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

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

W. J. Law, Esq., Insolvent Co.nmiss'oner, will atter::
yonto t
ah lel ttle thr ofrfoJmuolvn.e
of
his cOO
at Lancaster, on the Ist of July, at Liverpool, on the 8
of
i\Jiurl.yilaanedaualteyC.bienstreerp,l
stituents at Edinburai, says, that the law, in his (viol"
in respect of Frost, has not yet been satisfied.
The commissioner of the bankruptcy court, Notting;
ham, last week, decided that a person imprisoned undero
charge of fraud could not receive his interim order Ile
such charge was purged away. t ra'
BREACH OF PROMisE.—An action for breach 01 Par
mise of marriage was brought in the Court of Exebeq•-ost
on Monday, by the daughter of Captain GoNicott 010100
a stock-broker of the name of Beagim. The WV iv
eighteen; the gentleman twenty-six. the eourtshiO et 0
menced in June, and in Auzust the defendant to°erts
house, and the furniture and wedding dresses sv to
bought. He then declared " off," but was now read Lot,
renew his offer of marriage. The jury returned aver
of £3OO damages.
o.r stet
IMPORTANT DECISION.—A trial of the very pilearco•
importance, took place on Friday, before Chief `',,tobt
Pollock, in London. The plaintiff was Mrs.we'" be
a t
and the defendant the well known Mr. Spottiswo°,4ol
Queen's minter The point decided is, that an allt-iitif
shares, who has never received them, the scheme h 0 its
been abandoned, but who has paid the required cle...„Poeet
and offered to execute the deeds, may recover his 1"., th.
from any member of the provisional committee, ouilit,
ground of the consideration having wholly failed-
0(30
plaintiff, it seems, received in October an allotment arse'
.
shares, and immediately paid to the company's bap or.e'
sum of 1:2 12a. 6d. on each share. She took, 0,, ertjo the
the banker's receipt, which she then presented ~,oete
secretary to be exchanged for scrip certificates. ''eis.
were forthcoming ; but, in their stead, the sche,Disehoci
abandoned. The excuse was, that out of 400,00 u It p/OW,
applied fee. and 70,000 allotted, 4,000 only had hee,,, be'
upon. The plaintiff then demanded a return ~,pre,
money, wh!ch was refused, on the ground that theo bit'
litninaty expenses" must first be paid. Out of tneof the
cumstances two questions arose—Were the whnli,eooestl7
expenses to be thrown upon those persons wh° P r up°
paid their subscriptions on these 4,000 sharesolieboor
the promoters of the company, on the faith se Pei;
prospectus, advertisements, and great names• tlio, soy
mews had been made ? This is the way the Chiel.ustiee'
answers those questions :—" Both in law and iinitta el
if even every farthing of the deposits was paicl,,Bthele,,
pended, the plaintiff would be entitled to recover od el
sideration which had wholly failed.
amount paid by her on the faith of en agreement A ~.toti
and the other rarties who had paid on the 4,00Pc.„ 011!
As to the.,,llstet
nothing could be more unjust th:,t) to saddle ti e;ej tiy,
the whole costs of a scheme to which they subscre'oect
doubt on the faith of the prospectus, and in the eta";
tion that the capital was to be such as was there.:, to sa
In his opinion, therefore, the plaintiff was cotitl "with'
cover her deposit." The jury thereupon, and
,I
any hesitation, gave the plaintiff her full demon"'

March 3, 1846.

Koval anb Vroinnrial 9.635.

