The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

organised state

We have very little to add respecting the Eithtcrn
question. The news of the rejection_ by Mehemet a 4
of the terms proposed by the four allied powers hs:
been confirmed. He has declared that he will not
yield a single inch of ground. It now remains to be.

seen whether he will take any ulterior steps
ever may be the issue, we sincerely trust that the de

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signs of Russia will be frustrated

The repeal agitation is proceeding in Ireland will'
fearful success. Seven Popish Bishops have alreatlY
given in their adhesion to Mr. O'Connell, and becOle
members of his traitorous association. Such an er
ample cannot fail to swell the ranks of the Repeaters'
who are every day become more numerous.

The language made use of at the meeting of. the
Repeal Association is of the most violent, inflaunor
tory, threatening, and, frequently, blasphemous ehr
racter. Under the latter denomination we must clad
such expressions as the following, which were uttered
by a Mr. John Reilly, at a meeting which was held °a°
Wednesday last :—" They (the Irish people) ha,
nothing now to depend upon hut Heaven, O'Connel"
and their own exertions." This blasphemous decl°;
ration, associating such a vile wretch as O'Connell
with Providence itself, was responded to with " I°llj
cheers." But it was followed by something still worse'
if possible„ The same speaker said that " this o'3
an ominous year to oppose repeal. The Israelites were
forty years in the land of bandaye, and were led out I)!
Moses. They, too, had a Moses—O'Connell—to °,e;
their pillar of fire by night, and their cloud by doP
thus, with daring impiety comparing the filthy dew,
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gogue, reeking with the grossest and most sensurl
vices, to the Omnipotent Leader of the Israelite
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Again, this blasphemous wretch exclaims,
(O'Connell) was superior, politically speaking, t°
Moses, for in his faith he never doubted, and Heavellf
would bless him by allowing him to enter the land °,
promise, and enjoy the regeneration of his county)''
We might quote much more to the same effect, but ive
relinquish the disgusting .task. What are we to think
of the brazen audacity of the man who could l'e3
such language applied to him without a word of
clanaation ?

One of the most prominent features in the speeclie:
delivered at the Repeal meeting in Ireland is, the 01;
form denunciation of the Imperial Parliament as
foreign legislature," and of the English nation as
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"foreign oppressors." Thus,- forinstance, the sPea
whose words we have quoted above, said that P
demanded hiS rights, for he would not beg them fro°
a foreign legislature." The meaning of this language
is too obvious to deceive any one. Its tendency '5
equally dangerous. If the same language were
ployed by the miners and mountaineers of Wales-311
they have just as much right to employ it as o'o3l/,;
nell and his traitor gang have—we should soon hear
of police spies being sent to select victims for whf
vengeance, and of troops being dispatched to "
the rebels," and to bring them to justice. But what
would be treason in Wales is openly connived at br
the executive government in Ireland. What are we tt:
infer from this ? Is Lord Ebrington a Repealer.
The Popish journals do not hesitate to claim his col;
tenance and patronage. He has not taken a sinb
step indicative of his disapproval of the Repeal agita;
tion. How is such conduct to be reconciled with his
oath of office? How are we to persuade ourselve;
that Lord Ebrington is discharging' his duty as a loyal
subject of the British crown ? If any " untowerj
event" should result from the present movement 10
Ireland, Lord Ebrington will have a fearful account te
render. Impeachment for high treason will be 311
least reward that he can expect. Lord Melbourne antl
his associates must also look forward to the day 01 re;
tribution. Their patronage of O'Connell and 111
brother conspirators may yet form the ground of °II

impeachment.
We have called O'Connell a traitor. Ills langt4ef
justifies the application of the term. The grand end °
his agitation is, rebellion and dismemberment of lbo
empire. This is evident from his frequent and signr
ficant allusions to the millions of able bodied MAOl'►
panting for liberty--to the example of America, ill ti'
assertion of her independence, and that of Belgiuol'lo
rejecting the " yoke imposed upon her by Holland''

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and to the " famous" Irish •rebellion. The drift of
these allusions is but too obvious. But let the wily
Jesuit take heed. His inuendoes, his artful sugges-
tions, his broken periods, may yet prove insufficient to
screen him from the consequences of his treasonable
designs. He may yet have to undergo, in his own
person, the penalty of the law: The preservation of
the safety and integrity of the empire may render it
necessary that he should be arrested in his mad career.

