The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-10 00:00:00

TERMS :

A Horse, full Ley £f; 0 0
A Horse, twelve weeks ' 4 4 0
A Horse, eight weeks 3 4 0
A Two. year-old Colt 3 10 0
A One-year-old Colt
A Feeding Cow, or Three-year-old Heifer 3 0 0
A Milking Cow
A Two-year-old Heifer 2 0 0
A One-year-old Heifer
To be taken in at the Wallasey Gate on the 10th day of May,
and at the Bidston Gate on the 11th day of May, and continue
till the 10th of October, after which date Cattle left will be
charged extra, and to be paid for before taken away. '
Cattle to be Booked at Bidston Hall ; at Miss Westollil
Ship Inn, Crosby ; at Mr. Owens's, New Haymarket, corner a
Gloucester-street, Liverpool; Mr. Morgan's, Fenwick-street,
at which places Mr. HADLEY will attend every Saturday toßook
Cattle; at Mr. Owens's, at Twelve o'clock, and at Mr. Wl'
gan:s, at Two o'clock.

The best hours of bringing Cattle will be three hours before
High Water, and three hours after High Water.
All Cattle coming to Bidston Ley will pass fi ee of expense by
the Woodside Ferry, from George's Pierhead.
Mr. Radley pledges himself that the Ley shall not be over'
stocked.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
The Last Week but Three of the Season.
The only Theatre open this Week; an arrangement having
been made with Mr. RYAN to continue his EQUESTKIAI4
PERFOUMANCES for a few Evenings longer.
FrtHIS present TUESDAY Evening, the 10th, TO-MOll-
L ROW, the 11th, THURSDAY, the 12th, and. SATUt
DAY, the 14th instant—Master C. ADAMS as the FRENCH
REAPER.—The TAMING of BUCEPHALUS, the Horse
of 10,000.—The ROYAL ENGLISH BROTHERS.--Miss
and Master GINNETT as JOCKEY and JENNY, and they
will Dance a Scotch Medley Dance.—The COCKNEY
SPORTSMEN.—Mr. FIELD'S astonishing TRAMPOLINI-1
EXERTIONS.—A NAVAL HORNPIPE, by Master C'
ADAMS.—Mr. RYAN'S NEW ACT OF FANCY.—The IN-
FANT HERCULES.—Mr. WILLIAMS'S ANTIPOLEAN
FEATS. GRAND ENTREE of the KNIGHTS of
PALESTINE.—The CHIARIN I FAMILY on the TIGHT
ROPE.—Mr. POWELL as the BRIGAND.—Sieur Tnotagi
on the CORDE VOLANTE, as the Flying Mercury.

LIVERPOOL
TRADESMENS' CONSEUVATIVE ASSOCIATION.
rif if! El DINNER TO SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BAN!.
M. P. will take place on MONDAY, APRiG 23d instant, Itt
the LARGE ROOM, LUCAS'S REPOSITORY, GREAT CHARLOTTE'
STREET. Tickets to members, fifteen shillings; non-tnembers,
one guinea each, may be obtained at the Office of the Associa-
tion, corner of Church-street, and Church-lane, between the
hours of nine and four.

W. J. PEACHEY,

Committee-room, April 9th, 1838.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

secretary.

Several communications are unavoidably postponed for aunt of
room, and several books have been left for notice weich the
crowded state of our columns will not permit us to review un-
til Friday.

Zbe iLiberpool ,i4tanbari).

TUESDAY MORNING., APRIL 10,-I'B3B.

GIP The Publication of the STAN DA RD commenced this morn-

log at 5 o'clock.

THE REVENUE.—The official tables of the revenue►
received to the close of the year and quarter which ended
on Thursday night, present a considerable defalcation in

comparison with the public receipts for the correspond-
ing periods of last year. The falling off upon the pre-
sent amounts to £2,332,364 upon the year, and of
£492,420, or nearly half a million, upon the quarter.
The decline is observable under almost all the heads of
public income, except that of the Postoflice and repay-
ments of public money alone. , In the Customs, the dif-
ference between the. two financial years is against the
present to the amount of £1,251,658, and upon a com-
parison of the quarter, £374,835. The Excise, also,
upon a similar comparison, will be found deficient, upon
the year £1,049,557, and upon the quarter of £128,590.
The returns from the stamp duties prove less productive
by £209,114 upon the year, but have improved upon the
last quarter, and exceed the present receipts by £29,732.
The assessed taxes have declined by £54,811 upon the
year, and £50,643 upon the quarter. The Postoffice has
improved upon the year and quarter in the sums of
£28,743 and £2,000 respectively. There is under the
head of " miscellaneous taxes" a falling off amounting
to £15,978 for the year, and of £493 for the quarter.
The excess in • the returns from repayments of public
moneys amounts to £220,011, and £30,409 for the re-
-regpeetive periods. The sum to be raised by Exchequer
Bills for the service of the quarter is calculated at
£5,172,428.
The simpering Chancellor of the Exchequer will, ne*
doubt, invent some specious tale to account for the alarm-
ing falling off which has taken place in almost every
branch of the revenue. It will, perhaps, be attributed
to the languid state of our American .trade; but Obi
can scarcely be deemed a satisfactory reason, as the de-
ficiency in the Excise department is almost as great as
that in the Customs, whilst the Stamps, Taxes, and
Miscellaneous receipts have likewise experienced a con-
siderable decrease.

