The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-20 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL PARISH CLOCKS.

TIIE clocks in the towers of the parish churches,
St. Peter's and St. Nicholas', having been dumb
monitors of the passing hours since the Annual
Vestry, our Radical contemporaries have been pro-
fusely indulgent in their abuse of the Church-
wardens for thus practically illustrating one of the
consequences_arising from the refusal of a Church-
rate. We are told, and no doubt with truth, that
such an infliction is altogether unnecessary, inas-
much as experienced hands will willingly render
the hands on the clock faces available for the public
service—but this is no reason why it should be
done. The Churchwardens are entitled to great
credit for the moral influence of the course which
they have pursued. Had they closed the churches,
the majority of Radicals would have cared little or
nothing for such a result, from their refusal to
grant a Church-rate,
• ore Christians; but, by stopping
grieved all inn while it would have deeply

the clocks, the argument is brought home to those
who could appreciate no other than what concerns
themselves."' If the Church is to be maintained only
by those who avail themselves of its ministrations,
then the public who refuse the Church-rate have
no claim to any advantages from the church clocks.
They have now an intelligible proof of the folly
of which they were guilty ; bad it is to be hoped
that the error will be amended by the Wardens
summoning another Vestry, and the required rate
being granted without further opposition.

MR. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE AND
CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION. .

THE proceedings of the Dock Committee, on Thursday,
presented a melancholy spectacle of moral degradation,
more entitled, perhaps, to feelings of pity than those of
anger. At the dock works carrying on at the north end
of the town, a great number of men are employed, and
for these, owing to the great distance from any church,
there is no spiritual instruction except such as is specially
afforded. In order to accomplish an object so desirable,
an annual grant of .E6O had been made out of the funds
of the Dock Estate towards the maintenance of a chaplain
on the North Shore, and this was agreed to on. Thursday
week by a majority of 12 to 7; but, owing to some doubts
which had been expressed as to the strict legality of the
payment, the confirmation of the grant was adjourned
until last Thursday—when the question was brought
before the Doak Committee—in order to have the opinion
of Mr. Noirrn, their legal adviser. His opinion was that,
though no direct legal sanction could be quoted, no legal
responsibility would be incurred. It might have been
thought that so small an outlay out of so large an estate, for
so obvious an advantage, would have been sanctioned
without a dissentient voice, the Trustees feeling gratified
at being able to accomplish so much good at so little cost.
There are, however, some men who are never easy but
when in opposition, and who would vote black to be white
in order to be consistent in their inconsistency. We may
pass over the prime mover in opposing the grant we refer
to. As a confirmed Radical, he does but follow the in-
stincts of the faction to which he belongs, in objecting to
everything which emanates from men better than him-
self; but what shall we say of ➢Zr. ROBERTSON GLAD-
STONE, who once prided himself on his Conservative prin-
ciples, and has perhaps done more than any other single
individual for church extension in Liverpool, whatever
may be the motives which prompted his zeal in this direc-
tion. His fall has been truly humiliating, and should
serve as a warning to men how they forsake the faith of
their fathers to take up the crotchets of new lights in
politics or religion. His assertion that the Church of
England was the religion of the minority, was a palpable
fiction ; untrue of any place in England, and parti-
cularly so of Liverpool, where Churchmanship is eminently
conspicuous. We may be told that he aid not directly .
oppose the grant, but merely advanced what he considered
a legal objection. This, however, is a pitiful evasion,
unworthy of a moment's consideration ; and we allude to
the circumstance in order that the people of Liverpool
may be fully aware of the character of some of those
who represent them in the Town Council.

LORD ELGIN'S MISSION TO AMERICA.

IMPORTANT AND AUTHENTIC.