On Tuesday, a man named Campbell, while being sha-
ved at a barber's shop in Great Howard-street, fell down
•and expired.
'On Friday, a seaman, on board the Shenandoah, named
Roch, was fined by Mr. Rushton £lOO for smuggling to-
bacco.
_ At the first annual meeting of the Liverpool and Dub-
lin Steam Ship Company, power was given to the directors
to build one or two screw steam vessels in addition to the
two.already building.
A few days ago, Grace Fletcher, an inmate of the Alms
noose, St. Mary's-lane, when opening the door of her
swelling fell down and hurt her hip. She died from the
juries on Wednesday.
43unce anis AND ROBBERY. During the night of
Priday last- the panel of one of the office doors in Canton-
buildings, Water-street, was removed, and the sum of
£3B 6a. was stolen out of one of the desks.
-v The packet-ship %leen of the West arrived from New
,aork, 0-
n Monday, with a cargo of 8,070 packages, weigh-
.,„nlg 1,400 tons. This was all put out and passed the
Illieen's scales in something less than forty hours.
With that liberal spirit which directs all his arrange-
Illenta, Mr. Brindlev engaged Mr. Vandenhoff to deliver
Zo Lectures on Elocutionary Expression to the pupils at
I:llrvin Hall School the week before last.
kiri
Sunday week, two vessels were wrecked near Wbou ex-
rd• (inc (the Jacob Pennel) was a large ship, nd
for Liverpool, laden with fruits and wines ; the other (the
iid
e) was bound for the same place, and was laden with
cotton. .
The hand-loom weavers of the north of Lancashire are
(!ry daily being discharged in large numbers, and of those
-still retained, most of them are ocly partially employed,
whilst
nearly in every case the weavers are limited as to
'the amount of work they are to perform.
M. Tuesday a fire was discovered in the timber-yard of
r- Lee, immediately behind the Royal Standard Hotel,
limekiln-lane, Tranmere, but it was got put without do-
-1.4 much damage. It commenced in a drying stove, and
18 supposed to have been caused by over-heating.
; the Clay, of Workington, (late of this town.) had a ewe
--.4;-e improved Leicester breed, which last week yeaned
`ufine healthy lambs; and as he took no means to secure
early lambing, and his sheep being out all winter, his sue-
Vets may be attributed to the mildness of the season.
,At the Council meeting, to-morrow, Mr. Wm. Earle
Will submit a motion for the appointment of a special
'eonansittee to consider a comprehensive plan for, the im-
provement of the borough. At the same meeting the
aeYor will submit a communication relative to the sale of
1:0 .botanic gardens to the corporation.
The following resolution was carried by a large majority
an No. 1, Stock-Exchange-room, Manchester, on Wed-
nesday . . •
froth ,—" That the admission of a member be reduced
£lOO to £5O, on and after the 3d of March next;
lad that the room be kept open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
daily
(Saturday excepted). No business to be transacted
out of the room on penalty of exclusion."
tsflooTna EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.—SOMe time ago
iie.introductory lecture at the above institution, by the
t el. Jordan Davies on mental culture, excited much atten-
i°°. He is to make a further development of his views
thi that important subject, in another lecture in the schcot-
raoma of the institution, on Wednesday evening neat,
Which will no doubt be well attended.
u4NGEitous BUILDINGS; —At the Birkenhead police-
coltt,Mr. Barton was charged by Mr. Salter, surveyor
°t- building?, with haying a cornice attached to some
40ases he was building in Oliver-street in a dangerous
State. After a lon investigation, the cornice in question
Was
of ordered to he made secure in 14 days, under a penalty
£5 per day afterwards.
kETENSIVE PURCHASES J. Abel Smith Fsq.,
j •11., list week purchased from the executo s of, the late
Loseq,
Harrison. Esq , the old quay, with the ware-
rases and other adjoining property at the Marsh End,
Trestaa ; also the Tulketh Hall estate from Sir P. H.
theetwood, Bart. This will give Mr. Smith the whole of
Al_ wharfage from the Marsh End to the Willows in
auton.
.b MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Thursday night, Eliza-
t.eth Roberts, aged 68, who resichd at 68, St. Domingo-
(ri' went to her husband
beer-house, near Evertor)
andutql to fetch her husband home, but did not find him,
baci,A.iter leaving the premises by a door on the north side,
It appeared, lost her way and liPen into St. Domingo
seine 7,," was soon afterwards missed from home, and
home the neighbours (her husband having returned
tee `nioxicated) made search and found her in the wa-
squiie dead.
InkjURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—Mr. Pearsall gave
Satu aka! entertainment at this popular institution en
•asorsrd6Y evening last, consisting of selections from the
" of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and others. The
attendance was not so numerous on this occasion as it is
111 general. Mr. Pearsall's entertainment is of an elevating
f!1 rtfinelmprovementsd character, anare stilld on the
making in thg whole gave e
hall. A
t satis-
:o(ltion.
We elegant clock has been fitted up within the last week.
e understand Mr. Robert Jones, of Renshaw-street, is
the maker.
WasT U usual weekly meeting was
ERBY NON.—
'c,Cl on Tuesday. AI lettsr from the Com Commissioners was
IN, which terminates the recent dispute as to the divi-
sion of the union into districts, and appointment of re-
lieving officers; the Commissioness decide in favour of
the firstof their own schenies.—lt was resolved that on
Tuesday the Board proceed to the election of relieving of-
ficers accordingly.—Nl r. Smith gave notice of a motion to
tbileare.ff.ct that with respect to the re-election of Mr.
bord, es medical officer for Toxteth- park. the reaolu-
...mna making that election and augmenting the emolu-
ments be rescinded.
