The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-21 00:00:00

BEANCKED AND ANOTHER V. MOLYNEUX

This was an issue from the Common Pleas to try certain
points arising out of an action tried at the last assizes, to re-
cover the value of a large quantity of cotton. The plaintiffs
were the assignees of Messrs. Humberston and Frodsham,
bankrupts; the defendant had seized the cotton in question as
mortgagee of the ship in which,a was imported, and the
question was, whether he had legal power to do so. The
case occupied several hours, but was entirely destitute of in-
terest. A verdict was entered for the defendant upou the
principal issue, subject to a case for the opinion of the court
above.
The court adjourned at half-pass six.

TIIE CAUSE LIST

The following is the state of the cause list up to the close
of the court last evening.

FIRST LIST

-WEST DERBY HUNDRED

For Me Plaintiff-Nos. 1,2, 3,6, 7, b, 9, 10, 11, 13. 16,
17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36,
37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58,
59, 66, 80. -

Withdrawn—Nos. 4,5, 19, 35, 42, 48, 49, 52, 63, 75

Referred—No. 40.
Struck oat—Nos. 54, 60.
Twenty-one cases remain to be disposed of in this list.
Four of them will be tried before special juries, namely,
" The Queen v. Prentice," which is fixed to come on the first
to-morrow morning (Saturday) ; " Blundell v. Lord Camoys"
(the great will cause), which is fixed for Wednesday next;
" Adamson v. Mitchell and another," also fixed for Wednes-
day ; and " Haydock and others v. Grugeon and another,"
which is appointed for Monday. There were altogether 82
cases in the list for the hundred of West Derby, and 93 in
that for the hundred of Salford.

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DA. SoUTHEY.—The delicate health of the poet laureate
has obliged him, for the present, to abstain from all literary

labour

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lord Poltimore tc
be a Lord of the Bedeamber in the place of Lord Gardiner.
Ministerial paper.

The radical papers are reporting that the Duke pf Beaufort
is turning a Whig ; true,—he is turning her Majesty from a
Whig to a conservative.

The queen dowager, we understand, has taken Sudbury
Hall, the seat of Lord Vernon, and that her majesty will
enter upon her tenure in September next. —Derby Reporter.
CHARLES KEAN AND THE MURDERERS OF LORD
NoßßußY.—(From the New York Herald.)—By the recent
arrivals from England, we perceive that the Loudon papers
have asserted that " Charles Kean brought home from
America the confessions of two men who Were implicated in
the murder of Lord Norbury." As we happen to know the
facts of the matter, which were communicated to us by an
intimate friend of Mr. Kean, it may be as well now to give
them publicity. Whilst Mr. Kean was staying at the Globe
Hotel, an Irishman called there, and introduced himself as a
sub-engineer employed on the Croton Water Works. He
said his object on calling on Mr. Kean was to induce him to
state to some person high in authority in England the fact
that two brothers, of the nafne of —, were working as
labourers on the works, who made it their boast that
they were the murderers of Lord Norbury. , One object
Mr. Kean's visitant said he had in view, was the reward
which he understood had been offered in England for
their apprehension ; and lie wanted Mr. Kean to take the
necessary steps, on his arrival in England, to have a demand
made for, the brothers by, the British government. Mr. Kean
mentioned one or two noblemen as likely to forward his views;
but both were objected to as belonging to the high tory party.
Mr. Kean then told his visitor, that he would communicate
with the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the subject ; and
taking the man's name and address, they parted. Mr. Kean
at the time conceived it to be all a hoax, but wished the inci-
dent not to get into the New York papers unlit after, his ar-
rival in England. We are not of opinion, that any men, even
Irishmen, would tie so lost to shame,as openly to boast of the
commission of a murder; and we should be induced to think
that it was a ruse to cover the retreat of the guilty parties,
who, in all probability, are now lying perdu in the old country.
THE SEA SERPENT CALIGHT.-011 Sunday evening about
six o'clock as the schooner Wasp, Captain Williams, and the
schooner Independent Eagle' - Captain Owens, were coming
up the bay, they descried, about three miles below North
Point, a strange-looking fish or serpent to the leeward. A
boat from each schooner was manned, and a chase for the
prize took place. A harpoon was driven into the creature,
and away it flew, dragging the boat for nearly eight miles,
'like a chip down a cataract, It was found necessary at length
to stop the speed of this marine locomotive, and a couple of
balls being shot into it, the death flurry came on, and it soon
floated a lifeless carcase. It was borne in triumph to the
foot of South-street wharf, where it was visited by most of
the old cruisers about town, who had been to every part of
the globe, and knew everything that partook of the nature of
fish, flesh, or fowl, like a book. They all, declared that they
had never seen such a nondescript. It measured twelve feet
in length, and nine feet from fin to fin ; it has a head like a
seal, with teeth, and its back is covered with a hard shell. It
has four fins or flippers, and its general appearance bears
some resemblance to a turtle, or rather a monstrocity of that
specie of fish, which nature in one of her freaks had created.
How. it came into the Chesapeake bay is a mystery. .It can
be seen at South-street Wharf.—Baltimore Sun. The Bal-
timore American says :—" The creature would be a curiosity,
we should suppose, anywhere, from its enormous size, but it
is certainly a rarity in our waters, its weight is supposed to
be about 1,0001bs."

THE NEW BEER ACT.—By the provisions of the new beer
act (3rd and 4th of Victoria, cap. 61), which received the
royal assent last week, all persons licensed for the saleof beer
or cider, to be drunk or consumed on the premises, within
the cities of London and Westminster, or within the boun-
daries of any of the boroughs of Mary4e-bone, Finsbury, the
Tower Hamlets, Lambeth; or Southwark, may keep open
their houses until twelve o'clock at night, and open them at
five o'clock in the morning, with the exception of Sunday,
Good -Friday, or Christmas Day ;; but not after elilven
o'clock within any parish, or place, within the bills of mor-
tality, or within any city, chigoe port, town corporate, parish,
or place, the population of which, according to the last par-
liamentary census, shall not exceed 2,500, or within one mile,
to be measured, from any polling-place used in the last elec-
tion for any town having the like population, and returning a
member or members to parliament; nor after ten o'clock in
the evening elsewhere." They are not to be open at any
time ou Sundays, &c., during which the houses of licensed
victuallers now are, or hereafter shall be, closed (sec. 15).
By the 10th section, all licensed retailers of beer or cider re-
ceiving into, keeping, or having in their possession, any wine,
or spirits, or sweets, shall, in addition to all other penalties,
forfeit,4so ;. arul all wines, spirits, and sweets so found shall
be forfeited, and, on conviction, the license to sell beer shall
become null and void.