The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-30 00:00:00

TiiE VI SIT OF THE QUEEN TO LIVERPOOL. FRA - r is MVil. GRATIS. ' f J NDID PRESENT WITH THE STANDARD. THE PROPRIETOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD 114 blll-e; pleasure in announcing that it is his intention to present to each Purchaser of that paper of TUESDAY NEXT, OCTOBER 7th, A SPLENDID TINTED LITHOGRAPHIC DRAWING s T• CEORC OF VS HALL, SHEWINO IN PERSPECTIVE Wh i TII E EAST AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS, eh have been supplied from the Architectural Designs and which will be executed in a style ASSING ANY SPECIMEN OP ART HITHERTO PRESENTED EVEN IN THE METROPOLIS. The Drawing will be executed by Messrs 44CLURE. MACDONALD, AND MACGREGOR LITHOGRAPHERS TO THE QUEEN; will be the same size as the ►SAILORS' HOME, Presented with the STANDARD on the occasion of PRINCE A SEAT'S VISIT to this town; itu en mon but will be in a SPLENDID AND ARTISTIC STYLE THE DRAWING WILL BE UPON THE BEST PAPER, - ~hd When framed will be worthy of a place alongside —44 BEST PRODUCTIONS OF MODERN ART. 413 / I .4 TISEMENTS intended for the Standard of Tuesday next should be sent in immediately b r ?wing to the great expense incurred in getting cut the L w ing, the Standard will, on this occasion, be charge s f'PENCE ; and persons living ,2Penee extra for postage. 1 a dis tance must remit TO CORRESPONDENTS. - _ to l ,'esPondent wishes to know " why the Gas Company of this t io o refuse to supply parties who have devices for illumina tql? r ef use larger meters and branch pipes, which, instead of tid e ln g away the profits of the shareholders. would add con- Doo r bly thereto, and would give the inhabitants of Liver te p, an opportunity of showing, their attachment and loyalty li f e Queen. If they were giving the gas away, it would be a ..erent matter • but in this instance, where every one pays j4 t r a e, eter, they should show a disposition to assist the town, en ce ud of putting obstacles in the way. Contrast thediffer bo,_of tbe people of Manchester's company with this mo th rve 0 0 Rh ,7 , all be happy at all times to receive communications h oe°llo 3 good enougects of lo- h to authenticate s or eneral int thenticateerest the same by and if their our frie signa nis 'es, for our o wn satisfaction, we shall feel obliged. tibetpoot -°--=)teutbarb, TUESDA-Y HORNING, SEPT. 30, 1851 NATIONAL LORD PALMERSTON ON PROSPECTS. 11 1 , hereditary talent, multifarious experience, great retsonal attainments, and, need we add, graceful t et „ a cmalappearance, Lord Palmerston is the ack now 2f(ed head o f h er M a j es ty' s Mi n i s t ers . To many il4 a dministration of different shades of politics "a he given the benefit of his abilities, and the .vantage of his excellent high spirits, for his lord lyip ta the Mark Tapley of every government with t m eh he is connected, and, like that hilarious gen lit:lrian, is "jolly" in the most depressing eircum tr:neek His lordship, after many wanderings a nd fro, f oun d, a b ou t sixteen years ago, a most 4 " It i Ptonriat e res ti ng - p l ace i n th e ancient borough of t?ekton. The people of Tiverton are an honest - t . who r a th er lik e b e i ng re p resen t e d by a ca bi ne t m ister, have no objection to a few clerkships, or t' nen sulship, and if they ever tolerate opposition to t 1 Palme r st on , on ly d o so to remind him that ti e3 ' possess that " palladium of Britain," the elec tive franchise. In fact, the member and the °rou g h are well met. It is a quiet, gentlemanlike te presentation—disturbed only, at mint, by an er tAtie Chartist, and the electors would as soon dis t:lite the course of his policy as the cut of his ttowsers—both which they cons id er i n i m i ta bl e. I n t 1 . 114 3 dull seas on , hi s l or d s h ip determined to en- Rhten the peopl e o f Ti verton, on affa i rs home an d I. 4e ign, trying his th eor i es i n th e same way th at t7oliere tried the effect of his plays—by reading ' fi ght to his old ser v i ng - woman — an d ex t rac ti ng , as '2 i ght be ex p ec t e d, cons id era bl e c h eer i ng f rom t h e d herent s of his party. By a figure, or rather a 1; 1 : l ee of rhetoric, by no means uncommon , L or d l ' l nerston, after commencing about the Whigs, O ceeded to detail a great number of reforms, as l la l e ttned them, with which, however, the Whigs 40 4 nothing to do; though, as regards the effects of i te til h e of them, nothing more Whig-like could he t ot '', Conceived. He imagines, for instance, some oe'Ru friends asking the very natural question, ti , d /v it was that England was kept in such excellent t ti L et by the efforts of a few police, with "bits of i n :S" instead of requiring all the marching, drill le%and drumming w ith which one is p e rp e tually 1 01 , 4 ,; en t ed on the Continent? And how does his th a ; e nin reply to the unhappy foreigner ? Why, t o ' i t is all owing to the Whigs : and he proceeds ti ol til YatifY and mislead the ill-used alien, by telling p tm t bat the people are quiet on account of the re -1141, of the Teat Act (1), ( might he not as well og t ° said the signing of Magna Charta ?) the passing thehe Roman Catholic Bill of '29, the passing of F r m unicipal Reform Act, and the adoption of e bae Trad e l H er M a j es t y ' s pr i nc i pa l S ecretary o f te for Foreign Affairs positively asserts that he N i e , th ese seriously as reasons for British tran try It ,Y to some innocent natives of a foreign coun tilativ°o had the absurdity to go to him for infor the 41 - He did not for a moment tell them that eoti Whigs, after all their liberality, finding the ti lit -4. 