Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES,.—LIVERPOOLI THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER los iss7.

belonged to the committee in London ought to be included
in it.

The MIYOR : Mr. Clint could hardly have made that
motion himself, for he was, to my knowledge, one of the
most active and intell;gent members.
Mr. J. R. jarrnay : It is much better to confine the
motinn to the chairman.

Mr. CLINT : I quite agree with that opinion. We shall
otherwise open up a discussion which would be very unde-
sirable. (Hear, hear )
Mr. WOODRUFF: If we could elicit any information as
to what was done in London, I should be very glad to
second the motion. I should like to know a little more
myself.

Mr JrFFEST : There are only a very few members of the
committee present, and it would be very unfair to 'the
absent members to allow any discussion to ans. upon
the present occasion. (ifear, hear.)
Mr. KITCHEN I should not press the raotion, if I
thought it likely to lead to anything like discussion. I
think we have had quite enough already. At the same
time, I do think that the thanks of the Council are'due to
the committee for the services they have rendered.
The resolution proposed by Mr. Clint was then carried
by acclamation.
Ma STEWART said : Mr. Mayor, I can assure you
that I feel very sensibly the good intentions of 'the
Council, and that I am particu arly indebted to Mr.
Clint for the very handsome manner in which he has
been pleased to speak of my services daring the late
tereggle 'in which we have been engaged. 1 can only
say, that I have always felt, and I hope that so long as I
live, I shall always c .ntinue to feel the deepest interest in
the prosperity and welfare of my native town. It has been
always my effort, so far as lay in my power, to serve it fairly
and honorably to the utmost of my ability. I cannot omit
this opportunity of thanking you and the Council generally,
not only for the kindness which I have experienced now,
but the kindness which during eleven years that I have
had a seat in the room I have always experienced.
,(Applause.)
The proceedings of the special Committee on the
memorial to Mr. Brown, M.P., shelved, that the model of
M‘Doweli's sculpture had been approved, and that
the artist was instructed to proceed without delay.
Ma -J B. JEFFERY moved that the proceedings be
confirmed, which was agreed to
The proceedings of the committee on laying the founda-
tion stone of the new library and museum were
confirmed. •
The Coroner's aceone, animating to £27. 3s. was
paved.
An application was reeeivel from Mr. John Torr, as
chairman of the Wellington Testimonial Comm ttee,
applying for an eligible site whereon to erect a column as
a testimonial to the late Duke of Wellington.
The memorial was referred to the Finance Committee.
A resolution from the committee which conducted the
late Government Art Exhibition was read, thanking
the Mayor for his attendance, and the Council for their
patronage, and for the use of the building in which the
exhibition took place.
A. letter was read from Mr. R. S. S'eldon, complaining
of the dangerous state of Limekiln-lane.
Mr. WOODRUFF moved that the letter be referred to the
Improvement Committee, stating that no part of Liverpool
required more immediate attention.
The motion was agreed to.

