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~*. you, rinyly annot write lilted. hope ecate. en re selves te te- after w it to ild be :Juries ) f your Lade us moult! manly suiting ility to s lion's day, to shall ite i sha ll hat ti° At' G CST 21 181%. are, as usual, making broad assertions without even the shade of authority, You then proceed to, say, "it is wor;hy of being specially observed, that not a single instance remains in which the text adopted by the compilers is of jested to." The very contrary, of this observation" is the truth. I will give you two more instances in the firstnumber of the Old Testament extracts, " in which the text - is objected to," and consequently your "safe assumption" will prove similar to your other assertions— very unsafe groundao stand upon. The first instance occurs in the sixteenth line of the 39th page:—" Being a priest of the Most High God." - The second is found on page 122:—" And Israel worshipped God upon the bed's head." Will you have the kindness to refer to your " second-hand" criticism, and in form us from what ancient manuscript or version of any autho rity are these translations made? When you have exercised your borrowed critical acumen on these passages, do not flatter yourself with the delusive hope of reposing from your literary toils. It requiree no deep or painful study to provide abundant employment for critical labours upon these extracts. But I ust also distu r b y our " s afe assumption," th a t o f th e no t es "only three are found fault with." 1 will furnish you with a few additional notes that have been " found fault with." In the New Testament extracts, No 1, page 14, the note has been " found fault with" as conveying a misrepresentation of the Popish doctrine of penance. I'he note, " Before the angels," on 'page 85 has not escaped censure. My present views of the subject lead me to place but little reliance on any argument drawn from the extracts either in favour of or against the sys tem. It only proves that the extracts are good or bad; but such conclusion cannot atfect the principle of the system. -.A society founded on a good principle may produce some evil tracts, 'Whilst a society based on false principles may publish that which cannot be found fault with. 1 beg you to remember that I do not accuse you of any intentional misstatements on these Points. Intentional misstatements can only be made by one who knows the truth of his subject, and yet conceals or perverts ProM any'Such knowledge I.• altogether exonerate you,'and, . therefore, your statements are to be considered as the natural result of ignorance of the amount of argument and objection brought against, either the principle of the system or the quaitity of the extracts. After, according to your usual custom, confounding exclusion .I.l'OM certain pritileges with authoritative interference with religi 04i opinions or practices, and then writing some flimsy things about " the inquisition and Star Chamber," "deluges of blood," " gums of cruelty and carnage over which humanity weeps," you then proceed, at page 37 - -" superficial thinkers like Mr. nt`Neil e may court a silly laugh by flippant allusions to the vq l untary system, but he who has meditated with attention on the sail lessons.taught by eccleSiastical history will lament that any other was ever intruded into the province of conscience, and will be coninelled.to acknowledge that a just view of the nature and benevolent aspect'of the religion of the cross will never be .presented to public attention until that. system re sumes its pristine ascendancy, and becomes egain, as it was — during the first three centurie_a,ihe exclusive support of chris tienity."- Tire 'lhay certainly congratulate yourself that your humanity has been sparedthe pain of weeping over thearad les si as or ecclesiastical history. This sentence clearly shows that ".meditation " upon them has never employed any portion of Your time. You have heard of Dr. Chalmers, and may have perused his writings. It is generally conceded that he is fully 4 5 capable of deep meditation as any profoundly-reflecting vo luntary of the present day. We have on reason to think that the page of history has not been meditated upon by hiin. Not being a "superficial thinker," his humanity must have wept, his lamentations must have been frequent and prolonged over , the ecclesiastical lessons; and yet—can you believe it ?—he remains quietly within an establishment, and has even pro ceeded th e daring length of proving himself to voluntary minds a very " superficial thinker" by writing in defence of establish ments. Can you account for this strange circumstance, that a man of deep meditation has not embraced the side to which You belong? Why is not Dr. Chalmers " compelled to acknowledge that a just view of the nature and benevo lent aspect of the religion of the cross has but yet been presented to public attention ?" I do still charitably hope that you are writing upon a subject with which you have no Manner of acquaintance. Do you mean seriously to say, that since the first three centuries " a just view of the natuie and benevolent aspect of the cross" has faded from before the minds of men ? Are we to credit your assertion that fur 15011 years the world has been in ignorance of the fundamental doctrine of salvation ? I know full well your inability to prove that there necessarily exists in an established church a barrier to its minis ters " presenting to public attention a just view of the nature acid benevolent aspect of the cross." If you consult the " Letters to. a Dissenting 'Minister," or, the " Autobiography of a Dis senting Minister," or, kif you are.averse to books so "displeasing to Voluntaries) "The Church Member's Guide," you will learn that your vaunted voluntary s ystem does not afford the facilities for conveying "a just view of the nature and benevolent aspect of the religion of the cross," as your blissful ignorance leads you to suppose. Can you say from what producer of " second nand" knowledge you have heard the assertion that the volun tary system was " the exclusive support of christiauity during the first three centuries?" You have spared yourself the sor row of meditating upon the page of ecclesiastical history, we cannot, therefore, be astonished that your assertion and historic declaration should be opposed to each other. I beg to deny Your assertion that the voluntary system formed the exclusive support of christianity during the first three centuries. You kave asserted that it did; produce then, if you can, any autho rity foit yOur'assSertion. It would be, sir, far wiser for you to act upon the Ne surer advice, than be thus giving increasing proof at each page of your pamphlet, how shallow the stream of your knowledge runs. You would nothe blameworthy in your want of inforMation on such topics, did you not undertake to write upon them. But when you stand forth as the defender of a system, you ought to have 'brought, at least, a competent acquaintance with the subject in debate, into the field with you. Phis you have not done'. What stores o f k now l e d ge you are keeping in reserve, we know not, but judging from you publi 7 cation, they are not calculated to cause much dismay, even to a Wearied assailant. Your defence 'nut only betrays an absence of all Correct acquaintance with the facts of history, but also with the present state of the population amongst which you are livino. You evid en tly d o not know that the " va s t ma j or ity" of the protestant poor is opposed to the Irish system of educa tion. If vou and your brother . coiporatrs had enquired into the actual state of the case, you would have discovered a strong „whit of determined opaisition to the . system, .pervading the valtaliVjority" a . the protestantpoorat the north - end Of the Ineva,-and I have na reason to think that the feeling is mate rially different in any o th er quarter. Upon the system of educa-' tion lately introduced into the corporation schools, the poor have not shown much of that " appalling vacancy of the mind" that you soliherally attribute to them. I now beg run attention to a paragraph on the sixteenth page of your 'defence. " That it forms a part of the christian system, that there shall exist a distinct order of men, called clergy, or priests, specially endowed for the authoritative inter pretation of scripture, is a sentiment which lies at the root of all the evils and .errors of the Latin church. It is this, also ; which gives to those evils and errors their fatal power and per petuity." The word Latin church may fall gracefully and softly from the pen of a man who understands " little Latin, less Greek,.and no ecclesiastical history ;" it is also well calcu lated not to give any offence to those who are charged with the " evils and errors." The majority of the members of the " Latin church" have never heard the term applied to their commu nion, and may therefore fondly hope that, as heretofore, you ace alluclinK to the charch of England. You express yourself in less mystical langu.age when you describe the nature of those "evils and mane." You call them " fatal." This word, when applied, to things : temporal, usually signifies " deadly ;" when used us descriptive of religious doctrines, it means damna hie." "Th e mem be rs o f t h e town council," .. you tell us, " are. 1 . • general, straightforward men." Bitt "straightforward men" generally. use: straightforward. words, and will not seek for s tiffly-sounding language; :.comparatively but little understood, When a plain word, hitherto in common use and well known to fill parties, is ready at hand. As you, sir, are one of the mem bers of the 'straightforward town council, yeti cannot feel any reluctance to permit the classic robieg Wee removed from your i deas, and your " Latin" and its description. presented in plain English to the.public.