The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

NEW GOVERNOR OF THE BOROUGH GAOL

out adding

Last year
Mr. Platt

1, but as

Mr. PLATT moved the appointment of Mr. John Nelson
Wood and the re-appointment of Mr.
Mr. J. SMITH seconded the motion
Mr. WOOD had some objet

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fer seein6 member appointed in his place.
Mr. PLATT then moved the appointment of Mr. Barton.
The MAYOR said Mr. Barton was not present, and asked
whether it was the pleasure of the council that Mr. Wood be
appointed. (Yes, yes.)
Mr. Woon then consented to serve. .

Mr. PLATT 11l

!d the appointment of

Mr. Isaac Holmes

Mr. COOPER seconded the proposition
TL - 1,7 . _ •

tYOR put the q

it was carried unani-

The commissioners accordingly consist of Mr. Morecroft
Mr. Wood, and Mr. Isaac Holmes.

The MAYOR said the council had, in the next place, to ap-
point a trustee, under a local act of the 9th Geo. IV. for
enabling the trustees of Mrs. Ann Molyneux's charities, in
Liverpool, to grant building leases, and for better vesting
the estates in them, for confirming exchanges, and other pur-
poses, for the benefit of the charities. He added that the
mayor for the time being was usually the trustee.

Upon the motion of lqr. PLATT, the accordingly
appointed to the office.

'The MAYOR said the council would, in the next place,
have to appoint three trdstees, under the local act of 7th
Geo. IV., for establishing St. James's Cemetery. The trus-
tees last year consisted of Sir Joshua Walmsley, Mr. Lassel,
and Mr. Thornhill; but, as Mr. Lassel had retired from the
council, three others must he elected. •
Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY hoped to be allowed to retire
from this trusteeship, as he had a great deal to do in attend.

Mr. D

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appointment of Mr. Thorn-

commenced
each, they

Mr. HOLMES proposed Mr. George Hall Lawrence.
Mr. LAWRENCE declined the honour.
Mr. J. SMITH proposed Mr. Sandhach.
Mr. SANDRA CH objected to serve.
Mr. ROBINSON proposed Mr. Alexander Smith.—Agreed

The trustees accordingly consist of Mr. Mather, Mr
Thornhill, and Mr. A. Smith.

The MAYOR said the council would next have to appoint
two of their taemtjers .to execute the powers given to the
mayor and senior alde-mcn, by the heal act of 10th Geo.
IV., cap. 15, relating to the School for the Indigent Blind,
at Liverpool, and the chapel attached thereto. Last year
the two members appointed to this office were Mr. Benn and
Mr. Houghton.

Upon the motion of Mr. PLATT, those gentlemen were
re-appointed.

The MAYon. then said, that their next duty would be to

appoint forty-one members of the council as commissioners
to carry into execution the local act of sth George IV., for
the better regulation and encouragement of pilots for the
conducting of ships and vessels into and out of the port of
Liverpool; and the appointment of three members of the
council as auditors under the said act. Of the forty-one
members appointed last year, Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Black-
burn, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Currie, Mr. Lassell, and Mr

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tin longer of the council, so that others should be

The knowing forty-one gentlemen were then appointed :
The Mayor, Mr. Hugh Hornby, Mr. Leathom, Sir Joshua
Walmsley, Mr. Shell, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Booth, Mr.
Sands, Mr. Sandhach, Mr. Mather, Mr. T. Holt, Mr. Case,
Mr. Mellor, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Bushell. Mr. Bulley, Mr.
Jordan, Mr. Earle, Mr. J. Holmes, Mr. Barclay, Mr.
Thornhill, Mr. G. Holt, Mr. Platt, Mr. H. Lawrence, Mr.
H. Holnie, Mr. Priestley, Mr. Moon, Mr. Morecroft, Mr.
J. Hornby, Mr: Barton, Mr. Isaac Holmes, Mr. Copeland.
Mr. Robinson, Mr. Slater, Mr. Blundell, and Mr. Birkett.
Upon the motion of Mr. PLATT, the Mayor, Mr. Leathom,
d Mr. Booth were appointed the auditors for the ensuing

year.
The M

kYOR said they had next to appoint three commis-
oners under the act of 10th Geo. IV., cap. 16, for the em-
)ankment of the north-west side of the Leasowcs, in Wal-
lasey and Great Meols. The three commissioners last year
consisted of Mr. Leathom Mr. H. Hornby, and Mr. Currie.
,

few months past

Upon the motion of Mi. PLATT, Mr. Eeathom,llli. IT.
Hornby, and Mr. Case were appointed for the ensuing year.
The MA•ron said the last notice on the paper was that of
appointing two of the council to be rnembel s of St. George's
11 all Committee, on the part of the council, -n lie a of William
Wallace Currie, Esq., deceased, and William Rathbone,
Es,9:, not now of the council. •

Mr. James Aikin and Mr. George Hall Lawrence were
appointed to the office; and the council adjourned. The
proceedings only occupied half an hour.

