Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-11 00:00:00

I 'HE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL;

recognise the necessity of treating the guardians with the courtesy
due to the position they occupy.
Now, that is the opinion of the judges who had heard the
case, and to whim he had applied to as well as themselves.
After that it is impossible for any person to say that Dr.
Nevins ought not to apologise, and retract what he had
stated. He had been called upon to do so ; but he had
replied that he would neither apologise or resign. There-
fore, after the resolution that had been carried last week,
I for one will not stultify myself by letting it pass unno-
ticed. But Dr. Nevins had not been content with what he
had done and written, but v ith very bad taste he had pub-
lished another article in the Noarnearr Texas of Friday
last, and had displayed very bad taste in doing so, knowing
that this matter was not settled.
Mr. PITTS : How do you know he wrote it
Mr. Strew : I will admit that he did not write it, but I
know from its oontents, that he must have supplied the
information, as it could only be got through him.
Mr. Pirrs : Read the article.
Mr. SHAW then read the article, which appeared in this
paper on Friday last, and went on to say, that he knew on
the best authority that Dr. Nevins had written it, because
he was told by an officer of the Board, on the Thursday
night, that it was to appear. •
Bat that is not the question. Last week .a resolution
was carried that he should be called upon to snake an
ample apology, or resign ; he had done neither, therefore
I shall move that the Poor Law Board be requested to
call upon Dr. Nevins to send in his resignation, as the
Medical Officer of the Union. (Hear, hear).
Mr. ISAAC EDWARDS : I beg leave to second the motion.
(Hear, hear).
Mr. LEDGER then proceeded to explain that perhaps Mr.
Edwards had been mistaken when he stated that Dr. Nevins
had had a copy of the report. And then, with regard to
the seven deaths, Dr. Nevins had never• said that they had
all died in one day, and expressed it as his opinion that
Mr. Shore had exhibited a vindictive feeling in putting the
case as he had done. He thought that the same tale had
been told over and over again, and that reading long riguia-
roles from the newspapers had nothing to do with the
matter. He he pod the matter would rest where it was, and
that thAy should never hear anything more about it.
Mr. Wiiirnv said : The question we are met to dissuss
is, after the resolution that had been carried last week,
and as Dr. Nevins has not sent in any apology,
what are we to do ? I should like to have had an apology
from Dr. Nevins, but as he has not sent one I shall support
the motion.
Mr. REYES insisted that Dr. Nevins had made two
apologies—one before the inspector, and another in the
letter that had been read ; for he had repeated the same
words, and he did hope that the guardians would say that
it was quite sufficient. He did not believe that some of
the gentlemen knew what an apology was. (Hear, hear,
and oh, oh.) He should like them to explain, and give Dr.
Nevins an opportunity of giving it in their own way. To
him the opposition to Dr. Nevins appeared like a combina-
tion to persecute Dr. Nevins—(Cries of " No, no,")—for
there was evidently something more in it than came
forward.

Mr. WHITBY : I will tell you what an apology is—
(Cries of " Spoke, spoke.")
Mr. EVANS wished to make a remark or two on what
had fallen from Mr. Reyes. He had stated that we do not
know what an apology is. What he thought it should be
was this. If a man make gross and sweeping charges
against another, and they were found to be incorrect, he
had a right as a gentleman to retract those words. Dr.
Nevins had made some wholesale charges against the
board—they had been proved to be incorrect. He had
slandered the guardians, and when asked to retract what
he had said he refused to do so, but persisted in repeating
them.

The Rev. Mr. TerraasALL said, from what he could learn
of the case, he thought that Dr. Nevins had made as much
apology as he could in the letter that had that day been
read.

Some confusion then took place, in consequence of it
appearing that there was only Mr. Shaw's motion before
the beard, but Mr. Abrahams and Mr. Ledger stated that
they had moved and seconded an amendment, that the
letter read be received as an apology. Several guardians
denied that such was the case, and the Chairman being
appea!ed to, said he had never heard it.
Mr HEYES : Then I will move as an amendment that
the letter be received as an apology.
Mr. LEDGER : And I will second it.

Mr. PrrTs regretted that after eleven years' service Dr.
Nevins should be subjected to such treatment, and con-
tended that as Toxteth-park was about to be separated
from the union, the guardians had no right to interfere, but
leave Dr. Nevins to the board.