The Whigs have hitherto been fertile in expedients 4.0
produce a fictitious increase in the r,evenue, by forestal-
ling the receipts of successive quarters. But such
trickery must obviously have an end. We shall be cu-
rious to know in what department Mr. Spring Rice will
make his reduction of taxation for the ensuing year.
We shall also look with some anxiety for the speeches of
cheese paring Hume, on the introduction of the budget.
No doubt the increased expenditure incurred in frustra-
ting the revolutionary friends of Joseph in the Canadas
will form an excuse for the prudent abstinence of that
rigid economist from his pruning operations.

CREATION OF PEERS.—The approaching coronation
will afford Lord Melbourne an opportunity of exercising
his patronage in a manner which will necessarily increase
to the temporary influence of the ministry. It is expected
that forty or fifty fresh creations will take place in the
peerage on that occasion. There can be no doubt that
many votes in the House -of Commons, and, perhaps,.
some few in the House of Lords, are dependent upon.
the realisation of the hopes of those who are looking for
the honours which Lord Melbourne will have to dispense.
Of course, many of these must be disappointed in their
expectations, and bitter will be the vindictive feelings to
which such disappointment will give rise. It would
seem that her Majesty, jealous of the honour of her
crown, is extremely cautious lest the premier should too
far extend the privileges with which he is invested. Her
Majesty has no partiality for that indiscriminate sort of
elevation to the peerage to which the retainers of the
present ministry look forwards. She is desirous of up-
holding the dignity of the House of Lords, a course to
which the creation of any considerable number of radical
peers will by no means contribute. The Queen has no•
ambition to convert the House of Lords into a bear-
garden, such as the House of Commons frequently re-
sembles; she will, therefore, place an interdict upon the
importation of any of the Irish papists into the upper
chamber.

A great number of the rejected candidates at the last
elections are spoken of as likely to be raised to the peer-
age. Among these are enumerated Mr. Paul Methuen,

•
the rejected of Wiltshire; Mr. Tracey, the rejected 01
Bridgenorth; Sir John Wrottesley, the rejected or
Staffordshire; and Mr. Tynte,, the rejected of 'Bridge—
water. Should these rejected suitors be elected to the.
House of LOrds, we shall have an instance of whig-
radical policy for which the Town Council of Liverpool
have afforded a precedent. They have made aldermen
of those candidates whom the people have rejected.
Why should not Lord Melbourne do the same? II will
be paying a delicate compliment to the public.
Among the promotions in title we understand that the
Marquis of Westminster and the Marquis of Anglesey
are to be included—both aspiring to the ducal coronet..
Lord Petre, it is rumoured, is to be made Viscount:
Derwentwater—a very suitable title I

The following Irish lOrds are in expectation of being
elevated to the peerage :—Lords Lismore, Rossmorf)
Kenmore, Cranniore, Listowell, Arran, Rancliffe, Nu-
gent, and Langford. Who are all these worthies?
Echo answers " Who ?" The less that is said of many of
them the better. This batch will do little to elevate the
character of the British peerage—they may do much to
degrade it,

Amongst the changes likely, it is said, to be
carried
into effect, simultaneously with these wholesale promo
.
tions to the honours of nobility, are the following
O'Connell is to assume the Mastership of the Rolls in-
Ireland, instead of O'Loughlen, who is to be .promote dr

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to the chief justiceship, vice Basile, who will retire with
an Irish peerage. O'Connell will 'also receive the title
of Baron lveragh ! His son Maurice is spoken of as
likely to succeed Drununond as under secretary for Ire-
land !We may, therefore, congratulate-Our brethren,
the Irish protestan Is, on their comfortable prospects!
Under the paternal care of the arch-agitator and his offi-
cial minions, their lot will be one of uninterrupted peace
Arid prosperity I What halcyon daysare in store for Ire-
land, when the virtuous disciples of Peter Dens are
placed in every office of importance ! We really wonder
that Lord Melbourne does, not persuade the Queen to
create O'Mulgrave an Irish Duke, and elevate O'Connell
into the vice-regency. That would be doing the thing
handsomely at once. Such a step would be sure to ren-
der Iceland tranquil, as far as England is concerned—
that is if the extirpation of the protestants would procure
tranquillity.