1to„
Arlo. IN G A BULLION OFFICE.—On Thursday, Pa-
, awn's Timmons was charged %vita havirg stolen seventy-
of 4old coins, called " Eagles," from the bullion office
been 'Sus. Durand, in Waterloo-road. The prisoner had
eyid apprehended by Superintendent Abrams, and the
the :r!ee went to show that he (the prisoner) had broken
and :Iddow of the prosecutor by thrusting in his hand,
hat he had carried away the money. Mr. Rushton.
such!' t folly it is to exhibit the gold in this way amidst
Ice ndPoPulation. u 'Yo should have a guard to your
ssidkuw so that it could not be broken." The prisoner
'the „
"I",e was a stranger in the t,)wn, and being badly off,
°°eY tempted him. The prisoner was sent to trial.
re OMwSAINT AGAINST THE OFFICERS OF AN ODD-
,
I,ODGE.—On Tuesday. at the Police Court,
of 6,ard Brooks, a member of the Royal George Lodge
b (1:Fellows, complained that the officers of the lodge
notter,, Paid him his sick money, stating that about £lB
Aloe„- "tie to him. He had received hut 4s. a week in
silo: of 12s. for twenty-six weeks. The transaction was
and 144) he based in gross fraud on the poor applicant,
Bra e r. Rushton, after strongly commenting on the
die-
d° conduct of the officers, told the secretary of the
eet Y that if he did not immediately pay the amount
he would sell the bedstocks from under him.
TtIeI!GEACEFEL CONDUCT OF A SHIP'S CREW.—On
bar'ue 'uaY. at the police court, Captain Fleming. of the
Rich Bowes, appeared to answer the claim of James
°gapes 'On. a seaman on board, for £l2, the amount of
l'o4o stated to be due to him for a voyage from Volvo-
'lt and Open which the claims of other seamen rested.
toerias odd
proved, however, that the whole of the sea-
Itushtl'ad behaved in a most mutinous manner. Mr.
V.racef°9 said their conduct had been cowardly and dis-
tinct, u•t No punishment he could inflict would be ade-
Matte to the nature of their offence, and he trusted the
ora would be taken up in another quarter. He then
'ed thetn out of court.
hit "sE CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.—A public ro-et-
held' the operative house carpenters and j iiiers was
ateeet°4 Wednesday, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-
'Lou • Mr. John Forteith was called to the chair. Mr.
of soinroposed the first resolution, and moved in a speech
'jars' length, during which he declared that the house
tie ~iies and joiners were nut sufficiently remunerated.
Had
nlied to the system of parties beis
o. introduced to
tie 131. trade after a se-rVitude of cnly two or three years.
6(1.
ti °Posed to raise a building fund by contributions of
week • outof 3000 of their profession they might
-
diaposUill members,—from those they might calculate on
.tstin of 4000 shares which would realize an amount
entt,. uu Per annum. The money should be laid out in
l'otee Property, which would realize, in 12 months, fifty
sash
aas electors for representatives in parliament, and by
scald fFour.se they would be raising themselves in the
Heat b,,,s°cle nd promoting, not only their own
eo.the best intere.its of the community generally.
kesnsoctuded by exhorting them to union, as the best
eareiedOf Promoting their interests. The rosolution was
kner
else °vs ASSAULT.--Four persons, named James
Ward y, John Meehan, John Lear, and William Lindon,
.ftse°tlr't°4 Friday placed before Mr. Rushton, at the Police-
' °/1 charge of assaulting a working man, named
Ve104448.5, Sheridan. It. appeared that, about half-past 12
oe".e previous night, he came down stairs from his
otie, tne purpose of getting a drink of water, when
'tree., "rt'lte into the house where he lived, in Preston-
!°ller and asked for a light for his pipe. He told the rri-
lbatea,:e
_°tlght to have knocked and asked for the light,
'vie4; furious attack
open the door ; when the prisoner
ueros, thu_rtous attack upon the complainant, struck
. him
Lnuat se:..tf!ee with an iron poker, and then cut his head
laase stITY• 1 he other prisoners then rushed into I
to
shed joined in the attack. His brother. thfn came to
ee of :rce,
.and had it not been for the timely attend-
The de the Police he believed they would have killed him.
4.rdesede.p fined the defendants --05 each, and in default
,;°l' two "ern to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
hor"Ptbs, and at the end of that period Coney to
and fail; himself in £3O, and two sureties in £l5 each,
*°oeti f fig to do so, he was ordered to be further impri-
°r
.et [Pry our months.
tuPrnact„ BRANDY.—It is cuite evident, from the
he full advance in the price of Foreign Mandy in bond,
ss tittle b_., fifty per cent., that the English. consumer will
p:0111,1 ti,7l'efitted by the proposed reduction in the duty,
olea's4.!_eventually take place. At present the assu-
i_e tineva7,e aPpetps to be only productive of profit to
41"81and.. 7sor,:prietors in France, and the importers in
of cost aut, if the supposed advantage in the lessen-
,were not thus anticipated, the inevitable effect
diai';icsiteterioratian of quality. The peculiar sod in
p randy t, el Cognac, from which alone that particular
Produced which has attained such a high clia-
ir4isted'o-t? limited hi extent that a dand has always
ptir'l bad sene full amount of the growths and any failure,
theee. It .asons, has invariably caused great increase of
actt, dot., theiefore to be feared, that the lowering of Le i„Y,wlll beenun •
":erlor e a premium to adulteration ; and that
Ptio,
oeurandies of France, distilled from every de-
. Xture vegetable matter, will scon destroy, by ad-
4katt the
qu,ality and good name of the Cognac rdy
‘otis
t s t
reet a ent Brandy, the basis of which is the
tedgpllB)l maited_sp,:rit.that can lie obtained from the best
isets_e oreiz ,Lwin.gain by comparison, with the adultera-
c,o sararldies, and so become more valuable than
41 i . mnetiive with Cogac, n inferior Brans can
'lttae.t 11114 its
tees
sumptionn must proportionately in-

