The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-07 00:00:00

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CHARITY BALL.
THE ANNUAL BALL, in aid of tile Furas of the
FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE, and other Catholic
Charities of Liverpool, is appointed to take Rlace at the
Town Hall, on MONDAY, the 24th of February:
Mrs. TRAFFORD, LADY PATRONESS.
Tickets, 10s. each ; to be had at Messrs. ROCKLIFF and
DucKwowrn's, Castle-street ; Mr. PARSONS'S, and Mr.
PALMER'S, Bold-street; and at the usual places.
Doors to be-opened at Half-past Eight.

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CLOSE OF THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION
AGAINST JOHN FROST.-FIFTH DAY.

THE CRISIS.

MONMOUTH, SATURDAY EVENING.-11ecase for the
prosecution has closed to-day, with the examination of Mr.
Thomas Jones Philips, by whom Mr. Frost was arrested.
Sir F. Pollock's speech on the part of the prisoner will be
delivered on Monday, and there can be no doubt it will sus-
tain the high reputation which that eminent advocate has
already attained, and to which he has gained so great an ac-
cession by his conduct of the prisoner's defence. As to the
time when the trial may be expected to close, it must depend
much upon the decision which may be come to, whether tes-
timony will be tendered on the part of Frost ; but it would
appear from the respite granted to the petty jury, but to
terminate on Wednesday morning, as if the judges, as well
as the counseL for the prosecution and the defence, enter-
tained opinion that this trial may possibly close on Tues-
day or Wednesday.
The judges took their seat at nine in the morning.
The following witnesses were next examined.—Thomas
Watkins, john Harford, William Harris, James Emery,
John Parry, W. Roche, John Phillips, Chrhtopher Kicha-
gan, John A4tthews, Richard Pugh, Edmund Lloyd, Joseph
Stockclale, W H. Williams, Moses Scard,' Thomas Watts,
and Thomas ihillipsj after which,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL.—This, my lords, closes the
Case for the crown. . .

Sir F. PoLLocx.—Perhaps your lordships will not call up-
on me to speak at this late hour ?
Chief Justice TlNDAL.—Certainly not, Sir Frederick,
unless you yourself wish it.
At the request of the foreman, orders were then given by
the Chief Justice so that the jury might be enabled to take the
air, not only during the evening, but in the course of the next
day.

The court adjourned, at a quarter to 4 o'clock, until Mon-
day morning.

(From Fraser's 3fagazine for January.)
No one who has witnessed the events of the last three
years will venture to predict, with any degree of confidence,
the course Which affairs will assume even in the next three
weeks. Marvellous have been the hairbreadth escapes of the
Melbourne cabinet, and it may be that their " run of luck"
is not yet exhausted. Still, it must be admitted, that, in the
ordinary course of human events, it would be held to be to-
tally impossible for the present ministry to stand a single
week after the opening of the corning session. Their ma-
jorities were ten, five, and two in the spring of the present
year. Since then, they have suffered two or three secessions,
and several seats are vacated by change of office ; in two or
three of which cases, at least, they may calculate on a cer-
tain loss. They are, then, at the present moment, in a mino-
rity in the House of Commons ; and even the returns made
to the new writs, when issued, will fail of bringing their num-
bers up to even the smallest possible majority. With the
present House of Commons, then, they cannot get on.—
That, except on some new contingency which has not yet
occurred, may be:looked upon as a settled point.
What,. then, is the next step ? The ministerialists them 7
selees are now beginning to talk unreservedly of a dissolution.
This is the natural, the constitutional course. Knowing them-
selves to be possessed of their sovereign's confidence, and as-
suming, also, that " the people " desire their continuance in
office, it is not only a proper thing—it is even au imperative
duty,to appeal to thegeneral constituencies of the country, to
decide betwam them and 328 opponents, who beard them
from the opposite benches, and harass and perplex every
movement of the administration. -
Not decidedly outvoted in the lower house, then, and yet
annoyed by so strong an opposition, the Most natural thing
for the ministry to contemplate is an immediate dissolution.
And we cannot doubt for a moment that such a step is fre-
quently under consideration, in the private meetings of the
cabinet. _ _