Br the steam-ship America, which arrived here yester-
day, we have received some important information relative
to Lord Elgin's mission to the United States, and we are
much gratified in communicating, From an authentic
source, the following particulars, which may be relied
upon. Lord Elgin, on the departure of the America. for
Liverpool, was about to leave Washington, after having
completed a very important treaty with the government
of the United States. The chief features are, that the
citizens of the United States are to enjoy the same privi-
leges, in regard to fishing, as are possessed by the colonists
on all the coasts of the British North American provinces;
that is, they will obtain the right of fishing within three
miles of all bays, inlets, coves, &c. ; they will be allowed
to erect and carry on fishing establishments on British
North American territory. The naval force, hitherto kept
up by Great Britain to protect the provincial fishermen,
will be removed. In exchange for these great privileges,
there is to be complete reciprocity and free trade between
the United States and the provinces in all articles the
product of each, with the exception of sugar and tobacco
coming from the United States. These are to pay the
same duties as are levied upon these articles when
arriving from British colonies or other parts of the world.
Manufactured articles, although manufactured from pro-
ducts of either country, are not to be admitted under the
terms of the treaty. As Canada, especially Western
Canada, is daily becoming a more wheat-producing coun-
try, the operation of the treaty cannot fail to be at once
of great importance to the province, and its already im-
mense lumbering trade will also receive a fresh impetus
from the treaty. An effort was made by Lord Elgin to
obtain American registers for vessels built at Quebec, St.
John's, and the other ship-building ports of the province;
but the American governor declined to entertain that
proposal, and that does not enter into the treaty. Lord
Elgin would, after visiting New York, leave that city on
the 7th instant to accept an invitation which he had
received from the mayor and municipality of Portland;
after which he proceeds, on the following day, over the
Grand Junction Railway, to Montreal, where (also at
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will be found
in our second page.

COUNTY COURTYESTERDAY..

