The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-11 00:00:00

WARRINGTON.

(From the Manchester Courier.)
TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY.—The members of the
Warrington branch of this society held their annual meeting
in the Church Sunday-school, Latchford, on Monday even-
ing. Thomas Greenall, Esq., filled the chair. The meeting
was addressed by the Rev. James Todd. Rev. J. L. Figgins,
Rev. Alfred Hewlett, the Rev. A. S. Thelvrall, and the Rev.
J. Wright, the secretary. The report stated, that in the
Ladies' Association, the free contributions amounted to
£2O ls. 911.; subscriptions for Bibles, £33 155.; making a
total of £53 16s. 92d. for the year; and a total of £126 Ns. 4d.
since the commencement of the society. Since the society
had been established, the auxiliary had put in circulation
684 Bibles, and 232 Testaments. At the close of the meet

ing a liberal collection was made.
THE BLUE COAT ScHoor..—The children educated at this
flourishing institution have lately had several country excur-
sions. In the course of the last month, they paid a visit to
the Rev. P. S Dale, of Hollin's Green, and were regaled
with roast beef plum pudding, and other English fare in a
meadow adjoing the vicarage. On Saturday, they went to
the seat ofJames Greaves, Esq., of Mill-bank, on the Cheshire
side of the Mersey. Mr. Greaves took the children over his
large paper-mill, and endeavoured to make them acquainted
with the process of paper making. They were on both occa-
sions accompanied by their fine band, of which the leader is
not yet eleven years of age. A large party of the resident
clergy and gentry were assembled to meet them, and a num-
ber of questions in mental arithmetic were propounded by
the boys in a manner highly pleasing. to the company and
complimentary to the governor of the institution. The Rev.
P. S. Dale addressed them in a most feeling and fatherly
manner. As most of the children are either orphans or
fatherless, doubtless his address came home with force to
them. By the kindness of the Old Quay Company they were
conveyed to and from both places free of expense to the in-
stitution.

FRAUD ON THE. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.—
On Wednesday, William Kirkup, who stated himself to be
a groom in the service of Alexander Reid, Esq., was brought
before Thomas Lyon, Esq_,_. and the other magistrates assem-
bled in petty sessions, at Warrington, charged with having
offended against a clause introduced into the Grand Junction
Railway Company's act, last session, which inflicts a penalty
not exceeding forty shillings, 'with costs, upon any party
riding in the company's carriages without having previously
paid the legal fare. It appeared that the defendant had con-
trived to get into one of the carriages of the best train from
Hartford on Tuesday night, and had proceeded as far as
Warrington before he was detected by the conductor. His
defence was, that he had merely got into the carriage for a
few minutes, and that, John Gilpin like, in coming to War.
rington, he had gone farther than he intended. The chair-
man ordered him to pay a fine of 10s. and costs.
STEALING TURNIPS.—Thomas Goodier, a lad, was on
Wednesday convicted of stealing three turnips from a field
belonging to Holbrook Gaskell, Esq., of Appleton. The
defendant said that he was seeking fcr work, and being hun-
gry, he had gone into the field and taken three turnips, which
he had eaten. The bench ordered him to pay a fine of one