1 quiet at their accession, managed to get up te lt i tti at riots, and an Irish sedition, and that the koclquietness of the country arose from years of tr ot government, which modern experiments had th e e t destroyed. But Lord Palmerston did admit 54 to the Roman Catholics, concessions had et o Z i n aeless. T a lki ng o f t h e " b oon " o f P o pi s h is v ;iPation, he says : ?,/ tiotueehave lately, indeed, in spite of that, been reproached thl t °, l 4, l ,. t nealhers of that body, at home and abroad, with h„t aft fee and persecution, because we thought it right - =o ato rei gn Sovereign should dispose of titles in into th e 'lop r i c i Should cut up and quarter the kingdom teby (loud cries of " Hear, hear"); encroach!ng s k i% 4,, POn the prerogative of our Queen, and trenching %pct, n dependence of the country. (Hear, hear.) I it , ti,,11 other respects, in regard to every privilege and t er th e pe r Catholics are as free, and upon the same footing, tqe,c a°tPlants; and I wish that the degree of into of Pa.. col ° ll persecution of which some of our Catholic tt, t etoi e ,, l ntrYrnen have complained was the only degree Vilet ie 'lce and persecution which Protestants . had to 0,41', he ° m some of the Catholic countries of Europe 4 4 4,1_419! where Protestantism is an oetre, where ?tfie h,t), a Oation of Protestant doctrine is a d crime (hear, ?1 , 1 " Where the Bible is reckoned a dangerous book, * I% 1 4 11 , P ° 41- 1 is allowed to read, and which, when seized, jr) ii()esof criminality on t h e part of the person who , a1 (o sessio nf o f it. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") 4 tll. the south of Europe, of Rome, of Naples, of ' of he of Portugal." •ils i 8 a ' t melancholy tale from the Chief Foreign i ° ,,e 514' 1 of a great nation to have to tell, and to 1 4 add nothing as to his efforts to remove q iri e h as en Let any one look at the list of countries ‘trrierated, and see how miserable they are e e 6c4 le 411, -4 g of nations, that Christian countries t t yr Par rett them to remain the tools of such he io the spiritfolßome, and then reflect how differ our day from that in which the proverb was in use, übi Christus ibi Patria. Eliza beth or Oliver would have had more to give to such a subject than mere laments. If one of the Queen's subjects in our own country revile the Scriptures or the 11Nak of Common Prayer, he may be brought to pUnishment ; but even with states so weak as Naples, Spain, and Portugal, our go vernment will not remonstrate on the atrocities they are daily committing against human freedom and human nature, in their insane attempt to ex tinguish the dissemination of the word of God. But Lord Palmerston further mystified his " foreign friends," as he informed us, when he told them that one of the great causes of English tran quillity is the Municipal Reform Act. It would rather have startled the auditors of the noble lord to learn that that act had never been extended to the city in which the exhibition was held, but that the government of that city consisted of lucky licensed victuallers and speculative small trades men, whose administrative power in the city coun cils was about on a par with the politeness they displayed at Paris, and at their ever-notorious entertainment to the Queen. One would have thought that after Lord Palmerston had cruelly misled his foreign friends to the extent he names, he would have been content, and have carried the joke no further ; but that would have been a mis take. The spirit of waggery was too deeply en grained to permit him to overlook the chance of saying that free-trade and the repeal of the Navi gation Laws were two other great inducements to popular quiet in England. Had any of his ques tioners asked a fiftieth-part per cent. of the thou sands to be seen at the Exhibition .what they thought the Navigation Laws signified—the answers would have been worth recording. The allusion to these two subjects, however, gave Lord Palmer ston an opportunity of reverting to the question of protection, and of assuring the wise men of Tiver ton that protection was impossible. The following is unworthy of the noble lcrd—it is mere League vulgarity—it is not less stupid than Cobden, nor more polished than Bright : With regard to the reimposition of import duties on corn for the purpose of protection, that is to say, for the purpose, the specific and avowed purpose, of raising the price of food for the purpose of increasing the profits of the owners and occupiers of land, I venture, with all hu mility, to say that when you see the river Exe running up from the sea to Tiverton, instead of running down from Tiverton to the sea, you may then look upon it that pro _ tection is near at hand. (Laughter and cheers.) Gentle ' ing that, I feel that I am foreseeing and ex - e of that which is men, in cries of " hear, near.") No man can deny that the cheap ness and abundance of food is eminently advantageous to the labouring classes. (Hear.) The labouring classes are the most numerous portion of the population. Without being very old, a man may remember Lord Palmerston denying the possibility of many things which Lord Palmerston afterwards assisted to bring about; but the cry impossible any man may use. Lord Palmerston's argument is quite a different thing. If the labouring classes were not producers of that commodity the price of which is brought down—namely, food—then the argument could be understood ; but they are the producers of the depreciated commodity, and where, then, are they to get money to buy it. But Lord Palmerston is not above the seditious cry that free-trade will injure the landlords and the clergy, and he was pretty loudly cheered when he announced it : His composition for tythes is gradually diminishing in proportion as the averages of the cheap years are begin ning to tell upon the amount which he has to pay. (Hear.) His rent in most cases, where it was not very low indeed, has been diminished. (Hear.) But after all, in the long run, it is perfectly certain that it is a question between landlord and tenant. (Loud cries of " hear, hear.") The farmer hires the land of the owner ; he employs a certain amount of capital in' working it ; ho must make interest upon his capital, or he cannot live ; and therefore the bargain must ultimately so adjust that he can make hig fair interest out of his capital under the new and altered circumstances in which he is placed. (Hear, hear.) This may be an excellent argument for an oppo nent of the Church, and a man so free of territorial cares as not to possess much more than, as Juvenal says, pascetur unius lacertce—or, as it is translated by his lordship's countrymen, not " as much as would sot