The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-04-12 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY.

Mr. D. W. H ARVEY, on the second reading of an "en-
closure" bill being moved, directed attention to the evasion
of specific compliance with the rule of the house, that in
every such bill a certain proportion of the land proposed to
be enclosed should be set apart as places of recreation for the

poor; he stated that he had examined several breviates of
enclosure bills, and that they were deficient as to mentioning
the quantity proposed to be set apart, or in defining where
it was situated.

THE ADMINISTRATION.

Sir R. PEEL wished to give notice that it was his intention
to move an amendment on Lord J. Russell's motion, on
Monday next ; and, in order that no one might be taken by
surprise, that on Thursday, or Friday at least, he would state
the express terms in which he should submit snch amend-
ment. _

D. O'CONNELL, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Sir F. BURDETT was understood to give notice of his in-
tention of moving for any papers or correspondence relative
to the appointment, during Lord Normanby's administration
of Ireland, of Daniel O'Connell to be a justice of the peace
for the county of Kerry, or for any other county in Ireland.
He should be glad to make the motion so that the papers
might be produced before the debate on Monday next.
Lord J. RUSSELL, said that he knew of no objection to the
motion being made at once.
Sir F. BURDETT then moved for the papers.
Motion agreed to.
Mr. P. THOMPSON moved, on the consideration of a report
on railway bills being proposed, that the further considera-
tion of such report should not be entertained before Tuesday,
April 23 ; and he did so in consequence of the motion that he
intended to make on Thursday for a select committee " to
inquire into the state of commuication by railways," and in
order that the house might have the benefit of the report of
that committee.

Mr. R. PALMER having seconded the motion.
Mr. flaw Es condemned the motion as one of ex poet facto
legislation, and one that came with very ill grace from his
right hon. friend, who ought long ago to have brought for-
ward the whole subject of railway police and regulations.
The motion for deferring the consideration of reports on
railway bills was eventually adopted.
Mr. LABOUCHERE moved for leave to bring in a bill for
the suspension of the existing government of the island of
Jamaica, and to make provision for the administration of its
affairs during such suspension. He admitted that it was a
measure of no ordinary character, but he contended that the
extraordinary proceedings in the island warranted the pro-
posed temporary abrogation of its constitution—proceedings
established in the papers laid before the house, and by every
journal that had reached this country.
The motion led to an extended discussion, iu which Mr.
Goulburn, Mr. Godson, Sir G. Grey, Sir R. Peel, Dr. Lush-
ington, &c., took part ' • but the introduction of the bill was
not distinctly opposed by any one, although Sir R. PEEL
said that more powerful evidence must be adduced before he
could agree to so strong a measure as that now contemplated.
Leave was given, without any division, to bring in the bill.
On the motion of Mr. G. PALMER, a select committee
was appointed to enquire into shipwrecks of timber ships,
and the loss of life attendant thereon.
Mr. FINCH moved for an account of the several amounts
borrowed by railway companies now before parliament, in
anticipation of calls, ecc.,,which was ordered.
Mr. HARVEY moved an address for a list of names of per-
sons through whose property the proposed line of railroad
between the cities of Dublin, Cork, and Limerick, &c., was
to run, " distinguishing the name of each person who is a
member of either house ;of parliament." which motion was
agreed to without any opposition.
The reports of the Mutiny and Marine Mutiny Bills were
received and agreed to.
The Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspension Bill was read
the third time and passed.
Mr. LABOUCHERE brought in the bill for making tempo-
rary provision for the government of Jamaica, which was
read the first time, and ordered to be read the second time
on the 19th instant.
The house adjourned at half after 10 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNEsDAy.
This day the House of Commons could not make a house
—that is, there were not 40 members present at four o'clock.
—Adjourned.

The Royal Sovereign, iron steamer, left Liverpool on
Monday afternoon last, at a quarter past five o'clock, for
Glasgow, and arrived here yesterday at a quarter past five
o'clock, P.M.—having discharged and taken in a cargo there,
and made the passage from Liverpool to Glasgow, and back,
in the short space of 48 hours.

WARDLE'S ESSENCE OF ANCHOVIES.—We have been fa-
vored with a bottle of this excellent sauce, and after a trial find
it equal if not superior to that of Burgess, who we once con-
sidered would never be surpassed. We feel confident that a
trial of this excellent article will prove the truth of all the
eulogiums which have been pronounced in its favour.

