The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-12 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD;

COTTAGE OWNERS' ASSOCIAI lON.

vitals the subsistence of the pie-sr. (Hear, hear, and cheers )
.That most extraordinary bill had been often brought into the
eisi4 if Coaanonsanteriorto this time, and as often repulsed;
ill he. w0u..1 h (via Mara,' that it repulsion-
would have been a
clear raasoa eht Sir Harry Verney should not again Maitre pre-..,
smi•neil to introduce it. It was clear that all its godfathers had I
been tirail ,vita the siaht of it ; and ataetathe repeal of the act,
some time since in operation is Liverpool, Which in its working
was so extraordittary, as. t heir chairman hail stated, hiving in- I
creased the poor rates iathree years fall 3) per cent—ha shank! ,
have thought, after that PX.l:up.e, no man in the House if( Coin- !
mons would have brought forward a general measure for the I
whole county. (Bear. hear.) Immediately, however, after
the repeal of that eat, Mr. Slaney, forsooth—
The CliA ta MAN.—No tint after, but while it was in operation.
Mr. KN A PPER.—WeII, the necessity of repealing the Liver-
poi act was then made most evident, at all events; and imme-
diately on that necessity being made evident, Mr. Slaney brought
in a general measure.; but it was cut off, not in the burl, but
when it was cotrong, out, for it had got into committee Atter
him Lord Al' horp mooted another questiun of the same nature;
the Earl of Darlington fallowea him; and Sir Harry Verney,
in the last session of the last parliament, brought in this inea--
sure. The pretension for creating so unwise and unjust a law
betterte afford
to
payf
is 't his—that the landlords,r,:p errly,sitthliet property ptehretyy
cgoeutldgrea
r
reels
r(iiiftels l '['here
property,
that was a most erroneous idea. oere
than those
was always competition in building that sort of property, if
anything mould he got out of it, so that the rents were kept at a
inodel'ate level, as their experience taught them. It was well
known that all that had built small property had not got rich,
and the holders had nut made fortunes, t het etnre it showed that
meeting that that reasoning was erroneous. If it was at all
proper that cottages :should be assessed, awl they were at this
moment, it was equally right that the rates should be collected
on the premises. It was constitutional that it should be so; and
at the tone when we had a most expensive and protracted war,
and the property tax was obliged to be laid on, the tax was col-
lected immediately from the tenants. Suppose that a house of
VI a year paid £3 in taxes, the landlord would net £27 ; but
if the tax was collected fr an the landlord, and he lost his rent,
it made a difference to hint of £6. He would in that be £33
out of pocket. So much for that as a constitutional measure.
Again, the magistrates had the power to remit the rates where
they saw that the parties were iu poverty and distress; but the
magistrates under the proposed law would have no power to re-
lieve the prior and distressed, if an exorbitant rent were charged
to cover the rates ; and if in the event of that rent being unpaid,
the landlord distrained the tenaut, the tenant must 'eventually
become a pauper on the parish with all his family. (Hear.)
They all knew by experience that cottage property was not the
best that (.4,11111 possibly be, and he would ask Str Harry Verney,
or any other matt that supported that unaccountable measure,
I what interest they ought to receive for their investments? The
sun of £11)) doilliled itself in. fourteen years, and the capital
way 110 worse ; but in fourteen years of constant wear and tear
the dilapidations of cottage property repired that it be nearly
) Let S r [tarry Verney Kook at that anti see
whether cottage property yaelited th‘e remuneration that larger
property did. No; and he wound also tied that the larger aro-
', pert), was more secure and less subject to dilapidations. The
object of that bill was to extract front the pockets of the cot-
tage owner, and spare the owners of large property. Previous
to the repeal of the Liverpool act, he had four cottages. and in
four years he did not receive a penny ft ain them, and they cost
him the value alone to put the four in repair, and he was pay-
ing poor-rates for that property three years out (tithe four. lie
I would next come to the owners of that description of property
• who were executors, trustees, or devisees for orphan children.
The.property perhaps was 'deeply mortgaged before the death
or the parent, and the trustee under that executorship had not
wherewith to maintain that family. lie would come also to the
awnership of a widow's, and perhaps in
that ease, too, the pro-
perty was deeply mot !gaged, and that wido.v and her children,
perhaps, wete in deep distress and great a ant ; they must inevi-
tably come to the parish, and the property would be confiscated
or walled up. That was a sort of pauperism which would be
pr .duced if that hateful bill were made the law of the land.
tie camel hen to the disfranchisement chase, although as their
chairman had stated, lie was not quite clear as to .he meaning of
it; but this was clear, that It wauld throw the occupants into the
hands of the landlords, and the tau [lords would have the power
to waver the tenants as they pleased to their own way or voting;
therefore, he said, on public grounds, he felt himself callea upon
to give this bill his twist decided and determined opposition. In
the next place, ac to the occupancy of these houses—if that bill
passed into a law, the occupants of those houseS would be
thrown into damp cellars, and large and dilapidated houses
where half a dozen families live together, perhaps, and
where were effluvia and contagious diseases, and from which
great and serious evils would arise. They would not only be
thrown into damp cellars, hut be huddled together in one apart-
ment. He had known a man and his wife, with ten children,
living in a cellar iu'one apartment, in which theme was but one
bed for the whole. Look at the contamination of moral prin-
ciple that arose from that state or things, as in foriner times,
consequent on a bill of this sort passir g into a law. Forty-live
years ago he remembered, in this town, that the tide flowed so
high as to flood the cellars, and persons lost their lives in con-
' sequence; they had no resout se but the cellars at that tithe,
and remembered the cellars letting at 2s. 641. and 3s. a-week for.
one apartment only, and even as high its 54. and 6s. where any-
, thing could be dime in the way of a little business, in conse-
quence of being situated in froat. Since theta cottage property
had been erected—decent little dwellings of four apartments
in which the members of the family might retie to rest in sepa-
rate apartiaents, and thereby the moral evil of indiscriminate
admixture in one apartment was wholly removed. He would
not long,er detain the meeting. What had iallen from the chair- '
man wits ably urged upon them, and the report of the cow-
, tnittee was of so comprehensive a. nature, that be need say 11.1
more on the subject ; but he did warmly contend that that till
was a hateful measure', and he hoped that their association, mid
the association of every town in the kingdom, would set their
fares agaiest and prevent its passing into a law. (Applause.)
Mr. JONES seconded the motion, and it was carried unani-
mously.
The petition which appears in our advertising columns was
then read and adopted.
The other resolutions were also prefaced by. able speeches
from Mr. Ellis and Mr. Ilenshaw; and a very interestinv, debate
succeeded, in the course of which many exceedingly strung argu-
ments were !treed against Sir Harty Verney's bill.
The CHAIRMAN then introduced to the notice of the meeting
the bill of Mr. Aelionby, to facilitate the recovery of possession
of tenements alter due determination of the tenancy, and a pe-
tition in its favour WaS adopted.
A subscription was then entered into to defray the necessary
expenses atteudant on the opposition of the association to the
bill, and a vote of thanks was then given to the chairman for
Iris conduct in the chair, and the meeting was dissolved about
.half-past nine o'clock.

