Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

L, THURSDAY, SEPTEIVIVER 24, 1857.

COUNTY COURT.--YESTERDAY.

ST. PA.NCRAS WORKHOUSE REVELATIONS.
RESIGNATION OF THE MASTER AND
M XTRON.

The. Board of Directors of the Poor
.of S. Pancras,
held a meeting on 'Tuesday, in the bard-room of the
workhduse, for the purpose of receiving the repOrt oca
committee of investigation as to the alleeed plun ler of the
stores of the workhorse to a most extraordinary extent.
Mr. G. A. Young in the chair. Mr. Camerop, :in the
absence of Mr. Churchwarden Wyatt, brought ep the
report of the Officers' Duties Committee. It stated than,
ater long and diligent investigation, they had ascertained
that previsions and sores to an extent entailing serious
lost; on the parishioners,` bad been taken out of the work-
house, and fraudulently di-posed of. A system of extensive
`robbery had for a very; considerable period been
in operation, and hid continued, undetected, owing
to the eetire neg'ect to, ascertain correctly the
required quantities of the several articles of food
necessary ,for the. supely, accore.ing to the estab-
lished dietaries (of the daily varying number of inmates ;
the great excess in the supply and cmsumption te,
many of (he articles, as (prepared with the number of
persot-'s for where they were require], showing the exist-
ence of great abuses had been long known to members of
the eimmittee, to ,01011 it was obvious, if the rules bad
been observed, and ordinary supervisien had been exeicLed
by the.chief of4l er of the workhouse, that it wont] have
prevented the misconduct by which such heavy 'O3SOS have.
been sustained. The report then stated that the cemmitte?
seemed it necessary to order the discharge from the wu.-k-
-house. of certain . inmates,
,and recerpmend the immediate
suspension from the.r duties of certain officials, to one of
wiom may he attributed the b'ame, if any, atrenlant epon
the cise of alleged suicide in Aeartiwo recently the,trittj et
of iticiiiry befo -0 a c tronett4 jury. Tire committee tied
abstained firm Fursaing an inquiry into the m'inner
in which the, duties of master and matron were
performed in cots( qee ce,,of the receipt of a letter fr (n)
the master, tendering their resienatipn, which they
recommended Vie vestry to accept without making
any coaitnint .oz the . langurge. ,contained • therein,
The chairman teas a letter from the ma=ter, stain.;
that circumstances which had ;recently occurred had ren--
dered it necessary, in justice to himself, acting under
adviee, to p stpene 1'0;1 a week, at least, the tender of his
resignation to the board. He ((he chairman) supposed
this 'r.-(erred to the disclosures, and in' justice to the
master and Matron, he felt blind to say that they were
entirely exonerated from participation in a knowle tige
of the plunder 'referred' to in the report. At. the sae];
time, he must say the master's laxity was highly retire-
haosible. Mr. C aileron read- the e,vidence upon what()
.the report was bas:d; tut it %conk', in the present stage,
be highly improper, an I defeat the ends of justice, to dis-
close the names of th.e -parlies who were'alreanly provEd to
be implicated. lie said, h twever, that a system of fraud
'and robbery had been goinz on with the. cenaivance of
or through the neeligence of ((tacit's, which was frightful
cOntemel ate. He 'in iv, d that the Tee inemenda:ims of
the report be a'op'ed. Tourston seconded the m ;ti
which, after some discussioe, was carried ; and, on the
etint'on of M.. C the part of the repo; t with respect
to the master was deerred till next week.

M LEWIS Rc•CO:IPArY'S, Ranelagh•street.
BOYS art) CLOTHED fiom the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.

The Curt is slaighing at a little bit of evidence girn-
by -Sir El Nin Landse2r in answer to a question from Pre-
feisor Faraitty. The professor was obserVing that picture
cleaners shoal I ha, avoided a's mach as possib'e. -Sir
Elwin is of the processor's way of thinking, nods ass?nt,
and adds, " In support of what I have said. I would refer
to the pictures at Buckingham Palace,. Wh'cli, I think, has
as dirty an atmosphere as any in London. The common
cry at the Palace is that the .ladias-ic•Waiting aro always
washing_their hands. .They nay:Jr can keep anything clean
there for half an hour. The consequence i 4, they pot veils
over all the things that - are precious"—their faces, of
c.air,e, included. Bat . why, Sir Elwin, is Bucl,ingham
Palace so very dirty ?-Irustrated News.