The directors of the Grand Junction Railway are shortly
about to comply with the request of the merchants of Li-
verpool, praying for a morning express train. It will
leave at six in the morning, and reach London about
twelve.
Tfix RECENT FAILURE.—On Monday last, the credi-
tors of Messrs.. Stockdale and Sons had their first meet-
ing, and the disclosures have taken the mercantile world
by surprise. The liabilities arc £250,000, and the assets
to meet them are set down at £132,000. The firm, in
matters of trade, are indebted principally to importers of
palm oil, the highest debt being about £19,000 ; the ave-
rage amount due to individual houses, however, not ex-
ceeding £B,OOO. But the most astonishing fact had refe-
rence to the Borough Bank. The debt due to this bank
is £126,000. For £26,000 securities are held ; for
£lOO,OOO there is no security. The banking house is said
to meet this loss without any inconvenience, for it has a
reserved fund of upwards of £lOO,OOO.
STATE OF CRIME IN LIVERPOOL.—Mr. Parkinson,
the active and industrious keeper of the main bridewell,
has completed his returns under this head for the past
year. The number of prisoners in 1844 was 15.284 ; and
in 1845, 16,743. In the number of prisoners for felony
there has been a great diminution. In 1844, the number
for felonies was 4.582; and of those 3,138 were males, and
1,444 females. In 1845, the male felons were reduced to
2,5u9, while the female appropriators of neglected trifles
was 1,380,—a diminution in the latter of 64, and in the
former of 629. In 1844 the cases of drunkenness were
7,376 ; last year, 9,365. In 1814 Mr. Rushton fined 3,383
of them in the sum total of £944 12s, ; in 1845 he im-
posed penalties to the arnountofXl,64B on 6,239 drunkards.
The fine is ss: each, and the number of repudiators who
went to prison was 3,216. The number of cases to be
heard during the past year was _in all 13,611 ; of which
16,743 were cases of prisoners, 10,931 informations for
penalties under the dock and local laws, and the remainder
for assaults and sundries.
HIGHWAY BOARD.—At the meeting on Thursday, a
report from a committee was adopted, recommending that
the wages of the masons in their employ be increased 4d.
per day, and of the labourers 2d. per day. This increase
will cause the wages of the masons to be 4s. 4d., and the
wages of the labourers 2s. 10d. per day ; the employed in
future, to be paid on Friday evening in each week. A de-
putation from the Grand Junction Railway was admitted.
They staeed that the company in consequence of certain
improvements which they were making at the sta-
tion in Lime-street, wished to interfere with the pro-
perty in Gloucester-street. Owing to the rise in Glou-
cester-street, all their carriages had to come in and go out
at the same gate, and to obviate this, they wished to take
a certain portioa of the street, and make a level entrance
from Lime-street to the end of their tunnel. The ar-
rangement would interfere afew feet with Gloucester-street;
but they intended to make every thing as convenient as
possible, and the work would be surrounded by a hand-
some iron railing, It would be a great public advantage
if the board would sanction it. A committee was ap-
pointed to confer with the directors of the railway and to
report.
CONNEXION BETWEEN POVERTY AND CRIME.—On
Saturday, at the police-court, a grown-up lad, who had
evidently been respectably brought up, was charged with
having broken one of the street lamps on the previous
night. " I admit," said he, " the charge. But why, why,
Mr. Rushton, have I committed the offence? I was hun-
gry—l was ill. I called twice at the Parish-office to pro-
cure a pass to my native land, Ireland, but, without giv-
ing me time to tell that I was ill, I was ushered out of
their office and forced into the street. I then sought the
Police-court, sir, to make you acquainted with my suffer-
ings, but the police-officer on duty at the outer-door re-
fused me admittance. I made a second attempt to get
in to you, but he repulsed me. What, then, could I do?
Driven from the Parish-office and the Police-court, what
was I to do ? Why, wandering about the streets, last
night, friendless and hungry, I bethought myself of
breaking a lamp, in order to draw public atten-
tion to my case. The result is known : I broke
it ; and here I am, in the last stace of distress."
This story excited the sympathy of all preaenr, and
Mr. Rushton having made enquiry, and found it to be
true that the prisoner had been repeatedly repulsed from
the court, said that no person, however wretched must
again be impeded from coining before him. Both the
magistrates and the parish authorities sat daily, and the
most wretched of the whole community have a right to
come before then► and tell their tales of distress. He
would not punish the prisoner under the circumstances,
though he had done wrong. He then ordered that the
prisoner should be taken care of, and passed horse to
I ie'and without delay. The prisoner seemed much
effected by the kind treatment of his case by the magis-
trate.

