The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

FRIDAY, JUNE 10

Millington Walthew's examination was resumed : Was
engaged on the polling-day in an up-stairs room of the
Wheat Sheaf, Scotland-road. Occasionally went down
for refreshments. The house was full on the nomination-
day. He saw nothing drank and nothing paid. When
he used the tickets he got a glass of ale, or a glass of
wine or whiskey, as he wrote it. He gave away thirty
or forty of those tickets. The voters were conveyed to
the poll in cars, of which Mr. Rousson had the manage-
ment. Mr. Clegg was the head-clerk. Saw Mr. Watson
with the voters on the polling-day, and sometimes Mr.
Clarke. After the close of the poll went down stairs, and
found the vaults crowded. Mr. Watson and Mr. Clegg
paid him. He should say both of those gentlemen had
to do with the management of the finances. He knew of
an application being made to the central committee for
money. A resolution was passed by the committee for
Mr. Watson to make an application to the central
committee for funds to defray the necessary expenses of
the canvass. Did not hear in the committee-room that
that application was made and responded to. Mr. Clarke
was a member of the committee, and was present at the
meeting relative to the money. Joseph Atkins, Mr. Bur-
rows, and Mr. Healing were on the committee, and can-
vassed and returned the names. He made an application
for money, and Watson said he had none at the time.
The other canvassers had money, and so had he. They
did not pay for printing in the ward, and the books were
supplied from the central ward.
George Knowles, sailmaker, a freeman who voted for
Mackenzie and Turner, knew Mr. Watson. Had been
invited by him to go to Pyecroft's public-house, in Scot-
land ward, three weeks before the election. Saw Messrs.
Watson, Clarke, and Clegg there. He went there a
number of evenings before the election, and with other
voters had glasses of liquor to drink, for which none of
them paid. Saw a great number there on the polling day
—from 100 to 200. They were eating bread and beef,
and drinking ale ; and he saw no person pay. He can-
vassed freemen who were sailmakers, carpenters, and
ropers. He was stationed at Pyecroft's by Watson. He
drank whisky and ale, and did not pay for it. Received
money from Messrs. Clegg, Watson, and Clarke. Re-
ceived 15s. for his five days' services. Saw no one else
paid. The evening of the election they were called in
one by one; there might be a dozen there. He received
ss. more than the 15s. There was a room at the top end
of the yard on the election day, where they had plenty to
eat and drink. Plenty of them were full of drink, but
he did not know they were freemen. He was not bribed.
He worked five days pretty hard for £l. When he got
the ale at Pyecroft's he was canvassing. He made appli-
cation to Peacock on the 19th of June, as an old freeman.

JosePh Pyecroft, landlord of the Wheatsheaf, had seen
Mr. Buckmaster that morning. His house was engaged
as a committee-room, a fortnight before the election, by
Mr. Clegg and Mr. Watson. He let the whole house to
be used as they thought fit ; there was no stipulation as
to payment ; he demanded nothing for it ; he made a
present of the use of the house; he made his profit out of
the refreshments ; that was the understanding. He had
not been paid ; he applied to Mr. Clegg for £59 19s. 5d.,
the amount of his bill. Had got memoranda to show
what was served to the working committee ; believed
there were 100 persons who took part in transacting the
business of the election • they did not all sit together.
The £59 was for meat and drink ; there were 47 dinners.
His charge for the polling day, when voters only were
admitted, was £3O 19s. 2d. There might be as many as
200 voters pass into the yard where the notice was posted ;
every person who had refreshments produced a ticket.
No refreshments were supplied unless a ticket was ten-
dered. In a week or a fortnight after the election, re-
ceived £3O from Mr. Clegg. Had applied to Mr. legg
for the balance—the last time about three months ago,
when he said, " You must wait." Had called upon Mr.
Buckmaster about his bill—he could not say when. He
told me he could not tell me either when or where he was
to get his bill ; he spoke to Mr. Watson on the subject.
After the polling the committee dined at his house ; up-
wards of 50 dined. There were upwards of 80 persons on
the committee—respectable tradesmen. Whatever he
supplied, was by order of the committee. The committee
themselves were not above drinking brandy and whisky.
He received a few tickets from Mr. Walthew.
John Bridge, keeper of the Organ Tavern, in Vauxhall
ward, a freeholder and a voter, had upwards of 30 voters
in his house after the close of the poll; they had something
to drink, for which Mr. Thomas Williams gave the order;
the amount of his bill was £ll 2s. Id. : he gave his bill to
a young man who came from the office of the Constitu-
tional Association, in Harrington-street ; he saw Mr.
Buckmaster about this bill on the first Saturday after the
election ; he saw Thomas 'Williams at the Constitutional
office also ; Mr. Williams and Mr. Buckmaster told me,
when I called upon them, that they could not settle my
,„account then, but it would be settled in a short time ;
Mr. Buckmaster did not give him any hope of the money
being paid at soy particular time. Thos. W01;-m?, erdr...e4
something at his house,
Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKF. Whet was the nature of the
order you received from Thomas Williams?
Mr. Ropwm.r. 'n this question,

The Committee decided that Williams's agency was
established, and that the examination might proceed.
Mr. Bridge continued : he supplied the parties with ale
and spirits, and some of the persons who partook he him-
self knew to be voters : Williams told me to go to the ex-
tent of £5 on the polling day : it is a rough neighbour-
hood, and he was obliged to give refreshments to the
other side to save his house : about 20 or 30 persons came
with the canvassers.