But what cif Lord Melbourne himself? We are in-
formed that he is to be created Marquis of Kent ! Whe-
ther this step will be in anticipation of his marriage with
the Duchess of Kent, we are not, as yet, able to form

any conjecture.
After all, the ministry, as we have befOre intimated, will
be placed in the most serious dilemma by the coronation.
They must either find their new• peers in the House of
CoMmons, or they must avoid any creation whatever;
and in either case their position will be found by no
meal enviable. If they neglect their expectant friends
in the House, and give their preference to others, or re-
fuse to exercise the wonted privilege, there will inevita-
bly be a mutiny in the camp. If they draft their peers
from the House, there will be the fresh elections! gun
they venture to encounter such a chance as the vacation
of forty or fifty seats at once ? We shall see.

LIVERPOOL EASTER SESSIONS.

The General Quarter Sessions for the horone; commenced
• yesterday, before James Clarke, Esq. Recorder.
The learned Recordar took his seat at a quarter past ten
•
• .The following gentlemen were sworn of the grand jury:—
Edward Gibbon, Foreman. Edward Humble,
George Lissaut Cox, David Lamb,
John Coward, John Marriott,
John (Limpet!, Alexander Maxwell,
John Deakin, Joseph Parton,
Ralph-Abraham; W. S. ItobinSou,
Joseph Gibbons, Nichidas Roskeli,
John Greenshields, Thomas Shaw,
Lawrence Heyworth, jun. Thomas Tattersall,
John Ilighfield, Edward Tennant, and
Edmund Hore, Charles Turner, Esqrs.
Her Majesty's proclamation against vice and immorality
having been read, the learned Baia:otiose proceeded to deliver.
his charge to the following effect :—lie did -not feel it neces-
sary to-trouble them with any of the alterations which had been
recently made in the criminal law. These alterations bad been
so lately fully explained by the learned Judge who had gone the
the circuit, as well as frequently by himself (the learned Re-
corder) that he did not deem it necessary to make any further
observations on the subject. One of those alterations had proved
very beneficial. If a person were guilty of extreme violence
connected with personal injury, they knew that , such person
'night be committed for felony, but by. the alteration in the law
to which he alluded, the jury had it in their power, if the evi-
dence seemed to justify such a proceeding, to convict the pri-
soner of an assault. This had acted very beneficially. Under
the old law the jury had no alternative but to convict the pri-'
saner of felony, and in cases where they were not fully satisfied
that the offence was of that extent, offenders frequently escaped
without punishment. The jury had now the power to convict
for assault, this could not he the case. He hoped the total i iicatiou s
Which had been made in the law would have the effect of dimi-
nishing that class of manslaughter which hail been so much coin-
• Plaiued of recently, and which had been more common iu this
county than any oilier. lie hoped the tendency of these altera-
tiOns would be to do away entirely with this disgraceful class of
tuanslaughters, of which they had so frequently heard so much,
There was another class of ruanslaughters of which they had
lately had many instances, which did not arise from any vin-
dictive feeling, but which were, nevertheless, Ida very serious
"tore. lie alluded to those which arose from negligence.
Those classes of individuals who were employed as drivers of
'vehicles on the public roads—and whose occupation was to
teke care of the trains on railways, had a heavy responsibility
east upon them. It was of the very last consequence that all
such individuals should conduct the vehicles intrusted to their
charge with as much attention as possible. He hoped after the
*late examples, that the public would not have-further reason to
htplain. The cale,ndar, on the present occasion, he was
happy to observe, was nut very heavy, still it contained one or
s:
`1"‘o very serious cases. One of these was a burglary of a very
7erious and alarming description, which had been committed
11 the neighbourhood of Liverpool. The case iu the calendar
aa;,s,tnitubered 16, 17 and 18, and number 41 was also connected
4
thwasoffth ence.
tirst c Thase,e bu
he believed; rglary was commwhihch (her
b ad Botriedotle-laue,that
11„" e
Q4lipened in the new borough. They broke into the house,
aPpeoe,i, and stole a vast number of attic:les, It did pot ap-
eeair that they were armed with any weapons, but they used very
„
' • . -.oent threats ,towards the inmates. Lie was not ewer-valet
atrY. diffichltv would arise iu the course of, their.:ivie/slizatiOi
that would binder them from' cornins., easily to a conclusion ; 4
but if there were anything upon which they required informs.
tion, he would give them his best assistance. There was also
a case of common larceny to which he would direct their at-
tention. Souse perious might think that, as the prosecutor
gave up the property to the prisoner, the offence would not be
larceny: that, however, was not the law now. It used for-
. merly to be that, to constitute larceny, the person should take
the property by force; but men were so cunning and clever
that they absolutely induced men to give up their property.
Here au individual went into a shop in Liverpool, saving that.
he wanted certain goodS that were to be sent with him by a boy.
'This was done, and the man got possession of the goods, which
'were delivered to him. Some might say—q This is not larceny,
for we find that the goods were absolutely delivered to the pri-
soner. But the law looked at the intention, and, therefore this
was rightly considered larceny. There was also a case of for-
gery, in which the prisoners were charged with having put the
!lame of an individual to certain orders on which they had ob-
tained goods. He believed it was a ease iu which they would
not experience any difficulty whatever.
'the calendar contains the names of 46 prisoners for felony,
and 7 for misdemeanours.

