Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

ToXrErs PARK BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual weekly meeting was held on' Thursday
afternoon, at the Public-offices, Park-place. Mr. Horsfall,
chairman, presided; and the following other gentlemen
were present : Messrs. Robinson, Mercer, .4.lpass,
Pickup, and Siddeley.
The governor, Mr. Gough, reported the number of
pauper inmates belonging to the Toxteth Park Union is
the West Derby Workhouse as follows .—This week.,
415 ; last week, 406. -In the flo3pital—this week, 30 ;
last week, 35. _ _ _ _ _

A cheque for £93 was7gr atedlto Mr. Potts, pay:clerrk,
for out-door relief.
The law clerk, Mr. Cleaver read the rernrt of the
building committee with k eference to the new Work ouser.
The committee submitted a resolution, to the effec that
the plans produced be submitted to the general board for
adoption, together with specifications accompanying the
pr t1:19.

On the Emotionrof Mr.:EAEptss, :the resolution :w2s
agreed to.

The clerk was instructed to communicate with thw
Poor Law Board.

The Chairman then introdtved to the Board some
correspondence from the Health C;mmit:ee respecting
the body of a poor woman, arr out door pauper of
the Toxteth Union, which was left unburied nine
days, until decomposition had set In, and the .body
became a serious nuisance, in conseq•xence of the
relieving officer, Mr. Barnett, contending it was
not his duty to bury her under the circumstances. Me
letters wia be found in the proceedings of the Health
Committee.l The C'tairman said, on Tnesday, when he
was communicated with upon this painful subject, he felt
it to be his duty to take the re,ponsibility of ins-'ructing
Mr. Barnett by letter, to bury the body immediately.
He believed the body was interred in the afternoon of
the next day. In the letter of Mr. Fresh, it was stated
that Mr. Barnett had said he would not take the order,.
even of the chairman, out of committee.

Mr. Barnett, iu defenc,., first urged that it was a
married woman who first made the application to him to
bury the body of a pauper w;ao had died in her house.
This was informal, and ha told her to send her husband,
'who was the propar party to apply. Sle replied. that if
ha did 'not bury her, she would go to those who would
make him ; and she went to Cornwallis-street, and lodged
a coropWnt.

Mr. Alpaes : Phi she not say her husband was
too much engaged ?
Mr. Barnett: Yes, she did. He then want on to impugn
some statements in the correspondence. lie said the
property left by the deceased was at first worth far more
than 153. Her niece had taken a feather bed, which
sold for 143. The body was not in the decomposed state
described, and he never said he would not obey the order
of the chairman. In answer to Mr. Robinson, he ad
mitted he said the Chairman's order did not alter. his
position, but be intended complying with the order.
Mr. Barnett then went on to say he was forced to take a
stand, as it was increasing to so fearful an extent to
throw the burial of the poor on the parish:
. The Chairman said it was neither customary nor
courteous for officers of the B )ard to set at defiance the
Chairman's orders ; and if any officer thought of so doing,
the Board must either get a fresh Chairman or another
officer. Mr. Barnett was not supposed to be the lawyer
of that Board, and he hoped the Board would support him
in the view he took of the matter.

• Mr. Barnett said he never intended to defy the Chair-
man's order, and, he got the body burled as soon as he
could.

Mr. Alpass and Mr. Harrison observed that Mr.
Barnett ha I undonlyedly acted as WI thought, for the
benefit of the ratepayers, and according to the legal defi-
nition of his duties. it was a common thing for 013
friends of a pauper to get lhe body interred with as much
show and expense as mmy ratepayers, and then call on
the relieving-officer for the expense.

After some discussion, Mr. Robinson said he must
enter his protest against Mr. Barnett's conduct, especially
after the note Mr. Barnett had from Mr. Ceaver, the law--
clerk, to the effect that he believed an order for burial
would not be blamed by the board. He would propose a
resolution, to the effect that the warmest thanks of the
meeting be given to their Chairman, for the, prompt
manner in which he acted after the painful circumstances
were communicated to him.

Mr. Alpass seconded the motion, which was they
carried.

After some routine business, the board adjourned.

