Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-24 00:00:00

purposes; but under the present law West Deiby or
Green-lane might be made a special district.
Mr. R&pCLIFFE was of opinion that even under the
Local Government Act they could still divide the
district.

Mr. W. JONES said it was pretty clear from the sad
picture that had been drawn that morning by a com-
petent and a medical hand, that there was some very
different apparatus needed for the sanitary regulation of
the township of West Derby, than that which at present
existed; and it was a matter of some astonishment to him,
finding that there was now such a strong feeling in favour of
the adoption of the Local Act, that the matter should have
been allowed to stand over from June last. He believed
it was currently reported that morning, that those
favourable to the adoption of the act would have to
compete with the very powerful opposition of the High-
way Board itself ; and he now found himself agreeably
surprised. Yet he scarcely knew how to account for
their zeal for the adoption of the act with their reluctance
to call a meeting to express an opinion on the question.
(Hear, hear.) He heard that it was necessary on the part
of some of its members to stimulate the board, and.the
result was the report which:lad been read. After that
report was drawn up, what was done ?
Dr. GLAZEBROOK.—I think this is not the question.
(Hear, hear, and "Go on.") -
Mr. JONES continued.—lle found that the Highway
Board very properly,—as these matters being everybody's
business ultimately becomes nobody's business—de-
puted two of their body to carry out the report by get-
ting up a requisition in the township,: calling upon the
churchwardens to convene a meeting. Exceptions of a
technical nature were taken to the requisition, and one
gentleman had to undergo the tedium of a long corres-
pondence with the authorities in London on the subject.
A second requisition was then got uprbut still an objee-
tion was taken by the churchwardens; and ultimately
they were indebted for this meeting to the firmness of
the board in London, who said, in a letter—" If you,
Messrs. Churchwardens, don't call the Meeting, we will
take care to call it." (Hear, hear.) When they could
stave off the meeting no longer, they called it.
The CHAIRMAN said the speaker was entering into
the unhappy disputes of the Highway Board, with which
this meeting had nothing to do. • He would put it to
the meeting whether they wished to hear this quarrel
out.

As one half of the meeting voted one way and the
other half the other way, the chairman said he would
allow Mr. Jones to proceed.

Mr. JONES continued. The meeting was at length
called, and in all his ex?erience, as connected with pub-
lic matters for twenty years, he never did see a' meeting
called with the proceedings in such a crude, unsatisfac-
tory state in his life. • He attributed this to the waste of
time from June up to tow, and the reluctance of the
persons who ought to have been the first to move in the
matter. Now, the great thing required was sewering;
and he believed in no place was there a worse
district than that of Green-lane. The Tue-brook
ran through it, and Mr. Radcliffe drained about two
hundred houses into that brook, making the whole
neighbourhooU odorous. (Laughter.) No doubt they
wanted a different apparatus than that of a band of
highwaymen. (Laughter.) But first of all, he should
like to ascertain how far the parties who had called the
meeting were going to act—how much of the township
they intended to map out for the purpose of sewering,
and how much of the act they were going to carry out.
Upon these two questions would depend the amount of
their rates in the future.

Mr. RADCLIFFE said the' resolution embraced the
whole/of the township. He might mention that Lord
Sefton and others asked for no exception in their favour
as landowners, and said they would allow them to assess
the whole district and make no disturbance about it.
Dr. GLAZEBROOK explained that Mr. Radcliffe was the
first to move in this matter, and that the Highway Board
had nothing to do with the preparations for the meeting.
Mr. HAYLOCK called attention to the fact that there
were provisions in the Act which enabled any indivi-
dual, or any number of individuals, to exempt themselves
from its operation. Any landowner in a port:on of the
district not densely populated, might Within any speci-
fied time seek exemption. He hoped the landowners
would not avail themselves of that, especially as there
was a provision in the Act by which they could seek ex-
emption after the Act was passed.. If the landowners
did isolate themselves, there were ominous signs on the
part of Government officials which went to show that if
localities did not adopt proper sanitary measures them-
selves,-the Government would seek powers to enforce
them. He held documents in his hand which would
show that the mortality of West Derby was of a serious
and appalling character; and he expressed an earnest
hope that the result of the meeting would be the adop-
tion of the Local Government Act.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution,, which was
carried by 44, the minority being 24. He pronounced
the resolution carried, amidst applause.
Mr. LEATHERBARROW, seconded by Mr. Ralph Jump,
demanded a poll ; but Mr. Radcliffe . having explained
that it would be a serious expense upon. the church-
Wardens, the demand was withdrawn.
A resolution was then passed, fixing the number of
the board at 21 members ; and a vote of thanks to the
chairman terminated the proceedings.

