The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

THE CHARGES AGAINST MR. COO'
GILL OR BRADLEY.

na the
THE committee met on Tuesday last, to agreed ur",,,01f
report which they are to present to the Council t-nl.
(Wednesday), of the recent investigation into the cut 1,1,61;
brought against Mr. Bradley by Mr. Hodson. It 0-40,
recollected that the councillor for Vauxhall Ward or
charged with promising to use his influence to endealrerit
to get one of his constituents relieved from the Imglai,
of his water rate, provided he would vote for the
date that Mr. Bradley supported at the last inumeic;
election. After three or four meetings, extendiog 03
many hours, and the hearing of a number of witnesses
rt.
each side, the committee have agreed to their. re:
The document is at present sealed, and under loa,,ree
key ; while it has however transpired that the eonuulLi
have unanimously agreed to a report, it is also underrtie
they were equally unanimous in regretting tillA cor
weight of evidence compelled them to comet 'P.'„O3).
elusion that the allegations had been proved. The,.. 61:
mittee consists of the following members of the Council
s,
Mr. J. B. Moore, (chairman,) Mr. Hugh liornbY,
Holme, Mr. George" Holt, Mr. C. Turner, Mr. d
M'Guffie, and Mr. T. Dover. a cog
It will be seen, by the following communication,
e the
be of which has been forwarded to each member .o,,,bej
Council, that more than ordinary importance is ag'
to the report of the committee : 180'
Town•hall, Liverpool, Ist Dee.,
DEAR Stn,—The special committee appointed to cnoea
into charges preferred against Mr. Bradley, have agre,e`Viice,
a report, which will be deposited in Mr. ToPPing's,cil, 011
Town-hall, for the inspection of members of the Co,,lrktiesdef
Saturday morning next, and during Monday, and
next, o'
In order that members of the Council may haveiducd,
portnuity of perusing and considering the-evidence adds
I am directed by the committee to inform yen i'Ld3lo
transcript of the short-hand writer's notes of the prof';areir.
will be deposited in Mr. Topping's office, for their 0), 411
tion, to-morrow, (Friday,) and wilt remain the
Tuesday evening next.--I um, yours faithfully,own
WM. SHUTTLEWORTH, T to ty
It is rumoured that the case will now be taken
Court of Queen's Bench. •