Tice Rimier or LUCK:CC/W.—The Times learns that they
relief of Lucknow was achieved with a loss of only 4
officers lelled and 40 wounded, and that Sir C,)lin Camp—
bell's force amounts to 12 OD men.
TUE CAPE MAILS —The Dine, the first outward steamer
under the new contract, landed her mails on the 29th Oct,
having been 43 days 32 hours on her voyage out, from.
Southampton. The Dane would leave on her return, on
the Ist of December, and is die in England on the 12t.
January.

MBUCINTILE HONOITYL—rnis week the credit)Ls of the
firm of W. and W. F. Ibbotsoo, who accepted a corn_
position of 10s. in the pound Fever al years ago, have had
the pleasure to receive from Hems. Ibbotson Brothers s•
circalar, informing them Oat the firm were now in
position to carry out the Long-cherished desire to pay off
those debts in full, and requesting their attendance at the
offica of Mr. A. Clark B anson last Friday forenoon to
receive payment. It is needless to sty that an invitation
of this agreeable kind received a general response, and
many were the congratulations and expressions of esteem
addressed to Messrs. Ibbotson for their h )nourable eanduct.
The smaller crocliters we:e paid in full some time ago.--
Sheffield and Rotherham Independent. •

ANOTHER FATAL QUARRY ACCIDENT. Five LITZ.%
Losr.—A shockin.; catastrophe has occurred in the vale of
Nintille, so lat(lf the scene of a dreadful accident of e
similar character. On Monday six man were at work at
the Darothea's slate works, in a pit known as the Firehole,
working a fresh opening, when an immense mass of rock
fell as suddenly as an avalanche. About thirty or forty-
tons rested nu a gallery above, overhanging the opening,
and thus divided the rock in its descent into two courses,
which completely cut off all ts3me. The sixth man was
almost miraculously presrrged. He was working apart
from the others on higher ground; and the projecting rock
par,ially sheltered him. A mass of stone, about six tons
weight, was seen to bound over his bead, and though
seriously injured by being struck by fragments, he ulti.
stately succeeded in reaching the area of the quarry.
Blasting had frequently to be resorted to to recover the
bodies, for which relays of workman searched night and
day, without intermission. u:;til Friday evening. The
bodies presented a frightful appearance. S,,me were
terribly mutilated and nearly cut through, and one was
perfectly flattened, the skull torn asunde'', and the brains
lying close by! All, with one exception, were married and
leave fatnili,i. The entire fall is Estimated at several
thousand tons

Furlher correspondence has taken place relative to the
after-dinner story repeated by the Earl of Darby in the
House of Lords, touching Mr. Vernon Smith's alleged
igriorance'of the arrangements made by hit office with the
Peolosnlar and oriental Company for making the overland
route available for the transmission of troops. In answer
to it:vines from the India Beare, Mr. Howell, one of the
dir store, states that no-one in the office of the company
remembes any such message as was referred to being sent
to the office ; and Mr. Allen, another of the directors,
gives us the origin of the ivory—that " in the course of
one of the interviews" which lie had " with the
authorities of the India house,"as regaided the details of
the plan for the conveyance of troupe via Egypt, it was
mentiened that a cornmuc!cttion had been received at the
India House from the Board of Control, " at least so I
understoud it," inquiring as to the
.practicability of
making the overland route available for transport of troops
to India Thereupon Mr. Vernon Smith inquires of Mr.
Mangles, M.P., as being conversant with all that passed.
bstween the India House and India Board, whether any
one at the India House could have any authority for the
story. Mr. Maugies replies in the direct negativ,., and
also says that he bever saw Mr. All in during the progress
of the negotiations wiJa the Psniesclor and aleatal
Company respecting the coaveyauce of troops to India by
their vessels.

A STORY FROM Muncit.—The Courrier de Paris relate&
the following somewhat singular and Lot very probable;
anecdote :--4, A f.w days ago a gentleman, walking throug!
the Charles Strause at Munich, and having on his arm rat
large cloak, happened to stop opposite the office of the,
Monte-de-Pi(S•6. He was inemedi,tely accosted by, a,
female, one, it appears, of several, who watch near those:
establishments at Munich for the purpose of g •
trifling sum by pledging articles for persons who. teal
ashamed of, entering those places themselves. `Ak•
mein herr,' said the woman, you do not like to go in.;
there yourself, and yet you perhaps wish to pledge your
cloak? Give it to me, I will get you a goo I sum on it?
You will render me a service' replied the gentleman,,
after a moment's hesitation, take the ecak, and I wilt
wait here until you return.' At the end of five minutes,
the woman returned, and handed to, t' gentlemen. ten
florins, the stun lent on the cloak 'hunk you, my good
woman,' said the owner of the c:oak, and now by way of
c,mmission nut these ten florins in your pocket, and take
these,' giving her ele, en more, and redeem the cloak and
pay the interest.' The woman was at a loss to understand
all this, but she did as she was told, and on her return, as
she was handing over the cloak to its o wner, a company of
soldiers passed by, who %)retented arms to the gentleman,
whom the astonished ;roman then found was no other than
ging Louis. Oa his return to the palace,
his Majesty sent
for his tailor, and rated him soundly for charging 80
florins for
cIP4 on wh ei a mid only borrow 10
florins,