A NEW DON JUAN.—We understand that an extraordi-
nary work under the signature of " Don Juan, Junior, by
Byron's Ghost," is about to make its appearance. It pur-
ports to be a continuation of the plan and plot of Byron's
celebrated poem ; and, as the leading events and characters
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of the day are said to be scrutinised and shewn up in its
pages, the announcement has created an immense sensation
among certain notorious characters, whose misdeeds give
them too much reason to fear a prominent place in its rhymes.
THE How. Fox MAULE, M.P.—This gentleman, under
secretary in the Home-office, has been stopping at the Royal
Hotel during the week. He attended .the police court on
Tuesday, and was introduced by the mayor to the magistrates
then on the bench, viz.—Mr Cross, Mr. Dixon and Mr.
Brown.—Chester Chronicle.
LAW.—The reader will, perhaps, be surprised to hear
that there exists not in this country any law for the promul-
gation of the law ; that the parliament and the tribunals are
so far from thinking themselves under an obligation to make
known their proceedings to the public, that they are actually
destitute of the means of doing so ; that they possess no ac-
credited organ through which their enactments and decisions
may be communicated to the world in an authentic and au-
thoratative manner ; and that all the information which the
public receive upon this important subject, in each of its de-
partments, is the fortuitous consequence of private efforts
and commercial speculation.—Monthly Chronicle.

MISCELLANEOUS.

On Saturday night 21 ewe sheep in lamb were drowned by
the extraordinary rise of the tide on the Rye Harbour.—
Rochester Gazette.

Sir Wm. Woods has returned to town from investing the
Earl of Derby with the Order of the Garter, at Knowsley
Park, near Prescot.

MR. SHEIL.—We can state that the hon. member for
Tipperary has resigned the office he held as commissioner for
Greenwich Hospital.—Dublin Evening Post.
THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS.—This celebrated pack of fox-
hounds is about to be placed under the joint controul of J.
Smith Barry, Esq. of Marbury, and John Dixon, Esq. of
Astle Hall.

Lord and Lady Canning, in the Gondola cutter-yacht,
have arrived at Cowes, after a tempestuous passage, ftom
Gibraltar, which fortress they left on the 14th ult.
THE APPLE CROP.—We learn from good authority, that
the apple and pear trees give good promise of plentiful
blossoms throughout the country.—Merthyr Guardian.
Died at Urlar, near Aberfeldy, on the 24th March, Mrs.
Christian Andrew, relict of Alexander M`Donald, in the one
hundred and second year of her age.

There are now 89 associations, which include 98 parishes,
in connexion with the county of Derby Society for the Pre-
vention of the Desecration of the Lord's day.—Derby Mer-
cury.

The labourers employed in excavating on the Derby and.
Birmingham Junction Railway, at Kingsbury, have disco-
vered lead ore. It is said to exist in such abundance that a
mine is to be opened and worked.

The Nassau Balloon will commence its aerial voyage this
year by an ascent from the Montpelier-gardens, Cheltenham,
on one day before the 15th of the present month.—Chelten-
haw Gazette.

Lord Suffield, of sporting celebrity, has " run so fast,"
that the Leicestershire establishment of hounds, horses, &c.
has been seized ; and, it is rumoured, that he has departed
for the continent.

SEVERITY OF THE SEASON.—Loch Rannoch, in Atholl,
has this week been completely frozen over, for the third time
this winter, a circumstance never before remembered 4o
have happened in April.—Caledonian Mercury.
One, of a dish of early potatoes grown at Sir John Judkin
Fitzgerald's, Bart, Liskeen, John Dwyer, gardener, has been
left at our office this day, weighing four ounces.—Tipperary
Constitution.

The Duke of Montebello, the new French Minister for
Foreign Affairs ad interim, is married to an English lady,
before her marriage Miss Jenkinson, a relative of the late
Lord Liverpool and the present Countess of Verulam.

We understand that a subscription, which already amounts
to £l,OOO, has been entered jnto in thin town, for the pur-
pose of aiding Mr. Ewart, M.P. for Wigan, in defending his
seat against the petition of Mr. John Hodgson Kearsley, the
opposing candidate at the election.—Manchester Guardian.

The Bishop of Worcester's health is, we are happy to say,
so far improved as to enable his lordship to take the chair at
the diocesan meeting in favour of general education in the
principles of the Church of England, at the County Hall, on
Saturday.—Worcester Journal.

MARIA MONK.—From the New York Observer, a Pres-
byterian journal, we learn that Maria has confessed her im-
posture to a clergyman of New York. She says she was en-
abled to make out her story by the leading questions pro-
posed to her.—Scottish Gualsidian.
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. RAILWAY.—The workmen
in this quarter (Glasgow) are pushing forward briskly, and
clearing away from the depot at the head of Queen-street.
They have also broke ground some time ago from the long
tunnel, which commences in Bell's Park.—Scottish Guar-
dian.

During the last year, the ordnance of the United States
has been increased by the addition of 143 cannons for the field
artillery, 71 cannons for garrison service, 1526 percussion
cannon locks, 52,700 small arms, 347 Bunn carriages; and,
for the use of the militia, 80 cannon for field artillery, and
16,800 small arms.

A letter from Rome, of the 26th ultimo, contradicts the
reyort of the marriage of Lord Alvanleywith Lady Acton,
and says that it probably originated amongst the gossipping
English at Naples, who amuse themselves by writing to
England on subjects about which they are ignorant, and of
persons with whom they are totally unacquainted.

TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.—Ou Wednesday morning a
splendid piece of plate and 170 sovereigns were presented to
the Rev. J. H. Bromby, of Hull, as a testimony of the high
esteem entertained by his parishioners for the exemplary man-
ner in which he had discharged the duties of vicar of the
parish of Holy Trinity during a period of 41 years.—Hull
Times.

PORT WINE.—The shipments of Port Wine to England,
from 1826 up to 1838 :
Pipes. Pipes. Pipes.
1826 18,360 1831 20,290 1835 32,585
1827 24,207 1832 13,572 1836 30,206
1728 27,932 1833 19,466 1837 31,110
1829 • ..17,832 1834 28,207 1838.. 26,057
1830... ./.. 19,333.
MARCH OF LOYALTY AMONG THE PAINTERS.—From a
sign painted over the door of the Three Tuns public house,
whence Mr. Bushel's omnibus starts, it would appear that
the painters of Kidderminster are resolved that her Majesty
should not be deprived of any of her privileges. It is writ-
ten :—" Parcels booked and carried to all parts of the
Quendom !"—Kidderminster Messenger.
We understand that on Wednesday, the excavators em-
ployed on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, at Ludden-
den Foot, discovered the perfect skeleton of a human being.
Some of the old inhabitants suppose it to be the remains of
a young man, lost nearly thirty years age, on his return to
Todmorden, and who was seen near the place in the evening,
but was never after heard of.—Halifax Express.

SWALLOWING A PROMISSORY NOTE.—In the secon-
daries' Court, last week, a Mr, Wright recovered £lB from
a Mr. Green, the amount of a promissory note given by the
defendant, and two others, one of whom, named Young,
when the note became due, snatched it from the person pre-
senting it for payment, and swallowed it. For this offence
Young was tried, convicted, and sentenced to twelve months
imprisonment.—Carlisle Patriot.
COAL.—Another new coal company is about to commence
workings within half a mile of the town of Oswestry, on the
left hand of the road on entering from Shrewsbury. It is
the intention of the proprietors to lay down a tram-roaL to
the canal at Maesbury, not only to convey their lime coal for
boating to the various lime works, but to bring up Liverpool
and Manchester to the town.—Chester Courant.

It appeared that the body of London police which were last
week sent down to Mansfield are still to remain there, and
that a further large body of special constables have been
sworn in by the magistrates.—Derbg Mercury.
We are sorry to observe, by the annual report of the So-
ciety for the Discharge and Relief of Persons imprisoned for
small Debts throughout England and Wales, that their ex-
penditure during the last year exceeded their ordinary income
to the amount of £2124 18s. sd.

A FACT.—The Cincinnati News says that there is a man
living about fifty miles north of that city, who had twenty-
four children by one wife, eighteen of whom are now full
grown hearty males, capable of bearing arms. `' In peace
prepare for war," is his maxim.

Government has purchased the barracks at Trowbride, for
£3OOO, and will take possession on the Ist of May next.
Shortly after the peace they were sold for £l5OO by the
then government. By this transfer upwards of 40 families
will have to move to other places of abode.—Wilts Gazette.
LADY FLORA HASTINGS.—The Argus says that legal pro-
ceedings have been commenced against the original propagator
of the infamous slander on Lady Flora Hastings. Sir W:
Follett has already received his retainer. This is as it should
be.
We regret to announce the decease of Captain Brenton,
R.N., who died suddenly at his house in York-street, on
Saturday evening. Captain Brenton was well known to the
public as the founder of the Children's Friend Society, and
the warm advocate of several charitable institutions. His
life was spent in the duties of active benevolence.—Herald.

Lord Powerscourt's ball took place on Tuesday night, at
the Assembly-rooms, on a scale of great splendour and mag-
nificence. The company amounted to about 1500, consisting
of the rank and fashion of Bath and its neighbourhood, and
a large number of our respectable trading fellow-citizens, in-
vited without distinction of politics.—Bath Chronicle.
FIRE-ARM SOCIETY.—We understand that a fire-arm so-
ciety has lately been instituted in this city. The members
are ,of course universal-suffrage men, who contribute small
sums weekly, with which guns and pikes are purchased when-
ever the contributions reach a certain amount. The arms
are then distributed by lot.—Scotsman
MOLD REVIVED FAlR.—This fair was very well attended,
the stock shown was considerable : and a very respectable
business was transacted. Many farmers attended in the hope
that it was a seed fair. Next year it is intended that it shall
embrace that also, which will be a great convenience to the
neighbourhood.-L.Chester Courant.

THE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY.—We are in-
formed that Lady Londonderry progresses very slowly towards
convalescence ; and we regret to add that her cough continues
most harassing and distressing. We understand that the
noble marquis and family are likely to remain at Wyndham
Park for a considerable period, in consequence of her lady-
ship's lamented indisposition.—. Durham Chronicle.
FAT Ox.—There is now exhibiting in the C4Forge Inn yard,
Clewyd-street Ruthin, an enormous fat ox ; the animal stands
6 feet 3 inches, and of proportionate lenghth ; b6ts are made
that it will weigh, when slaughtered, 25 scores per quarter.
It was bred and fed by John Lloyd Wynne, Esq. of Coed
Coch, Denbighshire, and is shortly to be slaughtered in
Ruthin.—Chester Gazette.

