The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-28 00:00:00

36. :wo years in He bad not ess wrote to licatiou the cription tweeu tha n • but it was eye on the tving tok eu istant, at Id the tR© no t h is the Bride totes on the sae that the ;ter. nd, deposed. the bank et .e to it. The n o ne plate. to was made complicated d, not upon , re printed. the bank of ie plate was itional word se could, he A not strike if the word take a:no:lte o becticg:is ebt j be:sa ld there was foT the-con th• - . - / 1-- 4-- Z ) (--/ • • 6&r..‘28., 1836, The Rix() RDER summed up the evidence, and at the request Uf the oounsel for the presecution the witness front the bank. of Ireland was re-called. lie explained that notwithstanding,' here was the word " Dublin" upon the counterfeit plate which was not upon the genuine plate, yet the counterfeit plate would produce an imitation of a genuine note. The word " Dublin" was printed with type upon the genuine note. The jury found the prisoner guilty. He was tried ou two other similar indictments, and sentenced upon the second indictment to even years transportation. The court sat again yesterday morning for a short time. The eases, however, possessed little interest, and were merely cases, the particulars of which have appeared at full length in our police reports. The court was adjourned at noon, until this morning at nine o'clock, when the Post-office explosion case will com e on. COURT OF PASSAGE.—TUESDAY. This court was held in the Nisi Prins Court, at the Sessions'- house, before William Wallace Currie, Esq., Mayor, and Charles Crompton, E4q., Assessor. PARRY V. WILLIAMS. Mr. RU SHTON appeared as counsel for the plaintiff, who is a joiner, carrying on business in Camden-street, Liverpool. He *aught to recover from the defendant, a beershop-keeper, the sum of £7 15s. Id., for work and materials used in the fitting up the defendant's. premises. The, jury}found a verdict in favour of the plaintiff for the sum claimed. !serum V. SCHOLES. This action was brought to recover Ilfilbs. weight of pork, .sold by the plaintiff bo the defendant. The question in dispute • yam, whether the price agreed upon was 4d. or 51d. a lb. The Jury.returneil a verdict for the plaintiff for £2 3s. ,bd. LOSSELI. V. HRAMINGWAY. An undefended action on a bill of exchange. Verdict for the plaintiff £lO 10s. • WOOLRIGHT AND ANOTHER V. RAWLINS. Mr. VENABLLS appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. COTTING HAM for th e defendant. The action was brought by Messrs. oolright and Chidson, silk mercers, of Bold-street, against the defendant, a gentleman residing in Liverpool, to recover Payment for certain articles furnished for the defendant's father's funeral. The order was given by Mr. Rankin. in March, 1834, „iit the name of the executors of the late Mr. Rawlins. There was no evidence to prove that the defendant was an executor of his father, and the plaintiffs consented to be nonsuited. ASSAULT BY A POLICE INSPECTOR.—SMITH V. LYONS. Mr. HENDEIRSON opened the pleadings. The action was brought by the pleintiff to recover damages from the defendant for an assault committed by him upon the plaintiff's wife. he having seized her, and dragged her along the streets to Bride well. Mr. VENARLES stated the plaintiff's case. The plaintiff kept a .Fook shop in the neighbourhood of the theatre. On the 15th of last month he went out to carry some supper to the house of a person n ame d J ones, and his wife went out into the street to inset him. Whiie she was standing there the defendant came up and (according to the eridence of a witness named Mullin, a private Watchman.) said to her, "You will know me when you 3 " me again." Mrs. Smith said, "I have known you before, ou which Lyons denied the assertion, which she reiterated, and the defendant then said, " I will make you madam keep better hour s f or t h e future ;" to which she rejoined, " You can do as Zou lik e. " Lyons to this answered, Will you be insolent ma dam ?" and on her saying that she had not used any insolence, Ile threatened to take her to Bridewell; and she immediately -" You d are no t." Lyons then crossed the street, and tak ing hold of her, pushed her before him to Bridewell, where she was detained all night, and discharged at the Police-office in the rporni r , g. It was for this assault and imprisonment that the defendant sought to recover damages. The Learned ASSESSOR said, that under the present form of the pleadings the plaintiff could not recover damages for any injury done to the wife; he could only recover mere nominal. "wages for the loss of her services during the time she was imprisoned. Mr. Rusturost, the defendant's counsel, consented to the amendment of the record, and it was accordingly altered so as to make the plaintiff and his wife jointly interested in the issue. Georg e Grieves a bridewell turnkey, (one of the plaintiff's witnesses) deposed that on the night of the 14th, or morning of the 15th of September, Mrs. Smith was brought to the Town Bridewell, by bnspector Lyons. She passed the night there, and was accommodated with the best room in the building. There were no other prisoners in the room. 4lrs. Smith refused to pto bed. Next morning witness walked with her to the police-office; she followed the rest of the prisoners. She was discharged at half-past eleven o'clock. The charge against her Was being disorderly in .Marble-street, Whitechapel, at two o'clock in the morning. In answer to a question from the court, the witn ess sa id that Lyons appeared to support his charge at the Police-office the next day. The case was fully gone into. Mr. Ituswrom on behalf of the defendant, submitted that his client was justified under the provisions of the sth and 6th of William IV, in the conduct ho had pursued towards the plain tiff's wife. Th e 51 s t sec tion of that act provides that persons keeping cook-shops should not have their shops open after the hour of midnight, or before five o'clock in the morning. The 48 th section gave constables the power of apprehending tran sient offenders usin obscene, abusive, or indecent language, provided th e y did not know the parties. And by the 77th sec tion of the same act, it was enacted that all actions against persons carrying the provisions of the act into execution, should be tried in the county, and that notice should be given one Month before the action was brought. In support of this posi tion he quoted the core of Theobald v. Crickinore, reported in Barnewell and Alderson, page 227, in which it was held that an action could not be brought against a constable after a given - period. for breaking open the front door of a house, in order to execute a distress warrant. The learned counsel also relied !urn the case of Barenger and Fellis, Ist vol. Meeson and Wal•bY, Page 208. ~The AssESSolt considered that this was a case to go to the jury. Mr. RUSHTCrN then said that if that was the opinion of the earned assessor, it would become his duty to address a few observations to the jury, who would bear in mind the fact of persons keeping cook-shops being prohibited from keeping theic houses open after the hour of twelve o'clock at night. . The plaintiffs were clearly acting, at the time the assault Was committed, in open violation of that rule. Should they be of opinion that the inspector had acted in a manner unauthor ized by the act, they would not' forget that . he had acted with singular care towards Mrs., Smith, he having provided for her the best accommodation which the place afforded. In con elusion, the learned counsel said that while the town council Were resolved to enforce the laws for the protection of the pub lic peace of the town, and to defend their officers in the execu tion of their duty, they were' determined not to defend those officers if they exceeded the bounds of their authority, • Mr. IieNABLEC, claiming his right to reply, in consequence of thedefendant's council having produced the Bridewell journal - la evidence, contended that the defendants had nut made out sitt answer to the case. Mrs. Smith was not unknown to him, fulcra* regarded the cook-shop, if any offence had been com mitted, the husband was the responsible party, and might have beta summoned before the magistrates the next day ; but he (the learned counsel) had yet to learn that it was an offence to Iliad out food at any hour of the night or day, the intention of the act being the prevention of the practice of harbouring int ,: P pi r eharacters upon the premises, and so long as persons were not suffered to enter or be served on the premises , . no offence Was committed. With regard to the qaestion whether Mrs. ,Smith had ,acted in a disorderly manner in the street, he had tuilv to ask the jury was she disorderly ? If so, why not have utlfed.the policeman who came up when the defendant struck his stick on the pavement. If it was proved that she had been disorderly, he was content to let the defendant have the verdict; • but if th e jury were convinced that she was not, he hoped the the plaintiffs would have the benefit of that decision, and re t'ais'a at the hands of the jury compensation in damages for the • injury the defendant had inflicted upon them. The Learned AssEssoii summed up . the evidence, declar - lug that the defendant was not justified in his conduct by any • authority given him under the provisions of the act of pasha liient under which he had received his appointment. The jury returned a verdict for the Plaintiffs. Damages £5. MAUNSEL v. POOLE. This was an action to recover damages for an assault com.