Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-07 00:00:00

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE

At Hertford, on Friday, the breach of promin case of
Taylor v. Starkey was tried. It was an action to recover
damages for a breach of promise of marriage. The defen-
dant pleaded that he had never made the promise as alleged
in the declaration.

Mr. Hawkins; Q.C., and Mr. J. P. Murphy, were coun-
sel for the plaintiff: Mr. Lush, Q.C., appeared for the
defendant. _

Mr. Lush, addressing the jury, said that the plaintiff
in this action, Emma Taylor, was a young lady about
nineteen years of age, who, sued as a minor by her next
friend, had brought the present action against the defen-
dant, Richard Starkey, for having broken his promise
to marry her, and when the jury had heard the evidence he
should lay before them, he believed they would be of
opinion that the defendant had acted in a most unjustifiable
and heartless manner towards the plaintiff: The father of
the plaintiff kept the Rose and Crown Inn at Newport, in
Essex, and the defendant, who was six or seven and twenty
years of age, was a farmer, and lived with his mother in the
same parish, about two miles from the residence of the
plaintiff. It appeared that he was first introduced to her
about Christmas, 1857. and he very shortly afterwards ex-
pressed the greatest affection for the young lady, and inti-
mated to her parents his- intention to make her his wife.
He was in consequence received by the family on the most
friendly terms, under the acknowledged sanction of the
plaintiff, and he was sorry to be compelled to
inform the jury that he took advantage of this con-
fidence that was reposed in him, and of the affection
entertained for him by the plaintiff, to seduce
her, and the consequence was the birth
of the child. The parents were, of courSe, totally ignorant
of the unhappy condition of their daughter, and the defen-
dant continued his attentions • and upon his expressing a
desire that the marriage should take place in London, the
mother of the plaintiff went to London and gave the neces-
sary directions for the publication of the banns. and when
she had done so she returned to Newport and told the
defendant what she had done, and he expressed his satisfac-
tion at it. It was then arranged that the marriage should
take place on the 12th of October, and the defendant went
to the house of the plaintiff's mother on the 10th, and said
that lie would send for the luggage, and on the llth they
were to proceed to London, and the marriage was take place
on the following day. At this time, of course, all the
necessary arrangements had been made for the marriage, the
plaintiff's wedding dress had been bought, and the brides-
maids, appointed, 'and there was no suspicion that the defen-
dant would not act in an honourable manner towards:
the young lady. However, it turned out that he had
resolved to break the solemn promise he had made, for
from the 10th of October to the present time the plaintiff
saw nothing more of him, and although she wrote him a
letter, in which she reproached him with his conduct, and
begged him to come to her father's house, and give her some
explanation, he took no notice of it, and the plaintiff was
at length compelled to bring the present action, and to ask
at the hands of the jury some compensation for the grievous
injury she had sustained at the hands of the defendant.,
Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor deposed that her husband kept the
Rose and Crown, at Newport, and the plaintiff, Emma
Taylor, was her daughter, and she was now about nineteen
years old. They had three other daughters. The defendant
was a farmer at Newport, and he was first introduced to
their family at Christmas, 1857. Soon afterwards, he said to
witness that he would have her daughter Emma for a wife,
and no one else ; and after this he was on terms of inti-
macy with nein, and generally came to their house two
.or three times a week, and he was looked upon as her

daughter's 'intended husband. In September-, 1858, in
consequence of a communication that was made to her
by. her daughter, she went to London and gave instruc-
tions for the publication of the banns for the marriage of
the defendant and her daughter at Christ Church, Maryle-
bone, and she returned to Newport on the 18th of
September, and told defendant what she had done,
and be said he was very much obliged to her, 'and lie
at the same time addressed her daughter, and said, " We
have been prayed for the first time, 'old woman." (A
laugh.) At this time her daughter's wedding dress had
been bought, and the banns being out on the 3rd of
October, that day was fixed 'for the marriage. The defen-
dant, however, put it off until the 12th. on acconnt, as he
said, that the wedding cake was not ready. (A laugh.)
His cousin was to have made the cake. The defendant
came to their house Du the Bth OctOber, and said that he
would send the housekeeper on the following day for the
luggage, and it was arranged that they should go to London
and get married, and stay in town a few days, and then
, and take up their abode at the defen-
dant's mother's. She never saw the defendant again after
this interview. Tier daughter was delivered of a child on
the 28th of January last.

