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. r4. 'zl =.;.t7 ``. •,4 4 S,*P* . N Vitbitt 33obito. NOTICE. THE Proprietors of the OLDCOMPANY 0 CARTERS respectfully inform the Merchants, Brok s, and other in habitants of Liverpool, that they have fora themselves into an Association for the purpose of Prosecuti their Carters who may be guilty of defrauding their employe s, or of purloining Goods committed to their care, belonging to any Merchant, Broker, or others, having an open account with the Company. The Proprietors earnestly request that the earliest information of any case of fraud or pilfering by their Carters, may be sent to the Company's Office, in order that the offending parties may be prosecuted. WM. POWNALL, Agent Canning-place, 16th October, 1835. LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT MEETING. A MEETING will be held, if the Lord will, in the 11- Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-street, o THURSDAY the 29th instant, fo'r the purpose of commun• ating important documents, and forming a Protestant Ass iation, under the following regulations:- 1. Admission by Tickets. 2. As the Meeting is not convened o discussion, no persons but those deputed by the Cominittee" 1 be allowed to address the Meeting. 3. Every person using the privilege of a Ticket is consider ed pledged to adhere to the Rules of the Meeting, and to sub mit to the Chair. The Rev. Robert J. M'Ghee is expected to attend and ad dress the Meeting. Doors will be open at 10 o'clock, and the Chair will be taken at 11 o'clock, Enquiry for Tickets 'to be made at Mr. DA vENcolit's, R -meta gh-street. Liverpool, 21st Oct. 1835. sourn EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. LONDON to BRIGHTON, by CROYDON, OXTED, WORTH, LIND -FIELD, and CLAYTON, With a communication frou OXTED With TUNBRIDGE, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, and the WEALD OF KENT, and to be extended to Dovsa. Caiiital, £l,-100,000—in Shares of £.50 each—Deposit £2 per Share. TRUSTEES. Herbert B. Curteis, Es 3., M.P. David Salem Ons, Esq. J. Miuet Fector, Esq., 'M.P. I John Twelis, Esq. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Hon. C. Compton Cavend'.,A, Robert Gear, Esq. M.P. Edward Graham, Esq Herbert B. Cateis, Esq. M.P. Bur Wood Godlee, Esq. Howard Elphiustone, Esq., Edmund Halsewell, Esq. M.P. John Langford, Esq. Minet Fedor, Esq., M.P. Horatio Legg,att, Esq. Frederick North, Esq., M.P. Captain l'ringle, Hon. General St. John. John Smith, Esq. Edward Barnard, Esq. • David Saloinons sq. James Burton, Esq. John Shewell sq. Decimus Burton, Esq. Henry Shir , Esq. Robert Clutton, Esq. Rober 'l' ter, Esq. Captain Cole. John ' Its, Esq. Thomas Cooper, Esq. Thonia W. Tvotlale, Esq. H. C. Moreton Dyer, Esq. Henry Wrench, Esq. With power to add to their number. Engineer H. R. Pa Lsnait, Esq., F.R.S. Solicitors Office of the Company. 98, Gracechurch-street. THIS is not only the shortest and most direct p racticable line to Brighton, but it has also the advantage, for the first twenty milecout of London, of a joint communication with the counties of Sussex and Kent; offering thereby a double source of profit for that part. From its termination at the Northern Entrance to Brighton, it is proposed to extend it to Shoreham, and from n convenient point on the line to carry a branch by wav of Lewes to New haven, securing thereby the commercial advantages of the two harbours, without the necessity of lengthening the line for pas sengers to Brighton. From Oxted the Kentish line proceeds direct to Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells, through a country particularly well adapted to such a work, and the proposed continuation to Dover, through Ashford, is direct end easy. The advantages of effecting these two great objects by one expense of management, and one outlet, common to hoth, are obvious. . Brandies will hereafter be carried from the main line to se veral important neighbouring towns ; but in the mean time it is anticipated that the Depots at Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells, will be points of rri% al and departure for Hastings, St. Leo nard's, and the South-eastern coast, and will secure the traffic with those districts. The survey has been completed, and the Parliamentary notices will he given in due time. Applications for the remaining Shares may be made to the Low ours and VIESTAIINST.KR BANK, Throgmorton-street and Waterloo-place ; Messrs. SPOoNlilt, ATTWOODS, and Co., Gracechurch-street, London; Messrs. Moss and Co., Bankers, Liverpool ; the MANCHESTER and LIVERPOOL DISTRICT BANK, Manchester; Messrs. SMITH, IliLnEit, and Co., Bankers, Has tings ; Mr. THOMAS COGIAN, Share Broker, Liverpool ; Messrs. ecurros and FEARON, Solicitors. .Crownoffice-row Temple, and aligh-street, Southwark; or to the SECRETARY at the Office. Oaoter 19, 1835. J. S. YEATS, Secretary, The Appropriation of Shares will be loath, ou FRIDAY, the 30th instant. No Application fur Shares will be received after THURSDAY, the 29th instant. By order, ' J. S. YEATS, Secretary. Rqiletty Iffica, 98, Gracerhui ch-street, 21st Oct., 183"). 4%, a private object. This is my charge against the resolutionists —a charge which they have nut and cannot disprove with all their legal ingenuity and critical acumen. I am accused by One, indeed I believe by both your corres pondents, of having. indulged in sarcastic, uncourteous, and acriraonious expressions ; I deny that I have used any terms or applied any appellatious which were not call9cl for hy the occa sion. The term " speculator" of all others appears to have been the most offensive to their sensitive ears. Until now I did not know that there was anything offensive in the word " speculator," or that it was considered an opprobrious term. What, I would ask, is the whale commerce of England based upon but speculation ? and what would become of that com merce it there were no speculators? If Messrs. Requisitionist and Humanitas choose to speculate in land near the powder depot, or if they feel disposed to speculate in gunpowder, or purchase the magazines even, I for one have no objection to deal with them on the established "mercantile principle of value received for value given ; if they will treat with me upon the honourable footing offair instead offree trade principles I am ready to meet them, but I protest against the system they have adopted; I protest against their attempt to take the magazines by storm, or to carry them by a coup-de-Law, and I protest also against their attempt to rase them to the ground by the aid of popular clamour. F 0 that I will never succumb. One of your correspondents says that 1 am, because I resist his measure, opposed to all public improvement. How does he ! prove his assertion? Why, forsooth, because lam unwilling to see an attack made upon property for au object which the pub lic care little or nothing about, and because I have told him that be has not proposed any practicable remedy: The fact is he is altogether ignorant of the importance of the gunpowder trade to the port of Liverpool, not on account of the quantity consumed but on account of the absolute necessity that every ship leaving this port is under of taking more or less of this ar ticle as a part of her store. Hence, there are other and more important interests to be consulted " than the insignificant sel fish interests of a few gunpowder manufacturers." Whenever the question comes to he agitated these interests will find more