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fount • for the grass in the hand i there must have been a struggle before that blow was given. There was grass on the side of the road.. The .fracture, was so extensive, that the bones of the skull were driven into the brain. The cap and flannel were produced. Allcock, being re called, said the blue paper was torn when he received it. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. WILK iNs addressed the jury for the defence in an energetic speech of some length. lie pointed out to the Jury what he conceived to be the culpable negligence of the prosecutor, in not bringing forward the bonnet, patteus, and shirr and stockings. He remarked on the vat ious places in which the basket, pattens, and body were found, iu opposite directions; and infetred that it would have been a work of ; time so to .place the things, or that there must have been a number of hands employed in the murder. As a further proof of this, he. remarked on the tratnpled state of the grass about the pond. lie urged upon the attention of the jury, the character of the witness Benion, and said he should call it witness of repute to contradict her statement. Everything, he-said, seemed to corroborate this opinion, there having been seen four strange men there during the whole morning. The learned - gentleman concluded his address with an elo quent appeal to the feelings of the jury. He then proceeded to call his witnesses. -lames Taylor and a man named Brown were called. The witness Morgan was called. lie could not say whether he l'Ad ever seen t h em b efore or not. He could not swear that e did se e . other persons in the lane. He went to see the Place where the body was found. Witness afterwards went ever to the inquest. Hodge was taken into custody that day. Ile fell into company with Morg,an, and he asked him if he attY young man or any person loitering about, except the four tnenand he said "N o ," he met none but the four Poor fellems n the lane, and they were looking for work, like P i himself. Mr Robert Browusun stated that he was .a traveller, and resided at Huluie. He and the last witness fell into company wimp hadNlorgan, as stated by the last witness. Morgan said he j, not seen any b ut the four men. lut Baggtinv stated that he was Mr. Shakspeare Phillip's He j el • t C' Iton on the 19/11 July. He saw s him, S a al r r uenren about twenty-lino minutes past twelve o'clock. had a child and a basket and she said she was going to Manchest er; hut she had. to call upon her husband at Cook totes farm, which %las a mile off. Mrs, s hepherd stated that she kept a beer shop near the "'Per) . - At live o'clock ou the Tuesday night, stated as that of ,the murder, th e pr i soner at the bar was not at h er h ouse . Mr. ST.suale replied . at some lengths, remarking on the points raised by Mr. Wilkins. The Learned JeDGE recalled Mr. J. Chorlton. . Ile stated, in i reply to his lordsn day to p, I 1-t no f our men came to him that flak for mowing. His I °Rus t ' t e in his add ress to t h e j ur k ,sa i t ! the question for. their consideration is as wheth e r th e p r i sone r was the man `rho had caused the death of Mai y Moore. Whoever had cons !flitted it, there was m; doubt that if she had met her death by vtideuee, the crim e was murder. He cautioned the jury particularly against giving way to that propensity of the Y human mind whi c h h as a tendelic to maketra s h f ee l pleas ure when they can by ingenuity shake vire uinst atiec. s lit and har monize with each other. Thus, if they could on;v see that the money which the prisoner had holden was Mrs. Moore's money, every circumstance weuld harmonize. But they must not draw 'woo .their imagination for the supply of this de ficiency, but upon the evidence. Upon the circumstance of the piece of blue paper seen in the prisoner's mouth, his lord ship said he rested no weightat all. It was proved , he said, that the p arce l i n th e b as k e t was folded in blur paper, which was of a texture common enough. The hypothesis was that the pa t eel had been unfolded, a piece of paper torn off, and the parcel molded up again. He put it to the jury if that IA ss Probable. The paper was presented to them in a tote state; but if the piece of paper -produced had fitted any of those P ie ces, it would have beets a strung circninstauce. But such Was not the case. The jury consulted together for a few minutes, and returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The case occupied the court till six o'clock, when the court adjourned. NISI PRIUS COURT.—WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr. Justice rrtiliams.) His lordship took his seat at nine o'clock. m r WATSoN AND OTHERS V. MORT. • Wlghtumn and Mr. Alexander apearel for the plain dautti.t'ud Mr. Cresswell aud Mr. Hendeprson fur the defen- This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are brass and iro n - founders at St. Helen's, to recover from the defen dant, who carries on a branch of the Herculaneum Pottery at Ecclestim, between 1:500 and 1:600, the value of a steam engine and mac hi nery. I t appeared that the plaintiffl sold to the defendant a secondhand engine, which had formerly been use d at a colliery, for £220, the engine being of 8 horse Power. The engine was purchased by the defendant for the purpos e of grinding flints, arid turned out to be inefficient. But it was contended by the plaintiffs that the reason of its inefficiency was hecause it was overworked, and was put to . do what would require the power of a 16-horse engine. They contended that the engine was an exceedingly good one, and was in reality a 6-horse power engine, though capable of working 10-horse power. The defendant's counsel contend ed that the engine was a bad one, and not capable of per forming the work which an engine of its power ought to do; that it went very badly, and did not perform the work for which it was bought, and which, if a good one, which it was represented to be, it ought to have done. Vor this reason the defendant refused to pay fur it. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs—damages, £560 ISs. Ild. DOE V. CORRY AND ANOTHER. 'Phis was an action of ejectment, brou ' lit by the plaintiffs, Mrs. Mary Alice Wilson, Mr. B rown , and Mr. Blakeson, to recover possession of two small houses at Manchester. The premises had been mortgaged, and there had been some legal difficulty t the mortgagee in getting possession of them. and during the interval which this occupied the defendants had paid no rent, and now refused either to pay rent or leave the premises, saying they - had occupied them so long without paying anybody any rent, that they had as good a right to them as any person. No substantial defence was offered. The hill , found a verdict foi the plaintiff; his LonustilP remarking, that the jury adjudged the defendants to be but " squatters," they having paid no rent. • COLTON V. LOGAN AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought by Mr. William Butterfield Colton, wine -merchant, of Liverpool, to recover front Mr. lanes Logan and Mr. Francis Ileslop the amount of nearly too, advanced by him for wines. It appeared that Logan and lleblop formerly carried on business together, and in the years 183-1 and 1835 sold to the plaintiff a quantity of wine, under certain conditions, fur about engaging to receive two acceptances at six months in payment, and to protect the plaintiff from any cash payment; that is, if the plaintiff had not sold sufficient of the wine to meet the bills, they (the defendants)• would make up the difference. The plaintiff did not sell sufficient of the wine to meet the bills; but meantime the defendants had dissolved partnership, and one partner was in difficulties, anti the other had no cash belonging the old concern to ad , ance to tope! the acceptances .coming due, obliging the plaintiff at great inconvenience to himself to provide near £4OO out of his business capital to meet them. The wines yet remained uns o ld, an d t h e act i on was brouttlit to recover from the defendants the amount of a renewed bill for £3ll 19e. 81., a part of the original payment on account of the wine. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £3ll 19s. Bd. The court adjourned al six o'clock. CROWN COURT.—TIII:IISDAY. His Lordship to o k•hi s seat a f ew minutes before 9 o'clock. COMIC. F. OF MURDER. James Highants, aged 30, was charged with having mur dered Thomas Halligan, iu this town, in the month of July last. Mr. Armstrong and M r . D o yl e con d uc t e d the prosecetion, add Mr. Murphy the defence. . • Mr. AnsisrimoNG minutely detailed the circumstances of the case to the jury. John Colburue stated that on the 13th of July he came over from Egremout, where he resided, and after attending to some business he went to a tavern at the corner of Nailor- Street.. After they had drunk sonic ale they were turned out tef the house at twelve o'clock. '[lie deceased, Thomas Eat lion, was of the party. Witness turned aside fur some pur pose, and while he was thus turned the prisoner advanced across- Vauxhall -road, and going up to the deceased, said " Are you the same man you were?" The deceased replied, li 1 , ~ 1 dmi- Presently utter, witness heard the deceased cry ( , ) ,h Oh, Lord God, lam stabbed !" Witness ran after g e t prisoner, and attempted to seize him. The prisoner 'reed himself and told him that he would serve him the same :he had serverit he other. Witness tripped him and threw 4 '9, dowel. A scuffle enused, and he felt a teucii on his ann. A female was at hand, called out "Oh, James Highams, e et : have killed the man." The prisoner ran away and es lieed up a court in Nailor-street. Witness afterwards dis csne r.ed that he was stabbed iu the artn. lie secured the irl, , rt _kent. her by the am for some time. At length he went .B ett r, the deceased, who had been taken to the Infirmary. and I ,g, fei tie. witti loss of blood he was taken into the Infirmary, p _nit his wound dressed. wh ere Maude, who was also of the party at the tavern In " ti v• th" decea sed was corroborated part of the above testi ,tate4 _ yhe evidence differed, however, very much,. as he ro a e ho t i at he saw the deceased in the middle of N auxhall thee,. t ` . " of a man in a white jacket. Witness went towards n", ttLiPutththey had separated before he got to them, and the ' t \ . tl i r ilue s ,„,e_ w hite jacket rats away, pursued by Colburne. , e 10 . 0 ,, e 70 ran away after him and kicked him as he lay on .luss r ti n „, '• Ile then returned to the deceased, who was "ad bee„ e: Witness did noteknow before that the deceased uis LoitnaLbed. hen' Th er • : lllP .—" Now, I cannot see why you kicked that ~,itgroutid, was t as one man dealing with him, and he was on T h c e irecen s e i nce w s a?, very barbarous to kick a man under eeaseittiess pro , Vi,,, . 