The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-05-31 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ROCHDALE TOWN COUNCIL AND THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.  Jig Thursday a special meeting of the Rochdale Town Council was held to consider the mandamus received from the Court of Queen's Bench, ordering the council to pay to the treasurser of the School Board the precept for £5OO. The Deputy-Mayor (Alderman George L. Ashworth), in the absence of the Mayor, presided, and explained the object of the meeting. After a silence of a couple of minutes, Mr. John Tweedale said there seemed to be a reluctance to obey the Court of Queen's Bench, but he could consistently move) the following resolution, as he had previously voted in favour of passing the School Board precept. He moved "That the School Board precept for 1:500 and costs, referred to in the mandamus, should be paid."—Mr. James Tweedsle seconded the motion.—Mr; John Leach could not vote for the resolution as it included the costs, and he did not think it was fair that the ratepayers should be saddled witt: the costs, as they had not been consulted in opp.)sing the payment of the precept. He moved, AS an amendment, " That the precept of the School Board for £5OO, referred to in the mandamus, be paid, and that no portion of the costs of the writ be paid out of the rates."—Mr. P. Johnson, in seconding the amendment, remarked that never had there been such an attempt to scandalously waste ynblic money, and through:the perverse blindness of some of the members of the Council. (" Hear, hear," oh, oh," and laughter.)—Alderman Taylor regarded Mr. Johnson's remarks as so much "bunkum," and an appeal to the outsiders. He (Alderman Taylor) thought that the opposition had done a great good in the moral atmosphere, and that it was a wise expenditure of public money.—The amendment, upon being put to the meeting, was lost —Mr. Baron next moved an amendment, "That the amount of £5OO commanded to be paid by the mandamus be paid by the treasurer, together with the taxed costs thereof.' —Mr. J. T. Booth seconde,l the amendment, and it was carried by a maj..r. ity of seven.  A. telegram from Berlin says that fears are entertained that the new French Government n ill favour clerical intrigues in Span and Switzerland, and will countenance the Carlist insurrection. The German Ultramontane papers are in estacies at the election of M seMahon. The leading Ultramontane paper, the Germania, was confiscated on Thursday. At an inquest at Sale, Chester, on Wednesday evening, on the body of the newly-born child ot Mary Ann Symmons, domestic servant in the house of Mr. Ryder, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the mother. The skull of the child had been fractured. Three were several wounds on the head and neck, and a cord was tightly drawn over the throat. Speaking at a temperance. meeting at Sedgley, on Monday, the Rev. W. Fras.lr, vicar of Alton, gave it as his deliberate opinion that a working man ought not to drink more than_ two pints of beer in a day. As for people in the "middle class," Dr. Fraser seems to have felt grerder difficulty in laying down the exact quantity of liquor it would be beneficial for them to drink. He very truly remarked that he thought it would be g rood for them if they laid down a rule "never to take enough to cloud their intellect." Dr. Fraser did not attempt to define the quantity people of' the "upper class" ought to drink. _ _  A woman, named Mary Martin, or Brown, pleaded guilty at the eastern police court, Glasgow, on Tuesday, to stealing 21b of meat from a butcher's shop in Kirk-street, Calton. The proprietor had several times missed quantities of meat from the shqp, and to detect the guilty person attached one end of a string to a piece of meat, placed conveniently near the door, the other end being affixed to a spar behind the table. When the shop was crowded with customers the prisoner entered, purchased a bone, and on leaving slipped the piece of beef under her shawl, but was brought to a sudden stop at the door by the string.—Sentence of 14 day's imprisonment was passed. "