shilling, and the casts.
HAWKING WITHOUT A LICENSE.—James Braney was on
Wednesday, at Warrington petty sessions, convicted in the
penalty of 1:10, for hawking merchandize from door to door
in Warrington, without a license.
EXTRAORDINARY CROP.— A cottager, residing in the vil-
lage of Latchford, near Warrington, planted in the spring
a single corn of barley. It has now forty-four stalks growing
from it, and it has been calculated that there are about one
thousandfour hundred barley corns now growing, all the pro-
duce of a single grain.
THE HARVEST.—At last the weather appears to have be-
come " set fair," and the husbandman has been enabled to
commence his operations with the scythe and the sickle in
earnest. It is now pretty generally confessed the corn crops,
both in Cheshire and Lancashire, within a reasonable dis-
tance of Warrington, are much better than the farmefs had,
some few months ago, reason to expect. Mr. Jackson, 01
Newton Park, has just cut as fine 'a field of oats as was ever
grown in the county of Lancaster. The wheat crop will be
rather under the average, as it is thin in some districts. Some
second sown crops of potatoes are getting on well, and a
month's dry weather will help them amazingly.
"THE GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY." —On Wednesday, at
Warrington petty sessions, Mr. Cruikshanks, the assistant
overseer of Warrington, applied for an order to a child to
the parish of Southworth-with-Croft from Warrington. The
following are the facts of the case:—About eight years ago,
a single woman, (then) belonging to Southworth with-Croft,
had an illegitimate child, which she affiliated upon a railway
excavator, who absconded immediately after, and has not
since been heard of. The overseers of that parish gave the
mother parochial relief until she was married to a person be-
longing to Warrington, which marriage took place subse-
quent to the passing of the poor-law amendment act. The
husband, with the wife, and this illegitimate child, have since
become chargeable to Warrington, and the overseers of War-
rington now applied to remove the illegitimate child to the
mother's settlement prior to the marriage. As a proof of their
power to do so, Mr. Cruikshanks quoted the decision of Mr.
Foster, the Chairman of the Salford Quarter Sessions, who,
in appeal, in which the parish of Manchester were the re-
spondents, and the parish of Warrington the apellants, em-
bracing precisely the same facts, dismissed the appeal, on
the ground of the inability of the husband to support the
child, and on the principle that, if the court decided to the
contrary, a great door would be opened to fraud, by parish
officers procuring the marriage of paupers to persons residing
in other parishes, who were not in a capacity to maintain the
pauper or her children prior to the marriage. This, Mr. Fos-
ter considered, to be contrary to the spirit of the act itself,
and against the intention of the legislature. Mr. Enoch San-
key, the assistant overseer of Southworth-with-CrOft, came
armed with the opinion of the poor-law commissioners upon
the case. They considered that it would not be competent
for the magistrate to grant an order for the removal of the
illegitimate child to Southworth-with-Croft, inasmuch as the
child being incorporated with the husband's family by the
fact of the marriage, and the operation of the 57th section of
the poor-law amendment act, cannot be severed from it until
the occurrence of the facts terminatin,, the husband's lia-
bility, i. e., until such child attains the age of sixteen, or
until the death of the mother of such child. The commis-
sioners then go on to say, "It is quite true that the law which
renders the husband liable to maintain the wife's bastard
children does not give those children the husband's settle-
ment, and an order of removal purporting to adjudicate a
change of settlement was in the case of Rex v. Waltharnstow,
I Nev. and Perry, 460, decided to be bad. But although
the settlement of the children under such circumstances is
not changed, still it appears clear that the act having directed
that the children shall be maintained as if they were part of
the man's family, the only mode for giving effect to that
provision is by considering that such children are, so long as
the obligation on the husband continues, liable to be main-
tained in, and relieved by, the parish in which the husband
and his own unemancipated children, in the event of his own
inability, would be entitled to be relieved." This opinion is
in direct contradiction to Mr. Foster's decision. The magis-
trates refused to grant the order, and Warrington pat ish will
have to keep the paupers in both cases until such time as the
opinion of the court above is taken upon a case granted by
the sessions, in the Manchester appeal. The glorious uncer-
tainty of the law is proverbial, and this is an instance of it.
THE GENERAL LICENSING SESSIONS. —The general
licensing sessions for the Warrington division of the county,
was held at the Horse and Jockey, Newton, on Motidav,
before John Holt, Esq., chairman, and an excedingly full
bench of magistrates. Ther&was a vast number of applica-
tions from the proprietors and keepers of beer-houses for
licenses, but the magistrates refused to grant them, on the
ground of their being no necessity for an increase in the
number of public-houses in the district. An application
made by Mr. Nicholson, on behalf of Mr. John Booth, jun.,
for a license to a new hotel, erected by J. W. Patten, Esq ,
M.P., adjoining the railway station at Bank Quay, War-
rington, was complied with. Another license was also granted
for a new house, near to Abram Church, to Mr. John
Whitley, who, it was stated, had given to the public the
ground upon which the new church was built, as also some
land on which it is proposed to-erect a parsonage house.—
Mr. Wagstaff, of Warrington, presented the report of the
commissioners of police for that town, which stated that they
had, in order to prevent crime and immorality, and especially
to check drunkenness and profaneness on Sundays, which
had a long time disgraced their town, they had appointed
three additional police officers, and placed the police depart-
ment under a special commission. They recommended that
the magistrates should take some steps to induce the publi-
cans to keep their houses closed until twelve or half-past
twelve o'clock on Sunday mornings, a plan that had been
successfully adopted in Manchester, Stockport, Bolton, and
Oldham. In conclusion, they reported three houses as being
conducted in a disorderly manner. The bench, after hearing
the evidence of Mr. Jones, the deputy constable, who spoke
to the disorderly manner in which the Cock and the Ship were
conducted, and the late hours at which they were kept open ,
ordered those licenses to be transferred to the owners of the
property. The complaint against Mr. Edward Fair, of the
Mill-Stone Tavern, for disorderly conduct, fell to the ground,
and his license was granted along with that of the other inn-
keepers of Warrington. Mr. Wagstaff also presented a
paper, signed by forty-four publicans of Warrington, express-
ing their willingness to keep their houses closed until after
twelve o'clock on Sunday mornings. The matter underwent
some discussion among the magistrates present, and the
chairman, prior to leaving the court, gave directions to the
clerks to the magistrates to prepare an order recommending
the licensed victuallers to keep their houses closed until after
twelve o'clock. It was generally admitted, that under the
present licensing system, they had uo power to enforce such
a regulation.