The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-03 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL' S,—MONDAY.
Dragsma,n was backed freely, and rose to 6 to 1, Cmsax's
price being 7to 1 (taken). The Corsair's friends were ".want-
ing," nor was Euclid in any force. The Dey of Algiers,.with-
out improvingin price, was in better odour than on Thursday.
Sleight-of-Hand, influenced by the advance of Dragsmanaud
Erin-go-bragh, declined three or four points : the last-men-
tioned horse, after figuring at 20, dropped to 25 to 1. Decep-
tion also sprung to 20 (from 50 to 1), but did not keep her
footing. The King of Kelton's friends were not so fond as
they were a few days since this will be gathered from the
considerable increase in the odds laid against him. A tolerable
busy 'afternoon closed as follows :

THE DERBY.
•
25 to 1 agst Sir.G. Heathcote's lot (t)
6to 1 „ Mr. G. Clark's Dragsman (tk)
7to 2 „ Lord Jersey's Caesar (tk)
10 to 1 „ Lord Lichfield's The Corsair (tk)
12 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's Euclid (tk)
13 to 1 „ Col. Peel's Dey of Algiers (tk)
22 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Sleight-of-Hand (tk)
22 to 1 „ Duke of Richmond's Bulwark
22 to 1 „ Mr. Sadler's Deception •
25 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-bragh
30 to 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's Valaincourt (t)
30 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's Ilderim (t)
33 to 1 „ Duke of Grafton's "Ether (tk)
33 to 1 „ Lord Albemarle's Domino
40 to 1 „ Mr. Wreford's Westonian (t)
50 to 1 „ Captain Williamson's Melbourne
1000 to 15 „ Mr. Bowes's King of Kelton (tk)
1000 to 15 „ Lord Exeter's Bosphorus (tk)
1000 to 10 „ Mr. Theobald's Hamlet (tk)
1000 to 10 , Mr. Worrall's Peon (t)
750 to 600 on Dragsman agst Caesar (t); 500 even between
Deception and Erin-go-Bragh (t) ; 3 to 1 agst Dragsman and
Caesar (t).

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, MONDAY, APRIL 29.

(Sittings in Banco)
THE QUEEN V. THE MAYOR OF BRIDGENORTH

Mr. Richards said this was a rule calling upon the Mayor
of Bridgenorth to show cause why one or more writs of
mandamus should not issue commanding him to insert the
names of 78 persons on the burgess roll of this borough. By
the 9th section of the Municipal Corporation Act it was
enacted, among other things, that no person should have his
name inserted on the burgess roll unless he should have paid
on or before the last day of August all such rates as should be
due from him for one year preceding, nor should any person
have his name inserted if he had received parochial relief.
Lord Denman said that the Court did not intend to hear
every one of these 78 cases, and therefore counsel had better
select some particular case, upon which the Court would give
its judgment.

Mr. Jervis, who was on the other side, saidTthat probably
some few cases might be stated which would have every
effect ; but the fact was that it was now only a question of
costs, as since the case had been in the paper other elections
had taken place, and therefore, in that point of view, it had
become no longer of consequence.
Mr. Richards said he thought he could by one or two in-
stances convince the Court that this rule ought to be dis-
charged with costs, and he then stated one case in which the
rates had been paid without the knowledge or consent of the
party.
Lord Denman asked Mr. Jervis if he thought this could
be a payment within the meaning of the act of Parliament ?
Could he maintain the right of the voter whose rates had been
paid without his knowledge ?
Mr. Jervis would, admit, that if the act was to be con-
strued strictly, the voter himself had not paid ; but it was not
necessary that he should pay with his own hand ; any pay-
ment which he afterwards adopted might, he submitted, be
considered as a payment by him.

Lord Denman thought the Court ought to give its opinion
immediately. There would be great danger of bribery of the
most offensive kind, and the act of Parliament contemplated
that the payment should be made in such a manner that it
might be considered as the act of the party ; therefore, upon
that head, the rule must be discharged.
Mr. Richards then named some other cases where the
parties had received parochial relief.

The Court discharged the rule upon that point.
The Court ultimately decided that, as the Mayor had de
cided rightly, the rule must be discharged.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—The market yesterday wore even a more
gloomy appearance than on any of the previous market-days.
There was scarcely any demand either for yarn or printing
cloth ; and a further decline of /d per pound in the former,
and 6d per piece in the latter, had to be submitted to, by all
who were able to effect sales. Of course, under these cir-
cumstances, the working of short time is extending greatly.
There are now, we believe, five mills in Manchester and the
immediate neighbourhood, entirely standing, and thirty others
working on an average not more than three days a week.
Many others, in different parts of the neighbourhood, are
taking the same course ; and it is calculated that the diminu-
tion in the consumption of cotton, from this course alone,
will amount to upwards of 5000 bags per week, besides a con-
siderable falling-off arising from the general substitution of
light for heavy fabrics. The gloom which hung over the
market yesterday was in some degree increased by the ru-
moured suspension of payment of one of our joint-stock
banks, which, hewever, we are glad to say, is not calculated
to produce very extensive mischief, as the credit of the bank
had been for some time at a low ebb, and its business was
consequently on the most limited scale.—Manches. Guardian.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL 29.—
There has been to-day a brisker market than we have had
for some weeks back ; many pieces have been sold, but the
prices have undergone little or no change. There is no
change to report in the wool market, except, perhaps, the
dealers are more willing to sell at the old prices.

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, APRIL 30TFI .—This was a dull
market, but rather better than last week. Merchants are
reluctant to give remunerating prices, and the manufacturers
remain firm, which their judicious conduct in producing only
to order enables them to be. Stocks are very low in most
descriptions of goods in demand. Light fancy woollens, such
as tweeds and doeskins, take the lead ; and a fair trade is
clone in them, as well as in waistcoatings of a superior fabric.
Wools are a shade lower. The warehouses are doing a steady,
but not a brisk business.