The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-08 00:00:00

Geo. 111., cap. 133, sec. 103 to 120. The expense is paid by the
Dock Estate. The costs of constables at tue landing places is
paid by the Corporation. The head constables get 28s. per
week. A regulation was made some time ago that the consta-
bles should deposit part of their wages as a superannuation
fund. Witness read the regulation. £412 ss. 10d. is the
amount already received by the Treasurer to the Corporation,
and placed to the credit of the respective coutributors. On par-
ticular occasions special constables are sworn in and paid for
by the Corporatiou. At the last festival many were so em-
ployed. These constables receive three shillings and sixpence
per day. The constables receive one common dress a-year, and
a great-coat every three years. This refers to the old system of
police, not to the modern. The Borough Gaol is superintended
by visiting magistrates appointed at the sessions. There is
also a Bridewell and Lock-up-houses, all at the Corporation
expense. The Borough Gaol was built in 1783 by the Corpora-
tion, at the cost of £07,348. The site of the old Gaol was sold.
The average cost of the gaol for seven years, including repairs
and establishment, is £2410 Is. 9d.; entirely paid by the Cor-
poration, including the salaries of the gaoler, surgeon, turn-
keys, chaplain, watchmen, and 6d. a-day allowed under the seal
of the Corporation to insolvent debtors confined in the gaol.
The gaol was erected for the use of the borough, and part of it
was let to the government as a place of confinement for pri-
soners of war, for some years. It is sufficiently spacious to
accommodate countyprisoners occasionally, for whichthe county
pays. During the raging of the cholera part of the Bridewell
was apportioned to the use of patients. Ihe chaplain has 100
guineas a-year. He is the Rev. John Winstanley, the son of
the late chaplain, and has filled the office about eighteen mouths.
Service is performed twice on the Sunday, and prayers are read
one day in the week. The chaplain keeps a journal, which is
regularly laid before the magistrates in sessions. He visits the
gaol daily. There is no treadmill. The hard labour is princi-
pally picking oakum. The magistrates exercise their discre-
tion as to the employment of the prisoners. Persons convicted
under the excise and customs laws are sent, generally, to the
Borough Gaol. The surgeon is Mr. Forshaw, who has 6‘i guineas
per annum. lie charges for medicines. In the last year the
cost for medicines was £43 3s. ltd. The medicines are supplied
by a chemist. The allowance to insolvent debtors in the last
year was £550. The gaoler furnishes the annual return to the
home department.
Mr. Wales re-examined.—There are three lock-up houses
for the Nightly Police; their erection was occasioned by the in-
convenience experienced in the watchmen having to leave their
beats and to go a great distance to the general Bridewell. The
keepers live on the premises, and have rent, coal, and candles
free. They have a sitting-room and two bed-rooms. Each
keeper has 21s. per week. Tire-bells are affixed to the lock-up
houses. They were erected twelve or fourteen years ago.
There are about a dozen a-night confined, who are removed to
the general Bridewell at six o'clock in the morning. On Sun-
days, the prisoners so sent remain in the Bridewell.
The Town-clerk resumed.—The magiStrates, after returning
from church, frequently take bail for the appearance of such
prisoners. They are chiefly taken up for drunkenness. The
keeper of Bridewell has £9l per annum, and his wife £l3.
The two turnkeys have £l3O a-year, and there is a superannuated
turnkey who still assists occasionally. The turnkeys take al-
ternate duty. The prisoners from the docks are taken to a
Bridewell belonging to that estate. respect to fines,
there are none levied by the Corporation on each other.
In former days, if a man did not conic clean shaved, or if
he appeared in a check shirt, lie would be fined; but there is no
occasion for such fines now. In fact, there are no fines levied
at this time, nor have there been for a considerable period.—
[The ages of the constables handed M.] There is an entry in
the corporation books of a right claimed to preventnon-freemen
carrying on trade in the town. No case is remembered of an
attempt to enforce a fine since that of Fazakerley, alluded to
before, which was in 1749. With regard to the power of mak-
ing hve-laws, two trials had taken place, and the verdicts de-
ciderthat the power was not in the Common Council, but in
the body of the freemen at large. After each verdict the Court
of Kiug's Bench granted a ru'e for a new trial; but the trill
has not been yet had. The Common Council has not exercised
the right of making bve-laws. Mr. Erskine was counsel in the
first case, and Lord Ellenboroug,h in the second, for the Cor-
poration. Lord Kenyon granted a new rule in the last case.—
Exhibited two maps, and referred to acts passed in the years
1786, 1821, and 18','5. The first map shows hoss the town stood
before the act of 1785, and the improvements in Castle-street,
and other parts, including Brunswick-street and other ave-
nues to the docks. In the map appears an old castellated
house, then used as a place of confinement for the borough.