SHOPLIFTING-
Amelia Lowe, aged 22, was placed at the bar under an indict-
Meat, in which she was charged with having feloniously stolen
I bag containing 28lbs of coffee, the property of Mr. Peter
Bassford.
Mr. Murphy conducted the prosecution.
. It appeared that the prisoner on the 20th of March last, went
Into the shop of Mr. Bassfor,d, grocer, Scotland-road. She
asked for a halfpenny-worth of cinnamon, with which she was
served. As she was going out of the shop Mr. Bassford missed
a bag of coffee which had stood near the counter.. He called
otit to the prisoner, who immediately dropped the hag of coffee
from under her cloak. She was given into the custody of a po-
lice-office.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and she was sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment.
Fst.oNv.

Thomas Martin, aged 18, pleaded guilty to a charge of having
stolen a yard and three-quarters of cloth, three silk handker-
"let's, a stock, three nieces of ribhon, and a pair of gloves, the
Property of John Lloyd, his master. He was sentenced to six
Mouths' imprisonment.

SHOPLIFTING.
Mary Luut, aged 16, pleaded guilty to a charge of having
stolen three silk handkerchiefs from the shop of Mr. William
byke, tailor and draper, Castle-street: She was sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment.
• Joseph Page' aged 41, and Thomas Simmonds, aged 21, pleaded
guilty to an indictment in which they were charged with having
Stolen three pair of shoes from the shop of Henry Biughana.
They were sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

BREAKING AND ENTERING.
•
Peter Page, aged 19, and William Duffey, aged 17, were
placed at the bar, charged with having feloniously broken and
entered the shop of John Plant, Manchester-street, and stolen
therefrom a pair of snuffers and tray, a bundle of pencils, a
dozen- papers, each containing twelve rings, a glazier's diamond,
several pencil eases. and a number of other articles, the pro-
perty of the aforesaid John Plant.
It appeared that on the night of the 3d March last, Barnett;
a police officer, was on ditty in Manchester-street, where he
met the prisoners. Knowing them to be bad characters, he ar-
rested.and searched them, when he found on. theirrpersous the
articles named in the indictment. .

Mr. Plant stated that he left his shop about six in the even-
ing of the 3,1 of March, locking the door, but not putting up the
shutters. lie was absent, about half an hour. On his return
he found that that the window had been broken, and that his
shop had been robbed.

The prisoners, in their defence, said they had bought the
articles.

The jury found the prisoners Guilty.—Sentence deferred.
BUILdLARY,
John Thomas, aged 18, was charged with having broken into
the house and shop of George Burrow, and stolen therefrom a
bum of money and several articles of wearing apparel.
Mr. Bartley conducted the prosecution.
George' Barrow, of Alfred-street, Toxteth-park, joiner and
grocer, stated that he had a lodger named Jones. On the 20th
of March last he fastened his doors and windows. In the morn-
jog Jones, who got up first, called him down. He went, and
found that an entrance had during the night been effected into
the house at the back part, by breaking out a square of glass.
Au inner window had also been broken, whereby access was
gained to the shop. The money-drawer, which contained 20s.
or 308. had been taken from the shop. A top-coat and a pair
°f gloves belonging to Jones, had also been taken. The prisoner
‘14,5 apprehended by Chalmers, a constable, and the- gloves
.tud a hat, which had been stolen, were found in his possession.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and be was sentenced to
iranspotation for ten years.