A. trteeting of the Liverpool Cottage Owners' Association was
held ou W,doesdav night at the Pied Bul-Inn, Great Charlotte-
stre,t, to adopt peraiaus to the Elouseof Commons in opposition
to Sir Harry Verney' rat tug of tenements bill, and in support
of a bill of which notice has been given by Mr Agliontry,
to
facilitate the recovery of tenements after the due deteriuinatiou
of the tenautcy,
Mr. B. FOP n was called to the chair, and opened the busi-
ness Of the evening by stating sannewha,t in detail the objection-
able nature of Sir Harry Vernev's bill. The committee of the
association, he observed, since their last meeting in December,
agreeable with the instruction given them, hail corresponded
with the various associations of the towns of Manchester, Bris-
tol, and Birmingham, and also the metropolitan parishes, and
it appeared by the whole to be thought desirable that petitions
should be sent from Liverpool in support of the object of the
association. Anil since that meeting he had received a copy of
the contemplated act. the first clause of which made it impera
tive on the chuichwarilens and overseers of every parish in Etw.-
land and Wales, and all the afficers whose duty it might lie to
rate all property of the value of £6 and downwards. That was,
the first clause; and though it night not set iouslv affect Liver-
pool, it would affect the agricultural' districts and the towns in
the neighbourhood, and he would oppose it with the same
vigour as if it affected their own town. (Hear, hear, hear.)
The second clause gave discretionary power to the guardi ins or
overseers of any parish that might crone under the operatiou of
the new weir law, to rate the owners of properly of the annual
value or £2O, anti down to £6, instead of the tenants; and of
course %%heir the new poor law came into operation in Liverpool,
they would he at the mercy of the guardians. The next clause
;rave the occupier power to dedUct the sums paid in rates from.
the reat. Tile fourth clause had the affect of disfranchising the
occupier of that description of property, and gave to the owners
the powers of which he was dispossessed in parochial affairs.
Now, in Liverpool there were somewhere about 21,000 houses,
the occupants af which would be disfranchised by that bill; and
looki»g at that fact, he (amid not imagine why suet' an attempt
.should be made to grind the rates out of them,though indirectly,
and then give them no voice in their disposal. 'Tat was un'inst
and intolerable. and he knew not what their Reform Associa-
lion would say to it at its meeting next week, for he believed
they were to hold a meeting, praying that all should be given
an equal right to vote; but if this bill of Sir Harry Verney's
passed it would do away with that right in very imimrt int af-
fairs. lie would venture to say, it' that bill came iutooperition,
that the( Cottage Owners') Association could rule the parish
htfairs, spite even of the merchants, just as they liked; lint
he hoped the day would not come when the parochial affairs
would be entrusted to one setmf Men, as was contemplated by
the bill of Sir Harry Verney. \Vhen that association met at
the Bell to oppose the act then its operation, it was found that
there were upwards of 11,000 nouses paying rents under £lO per
annum, about 7500 paying £l5, and but about 3joo warehouses
and larger h anies paying higher rents; and, therefore, from that
alonr, if this hill passed, it would be evident that that very so-
ciety could take possession "f the select vestries, and they could
do as they liked; though he was one of the members of that so-
ciety, he must confess that that was a power which be thought they
ought not to possess. for hi! vv sushi rather see the powers given
equally In all. (Hear, hear.) lie would call tit it attetyiem to
another clause. By the filth clause it appeared that that bill
did oat disfranchise lite irceunier, so far as respected the parlia-
mentary and municipal franchise. but it gave them the privi-
lege of being rated if they demanded it, to give them the fran-
chise under the reform bill and the municipal bill; and, there-
fore, -if th:, tenants chose to pay the rates themselves, they
might have the privilege of voting, but if those rates mete paid
1, 0,...,the instrumentality of the landlord, he thought they
would not be entitled to a vote. The clause in that respect was
ambiguous. 'rite next was the sixth clause, and really if these
were the words of Sir Harry Verney, he eavied hint not the
heart he possessed. for it took ;away the powerenjoyed by magis-
trates or exempting from the poor rates where the parties were
in poverty. lie cared not what Sir Harty
Verney's politics
might be—be believed they were libetul, soda pretty specimen
of liberality it was, amid after that he thought Sir Ilarry Verne)*
cotiiii scarcely return to his constituents and tell them that he
had done hlt that he could to ease the burdens of the poor—(ap-
plause)-for it was openly and palpably an attempt to crush
and grind them down. lie (Mr. Ford) was not an enemy to that
party to which Sir Harry Verney belonged. nor was he entirely
with them, but he should be sorry to see those with whom be
in any measure agreed in politics placed in the equivocal post-
lion of supporting a bill so wrong in principle. (Hear.) After
goini, through the hill of Sir H. Verney in the way he had done
except the explanation clause, and from the explanation they
had had they had heard enough to satisfy them it was bad, ,
thoroughly bad; he thought he might say that in Liverpool its
effects would be so injurious that the legislature had better at
once confiscate their property and transfer it to the parochial
board without troubliog them. The bill was exceedingly
paitial, and they ought not to put up with it. They were ail
aware that during the time a somewhat similar bill was in
operation in Liverpool, the association formed to oppose it num-
bered 400 members; but if this bill passed and caine into
operation, he doubted not they should form an association still
greater, and that it would he formed, as the overseers made the '
rates, that the rate-payers would flock to the standard of that
associaiiiin. If that bill passed. he Was confident every large
town would hild its meetings to obtain its repeal; anal he hoped
in Liverpool the owners of cottage pope' ty would stand firmly
and determinately. ( Hear.) There was one circumstance he
wished to call to their minds respecting the operation of that
bill, and it was one they ought uot to neglect oft that occasion.
They were aware that the landlords became severe in enforcip,
their rents, and that increased the rules, until the inhabitants of •
the town preferred to have the bill repealed. Amid it would be
fresh in their recollection that when they were considering the
necessity, the absolute necessity, of convincing the parochial
authorities that they had the power to double or treble the rates,
that it was contemplated, and God forbid that he should ever see
it done, to distraiu upon every tenant who was in arrear with
his rent ; and out of froat 10,000 to 12 000 tenants at least 8000 '
were in that condition. What, then, would have been the con-
sequence? Why, that from six to seven thousand
fatnilies—
not persons—or probably more, for time were two and some-
times three families huadled together in some of those houses,
would be thrown on the parish ; and where would be the saving
then by that act of parliament? Why, instead of Is. 91. in the
pound, as at first, the rate became 7s , Ss., and even 10s. in the
pound. They said at first that the attempt was a dangerous one,
and now the question arose whether they should submit 'to this
new bill or make a united and determ;ned struggle against it.
He trusted they would do all in their power to prevent Sir
Harry Verney's bill being carried. It would appear that cot-,
tages were an eye-sore to the upper classes, but he trusted that
the inectiug would do all it could to protect the working classes,
who were the back-bone of Eagland. (Great applause.)
Mr. Muunow, Jun., then, at the request of the chairman,
read the following '
Report of the cuturnittee a the " Liverpool House trod Cottage
Owners' Associat