- .Mitted by the defendant, an inspector of police, upon the plain tiff, Mr. VuN ANBLES, the plaintiff's counsel, stated that his client was a Liost respectable man, a native of Ireland, who bad been violently assaulted by the defendant, an inspector of police, who did not appear to defend the action, but had contented himself with pleading the general issue. The plaintiff, it would aPpear by th e ev id ence , h a d been requested to serve a copy of a writ upon the defendant, and for that purpose bad waited upon him, at the police office. The plaintiff' served the writ in a quiet and secret manner, and did nut say anything to the de fendant calculated to give him offence. However, the defend ant thought proper to push him against the wall, and finally ejected him with great force from the office. Joseph Robinson deposed that he was an extra officer at St. John's Market. in the latter end of September witness saw the plaintiff and defendant at the police office. The defendant laid hold of the plaintiff with one hand and forced him violently through the door of the office with the other. The plaintiff was rushed out of the room. The defendant is about five feet eight Itt height. The plaintiff "is a weak, sickly, gentlemanly sort of man, in every respect." He had been employed in the Custom-house some years ago, and since that time had em ployed himself as a collector of rents, and occasionally serving writs. The assault was committed at the back of the police office, in the presence of Mr. Hall, the magistrate. Two other witnesses were called, but they did not appear. The ASSESSOR summed up, observing that there was no evi dence of the plaintiff having given the defendant the least provocation. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages forty shillings. 13EETHAM t'. KMNYON. This was an action brought by a solicitor in London to re cover the su m o f £2l , th e amodut of monies recaived by the defendant, a shopkeeper of Liverpool, in the name and for the use s of the plaintiff. The defendant had been employed by Mr. ! rhe he ee nam e n t ter, of Manchester, to serve a writ issued by the plaintiff,• of a client ; against a clergyman of this county. r lne g : y a t cn n tee a g a let i t immediately paid the debt and costs, but the whom d as agent.to pay the same over to the parties for u errisiGnAst submitted main tained, as i t • the action could not be main- Mr. Foster, oughtwho p to have been brought either in the name of original suit. The plaintiff the defendant, or the plaintiff in the miXdOPORD t'. SPEED. Mr. VENABLE% was nonsuited. out of custody o f th e Se for th e d e f en d ants to b e di sc h arge d stated that he wa s arrested by'alt at M ace , on an affidavit which the o ffi cer to t h e sergean t this morning, when proc ee di ng to the court to attend the trial of an action sessionsbrought by him against the pl a i nt iff , entere d a t th ese The Learned ASSESS OR sa i d, that the law . protected suitors courts of justi ce , an d or d ere d th e defendant to be forthwith dis c h arged. ead witnesses when attendi ng WEDNESDAY. HUTCHINSON V. mccorottoa This was an action brought to recover the sum of £45, bor rowed by a former partner of the defendant, who is an excava tor, from the plaintiff for the purpose of payin, , wages. A Verson of the name of Stephenson, the f ormer partner ofM'Cor !nick, was the principal evidence against the defendant. The evidence of this witness was severely commented on by Mr. • Rashton, who appeared for the defendant, and he was subjected to amost searching cross-examination. It appeared that Stephen - tort had joined in partnership with M'Corinick, and had taken £BO into the clncerii ; that they had afterwards quarrelled, and he had obtained back £6O out of the £BO, and on a settlement of the partnership accounts by arbitration he had had awarded to him £l5O. The witness, in his cross-examination, repre tented himself as a gentleman living on his own independence. It, however, turned out that he had been living on the £l5O twaroled to him; that he had been insolvent, and had only just got out of (what the learned counsel termed) it his country h"e , e—the Borough Gaol." tho ug h the story rested entirely on the credibility of Stephen son, till if Stephenson, as a partner of M'Cormick, bad bor rowed this money. ,epr!senting that it was for partnership rurposes, M'Corniick must pay it, though Stephenson had a ppro- Iztrtated the Money (which was what was alleged) to his own "I"nies; because a person had a right in such a case to the security of kkith p.trtuers,aul Stqhpution by his insolvency was 1•61 for the plaintiff, damages £45, trader the point LIVERPOOL STANDA.n6 TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDING: The Council met by adjournment again on Wednesday at 12 o'clock, for the consideration of the bye-laws. The TOWN CLERK begged to refer the. Council to the class No. 4, of the general bye-laws. Upon the, bye-laws relating to tail-boards on carts being fastened to prevent their rattling. there were two points raised. The first was with regard to brew ers' carts. The Council thought that that could not be obviated, that it was an inconvenience which must be endured, and that the substitution of ropes would. not be of much service to the public, and would inconvenience the brewers. Mr. Councillor EA RIB spoke from experience, that there was nothing frightened horses so much as brewers' drays. Any thing beyond a common post-horse took fright at them. The MAYOR said, perhaps Mr. Harvey, or Mr. Lawrence would invent something to obviate this. The TOWN-CLERK said, the other reference was with regard to carrying poles in carts. The Council were of opinion that previous bye law obviated this, in which was the clause, "or by negligence or misbehaviour obstruct any person." Carrying a ladder or pole in such a way would obstruct persons. Mr. Councillor Joenar4 said, he had seen many instances of such annoying obstructions. He had the day before seen the parapet cleared by a clod-hopper with a ladder. Mr. Councillor EARLE.—You should have laid an informa tion. The MAYOR.—" That is what is wanted." Mr. Councillor Joe DAN.—" The police ought to do that." Mr. Councillor BI RCH.—" Allow me to ask if Mr. Jordan is not on the watch committee." Mr. Councillor JORDAN.—" I am." Mr. Councillor BIRCH.—" Then you had better bring it be fore the watch committee to instruct the police than bring it be fore the council." The TOWN-CLERK said the nuisance created by the manufac ture of chickory would be introduced into a bye-law, and with that exception the general bye-laws were in a condition to be printed for the use of the council. • , HACKNEY COACHES. Mr. Councillor JORDAN would present a petition from the hackney coach proprietors. The MAYOR said it had better be read at the proper time. The TowN-CLERK said, with -respect to hackney coaches it had been suggested that the penalties for not ddllvering up li cences were too heavy. It had been thought, on reconsidera tion by the committee, that they were, and a reduction had been made. There was another suggestion, that hackney coaches should be provided with change in copper. He thought they had no power to order that. According to law a man who had to pay a debt ought to be provided with proper coin in which to pas that debt. (Hear.) The TOWN-CLERK then read the petition from the hackney coach proprietors, which set forth that the price of hay and corn was very high, and entreating the council not to reduce the fares owing to the high rates of provender. The petition was signed by seven or eight proprietors of coaches. The TOWN-CLERK said that no reduction had been made. Mr. Councillor HOPE rose for the purpose of saying an er roneous impression existed amongst proprietors of cars, &c., that they intended to reduce the fares. No such proposition had been made. In his opinion the fares were too low, and he would take the liberty of proposing to alter the terms and make the fare is. for a car for a. short distance, which was now charged Bd. Mr. Councillor EARLE hoped no such reduction would be made, some of the hackney coach proprietors were growing rich on the present fares. The Maroe thought they had settled this question before; he thought they should not alter the charge every year if there happened to be a heavy or light winter in the price of pro vender. Mr. Councillor BOLTON thought if they ensured only the le gal fare when sometimes Is. 6d. had been paid for is., it was in effect reducing the fares. Mr. Alderman ROBINSON said those who had been in the ha bit of giving more than the fare were at liberty to do so still, and most likely would do so. Mr. Councillor Biecit thought the subject had been very 'Lilly discussed, and that there was no necessity to again enter into it. Mr. Councillor LASSELL said that the Bd. fares of coaches were hardly ever paid. He had heard one coach proprietor (Mr. Garner) say that he had never received an Bd. fare; he had always Is. given to him. Mr. Councillor HOPE would press his motion. The TOWN-CLERK said the prayer of the petition was against any reduction, not for an increase. Mr. Councillor RATHBONE thought they were acting on a wrong principle; they ought not to make laws which were in operative ; if the feeling of the public was to pay Is. why ought they not to make it law. Mr. Councillor EARLE thought Bd, was quite enough for one thousand yards. Mr. Alderman BeowN said that there were persons, to whom the 4d. was an object, and who only paid the legal fare. The TOWN-CLERK said the law was to favour those who could not pay more. Mr. Councillor HOPE would propose that the lowest charges for both cars and coaches be struck Out. That there should be no less charge than for seventeen hundred yards. Mr. Councillor LASSELL said that Mr. Garner bad told him that he often took Is. fares for coaches. The distinction in that point might be made. Mr. Councillor RUSHTON would second Mr Hope's proposi- Lion. Mr. Councillor BOLTON would support this proposition, as he thought it only reasonable. Mr. Councillor JORDAN thought it would be making hun dreds and thousands of the poor pay what they could not afford. Mr. Councillor AIKIN supported the Mayor's view. The MAYOR thought the present proceedings irregular. Mr. Councillor HOPE would withdraw his amendment if against the will of the council. Mr. Councillor MAXWELL, to put an end to the discussion, moved that the order of the day be proceeded with. The TOWN-CLERK said the next point was to make the charge of coaches the same from places of worship as from places of public amusement—that the charge should only be from the place of worship. The committee thought that a place of pub lic amusement was a coach stand, and a place of worship was not, and the committee thought the law had better stand as it was. , . . After some discussion this was agreed to. Mr. Alderman' JONES would ask how the present distances were computed, if it would not be bettor to charge distances by circles. Mr. Alderman BROWN said that plan had been thought of, but was found so complicated that it.had been abandoned. lie thought that when a plan, which was now under consideration, of dividing the town into squares of 100 yards, to be attached as a schedule to the fares, came into general use, it would be found to answer. The magistrates' clerks were now about that. The MINN-CLERK said there had been a suggestion that the horses of hackney-coaches should be in good condition. This had better be inserted in the bye-law which provided coaches should be in good conditiont—" that the coach, &c., in all other respects should be fully competent to execute fares when re quired."