LARCENY.
Owen Carrijan, aged 21, was charged with having stolen the
Apparel of Joseph Birch.
Baincock conducted the prosecution.
8 't appeared that
and the last femalesedneday in March, the pro-
ecuter vent with issolute to a cellar in Johnson-
1-le went to bed. The prisoner entered the apartment,
" demanded the prosecutor's clothes, saying he wished to
~`'e,l( them up till morning that they might be safe. To this the
t;,)" )s(!eutor foolishly assented. When he .ir)se in the morning,
;r, neither the pr.soner nor the clothes were to be fonud.
pu:,he case Was fully proved. The Jury found the prisoner
I,l"tY, and the court sentenced him to fifteen months' imprison-
°tit an
hard labour.

the (3AlThe wind, during part of Saturday and throughout
EZ night, hIPw violently from the westward. A number of yes-
e'rs Put to sea in the forenoon, and fortunately, got a good offing
a7e the gale came on. On Sunday morning the sea on the
,'v'i"3 was very heavy, but, the wind having abated, towards
"'ng the sea was quite calm, with the wind at N.N.W.
at
LA.R
y WHEFL.—There is now in con rse of construction,
oe,srp. Hen, and Bennett's millwrights, Newton-street,
one of the largest fly Fheels ever made. It is 28
diameter. and 38 tons weight,- and is intended to govern
r!ienities of horses' power each, now erecting in a new,
u
4),1t )11 mill belonging to Messrs. Thomas Bannerman arid Co.erdeen. ,

LIVERPOOL SPRING ASSIZES.

CHOWN coutr.—VninAY.
Sir John Paiteson oink his seat at nine o'clock;
• BEN NETT v. cnosToN.

This was undefended action, hi ought by the plaintiff, George
Bennett, against li.ichard Proston, to recover the amount of •a
promissory note.
Mr. Kriowi_iis stated that the defendant pleaded, that the
plaintiff and he adjusted their accounts on the sth February,
1937, when it appeared that he owed the plaintiff the sum of
£27 2s. 10(1., for which he gave a promissory- note, which note
on the 27th August he paid. The defendant bad not appeared;
therefore he ( Mr. ,Know-les) was entitled to their verdict. ,Ver-
dict for the plaintiff, £2B 12s.
It subsequently appeared that the action was tried as unde-
fended, in consequence of the attorney for the defence having
failed to appear HI court when the cause was called. The at-
torney arrived some time after the case was disposed of as above,
and his lordship blamed him in severe terms for his neglect.
At the earnest request of Mr. WHIGH AM, one of the counsel
for the defence, his lordship suffered the case to stand for trial,
and it was accordingly resumed.
Mr. Wightman and Mr. Whigham appeared for the defence.
It appeared that the plaintiff, who had just received a small
legacy, lent the defendant the sum of £7O. A portion of this
was repaid, leaving a balance of £57 2s. 10d. Some time
after Wards Mr. Bennett, having become unfortunate, the de-
fendant agreed, in the office of Mr. Yates, the plaintiff's soli.
citor, to pay down a sum of £3O, if the balance, for-which he
would give a promissory note at six months, might be allowed
to stand over during that period. This was agreed to, and the
defendant requested that the plaintiff would go with him to his
hrewer, who said he would lend. him the £3O. The plaintiff
and defendant, who were accompanied by a person named Ellis,
met the brewer in the Haymarket, and the party adjourned to a
public-house, when the thirty pounds was handed over to Mr.
Bennett, and the promissory note was given. It was the amount
of the promissory note that was now claimed.
Mr. WIGHTMAN said the money had been paid, and, though
they had no receipt to show, .yet they had possession of the pro-
missory note. Mr. Wightman produced the note, and con-
tended that it wis not uncommon for parties, on such payments
being made, to consider the noteitself a sufficient acknowledg-
merit, without. requiring a receipt or the presence of a witness.
Mr. KNowiEs, on the other hand, stated that the note had
been returned to the defendant almost immediately after it was
drawn, it having been conceived that, as he still held possession
of the bill for £7O, he had no need for further security. The
note for the balance, Mr. Knowles said, it now appeared had
been retained to serve as evidence that the money had been

Mr. William Ellis was called, to prove that the note was re-
turnlM for the reason above stated. He also stated; that he had
c4.lled,uon tire defendant recently for the money, and thelatter
stated that he had no money, but if the plaintiff would take it
out in clover he should be paid.
The jury again returned a verdict for the plaintiff's for
£2B 12s. 22d.