THE LATE ROBBERY IN LEATHER LANE.

The committee, appointed by the members of this association'
at a meeting held on the Ist day of December lasi, after a care-
ful and diluent reading of Sir Harr) Verney's bill, have come
unanimously to the following conclustons.
Firstly,—That the bill in its principle is partial and unjust,
affecting the vested rights of the owners of property wiitru its
sphere, and will also prove highly injurious .and arlitiary to the
tenant ; partial as affecting one class of landlords only, making
a distinction where none ought to exist, and for which no pre-
cedent can he found, in taxing that part of :he property which
before they held flee, untaxed, and uncontrolled ; unjust, as it
will compel the owner to pa) his tenants' rates whether he re-
ceives them or not.
Secondly,—That this hill, by its stern and dictatorial legis-
lation to the owner, precludes the remotest Chance of any lenity
being- shown to a tenant who may happen to be in arrears; its
effect will destroy all kind, benevolent, and generous feeling,
which communication and acquaintance gives birth to, and
cements, such as sul.sisis between landlord and tenant, it being
out of the common nature of things, that any one can.so far for-
get his self-interest, or the duties he may owe to his f tinily. as
to forget rent due, with the fact staring him in the roc, , that
he must pay the defaultets' fates also. Let anyone judge of tlie
extreme hardship of this case, it will lie no better than tiched
from his pocket by a legislation to which he is opposed, and
considers partial and unjust. It is a well -known fact, that
in
times of depression of trade, infectious dis'oders, domestic cala-
mities or bereavements,'t that the owners of property within the
operation of this bill, have not only forgiven rent due, but have
sympathized with, and assisted their poor unfortunate tenants.
Will they, if compelled, by such an unfeeling, dogmatical, and
dictatorial bi.l, to pay, and at the same time to be reconciled
to their loss, will they sympathise and assist? No. Their
kinder feelings will be turned into bitterness and severity, and
the poor tenant, owed by his goaded landlord, will be driven to
take the most repugnant course to au honest mind, the relie
due to a pauper by his parish.
'Thirdly,— Phis committee are convinced, that the hill in
question will put a stop the further erection of tenements
adapted for the poor. and the result may easily be foreseen, the
rents of the buildings now erected will be raised. in Many cases
•too high for the poor artisan to pay, his family will consequently
be driven to some loathsome cebar or dilapidated garret, or
perhaps to herd with others equally as destitute: crime wilt by
this means find endless resources to till tier ranks and pander to