a lark ;" but it is at least a fair index of the feeling of the favourers of free trade. Of the new Reform Bill his lordship said nothing. Per haps Ministers may have thought better of it, or, perhaps, like the Durham letter, it is Lord John's own peculiar project. THE REVENUES OF THE BISHOPS IN one thing the Whigs have never been negligent —the effort to bring any scandal upon the Church. It is true they have been the chief patrons of all the individuals through whom ecclesiastical offences have come. If there is a charge of scepticism, or of personal immorality, be assured it is against a Whig-made dignitary ; and if there is a cry attempt ing to implicate the whole Church in the fault of an individual, be assured it comes from the Whigs. When the case of the Revenues of the Bishops was first mentioned, we did not hesitate to offer our strong opinion as to the duty of Churchmen in the matter. Facts had been stated, and not denied, that really brought a scandal on the conduct of several prelates; but those would indeed have little power of reason, and less morality, who charged any such practices on the entire Church. The Whigs, however, in their usual mode of insinuation, have attempted this. They have issued an Order in Council regulating in future the mode of deducting from or adding to the annual incomes of sees, so as to bring them to a certain standard ; and in this they provide that when a fine for a renewal shall amount to half the annual income of the see, it is to be paid to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and not to the Bishbp, though by the same order the Bishop is liable to account for every farthing he receives, and is made, in fact, the steward or bailiff of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners I The insi nuation here is perfectly obvious. There can be no doubt about it. The Bishops are supposed capable, perhaps, of accounting for a few small sums ; but anything so large as half their own annual revenue is not safe in their custody. The Whigs we know have a taste for Church property, and probably they think they can take more care of it than its owners. But, in truth, the whole order in Council is a melancholy proof of how anomalous is the present position of the Bishops of the Church. No judge or general, or any civil servant of the Crown, is brought into such subjection to the Privy Council, as to his pay, as the Bishops, who are in no sense the Crown's servants, are placed, as relates to their revenues. They are to give an account annually, and if the sum is less, receive an addition, and if it is greater than the specified amount, hand over the surplus. Nor are they allowed any discretion as to taking fines. If the amount of the fine exceeds £lOO, they are not to grant the lease without the consent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In fact, a more i n d e li ca t e and more offensive set of rules could not have been laid down for the gui dance, or rather the control of any set of men. The whole matt er h as b een manage d purely in the spirit that has always guided the present adminis tration. No matter what might have been the alleged transgressions of the Bishops, or of any one in their name, the rumour would never have disturbed the Government had it not been made the subject of a few scenes in the House of Com mons. The nominee of the Marylebone vestry, who made those scenes, found that his conduct was popular with that considerable body of the Whig party whose religion consists in hating the Church of England, and the Ministry, like the witch, offer to " lend him a wind," and to profit by his gains. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1851. There was nothing left them after the affair in the House of Commons but the issuing of the order in council to which we have referred, and accordingly they concocted it as much as possible in a style to insult the Bishops, and take a little of the wind out the sails of Sir Benjamin Hall. In the meantime, the experience of every day proves more and more how necessary it is for Churchmen to find some neutral ground, where their own peculiar opinions may not clash, in which to make an effort to give the Church true and real power to remedy by her own act such abuses as may have crept into the administration of her affairs. It is, we think, an anomaly, and one that ought as soon as possible to be :swept away, that the Church of England shall be at the mercy of such orders of the. Council, while the Scottish Kirk and every body of English Dissenters have their own affairs committed by law to their own hands. How and under what form this self-ruling power can he restored to the Church, we leave to abler minds to say; but that for the sake of true religion it must be done, the events of every hour prove beyond a doubt. THE NEWSPAPER STA.4IP RETURNS In our publication of Tuesday last we stated reflecting in the least on any of our contempora in the official return of the number of stamps the Standard, in 1850, the circulation was put I—without LESS THAN HALF of what it actually had been, or about ONE-THIRD of its average during the present quarter." Notwithstanding this, the Mercury and Chronicle, in their anxiety to "puff" themselves off, by depreciating other journal s, have not found it convenient to make the st allusion to our explanation. We can assure them that we value such littleness at what it is worth We entertain no unworthy or petty jealousy towards any newspaper. Oar desire is to " Live, and let live," and while we enjoy the proceeds of a steadily increasing cir culation, and—as ourcolumnswill testify—an extensive ad vertising onnexion, we are satisfied to let the conduc tors of the papers alluded to follow their course. From one of the best-conducted and most respectable of our Liberal contemporaries, the Liverpool Times, we copy the following very just remarks : We were not aware, until last Saturday, that there was any intention of publishing the stamp returns of each newspaper separately. The practice of publishing those returns was discontinued some years since, and ought not to have been resumed without inquiry. When it was discontinued it was considered