The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-once, Two o'clock, p.m.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET—Tins DAY.

The ability of Ireland to afford considerable supplies of
Grain produce for export for some months to come, appears
evident by the liberal augmentation of Wheat, Oats, Oatmeal,
and Flour, received into this port during the last eight days,
the latter article amounting to upwards of 10,000 sacks; mean-
while the arrivals coastwise are still insignificant ; and, con-
tinuing to be opposed by strong east winds, the present impor-
tations from abroad prove very moderate in amount.
As most of the English and Irish markets have recently
assumed'a firmer tone, the trade for Wheat here this morning*
was steady, but not active, at an advance of Id. to 2d. per 701 b.
upon old Wheats generally, and upon the best qualities of new.
Irish Flour, notwithstanding the large arrivals at hand, must
be quoted Is. per sack dearer; and all kinds of American fully
supported late prices.
Barley and Malt dull, without any change in:value. Beans
and Peas steady, at our last quotations.
Oats were in tolerable request, at a slight advance upon new,
but no variation in old.
Oatmeal ruled nearly the same as on Friday, the top price
of new being 21s. 6d. per load
There was some inquiry for Indian Corn, but not much bu-
siness transacted, holders still refusing to reduce their preten-
sions.

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SOUTH CHESHIRE REGISTRATION.

(From the Chester Courant.)
William Charles Townsend, Esq., the Barrister ap-
pointed to revise the list of parliamentary electors for the
southern division of this county, held his court on the 2d
instant, at Birkenhead, for the revision of the list of
voters for that district.
The interests of the Conservatives,ivere confided to Mr.
W. R. Dunstan, solicitor, and Mr. W. Jenkins, both of
Chester ; Mr. Peacock, solicitor, of Liverpool, was also
in attendance.
Michael Ashton and forty-six other Radicals, all of
whom with one exception resided in Liverpool and its
neighbourhood, were the first batch struck off the register
on the objection of Mr. Dunstan and Mr. Jenkins. It
appeared that these 47 Liberal sticklers for purity of elec-
tion, not being satisfied with their privilege of electing
members for their own county and borough, purchased
eleven cottages in St. Anne and Oak streets, in Birken-
head, with a view to persuade the Cheshire electors that
jt was to their interest, if not to their inclination, which
goes for nothing with your true tyrannical leaguer, that
the members for South Cheshire should be Manchester
manufacturers of the Cobden stamp, and not gentlemen
of the county. To conclude the purchase, the aid of a
mortgage was required by the forty-seven—pity 'tis that
the number be not forty—it would have reminded us of a
popular Eastern tale, the mortgagee answering to the part
of Morgiana. The property (!) not producing any rental,
the 47 " proprietors" could not, it appeared, afford any
interest, and the mortgagee, after waiting patiently for
two years, entered into receipts of the rents, or rather
would have done so, if he could, for there were none to
receive, and advertised the cottages for sale. An arrange-
ment, however, was made to prevent this, but during the
past twelve months, although cottage property at Birken-
head has somewhat revived, yet so miserably out of repair
are these worthy samples of the- Anti-Corn Law League
Estate, that nothing like the interest upon the mortgage
has been received. Of course, the whole of these forty-
seven " foreigners," (amongst them being the celebrated
Mr. William Earle, of fretful notoriety,) were struck off
the register.
The next case of importance was that of Daniel Col-
hinge, of Oldham, who appeared iu person, to support his
right to be retained on the registry, as the owner of one-
seventieth share of fourteen houses, situate in Wood and
Russell-streets, in Birkenhead. In cross-examination of
this party, and of the League agent and receiver of rents,
Mr. Craven, Mr. Dunstan elicited the following facts:—
That one-half of the houses are, and have forthe last year
or more, been nearly empty ; that the actual rent received
has not produced any thing like 30s. to each of the seventy
owners. But although hard pressed on the point, neither
of the witnesses could say what sum had actually been
received, nor Mr. Craven produce his rent-book. Mr.
Collinge stated that the purchase money amounted to
£2400, including the expenses of the conveyance ; the
cost, therefore, to each individual being un,ler £34 6s.
Mr. Collinge had not brought the conveyance with him,
but had brought the conveyances of other properties, to
substantiate the right to vote of his other Oldham friends;'
he stated, however, that it was a deedconveying the four-
teen houses to him, in trust for himself and the other 69
owners. Mr. Craven, the agent, having the hardihood to
state that he considered the valuation of property in Bir-
kenhead to be as high now as in 1846, before the " panic"
had set in there, Mr. Dunstan called Mr. Hughes, an ex-
tensive cottage owner, and a commissioner of the town-
ship, to contradict such outrageous statements. Mr.
Hughes proved that houses of the class in question had
depreciated fully 50 per cent., andthe smallest description
of cottages to the extent of 40 per cent.
The Revising Barrister having called upon the Assistant
Overseer for his opinion as to the depreciation of Ilirken-
thead property, which fully corroborated Mr. Hughes's
statement, the vote was disallowed, and the other objec-
tions to this Oldham squad were, as a matter of course,
sustained.
Mr. Collinge, in the course of his examination, de-
claimed loudly upon his having been "grievously" brought
from Oldham to defeat a lot of frivolous objections, and
trusted that full,costs would be given in every case! ! He,

however, sobered down on being- reminded by Mr. Dun:
-stern that the Cheshire electors thought it a grievous
hardship that they should not be allowed to elect their
own members. Upon the decision being given, he tried
hard to re-open the question, although unable to produce
any further evidence, and at last impudently asked for an
.appeal. Being mildly informed by the Revising Barrister
that the point being one of fact and not of law no appeal
.could be granted, he was at lastinduced to be quiet.
Seven other Oldhamites were also objected to, registered
for a freehold house in Clifton Crescent, but as Mr.
Collinge (who singularly enough could produce the:eon-
veyance in this case, hut did not •thoose to do so in his
own), and Mr. Craven swore that the rental was sufficient
to give the franchise to the uoters, the objection on
that ground was not sustained. Upon other grounds,
however, five of them were struck.off, but having sent in
new claims, were re-inserted. To show the unscrupulous
way in -which these Radical disciples of Mr. Cobden act,
we name the following circumstance. Mr. Conine
swore positively three times—for thrice did the solicitor
for the objector put the question—that one of the five
above-mentioned still resided at the place of abode given
in the .old register ' • and it was not until the new claim
sent in by the party on account of change of residence
was produced, that the witness faltered or hesitated, and
that too without a blush ! for he actually applied for costs,
and urged that he had come over on purpose to defend
these votes. This statement drew upon him the rebuke
of the court, which reminded him of his own case, and
refused costs in the two instances where they could
legally have been granted ; the barrister dating that the
objections were fairly and properly made, on account of
the immense depreciation of property in the township.
The Conservatives gained 212 votes.