The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-05-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

WEST DERBY UNION.-YESTERDAY.  The usual weekly meeting of this board was held in the workhouse, West Derby, at twelve o'clock yesterday. Mr Joseph Harrison presided, and the other guardians present were Messrs. Lunt, Callis, Siddeley, Richmond, Pickup, Leyland, Wilson, Baynes, Mawdsley, Edwards, Abraham, Evans' Johns, Elias, Sagar, Heyea, Medcalf, Pitts, Johnson, Batten, Whitby, Birch, and Wensley. The following cheques for outdoor relief were signed:— Mr. Potts £176, Mr. Olney £26, Mr. Lytbgue £2O. The hospital returns shewed that the number in the hospital at the close of last week was 99 ; admitted since, 8 ; discharged, 18 ; dead, 1 ; remaining. 88. The number in the hospital the corresponding week of the previous year, was 55. _ _ _  - A communication was read from the poor-law commissioners, calling attention to the dietary used far children, and recommending that two new dietary scales be drawn up. Two new dietaries were submitted for the purpose. Mr. Wens'ey moved that the subject be referred to the 'risitilg committee.  Mr.-Abrahams seconded thn motion, which was adopted.  SCOTCH AND IRISH PAUPERS' REMOVAL BILL,  gatin The Coroner thanked the jury for the observation, and went on to say that his remarks should he made as slowly and as dispassionately as possible, in order that they might be brought before the public in their true light. The verdict they had just recorded against the man Jones had placed him in an awful position, and well might the jnry regret that the prisoner—the accused he meant, but he was so in the habit of calling them prisoners as they were always before him, that he had forgot—was not before them, in order that he might, if he had been there, have said something to have reduced the verdict from that of murder to one of manslaughter. They would naturally ask, " Why was he not there ?" And they were entitled to know why he was not. Therefore, after the expression of opinion by the jury, he had more confidence in going into the matter. The moment the case was brought under his notice, he felt it his duty to make an application to the stipendiary magistrate of that town, for au order to have the prisoner brought before him and the jury, as was the usual practice. In writing the letter be had a two-fold object in view. one was to give that gentleman (Nfr. Mansfield) notice of the actual 'result of the case, and the other was in order to afford the accused an opportunity of being before the jury, and of hearing the evidence brought forward. The following is the letter and the reply : Coroner's Court, Lord street, 29th April, 1856. Dear Sir,—l am now holding an inquest on the body of Isabella Brew, whose death has, been occasioned by violence, occasioned by James Hodson Jones, who is at present in the borough gaol under a remand from your court. I propose adjourning the case until to-morrow, at the hour of one o'clock, and will thank you to give directions for the prisoner's being brought before me and the jury at that t;tne.—l remain, dear sir, yours faithfully, P. F. CURRY, Coroner. J. S. Mansfield, Esq., &c. Shortly afterwards I received a reply, of which the following is likewise a copy Session-house, Liverpool, 29th April, 1856. Dear Sir,—lt is from no disrespect personally to yourself or to your office that I decline to comply with your request of this date. lam not aware that I have any right to order a prisoner to be brought from the borough gaol for any 'other purpose than to continue his examination, or to accept bail for him.—l am, dear sir, your's faithfully, J. S.