The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

THE BENCH AND THE BAR.

One of the judges has declared that the persons placing
money in the savings' bank, who do not draw some por-
tion within six years, are debarred from all claim by the
Statute of Limitations.

William Allcard, Esq., civil engineer; Joseph Stubbs,
Esq., file manufacturer ; and John Allen, Esq., cotton ma-
nufacturer, all residing at Warrington, have been placed
on the commission of the peace for this county. ,
The Lancaster Assizes closed about noon on Thursday.
The business of the Crown Court was finished on Wednes-
day night, about eight o'clock.. On Thursday their lord-
ships (Barons-Rolfe and Alderson) proceeded to Appleby,
to open the commission for Westmorland.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LANCASTER, FEB. 18
(Before Baron Rolfe and a Special Jury.)

LEVINS AND LAWTON V. BOUSTEAD AND ANOTHER
LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMEN.

This wass-an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are
surveyors at Manchester, to recover the sum of £l2B 10s.
from the defendants, who are both gentlemen of private
fortune, Mr. Henderson, residing at Liverpool and Mr.
Boustead, at Sedburgh, in Yorkshire, for services ren-
dered in that capacity, in reference to a projected line of
railway between Lancaster and Newcastle, and in the
prospectus of which the names of the defendants appeared
as provisional committeemen.
A great number of witnesses were examined, who proved
that the defendants had authorised their names to be
placed on the provisional committee, and that Boustead
took such an active part in the scheme as to direct the
diversion of the route •from that originally contemplated
by the surveyor sent over by Messrs. Levies and Lawton.
It was not proved, however, that either of the defendants
engaged these gentlemen, either personally or by proxy.
Under these circumstances, the learned Baron directed
plaintiffs to be nonsuited.

Mr. Baines, for the plaintiff) wished to tender a bill of
exceptions, as the case was a most important one.
His lordship had no objection to Mr. Baines taking the
case to a court of error or the House of Loredws.asHeernafeicgthly
Wentered into a rn
t
nevertheless remark that the state of the
em
clear. hen persons couaeruialP t
they took each other for better or worse, either by them-
selves or their agents. But this was not the case with all
ioint-stock

speculations, and least of all with provisional
committees. When a man entered into partnership, he
knew who were his partners ; but no provisional com-
mittee man knew who was to be placed on the list after
him. It appeared to him, therefore, that there was no-
thing startling in the doctrine that provisional committee-
men were not responsible for contracts in which they had
not taken an active part. On the 17th one of • the • de-
fendants was appointed a member of the protisional com-
mittee ; but that did not make him employ -the defend-
ants, and was therefore no evidence whatever.—Verdiet
accordingly for defendants.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

LYTHAM SPRING CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.--
This meeting took place on Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday, over the grounds of Thomas Clifton, Esq. The
hares ran well, particularly the two latter days. -The fol-
lowing are the returns :—The Great Clifton Cup was won
by Mr. Coupe's Handy, beating Mr. Temple's Tricksy.
The Talbot Cup was won by Mr. Jardine 's Liddesdale,
beating Mr. Barnes's Lady. The Lytham Cup was won
by Mr. Buxton's Octavia, Mr. A. Graham's Send-back-
the-money running up. The Veteran Stakes were won
by Mr. E. Robinson's Old Nick, beating Mr. Saunders'
Dressmaker. Sapling Stakes—No. 1, won by Mr. E. G.
Hornby's Her Highness, beating Mr. Jepson's Hussy;
No. 2, won by Mr. E. G. Hornby's Hydropathy, Mr. B.
Taylor's Ruby running up ; No. 3, won by Mr. Edmund-
son's Beggar Boy, beating Mr. Atkinson's Amber, ; N.
4, won by Mr. Edmundson's Gin, beating Mr. Rogers's
Reindeer,; No. 5, won by Mr. Reade's Sultan the Se-
cond, beating Mr. Browne's Phoenix. The match be-
tween Mr. Graham's Sir Edward and Mr. Bake's Bird-
lime, was won by the former. The match between Capt.
Hogg's Handy Andy and Mr. Browne's Stunning Joe
won by the latter.

POLITICA

.'MISCELLANY-.

Sir Joshua Walmsley has consented to be a candic

for the representation of Leicester.
On Friday, Sir Robert Peel presented a petition from
du-
ties' oner manufactures nfa:;ouurersoafifidurctohmermere. relaxation of restrictive du-
--At a meeting of
L
committee,B ao uoH EhLeui.dc ToIO.
on
NFriday, it was re-
solved that a deputation should proceed to London on
Tuesday, to present the requisition,- asking his lordship
Lord Lincoln's CHESTER
to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of
the borough.
SLAVERY.--Lord Brougham, i ntinr ,tion

prese__
to the House. of Lords on Friday, frorniwthe ForeignpeAnti-
Slavery Society, said he had been informed that in conse-
quence of the bill' of last year sugar plantations had been
propagated -in Cuba and Brazil, while coffee plantations
had been thrown out of cultivation. The price of slaves
had also increased-from 20 to per cent.

•L 0114), GEORGE -BDNPINoK'b RAiIiWAV BHA
Entwisle, Esq., J. I. Blackburne, Esq., J. T. Clifton
Esq., B. Disraeli, Esq., G. Hudson, Esq., and W. B
Ferrand, Esq., voted among the minority it' favour of
this bill. Lord Sandon, W. Brown. Esq.' SirP. Egerton,
T. Thorneley, Esq., E. Cardwell, Esq., W. T. Egerton,
Esq., W. Ewart, Esq., Sir P. H. Fleetwood, Captain
Gladstone, Lord R. Grosvenor, Ea.rl Grosvenor, and J.
Jervis, Esq., voted with the majority against the bill.

_
Mr. Barry, the architect of the new Houses of Parlia-
ment, has intimated- to the Marquis of Lansdowne that
the House of Lords will be completed for the reception of
their lordships after the Easter recess, with the exception
of the fresco paintings and the statues in the niches. The
new .House of Commons is not expected to be ready for
some time. The Victoria. Hall, at the south end, and the
Peel Lobby,. at the north'end, and the corridors, are in
great state of-forwardness.

LORD GEQ. BENTINCK'S'BILL AND THE TRISII MEI
aEas.:--The division was a• curious one, and no doubt
many will go into an analysis of it. The Irish member;
played a very peculiar part. Two of the " dear sons "Of
Mr. O'Connell voted for the measure of the " sporting
lord," namely; Messrs. Daniel and John. One of 110
sons (Mr. Maurice O'Connell) did not vote at. all, neither
did Mr. O'Connell himself;; but his nephew (Mr. Morg
John O'Connell) gave his' vote on the ministerial 51dt:
Thus the' O'Connell interest haS been neutralised in tie
division.: • Much has been said as .to an
O'Cointell's part in the affair

TEN Houtts• BILL. —We find the followill
names '
among those'who voted in favour of the second
reading of the Ten Hours Bill :—Lord Sandon, Sir 11'
Douglas, Sir George Strickland, Sir P. H.. Fleetwood'
Mr. P. Ainsworth, J. I. Blackburne, Mr. W. S. Craw.'
ford, Mr. W. Entwisle, Mr. C. Hindley, Mr. .1: Hornb.;
Mr. R. Walker, Lord R. Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, ""1:
P. Egerton, Captain Gladstone, and J. TollemaclV
Agaitist the second reading :—Dr. Bowring, Mr. 1. ;
Browni Mr.-E.-Cardwell, T. M. Gibson, Hon. capto..
Lindsay, Mr. M. Phillips, Mr. J. W. Patten, T. Thorne
14, Sir R. Peel, mid W. T. Egerton.