Sylvester Mathewson, who keeps the Railway Hotel,
Great Howard-street, said a committee sat at his house;
Mr. Williams ordered some rooms from him before the
election; he had not yet been paid, although he had sent
in his bill to Mr. Williams ; the bill amounted to £6O ;
he charged £2 2s. for the rooms per week ; the charge
was for eight weeks, £l6 Hs., and the rest was for re-
freshments supplied to canvassers, cabmen, some of the
committee, pole-carriers, on the day of the nomination
and election ; he applied several times for payment to
Mr. Williams ; he supplied any person, without distinc-
lion of party, without pay ; he had applied to Mr. Buck-
master, in North John-street, Mr. Nicholson, and Mr.
Bold,—the last-mentioned of whom said he had no doubt
witness would be paid in time.
. . . . . .

Jas. Clegg, keeper of the Pontack, in Christian -street, had
one of his rooms ordered by Mr. Oliver Hatch three
months previous to the election. The canvassers met in
this room. Mr. Birchall, a furniture-broker, was one of
them. The canvassers brought their friends there. Had
seen Mr. Hatch writing in a book. On the morning of
the election refreshments were provided for the canvas-
sers. Drink was supplied during the day to Mackenzie
and Turner's voters—a great many of them paying for it.
Received no orders on the day of the election from
any one but the canvasser. His bill, amounting to
about £4O, was sent in to Mr. Hatch, and was paid
after the election. Does not remember seeing any voter
in the room on the polling day. Saw persons with the
canvassers, but did not know any of them. lie did not
see Joseph Grooby at his house previous to the election.
He received no orders to give drink to any one. £25 out
of the £4O was for the use of the room.

Thomas Wilson, before examined, voted from the Pon-
tack, where ho went more than once before the election,
at the solicitation of Mr. Birchall, and got his glass, like
the others.

This closed the proceedings of to-day.

SATURDAY, JUNE 11.