—Agreed to. There was another suggestion, that persons hiring a coach and refusing to pay the proper fares, that some penalty should be enforced in such cases, and remuneration given to drivers for loss of time in attending to enforce their charge before the ma gistrates. On looking over the act which related .to this he found that there was no such power to inflict penalties on the parties, nor to award compensation to the drivers. But there was a provision which gave power to the owners of coaches to recover their fares snmmardy before any justice, along with costs. He would not be obliged, as ordinary parties were, to sue for the _debt. Mr. Alderman FRaME thought that under the power of this act a bye-law might be made. The MAYOR.—" Excuse me, the Town-clerk, our legal au thority, has considered the case, and says not." Mr. Alderman FRaME said he thought in some cases it would be a very hard case on the drivers. Mr. Councillor I'. SMITH enquired if a coach or a horse we re to break down by the way would the parties taking it be obliged to pay the fare. The TOWN-CLERK said that in that case the car-driver would no not tha demandvecomplet his edhisfacroei.itract which he had undertaken, he could The TOWN-CLERK said he had now got through the fares o f of hackney-coaches, and this class of bye-laws might now be printed. CARTS. The TOWN-CLERK said in the bye-law ordering that where an owner employing any driver or conductor for a cart who should have been deprived of his license, it was proposed to make three penalties of 2W., 405., and 1;5, instead of 40s. and £s.—Agreed to. The next bye-law, were a person refused to give up hi s li cense on demand, the fines to be fixed at 10s., 205., and 40s.— AFreed to. The TOWN-CLERK said he was proceeding to a class of bye laws relating to carts which had not been considered :—" That if any driver shall allow his lorry to stand in a street, not fixed as a public stand, such driver shall forfeit ss. for theed first offence, 10s. for the second, and 20s. for the third.—Agre to. "That every driver and conductor of every lorry shall con stantly assist in loading and unloading the same when he can be spared from his horses without any remunera d to n for the s ame. The penalties 55., 10s., and 205.-"—Agree. The bye-law regulating the stands, and the mode in which the carts should be placed was agreed to. A bye-law that car ters should be as expeditious as possible in carrying a fare, and that a driver should not be obliged to retr:tie. longer than 15 minutes for his load, and for which detention he should charge Is. if lie went away without a load, or charge it in addition to his fare was then read. Mr. Alderman FREME said these detentions were cases of ne cessity, and that the carter ought to be remunerated at the same rate as if he was working ; but not more. The TOWN-CLERK thought the disappointment ought to be taken into account. Mr. Alderman BROWN said carts were constantly detained at the Customhouse, and at the bonded warehouse, and Is. for the first quarter of an hour, and 6d. afterwards might be charged. M. Councillor BOLTON said he found there was a provision to charge I s. 6d. per hour in another bye-law. The TOWN.CLERK.—Suppose there be a provision that the carter be allowed to charge by time at his option. Mr. Alderman FREME would place carters on the same rate as coaches. If they detained a coach they paid at the rate of 6d. for every quarter of an hour's detention. That the pay ment should be of the nature of a remuneration, and not as a penalty. Mr. Councillor MORECROFT said it was the custom for .mer chants to hire half-a-dozen carts at once, and the first that came on turn was loaded. It would be a heavy charge on the mer chants if those carts which had to wait were entitled to charge for that. (Hear.) Mr. Councillor BIRCH moved that the law be passed, which was seconded and agreed to • the law remaining as it stood. "'That no person under the age of 18 be permitted to take charge of the steerer of a timhe:-carriage under a penalty of ss. for the first offence, and 10s. and 20s. for the second and third offences." Mr. Councillor RATHBONE thought the person should not be under the age of 21. Those carts required an able-bodied man to take charge of them. The bye-law, after some discussion, was agreed to as it stood. "That any driver who should refuse to have his carriage in spected by a police-officer, &c., in order that the quantity of packages might be examined, should incur a penalty of ss. for the first offence, 10s. for the second, and 20s. for the third." — Agreed to. `'That if the driver of any lorry shall refuse when called, and not engaged, to take any load, he shall incur a flue of 55., 10s., and 20s."—Agreed to. The Tow is-cLkitit said there was a bye-law for tnsuring the numbering of carts the same as coaches, which would be intro duced, and then the bye-laws as to carts might be reprinted. Mr. Councillor 13i.sck huuN inquired if the penalty on the person steering a carria ge being under age were to be 'fixed on the lad or the owner. The TOWN-CLERK said the bye-law would be worded so as to Make the owner amenable. Mr. Councillor BLACKBURN inquired if the owners could be made responsible for the conduct of their servants. The TOWN-CLERK said there was a legal difficulty in that question; but they haJ been lately making hve-laws for licens ing the drivers, and making the owners produce their drivers when required, which would as far as possible ensure iffc good - eondnct of the drivers. Mr. C 0110611 - (fiat t" ) 14.)1Ni; 410 14 kMitt that any driver ceasing to act as such 'should not deliver up kis license should incur a.penalty ; it Was his opinion that it would be inoperative. The 111 A YOR said it was to prevent persons ceasing to act as carters, transferring their licenses, or selling them. STEAM-BoATS. The TOWN-CLERk said there wat a reference about steam bo4ts as to consuming their smcke. The committee had con sumed some time on -the subject, and were only enabled to state that they had no authority to interfere in that respect. Mr. Councillor liop.E.—" Their endeavours have ended in smoke." (A laugh ) The TOWN-CLERK had only now to state, that it appeared to the committee with reference to lights in warehouses, that the regulations should be confined to warehouses let out, and kept by warehouse-keepers, or private warehouses let out in a similar manner, but not to extend to .private warehouses used as such. Mr. Councillor 'l'. Hour thought all warehouses, without ex ception, used for the storing of goods ought to be liable to it. And that counting-houses only should be excepted., After some further discussion it was arranged that the Town clerk should form a bye-law on this subject, to be submitted at the next meeting. Mr. Alderman BROWN then, moved an adjournment to Sa turday morning at eleven o'clock, when the bye-laws are to be passed. of law as laid down by the Assessor, not placing the slightest credence on the evidence. The A ssESSOR said, if he should find he was wrong in point of law, he should allow the defendant to enter 8. 11011-Stlit. . TUCKER, EXECUTOR, SCC., V. MASON, EXECUTRIX, &C. Mr. VENABLES appeared for the plaintiff, and stated the case. John Tucker, the plaintiff, was the executor of lohu Lutterbe, decea , ed_ and the defendant, Jane Mason, was the executrix of John Mason, chiceased, and the action was brought against her as such for goods furnished to her husband during his life time. The plea raised in defence was, that the administrati ix had not fully administered to the goods and chat tels which came to her hands. The question to try was, whe ther o r nut the defendant had fully administered? He should give prima facie evidence that the deceased Mason had left property to a considerable amount, and amongst the rest one or two pilot-boats. It would be for the defendant to show that she had not fully administered. The amount ;might for was 135. lls. 9d. Mr. COTTINGLIA m appeared for the defence. Mr. John Lease, the collector of the pilot's committee, was called to prove that the deceased pilot Mason had a share in No. 10 pilot-boat, which share was worth £5O, and had since a share in another boat, the boat being worth £1,200. On being cross-examined, the witness said the deceased Ma son died very poor. The defendant owed them money, which had become due since her husdand's death. The privilege of the pilot-boat was worth £l,OOO. Mr. David Rowland deposed that the eighth of a pilot-boat, with the privilege, would he worth about £5OO. On being cross-examined, he said the boat was worth about £BOO, and the privilege £1,600. The eighth of that was £3OO. Mr. Cottinghaei called the son of the defendant to prove that his mother had paid a sum of £65, which more than covered the £5O, value, of the boat, which came to her. The Assassoa said the question now was, whether this privi lege wds to he taken into account, which was a question of law; and the jury would give a nominal verdict for the sum sought to be recovered, reserving the result for his opinion on the point of laiv..:--Virdict accordingly. YESTERDAY. MURROW V. CLEMENTSON. This was an action brought to recover the sum of £2O, the amount of an attorney's bill, due by the defendant to the plaintiff. Mr. Murphy appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Venables for the defence. It appeared that the plaintiff was the son-in-law of the defend ant, having married the defendant's daughter against her fa ther's consent. The father was in difficulties, and the son-in- law, the plaintiff, who was an attorney's clerk, undertook to rescue him out of his difficulties, as a friendly act, and in order to procure a reconciliation. This was consented to, and in process of time the defendant got through his difficulties. The plaintiff then sent him in a bill for his services and legal charges, amounting to £2O, for what the defendant had under stood was a friendly act. The defendant would not pay the amount, and the plaintiff then brought this action to recover it. The defendant paid £5 into court, which he considered a suffi cient compensation for any services the plaintiff had done him. Mr. yenables for the defence strongly commented on the con duct•_ of the plaintiff, and called a witness named Wild to prove the above facts ; the witness, however, on entering the box, was taken suddenly ill, and had to be carried out. The ASSESSOR, in consequence, proceeded to charge the jury as the case stood, and they found a verdict for the plaintiff, minus the £5 paid into court, for the full amount of his claim. SPEID V. LANGFOR Mr. Venables appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cottingham 'or the defendant. _ _ _ The plaintiff claimed a large sum of money for work and la bour done, and for money paid tm behalf of the defendant. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and that be had paid a great part of the sum owing. Mr. VENABLES, in open►ng the case, said that in the year 1835, about the latter end of August, Mr. Langford employed the plaintiff to sell for him certain skins, who was to allow him 12s. a-week for that, and during the time that the plaintiff was the defendant's servant he had paid for the defendant various sums amounting to £250. The present action was brought for the recovery of a balance of this sum, and for the weekly salary from August, 1835. Several witnesses were called to prove the various payments. After some discussion, on the recommendation of the Assessor, the counsel agreed to refer the case and all matters of difference to Mr. Lawrence, for arbitration. BRETHERTON AND ANOTHER V. DONALDSON. This was an action brought to recover the costs of am action brought to recover an empty barrel which the defendant held belonging to the plaintiff. Mr. Harden appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Venables for the defence. . . _ Mr. H ARDEN, in stating the case, said the circumstances were these :—About fifteen mouths ago, the plaintiff supplied the de fendant with a small quantity of ale, in a single barrel. The ale was paid for in two or three months, and nothing was said about it; but when the plaintiff sent for the barrel, the defen dant's wife said " No, tell Mr. Bretherton he must send 30s. for bad ale before he gets the cask." A number of demands were made for the cask, but the same answer was invariably returned. At length the plaintiff thought it his duty to proceed against the defendant to recover his cask, and a writ was taken out against the defendant, and the brewer sent along with the attorney's clerk who was to serve the writ, to show h►m where defendant lived. On arriving at the defendant's residence, the wife of the defendant, seeing an air of something like law going on, said, on this application before the serving of the writ, " Oh yes, you may have your barrel, it is in the cellar, take it." They got the barrel back, but found themselves minus the expenses of the proceedings they had taken. For the recovery of those ex penses this action had been brought. It was unnecessary to quote authorities to prove that the plaintiff was entitled to the costs which he had been subjected to. He called William Seddon, who proved being in the service of Messrs. Bretherton, that he had left the ale at the defendant's, and had repeatedly applied for the cask, but had not been able to obtain it. On his cross-examination, he said be got the cask before the writ was served. There was ale in the cask when he got it back. It was customary to allow the publicans to keep the casks till the ale was done. Thete was about eight inches of ale in the cask when he got it away. The cask was worth 78s. David Jones, clerk to plaintiff's solicitor, deposed to taking the writ to serve, but got the barrel arid did not serve the writ. Mr. Vestaimus addressed the jn:y for the defence, and desig nated the action as a most trumpery one, got up to suit the plaintiff's brother, who acted as his solicitor. He called wit nesses to prove that the custom was to detain casks even longer than the time which the cask which was the ground of the present action had been detained, and that the cask was half full of ale when it had gone back. The Jury enquired if they could not draw aline between 305., the price of the ale, and tLe price of the cask ? The Assessor replied that they could not do this. It would have been much better if the defendant, when he had incurred the cost of the writ, which was only 55., had paid it. The jury said they were of opinion that the defendant had a right to detain the cask, and found a verdict accordingly for the defendant. The Foreman of the Jury said that perhaps they would be stepping out of their province to express an opinion about the action, but it was very strong. Mr. HARDEN wished to know what it was. Foreman of the Jury.—" That the action is most discredit ale." Mr. HARDEN said the verdict was contrary to the evidence and gave notice that he should move for a new trial. JONES AND ANOTHER V. AULT. _ This was an action brought by the plaintiffs Robert Jones & Son, of Rose-hill, brewers, for the recovery of a balance of £ls for ale sold to the defendant, who keeps the Duke's Dock tavern, in June last. The sale and delivery of the ale was proved. The defence set up was that the ale was "pricked," and not fit for use. Witnesses were called to prove this, and also that the ale was good sound ale. The case occupied some time, Mr. CoTTINGHAM appeared fur the plaintiff, and Mr. WIL KINSON for the defendant. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff £l5, as well as El() paid into court. TAYLOR V. MARSH. This was an action brought to recover a balance of £7 al leged to be due by the defendant to the plaintiff for work done. The plaintiff is a master joiner, and was employed by the de fendant, who is a timber merchant, to build some houses, the defendant finding the wood. The billof the plaintiffs amounted to £3O, but they had received £23 on account, and for the ba lance the action was brought. The plaintiffs had done the work in a satisfactory manlier, and had been dismissed from their work without any reason stated. At this stage of the proceedings, as soon as Mr. VENA BT,ES had opened the case, an arrangement was come to to refer the matter to the arbitration of one of the jurors. LATI-10M V. BAXTER Mr. VgNAnt.us appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. ll A RDEN for the defendant. • • ' • • v• Mr. VENABLES, in stating the case, said this was an action brought to recover the value of some damage done to the plain tiff's cart, by a cart of the defendant's, through the negligence of her servants. The defendant's servants were driving two carts near Salthouse Dock, each having two horses, when one of the defendant's men left the carts, and, in consequence, one of her carts ran against the defendant's cart, and broke the shafts, damaging it to (lip amount of £2 10s. On the accident taking place, the son of the plaintiff went and told the defendant of the accident, and begged her to lend him a cart until he had got his repaired. She replied, she would not, that it was the act of her servants, and she had nothing to do with it, and that they might do what they pleased with her servants. All the plaintiff sought for, was the amount of damage which had been done to his cart, and, in point of law, the defendant, Mrs. Baxter, was clearly responsible for the acts of her servants. He called witnesses to prove the amount of damage, and that the cart ,which had run against the plaintiff's cart, was unattended by any driver. Mr. HARDEN, for the defence, contended that where the in jured party was guilty of any degree of negligence, an action could not be brought: He called witnesses to prove that the accident had occurred as much from the negligence of the plain tiff's carter, as from that of the defendant's. NIT. VENARLES replied. The jury found a verdict for the defendant, there being ne gligence on both sides. ROTHWELL V. THOMPSON. Mr. COTTINGHAM and Mr. WILKINSON appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. HstsnsesoN for the defence. The plaintiff in this case is a man of property at Wigan, and the defendant is a publican in this town. The plaintiff au thorized his son-in-law, who was in indifferent circumstances ; to enter into an agreement with the defendant to give up pos session of a public-louse in Mersey-street,for which the plaintiff agreed to pay a consideration of £l5O fot the possession and fixtures, possession to be given up in 10 days from the date of the a'greement. The plaintiff performed his part of the contract, but on going to take possession, the landlord, who before had not been mentioned, refused to allow him to take possession, unless he would enter into an agreement to leave the house at at any time, without the usual process of ejectment. This being quite foreign to the agreement, the plaintiff refused to acceed to it, and brought the present action to recover £5O which had been paid down when the agreement had been entered into, to wards the fixtures, and for £5O which the defendant agreed to forfeit if he should not perform his part of the agreement. The parties entered into an arrangement, the defendant to return the £5O which he had received, and £5 towards the costs, to the plaintiff. Verdict accordingly. This concluded the cause list. An inquiry was afterwards heard, and. the court then broke up about 6 o'clock. CAPTAIN J. E. GORDoN.