but he believed Mr. M'Donald was recommended for some
situation which he afterwards got. That showed that he
had r.ot received any ill-treatment at the hands of the
ConnejL;(Hear, hear.)
-.Air. Tom did not want to enter into the merits
of the case, or to go into the qualifications of Mr.
I,ll3onald for the situation he had held, but he
thought it shoul i scarcely go forth to the public
that he had not really received very kind and
roteiderate treatment at the hands of the Coun-
cil ; and with that view, and solely that view, he
would mention the result of the committee's appointment
to which Mr. Turner alluded, and of which he was himself
a member. It was a special committee Mr. 3l•Donald
was then holding office under the Water Committee.
Complaints were made, and, he believed, Mr. M'Donald
lost his situation. The special committee was appoin ed,
of which Mr. Turner was chairman, and sat in Cornwallis-
street a great number of days. The result of their
deliberations was, that they came to the decision that Mr.
M'Donald had behaved very improperly, but they recom-
mended that he should be tried again. He was tried
again, but, notwithstanding the warning, he lost the
situation again. Subsequently a chmge was made in the
police force. In former times Mr. M'Donald had been
spoken of very highly by the chief constable, and he was
therefore appointed superintendent of the mace. force.
That situation, too, he lost, and he remained- some time
out of a situation. He then applied to the Council again,
and the Smoke Committee appointed him inspector. For
some cause—he (Mr. Tobin) forgot the circumstance now
—he lost that eitaation. He merely made these remarks,
as he did not think Mr. M'Donald or any person in the
town ought to be under the impression that the Council had
not shown great consideration for his case. (Hear hear.)
He agreed that in the Water Committee, and in the old
water works, and also originally in the police force, Mr.
M'Donald had been a. very efficient servant. There cer-
tainly must have been a very great change ; he did not
think he could have been appointed to so many situations,
and failed in giving satisfaction to the various committees
under whom he was placed.
Mr. Toms hoped the mover and seconder would not
press the motion, ale: the very temperate remarks which
had just been made. He was quite sure that Mr.
M'Donald had received every attention, and every kindness
from the Council. (Hear, hear.) He would not have
risen to make any observation, but for a remark made by
Mr. Jeffdry, as regarded the merit claimed by Mr.
M'Donald, with regard to the intiodaetion of the high
pressure system of watering the town. Although Mr.
M'Donald might have been very instrumental, originally,
is Liverpool, )n introducing that system ; in Nottingham
and other places, the principle and the adaptation of the
principle, were very well known before Mr. M'Donald had,
he .believed, got one of the plugs, and he claimed to have
invented a particular kind of plug very useful for putting
out fires. He certainly was, from his zeal at the time,
very instrumental in having the experiment tried in Liver-
po A. But the Water Committee of that day were se ually
in progress of going to apply the principle in this town.
He (Mr. Tinne) did not wish to take fr )m Mr. M'Donald
the merit of having been an energetic person, but he did
not wish it to be considered that he was the actual
inventor, or to have had more than the merit of having
been very zealous in the performance of his duty. All
the matters were under the consideration of the Council at
the time.
Mr. WAGSTIFF : It was a screw valve.

Mr. Alderman COOPER said it was a very painful task
to have, in the performance of a public daty, to oppose the
motion. Mr. M'Donald had made a statement that ha
was discharged for telling the truth Now, he (Mr.
Cooper) happened to be a member of the Water Committee
upon the occasion referred to. The Water Committee,
when the tw) Water Companies came into their hanth,
gave notice to every officer of both companies in order
that others might select a staff suitable for their parpases.
Mr M'Donald was knlwn 'to be a very efficient officer
in the police, and the Water Committee appointed him
assessor. He (Mr. Cooper) must say that the duties were
most shamefully performed. The Committee bore it for
weeks and months toge'her, when the man was never near
the place. They bore it with great resignation for some
time, and he wa,, afterwards discharged for ra'scondact.
But by whom was he discharged? The Committee
went out of office, and Mr. Harboard was the chairman of
the next Cammi:tee. Mr. Harboard was very friendly
towards Mr. M'Donald, and did all he could to screen him,
in every way, and yet he was compelled t.) sign his dis-
charge He was discharged by the Water Committee
which thus came in and who were almost all his friends.
He had gat various appaMtments subsequently under that
conned, and he (Mr. Cooper) was very desirious to say
nothing dil/4re4ptc•fal of an old officer, and therefore
should not go any further. But he hai been appointed
under various committees, but had been discharged
by these committees, and he now again came asking. To
recommend such a man would be outrageous, and he
(Mr. Cooper) would be no party to it, although he was
very sorry for the man, whom he believed to be very badly
off

Mr Alderman BENNETT hoped it would be the pleaqure
of the Council to refer the memorial to a special commit' ee
There could not be a doubt that so much at least was due to
Mr. M'Donald, for all the anxiety he had had in connection
with the water question. He had lost a good situation.
He had been in poverty almost ever since, and he (Mr.
Bennett) really hoped the Council would be able to do
mething for him.

A division was then taken upon the motion, when there
appeared :

For—Mr. Alderman Bennett; Councillors, Messrs. A C.
Stewart, Banner, J R Jeffery-4.
Against—The Mayor ; Aldermen, Messrs. Chilton, Bold,
Parker, Cooper, Turner ; Councillors, Messrs. Crosthwaite,
Stitt, Woodruff Havdock, Nichohon, Hornby, Livingston,
Steams, Wagstaff, Mozley, Brancker. Tobin, Tinne, John-
son, Kitchen, Mellor, Aikin, Cant, Jahn Stewart, Robert-
son, Anthony-27.
The motion was therefore lost.