EXTRAORDINARY CHAIN OF EVIDENCE.

recently gave a report of the robbery of a gentleman
named Clarke. a silk thruwster at Macclesfield, of two £lOO.
nol'es, and a £6O. note, by a dissolute female at a house in Lea-
ther-lane. lie had arrived in Liverpool On Friday, the first of
December, and put up at the A'ellinaton Hotel, in Dale-street.
That night, as he was _walking iu Dale•st reel, he met the girl
Sandi t,,e6eston, who induced trim to go home with her to a
n„l„ri,,t,s house in Leather-lane. Here sae contrived to rob
himol two mites for .1:10t). each, one note for f.,50. and several
gns. Site was committed by Mr. Hall and tried at the
tt;iteruiediate sessions, when she was found guilty and sell-
membered, tha the woman who kept the lions., and who was
Stide7lte i.Cetll to. font teen years' trauspoitation. it will also be re-
missing, Was supposed to have received the money from the pri-
soner Sarah Eccieston, as it was not to be found Since then
traie iaaceei thers i
lillpolice have been actively engaged endeavouringt
received inrorniatlon that a ticrsou, who was weil known4o
the police, had purchasedhoOse in Birmingham-,for which
iitr'(t i'
ing s. A short time a.zo Messrs. Whitt y and Dow.
Purpose he had changed a note for 1:100.
i BH
t t 11,-.), immediately
hich he might leceive. The result of his
exertions was the a ppreheosion of a man familiarly known by
the name of Bid LeotteY• The latter formerly kept a tap at the
coiner of Marble street, and sut4sequently he has, in 'conjanc-
lion with another person. taken a tavern somea here in Scot-
rrivaith v "active officer, to act upon any
ft
it, the hope of having the licence transferred to him.
lie has limit been known to the police as connected with
what is technically; denominated the ring," and has been cog-
viciedof felony. •
en m„„any Looney was placed before Mr.- Hall, charged
with having been concerned in the robbery Molded to. Mess's.
Crewe & Davenport both attended on his behalf.
The gentleman who was robbed, stated tiri particulars of the
case as he had previously detailed them. He further staled,
that he hail Ecceived five hundred pound notes, and one fifty,
front Messrs. Bindless and Preston, of Manchester. 11e ar-
rived in Liverpool at three ()Mock, He had paid "ay £U.).
itt Liverpool, and the balance remained in his pocket.
Mr. Needham, a clerk anti cashier in the service of Messrs.
Bindless and Preston, Of Manchester, stated, that he paid the
last witness £550. in notes The numbers of the notes were co-
pied by :mother clerk.
Mr. Murray read a memorandum which he had made, in
which ilwas set forth that the notes were. No. 1-1:311. Bank of
England, for the sum of ElOO; dated 28-h Febt nary. 1837. No.
8116, Bank of England, for the sum of £l01; dated February,
-1837. No. 152, Batik of Manehester, for the stun 4.1 £5O; dated
1-Ith February, 1831, No. 2256, Bank of Manchester, for £100;
dated 341 August, 1836. No. 2910, Bank of Manchester, for
£100; dated Ist August, 1835. The last-named bill, it was
stated, was that which had been traced to the prisoner. The
above hills were paid to the prosecutor by Mr. Needham, iu the
nu ntier
tc,ilitt‘tiht Isis)
it:rah,eidn(s)atei
iwis produced and
presence of witness. He. witness, had put their own private
hauled
it was ono of the
notes which had been paid to the • • ' prosecutor, but the private
number had been cut if. .

her wants.
Fourthly,—This committee are assured, and tearless of any
contrailicion or inquiry, state, :hat it the tIAVDers of tltJ descrip-
tion of property named in this bill are compelled to pay lieir
tenants' rates, double the amount of the expectant rates will be
added to the rents, so as to enah:e the landlord to cover his losses.
This can be better shown by an example : If the tenant of No.
1 pays his landloru's demand, and the tenant at No. 2 does not,
the owner will not lose, because he has added to the rent of No.
1 doub,e the rates; thus the honest will be made to pay the debts
of the idle, profligate, and dissipated. The glaring injustice
needs not to be shown. The owner will be excused and excul-
pated by all men—the blame only being attached to and arising
from, the operation of an unjust and tyrannical. act of parlia-

Mr. Llarison, a clerk in the Bank of Manchester, after look-
ing at the note stated, that he recollected dating it on the Ist of
August. The date was in his handwriting. 1.3 v Mr. Bail—
There was never more than one note of the same number issued
on the s•trne date. The note was now cancelled.