that it had led to fraudu lent practices on the part of unprincipled persons, who had bought up large quantities of stamps and given them . . away, or destroyed them, to impose upon advertisers, with the appearance of a large 'circulation ; that, even where no fraud was committed, it was no part of the business of Government to puff one man's business or property at the expense of another's ; and also that, after all, circulation alone was no criterion of merit, Foargus O'Connor's Northern Star having suddenly risen to a circulation of from thirty to forty thousand copies a-week, without a single thing to recommend it except its violence and its subserviency to the worst_ prejudices of the most not appear; but, probably, it was a job, to promote some man's private interest; to give some editorial rival of Moses and Sons the opportunity of puffing the wonderful merits of his paper, at the expense of all others. It has been the wish of the most respectable men connected with the press that it should take rank as a profession ; but what would the profession of medicine be, if it was the custom for medical men in largo practice to stick up a list of the number of their patients on the walls of Li verpool and other large towns, and to compare it with the number of the patients of others ? What would the legal profession be, if eminent solicitors published, on the walls, how many skins of stamped parchment they used more than their neighbours ? Would not those professions at once sink to the level of the quack doctor and the pettifogger ? Nay, to go from professions to trades, what would be thought of a butcher, who, not content with announcing that his beef was the best beef in the market, should stick up in the streets a list of the number of carcases sold by himself and every other man in the shambles ? What would be thought of a tea-dealer who should thus puff his teas ? or a grocer who should so puff his sugars ? Would they not be thought low fellows? And would not men who know the world conclude that the beef was bull beef, the tea chopped besoms, and the sugar the product of our native sand-hills? It it were for no other purpose than to prevent this outrageous puffery, Parliament ought not again to have sanctioned the publication of these returns. Tte newsrooms, in which three or four thousand of the most respectable men in Liverpool read daily, for the tenth part of a farthing each, newspapers which they ought to buy and take home, are the great obstacles to the increase of the circulation of newspapers which dis cuss commercial questions, and matters interesting to the mercantile classes. COMMERCIAL A ND MONETARY NEWS, Monday Night. We have little to report since Friday's Circular. For Sugar there has been a fair inquiry, but at rather lower prices ; to-day, 500 bags of Pernambuco brought 15s. 6d. to 16s, 3d. for brown. Rather more inquiry for Coffee, and prices rather looking up ; 400 bags St. Domingo re ported at 38s. 6d. In Tea and Rum little stirring. For Indigo and Drysalteries generally there is little inquiry. Our sharemarket has been very active all week. The amount of real business done has been considerable, and prices generally have advanced materially. There appears to be a disposition on the part of the public to buy shares for investment, and stock being exceedingly scarce, the buyers tend to raise prices daily. The market to-day closes at the best of the week with good buyers at the highest prices. We annex this day's closing prices : Caledonian preference, 7k; Chester and Holyhead, 171; East Lancashire, 14 16/3; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 56i ; Do. fifths, 81- d ; Southport, 2k d ; London stock, 116 k; Do. new quarters, 3p; Do. fifths, 2a p; Sheffield stock, 271-; Do. £lO preference, 111; Midland stock, 471; Do. halves (undivided), 18k d; Old Dovers, 1911. The railway meetings of the week have not been numer ous. The dividend declared by the shareholders of the Shropshire Union Company has been at the rate of £2 15s. per cent. per annum, in accordance with the terms of the London and North-Western agreement. At the Glasgow, Airdre, and slonklands Junction meeting the report has been agreed to, and the directors have been empowered to recover arrears of calls. The Lancaster and Preston divi dend has been declared at the rate of 71 per cent. per an. num, the accounts showing an encouraging appearance through the favourable results of traffic. The preliminary meeting of the Iron trade was held at the Union Inn, Birmingham, on Thursday last, and was very fully attended. The only resolution arrived at was, that the nominal prices of iron should remain as be fore. There is no perceptible impulse, either in the home or foreign demand, to establish any advance, while a re duction could only be carried out by resorting to a general lowering of wages, and no individual seems willing to incur the odium of such a proposition, an impression being still cherished that before all available resources are used up better prospects may open. The long-continued depres sion and indefinite removal of all expected improvement m the position of the producers of iron is becoming a subject of the most serious anxiety in the neighbourhood, as the interests of all other trades in this district are so imme diately connected with it, and dependent to so large an extent upon it, that they cannot long remain in prosperous circumstances while the iron trade is declining.—Birminq ham Gazette. The return of the movement of the Bank of England for the week ending on the 20th inst., in the Gazette of this evening, gives the following changes compared with the week ending the 13th inst. :—ln the department of issue the notes in circulation had increased £137,750, which had been produced by an increase of £137,750 in the gold coin or bullion, the silver bullion remainin unaltered. On the debit side of the banking department the Rest had increased £4,452, the public deposits had increased £628,330, the private deposits had increased £14,742, and the seven-day and other post bills had increased £8,557, making the total of the liabilities £36,963,110. On the credit side the government securi ties remained unaltered ; the other securities had increased £348,029 ; the notes had increased £297,135, and the gold and silver coin had increased £10,917, which equa lised the account. The bullion in both departments of the Bank had increased from £14,516.473 to £14,665,140, being a difference of £148,667. The paper in actual circulation had decreased from £20,322,054 to X 20,171,226, being a difference of £150,828. THE REVISION COURT.