The follo*irg motions stool next on the paper:—By
Mr. Councillor Woodruff—" That the public be admitted
to be present at the future meetings of the Council, under
such restrictions and regulations as the Council may think
fit." By Mr. Alderman Parker—' That the meeting of
the Council for October next, be held in the Concert
Room, St. George's Hall."
Mr. WOODRUFF said, until the Council had decided where
they would meet in future, it would be useless to bring
forward his motion. B.lt so long as he had a seat in the
Council, he would renew it from time to time until he got
a sufficient majority to carry it. Being in a small
minority did not frighten him, as a recent circumstance
had shown. For the present he withd ew his motion.
Mr. A'derman PARKER also declined bringing forward
his motion.

This concluded the business, and the Council then ad-
journed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—YEsTmumr

BEFORE MR. DIXON.
AN INCORRIGAIIM—A. young woman, named Mary
Kelly, an inmate of the workhouse, was charged under
the following circumstances. An officer of the house said
the prisoner was in the habit of going into the house, and
leaving it at inte,vals ; she was in the habit also of
creating disorder there, and had several times
assaulted some of the inmatoq. On one occasion, she was
sent to jail for 21 days for an assault. They could
not get any good of her in the house. She had
five il'egitimate children there. A female inmate, said,
at half-past eight the previous evening, the prisonerfollowed
her into a bedroom, swearing she would have blood for
supper, at the same time making a furious attack on her,
and with great difficulty she preserved her young child
Porn being killed by the prisoner. She had given her no
provocation whatever. She was sent to jail for three
months.

TUE GREATEST BLACKGUARD IN LIVERPOOL —A young
fellow named Wilson Monk; described as the " greatest
blackguard in Liverpool," was Charged with having assaulted
and robbed a sailor named Robert Tucker in the street.
Mr Bluck was for the prisoner, and on cross-examination
of the complainant he shook his evidence as to identity,
and the prisoner was discharged.
A youth nun ed John Taylor, said to belong to a gang
of bake-coiners, was sent for trial for attempting to pass
a bld half crown at Mr. Wallbridge's public house.

THE FISHERIES ON THE WEST COAST.—The pilchard
reason has now sot in, and enormous ca ches of fish have
been mad: during the past week, the fi3tietmen being busy
day and night, but the pi:chards are still hovering around
the caast in shoals, and all the coasting steamers report
them as flocking to the West coast in legions. The catch
of mackerel has also been unusually heavy on the South
Devon coast during the past week, and fine fish have been
commonly retailed on the coast at Id end lid eacl‘, but the
great bulk have been sent off per rail to Bristol and Bath,
and even as far as London and Manchester.
Tit E MURDER IN If ORSEMPNGER-LANE GAOL —On
Tuesday evening, Mr. W. Cnrt r, Coroner, opened an hove -
ligation at Hotscmorger-lane Gaol icto the circumstances
attending the death of Johr. Hodges. Mr. Neale, solicitor
attended to wa+ch the proceedings on the part of the
friends of the murdered me: Preston was then brought
into court by the prison officers, and identified as one
of thee in the room. The prisoner appears a quiet old
man, but very much depressed. He took no apparent
notice of what was going on but simply returned witness's
gaze when he was identified. Evidence was called which
proved the statements, already made, and the coroner
then proceeded to sum up. The jury returned a verdict
of wilful murdier against James Preston.

ALCOHOL;

OR, TUE -
MINOR CURSE OF ENGLAND.

BEING TUE SUBSTANCE OF A 8111.1E1 OF ADDRES3E4 DELIVERED 111
CONNELTION WITS ST. KART'S TOTAL ♦BSTINENCE SOCIETY,
KIBEDALE.

DEDICITED TO THE
E,EV: MR, TIT rERTON, PRESIDENT,

LIVERPOOL WORKING MAN.

" Woe mita him Oat give% his nefghb3nr drink, that pnttest thy
bottle to him and makes. him drunken."--fiabak. U. 15.

[Continued from Bth September.]