A letter from Santander,, dated 24th of March, published
by the Correio Nacional, says, " I hasten to inform vou of
a very favourable piece of intelligence for us. The English
Commodore, Lord John Hay, has received orders from his
government to blockade all the points of this coast occupied
by the Carlists, and to capture any vessel, of whatever na-
tion she may be,:who should approach the coast."

DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH.—The majority of the
inhabitants of Derby, including all shades of political and re-
ligious opinion, have sent a letter to the postmaster of the
town, requesting him not to forward to them any letters, &c.,
arriving on a Sunday, unless especially marked on the out-
side to be forwarded unmediately. The same individuals have
signed a petition, to be presented to parliament, praying the
mails may not in future run on Sundays.—Derby Mercury.
Mr. D. W. Harvey has written to a member of the " na-
tional convention," to deny that he had offered his legal ser-
vices to that body, as stated in one of their resolutions. Mr.
Harvey says he entertains no hostility to the general objects
of the convention, though he deplores " the feeble and per-
sonal tone of its deliberations," and he at the same time re-
commends the members of the convention to adhere more to
truth in their statements and speeches.

TOKEN OF RESPECT TO CAPTAIN MOORSOM.—CapIain
Moorsom, late one of the secretaries of the London and Bir-
mingham Railway Company, has been presented by seventy
of the officers of the company with a superb and massive ink-
stand, weighing one hundred and twenty ounces, as a token
of their " sincere regret at losing a superior no less distin-
guished by the ability and sound judgment with which he
managed the affairs of this great undertaking, than by the
impartiality and strict sense of justice which marked his con-
duct towards his subordinates in office."

CONGLETON.—On Monday week, the first stone of a new
church was laid within two miles of this place, in the popu-
lous district of Buglawton. There was a very imposing pro-
cession of town's people, friendly societies, and schools,
amounting to several hundred individuals, headed by a con-
siderable body of the clergy. The Rev. Willoughby Crewe,
8.C.L., the rector, laid the stone with the usual formalities.
The divine blessing was fervently implored. The children
were afterwards treated to buns and tea in the National
School-room, and very affectionately and earnestly addressed
by the Rev. Mr. Ingham. The day was observed as a holi-
day, partly in consequence of the event, and partly because
it was Easter Monday.—Cheater Courant.

POOR RATES.—The sum expended for the relief of the poor
alone, in the year ended 25th March, 1838, was £4,123,604,
which is two per cent. more than in the preceding year. The
total amount of poor's rate expended, including law charges,
county rates, &c., was X 5,468,699. There was, during this
year, a very general decrease of expenditure in the avicul-
tural counties, viz., in Lincoln, 12 per cent. ; Shropshire, 9 ;
Hereford, 8 ; Cambridge and Westmoreland, each 7 ; Kent
and Monmouth, 6 ; Norfolk, Suffolk, and the North Riding
of Yorkshire, 5 per cent. ; while in the county of Lancaster
the increase was 19 per cent. ; in Nottinghamshire, 18 ; in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, 12 ; and in Warwick, 9 per
cent.

The Duke of Devonshire arrived at Constantinople on the
17th ult. ; and her majesty the Queen Dowager was expected
there, as also the Duke of Buccleugh.

COL. CHURCHILL'S FLIGHT.—This hero is at last quite
surfeited with the radicals of Lincoln, and has, in answer to
an invitation requesting him to be present at the approaching
dinner to Sir E. L. Bulwer, informed them that he shall have
nothing more to do with them, and in consequence of having
come to that conclusion, he thinks that no good would result
from his again appearing in that city. It is said that the
£3,000 paid him by government to cover the expenses of the
late election is now all spent ; and the liberals of Lincoln
having determined that nothing in support of an electioneering
contest shall come from their pockets, is the reason of the
gallant colonel leaving them so abruptly.
_Sir Culling Eardly
Smith has been requested to come forward in place of the Irun
hero, but we have not yet heard his determination.—Boston
Herald.

