Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

(lb be continued )

At LEW[3 R. `OIIPANY'S, Ranelagh-street.
BOIL'S are C,..OIfIED fram tha Ages of Sac c Twaety Years.

A letter f .orn Tripori, cf the Bth, slys:—"Tlic Sultin
has gi7en a new proof of his sytnpithy for the Christian
populations of this regency by cortnding gratuitously t,
the sisters of ch .rity of St. Joceph a vast edifice for the
estTh'islinicnt of an ho;oital. A few months ago the
F!tiltan also accordod a firm in for tha erection of a ten
Cstholic church at Berzz.."

The Giant de PJuriales Sterger, the; chief of the late
Neufchatel insurrection, ha., says the Gazette de Lyon,
returned io the King of Prussia the Grand Cress of Ho-
hei z)llern w'nic'i was some little tine ego conferred up,m
him by his Majesty. The decoration was sec impanied by
s p lite letter, in which he declares to the King that he
henceforth te2,.ar('s himself as a Swiss ei•izen, and that,
consequently, he cannot accept any foreibn decoraion ;
and ands, that the chin4e which has taken place in the
relations which formerly uaited Nenfehatel to Prussia has
ids) modified his own psi:ioa towards the crown of
Prussia.

AN ATLAS GRPITIS WITH THE "DISPATCII."—On and after
Sunday, October 40, 1857, each copy of the Dispatch
will be accompanied with a map, a chart, or the plan of
of a principal town, so as to furnish to each subsetib r,
gratis, the most comprehensive, complete and generally
useful Atlas hitherto published in Great Brit; in. The
s'ze of the engravings will be that of one page of teie
newsparter, six maps and two plans, in each year, will be
of double the size— 17 inches by 25. The ordinary maps
will be correctly tinted, the charts will be properly relieved
in bliv, and the plans will be printed in u rich colour.
The double maps will be the object of great attention in
the desire to make them beautiful specimens of map
colouring. It is hoped, in the course of no unreasonably
protracted time, that the Dispatch Atlas will contain
more names and positions of places than any other English
publication of the kind. The counties will be. given se-
parately, and wince they are large and populous, as in the
case of Lancashire, each division of the county will occupy
a pare; again, the States of Italy will be the subject of
six distinct maps. The names of the draughtsmen and
engravers will he the best guarantee for perfect accuracy.
The maps will be as full as clearness and reference will
allow. Corrections and discoveries will be given from
the best au:horities. The engravings will be in the
highest style of art, many thousands of pounds being
devoted to their cost, and they will be taken from original
drawings expressly prepared for the series. Directors of
mechanics' institutes, the conductors of all educational
establishments, the proprietors of hotels, reading-room.,
and coffee-houses, will, in poseersing the Dispatch Atlas
be supplied with a daily want. The money value of the
completed work may be best ascertained by impliting the
selling price of any large and trustworthy collection of
maps. The Dispatch Atlas will he forwarded with the
numbers of the paper at the usual price, 45d. per copy, or
6d. stamped. On the first issue some hints eel Ibe given
for preserving, indexing, and binding the Atlas Orders
received by every newt-agent and bookseller in the king-
dom, and at the Dispatch effice, 139, Fleet•street. The
Friday evening edition may be received in thcmost distant
art of the kingdom on Saturday morning.

At LEWIS & OMPANIPS, Itanelagli-street,
BOYS ace CLOTHED from the Agea of Six to Twenty Years,

THE HUNDRED OF WIRRAL COURT LEET.

This ancient Court held its periodical sitting yesterday,
at the Shrewsbury Arms, Little Neston, The Court was
called together by the following

SUMMONS.
The flundred and Manor of Wi,ra,intheCouney of Chester

To Wit.