Major Greig in his Report for 1856, stated that " there are 1,445
Licensed Houses, an i 896 Beerhonees ; making in ail 2,341, Thera
are considerably more in proportion to popula` ion in Liverpool than
either Manchester or London; anct what is the consequence ?
Mr. S. n. J :ckson, a phil ilithrople gen leant', gives the result as
follows : —London population. 2,646:278 ; apprehended far being
drank and disor lerly, in one year, 11,923- m Iles, 14,185 females;
making in all, 26,108; while in Liverpool the popilation is 423,961,
and there were apprehended in one year, for being drank and dis-
orderly, 7,146 miles, and 5,822 females. This gives to London one
apprehension to every hundre 1 persons, to Liverpool, one to thirty-
three. Mr. Alderman ilolme, in &speech in the Council Camber, made
Liverpool even worse than this. Thus affirming the evidence of the
publicans themselies, that drunkenness to in proportion to the
number of public houses, ant j 'stiffing the demand for prohibition.
Robertson Gla Istone, Esquire, of this town, deposed to a Parlia-
mentary Committee. and on referring to the connection between
drunkenness and crime s&d, that " The subject had so freqeen ly
come before the magistrates of Liverpool, that they knew that in
public houses or beer-houses many thefts, robberies, and o her
crimes were arranged. In his own cal:eerie:lee as a magistrate he
had known several in Goal, who had told him where their plans
ere arranged, and public houses or beer-houses were gener the
places." And this gentlemen's evidence is affirmed, by that of
the Head Constable, wh3 returned thirty two bear-houses where
thieves assemble to m :tare their plane, and fifty seven were they
meet to divide their plunder.
The Grand Jury of the assizes of Liverp,o', composed of twenty one
magistrates, in 1840, through their foreman, Mr. W. Entweatle, M P.
presented the following—" The G:and Jary having concluded the ex.
amination of the cases committed to thln, feel it their imperative duty
to place on reeerd their opinion as to the prevailiag habit of drunken-
ness, so f .reibly allnied to in the demo delivered to them by Mr. Jae-
lice Whiteman, as being the cease of more Vets four-titles of the crimes
in Cis and o.her calendera, as well as with regard to the adoption of
some efficient means for its extinction."

As in Great Britain, so it. is in America. In those states where the
Main-Law principles have not been adopted out of 203 convicts in
Auburn State prison, U.S., it was ascertained that 200 had committed
their crimes through drunkenness; and, further, the c3mniitmeats in
the city of New York even In 1856, 36,364, of which 32,703 committel
their crimes through drunkenness.
In France, too, w*.ile the populat on had increased 7 per cent. in 7
years, man-laughter had increased 18, rape on adults, 27; on children.
140; patracide, 28; infanticide, 34; murder, 27; forgery, 47 ; arson, 74;
perjury, 81. And whence that fearful increase of crime; the fact is,
drunkenness had doubled during the seven years. Seven years ago
the consumption was 2t gallons, now it is 5 gallons annually of in-
toxicating drinks for every men, women and child, in France.

To al abstainers would not thereore do with Alcohol as the
American Quaker did with the thief—on hearing him in•the adjoining
room to that in which he was seeping, got up and takings loid,dgnn,
opening-the door and pointing the gun at him very quietly sold,
"friend I woall recournsud thee to withdraw speedily lest I should
shoot thee." Not convinced of the evils it inflicts on mankind in every
part of Europe they a-e determined upan Its destruction teetotally.
I will here state a e'reumstance that came under my own observa-
tion about forty years ago, illustrative of the evil resulting from
drunkenne=s.