return to Newport

Cross-examined : The defendant was quite a young man.
He lived with his mother at a small farm of about fifty acres
which he assisted to manage for her. Her daughter had no
property. The very first time he came to their house the
defendant said that he was determined to have her daughter
dead or alive. (Laughter.) She was not aware of the de-
fendant ever having sat up with her daughter after the
family had gone to bed so late as four o'clock in the morning,
but he might have stopped on some occasions as late as
twelve or one o'clock. At the time she went to put up the
banns she was not aware that her daughter was in the family
way. The defendant d;cl not ask her what business she had
to put up the banns ; but, on the contrary, he expressed
himself perfectly satisfied with what she had done. She
described him as a corn dealer, residing at Suffolk-place,
Edgeware-road, "in and out of town." (A laugh.) She
did not know what the defendant meant by saving that they
were prayed for for the first time, when she told him that
they had been asked once in church.

Mr. Hawkins said he could not understand what was
meant by being prayed for before marriage. They might,
perhaps, require it afterwards. (A laugh.)
Mr. Lush said he hoped this was not the result of his
learned friend's experience. (Renewed laughber.)
Re-examined : The defendant himself proposed that the

marriage should take place in London, and the reason he
assigned for it was that he did not wish to be married at
Newport, because the people were so ignorant. (A laugh.)
Caroline Taylor, the sister of the plaintiff, deposed that
the defendant constantly came to the house, and was treated
as one of the family, and was always looked upon as a
suitor to her sister. He always behaved as snch, according
to her notions. (A laugh) She had frequently heard him
say that he he would have her sister and no one else. The
defendant requested her to be one of the bridesmaids, and
she, of course, agreed to do so. (A laugh.) . . . .

The letter 'referred to by the learned counsel in his
opening address was then put in and read. it commenced
by apologising for writing on such a bad piece of paper, and
a good deal of laughter was created, when it turned out to
have been written on the back of a recipe for making
ground rice pudding.-
Mr. Lush then addressed. the jury for the defendant,
and he said it was very unfortunate for him that
this was one of that class of cases in which the law
would not permit him to give evidence, for if he
could have given his evidence he would have told the
hury what were the real facts of the case, and would
ave given a very different interpretation of the nature
of the connection that had existed between him and the
plaintiff. As the matter stood, however, he said it ap-
peared to him that the jury ought to pause upon the
evidence before them before they came to the conclusion
that the defendant had ever made any promise of marriage,
and he observed that if they should decide against the
plaintiff in this action, she would still be enabled to compel ,
the defendant to support her child by another form of pro-
ceeding. He then commented upon the 'condition of the
defendant, and appeared to be entirely dependent upon his
mother, who had not a shilling in the world, nor any home
or place to take his wife to, and he urged that it was
extremely improbable that under such circumstances he ever
should have made the plaintiff an offer of marriage.
The learned judge having summed up, the jury, after
a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff.
Damages £5O.

ARMY GRANTS. —The sum of .£1,050,000 will have to
be voted this session to make good the deficiency of cer-
tain army grants for the year 1857-8. The deficiencies
occur to the amounts voted for wages of artificers, labour-
ers, &e., clothing- and necessaries, provisions, forage, fuel,
light, &c., warlike stores for land and sea services, fortifi-
cations and civil buildings, and barracks. The deficiency
would have been reduced to :£189,098 if the surplus on
certain other army votes could have been taken in aid,
but owing to an alteration made in the Appropriation
Act, 1856-57, these surpluses must be paid into the
Exchequer.
GENERAL THOMPSON AND THE NORTHERN REFORM
UNION PETITIONS. —General Thompson, m.p , a
letter, dated " House of Commons, Feb. 28,', writes as
follows to the Northern Reform Union,_ concerning the
presentation of the petitions collected by the Union to
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danger of being thrown over andv declared too late.
The w1314,c0. Youolsenuniber knowpresentethd
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prevent speaking on petitions, ande it is only with
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MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND
ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP,