POLICE INTE LL IGEN CE - Tit URSD tY.

LIVERPOOL.
BXIPORE MR. DIXON.

THE BOOT ON THE OTHETL LEG —Stamper Armstrong,
a druggist in Falkner-st:eet, and Thomas Jones, described
as a gentleman just returned from Australia, were brought
up by police-officer, 634, charged under 'the following
circum.tance. The officer said, at a quarter to three in
the mornirg, he was on duty in Chatswo_th-street, when
he saw Jones climb up a lamp post and put out the light ;
he asked why they had done .this ? and Jones said he
wanted to light his pipe ; Armstrong said, witness hal
no right to interfere with them, and an altercation
followed, when the officer told them they must go to the
station ; this led to " handygrips," when Armstrong struck
him on the head, and knocked off his hat into a pool of
water; a struggle followed, and both rolled into the
getter. He got assistance and took them to the station.
He found that the prisoners had been at the shoe makers
shop of Mr. Shaw, 54 Wavertree-road, from which they
took a pair of lasts. (produced them) hut Mr. Shaw would
not appear to p oseeute. Ire eded that the prisoners
took a pole out of a field on Wavertree-road, on -which
was a board, with " commit no nuis nco," and this they
stuck up on a sign board of-a public house, put the lasts
on the top of the b and and crowns I all with an old hat.
Some ore saw this and alarmed the house. saying there
were robbers breakg in, thinking the pole was a man,
because it. had the old hat on the top of it (laughter.)
In reply to the magistrate, Jones said he merely wanted a
light for his pipe, and unfortunately the lamp went cut.
Mr Dixon : Well you had no right to put out the lamp,
mad then interfere with the police. Mr Armstrong :
Interfere with the police ? Why sir it was the police who
interfered- with us—most illegally interfered with us,
(laughter.) The police always interfere with people
who are going home about their proper business.
Mr. Dixon : What are you sir ? A druggist ; I have
two shop•. Mr. Dix n : Then you ought to have been
at home like a respectable man. I was going home sir,
when the police interfered illegally with me and my friend.
Mr. Dixon : You are fined £2 for the assault, and Jones
is discharged.
THE VALIIE OF CHARACTER.—An old woman, named
Frances Smith, and Mary Smith, her daughter, who
reside at 46, Field-street. were brought up by Inspector
Wilson, on a charge of living attempted to pick pockets,
in Bold-street. Tho inspector said, he watched the
prisoners feeling the pockets of several ladies at Mr.
Cr:pp's eindow, and when they saw him. they ran away ;
he caught the younger prisoner, and while taking her to
the station, the old woman joined, and the young one
passed to hor two soverigns and a half. when he seized
the old woman's hand, and took the coin from her. In
reply to Mr. Bluck, who appeared far the prisoner, the
officer said, there was no complaint of any loss ; he did not
know the prisoner, but he suspected, from their appearance
at first, that they were pickpockets, and when he watched
them, this was confirmed by what he saw. Mr. Bluck
called detective officer Scaife, as he said his clients
desired him to call that officer to give them a character
Scaife was then sworn, and said ha knew the old woman's
house, in which there was scantly any furniture. Mr
Bluck: Do you not know that. she has an income?
I know she has not, for her second husband has left her
in- consequence of her conduct. Mr. Bluck: What
conduct ? She is a thief, and was committed at sessions
for picking pockets; she was charged here several times.
Mr. Bluck : That will do ; you need say no more,
(laughter). The prisoners were sent to jail for three
months with hard labour.