The first witness called was Oliver Hatch, who deposed :
I am a merchant. I acted as secretary in St. Anne's
Ward. I began so to act about twelve years ago.
acted as secretary at the last election. I was a member
of the car committee at the last election. There were
about three members who attended—Mr. Lowe, Mr.
Cooper, and myself. We met at the Constitutional-office,
in John-street. There was a regular business room, which
is a large one, there, and an anti-room. That was the
central office. Those were the only rooms there that I
know of. I believe another room was rented to me, but
I knew nothing about it. I know Mr. Buckosaster. He
did not attend the meetings of the (ar committee. I did
not communicate to him what the committee did. I
don't know what other members may have done. Our
business was to arrange for the cars, to carry up the
voters to the poll on the polling-day. I cannot say when
I first went to the central office on the subject of the elec-
tion business. I was there most days. I can't say I
communicated with any one when I went to the office. I
did not go on any particular business. I took in my re.
turns of the canvass, and communicated with whoever I
saw there. Ido not recollect that I communicated conti-
nually with Mr. Buckmaster concerning the state of my
canvass in St. Anne's Ward. ' I left my returns with him.
I cannot say why I gave the returns to him rather than to
any one else. I communicated with whoever I saw. The
rooms were up stairs. I went into that room to see the
voting-cards. I did not get the voting cards there. They
were sent through the post-office. I was present at the
meeting of the Ist April. I was on the nomination com-
mittee, the procession committee, which was a separate
committee from the car committee. The members of the
committee were Mr. Crowther, the chairman, Mr. J. B.
Cooper, Mr. Wadham, and some others. We engaged
the bands for the procession. I saw the estimates for the
expense of the bands. That was when the parties were
called in. I did not see the estimates before. There
were no papers sent in at all. The parties were called in
individually, and asked what they would supply bands
for. lam not aware that any one took a note of the
amounts mentioned. I was in the chair. There was no
agreement signed. There were agreements for the hire
of the cars for the conveyance of the voters in St. Anne's
Ward. The central committee had the return of these
arrangements for providing the cars sent into them. The
number of cars required they obtained from me, from my
canvass. T managed the canvass. I never called the
attention of the committee to the inconvenience of having
a placard outside to the effect that there was a committee,
where there was in fact none. I don't remember there
were placards all over the town stating who were the
chairman. vice-chairman, and secretary for each ward.
Mr. T. Parker, Mr. Ho/den, and Mr. Birchall were can-
vassers ; so was Mr. Clegg ; also Mr. Hobb. They
took districts as canvassers. Mr. Nicholson may have
come in at the meetings of the canvassers, but I am
not aware that he had a district. The canvassers met,
almost every evening, at eight o'clock. I made arrange-
ments with Mr. Clegg for the use of his house. I
got £lO from Mr. Bold to pay Clegg. I received from
Clegg a written account. I paid it. I kept it for some
time myself until last November, when I destroyed it,
having paid him another account. I knew the petition
against the return had been presented ; but I never had
the remotest idea that, with 1,400 majority, there was
any probability of that petition being prosecuted. I gave
Mr. Bold a receipt for the £4O. The municipal election
takes place on the Ist of November ; and I generally get
in the bills as soon as possible afterwards and discharge
them. I keep the bills from one election to another. I
always keep the last bill. I told Mr. Clegg I should want
his rooms as usual. There was no particular agreement
for the hire of his room,. If I had them for a few days
only I should give him £5 ; but, if 1 had them for
thirteen weeks, I should pay £25. There were two rooms,
one smaller than the other. I got writing-paper from the
central office ; also, the canvass-books and burgess-roll.
I paid the whole of the expenses; not only Mr. Clegg's
£lO, but the whole. There was some car-hire that I
paid for, but I did not pay for the cars employed by the
car committee of the ward. I also paid for the refresh-
ments to the canvassers on the day of election. I paid
the travelling expenses of several persons, and for sta-
tionery. I paid persons for carrying flags on the nomina-
tion-day. There were sixty or seventy persons engaged to
carry flags. I took down the names of the persons who
carried flags when the flags were delivered to them. I can-
not tell who made the arrangement for the distribution of
the flags. The persons who carried flags came for them
at night. One man could not carry one flag. Some oft hem
required six or eight men to carry them. There were not
sixty or seventy flags of that description. I destroyed the
list of the flag-bearers at the time I destroyed Clegg's ac-
count. I destroyed it because I felt sure that, after the
lapse of so long a time, no further claim would be made for
the five shillings. I paid them five shillings a-day out of
the money I got from Mr. Bold. There were no painted
staves with orange ribbons attached to them in our ward.
I would not have allowed such things. Nothing of the
sort was arranged in other parts of the town. The chair-
man set his face against it. I believe an intimation was
made by some Orangemen that they wished to carry their
colour. There were a great many paper flags carried in
our ward by boys and other persons, but no payment was
made to them. I received £2O from Mr. Bold on the day
of the nomination. I saw him at his own office. He gave
it me in sovereigns. After that I received £lO from him.
I was at the Pontack the greater part of the following day.
Canvassers were there superintending the transmission of
voters in cars to the poll. Mr. Birchall and Mr. Manger
were amongst them. I saw no eating and drinking going
on at the Pontack during the day. When I went down
stairs there were a great number of persons about the bar
and other places. There was no drinking at all in the
room where I was, and I did not see any drinking going
on in other parts of the house when the canvassers were
present. I did not order the refreshments which were
charged in Clegg's bill. Clegg provided them. The bill
was divided thus : £25 for hire of the room, and £l5 for
refreshments. The canvassers consumed the £l5 worth
ofe mo-
derate. refreshments,rconsumledsomeconsideredmyself. tshelf. Someecharge
of the extremelyr nod
can-
vassers grumbled because they had not enough to eat and
drink, but I cannot say who they were. Mr. Birchall,
Mr. Holden, Mr. Manger, and Mr. Nicholson consumed
refreshments. I did not ask Mr. Clegg to provide the
refreshments. He did so of himself. I considered that
Clegg would provide refreshments for all persons who
acted as canvassers and in bringing voters up. I heard
no order given at all for beer to be carried out by the can-
vassers.

Cross-examined by Mr. M. SMITH : I gave no autho-
rity whatever to Mr. Clegg to supply refreshments to
voters • nor did I mean, in paying this bill, to sanction
refreshments to voters. There were many persons en-
gaged as canvassers whom I do not recollect. If they
had gone home to their houses for refreshments much
time would have been lost. I received £BO and £2O from
Mr. Bold, but he gave me no orders to provide refresh-
ments for any one. I was manager of this ward at the
election. The canvassers did nothing else than canvass.
I was my own secretary and committee. I was on the
car committee, and on the nomination committee. The
bandmasters were introduced one by one. I was in the
room when Grooby was called in. I believe I myself
mentioned him to the committee. He came to me some
time before the election, and asked me if I would employ
him and the band, and I said I would recommend him to
the committee. When Ile came to me, I never asked him
about his vote. As he had always voted for one party at
the municipal election, I felt sure he would vote for one
candidate on that occasion. I recommended the com-
mittee to employ him. The estimate for Joliffe and
Stubbs' bands were £l5 each. Grooby's was £l2; but
the committee decided on paying him £l5, as it might
create dissatisfaction and unpleasantness if Grooby came
to discover that the others were paid £l5. Mr. Troutbeck
stated that; and when Grooby came he was told that he
should have £l5, the same as the others.
To Mr. WILLIAMS : I don't remember that Stubbs or
Joliffe was told that Grooby offered the services of his
band for £l2.
To Mr. M. SMITH : Mr. Bremner did not tell Grooby
that, if he would vote for Mackenzie and Turner, he should
have £l5 (that was £1 a man) for his hand, instead of the
£l2, which was the amount of his estimab.
_ _