THE FRAUD ON THE BANK OF MANCHESTER

From the proceedings at the Borough Court on Thursday
last, it would appear the parties, William Smith and Mary
Solman, who were placed at the bar on the previous Monday
upon suspicion of being implicated in this affair, were not at
cenweted with the robbery, although Smith was on the
Monday sworn to be the person who received the money-
letters from the post-office clerk According to the Manches-
ter Courier some facts were brought to light on the Tuesday
which clearly proved that the above parties were innocent of
the charge made against them ; and a young man, named
John Bourne, the "son of respectable parents, who has been
employed for the last two months in the hosiery warehouse
of Mr. Richard Lowe, of Church-street, was apprehended
under circumstances which left no doubt that he was the real
offender

gs at the Borough Court on
.a letter was addressed to

a and Sons, of Market-street, containing
69 15s, and the other for £23. The first
etter, signed by a person named Wllkin-

Faismie.), uo toe London
and Westminster Bank, to be presented, and to request an
order for payinent on Sir Benjamin Heywood and Co., bank-
ers, Manchester. A check was sent down on Heywood's.
It was proved that the prisoner called at the post office, and
received a letter addressed to " Wm. Wilkinson." A clerk
at Heywood's bank swore to having cashed (upon the
production of the letter addressed to " Wm. Wilkinson")
the prisoner a check for £69 15q_ h.vino•

-• Loa, iinv nig reeewen anvice
of that sum being lodged in the hands of Masterman's
to the credit of a person named Wilkinson. Tne other
bill for £23 its was also traced to the person signing
himself " Wilkinson." A clerk to the Bury Banking Com-
pany deposed to enclosing, on the 18th ult., check on
Messrs. Jones Lloyd and f Manchester, for X-17. 9s.
directed to " E. Burdekiu, Co.,'Esq., Bank of Manchester,"
and posting it on that day. He also deposed that fragments
of paper produced in a paper marked " 3" formed part of
the letter in which he enclosed the check in question. A
post-office clerk deposed that the letters adverted to would
reach Manchester Post-office on the evening of the 18th ult.,
and that letters addressed to the Bank of Manchester would
be put into the bo.x of "286." That on the morning of the
19th, the prisoner came to the post-office window and called
out " 286," and 14 or 15 letters, addressed to the Bank of
Manchester, were given to him. It was proved that the
prisoner was not authorised to receive the letters. A clerk
in the bank of Jones Lloyd and Co., Manchester, swore the
prisoner on the morning of the 19th ult., presented for pay-
ment the check produced for £47 95., and that, suspecting
something wrong, he took it to Mr. Edward Lloyd. Mr.
Lloyd stated that he saw the prisoner, who told him he had
received the check from Mr. Brown, of Preston. He (Mr.
Lloyd) detained the check and sent it to the Bank of Man-
chester. Mr. Edward Burdekin, a partner in the Bank of
Manchester, stated that he never authorised the prisoner to
fetch letters from the post-office. The letter produced and
numbered " 1" was received by him (Mr. Burdekin) on the
22d ult. Mr. Lowe, a hosier, deposed that the prisoner bad
been with him upon trial about two months, and had 6s. a
week. He knew the prisoner's hand-writing well. The
letter numbered " I,' produced, and addressed to E.
Burdekin, ESq., was in the prisoner's handwriting. The
indorsement. ` Thomas Brown, Preston," written across
the check produced, was in the prisoner's handwriting. He
found in the top room of his warehouse the principal parts of
the fragments of paper produced, and folded up in pieces of
paper, umbered "2" and "3." The prisoner was realapd-
ed until the 9th instant.

The Queen I

ris Nicolas chancel

een pleased to appoint. Sir, Nicholas liar-
lor and senior knight commander of the
most distinguished order of St. Michael and St. George to
be a knight grand cross of the said order.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