• Your sentence will then thus appear : " The evils and errors of the Roman catholic church are damnable." Fully coinciding with you in this - opinion, may I • ask you, Wherein consists " the justice, the humanity, the en- . lightened and truly-scripturel.prieciple" of adopting a system whereby you aid and abet. the encouragement, promotion, teaching, and perpetuating " the, damnable evils . and erro rs o f the Roman catholic church"? Are not the schools, conducted on the Irish system, made 'the Means of upholding and extend ing these " fatal.evils and errors" ? The popish clergy are in . vtted to come to Stliciols;—You promise to assemble the children—have the 'Main:tr or mistress in attendance—in a • word, 'every accomModation afforded for teaching and perpetu ,aling " evils and, errors" that you " conscientiously" believe to be " damnable."' ' Wherein lies the charity—" the enlightened benevolence," of facilitating the destructi, n of the hapless little ones that 'yon assemble in your schools? It is not tolera tion that We jay to, rout charge, but we accuse you of undisguis-' • wily sanetioning,, openly approving, and cheerfully helping forward " evils and errors" that you pronounce to be " denina- Id e 2 ' It is this latitudinarianism that constitutes the deadly of the Irish system. Whether the extracts be excellent or o bjectionable is a matter of second-rateimportance in the scale of inquiry. : . This system teaches the infidel principle that pro testantitin and Popery, Judaism and Socinianisin, may be taught, without guilt,-in• a professedly christian lend —ought to be treated with on equal terms, and each have the facilities granted to them of teaching doctrines that stand as opposed to !'acia other as Christ tOTelial, righteousness to unrighteousness, light to darkoess. This system, instead of promoting peace, •only keeps in lively "and active exercise the antagonist feelings • .0f pi otestantisin antl:pipery; It affords no hope that such feeling can be softened by mould , • 'tog the 'tender minds of the scholars, into, uue. form of sound vloetrine. Daily,. or weekly, es it may happen; the children are to be .taught, in each other's; presence, the essential differences between the opposite sysieni,to.which they respectively belong. The popish children must be taught, if their teachers be con sistent, that they alone are withio the pale of salvation, and that all others are schismatics and heretics, to be "exterminated" when circumstances permit. The protestant children must be taught, even on your own showing, that the .Roman Catholics are hound with the chain of "damnable evils and errors. Is this ik system likely to produce peace and good will, or to in 'Janie angry 'passions, and perpetuate rancorous feelings? Your ?Wu untrue description of an.eetablishment education most gra nically paints cox oration school conducted on the Irish system It . drain up, as it were, the different sections of the commu nity into hostile battalions—frowning defiance, and scowling hatred upon oun'anolfier.". • Mr. WNeile's "graphic groupin g of the child ren and the clergy in the,four cornets of the room," aptly exhibit their. "hostile battalions—frowning defiance, and Scowling hatred upon one another." It would require a stronger power than the `'Tom-fool" in the middle to keep them from rushing together in pugilistic cOntest. '1 must take my leave of yoor pa mp hl et for the present. As I began, so would I mac', urging you to take the well-entertained and wise counsel t ha t 60 been g i vea you "to mind 'your own :business." By confining your attentio n to it, and not meddling with matters that are evidently beyond the reach of your knowledge, you will gain some adaitionaltrobuients to reflect on that day When we must all stand - before the indginent-seat of Christ, to answer for th e things (lone in the body, . bizieerev,, W e h i nli v t i ri l l e h r ey be good,' or whether they be our All s c ii n t s ' Church. JOHN LYONS. . . -- . At J3ridford Court-house, on Tuesday, a man, who persisted ealling•himself Lord John Russ e ll, was tined 10s. and 13s. noble name. rests, for riotous conduct and an assault on the' police, and was ad v i se d future, to call himself by some other less FAL!: OF A Ctitamtv.—On Thursday last the large 'chimney adjoining the vitriol-works of Messrs. Dobb, of Wigan, fell down with tremendous trash. This chimosy was, we the highest in the county, being 110 yards frotn the surface of the -earth to the top. A short time ago it became manifest that thisimmense :pilee was not exactly perpendicular; and, w i t h in t hetailtleiff'days exertion's have been made to remedy the evil, which wasCaissed.lorthe foundation giving way—and the means used, as we hear, were contra/I . y to the opinion of the architect, air. N. Livingston : they were, however, persevered in until Thursday morning, when it became evident that if the party continued working,: they would be, buried in its ruins. These a PProheirsions.turned out to, be well-fouUded--for about eleven . °' . olock above half 'of it fell : down with such force, that most of t he - biieks - were _buried infthe lownd, and in tbeit progress th e snapped in two a , beam two- feet _six iucheb in diameter. Happily no one was injured. .// i - -T/. ,// -7/) THE LIVERPOOL STANbAitii. ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE STOCKPORT BRANCH OF CHESiiIRE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. --- On Wednesday evening the second annual dinner of the above Association was held in the Court-room, at Stockport. The room was neatly fitted up with white and pink hangings. At the top of the room a transverse table was placed, at -which sat the chairman; from this proceeded four parallel tables down the room. The dinner was ample and good, and the waiting conducted in a quiet orderly manner. About MO gentlemen sat down. Sir Harry Mainwaring Mainwaring. Bart. occupied the chair, and Edward Reddish, Esq., Thomas Robinson, Esq., Samuel Bard, Esq., 'and' J. Howard, Esq., acted as vice-presi dents. We observed the following gentlemen of distinction in the neighbourhood present :—J os h. Brookshaw, Esq., Thomas Daintey, Esq., Rev. W. H. Prescot, Rev. E. T. Leigh, Capt. Tattan, Henry Mainwaring, Esq., Wm. Tattan Egerton, Esq., M. P., Wilbraham Egerton, Esq.; The Rev. C. K. Prescot, Charles Cholmondelev, Esq., Capt. Clark, Richard Simpson, Esq., Capt. Hollenworth, John Wright, Esq., Rev. W. W. Johnson, John Sidebottom, Esq., of Kingston, and several other gentlemen whose names we did not learn. An excellent company of glee singers was in attendance. Shortly after five o'clock, the time announced for the dinner, the company took their seats. After the cloth had been removed, "Non nobis dothine" was sung. The C HAIRMAN then gave " His Majesty the King." Given with tour times four. Glee.—" God save the King." " H er Majesty the Queen, the ornament of her sex, and the beneficent benefactress of the institutions of her country." Three times three. Glee.—" Hail Star Alf Brunswick." "The Princess Victoria, the heiress presumptive of the throne of these realms, and the other branches of the royal family." Three times three. Glee.—"Bloota of May." The CHAIRMAN was sure that they would drink the next toast with pleasure, "Our glorious Constitution in Church and State." Given with three times three and one cheer more. ROBERT HOL LENWORTH, Esq. rose to respond to the toast. tie said, gentlemen, in thus presenting myself to you to respond to the toast you have just drank, I feel it necessary in self justification to state, least you should accuse me of undue pre sumption, that I rise not in the pride of self-conceit, arrogating to myself the performance of that pleasing duty, but that I am deputed so to do by the gentlemen around me, who, viewing me with a kind partiality of friendship, have invested me with an ability I do not in reality possess. Our glorious constitution in church'and state is a subject as momentous in importance as overwhelming in its consequences, that a mind the most rigor ous—the most compiehensive—oratory the most perfect, and eloquence the most commanding, must, in its elucidation, feel its own feebleness and incapacity and in utter despair cast itself 'on -the kind-forbearance of-Its indulgent -hearers...(Cheers.)— It comprises within itself our present. social comforts and our hopes of agrandizement—our personal security—our consola tion in distress here and our happiness hereafter. (Hear, hear.) Eevery man, individually, feels its advantages, its protection—its blessings. (Cheers.) It is the source and origin of our noblest and F•oudest qualities, and it is through it thatour individual virtues have originated our national greatneSs ; for we cannot imagine ourselves either physically or intellectually above other nations. Was the naked Briton superior to the Roman ? (Hear.) Was he even equal to the wild Saxon, or the fierce Norman ? Wherein then is the charm ? What has given us our proud bearing—our dominion by sea and land—our eastern and colonial empire—our shipping—our commerce—our trade —our wealth ? • (Cheers.) What but that glorious consti tution in church and state, calling into unrestrained action every man's best and noblest energies, inspiring freedom without democracy—liberty without licentiousness. (Great applause.) It is that which nerves the sailor's arm, and bears him on in glory pre-eminent among nations—their admiration—their envy. (Cheers.) So indisputable, so universally great, are its advantages that surrounding nations are lost in wonder that it should require defenders, and that too from its parricidal children. It can be but madness, or wanton and unnatural depravity. The first object of attack from the destructives is our venerable established church. These wily revolutionists well know that without it, the King's sceptre is but a bauble—his crown a mockery. (Hear.) It is not only its foundation stone, but its very foundation itself—the rock on which it stands—its bulwark—its support—its pride—its glory. On it all depends. It is in fact the very constitution and form of government itself; the whole being contained in that simple, emphatic precept, " Fear God, nour the King." Our much respected rector has well observed on one occasion, that " he who feared God knew no other fear;" and I will add, he who honours his King will respect his neighbour. (Cheers.) Destruction, therefore, is doomed to the church ; on its devoted head with giant strength falls the concentrated fury of a fierce united phalanx of popery, dissent, infidelity,-and socinianism. The surest sign of a falling nation is the absence or contempt of religion; from such a people the Almighty has surely turned his face and blessing ; but, thank Heaven, it is not yet so. Religion is still acknow ledged our first, our best, our greatest blessing. (Hear.) Li verpool has set the whole empire a glorious example; her mi nisters are firm in their duty, and thousands upon thousands enthusiastically rush to their support, with the indignant feelings of the parent watchful for his children's welfare and future happiness, so that the pure and unmutilated word of God be not removed. Anarchists are careless whether its substitute be Dens' Theology or the Heathen Mythology. ( Hear.) Their aim is to debase the morals and pollute the minds of the rising generation. Evil is their object, and in their affectation of bowing down to the goddess of reason, Mammon, Belial, and Moloch are in reality the gods of their idolatry. (Hear, hear.) With the same designs do we see our institutions daily assailed; every barrier is destroyed—every restraint removed, that liberty may degenerate into licentiousness, and