To Mr. WILLIAMS : Grooby sUI-)pliedi;o bands, I be-
lieve. I don't know how many bands were engaged.
To Mr. BALL ; I was present when Grooby was called,
and I think he said he had two bands.
To the CHAIRMAN : Mr. Bremner did not say that
Grooby's estimate was £l2 for fifteen men ; but, if he
would give his vote, he should have £1 a man.
To Mr. M. SMITH : Nothing whatever of the sort was
said ; end if Grooby has stated that there was, he tells
what is false. Grooby was not asked if his band could
play " Croppies lie down" and " Boyne Water." The
rh'3'man would not allow enything of the sort. The
same resolution was come to by the coconlittc3 as to party

tunes that they had arrived at ;'vith regrrd to Orange flags.
FheydeterrrOned not to sitow.any party tunes to be played,
and their reason was that a number of Orangemen had
applied for permission to join the procession. The earl-
- about ti,i-reen weeks in my ward. Somebody
told me that my name was on the committee, but
J never acted on tint committee, or gave authority to any
one to piece my name upon it.
P.c-ewr‘ined by Mr. MACAULAY ; Of the three bend.,

masters I employed two ; estimated the charge at £l5,
and the third at £l2. I sent word to Grooby to attend
the committee. Grooby was a voter in St. Anne's Ward.
I don't remember seeing him at the central office after-
wards, waiting there whilst I was present. I might.
cannot say whether I did or did not. I don't remember
that I came out, and, shaking my head, told him that wa
could not give him employment. I believe, after he
applied to me, I told him to meet me at the central office.
I recommended him to the committee, and put his name
down for the band. I put his name down, in order that
when the bands were engaged his should be one of tlaern•
I remember Groo by coming to me at my office, and ask:
ing me to have his band employed, and I said I would
bear it in mind. Gribben, another band-master, was not
employed, because it was known to the committee that be
belonged to the opposite party. He was not in the room
five minutes, and he was told that he was not wanted'
Grooby was the only man that I took any interest in'
Grooby offered his band first for £l2 ; then the others
came in and offered theirs for £l5 each. I said nothing
to the other two. Nobody asked Grooby if he could p 197
" Croppies, lie down ;" nor was that question put ta
Joliffe and Stubbs.
To the CHAIRMAN: When Grooby came to me first,o
said he wanted employment generally. That was before the
band was mentioned. I told him I would bear it in mind'
To Mr. WILLIAMS : I was told that some of the can:
vassers could not get refreshments at Clegg's, and that
they were obliged to go to the other side of the street to
procure them.
To Mr. BALL : Several of the canvassers were indepen'
dent persons, and were not paid. There were otherh
however, who were paid.
To Mr. FRESHFIELD : Many persons volunteered t(/
canvass, and the number increased as the election ar
proached. Many additional ones volunteered on the Jar
of polling. Grooby at first wanted employment generally
it was afterwards he mentioned the subject of his band,.
To Mr. BALL : Mr. Birchall acted as a canvasser. lle
was a vounteer, and unpaid. I am not aware, it never
came to my knowledge, that he invited persons to 010
refreshments.

To the CHAIRMAN: There were 754 electors in MI
ward, and there voted for Turner 321, Mackenzie 30Sf
Cardwell 258, Ewart 240.

Thomas Wilson re-called, and examined by Mr.PAGEI'
I stated yesterday, when under examination, that I wage",
the Pontack on the day of the nomination and the day 0
the poll.

Mr. PAGET : Had you any refreshments there ?
Mr. JAMES objected to the question being put, and the
itness was ordered to withdraw.