defenders than either of your correspondents dream of. If the question becomes one of law, the highest court in the realm will have to deride it; if it engage the alien- , tion of the legislature I will take care that its merit s shall be ; properly understood, and they who commenced the work of agitation will have to bear the consequences. If they untenant ' their houses by their own unwise proceedings the fault lies not at my door. Buraanitas has kindly prescribed for me a drench of the Meicury, but I reply that my thirst for knowledge is not so . great as to induce me. to swallow the iinsings of that slop pail while a better beverage is to be had. With respect to tha ex-' plosion at Peel Harbour I remember perfectly well, although the vessel was aground, at the time, that not a single pine of • glass was broken in the, town, and what is still more extraordi nary, the men who had the charge of her escaped, after seeing what must inevitably happen, and by simply throwing them selves on the ground escaped uninjured. lam not so insane as to advance so monstrous an absurdity as that gunpowder is not a dangerous commodity. All that I contend for is that every possible precaution is taken to guard against accidents, an as sertion proved by the fact that nothing of the kind has happened at the Liecard Magazines since their establishment, or at any other magazine within my knowledge. Private as well as pub lic considerations are a sufficient safeguard that no danger will be needlessly incurred. I have only to add in answer to the insinuation of A Requisi tionist that I am not a Cheshire man, do not possess a-single foot of land in that county, and moreover, that I am neither a lodger or inhabitant of Liverpool, although but very few days pass in which I ani nit to be found during the hours of business " where merchants most do congregate.' —I am, &c., CONSERVATOR. 2:1 THC. LIVERPOOL STANDARD. • .z 4, THE TURTLE DOVE. Ala.—Jens,/ of Ditniblaine. As lonely I sat on a calm summer's morning, To breathe the soft incense that flowed. on the wind, I mused on my boots, in their bright beauty dawning. By WARREN'S Jet Blacking—the pride of u nkind. In their bright jetty gloss every feature divi eiY Was shown, and appeared with rich Instr to glow ; No high-polished glass could have shown ern so finely As Waxer:Nis Jet Bla4ing, the pride 'the beau. On a map.e.tree near sat a tattle bevrai ng, With sorrowful cooings, the loss of h love; Each note that she utter'il seem'd sad , ss exaling, And plaintively echo'd around tl ill grove, y When, lo! in my boots the lone m ti?r perceived Iler form, and supposed that her ver was there; Even I, that the vision was real ha believed, The Bic/eking reflected her imag so clear. She hover'd around, at the figure still gazing, Anxiety seem'd hut to heighten her woe; She perch'd on the boot, with a courage amazing, And fondled the vision that bloom'd in its glow. How wild were her cries when the fairy illusion She found but a cheating and transient shade, Like hope's airy dreams, but a fading delusion That shone in the bloom WARREN'S Blacking displayed. 1 pity'd the dove, fur my bosom was tender, — I pity'd the strain that the gave to the wind; But I ne'er shall forget the superlative splendour Of WARREN'S Jet Blacking, the pride of mankind. This.Easv-shining and Btilliant BLACKING is prepared by ROBERT - WARREN, :30, STRAND, LONDON, and sold in every Town in the Kingdom. LIQUID, •in Bottles, and PASTE BLACKING, in Pots, at Od., 12d., and IBd. each. Q Be particular to inquire for " WARREN'S, 30, Stcand all others are counterfeit. [ADVfiRTISEMENT.] THE POWDER MAGAZINES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Two to one,• Mr. Editor, are formidable odds to contend against either in ruins or in argument, in the latter case, more especially, when the single-handed disputant is opposed to such ' hyper-critics. as Messrs. Ileoni4iiieeiAt and Rum ita.c—gentle- ' men, who for lack of argument deal in overst fined inferences and contraband conclusions ; who luxuriate t the subtleties of special pleadirsg, and valourously fire lon hots at the shadow instead of manfully grappling with the 1. is advanced by their adversary;—gentlemen who have labo riouslv studied in the modern school of ethics, and made th grand 'discovery that it is now almost a crime in any one t d end from spoliation his own property or the rights of otl whose interests may be confided to his care. Unhappily me this school of philoso phy was unknown to the world w n I was under instruction; hence I imbibed the more ancie t notions of duty, of equity, and of justice which are still impressed upon my mind, and which I have endeavoured to enforce upon that of the public with reference to the subject under discussion. Instead of wasting my powder in a Useless skirmish 'about mere words or isolated expressions I shall proceed to restate the question at issue. For .abouLThil,years the powder magazines have stood-where they now stand; certain speculative capitalists, some ten or ff.- ' teen years since obtained possession of the land adjoining these magazines, and erected villas thereon; before they engaged in . this undertaking not a word was about the dangers to be appre hended from an explosion; houses sprung up in rapid succes sion, an hotel was even burnt down in their immediate neigh bourhood, but still not a word was said about the magazines; in short things went un smoothly and pleasantly enough until to wards the latter end of September last when some puhlic-spirited residents on the other side of the water discovered, possibly at a mechanics' institute lecture, that gunpowder is a combestible compound which generally explodes—when ignited: Possessed of this grand secret a tr ain of placards was laid along the whole coast from the New Ferry to the Red Noses, and also on board all the passage boats plying between Liverpool end Cheshire, calling a public meeting at the Egremont Hotel to take into consideration this new unforeseen, unforethought-of cause of alarm. Well, in due course of time the meeting was held i but, strange to tell, no invitation was sent to any person connected with or having charge of the magazines to explain the extent of the apprehended danger, or the precautions taken to guard against it. I have read your report of its proceedings, and all that I can glean from that luminous paper is, "that some gen • tlemen, who reside on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, and some otherrwho are interested in the lands and buildings in the int mediate vicinity of the powder mooazines," met at the Egre mont Hotel, and, on the motion of Mr. Bartley, called William • Healing, Esq., to the chair, and passed certain resolutions. I take fur granted that some gentleman connected with your paper was present at this meeting, but judging from the sub stantial and generally circumstantial correctness of their reports I come to the conclusion, as none of the speeches delivered on that occasion were published, that the train of placards did not take fire, and that the assembly was not composed of very many persons front either side of the river; indeed, from inquiries which I have subsequently made in the neighbourhood of Egre mont, I have good reason to believe that not even twenty per sons were in attendance, and have equal reason to doubt whe ther half that number of residents thought the subject of suffi cient importance to induce them to neglect their ordinary pur suits in order to ward off the great and impending danger which they had been told threatened their lives and property. Will lirqubiliunist or Humanizes venture to assert that the meeting was of a more important character than I have given it? aro they prepared to say that all the gentlemen who signed the requi sition were at the meetiug ? and yet the persons who did attend hail the effrontery to propose, carry, and promulgate resolutions having for their object first the destruction of a valuable pro perty in which I am interested by means which, if successful, will deprive me of its valve; and, if unsuccessful, then to levy a tax on the inhabitants of Wallasey and Liverpool to further • LIVERPOOL GRAND STAND. 