RLFLE these days of 4c war,", I
think I may do some public service, by stating that I can
enclose a roll of paler, c n ainiag information in writing,
in the wooden shaft of either my rile whstle-signal, or
plteession explosive bolt ; bath of which can be thrown to
the distance of ore thousan I va:ls froth a rifle of one inch
bore, using a gun cotton eartridee ; as I have frequently
proved in the mom fields near the Tilbury Station, in pre-
sence of the r ilway officials. This 3 messengers could be
thaown across a broad an I rapid river where no boat could
live ; as they fit w;th their prejee'ions (el seed in front and
at the base) into. the spiral groove.; of the rifle, there is
little friction; the c ,ntral part of the eh ift lia,iag none
whatever. A drawing of the wh4stle-bolt will appear in
the, Practical Mechanics' Journal for the nt xt month,
Oetobsr. Seecimens of these r fle-belts era to he seen at
the south Kingst.oa Museum of Inientions.—J. Norton,
Roshersille, September 12.
The Prince of Wales mai suite, eight persons in all
have been running through Chameunix ani the ptincip.l
resorts. The party were at
.the Great Sr. Bernard a day
or two ago. • The Prince selected the finest puppy of the
famous St. Bernard breed, and, I think, paid 200 f. for it.
Dr the Vale's ails are rude eni stupid. They filled the
little beast with milk, and then gave him to a iyasaral• •0
carry. The man flu ;g him round his neck as he would
carry a yeung pig or limb, and the consequence was tbat
the cub suffocated. It .was but his dead holy that the
fellow brought to the Prince. His royal highness was
grieved and annoyed. Toe' monks have made all the
reparation thy can by forwarding another cab. After
all, the race is degenerating, and travellers take so much
better care of themselves, and ate' enabled to do so by
means of railroads ani Other modes of conveyance, that
few remain to be saved in a tourinente of the mountain.—
Leen- from Bex
GENTLEMEN CF THE PaEss.—Two itinerant "catch
peonies" (Lyons and Stopford) ware taken up in London,
the other day, for bawling out that authentic information
had just been received of the assassination or Sir Co'in
Campbell. Lyons, who stood, forward as spokesman,
declared th's to be a, weak invention of the police. "Tae
inliee is too hienorant to naderstani the Hinain names,
yer vership. Vet ye called out vas : Tice hexpected
bin-
telligence of the hassassignat'oe of. Ninny Sabyr the
monster of atento..e." 3figist-ate: " I don't kis-Jay
greatest nuisances Ulm yOu newsvendors at this end of the
toWn." Lyoas : Oh, yer vership, the greatest of latitude
ought to be showed to us vot belongs to the press in these
here hexc'ting tie] s. The Ilingire news upsets all on us.
Look.at last Sunday. Vy, in Belgravcesuare, vea the
third hedi ion corn out, thtre vos gentlemen and noble-
man and min's., re of stave c )ming to us to be fl
served." The prisoners were.discharged with a caution.
Titian TRIP Op THE STEAM-SIIIP AUSTR4LARIAN."
The new screw steam-ship Australasian, built by the Euro-
Dean. and Australian Campany, for the conveyance of the
Anstralian mai's, left Southampton dock on Monday morn-
ir?, with a leree party of scientific gentlerse a on board,
end proceeded to Stake's Bay, where her speed was teeted
by the measured mile. A sumptuous drjeuner was served
on board.: Daring the pasiage one of the. boa's af.tbe
A astral isian ('our of which are fitted Ni h Clifferd'a
lowering .app traces) was twice lowered into the wa'er
whilst the shin was steering ten keot's per hour. The
result was highly satisfactory. Fear trials were made at
the measured mile--ewe with and two egalnst the tide.
The ave,see speed
.per bear was 13.325 knots. The ship
was drawing tiventysoae feet of wafer, with a
,burthen of
1 200 tons.

Ism Infers FEPaya. —The. Freeman's Journal, th s lead-
ing Roman Citholc organ in Ireland. administers th
f,fltowing creditable reb ike to that section of the Irish
/yeas which has volunteered the advecacy of the atroeites
perpetrated •by the •• Sepoys. CoMmenting upon the
petition adopted by •the Chamber ef Cammerce at Ca,cotta,
the Freeman says Seine vile enemy. of, the Irstt
peoiele has a tempted to gat up a murder and rapine spirit
in Ireland, and• to Etioaulate a ,pro-Sepoy feeling by th:.
issue of placards in the southern districts, fir the purpose
of inducing the belief that in the more Caholio districts
of the c.nantry the b utalities of Sepoys are regarded with
sympathy, anl their treatment of the Irish and Engl'sh
la lies approve 1, because their husbarOs arid fa:here are
assumed to be connect( d with the British army. This
infamous attem, t to -identify the people of Ireland with
Seoyisra has met a prompt and effective rebuke from the
Cathol'c to vn of Cariick-or.-Seie, who indignantly repu-
diate the nefarious' attempt, and have opened a
euhscrip!ion,list. IT the purpose of detecting the emissary
of Sepoyism who brought the vile placards we allude to
to their to gn. The Irish people condemn most hea,tily
the ustem: of oppression and misrule practised by the
E Ist India Comp iny, bat they have no sympathy
the butchers at cavtwore, a=d the birbari!ies which form
the characteristic of the war waged against wormn and
children. .Some of the best men in liidiaEoglish,
Sc,;tch, and Irish •mershants at Calcutta--jauve pretested
against the miiirule prac•i•ed in I<<dii ; •but while these
men have the manliness to denounce the errors of the
Givernmcnt in the petilin which we subj ;in, and from
the midst of the revolt to (I,:mand a .free.and•conAitutional
Government for India undo: the sovereignty of our Queen,
they have the wisdom to di criminate between rat'orial
liberty and ramp...int licentiousness and, while fearlissly
exposiog the evils which led to this revolt, they as f,arle,sly
take up arms against the system of indiscriminate murder
which the Eepoys would inaugurate, and their I ish
syrispathise4 would have their dupes, if they could get any,
to folow."

At LFWI4 & CO If PANT'S, Raneinh-strcet.
BOTS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years