Mr. JAMES said that when the witness was under els"
mination yesterday, the committee held that the questioll
' could not be put • and he contended that nothing 10`
since been elicited to justify it being put now.
Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE argued that at the Pontacif
there was a room used for the conduct of the election 00
behalf of the sitting members; that Mr. Oliver flateb,
who was there as secretary to that committee-room, St
in constant communication with the central committee'
room, and that all that was done there was recognized bi
the central committee. Further, according to the eat
dence of the landlord, (Clegg,) it appeared that the caw
vassers had ordered drink and refreshments to he given to
persons whom he believed to be voters in that very roam'
He held, therefore, that counsel for the sitting member'
had a perfect right to go into this part of the question. t,
Mr. JAMES: Why, it was decided yesterday by 0:
committee, and, indeed, acquiesced in by the learned se'
geant, that, until he proved some mare agency than 13e
had done, his learned friend could not ask the witness °
question about what he had to eat and drink.
The CHAIRMAN : What passed in the mind of the collit.
mittee, when they held that the question could not be P.tl;
was that the learned counsel for the petitioners was goo3°
on the ground of the presumed agency of Birchall.
Mr. JAMES It was almost conceded by the lesril,s
,`
sergeant, yesterday, that they could not establish Birchsh
agency. And what had occurred since to establish ,it'
It simply appeared from the evidence given 'o-day tL'at
Birchall was a canvasser, of whom there were a gre',t
d
many, but no proof whatever that Birchall had receives
any authority to order refreshments to persons. It 10„f
for the petitioners, then, to establish to the satisfaction
the committee prima facie evidence of agency. If Birch?
were an agent, so also was every one of the sixty, eigl;
or one hundred other canvassers who were engaged forth o
sitting members, and in that case the acts of any of the
might unseat those gentlemen. He submitted that tber,
was no evidence before the committee of Birchall's ,genet,
nay, he would go further and say, nor any evidence wiry
ever that the witness Wilson had anything to eat or dr's
by order of any person who was satisfactorily establisue
to be an agent.
The room was then cleared, and the public excidde,cl4
whilst the committee deliberated upon this point "
three-quarters of an hour.
On being re-admitted,
The CHAIRMAN stated that it was the opinion of
committee that Oliver Hatch was such an agent for Co
ducting the election in St. Anne's Ward as to make fll
dence admissible with regard to refreshments supplied ,s
the nomination and the polling days to voters introduce
by canvassers recognised b 7 Hatch. fir,
PAGET : I went to the Pontack because I was sent tleris„,
The witness was then re-called and examined by
to get some allowance. I saw Mr. Birchall on the poi.n
aware that
morning before I went to the Pontack.
bar when I went to the Pontack. am not
I don t think
had any conversation with him then.
breakfast at
,rink. I got my,
was by when 1 got the
the Pontack. It was before 1 polled that I saw hime...;
got my breakfast before I polled. I saw him by th
before I got my breakfast. I saw him at the bar. in',
a,tt tslaiye
who
otathcke
Birchall canvassed me. I told him I had promised 0313
vote, and I told him who I meant to vote for. The res.°,
I went to the Pontack was, that when he canvassed 1:0"
I saw him by trla.,
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pwAoGulEdr s:eel
mcaen
were in the room I got my breakfast in. There were 011
freemen there.
free
The CHAIRMAN: How do you know they were
*persons were s'll
men ? You say you did not know them ?

Witness : They said they were freemen.
By Mr. PAGET : I polled early in the morning. I coj
not say whether I saw Birchall at the Pontack arterbo
voted. I went to the poll in a coach. I don't know wd
put me into the coach.. Wilson went with me and vo're
with me. He came back with me in the coach. 113 lip
was a man to take us up to the poll. I don't know '
he was. He came back with us.

Mr. PAGET Did he order anything for your gd
Mr. M. SMITH : I object to the examination contintl
by Mr. Paget. porY
Witness : I cannot say how long I remained at the -
tack after I came back from voting. I don't think tbe
man who took me up to the poll was in the room with
„70,
when I breakfasted. There were other men in the ro,V
I don't know who they were. The only man who P°,;-0,
wtarictrkl.l
Bamlioer
alone.
Anwi.
was at
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Wilson.oo nt
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hall
me. It was some time before the election thhaeWtthhAeer:rh.Cllll
chall first told me to go to the Pontack. He did not tell
me that I was to go and vote from the Pontack. I °PI
I said I would go up to the poll from the Pontacli. 3
,
don't know what he said when I told him that. I cl?;,•
know whether he assented or dissented. it was in P
nover-street where I told him this.
Mr. PAC:ET What passed between you and Doi
Birchall when you told him you would vote from
Pontack ? fle6s
Mr. M. SMITH objected to the question. The iv,a
had already stated all he recollected.

The CHAIRMAN : The witness has already told
can't remember. It is a long time ago since it occurtrof
Examination resumed : I met Mr. Birchall aftericand
between his canvassing me and the polling-day, but 1"
no conversation with him further that I can recollect' tl
fo
Mr. PAGET : Why, can't you recollect whethero
saw Mr. Birchall at the Pontack after you breakfasted'
Mr. M. SMITH again objected to the question. tell
The CHAIRMAN said the witness had already arts°
the question to the best of his recollection.
„t
Mr. PAGET : Did you pay for your breakfast
Pontack ?

Mr. M. SMITH : I object to that.
The CHAIRMAN : The witness had better withdr°
The witness having left the room, tba
Mr. PAGET submitted that the question was wit.h!hao,o

scope of the resolutions of the committee. lie haasl9
,:
that the witness was canvassed by Birchall. WO
shown that he had conversation with Birchall at ther,eo:
the canvassing took place, and that the Pontack was "OP
tioned, and he had shown that in consequence of id gO
was said to him by Birchall, the witness said he WO
to the Pontack.
The CHAIRMAN : That is not the effect of t„,11001;
ness's evidence. What he said was that he told tit!raoC°
that he would go to the Pontack. There is no ell
that Birchall said anything about it. 't ij
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huvrrteeebel.rt:nwyobaieiertitlneehynatwteeshulaOefiPpsennk:tfednoodspß,trivaotrfiboci:: etkcaraelnlitiihhe: al inay: hi.nisti
eedncc vw:yads tdi 111:10:;1
go
d
had
haacmrakeaokpnflaasteltie morning of the 111 da
came b that beitO
place, that ththaetrhe,e
Bsairwchßaiirichbaelilngatbtyhethebabra, Ole
time.