4 1. alld f„ no e'llC(1 to say that he returned to the de e_ , ,eibeed Biro,u 1 him- bleeding profusely. He asked . htm uu.u,ultuess caul hut he was unable to articulate intelligibly twit . • noeth s . . Mary Ann s e no t hear what he said. , egliteen 1 . •• • " e hY stated thet she had known the prisoner toil, 3 arid kneesn. She was at the eoruer o al 0 i his fN• •I r-street on the h e g t ; I n questi o She saw the prisoner at the bar e „ o e r t . . or iii:P iris hut, • Hi s hat was a and trom liiine ti . h One he tried (if iro n eato, ~ our, “Uhaps, that' s riot , fair. One ' L'e deceased f n „„ tee wen the If you don't go away I'll /ow you." One knocked hint into the middle of the street. te a k' and ~aid iil,,lol,yeil him, and elle? a little while stepped 1P Prisoner im't I ou've a knife." The deceased ran God ,la st a b b ,,,, , 1 the bar to her. He said, "Oh Lord Ood, :pee le d to r_ I . u stabbed —I'm dead I'm dead." Witness Homy w i ne girl who r, Grant s' , it's Jimmy Hiehams who stabbed the man. u e ( osa . ry, st'a,rteoe,ef. the visiting . surgeons of the North . Dis islet,' , , , that the deceased was brought into the ee, artery c"" , on stri " external t h ad 1 eping him, he found that the lie (nee Was r )fteu divided. Any attempt to have saved M NI uttp '"Pele sB . heard, lie would laid, after the evidence which they had said there sse The Jet G. not incumber the court by any observations. evidetic e T h . en attacked hail b" e of M ary Ann S as no doubt in this case, .as the l e %,,, the by three men, before die stab was given. re, thsi ~, refor e , s ek ,,m e i ent Sweeney showed that the prisoner 4,l ,,hte r Th e - • le,ieiiiiite of utenslauehter Provocation to reduce it to ee ,,, , jury found the pris oner not guilty of murder, but yes " iniprisonmen' and. [ 1 he prisoner was sentenced to two te e 0 , labour in Lancaster Castle.] it u si r ei i- i a ii - „ l rd N a l n i: o ' , ' , ':', d e ei,;(3 eo NVICTIO;e . oIt bl ANS LAIGHTEII. mdered Michael , the r. Brandt. appeeuas indicted for having wilfully d Warren, at :Manchester. re c delenc e for the prosecution, Mr. Wilkins for ' , NOT in statin g Mr. B„ ' doper s tood charg e the case to the jury said, the pri ce with murder, but he believed the eve. ,„cc woirld scarcel !:.et he could Y support that charge, and he was happy .., I 1 12, !y nt , eonsi,ectrelieve their minds from that heavy responsi as .11e. believed l it t'voit h tp t e case under the more serious light, urn out to be a case of manslaughter. ( .. , l is t e a d t:ne,a l i j a c e l l i , ae thatoz the night of the 23d June, the 'de rell, Wils in Man-street, Shudehill, Mancheste r , t% itli the till e r, lie teas with dprfioner, a ho was, it appeared, a noted deceased, an old mail., st,rt,,,•diidipassing time place, whine the with him, and was iutexicated" deceased had a companion zs l o e n v, e , r d passed, he pushed against the deceased. The lat i t e er i twkd, prisoner was heard to say to his companion, '" now him, n a i l ud what 4 blow I'll give him—he is by himself now." When h :,... a eciearted came tip t o him, the prisoner struck him two ._77, l 'Y ehtws on the head, whereby he was thrown violently to toe grotto& Ile wa s taken up insensible, and carried t a tavern kept .by a Mrs. ' Farrell. He remained insensible till be died, ,next place, atici ii 'morning. A post moment examinatio n took on the b Ins found that there was great effusion of blood A .. ' raia• 'rime prisoner was taken into custody by rtnitage, of the Manchester police. He said to him he feared the case would go bad with him, because of his bad character. Wri a et B ', ~ 7 I , oRGERY . "'"tntioi a respectable looking 8 WO. charged with having committed a forgery. The indictment set forth, that the prisOner had forged an acceptance to de fraud Joseph Hughes, and Edward Grundy, of the sum of £l6 15s. 10d., and of uttering the same, knowing it to be forged. There was another count charging him with having uttering a genuine receipt for £ll ss. 10d., so as to make it appear to be for £l6 15s. 10d. This, the coun c il f o r the prosecution said was the substantive offence. Mr. Brandt and Mr. Cross for the prosecution, and Dr. Brown and Mr. L. Peel for the defence. The prisoner, it appeared, was the paid overseer of the parish of Rivington for ten years. In 1830-31, Mr. Edmund Grundy was high constable for the hundred of Bolton and Middleton. Mr. Grundy was partner in the firm of Grundy and Woods, bankers, of Bury. John Shaw, who acted as a writer for the township of Rivington, in 1830-31, proved that he had entered the accounts of the township in the town ledger, from the prisoner's dictation. The amount entered. as money rolls was £75 2s. - (The ledger was produced.) March was the usual period for examining and passing the accounts. The accounts were cast up by a schoolmaster. They were then submitted to the town meeting and passed. The vouchers were not produced regularly, nor were the ac counts at all examined by them. The balance in favour of the prisoner was IA 10s. 2 1d. Edward llothwell, an assistant overseer, proved that on the 3d of May last he demanded the books and papers of the prisoner, and received amongst them the money warrant produced. Joseph Hughes, who was, in 1831, a clerk in the bank of Messrs. Grundy and Woods, said it was the' nrisoner's duty at that time to pay money in pursuance of the money lolls. The amount iu question was handed to the witness. Ile gave that receipt on the 6th July, 1831, fur Ell ss. 10d. The receipt had been altered by turning the one into a figure of six, And by placing a figure of one before the five in the shillings' place. The total amount required for the township of Rivington, while Mr. Grundy was high constable, was £56 [Us. 641. The money was received and entered as the banking account of the high constable. The duplicate money warrants were produced by Mr. Woodcock, attorney, of Bury. Fle had not made out bott► the originals and the duplicates. The total to be cAlected under the warrant in question was £llss. 10d. Among the items in the above warrant, there appeared one of £5 13s. 2d., fur the proportion of tile chairman's salary. This, it was proved, had been, in reality, only 13s. 2d. A Mr. Anderton staled his belief that the figure of five placed in the pounds' column was in the hand-writing of the prisoner. Tbe learned JUDGE Stated it as his opinion that there was not sufficient evidence of forgery, though he thought the fraud was made out in the handing over the receipt as a voucher, as it would make. Mr. Grundy liable fur the difference. The Jury proved the prisoner guilty ofultering knowingly, with the intention of fraud. Witnesses were called to prove that the prisoner had pos sessed a good character, and a document to the like effect was handed in. The pi isoner was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and hard labour in Lancaster Castle. HAVING POSSESSION OF BASE COIN, WITH INTENT TO UTTER [Valium Rodgers was placed at the bar, in company with Mrs. Large, the latter having been convicted during the present assizes of having been possessed of a mould for coining, of which the prisoner Large was acquitted. The present indictment charged Rodgers with having had base eoi n in his possession, with intent In utter. The Attorney-General for the County Palatine and Ml'. Armstrong conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Knowles ap• peared for the defence. . It appeared that on Wednesday, the 6th of June last, the two prisoners were on Kersal Moor, at the Manchester races. A dispute occurred respecting a bad shilling which the prisoner and Large were said to have passed. Mr. Dig gtes, deputy constable of Salford, and Andrews, an officer of the Alanch , ster police, were present. They took the prison ers into custody, and on searching them they found on Large 18 counterfeit shillings, and on Rodgers two counterfeit slid lings,a nd no good money at all. Mr. KNowLes addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner The act of parliament set forth that the person must be found poss esse d o f three or more pieces of counterfeit coin. To make thi s Out, it was presumed on the part of the prosecu tion that th e p ossess i on of Large was a joint possession with Rodgers. This point his Lordship said he should reserve. The jury found the prisoner guilty. His Lordship de ferred passing sentence. ING. Robert Wil son , age d 26, was charged with having, at Man chester, feloniously made and counterfeited a shilling and a sixpence. Mr. Sergeant Alcherlcy, and Mr. Armstrong for the prose cution, and Mr. Wilkins for the defence. A person who was employed by the conndttee for incorpo rating the town of Manchester, was calling at certain houses in Allum street, fur the purpose of testing the genuineness of the opponents signatures to a petition. As he passed along the street he saw through the window of the residence of the prisoner that the latter was engaged in pouring metal into a mould. H e entered the house, and saw the prisoner breaking a mould under his foot on the floor. A base shil ling, a sixpence, a farthing, and a medal, all cast from one mould, and still attached by the new tnetal, he found on the floor. Ile asked the prisoner'What'he was doing, he replied tie was out of work, and was trying his hand at that game! The clerk gave informatio n to t h e p o lice, who went to the prisoner's house at night, and found sonic plaster of Paris, and the shilling, sixpence, farthing and medal, which had served as patterns fur the counterfeits. The prisoner did not go to the house. while the officers were there. They found the prisoner at another house iu bed. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he received sen tence of six months' imprisonment in Kirkdale Gaol. SELLING COUNTERFEIT COIN. Sarah Shackletun, aged 52, was charged with having at Manchester unlawfully uttered and put off to John Wilde a counterfeit soverei g n and a cou n t er f e it s hilli ng f or a l ower rate than the samedid by their denominations import. The Attorney-General and Mr. Armstrong for the prose cution, and Air. L. Peel for the defence. I t.,apioeit red that a person named Wilde had been employed by tho4oliee of Manchester in May last, to go and make acquainiance with the prisoner. He went to his house and said he had been recommended by a person named Hough ton, whom the prisoner knew. lie made acquaintance with the prisoner, who introduced him to a person named Davies. These between them sold him certain base coins, imitations of sovereigns, half-sovereigns, and shillings. Davis had pre viously pleaded guilty during the present assizes. A half-sovereign was produced which had been struck with a die. It was yellower in appearance, and not su heavy, as a good half-sovereign. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The prisoner, with Davies, who had pleaded guilty, was sentenced to one years imprisonment and bard labour at Kirkdale gaol. POLYGAMY. Philip Peat, aged 35, was charged with having at Mottram, feloniously married Ann Armstrong, his former wife being still alive, and with having afterwards married Sarah Lunn, his former wife being still alive. The case was tried before, when there appeared some doubt as to whether the first wife had not been previously married. The prisoner had, at all events, it was supposed, committed bigamy by his marriage with the second and third wives. Mr. Brandt appeared for the prosecutor, and Dr. Brown for the defence. First, case p resente d some extraordinary circumstances. it was suspected that the first wife had been previously married in S cot l an d . Si nce the prisoner had left her she had also married again. The second wife, Ann Armstrong, had• also' married again to a person named Atkinson, since the prisoner bad left her; and in addition to this, the pri soner had als o marr i e d a third wife, with which he now' stood charged. N o evidence was offered that the first marriage was unlawful. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment RIOT AT WlGAN—CllAßGEn O L F a r : A a L s i t c e t r o C cs as: y le c , u t r o T b iN e o k . ept to hard labour. Three . 0 e a n i n a a a n s , l andarvin, and Borne, were charged ng feloniously intent to maim, disable, and do grievous wounded John Payne, on Monday maliciously cut and .e ebko' at d k. Wigan, h with re e offence as committed against others, but t l:is ( L . were two other counts in the indictment, charging the put th the of the prosecutors upon th e c h o i ce • • • position of the offences which should be tried. Mr. Hutton conducted the prosecution; M Roebuck de fended the prisoners. James 'Woods stated that he was a special constable of Wigan. On Monday week he was in the Scholes at Wigan. He saw William Ileath, a constable, who charged him to assist him. There was a procession coming down the Scholes. It was a procession of clubs. One was a sick club. They passed, and some men turned out of the back streets, same with tongs and pokers; they ran amongst the procession and began to ill use them, and took the colour staves and broke them over their heads. Brennan was there amongst the aggressors, very active. earviu he did not see. The members of the sick club ran away. The constables got information, and witness went with Hindlev. They went to a public•house, kept by a person named Dendley, and as they entered he saw the prisoner run up stairs. Witness and a man named Lancaster followed them. They were standing at the top of the second flight of stairs. Brennan had a mortise chisel in his hand. Home had a poker, and Garvin had a bedstoek. Brennan shook the chisel, and said, " You if you come up stairs, I'll kill you!" Witness asked then; to give themselves np. They were at length compelled to go for more assistance. Payne went to their assistance, . He went first up the stairs; and witness followed. Brennan struck at Payne with the, chisel on the head. The blow was severe, and it bled. The others did not use the weapons which. they held. They got stools to protect their heads, and went up stairs. Garvin and Horne struck left and right, and broke the stools. They could not get up stairs, and they got liberty to go through the wall of the next house, and look at them. Cross-examined by Mr. ROEBUCK.—There was a mule in the procession. It had colours on. It. had an orange colour ed lily on its head. The club was never an orange club since he could recollect. William Ileath, a police-officer of Wigan, stated that he was in the Scholes at Wigan on Monday week. He saw the last witness, and charged him to assist bum. Witness described the disturbance similarly to the last witness. Cross-examined b y Mr. ROEBUCK .—Witness apprehended many of rioters on the spot. He found great difficulty in preventing the mob from striking some of the prisoners who.were taken. Some of them were struck. Lancaster stated, that he was a special constable at Wigan. In consequence of information which he received he went with the first witness to Hindlev. Witness described the circumstances that took place at Pennington touch as Woods had done. When Payne was struck he fell, and wit ness said the other prisoner also struck, and they all felldown together. 'John Varley stated, that he was charged by Mr. Whittle to assist in quelling the disturbance at Wigan. He went to Hindley with the others. This witness also described the occurrences at Pennington. He stated that he was struck by sortie instrument on the head. By Mr. ItoEnucK.—There was a great crowd outside the town, and the crowd was very angry, and swore to have the prisoners brought down. John Pyke produced the chisel with which the blow had been struck. The handle was broken, and . witness proved that it was whole that morning. Mr. Richie, a burgeon at Hindley, stated, that when Payne was brought to him, he found an artery divided, and extrava satian under the scalp. Payne was at first in a state of con siderable danger, but he was now recovering. Mr. Rolinucx said this was one of those unfortunate cir cumstances arising out of matters which not unfrequentiv occurred in that part of her Majesty's dominions called Ire land. In this country we regarded such circumstances with that horror which he hoped ere long all would feel who lived under the same laws with ourselves. While such occurrences excited our horror, they must also claim our pity, for the in dividuals to whom he alluded had strong feelings on some subjects. The learned gentleman went on to remark on the circumstance of the intention of parading a mule dressed in orange lilies. It was, he said, a very nice point, whether the capture were as legal capture or not, as the constables having suffered au interval to elapse, ought to have had a magistrate's warrant. He urged the jury to consider the hue and cry that was outside the door, and the threats of the po pulace, whereiiv the prisoners were alarmed, and determin ed to resist. lie therefore hoped they would give a verdict, as was in their power to do, that this was a common assault. His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said be thought certain parties were too fond of keeping the people in mind of their Provocations on such slight subjects as a few orange lilies bein g placed on the head of a mule. He did not think this was a fresh pursuit, and, ther e f ore , th ere w as no occas i on f ur a magistrate's warrant. The jury found the prisoners guilty of wounding, with in tent to do grievous bodily harm. Sontence deferred. Prey' si riously to the rising of the Court, his Lordship passed the following sentences William Harrison, for having been possessed of base coin, 15 years transportation. ]Francis Peat, for bigamy, six mouths' imprisonment. Joseph Smith, for bigamy, one year's imprisonment. Mary Whittingham, for bigamy, nine mouths' imprison ment. The Court adjourned at a quarter past six o'clock. NISI PItIUS COURT.—YESTERDAY. (Before It4r. Justice Williams.) Ills Lordship took his seat at uiue o'clock. PYE V. LIVERPOOL AND LEEDS CANAL tiOMPANY. Mr. Cresswell, Mr. Cowling, and Mr. Starkie a pp eare d f or the plaintiff, and the Attornwy:General for the defence. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Mr. James Pye, against the company of the proprietors of the Leeis and Liverpool Canal. The declarations charged the defendants with having assaulted the plaintiff, and given him into the custody of a police officer, and falsely imprisoning him. To which the defendants pleaded not guilty. It appeared, that the plaintiff is. a tenant holding a farm under Charles Scarisbrick, Esq., of Scarisbrick, at Alston, on the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. By the act 10th of Geo. 3d., which enables the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company to cut their canal through the various pro perties, the company agreed as a kind of compensation to the various proprietors through which their canal shoUld be cut, the privilege of carrying manure of a ceitain descrip-. tion along the canal, on paying a farthing a ton per mile, and that coal, dung, or turf to the villages or townships through which the canal passed, should go by the canal free of all tolls whatever. The same act also provided, that on the payment of the prescribed rates,. the public shal4 have free use of all the private roads, locks, cuts, and so forth of the company. It appeared, that notwithstanding this provi sion, the Canal Company had been gradually encroaching on the public of the various hamlets, through which their canal passed, and demanding tolls, and rates to a large ex tent, contrary to the statue. This, it was then determined, by some of the inhabitants to resist. Accordingly, on the nth of April, the plaintiff having purchased a large quantity of manure, gave the requisite notice, that she should Pass through the toll gate with , the manure, and unload it on the wharf of the company, for the purpose of. loading. The company were in the habit of letting trilling leaders of ma nure to go free, but on those who led much, they attempted to make their first stand of encroachment. The plaintiff loaded three dung carts in Liverpool with manure bought of a nighlman named Printon; and at three o'clock in the morning of the 20th of April, the plaintiff, along with the carts, went to the proper entrance to the Canal Wharf in Phillip•street, for the purpose of unloading the Manure, when he found a chain drawn across the street, and his carts shut out. He waited for some time till he saw se veral carts allowed to pass, and he then himself demanded to pass with his carts. This was refused by the agent, a per- Son named Abram, who demanded hall-a-crown a load, or refused to let the carts pass. The plaintiff said he would pay nothin g ,o• and if Abram would not let him go through, be would break the chain; they still refused, and the plaintiff then took a hammer out of his pocket, and said they were obstructing him in his right, and he would break the chain; and he accordingly broke the hook of the chain. Upon this, Abram gave him in charge to a policeman, and he was car ried to Bridewell at four o'clock in the morniug, and con fined in a room with " the better sort" of prisoners till ten o'clock in the forenoon, when he was conveyed before Mr. Hall, the police magistrate, and was by him immediately acquitted. Considerable evidence was gone into, to show that Mr. Scarisbrick's lands were cut through by the canal, and that his tenants, for the benefit of his lands, had a right to ex emption from toll; and that therefore the plaintiff was not a tresspasser. His LORDSHIP gave his opinion that the Company could not be guilty of an assault; and the Company were given the benefit of his lordship's decision. The defendants' counsel proceeded to ascribe the whole proceeding to the unauthorised act of Abram, and contended that if the plaintiff had wished to raise the right, he should have gone at a seasonable time, and done so to some of the principal officers of the Company. His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said undoubtedly the plaintiff had suffered the imprisonment, and the liberty of a freeborn Enlishman was not to he taken from hint with Th impunity. e jury would give such damages as the punish ment and degradation