the distance of five centuries
and a half the name of Wallaca is still synonytne with the
southeras beyond the Tweed for terror. A century ago, on
the plains of Hindostan the descendants of those who had
fought under Tamerlane fled in dismay in thousands when
Clive was known to be approaching with a handful of his
veterans. Not greater was the English terror at the ap-
proach of the champion of $-...otlaed, when, with his hardy
band of faithful followers, ho was known to b 3 near. Dur-
ing the French revolutionary war it was said that one
Englishman was equal to five Scotchman. With the weapons
of that semi-barlor.rous age, it would not require five
Wallaces to make one hundred Englishmen flie still. It is
not, therefore, surprising that John Bull should turn up Ws
nose at a monument to such a man. The wonder would be
if he did not. England can produce no equal to him in
patriotism or prowess. The rolls of modern history show
no rival bit William Tell. England suffared mach at his
hands, Her veteran soldiery, who had marched triumphant
over every field in France, and deluged the vineyards of
Gaul with the blood of her bravest children, sank to strip-
lings before the Scottish chief. The multitudes she could
array against him were defeated at fearfil odds. She has
not forgotten it, and if the Scottish nobility had stood
united to their great leader and crowned him king, E in.
burgh, and not London, would have been now the British
seat of Royalty, Bat the sneers and the pahaws of the
English press, from the palttiest broadsheet to the great
Thunderer—the Lady of the Strand—fall lightly on Scot-
tish ears. Scotland remembers what Wallace did for her
independence, and she will give him a monument worthy of
herself and of him: Let every true. Scotchman throw in
his mite to the treasury of patriotism, and show to England
what she can and will do for those who devoted their life.
inlet: and their lives to hsr best interests and her cause.—
Inver nese Reformer,