The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-13 00:00:00

KIRKDALE TURNPIKE ROAD

TO THE EDITOR OF TDB LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,-There was a meeting of the ratepayers of the
township of Kirkdale on Friday evening last, on the sub-
ject of the great increase of their local rates. The
greatest grievance they have to complain of was, however,
quite overlooked. J refer to the charge for repairing the
kdale Turnpike Road, or, at least, one half mile of
repair. T

'his charge has for the last
(le township of Kirkdale.
Now, sir, I understand that, when the Corporation of
Liverpool obtained their bill for extending the borough,
they undertook to release the turnpike trust of this por-
tion of the road, and pledged themselves to keep it in
repair. If this be so, is it not monstrous they should
turn upon the inhabitants of Kirkdale, and compel them
to maintain a road they never adopted, and from which
they derive no benefit ? Were Kirkdale a market town,
deriving a benefit from this road, the case would be
different. As it is, I hope there is justice enough in the
Health Committee of the Town Council henceforth to
charge the repairing of the said road to those who have
adopted the road, and derive the benefit from it.-1 am,
&c., T. W. M.

Kirkdale, Feb. 12, 1849.

CURIOUS CASE OF STEALING SHIPWRECKED GOODS
FROM THE DEPOT.—At the Police-court, yesterday, Jas.
Cattrall, the elder, and his two Eons, Peter and James,
up in the morning." Mr. Woodville, Mr. Rainford of m reiumeu tu put tne resolution, the The usual monthly at it tne enairman meeting of the Town Council of were placed at the bar on this charge. Detective-officer
Renshaw-street, Mr. Lynne of the Waterloo, Mr. Smith deputy-chairman, or any other member, had a right to this borough was held on Wednesday. Kehoe said that on Saturday evening he went to the
and Mr. Mayer of Lord-street, Mr. P. Stubbs and Mr. put it.—Mr. Nicol :As I moved the resolution, I shall The proceedings of the Finance Committee contained, depot for shipwrecked goods, at the Prince's Dock, and
Joliffe, musicians, Messrs. Mann and Crosthwaite of put it, then.—Mr. Robinson : I advise you, Mr. Chair- amongst other things, a report of the sub-committee of saw the three prisoners there. They left, but were fol-
Parker-street, Messrs. Fisk and Son of Castle-street, Mr. man, if Mr. Nicol puts the resolution, to take your hat weights and measures. From this report it appeared that lowed and apprehended by another officer in Park-lane.
Towers, and many others, received similar notes. All and walk to your office.—The Chairman said there was 124,116 weights and measures had been received by the A quantity of miscellaneous articles were found upon
..fliars of Liverpool went to Merton-bank, St. no use in his remaining, under the circumstances, and he superintendent of weights and measures • and the fees them, and the house in which they lived, at the Potteries,
-tually reached at nine o'clock retired, accompanied by Messrs. Robinson, Booker, and received for adjusting amounted to £1,654 13s. 92d. The- being searched, a still greater collection of articles, chiefly
sk at once proceeded to in- Poole.—Mr. Nicol then, on the motion of Mr. Molyneux, number of persons summoned before the Mayor for being damaged, was discovered. They consisted of chisels,
be under the Town-hall, seconded by Mr. Saunders, took the chair, and was pro- in possession of false scales and weights was 899, and the adzes, chopping knives, knives, and forks, scythes, a spade,
ceeding to put the resolution, when the chairman returned, amount of the penalties inflicted was £B5B 10s. 6d. The hammers, screws, tea and other kettles, smoothing irons,
apparatus, he found a
_.. .non appeared, and it was re- and said he did not know whether he sufficiently ex- total amount received from the weights and measures' pieces of calico, dress pieces, prints, pickles in bottles and
~,:e whole affair was a hoax. On their way office, (including the penalties,l was £2,513 4s. 31d., in other soft goods and ironmongery. A Mr. Birkett, clerk
plained himself that he considered his being there of no
a period of ten months. It furner appeared that Mr. Dutton, the keeper of the depot, said that the
in returning to the station, they met a crowd of trades-. utility, and that, of course he considered the meeting at
Jones had offered to take the Birkenhead Hotel at £l2O elder prisoner had leave given to him occasionally to take
men from Manchester, just arrived by express train ; and an end.—Mr. Aikin said they had passed a resolution for
although Mr. Lynne told Mr. Towers, who was among the appointment of a committee, and he urged the chair-
a year, and an additional rent of £2O every year for seven goods from the depot, and to sell them and account for
them, that it was all a hoax, they refused to believe him. Than to remain, and not leave the business unfinished.—
years, Mr. Jones being at liberty to put an end to thethem. He could not positively swear to any of the arti-
A little further en, they encountered some thirty trades- Several other gentlemen urged the chairman to remain, tenancy on giving six months' notice. This offer was des produced, but he thought he had seen some of them
accepted ; and no arrangement having been made for let- there, or similar goods. He had taken no inventory of
men from Liverpool, and as a fellow feeling makes, us but he persisted in retiring.—The motion of Mr. Nicol
wondrous kind, the merriment was ardent. In the course was then put and carried, the only dissentient being Mr. ting the Ferry, the committee stated that they had ad-them. He was allowed to sell them for his own and his
of the day, each successive train brought its freight of Tobin, who objected on the ground that the whole thing vertised for contracts for the construction of two steamers, family's benefit. This witness's evidence was so vague
candidates for orders, not oily from Liverpool and Man- was illegal.—The eleven gentlemen who voted for the mo-
for the purpose of working the Ferry. !and unsatisfactory, that Mr. Dutton himself was sent for.
chester, but from all the neighbouring towns ; and at tion were then appointed, and the committee adjourned. Another recommendation of the Finance Committee That gentleman said that the elder prisoner was employed
twelve o'clock the train from St. Helens to the junction ROSCOE CLUB.—The annual general meeting was held was the appointment of Lieut. Francis George Cox to the 'at the depot, and that confidence was placed in him. It
could not supply carriages enough to accommodate the on Thursday evening, next, at a salary of £2OO per annum. Mr. H. Sandbach in the chair. The situation of Water-bailiff, until the 9th of November was a privilege granted occasionally to those there ern-
disappointed visitors. The next train was equally ineffi- secretary read a lengthened report of the proceedings for ! ployed to take a few articles which they might want, at
dent, and St. Helens during
the da was a scene of ex-
of
the last year, from which it appeared that there were Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE, in moving the adoption of the the same price as other similar goods were sold for. No
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citement and wonder. It is that the authors of the nearly 800 members, exclusive the associate members recommendation of the committee, said that Mr. Cox invoice or account of the goods produced had that he knew
hoax can be traced, and a contemporary suggests as a from the Mechanics' Institution, numbering between 50 had been three years in the office of the Marine Surveyor been made out. He could not tell whether the goods
just punishment that they should be compelled to pay for and 60. The report went on to mention the satisfactory of the Dock Trustees, was well acquainted with the navi- were or were not part of the cargo of the Dickey Sam.
fares and loss of time, incurred by the parties sent to St. condition of the various classes now in operation in the gation of the river, and was, in every respect, a proper Birkett, in answer to a qaestion put from the bench, said
Helens. ; dub house, and the flourishing condition cfth inatitu- person for the appointment. This was an appointment that parties who bought articles at the deptit, frequently
which was an annual one, and could be revoked at the gave the men a few pieces or articles, in place of money, ,

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