The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-05 00:00:00

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Ju Lir 5, 1836.

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

MR. W. FARREN,
0.1 the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, is engaged for Ten Nights,
and will make his second appearance here this season th►s
Evening• in his original characters of Erasmus Bookworm
and Mr. Sdmuel Coddle.

The new Comic Pantomime of
HARLEQUIN AND THE GOLDEN GOOSE,
Having been received on each representation with shouts of
laughter and applause, will be repeated every Evening this
Week.
THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the sth instant,
will be performed the new Drama, in two acts, as perform-
ed last treason at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, with the
greatest success, called

THE Erasmus Bookworm SCOLAR.... 'the s Hcholar) Mr. W. Farren.

((1 is original character.)
Hans Krackjaw....(his man) Mr. Baker.
Helen Miss Faucit.
After which, the popular Comedy, in three acts, called
AIARRIED
Mr. Satnuel Coddle.... Mr. W. Farren,
(As originally performed by him in London.)
Mrs. Samuel Coddle Mrs. Clarke.
Mr. Lionel Lynx Mr. W. Howard.
Mrs. Lionel Lynx.. M iss Faucit.
r• Henry Dove, Mr. Baker p Mrs. Henry Dpv.e, Mrs. Stanley.
Mr. Frederick Younghtisband....Ms.,-W. H. Bland.
Nirs. Frederick Younghusbanliss Stanley.
Mr. Geo. Dismal
Mrs. George Dismal )6Mrs. Granby.
To conclude
with, for the B[ll time, an entirely new fantastical,
sarcastical, versatile, musical, mechanical, comical Panto-
called
HARLEQUIN AND THE GOLDEN GOOSE.
1n Wednesday: the favourite Drama of PAST AND
Larose, 0.4.TE-IE ANNALS OF THE RENCH LUTION.
(a confidential Valet) Mr. W. F
Farren, REVO
as originally
!rformed by him in London. Count de Florville, (a Fop,)
•r. Browne, his second appearance this season. To conclude
with the New COMIC PANTOMINE.

MADAME CORM PALTONI. from t Theatres Royal,
Milan and Naples, respectfully' i .rms the Inhabitants
~tverpool that she will' during her re ence, give LESSONS
In INGING. Terms 'Half a Gui a each Lesson.
uriheir particulars m'av be ha $ t the Music Warehouses of
Mr: W. G. WEISS and Messrs. PAR and SON ; and at the
residence of INlada.rn' e CORRI PALTONI, 3, Clayton-square.

SHE REGISTRATION.—EIectors should bear in mind that the
time of preferring claims fur county votes commenced on the
20th June, and ends on the 20th July; and, with respect to
borough voters, it is required. before their names can he put
on the list, that all the poor-rates and assessed taxes due by
each voter, previously to the 6th of April, be paid before the
20th July.

Zbc iliberpool F:tanbarti.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1836.