licentiousness into riot. All our noblest institutions are undermined by falsehood and mis ' representation, and then violently assaulted, and the firmest bulwarks of the people's liberties are thrown' down by a truck ling imbecile government to glut the Jacobin appetite of the spoliator in the very life's blood of the state. (Cheers.) If history, and the experience of past ages is to be totally disre garded, will our modern philosophical fools dispise also the history of their own time, and take no warning from its passing events aniong_our transatlantic neighbours, where, if the sacred word of freedom unguardedly escapes the lips of a man whose skin is. of n. 44ferent hue, the unloytn4ate wretch is tarred, and feathered,lind merdilessly burnt ali ve amid s t b oo tin'g,i, revilings, and his insufferable torments. and the agonies of death mocked with the shout of liberty. (Hear.) Surely such beings could not have the form of men. Earth must have yawned, and hell itself in exulting derision have flung from its deepest abyss its fiends, and imps of darkness to perpetrate such deeds of enormity. (Cheers.) And is not human nature the same here ? Give her evil excited' passions but sway, and the horrors of liberty loving America, and republican France will he acted in this country with undeminished and equal atrocity. (Hear, hear.) The torrent of destruction rolls onward, and the ministery still sits on its banks bending the knee to revolu tionary violence, and servilely doing the foul bidding of its directing power, which, with uplifted arm disdains not only to strike, but even to sneer with contempt, and cast at them its mockery. From the home, foreign, and colonial policy adopted by the ministry, the empire, from the Orkney Islands to the Lands End—from the banks of the St. Lawrence to the banks of the Ganges, is fast becoming but one scene of evil, and civil discord, and if the country is not fast hastening to a crisis—if the forfeiture of all foreign respect—the desertion of friends— the contempt of enemies—if disunion, and strife, and dis-mem bermerit at home, be not its preludes, then, indeed, may history be deemed false, and its ',experience vanity, and the warnings of a long series of ages worse than nugatory—it is but mockery, and folly. (Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then proposed " the Duke of Wellington, the pride of the British army, and the liberator of Europe." Glee—" How merrily we live that soldiers be." - - - The CHAIRMAN said every body must be impressed with ad miration of the great talents of Lord Lyndhurst. The sirlendid speech which he had delivered a few da:s ago in the House of Peers, must be impressed upon the memory of every one.— (Cheers.) He would propose " Lord Lyndhurst, and the House of Peers, the defenders of the constitution." Given with three times three. He would now give " Sir Robert Peel, and the conservative members of the House of Commons." Given with great cheering. WM. TATTON EGERTON, Esq. M.P., rose to respond to the toast, as one of those conservative members whom they had so honoured. He begged leave to return them his most hearty thanks for the compliment they had just paid them. PrOud indeed were they in having their names associated with such distinguished statesmen--proud indeed were they in having fought the battle Ot the constitution under a leader, w hom n o words of his could sufficiently praise—(cheers)—aman who htis well deserved the good opinion that his king and country enter tained of him, when they called on him in the hour of peril. (Cheers.) Long and protracted had been the struggle in the House of Commons ; and he believed he might say consistently, that there never sat on the opposition benches of that house, gentlemen who had shown less factious opposition to the pre sent ministry than the present opposition. (Cheers.) It had been a struggle which he wished the people of England would well mark—it had been a struggle for their deepest and dearest interests. (Cheers.) It bad been a struggle for their consti tution in church and state—(hear)—for that which the ministry now no longer covertly sought to destroy—those ministers who now chose to call themselves the country's ministers, uniting themselves with the, dissenter and the radical, and urged on by the man, who in a speech from the throne, they had character ized as the enemy of the country. (Cheers) They had not left - one' stone of the fabric untotiehed, arid "like the fabled harpies, whatever they , touched they destroyed. (Cheers.) Look at the hills brought in doting the present session—look at their avowed teritkeney—look at their fallacious principles—look at their mischievous details—look at what the party who openly support these measures,avow—the destruction of their church and state, "Thank God," as their worthy president had stated, " they hada House. of. Lords" which had rejected what had been false in principle, had amended what had been falla cious in detail, assisted by that distinguished statesman whose health they had just drank. But it was ,on the electors of England that the struggle rested ; the' conservative phalanx in the .house must be sustained by the conservative body without. (Cheers.) Let them exert themselves in their registrations— they must make.use of the constitutional power with which they had been invested ; let them do this and they would not fall. (Cheers.) But whatever might he the issue, let them all at leadt have the satisfaction,of having done their duty. Under their conservative leader he had no doubt but the conservative members would do theirs. For good or for evil they must leave it to that power which could control all. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN would propose a toast which would require little commendation. It was a part of that constitution under which they had . long lived and prospered. He would give " The.protestant ascendancy"—drank with loud cheering. He would now give"".The health . of William Talton Egerton, Esq., the representative of that division of the county.", TATTON EGERTON, Esq., M.P., again rose. He could hardly express to them his feelings of the kind manner in which they.had drank his health. Nothing could *be more gra tifying to him than that testimony of their support which they had given him during the short time that he had had the honour of being their representative. The attempts which he had made to sustain with independence the position iu which they had placed him had met with the approbation' of those whose good opinion was worth possessing, and which it was his most anxious wish to preserve; and if he obtained it, he was satisfied. (Cheers.) Nothing ; indeed, could be more pleasing to a repre sentative than to find his sentiments were congenial with those whom he represented. He felt happy to say that in one parti cular at least, if not in every other, their sentiments were tho roughly congenial—sincere .attachment to their constitution in church and state. (Loud cheering.) Although the political horizon might seem to be.overcast—although their institutions were' every day openly attacked—those institutions which they venerated nottnerely because they bore the stamp of antiquity, but because Of their value ;—when they saw gentlemen uniting in one sentiment of loyalty to the Kink, and in a firm resolution to maintain th ose principles which they believed, and justly, to be interwoven with the principles of the constitution and the safety and liberties of the empire, he firmly trusted.they might yet t ee th e ship right herself, although for the last five years she had b een tossed a b out b y the tempest, b attered by t h e w i n d s , with an u ns kilf u l eapta i n and a mutinotis crew. (Loud cheers. ) In our days hoped they might see her cominenee. her veyage under a m ore s kilf u l h an d and under. mere auspicious auspices. He trusted that the reaction which he saw awned would effect his, 'When they saw conservative societies similar to the pre. , -,>ut springing up au:l spreading with giant strength in every direction, even amongst the middler classes of society—when they saw those who perhaps might be estranged from their church by forms alone, yet the moment that church was at tacked, united heart and soul in her defence—when he saw all this, he never would believe that the English nation would allow that constitution which had been the pride and veneration of ages, which had been handed down to them as the best legacy of their forefathers, to be destroyed under the specious pretext of reform, or under any pretext to allow democracy to under mine those institutions which they bad enjoyed under a limited monarchy, and which experience taught them was the best bul wark of - their liberties. (Cheers.) They had been taunted, both in the House of Commons and out, as the conservators of corruption and abuse, as anxious for power and place; but they would alloiv him to say that it really came with a bad grace from those who, under pretext of destroying corruption in the corporations, had constructed corporations equally bad, and in Ireland had attempted to do the same—who said they had no desire for patronage, and under every bill had created new places. (Cheers.) He would appeal to every impartial judge would appeal to those middle classes of society on whom the great strength of the conservative party fairly lies, and who now had their eyes opened to what was really the nature of the measures of the ministry, and who would be no longer led away by the plausible pretext of reform—he would call upon them to I look at the conservative acts in the House of Commons, and say whether the members had not addressed themselves to every thing that was calculated to reform every real abuse, and I had even joined the ministers when they had been doing this. (Cheers.) But whilst they had done all this they had never conceded any one thing that could possibly injure the institutions, and laws of the country. (Cheers.) It was to the people of England that they appealed—it was by their actions, not by their professions that they wished to be judged. He for one, whenever the time of trial should come, should never shrink from giving an account of his conduct during the time he had had the honour of serving them. (Cheers.) He had never swerved from those conservative principles which he pro fessed to them when they had done him the honour to call him from private life to fill the highest position a British commoner can wish for, or attain to, by serving his country. He hadde rived those principles from his family before him—(cheers) — their kindness, and affection to whom he well knew he had to owe his present situation to, though he hoped be might in time deserve it. He bad never seen anything to shake those prin ciples in which he had been educated, and he would never shrink from them as long as he lived. (Cheers.) Glee—" the English Constitution." The CHAIRMAN gave " the Bishop and Clergy of the dio cese," Given with three times three. The Rev. C. K. PitescoT, the rector, rose to acknowledge the toast. The last time he had had the honour, and pleasure of responding to this toast, it was given in a mode which gave him the most unspeakable satisfaction, by the Operative Con servative Association. Most true it was, that the bishops and clergy of the national church of England and Ireland had fallen on evil tittles. Therinight very cell conceive how much the sympathy and kindness of their fellow men must renew their strength—(cheers)—must invigorate them, not only in the discharge of their very important, and arduous duties, but also in the assertion of their c l ear , an d u n doubted rights.