—As the town council will, at their meeting on 'Wed-
nesday next, fill up the vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of the late Governor of the Borough Gaol, may I be permitted
to state that a strong feeling exists in the town. that a man
of education and a gentleman should be appointed ? It not
unfrequently happens that the most essential qualification
for the efficient discharge of the duties of any office, is over-
looked in the appointment of men to public situations—l
mean the possession ot a kind heart and gentlemanly habits.
Past experience supplies sufficient proof that men, who in
their own sphere have been active, efficient, and kind, have,
on being elevated to a post of power and influence, suddenly
become tyrants. The unfortunate inmates of a prison must
feel sufficiently degraded by confinement in a place rendered
-qsary only by the disgraceful conduct of humanity, with-
..., to their degradation the insult of putting over
- a man of low degree." In these days of sickly com-
miseration, and excessive sympathy for criminals of every
description, it is to be regretted that so little attention is paid
to the proper mode of convincing them that such a feeling
exists in the public mind, and of giving them the real benefits
to be derived from it. If the present town council should so
far disregard the lessons derived from past errors, and evince
so little concern for the personal comfort and imprOvement
of criminals as to appoint an uneducated man, or a subor-
dinate officer, to the Governorship of the Borough Gaol, it,
requires no great foresight to predict what the results will be.
The prisoners will not respect him—they cannot be expected
to force their feelings beyond their level in the scale of cour-
tesy. The Governor, observing this—for " men of low de-

gree," when invested with power, ar_
their dignity--will be tilled with vindictive feelings, and from
that moment will probably act the tyrant towards all placed
in his power by the law. But let the council appoint a gen-
would have to I tleman, and the prisoners, as well as the turnkeys. will flaw.

morbidly je

rally respect him, for they.

II recognise in such a gover

their superior not :only in point of power and station, but in
regard of birth and intelligence. His presence will, by virtue
of such qualifications, call into play the better feelings of all
around him, and in some degree relieve the dismal gloom of
the cell, and cheer the spirit broken by remorse. Such a
governor could afford to meet with stern sullenness and oc-
.

casional effrontery, with no other emotions than those of
sincere pity and forgiveness. It is therefore most desirable,
for the sake of the institution itself, that such a man be ap-
pointed governor.

Another desideratum of not much less
—that the governor should be a married mar
wife is a mother, and who will make it her business to visit
as frequently as possible the female wards, and see that the
female turnkeys and matrons treat with kindness the unfor-
tunate wretches placed under their surveillance, setting the
example herself of kind inquiries into the situation of all,
and manifesting the deepest concern fur their welfare. From
the list of thirty-six applicants for the situation, we are
confident that one gentleman or more, uniting in his own
person and relatively all the advantages 'above specified,
may be easily selected.

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,NAL VISITOR OF PRISO?

THE SNOW FLAKE.—Several of these rare migratory
visitants have been, within the last few days. observed on

the downs around Winchester. The snow-flake (emberiza
niralis, is never known to visit such low latitudes, but in
the most rigorous winters. It is the white bunting; am
on account of its associating occasionally with larks, tt
shepherds appropriately designate it the white lark
FATAL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.—On Chris
two men named Ilvan, who had taken the pie

it went to a

ouse, at Roes Green, in this county, wh
kite

ad a half

but had not gone far. when

them fell and expired shorn;

f.er. The other was tc
dangerouAy ill, but ia, sic understand, now recoverin
Tipperary Constitution.

GREEN PEAS AT CHRISTMAS.—The promised exhibition
of young vegetables, grown in the open air, from the garden
of James Hillier, the cottager at Combe, took place in Salis-
bury Council-chamber, o❑ Tuesday and Wednesday, and was
in every respect, a gratifying one. The new potatoes, in
particular, were remarkably tine and well-grown ; and the
green peas, both in size, appearance, and flavour, equaled a
summer crop. We are happy to add, that the visitors were
numerous.--Hants Independent.

ARRAN, DEC. 23TI4.—TH E FISH ING . —Haddocks and
whitings have lately been got in great abundance, large
sized and in unusually fat condition, in Brodick Bay.
Charles Gray, the other day, among many uncommonly
bulky specimens of various kinds, caught with his long
lines a haddock, weighing 51Ibs. Boats from Largs, and
other places, have been very successful. A large Irish trawl
smack got a cargo of grand fish—soles, skate, flounders,
&c. The fish are now getting scarce, and will soon leave the
bay for spawning ground.

MODE OF INCREASING POTATO CROPS.—M. Zeller, di-
rector of the agricultural society of Darmstadt, in 18;19
planted two plots of ground, of the same size, with potatoes :
when the plants had flowered, the blossoms were removed
from those in one field, while those in the other were left
untouched. The former produced 4;6lbs ; the latter only
3i lbs.

CHUSAN.—The Chinese island Chusan, which has lately
been seized by the British troops, is the most northern sta-
tion in which tea is made. The whole island is said to
abound with tea trees, even to the tops of the mountains;
and it may become important, not merely al a military posi-
tion, but as an additional means of rendering this country
independent of the caprice of the Celestial Empire for sup-
plies of tea.—Gardeners' Chronicle.
DECREASE OF DISSENT.—The continual accession of
members to the church, from the ranks of dissent, which
has been lately noticed in London, is not confined to that
part of the kingdom ; several respectable individuals in this

city are now regular attendants at their parish c
had constantly attended the meeting-houses u

SOUTH OF DEVON