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THE GENERAL COURT of QUAI ‘l4lli SESSIONS of the PEACE for this BOItOUG nd TOWN will be held in the NEW Coutrr-itoom, on the uth side of Chapel street, on 'MONDAY, the 26th of October stant, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon ; when and where 1 ersons bound over to appear and prosecute, give evidenc or answer, are to attend Qn pain of their respective Recogniza ces being entreated. And the COURT of PASSAGE for the TRIAL of CIVIL CAUSES will be held before the MA Y 01: and BAILIFFS of the said Town on THVIISDA Y, the 29th of October instant, at Ten o'Clock in the Morning, of which the Attorney's of - the said Court are requested to take notice. • FOSTER, Tonn-clerk and Clerk of the Peace. t, All AU Persons are requested to take notice, that no Tra vet ses will be tried at these Sessions unless the same be entered for Trial at the Town-clerk's Office on or before the first day of the Sessions. And all Indictments for Misdemeanors and Assaults found at these Sessions against Persons admitted to Bail must be entered for Trial at or before Twelve o'clock on the day next after the discharge of the Grand Jury, otherwise the Trial of the same will stand over unti/ the Sessions following. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO OXFORD. The . queen having signified her intention of visiting the an cient city of Oxford, preparations for her majesty's reception were immediately commenced on a scale which bespoke the high sense entertained of that honour by the collegiate and munici pal bodies, and the affectionate loyalty of the inhabitants of that town. Her majesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, Prince George of Cambridge, and a large retinue of attendants, arrived at Oxford about noon on Monday, escorted thither by Lord Norrey's corps of Yeomanry Cavalry, and proceeded to the Angel Hotel. Her majesty was received by the populace with the most enthusiastic and heartfelt welcome. A little before one o'clock the mayor, accompanied by some of the official authorities, arrived in his dress of ceremony, and paid his respects to her majesty. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THIS THEATRE. This splendid ball was titled up in the most convenient and tasteful manner for the reception of the illustrious persons who were soon to honour it with their presence. The hall was opened fur the admission of ladies below any gentleman made hiS ap pearance. and when the doors were thrown open, and the mas ters, graduates, and their friends were admitted, the appearance was very imposing. 'l'he whole circularspace, composed of many tiers of seats, was filled with elegantly dressed females, among whom were many persons of distiuction. The under graduates were soon after admitted, and as soon as they gaiued possession of their seats they began in the usual way to express their feel ings in groans anti cheers. They commenced with the present ministry, at whom they most vociferously groaned. Groans for Lord John Russell and Stroud, Lord Brougham, Fee., then suc ceeded each other in rapid succession. Tho chests were given with a zeal of lungs that exceeded anything we have witnessed upon similar occasions. They were uttered in such rapid sue cessien, and in such profusion, that '• panting 'rinse toiled after them irewain." The queen, the ladies, tee Duke of Cumberland, the Prince of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, church and state, Lord Eldon, Sir Chas. Wetherell, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Lyndhurst, &v. &c., two or three times over, were received with enthusiastic and most loud greeting. Then suceeeded, as if for relief and contrast, various other groans, among which Lord Radnor and his foxhounds, Lord Radnor and the dissentets, were distinguished. Then succeeded the ladies agaiu, the bishops, &c. Her majesty arrived about three . o'clock, and, as she entered the theatre, the shout of applause raised from alt parts of it was .almost appalling. We never witnessed anything at RII approach ing to it upon a similar occasion, except, perhaps, the reception, given to the Duke of Wellington when he appeared in the Senate House at Cambridge; on the occasion of the late instals Wien of the Marquis Cemden. It seemed loud at first, be yond the power of increase; but as her majesty advanced through the hall, to take her scat on the chair of state prepared for her on the elevated platform at the upper end of the theatre, it be came such an c ourt of human voice as we should think was never exceeded. One wou'd suppose that every undergraduate had present to his memory the celebrated passage of Cowley, on the reception of Charles 11. on his restoration : " Let every heart prepare a spacious room For ample joys, then to sink as loud , As thunder clap from the dissevered cloud." Her majesty having taken her-seat, with her august sister on the right, the Duke of Wellington, as chancellor of the Univer sity, proceeded to the centre of the theatre, and read in a clear and distinct voice an address to the following purport:— " May it please your majesty,—We, the chancellor, waster, and body of the Unieeisity of Oxford, request permission to ex press the deep sense we entertain of the honour conferred on us by your majesty's gracious condescension in visiting this Uni versity. On no occasion hive we been more desirous to evince our sentiments of dutiful and grateful acknowledgment. The House of Brunswick has endeared itself to the British nation by the care it has always taken to maintain its constitutional principles. (Loud cheers.) For a long period of years it has preserved to this empire the perfect enjoyment of its civil rights and constitutional liberties; and this University has reason to acknowledge the zeal it has always displayed m the cause of education, and in the interests of true religion. We may also add, among your majesty's predecessors in the high station you now occupy, we have had corns of the roost zealous supporters of this University, and have had the happiness of being made objects of their royal favour. Placed in the highest station of the realm, your majesty has exemplified in your personal cha racter the greatest virtues which adorn private life, holding forth a bright example for imitation, not only to your majesty's court, but in the private ranks of the whole community. These senti ments we beg leave, in perfect sincerity, to lay at your majesty's feet, whilst at the same time we trust that Providence may long preserve your life—that you may long continue a comfort and a blessing to y our royal consort, and enjoy the firm and lasting affection of the virtuous and the good." Her majesty itnmediatelv arose, amidst reiterated cheers, and read a most gracious answer. The honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred on the Prince of Hesse, Philipsthal Barchfeld, Earl Howe, the Earl of Denbigh, and the Hon. Wm. Ashley. From the theatre the queen proceeded to the Town-hall, where, upon taking her seat upon the temporary throne erected for the occasion, her majesty received another address from the corporation of Oxford. In the evening her majesty held drawing-room, at which about 350 presentations took place. LONDON GAZRT7'E.