— (Cheers.) It had long been the boast of the English church, and indeed, he might add, that it was one cause, and very great cause of her efficiency, that as there was no man in the land so poor as not to have a clergyman as his comforter, and his friend, so there was none so high or wealthy as not to have one as his associate. (Cheers.) It was their laborious, and ex pensive education which fitted them for taking, their situation in this varied society. And if they were to be a bold uncom promising body of men—if they were to teach, and to direct, and to rebuke with all long suffering, and doctrine, they must have them an independent body of men. (Cheers.) He knew that not a 100 miles from him, there was a very good, and worthy friend of his, who did not exactly like tithes, still they must have the clergy an independent body of men, or they would not be an educated body of men. If they did not thorougly understand the eternal gospel which they preached, they would not set it torth either by their preaching or their living. He believed the bishop of the diocese, whom they had included in the toast, to be a most excellent, pious, fervent, and learned man, and if any man had, be had striven to forward the doctrine and avocation to which he was called. In the name of the clergymen present, and in the name of the absent bishop of the diocese, he returned them his most sincere thanks for the honour they had done them. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN gave " The Lord-Lieutenant of the County, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington." Given with three times three. _ _ _ The Rev. the ftrcTOß wished to propose the health of their late worthy representative, " Wilbraham Egerton, Esq., of Sutton-park." (Great Cheers.) The inhabitants of Stockport, y he w did notas sure, acku o w w o l u e l d d g b e e h g i s u i s l e t y r v o the deepest i c f es whilst iu par li ingratitude ura ot. f . the (Loud cheers.) A more independent man never entered the house. They ought not, either, to forget his great n u iificence to all the charitable institutions_ of Stockport and heatou Norris. (Cheers.) Given with three times three enthusiastic cheers. WILBRAHAM EaEnTosr, Esq., rose and said he really wanted words to express his feelings for the flattering and kind manner in which they had received the toast which bad been presented to them. The panegeric they had been pleased to pay him was much more than he had deserved. He would merely say that as long as it had been his honour to represent that county in parliament, it had been his endeavour to act well for the in terests of the country in general, and especially for the county for which he was returned. (Cheers.) 'fo merit.the approba tion of so numerous and respectable a body as he now saw around him was, he felt, the greatest reward that any man who had represented that county as he has done for nineteen years could receive, and worth any sacrifice that might be made in attending to those duties, for, when a member attended to. his duties, it was no sinecure. He should, indeed, be most ungrateful if he did not in every way in his power endeavour to render bene fits to a town from which he had invariably received uniform and repeated kindness. (Cheers.) As long as he lived he never should forget that kindness which had invariably been shown to his family. (Cheers.) He begged to congratulate them on the numerous attendance that evening; he was proud to see conservatism in that neighbourhood so much on the in -ereaSe. - (Cheers.) It must give them all _pleasure to know that the operative conservative association was going on in such a itourish,ing manner. He had all along, believed that when the middling classes once saw the Motives whietflitruated the present administration that they would turn against them and rally round the constitution. (Cheers.) He trusted that by the exertions of institutions similar to the present, and by every man putting his shoulder to the wheel, that this country still might rally, and that they again might see England standing in the pre-eminent situation she formerly had done. (Hear.) He concluded by proposing the health of the worthy president. Given With three times three. Mr. Walton sung, in fine style, " Should auld acquaintance be forgot." The CHAIRMAN briefly . returned thanks. He did not know why he had been placed in the situation he then occupied, un less it was that there could not be a more staunch and attached friend to the constitution of church and state than he was. (Cheers.) He could only add that no exertions of his should ever be spared toprornote the prosperity of the association. Song, by Mr. Walton—" Oh the Foresters Life is the Life for Me." The CHAIRMAN begged to propose "the health of Mr. Thomas Marsland; the member for the borough." Given with three times three. WILLIAM TATTON EGERTON, Esq., in the absence of Mr. Marsland, begged to return thanks on his behalf. He could bear witness to his right conservative feeling, and to his inde fatigability in advocating the interests of his constituents. The CHAIRMAN proposed, "The Army and Navy." Given with three times three. Captain CLARK, of the navy, acknowleged the toast. It had frequently fallen to his lot to return them thanks for compli menting the army and navy. He. should find a difficulty in varying his observations. lie congratulated the town of Stuck port on mustering so numerous and highly . -respectable a meet ing in such a cause, and more particularly in having Sir Harry Mainwaring at their head, a gentleman of such right and staunch principles. (Cheers.) He was of opinion that meet ings like the present were ofparatnount importance. He thought they contributed greatly to bring destructives to support the conservative cause. By so congregating themselves together occasionally, the wavering and the doubtful man might have an opportunity of seeing such persons assembled as were then pre sent; and he would ask, if it was possible for a man to be found who had not determined on his principles who would not ask if the men of intelligence and station they saw there assembled could be really wrong. (Hear.) As conservatives they were faithful to their King, and their desire was, to support the con stitution. They wished to protect the nobility of the land from the violence of misguided men; they were also ready to cast the mantle of protection around the shoulders of the poor man, and guard him (cheers,) on the one hand from tyranny and oppression, and on the other from the chilling blast, and the darkness of night. (Cheers.) Where, he would ask, could the poor man find a better friend than a real conservative. (Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN gave, "Lord Francis Egerton and the South Lancashire Conservative Association." (Load cheers.) Song—" Up, my . brave comrades." Mr. EARLE having been called for, as a member of the asso ciation would have been wanting in his duty not to return thanks. It was itnpossible for him to add to the merits of the noble lord, whose health they had drank, anything which could further, raise him in their esteem. In speaking of the associarion, he would say that it was flourishing in a way which they would be surprised to hear. It had sprung up from one small root to be at last a tree, whose spreading branches extended from one and of the country to the other, and he hoped, by-and-by, that every one would pluck and„taste of its fruit. He was happy to say that this association had been the exciting cause of almost every association in the country. He hesitated not to say that that association had mainly contributed to turn the last election in that division. It would be the means of bringing-repentant sinners to their ranks, and day after day they were joining them. He passed a high eulogium in the course of his address on the ladies of Ashton, who, in a body of sixty, had come 'for wards and presented an address to the Operative Conservative Association of that town, giving them a splendid flag, £5 in money, and £5 in books. He hoped this example would be followed throughout the country. (Cheers.) The Mies came forward to urge them to their duty (cheers ;) he would ask, if they would not be unmalny if they did not obey the call. (Loud cheering.) The CH AIRMAN proposed, " Mr. Francis Newhall, of Ashton under-Line." Given with three times three. Mr. FRANCIS NEWHALL, the secretary of the Ashton Opera tive Conservative Association, rose to acknowledge the toast. It should always be his endeavour to promote a good practical understanding between the associations. He was proud to say that the Operative < Conservative Associations were found to be valuable help mates to the other associations. He, like every right minded Englishman, thought that when his country was in danger, and her institutions threatened With destruction, that she demanded that he should take an active part in avert ing to the utmost of his power those difficulties. He thought that no individual knew how much good he could do till he had tried his best. (Cheers.) Their society had great difficulties to contend with, but labouring as they were, under the counten ance of the gentlemen present, and he might add their protec• tion, he•trusted they would not shrink from discharging that portion of duty which belonged to them. (Cheers.) Mr. New hall spoke at considerable length, which our limits prevent to fully'reporting. The CHAIRMAN! gave "Mr. Tatton, and the Stockport troop of Yeomanry." Mr. TATTON briefly acknowledged the toast. The CHAIRMAN, then gave " the Stockport branch of the Cheshire Conservative Association, our noble selves,' con nected with the name of Mr. Turner, the secretary." Mr. TURNER, in a clever, andl humourous speech of conside rable length, acknowledged the toast. it was a custom regtl7. larly observed tb paint every thing of the rose colour, and cry "peace, peace," when there was no