We have received a file of the Jamaica Gazette to the
224 May. They contain no information relative to the
resignation or the recall of the Marquis of SLIGO. His
excellency, as we stated in a former number, had pro-
rogued the meeting of the House of Assembly from the
17th to the 24th May, on which day it was directed " to
meet for the despatch of business." The stipendiary
imagistrates
have addressed a round robin to government,
t
the_
the medium of Lord GLENELG, complaining of
inadequacy of their salaries, and praying for a more
liberal allowance. They state in their memorial that the
salary at present allowed is totally inadequate to the
rncesl ex-
entailed on them by the duties of the office they
old. and of its insufficiency to enable them to maintain
themselves with the respectability of appearance suitable
t° 80 important and responsible a situation ; and further,
that it is by no means a remuneration proportioned to the
fatigue, the anxiety, and the risk of health and life which
t
1169 have daily to encounter in the execution of their
41Y• The memorialists do not state in precise terms the
nature or the extent of the risks to which their lives are
exposed. The resignation of Mr. T. J. BERNARD, of the
°f4ce of custos of St. Catherine, appears to have excited
considerable degree of discussion. It arose out of the
raerference of the inspector-general of police, which the
following letter to the government secretary will explain :
Spanish Town, Mayl, 1836.
4,-4 am in receipt of your letter, of date the 29th ult. re-
questing my presence, by command of his excellency, in' the
eL,°,llrlcil chamber, on Tuesday, the 3d of May, at ten o'clock, to
VS evidence respecting the conduct of Mr. Ramsay, inspector-
tteral of police, at a meeting held in this town on the 16th
E'rlve 7ith the most anxious desire on my part always to comply
° any request of his excellency, 1 feel that I cannot, in the
NTinstance, do so, for the reasons I have already given in
correspondence with you on this subject, and to avoid any
thZnaPprehension as to these reasons, I beg leave again to repeat
yirst—As custos of this precinct, I charge Mr. Ramsay with
*tlhbreach of his duty, as inspector-general of police, in saying to
tit Persons then and there assembled, after I, in such my capa-
ke,Y2,had deemed it necessary to read the riot act, that I had
„ 9 wrong, and further, with urging the persons assembled !o
riElnuetogether and pass their resolutions. You tell me, in
'Air letter of the 21st April, that Mr. Ramsay had made to his
excellency a long report of what occurred, and that his excellency
gi.atfiers from it that Mr. Ramsay had most judiciously made the
-'olarks I mentioned. Ills excellency, therefore, after hearing
chaige and Mr. Rainsay's-admission of it, has decided that
1„1.• Ramsay acted " most judiciously "
.; oecondly—Because a tribunal, called a "special conk," con-
ilting of the governor and two privy councillors, has no pnwer
t° Mininister an oath to a witness, and is a triounal altogether
111,41,110wn to the constitution and laws of the country.—l have
honour to be, &c., T. J. BERNARD.
We have also received Demerara papers to the 7th
Tv I(tY. They contain nothing of importance.

That the existing House of Commons does not repre-
leat the opinions of the people of Great Britain (so far
14 that portion of the empire is concerned,) at the present
raent, may be fairly inferred from the total want of
Ytilllat-hy on the part of the latter in the revolutionary
dleetrines which have been promulgated and supported