Ting ROBBaRY BY. A CAPTAlN.—Alexander Gray, was
brought up on remand. The facts of this case appeared
in our paper of Wednesday. 126 10s of the money was
got in the cell where the prisoner was. He pleaded
guilty; but said he did not know what he was doing, as he
and the other parties were all drunk together. He was
sent to jail for three months
A joiner, named Andrew Watson, was fined £2, or, in
defAult of payment, two months imprisonment, for
assaulting a gentleman named Richard Jones, and
knocking one of his teeth out, in James-stree', the
previous night._

"Fox Alin Goma !"—Ellen Fox, was charged with
stealing a goose from Edward Quill-am, in St. John's
Market. The most extraordinary portion of the affair
was the names—Fos, Goose, and Quill-am. She was
ant to jail for seven days.
A Bovrox MRECHANT GAROTTED.—Mr. John Short,
described as a Bolton merchant, charged three women of
the town with having robbed him of his gold watch and
chain, value £24, £5 in cash, and a handkerchief,
in Bolton-street. He was seized by the woman,
when two men came up, and they all rubbed him. The
prisoners were remanded.
George Mills, the carpenter of a ship, was fined £2, for
an assault on Grace Belle; who keeps a pie shop in
James-street.

BEFORE MESSRS. CROPPER AND HOLME.
PUB LICANb' AND BE ERHOUSE CASES.— Jane Wriet,
publican, Pembroke-street, was fined 103. and costs for
refusing admittance to the police after hour 3. Richard
Harmer, beerseller, Carpenters'-row, fined 203 and costs
for Sunday trading. William Corn, Regersstreet, Windsor,
charged with Sunday trading, dismissed. Joseph Grief',
beerseller, Pritre Edwin street, fined 20s. and costs far
Sunday trading. John Collins, beerteller, White Mill.
street, selling after hours, acquitted. Thomas Mooney,
beerseller, Vauxhall-road, selling after hours, fined 103.
and costs. William Jones, beerseder, Earle-street, Sunday
trading, 10s. and costs. Peter Moor, beerseller, Edgar-
street. Sunday trading. 40s. and costs. Louisa Blundell,
beerseller, St. Martin-street, Sunday trading, 103 and
costs. Matthew Gallagher,able beerseller, Crosshall-
street, fined 10s. and costs for Sunday trading. Edward
Kelly, St. Martin-street, Sunday trading, les. and costs.
LIME Womes NMANCIO.—Mr. MiGowan appeared on
behalf of the Health Committee to prosecute Mr. Wain,
proprietor of the lime works. Vendrie-street, on the charge
of a nuisance created by his works. It appears that from
the works in question arises a noxious vapour, injurious to
the neighbourhood, on account a the chimney being too
low to carry the smoke over the adjacent houses. Mr. ,
Leece appeared for the defendant. The first witness
called for the prosecution was Mr. Weeeon ; he is pro
prietor of the United States Hotel, now occupied by Mr.
Henry Grant, The hotel is situated on the opposite
corner of Vendrie street, in Waterloo.road. The height
of it is about 60 or 70 feet. Adjoining those premises
are a block of high warehouses, and on the opposite side
stand the lime works, the chimney of which is about thirty
feet high. When the works aro in operation and the wind
blowing in the direction of the hotel, the smoke struck
against those warehouses and sweep along and enveloped
the hotel and the houses adjoinieg. The smoke was most
unpleasant, causing a choking sensation in the throat, and
detrimental, ho considered, to the health. The smoke,
he said, was stifling and suffocating. In crone-examinatlon,
the witness state] that there was less black smoke than
there formerly had been, but he did notlnow w'lethe: it
was less injurious. He did not know they had existed
there for 50 years. He had known them 5 or 6 years.
He did not know any inconvenience from the smoke from
smithies in the same street. He did not take much notice
of them. Mr. Grant was next examined. He stated that
he was the tenant of the United States Hotel, and that the
nuisance had become so great that he was obliged to
remove his family out of the hotel. It was sometimes
filled with that unpleasant smoke. He was sorry to be the
means of this prosecution, but the health of his family and
his business together obliged him. The smoke would
sometimes make him cough for half an hour at a time.
When the wind blew S E. they could scarcey see the
door sometimes. Several other gentlemen in the neigh-
bourhood were called and endorsed the statements of the
previous witnesses Dr. Duncan certified to the smoke
being injurious to the health of the people in the immediate
neighbourhood. In cross-examination ho said these were
the only lime works in town that he over heard complained
of as being a nuisance. After some discussion it was
suggested by the bench that three months should be all o wed
far Mr. Wain to raise his chimney sufficiently high to
carry off the smoke, which would no doubt a;,ate the
nuisance. This was agreed to by both parties. The case
stands adjourned to that time.

