The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-WEDNESDAY

BRANOKER AND ANOTHER V. MOLYNEUX.
Mr. Sergeant Channel! moved for a rule to show cause why
the verdict which had passed for the plaintiff in this case
should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered. The action,
which had been tried twice before, was again tried before
Lord Denman, at the last Liverpool assizes, and the main
question in the cause was the validity of the title of the plain.
tiffs, as assignees of Messrs. llumberston and Frodsham, who
became bankrupts on the ltith of June, 1837, the point being,
whether there was a sufficient proof of a petitioning-creditor's
debt. The fiat was issued on the petition of one Thomas
Roberts ; and on the trial before Lord Denman the plaintiffs
put in an order of the Court of Review, dated May 25,1839,
by which the joint debt of two other persons, merchants and
co-partners, was substituted for the debt of the original
petitioning creditor, Roberts. 1t appeared, on cross-exami-
nation, that this order had been amended only ten days before
the third trial took place, and three objections were made on
the part of the defendant to this amended order—first, that
it did not appear from the order that the petitioning creditors
were creditors who had proved their debts before the applica-
tion in the Court; secondly, that the order must be taken to
speak from the time of the amendment made, and not from
its original date ; and thirdly, that supposing a court of law
could not inquire into the order, and the time and circum-
stances under which it was made, that the order itself was
not sufficient on the face of it. Lord Denman said he should
not stop the case, although he thought there was great weight
in the objections, and the learned serjeant now reiterated
them, citing " Muskett v, Drummond," 10 B. and C., 153 ;
" Christie v. Unwin," 11 Ad. and Ell., 373; and "Ayrton v.
Davis," 3 Moore and Scott, 183.
The Court granted the rule.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM.—The lecture of Mons. Lafontaine,
on animal magnetism, delivered in tne Portico Concert-
room, on Wednesday night, was very amu co of
acting; buts to the principles laid down by tbe lecturer. it may
be said that what were new were not true, and that what were
true were not new. The audience, after having seen the lee_
turer fail in four attempts to produce his pretended effects
upon as many gentlemen, came to an unanimous resolut
that the whole was a piece of humbug.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Three suspicious looking young
men, in rather tattered attire, were yesterday brought before
Mr. Rushton, at the police-court, on a charge of robbing an
old man on the highway of upwards of £4. The complainant,
who was clad in the humblest attire of the pisantry of the
sister isle, when they return from their autumnal labours,
and who did not appear to be worth sixpence, said, in true
Irish brogue, that a gang of eight men, amongst whom were
the prisoners, had come up to him three or four miles on the
other side of Prescot, when he was on his way to this port,
i and after promising him a job of work n the neighbourhood,
attacked him and robbed him of his money—which he de-
scribed. 4s the case was not within Mr. Rushton's juris-
diction, the prisoners were sent to a county magistrate's
office, and will probably be committed for trial at the pending
Kirkdale sessions.

ASSAULT ON A SERVANT GIRL, BY A RESPECTABLE
FEMALE.—At the Police-court yesterday Mrs. Gill, wife of
a boot-maker in Crown-street, appeared to answer a sum-
mons for an assault on a servant girl named Rosamond
Fairhurst. The complainant said, she had been ten years in
the employ of Mr. Hughes, who lived next door to the
defendant. There was a common and narrow passage between
the two houses behind, where she had long been accustomed
to shake the carpets. While she was occupied in shaking a
kitchen carpet there three days ago, the defendant came out,
called her a dirty slut, and afterwards came out and threw
the contents of two buckets upon her, the last of which—
chamber slops—(of a most unsavoury odour, as we under-
stood her)—completely drenched her through! Mrs. Brown,
who had been twenty-five years in Mr. Hughes' service,
corroborated the facts, stating that the girl was completely
drenched through, and her shoes filled by the last bucketful.
She (witness) merely said to defendant that she was asto-
nished she should do such a thing ; for if she had shown
that that was not a proper place in which to shake the car-
pets, as they had long been accustomed to do, and considered
they had a right, they would take them elsewere.—The
defendant said, she had often cautioned the girl not to shake
them there, but she persisted. She had, she said, only
thrown a small quantity of slops, which she happened to
have in her hand at the time, on the lower part of the com-
plainant's dress. Mr. Hughes said that the complainant
was wet through.—Mr. Rushton fined the defendant 20s.
and costs for the assault, and advised her in future to treat
young people of her own sex in a more becoming manner.
YANKEE POLICE RE Caesar, the
younger, a dirty looking negro loafer, was charged with bat-
tering the face of a decent looking white man. The com-
plainant in this case said, he was a votary of Apollo, anglice
a travelling fiddler, and that Julius Caesar, with a party of
negroes, wanted him to play " Jem along Josey which
proposal offended the dignity of the scraper of catgut, and he
replied disdainfully, " We takes no insults nor plays no
tunes to no niggers," and then a row was enacted, in which
the fiddler got his eyes put out of tune. Julius Caesar was
acquitted.—New York Herald.