Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-18 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1857.

being the same as before), and Mr. Hutchison was duly
elected.
The next name was that of Mr. Charles Willmer.

Mr. Chesney objected, and moved that Mr. Willmer's
name be omitted. He did not think it right that the old
committee should be re-elected.!
. _ _

Mr. Liversidge seconded the motion which I was lost
by the same voting, and Mr•Willmer was declared elected.
By like voting, Messrs. John Hand, Joseph Gardner,
Joseph Shakshaft, Hugh Molylyneux and Richard John-
son were re-elected.

Mr. -Chesney doubted if those parties had paid the rate,
and their right in consequence to be elected.
Mr. Livcrsidge entered iais protest against parties being
elected who had not paid the rate.
Mr. Hutchison replied that the contributors might
entrust their money to whom they pleased.
Messrs. Edward P. M'icnight, Thomas Clarke, John
Bingham, H. W. Banner, John Whitty, George Sumner,
Thomas Savage, S.B. Jackson, James Denton, and Thos.
Luff were re-elected. The voting was the same as in the
other cases.

Mr. Chesney observed that the old committee were, in
fact, merely re-electing themselves.
The next name was that of Mr. Edward Bradley.
Mr. Avison moved as an amendment that Mr. James
Thomson be elected instead, and for these reasons—that
Mr. Bradley was not now a resident in the town, and that
Mr. 'Thomson was the gentleman who, at the general
meeting of parishioners in 1854, seconded the motion for
the distribution of the fund among the claimants.
Mr. Chesney seconded the amendment.

Mr. Carne observed that Mr. Avison had fallen into a
mistake in regard to the resolution carried at the general
meeting in 1854. That meeting had no more power to
order the distribution of the fund than would the rate-
payers in any meeting assembled have power to order the
Town Council to pay away certain sums. The Rector
reminded the meeting of that at the time, and the resolu
Lion was passed, as it alone could be passed, as a recom-
mendation to the committee.

Mr. Liversidge replied that the fund had been always
held subject to the general vote of the parishioners, and
instanced the case of Mr. 'Wainwright, where the vote of
£lOO in committee was brought forward for confirmation
at the general meeting. He (Mr. Liversidge) would
consider himself a disgrace to the town if he applied for
money which he had received before, and he dared Mr.
Hutchison to prove that he had received one fraction of
the money which he now sought. He was not there to
agitate the question, he claimed the money not as a legal
claim, but as a claim of equity which had been granted
him by the parishioners, and if he were not granted it he
would go into court.
Mr. Denton said they were not in a position to discuss
the question, but to show that he had not come there as
the partisan of either party, he would allow the name of
Mr. Bradley to be ip ithdrawn, and the name of Mr. James
Thoilson substituted.
Mr. Atkins asked if the meeting of 1854 -.vas not
adjourned for the purpose of specially considering the
question of the voluntary rate.
Mr. Carne replied that it was so.

Mr. Denton 'observed that that was not now the
question. If Mr. Liversidge and other gentlemen had any
claim on the voluntary rate, it was their duty to state
that claim to the committee, and not to a public meeting.
Mr. Hutchison explained that he had used the words
"paid twice over" inadvertently, and again, and then
again repeated that he and Mr. Carrie would hand over
the balance of the fund to the committee that would be
now elected.

The vote was then taken, when Mr. Thomson was
unanimously elected on the committee.
Messrs. J. Woodruff, C. W. Shaw, W. B. Bairstow,
T. Owen, Thomas Smith, and James Crelliou were also
unanimously elected on the committee.

This concluded the business.
Thanks were then voted to the chairman, ele: which
the meeting separated.

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