TY a Majority of that house during the present session.
lie violent speeches which have been there uttered,
ullon
°lltathining not only the most daring and insulting attacks
e independence of the House of Lords, but also
threatening
a dismemberment of the empire, however
much
they may have been cheered by the degraded slaves
tlif; the " tail," am even viewed with approving smiles b
i
;8 M y
jestys ministers, have met wit a'h no response be-
"nd the lath and plaster of the present St. Stephen's.
0
the contrary, the electors of several counties, (Me-
rionethshire and Warwickshire are glorious examples,)
° Whom the ministerial candidates may be said to have
'll3l3ealed for an approval of the measures of government,
altave declared, in a manner which cannot be misunder-
stood, that any ministry which in this protestant country
tutains itself in power by an unholy alliance with the
13
'Bll religion—a religion which our patriotic ancestors
lePadiated and expelled from the constitution—will never
supported by the people of England and Wales when
lek protestant principles are roused into action, and
ih eY have.the opportunity of testifying their wishes in
h rid
e election of their representatives to parliament. We
ainteain that the elections to which we have alluded,
:rie
on in distinct and separate parts of the country,
enu, therefore, showing that the re-action in favour of
,:latiervatiye principles is not confined to one portion of
lie emp
,tp ire more than another, do clearly and unequivo-
show that the revolutionary measures supported by
,li_fllajority of the present House of Commons—measures
:Btructive of protestantism in Ireland—are repugnant
t
t:sdle feelings and opinions of the people of Great Bri-
t; at the present time, and that those who approve of
tlrt.'se measures, and would support their selfish and un-
'olll43led authors, will be scouted from the represents-
-11411: ior any county in Great Britain, to the electors of
thl." they may venture to appeal. But ministers and
f.t:tr Hibernian majority have met with no sympathy
th:ll,the people of the most radical cities and towns of
kingdom. Where are the formidable unions, the
greatand .
glorious" meetings of reformers at Manclies-
,__' Leeds, and, other places, /the triumphant processions
the g from all the mills, factories, and dye, houses of
fr. manufacturing districts, or even descending from the
iir'etvant tenth-story attics of the modern Athens ? Where
„ the banners of the " death's head and cross-bone,"?wn with the lotds," "RUSSELL for ever," and similar
14"
ial-stirring devices which once 'graced the triumph of a
of se 'lied reform, and indicated the genuine popularity
pits Majesty's Ministers ? Those banners and that
opularity are alas equally forgotten ; the former, per-
ils, decorating the tap-room of some radical publican,
onWaving over the eloquence of unwashed democrats ;
e latter
trlatter confined to the 'gloomy cloisters and secret
hes Of the College of Maynooth. Yes, the people of
eland, in the conscious enjoyment of the blessings of
;It Protestant religion—blessed, too, with a freedom
4.1_ °I no other country, much leSs any popish country,itls ever enjoyed—peacefully and prosperously employed
ttertheir various avocations, turn a deaf ear to the thnn-
tutg
ftit a,
of agitation, receive with silent contempt the dread-
tnreatenin a
jouef their way of a collision, and will not stir one inch
to serve the selfish purposes of Lord
en,P RUSSELL and ..his clique, or the more treasonable
3 of Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL. The people are hap-