thaMt
lie saw him :e that./sTreo,sehveerdaildtnimotessayauring the
day,
Mr. PAGET : He said he saw Birchall by the bat, bill,
he said he could not say how late he aaw him there' OA'
have proved that Birchall was active in the canvass!! t 3
he canvassed the witness ; that when he canvasse"
something was said about polling from the Pontae•oill4
have proved that he went to the Pontack on the wet t'a
of the polling-day ; that Birchall was there ; tht9o3
witness went up from the Pcntack to thepoll ; e polo
got his breakfast there; and now I ask whether 11100
for that breakfast ? Surely that is a question I
ell
right to put.
~ tbe c)('
Mr. FRESHFIELD: I do not see anything 10„09•01
dence to fix Birchall with what took place at the Oto
The CHAIRMAN : There is nothing to fix Bire'titigg
any knowledge of the transaction. There is eat ott'ij
show a recognition on his part of what took Pec
Pontack in regard to the voter. The questloo
therefore bSMITH e irregular. have
Mr. M. : I think sir, I am entitled to 0,
part of the evidence struck out from the notcs• ig celoG
The CHAIRMAN : don't know how far tha-.,0 t A
sistent with the ordinary practice. It seems to 170te510
the matter will be better explained by leaving the,oteo
they are. It will show then that an objection waistted to
the course of evidence, and that it was not per'''
continued. tteriloo
Mr. M. SMITH : My object only is thonvie, I
should be called to the matter. That being ooe
hi the hands of the committee. , e
The CHAIRMAN :We will let the evicLene. ogr
oot
the notes. It will explain itself. It is now' s_ejtetter
hour we fined for adjer—ning. 1 think we 113"
tbre°
go any further to-day. 'mites to
The committee then adjourned, at f`"l rr;

THE CUSTOMS' AUTHORITIES IIOW allow (re broiApt,
of passengers from Paris by the mail train t°
" order i 5
to London without examination at Dover, in inatiolg
prevent detention in the latter place. The exlim.„..bll"
made by officers from the Customs, at the Lon v
station of the South-Eastern ComP4llY*