of the imprisonment called for • at the same time they would give the dam age s temperately, dis creetly, and with moderation and proper deliberation. The jury, after a short consultation, found a Verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £5O. DOE DEM BOLD V. DEVANY. The plaintiff in this case was called, and a verdict given for the defendant. SCARISBEICK V. TDE LEEDS AND LIVERPooI. CANAL CO. This case was founded on the case of Pye v. the same de fendants, and was brought to tty the-right of the defendants to obstruct a vessel carrying manure for refusing to pay the tolls demanded at the toll-gates 00 the canal. The right of Mr. Scarisbrick having been fully proved in the former case, verdict was consented to for the plaintiff with nominal dama of Is. PYI V. LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL CO. This was also an action founded on the same point, and was brought against the defendants for obstructing the plain tiff in loading a vessel with manure from the compau:%'s wharf unless he would pay wharfage, which was refused. The facts of the case were elicited, and a verdict was taken fur the plaintiff, damages Is., subject to a special case to be argued before the court above. REYNOLDS V. ROBINSoN AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Mr. John Reynolds, the public officer of the National Bank of Ireland, to recover from the defendants, corn merchants and brokers in this town, for the amount of £2OO. The affirmative in this case rested with the defendants, and their case was therefore opened first. It appeared that the City of Dublin Steam Packet Co. were in the habit of giving bills of lading on the receipt of cargo, which had to be produced, as signed by their officer, on claiming the delivery of the cargo loaded in Dub lin at • Liverpool. These bills of lading were the repre sentatives of the cargo, and in them the value was vested, and it was customary to accept on the receipt of them to the amount of the cargo. It appeared that an individual named Patrick Fegan had forged one of these receipts, or bills of lading, of the City of Dublin Steam-packet Co., which he had got discounted at the National Bank, and they, (the National Bank,) at its branch at Athlone had indorsed this forged bill of lading and transmitted it to their agents, the Bank of Liverpool, with a bill drawn by Fegan on the defendant, to whom the nominal goods were consigned; and the defendants, on seeing the endorsement of the National Bank, knowing nothing of Fegan, accepted the bill. On the arrival of the vessel'it was discovered that the bill of lading was a forgery; that there were no goods on board as described in the bill, and that consequently the defendants received no value for their acceptance, and refused to meet the bill on its becoming due. The plaintiffs, therefore, came upon them for the amount, saying that the defendants had accepted Fegan's bill on their own responsibility; and that their endorsement did not signify! The defendants counsel said if this were the case, of what use was the endorsement of the plaintiff if 'it implied no responsibility The facts were proved as stated by the defendants, and the plaintiff having no case, a verdict was found for the defen dants. DOE DEM GREENOUGH V. ANDERSON. This was an action of ejectment, brought by the plaintiff, Mr. Greenough, to eject the defendant, Mrs. Alice Ander son, from a cottage at Wigan, to which she imagined she had obtained a right. _ The jury founda verdict for the plaintiff. SAMUEL V. PERKINS AND OTHERS. The plaintiff in this case is - a timber-merchant at Mira michi, and the defendants, who in this transaction act toge ther,. reside at Newport in Wales. It appeared that a Mr. Pickford, one of the defendants, bought a cargo of timber at Miramichi, and the defendants chartered a vessel to bring home this cargo, and sent out the vessel under the care of a captain named Andrews. - On his arriving out there, the party front whom Pickford had bought the cargo, refused to ratify the bargain and send it to him, and the captain rather than bring home the vessel in ballast, purchased a cargo on the owners' account, and drew on his owners for the amount, who would have to look to the charterers. On the voyage home the vessel was lost near England, before the draft came to hand, and then the owners repudiated the cargo, it not having been insured, and said the captain had purchased the cargo without their authority. A number of timber merchants were called, who proved that •the universal cus tom at Miramichi, when vessels could not get cargoes, was either to get a charter, or to purchase a cargo of timber on the owner's account; and that a vessel was never known to return in ballast. The jury, after an absence of a quarter of an hour, found a verdict for the defioidant. The court adjourned at six o'clock. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. VANDENHOFP, And the Eighth Night of his Engagement. Last Night but One of Mr. DOWTON. Fifth Night of Miss VANDEN HOFF, who is engaged for a limited period. Fifth Night of Mr. F. VINING, who is also engaged for a limited period. rillllS present FRIDAY EVENING, the lith instant, will be repeated. (in consequence of the enthusiastic applause with which it wits received on Monday Evening,) the favourite Comedy of THE II UNC HBACK. Master Walter .... (the Hunchback) .... Mr. Vandenhoff, As otiginallv performed by him at this Theatre. Modus Mr. V. Vining. Lord Tinsel Mr. Chaplin. Sir Thus. Gray. Master 'Wilford—Mr. Bland. Fathom Mr. Baker. Helen Mrs. Tenet. Julia Miss Vandenhoff. To which will be added the Interlude, called TH.REE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE. Sir Charles Racket Drugget Mr. Dow•ton. Lady Racket.. Miss Faucit. Dimity Mrs. Tenet. To conclude with Foote's admired Farce of THE LIAII. Young , 'Wilding (the Liar) Mr. Vandenhoff. Miss Grantham..Aliss Cleaver. I Miss Godfrey.. Mrs. Baker. _ _ Kitty Mrs. Clarke. TO-MORROW, Shakspeare's Historical Play of HENRY THE FounTii. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Dun ton, (the Last Night of his Engagement) ; Prince of Wales, Mr. F. Vining ; Ilotspur, Mr. Gray • Poins, Mr. G. Horneastle ; Francis, Mr. Baker: Lady Percy, Miss Faucit. —To conclude with the Comic Pantomime of HARLE QUIN IN SICILY. The Tragedy of CATO having been received with most distinvuished approbation, will be repeated in the course of Mr..Vanolenhoff's Engagement. This Day is Published, in boards, Svo. with four Lithogra phic Plates, price 2s. 6d. A COMPLETE a❑d PRACTICAL SYSTEM of SHORT-HAND. By T. C. Roma, Professional Short-hand Writer, and Reporter fur the Livuttrool. STANDARD. London : \VnITT•AKLR and Co. Liverpool : STANDARD OFFICE. and MARPLRS. Manchester : SowLEn, and all Bookseller s. LIVERPOOL ASSIZES. R. T. C. FOSTER, SHORT-HAND WRITER, LAW REponrlin, and REPORTER run THE LIVERPOOL STAN DAR 0, will attend, Daily, in the Civil Coort, during the Assizes, and will furnish VERBATIM Reports of Causes to Professional Men or others on reasonable tel Having taken Short-hand Notes in the Courts of Law for many years, he has attained a knowledge of law tettos and an acquaintance with the forms of the court, which enables him to furnish minute Verbatim Reports of arguments of counsel, evidence, &c. Address, Mr. FosTEn, Standard-office. THE COMMON COUNCIL. The following are the names of the members of the com mon-council who go out of that body iu rotation on the first of November next : Everton Ward.. John Holmes Councillor..Reformer. Scotland Crawford Logan... Ditto Ditto. Ditto 'rhos. Holt Alderman ..Ditto. Vauxhall ....... Enoch Harvey Councillor.. Ditto. Ditto St. Paul's ChristopherßawdonCouneillor..Ditto. Exchange Henry Holmes ....Ditto Ditto. Castle-street ....Jos. Walrnsley ....Ditto Ditto. Ditto • George Robinson ..Alderman Ditto. St. Peter's John Woolwright..Couneillor..Ditto. Pitt-street Hugh Hornby .....Ditto Ditto. Great George's..Jatnes Lawrence ..Ditto Consery a. Ditto Win. P. Freme.....Alderman —Reformer Rodney-street —Henry Lawrence ..Ditto Conserva. Ditto ... Eyre Evans Alderman ..Reforme r Abercromby ....William Earle, jun Councillor—Dittn. Ditto Thos. B. Barclay .. Alderman ..Ditto. • Lime-street Thos. Morecroft ..Councillor..Dit to. Ditto Ormerod Heywor t h Alderman ..Ditto. St. A.une's Thos. Coglan ,Councillor..Ditto. West Derby ....John Shaw Leigh.. Ditto Conserva. Ditto .James Moon Alderman —Reformer* South Toxteth —John Cropper Councillor..Ditto. Northrroxteth..W. Wallace Currie Ditto Ditto. It will be see❑ that this list contains the names of sixteen common councilmen and eight aldermen, twenty-one of whom are reformers and three are conservatives. ADMIRALTY, 10th August, 1838. Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 31st of last month, and 3d instant, I am commanded by the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, that the French Government having forwarded orders to the commander of the blockading squadron to allow the shipment of specie from Mexico on account of foreign merchants, as well as on ac count of their respective governments: her Majesty's packets have received orders to ship treasure for private individuals at Vera Cruz and Tampico. I am, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) C. WOOD. To William Watson, Esq., Chairman of the Mexican and South American Association, Liverpool. CoNvwnsTioN.—The new church at .Colwyn, in the pa rish of Llandrillo yn Rhos. was consecrated on Tuesday, the 7th instant, by the Lord Bishop of St. Asanh, who, accom panied by his chaplain, (the Rev. Mr Roberts, of Llanrwst,) arrived in Minydon, the seat of Richard 13. Clough, Esq., about eleven o'clock, and proceeded immediately to the church, which was crlowded upon the occasion, notwithstand ing the unfavourable state of the .weather. The neighbour ihg clergy, about fourteen in number, attended the Lord Bishop to the Church, where the service of the day was read in a very impressive manner by the Rev. C. B. Clough, vicar of Mold, and an excellent discourse by the Rev. 'l'. Parry, vicar of the parish, front the 19th chap. of Leviticus and the 30th verse, "Reverence my sabbaths"—in which he took oc casion to congratulate the original promoter of this good work, (It B. Clou:41), Esq.,) atpl also J. LI. Wynne, Esq., and the Rev. Mr. Boulger, who gave the land on which the edifice is built, and the other contributors, on the completion of a work of such vast importance to the parishioners in and about the hamlet of Colwyn, the distance from which to the parish church exceeds three miles, thus debarring the aged and infirm from ever joining in the public service of the church, and receiving that food so desirable and comfortable to them in their declining years. Aft er ser vi c e a n d th e cere mony of consecration, the Lord Bishop partook of a cold collation provided for hint at Minydon, and returned to St. Asaph, at four o'clock all the clergy partook of an excellent dinner by special invitation of Mr. Clough, and at half.past six proceeded to the church, where the evening prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Pughe, the newly-appointed minister to the church, and a most eloquent and appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. R. Davies, minister of St. Da vid's Church, Liverpool, in the Welsh Language, to a most crowded congregation, with his accustomed ability. The collection amounted to £l3 2s. 91(1. FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1838. ():7' The Pubt.icatrou of the STANDARD comtnenced this morning al 5 o'clock. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF THE KINGDOM.—The subject of the foreign policy of our present ministry was prominently introduced to the notice of the House of Lords on Tuesday evening, by Lord Lyndhurst, on the presentation of a petition signed by nearly 600 of the wealthy and intelligent bankers, merchants, and manufacturers of the city of Glasgow. The speech of Lord Lyndhurst on this occasion was characterised, in an eminent degree,-by that calm and dispassionate eloquence for which his lordship is so r .celebrated ; and it is scarcely necessary to add that it told with tremen dous effect against Lord Melbourne and his imbecile and pusillanimous associates. The picture which he drew of our foriqgn relations was of the most appal ling description; and what gave the greatest weight to his representation was, evidently, the appeal to sta tistical data in support of the assertion that our fo reign commerce is i❑ a state of declension. This was proved most satisfactorily. The noble and learned lord proceeded to trace the causes of this declension, which he just y attributed to the infraction of treaties, on the part of foreign powers, and to other acts against which her Majesty's government ought to have provided." In the emphatic language of the pe tition, " it is only by the sacrifice of our power, and the abandonment of our rights, that the commercial relations of Great Britain have been thus crippled and endangered." In support of the-very strong but justifiable lan .;tiage of the petition, Lord Lyndhurst adduced set r rai docu ments of an official nature which fully bore out the statements of the petitioners. It appears by a return, which has been recently laid before the House of Com mons, that the total amount of exports for the year 1836 was £91,000,000., whilst, in the last year the total amount was only £85,270,000., making a difference of nearly £6,000,000. The total official value of manu factures exported from Great Britain to foreign ports in 1837 was £77,932,617., and in the last, year £72,312,207., making a decrease of £5,620,410. In 1837 our cotton exports amounted to £50,249,212., and in 1833, last year, they were only £41,403,110., mak ing a decrease on the export of cottons of £8,746,792. In another staple manufacture, that of woollens, tl►e ex ports in 1837 amounted to £7,535,064. ; while last year the exports only amounted to £4,680,247., making a decrease of £2,854,817. In linen manufactures there was a decrease of £1,000,000. on the exports of last year as compared with 1837. On the exports of silk the decrease was £335,853., and on hardware and cut lery £415,349. How is this state of things to be accounted for ? Can we fix upon the present ministry the charge of neglect ing the commercial interests of Great Britain, and thus causing the melancholy result indicated be the state ments which we have just made ? Is Lord Palmerston answerable for the rapid declension of our foreign trade? Are his associates guilty of conniving at tl►e ruin of British merchants and manufacturers ? Lord Lynd hurst maintains that they are guilty, and we believe he has successfully proved the truth of this very seri ous charge. He showed that had our foreign secretary possessed " a little diplomatic skill, and alittle activity," the Germanic league, which has so strongly militated against our commercial interests, might have been de feated. In like manner, for want of "a little diplo matic skill, and a little activity," the Russians have been suffered to close the whole of Poland against our staple manufactures, by the imposition of an almost prohibitory tariff, and that in direct contravention of the treaty of Vienna. The transit trade through Po land has also suffered in consequence of the infringe ment of the same treaty. In Cracow again we have suffered through the invasion of our rights, guaranted by the treaty of Vienna, on the part of an armed force, that had completely remodelled its trade. This coun try, in respect of Cracow, is reduced to the humiliating position of being refused the privilege of having a con sular agent to exercise the necessary vigilance over our commercial interests. In this case, as in many others, we have insult superadded to injury, and both tamely submitted to by the "little men" now in office. Another Instance adduced by Lotd Lyndhurst was an infraction of a treaty on the part of the French government. By this treaty the merchants of Great Britain were enti tled to carry on a trade in gum on the banks of the Senegal. Two of our vessels, laden with gum, have 'been seized and confiscated by the French on the most unfounded pretences: and, although two years have elapsed since this took place, the demand for redress has been hitherto unattended to. The consequence of this denial of justice has been, that we have been com pletely driven from this branch of trade. In reference to the trade of Great Britain with Java, Lord Lynd hurst remarked that under a treaty with Holland cer tain duties were to be imposed upon British goods im ported in British bottoms. "The duties were to be double the duties imposed on goods imported from 'Holland in Dutch vessels; and in case the vessels from Holland imported goods from Holland not paying any duty, we were to pay 6 per cent. on similar goods im ported into Java from this country. What had taken place in Java? The treaty had been disregarded. Du ties to an extravagant amount had been extorted from British merchants. Nearly £40,000. a•year had been forced out of their pockets. This system had been going on for years, and was still in action. There was now £400,000. due to British merchants for duties which had been extorted from them in violation of the treaty. Had any attempts, he would ask, been made to prevent the continuance of those extortions ? Efforts might have been made, - but nothing effectual had been done to stop the Dutch government in its course of violation of this treaty. Such was the respect paid to our go vernment on the continent of Europe ! Such was the respect paid by foreign governments to treaties in which we were concerned with them!" The noble lord next adverted to our commercial re lations with Algiers. Formerly this trade produced a very considerable revenue. Tt was then only liable to a duty of five per cent.; but since the occupation of A giers by the French a great part of our trade has been placed under actual prohibition, whilst the re mainder has been placed under the high tariff im. posed by France, which has almost annihilated it Here again the whig imbeciles have suffered our corn. coerce to be injured with impunity. Again, for several years we had been carrying on a very profitable trade with the natives of the eastern coast of the Black Sea, which had given rise to a transit traffic of the highest importance. Here we have been unceremoniously deprived of our commer cial intercourse through the intervention of Russia, which power has actually had the audacity to seize upon a British vessel whilst pursuing a legitimate trade. The merchants of Great Britain will not be slow in attributing the contumely, with which we have been treated by Russia, to the cowardly and truckling policy of Lord Durham, who unites in his character the two apparently adverse qualities of proud and wil ful despotism with the most grovelling servility. The reply of Lord Melbourne to the very able speech of Lord Lyndhurst was, like the other recent oratorical of l,rts of the superannuated beau, as desti tute of argument as it was feeble in purpose. He seemed ovet•powered with the load of obloquy which the distinguished leader of the opposition had heaped upon him and his miserable colleagues in office. On the subject of the commercial enterprise of Great' Britain, and the means suggested by Lord Brougham for encouraging its development, we find the following very judicious remarks in the London Standard:— " Providence has assigned to Great Britain the empire o the sea; and, with that empire, the duty of colonising or civilising the world. Nothing but a greedy desire of sup planting others in commerce already established—a feeling that constitutes the principle of the economists' school—or an insane abandonment of our naval ascendancy can prevent this country creating, in a very few years, a commerce with her own colonies and dependencies, and with remote nations, tenfold greater than the commerce of all Europe. 'We must first, however, get rid of Joseph flume's clan and their per nicious doctrines. They wLio will never give away a shilling, except when they cannot help it, are sure never to lay out a shilling to auy profitable account ; and this has been pretty much the case in our national policy. We can provide mil lions by the score or hundred to carry on a war, or to crush an insurrection; but for any profitable purpose—for any outlay that promises a return, we never have nioney to spare, and this though the whole world is open to our adventure, though our population is said to be redundant, and though our capital is proved to be so by the fact that consuls are- at 91 or 95 per cent.; i❑ other words, that the use of money is worth little more than £3 per annum for the £lOO. We . could wish men to turn their attention to this view of our commercial prospects, and we rejoice to think that the Duke of Wellington has done so. Lord Brougham's anticipation of the ascendancy of Great Britain, as the head of a liberal propagandist alliance, is, like most of the noble and learned lord's ideas, a little visionary. After all, the cause of repre sentative government is not of so touch influence with the majority of mankind, even while the humour lasts, as the sense of religion ; and the humour iu favour of any plan of government is exceedingly fugacious, as the instability of all veryfipopular governments has proved. Besides, there is no security for the permanence of the propagandist vocaiion— indeed there is almost a certainty that it must be of short du ration. If it succeed, it perishes in its success; it' it fail, it sinks in despair before enemies who, from the naturß of the contest, must be implacable. We think there is good hope that Great Britain will assume in the world a place cor responding with that which she held i❑ Europe 260 years ago, but not through the agency which Lord 13rougham surmises. We trust that the agency of that elevation will be the same in the reign of Queen Victoria that it was in the reign of Queen Elizabeth—the agency of religion, and that Great Britain will present, as she ought to do and may do, the spring of gospel truth, and the fortress of gospel churches throughout the earth." In the course of this debate Lord Minto made some rambling observations on the adequacy of our naval establishment, which were as amusing for their sim plicity as for the gross ignorance which they displayed of the very subject on which, of all others, he ought to be best informed. This admiralty functionary con fessed that he "could not recollect exactly the num ber of ships in commission, because the number va ried, but he believed there were from seventeen to eighteen sail of the line now in commission, and of these a very considerable proportion might, if it were desirable to do so, be sent to any part of the world, Besides, our arrangements were such that we could send at a very short notice a large fleet to sea." He then proceeded to say that Great Britain had squa drons stationed in several places, where they were al wars found sufficient for the protection of our com mercial interests, and protested that be had never heard complaints from those places of the insufficiency of our naval force. This we can readily believe ; for when has tl►e British navy been found inefficient? What we have reason to complain of is, that we have no squadrons in those places where they are most needed for the protection of our commerce—in the Black Sea, for instance, where the British flag has been insulted with impunity. O'CONNELL IN IRELAND.