—Tne marriage between that zealous Prot es t an t patriot J. E. Gordon, Esq., and Miss Smith, niece of Lord Carrington, took place in London, on Tuesday. The ceremony was performed by an intimate friend of the parties, the Rev:E. Bickersteth, rector of Wotton, of Worcestershire, and, in the language of Hymen's vot aries, the happy couple were prep ar i ng to leave town to spend the "honey ITIOCID.:, Captain Gordon had only recently returned from attending the great P rotestant meet i ng . at H ere ford, where he delivered a long and animated speech, and at the conclusion of which soma frends conwratulating him, expressed an opinion t ha t IM had triumphantly exhausted the subject. "Wait a wh i le, " said Captain G or d on, "there is yet one to follow toe, who will give you a much greater treat." Mr M`Glaec's speech occupied Op wards of three hours iii the delivery 1. LECTURE ON OPTICS, MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. On Wednesday evening, Robert Addams, Esq., delivered the seventh of his highly interesting lectures. The phenomena uf vision, considered in all its generality and in its connexion with the human mind, is a subject of scientific enquiry full of difficulty, and as vet but imperfectly tinderstood. Indeed it is hardly to be supposed that we shall in our present condition, he Able to determine the absolute connexion be , tween mind and, matter.; but we ought not to suffer a .belief in the impossibility of obtaining information on these matters to stand as a barrier to our obtaining more information than we now possess. The eve is an optical instrument, composed of several parts. Expressed generally, there are three coatings or cases for the eye, and three fluids or semi-liquids. The eye, whets divided perpendicularly from the front to the back, will show, on the outside, a coating which is called " the sclerotic coat." Now, this is a thick membrane of the eye, having very few blood vessels in it, and, when the eye is lifeless, it is of a leathery'kind of consistency and more difficult to cut than thick buff-leather; a pair of scissors, sharp as they maya be, will be found incapable of cutting it, and a knife, sharp as a razor, will make little im pression on the lower parts of it ; therefore, it is admirably adapted to preserve the eve. To the front of this coat is attach ed a transparent shell, like a watch glass, called " the cornea," from its having been supposed to be formed of horn; but it is snore like bladde- than horn. On the inside of this outer tough coat is another, composed of a black substance, called " the choroid" coat, which is continued to the front portion of the eve, where it terminates, or, rather, becomes a new adjunct to the eye, called the iris, that part of the eye which determines its colour. In that part of the eye there is a central hole, which, in the human creature, is round, but in other animals it assumes a varied form. We find there is much wisdom in the formation of this entrance, according to the habits of different creatures. The human head is placed on the shoulders verti cally, and can readily be turned round without much motion of the body, consequently, the round shape is given to man as the one which will best enable him to see in - every direction; hut, in the case of horses, cows,.sheen, &c., whose heads are at the extremity of an horizontal neck, it would be inconvenient to turn the head round to see objects to the right and left. The hole or pupil in their eye is horizontally elongated, which en ables them to see to the right and left much more readily than the human race. But, in the squirrel and the cat,' the elonga tion is upward. Now, the squirrel has to leap from tree to tree, and it is necessary that its sight should be most perfect in a verti cal direction. We might advert to main . others; but these will strew the wisdom of Providence in adapting the parts of the body to their purposes. At the inside of this coat (which is so tender that a pin will scratch it) is another membrane, called the retina. This interior part is of very great importance, to being the nervous part of the eye, or that part of the eve in which the sensation of light takes place. •It is of a structure like the meshes of a net, as its name implies. This retina has its origin in a part of the eye called the optical nerve, which passes into the head through a sheath, and branches out into the brain, becoming a part of the brain itself. In the interior of these coats, we have three humours, or liquids—perhaps better called humours, as they are not liquid like water. The most conspicuous of these will be the vitreous humour which occupies the greater portion of the interior part of the eye. Now, this humour is not so liquid as water nor so thick or dense as jelly. It is perfectly colourless, and as transparent as the purest water that can be lound. It is, moreover, enclosed in a memlirane, or bag, forming one interior globular mirror, excepting at the de pression in front. We then come to another, which is called the lens of the eye, or, for the sake of distinction, the crystalline lens. It is much thicker than the calf's-foot jelly which we find in shops, transparent as water itself, and made up of fibres twisted backwards and forwards. The crystalline lenses of some creatures are composed of layers of shells. 'We then come to the front of the eye, and. in the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea, which is the outside part of the whole, there is dispersed a humour which is called the aqueous humour. This is as liquid as water, and when a lancet is used to pierce its covering it flows out and leaves the coils a flaccid, its use being to push out the cornea in a lens-like manner. Mr. Addams illustrated the foregoing description by means of a beautiful mechanical representation of the eye, of similar size to that iu a human being, in which the various coatings, humours, muscles, nerves, and membranes were faithfully re presented by ivory, glass, &c. The eve is furnished with mus cles by which it can be moved in any 'direction without the ne cessity of stirring the head. When one of these muscles has not the same power of connection or elongation as the rest it does not sufficiently counterbalance them, and causes 010 com plaint called squinting. Mr. Addams here dissected the eye of an ox, and explained the various parts of it to the audience. The crystalline lens is similar to the cross lens of the telescope, more round on the one side than the other, and magnifies like the lens of a microscope. The structure of the eye being thus described, we must pro ceed to consider it as an optical instrument; and, first, we can not but admire the arrangement of the humours of the eye, so efficient for the leading of light from the front of the eye to the retina, where the image is formed devoid of the errors of spheri cal aberration. In a former lecture the achromatic telescope of Dollond was adverted to, in which three glasses were used to prevent aberration, and to correct the prismatic colours. These glasses were of different forms. and of two descriptions of glass. Now in the eye the humours are of different degrees of density. The aqueous, and the vitreous, and the crystalline lens possess different degrees of refractive power. The vitreous lens is round on one side and concave on the other; the crystalline is rounder on one side than on the other. We find great advantage from this in correcting the phenomena of spherical aberration. Here, then, we have the aqueous humour, which is concave on the one side, and convex on the other. These have different refractive powers, the aqueous index being la,Kaa' the vitreous being rather more than 1,3.39. But in the crystalline lens we find a peculiar adaptation which man has never been able to adopt, that of having the centre of greater density than the surface. In making a glass, we are obliged to submit to have it of one density throughout the whole; but if we were able to make glasses denser towards the centre, we should be able to obtain a better focus than we are at present able to do. In the crystalline lens the index of refraction is 1,376 in front, 1,399 its the centre, and 1,383 at the track, by which means spherical aberration is entirely removed. In the telescope we have a black disc, called the diaphragm, in order to prevent the light which comes in at the mouth of the telescope from striking against the sides of the brass, and, by being reflected, injuring the image. In the eye we find a black screen placed appa rently for the same purpose. In the telescope and microscope we ought to have adjustments for the eye-glass so as to be able to accommodate them to any distance. 'The seine arrangement is provided in the eye. If we look at a lamp which is near, the eye requires adjustment, and if at a distant object, it requires another adjustment, This is managed by meaus of a capsule attached to certain muscles in contact with the pupil of the eye. The eye is frequently exposed to light of various degrees of in tensity, and an arrangement is made by which we can see at midday and by twilight. This consists in the contraction or or enlargement. of a membrane, by which 'Aare or less light is admitted through the central hole. This is remarkable in cats' eyes when the sun is shining strong; the contraction is then very great. As two images of an object are formed in the re tina by our eyes, it may be asked why we do not see two objects'? We do see two objects, but we see them exactly in the same position. one lapped over the other, so that they appear only one, that is, provided the eye be properly adjusted. Now it is well known that we can see bodies very well with one eye, and the question might arise why there should be two eyes. It is, perhaps; in part for the sake of symmetry and beauty of ap pearance, as we have two arms, two ears, &e. Two eyes may be better with regard to appearance than one ; but vet if all mankind were formed with but one eye, we should not 'find any deformity iu it; therefore that does not at all follow. But we may conceive that we have two eyes, because being a precious organ, should we lose one, we might have the other. Besides we can certainly see better with two eyes than with one. This is plainly shown even by brutes. A giontleman kept a favourite toad and raven in the same garden. The toad used to get iu the pathway of the ants, and by darting out his tongue secure a great number of them. It, however, happened that the raven and toad disagreeing, the former picked out the eve of the let ter, after which the toad was unable to capture his prey as well as before. Two eves give us a more ample view than we other wise should have. We can see half a circle, or 180 ° , when both our eyes are open, whilst we can see little more than 100 0 with one eye alone. 