LOCAL NEWS

A NEW STONE PIER is being erected alongside the land-
ing-slip at Eastham.
THE JUBILEE of the London School Union was cele.
Hugh
Stowell in Myrtle-street Baptist Chapel, (the Rev.
Stowell Brown's,) on Tuesday evening last.
MR. WILLIAM HARGREAVES MANIFOLD has been
gazetted as ensign and assistant-surgeon in the Second
Regiment of the Lancashire Militia.
A GENTLEMAN, upwards of 70 years of age, who
resides in Clarence-street, fell from the forecastle of the
Chinese Junk on Friday, and fractured his leg, just above
the ankle.
THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS EXAMINATION takes place
on Thursday next. The Rev. Thomas Jackson, of Stoke
Newington, will preach on the occasion, at St. Peter's
Church.
HUSBAND POISONED.—Martha Walker, of Ashton.
Under-Lyne, has been committed to the Liverpool Assizes,
charged with attempting to poison her husband, Philip
Walker, by administering to him acetate of lead.
THE COMMISSIONERS OF WAVERTREE have resolved
to lay down a line of pipes from the tank now in course of
formation for drawing off the refuse of the village—the
said pipes to run down the private lane for 100 yards, and
farther, if found necessary.
THE PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES are reported
to be in a most hopeful condition. At the last committee
Meeting, it appeared that a new and gratifying feature is,
that the wives of the Liverpool artizans are kilted attend-
ing the cheap private baths.
THE BEN NEVIS.—A letter, from a passenger by the
ten Nevis, speaks very highly of her performances on the
molese to Australia. The best day's sailing was 304
e i 285 and 295 miles was common when she had
winds, and she was the easiest ship.
AT A MEEttNG held at Newington Chapel, Renshaw-
street, on Tuesday, Charles Robertscm, Esq., presiding,
it was resolved to promote local petitions to Parliament,
and to meraorialise our Town Council also to against the Education Bill of Lord-John Russell. petition,
David"contractor,"
Doar,a a brother workman while he was at work on
y morning,
was en Friday bound over in £5 and
two sureties of dar month, .ClO each to keep the peace for one calen-
PETER GARLAND ANI) MARTIN CONNOR, two YOCR
who had conspired to obtain a marine store license under
false pretences, were brought before the magistrates on
Friday, by Inspector Kehoe, and sentenced each to a
Month's
Jordan s imprisonment. 'Garland is, or was, employed-et
, Jordan's m, in Manchester-street.
QTRANGE AND FATAL AOCIDENT.—During the eledticm
eirocessionsl display, at 'Clitheroe, last week, MT. Chris-
tePher Reigate, a very =large man, put his head out of. -an
I.l3lxle,n,ih himself his great weight overbalanced the Telt:tele,
""""le and a 'Child sitting on the top, as well as
i injuring a number of the passengers.
Neve ." T,
141.9 OfSeD ‘-'sn't:L'INVENTION.—The spirited proerie-
patent glass enamel, Messrs. L.'Coope: and
C°.' °'' -"veePool and Manchester, have a stock of articles
Made from wrought :ion, and coated or enamelled with
Glass which
are net only distinguished by theireteength
and :
Put.e, bet by their elegance and taste, and which
e alike worthy the patronage of shippers and house-
keePers.
Tree Ax ~. ...r.
T,, , -.-..., OR, ZAMUEL HOLNIE, Esq., was
-.- "esuaY evening et a dinner
alondon to abottecig present on
given by the 'Lore. Mayor of
hty mayors and provostedf the prin-
cipal cities and towns of Great Britain and Ireland,
assembled with v. view to aid the efforts of her Majesty's
GortTen'ent, by reottiotinga uniform organisation through-
e• l"uutre- for the diffusion of a 'more general and
prac Ica Ise .
eet)cvLeee of science and art among -ell classes.
AT esee
4neekto,utrltn-Nd Lete SPECIAL 141EET 1N.G4;31d o
Ihne
viMaedn:
chsster, sh
incolnshire railway, e
nesday lash in Manchester, a committee was appointed to
consult and aEvise with the directors upset the present
and future Pclicy of th
the sharehottlers at : Com
pany,
J. Highfield tad W. C. and tcereport thereon to
the gentlemen forming the
special general. meetinig. Messrnsg.
sets:l7m,
jotfteLei.verpen , are among
v_Terloesees PENSIONERS, under the-mil:mend of Col.
nal have been called out in companies, since the 20th
aeteachcompany being under drillefoT two days. On
. .n 1 deesibry-•they marched through the
town, and were
bad
aade t.egltite -cdnady:
Flasmissed et the Exchange. On Thursday the veterans
ia
and on Friday they were inspected on the
at the Everton barracks, by Colonel Tul-
-1 es, commander of the whole of the local companies.
WHIME ens AN EMIGRANT SIIIP,--The ship Squan-
nem, emigrant ship, Crookes, for Boston, with 250 emi-
ante on hoard, went on shore on Wednesday night in a
dense fog,'near Port Greenock, six inilesS.W. of Douglas,
Isle °flis:a. The crew and passengers were landed. She
will scarcely be got off, being en the rocks.
Her Majesty's
st
_ewer Torcupine is gone to render assistance. The
Nuantum left Liverpool on Tuesday.
Tun seScreIETA ARMONICA, which was established in
184 for -the cultivation and practice of orchestral aed
instrumental music of the best classeheed their fourteenth
dress colleen at the Mechanics' Institution, Mount-street,
On Wednesday evening last.
LITKR,ACY AND DRAIIIAICBC Sootirty.—The
lecture of the present season was delivered on T concluding
eeday
evening; tee Mr. C. etillward, at the -society's-roe: s. in
Wilton-street, under the appropriate title of "The Pre_
Badget."
Miele:la's FIRE-PROOF SATRS--The certificates of
the, utility of these safes daily aceumelate. The ett
G
Percha' 'Company in Landon were fortunate enough too
have their-books and a large 'quantity of valuable papers
enclosed in one of them. After the fire the books were
not' only found uninjured, but property to the value of
i3OO, in,bills, cash, &c., was -found. perfectly safe. The
i test to which the safe was subjected must have been
inteesee as the brass work wasoompletety melted from the
front, and-there was not a trace to be seen of the knob or
escutcheon.
