The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-22 00:00:00

IMPRISONMENT FOR ICiEBT:

The following is the ropy of a letter which has been received
frOm Lord Sandon, in reply to an application made to him last
week to present a petition: from .the debtors confined. in our
Borough Gaol, in favour of a measure to abolish imprisonment

for delit:—

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Lbntioia; Marie,.
"Sir,—l have had the honour of teceivisigpyolcie,),ft the.
IGth itittaiit, together with the petition which folkolnitilliu
will Out it in' the hands of ,battle pee; for, Pkylki-itniftiPA7--in.
thtik-i-t4•Lord Ilarrowby, if it isriiitia*Witt9too,tlfeßW;oo6l'e
somehleasure upotr the subjectraiuciaumf pdsaictoulthwitv,qamuot
sart6fi44iti was 4uite3atisfied. thq bill 0+0%50441w. °use
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TO MR D ITO a. 611,4)711E411r' —l5" NIMI? •
9V,199 9 Lit wit Jou tr.:
Silt,- With every,. tvishotiO 40% t be, I cannot
hut express niy intlignatioreatiktO r-gotliSuftipiqloom:ftil :effect-
ing the appOintmencottlta fittintt-tiilPviwi-ekcii,gy to the,,sapri
hour that they: the sithirY4osllheY C P 4 9f1:4- P thi!Mrl
pointmellt. ' flow respectful to the ProJOADfI, at large..i.voinna
have been to have delayed the appointment For a v.--gek or so,
and then, if need lie, to have met sPecially upon.lt! This
would have given other young mien an opportunity (after :they
knew the emolument, for, previously, its amount was veri7itit
certain) of declaring themselves calitlidates, tot the office, and
probably a fitter person !night thus have been selected. Anfrl
believe this postponement was both moved and seconded, lad.
not carried. And whc : Because the council- mere determined
to appoint their pet favourite, for whom the office appears to
have been invented, for, whoever heard of a deputy town-clerk
being appointed by any one hut the town-clerk himself? The
only snug place the council had to confer was
:that of clerk of
the peace; out as they could, not annex to that? salary large
enough for the person soliciting place at :their hands, they
mergedthat office in that of deputy town-clerliol
And, while upon the subject, let me .ehtlePIVP 45i cruelly
Mr. Lowe was treated, not only by Mr.sikibighoWll9oThAkif,zeal
for Mr. Crooke, stated of Mr. Lowe things whiAlverp,f4terly
tt
false, hot by all those-rnembers'ofthe_coneil)whp yos.cit pihe
appointment being filled up withoUtittheofFcti,sotly4v4.ng an op-
portunity of admitting, explaningi.o.r4tta4ingil)WeAltleVs: hasty
statements. All who have/mead, the,rekort Nll,4lll4FikPaPer of
yesterday's proceedings in, the council oiltiht pleased with the
manly leiter of Mr. Lowe On'ahre'subjecCi ajtclig,ihe same time
he surprised that MciilShiella;gowl sense OW; Mill him to make
an open avowal of filisiermiti forward the charge in-
stead of titteinptiag tOnttitlY lb Alod )
The deputy town-bleakilhaainglibben-aPPointed under the
above circumstances, I recommend no one to soli4the corn-
nership, het ansil tteJlialvirtuatba aPpoinittgiatAtf,a4Vas, doubt-
less, Mr. Currieliiii otiosisave ethieletaviablorplpefli nor need any
person apply forithethigirofficarof Ineasuiteritt9 enause that is re-
served for the Iteastireeellvidnikibdr.bilVy erg,. for our new
economical rouncil'thinkrnothino pfutia.triago,gentleptari..C66o
per annum fore life if his,retiliernertt'willm6foina.y:C4vone of
their mra caste,.
.1!97/ erti of
Such doings as this lottieviallaties)lo6lo*have an end, and
perhaps some of the coutufikvild repent ;of, their reckless con-
duct. As to the leader ott thebairldlyll,iraust say nothing, as I
cannot ~:press rfiv'contemPo.,of hit-I-resentful and waspish con-
duct. Ws remarks on those two respectable individuals, Mr.
Case and Mr. Foster, were pitiful.—Yours, &e.,
Liverpool, March 17th, 1836. S,QAUT ATOM.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIECA—case was ;ward at the Bolton
Petty SesSionS or Monday last which excited great: interest
amon,gst the mechanics. The facts were shortly -these. John
Dawson, an iron inotilder, who had been a oternber of .the
Friendly Iron Moulder's Society nearly ihree yearrs, and had
been exeluded because he refused to pay a tine of a guinea
imposed at
.01dham, on an alleged charge that Dawson, whilst
working near Oldham, had caused,Hugh oowitice, a moulder,
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who was erking at 313. per week,;to be discharged, anil had
worked himself at 325. per week. Dawson went to work near
Oldham some time since, and took his trade card with him,
which was lodged in the Oldham h rifteli box. The club, it
seems, etcods over England and Ireland, but the head onarters
are iv Manchester. Dawson returned to Bolton, and was em-
ployed at the Wharf Foundry of Nlessrs Jackson and Co. On,
Monday night he attended his chili, and tendered his arrears to
the officers, but they bild him that he had been fined a guinea at
Oldham for the offence before-mentioned, and he must either
pay one-half as an instalment, in addition to his arrears, or be
excluded. Dawson refused, and the 'Consequence was, that
next morning when he went to his work, his shopmates told him
that he must either comply with the mandate of the club or
they would not work with him, Intimation of this resolve
having been communicated to Alessi's. Jackson and Co., they
told Dawson that unless he arranged with the club they should
be obliged to part with him at the end of the fortnight. This
was the grievance complaitied of, and Dawson sought the pro-
, tection of the maglStrates to reinstate him in the club. He had
written to the Oldham secietary to know the charge against
him, and received the same answer as from the officers, with the
addition, and if lie wished to know any more about it he must
over, to Oldham. Mr. J. L. Rushton, who appeared for
Dawson, contended, that as the rules of the society were still
within the p"ovisions, although enrolled, of the :13 Geo.
the society not having conformed to the statutes of Wm. IV.,
relating to sick societies, the bye-laws were not binding, and
the club had do power to inflict fines for trade disputes. Mr.
Taylor, for the defendants, maintained that by the originalrule,
a majority of the members had power to make bye-laws, and
hail done so. There was a provisional committee who sat, in
Manchester, to whom all disputes were referred, and that com-
mittee had decided that Dawson should pay the fine: The
magistrates, Mr. Lomax anti Mr. Darbishire, held that the sick
society had nothing, to do with inflicting fines for trade disputes,
and in their opinion, if the officers of the club had received one
penny of Dawson's fine, they would have been liable to an in-
dictment for obtaining money under false pretences. The
partiet retired and arratigcd the matters