went.
Fifthly.—lt appears to this committee very unjust that the
owners of properly, who run the greater risk, are more .exposed
to insult, labour, aud losses in the collection of their rents, should
be compelled to collect the parochial rates, whtrai owners of large
property, not subject to any such rates, the returns from which
are in all cases more certain, and attended with less labour
in the collection, should be exempt. This distinction
ous they
cannot look upon but with feelings of repugnance, jeally,
and deep indignation, as a distinction highly injudicious and im-
politic.
Sixthly,—This committee are fully and recently acquainted
with the operations of an act, in its effects similar to one now
under t heir consideration. It was a bill procured about seven years
ago for this parish. In the first year of its working.the rates were
raised from IS 9d to 2s 64 the second year. It was afterwards
repealed by the unanimous consent of the most numerous vestry
meeting ever held in Liverpool, and at the expense of the parish.
It caused peiverty to become unexampled. landlords severe in the
extreme. continual opposition ;And hickerings, and an odium lasl.-
jug and unforgotten.
Seveuthly,—The committee beg leave Instate, that they have
acted upon the suggestion given them as to corresponding it ith the
associations in other towns. from which they hope to effect a unity
of purpose and a strength of operation, and they recommend
that a deputation be stout to London to assist other deputations
from other towns.
Eighthly,—The committee cannot sufficiently express their
indignation at the attempt now making by this bill to rob the
owner of property aithin its operation, by a partial confiscation
of their property for the parochial rates, and they recommend
that a petition' be sent to the House of Commons, praying for
a rejectien of -the bill.
Mr. KN APPRR, the treasurer to the association, then rose to
move the first resolution, together with those subsequently agreed
to, and the seveial petitions, will be foiled in mot' arivertislng
columns. tie said. after what hail fallen from the chairman, in
it is very stole address -to that meeting, he could.have hut very
• Well, say. But of that most hateful, and detestable. and pesti-
ferous bill ho must beg permission to make one or two remarks.
In the first place. then, he would venture to stote that il was un-
just in prineiple--(hear, hear )—inasmuch as it makes one law
for one description of persons:nod another for the other. ( Ilear )
Equal laws and equal justice ought to be dispensed to all men
indiscriminatelv—flicar, heart—but in that this bill failed.
Again, it was inquisitorial : it looked into the innermost recesses
of every man's property and every man's interests ;a nil, inas-
much as it did that. he most nuequivovally stated that it was in-
quisiobriaL and that also it way tMeilllStitUtiOnd, and ht (Ike
into the on constituted laws of the country— ( hear)—and,
tiq Night add, that it was oppressive, and ground to the very

Mr. Whittenbury B;med. that he was now a ca,bi9r at the
Imperial Bank of Manchester. The note produced bore his
signature. It was ❑ow cancelled, and consequently not in cir-
culation.

the Walsall Bank. The prisoner and Thompson were in the
house, and he pail the £95 to Looney, remaining accountable
to Follows f:r the £5 retained by Mr.. Rot heroin.. By Air. Da-
venport.—ile had no conversation with Looney. He was per.
fectly sore !hat the prisoner wits the loon. By Mr. Hall,—He
(witue,s) did not ounce therrainber, but he requested Rotheram_
to notice it. He said he could not attend tmi it, as he was busy.
but he requested Rotheram " to take the dimensions of it.."
Mr. Rotor-rain t ed, titit he was a tint tier merchant, at Bir-
mingham. On the 9th Deceintier he went to Mr. Birth and
asked hint to lend hint £5 for an hour itr two. 'kir. Birch sail
he could not, tint if he would get change fora £l(.) blithe would
be accountable for £5. He undertook to get change. kik wife
usually posted up his accounts for him. Hetook the note home,
and read it to his wife while she Made a record of it. He alter-
wards compared the memorandum With the bill. Witness pro-
duced the memorandum and read " No. 2910, £lOO, Bank of
Manchester, dated Ist August, 18.31, payable on demand to
Joseph Dennison, Esq., drawn by W. Witittenbury. Received
from Jas. Birch." Witness sent Mrs. Rotheram to the Borough
Bank of Binning:ham and told her to pity iu £2O and receive
the balance. She went, :Ind brought back ES), in sixteen £5
notes of the Bank or Walsall. He paid those with some other
notes, including a Bank of England note for £lO, making the
amount £95, to Mr. Birch.
Mrs. Rotheram stated that she received the hill from her
husband and took it to the Borough Bank, where she paid it,
leaving in the bank £2J and receiving sixteen £5 notes of the
Bank of Walsall. She gave the notes to her husband. She
made the mentmandum of the note, and compared it with the
note afterwards.
Mr. Goode, of the Borough Bank, stated that he received the
note in question from Mrs. Rol heroin. He'plated it in the
local drawer, and it was sent to London that night, but not by
him. Mr. Goode examined the note, anti identified it. He
could recollect it welt, because he bad no other note of the
Bank of Manchester at that time.

Wrighton stated that Mr. Goode gave him thC note
from the drawer to copy. The witness lead the copy, which
tallied exactly with the bill. He put it amongst the rest of the
n!d'es.,ou the d:•sk and left it for. his employer to ?noose and
send to Loudon, but he could not say whether in a parcel or iu
a letter.