-TUESDAY, OCT. 20. BANKRUPTS. William Grey, Liverpool, commission-agent and ship-broker, to surrender Nov. 2, Dec. 1, at the Clarendon Booms, Liverpool. Soli citors, Messrs. Bristowe and Fairclough, Liverpool; and Messrs. Swain, Stevens, and Co., Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, London. James Arnet Storey. Derby, tea-dealer. Riches Benjamin Bender, South-street, Grosvenor-square, London, wine-merchant. _ iiloll9Wagstaff, Little Exeter-street, Chelsea. DIVIDENDS. Nov 12, J. Fanshaw, Liverpool, dealer In earthenware—Nov. 12, J. Payne and E. Payne. Great Qneen-street, London. coach lace-mann facturers--Nov. 10, T. Swift. I"enchurch.street, London, hnster—:ol% 12, E. M'Coy, Well-court, Cheapside, London, stationer—Nov. 12, G; W. Lyndon, Gerard-streel, London, jeweller—Nov. 10, C. Pearson,. Greenwich, issamsfartaring ehernisti—Nov. tO, W. Addlson:lltuntori, Somersetshiro, tea-dealer—Nov. 13, IL Streather, Cambridge-heath, Middlesex, builder—Nov. 12, It. Gray, Ring-street, London, iron monger—Nov. 11, R. R. Reinagle, Fitzroy-square, London, agent— Nov. 12, N. Brown and A. Wallington, Castle and Falcon Inn, Alders, gate-street, London, roach-proprietors—Nov. 12, J. Thorn and Robins, Sackville.street, London, surgeons—Nor. 12, 11. Newark, Wood-street, London, riband-manufacturers—Nov. 12, J. 11111, Peter* ' Yorkshiro. cloth: borouzli, draper—Nov. 10, P. Deakin and J. Ou"hton, Deritend, War, w ickirts , manufacturers—Nov.wire -d r aw _ T N abed.. Shirley and 1. Shirley; Worship-street, London, dealers in earthenware—Nov. 12, R. Ford, Wotton-uuder. Edge, Gloucestershire, clothier — Nov. 11, R. Moss and I. Brunt, Leek, Sta"trordshire, button-manufacturers — NOV. 19, T. Laurence, Fnrnha m Surrey, feilmonger. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cans; be shown to the contrary on or before the 10th day of November. .1. Scott, Berwick-upon-Tweed, currier—J. Slack, Newcastle-tipon- Tyne, shin-broker—B. Chesterman, Blackmore-street, Drury-lane, London, licensed victualler—G.Wilkinson. Windsor-terrace. London, waic-chandlerL-W. Satcher, late of tho White Horse, Great Saffron bill, licensed-victualler —W. Henfrey, Northampton, wine-merehant —A. Craig. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, cabinet-maker—W. Wakeham, I'l3 mouth, cement-manufacturer. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPT BUSINESS. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23. nom JAMES BACH. Aintree, innkeeper, audit, Clarendon Rooms, nt 1l Tilost.ts merchant, final dividend, at Messrs. J. & G. Crump's office, Old Church Yard, at ► 2 FREDERIC LA rAce, merchant, at Alr:Davenport's office, Com merce Court, Lord-street, at 1 SATURDAY. OCTOBER 24. GEORGE BENSON. tailor and draper, audit, Clarendon ROOMS, at 10 Final dividend, at JOHN GREAVES, merchant, first meeting, Clarendon Rooms, at 12 CHARLES CLARE BERRY, merchant, audit, at Mr. Curry's office, Orrell's-place, Lord-street , at 1 CHARLES LEWIS BAHR, ship-broker, first ineetiu4, Clarendon Rooms, at.. THONIAS Scorr, linen-manufacturer, audit, at the Clarendon' Rooms, at FREDERIC LAPAGV, merchant, final dividend, Mr. Davenport's office, Comrneree Court, Lord-street, at. 3 MONDAY, OCTOBER 26. DUNCAN M`VICCAR and WILLIAM WATSON 'TIT. merchants, audit, at Messrs. Lace, Son, and M3'ers's office, Castle street, at TUESDAY, OCTOBEIt 27. THOMAS COOKE, chemist, first meeting, Clarendon Rooms, at l2 D0Ne3.14 INl•VtocAtt and 'WILLIAM WATSON TAIT, merchants,, fins] dividend, at the Clarendon Rooms, at WILLIANI IlonosNs, merchant, 2d meeting, at the Clarendon Rooms, at J.AMES POSTLETHWAITR, draper, 2d meeting, at the Commis sioners' Rooms, 'Manchester, at 2 ~ LONDON LAW REPORT. CONSTRUCTION or THE POOR LAW ACT. THE PARISH OF TOTTENHAM, APPHI.T.ANTS; THAT OF ST.GILEe CRIPPLEGATE, RESPONDENTS On Tuesday, at the London Quarter Sessions, a case came on in the shape of an appeal which excited great interest, as by it was exhibited in a striking manner the injustice and impolicy of some of the clauses of the poor law act. One of the changes effected by the 56th section of that statute is, ( "That chilaren under sixteen years of age shall be considered part of the family of the father and mother. If, therefore, a child falls into dis tress and requires relief, it shall be considered as relief to the patent, and by consequence, as it is improper to afford relief to able-bodied paupers, except in the workhouse; if the child needs assistance, and the parent' does not require it, they must both go to the poor-house together." In the month of August last a child natued Nicholls, whose parents had acquired a settlement in the parish of Tottenham, became chargeable to the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, in consequence of the death of its father, which happened on the 29th of July. More than twelve months before this melancholy event the mother of the child hired her self as a domestic servant in a respectable family; hence Mr. Blake, tile assistant overseer of Cripplegate, believing that the legislature never contemplated the intUction of such an injury as the removal of a parent from a good service, in order to re move her with her child, ventured to• remove the child alone without its mother. The officers of Tottenham were determined to have the strict letter of the law complied with, and refused to take the child without the parent, thus doggedly insisting on having two burdens instead of one. Mr. Blake had no alterna tive but to remove the mother from her place of service and convey her to the poor-house. The Tottenham parochial of ficers now shifted - their ground, and insisted that they had no right to either parent or child, although the order of settlement had been regularly made out. They eventually gave notice of appeal, and it was for the court now to decide by evidence whether the order was valid or not. Mr. Phillips appeared as counsel for the appellants, and Mr. Payne for the respondents. Margaret Nicholls, a fine young woman, stated that she is the widow of William Nicholls, who died on the 29th of July last. They were married in the year 1827, and the child in question was theirs. With the approbation of her husband she went to service more than a year before he died. She had heard him say he gained a settlement at Tottenham by living in a family of the name of Pratt. He left that service before they married. Not being able entirely to maintain her child, she applied for relief as so , n as her husband died. Ann Waller, the mother of the deceased parent, stated that many year ago her son William lived for more than eighteen months with Mr. Pratt. She did not know whether he wat hired by the year or not. He married the last witness, and they lived happily as man and wife down to the time of his death. The sister of the deceased gave similar testimony; but nei ther of the witnesses had seen William Nicholls on the premises of Mr. Pratt. J. Sparks, Esq., deposed that he had been in the habit of visiting the Pratt family twice a week or mote for years back. Remembers William Nicholls living there as groom two or three years, and believes he left in 18'2,1 or 1825. Does not know the terms upon which he was hired. By Mr. Phillips.