%/V.,/ ••••,.•
The main difficulty, or doubt, however, that would suggest
itself here, would be, whether there was any reason to expect,
from a dissolution, any addition to the ranks of their adherents;
or whether it was not rather more probable, that such a loss
would be experienced as would snatch the reins of government
immediately and irretrievably, from their hands.
Still, however, the question would return of what was
to be done ? To remain in the present state of " dead lock"
seems impossible ; resign, it had been previously resolved,
and " by her Majesty's special command," was to be the
very last step resorted to. What then remained, but to try
the only remaining alternative, and to rush upon a general
election ?
Upon the hypothesis, then, that the Melbourne ministry
will remain in office as long as it is possible to do so, we have
a right to look for a dissolution immediately after the meet-
ing of parliament on the 16th of January. Or supposing
them to come to the conclusion that such a step would
amount to an act of /do de se; and to prefer a simple abdi-
cation ; then we have Sir Robert Peel at once in office ; and
it is impossible to doubt that his VERY FIRST STEP would
be to appeal to the country at large, on the broad and tangi-
ble question of, Will you hare a Conservative government
or no ?
Either way, then, every conservative constituency in Eng-
land, Scotland, and Ireland, ought to be prepared, beibre
the 20th of January, with its candidates, its committee, and
its sinew's of war. To every such body we put the question,
in the most earnest and emphatic tones that we can com-
mand, ARE YOU READY ?
If the conservatives, or, in other words,. if the educated,
intelligent, moral, and religious inhabitants of the;:e islands,
are but properly aroused to the impor an of this, the final
struggle, we may expect, under the blessing of God, a return
of the days of peace and order, and security. If not ;—if
from their own inactivity, or from the inherent vices of the
Reform bill, the coming struggle shall prove abortive, then
may we indeed resign ourselves to despair, or turn our hopes
to other and happier regions. But we will not even allow
our imaginations to picture such :an issue. We know that
the conservatives can win. the approaching battle ; and we
will not permit ourselves to suppose that they will lose such
an opportunity. -

THE MARQUIS OF NORM ANBY AND T. B. ADDI
SON, ESQ., CHAIRMAN OF THE QUARTER SES
SIONS AT PRESTON.

(From The Bolton *Chronicle.) • - • -
Whoever expects justice, reasons,-or gentlemanly conduct
at the hands of her Majesty's ministers, may expect some- -
thing farther of swine than the,nasal sound which is generally
anticipated. The.tools of the: administration partake of-the,
degraded
.character of their employers : " like master,- Eke
man," is a proverb no less ancient-than true, and,..especially
applicable to the whig ministry and their dirty .rnytinidons. .
lu October last, a man of low character, who is in the ha-
bit of spitting his venom at all persons of respectability and
character, wrote to Lord.Normanby, stating, that Mr. Addi-
son, the airman of tU Quarter Sessions, at Preston, was
in the habit Of inquiring from the chaplain .of the. ga01,., re-
specting any confessions made .to him by the prisoners corn-.
mitted for trial, and that Mr. Addison made use of inform,
tion thus 'proCured in the prosecution of his judicial inquiry
as chairman. Lord Normanhy, without taking the least trou-
ble to ascertain the real character of the calumniator, directed
Mr. F. Maule, his secretary, to address a letter to M r. Addison, •
calling upon that gentleman to. produce a full statement of
the case, to vindicate himself froth the grievons'eliarge'pre-
ferred against him. Mr. Addison in reply explained that the
chaplain was bound by a certain clause in an act of parlia-
ment, for .the regulation of gaols, to present a report to the
magistrates attending at the Quarter. Sessions, and that this
report he (Mr. Addison) always perused. Mr. Addison in-
dignantly repelled ttw :accusation so aeadily entertained by_
his Lordship, and inforined the sweet " Matilea' of the Home
Department, the pride and glory of the " Minerva Press"
the life and soul of the circulating librarieS, that his lordship
was mistaken if he supposed that he (Mr. Addison) was his
Lordship's subordinate ; and startled Lord Flimsy with the
intelligence that " though he might insult he had no power
to degrade him ;" since the county Palatine was out of his
" sweep of control." This reply brought a second letter-from
the Home Office, in which Lord Flimsy declared his intention
of laying Mr. Addison's insulting letter before the Lord Lieu-
tenant,in order that the magistrates acting with Mr. Addison
might judge of the tone in which a subject had dared to ad-
dress so high a functionary as the ex-Viceroy of Ireland.
On Wednesday last, new year's day, a meeting of the magis-
trates was held, and the letters read, when lo ! the magis-
trates so far from coinciding with Lord Flimsy, declared
their sense of his tyrannical and unprecedented interference
in the following resolutions which were unanimously
carried :