Mr. Tomlin proved that he had received ft em the prnsecutor.
in this town, on the Ist December, £3OO in Bank notes of .E.lOO
each. One was No. 8116. B.tuk of England, for £lOO, dated
London, 30th October, 1837; another No. 14,367, -Bank of
h;nt►land, for £lOO, London, March 2,1; and the third No.
2780, Bank of Manchester, for £lOO, Manchester, August 1,
all 18.37. •
Mr. Joseph Richards stated, that he kept the Royal Exchange
public-house, in Birmingham. On the 9th of Deeember •the
prisoner and Thowpson dined at his house. After dinner they
went out. They came hack at six o'clock. Looney had a horse
with him, and requested hint (witness) to put it up for him in
the stable, which he did. The prisoner owed lion El I Is. for a
cask of ale which he had sent to Liverpool. Ile changed three
£5 notes of the Walsall • Bank, and paid him. lie (witness)
saw a Bank of England note in the prisoner!s hand.and a roll
of hills. •
Mr. Dowling produced the note. On the 29th December he
received hat note from the Bank of Manchester. Ile made
applicition for the note, stating the number and date, and found
that they had received it from London. They cancelled the
bill and entrusted it to him.

Mr. liarr,s,m nail Mr. Whittenbury were re-called and re-
examined by Mr. Ball, touching the Possibitity of two notes Of
one number being issued on the saute day. Both those gentle-
men stated, that it was impossible.
Bradshaw, an inspector of police. stated, that information
ha7ing been received that Looney had chanued a bill lor ZUJO
iu Birmingham, in the purchase of a horse, he, by direction
from Mr. Dowling and Mr. W tufty. went to inquire into the
circumstances. tiliving discovered sufficient to throw suspicion
on the prisoner. he proceeded to search him. Bradshaw de-
tailed the circumstances or his pursuit, slid stated, that he at
length found him at a tavern called the Broekles Arms, some-
where in the vicinity of Birmingham. It was on Christmas
night when he found the prisoner. tie was in the midst of a
convivial company, and was stretched on litre or four chairs
near the fire (pile at his ease. tie told the prisaner that Ire
"was wanted,' and the latter, who perfectly understood the
meaning. of this significant phrase, sat I, " wt.at for." Brad 7
shaw told him. The prisoner said he had nothing whatever to
do with the £101) rote. It was Thompson's. Thompson bought
the horse, and paid him £l5 which he owed him, Be brought
him to Liverpool and lodged him in Bridewell. On the follow-
ing Wednesday the prisoner sent for him, and told him that he
might as well.tell the truth. The note hail been given to him
by a person, and Thompson hail snatched it front hint. The
witness was examined by Mr. Davenport, as to the reason why
he had not taken Thompson. Bradshaw-said he went iu pur-
suit of Thompson, whim he accidentally saw him on the rood,
about five miles from Birminohain. Thompson was on horse-
back, and he (witness) was in a gig. The former galloped off
when he saw him, and he pushed on in pursuit of him. In the
race the gig was overturned, and the fellow got away.
Mr. 11 lA, after some consultation with Mr. Dowling and
Mr. Shutt leworth, said, he should send off for another witness
from Birmingham. who would furnish another link to the evi-
deuce. The witness would probalil) arrive on the fallowing
day. In the mean time the prisoner was•reinanded..
Air. HAIL turned to the prosecutor. and, addressing Into by
name, said —" see, sir, the enormous expense to which
your egregious folly has.solijiicted the public purse. You are
aware, sir, that I know ever% eiremnstAnee of the case, and I
must tell you that I feel perfectly disgusted with your cianiurt.
You ought to be perfectly ashamed of showing your face in
society. There is an enormous expense incurred by your con-
duct, and I only wish 1 had authority to make you pay every
shilling."

COURT OF PASSAGE.
LIABILITY OF SHERIFFS' OFFICERS AND THE SERGEANT AT

MACE

EVERAII 0 V. Roscov..
This was an action brought against Wm. Stanley Roscoe,
the Sergeant at Mace, for an alleged escape and neglect of
duty of one of his officers, in the arresting of James Moore, a
horse-dealer..
It was stated by the learned counsel for the plaintiff, that the
constitution of the office of Sergeant at Mace is similar to that
of Sheriff. Two bailiffs are appointed by the former, and their
appointment is similar to that of sheriff's officer, as they have to
give a bond to the Serjeant at Mace in a similar manner, in
order to indemnify the Sergeant at Mace in case of any loss or
misbehaviour on their parts. The names of these two borough
bailiffs are Henry Hilton and William Kirby, the latter being
in point of fact the real defendant in the action,
It appeared t luit James Moore, an Irish borse•dealer, was in
the habit of lowing up at the Iwot, of Mrs. Mary Bat tley, who
kept a house, the sign of the Ship Launch, in Ke:-street.
Dlting the period of his stay at this house he was arrested for
the amount of a horse license. He borrowed the money to pay
the debt from Mr 3. Bartley, and thus became indebted to her,
including the amount of board art't lodging, £2G. 19s. 3d. Mrs.
Bartley died in 1837, and in her books the above debt appeared
recorded against Moore. As the executor had applied several
times, for payment, without effect, he determined to arrest him.
The plaintiff having received information that :More was coin-
ing to Liverpool with same hoses in September last, he went
down to the pier with a friend and met hint, when he demanded
the money. As the answer he received was unsatisractory, a
writ was issued against Moore for the sum. It was given to
Kirby, and he hail orders immediately to follow Moore down to
the Mitre Inn, and arrest him, as he was going to leave the
town. Kirby said he would follow as soon as the writ had been
entered; but be did not follow at all but sent his man, who fail-
in; to find Me ore at the Mitre followed to the Black Bull and
through the markets, without better success. At length they
found him at the Black Bull, but he knocked down the plaintiff,
who attempted to detain him. and ran out of the house followed
by Kirby's loan, Duckett, He took Moore in the Haymarket,
but he escaped from him. After searehing, for him till half-past
ten o'clock. Duckett refused to try any further. Ile took the
writ to Kirby, and told hitri what had occurred. The latter
abused the user.and pushed hint out of the house. _ _

The learned Assessor in the coniseOftilistrial, remarked
that there was no excuse for an officer pleading th,.►t. he had not
sufficient hands, as the public were not to lose their chance of
arresting for such frivolous excuses.