—On one occasion he omitted visiting for a month, when on an excursion; but he found Nicholls there when he came back. Mr. Phillips submitted to the court that there had not been a sufficient identity proved, and it was strange that no one of the Pratt family was produced to prove the fact. Mr. Sparks said that the last member left of it was Mrs. Pratt, and she died about a month ago. Mr. Phillips said it seemed as though the other party had waited till all the parties who could give evidence had passed into eternity before they stirred in the business. To this it was retorted that the delay was occasioned by the litigation of his clients, as the matter had been one of constant negotiation. Th e Recorder said that the court, without hearing further evidence, were unanimous in opinion that a clear case of settle meet had been proved both as to servitude and identity. The order of settlement, therefore, must be confirmed. A hope was expressed that the young widow would be rein stated in her situation, from which she had been removed by such caprice. HUNTINGDON, OCT. 17. THE HARTFORD VOTES. " The Forty" have fallen likeleaves in in autumn—and not only have they failed to prove their qualifications, but they have shown to the world that the title-deeds, by which they held them, are not worth the price of the parchment they are written on. On coming into court this morning, Mr, Perty said, address ing Mr. G. Day,—" Before I enter further upon these cases, I think it right to state that I shall inform his Majesty's Attorney- General of the frauds which have been practised by the parties concerned in them upon the revenue, in order that he may pro secute for the penalties. 1 find that those penalties amount to a very large sum, no less tha❑ £lOOO. upon the seller of the pro perty (Mr. Wing) and fifty; pounds upon each of the twenty purchasers whose conveyances are admitted to be on wrong stamps, making £lOOO more, besides five times the amount of the duty wanting upon them. There are other penalties to which I need not allude." _ _ . The court was then occupied for some time in discussing the admissibility of the agreement under which Watford holds the laud, and ultimately rejected it, on the ground that it was not a valid instrument, as there being 38 parties who claimed as owners, there should have been a separate stamped agreement between each patty and the tenant. As this was necessary to prove the case, the absence of it was fatal, and the name of Thomas Brown was, therefore, struck off the list. William Brimley and Charles Higgins, of Bedford, were called, and no one appearing for them, they were also struck off. The next case was that of Edward Hall, who claimed for a cottage and garden which he bought of . Mr. Wing, in 1827, and let it to John Watford, for £3lBs. per annum. Mr. Wing stated in his cross-examination, that be was employed by several parties in 1827 to purchase freehold -40; them : - and when this land had ,been fixed on as the spot to he bought, the opinion of counsel was taken as to the best means of carrying the 'proceeding into ef fect ; and the advice given was that it should be first aouvoyad. from Mr. Butt, the then possessor, to Mr. Wing, and from him to the respective parties. Butt's conveyance to himself was ex ecuted in July, at the same time that he executed the convey ances to all the -other parties. except two. Twenty of them were made by the late Mr. Budd of Bedford, and the remaining twenty-three by Mr. Fisher of St. Ives. The conveyance of Thomas Brown, which had been shown on Friday, Loire date in April, three months before it was sworn to be executed, and all the rest were supposed to have the same date. The court, therefore, raised the question on Monday morning, bow far an instrument. one'of the objects of which was to confer a note executed in July, and bearing date the April previous, was an instrument to be supported, and called for the production of the deed. Mr. Wing and Mr. G. Day retired for a short time, and on their return refused to produce the con veyance. Hall's name was, therefore, struck off. Mr. Wing and his party now retired to consult what they should do, and after an absence of two hours and a half return ed, when Mr. G. Day announced that Mr. Wing declined giving further evidence, and that he himself felt it his duiy in conse quence to refuse to go further into the cases, but there were some parties in attendance on their own behalf whom he ad vised how to proceed. Mr. Perry.—" I think, sir, you have exercised a very sound discretion. I cannot lose sight, that in deciding the right of voting, I must have decided the right of property, and I think it better for the parties that this course has been adopted ; I may state, however, that though Mr. Wing withdraws himself, he cannot withdraw the evidence he has given, and there is the testimony that all the conveyances were executed at the same time as his own. The parties who are here may use their own discretion : but if they proceed, I shall certainly require the production of the conveyances." The names were then called over seriatim. Mr. Joseph Tween answered for several pro forma, but refused in every case to procure the conveyances. The names of the following were accordingly struck off—Philip Hunt, D.D., John Ileigh lington, Robert Hulett, Samuel Lovell, John Lovell, William Lovell, J. M. T. Molecev, T. W. Averinan, John Purser, John Palfrevman, Thomas Parnell, Charles Short, James Small, John Twigg, Edmund Waller, John Robert Walker, and Charles Wing. Two or three are dead, and two or three stand over till to-morrow. Though these legal flaws have settled the affair, the first case was decided on the point of value, and the same test would have • upset at least 36 of them. Thus have the merits of this far-famed fagotting been thoroughly laid open, and the result has been such as to render i it improbable that the claimants will again seek to encumber the register ofthis county, until they have enlarged their free holds, and made their title deeds of a character more secure L for themselves, more free from the suspicion of fraud, and more capable of bearing the scrutiny of truth and justice. HALLEY'S COMET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4RD. Sin,—l have traced the comet of Dr. Halley, and seen it through the telescope, from the time it formed a triangle with the Bull's Horns; but on Saturday, the 10th instant, I saw the tail for the first time with the naked eye; the comet then was near a degree above Alpha, the upper pointer, and in aline with Beta, the lower pointer of the Great Bear, and had then the greatest north declination, shish was 63d. and 40 min., and its right ascension was 10 hours 54 min., at eight o'clock in the evening. On Sunday night, the 11th, the comet had moved from Alpha to a triangle with Delta and Epsilon of Ursa Major, and in a line with Gamma atitlDelta, and likewise wish :lota and Eta, of That constellation; its right ascension was 12 b. 38 min., and its declination 62 deg. N. The tail apt:team/ about 4or 5 deg. long. On Monday, the 120, the comet ems at its nearest distance to the earth, and was *ply tighteoq millions o f m il es f ro m us. It has come nearer to the earth by being delayed about eight days; the earth at the same time was