Alterations of the orchestra for the Handel Festival at
Sydenham are now in active progress. The space for the
performers is to be increased, so as to accommodate 4,000.
It is also to be inclosed above and on every side in a man-
ner which,it is expected, will concentrate and increse the
body of sound collected. The London contingent of the
chorus is, we are informed, complete. The works selected
will be virtually the same as those chosen two Tears ago,
with the addition, it is possibie, of the .Dettingew.Te Deum,
and a forcible chorus or two from the less hackneyed ora-
torioa of Handel.
The Handel Centenary Commemoration is to be celebrated
at Edinburgh in the first week in April.
The agreeable mezzo-soprano, Aldlle. Jenny Meyer, inteudi4
to visit London.
• Rossini's soirees in Paris are, we hear, becoming more

attractive than ever.
/ler Majesty has paid four visits to the Enlish Opera,
Covent Garden, during the last area weeks, Mr. Balfe's
opera of " Satanella" and Mr. Wallace's " Maritana" being

Charles

Kean as th

the attractions.
Mr. Harris, who succeeds Mr.
lessee of the Princess's Theatre, commences his campaign
next September. Among the artists already engaged are
Miss Carlotta Leclercq and Mrs. C. Young.
A strange experiment, says the INstrated Tines, has
been tried at Drury-lane—that of corn erting a standard
drama into an opera.
M. Guerient, the once celebrated hat.
Wells, has been engaged by Mr. Phelps as actin,
for his Berlin trip. M. 4uerient's
of the German language will doubtless be- of great service
to the company.

kquin at Satiketi

timate knowledge

The Era states that Mr. Samuel Emery, the
comedian, who for 16' years has maintained a prominent
position at our principal London theatres, is about to leave
• England on an extensive professional tour: Early in the
month of August next helms made arrangements-to sal for
America, and, after fulfilling a series of engagements sir the
United States, he will proceed to California and Australia.
Mdlle. Olga Marietta, the juvenile danseuse, who bids
fair to become a Taglioni and Rosati of the day,,has returned
from a most successful tour on the Continent,. and is now
in London. At Berlin she danced 21 ni#htu-, during the
festivity of the Royal marriage, and in Muroch.she had the
honour to be received by their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess Adalbert of Bavaria, and met with the distin-
guished approbation of the Court and aristoeracy.of Bavaria.
Madame Guyon, so long the ornament of the Boulevard
- performing at the Francais as Cleopatra in Cor-
Rodogune." She, declares with; power and
dignity, and her style of beauty lendsitself admirably to the
rule of the Egyptian queen. _ _ _

theatres, is
neille's "

The French Opera at the James's Theatre (says the
h,enteum) has for the moment ceased to 'be--a termination
which was to be seen. There are rumours that it may re-
open, with a troop of artists superior to those who have
figured there, but these, we apprehend, are rumours, and

nothing more. •
Many literary gossips will be disappointed, but well
wishers of literature will he delighted, if a rumour which
reaches us prove trne—that the famous squabble between
two literary stars (of very different magnitude, but moving
in the same orbit) has been arranged. Thackeray and Yates,
it is said, are reconciled, and the Garrick Club breathes