The fitly returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages—
£26. 18$. 3.1. Attorney for the plaintiff, Mr. Pedder.

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TILE INSTITUTION SOIREE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIPERPOOL ST:iINIMRD.
DmAit —M) sister Emily and I
have just reunited front
the Institution Sutter., and now that we have sent away our
maid, and got our house done up, and all things comfortable,
we are determined before we go to bed to give you our Own Mile
account of the proceedings; but you must be sure not to print
soy thin,* we say about ourselves, but just work it all over
again, as "if it was out of your own head, only you cannot be
supposed to understand these things as well as we do.
Papa proutised to take us about a week ago, and Emily and
I were to tie dressed alike, that is, not quite exactly, because
dear Emily is a year younger than I ant, and is not out yet, but
we both wore pink dresses and our hair was braided alike, but
still there was a difference, and the beauty of it is, that you
could not find it out. Mademoiselle A thalte declared we were
"Mises a va.vir," and you know her authority cannot be dis-
puted.
It was rather late when we arrived, for Papa gorinto an ar-
gument about that odious Canadian war, that took all the officers
Iron the Chester halt, and we had Meat difficulty in getting
into the lecture room, and were quite too lute to hear Mr.
Walker's address, which we were very sorry for, for he is a very
nice man, and a good conservative, and had on a very nice
waistcoat and kid gloves, and looked just as a gentleman ought
to do, and so did Mr Brooks Yates, only he wore an ugly
brOwn silk cravat with pink stripes, which you may just hint
does not become him.
Next to these gentlemen, the principal persons there*peared

. . . ..
to kw. two aldermen, who sat beside each other ott the steps, and
seemed very affectionate to each other, and I was told their
names were Barclay and Coglan. Mr. Barclay is not a nice
man at all, and he stared at us with a loiguette, and I thought
at one time Papa was going to be very .an;lry with him; and
...

some yitung gentlemen who sat behind laughing very
much about some story they were telling, but I couldimi ex-
actly make it out, and dare nut repeat what. I did hear—only it
was about 4r. Barclay.

Thomas Faßows; a horse-dealer, of Skinner-street, Birming- When Mi.. Walker' had done, a little gentleman began to
ham, stated. that on Saturday, the 9;h of December last, he lecture. 1 do not know exactly who he was, bui his hair was
sold a horse to the prisoner Looney. On that day. Looney and beautifully curled, and 1 wonder, now that dear old Tetley has
a man named Thompson called at his place, and asked him if retired from business with a Withi) of money, who be gets to
he had a horse suitable for general purposes, either for gig, sad- curt it so nicely fur him. He told us all about primitive rocks
dle, or cart. Ile asked ahem to walk in, snot ht.); at what he and secondary, tertiary, and alluvial, and he said that granitic
had in his stables. • They went into the st *hies, and he showed I rocks were io lumpy masses, liable to disintegration when long
them a horse.which he said they might have fur £lB. Thom p- exposed to the action of the atmosphere; then he took up a
son said he wished to ride the horse to try it, lout Looney pulled long stick, and I was aft aid he was going to point rout Alderman
out a mie hundred pound note, and sating the horse wit,: for i Barclay with it, for a granitic work. auif 1 fancy the Alderman
him, tendered it in payment. He (witness) said he was a very was afraid too, for he gout lip and walked out of the room, his
bad se-toiler, and, did not understand much about those matters; shoes creaking as he went, and we were very glad that he was
they had better send it up to the back too he changed. They gone, he stared so.
sent up his !Jolting man to the bank. The latter returned, att.! And then the lecturer drank :: glass of water, or eau sucrk, I
said the bank refused to cash it, unless some person we'll. whom I don't know which; he told IA all about Montt Blanc, Vesuvius,
they knew. Ultimately they got the note cashed. and he was Etna, the Giant's Causeway, the Andes, awl many outlet things
paid for the horse by Looney about half-past five o'clock. 1 can't remember, but Emily can, for she is a hot of a bate, and
Looney paid him three £5. notes of the Walsall Bank, and Mr. does the scientific part of this. letter. He ietainded me so much
Birch remained accountable to him for £5. which he retained, of the cook at Madame Amidon's when she used to cut the
and he (witness) returned Looney £2. 10s• On his cross-exa- onions for the soup. the dry toast, and the cake with the same
initiation by Mr. Davenport, the witness said he knew Thump- knife, and they all tasted alike. for he spoke French, German,
son by sight—he kept a public-house in Birmingham. He had and Italian, and you could not tell them at all. they all tasted
left Birmingham recently, and he (witness) did not know what 'so strung of Scotch. And when he had talked a great while,
hado•become of him. he gave over, and we were very glad to go up stalls ; and then
John Claike stated, that he was in the service of Mr. Fallows. we had such.a pleasant evening, there were such nice beaux
',mules, gave him the wile which he had offered to Mr. Follows there, and Bondy and I had a whole circle of them round us, and
for the horse, and told him to lake it to the bank to be cashed. they talked, and we talked, and we kept them alt away from
He (witness) said, "if they ask for any poundage, non Ito pay that odious Mttry B.; and we had each a CUP of tea upon a
it ?" Looney said, " No, of course not ; it is for 1:100, and I mummy case, with areal Mummy in it—only fancy how horrible
most have £lOO for it." 11, went back to Mx Birch's, where and romantic, Emily declares she shall never sleep for thinking
they were all too meet. lie gave the note to Mr. Birch, and Mr. of it, and eve were shocked with an eleetro rhavwfie machine,
Bir-li gave it to Mr Hotheram. SO delogLtfully; a certain young gentleman and 1 looked over
Mr. Birch stated, thar he kept the King's Arms at Birming- a book together. I don't know what it was about, anti at 'last
ham. lie recollected 'be parties coming to his house. and he Papa said it was time to go home; Si) this young gentleman
was asked to cash the EMU note which Clarke brought back, shawled me and took me to the carriage, and asked me if he
but he was linable to do it. Mt. liofterain at that manient • thonaht 1 should—hot I won't tell you all.
came in, and 4,k,d him tit lend him £5. Ile said he coold not Dear me, it is growing very late. and Emily looks sleepy in
'do that, but if Mr. Rothe-ant .would get change for a £lOO note spite of the mummy, and 1 stn quite ashamed of myself that I
wilt. h a frieliti of his rrquired to have coshed. he would lel hum have sat no until this hour of the morning writing too yom, but,
have £5. and be answerlibie for it. He thought Mr Rolberam dear Mr. Editor, be sure you du not print It. )(ours, 8/e.
could get it cashed at his own hankers. Mr. Botheram went . CU AltLavr E.
away •with the mite, and brought. back .05, chiefly in bills of Abetcromby-square, Thurs. morn. 2 o'clock.