BIRKENHEAD.
BEFORE MESSRS. FtELDEN, SIIAW, AND BRTANS

A GAME COCK.—Samuel Edwards, an ill-looking
fellow, and who has, several times before, been in custody
for various offences, was charged with sealing a game
cock, the property of Mr. Richard Charrington, of
Tranmere. Grath Jones, one of the 'Cheshire County
Police, stated that he w&s on duty in Sc. Paul's road, on
Wednesday night last, between ten and eleven o'clock,
when he received inf ,rmation of some person being on
the premises of Mr. Charrington. He immediately went
there, having, on the way, got the assistance of a brother
constable, named Williams, and, upon searching the
premises, thoy found the prisoner in tha hen pen, with the
game cock he then produced in his hand. He immediately
seized the prisoner, and asked him what he was doing
there, to which the prisoner made answer " Oh, its all
right" He (the constable) did not, however, think so,
and took the.prieoner to the Birkenhead bridewell. Mr.
Charrington identified tha cock as his property, and added,
that he had, at diffetent times, lost six other fowls The
prisoner denied having stolen the fowl, but admitted being
on the premises. Ha aimed to be tried under the
Criminal Justice Act, and was sentenced to three calendar
months imprisonment, with hard labour, at Knatsford.
ROBBING LODGINGS.—Mary Jones, a decent looking
young woman, but who, unfortunately, has turned on the
town, was charged with robbing her lodgings of two
blanketr, two sheets, and two towels. The offence was

committed in the month of October last, but the property
could not be traced until a day or two since. The prisoner
took lodgings of s Mrs. Owens, at No. 230, Chester-street,
and, after being there about a fortnight, she suddenly left,
and then it was that the articles were missed. Two
pawnbrokers produced the articles, which were identified
by Mrs. Owens and the prisoner, having pleaded guilty,
she was committed under the Criminal Justice Act, and
sentenced to three calendar months hard labour in
Chester Castle, and, after the expiration of that sentence,
to some reformatory for females.
BEFORE J. S. JACKSON AND R. BRUNS, ESQ.
AN INCORK' IB LE YOUNG RAF C AL.—William Jones.
only ten years of age, was brought up as a suspicious
person, having been fourd in the ship building yard of
Mr. Redhead, at Tranmere. Joseph Dennett, the foreman
over the smiths' in Mr. Re ltead's employ, stated that he
found the prisoner concealed behind some timber in one
of the workshops, and, upan asking him what he was doing
there, he said he had come to do something for himself 7
he then took him into custody, and handed him over to
the police. The prisoner is of that class of boys' who,
from their diminutive size, can conceal themselves almost
anywhere ; they get into wokshops, and, after the men
have gone, they take whatever may lay in their way, aed
throw it over the wall to their companions, who are
waiting on the other side, so that when they are detected
themselves, nothing is foend on them The prisoner was
in custody, a short time since, for stealing a quantity of
iron feore the Birkenhead railway station, but was then
discharged, upon his father being bound over for his pod
behaviour. The prisoner's mother was in attendance to
day, and, with tears in her eyes, said that both her and
her husband had done all that lay in their power to
reclaim him, but conk' not do so ; and, although he
appeared in the r-gged dirty state he then was, it was
only a few hours before he ,was taken into custody,
that she had pat on him clean cloth-s, even
the trowsers he then had on were a pair of his father's
that he had altered, and when the prisoner put them on
they were white and clean, now they were filthy_ Her
husband was but a labouring man but he would gladly pay
something towards keeping the prisoner in some place of
confinement, where he would be kept from the loose
companions he hal become acquainted with, as she was
sure that before long he would be transported. The
prisoner did not appear at all moved by his mother's
statement or her tears. The magistrates, who seemed to
feel for the mother, said it was quite clear that good a ivice
took no effect upon him, they would therefore see what
effect a punishment would have, and in the hope that he
would become a better boy, they sentenced him to two
calander months hard labour at Kuutsford, and at the
expiration of that time to be sent to the Bradwall Refor-
matory School at Sandbach for the term of four years.
The prisoner then lightly stepped from the dock as if he
was going to be discharged.