The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-08 00:00:00

HISTORIC SOCIETY.

The eighteenth ordinary meeting of this society during
the present session was held last night, in the Grand Jury
Room, Sr. George's Hall ; the Rev. Dr. Thom in the chair.
The following donations were acknowledged as having
been received :—From the Society, Transactions of the
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol. 1, part
1 • from Archaeological Institute, the Archoological Journal,
Nos.Y 51, 52, September and December 1856 ; from the
society's proceedings and p Tars of the Kilkenny
and South East of Ireland Archaeological Society,
vol. ii, new series. No. vi., November 1856, No. vii.,
November 1857 ; from the author, " The Episcopal and Ca-
pitular Seats of the Irish Cathedral Churches," illustrated
by Richard Caulfield, A.B , Parts 111., VI. ; from Lord
Londesborough, Miscellanea Graphica, Parts XI., XII.
from Mr. Grazebrook, Yorke's Royal Tribes of Wales. with
a curious drawing ; from J. Watt, Esq. of Speke
Hall, a pipe of the time of Elizabeth, found in
the ceiling of his house while undergoing repairs ;
and from the Chairman, on behalf of B Lupton, Esq , of
Birkenhead, a volume of pamphlets relating to Liverpool
• and its affairs, and containing one from Mr. M'Gregor, late
M.P. for Glasgow, published in Liverpool in 1829.
Among the exhibitions were, by Mr. Glazebrook, F.S.A.,
the first edition of Camden's " Brittania ;" by Mr. Joseph
Clarke, F.S.A., of Saffron-Walden, a collection of bells,
formerly attached to the gear of horses. Some of them
are of Roman make. Also a collection of keys of
various forms and adornment, chiefly of mediaeval
times, found in the county of Essex; by Mr.
Joseph Mayer, F.S.A., a great number of glass
beads of various colours, forms, and sizes, showing well
the knowledge the Romans had of the art of glass making,
and the various ingredients requisite to give colour to the
beads. Mr. Mayer also exhibited a number of specimens
illustrative of Dr. Hume's paper on the Hoylake Antiquities
by Dr. Hume, the copy of an inscription made by Captain
Moxon at Malacca. It was found beneath the floor of a
ruined church, and was as follows :—" Here lies buried,
Peter, second Bishop of Japan, who died in February,
1597." In another place it set forth that the deceased was
a Jesuit.
Dr. Hume announced that the council had fixed oa
Manchester as the place to be visited by the society during
the present session.
The papers for the evening were—" The People of the
English Lake Country, their origin, history, and character,"
by A. Craig Gibson, Esg., and ‘• the Hoylake Antiquities,"
by the Rev. Dr. Hume, D.C.L.

NECESSITY FOR THE BALLOT. --- The Northern Whig
observes that the zeal of the Marquis of Hertford's agent
in serving " noties to quit," on tenants who gave inde-
pendent votes at the recent elections, has attained to the
ludicrous point. It is a fact that in Lisburn, Mr. Richard-
son, now M.P., has received a notice. _

EVERY MAN 1118 OWN LAWYER.—III the County Court
of Halifax, an action was brought by a Mr. Nut'er, to
recover the rent of a way leave, authorising Mr. Holroyde,
the defendant, to go over the plaintiff's land in Cleckheaton,
with carts, to his collieries. There was also a claim for
damages for the non repair and non restoration of the land
at the end of this term. It appeared that the letting and
terms of user of the land were embodied in a written
agreement" drawn up at a public house in Cleckheaton,
in March, 1844, and then and there signed, in the presence
of a glass of gin and water ; no lawyer was wanted, as
they could "surely draw up an agreement theirselves."
After the case had occupied the court some time, and whilst
Mr. Mitchell was directing attention to the claim for
damages, Mr.' Terry objected that the language of the
agreement was not large enough to embrace them, whatever
the real intention of the parties might have been when the
paper was sigueJ. After some discussion, his H,)uour
reluctantly agreed with this view of the case, observing
that, if peopl would become their own lawyers, they must
abide by the consequences. He should give the plaintiff
a verdict for the rent, but not for the damages. Mr. Mitchell
said he anticipated such a result.