Mr. JOHNS said he should have been most happy to have
received any apology from Dr. Nevins, but instead of doing
so, he further insulted them in his letter.
Mr. SHAW then rose to reply to the several speakers, and
in the course of his rernatks most positively denied that he
bad any wish to persecute Dr. Nevins, or that he had any
personal motive in taking the steps he had done.
Mr. PITTS : Have you not been applied to for a vote
when the situation is vacant ?

The Chairman : You have no right to put such a ques
tion.

Mr. SHAW : I will answer it. Yes. There has been a
meeting of the medical profession, and Dr. Nevins applied
to them, and after that one of his (Dr. Nevin's) friends
called upon him to say that if there was a vacancy
he should be a candidate ; but I will promise that he shell
not have my vote. (Hear, hear.) He then concluded by
urging upon the board to carry out the resolution they had
adopted last week, and support his motion.
The Board then divided, when their appeared eleven
votes f.,r Mr. Shaw's motion, and ten for the amendment.
The voting was as follows :—For the amendment : The
Rev. Mr Tattersall ; Messrs. Ledger, Sager, Birch, Owen,
Pitts, Clarke, Wen4ey, Abrahams, and Heyes.-10.
For the motion : Messrs. Johns, Evans, Medcalf, Baynes,
Roscoe, Pickup, Whitby, J. Edwards, Taylor, Mawdesley,
and Shaw-11.

Mr. PITTS : Mr. Chairmain, you have a vote.
The CHAIRMAN : Yes ; but I will not give it to make it
equal, and then have to give a casting vote. (Applause )
It it had come to a casting vote I would have soon shown
my colours (Hear, hear.)
Mr. PITTS : I will give notice that next week I shall
move that a memorial be sent, from this board, requesting
Dr. Nevins to remain its medical officer.

Mr. SHAW : Without a salary. (Laughter.)
The Board then adjourned.

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NEGLIGENT WORKING OF THE TICKET-OF-T. KANE SYSTEM.
—The burglar Charles Russell, otherwise Melbourne, who
attempted to shoot two police constables in the Hay-
market on Saturday morning, appears to be one of the
very worst of characters, and this makes it more difficult
to understand how he contrived to obtain his liberation on
a ticket-or-leave. The police have ascertained that the
burglar, after conviction at the Central Criminal Court,
where he was sentenced to seven years' transportation,
Prved about four years of Lis punishment in various
phces, in all of which but one he maintained his bad charac-
ter, and had actually to undergo corporal punishment in
one of the prisons, for an assault on the warder of the
prison. Notwithstanding Russell's general bad behavour
while in confinement, he contrived to obtain a ticket-of-
leave about twelve 'months ago, and has been committing
robberies ever since

DISCOVIV,Ir OF A NEW OPEN PASSAGE INTO CARLINGFORD
LOW/N.—Quite a sensation has been created in Newry
town, during the week, by the report of the finding out of
what is spoken of as a new passage, wholly avoiding the
weel. known bae, into what Sir J. Rennie has pronounced
to be " the fine netural asylum harbour of Lough Carling-
ford." 'This discovery has been tnade by the Admiralty
surveyors, at present offici;Jlly inspecting the coast. By our
personal iequirits nt Warnnpoint we have elicited what
may afford, at least, a partial explanatien en the Foint.
What is spoken of as the new channel runs south of the
bar, on the Carlingferd side of the lough. Its navigability
has been tested, One of the Admiralty surveyors—Mr.
Hoskins —master in the royal navy, wh.tm the new
passage had been recently discovered—being de irons of
some vessel try; ing the e,xperiment of navigating the channel,
f,:r;s',s'oed the bewtogs to Captain Smith, of her Majesty's
ete ter Chance. Thee experienced and skilful officer. wile
has been seventeen years on the station, made the trial
Monday last, the 'Est of June, and went out thr•ugh the
passage, finding it s' much as 600 feet wide, with not le -8
than twenty feet depth, at low water ! Tne bearing of the
entrance et this new passage has been thus sketched for
us, for the inf.rmation of nautical readers :—" Bringing
Greenere Light en with Fatham Mountain
until the two ba,vons erected by the surveying officers in
Crarfiell Bay are brought N.E.tR, then steer in for them,
keepinie hero in one until past the lighthouse, and steer
right up for Greenore into Carlingford." We may add
that the assumption of Captain Smith is, -that this was the
uenally llavigwed passage in olden times, when, in all
probability, that which now constitutes the well-known
bar was part a the land, upon which the sea has gradually i
and successfully encroached in the ntervol,—Artwry
Telegraph.

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