The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-17 00:00:00

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.IIID.

Sir,—There are frequently abuses of public duty, which,
however grievous to individuals and injurious to society, it is
impossible to pool-l A—owing to the elevated situation of the
parties committing them. I may be mistaken in describing the
following case as coming under this head, but conceiving my_
self to be an injured party, and nut meeting with due protection
from the proper authority., I am anxious to state the following
case to the public 7hrough the medium r of the press. which, as
the real 'guardian a2id protection of justice to all classes, may
be induced to delivt ran opinion on it, affecting, as it must, the
majority of the mercantile and trading 6-immunity. •
, On Saturday last, the 14th instant, I made an application to
Mr. Hall, the magistrate, fur a warrant, to arrest in Ireland, a
workniturwho-had-buerr several months in our employment, and
who I conceived to kie guilty of au act constituting felony and
combination. -

Hr. Hail asked, could I swear to the circumstances? and I
replied that I had inv witness in court to prove the facts; that..
I was the prosecutor, and requested permission to state the facts
first, and 1).00 them afterwards.
Mr. Hall refdsed to hear me, but called my witness, who is an
apprentice, and asked what he had to say My apprentice
answered, that a man., -in 4 airomploment had induced him to
assist in abstracting his indentures out of my desk With the
view of taking him to London.
Mr. Halt asked—" Where are. 1 Ito indentures now?" and my.
apprentice stated that be, returned I:4eur to me the day before*
(Good Friday.)
Mr. Hall, addressing me, said—Oh. this is no ease to be
brought here—wherettpoal some one of Mr,- Hall's assistants or
clerks seated below him,-desired we to move off.

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again requested permission to state particularly the circuin'-'
stances. but Mr. Hall would not hear me, and a policeman put
his hand. upon arie,,:lind made use of :some tat all events) un-
necessary language, to the effect that I might go home now,
and not be biinging'such complaints there.
- 1 had no resource hut to leave the court quietly, but fully de-
termined, at the same time, to state my case through the press,
and obtain the opinion of others upon the matter.
A person of the name of Jo4n, Kenny was, till a few days ago,
a workman ii) our employment, receiving a salary of 30s.
week. He was intrusted with the key of an outer gate leading
to our printing office, in Cattle-street. Kenny, being about to
leave our service, not on very good terms, proposed to our ap-
prentice (who was a valual“.e hand, entrusted with the key of
the counting house) that they would contrive to get possession
of the counteepart of. his hidenture, fur the purpose hereafter
mentioned.—Accordingly, on Sunday, the Sth instant,. (there
being no one then on our premises) Kenny and the apprentice,
by means of their joint keys, gut into our counting-house, and,
after searching our files, &c., succeeded in abstracting the in-
denture from our desk. The indenture was taken Out of our
desk by this Kenny, and kept•by him from that time till he was
going to Dublin (on the 12th instant,) for the. purpose of in-
ducing another apprentice (his own brother, a boy of good
character and talent,) out of our employment there, when he
gave the indenture in charge of the apprentice, however, mak-
ing him promise never to return it to us, or to disclose anything
whatever of what had been done by either of them; stating, at
the same time, that he would be back in LiverpoOl from Dub-
lin in a week, having taken a lawfully bound apprentice limn
us there,, and that- he and Ile two apprentices would at once
proceed to London and seek their fortune.
The day after Kenny had left Liverpool, (Wrod Friday,)
however, our apprentice relented of his conduct, and, of his
• own accord, confessed his error. Upon hearing his statement,
my determination Was, if agreeable to the laws of this country,
to get a warrant for the arrest of 'Kenny in Dublin, and have
him tried-in Liverpool for-the double 'offence of theft and com-
bination, and, if guilty, to meet with whatever punishment
might be due to him; however, from the manner in which I
was treated by Mr. Hall and his assistants, I may conclude
that if I seek for redress, it must be in the city of Dublin, where
the magistrates are generally admired and respected for their
gentlemanly demeanour to all parties with whom their office
brings them in contact, and for the due patience and good tem-
per with which they investigate and decide on all matters which
are submitted tot ben-judgment. HENRY SHAW.
April 16th, 1838.

[We have admitted the foregoing in consequence of Mr. Shaw's
having appended his name and address—a rule which we
invariably insist upon, where specific charges are brought
forward agaiust public; characters.—E. L. S.]

Mr. Love, the polyphonist, and Mr. Sutton, the ventrilo- I
quist, are among the passengers for New York, by the packet-
ship England.
THEATRE HOY A L.—Last evening Mr. Edward Lytton Bul-
wer's new play of "The Lady of the Lyons," was brought out
at this theatre for the first time. We have not space or time
for any particular comments, or for any lengthened critique;
but, so far as a first hearing of it enables us to form an opinion,
we think it is a play likely to become a standard favourite.
The plot is full of interest, and. is ingeniously developed; and
it abounds with many passages of noble sentiment—sentiments
calculated to render the stage the most useful, as well as the
most attractive Anetlitnu of instruction and of improvemenL,.
We feel confident. that no voath of ingenuous and ardent feeling
could sit and hear the play of "The Lady of Lyons," without
being fired with the same emulation. the same honourable feel-
ings, and the same laudable ambition which crowns with suc-
cess the efforts of Claude Melnotte. The -plot of the piece is
briefly this: Claude (Mr. Stuart) is a peasaut, and falls in love
with the beautiful but proud Pauline (Miss Faucit). He indices
some poetry to her, which she scorns because proceeding
from a • neasaut.• • His • love is turned to a feeling* of re-
venge, under the influence of which, he enters into an agree-
ment with i3eauseant, (Mr. Howard) a rich gentleman
of Lyons, who has been refused by Pauline, to win. and
marry her, passing himself off as a prince, and Beauseant
providing him the means. The plot succeeds; Madame Des-
ehappelles, (Mrs. Clarke) Pauline's mother, is delighted at the
idea of her daughter wedding a prince, and the match is com-
pleted. Pauline, when she . discovers that she has married a
peasant is highly enraged, and Claude, whose affection for her
had returned, consents to a divorce, enters the army, gains
rank by his bravery, and afterwards marries her on equal
terms, and as an honourable man. The piece was well got up;
and the acting throughout good Mr. Stuart, Mr. Baker, and
Mrs. Clarke, are especially deserving of approbation for their
clever acting.. A new Pantomime, " Harlequin in Sicily," for
the Easter holidays, closed the performances. There was a
good house. -
LIVE TUREOT.—Under his head, we inserted, on Tuesday
last. a paragraph, on what we considered good atubority, con
tradict;ng &statement which appeared in the Liverpool Chroni-
cle. We have since ascertained, that the statement put forth
in the ChreSicle was perfectly correct; and We have further to
State, that Mr. Newton. of No:•14; SJohn's fish market, has,
during the presettt week, an abundant: supply of that delicious
luxury—live tnrbot;: which. notwithstanding the late violent
gales, he edutiOues. to sell at the sanie low nrices as heretofore.
:We also understand, that Mr. Newton' has taken the Port 104,
,und Port Stewart salmon fishery, which will enable him to pro-
vide an abundant supply for the Liverpool market at the most
reasonable prices,