pily much changed; they are again displaying that good
sense and those sound opinions which for more than 'a
quarter of a century resisted the approaches of democracy
in its most frightful shapes, and which will now resist it
when leagued with even its unnatural ally, the supersti-
tion of Rome.

But the coustiuencies of Great Britain must be armed
with the means of testifying at future, and perhaps not
very distant, elections their return to those sound and
healthy opinions, and they must have the power of elect-
ing a protestant House of Commons—a house not in a
great measure composed of the tools of political clubs,
chattering and empty theorists, briefless law-reformers,
and the like, but men of integrity, sterling ability, and
active usefulness. The registration must not be forgot-
ten. This month (July) is one of the greatest impor-
tance in the process of registration; the county voter, if
he has parted with his qualification and obtained a new
one, or if he has changed his residence, must send in a
fresh claim to the overseers; the borough voter must
pay on or before the 20th instant all rates and taxes due
from him before the sth April last; all persons, members
of partnership firms, and whose firms, and not the mem-
bers thereof, individually, are rated, should attend at the
rate-book •office, and claim to be put upon the rate by
name. As this subject, however, is at the present period
of the utmost importance, we shall supply our readers in
our next paper with full instructions upon it. Let it
never, however, be forgotten that "the battle is now
fought on the registration."

The ominous silence of the licensed victuallers at
their annual dinner, at Birkenhead, on Thursday. last,
when the health of the mayor and magistrates was pro-
posed, contrasted with the acclamations which followed
the mention of JAMES ASPINALL and the late magis-
trates, was significant and remarkable.
Like most other bodies, the majority of the.licensed
victuallers were innoculated with the virus of mis-called
REFORM, and rgistered their votes for the party who
succeeded irt, raising the storm. New brooms are ex-
pected to sweep clean, and it appears that the victuallers
have been scrubbed so soundly that they do not now en-
tertain quite such an exalted opinion of reform itself,
as seen in the persons and practices of its accidental re-
presentatives.
But this will ever be the case. Men are always to be
found ready to take advantage of popular commotion to
shroud their own ignorance under the cloak of profes-
sions and hypocrisy, and to palm themselves upon the
multitude as patriots of the first water. Such a patriot
is DANIEL O'CONNELL, who pockets some £20,000
a-year by his " peaceful agitation." Such a patriot is
ROEBUCK, whose, pockets are lined with £1,200 a-year
by the fools of Canada, that he may sell and they legiti-
mately purchase those services which every real repre-
sentative of the people dedicates, unbought, to the wel-
fare of his country. Such is the patriotism of Greek
HUIVIE—Of Colchester HARVEY, touching the filthy gold
of the treasury to keep his uncertain seat. Such the
patriotism of BUCKINGHAM, whose voice is so often heard
whining in the lower house—
" Pity the sorrows of a poor old man."