'There is a partof the retina which is insensible to light, where the optical nerve passes into the shell. The nerve becomes a bun dle oftibres, which will not vibrate to the undulations of the mther This fact is proved by several experiments. If we place three spots two feet asunder on the wall, and stand 10 feet from them, we shall see one of these three objects disappear al together. whilst steadily looking with one eye at either of the others. The fact is that the eye is so situated that the light from the invisible spot falls upon the optical nerve and disappears. We find every thing beautifully perfect in the organization of man, and this nerve accordingly is past the axis,of vision, nearer the nose, and therefore out of the way of the light coming. Every part of the retina excepting that, is sensible to light, but there is only one part of it which is perfect, and we always turn that part, which is towards the axis of the eye, to any thing which we wish to scrutinize particularly. In reading writing, or print, the image of every distinct letter is formed upon the retina. It may appear singular how we should see a person erect, when his image on the back part of the eye is turned upside down. The fact is, that we see through the inside of the eye, and not as through a telescope tube. There are many creatures who are so sensitive, that they can s ee li g ht when there appears to be none. The cat, rat, and mouse can see light when the walls are of a three fold thickness ; else how are we to suppose that rats will run round the wainscoating of a house, on a ledge, not half an inch in diameter? What is sight but undulation ; therefore, as vibration is continually going on every where, there may be light enough generated to act upon some retina, even in the darkest dunge ons. Mr. Addams then explained satisfactorily, by the aid o f an apparatus, why we 0 not see ob jects reversed, as their i ma g e is fo t rne r d in the retina. he li When the eyes do not p erform office by age, rays do not fall as they o ught to do uponpon the ner ves . Thus in short-sighted persons they t come o focus before they reach the retina, and in age they have not reached the focus when they came to the retina. By the aid of spectacles these defects are obviated, and the rays caused to fall properly. The eye may be diseased with regard to external bodies, by sup posing them to he in motion when the eye itself unconsciously moves. The lecturer had looked at a 'body which he believed to be stationary, and had seen it run up, apparently with great velocity. This happened in Scotland a few years ago. He was k com i n g down Loch Ness , and the pas et slopped a short tune for the purpose of allowing the passengers to inspect a beauti ful waterfall. Mr. Addams was observing the manner in which the waves of this waterfall succeeded one another, and kept his eye fixed on a particular part of the water for that purpose. This put his eye hs motion in an oppysite direction to the water, and having satisfied himself, he turned round to the rock on his left, and to his surprise the whole of it appeared to be going up with the seine velocity Ts the waterfall was coining down. A similar effect is felt on the railway, if the eye looks for a few moments at external objects, whilst the carriages move rapidly along. The abberration of light is "a phenomenon attended with an apparent displacement of the stars in the heavens. When we look at a star it appears to he a little farther east than its true place by a very minute portion. Now, supposing that a star was perpendicular to an observer, and a ray or wave to leave it towards his eye, by the time that it reached him the earth would have travelled in her orbicular path, so that that the per pendicular ray would not come near the observer. Besides this action of the earth, the diurnal motion is productive of a varied aberration which together with the orbicular aberration, roust be taken into consideration by astronomers. In the next lecture to be d e livered to-morrow evening, I%tr.. Addams will treat on optical deceptions , the duratiipocnt:f n n pressions made no the retina—light and shade— "r ned 4 the presentations, and on the optical s p ectra occasio super-position of illuminated surfaces. re I-•v e S' RYALL'S PORTRAITS OF ENIiNENT CONSERVATIVE STATE, MEN.—We are happy to find that this spirited undertaking is attracting general notice. We have repeatedly spoken of this series of portraits with the most cordial approbation; w e and haw: now to a dd that the publisher is gaining fresh and in creasing popularity by his beautiful series of portraits of diOin guished British Females. We are sure that no degree of suc cess which we can wish him will be commensurate with his deserts. Both th ese works are a •ort of national Vraper .6d as such they will be generally appreciated. 'IONS. an indict.' .o one Ann he prisonei on similar bs' transpor- 'cb, the pro ,rty of Wm. Dutch. It to gip to the at some par riffle be pre the wetch, a mtion or the m the win- ran out of to examine. Ind the pri passed sou- ystOlon one. of Maurice ir in Liver prisoner to rso and the he prisoner L for twelve ilver watch, a prosecutor le went out Here he a policeman old building that he hod i. He gave :ance. 'fbe he watch in The jury d been em t not would ,r said that etch, yet he t to his own ng the testi- L six o'clock d 'not make prisoner in tracter. As he recorder one month ras charged Ellis Fern wife. Mrs. .e fancy ball it the top of ntering the the hand of he prisoner, ocket. He of her bus !r, whom he f him. The t hat the. pri ently before count of his L.. were sent ted severely stated that to send him transporta- (teen papers rty of h.en ker, and his in his ser i took place. Ifficer of the ry, near the eu he stated use, and was i the follow p had been itolen. Mr. risoner had per, similar st to hav e it ed the pri- Recorder or he sentence. ien the Re rime, passed ere indicted andkerchief against the ely returned isoners, Sett- rary English, £4 17s. 6d. all the pri tnapottatioll fish viere•or- sting feloni the shop of rlsell Lewis 9th of , ot produced rich the pri opman, who pursued him ;over guilty. ved, and the ing stolen a 'Thief, from at he was a he Jeft the town for the iss had been bad been c oned stolen )l, by officer viously con eutenced to some sove y her portation. 4D.—Geergt indictments the bank of ites, on one V note, liur• I company as engraved y. The in s by deliter it he nliOlt. , they counts ,VENABLES MUNICIPAL ELECTION. On the first of November the election of seventeen Councillors will take place, sixteen to supply the vacancies occasioned by members who go out by rotation, and one to supply the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Shaules. All the wards will be fiercely contested. We subjoin a list of the retiring members and of the names of the candidates on both sides:— WARD. GOING OUT. tloNsEavxmus. 1 Evrtn Kirdl *C. Horsfallt.... Jas. Heyworth. George Quayle 2 Scotland-road Richard Shiel... R. Houghton. Richard Shiel. 3 VauxhslNroad J. D. Thornely - + Wm. ,Shand James Muspratt. 4 St. Paul's 'John Barton.... John Barton James Stitt.. 5 Exchange...- James . Mellor... T honateSands. James Mellor.. 6 Castle-street. Thos. 801t0n.... John Wilkinson. Thos. Bolton 7 St. Peter's.... Richard Bright.. N. Litherland Richard Bright.. 8 Pitt-street.... W. R. Preston.. John Bibby W. It. Preston 9 Gt. George's.. James Aikin+... Chas. Lawrence Henry Ripley. 10 Rodney-street Thomas H01t.... J N. Wood Thomas Holt Ii Ahercromby. T. Brocklebank. Thomas Kaye 12' Lime-street.. It. Roskellt Ambrose Lace... Vincent Higgins. 13 St. Ana's ltichd. Alison+ John Wright. .. Joseph Mason. 14 West D, rhy.. *Jos. Sandars+ John Smith. R. W. Wood Francis Jordan T. M. Gladstone.lFrancis Jordan 15 B. Toxteth. Wm. Sharplest Alex. Smith Jonathan Platt 16 North Toxteth Chas. Tayleurt.. John Sheppird , Geor..e ltanssden The members going out marked thus (') are Conservatives. Members who retire. # Deceased. THE WOOLLEN AND LINEN TRADE. (From the Leeds Intelligencer.) TRADE or LERDS.—We have very little alteration to report in the state of the woollen trade since our last. The workmen are kept moderately well employed, but the merchants are only buying to order and to keep up assorted stocks. BRADFORD MARKET.—The amount of business transacted on Thursday was less than it has been for some time past, al though there was a pretty numerous attendance of buyers. The prices of manufactured goods, however, remained firm. 'The demand for yarns was flat, and prices receded a little. The transactions in wool were very limited, and on reduced terms. BRADFORD, OcT. 21.—1 am happy to give a better acconnt of yesterday's market than for soote weeks back, though prices remain much the same as last week. In wool much business was done, as was also the case in tops awl yarns at a slight re duction. The piece market was rather languid in the lower qualities, but fine goods met with a ready sale. On the whole, the manufacturers in general think there is little ground for alarm, as from the experience of former years, the trade is more or less depressed towards the close of the year. HALIFAX, WEDNESDAY.—There has been more business done in this market to-day than for some weeks back, but at lower prices. The manufacturers are in rather low spirits as as to future prospects, especially as yarns do not come down so as to enable them to make their goods at the prices at which they are obliged to sell ; their stock begins to be heavy. HEcxsioNDwritr.—The Blanket Hall has for the last few market days been thinly attended by the merchants and buyers; the consequence is, a decline in the price of those articles so necessary for the approaching winter. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, OCt. 21.—We do not report any variation in the trade this week, the demand is dull and few sales passing; yet notwithstanding the long flatness, there is no materiel decline in prices, which may be attributed to the firm ness with which the growers hold what is still left in the coun try, and the little disposition they evince to sell at even old prices. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Oct. I7.—To•day the-market has been flat, and but little business has been done - ; the buyers wanting goods at lower prices on account of the fall in the price of wool, The wool market has also been very slack, and but few purchasers. THE HATTERS OF LIVERPOOL have generally come to tho determination to close their shops at eight o'clock (Saturday night excepted) during the winter season, from the Ist of No vember to the Ist of March. • _ _ AN INSPECTOR FOUND GUILTY.