Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-10 00:00:00

WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual weekly meeting of this Board was held yester-
day, in the Board-room, West Derby Workhouse. Mr. H.
Edwards in the chair. Other members present—Messrs.
Roberts, Lunt, Tattersall, Parkin, Stone, Ledger, I.
Edwards, Almond, French, Pitts, Birch, Shaw, Abrahams,
Tay'or, and Roscoe.
The number in the house last week was 673. There were
admittod 40 ; discharged, 33 ; born, 1' • died, I. Number
at present in the house, 685 (of whom 396 beto• g to
Toateth-park) ; number in the house in the corresponding
week of last year, 633. Number of sick cases last week,
115 ; admitted, 19; discharged, 7 ; died, 1. Number of
sick cases at present in the house, 122 (of which 22 are
fever) ; number of sick cases in the corresponding week
of last year, 116.

PEES ON PAUPER INTERMENTS AT WALTON.

The following letter from the Lord Bishop of Chester,
in ref, r2nce to this subject, was read :
Chester, December 7, 1857.
&r,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter,
dated 24th November last. Absence from Chester pre-
vented me from replying to it at the time. If the table of fees
set forth in your letter was established by proper authority.
and has not been suspended by any subsequent act of like
authority, or by any special agreement between the
Guardians of the West Darby Union and the Rector or
Vicar of Walton-on-the-Hill, or by any long continued
custom, then I think that, in case of interments of
paupers being parishioners of Walton, no larger fees are
legally payable than those specified in the table. I
express my opinion, but do not pretend to decide the point
of law. I hope any doubt may be cleared up by friendly
explanation between the Barad of Guardians and the
Rector or Vicar of the Church.—l am, sir, your obedient
servant, J. CHESTER.

To William Cleaver, Dq., Clerk to the Union.
Oa the motion of Hr. Shaw, seconded by the Rev. Mr.
Tattersall, it was ordered that copies of the letter should
bo sent to the Rector and Vicar and Churchwardens of
Walton.

The Clerk, (Sir. Cleaver.) intimated to the Board, that
they should make a call for the ensuing half-year.
Taking into account the balances due and coming from the
different townships, and also what they would require for
expenses, he estimated that they would require to make
the call for £5,624, and snggested that it should be made
in two moieties, the first on last Tuesday fortnight, and
the second in about six weeks from that time.
The call was ordered.
INC 4NASE OF D. NEVIN'S SALAZY.

lirr. Pitt m)ved, in pursuance of notice, that
the salary of Dr. Nevins be increased 30s per week,
dating from last February, for the purpose of
enabling him to provide a qualified assistant to aid
him in the discharge of his duties in the house. He
observed that Dr. Nevins had himself paid such an assistant
during the past year, and he did not think that it would
be jest or honournble on the part of the B)ard to allow him
to be at such an expense when it was incurred for the
benefit of those over whom they had to watch. He
believed that Dr. 'Nevins required this assistance for the
due discharge of his duties in the house, and that it was
( he duty of the Board to provide him that assistance, or at
all events the means of securing it.
The Rev. Mr. Tattersall seconded the motion, and dwelt
on the (lades which Dr. Nevins had to perform in attending
to the health of the inmates of the house. He considered
that they would not be justified in retuing Dr. Nevins-
the assistance which he required, and still less would they
be justified in allowing him to pay for that assistance
himself.

r. Ledger and Mr. Abrahams supported the motion.
Mr. Lunt opposed the motion, and urged that
Dr. Nevins never on any occasion remained longer in the
house in looking to the patients than two hours. He did
not consider that Dr. Nevins required assistance, and that
if he sought to discharge his duties by deputy, he should
himself pay for the assistance.

Mr. Siraw concurred with ➢Zr. Pitts, that no man could
do justice to the sick in the house unless he devoted all his
time to theta ; but he would ask them to look over the
porter's book, and say whether Dr. Nevins had given that
time to the'&ck which he ought to have done Frequently
Dr. Nevins did not come to the house until half-past four
o'clock its the afternoon- a practice which should never
have been to'erated by the b.lard r and if they increased
his salary, he would not give them more of his time than
he did. In point of fact, he required to be merely con-
sulting physician to the house, and to have the duties
performed by an assistant. He (Mr. Shaw) would there-
fore move a direct negative, that the increase of salary be
not granted.
Mr. Roscoe—The motion.
The original motion was then put, and carried by 9 to 8.
The voting was as follows .

For the itierecue—Messrs. lAdger, Parkins, Birch, Pito,
Tattersall, Roberts, French, H. Edwards, and Abrahams
—9.