FALMOUTH, FEB. s.—Arrived here this morning from the
Brazils, her Majesty's packet, Ranger, Lieut. Turner, hav-
ing sailed from Rio de Janiero on the 17th February, with
the usual mails, and on freight £15,000. As regards news
there is nothing important. Affairs, generally, are in a very
tranquil state, with the exchange at 30d, and stock 75. It
was stated at Rio, that the French intended blockading Bue-
nos Ayres. Her Majesty's packet, Penguin, Lieut. Lace,
sailed to-day for Rio, with the Brazil mail to the 2d instant;
and to-morrow, her Majesty's packet, Tyrian, Lieut. Cro-
ker, proceeds with the Halifax mail of the 3d
We have noticed the arrival at Paris of Lord Brougham,
the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, Mr.:Hume, Mr. Leader, and
Dr. Bowring : to these we may add Papineau, and the noto-
rious Judge Bedard. We presume that Canadian politics
have drawn these gentlemen together, and that in the case of
Hume and Papineau, as the mountain could not come to
Mahomet, Mahomet has gone to the mountain. Sir William
Molesworth has not joined the party, nor have we heard of
late anything of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. There is a story
current that this gentleman practised animal magnetism on
the Canadians, with a view of getting their secrets while in
the Mesmerian trance.—Standard.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Tuesday, March
19th, being Ruthin cattle fair, a number of cattle purchased
at the fair, were placed in the yard belonging to Mr. Thomas
Langford, the Antelope tavern ; when the purchasers cam.,
to take them away in the evening one was missing, and was
supposed to have been stolen. Adjoining the Antelope is a
large house, formerly occupied by the Rev. John Jones,
curate of Llanrhydd, but which was for some time without a
tenant. On Friday last, the poor animal was discovered in one
of the parlours of the house alive, having been there 11 days,
without food or water, the back door having been opened in,
the course of the day, it was supposed she had entered un-
seen, and turning, had shut the door upon herself. She is
now being fed sparingly, and appears not to be much hurt for
her long abstincnce.—Chester Courant.

GRAND CONSERVATIVE BANQUEP AT BATH.—One of
the most (magnificent dinners ever held in the city of Bath
took place on Friday last, at the Assembly Rooms, in honour
of the return of Lord Viscount Powerscourt and W. Ludlow
Bruges, Esq., as members for that city. Sir W. S. R. Cock-
burn, Bart., the respected president of the Bath Conserva-
tive Association, presided, Captain Muttlebury officiated as
vice-president. On the 'right and left of the president, sat
the distinguished guests Lord Viscount Powerscourt, M.P.,
W. L. Bruges, Esq. M.P., Captain Boldero, M.P., T. H. S.
B. Estcourt, Esq. M.P., T. Shepherd, Esq., M.P., Wigget
Chute, Esq., M.P., Sir , Edmund Filmer, Bart., M.P., R.
Blakemore, Esq. M.P., Joseph Neeld, Esq., M.P., Baron
de Steinberg, Baron Bromville, the Hon. Augustus Jocelyn,
Major General Sir Thomas Hawker, Bart. Captain Rooke,
R.N., Capt. Williams, R.N., Col. Dales, Col. Digbv, Col.
Daubeny, Rev. Dr. Lewis, Rev.
,Spencer Madan, [Robert
Brooke, Esq.
EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT THE Naw BAILEY,
MANCHESTER, ON THE APPOINTMENT OF OVERSEERS,
&c.—Thursday last being the day appointed for confirming
the appointments made at the Collegiate Church on Tues-
day, of churchwardens, overseers, &c., there was a full bench
of magistrates in attendance. It is understood that the
mayor had previously communicated to Mr. Maude, the sti-
pendiary magistrate, that the home secretary of state had
issued his fiat for holding borough sessions, and that it would
devolve upon the borough magistrates alone to confirm the
nominations referred to. Mr. Maude, however, thought
that the county magistrates had also concurrent jurisdiction
in the matter, and quoted several authorities in justification
of his opinion. On this, Mr. Wm. Garnett, late candidate
for Salford, and Mr. Wm. Smith, of Reddish, proceeded to
pass the accounts, and to issue their precepts to the various
officers. We are thus likely to have two parties, each laying
a rate. The public, of course, will not feel disposed to pay
either party until some legal decision is obtained.—Manches-
ter Courier.

IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.—A respectable and intelligent
farmer, seven miles south-west of Edinburgh, at an altitude
of about 700 feet, soil and locality dry, informs us that his
oats were filled, but not cut, before the frost set in last au-
tumn ; were ultimately well carried, and produced a fair
sample, weighing 17 stones ; and, after paying mill dues,
left 14i pecks of meal. Five weeks ago he put 24 grains, the
growth of two different fields, into separate pots, and placed
them in a favourable situation for germinating. The result
was, that one of the pots brairded five out of the 12 grains,
the other seven ; which is exactly one-half of the grains sown.
Previous to this trial, the gentleman intended sowing part of
his farm with its own growth, which is his usual practice,
but has now purchased all his seed oats from a more favour-
able climate. He regrets exceedingly that he did not make
the trial earlier in the year, and then publish the fact, as it
might have been the means of saving many a pound to indi-
viduals, and proved a national benefit. The gentleman adds,
that a neighbour of his made a like experiment, and the re-
sult proved very similar.—Scotsman.
THE LATE MEDITATED DUEL.—We have been given to
understand that the parties recently prevented from fighting
a duel on Wandsworth-common, were Robert William Jack-
son, Esq., the barrister (formerly a candidate for Armagh),
and William John O'Connell, Esq., a relative- of the mem-
ber for Dublin. The police, who arrived just in time to pre-
vent the exchange of shots, succeeded in capturing Mr.
Jackton and his friends. and took them to Union Hall,
where they gave their names Wilkinson, Jones; and Smith,
and were bound over to keep the peace. Mr. O'Connell
escaped ; but one of his pistols, which he had lent to Mr.
Jackson, was impounded by the magistrates, and still re-
mains at Union Hall. The parties would subsequently
have carried out their intentions on the continent, but were
advised by two eminent counsel that the recognizances of
their friends would, nevertheless, be forfeited. We under-
stand the quarrel originated in some misunderstanding, un-
connected with politics, at 11r. Jackson's lodgings, Thayer-
street, Manchester-square.— Weekly Chronicle.
A HINT TO HER MAJESTY'S SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR THE COLONIES.—There lately dined at the table of the
lieutenant-governor of an island, not one hundred miles from
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the following official persons :
One of her majesty's Executive Council ; one of the Legis-
lative Council ; the treasurer ; the marshal of the Instance
Vice Admiral's Court ; the commissioner of the Vice-Admi-
ral's Court, for the trial of offences on the seas ; the provost
,marshall (a sinecure) ; a puisne judge ; a master in chancery ;
an examiner in chancery ; a member of the court for bearing
and determining divorces ; a justice of the peace for the
whole island ; a referee of the New Brunswick Assurance
Company ; a trustee and governor of the Central Academy ;
a member of the Board of Education ; the vice-president of
the Agricultural Society ; a vice-president of the Auxiliary
Bible Society ; the comptroller of his excellency's household.
How many persons sat at table besides the lieutenant-go-
vernor? Why, one, and his name is—HAYLAND.