The Critic says, "We are at length enabled to state, upon
evidence of the highest authority, that the author of the
celebrated ' Vestiges of tho Natural History of Creation.'
first published in 181.1, and which has since gone through
several additions, was the late Dr. George Combe,
who died about a year ago. The authorship of the
Vestiges,' after having been attributed to various per-
sons, as the late Lady King (Lord Byrom's Ada, sole
danghter of my house and heart') Dr. Carpenter, Lord
Brougham, &e., was at length almost universally laid at the
door of Mr. Robert Chambers, who, however, had nothing
to do with it further than that he may have looked over
some of the proof sheets ; in which case Mr. Page's asser-
tion, that be was requested by Mr. Robert Chambers to
correct the proof-sheets, becomes intelligible."
The Presse, which was the organ of the war party, has,
we hear,. been sold to M. Solar, the owner of the Pays and
the Constitutionnel, both semi-official papers ; thus avoiding_

—was, in his way, a ♦ery

every embarrasment
T. K. Hervey
able man. It was Hervey who carried the
its high spoke in the ladder of success. We mast ever
think of Hervey with a sense of the many services he has
ed to 'periodical literature. Ile wrote well; better
still, ho was an excellent editor —knowing and hilly fat—

now no more

4.thi neuns to

filling the duties of an editor.
The scheme for the erection of a People's Palace at
Muswell-hill is being quietly matured, and its publication
may be expected shortly. A board of directors is in course
of formation, and will comprise persons of recognised
position and means ; and the list of honorary patrons, which
we have seen, is a strong one. An interesting feature of the
plan is the proposed appropriation of 30 acres of land to
benevolentinstitutions connected with art, science, literature,
music, the drama, horticulture, and the railway interest.
Committees are at work in each department making the
necessary arrangements for the erection and endowment of
the different colleges, the designs for which are all to be
submitted to the approval of Mr. Owen Jones.
_ _

Mr. W. C. Macieady, the eminent tragedian, is now, we
understand, conducting a schoolat Sherborne, in Dorsetshire.

Vidclle Class Reporter

The days fixed fur receiving pictures, &c., for the ensuing
exhibition of the Royal Academy, are Monday, the 4th,
and Tuesday, the sth of April next.

The total number of paupers relieved in England and
Wales in the sth week of January. 1858, was 976,773_
The number relieved in the sth week of January last, was
871,691, or a decrease of 105,082.
SMOKING BY BOYS.-By the way, there ought to be a
sumptuary edict against smoking by brats under age. I
come into town frequently on the top of an omnibus, about
the time the clerks come in; and to behold on the roof of
the vehicles the long rows of whiskerless, sallow, sulky
boys, sucking at clay pipes, is nauseous to behold. They
smoke away their appetites, and what little brains they
have, and grow up, or rather don't grow up, miserable little
snobs, despised of man and contemned • by woman.—
Literary Gazette.

