The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

was summoned to meet on the 9th of November. Sir Charles
Grey, Sir IL Gipps, and Mr. Secretary Elliot were about to
return to England, it was presumed, with a report. The wea-
formation. The House of Assembly of the Upper Province
ther had been very unfavourable, not only fur the closing of the
harvest season, but for bringing down the backward rafts of
timber, as will appear by the following extract from a private
letter dated :
"Quebec, Oct. 9, 1836.
"About 300,0(X) feet of timber have been broken up and
blown adrift from the violence of the winds out of the coves.
'There is au immense loss of property. Messrs.• Gilmour,
Atkinson, Price, Baird, Farline, Wood, and Gray, and others
are sufferers." _ _

The following is a comparative statement of arrivals, &c., at
the port of Quebec, to the 13th of October, 1835 and 1836 :
Vessels. Tonnage. Settlers.
1836
1835

Difference .. 56 27,51 16,081
Two trips, 18.36
Ditto .... 1835
The Exchange on London, for Bank Bills, was 10 per cent.,
on Private, 91. City Bank Shares had declined to 29; the
others continued at 10 premium. Sovereigns were worth 24. 3d
to 21. 4d each.

LONDON LAW REPORT.

COURT OF REQUESTS---KtNGSG ATE-STREET.

It was a pleasing sight, on Monday morning, to observe se-
veral ladies and gentlemen in the inner court, and still more
pleasing to record the fact, that ono gentlemen gave his card
and address to several of the most wretched of the defendants,
at the same time desiring them to come to him in the morning
early. Among the three hundred and ten cases heard before
Mr. Commissioner Dubois, and a very respectable and intelli-
gent jury, the following is a hap-hazard selection.
Arayriteit DANIEL!—Daniel Flyn, a very knowing-looking
(as far as the outline of his features went) blind beggar of the
parish of St. Marylebone, was summoned by a depraved•look-
ing, gin-shortened Irishwoman, for the sum of 335, for thirty-
three weeks' attendance on the defendant, at the rate of Is, a
week, board and lodging included. The cat was sadly let out
of the bag in this case, and the profitable mysteries of the art
of cadging developed in a manner, hitherto unknown, save and
except to the veteran agitator himself, old Dan of Derrynane.
Mr. Commissioner Dubois inquired how it happened that de-
fendant could afford to keep a servant?
Plaintiff.—Wisha, me lord (said the complainant) many's
the long time he's tould me he finds over £2OO a-year for beg-
ging; he's got the length of the fut of a mighty number of gen-
tlemen, and in regard of his being blind and not able to say,
(see) and being altogeder no small time thrunk entirely, its them
sends him the money, and I wonst tuck in a rale paper note
meeself, five pounds weight. (Laughter.) Its meeself that's
seen him wid scores of goulden suvreigns in his pockets, and
now (less power to him !) he refuses to pay me, bekase he's got
sich a world of tin, (money) its nothing he don't know what to
be at wid it, except to pay me! (Laughter.)
Commissioner.—Really begging appears to be a most profit-
able speculation! Plenty of brass in the face, it seems, is sure
to attract gold to the pocket. What have you to say to this,
Flyn ?
Defendant (scratching his left ear, and making very curious
faces,)—l've heard that bastely woman's tongue,—(laughter,')
and sad is the sorrow brought to me own door that I tuck her
to my house. Many's the good turn she's done to me,—(laugh-
ter.) She stole me a flock bed and she tuck away the tick; she
stela me a pair of shoes that didn't belong to meeself; she stole
a large sheet of linen that without my consint,—(laughter;)
she stole me a pair of snuffers, and she stole me two pillows and
tuck away the cases,—(roars of laughter;) and she stole me
half a dozen of the finest knives and forks that ever was put in-
to mate; but, me Lord, the most bastely thing she done was
leashing for two men without my consint, and wid me own soap
and starch,—(laughter;) and last of all she stole,—
Commissioner.—For pity's sake stop, Daniel. She must have
been • capital jackall to provide so handsomely for such a lion.
Do you mean to say she actually stole all these things, and that
you received them?
Defendant.—Me resave them !—Glad would I be;—but she
stole all of 'em from me, and in regard of that I contind I don't
owe her a brass fardin. _ .

Commissioner.—Oh! oh! the things were taken from your
establishment. Pray, sir, how do you get your living ?
Defendant.—There is a great number of rale gentlemin as-
sists me. I make a regular collection,—(laughter.)
Commissioner.—A sort of >-?,:t I suppose?
Defeir:il:.—Exocrly so, I!,ord,—(laughter.)
Commissioner.— ell, sir, .Itist say, begging seems to be
an excellent business; and the only way we can decide upon
this knotty question is, for you to put a value on the goods you
have lost, and we will allow it as a set-off.
After a long squabble between Daniel and his ex-handmaid-
en, it was decided that the rint-seeking " Daniel" of Maryle-
bone, should hand over 10s, with all costs; and he immediately
pulled out a bag of money and was about to pay, but was in-
formed that it was not required until Wednesday next.
" I shall pay it with considerable pleasure, Sir," said Dan,
and groped his way out of court, followed by the termagant
plaintiff, who, dissatisfied with the amount awarded to her, vow-
ed vengeance upon Daniel the little; and the beggar man was
very efficiently clapper-clawed before he was out of the precints
of the court.