The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-30 00:00:00

THE CHASE.

The CHESHIRE tiouNns will meet on Saturday, Dec. Ist,
of Withington-hall ; MondaT, 3d, at Appleton-hall; Toe,-
day, 4th, at North Priory; hursday, 6th, at Black Dog, on
the Barnhill-road; Frichiy, 7th, at Duddon-heath.—At half-
past ten oclock.
Mr. LEctili's Fox flouNns will meet on Saturday, Ist, at
Churlon; Tuesday, 4th, at Worthenbury ; Thursday, 6th, at
Pen y lan; Saturday, Bth, at Hampton-beach.—At half-past
ten.

Sir THOMAS STANLEY'S HOUNDS will meet on Saturday,
Ist, at Hooton ; Tuesday, 4th, at Badger's Rake-gate.—Al
half-past ten.

THEATRE ROYAL—Mr. Rice, the celebrated singer of
"dim Crow," has been enlivening the theatre during the last
three days, in the amusing farce written for him, of " the
Virginian Mummy;" and by his " wheels about and turns
about."—The Distin family still continue au attraction.
CHARGE OF A RA Ps.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, an indi-
vidual ( we understand of respectable connexions) named Fell
a captain of an East India vessel, was charged with having
committed a gross assault on a young and good looking girl,
of 16 years of age, the servant of the house where he lodged,
in Chatham-street. The particulars of the case are wholly
unfit for publication. It appeared that the prisoner had en-
tered the bed-room of the servant girl during the night be-
fore, and hail there committed the offence with which he was
charged. The case occupied two bouts in its investigation.
The prisoner was remanded till to-day for the further evi-
dence of another lodger, before being committed to take his
trial for the capital offence.

THE SMALL TENEMENTS ACT.—Yesterday, at the Police-
office, several complaints, brought before the magistrates
under this act, were summarily dismissed, front their being
informally laid. Mr. Hall said he could not act as counsel
in hearing complaints under this act; he must decide impar-
tially on the cases brought before him. It was foolish in
people imagining they could conduct complaints under this
act without the advice of an attorney.—We believe this
act will prove a most fertile source of emolument to the
members of the legal profession who are in the habit of
pleading in police courts. We have not heard a single com-
plaint substantiated by individuals conducting their own
cases under this act, and in many instances the attorneys
have failed on their first application. It is characterized by
the usual blundering which marks almost every act of the
present ministry, and, as near as may be, defeats its own
object. Intended to save the owners of small tenements
shillings and half crowns in ejecting the poor tenants of their
cellars, and to enable them summarily to eject tenants who
will not pay, it is ingeniously stuffed with so many mystifica-
lions and formalities, that the landlord must first fee an
attorney to plead his complaint, and serve the required formal
notices, and perhaps swamp half a year's rent by so doing,
and even then, instead of obtaining a summary ejectment, is
as likely to fail as to succeed, urtil four or five weeks shall
have elapsed, owing to the many technical objections that -
may be taken, and which again encourage refractory tenants
to employ attorneys to take them.

Mr. Charles Voast, master of the " Mona Castle," Liver-
pool trader, has been appointed harbour-master of Ramsey,
vacant by the death of the person who lately held that situa-
I ion.—Mona Liberal.

INSOLVENT COUIZT.—On Tuesday, at the court for hearing
and determining on the cases of insolvent debtors, the fcl-
lo«•ing persons were brought before the commissioner and
ordered to bQ discharged:—James Craig, Patrick Tobin, W.
J. Dyer, Wm. Stretch, John Wright, Thos. Taylor, Robert
Pearson, Thomas Shallcross, Henry Colon, Thus. Croston
the younger, William Timothy, John Williams, and Mar-
garet Lloyd. John Haydock was ordered to be imprisoned
four months.

PI LOT COMSITTTEE.—At a meeting held -on Tuesday, in
the Town-hall, William Rathboue, Esq. in the chair, the
following gentlemen were elected cownu•si,ners under the
Pilot Act :--Mr. Richard Houghton, Mr. Charles Stewart
Parker, Mr. George Kendal, Mr. Charles Turner, Mr. T.
B. Horsfatl, and Mr. William Tapley. And the undermen-
tioned gentlemen were appointed members of the committee.
—Mr. Joseph Nickels, Mr. Francis Shand, Mr. Alexander
Smith, jun., Mr. Raymond W. Houghton, Mr. Richard
Houghton, Mr. Geo. Kendal, and Mr. John Nelson Wood.
PIGS 1N CELLARS.—SeveraI poor women, chiefly Irish
women, were on Wednesday summoned before the magis-
trates, on charges of keeping pigs in their cellars. This fil-
thy practice " the finest peasantry," whl horde over to this
town from the sister country, have, to a considerable extent,
imported with them; and in some of the streets chiefly inha-
bited by the low Irish, the nuisance created thereby is enough
to breed a pestilence. Mr. Hall said it was a most filthy
practice, and he would not permit it. They were severally
fined ss. and costs: the fine to be enforced if the pigs were
not instantly removed,