approaching the comet, and by these two motions it is nearer to us by nearly four mil lions of miles. From Sunday. the 11th, to Sunday, the 18th, clouds obscured the sky, but it cleared on Monday, and in the evening I saw the comet again, and found it had entered Serpentarius, having in the cloudy w..ek passed over Bootes, Corona Borealis, and Hercules. and at half-past five o'clock it was in the south-west, with an altitude of 37 deg. 30 min. I saw it at six o'clock on Monday evening, the 19th instant, amt found its right ascension was 16 hours 48 min., and its de clination north was 9 deg. 40 min. Kappa, of Serpentarius, was little more than a degree to the south of it, and nearly parallel to the horizon ; and lota, of the same constellation, was in the centre of the tail, about half a degree above the nucleus, and the tail extended upwards more than 8 degrees, reaching above the head of Hercules, and nearly to the head of Serpentarius. A little after seven o'clock the comet had left the star lota, and it was clear of the tail. The comet's distance from the earth is rapidly increasing, for the earth is going one way and the comet another, and we shall soon lose it in the south-west, iu the evenings, setting with the sun. On Monday, the 19th, the comet's distance was 31,366.000 miles from the earth, and it set at Liverpool at ten o'clock that night. On Tuesday, the 20th, the comet hail left the star Kappa► to the right, and had descended below to the left of it, and had some small telescopic stars near it : they were not in Flam stead' s British catalogue, nor in Wollaston's, nor even in Bode's. Its right ascension was 16 h. 52 min., and north declination was 7 deg. 30 rnio. And the altitude at 6h. 30 min. was 29 deg. 30 min. The comet set at 9h. 50 min. in the evening. M. HOLDEN, Astronomer. 42, Russell-atreet, October 21st, 1835. DELICATE INVESTIGATION.—AIphonso, King of Arragon, was one day admiring the different articles in a jeweliei's shop, with several female companions. He had scarcely left the house when the jeweller missed a diamond of great value, and ran af ter him complaining of the theft. The king, not wishing pub licly to disgrace ally of his attendance, commanded a large ha son Cul of sand to be brought him, into which he made each of the women put her hand clinched, cud draw it out flat. By this means the diamond was left in the sand, unknown by whom. TUE LINTEtwooL TRADESMEN'S CO,; SOCIETY. B o t i ? e r a ( to , v c e o-t o t a c e n t i y n g l e t the for I s ) i F g , CLA t u R rAeTal at Mr. Hardisty's, Great Cro:shall-strf . Mr. Holden's, Richmond-row. Mr. Lloyd's. Newsroom, Scoti Mr. Leetherbarrow's, l t, Soutt Mr. Copple's, Ranelagh-street.. Mr. John Payne's, Park-lane. Mr. James Owens', Druggist, London-roau Mr. 13riseoe's, Oldhall-street. Miss Maxwell's, Stanhope-street. Also at the Standard and Courier-offices. E. BYFORD, Secretary. iii / :SEBNATIVE i - OF PRINCIPLES of t e following places: c n road. otm-stree TO CORRESPONDENTS The letter signed Minimus shall, if possible, appear in our next. Some of the lines in the verses of Omega are imperfect, and, therefore, we think it better not to publish them. The newspaper and its Avail-puffs. which a Passenger alludes to, arc ❑nworthy of his trouble and our notice. We shall endeavour to find room for the very long letter signed C; hut he must be hard pushed fur paper when he writes so closely, and on both sides too. It is strange that gentlemen will not consider the unnecessary labour they impose upon printers by this miserly contrivance. the Eiberpool ,Stanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1835• We have received Barbados papers to the middle of September. The island had been in the beginning. of that month visited by a severe hurricane, some particu lars of which will be found under the proper head. We also present our readers with the speech delivered by the King of the Netherlands at the opening of the states general on Monday last. It does not contain any important matter. His Majesty alludes but briefly to the affairs of Belgium, and states that the difficulties in the relations of the two countries still remained unadjusted. His Majesty speaks in giatifying terms of the agricul tural and commercial prosperity of Holland. In another place will be found an interesting article, from the pen of Sir WILLIAM HMLARY, relative to the port of Douglas, in the Isle of Man, and we insert it to show that however harshly we may have occasion to speak of the laws of that island, we have the best inte rests of its inhabitants at heart. The introduction of steam-vessels and the immense mechanical power brought to bear against adverse tides and the storms of winter have virtually narrowed the se- paration which formerly existed between the Isle of Man and Liverpool, and a regular and daily communication, in a passage not exceeding eight hours, might now, and, in all probability, will be soon, maintained between the two places throughout the year. The town of Douglas, by means of this steam communication, may therefore be considered less distant from any part of the shores of Lancaster than Preston is from Liverpool, and not much -------- more - distant than the Isle of Wight is from Hampshire. For these reasons we see no reason why the Isle of Man should not derive corresponding advantages from its new location by being united to the County Palatine of Lan caster. That it would gain by the union we have no doubt whatever. For too long a period the Isle of Man has been considered as nothing more than a refuge for the outcasts of English society—a sort of channel prison for unfortunate persons called debtors, " or something more"—an asylum for men of small means and indifferent lonesty, who have a fancy for cheap brandy and are fas idious in their fondness for foreign wines. It is true lat in the Isle of Man there is a native population, whose moral and intellectual qualities will bear compa rison with those of any portion of the King's subjects, and there are also many families of great affluence, of superior'manners, of exemplary usefulness, and of un tarnished reputation. All this we willingly concede in justice to these persons, and we have sincere pleasure in doing so ; but it is not of them we speak, but of the visit ors of the island, the temporary settlers and the refugees, who, we contend, have brought a taint upon the Isle of Man, as the English have done upon Calais and Bou logne, which nothing but a complete change in its legis lative, administrative, and judicial economy can effectu ally remove. But look at the matter in another light. The inhabi tants of the Isle of Man profess to bi unable to raie a sufficiency of corn for their own consumption ; and they are consequently allowed to import foreign corn duty free ! They, by this sort of crooked and dishonest po licy, consume foreign corn, and export a large portion of that of their own growth (and perhaps a little of the other by mistake) to England, to the manifest injury of the British farmer. Perhaps we shall be told, that the island is poor and small, and that all the produce it can export, and all the corn it can smuggle, cannot possibly affect such a country as England. This is very true—we admit it to be a poor and small island—but fraud is fraud, whether committed on a small or large scale, and where such nand is committed, and such tricks tolerated, it is the duty of the government to suppress and prevent them on the ground of public