The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-06 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

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Mr. Phillimore has again retired from Leominster, and
Mr. Peel will therefore be elected without opposition.
A Meeting of the friends of Mr. Rothschild was held
on Wednesday in London, when Resolutions to support
a new Bill for the admission of Jews to Parliament was
passed.
The question of endowing the Irish Catholic clergy will
certainly be brought before Parliament in the middle of
the session by Mr. Keogh, the conservative and Roman
Catholic M.P. for Athlone.
KEEPING ALOOF.—It has been remarked that the Peel
party had no dinner meeting, or other meeting, prepara-
tory to the opening of the session, and none of the more
prominent members of that party took any part in the de-
bate in either house. From this it is inferred that the
Peelites are waiting to join the ministry at the first con-
venient opportunity.—Standard.
PUBLIC RETRENCHMENT.—When Sir John Osborne
died, now some months since, it was generally reported
by the Treasury officials that the post which the deceased
baronet filled as one of the Commissioners of the Audit
Board, stated to be a useless office, would not be filled up,
and thereby £lOOO per annum would be saved in the
public expenditure. It turns out, however, that this
same office is not to be abolished, for the government has
appointed a Mr. Ross, we believe, on the old salary.
This is a precious specimen of Whig retrenchment.
AN OPINION OF THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.—In the House
of Commons, on Friday, Colonel Sibthorp said, he had
carefully considered the royal speech, and he desired to
speak of it with all due respect as the speech of the sove-
reign, but, in fact, it was not the speech of the sovereign ;
it was a mere make-up, an uranium gatherum pie of her
Majesty's ministers—( laughter)—and any minister who
dared to place such a speech in the hands of his sovereign
ought to be impeached. If they sifted the good from the
bad, ho ventured to say that they would find in the speech
nothing favourable, nothing satisfactory, nothing con-
soling, but everything black, underhanded, and deceitful.
( Laughter.) It was a speech full of fraud and trickery.
Lord Stanley, as leader of the opposition in the House
of Lords, gave a grand political entertainment on Wed-
nesday, at his residence, in James's-square. The fol-
lowing nobleman constituted the party :—The Duke of
Richmond, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Montrose,
the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Salisbury, the
Marquis of Exeter, the Earl of Winchilsea, the Earl of
Sandwich, the Earl of Delawarr, the Earl of Enniskillen,
the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of
Lonsdale, the Earl of Eglinton, the Earl of Cardigan, the
Earl of Kinnoull, the Earl of Stradbrooke, Viscount Com-
bermere, Viscount Strangford, Lord Redesdale, Lord De
Ros, Lord Colchester, and Lord Southampton.
WHIG JOBBERY.—We do not know a more flagrant
act of jobbery than the forcing out Mr. Wyse from the
secretaryship of the Board of Controul, in order to force
in his place an Elliot ! Is Lord John Russell awake, or
has he his ears open ? Had he no friend, kind or unkind,
but sincere, to report to him the whisper of parliament,
when the place of Sergeant-at-Arms last year was con-
ferred ? We are quite confident that if ever the smallest
echo of the murmurs of the public reached the ear of
the premier, no more Elliots or Russells would be added
to the list of placemen. It is quite a monomania, damag-
ing to the government, to the party, and, in the face of
the cry against aristocratic patronage and family influence,
is really dangerous. When Teste's trial is known to have
seriously damaged a dynasty, how can it be supposed that
the small vitality of whiggism can resist the damaging
instances of nepotism ?
The Duke of Newcastle has addressed a letter to Lord
John Russell, which has been printed in the Standard,
urging the Premier to reconsider his determination con-
cerning the Navigation Laws ere it be too late and the
nursery of English seamen destroyed, and the good,
peaceful, and happy Englishman made the agitated puppet
of experiment:—" Remove protection from the ship-
owner, the builder, the merchant seaman—throw open the
traffic of the seas—let in a host of foreigners to swarm
along our coasts, carry our goods, and eat the very bread
out of the mouths of our honest sailors, and a wanton in-
jury is inflicted upon men whose livelihood depends upon
their employment, whose labour is their capital, who
must starve if an unnatural State forcibly robs them of
their capital and confiscates their property for the benefit
of the foreigner, as our landed properties have been con-
fiscated by act of Parliament, for the benefit of the
foreigner and a one-sided and irreciprocal free-trade.'