—This court, which opened yester day week, as stated in our last publication, still continues to sit. The objections numbered 1,100, and these were chiefly urged by the Radical party. The court resumed on Tuesday, and proceeded with the list of objections to freemen, which occu . pied until one o'clock on Frithly, when the county list was entered on, and the business of the county court will continue until this evening (Tuesday. We shall give an analysis of the result next week. PROTESTANT ORPHAN SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.—On Sunday evening a sermon was preached, in Christ Church, by the Rev. John Eccles, of Delgany, in aid of the above-named admirable society. Last night a public meeting was held in the school room under St. Jude's Church. The proceedings were exceed inglyinteresting. The Rev. J. Eccles attended as a deputation. Theinstitution at present maintains, clothes,,and educates, 375 orphans, who, with 341 who have been apprenticed, 64 who died, and 152 given up to friends or otherwise provided for, make a total of 932, to whom the society has afforded an asy lum. This evening (Tuesday) another meeting will be held in Christ Church School, and on Friday evening a further meet ing will be held in the Abbey Chapel, Birkenhead. EXTENSIVE HOUSE ROBBERY AT BOOTLE.-011 Sunday evening last, between seven and nine o'clock, while the family were at church, the house of Mrs. Garnock, a widow lady, residingat No. 20, Bootle-lane, was entered by means of skeleton keys, and a vast quantity of silver plate, money in value to .e4O 105.,a silver watch, and other articleswere stolen. Amongst the property taken were a silver cream jug marked "J. E. G.," a French leather pocket-book containing 3 half-crowns, 2s. 6d., and a ring; amethyst ring. lettered " A. M. G.:" a topaz ring., marked "E.G. ;" dozen large silver, and I doz. small silver forks; four table, three dessert and two salt spoons, all marked "G"; a silver lever watch, maker " Lecomber." The money consisted of 2 -'lO notes, a £5 note, and 15 sovereigns, besides the three half-crowns, and 2s. 6d. In a pocket book, from which the other notes had been taken, the thieves left behind them three £lO notes and one £2O note. No clue has yet been made as to who the thieves are. EXCITING PROCEEDINGS IN THE LIVER POOL COUNTY COURT. • COMMITTAL OF THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL. _ Tt appears that the County Court, over which Mr. Ramsbay presides, had been adjourned till Saturday morning, at nine o'clock, when there were a great number of suitors present, but the judge did not take his seat until half-past ten ; and, immediately after doing so, a person, by profession a bill-poster, appeared in the de fendant's box, in the custody of a bailiff. The Jndge Let the bailiff he sworn. The bailiff was sworn accord ingly. in answer to questions from the judge, he said that, at twenty-five minutes past, ten o'clock that morning, as his honour was approaching the court, the person then in custody was posting placards near to the court-house. The Judge asked if they were not the placards announcing the publication of the Journal. The bailiff said those that the defendant was posting were not. His Honour then directed that the defendant's kit of placards should be examined ; and, in accordance with this, a most hete rogeneous mass of posting-bills, displaying a greater va riety of colours than a rainbow, were shown, but the pla cards of the Journal could not be found ; they were pla cards of a purely religious and harmless tendency ; and the defendant assured the learned judge that he did not post for any newspaper. His Honour said he did not know that the defendant had any right to post bilis, of any character, in the vicinity of the Court-house, but par- tieuiarly those reflecting on tti been the case, he ( the learner have fined him £5, and sent As it was, however, he should asked the defendant did he km 3 Judge) . would undoubtedly him to Lancaster in default. !discharge him. His Honour posted the Journal Journal? Mr. Sumner, the ex :miner of the court plied that he was Michael James Whitty. His Honour curette him forthwitt The two ailiffs to g ff:=, we before the Journal-office, and stated mildly that would feel highly honoured with an inter meantime, Mr. Whitty had been made ac what occurred in cou d demanded ;ome authority for their They st had no warrant or other legal instrument were ordered out. They came ase same way, unprovided, and then br In the meantime, Mr under the advice of Messrs. Lowndes Bateson, was instructed, if efforts --rant, to disobey. About four o-( in forcem-ent ,elieve, made their appearance at Ramshay In the aainted with m the bailiffs ted that they , and nn this and time, still in the Light aAtmerou3 re- 11 7 17 tty, acting Robinson, and were again made with- he bailiffs e, and on the officers were e to place He seized warrant n of their efforts, and it is un derstood were thee fortified by a summ trates ref nz a cv s, (the magis- Whitty's presence. A second summons at the same time was granted against Mr. Whitty's son, he being charged with assault in having in the scene just narrated shut the door in the face of the bailiffs. We understand that the judge acted upon a line in the Journal's placard, which he considered to be offensive " Mr. Ramshay's opinion of the people of Liverpool." The paragraph itself is as follows : In a case before the judge of the County Court, yesterday, in which W. Hokum, a shoemaker, of Edge-hill, claimed 19s for goods supplied to Robert Fey, the latter having a set-off against the plaintiff for board and lodging supplied to the plain tiff's son, a boy, his honour expressed himself in rather strong language with respect