The anti-corn law agitation has been resumed with
as much energy as was manifested at the commence-
ment of the year. The itinerant and stipendiary lec-
turers of the " League" are perambulating the king-
dom in every direction, mingling in their incendiary
harangues the most ridiculous nonsense with the most
awful blasphemies, and stimulating the evil passions of
the mob by ribald abuse of both houses of legislature,
and by denunciations of vengeance against the aristo-
cracy of the country. One of these paid orators, a
member of the numerous family of Smiths, has been
endeavouring, during the past month, to gull the inha.
bitants of Liverpool with his trashy verbiage and shal-
low sophisms in favour of a repeal of the corn laws.
We are glad to say that he. seems to have made but a
very slight impression on the minds of the operative
classes in Liverpool, who are, generally speaking, too
well informed to be led astray by such superficial rea-
goners as Mr. Orator Smith.

We trust that the recent exposures, made. by Mr.
Handley and others, of the gross and fraudulent trick-
ery practised in theecorn trade, by the speculators for a
repeal of the corn -laws, will convince the people of
Great Britain of the folly of trusting to the tender
mercies of the free trade gentry. Even under tly2 pre-
sent system of restrictive duties these very conscien-
tious individuals are able, by means of fictitious sales,
to raise the price of corn almost to starvation point,
and that in spite of the powerful competition of the
whole agricultural interest of Great Britain and Ire-
land. How much more terrible woul'l be their tyranny
if they had an almost unlimited command over the sup-
ply of the. staff 'of life ? We should soon find the
locks and bolts upon the granaries and the storehouses
of these monopolists a far more fearful practical sys-
tem of corn laws than the most stringent acts of par-
liament that could be devised.

It is a singular and rather anomalous circumstance,
that the two classes who are most conspicuously active
in carrying on the anti-corn law agitation, are actuated
by different and opposite motives. One of those classes
Is composed of the corn dealers. They are anxious to
obtain a repeal of the corn laws for the sake of securing
a more complete Lontrol of the market, and, of course,
more remunerating prices. Thus, the cry of this section
of the clamourers for a free trade in grain resolves itself
Into a cry for " dear bread." It would be preposter-
ous to suppose that the corn merchant would he other-
wise benefited by a repeal of the corn laws, than as it
would•enable him to secure larger profits. Those who
imagine that such men as Sir Joshua Wahnsley are
disinterested in their exertions to procure a free trade
la corn are fools of the first magnitude, upon whom
argument would be utterly thrown away. The other
class of agitators for a repeal of the corn laws com-
prises the manufacturing interests generally. Their
object is to procure a supply of cheap bread for their
factory slaves. Without cheap bread they know that
they cannot have cheap labour. Their uniform coin-
plaint is, that they cannot possibly compete with the
foreign manufacturer, because labour is dearer in Eng-
land than it is on the Continent. Repeal the corn
laws, say they, and we shall he enabled to procure a
Bu2ply of cheaper labour, and, consequently, to eater
into competition with the manufacturers abroad.
Granting for a moment that this would follow, how
would the poor operative be benefited by such a
change ? With diminished wages—and that, we em-
phatically repeat, is what the manufacturers are la-
bouring to bring about—of what benefit would be
cheaper bread to the poor artisan ? It is a consum-
mate fraud—a mean and rascally trick—a cruel and
Satanic delusion—to say that the condition of the la-
bouring classes, in the manufacturing districts, would
be in the slightest degree improved by the repeal of
the corn laws. To them " cheap bread" would be but
another name for " low wages" and a more limited
supply of the mere luxuries of life.