—The modern Bampfylde Moore Carew, or " King of the Beggars," has again made his appearance in Dublin, the ordinary scene of his incendiary agitation, and has already convened a public meeting of " his constituents," to consider of certain "ulterior measures," to be adopted in order to procure full "Justice to Ireland." Thus it is ever with this revolutionary firebrand—" ulterior measures" al ways form the order of the day with him. Whatever course of legislation may be adopted in reference to Ireland —whatever alleged grievances may be removed —whatever concessions may be made to the demands of the priests and the Popish rabble—fresh causes of agitation are hourly discovered, and some grand " ul terior measure" is propounded as a panacea for all" the ills of Ireland." So it will ever be, as we have uni formly contended, until the property of Irish Protes tants is confiscated—until all true loyalists are banished from the country—until the influence of the British crown over the destinies of Ireland is annihilated—and until the ferocious priesthood reduce the country into a state of vassalage to the " Holy See of Rome." These are the great ends which they are labouring so sedu lously to accomplish—these are time " ulterior plans" which the Jesuit O'Connell contemplates with so much satisfaction. We feel confident that the repeal of the Union will form the staple of agitation for the next sea son. But will it succeed ? We think not. There is a spirit recently aroused among the Protestants of Ire land which will yet make O'Connell and his myrmid ons tremble, and, perhaps, bring the traitors to the gallows. Let these truculent demagogues but once lift the standard of insurrection—let "the millions be told what-to do," and let them but attempt to act upon the advice which instigates them to rebellion—let this take place, and we shall soon find that, in spite of the exaggerated physical resources of the anti-British fac lion, the Protestants of Ireland, supported, encouraged, and assisted by the Protestant people of England, and ' protected by that Providence whose aid they may justly invoke, IA ill yet rise superior to their blood-thirsty ene mies, and eventually rescue Ireland from the accursed thraldom of Popery. We have no fears for the event of the struggle which O'Connell is likely to provoke. .ADVERTISEMEN T DUTY.—A return has just been published showing the amount of advertisement duty charged to each of the provincial journals in England and Wales, from the 30th of June, 1837, to the 30th of June, 1838. The following is a list of all the jour nals paying more tha❑ £5OO. per annum each : Manchester Guardian Liverpool Mercury Gore's (Li verpl.) Advertiser 965 8 0 Aris's Birmingham Gazette 943 4 0 Leeds Mercury Stamford & Lincoln Mercury 804 9 0 Myers's (Liverpl.) Advertiser 710 5 0 Birmingham Herald Manchester Courier 664 4 0 Newcastle Courant LIVERPOOL STANDARD 564 1 6 Liverpool Albion Liverpool Mai1.. Leeds Intelligencer Liverpool Chronicle 5lB 17 0 From this list it appears that, out of fifteen papers contributing more than £5OO. in advertisement duty, no less than seven are published in Liverpool—a strik ing proof of the commercial activity of the "good old town." We feel grateful for that measure of support with which the Liverpool Standard has been favoured in the advertising department, which has placed it Fourth. in the list of the Liverpool papers, and eleventh in rank among all the provincial journals of the United Kingdom. This is a position of which we have every reason to be proud, especially when we consider the disparity in age between the Liverpool Standard and its more successful competitors, to say nothing of the many older journals which it has left far behind. It is a curious fact that the whole amount paid by the' Liverpool papers is £5,673. 16s. 6d.; whilst in Manchester it is only £3,543. On Wednesday, the Bth instant, was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Falcon and Alexander, of Working ton, a beautiful new barque, for Thomas Lee, Esq., of this town, intended for the Barbadoes trade. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. The quarterly meeting of the council was held on Wed. nesday. CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION. The MAYOR reported that the claim of Mr. John Oakes Bridge, late auditor of the accounts of the receiver of the town dues, for the compensation for the determination of his office, which he held at a salary of £lOO per annum, had been before her majesty's lords of the treasury, and that, on taking into consideration the claim of Mr. Bridge for £697 !9s. 4d. as a sum in gross, or an annual sum of £66 10s. 4d. ror his life, being two-thirds of the salary of £lOO, their lordships had awarded that Mr. Bridge "is en titled to a gratuity of £80." GAOL COMMITTEE. • The MAYOR desired the town-clerk to read his report on behalf of the Gaol Committee. The TOWN -CLERK accordingly read the report, which was somewhat to the following - effect :—That some alterations and additions, authorised by the council, are being proceeded with. That the committee bad found it necessary to sanction, on a report and estimate by their surveyor, the building of a tank to contain rain water for the supply of the washhouse in the prison, &c. &c. Some communication was also contain ed in it respecting the heating of cells, the appointment of a blacksmith, and lastly, the resignation of Mr. Forshaw, the surgeon. The MAYOR suggested that the course of proceeding adopted on the appointment of governor of the Borough Gaol should be followed on the present occasion in filling up the vacancy of surgeon to that gaol. The TOWN-CLERK read the proceedings on that occasion. It appeared that the council had referred back to the Gaol Committee the report announcing the vacancy in the situa tion of governor, requesting them to advertise fur candioates, and recommended the most suitable for the election, and ap proval of the council. Mr. GEORGE ROBINSON moved, and Mr. HENRY LAW RENCE seconded, that the same course be adopted on the present occasion. The TOWN-CLERIC thought the most convenient way would be for the Gaol Committee to report to the next meeting of the council their opinion as to the salary of the surgeon, and then they might advertise for candidates. Mr. G. H LAWRENCE thought that a very long discussion had taken place on a former occasion with reference to the salary, and that it had been then fixed. BENN said it had been fixed at £lOO. Mr. ItawnoN thought that sum insufficient for the increased duties of the office. After some further discussion the report was referred back to the Gaol Committee to fix the salary, which is to be sub mitted to the council for approval next Wednesday week, prior to the issuing of any advertisement for candidates. Mr. G. 11. LAwitExcE wished to know whether any appli cation had been made to government to induce them to send convicts direct from this port. He understood that they wee actually going to withdraw the vessels front the Irish station. It was t great hardship to the town. The MAYOR said that the subject bad not teen lost sight of. Applications had been made, and were being Made, but hitherto without success. Mr. EARLS said the Thing was abominable. A OMISSION OF FREEMEN. The MAYOR, in calling the attention of the council to the petition from persons entitled to the freedom of the borough, praying that as the legislature had deemed it proper to abo lish the stamp duty upon their admission, that the town council will follow the example with respect to the fees, said it appeared that he had inadvertently made a mistake in stating the number of the signatures to the petition. Mr. Peachey, the secretary of the Freemen's Society, had in formed him of the fact, and had requested him to add a num ber of sheets to the petition. To this lie assented, and had since received the following letter from Mr. Peachey : "Strickland -street, Eventon, August 14th, 1838. "Slit, —ln reply to yours of the 2d instant, in the name of the petitioners, I beg to thank you fur presenting their me i mortal, and also for your kindness in allowing the accompa- Dying sheets to be added to those presented. At the same time, I have to beg your worship's pardon, that my negli gence should have caused • you, unintentionally, to have understated the number of signatures, and as you have been so kind to express your intention of correcting that to-mor row, I beg to state that, in all, there are 1320 signatures. Aud 1 further l.eg to hope your worship will support the mo tion of Mr. John Smith, as I am instructed to say such a settlement will give the petitioners satisfaction, as it appears that similar arrangements have been made in other places, viz., Bristol, Stafford, Chester, &c. " I have the honour to be, your worship's obliged servant, " N. Rathbone, Esq., "W. J. PEACHEY. Before entering • into this matter, he would request the town-clerk to read to the council the opinion which he had taken from eminent counsel on the subject, and it remained with them, after hearing it, to say how far they could grant the request or the petitioners. Mr. WA t.mst.Ey said he had a petition to present, agreed upon at a meeting of the Tradesmen's Reform Association, in the prayer of which he entirely concurred. Previous to the meeting, when the petition was agreed to on which Mr. Smith had founded his notice, he (Mr. Wahnsley) had placed a tnotion on the books to bring this subject before the coun cil, but he withdrew it, believing it would come with inure weight as brought forward by Mr. Smith. lie felt that he had no right to take precedence of Mr. Smith, and therefore he should reserve what he had to say until Mr. Smith had brought his notice forward, and then he hoped he should be able to satisfy the council that they ought not only to reduce the amount of the admission fee , but to make the admission a free admission alt oge th er . lie begged leave to present his petition. The MAYOR read the petition, which was as follows : `` To the Worshipful the Mayor • and Members of the Town Council of the Borough of Liverpool in Council assemyed. "THE MEMORIAL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE TRADESMEN'S REFORM ASSOCIATION. " Respectfully sheweth, " That your memorialists have observed, through the medium of the public prints, that the freemen qualified by the reform act, are now petitioning for the removal of the fee charged by the Town-council upon their admission. " That yi,ur memorialists believe the claim of the freemen to be founded on equity and justice from the following rea• sons:— " lst.