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TI- LII'IRPO 0 L6COUN T-17)OURT.
The following memorial has been prepared in
iverpool, for presentation to the Earl of Carlisle :
" TO THE RIGHT JIM THE EARL OF CARLISLE, NNAN•
CELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCA R. t--,gg Th. Memorial of the Undersigned I
atOants of
Borough of Liverpool, in the County of Lan-
caster,
" Showeth,—That your memorialists have occa-
sion, which they deeply deplore, to address your
Lordship in language of indignation and complaint
at the conduct pursued by William Ramshay, Esq.,
the judge of the Liverpool County Court, since his
acquittal by your Lordship and the recommencement
of his sittings.

" Tnat Mr. Ramshay has brooded over wrongs
erroneously supposed to have been committed against
him by the public press of Liverpool, until he has
come to view all their acts in which his name is in
any way mixed up through a distorted and distem-
pered medium ; and, as evidence of this unhappy
temper, he has, on several occasions, declared his in-
tention of making an example of persons who were
supposed to be his accusers previous to the late in-
vestigation before your Lordship.
" Under the influence of this morbid state of mind,
he has lately denounced a most innocent placard (ac-
cidently placed upon a wooden paling near his court,
and used by bill sticker for all their placards) as a
libellous attack upon himself, and as a contempt of
his court ; and, in the assertion of his power (of which
he entertains a very exalted opinion), to visit all acts
which he chooses to consider contempts of his court
in a summary manner, he has lately sent a person,
stated to be an officer of his court, with verbal direc-
tions only, to bring Mr. Michael James Whitty, the
publisher of the placard above mentioned, to his court.
The officer proceeded to Mr. Whitty's place of busi-
ness, with a companion, to execute this verbal order.
Mr. Whitty demanded their authority, and on their
stating tbey had none to produce, he refused to ac-
company them ; but at the same time expressed his
willingness to wait until they could procure either a
warrant or summons from the court. This they re-
fused to do; a , having recourse to force to compel
him, they we isted by Mr. Whitty and his son,
and some of h. servants, and they did not accomplish
their object.
" The Judge afterwards issued his summons, which
was left at Mr. Whitty's dwelling-house, requiring
him to attend his court to answer for a contempt.
Mr. Whitty immedlately obeyed the summons, when
the Judge not only went into the consideration of the
questions of contempt of court with respect to the
placard adverted to, but into charges of insulting and
assaulting the officers of the court in discharging the
verbal requisition that he (Mr. Whitty) should
attend the court, and the resisting them on their
attempting to take him to the court by force. And
the judge ordered Mr. Whitty to pay a fine of 51.
for insulting the Court, or to be imprisoned seven
days at Lancaster Castle ; and to be imprisoned at
Lancaster Castle absolutely for two terms of seven
days for assaulting the officers; and to pay two other
fines of Si. each for insulting the officers, or to be im-
prisoned 1.4 days. The two penalties of seven days'
imprisonment absolutely for assaulting the officers the
Judge afterwards withdrew, substituting the infliction
of fines of Si. each, or seven days' imprisonment in each
case in default of payment. The fines were not paid, and
Mr. Whitty was sent to Lancaster Castle. Two days
after the bearing of the charges against Mr. M. J.
Whitty, Mr. John 'Whitty attended on a summons
for assaulting the officers, and, in result, be was fined
in four penalties of 40s. each for assaulting and in-
sulting the officers ; in default of payment as to the
assaults, the judge
.imposed an imprisonment in each
case ; and as to the two penalties for insulting the
officers, he stated that the amounts would be recover-
able :as debts under the County Courts Act, and, if
not paid, that the defendant would be liable to two
imprisonments of 40 days each. Orders were drawn
up to send Mr. John Whitty to Lancaster, when the
inhabitants of Liverpool interposed, and paid all the
flues of Mr. John Whitty, jun., to prevent his going
to Lancaster, and paid the fines of Mr. M. J. Whitty,
and procured his discharge from Lancaster Castle,
when the following receipt was given to the contri-
butors

(Copy.)
" Liverpool, Oct. 2, 1851.
" ' Mr. J. R. Jeffery has this day paid me, under
protest, the sum of 331. on account of Mr..2lichael
James Whitty and Mr. John Whitty, viz.:—
" Mr. Michael James Whitty-51. for wilfully
insulting the judge in going to the court; 51. for
wilfully insulting Robert Hartley, an officer of the
court, while going to the court; 51. for wilfully in-
sulting Roger Charnley, an officer of the court, while
going to the court; 51. for assaulting Robert Hartley,
an officer of the court, in the execution of his duty ;
and 51. for assaulting Roger Charnley, an officer of
the court, in the execution of his duty.
"' And Mr. John Whitty-21. for assaulting Ro-
bert Hartley, one of the officers of the court, in the
execution of his duty; 21. for assaulting Robert
Charnley, one of the officers of the court, in the exe-
cution of his duty ; 21. for wilfully insulting Robert
Hartley, one of the officers of the court, iu going to
the court; and V. for wilfully insultiv Roger Charn-
ley, one of the officers of the court, in going to the
court.

" WILLIAM STATHAM,
" Clerk of the County Court of Lancashire,
holden at Liverpool.
" That throughout these proceedings Mr. Whitty,
sen., exhibited no contumacy ; on the contrary, while
at his own place of business he expressed his readiness
to the Court, if served with written request, and ac-
cordingly did so as soon as he was served with the
aummcns; and throughout the inquiry against him,
which lasted about seven hours, he was patient, re-
spectful, and forbearing, never uttering a single word,
although very many observations fell from the judge
greatly calculated to wound and exasperate him.
"That the judge of the County Court, on the other
hand, throughout the proceedings against Mr. M. J.
Whitty and Mr. John Whitty, in his various character
of accuser, witness, judge, and jury, was pre-
eminently parse, vindictive, and oppressive.
" That the construction put by the judge of the
County Court on the clause of the County Courts
Act in reference to cases of contempt it, as your me-
morialists believe, unconstitutional and illegal ; and, if
it were otherwise, that his unprecedented assumption
of authority, and the temper which he has displayed
in attempting to enforce that authority, plainly
demonstrate that he has not the moderation and
equanimity which are essential to the character of a
county court judge. At the same time, the violent
and unexpected measures resorted to by Mr. Itamshay
for upholding what he calls the dignity of his court,
have alienated the great majority of the trading com-
munity, so that his court inust be a comparatively
useless one, so long as Mr. Itatushay shall he suffered
to preside there.

‘‘ Your memorialists, in conclusion, pray that your
L
Lordship should be pleased to hold in Liverpool, or
its immediate neighbourhood, a court of inquiry into
the conduct of Mr. Ramshay since his acquittal by
your Lordship from the former charges made against
him, and his resumption of his sittings; and that, if
the foregoing facts be established against him, as your
memorialists confidently believe they can be, your
Lordship would be pleased to remove Mr. Ramshay
from the office of judge of the County Court of Liver-
pool, and to appoint another
judge, of learning, ton-
per, and moderation in his stead."

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REVOLTING INHUMANITY.--The Boonville (Mo.)
Observer of the 26th ult., gives the following details of an act
of barbarity :—‘• In Morgan county, not long ago, a citizen
dies, leaving a widow and two small children, the elder a
girl about seven years of age. Not long after the death i f
her husband the woman married again. Soon the girl died,
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A WISE ADVICE.—A dandy, with a cigar in his
mouth, entered a menagerie, when the proprietor requested
him to take the weed from his mouth, lest he should learn
the Oho; haoakeys bad habits.