to the characteristics of some people in this part of the country. The plaintiff's wife had observed that the boy was in a very weak state of health, awl on one occasion when at Hokum's she pro posed to take him home with her to Rainhill, where he would be attended to and have the benefit of pure air. From some cause the boy was brought back to his parents at the expiration of a month, and the set-off was a demana of ss. a-week for board and lodging, as previously agreed on. His Honour characterized the conduct of the plain siff as unfortunately like that. of many persons in this part of the country, and which to him (the judge) was a per fect problem ; they appeared not to have the slightest re gard for the solemnity of an oath, and were equally desti tute of the feelings of humanity. The defendant, with the most praiseworthy motive, had made a proposition to the boy's parents, which they, no doubt, jumped at with avidity. The ss. 6-week charged by the defendant for the bay's board and lodging was a very moderate charge, yet the plaintiff attempted to deny the agreement, and had told a positive falsehood with respect to the time the boy was at Rainhill. He believed that nearly all that hail been stated by the plaintiff was false, and he, therefore bad great pleasure in giving a verdic PROCEEDINGS YESTERDA' .t for the defendant." Yesterday morninw, at the sitting of the County Court, the case against Mr.'Whitty, the proprietor and editor of the Liverpool Journal, for an alleged contempt of court, was called on, when Sir George Stephen appeared on be half of that gentleman ; but the learned Judge decided upon having the defendant present in person In about half-an-hour Mr. Whitty made his appear ance, and the charge was immediately proceeded with. The first witness called by the learned Judge was Mr. Sumner, one of the examiners of the court, who, on baling sworn, deposed that on Saturday morning last, about ten o'clock, a person was posting bills in the neighbourhood of the court, some of them within ten or a dozen yards, and others thirty or forty yards from the court. Those placards were announcing the publication of the Journal, and contained a line in large letters, " Mr. Ramshay's opinion of the people of Liverpool." It was impossible for the judge, in coming to the court, to avoid seeing those placards, and witness did not consider them fair re porting at all : they were placed so as to cstch his honour's eye in his way into court. Upon the arrival of the judge he received orders to pull down the placard, which he accordingly did. It was now produced in court. The practice was common for newspapers to post bilis in the neighbourhood of the court: the Chronicle bills had twice referred to Mr. Ramshay, but the Journal several times. Sir George Stephen inquired of his Honour what pre vious acts had to do with the specific offence charged against Mr. Whitt)? ? The Judge said, that the evidence went to show that it was a practice to insult the Judge, and bring the adminis tration of justice in that court into contempt among the people of Liverpool, and, therefore, it must be considered in the amount of whatever punishment he might feel it his duty to inflict. Sir George Stephen, with submission, protested against his client being made responsible for former placards. The Judge said, he was not going to punish Mr. Whitty because former placards were posted; but it was necessary that a judge should be respected, and he could not be re spected if he were to be held up to a system of annoyance like that which had been practised by the defendant and others. The act of Parliament had placed stringent powers in the hands of the Judges of County Courts. The examination of the witness was then proceeded with, and it was elicited that from 100 to 200 placards were posted in various parts of the town ; the witness had known many insults to the court in consequence of those placards, and even while he was taking down the bill in question, a man, who was present, called the judge a low scoundrel. . . The Judge : You see, Sir George, the poison has operated pretty rapidly, To the witness : Did you take that person into custody ? Witness : No, your honour; I had no orders. In cross-examination by Sir George Stephen, it trans pired that the occurrence took place outside the court, upon which fact, the learned counsel contended the judge had no jurisdiction, in so far, at least, as Mr. Whitty was concerned. The Judge said, the Act of Parliament was explicit on the point; he was protected, not merely in the court., but in going or coming ; and the effect of that placard was to discompose his mind for the admitistration of justice on that morning. Sir George Stephen contended that the legislature could not have contemplated any provision for protecting the mind of the judge ; if the line in the placard were taken by itself, he submitted that no possible insult could:be ex torted from it. What did it, say ! Me:ely, " Mr. Ram shay's opinion of the people of Liverpool." And if it were to be taken in connexion with the paragraph in the paper itself, it was not attempted to be denied that the pa ragraph was a fair and impartial report of what had really taken place in the court, and that the words used by his honour were accurately quoted. The Judge said, that, whether the paragraph were an encomium or against him, he did not know, for he had not read the paper. He took the placard as it stood, upon its own merits, and it was riot to be endured that those who were charged with the administration of justice, especially among the poor and ignorant, who were easily misled by announcements of this kind, should be subjected to annoy ances that might have the effect, not only of unfitting them for the due execution of their duties, but of taking from them that degree of respect which was indispensable for the proper exercise of their duties, and probably of exciting some of the numerous parties against whom he had to decide, to make an attack upon his life. The life of a County Court Judge was of some value to his friends, assailed him ; rind it was likely that if there was no check put to a system of annoyance of this kind, the