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[BEFORE JOSEPH' POLLoCR, ESQ., JUDGE.]
A LOVE QUARREL —MURPHY V. CONNOIL—A young
Irish girl, named Isabella Murphy, upholsterer, of 24, Fleet
street, sued a young man named Edward Connor, gasfitter,
of No. 1 Court, Duke-street, for £1 10s. Bd., being for a shirt
and neck-ties made, and money lent. The plaintiff stated
that she had formerly lived with the defendarra mother,
that sloe had made the articles stated for him by order, and
that she had lent him the money at different times. The
defendant replied that she had met him in the streets at
different times, and had given him the money, 6d. or a Is. at
a time, to treat himself. His Honour asked him if he wished
to cross-examine the plaintiff. He said "Yes ;" and then
turning to the witness, asked, " Can you remember coming
to me in Bold-street, and entreating me to marry you?"—
(Laughter.) She was continually annoying me.—The Jude:
Did you?—Plaintiff: No, your worship, I never asked him
to marry me.—The defendant said he would prove thefounaa-
tion of the present action, and the spring from whence it
came. He asked, " Did you not, on my refusal, say that
you would commit suicide ?"—(Laughter.) No, sir; nothing
of the kind ; there was no such conversation betwixt us. He
has slandered my character.—Defendant : Can you swear that
you have not been in various places and at various times
vowing revenge upon me, and saving money all the summer
for the purpose of prosecuting me? (A laugh.)—The plaintiff:
I threatened that I would apply to the laws of the land to
bprotect me from your slanders. I lived Judgeit his mother,
utt owed her nothing when I left.—The: Was not there
some love-making between you at one tithe?—The plaintiff:
A little; but nothing of marriage, because be is a delicate
boy. (Laughter.)—The Judge: It never got so far as that.
How long is it since your love-making was broken off ?—The
plaintiff: Eight or nine months: it was the latter end of last
summer. It lasted for two or three years.—The Judge: Who
broke it off first?—Plaintiff : I did, your worship.—The Judge:
Was it when the love-making was going on that the neckties
and shirt were made, and the money lent ?—Plaintiff: Yes.—
A witness, Ellen Wil let, proved that while plaintiff stayed with
her the rupture had taken place with the defendant, and he
had then admitted the debt.—Cross-examined by the defend-
ant: Did not you say, when I came to your lodging's., that
(sharply): I deny it, Sir.—Thedefendant.. then made his
be could
a ent. He said that he had told plaintiff that
you were ready to jump on to my back ? (Laughter.) Witness,
notstt conscientiouslyegu acknowledge her claim as a debt, but he
had offered to make her a present of corresponding value.
She gave him the money to go after her and be in love—
(laughter)—and she had received great kindness from both
his mother and himself.—He then called Mrs. Connor, his
mother, who sail, she thought the action was all jealousy,
because he would not marry her. When plaintiff stayed with
her, and was making 7s. a week, she had endeavoured to en-
tice him away, to leave his home and live with her. She
did not think that she had any business to bring
her son up for little paltry neckties. (A laugh.) She treated
him, and lie treated her. He went with her once to Cheshire,
and she (witness) understood that the plaintiff then paid 6d.
for him to ride on a donkey. (Loud laughter.) She ought to
be ashamed of herself (the witness indignantly exclaimed) to
stand up before anybody and say that she would charge a lad
6d, for a ride on a donkey. (Laughter.) His Honour, ad-
dressing the plaintiff, said that he had no doubt that she bad
lessn that hemaking a fool of
herself
about this young man, did not deserve it. He had no doubt that she
had been spending money upon.him, and speak did take it, it
whom
donkey,m h e ha d I receivedthin kit a
was kindness,m ore and still
was not manly now to come forward and against a girl
fridomeown
for you, but I don't see much harm in your doing it.
liki fe
11, you plead
himle ad
As to
making the shirts and ties, I will take that as so ranch love-
making; but as to the money you have lent him at various
times. that he must give back to you. I will give You a ver-
, diet for 165., to be paid in six weekly payments.
V. A sli,
tfoorph:ys
CLAIM FOR COMMISSION.—CRAM AND AN-a/11E11
owell,
LAND.—The plaintiffs in this case, Messrs. Cram
0 freight, nonn sought to recover .e 25 as commission -ah
the defendant was
procur-
ing a charter for the ship Oxford, of
dayhole,* two previous to the
the master. It appeared that a tructions from Messrs.
3rd of. June, Mr. Cram had had instructions
cargo of salt, to either
Wilson to find them a shientotcray
ii a Fundy. On Satur-
day, Andrew's or Eastport, i I,
Cram was in the office of Messrs.
day. the 3rd of June, •
M business, when he was introduced to
Carr and Robinson, on
who was in want of a charter. After
the defendant as a p_arrt6rom
and
the
captain, with Mr. Foyns,
some negociation.M
broker, who Was understood to be the captain's agent, went
to Messrs. NVso 's office, but the captain would not agree
to the terms offered,ifnu
1, and left the office,—a charter which Mr.
Cram had drawn and which the captain In d aimed, being
void. thus rendered
) In a day or two afterwards the captain
accepted the terms, the charter was effected by Mr. Suter,
another commission broker. It was now contended that,
according to the custom of the trade, Mr. Cram, as the
broker who had first introduced the parties, was entitled to
the usual commission of five per cent. on the transaction.--
Mr. H. V. Reed, ship-broker, deposed that such wr,s the
custom of the port; and, after Mr. Wilson and several other
witnesses had been called, it was contended for the defence
that the commission was rather due to the party who did the
work, and that Mr. Foyns, as the captain's broker, would be
entitled to one-half. Many other points were pleaded, but
generally over-ruled ; and his Honour found on the facts
that there must be a substantial verdict for the plaintiffs -
but that he might have more evidence as to custom, Sze ,
when two brokers were acting. (especially when the charter
was not actually effected on the terms originally offered),
adjourned the case till Friday at twelve o'clock. IClr.Grocott
appearedfor the plaintiffs, and Mr. Martin for the defendant.