The second map referred to the acts of 1821 and 1825, showing
further improvements, such as the widening of Lord-street, Dale-
street, Smith and North John-street, Manchester-street, and
several other places in various parts of the town. Under a sub-
sequent act for paving and sewering the town, to which the Cor-
poration contributed £5(0) a year, the new boundary street
was cut. The maps would also show the recent improvements
in the docks, under the dock act, coloured differently from the
improvements made at the cost of the Corporation. By the
act separating Liverpool from Walton, the Corporation has the
patronage of the Rectory of Liverpool, which is divided into
two mediates. The present incumbents are the Rev. Jonathan
Brooks, A.M. and the Rev. Augustus Campbell. Mr. Brooks
succeeded to the rectory. in 1829. The late Town-Clerk and
one of the rectors married two sisters. Mr. Brooks was an
officiating minister in two churches in Liverpool for twenty-'
seven years previous to his appointment to the rectory. He
now chairman of the county sessions. (The appointment of
the Rev. Jonathan Brooks read, giving him a yearly salary of
£350.) Each rector has £360 a year from the parish, by an-
nual vote of the vestry. He has no house, but should have.
Formerly, it is said; the rectors gave up considerable property
in the expectation of having a house from the Corporation.
They gave up the right to small tithes in the parish. The pa-
rish fees, which are fixed by act of Parliament, bring up the in-
come of each rector to about £lOOO a year. There are tour ser-
vices at the churches on Sundays. 'l' he rector is assisted by
two curates, who are paid by the Corporation. In consideration
of the curates giving up certain parochial fees, the Corporation
indemnified them last year in the sum of £67 10s. The
churches are those of fit. Peter's, and St. Nicholas's. Mr.
Campbell's appointment took place in January, 1829, to the
second mediety. Mr. Campbell married a sister of Mr. As-
pinall, the Common Councilman, but Mr. Aspinall was not
then elected to the Council. One of the family of Mr.
Aspinall was a candidate against Mr. Campbell at St. George's.
The first appointment of Mr. Campbell tinder the Corporation
was to St. George's Church, and the second to the rectory ; the
appointment to St. George's was after his marriage. The Old.
Church is called St. Nicholas'. Mr. Campbell has the same
allowance from the parish as Mr. Brooks, and the situation may
also be worth £10(X) per year. but it is only a matter of opinion.
Mr. Campbell was originally the rector of Wallasey, which was
given to him by the Bishop of Chester, and he now holds the
vicarage of Childwall, in Lancashire, giving up the rectory of
Wallasey. Childwall is about five miles from Liverpool. The
vicarage and the rectory were both given to him by the Bishop
of Chester. A curate is appointed for Childwall, but Mr.
Campbell himself occasionally does the duty. He resides at
Liverpool. Mr. Brooks resides at Everton, within the Parlia-
mentary borough. There was a resolution of the Common
Council passed in March, 1830, allowing the rectors to reside
out of the parish, until such time the Corporation provided
suitable houses for their residence in the borough. There
are three services at St. Nicholas's, but no night service.
Mr. Campbell does not receive more than ERA'I per annum
from Childwall. With regard to the right of presentation of
the Corporation to the rectory, it was by act of Parliament ;
all their other patronage was also by act of Parliament, in con-
sequence of their having built the churches themselves, or con-
tributed largely to the erection of them. The Corporation have
the presentation to St. George's Church, under au act of Parlia-
ment authorising its erection. The rector is the Rev. IL B.
Monk, who was elected the 4th of November, 1829. His
salary is £420 per annum, received from the Corporation.
There are no other emoluments except the church fees,
which are small. Before his election, he was master of the
Liverpool Royal Institution, to which the grammar school is at-
tached. Mr. Monk had no relations in the Common Council;
his father was parish curate for half a century. There are two
• services. He has of course, his ecclesiastical duties for visiting
the sick. The other clergyman at St. George's is the Rev.
Thomas Gerard Leigh, who was appointed by the Corporation,
at a salary of £315 per annum. Appointed 4th November,
1827. He has a brother in the Common Council, and is the
son of a deceased Common Councilman. Mr. Leigh has no
other preferment. The appointment under the act of Parlia-
ment .8 that the clergymen should do their duty in person.