FALLING OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE. —On Wednesday,
the Messrs. King, contractors for the railway bridge over
Gilmour-street, Paisley, commenced to remove the cooms
which had supported it during erection, but by the time they
had got four out of the nine ribs removed, the main arch was
observed to give way considerably, and the removal of the
other five ribs was accordingly stopped. At about half-past
five it fell with an instantaneous crash, not leaving the work-
men or passengers a moment to escape. This was the largest
of the railway bridges over the streets of Paisley. One
man had just been stepping out from the south side, when it
fell, and a boy from the north. Several were on the eve of
entering, and we are sorry that at least one woman was
crushed in the ruins, although it was understood for some
hours after the accident that there had not been any person
injured. The name of the sufferer is Mrs. Linnon ; she is
a yonug woman, about 20, the wife of a fish merchant, and
the mother of one child. The body was found in the ruins
on Thursday morning.—Perthshire Courier.
APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—The con-
templated matrimonial alliance between the Marquis of
Douro and Lady Elizabeth Hay, will be positively solem-
nised on Thursday, the 18th instant, at 10 a. m., at St.
George's Church, Hanover-square. The Rev. Charles
Long, nephew to the Earl of Lauderdale, and the late Lord
Farnborough, will lead to the altar on Thursday next, at
Walthamstow Church, Miss Anna Maria Fitzroy, grand-
daughter of the late and sister to the present Sir Robert
Fitzwygram, Bart., of Cannaught-place. The Dowager
Lady Wvgram will give an elegant ddeuner after the cere-
mony. Lord Fitzallan's marriage with Miss Lyons, daugh-
ter of Capt. Sir Edward Lyons, K. C. H., resident minister
at the court of King Otho, of Greece, will be solemnised i
the course of the ensuing month, when the accomplished
bride elect will arrive in England. Count Castellane will be
united in the course of the present week, at Paris, to Madlle.
Talleyrand de Perigord, daughter of the Duchess de Dine.—
Morning Herald.
" NATIONAL CONVENTI,ON•"--CONTINUED DESERTIONS.
Yesterday, the " Convention" Hall presented a cold, dis-
heartening appearance. Between ten and thirteen delegates
were dispersed through the hall, apparently ignorant what
course to pursue, but all evidently distrustful of each other.
Mr. James Taylor, in a speech characterised by its violence
and allusions to the necessity of a general arming of the peo-
ple, delared himself a physical-force man, and said, that
although they had been deserted, and w 4.11 he further de-
serted, he was determined to stand by the coravention, even
if by so doing he would shed his blood. ' (Cheers.) After
adverting to the thin attendance of delegates, he called upon
those present to enforce a better attendance. Dr. Fletcher
said they had nothing to dread but treachery in their own
body. Their being allowed by the, government to sit for one
week was a triumph. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Richardson said
that their members were daily dropping off. (Hear, hear.)
Eight had resigned, nine were on the mission, and only 21
delegates were in London. Of the latter, not more than 12
attended the convention. This speaker, in the course of the
day, announced that, at Leith, 1400 of the working classes
had been sworn in special constables, and in the same shop
where the constables' truncheons were turned pikes were also
ground. Of six or seven notices of motion fixed for yester-
day, not one was moved. To add to their discomfiture, se-
veral delegates gave a most mournful report of their missions.
It was reported, as a reason for Dr. Wade's secession, that
he is rector of Warwick, which produces £BOO per annum,
and which would be forfeited if he were convicted of sedition
or treason. Even visitors are ceasing to frequent the " con-
vention." It is threatened to publish weekly the names of
such delegates as absent themselves.—Globe, Thursday.