peace. (Laughter.) H e would depart from that custom, and, as their secretary, say, h e . was by no means satisfied. He thought it possible to make the association much more efficient then it at present was. He was ashamed to compare it to the South Lancashire Conservative Association. Nay, he was ashamed to compare it to the Reform Association of the town. (Laughter.) He should never rest satisfied till they had got district committees, and got them to work well, rind effectively. He saw no use in filling their ears .with idleclec'.aration; he would come to the point at once. On 'poking, round the room, he saw many. gentlemen with pro. petty enough to buy a qualifleatiOn in half the counties in England wtr, had not even a vote for the county of Cheihice. The situation of St,ickport was such that evez.v good couserva tivelhould have a qualification in both Cheshireaud Lancashire. Though, on the day of election the fervent raver of a righteous conservative wonld avail much, it would avail the cause much more if he could send two bullets into the enem v's ranks. He con. gratulated them on the formation, now at the eleventh hour, of a national conservative association. It did his heart good to see Lord Sandon recommend the formation of a grand central con servative association in London. If that was formed he hoped it would be in his power to have an account of the state and prospects of conservatism in every city and hamlet in England. (Cheers.) It might easily be brought to that state of perfec tion, nothinii but idleness would prevent it. He recommended that lecturers should be sent round to every hamlet and town in the kingdom, by the conservatives. This was the course pur sued by the advocates of the abolition of negro slavery, and this was the course pursued by Dan O'Connell, and other members of his principles, and they had seen its success. This was the course pursued by the gentlemen in the reform and grievance line, and they had seen what effects it had worked. There was another eh ►rge : most of the gentlemen he saw there were very worthy fellows in ninety-nine respects out of a hundred, but they were the idlest body of men he ever knew in his life ; there was not a soul of them would work; they would go there and pay ten shillings for a dinner ticket, and would shout " hip, hurrah;" but O'Connell was not to be put down with " Hip, hip, hip ;" Leviathan was not to be so tamed. Mr. Turner was loudly applauded throughout the course of his address. The CHAIRMAN gave, "Lord Sandon and the National Con servative Association." Given with three times three. _ The Cita (RN' AN then gave, "Our highly-esteemed justices, who have favoured us with their company this day." HENRY M AINWA RING, Esq., responded to the toast. The CHAIRMAN then gave, "The Macclesfield Branch of the Cheshire Conservative Association." Drunk amidst loud cheers. " The vice-presidents and stewards of the day." Mr. ROBINSON acknowledged the toast. The CHAIRMAN gave, "The president of last year, the chair man of the quarter sessions, Mr. Trafford." Given with three times three. " The fair conservatives of England." With three times three. " The town and trade of Stockport." "The magistrates of the division." " Captain Howard." " Success to conservatism throughout England," and several other toasts. Shorly before eleven o'clock the chairman, accompanied by several of the visitors, quitted the room, amidst the most enthu siastic cheering. After which, Mr. Robinson was called to the chair, and the hilarity of the meeting was kept up to a late hour, the greatest order having prevailed throughout. LIVERPOOL ASSIZES. NISI PRIUS-TUESDAY. RATES9N AND ANOTHER V MERSEY AND zawaLL NAVIGATION COMPANY. IMPORTANT COTTON CASE.—Mr.Cressivell and MNToinLin son appeared for the plaintiffs, and the Attorney-General and Mr. Starkie for the defendants. The declaration stated that the defendants are common car riers of gOods from Liverpool to Manchester, and that the plaintiffs had delivered to them WO bales of cotton to be taken care of and carried, and, though reasonable time had elapsed, they had never been delivered to the plaintiffs' order. The de fendants stated that they did carry the goods, cud did deliver them to the plaintiffs' order. The Attorney-General raised a point whether the plaintiffs' or the defendants' case should be opened first, when his Lord ship decided that the defendants should open the pleadings. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then stated the case. The discus sion which the jury had heard was merely on a point of form. He was addressing them as counsel for the defendants, who were the Old Quay Company, c arr i er s from Liverpool to Man chester; and, in order to wake intelligible the view of the case, he would give a general outline. The plaintiffs were respecta ble men residing in Liverpool, and were connected in business with a gentleman of the name of Moon, of whom muco had been heard in this county on account of his extensive spiculations in the cotton market. The plaintiffs were persons who merely bought cotton in the name and on the account and risk of Moon. At the time in question, in the mouth of April. last, the nature of the'dealings between the parties was, the plaintiffs bought in their own name as between the vendor and themselves, but in reality as between them and Moon, on the account and tisk of Moon, charging half per cent. commission, and a hen they made an advance, one per cent. commission. Moon was employed in the cotton business in Manchester. The defendants were nothing more than the carriers between the two places. In April 132 bales of cotton were purchased by the plaintiffs fur Mr. Moon. It was no part of his case to deny that, owing to the fluctuations in the cotton market, Mr. Moon had been un fortunate. A part of the cottons in question were bought on the 18th of April from persons of the name of Thomas Wilson and Co., of Liverpool; and he held in his hand a copy of the invoice of Wilson and Co. to the plaintiffs, who were purchasing for Moon on his risk. It would be necessary to draw the atten tion of the jury to the particulars of the invoice • it was this:— " Bateson and Horsfall bought of Wilson and Co., payment ten days and three months." That was, until the ten days had expired the vendor was not in the situation to call for a bill. .It was a purchase on credit for ten days, and for a further credit of three months, the sellers being entitled to call for a bill at the expiration of ten days. The whole amount of the sale was £2466 175., which with cartage and commission made the total £2487 6s. 4d. During those ten days the present plaintiffs, who were the purchasers as between Wilson and Co. and Moon,•had a right to say to Wilson and Co. " give us those bales of cotton;" having a right to the goods on an absolute credit of ten days as per contract. Immediately after this the goods were delivered to the present defendants, to be carried to Manchester, and the plaintiffs sent to Mr. Moon a copy of the invoice, debitting him with the amount. Mr. Moon, having received this invoice, went into the market and sold the cotton to Howard and Co., cotton-spinners, of Stockuort, upon the terms of immediate payment and the goods to be ready for de livery. Having entered into this contract, Howard and Co. paid"!qoon the whole value of these cottons. Mr. Moon became insolvent, and the real question was this, had an order been given to the carriers by the present plaintiffs for the delivery of a part of the 103 bales sent by them to Manchester. An order 'Vas given fo the defendants for 'the deliYery of - 79 bales, a part of what they took, and the remainder was now claimed by the Tlaititiffs, an order for • theiedilety: not .having been given. The case of the plaintiffs was this—we have not been paid for the whole of these cottons we bought for Moon, we have not given an order for the whole 103 bales to be delivered, but only for 79, and we claim a lien on the goods for the residue of the balance dile. The case of the defentlAnta was this, that having delivered the residue of these bale Howard and Co., the plaintiffs, who had given credit l' • • „Atilt no right to reclaim the goods. Howard and Co.. rthese goods on cash, and it would appear in evidt:that'iaf the £2400 paid to Moon by Howard and Co., £l5OO was paid:'lo the plaintiffs. There was a point of law whether orno•the defendants were justified either in transferring or holding the residue of the goods without an order. The plaintiffs said they `had a right to the value of the remaining 52 bales, having' only given a written order for the delivery of 79 of the 132. He would beg to draw his lord ship'a attention to the mode in which he intended to present the case on the part of the defendant. He would not address him self to the hardship of the case; whatever might be the hardship of the case to the defendants, or against Messrs. Howards, who were required to pay for these goods, after haYing already paid cash down for them—whatever might he the hardship the law must take its course. In the first place, this was not an ordinary case of buyer and seller, the plaintiffs nut purchasing for them selves, but on the account and risk of Moon. He should submit to the jury, under the direction of his lordship, that were goods were sold on credit, the seller had no right, in point of law, to hold those goods during the period of credit. It was perfectly clear that if Batesou and Horsfall stood in the ordinary situation of buyer and seller, they could not say to Moon, "give us a bill, or se curity to make us payment before we deliver the goods." No, Moon had a right to say, " you have given the credit for ten days, and I have a right to the goods.' He would even have had a right to have taken the goods from the warehouses of the plaintiffs, and no action could have been maintained against They would lia;elie;;;driven to look for their bill on the expiration of the ten days. The plaintiffs Who had an account with Moon, having given credit to Moon, could not claim the goods as against Howard and Co. to whom they gave no credit, and who had paid cash down. The first point he should sub mit to his Lordship was, that the goods having been placed in the hands of the carriers during the ten days, which was the Stipulated credit, according to the terms of the invoice, Moon had a right to demand those goods from the carriers, as he would have to demand them from the plaintiffs during that period of credit. The next point was, the plaintiffs afterwards sent an account current to Mr. Moon, which contained the copy of the invoice of Messrs. Wilson and Co., and which account was made up to the 31st of July, and charging interest up to that time. The plaintiffs had uo right to call for payment of money during a time for _which they had charged interest; and supposing the plaintals had a lien on the goods, after delivering a part and receiving part payment for them the lien was gone. On the question of law the jury would hear his lordship, and asto the fact they would judge for themselves. James Moon deposed to having been a cotton-dealer at Man chester, but now being in the custody of the sheriff, He had had dealings with Messrs. Bateson and Horsfall of Liverpool, to a considerable extent. A letter was put in and read from Messrs. Bateson and Co., stating the amount due by Mr. Moon to them on the 9th of May, and complaining that the witness had not kept accounts with them in-a straightforward manner; and also the account current invoice of Wilson and Co., " payment ten days and "three months, 103 bales of Orleans cotton, amouriting in the total to £2466 175," and charges on carting and commission added to this. Examination resumed.