The first cost of St. George's, from 1773 to 1832, was £4500.
It had once been rebuilt, and the steeple taken down. The
church costs the Corporation £5OO or £6OO a-year. The net
cost of St. Luke's, from 1803 to 1832, was £5380. The Rev.
James Aspinall is the first minister, and appointed there Ist of
December, 1830, at a salary of £250, according to act of Par-
liament.
Mr. Commissioner Wilkinson.—lie eras a lucky man, his
father being in the Council. (A laugh.)
Mr. Foster.—His father was not in the Council then, sir.
Mr. Aspinall resides in Liverpool, according to the direction
of the act of Parliament. The other clergyman is the Reverend
Charles Washington Lawrence, appointed the 4th of November,
1829, at a salary of £250 per year. Cannot say whether there
were competitors for the situation.
Mr. Commissioner Wilkinson.—lt is seldom that £250 per
year is given away without competitors.
Mr. Foster.—Mr. Aspinall had no other preferment. The
appointments were made by the Common Council, without any
other examination than a knowledge of the capabilities of the
candidates. The next church was St. Michael's, which was
originally built by act of Parliament; but afterwards completed
by the Common Council, who gave the site of it, and incurred
an expense of £16,000 in its completion. It was finished in
:1826. The first minister appointed under the act of Parliament
was the Rev. Ambrose Dawson, at a salary of £250 per annum,
according to the act. Being unwell, he resides out of the parish,
and pays £l5O per year to a curate to do the duties. The curate
is appointed by the Common Council, with his consent. The
curate is the -Reverend Cyrus Morrall. A previous curate
was appointed, named Lingard, under similar circumstances,
and on his death Mr. Cyrus Morrall was appointed. The
other minister is the Rev. Thomas Johnson, appointed the sth
of January, 1830, at a salary of £250 per year, paid by the
Corporation. The church fees are small. The next church is
St. Martin's, partly built by the commissioners for building
churches. It was commenced by them, and the Corporation
completed it, at an expense of .£6600. The first minister is
the Rev. Nicholas Robinson, the son of an alderman of Liver-
pool of the same name. The other minister is the 11ev. Charles
Thomas Gladwin, appointed the sth of February, 1830, at a
salary of £2OO per annum. Mr. Robinson has £3OO per an-
num. Mr. Giadwin has no other preferment, and resides in
Liverpool. The next church is St. Paul's, built by the parish
under act of Parliament. The Corporation gave the site.—
There are two ministers, the Rev. George Monk, and the
Rev. Roger Ilesketh Formby.- Mr. Monk, has a salary of
£l7O
.per annum. Mr. Formby was appointed the 7th Feb.,
1827, and receives £lOO per annum. The latter dues the duty;
but Mr. Monk has a curate paid out of his salary. The evening
lecturer, the Rev. Richard Cardwell, is paid by the Corpora-
tion a salary of 1(X) guineas per annum. The next church is
St. Thomas s church, built under an act of Parliament; the
Corporation keep it in rapair, but witness is not aware whether
they built it. The ltev. John Smythe is the first minister, and
receives a salary of £220 per annum from the Corporation.
The other minister is the -Rey. Charles John Price, who re-
ceives a salary of £165 per annum, paid by the Corporation.
Believes he holds some small preferment in Ireland. rile next
church is St. John's, built by the parish, under the same act
of Parliament as St. Paul's, and on the Corporation ground.
The first minister is the Rev. Thomas Moss, who receives a
salary of £lBO per annum from the Corporation. Ile also
holds the vicarage of Walton. Does not exactly know what
the vicarage is worth; but some Years ago it was worth from
£3OO to £4OO per annum. Mr. Moss resides at the vickarage.
The next church was St. Ann's, built by an individual, and,
after a term of three presentations, the Corporation had the
right of presentation. The Rev. William Blundell was ap-
pointed 3d of February, 1803. He has some connexions in the
Corporation. 11is salary is £l4O per annum, paid by the Cor-
poration. Ile resides in Liverpool, and does the duty. The
church called St. David's was built by subscription for the
Welsh, the Corporation giving the site. The Rev. Robert
Davies is the minister, and receives a salary of £lOO per year;
the Corporation also give him £25 per annum for officiating as
minister of the Infirmary. The Corporation further pay to the
Rev. Thomas Bold the sum of £l5O, having taken dawn St.
Catharine's Church, it being stipulated with the bishop of the