The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-09 00:00:00

BOROUGH GAOL.

The committee presented a report of some length, signifying
their approval of certain allowances, and confirmation of one
or two appointments. The justices and committee also sub-
mitted a report to the effect following :
" That they hard fully considered the letter of Mr. Phillips on
behalf of the Secretary of State of the 15th February last, the
report of Car. iebb aed the case car nninion of the
cic. ex.,...,“er, v.,n use oion on or the ratier.
"They were of opinion befite any determination of the ques-
tion, whether a new prison be built, or as' the alternative, ex-
tensive alterations be made in the present:prison not only all
the legal difficulties arising nut of the constructions which may
be put upon the 49th section, 4th George IV., which provides
for the classification and not the individual separation of pri-
soners,' referred to by Captain Jebb in the first conclusion of
his report required to be removed; but a permanent national
system of prison discipline requires to be established by law;
and, moreover, the provision of the means require to be enacted
by the legislature for the erection of prisons upon such extend-
ed scale as may be necessary fur carrying the national system
Into perfect effect.
" That this court cannot look forward to the erection of a new
prison, if one be determined upon, of sufficient extent for this
Borough, and complete for the reception of prisoners, in a pe-
riod less than three years from the act ot the legislature.
That taking this into consideration, whether the ultimate
determination be to erect a new prison, or to make extensive
alterations and additions approved of by the council, should be
proceeded with and completed, the Caine being indispensable in
due regard to the necessary wants of the prisoners, and the rea-
sonable accommodation of the officers permanently ; or if a new
prison is hereafter determined upon, for the pei iodduring which
the present prison must necessarily be continued.
" That these alterations do not admit of any reduction or fur-
ther postponement.
That it is desirable, as a temporary accommodation, to extend
the relief afforded by the contract with the county for the par-
tial use of the Kirkdale gaol and house of corection."
The reports were conttnned.

OVERSEER OF KIRKOALE.

The TO wN•cLEtik said the overseer of Kirkdale had been re-
gularly served with notices, but he had tailed to attend before
the committee. The,proper course would be now for the Mayer
to issue his precept, ordering him to attend a meeting of the
Council, to be held in a fortnight ; if he attended the commit-
tee in the mean time he would be excused, but if he did not do
that, and did not attend the Council meeting, he Would be liable
to a fine of £20..

PILOTS COMMITTEE.

The TOWN-CLERK said thenexisuireci was the appointment
of forty-one of the Council to serve as members of the pilots'
committee, He hail been directed at the last council to men-
tion the names of those who were on the committee already.
Their names were, Messrs. James Heyworth, Win. Shand,
John Bibby, Eyre Evans, John Nelson Wood, Thos. Brockle-
bank, and Robert Evans.

Mr. Cuttuta asked what were the duties of the commissioners
about to be chosen from the council.

The TOWN-CLERK said according to the act passed in 1824,
the.duties were to meet for the purpose of filling up vacancies
caused by deaths in the committee. All other powers were
vested in the general committee, except the powers of fixing
the rates of pilotage, which was retained in the commissioners.
The names of those members of the council already on the com-
mittee were then read.
Mr. Alderman LEATtiom wished to ask the Town-clerk whe-
ther the elections of last year would be legal. Several vacan-
cies in the pilots' committee were filled up during the mayoralty
of Mr. Eatle, when the commissioners for choosing them were
not chosen from the Council, according to the Municipal Act.
The TowN-cLER'K said he thought they had better look into
that afterwards; it would be rather hasty to give an opinion.
Mr. Alderman LEATHON—Because the commissioners were
then incompetent to choose the committee?
The TOWN-CLERK said it was clear they were incompetent,
but it did not follow therefore that theAdection was void. Upon
that point he must look into some old acts of parliament.
Lgi,AT4lO:ll hoped this would be an effective_ committee,
for they had found it exceedingly difficult to get gentlemen to
act, whereby many of the pilots had escaped punishment. It
is highly desirable that they-should have an active'and of ectite
committee for the management of the pilots. •
The following gentlemen were then nominated to the coin-
mitee :—Messrs. Itatillione and Leathom, in lieu of the Mayor
and Deputy Mayor; Messrs. Brown, Walmsley, Sheil, Hugh
Hornby, Booth, Sands, Charles Lawrence, Higgins, Thomas
Holt, Robinson, Bolton., Mellor, Blackburn, Hodgson, Duncan,
John Cropper, Bulky, Birch, Currie, Earle, John Holmes,
Lassell, Thornhill, Heyworth, Platt, Barclay, Bowdon, Rams-
den, Smith, Woolright, George H. Lawrence, Henry Holmes,
Priestley, Moon, Bright, Morecroft, Seger, Joseph Hornby,
and Barton.

The Uo,lnerl adjourned shortly after one to that day fortnight,
unless the overseer of Kirkdale first attended the committee.

The Bank of Ireland charter is to be renewed, but not exclu-
sively ; other Companies may issue notes in Dublin and within
fifty miles.

bAnisc FEAT.—On Monday afternoon, the nth tilt., when
the Warrington mail was on its way from Preston to Chorley,
having no outside passengers, and only two inside, viz., Mr.
Croft, of the Red Lion Hotel, and Mr. Bartholomew Bretherton,
jun., and when near Whittle, the wheel of the coach got into a
deep rut in the road; and, by coming in contact with a piece
of ice, the suddenness of the jerks threw the coachman off the
box into the road. The windows were up; but Mr. Croft having
remarked, that he thought the coachman was thrown off, and
as the horses increased their speed, Mr. Bretherton opened the
door, and finding this to be the case. got upon the roof of the
coach, thence over tbebox-seat down upon the pole (the horses
meanwhile going at a tremendous rate,) and with very con-
siderable exertion, and at the most imminent risk of his life,
succeeded in getting hold of the reins. the ends of which, not
being buckled, were dangling among the horses' feet, and after
a little time succeeded in pulling them up, just soon enough to
prevent the coach running foul of two carts which were in the
road, by which, doubtless, considerable damage would have been
done. The guard had left hiS seat, and was hangitig on behind,
expecting that the coach would be upset; and had nut Mr.
Bretherton been possessed of considerable nerve, as well as.
daring. and acted as he did without hesitation, such no doubt
would have been the case. The great danger of Mr. Brether-
ton's situation will he manifest, when it is recollected that the
pole on which he bad to stand is not more than five inches
across, and tlant the horses were galloping at - a furious rate.—
Preston Pilot.