The general Court Leet,VieWOf Frank-pledge, Hundred
Court, Court B iron and law day of the Hundred and Manor
of Wirral, aforesaid, will be held at the house of Mr.
Moses R3binson, the Shrewsbury Arms, Hinderton,
Lit le Neaten, in and for the said Hundred and Manor, on
Weinesday, the 214 t day of October inst., at ten o'clock
in the forenoon of the same day, when and where the
rents due to the lord of the same hundred and manor are
to be paid, and all persDns who owe suit aad service to the
said courts, respectively, are required to attend, on pain of
arnercercient. Dated the let day of October, 1857. By
order of the Steward.

WHITTAKER EDHONDSDN, Reeve and Bailiff.

As there are various opinions as to the legality of this
court, and as to the p )wer and jurisdiction of the
Steward, we give the following extract from Blackstone' s
Commentaries on the Laws of England, on the subject:—
After describing a Court Baron, which is a court incident
to every manor in the kingdom, he goes on to state—
" A Hundred Court is only a larpr Court Baron, being
held for all the inhabitants of a particular hundred instead
of a manor. The free suitors are also the judges, and the
steward is the registrar, as in the case of a Court Baron.
It is, likewise a Court of Record, resembling the former
in all points except that in the point of territory it is of
greater jurisdiction. This is said by Sir Edward Cokt
to have been derived out of the County Court for the ease
of the people, that they might hare justice done them a(
their own doors, withou, auy charg,, or loss of time; but
its institution was probably coos& with that of hundreds
themselves. which were introduced, though not invented,
by Alfred, being derived from the polity of the ancient
Germans." Therefire, as no act of parliament has ever
been passed to disannul this court, its jurisdiction, it
would appear, is indisputable.
In consequenco of the melancholy death of one of the
gsntlemen summoned on the jury, Mr J. Robinson, there
was some delay in commencing the business, but shortly
after eleven o'clock,

Teo Seward of the Court, Mr. Robert Grace, opened
the Illyine3s of the thy. and tho following gentlemen were
sworn in as the jurors and officers -
Wm Jackson, Esq , Foreman.
Newman Hyde Wilson, Great Neston.
Lee Wood,
Maxwell Scott,
Rd w4rd McKeverigan, Tranmere.
Samuel Bcnjim'n Coate4,
John Allan
James Rontledge, Tranmere.
Henry Hillier, Birkenhead,
Robert Bromley Evans, Birkenhead.
Richard Lee,
Caarles Adcock,
ASSESSORS.
John Humphrey, .. Tranmere.
Wm. Craven,
_ _

The Steward then said, that as this was the annual
t day, they were bound to hold this court for the pur.
pose of seeing that all the busine3s wag, and had been,
properly conducted. Ile then called over the names of
the several officers connected with the court, who ap-
peared either in person or by representative.
The Ale Tester, and Inspector of wine and bread
(Robert Cumming), made the following as
THE ALIC MUM' PRESICNTMEIT :
Wirral, to Wit:
A presentment made by the Ale Testers and In-
spectors of bread and wine, beer, and ale, to the

Court Let, hel l at Little Neston, on Wednesday,
the 21st day of OctJber, 1857:-
1. That all wine, aad ale, and beer-houses are daly licen-
sed, and well conducted as fir as we hsve discovered.
2. That the breal and wine, Jib and beer, are of average
qusliry, and the sup?ly is ecru' to the demand. At
presew. we hive nothing farther to preseut.
For self, and John Minks, ROB tam Conaess,
Ate Teetors and Inspectors.
The Steward wished to know whether the Testor had
anything farther to report.
Mr. Cubbins: No, not at present ; but perhaps I may
have.

A Juror : No person has ever complained to you of the
badness of the bread, or have any of the ptblicans refused
to p*rmit ycu to try the qui.lity of the ale or wines.
Mr. Cubbins: 10, if they ha I I sh)uld have re-
ported them to this court. (Laughter.)

TIIE PIG STY& NUISANCE AT TRANSIERI.

The Steward said that he hid received the following
memorial with regard to a nuis ince at Chf,in Park, but
as it was a very uncomf)rtable diy, and the weather was
execelingly wet, he t'u3u4hr, it hid helter stand over until
the adjourned court, iv:iich would be held at Tranmere,
but iu the meantime, he ?null rail the