LORD GOUGH SUPERSEDED.—The Times intimates,
with sufficient plainness, that Lord Gough is to be super-
seded in his command of the Indian army. The following
passage leaves little doubt of this :—" We have reason to
believe that the dissatisfaction so generally entertained
respecting the conduct of the war in the Punjaub will at
length find expression in quarters where respect for indi-
vidual bravery, however sincere, must give way to higher
duties and more imperative considerations. It is impos-
sible to doubt that, for eight months past, we have been
out-generalled. * * Lord Gough directs a forlorn
hope as naturally as he would lead one, and confines his
reliance to that physical valour which has so often stood
him in stead. Such a temper is obviously ill-calculated
for a conflict with an enemy like the Sikhs, whose fierce
and sudden intrepidity is manifestly held under perfect
command, and who have shown the promptitude with
which they can sacrifice a chance of personal display to
an opportunity of serious action. Against such a foe as
this we cannot afford to lose the chief characteristic of
military excellence—a cautious economy of life."
PROTECTION TO A GRI C U LTURE.--SCVerlll important
meetings have been held this week, for the purpose of
furthering the interests of the British farmer by an imme-
diate appeal to the legislature. At the meeting of the
Sussex Society on Friday. the Duke of Richmond pre-
sided, and took a warm and active interest in the proceed-
ings, and promised to do everything in his power to advo-
cate the cause of the home grower in parliament. At
Chelmsford, on Friday, the Essex Agricultural Protection
Society held a public meeting, " to take into consideration
the best course to be adopted in the present alarming
position of the cultivators of the British soil." The meet-

ing was a densely crowded one, and composed
of tenant-
farmers, gentry, and clergy. After much sensible speak-
ing to the question of agricultural protection, a stringent
resolution was passed to the effect, that the meeting would
abide the opening of parliament to ascertain if it really
were intended to deprive the home cultivator of all pro-
tection, and in the event of such being the case, then the
meeting pledged itself to use the most unremitting exer-
tions to relieve themselves from all imposts that press
with unequal severity on their class.

THE

CHASE

THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet—
To-morrow (Wednesday), 7th instant.. ~ Norton Priory,
Thursday, Bth ...
Saturday, 10th
Each day at half-past ten.
SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS will meet—
To-morrow (Wednesday), 7th instant Oteley Park,
Thursday, Bth
Saturday, 10th .. Worthenbury.
Each day at half-past ten.
SIR THOMAS HESKETH'S HARRIERS will meet on—
Thursday, Bth instant Devil's Wall.
Saturday, 10th

Each day at Eleven

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. —THURSDAY
(Sittings in Banco.)