LIVERPOOL LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PROTECTION.
—On Tuesday evening, the first annual dinner of the
Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society took place at
Eastwood's Royal Hotel, Dale-street. Mr. Timothy
Parkinson, the chairman of the society, presided, and
Mr. Wightman and Mr. Godfrey, acted as vice-chair-
men. At;out seventy-five members were present. The
dinner was excellent, as were the wines; and Messrs.
Stott and Andrews enlivened the evening's amusements
by the exercise of their vocal talents. The chairman, in
allusion to the late triumph of the British arms in India
ease the toast of " The Dread of Foreign Powers, and
the admiration of the World—our British Army and
Navy," which was enthusiasticelly received. " The
Mayor and Magistrates of Liverpool," in conjunction
with the " health of James Asp'nall, Esq., and the other
Members of the Town Council," was next drunk with
great cheering, Mr. Godfrey remarking that Mr. Aspi •
nail was one of the greatest friends the publicans ever
had. The Members of the Borough" followed. The
Chairman, in proposing " Success to the Licensed
Victuallers', Protective Society," remarked that the so-
ciety was not instituted to oppose the magistrates, but
to lay cases in their true colours before thena,—not to
bold up the, spirit of protection illegally, but with
the object of carrying on their business in a legal
manner, and of skidding none but the legitimate trader.
The toast was drunk with nine times nine cheers, followed
by the glee of " Willie brewed a peck o' maut." Mr.
Godfrey ably respOnded to the toast. The society was
established to protect its members from frivolous and
vexatious informations' assaults, and depredations. It
bad already been joined by 300 members, and had ef-
fected a great benefit to the trade at a small expense.
Many cases had been successfully defended. After al-
luding to the great disparity in the number of licensed
public houses in this town as compared with other large
towns, the committee he said hoped that a check would in
future be put to the indiscriminate system of granting
new licenses in parts of towns where they were not re-
quired. As one ofthe originators of the society he felt proud
tnat in its first year, its success bad exceeded their most san-
guine expectations. One object of the society was to watch
the proceedings of the legislature, and interpose in any
case of emergency; and it had joined the United Town's
Association, which would do away with useless deputa-
tions to London. Another object was, to obtain that de-
gree of parliamentary influence which their numbers, as a
body of tradesmen, entitled them to possess. With re-
gard to local matters, their attempts to place members in
the Common Council, favourable to their interests, had
been very successful, and he bad no doubt but that, at the
next election, they would be enabled to send some of their
own body into the local legislative chamber. The health
of the Chairman was received with warm plaudi!.s, and
eloquently replied to. Mr. Godfrey, on his health being
given, also responded in an animiated strain. The
health of Mr. Atkinson, the secretary, was also drunk
with enthusiasm, and that gentleman replied at some

length, taking a review_ of the society's pro-ceedings since

its commencement. Many other appropriate toasts were
afterwards given, and ably responded to, aad the meeting
separated about eleven o'clock, highly gratified by the
proceedings.