—He gave orders frome time to time to Messrs. Bateson and Horsfall to purchase goods for. him. There was an understanding that the plaintiffs should purchase the goods in their own names, and that they might resell if an opportunity for profit presented itself, on his account. If the goods were sold by him (witness) then they were forwarded to him, he remitting the amount previous to their being delivered to him. If he remitted the money on or before the ten days when the notice became due in Liverpool, they were to charge him half per cent. commission ; in case they paid for the same, one per cent. commission. In the account current put in, credit was given to him for £l5OO, which was a part of the money which he obtained from Messrs. Howard and Co. for a part of the cotton he had sold to them. He sold the whole of the cotton to Messrs. Henry Howard and Co., and had re ceived 1:2437115. from them as the amount. His Loaositte remarked, in answer to an objection raised by Mr. Cresswell, that the regular course would be to prove the authority of Moon to sell. Examination resumed.—He had no authority to sell those goods, decidedly not. H.e was the principal ; Messrs. Bateson and Horsfall were his brokers. The cottons were purchased on the 18th of April, and on Saturday, the 23d, they sent him the usual circular, recommending him to sell the cotton. He ac cordingly did sell the cotton to Messrs. Howard and Co., and received payment for it. He remitted £1,500 of this sum, and a bill for .£9OO to Messrs. Bateson and Horsfall, and received an acknowledgment of the cash, and that they , declined accept ing the bill, and enclosing an order for 79 hales to be delivered to him from the carriers, the value of the £1,500 He did not receive the bill from Messrs. Howard. He made a demand on the Quay Company for the delivery of the whole of the bales when he had remitted the money and bill. In the account cur rent he was debitted with 92 days interest on the 132 bales, in order to bring the account current to a balance. Messrs. Bate son and Horsfall declined sending him an order for the 52 bales until be had remitted them cash, or satisfactory bills. He af terwards sent a lettar to the Old Quay Company, saying he wanted the remainder of the bales. • The order for the delivery of the 79 bales was put in and read. Cross-examined. The course of business was, that goods should remain with the carriers till they received a delivery or , der, on the receipt of which the goods were delivered. He sent the order for the 79 bales to the c ompany, and they sent 103 hales, as malty as they bad. Messrs. Bateson and Horsfall had declined giving him an order for the remainder. He made a remittance afterwards of 3 bills. He believed the 29 bales were still at the Old Quay. Avi'ortNev-GENERAL.—That was the case for the defendant. His Loansti IP did not think lie had made any case. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL would state points. He was aware that the evidence of Moon did not bear out what he was . in structed. The first proposition was ? that the.bales were in the hands of the carrier within the ten days, and without at all dis. ! enssing the question of interest up to the 31st of July, he ap prellen,f,d if Mr. Moon had gone to the carrier within those ten days and demanded those goods., he had a right to them without, any reference whatever to the order, without, being liable to an action for trover. The second point was, that there paving been a partial delivery and a partial payment, there could be no lien. His Loans it P thought from the evidence, as to the custom of Moon, that the defendants were out of court. It appeared that Moon had no rizht to the goods until be had remitted the amount of value. There must, therefore, be a verdict for the plaintiff. The jury by the direction of his Lordship, found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages DM 18s., costs 40s. • f ~7 MENDEL AN7 ANOTHER ASSIGNEES, &C. V. DOWSON. Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Addisson, appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Alexander for the defence. This was an action brought by the assignees of Mr. Thomas Liversey Crompton, of Worthington paper mills, near Wigan, for the recovery of £75, the value of a quantity of paper fur nished to the defendant, who is a grocer, at Wigan. In 1833, Mr. Crompton became a bankrupt, absconding, and leaving his creditors wanting £lO,OOO on his estate, without one farthing in the pound assets, and who had not since been heard of. And two days before the act of bankruptcy a large quantity of paper had been sent to the defendant in an unusual manner, and of a kind he had not before purchased. It was contended that this was not a bona fide sale, but an underhand mode of obtaining money for the liankrupt. The assignees had called on the de fendant for the return of this paper, or its value, but he refused to pay, saying he had already paid for it. A carter, the cleik of Mr. Crompton, and other witnesses were called to prove that the paper had been regularly sent to the defendant but two days before the bankruptcy, and that it was sent in a very hasty manner, and was paper of a description not used by the de fendant, and also that the defendant was not in the habit of purchasing such large quanties. For the defence, the shop boy of the defendant, and Mr. Chales Crompton were called to prove that this was a regular sale, and that the paper was paid for. Mr. Crompton underwent a sever cross-examination, and prevaricated in his evidence a great deal, on which Mr. Cresswetl,in his reply, very severely commented. His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said the assignees, it ap peared, had not authorised the sale, which, at that time, the bankrupt had no right to make, and therefore they were en titled to the value of the goods. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff damages £75, costs, 40s. RAMPLING V. PRESTON. Mr. Cressw•ell and Mr. Brandt appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Aiexnder for the defence. This was an action to recover 1:141 from the defendant, by the plaintiff, who is an architect in this town, for preparing plans and original designs, and for superintending the erection of a house in this town. In 1832, the defendant Was desirous of erecting a house in this town, and employed the plaintiff, and he had charged the usual charges. A dispute had occurred, and the defendant refused to pay him; saying, that he had not engaged him, Witnesses were called as to the liability of the defendant, and the amount due. It was agreed that the question of liabi lity should be determined by the jury, and which was to deter mine the succeeding action, i❑ which the same plaintiff, was concerned, under similar circumstances, and that the amount should be referred to arbitration. The jury expressed u wiqh to retire, and after a short absence .hey returned with a verdict for the plaintiff, subject to a re ference. RAMPLING V. BEVAN. Verdict for the plaintiff by consent, subject to a reference. MILNES V CLEGG. Verdict by consent for the plaintiff. I'AINTER V. LIVEI:Pool. NEW GAS AND COKE COMPANY. TROYER. Mr. Alexander and Mr. Wig,htman appeared for the plain iff, and Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Watson l'or the defendant. The defendant's case was opened first. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who was a car owner, for £2OO against the New Liverpool Gas Company for trover. The plaintiff became indebted to the Gas Company, and they not being able to obtain paynient had taken summary proceedings before the magistrates, and obtained a distress warrant, and subsequently his car and two horses were sold. The defendant imagined that this warrant was unlawful, and instituted proceedings, and tyre Court of King's Bench held that it was so, that a summons shouid hay. been first issued. This being an action for trover, they could not go for damages, but only for the value of the goods. Mr. Jones, auctioneer, was called. He deposed to having sold the car and horses fairly, and they sold only for £l6 4s. 6d. Other witnesses were who deposed to the horses being very poor, and the car a rough one. For the plaintiff a witness was called, who deposed to both horses, the harness, and the car being worth near £6O. The horses were " rum uns to look at, but good•uns to go." The examination of this witness caused much merriment. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £2O. The court then adjourned at six o'clock. WEDNESDAY. TARBUCK, ADMINISTRATOR, V. BISPHAM. The plaintiff in this case was the administrator of Mr. James Tarbuck, who had resided at Prescot, and was an ironmonger there. In 1811 Mr. Tarbuck exhibited symptoms of insanity, and in the following year they were obliged to send him to a lunatic asylum. A year or two after one of his sons died, and, at the request of the family, he was permitted to attend the funeral. After this he remained at home for some time, and it was thought at first that he was considerably improved in health; but after a time the symptoms returned with increased violence, so much so, that his family were obliged again to send him to the asylum, and he remained there'till his death in 1833. The defendant was a respectable gentleman, who resided also in Prescot, and also acted as a banker, and in that capacity re ceived the money and kept the banking account of the lunatic. After he was sent to the asylum, both his suns, who carried on his business, were in the habit of making drafts on the defen dant, which were duly cashed by him as heretofore. The ac tion was raised by the present plaintiff, as administrator of the late Mr. Tarbuck, for the amount of those sums so paid to the order of the sons on the ground that he had no authority to make such payments, and that the money, in fact, belonged to Mr. 