THE QUEEN V. THE CORPORATION OP LIVERPOOL

In this case a certiorari had been obtained to bring up an
order of Mr. Gilbert Henderson, the Recorder of Liver-
pool, made by him under the following circumstances :
Some years ago, Mr. Snowball was appointed to an
office connected with the affairs and management of Tox-
teth Park, and held this office until recently, when an
act was passed, called the Sanitary Act, which embraced
Toxteth Park within its provisions, and under which the
separate management of Toxteth Park which had previ-
ously existed was vested in the Corporation of Liverpool.
This occasioned the abolition of the office held by Mr.
Snowball. He applied for compensation by way of an-
nuity, and after a sum of £6O had been awarded him, and
he had declined accepting it, the matter was brought
under the consideration of the Recorder, who, after ex-
amining into all the circumstances, awarded by his order
the payment of a sum of £3,400 to Mr. Snowball. The
order was now brought to this court by certiorari, and it
was contended, on the part of the Corporation, that it
was void on two grounds—first, tnat as toe ciaim mane ,oy
Mr. Snowball for compensation was a claim for compen-
sation in the shape of an annuity, the Recorder had no
jurisdiction to award him a sum in gross ; and secondly,
that as a sum had been previously awarded to him by the
Corporation, the Recorder, before whom the claim was
afterwards brought, had no jurisdiction to do more than
confirm or disallow such sum, but not to substitute ano-
ther for it. There was a great dispute about some of the
facts occurring on the hearing before the Recorder.
Mr. Martin, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Paget appeared
for the Corporation ; and Mr. John Henderson and Mr.
Edward James for the applicant.
Lord Denman, before the case had been thoroughly
heard out, said that the Court wished all the parties to
consider whether an annuity of £2OO ought not to be
given to the applicant. The rule in this case was en-
larged, in order to enable them to consider this suggestion.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—(Before Justices Coleridge and
Alderson.) North Lancashire—Tuesday, Feb. 13, at
Lancaster. Westmoreland—Friday, Feb.l6, at Appleby.
Cumberland—Monday, Feb. 19, at Carlisle. Northum-
berland—Thursday, Feb. 22, at Newcastle. Durham—
Tuesday, Feb. 27, at Durham. Yorkshire—Saturday,
March 3, at York. South Lancashire—Saturday, March
17, at Liverpool.
PAROCHIAL CHARITIES.—Judgment wan given by the
Vice-Chancellor, a few days ago, in the matter of the
Kensington Charities. Four district churches having been
separated from the parish of Kensington, they claimed
their share of such charities as had been left to the parish.
His honour decided that charities left for the town of
Kensington were still confined to the original parish, but
those left generally to the poor *ere ro be divided. Those
left for educationgmposcs"were not
,sUfficiently before
him to form ; •
A...Qua)strtolsmv43,lollthimoi.7,-The recorder of Glou-
cester (George Chilton, Esq.) has resolved to disallow the
enoenses'oftriclOrtithiu WIN litiving exposed their goods
foi44oide etliefi;:pliiisCr 'Have found it necedlary to
presee4e;parties for rotiNtig, them. Li I

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a,*(efelifißitekettVe.lcianiet (Oh' by information at 104
Bstferaitia 'smick,,,foro hk ait:
penalties alleged to have been incurred by hinffhi ugh
his breach of a regulation of the Customs' law—th all
vessels arriving at any English port from foreign ports

Feb. 61 I_l

' should be reported to the custom-house o.r Out
Mr. Martin (who we believe is the Chief Bar°
law)appearedforthedefendant, and calledislej„Bl:o
Amongst others, Mr. Howard (the owner IN ,t„'
called by the learned counsel, who put to ail" g
of questions, which were objected to from tit,,,p
by Sir F. Thessige ,r late Attorney-General,
for the Crown. He complained that the 1e5w..,4
(Pollock) gave the learned counsel a latitude inrot)
mination which was not granted to a counsel
own witness under examination. Another (Pe ;
by Mr. Martin to the witness, was objectoi.
Sir F. Thesiger, who begged his Lordship
sanction persistence in such a line of exarainattlek'
this the following dialogue and disagreement
riel
Sir F. Pollock.—l can only repeat, Sir Fredeit
I have before said. Counsel must be intrustcdh'fir,
tain extent of discretion in the conduct of
,ty,
whether it be a gentleman only called Yo`eo
Queen's counsel of long standing and elninit:_ae
judge, must allow them to exercise their own
Sir F. Thesiger (warmly.)—My lord, I nanr.a.;
that my learned friend is allowed a discretion in et
and in this court generally, which would not b.eoto
to myself or other counsel in this or any other ce.
Sir F. Pollock.—l think that is a very impr°l-
-
vation, Sir F. Thesiger.
oO'
Sir F. Thesiger.—l am sorry your lordship 5-
so ; but I feel what I spoke. (4
Sir F. Po!lock (rising.)—l shall adjourn this
the cause, with the trial of which I cannot Polrt
ot
proceed. Gentlemen of the jury, when a judge;
insulted, he can have no other alternative than ;r
the cause. I must, therefore, trouble you t°
attendance here on Monday.
A Juror.—My lord, it will be most inconvenieDl
to attend again on Monday.
bt:
Sir F. Pollock.—l am extremely sorry, sir ;
not adopt any other course. Ido not feel t!'',
now, or at any other period of my life. so 53‘
myself as to justify the public insult which I hav'lr,'
received, and I shall not proceed with this ens".n-
ji
to-day.

