The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

r, as a document intended to ex-
❑d wretchedness existing in Ire•
The very first extract, headel!

Jandalstown," is a fair spec
says simply "Jaundice and diarrlaea exist from unsoundness
and insufficiency of food. Breaking out of disease appq'
hended where destitution exists." The second from Verner
Bridge, after admitting the existence of diarrham, concludes-'
" if provisions keep high, fever and other diseases are feared to
break out." The third extract we wondr to have seen at all.
It states that fever and influenza have increased in the propor-
tion of four to one within the last two months ; but not el?
tirelv attributable to insufficiency and unsoundness of food."
The fourth states that "it is very probable that fever will break
out." The fifth states—" breaking out of disease apprehended
with certainty from destitution arising out of scarcity of food."
The sixth "apprehends breaking out of disease from destitu-
tion." The seventh "apprehends fever in district." The
eighth apprehends breaking out of disease where seareitY
exists." The ninth, " breaking out of disease apprehended in
the spring and summer." And so on through the whole docu-
ment. It is "apprehension" throughout, varied by the almost
synonymous phrases of "fear," "dread," "probability,” Ste.
Now we submit that this is not a document to which the legis-
lature and the public are bound to pay any very great amount
of deference. It is too evident a concocted document. It has
too evidently been "made to pattern." The very fact of the
same phrases, "Disease is apprehended," "Disease is feared,'". "
I dread disease," &c., recurring throughout nearly the whole
of upwards of a hundred of abstracts of reports almost mill!!
out to us the very wording of the letters of instruction, "PI!
you apprehend ?" or " do you dread" disease in such and sue,
a case ?

4ntrirn—

a of the rest,

But take it at the utmost of its worth, what does it provef
Simply that Her Majesty's Government have not adopted the
most suitable measures in a great emergency ; and that al-
though they are justifiedin now adopting curative measures,--;
the erection of fever hospitals, esc.,—they might •have saves
great suffering to the Irish people and a heavy drain upon the
treasury of the empire by preventive measures. As far back
as November last, ministers had declared that they foresaw 0'
preaching calamity and destitution in Ireland. What have
they done since? What has been their leading measure to put
an end to that destitution ? They have brought in a corn bit:
for the relief of a people too poor to buy a meal of potatoes!
They are taking away the reward of the industry of the Irish
people, employed almost exclusively in, agricultural pursuits,
to enable them to buy foreign corn, the produce of foreign in-
dustry, which is thus to displace their own, when they cannot
at present, whilst their industry is rewarded, afford to can-
same a grain, of their own productive strange paradox ! Won-
derful inconsistency !

(Conclusion of Yesterday's Assizes from page 5.)

in connexion with the transaction of his
been delivered in the middle of October.
30th of September the shares were bo,

lie;it should ba'
it being on the

plained that the shares had been bought bv the defenda
at 2 Gs. 3d., and sold to the plaintiff at t 2 7s. Gd., making 0!
commission 2s. Gd. instead of Is. 3d. The plaintiff had notbiaN
to do with the amount of business, or the pressure of the mar
ket ; the reasonable time was the time understood when the
contract was entered into. The reason for keeping possessioll
of the plaintiff's, money, and holding hack the scrip, wasi no
doubt, that the market was falling, and the completiOn of the
transaction might have operated to their disadvantage. Fre
concluded by observing, that, under all the circumstances, the
plaintiff was fully entitled to a verdict for the amount be
sought to recover.

His Lordship summed up the evidence, remarking that the
question of the jury would be whether a reasonable timebaa
been allowed in the delivery of the scrip before the 30th of
tober. He agreed with what had fallen from the learned
counsel for the plaintiff; that a reasonable time was not thae
which might arise out of anything contingent upon the trans"
action, but must depend on general circumstances attending
the course of dealing in the transaction to which they were w
apply the rule.
The jury, without hesitation, returned t.
plaintiff for -£'l2l 17s. 61.
Mr. WATSON intimated hi intention to mo
NON-FULFILMENT OF A, CONTRACT—HAI
If URST.—Two actions were settled by the with
In the first case the plaintiff, a thread manufacturer at Silfort

a verdict for t

V. DEW'.
of a jurol:.

:=•utiglic to recover trom tne uetenuant, a dyer in the same tow...
damages for the obstruction of his lights, and for the Un-
substantial erection of a chimney. In the second case Dew"
burst was the plaintiff, and sought to eject Harding from the
tenancy- of the premises.