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

(Before Mr. ATKIN.)

CHARGE,OF USING A FALSE CERTIFICATE.—Magnus
Sutherland, a seaman, and MargaretJamieson, a sailors'
boarding-house keeper, 28, Norfolk-a Feet, were brought
Up under the Merchant Shipping Act—the first :charged
with making use of a false certificate of discharge and
character, and the other with aidingand abetting him.
Mr. Tindal appeared for the Board of Trade, and Mr.
Cobb for the prisoners. It appeared that the male pri-
soner endeavoured to ship on board the John Parker,
for Mobile, by presenting the certificate at the Shipping
Office,, Sailors' Home. Mr. Cobb said he would, with-
out troubling the Court to go into the case, consent to
an adjournment, on condition that the female prisoner
was admitted to bail. This was Aceded to, and the
case remanded till Thursday, to await instructions from
the Board of Trade.
ASSAULT BY A WOMAN.—Mary Emet, residing in
13 court, Clement-street, was brought up on the charge
of assaulting Ellen Perry, who lives iu„36 court, Maguire-
street. The prosecutnx stated that Vie was returning
home on Saturday night from market, when the prisoner,
without receiving from her the slightest provocation,
knocked her down, andcut one of her hands and arm
severely with a knife. A surgeon from the hospital
stated that the prosecutrix had her:wounds dressed by
him, and that they had been inflicted by some sharp
instrument. The prisoner was remanded for seven
days; to allow of time to bring forwaid furtherevidence.
STEALING, FROM A PLACE OF WORSHIP.—William
Smith was charged with stealing., a hat from the
Methodist chapel in Park-place. The chapel-keeper
appeared, and stated that he noticed the prisoner enter
the chapel with a cap, and go out with a hat; he followed
him, and being unable to get a satisfactory explanation
from him, as to how he came by it, took him into the
vestry, where the owner soon appeared. Mr. William
Kirby, No. 10, Great George-street„icientifled the hat as
.his. The prisoner was consequently cpmmittel for trial.
ROBBERY FROM AN EMPLOYER.—A young man named
Henry Smith, in the employment of,..Mr. Lewis, Great
George's:street, as upholsterer, was charged with steal-
ing carpet. Mr. Thomson, manager for Mr. Lewis,
stated. that the prisoner came to him on Saturday, and
said he wished:. to leave, as .he had procured another.
situation in M'afichester. While he was talking to him
one of the shopmen told him he had missed a few lengths
of carpet. 'laving told the clerk to look what was due
to the prisoner, he went to his room and found the carpet
wrapped up with his tools. Searching his boi he found
pieces of ribbon and other articles of small , value, and
under his bed he found a piece of cloth.—The prisoner
was remanded, as it was considered an investigation
would bring to light the full extent of. his delinquency.
STEALING PIGEONS.—John Grifths, a lad about 14
or 15 years of age, was brought up :on a charge of steal-
ing a cage containing seven pigeons, from a yard in LOw-
hill, belonging to a Mr. Wright. Rappeared that the
prisoner offered them for sale to Mr. Spring, Dale-street.
Mr. Wright identified the pigeons, and stated they were
worth £3.105. The prisoner was remanded.. ,
(Before Messrs. AIKIN and BErriv.)
ASSAULT AND ,BREAKING WINDOWS.--Peter
M`Keowan, a labourer, was charged with assaulting
John Hogan, a, shoemaker, in his shop, Garden-place,
Marybone, and breaking ten squares.of glass. The pro-
secutor stated that there was no quarrel between them,
but that the prisoner came in a swaggering manner, and
offered to fight him. He was ordered to pay the amount
of damage done, viz , 10s. ,

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THE A LLEGEIiMURLER 1N GLASGOW.—Margaret and
Ann Mulligan, the two girls who were appreholided near
Portrush .on a charge of having "caused the death of
Isabella,lrvine in Back Wynd, have been committed by
thesheriff to stlinid 'their trial on a charge of. murder, ,