Mr. Martin here interposed, and in a ton!, A 0
denced deep feeling, said to the jury, " Genu7il
don't understand what has occurred. There i?,
behind the scenes which you do not at all and
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believe I shall put an end to it by never accept
brief in this court."
One of the Jury here observed, that it did
means appear to the jury that Mr. Martin bill:0
improper questions, and be was confident Pril
Thesiger did not mean to insult his lordshil,•
his lordship would not, under such eircumstano'
jury to the trouble of coming again ?
Sir F. Pollock.—Unless some concession is Ota,
not proceed with the trial of this cause. I car?"°oo
to do so unless Sir Frederick Thesiger make''
cession, and I do not hear that he offers any.
Sir F. Thesiger.—My Lord, what T meant t°
that I considered a latitude was conceded to le
friend, Mr. Martin, in this court which was n°
to other counsel practising here. _A?

Sir F. Ponoel
you to have said.

—Exactly—that is what I oil

Mr. Martin.—And so did I—and I wish to obef
ef
my own defence that I do not know that I shall (1(
pear in this court again. I am, however, reos",et
not to be considered to have wasted the time of t.'l,,t)
as I think your lordship said I did, by putting4i
questions to the witness. I must say that I
rt
one question which I did not believe to be P
material to the interests of my client.

Sir F. Pollock.—l did not sayanything of the
do not impute any such charge to you. to
Sir F. Thesiger here said that he had under:i
lordship's observations just as Mr. Martin 112 t t
namely, that the examination was irrelevant, b°
ti
not stop it. ad

• Der
Sir F. Pollock.—Then you have both WO 0
what I said, Gentlemen of the jury, this case
adjourned to a future day, when I hope that w.e.:j
to try it with better temper and a greater chsio)
treat the presiding judge with that respect to sci; to
lam entitled. The cause must stand adjourno
day next.

The jury finding that such must be the presetcd
nation of their labours abandoned the box to the
jury, who were forthwith empanelled to try what
proved to be an ordinary cause. _

UNIVERSITY

AND CLERICAL ,11

The Duke of Buccleuch is now granting site
churches.

The Rev. John Eddowes Gladstone, Perpet'
of St. Mark, Lakenham, Norwich, has been.r
with a purse of £6O by his parishioners.
According to an opinion just obtained from 0 cl
lawyer, it appears that neither vicar, rector, 01.

war-den, have power to sell pews in churches.!
Dr. Pusey has been in London, and has visiTd
influential Churchmen. He preached at MargsTof
on Sunday, and there was a great crowd toms
Archdeacon Manning was also there, and otfiei
with Dr. Pusey in the Communion Service. 1.0,
BISHOP OF VICTORIA, HONG KONG. ----
,
has been graciously pleased to approve of the ounil
of the Rev. George Smith (formerly incumbeetZt)
and resident at Adwick-hall) as first bishop °`
see of Victoria, in Hon_g Kong.
es° On Wednesday the Bishop of Chester eon= An•
new district parish church of St. James, Cong',',V,
church, which consists of nave, aisles, and
built of stone, and has accommodation for 70"
the whole of which is entirely free.
BRISTOL—THE CATHEDRAL SERVICE.-11
1)0
Eccles Carter, Minor Canon of the Cathedral,
served with a monition under the seal of the
having persevered in chaunting the Litany afte.r....o
to the contrary. This is preparatory to ultimo'