And probably the licensed victuallers are beginning to
see that such is the patriotism of RADCI.IFFE, who had
his eye as firmly fixed upon the town-clerkship as had
ever HUME upon the glittering Greek loan ; who thought
£2,500 a-year the value of his services, and declared
that he would take no less—no, neither less nor more !
—but who, when the ground was slipping from under
his feet, with the most admirable humility, admitted that
the council was right and he wrong—" that £2,000 a-
year was just the amount, neither more nor less," and
so the reward of his patriotism, like that of the ex•mem-
ber for Preston, emphatically called JOHN, (who is now
living snugly as a receiver of taxes,) will, we presume,
have the effect of keeping him quiet during the remnant
of his days. And such was the patriotism of the young
gentleman CROOK, who made a profitable exchange of
a not-too-lucrative business for a newly-created berth of
£6OO a- year, with the prospect of the "seals" in reversion ;
and, no doubt, it was for this that the " solicitor to the
reform association" waded up to the neck in muddy ob-
jections, and wasted the time of hundreds that he might
become engrafted upon the corporate root ; and such the
patriotism of WYBERGH, the " chairman" of the afore-
said association, who has dislodged one of the most
gentlemanly and urbane of the corporate officers, and,
with admirable skill, vaulted into his place. And such
the patriotism of Mr. P. F. CURRY, and such—faugh
the very name of patriotism will soon offend the olfactory
nerves, and the next lexicographer who improves upon
JOHNSON may annex to the word patriot—one who
agonizes for place and pensions.
_ _ _

But are all these worthies to blame ? Quite the re-
verse. They are consistent, and the town council was
consistent in appointing them. The turn of the muni-
cipal wheel having foisted them on the top, it was their
duty to provide for their needy retainers; and well they
know that, to many of them, the time is short for the
exercise of power and patronage. It is the victuallers
themselves, amongst others, who are to blame, but
whose eyes, better late than never, appear to have been
washed from the political dust which the spirit of reform
had thrown into them—and they look in vain for that
noble English feeling and that manly independent bear-
ing which characterised the late council, and, as a body,
throws into the shade the shallow pretensions of the race
of political economists who now for a time fill their places.

In seasons of popular turmoil and excitement men are
often led away try specious and impudent professions ;
and if a THISTLEWOOD or an O'CONNELL have the hardi-
hood to abuse the sacred name of liberty, by taking it
upon their lips, they may, and will, in a free country, find
many weak enough to be deluded. But it is one of the
characteristics of an Englishma n that he cannot be deceived
long. The hour of conviction is the hour of restitution,
and when once the hollow professions of the demagogue
are discovered, he is driven into obscurity and contemptu-
ous retirement by the awakened voice of the nation.
That many members of our town council are highly-
respectable men, we freely admit—some are gentlemen,
and no doubt necessity has compelled them to be contented
with strange bedfellows. But that there are numbers,
comparatively speaking, who are unfitted, both by station
and intellect, for exercising the governing power in a
town like Liverpool, few will deny. No doubt many of
them wondered themselves how they got there, and many
of them will in future wonder how it is that the sweet
voices of the electors are weaned from such charmers. It
will be because the people are beginning to be tired with
the humbug of reform—because they see men destitute of
talent or standing usurping the places which ought to be
filled by gentlemen, and making the council a mere ful-
crurn upon which to rest their political lever, or to provide
situations for their needy friends and connexions. The
council must be riddled, and the chaff cast to the winds.
They must be sent to the place from whence they came ;
and numbers of that busy, meddling, political sect, whose
frigid theology is a blot on the fair face of religion, must
be expelled from their seats, if Liverpool is to preserve
her character for loyalty to the King, and love for the in-
stitutions of the country.
Let the licensed victuallers and other tradesmen, how-
ever, prepare for a CORPORATION TAX. The council will
no doubt try to stave it off till after the next election, but
sooner or later it must and will come.

Be not surprised at this, ye reforming shopkeepers, you
would have reform, and surely you will be honest enough
to pay for it. It will no doubt stimulate your patriotism
when the tax-collector Walks into your houses, and claims
a legal rate to pay for our well•dressed police, who are
really. ornamental as well as useful. Certainly there are
a few ugly items in the expenditure. The compensation
to the town-cleik for instance. But then you have got a
better, "who is a whig or something more." A retiring
pensicn to the late treasurer. But then you are in posses-
sion of a WYBERGH, and there is a magic in the very name
of a reformer. The separation of the political and ju-
dicial functions of our local chancellor, to be sure, com-
pels us to pay a Crook-ed sum of £6OO a-year ; btit then
he is a nice young gentleman—has been very service-
able, and therefore, don't be ungenerous.
There is a little item, too, connected With the case in
which THOMAS and TIMOTHY are figuring. But then, it
is against the, church, and reformers are vast], pleased

THE 13 Z. VFAIN

general with , any thing that can militate against that
grand bulwark' of our constitution. And there is—but
never mind ; pad• the tax whenever it is demanded, with-
out grumbling or enquiring, for if you grumble you will
get more 'Kicks than halfpence.