PAULIAMENTARY PAPE

ON THE CORN TRADE.—On
Saturday an interesting paper on this subject was published.
It contains particulars of the different varieties of grain,
flour, and meal imported into the United Kingdom in 1858;
showing the countries whence the same were brought, and
the quantities from each in 1868 ; the quantities of wheat
and wheat flour imported during each of the six years ended
with 1858; and the quantities of wheat and wheat flour, barley
and barley meal, &c., entered for home consumption in the
United Kingdom during the same period. From the first table,
the quantities of grain Sce., imported in 1858, we find that
the greatest aggregate quantity of corn, grain, meal, and
flour was received from France, the number of quarters
being 1,695,405. Of this number, 1,283,465 were wheat or
flour. This is the largest quantity of wheat received from
any one country in the time mentioned, the United States
sending us the next largest quantity, 1,098,871 quarters
namely. The United States also, next to France, sends the
largest aggregate number of quarters of all kinds of grain
and flour, takn t )gether, 1,500,481. Re erring still to the
aggregate of all kinds of grain, the southern ports of Russia
are, after the United States, the largest senders. Prussia,
the northern ports of Russia, Denmark (inceluxdpionrgte.rtsheol
Duchies),rthe Danubian Provinces, and Egypt, being the
countries from which, after thewthalrleaeehfiirastanmae:ltoioindaevia,d, weor
Russia received the largest quantities, their names beißnugs.
froannidanother table that it is only
that the
men-
tioned in an order corresponding to that of their exports to
us. Denmark and the Duchies are the largest
barley and barley meal ; the northern parts of
iBtt)ehdoseof any other country. ,In
exports of wheat from
withinFlOlnasr tsdai oatmeal
Icenaea 1 ltclai j‘oi .
cerlPnrlBera.
sus
larger
6ts ,smi . aetr,aheroe
tffi(
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United
aiyBdl:sl.
advance of them and of allother
the exports of wheat and flour States were incomparably: ill
within the
qua California
the
countries. Thus, in 1856
except 185- 811
Icoosu,nstBr4y
the largest
more than 29,962 quarter:i.uarTtehrsis, wquhainletitFyraoitice sent na
the largest received from any 2,
wheat 3 444,371
1a52:105:584 from the United States and
ytheaerns'ames bei years. In each of the six
prac-
ticable in 0. 0 and 1858, the United States have been
exporters • in 1855, however, the quantity sent
was oni-
q'rs. The countries from which more
whicit
was exported in 1858 than in 1857 arc the follpwing,
them e mentioned in
in
increase
sorder s
been nearly
made
is
npr acpro-
portion-
to the quantity sent—France, Danubian Provinces,
Egypt, Holland. Both the Turkish dominions and the
Italian States have largely increased their exports since
1857, but this seems to arise more from the fact that
the exports in 1857 were very unusually small, tae
from any increase in agricultural activity. The
country from which the smallest quantity, of wheat
has been received is Spain—the number of quarters
.being 5,364. The exports of wheat from this country
also have regularly decreased since 1854. A third table
shows the total quantities ofgrain entered for consumption.
in the United Kingdom during. the last six years. : lift
quantities are ascertained by deducting the quantities over-
entered, and the quantities expel-led after payment of duty,
from the gross quantities charged with duty on importation.
The greatest quantity of any grain entered for consump-
tion in any of six years is 6,112,016 qrs., the grain being
wheat, and the year 1853. The greatest aggregate quan-
tity of all kinds of grain entered for consumpt
1888—the number of qrs being 11,2

.on was ilk
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in which

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the greatest quantity was "COTAS11111(

LIVERPOOL POLI,

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD,
THE POOR Box.—Mr. Damn,. mu' '^-
hisi _

urner sent S 2 2s. to

ior the poor box.
WHIRLIGIG AmusEmENTs.—James Carr; the owner of a
" whirligig," was charged I.)y a "brother chip," named
John James, with having threatened to knock his head off,
but, not relishing that mode of_visiting the land of spirits,
he thought it better to hand him over to the police. The
complainant said he had given information to the pollee of
a robbery committed by the brother of the prisoner, on
Saturday night last, in Back Lime-street, and since that
time the prisoner had, on several occasions, promised to
dismantle his shoulders after the manner of Orsini. On the
other hand, the prisoner said, it was all spite, because h
told a policeman that Mr. "Whirligig" Carr had swin
several people

in queen-square
keep the peace
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...ill') MUNICIPAL ELECTION,

THE QUEEN V. JOHN CLERK.—On Saturday, the 27th
ultimo, an application was made to Mr. Justice Crompton,
at chambers, on a summons, to show cause why the venue
should not be changed to Middlesex, unless the defendant
would undertake to go to trial at the next Liverpool Assizes.
The application was supported by affidavits_of Mr. Henry
Bremner and another, to the effect that the information, in
the nature of a quo togrranto had been filed forthwith,
after the rule had been made absolute by the court, that
a subpoena, to answer the information had been issued on
the 9th February last,directed to Clerk, requiring him to
appear within four days—that Clerk kept out of the way to
avoid personal service, and that on application being made
at his residence, 3, Spencer-street, Everton, the door was
, thrust to by the servant, who refused to re-open it, that a