BRANCH RAILWAY TO HALlFAX.—OnWednesday last, a
public meeting was held at the Magistrates' Office, Halifax,
convened by the constables, in consequence of a requisition to
them by the committee appointed at a public meeting twelve
months ago, to obtain a survey, in order to determine tlfe
most eligible line for the proposed branch railway to Halifax,)
for the purpose of taking into consideration the bill intro-
duced into Parliament by the Manchester and Leeds Railway
Company, and to determine what steps should be taken in
reference to the same. George Whiteley, Esq., the Senior
Con Stable, was called to the chair, who opened the business
of the meeting by reading the requisition, and, strongly urged
the necessity of a communication by a branch from the main
line of railway to the town of Halifax.. George Pollard, Esq.,
one of the committee, then addressed the meeting, giving a
detail of their proceedings, from the commencement up to the
present period, particularly Eluding to the agreement entered
into with the agents of the railway company for a branch to
Halifax, to be finished by the time the whole line was ready
for opening, and the attempt now made by the company to
pass the bill in committee, without securing to the inhabitants
of Halifax that privilege according to the express understand-
ing with the company. The meeting was afterwards addressed
by J. E. Norris, Esq., Robert Baldrey, Esq., Jon. Ackroyd,
Esq., Wm. Briggs, Esq., John Waterhouse, Esq., John Mil-
ner, Esq., John Abbott, Esq., MY. A. G. Suter, Mr. Holds-
worth, and several others, in support of the object for which
the meeting had been called, when a petition was agreed upon
unanimously, in accordance with the resolutions adopted, and
for no dues to be collected by the railway.company,:until they
had fulfilled their agreement, and praying that counsel might
be heard in support of the same. The same committee was
re-appointed to carry out the object. A handsome subscrip-
tion was then entered into, and after a vote of thanks to the
committee and chairman, the meeting, which was both nu-
merously and very respectably attended, separated.-Leeds
Intelligencer.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.
NISI PRIUS COURT.-TUESDAY.
MORRALL V. LODGE.

This was a special jury case. The action was brought by
Mr. Cyrus Morrall against his nephew, Mr. Adam Lodge,
for a written libel and verbal defamation of character.
_ _

Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Harden foi-thepialaTif:Li d Mr.
Alexander and Mr. Martin for the defendant.

. _
His LORDSHIP having been informed that the parties in
the cause were uncle and nephew, asked whether it was a fit
case to be heard in open court ?
Mr. CRESSWELL replied, that he could state, on the part
of his client, that it was with great pain that he found him-
self obliged to come into court. .
His LORDSHIP suggested, that the case should be referred
to some geritleman not a lawyer. _

Mr. AIERANDER expressed his willingness to concur in
the suggestion, and, by the consent of the counsel on both
sides, Mr. Miller, one of the jury, was selected as the arbi-
trator. The jury were paid their fees, and the case was con-
sidered as settled, when _

Mr. CRESSWEI.I. stated, that he was very sorry to inform
his lordship there was a grievous misunderstanding between
him and his learned friend. He (Mr. Cresswell) had under-
stood, as his lordship had ordered it, that " all matters in
dispute" should be referred, whereas Mr. Alexander con-
tended that the reference was only with respect to the pre-
sent action. Mr. Cresswell said, that to accede to that pro-
position would be to leave the groundwork of the action in
existence (namely, the accounts between the parties) ; and
Mr. Alexander said that, as his client was absent in the
south, he could not agree, on the part of Mr. Lodge, to a
reference which would open up the whole accounts of three
firms. He had no instructions to that effect.