THE STRIKES.
idse:idtte,
rers' Association, held at thenißull
PnEsrox.—The adjourned eeting °f the Mall
was looked forward to by many with the antinPead
woult t
that some measure might beadopted which
at least Or.
a termination of this protracted dispute, or
kg:,
should have the effect of bringing the contendingrrihe
nearer together. They were, however, appointo.:,, of
terms propounded being- those agreed to on the *Ltuive
November, with only this addition„—that tliose oPefister
who are disposed to accept employment might
from the
their names on and after yesterday. Judgi.l4,,i by tbe
Hotel, °a urs. ato
tone of the weekly reports and the spirit evinc
.elisod
operatives at their meetings, there seems little li'ditio_ne,
at present of a resumption or work on those; eleTticie
The receipts this week for the unemployed "`',loo fr 74
from the amalgamated society of' engineers; mato"
the shipwrights of Liverpool; £2O from the
of that port ; and £2O from the London cora-;;rio00
But while contributions are pouring in from of tlisk
trades,in all parts of the kingdom, the resource:lo NO '
factory-workers in the manufacturing' districts, ',:beiag
hitherto Seen the mainstay of this rsovetnent, opoll
considerably crippled by many of them being Pe
short time:. lot,
On Saturday afternoon there was an lamer&lot,
of the unemployed in the Orchard ; it )icing
off^ vl.;
that Mr. George Cowell, who returned front L It
previous elity,. would address the assembly. Oita the(of Stockport) presided. Mr. Cowell obsat-10° for '
had fought fOr their union, and now would,figi.' bait'
10 per cent,- and they might depend upon' it th:Abltl
was theirs. He moved a vote of thanks tot he'll eviler
manufacturers. "for the noble spirit they bYa.
during this agitation." The motion was carsw' 01,5
mation. Gowen said Monday morning lyre; -re
when the great' doors are to be opened ; and Plasat
that when the zusters get as many hands as j
their machinery agoing they will resume worU. .itee,
you who are detorminied to stand by your conl'tt'llatn:i
have an unconditional 10 per cent., hold up 3.'"'L,01 ,'„G
An immense array of hands responded to this
aP it
reiterating cheering- followed. The vast asseel
_,--
• (1i,4"
then dismissed.
-- this
_the,
WIGAN.-011 ritlrsday, the coal proprieto,,
trict met by adjouriment at the Royal Hotel. loans
extremely good muster; many members of jog
present. After two hours' deliberation, the
solutions were passed unanimously :—"
hears with satisfaction: that the men at BiaPP:
ee
Eery, and also a portion of the Walth v-htu-
have resumed work at the old rate of wagerl;l3lll.-4-tab:;;O:
rest of the miners:employed at the Waltheiv-liV-0,..i :3
liery, and those at Mrs, Darlington's, Coppul e°,
on strike, have expressed their willingness '');:io"ta„,`"y„
work."—" That in consequence of this importall.,,o" e'of,ol
of the willingness of the-bulk of the men to rea"-er'"
this meeting pledges limif to support Messrs.l3rell
Rylands in terminating the partial strike which 5 e
ists, by supplying then* with, coals and cannel• floe' tift
the meeting be adjourned for a fortnight, to l!'i
t•tie al;
men still on strike to resume. work." There jai' 0.0
to report in connexicrtwith the strikes in this
er'
neighbourhood. Scarcely two hundred colli A ta",
about that number of" drawers, are now on strike ; at
rest of the mining operatives, about 17,500, heieg, of v-hv
work. Most of the men, still out belong to one ~,c01",
collieries of Messrs. W. IT..Branclier and Co., I‘ll°;rt?'
the name of Walthew:abuseraild situated at Penayi
Independent of the question of wages, colliers do o,c!. ),001';
labouring at it. One feu.cni. is. said to be, that i,%;,'!„1
as it does a rich seam oetoal; it gives off a great abr-e-off
fire-damp, and is also diefdeepest pit in Lancashirhelectiattfr
500 yards below the sarfice: But the principal oid„, 0110
apart from wages, is, that a rigid observance of ta0,,06
(which prohibit the taking: off the tops of safetyi;:el;
and the smoking of tobacco-pipes in the mine) is eu 0 I°'
and for a breach of them,• which may have led tofore
plosion, more than one_.nsa-ir has been brought he„ at IS,?;
magistrates and committed to prison. But e're-i; ag'elt
thew-house the men are, gradually going to wor 1,
notwithstanding that the turn-outs are tolerah irt
supported by the genes.' body of miners in til,eia Oftr,t
district. There is every probability that the Parbira,celj.
of the men, principal' aimed. against Messrs. 051)1,,,
and Co., will soon be overcome; for that firlii,lretbe „Arid
to stand out against their miners even w"" soca'ci
sent great demand for.coal:. by several of the asiititi
colliery owners supplying them with the (I°o, :err
coal and cannel they require for their custAgeftill
the mills of the associated cotton-spinnera„' ids #
tinue closed, and whenthe- strike of factory '1,71.3.k, tB
terminate is a mystery. A meeting of the Dias
elation was held yesterday.. They say they w
open their mills and start their machinerY the rot
sufficient number of hands present themselves a`eels, off
but until then they will. do nothing. Itoqncf
refused a request made, by the overlookers „„I„„
hands to assemble imthe mill yards to hear the tett; 050,4
which their respecti7emacters would allow then' peOt.,,it'
work, and their reason -for refusing was that thelleji.
might interpret it acaasign of giving waY°ll,eat.l,: ve!
The distress of thesvorkpeople is exceedinglyor ,
they struck, some of them were promised 46•,;ttlie',,,
week ; but last week,they only received support at
of a halfpenny perm-heael, and this week 1-I(`' 'Os; 00
Beggars abound by, hundreds, almost thou. tier
claim sympathy ow the ground that they arc 1-27.t0
involuntarily, the-fact being that the strike of (-:43.4,
hands brought all those engaged at the other 10.`"
a stand.