'Farhat s estate. A number of witnesses. were called to speak to the insanity of the late Mr. Tarbuck, and to the fact of his confinement and liberation and reconfinement; and in proof of the debt, the book kept by the banker was put Apstrand from that book, that during the period that the plaint4r — contendeifthat the defendant had no right to make payrnentson the sous' or der, that he had received money on account of, Mr. Tarbuck, and acted in the capacity of an agent. '• Mr. Justice COLENIDGE, in summing up - laid if one side of the banker's book was taker, they must allow the defendant the benefit of the other; and, as it appeared that he acted as agent to receive money, they could not deny the authority to pay. Upon that ground the plaintiff's case had failed, and the verdict must be for the defendant. Verdict accordingly. GERARD AND ANOTHER V. NIGHTINGALE. Mr. Alexander and Mr. Brandt appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Wightman for the defendant. The action was first tried at last summer assizes, when Lord Abinger presided, and on that occasion his lordship directed a non-suit. A motion was made in the Court of Exchequer, and after bearing the arguments of counsel the court decided that there should be a new trial in order that additional facts might be ascertained, so that the points of law might be argued iu a special case as it was of some importance in a commercial point of view. The nature of the action was as follows :—The plain tiffs were assignees of a bankrupt named Seagre, w ho was an ex t e nsive general merchant in Liverpool, but who, it appeared, kept no warehouse of his own, but was in the habit of allowing his goods to remain at the carriers' wharfs, or stores, until he had orders for their shipment. On the 22d of Noveniber, 1833, Mr. Seagre left Liverpool under pretence of visiting Chelten ham; after the lapse of several days it was ascertained that he had not gone to Cheltenham, and on further inquiry it was found he had left the country, and it was understood was now residing at New Orleans. In the interim a cask of cutlery, about which the present action was brought, had been forwarded by a Mr. Frost of Sheffield, by a carrier named Johnson, who brought it as far as Manchester, and there he delivered it to the defendant, who is also a carrier, and to whose warehouse the cask was brought. About the 14th of Nov., upon the absconding of Seagre, the creditors took measures to make him bankrupt, and the messenger was sent to demand from the defendant the cask which had been placed in his care, and which the messenger was instructed to say was the property of the bankrupt. The defendant refused to give it up. A gentleman was afterwards appointed provisional assignee, and renewed the claim for the cask, when the defendant again refused to give it up. The pre sent plaintiffs, upon being appointed assignees to the bank rupt's estate, sent a formal notice to the defendant, demanding the delivery cf the cask, and along with the notice sent 95., which, they concluded, would be the cost of storeage. He still, however, retained possession. The defendant was then ex amined before the commissioners, and was required by them to give it up, but his Eel answer was, that he would not part with the cask, and that he had received an indemnity to absolve him from the consequences. It further appeared that the defendant had sent two notices to the house of Seagre, informing him that the cask was lying in his (defendant's) store, at his (Seagre's) risk, and requiring that he should have it removed... Mr. Alex ander called several witnesses to dePose to the facts above stated; after which Mr. Cresswell addressed the jury in reply, and said he was prepared to prove that the cask had been directed to Mr. Seagre's private residence. No. 62, Faulkner-street, and he was, therefore, justified in maintaining that the cask had never reached its destination, and that not having so reached its des tination according to the address, it never had become thspro perty of the bankrupt, and the claim of the vendor, Mr. Frost, had not been damaged. The learned council concluded by calling a witness to prove that the cask had been so addressed to No. 62, Faulkner-street. : • he should Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, in summing up, said them whether sim ply call the attention of the jury to wanted their opinion • and he would first a k a. few fads on which he they conceived, from the evidence heard, t h e y . h a d .alH.theouv,t t .hu h i a i( t it t t hh h ae e dn c n a d s oe k t. had in point of fact reached its destinat gone further than the carrier's store-house.. sire them to tell him whether, in their opinion, the defendant had absconded and left the country, and was insolvent when he did so. The Jury on all these points answered his .Lordship in the affirmative, and a verdict was therefore entered for the plaintiff, damages £4l, subject to the decision of the courts above upon the argument on the special case. The Court was then adjourned. THURSIMY. MEADOW V. JOHNSON. This was an action to recover compensation froth the defend ant, for the loss of a mare, which the plaintiff alleged had been caused by the defendant's furious, and negligent riding. Mr. Peel and Mr. James appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Alexander and Mr. Brandt, for the defendant. The defendant was the son of a tradesman, in Manchester, and went' to the stables of the plaintiff, who keeps a public house in the same town, and persuaded his wife to lend him the mare to ride. The defendant had scarcely mounted when he started off at full gallop, and in endeavouring to turn one of the corners of St. Ann's-square, the head of the mare came sud denly in contact with the pallisades. She fell immediately from the effects of the stun, and the injuries she received were so severe that she died in the course of a few minutes. The pre sent action was brought to recover her value at the time. The defendant had pleaded that the mare was of so vicious, and in temperate a disposition that he was unable to manage her. Several witnesses were called, who deposed to having had ample opportunities of knowing the mare's temper, and that although a willing, and spirited animal, she was wholly free from vice, and so well broken, that any . person who knew how to ride, would find no difficulty in managing her. The se rvant of a gentleman named Briggs, to whom she h a d a for h n i i s e m r y aster be longed, deposed to her being exceedingly quiet, 0. 0 01 She was had only parted with her in consequence of 'll . h s e t a get fi h perfectly sound, and he had never received i nstructions his master to sell her for what he could that the mare witnesses were called for the defence to provewhen ion S s ey fr e o r m al was a wa d s et mana reable and earcmcoiunnedtedruonnaewaoYf't'baendbetstr horsemen nr-sennienthein defendant, Aianeiles_ Td--that he ' that it was imp ter, mounted her, she bec h a t m ai e - ossible for r rd but had done his utmost to pull her had not urged her . forwa being to pe c r o fe n c t t r l o y ul u h n er speed — that ' per fectly sound and -well shaped, yet , . . 4d. h a d been up. She advantages anti haa beet purchased for the sum of £9 bf thevlautti an pievious by Mr. 13.riggs fur £B. Mr. Bri ge. in hie evidence, depose to never having been able to use her as she was sowild,,and ha accordingly directed hif servant to sell her on any tends, The plaintiff at the time the, accident occurred was, collecting ,subs scribers for a raffle for a mare and the defendant was gobig ' subscribe. if she proved satisfactory. . His LORDSHIP, in summing up, remarked vii the conflicting testimony and the Jury immediately returned a verdict for the. defendant.. BREACH OF CONTRACT.—HIGGINBOTTOSi V. BARLOW., The parties in this case reside at Manchester, anclihe defend ant, who is a silk manufacturer, entered into a contract to sup ply the plaintiff with a large quantity of silks at 28s. per.piece, which contract he fail e d t o pertorm, and the plaintiff brought this action for damages. It was proved in evidence that the: plaintiff could have afterwards sold the same goods at 375. per piece. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages' £4 , 15. . , . ILLEGAL DISTRAINT.—BOOTH V. HARROP AND OTHERS. Mr. Alexander and Mr. Brandt appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Wightinan for the defendant. The declaration stated that the defendant had distrained goods for rent to the amount of £3OO, the arrears of rent being only £l2 10s. . , The defendants id this case were Mr. Harrop, a person of considerable property, and who was the defe n d an t on th e re cord; Win. Mears, a bailiff; and James Lowson, a son-its law of Mr. Harrop. The plaintiff was a tailor and.dreper.re:. siding in Glossop Dale. , In 1833, .the.. plaintiff becamettenant to the defendant Harrop for his ,premises, at a rent of £l5 pet annum. In the month of Februarylast, when his rent became due, the plaintiff was from home on business. His wife; wh o was in a delicate state of health, , was at house,. and four children were ill in the house of the measles. On the first of March, the day on which the rent became due, the defendant sent a bailiff into the house, the plaintiff being at that time from home and his wife ill in bed, and the children all suffering as above stet.: ed. Without waiting, the bailiffs proceeded to ,distrain for.the rent, taking three or four cart loads of the.plaintiff's stock in trade, drapery goods, toys, ready-made clothes, &c., in which the plaintiff dealt. They directed Mrs. B oo th t o ge t up, as they must have the bed from under her, and took the infant. out of the cradle and laid it upon the Boor. The things were re moved to a house iu the neighbourhood, and impounded. When they had sold as many as amounted to £2O, the sale was stopped and notice given to the defendant that the goods which remained were at his risk where they had been removed. The plaintiff had afterwards actually sold a part of what remained of the first sale, from the stock alone, without touching the furni ture, for £29, and £ll worth still remained. This. harsh pro cedure had been mainly instituted for the purpose of getting rid of the plaintiffas tenant. Witnesses were called to the above facts, and it was deposed that the infant had afterwards died from the exposure it had received. Many of the more aggravating circumstances were; however, not proved, and the evidence did not connect Mr' Harrop with the proceedings. His Lososiiip in summing up strongly animadverted on the practice freiiieLigy resorted to in thisac.,,cases,,Pf.takieg adva.n 7 . Cage of every technicality and required . rirm of law, not having been observed by landlords, acid recunnuepdval