Mr. CRESSWELL said, that it was with the most unfeigned
pain and reluctance that he now addressed himself to the
jury, in order to make them acquainted with the circum-
stances of the present case. lie had flattered himself that
by the arrangement suggested by his lordship he should have
been enabled, through the kind intervention of the gentleman
who would have considered the matter both as a merchant
and a'gentleman, to have put an end to all hostile disputes
between the plaintiff and defendant. The transaction into
which they were about to inquire (consisting of a written
libel on Mr. Morrall by the defendant, and of certain abusive
language uttered concerning the plaintiff, and in his pre-
sence, by Mr. Lodge,) arose out of certain mercantile trans-
actions in which the uncle of the defendant, Mr. Morrall,
and other persons had been engaged. It was impossible to
appreciate the merits and demerits of the case, without look-
ing at the facts which led tb the use of the words ; and
therefore it never could for one moment have come within
his contemplaiton to refer the language and the letter without
referring the matters from which they had arisen. Because,
unless there were circumstances justifying heat and irrita-
tion, what palliation could by 'any possibility be found for
the use of such language as that on the record ? . Mr. Mor-
rall had, for a great number of years, carried on business
as a merchant in this town. He and the father of Mr.
Lodge, the defendant, married two sisters. This near con-
nexion brought on common objects in commercial pursuits.
A person of the name of Greaves was introduced into some
of these matters, as a partner. Mr. Greaves became a bank-
rupt in September, 1837. At a meeting of the creditors
under a fiat of bankruptcy, Mr. Lodge and Mr. Morrall
met, and there language was addressed by the former to .the
latter, and as to part of it the defendant did not deny the fact.
Mr. Morrall says that, having been in partnership with Mr.
Lodge's father, the defendant had said of him, in that capa-
city, " You infernal scoundrel, you rogue,. I have pro-
claimed you, and all the town knows you are a scoundrel.
The defandant admitted having used that language. The
defendant, again, was stated to have said of the plaintiff, " that
he ought to be in Lancaster Castle, and that Mr. Moss would
have him there in a few days." To this, in the first place, the
defendant pleaded not guilty, and in the second place, that he
had used such words, and was justified in having used them.
He (Mr. C.) thought it would have been more' fair, if Mr.
Lodge really meant to admit the words, to have rested simply
on their justification. The course ursued, however, had been
thought most advantageous, because by it the defendant ob-
tained the advantage of afterwards saying that he was pre-
pared to justify his words; and if Mr. Morrall could not prove
the use of them, Mr. Lodge was not called on for his defence.
In the next place the defendant was charged with a libel on
Mr. Morrall, which libel was contained in a letter addressed
by Mr. Lodge to Mr. Greaves. The latter handed the letter
containing the violent, abusive, and he might almost say, dis-
gusting language to Mr. Morrell, stating that it was not the
first time that Mr. Lodge had so dealt with his character.
The letter said, " Mr. Morrall drew from the bank an enor-
mous sum of money, which MY' father paid up. This was
the money which was partly -employed in building and brick-
making, a great part of which was fraudulently appropriated
by Mr. Morrell. Do you mean to say that besides the £8,400
raised by mortgage, the £6,000 paid by my father went for
building ?" Now what was Mr. Morrall to do in these cir-
cumstances? With every anxiety to avoid public litigation
and to put an end to family disputes, if that could be accom-
plished, was it to be said, that he, as a merchant, had
allowed himself to be treated that way at a public meeting—
that he had permitted a letter traducing his character to be
handed about, and dared not answer the charges against him
in a court of justice? The defendant admitted that he was
without justification as to that letter. The learned counsel
then read a long letter which had been addressed by the de-
fendant admitting that he was without justification as to that
letter. The learned counsel then read' a long letter, which
had been addressed by the defendant, to Mrs. Morrall, on the
9th September, 1838, and which was marked " private." The
letter spoke slightingly and injuriously of the character of
the plaintiff, and concluded by threatening Mrs. Morrall in
the following terms:" If I should find myself in the char-
acter of a defendant before a jury, I shall instruct counsel to
state these circumstances and prove them by the evidence of
Mr. Moss, Mr. Clark, and of your daughter." • Mr. Cress-
well animadverted severely on the letter, maintaining that it
had been written, not only to harass the feelings of Mrs.
Morrall, but to terrify her into inducing her husband not to
continue the action, by the threat of bringing the daughter
into court against the father. Another of the counts charged
the defendant with having said—" You (Mr. Morrall) have
fraudulently accepted bills for John Charles Morrell, son of
the plaintiff, on which I shall examine you." To this the
defendant, pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Watt was examined on the subject of the words alleged
to have been uttered by the defendant at the meeting of Mr.
Greaves's creditors. The witness, however, could not prove
the specific words used, though he recollected that terms of
abuse had been used towards the plaintiff by the defendant.
Mr. ALEXANDER addressed the jury in mitigation of da-
mages. He said it was evident that the defendant was a per-
son of hasty and irritable temperament, and he (Mr. A.) was
certain, that after the excitement of the moment had passed
away, Mr:Lodge would be heartily sorry for having used
such expressions. They were not words on which an action
should have been brought. As respected the words, they
had not been proVed in evidence, and it was therefore unne-
cessary that, he should say any thing .with respect to them.
The charge of appropriation, contained in the letter, was the
part to which the jury would have to direct their attention,
and it was evident, from the whole tenor of Mr. Lodge's let-
ter, that it had been written by a person smarting under the
conviction, whether true or not, that his father was an in-
jured and ill-used man. The learned counsel animadverted
on the length of time which had elapsed between the writing
of the letter and the bringing of the action, and contended
that the action must have been the result, not of that letter
alone, but of a feeling of hostility which had been augmented
by something which had passed subsequently.
The Learned JUDGE, in summing up, stated that there
were some words undefended, and judgment would therefore
go by default. With respect to the words said to have been
uttered by Mr. Lodge, they had not been proved, and the
jury would therefore find for the defendant on that plea. As
to the words to which the defendant had pleaded not guilty,
he had brought no proof that he was not guilty, and they
would find on that issue for the plaintiff. As to the other
parts contained in the letter, there was no doubt of, their be-
ing libellous, and the jury would assess such damages as they
thought the plaintiff should recover for such words.
Verdict for the plaintiff, as to the words undefended—da-
mages Is. ; as to the words admitted, 40s.