LIVERPOOL BPI'

The Geoeral Borough Sess

before Jdnies C:dlke, Esq.. 11.

took his seat at ten o'clock.
of thirty one prisoners fur f«
and aszults. The following.
tote the grand jury:—
Win. Brandrelli, Forcinan
Thomas Barger
James Alison

Richard Bryans, jun.
William Dixon, jun.
James Duncan
William Hadfield
Joshua Heap
Thomas Hobson
William Hope
Robert Johnson

Thomas Jevons

The usual forms of the court having been gone.._
Learned Recorder proceeded to deliver his charge to the fol-
lowing effect had, he said, extreme satisfaction in in.;
forming them th&t,.tu proportion with the business which fre-
quently devolved upon grand juries at that court, their duties
would be comparatively light. He had looked over the caleu,
dar, and there was searcetr a case whieh called for observation.,
They were the ordivary class of felons, and the good sense of
the grand jury would enable them to overcome any trifling
difficulties. which might present themselves. These was one
case, hi), ever, on which is would be his duty to make a few
remarks, as points of law mould arise in trifling cases, as well
es those that were important. Tile case to which he alluded
stood No. 17 in the Calendar. The committing magistrate had
very properly, on re-consideration of the case, altered his
opinion respecting it. The prisoner was, in the first instance,
committed fur having received a qoantity of Vothes knowing
them to be stolen. She would, however, come before them foe
stealing the property The judges had very prop-rly held
that obtaining goods from a carrier by any trick or misrepre-
sentation, constituted the crime of stealing. The carrier had
the goods in his charge to deliver, and if he was deprived of
the goods by any party who made a false representation to him,
the owner was thereby depritied of them, and the individual
so obtaining the goods was held by law to be guilty of the crime
of stealing; and it Was so in fact, for if they considered the va-
!ions modes in which felonies were committed, by force and
fraud. by juggling anti trickery, it was evident that this was
one of the stratagems emitioyed, and that so ter obtain goods was
felony. The ease No. IT,they would find, involved -his rin-
cipl s The party went and said " 1 3111 sent for this property,"
and thereby obtained it. It was at first called a case of obtain.
leg goods under raise pretences, but the committing magistrate
had since, eery properly, held that it was a case of stealing.
Uwe; his arrival here, he made very anxious inquiries as to
whether there were any cases of stealing by warehousetnen.
He found there were none, and he was very glad of it, Ware,
hunsemen were in places of confidence. entrusted with large
quantities of property. and the offence of stealing that property
was
.enhenced by the facility with which it could be removed.
He wished it to be well understood, that warehousemen had nci
right, under any circumstances. to sell the property of their
employers. They Might endeavour to palliate it to themselves'
by considering' it a were sale, but in the law it was felony,
he considered it felony of the worst description, and the party
or parties who purchased such property were involved in the
crime of stealing. Those who tampered with men in any man'
nor to incite or induce them to the commission of such an act,
were guilty of one of the hi hest description of crimes against
soviets. Lii mk at the resisinsibility of the warehousetn 'is, and
at the sort of situation which he held. Undiscovered crimes
might go on for years. If persons. charged with this description
of offence, came before him, he must put the law in force
against them, whatever their previous situation in life or cha-
racter might have been. However respectable, thouels it might
be a paiuful and bitter task to him, he held it out to the town
of Liverpool, that he would do inflexible justice. He had the
satisfaction of knowing that he was supported by her Majestv'd
Government and it was, therefore his duty to say, that he
should adiniuister the law, in such cases, with the greatest se,
verity.

The cases tried have very recently been fully bef,re the pub,
lie in the form of pollee reports. They were generally of surf
trivtal interest, that we du not deem it necessary to enumerate
them.