Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-31 00:00:00

a majority in a full House, the Government would not
deem it respectful to the House to continue their
opposition.
Mr. Gladstone gave notic that on going into committee
on the bill, he should draw attention to the subject as it
affected the public interest.

HUNDRED AND MANOa OF WIRRALL
COURT LEVT.

IMPORTANT DECIMONS.

An adjourned Court-leet,View of Frankpledge, Hundred
Court Baron, or law day of the above manor,wa.s yesterday
held by adjournment, at the house of Mi. Noses Robi❑son,
Shrewsbury Arms, Efinderton, Little Neston, for the
purpose of transacting the business of the Hundred coming
within the jurisdiction of the court. Mr. Robert Grace,
the Steward of the Court, presided. The following notice
was conspicuously placed in the court :
NOTlCE.—S.imuel Holland Moreton, Esq., Lord of the
Hundred of Wirrall, by virtue of a grant from the Commis-
sioners of Woods. Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown,
bearing date the Bth day of February, 1820, of " All that the
Hundred of Wirrall, with its rights. members, and appurten-
ances whatsoever in the County Palatine of Chester, and all
those certainties or certain yearly rents to the said Hundred,
or to the Crown in right of the said Hundred belonging or
appertaining, and also all and all manner of Courts Leet,Views
of Frankpledge, together with the perquisites and profits of the
same, and also all fines and amerciaments made, set, or
imposed in the Courts of Sheriffs Turn and Hundred Court
within the said Hundred, and suit to the said court or courts,
and also all relief,., escheats, law days, courts, assizes of bread,
and wine, beer and ale, treasure trove, waifs, wrecks, estrays,
goods and chattels of felons, fugitives, felons of themselves,
persons put or to be put in exigeant, and of persons condemned
or outlawed, tolls, customs, deodands, royal fish rights, juris-
dictions, privileges, profits, commodities, advantages, and
emoluments whatsoever to the said Hundred belonging, or in
anywise appertaining," bath appointed Whittaker Edmondson,
of No 3, Brunswick-view, Liverpool, reeve and high bailiff of
the Hundred of Wirrall, for receiving, taking, and securing all
rents, fines, anierciarnenls, wrecks of the sea, waifs, estrays,
treasure trove, goods of felons and fugitives, royal 11, &c.
which may be f iund within the jurisdiction and boundaries of
the said Hundred of Wirral; ; and the said S. J. Moreton
finding it necessary as well fur preventing loss and injury to
merchants, shipowners, and underwriters, by boatmen, as for
the preservation of his own rights, hath determined to put the
law strictly into execution against all persons transgressing the
same within his jurisdiction. N.B. Mr. Whittaker Edmond-
son, the Reeve of the Hundred, will attend at the Castle
Hotel, Tranmere, from two o'clock to four in the afternoon,
to receive the rents of the Lord, and information of wrecks,
&c., when all parties bringing or assisting in bringing such
information will be handsomely rewarded for their trouble.
The Court having been opened by the Reeve, the follow-
ing gentlemen were selected as

THE JURY.
Mr. R. Harwood, Birkenhead, foreman
Mr. James Sbakeshaft, Parkgate
Mr. Benjamin Hancock, Pensley
Mr. Joseph Grundy, Ntston
Mr. Pemberton Swift, Parkgate
Mr, John Lloyd, Ness
Mr. S. B. Coates, Birkenhead
Mr. William George, Tranmere
Mr. John Whitney, Birkenhead
Mr. Benjamin Ellis, Tranmere
Mr. Robert Hughes, Birkenhead
Mr. Ralph Foden, Tranmere.
Mr. James Savage, of Hinderton, and Mr. Thomas Smith,
of Little Neston, were then chosen and sworn as Affeeres.
The jury then decided upon inflicting a fine of 403. up, n
any person not atending as a juror, he having been duly
and properly summoned.
The High Constable of the Court, Mr. Joseph Bates, and
the Reeve were p-esent, bat the Inspector of Weights and
Measures, William Beggs, was absent, and the jury fined
him .ss. _ _ _

When referring to this subject, the Steward took the
opportunity of referring to the reports which had appeared
in the NORTHERN DAILY TINES, which, he said, had been
given most faithfully and correctly, and that was all he, as
the judge, required should be done.
The Steward said : At the last court the inspector was
present; he knew of the adjournment, and should have
been here. At that court he complained that he could not
go on with his duti?.s because he had not been provided
with any tools. I was about to give him some information
on that subject, but as he is not present, of course it is of
no use.

says Mr. Dowdall is removing, and I believe Mr
Sewell ;,.but as I have not been able to attend to them
in person, I shall feel obliged by your letting both stand
,over, adjourned, to the next court. By that you will see
'that the nuisances are being removed, and, as Mr.
Sewell has been fined by the court, and has paid the fine,
perhaps all those points had better stand over until the
next adjourned court. In that letter Mr. Perrey also says,
wi la' regard to
MR. BUSHELL'S ENCROACHMENT. -

I confess I shauld like to see Mr.• Christopher Busheli's
encroachments at Henderton, about which so much has been
said of late ;.and, if I really went, I might, perhaps, be further
gratified by a sight of his Wirral!-armed sharp-shooters, who, I
understand, keep watch and ward, day and ❑ight, against the
Lord of the Hundred, his steward, Reeve, and their confederates
in arms.

The Steward : That, of course, I only read as expressing
the wishes of the gentleman. All I can say is, gentle-
men of the jury, Mr. Christopher Mallen is not a per-
son likely to run away—(laughter)—therefore, for the
present, under those circumstances, we have not taken
any further steps in that matter, but the time will
come—(Hear, hear, from the jury.)