morals. What regard can that man have for the rights of property, or the feelings of humanity, or the principles of justice, who, leading a life of idleness during the greater portion of his existence, maintains himself by wrecking and smuggling ? We do not say that the inhabitants of the island ge nerally are engaged in such demoralizing pursuits; far from it, for we know the contrary ; but we also know, and public documents prove it, that more corn has been exported to England from the Isle of Man than ever should have been permitted to leave it ; and more foreign corn,- duty free, has been imported into Douglas than ever should have been suffered. We know besides that Douglas affords facilities for ship-building which Liver pool does not possess, and although few honourable men who would desire to pass as English merchants, who are princes, would avail themselves of such questionable fa cilities, still there are speculators who do—who build ships with untaxed timber, and who bring them, fresh from the stocks, with free trade colours flying at the mast head, into the waters of the Mersey. Is this fair ? Is this just in dealing with our own carpenters? Is it good policy to offer a bounty to shipbuilders in the Isle of Man ? _ _ But there is another anomaly on a small scale, for ' which we are indebted to whig legislation, which is wor thy of notice. For instance, a newspaper in the Isle of Man is allowed to be printed, unsubjected to any stamp duty, and the said newspaper is carried by the Postoffice free of postage, over the whole of England, Scotland, and Ireland. True, little harm has arisen as yet from this privilege, for luckily the journali . of the island do not posses, any talent to -take advantage of it. • News they have little or none to give us. The papers, we confess, are respectably enough conducted—quiet and unostenta tious in their performances—immensely redolent of ab surd and petty disputes—but they have no attractions. This is, as far as we on this side the water are concerned, exceedingly fortunate. We thank them for that which they do not possess—an odd compliment, we admit—but still it has its meaning; but what is to prevent Mr. JONATHAN ROEBUCK, or any other political quack, from establish ing a printing press in Douglas, and inundating with im punity England with his penny papers and his revolu tionary rubbish ? Old COBBETT, had he lived a few years longer, and fixed himself, as the Americans say, in Douglas or Ramsay, might have sent his Register, at the low price of threepence or fourpence, into every quarter of the three kingdoms, duty and postage free, and might have, by such means, realized a considerable fortune. This is an anomaly that must be repealed, not only as regards the Isle of Man, but in a comparative de gree' as regards Ireland, or the whole of the stamp duty must be given up. But apart from these matters, what we think of much higher importance is the state of the laws with regard to debts, claims, charges, and disputes, trespass and re sponsibility in the . Isle of Man. These are an abomi nable nuisance. They are utterly irreconcileable with every doctrine of security and good government. In most of our West Endia islands there are severe restric tions imposed upon all persons leaving a colony, and they are justifiable, inasmuch as they are necessary for the protection of slave-owners and the community of slaves. But the worst part of the slave code, and the slave-owner's protection, appertains to the Isle of Man without any reason or necessity for it. We do not wish to offend delicate ears, but there is one point which can- 1 : OCTOBER 23, 1535. ..„ • 4, not be allowed to pass. Suppose the most worthies woman in the Isle of Man chooses to levy a contribution upon the strangers who visit it, she has only to swear paternity to such a person. She does not confine herself to one father. Her liberality may embrace ten or twent3. She has only to make affidavit as to the ;magi' nary facts, which is too often done, and none of the persons, no matter how numerous they mat , be, thus suspected of paternity, are suffered to leave the island unless good- bail is given, or what a Manx attorney would delight to call, a solatinni of a deposit, is tendered• Such a case—one of frequent occurrence—would be nuts and ale, brandy and winter provender for a Manx attor- ney. These attorneys call themselves advocates. What-, ever may be their offences or demerits, they are at least guiltless of all knowledge of law. Their justice is g very delicate currency, entirely of paper, which circu lates rather freely amongst the working classes. 10 short the Isle of Man is blessed with a redundancy of Lord I3uouottAm's cheap law. It is brought home , practically, to evvry poor man's door. There is an ad- vocate, alias an attorney, in every street and lane—' almost in every garret, and an advocate's purveyor in every farmhouse and homestead. These learned, per sonages must live. They cannot, as SANCHO POz* wisely observes, fill the skin with wine without paying . _ for it or stealing it. They must the►efore either do business or starve. It is better to foment a dispute be tween two farmers about the alleged trespass of a sheep or goat, than to leap from Douglas Head into the deep blue of the sea below. The consequence is, that a vast proportion of the middle and humble classes of the Isle of Man are eternally at law—disputing about no' thing—drinking down fancy grievances under the kind direction of a tiplingand more than half inebriated jury- - giving to the cat, which plays advocate, the whole cheese, oge thousandth part of which some sacrilegious mouse had been accused of having stolen. Such is the Isle of Man ; but to make the reader better acquainted with the system which prevails, and under which the poor inhabitants, honest and industrious men in other respects, suffer so severely, we borrow from Manx paper of Saturday last the following portion of 1, letter : "My purpose, sir, in now addressing you, is to point anti° his excellency, (the governor,) through the only medium by which he can be informed—an untrammelled press—some of the grosser plague.spots in the laws, and practice of the laws of this island; and to propose plain and obvious remedies, deduced from the simplest rules of common sense and equitable juris prudence. I shall commence with the monstrous hardships ic dieted by Deemsters' Jury Warrants,—and state a case of evert day occurrence in illustration of their effects. The process precisely as follows, and the authority an omnium gatherur 3 act of 1753. A., a vindictive and litigious man, discovers dist a sheep belonging to his neighbour A. has indulged his raE. bling propensities in a moonlight scamperacross A.'s field. A. , on receipt of the alarming intelligence, immediately flies to advocate, who, eager to grasp the golden opportunity, as spoi dily proceeds to the Deemster, and without an affidavit et' other preliminary process, instantly procures a warrant, gen" rally signed in blank, authorising the coroner of the 'headier. or the lockinan of the parish, to convene a jury of enquiry O. discover the owner of the alleged offender. This warrant the advocate fills up with a rigmarole of unimaginable lies, chat'(' ing roundly the wilful and malicious trespass on the lands it question of divers men, horses, cattle, sheep, and God knout what beside. He then places the veracious document in try hands of the coroner or Lockman, with a list of victims annexei, and