melancholy end of a more exalted man than himself might possibly be his. The learned judge then proceeded at considerable length to animadvert. on the evils to which the community would be subject if judges were not protected, stated that he had uniformly done all in his power to administer justice impartially, and he cared not who the man was that interfered with any officer of the court in the discharge of his duty, he would have him brought before him and heavily fined. _ Sir George Stephen respectfully submitted, as a mem ber of the bar, junior, certainly, in point of position to his honour, but not in experience, that the public and the law looked upon the judge's honour and character as pub lic property. He referred to the instance where the Examiner canvassed the conduct of Mr. Baron Platt, in the case of some sentences which were placed in juxta position, and Me Times had most freely commented on the conduct of Mr, Justice Talfourd in the case of the Birds, but it was not for a moment thought that in either of these cases an insult to the judges, or a contempt of court had been intended ; and the freedom of the press must not be lightly invaded ; the press had a right to comment on the judicial acts of the judge; and had the placard any epithet or adjective whatever ; had it been good, bad, or indifferent, or decided, he said, his client might, perhaps, fell under the animadversion of the learned judge. But the defendant had only fairly and honestly recorded an event in his honour's court, and the placard did not even express an opinion thereon. He therefore submitted that, as the Crown, with all its pre rogatives, the House of Lords, with all its judicial powers, and the House of Commons, with all its_ privileges, were . . . . the net justly amenable to the fair criticism of the press, of Mr. Whitty was not within the jurisdiction of the lav and should his honour be of a different opinion, he wool advise his client, rather than pay any fine, to go to prison for the term which his honour might award. The learned Judge here recalled theofficer of the court, Mr. Sumner, who, in answer to some questions from his Honour, said he knew of many cases where insults to the judee and the officers of the court had been given, chiefly, he believed, in consequence of these placards. That very morning a person in court had insulted the officers before the judge took his seat. The Judge : Is that person in court ? Witness : He is, your Honour. (He then pointed out one of the reporters for the Journal* Judge: Witness What were the words used ? • : He asked me to give him a chair; and a bad been pointed ou to me as one of the report Journal I'refused, when he said I was as 1 Judge (to Mr. Harker) : Stand up, sir, Judge: What is your name ? Reporter : Simon Harker. Judge: Let this case stand over t posed of. r The learned Judge then wen over the evid e. learned Con that he considered the offence to be one of great enormity and. for the protection of the court. and as an example tc others le inflic lty of £5, sonment in y highest th THE SECOND CHARGE A The ju preceding case, ustody of t until final judgment had been r sect upor following evidence was adduced : William Hartley, one of the bailiff's of the c is last, i was ordered to On Saturda Whitty befc went Iron) t Journal Offi Mr. WhittY, doxvn, but would be th not in when county-court, SUM M and that he would when he oper blade of whit followec ;fairs into a cellar here—about fours when c but one c t Mr. R to snea know th it in the office for an how to the ilitnediately. I took w Mr. Whitty be saii and ran 11 a long nd he th as advancing pulled out a 1 nut." I rounded me and His HoNoun Stone, for the op and the result was tha t sight of Mr. Whitty that had interfered to Whitt y. vent the apprehens in the same direction that Mr. Whitty had to said we we given in charge, ar a short time ; •esumed 1 kINST MR. WHIT .t the men sur a of M tinned : I saw afterwards, in the cell inued : I think Mr. Whitty had out a w strongly reinforced, entered the Journal-of watching the premise An atterrp but this s repelled the nearest instrument, threatening the con Mr. Whitty in cos repaired aftexwards to the County ( the unsuccessful termin some on( bridewell then left the cellar. I was prevented from some type, and I then desisted from the pu told by one of the assistants that we were in we were then taken to the station house, act the son of Mr. Whiny and the police. It we to Mr. Clough that we had gone to arrest MI an ord, rant." of the County Court, when'Mr ke him wit Cl The judge her that N. seem to know very much about the act of parliament ; and - did not care who they were. that LE mined to fine most heavili any person who:interf Cross-exarr ed by Sir GEORGE STEPHEN not make u been bailiff of this court for th sober whisk( that. time. I had had two t I rant, and sai was not quite s d I had none. words to the effect that I v. s perfectly aware doing was illegal or irregular. I did say Mr. Whitty would not go, that I knew 1 there. Mi., Whitt) , remarked, ' why you havi policeman ought to have known bette a► warrant. I will s 'ear that I did not say his honour was so furious, or so angry. or in such a rage that I dare not go back without Mr. Whitty. I never in my life use the word "madman or rail" at Mr. Whitty's. 1 a ill sear )iitern pt never said the judge raved at me like a madman, or nn' thing to that effect. I believe I said it was tfr con of court, and not for an article in the Journal. By the JUDGE.—How came von to make use of such foolish expression as this, that you knew you had no busi. !less there ? Do you think that is such conduct that I can tolerate in you ' I think you will find out tha, —the canvassing my orders '. it is not. Cross-examination continued.