—Because the legislature having confirmed and per petuated the elective franchise residing in qualified freemen, and having also repealed the stamp duty on their admission, have virtually recognized the p4,inciple, that pecuniary re strictions on the acquirement an 4 exercise of the elective franchise are injurious in their operation, and ought nut to exist. " 2d.—Because, from the circumstance that the freemen applying to be enrolled belong almost exclusively to the operative classes of the community, the amount of the fees, while it operates as a barrier to the possession of the Fran. chise, acts as an inducement to wealthy persons entertaining strong political opinions, to advance the money for the pur- pose of party objects. " 34.—Because Your memorialists believe that moral causes are in active operation, through the means of ex tended education and intelligence, which have a tendency to produce a beneficial change among that class of voters to whom this memorial more particularly refers. " For these reasons your memorialists respectfully pray that the fee now taken upon the admission 01 freemen be en tirely abolished. And your memorialists will ever pray. " Signed on behalf of the Committee, "JOSHUA WALMSLEY,Chairman." The MAYOR then said, perhaps it would be the better course if the. Town-clerk were then to read the case which he had drawn, and the opinions which he had taken on the question. The TowN-ct.EnK rose accordingly, and said the case was as follows: 1 _ _ _ . " Are the council of the borough of Liverpool justified, in law, in giving up £1 fees on the admission to freedom, ac cording to ancient custom paid to their officers, (see extracts herewith,) and now the property of the borough fund, under sect. 2 of the municipal corporations act, and agreements whereby the borough fund takes the fees of the officers in question, and pays them by salaries? And what would be the effect of the relinquishmeut and nonpayment on the validity of the admission's to the freedom ?". The extracts referred to were taken from the inquiry by the municipal commissioners into the corporation of Liver pool, and were as follows:- 6 ' SWORD BECARLR. "The TOWN-CLERK.---He had also a small portion cf the freemen's admission fee, which has since been given up. " Mr. Hocc.—Did he give up that without compen sation? _ The TOWN-CLEHK.—Yes; and be has no other fee or perquisite whatever. "Mr. hear that portion of the freemen's fee was 2s. I thought it had been stated at 6d.” K Mr. RAncLIFFE.—WiII the commissioners have the good ness to ask who got the benefit of that concession?" "The Tow N-CLERK. —lt devolved upon the town-clerk." FREEDOM. The fine upon adinissionb7;;;:itude is 6s Bd, and upon ad mission by birthright is 3s 4d. These, however, are mere nominal entries in the books, without ever being demanded or paid, unless it may be considered as part of the fee of £2 paid on each admission, of which £1 is required for stamp duty, and the other LI goes to the town-clerk and other officers. After the party is ordered by the couticil to be ad mitted he is sworn before the mayor and one of the bailiffs as follows: [Here follows the oath.] FEES ON THE ADMISSION OF FREEMEN. " Mr. WILKINSON.—What fees do the freemen pay ?" "The 'FowN-CLEI:K.—Those who acquire their freedom by birth or servitude pay the same, namely £2; of which £1 is for the stamp; of th e o th er El , 2 s go to t h e sergeant-at - mace, Is to the water-bailiff, and the remainder to myself as town clerk, as a remuneration for the trouble of examining docu ments, and inspecting claims prior to the admission of free men, and for subsequent insertion in the call-book. Upon admission by gift, the stamp duty is £3 and the admission fee the same, which expenses are paid out of the corporate funds, without any charge to the parties." "Mr. WlLKltisoN.—Are there any fees upon admission to office ?" "The TOWN.CLERK.—None whatever." FINES ON ADMISSION OF FREEMEN. The TowN-cLiirtx.-1 have made inquiries respecting the fin.:s paid on the admission of freemen, to which allusion was made yesterday, and I find that between 1746 and 1747, the amount paid was £322 18s 4d; twenty-niiae persons hav ing received the freedom by nurchase, and forty-eight by birthright and servitude. In the case of birthright, the fees amount to 3s 4d, and in those of servitude to 6s Bd. Front 1747 to 1758. there appear to have been no fines, and in 1758 only £l5 15s were received. With those extracts, copies of the late act of parliament for the abolition of the stamp duty on the admission of freemen, and the late municipal act, were sent, and the opinion of counsel was as follows. He should, however, state that that was the opinion of Mr. Starkie, Q C., Mr. Wightman, a nd M r . C rom pt on , th e as sessor f the orough." "OPINION: " We are of opinion, that the council of the borough will not be justified in giving up the fees of £1 which have been customarily paid upon the admission of freemen, &c. and which have now become applicable to the borough fund. The town-council have the management of the borough fund as trustees for the borough, and it would be a breach of their duty to relinquish or dispose of any portion of the funds en trusted to their care for the general benefit of the borough. If, however, the town-council should give up those fees, we are inclined to think they would be liable to au information in equity against them, as trustees for public purposes, at the suit of th e a tt orn ey-general. We think that the omission t o pay the fees would not invalidate the admission to freedom; but that, under the proviso in sect. 2 of the municipal corpora tion act, the persons so admitted would not be entitled to ex emption from tolls, &c., until they had paid such fees. `'T. STAIIKIE. "WM. WIGHTNIAN. "CHARLES CROMPTON. • 4.•• , •• " Liverpool Assizes, Aug. 14, MS." V • The MAYOR said with that opinion before them, it would be in the discretion of the council and of the mover (Mr. Smith) whether they should bring on a discussion. Mr. SMITH asked if the fees had not been reduced ifiLther places, or abolished. The MAYOR reminded Mr. Smith of the opinion as to the consequences of such a course, which was equally applicable to a reduction as to an abolition. Several members of the council said, if other councils bad done wrong; that could form no precedent for them. Mr. SMITH thought there could be no harm in bringing the discussion forward. It Was, however, intimated that it would not be desirable, as it could lead to no practicable end. At the request of several members of the council, the opinion was again read. The TOWN-CLERK said, that the difference of a reduction of the whole pound, or merely 17s 6LI of it, was of no conse quence; by either it would appear they would do a wrong at law. Mr.. SMITH thought he could shape his motion, that the Town-clerk be requested to introduce a clause in some future bill to accomplish their object. Mr. CURRIE thought they were irregular. The MAYOI: said that was a new case altogether. Mr. SMITH would not be irregular ; but he could give such a notice for a future council. Mr. H. Hot.sitis would have voted for the abolition if they could legally_ hav e t a k en suc h a step; an d Mr. LAWRENCE said, the Town-clerk had made a judicious selectionof counsel whose opinion he hail taken,a.nd he thought they were bound to abide by it. The motion of Mr. Smith was then withdrawn, and it was understood he afterwards gave the following notice for a mo tion at the next council meeting:— " That on the next application to parliament for a local act, the Town-clerk be instructed to insert in the bill a clause to empower the council to reduce or entirely abolish the tees at present chargeable on the admission and enrolment of persons eulatled NI the freedom of the borough." CRUSADE, AGAINST COCKS AND 41ENS. Mr. H. LAWRENCE felt sorry that the most important mo tion on the list should have been passed over without discus sion, as it would have afforded them some amusement, and relieved the discussion of the dry details that they generally had before them.—(Great laughter.) ➢lr. SMITH hoped Mr. Lawrence would not crow over a fallen foe.--(Laughter.) The MAYOR observed, that the member who had given the notice alluded to, had withdrawn it, and his facetious friend might add, that it was laughed out of court. (Laughter.) The above short conversation we understood to refer to a notice put on the books by Mr. Jordan, to prevent cocks and hens perambulating the streets. ENROLMENT OP INDENTURES. The prayer of a petition from Alexander Wells, for the en rolment of his indentures, though the prescribed period had elapsed, was acceded to, after some discussion, and the coun cil rose after about an hour's sitting. We understand that St. Andrew's church, which has been closed for sonic weeks for the purpose of being cleaned and painted, will be reopened for Divine service on Sunday next. THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Another grand fete is to take place at these Gardens on Monday next. The enter tainments of the last Gala are to be repeated, Mr. D'Ernst's fire-works are alone worth the trouble of a visit. A handsome new coppered barque of 337 tons measurement, was ou Saturday last launched from the building yard of Messrs. K. Wood and Sons, Marvport, called the John Hor ton, built for Thomas Chapman, Esq., of this town, and in tended for the South American trade. CHESTER QUERN'S SCHOOL—On Wednesday last, the Rev• the Dean and Chapter of our cathedral, elected the Rev. R W. Gleadowe, M.A. (second master of Stamford Grammar School,) head master of Queen's School, in this city, on the resignation of the Rev. W. Paull, M.A., and also to themiuor canonry, vacant by the death of the Rev. F. Casson, M.A.— Chester Gazette. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—Mr. Thomas Williams, of Glanrafon, Llantairtalhaiarn;' Denbighshire, while flyfishirg on the 11th instant, caught a young partridge, 5 ounces in weight; the hook just penetrated beneath toe wing of the bird. MARSHAL Sout.T.