John Wier was charged with bigamy. It appeared the Pri"
sorer was married to Sarah Crossley, at Middleton Church, in
IS3B, and in 1840 to Maria Johnson, at St. Peter's Church,
Liverpool, the former wife being still alivo. Witnesses Were
produced to show that the prisoner had been married on the
occasions named. The registry of the first marriage was 11°:
produced, as it appeared that after the ceremony the prisonei-
went away, alleging that he had no money to pay the fees-
The prisoner stated in his defence, that he had .married the
second time believing the first to be illegal. He was found
guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and
labour.

The Court rose at half-past five..
The cause list contains 49 cases in the Salford list, and
112 in the West Derby list.

The last of the course of lectures, on the Errors of the
Church of Rome, in the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-
street, will be delivered this evening, by the Rev. Hue.
APlNeile, the subject being " The Church of Rome tu"
apostacy predicted by St. Paul."
AssizE DINNERS.—The Grand Jury dined
with
Judges last night, at their lordships' lodging 9. t
Adelphi Hotel, this evening. and they will also dine Nv tto
and Grand jury will dine with the Hizli-sberiff, tut
the Mayor, at the To wit-half ; • izia-Trar, - -
There were no less ti
manslaughter at the late Mayo assizes..
A deputation respecting capper. including Mr. Vivian.
M.P., Mr. Muntz, M.P., Viscount Sandon, M.P., and
Sir Howard Douglas, M.P.. had an interview with Sir
Robert Peel on Saturday at his-official residence in Deal
inacr-street.
A deputation respecting soap, including Mr. Flaw„,e6
M.P., Mr. Masterman, M.P., Mr. ',van, MY., II
Pattison, M.P., Viscount Sandon, \I.P., Sir flower
Douglas, M.P., Viscount Ebrington.Al. P.. and Mr.Crasc'
ford, had an interview on Saturday with Sir. R. Peel.
the
jud eg
DREADFUL AND FATAL FlRE.—Yesterday (Mondati
morning, about one o'clock, a. fire, attended with fatal'
consequences to four persous, father and three children.
and serious results to several other parties, broke out os
the premises belonging to Mr. Simpson, chemist No. 77:
Crawford-street, Marylebone, London. A fire escor
was quickly at hand, but before it could be fixed, a femaelea
apparently about 40 yea=s of age, suddenly approached
one cf the front windows and threw herself into the street'
She fell partly on her back and head. The poor creature
was so dreadfully injured that the only thing she coulds”
was, "Oh, my poor children are in the house." This htbe-
coming known, the conductor of the escape ran up !L.°
machine, in the expectation of being enabled to save 1e
parties in the place. When, however, he had got upoe,t,,",„
top of the escape a sort of explosion occurred in the suri
which blew the shutters off, and the flames rusbt,
through set the escrae in a blaze. The poor men °it
tempted to slide down, the canvass bag, when he fell deli,
through the hole made by the fire. Lighting on his beitier
he received a serious if not fatal injury to the sltull.
female and the man were promptly removed to the Mrs
tal. As soon as the building was sufficiently coole
number of firemen entered to search for the parties toot
ing. Upon entering the second floor a sight of a 1740
distressing character presented itself. In one of the r0,"1,4
were to be seen the bodies of Mr. Robert Batters aid
three children. They were not much burned, and de
appeared to have resulted from suffocation. sole'
Mr. Calyle, lyle, of Bold-street, it will be seen, has 00,i9t,
some first-rate water-colour drawings, by eminent orj;..-
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1 twenty-four convictions for

Artrtlvicy

from Laguira