—We are of opinion that Mr. Maunsell is entitled to the gratitude of all who think the con duct of the present police oppressive to the inhabitants of Li. veipool. The sentence passed on Inspector Pool is 40s. and costs. Mr. Maunsell is a reduced gentleman, and in bringing this haughty underling to a solve of duty, for an outrageous assault, we are of opinion that the plaintiff is entitled to public approbation. THE SANDON CONSERVATIVE GRAND MARCH.—WO believe that this is the first piece of music which aas been expressly composed and published, as au apanage to the conservative cause. It was played by the band at the Royal Amphitheatre on Friday evening, at the conclusion of Sir Thomas Brancker's speech; and if we may be allowed to criticise its merits, as a musical composition, we are free to state, that it is bah soul stirring and impressive ; and it reflects an additional honor on the spirit of Liverpool, when to her genius is to be ascribed this first martial accompaniment to our national constitutional cause. It affords us much pleasure to learn that Sir Robert Peel and Lady Peel are enjoying improved health since their return. We have been assured by a private friend that Sir Robert is greatly improved in constitutional strength, or we should rather say bodily strength, by his short continental tour. He is now entertaining his private friends and enjoying the full comforts of an English home. Lord Brougham arrived in London on Saturday from Auck land Castle. lie was soon afterwards visited by several private friends; and their report speaks highly in favour of his lordship's improved health. He was rather jocular upon the state of po litical affairs; but now and then his pleasantry partook of the caustic' vain and agreeably with his intimation in the north, gyve indication of a " fair start," and a wiry run, in the ensu ing parliamentary hunting season. On Sunday he took a trip to his villa at Petersham, and returned home to dinner. We have not as yet learned, that any of the leading members of the cabinet of whig exquisites have honoured his lordship with a call; the author of "the Pleasures of Hope," is amongst the last visitors. IMPOItTANTOPINION OP THE FRENCH PRESS.—" Sir Robert Peel has come to enquire into the state of public opinion in France. One must see and be enabled to listen to Oust select society, (societe choice,) Sir Robert Peel, Count • Pozzo di Borgo, M. 11ok, M. Pasquier—all those intelligent and prac tised statesmen who have seen and handled people during the last thi ty years—one must see and listen to them to take pity upon all the incapacities of the Revolution and 'Tiers party, destitute alike of ideas and the science of governing. (I) Yes, we love to predict it—we shall assuredly have a Peel and Stanley a dministration in England ere six months be elapsed. The rational whiffs will strike of the rule of O'Connell and join the tories, who wish to preserve the unity and strength of the British empire. English aristocracy will resume its beauti fully noble bearing; it is that aristocracy which has fur succes sive ages formed the glory and the strength of , England! Great Britain is indignant at submitting to the dominion of a loquacious tribune of the mob. Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley are the friends and partizans of a slow and moderate reform, such as Europe may wish for. Between retrogade men and the champions of subversion, there is in France, as in England, a school of compromise, naturally called to assume the direction of the state.—Translaled from La Chronique de Paris.—[We leave our whiff-radical friends to ponder these sentiments.—En.] Ton Ductinss OF KENT.--It is said that the mother of the heiress presumptive to the protestant throne of Great Britain, has given £2O more towards the completion of the Tuam Mass i house. We confess this intelligence is by ao means such as we can pass over without remark. The Duchess of Kent might, we can easily conceive, have been betrayed into the first gift of £5O to aid the work of superstition ; but the second act, suc ceeding as it does to the daring intolerance of the very parties eu whom her Royal highness hat been pleased to bestow her - favours, looks very much like one of premeditation, if not a smile of approbation on the persecutors of protestantism. Let her Royal Highness beware! A great movement is now taking place in Great Britain. Protestantism is about to rise with an aspect more formidable than it ever bore since the revolution of 1688, Popery will soon display its weakness in Ireland, as the trepidation of the Roman hierarchy testifies. Their threatened effort to preach against the protestant religion next month, will accelerate their downfall, by augmenting that spirit of enquiry among their flocks—already causing them to " gnaw their tongues with pain." The people of England may take it into their heads to construe literally the bill of rights as it affects a British sovereign; and her Royal Highness may find, to her grief, that she has sided with far the weaker party, and involved her innocent daughter in seriously inconvenient unpopularity. These are not times for crowned heads to tamper with the basis of their titles.—Dublin Record. SUSPECTED MURDER OF A WIFE By HER HUSBAND.—A man named Peter M'Kenna, an Irish navigator, is now in custody in this town, awaiting the result of a coroner's inquest, now holding upon the body of his wife. The prisoner, who is the father of a large family, occupied a cellar in Carlton-street, in the vicinity of the canal. It appears that the neighbours were on Saturday night disturbed by the noise proceeding from a quarrel between the deceased, Margaret M . Kenna and the pri soner. On Monday morning the prisoner waited upon Mr. Shar rocks, a surgeon ; he said that the surgeon must go to his house to see his wife; Mr. Sharrocks accordingly went there and found the deceased lying upon her back. The prisoner said he had struck her rather heavily, and the deceased, on beingasked where she felt pain, said that her pain was very great, and that she had great difficulty in breathing. On an examination, the surgeon found that the ribs on both sides of her body were more or less fractured; he bled her and applied other remedies, but tire de ceased died on Tuesday morning. Mr. Sharrocks, assisted 'by Mr. Black, another surgeon, have since examined the body of the deceased. All th e ribs on the left side were broken, five of them fractured in two places. The eighth rib was fractured and the splintered end prottuded through the pleara. On t he ri g ht side live ribs were broken, two of them in two places; several pieces of bone had been forced in the lungs. and the stomach and liver had been penetrated by a portico' of the broken rins. In the opinion of the medical men, these fractures were the cause of the death of the deceased. They could not hive been occasioned by a fall, as even falling a great height could eased. not have brok e n th e r ib s on b o th sides of the body of the dec The coroner, at seven o'clock on Wednesday evening adjourned the inquest, il l order to give time for the production of further evidence.—Yesterday the inquest was resumed, further evidence having been obtained, when the jury found a verdict of man slaughter against the prisoner. In the annals of medical science, few medicines have obtained so high and well-merited a degree of celebrity as WRAY'S BALSAMIC PILLS. Their infallible healing properties ar fully demonstrated by the perfect restoration to health of an im• mense number of persons atllicted with strictures and other dis• orders of th e ure thra. The Proprietor of this invaluable Medi cine has most judiciously feccluded from these pills that ( f e l e - - terious a ticie, copaiba,"which may account in some degree for the ;astonishing cures they have effected, and which have established their fame for ever."—Mornieg Chronicle.. Mr. Robert Briggs' 2of Ulverstono, was fined by the magis , trates of that town £3*, for a second infringment of the factory Cu.aherlastd ~. v .~ ~,~ CORReSPONDENCE. COUNCILLIZ E. SMITH AN U E. WESTON, no ESQ. - TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST:IND.IRD. SIR,-1 perceive there is in the lest bicerpoo! Mercury an, other epistle from Mr. Weston, with„ of course,, an ,eilitoriat reface. The writer of the letter has not uttered any thing that imperatively call: for a reply: He seems glad of as oppor tunity of confirming the fact, that he o;as a "main instrument" in returning Mr. E. Smith to the council; and he boasts that; if he had thought proper—" thought proper"—he might have been a member of the council. I did not assert that Councillor Smith vies Mr, Weston's, " nominee," nor any thing to that effect. He, has fully con firmed all that I 'said, or meant; therefore he might, if he had "thought proper," have withheld his balderdash about theballot ; but such stuff suits the calibre of the Mercury. The editoriil remarks about " unintelligible" are readily ac counted for, if it be borne in mind that obtuseness is general'f the characteristic of old.tromen. Can the editor of the Mercury persuade his readers to regard this as a " tort' slander ?" October 24, 1836. MEUNIER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE S'T'ANDARD am informed some alderman or councillor. used an expression in the council chamber the other day which I can not understand: it was " grinditones and slates." Can you relate correctly how and when it was used,_ and by whom; and if the worthy personage who so expressed himself should happen to be a retiring councillor, and purposes again to offer himself, perhaps he will, explain to his couAituents the meaning, of the expression, and its applicability to the matter to which it was applied.. A good explanation may secure his election; at all events no one will deny the elegance of the expression; and per haps not its.origivality.—Youls, A VOTER. Drury-lane, October 24, 1836. • [We beg to refer our correspondent to Mr. Councillor Bolton for an explanation, It will be given, we have no doubt, with his accustomed urbanity and condescension.—ED.l TO THOMAS HOLT, ESO. Stn.