rieEiEmesetsie LANGUAGE [N LA•N'CarEHlßE..—Amongst
cif
f
the anecdotes related of the "-sayings and doings" d
I last week, the sub-
tetenttlialogue as said to have been held between some
?lacers and :a private of the sth Royal Lancashire Militia,
41 'Butt':—Captain A: " Who -out your hair ?"
Private: -" Wor ?" Captain : "Who cut you hair ?', Private.: -fai corn'd till wod ye mean." Catain B.
then interfered, and said he would -undertake for a glass
of brandy and water to elicit an answer the moment he
Pet hequestiou, which was agreed lo.inensediatel,, whets
Preston
....Captain 13.-said to the mast, •" Who .pou'd te , lad ?" stain
man instreatly .replied, "M y main, to be sear."—
,e.
AN.IOIIIIR I NfrEW BRUNSWICK Cleseese.n, called the
Neleus,t and-commanded by Captain.Gimber, arrived in
lees Mersey during the past week. Her builders are
eusrs. Brown 'and Anderson, and lelrefirown who has
Come ouerwithher, is one of those men who rise by genius
jaaliad per..___sever. ance, having gone through all 'the degrees of
wieP443.'"Wn. - Tile Neleus made the .passage in twenty-
rak.ar. fiber is a full rigged ship, and. her spars look
, n Ller length of keel is 175 feet—over all, about
193 feet; beans,els feet IO inches.; depth., 20 feet 4
inche
es;r old measErement, 1,117 tons. I Eer model is
extremely eharp,at both ends, with a concave bottom at
her tnidshise section. Her handsome appearance is suc-
cessfully combined. with great strength:: and in the latter
Particular she ea with
to be the finest ship hitherto turned
out from any yardeie New Brunswick. She, has a top-
gallant forecastle,and deckhouse aft, the latter not yet
furnished. She has been expressly designedefen the pas-
senger trade, and.carries an upper and lower deck. She
IS at present discharging in the Brunswick Doille.
A LANCASKLIttE eCesE.—Court of Queen!. Bench,
Westminster, June ^l3..—The Queen v. Pilkiegten and
Another. In this case a rule had been granted-to show
'cause why two justices. of Lancashire should neteissue a
distress warrant upon the goods of W. RiaCue., to enforce
'payment of 19s. 6d.., being the arrears of a weekly sum of
as. 6d., ordered by two leestices to be paid to oneeEliza-
heth Gbrimes, for the maintenance of her bastard
child,
of which the said W. MlCue was the putative father. he justices had deelined:to issue their warrant, upon the
Pend that the order of maintenance which it waseceseeke
'tenet in force was invalid. The mother of the bastard
'6l-k1 was a married woman whose husband had been
seansported, but he had returned to this coubntrtyerdanndhi clod;
nabited with his wife after thehirth of the as a
said
tehOugh he had since absconded. Lord Campbell s.nd.
ze °heed of the statutes wee, to
fromal
ulna% rice of bastard children, and to relieve parishes..
provide for the las
tee.' enneetenance • and it would be strange,. indeed,.
erg
cnild sh ' • and the putative father
of the ..,... Quid be left destitute, a . .
an 4 Btz.:ntid freed from liability to .maintain it, by the th
similar" 'Viet • other judges • • °tut. e. 101. The
m °Plnl°s• Rule absolute. expressed
-
..tir.,
the at they d I' A",essirty
It appeared
ti er- Meeting of this body on Tuesday.
. ..—The Rev. Rector Campbell pre-
tile eeseee•kuan Committee are making
telief,Teelan ef relief in kind, in substitution of money
arrangements for
various eueal
dart is practicable. The admission to the
than usual ng the week were f 396, a larger number
than us
coesequence of the dismeseal of the late
the first, a. it h
and V.!d been agreed that James ißardsley be
Schoolmaster.— Taseaniel Sullivan the second, assistant-
Yeas reported te E,„l t°e_stal number of inmates in the house
sick cases. Mr. j-e..-. 415. Amongst
these there were 528
P3ratilY to fill the nab D. Kelly had been appointed tera-
death of his bretle-e-*
eerernittee on the district rendered vacant by the
merreLn-lavr, Mr. Durkan. The sub-
tleNtd a report on--. 17-
1 jealarrangements of the house .sub
""e statements made by Mr. Moss at
thlast meeting of
!Ma 'dogging f the genera board with reference to
-- schoolse ° the boys. Murphy and Marsden, by the
defer,
oe e ester, Scarratt, in which they repudiated any Were peeuetbelr Part to stifle the inquiry. The proceedings the eilaurrEed.---Mr. Savage was elected a member of
e°Bt PerceCoransittee.—lt appeared that the average
kid at t Per week in the Industrial School is 2s. Oed.,
that
1, Bead
Workhouse 2s. 3cl.—Mr. Willmer gave notice
1;44 ,e.. should, at the next meeting, move the appoint-
-1.50 °I Year, assistant to the vestry-clerk, at a salary of
a year.
LEct
letitie URE ON INDIA.—On Thursday morning, several
V,SBoeir4, connected with the East India and China
bear a'en attended at the Chamber of Commerce, to
ell a discourse on India, by Julius Jeffreys, Esq., F. R.S.,
eeeLhin been long a resident in the east. The chair was
The Lee by Mr. Bourn, vice-president of he chamber.
eel( lecturer described the people of India as incapable of
Srit'igsch'vernrnent and self-advancement, and argued that
16 ithieTlll.l6 was a blessing instead of a curse. The mode
for it Justice was administered was scandalously bad,
ese ;'vas tardy and expensive. In reformin that matter, bae ,illould be taken that British born subjecg ts should not
iesige2Wed to continue under the administration of native
slaves '-esubject to the caprice of those who were born
reede• The land ought to be irrigated, canals should be
efoicuisvells should be sunk, and money advanced to the
et turista, who ought also to be instructed in the use
to 11,71 Per ploughs and harrows, instead of being allowed
414:
stra_ te time and labour over clumsy and ineffectual in-
tee !qents. . Schools of art might also be established for
eie.eiruestruction of native boys by soldiers who understood
Aso nt trades ; and thus, by giving knowledge to the
eseuee, advancing money, and laying down a solid basis on
upon they could work and develope the land, [ladle would
vn Present a different picture to what it does now,