—A portrait of this veteran is now ex hibiting iu Bold-street, at Goadsby's rerentory. It is exe cuted in chalk, iu a masterly and free style. The artist is Mons. Cle►nent Boulanger, who has been staying in London to paint a picture, fur the King of the French, of the late coronation. STRAUSS' BAND.—It is with extreme pleasure that we have to announce that this fine hand will again perform iu Liverpool, previous to Mr. Strauss' departure for the conti nent, where he has engagements to appear before the King of the French, the Emperor and Empress of Austria, and the Emperor of Russia. By referring to the advertisement, it will be seen, that on 'Monday and Wednesday evenings next the concerts are to take place. TAKE WANNING.—" Half the 'accidents and offences' that enliven the columns of our newspapers originate in the disregard of this precept. People take snuff, colds, wine, steps, tea, wives, offence, hints, fright, and medical ad vice; but they cannot—they will not—take warning !—and per consequence, they incontinently get banged, drunk, drowned, shot, h•irsewhipped and ridiculed, &c.;—are thrown out of windows, and off coaches, kick up and are kicked down, &c., &c. While as a sequitur, adulteries, law-suits, duels, murders, black eyes, &c. eusue."—Baxter's Humour and Pathos. Just published. TiivsTßE RoYst--The assizes have absorbed so much of our time, that we have not been able to pay our customary attention to the Theatre. During the week, the attractions have been rather numerous; Mr. Dowtot, Mr. Vandenhoff, Miss Vandenhoff, and Mr. F. Vining, have been playing. We have heard much of Miss Vandenhoff,. and hop e s h ortly to see her. This eyening the comedy of the . " Hunchback'' is announced fur the benefit of Mr. Vandenboff. MR. STUART.—It may not be generally known that Mr. Stuart has had the misfortune to break his arm just above the wrist. The accident occurred while embarking on board the Rock Ferry boat a short time since. He is obliged to wear the wrist in a sling, and it is expected that he will not recover the nse of it for some time. He appeared last even ing, for the first tame since the occurrence, as the Gh os t i n Hamlet, which he played with his accustomed ability. The Sun, which lately printed an account of the corona. tion in gold, and with it a medallion profile of the Queen, has again illumined its sheet with two medallion profiles —the Dukes of Wellington and Dalmatia. The likenesses of these warriors, who have been f or "f u l l fifty years, harnessed in rugged steel," are excellent and done in a style which render them worthy of a place in the portfolio or to adorn the study. Paosiot.i's Blzss R.—One of the lions, if not the greatest lionof Liverpool is Promotes bazaar. We very touch question if another such establishment exists either in this or in anv other country, as to extent, costliness of stock. or the of articles of which it consists. Ail that is elegant, rich, and useful, from every quarter of the globe, is here to be purchased. China, Japan, and India contribute their rich and unique wares, while the European contioent seems to have b een ransacked for the purpose of associating together its.beautifut manufactures. The whole bazaar is laid out with a taste and skill that does Mr. Promoli infinite credit. A LEGAL AND LITERARY Titio.—On Monday afternoon last, in the Nisi Prius Court, at the South Lancashire Assizes at Liverpool, a trio of gentlemen of the long lobe, whose names have obtained celebrity in various ways, were for some time conversing together. Mr. Murphy (not of the " weather almanac,") the author of the papers by " Father Prout," __the Frazer's Magazine, and of other literary producti ons o f merit; Mr. Warren, the graphic delineator of some of th e most fear ful°n workings of physical suffering, and me a n n t a al la a s g t and: . leas rage of the passions, and the blightof disease,—i n his " Pas sages from the Diary of a late Physician ;" in stature at any rate, whatever may b thought of him in other respects, was Mr. Roebuck, the ex - member fo r Bat who is a small, low man, of sallow complexi on, and certainly, somewhat flattered in the " Portraits of living Reformers.'• THE EVERTON AND KIREDA LE FLORAL SOCIETY'S ERNI RITIoN.—The Floral and• Horticultural Society of Everton andKirkdale presented for public inspection a show of choice fruits, flowers, and vegetables, on Thursday week, in a splendid marquee erected in the garden attached to Mr. New's hotel, Kirkdale. The day was extremely unfavourable, storm and rain, without a single gleam of sunshine, having prevailed from morning's dawn till night-fall. The visitors, therefore, were exceedingly few; those who did attend being only front ' the immediate netgbonrhood. This was a serious disappoint ment to the lovers of nature's most beautiful productions, and was the more to be regretted, as theexhibition, notwithstand the unfavourable season, was one that has scarcely been sur passed in auy department. The show of cat nations was par ticularly fine, and Mr. Soorn and Mr. Evans, of Chester, and Mr. Lodge, of Manchester, deserve high compliment fur their great success in the cultivation of these beautiful ii tiers. The Calm/arias of Mr. Skirving attracted great attention. Mr. Skirving's success and admirable taste and skill in floriculture are too well known to require any commendat ion of us. The fruit and vegetables were particulary nut.eed as being of the finest description. THE TEE-TOTAL DISCUSSION.—We had a ticket sent us for admission to the "Grand Discussion" with winch the Tee-totalists have been delighting' themselves during the week at the Amphitheatre, but our time being occupied with more important avocations we could not participate in the delight, and are tee-totally in the dark as to the matter. W e have heard, however,. that an individual named Aciand un dertook to maintain the cause of temperance Without the tr!c total clause, and Mr.Grubb, the champion of the tee-tot a llic e, was pitched against hint, and tee-totally thrashed hi s Dent. Ott the following evening, Wednesday, Mr. Aciami's temperance, of course, was diluted into tee-totalisra, .4 mi went through the farce of publicly signing "THE PLanc,r.;„" We should not be at all surprised to hear shortly of ilia 1:i:- coming the paid advocate of teetotalism; stranger , thine s have come to pass. Whilst on the subject of tee-totalisin may mention that a rival society it shortly about to be esta blished, that it may ramify and strengthen itself helm(' the ensuing Christmas, which is to be named "The Juvenile Tee-total Anti-Plum-pudding Society ;" the object of which society is to prevent the sad effects which take place during the Christmas holidays amongst children, from overga.4ii.g themselves with plum-pudding. It was stated the .ther night, we heard, that a confirmed " drunk-hard" made ineffectual attempts to sign his name, but could nut d., so till he hart steadied his hand with sixteen glasses of sixpeeny gin. We have also heard it as a lamentable and undoiOded fact that a confirmed though juvenile gorger of plum-pudding positively ate three and twenty ordinary sized plum puddings before he could sit bolt upright in his chair! • SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.—THE CAUSE LIST.--The • civil business, at least so far as respect, the number of • causes for trial at the present assizes, is smaller than it been since the August assizes, 1836; as will be seen by the following numbers:— Salford. West Derby. 'rota , . 1836. August—Causes 54 65 (t) 1837. March ~ 87........ 82 169 August „ 58........ 72 1838. March „ 5l ....... 125 176 August „ 56 6l These numbers give an average of 61 causes in the : . 311ord hundred list, and 81 in that front the West Derby bniv: ter ; or 142 as the total number entered ; so that the present :tsSIZ,•:: show five fewer causes than the average number from Salford hundred, and twenty below the average from the West Derby hundred. In another respect, too, the present assizes show a decrease,—viz. in the number of causes to be tried by spe cial jury. Whether this is owing to the conviction that a Lancashire common jury is generally as conversant ~nit, matters of business, and as capable of deriding i ightlY on mercantile questions, as a special jury could be ex p,•,:1,:,1 iu be, we shall not pretend to say; but :here are milt two causes in the 117, marked in the cause list fur trial bl. 5 ,,.. cial jury, both in th e l ist for the West Derb y hundred! ' ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, AUG, 13.—We have had a fair average market to-day 3 and th e demand tor the lower qualities of flannels still continues good. There. is no c hange in the prices. In the wool market there is tits al teration. ExaciT:fori.—lNFANTicinE.—Mr. Baron Gurney, before l e aving Chester on Friday- morning l as t, di recte d 111 m -the execution of the two unhappy Women, Ann Byrom and Dinah Jones, who had been convicted the previous day of the mur der of their illegitimate offspring, shall take place on Satur day, the Ist of September next.—Chester Gazette. ' STATE OF TRADE._'there has been a fair inquiry both for goods and yarn during the last few days; but the buyers, who.were compelled to give a slight advance last %,eek 111 consequence of the increased firmness of the cotton market at that time, have endeavoured to take advantage of the sub• sequent decline in cotton at Liverpool. In this attempt they have not been successful, but the business done at the prices of last week has been un a rather limited scale.— Mon Guardian. KIRBY LONSDALE.—The hay season in this neighbourhood progresses very slowly, continued rains having fallen for the last three weeks. :never, in the memory of the ()West in habitant, was there so little hay housed et this time. The grain crops begin to look very 511. Great breadth s o f oats on high situations will be mown for feed for the ea , tle, it being certain that they will never make any grain this•sea son, not having shot into ear yet.—Lancaster Guardian. OPENING OF THE NEVI' SUNDAY SCHOOL -AT ASHAVoRTH, NEAR Itocrinsi.E.—'fbis neat and compact: buildiuc, erected by Wilbrah am E gerton, Esq. was opened onStit d• the 12th instant, w h en two sermons were TreaCtw.d „t tier occasion at the parochial chapel of Ashworth, by the lieu. Richard Durnford, M.A. rectorof Middleton, and made for the institution, amounting to £l5 7. L C " ' l e (" d " U ' a ing that Ashworth is a very small and obscure — ct ( r n i ' e l great praise . is due to the congregation of that placeathe . i; liberality. The united collections Which 'haie•beeti made there within the last three mouths amount to the very hand some sum of £l5. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We shall avail ourselves of " Francisco's" favour on Tuesday There is no law in chess which makes it imperative upon a player to notify t o hi s an t agon i st t h at hi s queen is 113 Check ; though this is frequently done—as a matter of Cost-tesg. !fl itiberpool ,tantarb.