_
copy of the subpcena was put under the door--that another
copy was left with a clerk of the defendant's at his countino.
house iri Mersey-street, and a third copy was left with the
attorney who appeared for him on the argument, and on an
MN/lay-if coffinm fnrtli flea nttamr,+o _ _

to serve the subpoena, attachments had been issued against
the body of Clerk, and a warrant granted . thereon
for his apprehension that • Clerk could not •be
taken under the warrant though 'every exertion
had been made by the officer, that Clerk subsequently
entered an appearance on the return-day of the attachment,
and deponent believed, that Clerk had designedly kept out
of the way to avoid service of subpoena, and had absconded
to prevent the execution of. the attachment, in. order to
delay the prosecution of the information, and.prevent same
being tried at the Liverpool, assizes, Mr. Venn (of-the firm
of Wright and Venn) appeared for the prosecutor, and a
gentkman from the office of Mr. A. B. Carpenter for the
defendant. Mr. Venn contended that these facts con-
clusively showed that Clerk had evaded the service of the
subpoena, and the attachment, and that he had only come
in and entered an appearance, and purged his contempt
when it was too late to get to trial at the Liverpool assizes,
that the defendant ought either to be compelled to try at
Liverpool, or that the venue should be changed to Middle-
•

sex, when the piosecutor could try in April. It was
contended for Clerk, that the judge had-no power to do
either the one or the other. Mr. Justice Crompton doubted
if he could compel the defendant to go to trial at Liverpool,
but he was of opinion, that unless Clerk made a satisfactory
affidavit in answer to those filed by the prosecutor, that
the venue ought to be changed. Clerk's agent then
applied for time to answer the affidavits, which was granted
until Wednesday last, but as Mr. Justice Crompton would not
be at chambers on that day, he made an endorsement on the
siimnions for the benefit of the judge who would sit. On
Wednesday last the parties again attended at chambers,
before Mr. Justice Williams. Clerk had not filed any
affidavit, but his agent contended that the judge had no
power whatever on a quo warranto information, it being on
the. Crown side to make any such order. Mr. Venn, in
reply, urged that Mr. Justice Crompton had decided the
question of the right, and that the judge had the ordinary
porter to exercise his discretion over•proceedings on the
Crown as on the civil side, and as no authority had been
produced against the right of the judge to do so, it was to
be assumed that he had, and that he ought_to exercise it ;
that the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 6 and 7
Vic., chap. 89, sec. 5, contemplated unnecessary delays, and
provided a remedy in certain cases, and was an authority in
favour of the judge's power to change the venue. The judge
held that Mr. Justice Crompton had already decided the
objection as to the power of the judge; and that as Clerk
had not filed any affidavits in reply, he made an order to
change the venue to Middlesex, unless within three days he
(Clerk) elected to try at the next Liverpool assizes.

THE REPRESENTATION OF THE COUNTY.
REQUISITION TO J. P. HEWOOD, ESQ.

On Saturday morning, a deputation waited upOn John
Pemberton Heywood, Esq., at the bank, Brunswick-street, for
the purpose of presenting to him a requisition signed by about

ierals, almost exelusiely from thi

are the names of the gentlemen
composing the deputation :—Messrs. J. R. Jeffery, T.
Erocklebank, W. Earle, G. Holt, G. Melly, J. B,yley, T. S.
Raffles' G. Holt, jun., S. Bright, T. B. Barclay, and T. Gain.
Mr. Brocklebank introduced the subject by informing Mr.
Heywood .that they had waited upon him to present a re-
ion, signed by 194 of the most influential county
us locality . They did not think Mr.. Heywood
a multitude of names to satisfy Film that it