orders the officer to summon each unfortunate wretch for.; given day. When that day arrives, a brace of advocates at the least, jurors, parties and witnesses, all muster in force; tat lockman, (a proverbially thick-sculled generation,) in the case supposed, presiding as judge, and four thoroughly ignorant• thirsty countrymen, constituting the jury. The whole squad now adjourn to view the alleged damage, (which form, by the bye, is unnecessary, and only gone through for the edification of the more conscientious,) but no damage is risible—there aP" pears not the vestige of a ground for complaint againitatnyoe —the most prying eye discovers not an imprint of the . of man or beast. Well—this first act of the fareegone throug6t the jury, with their learned assistant the lockman, Glimmer° adjourn to the adjoining hedge-ale-house u here they had osi• ginally congregated, to think [query, DRINK ?] over the matter', commit the evidence, such as it is, to writing, and decide 0 ' their verdict. Now commences the tug of war,—lung and-lood is the war of werds, and clatter of pint-pots--rogue, liar, eltt l vagabond, arc pet phrases freely interchanged between the par ties and witnesses;—all manlier of intolcaable abuse is, i 11 'w . sorty to say, lavishly fulminated, by each learned gentleman, at his opponent's head—and all manner of trash and nonsense instilled into the addle-headed jurors, under the imposing nave!' of law. The legal lore of this learned pundit who presides, being never called into action, he seldom of course inter feres, invariably consoling himself with a "drop of ow e ' thing comfortable" until the scene draws to a close, well knob' ing, from "sage experience," how all such matters terminate. The jurors having at length sufficiently scratched their discover that some hard-swearing clodpole saw oNE sheep, th e property of 8., in the act of concluding his peregrination throug h A.'s field, as before stated, forthwith unanimously agree to verdict of wilful and malicious trespass, with constructive ri fr triages, videlicit, ONE FARTHING—and then, as in many if net most other cases, get an allowance of ale or grog. " Now, sir, all this is sufficiently farcical, yet by no mean t highly coloured; it is so plain a description of an often-occu r ' ing circumstance, that the very lockmen andjurora on perusing it will grin and chuckle over their ale at the reminiscences it must call up. But lee victis I—it is co joke to poor 8., the de fendant, as shall presently be manifested. The jurors are forthwith summoned to appear at the next deemster's court, and deliver in their verdict; and a second exhibition of th is legal pantomime there takes place, in which the deemster heave a part. He, with all becoming gravity, reads aloud from th e ore retundo, his original warrant, By virtue of the powers set t authority in me vested, &c.,' I order you to summon a jury of four men to discover,' &c., &c., all the head-roll of iniquiti about men, horses, cattle, and sheep. The deemster, in tell' elusion, skipping the evidence on which the jurors acted, pro" ceeds, with equal gravity, to read aloud the verdict, 'that °!' s sheep did,' &c., &c., and finishes—' we, the aforesaid jurors, te" timate the damage at one farthing, four fold with test shillieg g EXTRAORDINARY DAMAGES!' You will remark hers, that thal jurors return a nominal verdict of only one farthing; yet, by what I contend is a v icious construction of a faulty statute, these damages are always to be quadrupled, and ten shillings extla t "" (Unary invariably added (twenty in particular instances) o bi out the slightest reference to the actual merits of the respective cases. This alone is a most serious evil when large damag es , are given, as the quadrupling estimate obtains in all cases el trespass. You would naturally imagine; sir, that here the cafe would end, and that the unfoitunate defendant 8., had beets sufficiently mulcted for this untbreseen escapade of a flirting ems or amorous top; but no such thing—he is subpcened t o the deeinster's coutt for the amount of the verdict—judgment follQ° l ' and the costs of the jury warrant altogether amount to not less than four pounds, and very frequently more. All this, ttah levied out of the goods and effects of 8., totally independent °I his own personal costs of suit—nearly as much more. It 110 t this, sir, a most monstrous oppression under colour of law?' one, too, of weekly, nay, daily occurrence. Is it not a horrible_ engine in the hands of a vindictive man, or a griping, graspittl attorney ? Every candid advocate must confess that no butna., toresigtit can prUteff the tirelifrtirrinrotti Ma aborninati, practice, or law, if law it be; and he must also confes s that ! jury warrants, with the least possible trouble, pay the l ar g et possible sums to the legal practitioner. `i I blame not the deemsters; this practice is no innovation_ of theirs; it was fostered and protected by their predecessetef and was in vogue when they themselves were at the bar; We. would beg to suggest, with all due deference to the bench, tb __ e. propriety of insisting on a preliminary affidavit from the ?ti t lainne in all cases of trespass. (which, in fact , was the WO" Paw,) prior prior to issuing a warrant. Secondly, I would sugg4 that the warrants be issued invariably by the deemster hiniae A and filled up by his own hand, or under his direct and nesat' l ( in superintendence. If delivered to a clerk, they will assure 4, be re-issued iu blank, or filled up by, and at the pleasure of Le i advocate who applies for them. Th irdly , I would reetw a teets. the comparing the verdict with the evidence in all can ; whether the verdict be opposed or not. Injustice ought net ~, take place, because a defendant may beignorant of his ieterera or careless in fulfilling his duties; and lastly, though ne% 5 ,, least importance, I think the deemsters, in'their respective " 5 , tricts, would act in perfect conformity to the spirit of the,t r i e b y pass laws, and in no possible way infringe on the rights et _ opt people, rather indeed protect them , were they occasionally _ thabench to propound rules for the government of cor ny ally lockmen, and petty juries of this description—and especint'l were they to lay down, broadly and cleurly„to all trespass that they are not necessarily bound either by laws or their oa to find any damages, even one farthing, but often the revet., where the plaintiff fails in proving and in exhibiting befoo7 their eyes any specific or bona fide injury — these r e g ulau would sadly curtail lawyers' fees, but I am fully persuaded Olga would prove a real blessing to the island in a very short space.he time. I throw out these suggestions for their guidanc e with !...c best feelings towards the inhabitants of this little commitelt believing, as I do, most sincerely, that trespass juries , a° present constituted, are one of its greatest curses." The Irish mendicant had what is classically called $ blow out with some two hundred kindred beggar 6 to Limerick, on Monday last. The speech - he delivered ° ll the occasion is not characterised by any novelty, but is r e 7 markable for being much less offensive towards the Ho be of Lords. The rabble of listeners, as their steam rose cot a the whisky they wallowed, tried hard to rouse the denlgi gogue to his usually vulgar attacks upon that body, bdi, it would not do ; he was tame and chopiallen , and alloa, ed to Mr. BAtsEs of Leeds in a tone of regret and mot'