—The Judge personally delivered the order to me to go and bring Mr. Whitty be fore him. If Mr. Ramshay gave me orders to come to you and take you in your house to-night, I would do so. I was not directed by Mr. Ramshay to bring him whether he resisted or not. His HoNourt said if he bad known that Mr. Whitty had intended to resist, he most certainly should have given or ders for him to be brought before him, intending the officers should use whatever force might be required for that purpose. He did not care if it required ten thousand men, he knew he should have them if he asked for them, in the execution of his duty._ _ _ _ _ _ _ Sir GEO. STEPHEN said it was a point that he should have to argue hereafter, whether the Judge did possess the power he now claimed. His Hormuu was most anxious to have his authority canvassed to the utmost, especially in a matter of this na ture, and if Sir George could convince him that he was wrong, he would act upon that conviction the very next moment. The witness continued.—He knew what was meant by a paper knife: the knife lie!d up by Mr. Whitty was like a bacon knife, and came to a point at the end. When he took the knife out of the drawer, he was on the opposite side of the counter to me, I believe. I was sober enough to know whether I stood on my head or my heels. Roger Charnley, one of the bailiffs the last witness, said : When w who accompanied reached Mr. Whittv's shop, we informed him ma, .ae jut, the County Court, had given us orders to bring him be fore him, to speak to him. He said where is your autho rity or warrant ? We replied we had nohe, and Mr. Whitty answered, " I'll not go then if you have a war rent or summons, I will go with you." He added, that we might go and state to Mr. Ramshay what he had said, and he would wait an hour for us. He then informed Mr. Ramshay of Mr. Whitty's reply. and he said, " You have my authority to take him." When we told Mr. Whitty this, adding 44 We must take you," he again inquired where is your warrant, and was told that we had not got one—our orders from the judge were to take him before him. When I went round the counter to take him, he pulled a large knife out of a drawer, and holding it up, he said, " If you lay hold of me, I'll send this into you ; stand back, or I'll cut yott." I was then within half a yard of him. Mr. Whitty then made through a back door, anti I was seized by the back by Mr. Whitty's son. We followed Mr. Whitty into the cellar, and when we were coming up to him within about a yard, he said, still holding the knife in his band, " If yo . o lap a hued upon me, I shall send this into you." I said to him, you ought to have more sense than to offer to use a knife; why don't you come quietly ? He then called for some men-15 or 20 of whom were in the cellar—and told them to throw us out into the street, for we had no busi ness there. The men surrounded us and prevented our following Mr. Whitty ; after which we were given into custody, and taken to the police-station. as mentioned by the preceding witness. I asked the officers to assist us, on which they inquired for our warrant, and on being told we had not got one, Mr. Whitty's son said take these men !usiness Whitty's son stated that they bad been to arrest his father without a warrant, or any authority whatever; and as soon as the bailiffs had explained the orders they received from Mr. Ramshay, Mr. Clough said he could not interfere to assist them as they had no warrant ; and their names having been entered, they were dismissed. By Sir George Stephen.—Mr. Whitty's son first pro posed that we should go to the Police-office. When we first called on Mr. Whitty, he said, if you lay a hand on me I will send for the police, and give you in custody. We did not make any charge of assault at the Police office. Mr. Whitty's son charged us with assaulting him. I am not a regular bailiff, but an occasional one, and wa' acting in that capacity on this Saturday. I was formert in the police, and am now also a collector of debts. not receive my tiirections personally from his honour : it was Hartley who asked me to accompany him. My ap pointment as assistant-bailiff was not in writing. I a s k e d Hartley for his authority , and he said he had not go t a warrant; but he told me what his honour had ordered him to do. The knife taken up by:Mr. Whitty had a blade better than a foot long, and an inch wid e , an d was sharp at tho : it was a very strong on e , an d m i g h t be used for cutting paper. I did not say I was very sorry, but Mr. Whitty must come with me. I did not say,—You know ; Mr. Whitty, what sort of a man Mr. Ranashay is, and we must do our duty. I said to Mr. Clough I did not know whether I hart any business there or not, but we came there by Mr. Raroikay's orders. I was quitesober, sion t hat Mr r. Whi len, take that man into self fortunate that I was commit le of ti hole court Pointed of Caldwell. Judge ohs, On th ,i,;,.t, 1.0 able position of court to Mr. Whitt ;ion in his t and had had no spirits that morning : only two glasses of John H. Joyce. a colic followed the bailiffs, and defendant's shop, was next I a similar account of the tra o by the two last witness♦ •enort the answer of Mr. \V its, who :tines there es that sw hey returned to Mr. W to ruitedy without tt that whe: trikc the officer with When th wit ness rid some nt ;hat he hail ji lace. Mr. Whist I Joy(' to fine eve?, be identified as having t I set in this eourt fi la in wi and I is a sum )ring him before me. again refused to be taken in diletion of a warrant. Th Mr. Whitty threatened to -at ti officers following in pure' what was going on in tile, house, and asked Mr. CI men down to the Journ was told by that superir tclied fo r men to th mono, he was struck sever, man and others in the silo and the whole of the work with the officers in the exec The JUDGE expressed hi who migh ; of these r t in this RE I £l5 days b: t of t nour to le audit( c►osed. Tnde 51E STEP tence hin WL the rising of throughou exciteme ow not) loudly cheere precincts against every one WI assatsit on the officer be detective pour be visited with pun of court THE EXPECTED D Tt having t .eed to Lanc, FOR LAN( ;tcr by flit at the railway st On the rising 01 the railway station atn qua after ball at the stat fully equip ied by his f LATE AI London he mitt quantity of rain had fallen tied inundations, and General Saltina, Conainat had (lied. The latter WOUil suds to the extent of d opium department at Bomi out there against the Arabs Import trade brisk. 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