I was gathering fruit on a love'y day; around me :nature wore her
liweilest aspect, wood ani stream spread out their alluring, charms, of
themselves sufficient to woo the mind to the contemplation of virtue;
for surely nature has that tendency, though neither guide to heaven
nor fitting object of worship to men ; bat more, the sun seemed in his
merHian splendour. All creation, animal and vegetable, animate and
inanimate, seeming to vie in acts of homage to the Creator of All
Things, every thing around me still and quiet, excepting a gentle and
m jostle heaving of the branches of the trees by that meek manifests-
ton of God's power, the breeze of heaven, the solemnity of silence
unbroken, unless the tw tteting of birds, or the lowing of oxen,
occasionally caught the ear. The magnificence, loveliness, and
grandeur of the panorama, leading the mind irresistably to the con-
templatioa of the beauties of nature, and thence, onward to the
wisapal goodness, and beaevoleace of Almighty God, in the
arrangement of all created things, and from the contemplation
of nature upwards to nature's Gid, the author of all things—
and while the juectaile mind (for I was only 12 years of age,) was
filled with gra itnde to Almighty God for his great goodness to man,
in ceasing the ea- h to yield its license, I wall remember, that just
when my mind was thus employed, the solemnity of silence was
indeed broken, by the cries of "stop thief, stop thief l" echoed as the
cry reverb:rated through the valley, " stop thief "—solemn moment!
So soon as the momentary Impaise creating alarm, fear, and astonish-
ment in my mied, had to some eaten', subsided, I ascended higher
in the tree, in order to ascertain tha cause of this wonderment, when
lo I I saw, to my utter amazement, a mortal mau, stalking across the
country will terrible rapidity, and three or four others parsalag m
with fearfully increasing speed, reiterating the cry, " stop thief "
They soon seized the object of pursuit, a Burglar, far whose appre-
hension £lOl was offered.

Next morning I had the pain of witnessing this fins young man,
twenty-five years of age, of robust stature, five feet ten inches high,
marched past my father's doer in irons, and on his way to prison that
day, pointed the offizers in charge of him to the public-house, where
he drank the first intoxicating glass; it was at that cursed house,
added be, against which, my poor mother so often cautioned me, that
I became a drunkard. The landlord encouraged me to steal, first
from my parents, then from others, until I committed the crime for
which I shall be hung. He had broken into a house, and house-
breaking being then a capital offence, he was execand at the ensuing
Lancaster Assizes. In a letter to his brother, before his execution,
he cautioned him against drunkenness.
If I have succeeded in demonstrating that intemperance pervades
my country, and that to a fearful extent, and that crime and drunk-
enesse are like iron-bound criminals, that the oae exists on the
corresponding ratio of the other, I ask, what is the plain logic of the
case; it seems to me to be ,imply this, that intoxicating drinks
ought and must be expunged from the list of beverages, and soma
unintoxicating drinks substituted—where is the man or woman so
destitute of every humane sentiment as to suffer their tastes or
prejudices to aid in perpetuating such a vast amount of terrible evils.
Callous must be that heart, scared indeed must be that conscience,
that would perpetuate drunkeness, which makes women widows,
children orphans, trains our youths for infamy and shame, fills our
prisons with criminals, our workhouses with paupers, our asylums
with lunatics, prosiness f smite, wra`tched❑ess, disease, and death.
Continually does the sigh of the widow, the broken-heated wife, and the
orphan plead wilt the christian, the philanthropist, and the p trice,
to put an end to drankeness. And can they still stand aloof from the
great temperance m ,venaent, the o' ject of which is to persu ,de meu
to adopt total abstinence principles, as the only safe foothold apart
from "Chris: and His Holy Religion," the only safe shelter from the I
ave gieg power of intoxicating drink. Total abstinence principles are
the only trainee agencies ca'calate,d is la3son those human woes
which I have feeely endeavoured to expose—to pu-ge the bosom of
the black crime of drankene.s. In order to do that I would affectien-
ate!), urg upon the victims of alcoholic drinks, the adoption of total
abstinence principles—the principles propounded by the inspired
Apostle St. Pent, neither to touch, taste, nor handle the accursed
thing; for, as there could be no agreement between the temple of
God and idols in the Apostles days, so, I mainta'n, there con be no
egreement in ours, briween the Lord of Heaven and Earth and the
bellyged of Europe, alcholie drinks. There can be no moderation in
adultery and murder, neith-r cto there be any snoderati,n in drunk-
en° a—" Drunkards will not inherit the Kingdom or Heaven,"—they
will have their portion will adulterers and murder re in the lake
that bumeth will fire and brimstone. Drunkards pause, ere it be too
late i —Bat if you will not assert your batter nature, trod achieve the
noblest act of your life—a victory over yourielves—then sorro.vfally
I must leave you, like some false and hideous image, around which
the enemies of God and man have worshipped, end remember that
alcohol, with its train of abominations, will soon be cast oat—yes, by
brewers and public -,ns themselves, as a d, tested thing forgotten of men,
end remembered only as of a vermin-lizzard, that crawls beneath the
twilight and entwine themselves eround their victims in midnight
darkness.