" Resolved unanimously—That the magistrates here as-
sembled much regret that any charge against a gentleman
occupying the very important and respectable situation of
Chairman to the Sessions, should have been entertained by
the Marquis of Normanby, without, as appears from the
documents produced, due inquiry having been previously
made into the station, character, and motives of the accuser ;
and coj4sequently, this Court considers Mr. Addison justi-
fied taMer all the circumstances, in writing the letter to Mr.
Fox Manly, dated the 22d day of October, 1839.
"That the Magistrates assembled take this occasion to
record their high sense of the ability, patience, and integrity
with which their Chairman, Thomas Batty Addison, Esq.
has for fifteen years, at a considerable sacrifice of profes-
sional emolument and bodily health, gratuitously_ discharged
the numerous and oppre4dive duties of his office. '
"That copies of these resolutions be transmitted to the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Lord Lieutenant, the Chairman
of these Sessions, and to the magistrates of the Hundreds
of Amoundness, Blackburn, and Leyland. (Signed)
Jos. Bushell, Chairman, Joseph Feilden, J. Fowden Hindle,
William Marshall, Gardr. Baldwin, Thomas Robt. Wilson
France, William Carlow., Robt. Awthertone Rawstorne,
Richd. Edward Alison, James Simpson, Wm. Birley, Corns.
Bourne, S. Horrocks, jun., J. Nowell Farrington, R. C.
Browne Clayton, J. Master, John Austen."
Among the signatures of the magistrates will be found the
names of gentlemen of all shades of politics ; the chairman,
indeed, Jos. Bushell, Esq., is a Roman Catholic, and a strong
Whig. We need not add, the Home Secretary has no juris-
diction in the county, the Chancellor of the Duchy being the
only authority.

EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF MOPERTY OF A FRAU-
DULENT 13.114 KRUPT.—About the end of last year,-a person-
absconded from Manchester with goods to a large amount,
and in debt some thousands. In February last, one of the
creditors consulted Messrs. Beswick, solicitors, Bennett's
Hill, Birmingham, as to the best mode to be. adopted for the
recovery of his claim ; and on the 21st of that month, a fiat
in bankruptcy was issued out by those gentlemen against the
party. The necessary papers were then prepared and duly
authenticated by the authorities here, for the purpose of
seizing the books and property of the bankrupt at Sidney,
to which place it was discovered he had gone under a false
name. A messenger, who was on the point of leaving for
that colony on other business, undertook the execution of
the.warraut against him ; and upon arriving at Sidney, be
succeeded, after considerable trouble, in seizing a vast quan-
tity of papers of great value to the estate, and upwards of one
thousand five hundred pounds' worth of property. The
messenger to whom this important trust was confided was
Mr. Badham, sheriff's officer, Cannon-street, Birmingham,
in whose praise too much cannot be said for his activity on
this occasion. The colonial office was consulted previously
to the document being sent, and gave every assistance to fur-
ther the exertions of Messrs. Beswick.—Birminyharn
Advertiser.
THE " SPORTING AMATEUR."—The sporting, or, as he
is termed in the bills, " the distinguished amateur," who, to
decide a wager (?) " is bound to appear at a certain number
of theatres in a given time, "went on" last night to per-
form the character of Pierre, and such an exhibition—to
call it acting would be preposterous—it has scarcely ever been
my lot to witness. The " amateur" read some portions of
IN‘llich wont " I: o t
u m e
boe
the text smoothly enough, and when he attempted to act he
Coates"
honoured
with;
but
to
was greeted with precisely the same description of applause
4
twentyo
sr e
e thirty
poor yearsr
eel ago,
2
noble villain, to say the worst of him, and &serving of a
better friend than the vacillating JaSier—cut and mangled in
the way he was, would have almost made the talented but
eccentric Kean leap from his grave at such a profanation
which was perpetrated on the boards of the Windsor Theatre
last night. The audience, in order to keep up the farce (for
it must be said that they were in the very best of humours
imaginable) called the " amateur" before the curtain at the
conclusion of the tragedy, and he was not slow to obey the
summons, when, after making some half dozen most un-
Pierre-likc bows, retired " amidst thunders of applause."
The house was very respectably filled, and must have proved
one of the most profitable of the season. This " distinguished
amateur," who made "his first (?) appearance on any
stage" last evening, is announced to play the Duke Aranza
in the " Honey Moon," to-racreow. I question the policy
of the manager " trying it on" " a second time. It was" all
"
very well for "once in a way . but ditto repeated is
sometimes hazardous in enterprises of this nature.