1 ceedings. A
The Vicar of West Teignmouth having refuse-r,r
a grandfather to act as sponsor for his infant 13
the Bishop of Exeter has intimated that, as tnc,"
the church do not warrant such a refusal, the gri:iti
must be admitted as sponsor ; of course, suPP°'
to be a communicant, as required by the carion.,li'
EXCOMMUNICATION BY A SCOTCH BISHOP' # f
serted in the Church and Slate Gazette, that
Trower, a Scot-h Episcopal Tractarian BishoP,d'
communicated the Duke of Argyle and Lord!?
Blantyre, for attending the ministrations, at Ot,
the Rev. Miles, an English ordained cle7gYn'ti
The Bishop of the United Church of Engitter
Ireland at Jerusalem has issued his annual le /I
Ree '
states that the Greek Patriarch and his clergy AO
from him as they possibly can ; that with the Pi-
on a footing of polite reserve ; and that with t
nian, the United Greek Patriarch, and the Syrian
a friendly intercourse has been continued. 08
states that he has now fourteen inquirers, who
the Jews, most of whom are receiving regular i,ll
preparatory to their being baptized; and merle'
which he has laid down, that no adult person' ,
joyment of health, is to be baptized, until he V
/
least a part of his daily bread. In accordance ,
rule, the Bishop refused baptism to two candie,„
had been prepared for it, in consequence of the'
to learn any trade practicable at Jerusalem.
ECCLESIASTICAL REFORM.—In the House of "
on Friday, Mr. Horsman asked what measures c'' 1
astical reform were to be introduced this session Volt,
ment ? If any, what was their proposed chart° y
when the proposed period of their introduction 011..
Russell replied that he had considered it exped'e e
vise the crown to appoint a commission, to inquireo,
the leasehold property of the church could be P,4 '
available for the spiritual instruction of membe'o:
church, without infringing on what might be deP
reasonable claims of the lessees, so that some ot,C
might be formed of the income that might h,eiit
towards the extension of this great object.
it 1
mittee having only been lately appointed. '4";
impossible to enter into any statement of the "
of the government on the subject until the co
had made some progress in its labours. Of
CURIOUS RUMOURS. There are strange fel
about certain impending exposures of parties t°,
the recent perversions to the church of Rome; V
scandal is reported as attaching to the case of ege,
vert of some note. The details are kept 0s
secret at present ; but a threatened action /0 Ix,
courts of law will expose it all, and throw e,e4il,
light, it is said, on the article against Mr. Fae:ifi'
Illitleb magaztue, w Ilia' a zlitn t time aim= eau`e
' 411,
surprise, and which the editor was constral'oe
humbly to apologise for, and even servilely ti
The party implicated, however, is not a .',.; ',
Meanwhile more perversions are taking 1,15 ii,
more are stated to have just occurred, one of the„?,
a widow inheriting large property, for some tilv`o I
in Naples. Another symptom of " perversiolV
purchase of the Tablet by a Protestant sPecOt
newspaper concerns, and who has lately turned IV
tion closely to the acquisition of Romish literaar
—Oxford Herald Correspondent.

RESULTS OF TRACTARIANIO'

to
At the recent meeting at Plymouth, to recei°e
of the Primate to the memorialists who praYeA
from the action of the Bishop and his PuseYl
erg
statement of the effects produced in various f f
the diocese of Exeter was made by Mr. J. >VI
and he pledged his veracity for its accuracy 1e54.4
some of the cases for the information of our revi
names of the parishes were withheld from
delicacy.
2d Case. The morning congregation at prese,lloo,
80 individuals ; formerly it amounted to o,,.itc
Communicants are about 18 ; they used to u`'
to 200. •.0

3d Case. Befor the introduction of Tractarii'M
was scarcely a Dissenter in the parish. A larkeid
Meeting-house has been recently built, '
while the church is nearly deserted.
j4th Case. Here Puseyism has emptied tlitOi
Before its advent there was a congregation of t
now it consists of 30 or 40. .
heycation Case. A large church nearly emptied ,
zation hiving found refuge in the Wesleyan „ 41

9th Case. A capacious church in anairictillso
It used to be attended by a congregation of ,
dreds ; now it has dwindled away to about Ai,"
15th Case. Church deserted. Population,
tendants, 15 to 20 individuals.
It is difficult to see how the church in tb.`„,6
Exeter can bear up against such proceed!Vit
Bishop is emptying the churches and filling taioy
bases. The walls and the steeples may rem add
infActl g); but the church, the living colpv3ol,i
avliam-Nshops and presbyters exist, are leavol!
thir.deleprated walls. And in many case;elY
scarcely be blamed ; for these Tractarian teac
feeding the flock with the pure doctrine of Or
Church, but with the garbage of Popery.

Feb, 1

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