the jury to show their sense of it by their verdict. , , , .. . , . ..,. The jury expressed a wish to . retire, and after an absence of half an hour returned with a verdict for the plaintiff on the two first counts of the indictuithit, damages la), and acquitted Janies Ilarrop, one oft he defendants. DICKErr,.BARI. AND ANOTHER, V. IVALKER. Mr. Brandt and Mr. Wightman appeared for the Plaintiff; and Mr. Alexander for the defendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are trustees of certain fisheries iu Ireland, against the defendant, who is a fish-monger in Manchester, for a stun of £l-10 for fish sold and ; delivered. The defendant pleaded that be had paid .a 1.:20 note which was charged him over again. Witnisses were called to prove that they bad seen him pay this money, and it was proved that the agent of the plaintiffs had been very unsatisfac,: tory in his aecouuts. The sum demanded was not entered upon the record, licid the defendant put in an account which was initted, with the exception of the £2O, and which giving credit for the Et), left a balance due to the plaintiffs of -±3 14s. The jury found a verdict fur the plaintiff, damages .C 3 Ns. 111 d. itoocults V. HINDLEY. Mr. Cresswell arid Mr. Wightman appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Alexander and Mr. Cowling for the defence. ;. . , The plaintiff in this action is a gentleman of, some property, residing at Manchester. He had amassed his propertyln trade, and was, wishful to retire, and contracted with the agent of the defendant to take a farm and house at Pulcheth, near Man-. chester, for a tern of eight years. Subsequently a difference had arisen between. the parties relative to some repairs to ,he executed on the premises, which ended in an open quarrel; and they mutually agreed to cancel the agreement before the. WO first agreed upon. In April, in the present year, the defendant had sent some person into the garden of the plaintiff, who ms ceeded to dig up and destroy a quantity of flowers, and to insult the sister of the plaintiff. For this an action for trespass had been brought. A number of witnesses were examined, and the cause occupied a considerable time. It was contended for the defence that the garden was used as a field, and was included in that part of the agreement which had been cancelled, to prove which witnesses were called to prove thatcattlc had been . turned into it. There was a great deal of conflicting testimony. His LORDSHIP, in summing up, directed the jury to give an opinion whether or no the garden *as part of the . ftirm, or be longed to the house as a garden, judging from the uses to Whieli it had been applied. The jury found that the field had been used both as a pasture field, and as a garden. His Lout:null' then decided that he thought the plaintiff re mained in possession, and that the tenantcy had not expired; and directed a verdict to be - recorded for the plaintiff, damages Is„ costs 405., with leave to enter a non-self. ' _ The court was then adjourned at half-past seven LIVERPOOL POLICE. . , DESERTION OF A SEAMAN.—Jonathan Warren, a seaman was placed before Mr. Hall, on Monday, charged by Thol.as Eskdale, commander of the Ship D'Evereux, under the follow ing circumstances. The latter stated, that he had, on Wednes day last, engaged the prisoner to go with him to Quebec, as cook, at the monthly wages of £2. 108., for the due performance of which he signed articles. On Saturday , the vessel hiving hauled out into the river, the prisoner, with ' two other men had stolen his four-oared boat, and had gone ashore with it. Mr. Hall: * "Did they not merely - use the boat to convey them on shore ?" Witness " yes, but when they got ashore they turned her adrift." Mr. Hall. "But that was not stealing the boat, so there is an end of that. We must now examine well the charge of absconding. The taking of the boat to go on shore is not felony." Mr. Hall then inquired if the articles had been read to the prisoner. Mr. Hall said he had here frequent occasion to warn masters of vessels on this subject. They were liable to a heavy penalty for such neglect. The prisoner in excuse for having absconded, said that he felt himself very poorly, and see ing the other men going ashore, he thought he would accompany them. Mr. Hall said, that was a very poor excuse: In reply to a question, the captain said that the vessel Was to sail that even ing (Monday.) Mr. Hall said all he had to do was to comply with the directions of the act, and ask the prisoner if he were willing to return to his duty; in case of a refusal ho had the power to punish. The prisoner said he was willing to return.to the ship and go the voyage. The captain declared that be Would not take him, upon which Mr. Hall said there was an end of the case, and the prisoner was discharged. „ .. ASSAULT ON THE HIGH SEAS.-011 Monday; at the Police fine of £2 a" "smtsvih resides office, James Murray, a seaman, was charged with having stab bed the second mate of the barque Brighton, of St. Juhn's N. 8.; from whence she was on her voyage to Liverpool. The coin.. plainant, John M`Kay, stated that the assault was committed when they were off Cape Clear, at about six o'clock in the even ing. He (complainant) was standing in the main rigging, and Captain M'Keswick, the commander of the barque, was on the poop. He heard the prisoner use some foul language to the captain, which he believed.had arisen from some orders which the latter had given. The prisoner became exasperated and drew forth a knife, with which he was rushing at the captain when witness went forward and interfered. As be passed be= tween the prisoner and the captain, the former seized him, stud inflicted two wounds on him, one at the lower part of the belly and the other in the knee. The first mate of the Brighton, M. Mills, stated that the prisoner bad full wages for the voyage, namely, LIU at St. John's before the vesselsailed. The prisoner •hsaoo.fnite4 di s soluteuests, youn g .it h ha v i n g resisted had been on another occasion very violent, having paraded the deck with as axe in his band and threatened the seamen, who Wit ness default nweesrse :vasall exceedingly cee opinion dingl y t h a a n t x t i l o i e u s p ri that son b e e r should made i be pl u n secured. e lain, but that the blow was received by the second mate. The e N pnla AN OFFICER OF TUE C OU R T orli.x -street, was charged by John prisonerto VIOLENT b e co a l • na committed toesrdsdAe forur eLdTotnoo execution, and with having at the same hima. a at Foster,U a li S housei r n s t . ah—ne officer Sos service r m v u i ce ill-fame el o Smethurst ,,t).i. the nn Dxo yo etai c n i ut : time violently assaulted him. It appears that on Saturday the complainant went with another officer to serve the execution in question on the person of Mary Phillips. The latter was !saluted out to him, and as he 'advanced to fulfil his duty, she rushed into a house, the door of which was standing open. The complain ant followed her. She rushed into the kitchen, and he was following her when the prisoner met bins. and struck hini several blows oil the face and head with a poker, buying him at last senseless at his feet. His colleague iininediatefy called a police officer, and the prisoner was taken into custody. The case was fully proved, and the prisoner was fine.d 20s. and costs; or id default to go to the House of Correction for fifteen days. The Briti s h A ssoc i at i on commence d t h e i r annual sittings ai Bristol on Monday last. We shall endeaVoUr to find room for an analysis of the proceedings in our next. . . The Operative Conservative Society of Chadderton; :neat hfoerrdeipTieradcFtoroom a parl Oldham, had a public dinner on Monday last. DEATH of Loan KERRY.—We announce With regret the death of au amiable and p r omising young nithleinan 7 -Lord Kerry. His disease was that wasting away of the system Which' is called atrophy. RERPRESENT-ATION OF DUBLIN.—At the last Meeting of th e trades' union it was announced that Mr. O'Connell and Mr: Henry Grattan would start for the city of Dublin at the next" general election, . CH ASII EXTH A onntNARY.—A greyhound belonging, to a gen tleman of Devizes, on passing the road near Potterne a tete days since, being apparently frightened at the sight of tbrie foxhounds which catne by; started off a full speed: ' The fo_x; hounds immediately started after it ; and, notwithstanlt u tp . greyhound gained upor: then they continued in fulbehas , r nirrg through the greater part 4r the town, until the greyhou nd took shelter in its masters house in Devizes.. . _ a . , se .,, ..,,,.._ An officer of rank, " well known in the politica n l ear nd ea 191 a l a t u li c c i world," advertises that he bail discovered a .a fty. , nTI I ff places if rocket that will set an enemy's ship on a s fi ti e I i l e . il tiiice a s later discharged two thousand yards off, ar!(;.coistiot articles to, pri j m t v i a v t e veli re a ßtz s si t , h frNA e .. As o f Rur l i cl Ectva c A i niiN n cR e t . r a d H e e r g offers , g: c th , e , si;r7i:ided with such weans, called to account on the western' N besides o i o several H o others, No i, the HONOUR e ci smallestonce p anyl v ,o es F s tiE e sr l ss w ti : o i r l lc y e, b :sp e h s iT i p i ii y os s i ) Lci i n aa f tw a ... l ,- 1 i - b s l e y rg d e e a s n tr t oy D o a r y ycon being pel to surrender rog the p k e s o i f i e v s e s i i . o b n e b e y a ns,it accepting en ulled s sw i l l no v tr e i r tr itfromno and d a t ; the fellow had . 11 tl iimentary statement tecently but I took every sixpence. _. .. don't call that disgracing the professton:"— Late h o pe you c cl i fe c l u it i , t published it appears, that the amount of property insured against lire, in the year 1835, in England alone, was 5 , -17,530,500. The a am ou nt £737,597,0 of a duty t h p e a idut amountmn fire o f farming stock in ex t t e mt e t a i r nr 3 he l ea w m a e s: year, was £37,187,000. ICT.—Last week ; a man, Mined Chaiiei Harvey, was gwtlrhiiieei guilty." . t i ,h n , e J j e u r r s y e y u , n f a o n r i a in criminal u o n ff d e l n i t m e o f . n ri u to p r u e b i l n ie importance, . no cent it than He was accordingly discharged`.'' ' ' A M o PEST YOUTH. --Th e following advertisement'ariiiears in' a London paper:—" t young man of Unquestionable.ittiriet#' and modest demeanour is desirous of engaging Witil'atir siide- . pendent gentleman, to whom, without egotism, he OA time a most valuable acquisition;" can manage an estateAtirfalioot,' ride, sing a s require d , d eterm i ne d to -pleasr,*thakeltinktielf ilei.; : , tenletLy-dnnr to a o comfortable, ntot ane nn t d u i r e n ... liis hind to any tlit* frail is ~s - -: ~, ; your Lo as :ation ,y ob- Teive ultra s that iently You sin is at the 1