You will find out at last that had the " extravagant
tories" remained in possession, had as they were, you
would have had justice without paying £1,300 a-year for
it, and yoUr local improvements would have proceeded
without the iron tongue of the tax-gatherer invading the
sacredness of your retreat.

Our delectable representative the tail-or did not fare
much better than the Council; but he has been long up
to his neck in popish and radical mire, and there we
leave him.

1)1

LlrEllPool, POT.ICE.

IMP ru; DENcu ANn ROBBEay.-011 Friday, at the police ollice.
a well-known and noted thief, named Mary Knowles, was
brought before the magistrates charged by the in•tater or a
vessel with having robbed him the night before of two five-
pound notes. The complainant said that he was walking home
the night before, between twelve and one o'clock, when the
prisoner overtook him, and he went with her to a house in
rempest-hey. She asked for some silver to get some drink
with, which he gave her, pulling out his purse to do so. One
end of the purse contained two five-pound Bank of England
notes, and the other some silver. Shortly after, she began
fumbling about his pockets, and he heard a rustling of paper;
he examined his purse and found it empty. He charged
her with the robbery, but she said she knew nothing about it.
He then called a policeman, who searched both the prisoner
and the room, but could not find the money. She was then
taken to Bridewell by the policeman, and he followed and saw
the notes drop from her clothes, and picked them up. The
prisoner, in defence, said she knew nothing about the notes.
She was committed to take her trial at the sessions and the
captain was bound to prosecute.
SINGEING A POLICEMAN.—On Friday, at the police-office,
three men, named Thomas Hobson, John Hobson, and James
Green, in the employment of Messrs. Watson and Holt, glass
manufacturers. were brought before the magistrates charged
by inspector Perry with having violently assaulted him and
burnt one of his men with hot glass. The inspector stated that
about four o'clock the afternoon before, he was on duty near
the Zoological Gardens, when an old man came to him saying
he had been robbed of some herrings he was selling, by the men
at Messrs. Watson and Holt's glass works; he went to sell
them some herrings, and they took some and would not pay for
them. He went to the glass works and asked the men to pay.
They said they would be d dif they would pay, and seized
some long rods they were working with, dipped them in melted
glass and run at. him, telling him to •` be off." He then found he
could do nothing without assistance, and went for some. On
returning with some policemen, they cried out " Here they
come," and a number of the workmen, the prisoners amongst
the number, seized hold of long iron rods, which they dipped in
melted metal, waved them round their heads, and run at them
with them, and one of his men had got severely burnt in
the hand. A policeman said that he had been called to assist •
by Mr. Perry, and went with him to the glass house; on getting
there, Thomas Hobson got hold of an iron rod and dipped it in
the melted glass and struck at him on the face with it; he
waved off the blow with his stick, and the prisoner struck him
again, and he caught.hold of the rod with his hand, and it burnt
him severely. Several other constables gave similar evidence.
Two of the workmen came forward ro.give evidence on behalf
of the prisoner, and one of them was charged by the inspector
as one who had assaulted him, and he was put in the dock along
with the other prisoners. The other workman said that they
had to swing their rods about with hot metal in the execution of
their employment, in order to form the glasses, and it was a
mistake of the officers to think they were doing so at them.
An excise officer who was on the•premiSes gave similar testi-
mony. Mr. Hall said the officer was right in endeavouring to
take the prisoners when charged with felony. When a charge
was made it was mot his business to investigate it,- but to take
the parties into custody; and the prisoners ought to haveknown
their duty better than to have resisted. It was a farce to tell
him they were swinging the rods about in their occupation, the
policeman's hand proved to the contrary. The policemen must
be protected in the execution of their duty. Thomas Hobson
must pay 255. and costs, and in default of payment to be com-
mitted for three weeks; the others to pay 15s. and costs, or be
committed fourteen days,
STINKING FISH AND NEVI' POTATOES.—OD Friday, at the
Police-office, Mary Doyle, a costermonger, appeared before the
magistrates to complain against Mary Hayes for having thrown
sonic bad fish over three scores of her new potatoes, on which
score she claimed compensatio❑ to their full value. Mrs. Doyle
then stated her case. " Please your worships, I keeps a shop
and sells pitayeties and herrings, andidoes my best to please my
customers. Last night, gentlemen, as I was a-getting into bed,
this here 'oornan as stands there sends for a pickled herring for
a relish, which I gave to a little girl in a basin. This morning
tbe'ooman comes herself and says, So ye call this pickled her-
ring,' says she ; why it 'ud turn the stomach of a rinehossher-
house to look at it: it's nothing in the world but stinking fish !
give me my three-halfpence back, Mrs. Doyle,' says she.'
You're nothing but an impositioner, says ; that's not the her-
ring as 1 gev you last night, says I; that was a ganian herring,
and this isn't all there. Go along out of my shop, says I. With
that, your worships, she started and abused me shameful, and
threw the basin of brine and stinking tish all over my new pi-
tayeties, and hasspoiled me three scores o' new pitayeties, worth
two shillings a score." Mr. Hall: " Well, have you any evi-
dence as to the damage ?" Complainant : "No ; I did not
know as I should want it; but, if you will give me time, I can
produce it." Mr. Hall : "Aml to keep the woman here, till
to-morrow morning for that ?" Complainant: " Whr, yes, sir,
that used to be the way." (Laughter.) Mr. Hall: " No, I
can't do that. You must prove what you can." The prisoner
then said, " Last night I sent my little girl, with three half-
pence, for a pickled herring, as I felt squarnish, and this woman
sent back three-halfpence worth of nothing but heads and tails,
as 'ud make a starved tom-cat turn up his nose to look at. So
I sent the little girl back with it, with my compliments to Mrs.
Doyle, and she was to be so good as to send me a relishable her-
ring; but she pretended to be in bed, and refused to open the
door. So I went down this morning to her shop; and I says,
Mrs. Doyle,' says I, 'did you send this here for a herring?
It's a scandalous superstition to give this rubbitch to a little girl
for a herring.' With that, your worships, she pushed me over
a basket of pitayeties, and the basin was spilt on to them, but
there was not three pitayeties spoiled." This statement was
corroborated by a witness. Mr. Hall said she had no right to
throw the herring over the potatoes; one was a case of three-
halfpence, and the other of six shillings; he did not, however,
suppose the potatoes would be much injured by it. There was
no evidence of the damage before him; he must discharge the
prisoner.