dcbank) might say, the unanimous wish,
ilde to understand the Liberal party, that
iv himself to be nominated in the event of an
early election for the southern division of the County of
Lancashire, that would tako place consequent on Mr.
William Brown's expressed determination not to allow
himself to come again before the electors. He could not
allow the opportunity to pass without remarking how ad-
mirably Mr. Brown had discharged his parliamentary duties
since he had served that divison of the county which they
were now soliciting Mr. Heywood to represent. He (Mr.
Brocklebank) might say that he had reason also to believe
that a large number of Conservatives would be perfectly
satisfied if Mr. Heywood decided on becoming a eandidate,and
there would probably be no opposition ; that his commercial
knowledge, his known financial abilities, his high character
and stake in the county constituted him in every possible
way a most acceptable gentleman to occupy one of the seats
for the southern division of Lancashire, which contained
the largest manufacturing constituency of any county in the.
kingdom. After those observations he ,would be content
for the present, and call upon Mr. T. S. Raffles, who had
kindly consented to act as secretary to the requisitionists,
to read the requisition.
Mr. Raffles having mentioned several of the names at the
head of the list, then read the requisition as follows :--

" TO JOHN PEMBERTON HEYWOOD, ESQ.

" Sir,—We, the undersigned •electors of the southern
division of the county of Lancaster, residing in the Liver-
pool polling district, respectfully request that you will allow
yourself to be put in nomination on occasion of the next
dissolution of Parliament, to fill the vacancy which will
then occur by the resignation of our present member, Mr.
Brown.

"The acknowledged position which you hold in the county,
your close identification with the commercial interests in
South Lancashire, and your high standing in financial circles,
both here and in the metropolis, point you out as a fit and
proper repesentative of this, the largest constituency in the
United Kingdom.

"At the present crisis especially we feel that we cannot
too strongly urge upon the responsibility which attaches to
a man in your position, who has it in his power to render
such valuable services to his fellow-citizens ' • and while, on
the one hand, we engage to use every effort to return. you
to Parliament as one of the representatives for this division
of the county, on the other hand we trust that you may see
it to be compatible with your present important engagements
to accept the invitation which we hereby respectfully press
upon you.".. - . - - -

Mr: Brocklebank, in some further remarks, said it would be
seen from the names just read that there was a very general
expression of opinion from all shades of the Liberal party
that Mr. Heywood would allow himself to be put in nomi-
nation, and with every probability of his becoming one of
the members for the southern division of the county. They
also felt assured that they could not find a gentleman that
would exercise a greater amount of influence in the House
of Commonson any subject to which he might find it neces-
sary to direct his attention and give utterance 'to his
opinions. He now begged to present the address in the
name and on behalf of the requisitionists and of the Liberal
u party generally

P. Heywood said he felt highly flattered by the
presentation of such a requisition, coming as it did from so
respectable a portion of the Liberal party. Hitherto his
habits had been of a retiring character, certainly not of that
kind which would fit him for public life. If they would permit
him, however, he would give the subject his best considera-

tion, and communicate to them his reply some time in the
course of next week. He would like to have a few days
for the consideration of the question; and probably if the
gentlemen would be kind enough to call upon him again it
might suit their mutual convenience.

Mr. G. Holt said it would probably be as well for one of
the- gentlemen present—and he would take on himself the

responsibility io give Mr. Heywood an assurance that the
feeling out of doors was not only very general, but very
gratifying to those who were now soliciting him to become
their candidate, and it, couldtnot be less satisfactory to Mr.
Heywood that his election would be all but certain, and
that however much he might consider himself deficient,
such was not the opinion of his friends and those best able

' .
to' form an estimate.
Mr. G. Melly mentioned that •he 'was in ManeheSter on
when he had an opportunity of hear-
sed by several gentlemen at that end of
There was but one opinion ex 7
pressed; -and that was most favourable to Mr. Heywood,
with a desire that the application now made to him might
be successful. . .
The deputation then retired.

The commission on the militia have, this week, taken
the evidence of the Duke of Newcastle and Earl Grey.
The Herald states that defalcations have been dis •
covered in the accounts of a clerk, long in the service of
one of the London private banks.
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The Emperor Napoleon has addressed a letter. to Sir
Francis Head, thanking- him for his exertions in the
Imperial cause. His Majesty expresses surprise that the
English should attack him incessantly, in the journals,
in ithe most unworthy and the most unjust manner, as he
has been their loyal ally.