Against—Messy. Shaw, Richmond, I. Edwards, Lunt,
Alinone, Roscoe, Taylor, and Stone—S.
This concluded the general business.

There is a vacancy in the representation of Whitehaven,
caused by the death of Mr. Hilliard.
The suspension is announced of Lichtenstein and Co ,
a German house. Liabilities about £B,OOO.
D. Couvela and Co., a Greek firm, of New Broad-street,
London, have failed. Their liabilities are not expected to
exceed £25,000 or £30,000.
We deeply regret to learn that the Hon. Edward Crof-
ton, eldest son of Lord Crofton, and heir to the barony, is
dangerously ill at, Moate Park.—D?blin, Parer.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On the 9th ult., a trivial
quarrel took place between two cousins named Gleeson,
at the forge of a man named John Williams, near Thnrles,
whore they were getting a plough repaired. After an hour
had elapsed, during which Michael Gleeson remained at
the forge, his cousin returned and struck him on the head
with a bar of iron, while he was in the act of stooping.
The unfortunate man was brought home, and died from the
effects of the blow on last Friday. He was a fine speci-
men of a Tipperary farmer, in good circumstances, and
leaves four children to mourn his untimely end,—Limerick
Reporter.

FALL IN THE Pa cE OF PRovisloNs.--At length, after two
years of extreme prices, the retail rates of most articles of
food are approaching what may be termed the poor man's
standard. At all the bakeries in town the price of bread
has been reduced by a figure which would be reckoned
material in a large household ; but we regret to state that
the consumption of bread among the working classes has
considerably fallen off within the past two months. In
beef and mutton there is little alteration, but bacon and
hams have at length become lower, and for bacon, eggs,
potatoes, exorbitant prices are no longer sought.—
Banner of Uls7rer.

THE UNEMPLOYED IN BRADFORD —An outdoor meeting
of the unemployed was held on Monday afternoon, on some
vacant ground opposite the Philadelphia Chapel, Bolton
Road, Bradford. The meeting had been convened by a
placard, couched in violent terms against what was celled
" Oppression of labour." There were 700 or 800 persons
assembled on the ground. A person, named Moss, was
called to the chair. Mr. John Priestman, a respectable
member of the Society of Friends, being at the outskirts
of the meeting, was invited to speak. He did so, offering
sonic wholesome advice, and recommending the meeting to
apply to the board of guardians for relief. When Mr,
Priestman had retired, the meeting was addressed in very
violent terms, by George-White (a well-known agitator),
George Liscombe, and Abraham Robinson (Wilsden).
Liscombe recommended the meeting to go and help them-
selves to food wherever they could find it, A -squabble
arose at one part of the meeting, in consequence of two
persons having charged White with an appropriation of
chartist funds in 1848 A committee of ten persons was
aupointed to canvass the town for money to relieve the
distressed poor.
AMERICAN POLITICIANS.—The depth of ignorance and
and diFqualifieations which characterizes the p esont Com-
mon Council is very little known to the people. When
the Controller, a few weeks ago, sent in his usual instal-
ment of stationery, it was not only whispered but openly
and jeeringly asserted that to many of the people's repre-
sentatives the pens and paper were as useless as the fifth
wheel of a coach. It may be that the stolid ignorance of
an Alderman is a valuable qualification ; if so, we have
any number of Ilazeltines in the City Hall who ought to
be advanced to the supervision of Normal Schools. Here,
for instance, are copies as near as we can reproduce them
in type, of two documents signed by the Alderman of the
Sixteenth Ward, Mr. Peter t4'ellmer—the man who is to
have the regular Democratic and the bcgus American
nomination for re-election :

New York Sept lrst 1857
the Police effacer will Pleas Let the rairer Thomas Smith Have the
Body of Sophia Smith to R,moihi hir to his House No 21G—Nenth
Avenue Now Lying Drovndtd at the foot 21 streete Dcck and Notify
the Corner of the Plac you have Removed hir for the inquest, and
you will Confer A favor on Your friend Yours truly

Peter Fulliner
Alderman 16th ward

N B you will t ecompany
the Bodily to No 246-9,h Av
and Retaen Snpeveteon over
hir your.; P F—
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Now York Nov. lrt 1E57
this Certstenl hive this Day Granted Per•.nition to Mrss Wor2endike
& Hopper pemition to have threr Bay Horse ki id as he has the
Glanders A Dissas Dangerous to Horees and Should Not Be Parr-
mitted to Live theer fo.e he Shad be kild According t

• • Peter Fullmer
Ald 16 h ward
f any other Sixteenth Ward Democrat can beat that,
let him come forth and claim the nomination.—New York
Tribune.