ASSAULT AT SSA.—On Saturday Captain Heath, of the
ship Frances, was summoned before the magistrates, charged by
an old man, named Robinson, who had acted as his cook, with
having violently assaulted hint and wounded Linn with a cutlass.
Mr. Davenport supported the complaint, and Mr. Islam ap-
-peared on behalf of the defendant. The complainant stated
that on the 21st of March last he shipped on board the Frances,
for Barbadoes, and was made cook. On the 4th April there
was a heavy sea, which caused a part of his cooking apparatus
to fall over if placed down anywhere, and through the awkwark-
ness of the black boy the coffee-pot was thrown over, and he
was angry with him. The boy called him "an old blockhead,"
and he fell into a rage with him to be so called by a boy. The
lad said he would tell the captain, and he answered him he might
tell who he liked. The captain then came forward and ordered
hint to drop the can and take a handspike and go to the wind-
lass. He asked what this was for, and lie was then ordered aft;
he refused to go. The captain then called the chief mate, and
they seized hold of him, and dragged him aft. The captain then
went on to the poop and ordered him up there; he went up and
sat down. and was grumbling at having his clothes torn by the
mate in pulling him along. The captain then said " Will you
hold your tongue;" he replied that he would not, and wanted
to know why he was used in that way. The captain then or-
dered the mate to seize hold of him, and the mate and second
mate almost wrung his arms off. He grumbled at being used in
such a manner, when the captain went down into the cabin and
brought a cutlass up, and struck him several times with it He
made a blow at his head, which he avoided, and it almost cut
his ear off; he then cut him very severely on the arm, and
bruised the other. In consequence of the wounds he then re-
ceived he was confined to his bed for fourteen days, and had to
be fed; and, in consequence of the wound on his arm, he had
lost the use of the fingers of one hand, and had no strength left
in the arm when he put any stress on it. He had never struck
the captain; he was 63 years of age. Cross examined.—He
did not swear at the captain on the morning in question; he
never told the captain " If Jesus Christ was to come down from
Heaven with the cross, and tell me to be quiet, I would neither
for hint nor for you." Thomas Sanders, seaman on board the
Frances, recollected the quarrel, and saw the man cut. The
captain told the complainant to hold his tongue, and he refused
to do so for the captain or any body else. The captain then
got the cutlass up and struck complainant eight or nine times.
A part of his ear was cut off, and his arm was very severely cut,
and he was confined to his bed for eight or ten days in conse-
quence. Cross-examined—The complainant asked the captain
who he was that he could not be spoken to. Complainant re-
called and cross-examined—He had received a wound on his
head; had his skull fractured on board a man of war, at Trafal-
gar, which affected hint sometimes, but only when he was drunk.
He never shook his fist in the captain's face and said he would
massacre him. Two other of the crew corroborated the complain-
ant's statement as to the assault. Mr. Islam said it would be ne-
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the major part of the crew had completely mastered the mates,
and they had no authority over them. e old man had de-
clared that he had a brace of pistols on beard, which connected
with his mutinous conduct and that of the crew, rendered harsh
measures necessary. A gentleman named Evans, who had
been a passenger on board, deposed to hearing the cook swear-
ing at the captain on the morning in question ; he was damn-
ing the ship, and damning the captain, and every one about
him. The captain ordered him aft, in order to separate him
front the crew, and endeavoured to push hint aft, but he re-
fused
to stir and held on by the rigging, till the captain• ordered
the mates to carry him aft, and he then swore that for two pins
he would massacre the captain. He continued this abusive
conduct, and was repeatedly cautioned: by Captain Armstrong,:
a passenger, and himself' to be quiet. until the captain ordered
the cutlass up, and threatened to strike him with it if he was not
quiet; he however continued the same came conduct till the
captain struck him. He afterwards dressed his wounds, which
were not severe; he put a little tincture on the scratch on his
ear, and it was better in a couple of days, and he was only con-
fined three or four days at most with his arm, and he appeared
to hint to try to make it appear worse than it was when he saw
he was observed. Captain Armstrong corroborated this state-
ment, and said the crew were in a very disorderly state' and it
was his opinion the old man deserved what he had got long be-
fore he did get it. John Williams, the mate, deposed to the
crew being in a very insubordinate state, and frequently re-
fusing to obey orders, and doing their work generally in a slow
and unseamanlike manner. Had he been captain he should
very likely have acted as the captain had done sooner. Any
indecision at that time would have been followed by serious
consequences. Mr. Hall said, according .to the case as proved
by the complainant's witnesses; nothing could have been worse
than the captain's conduct ; but it did not assume so unfavour-
able an appearance after the opposite witnesses had been heard.
Ile was, however, bound to say that the captain was using a
weapon which was not warrantable. A man must use his
weapons proportionably to the offence. Were a crew in a state
of actual mutiny, the captain might arm his officers and repel
force by force, and in an extreme case use extreme means.
The crew, however, were not in a state of actual mutiny ; they
had acted very wrongly and very disobediently, but there was
nothing to warrant the charge of mutiny—they did not attempt
to harm the officers or insult them ; they were only disobedient
and not prompt in their duty. He did not think that these cir-
cumstances would warrant the captain's using such a weapon.
The situation of the captain of a vessel • was very peculiar; he
had not the means of obtaining assistance, and sometimes it re-
quired the utmost promptitude and firmness to put down in-
subordination. In this case a great deal of provocation had
been used to the captain, and it appeared that the complainant
had magnified the injury he had received. Taking the whole
of the circumstances into consideration, the magistrates thought
that a fine of 30s. would answer the ends of justice. The captain
said he was sorry for the violence which had occurred, and he
should, not have made use of it if he had not thought himself
compelled to do so.

Mr. SPEAKER ABERCItOMBI:—What will this gentleman,
who
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called by
Lsoymehuthrcs esoftmr &otiteruporaries the right
honourable owl in the ivy bush, say to the castigation bestowed
speech on Monday evening. It
is undeniable that Mr. Abercrorobv, instead of discountenan-
cing or rather peremptorily repressing the violent attacks almost
nightly directed against the Peers by the liberal members of
the House over which he presides, they are permitted to go all
lengths in their shameless and abusive tirades. The speaker
never sees it to be his duty to interfere. We ate glad, there-
fore, that Lord Lyndhurst has administered to him the hint to
which we allude; and vre'shall certainly watch his conduct for
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