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

THE CHASE.

The Cntstitun HOUNDS will meet on Saturday, Dec. Ist,
of Withington-hall ; Monday, ad, at Appleton-hall; Tues-
day, 4th, at North Priory; Thursday, 6th, at Black Dog, on
the Barnhill-road; Friday, 7th, at Duddon-heath.—At half-
past ten o'clock.

Mr. LacHE's Fox HouN DS will meet on Saturday, Ist, at
Churton ; Tuesday, 4th, at Worthenbury ; Thursday, 6th, at
Pen y lan; Saturday, Bth, at Hampton-beach.—Al half-past
ten.

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

THEATRE Rovar..—Mr. Rice, the celebrated singer of
"Jim 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.
CH A RGE ovAltar, E.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, au 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 bedroom of the servant girl during the night be-
fore, and had there committed the offence with which he was
charged. The case occupied two hours in its investigation.
The prisoner was remanded till to-day for Om further evi..
dence of another lodger, before being committed to take his
trial for the capital offence.

Til E SMALL TENEMENTS ACT.—Yesterday, at the Police.
office, several complaints, brought before the magistrates
under this act, were summarily dismissed, from 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 charactet ized 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-
tions and formalities, that the landlord must first fee an
attorney to plead hiscomplaint, 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, until 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 lioast, mastewf the " Mona Castle," Liver-
pool trader, has been appoitiM harbour-master of Ramsey,
vacant by the death of the person who lately held that situa-
tion.—Mona Liberal.

has°LvENT Couar.—On Tuesday, at the court for hearing
and determining on the cases of insolvent debtors, the fol-
lowing persons were brought before the commissioner and
ordered to be discharged :—James Craig, Patrick Tobin, W.
J. Dyer, Wm. Stretch, John Wright, Thos. Taylor, Robert
Pearson, Thomas Shallcross, Henry Coxon, Thos. Croston
the younger, William Timothy, John Williams, and Mar-
garet Lloyd. John Ilaydock was ordered to be imprisoned
four months.

PILOT COMNIITTEE.—At a meeting held on Tuesday, in
the Town-hali, William Rathbone, Esq. in the chair, the
following gentlemen were elect,: cominissionets under the
Pilot Act :--Mr. Richard llou;!hton, Mr. Mattes Stewart
Parker, Mr. George Kendal, Mr. Charles Turner, Mr. T.
B. Horhfall, 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 IN 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," will 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.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE REV. D. JAMES, AND MR. ICATIIBONE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.IND.IRD.
bin,-1 beg through the medium of your paper to contra-
dict a statement made by Mr. Rathbone in the town council
on Wednesday last. He said, the Rev. Mr. James, the
respected minister of Kirkdale, had declared from his pulpit,
he would not administer the sacrament to any person who
voted for a radical. Now, sir, I have regularly attended the
ministry of Mr James, and I assert it to be false, I therefore
call upon Mr. Rathbone, as he values his reputations in the
face of the people of Kirkdale—in the face of the people of
Liverpool—to substantiate his statement, if he cannot, (as I
know it is impossible) the calumny which it was his inten-
tion to heap upon the head of that respected . man, will re-
bound with tenfold force upon his own, and if he believes in
the moral law, he stands guilty of violating one of its com-
mandments, namely, "'Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour."
He also charges him with a want of " Christian spirit."
What Mr. Rathbone's opinion of Christian spirit is, I can-
not tell. It is astonishing to me, sir, that a man denying as
he does, the fundamental principles, nay, the Divine Founder
of Christianity, Should speak of a Christian spirit. Before
Mr. Rathbone prates about a Christian spirit, he must re-
nounce the God-denying heresy of Socinus, he must cast
away the cumbrous weight of human merit, and he must be-
lieve there is no. other name under heaven whereby he can
be saved, but the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.—Yours,
&c. A CHURCHMAN.
November 27th, 1&'38.