—Having to .retire from the councilchamber, you rata again soliciting our votes that you may be reinstated in your former place. Now, sir, may I inquire what are your pretension; and what good have you done for the ward of which you area member which you can bring forward as a reason for.again asking me for my vote ? It is not my present purpose to point out what you have done. 1 kave that to yourself : or to Mr..Walmslev, who Iperceive is the apologist of the whole council; but 1 will suggest to you what you have etet &tie. You have paid no at tention to the state of the. streets within your ward, or Rice. ; street (a street leading out of the very street in which you live) would not be, as at present, dirty, dangerous, and impassable. Mulberry-street, particularly the south end, would be better lighted and flagged, and Alulberrv-place (leading mit of Mul berry .street) would be rendered less dangerous by having one, znslight - in it, and by an improvement in the paving, which is in a dangerous state. lam fully aware that you are neither a, commissioner of lighting nor of paving; ()IVOR word or two emanating from you, as councillor of the war ,Mould have its due weight in the proper quarter, and would shew that you are. alive to the comforts of those thiutigh whose interest you hold your sent.—Yours, &e., . A VOTER. Liverpool, October 19, 18343. TO THE ELECTORS O 1 ST. PAUL'S WARD. GENTL&MEN,—The dm; for deciding who is to be chosen your representative in council is close at hand. Two candidates are in the herd : one is Mr. Barton, a tradesman, a resident, a neighbour, of something like thirty years standing; who by his industry, perseverance, and uncompromising integritf:, has risen to promotion. Would it be inconsistent to suppose, if.he again be elected that he would .do his utmost to promote the interest and prosperity of your ward? Solely not. Do we want a mar ket in POWNALL-SQUAIIE ? If so, refer to his conduct on that question, and you will find he did his duty. The other is a Mr. Stitt, a very clever man, they say; a reformer, forsooth, as though Mr. Barton was not ! Vor the sake of information, let somebody define this msapplied word. Is it a,thing called a weathercock—a reed shaken with the wind? Refer to Mr. Bar ton's votes, and you will there find he has acted independently of any party. But what signifies that ? Those who have broaght Mr. Stitt forward have no reasonable motive—it has been done. merely to satisfy the raving jealousies of one or two envious in dividuals, who have, and will again, no doubt, stoop to any meanness to vilify and calumniate the character of an honest man. And will the electors of St. Paul's Ward pamper to the passions and fancies of such TIIINGS? The answer will be given ou Tuesday next : there will be an opportunity then to support a neighbour, or desert him without a cuuse.-1 remain, Gentlemen, your very obedient servant. . Licerpool,26th October. AN INHABITANT. TO THE ELECTORS OF VAUXHALL WARD. GENTLEMEN,—On the first of November, a representative will be chosen to assist (or at least he will profess to do so) in abating nuisances and legislating for the comforts and general interests of the inhabitants in your Ward. Between this and the day of election you will have an opportunity of deciding whether common sense will be your guide or whether that hack neyed word, REFORM, will persuade you that you are breathin pure air, and that coughing from the effect of noxious vapours is beneficial to your healthy. Should your wisdom .direct you to support an individual who is the cause of one of the greatest nuisances that ever infested a neighbourhood. because he, Mr. Muspratt, has just found out all nuisances should be abated, you must at once admit you can be persuaded to anything. Should. you reject Mr. Muspratt and elect Mr. Shand, you give our neighbourhood a chance of being represented by one .whose public character allows him to enter the council-room unshackled, and one who can oppose those nuisances without sacrificing his ' interests—one who has uo need of making hypocritical promises. The business habits of Mr. Shand are well known to the com mercial ronumunity of Liverpool, You -will find in him one who is able and willing to render effectual assistance in prt , muting the local interests of your Ward and the general ill terestiof the town at large.-1 remain, Gentlemen, A DISINTERESTED SUPPORTER OF AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE. ST. MICHAEL'S ORGAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANIMRD. SIR,—A paragraph having appeared in the Albion, of the 24th instant, signed " A Constant Reader," stating that he perfectly recollecteckwind instruments to have accompanied St. Michael's organ, during the first festival, after the erection of that instru ment, I beg leave to contradict the assertion, which I can prove to be a palpable falsehood, knowing several respectable individuals who were present at the time referfed to, and who, unlike the anonymous scribbler of the paragraph alluded to, are not ashamed to have their names mentioned if required. The organ having been originally put up by the builders half a tone under Broadwood's standard concert pitch, fully justified Sir George Smart in not using it at the late festival, as it would be utterly impossible to accompany an organ in that state with wind instruments which are up to standard pitch; and the time was too limited to allow of its being altered for the occasion. I trust that what I have now stated, and my former explanation in the Mercury, of the 7th instant, and other papers, have been fully explicit; therefore, any other letters that may appear from anonymous scribblers, referring to that subject, (being fully aware of the quarter from which they emanate,) I shall treat with the silent contempt they merit.-1 am, &c., W. P. DREAPER. 32, Raneingh-street, October '27, 1833. P.S.—I should like, when more at leisure, to make a few in.. quirice respecting the trumpet stop in St. George's organ. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The following was posted at Lloyd's on Saturday : Extract of a letter from the Agents to Lloyd's, at Elsinore, dated Oct. 15, 1836 Havannah is .no longer declared in fected. Vessels from thence, with clean bills of health, will only get four days' quarantine of observation." Extract of a letter from the agents to Lluvd's, at Genoa, dated Oct. 13, 1836 :—" The Supreme Board of Health of this city have laid a guarantine on vessels coining from the kingdom of Naples (Sicily excluded) of ten days, with all susceptible goods to be landed in the lazaretto." The following was also posted : " Downing-street, Oct. 21. " Sir, —Having laid before Lord Glenelg your letter of the 19th instant, [ have recived his lordship's directions to request you to state to the Committee fur Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's, that the Governor of St. Helena will he instructed to give every facility to the agents of the committee in that island, or to the merchants generally, in reestablishing such signal stations as they ina); wish to maintain for their own purposes, provided that no charge on that account be imposed on the Treasury of the island. (Signed " To W. Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's." J AAIIS STEPHEN. BANK of ENGLANn. Quarterly Average of the Wee , klv Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, from the 26th July to the ISth October, inclusive, published pursuant to the Act 3 and 4, c 1,98. ASSLTS. Circulation . £17.936,000 Securities £28.845,000 Deposits ..13,324,0W Bullion 5 257,000 •£34,102, 00 £71,2607000 Downing-street, Oct. 21, 1836. WHALE — FISHING.—LATEsT Nfiws.—The Neptune, Penny arrived off' Peterhead on the 18th instant, from Davis' Straits with 8 fish, 87 tuns oil. Reports the Dee, Gatnbiiu, 50 tuns. ane the St. Andrew, Biuce, from 40 to 50 tons. Barrisit ExPOßTs.—The declared value of British exports in the six mouths ending July, 1836, is mire than ti.ci million' and a half greater than in the corresponding period et last year; the two sums being £20,033,406 in 1835, and £22,584,7,14 in 1836. 1 recom a letter, which appears in lira Du I?rening I alive Association for mending the establishment o Consery " 1: :SION I% STRENGTH." —T h e Rev. Dr. la Martin ,stron h e as v all Ireland. written n f E spending R s oim twoIN theriotehr'ar ev°l-temhoViuria:aeca, inrerelirlkinTriyoahmuv:beletlhorei next ri u l e rt t n es , \ ll l l) a : n li a d' d l ) I rl i C s n i i' l s l he engineer of St. Day, On Friday last, as . Mr. Ilockin, Linable horse, in turnimz was returning from the mines ) Hockin escaped unhurt.— with a waggon and was killed. • 4te. Cornwall 10yal Gaze. the corner of the town the an(iimiirl. came s uddenly in contact of Belgium is said to be very desirous Her Majes t yweeks id i , n a t g n Claremont, itydeth,,rse. a ce p uiu d mi tv t ,s h F e a int li dz r. i oo n;: —On Saturday morning, the wife of will, probably. brinygt; sixty-file years of a mechanic•, nail d A elapsed,l hi r ' I t t r c e sa s .) l ,, e then square, Londinoons,tg g irl. It il an d his wife,pre age, . vionslY gate .and ten years have now n ne t e he ti i c n c h u a r b t „- t .i ns . The children and the mother are likely to do they were well. ELOPEMENT AND SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY AT roNTß eitPlanatts into Pontefract tiie g re o a t h e st Tuesday excite ment and amazement. John Hawkins, the letter carrier 4 that s c v ß ee A k cT w l— hic A h h c a ir s cu th n ;o st i a v place, eloped with the wife of a tradesman on the night of the 4th instant, after having paid a visit to a great many of the in habitants, and borrowed various sums of money on the plea of necessity, as well as obtained jewellery, silks, linen drapery. fk.c. to a great ainount., under false pretences. The route of the fugitives was traced to Manchester, but `•et the officers of justice have not been enabled to apprehend the villain. It is supposed that it was his intention to proceed to America. Ilis dep•eda tions thus committed upon the inhabitants amount to hundreds of pounds, as he found no difficulty in obtaining loans from almost eve*, indkidual whom he solicited, he having hithero borne a fair and unexceptionable character. 'le has also car ried off a great sum in vicarial tithea,4Boporatiou toils, &c.-- Yorkshire Gazelle. _