In proof of the correlative advantages of " cheap
bread" and `'''cheap production," we may refer to the
condition, of the operatives on the Continent—not as
described in the lying, ex parte, and well-paid-for re-
ports of Dr. Bowring and other political empirics, who
have been sent abroad on purpose to get up a case in
favour of the manufacturers—but as we find it de-

scribed in the voluntary, matter-of-course statements
of intelligent and impartial tourists. 'We could fill our
paper with extracts from the works of trustworthy tra-
vellers, descriptive of the misery and want, the phy-
sical sufferings and moral degradation, of the opera-

five classes in various countries on the Continent.
We feel convinced that no British artisan would ex-
change his lot for that of most of these wretched vic-
tims -of the " cheap labour" system. Operatives of
England! your worse than Egyptian taskmasters want
to reduce you to the same level with the serfs of the
cheap-production lords of the Continent. If you have
any spirit left in you—if your energies are not annihi-
lated by the grinding tyranny of those who are coining
the sweat of your brows and the strength of your si-
news into gold,—tell the vagabond orators of the Anti-
Corn Law League that you will not listen to their
lying declamations. Tell these bloated scamps to go
and labour for their bread, instead of prostituting their
abilities to so unhallowed a purpose as that of seeking
to grind the faces of the poor.
But we deny that " cheap labour" would be, in the
long run, of any advantage to the manufacturing inte-
rests of this country. Indeed, so convinced are most
of the respectable and conservative manufacturers of
this fact, that they have systematically kept aloof from
the Whig tyrants of the Anti-Corn Law League. It is
obviously the interest of the Continental powers to
protect- their 'own manufactures. If they cannot do
this in any other way, they will do it by depriving this
country of the benefit of a free trade in corn. Let us

remove our restrictions on the importation of corn
and we shall soon find foreign governments imposint

restrictions on its exportation. It would be an infatu•
ation to expect any other result : and let it be remem.
bered that this result would only-be rendered the more
certain and inevitable by previously making this coun.
try dependent upon the countries of the Continent fo:
its supplies of corn.

We believe that the conservatives of Liverpool will
stand well upon the municipal registry for the present,
year. The preparatory struggle has been well sus-
tained, and nothing now remains, in order to secure
such a victory, on the first • of November, ps shall for
ever extinguish the hopes of the Whig-radical faction,
but an energetic and persevering canvass throughout
all the wards in the borough. There is very little time
left for exertion. We are, therefore, anxious that that
time should be well employed. candidates ought to be
forthwith chosen in each ward, and those candidates,
when once definitively fixed upon, ought to have re-
course to a personal canvass. Much will depend upon
this point. Our opponents have all along been fully
aware of the importance of a personal intercourse be-
tween the'candidates and the electors ; and wherever
the conservatives have, on former occasions, acted upon
this policy, they have been generally successful.
We may, .perhaps, be told that we are, too sanguine
in our expectations with reference to the approaching
municipal election. We may be reminded of the gi-
gantic efforts made by the Reform Association and the
Protector Society to swamp the registry. We are fully
aware of the desperate expedients to which our oppo-
nents have resorted, in order to secure, if possible,
their lost ascendancy. We need not be reminded of
the extent of their preparations. We are in possession
of ample information on the subject. With a full cog-
nizance of their trickery and of their lavish expendi-
ture of money, we still maintain that the strength of

the conservative party in this town is comparatively
greater than at any period subsequent to the passing of
the Reform Act. We wish that we could say that the
zeal and confidence of the conservatives had kept pace
with their increasing strength.

The principal source from which the augmented
strength of the conservative party of this town is de-
rived, is, the gradual reaction which has taken place in
favour of constitutional principles. The universal
disgust excited by the reckless and unprincipled pro-
ceedings of the Whig-radical faction has done far more
to swell the ranks of the conservatives than all the ex-

ertions that have been made to add to the number of
voters on the registeis. We venture to say that there
is not an individual, under whose notice these remarks
may happen to fall, who cannot, without a moment's
hesitation, point to some of his friends or acquaintances
who have deserted the ranks of their former destruc-*
tive allies, and joined themselves to the conserva-
tive party. But we challenge nine out of ten of our
readers to tax their memories for a single instance in
which a conservative has joined the ranks of the ra-
dicals. Such a thing would be a prodigy worth re-

cording

Such being our own convictions, we wish to inspire
our conservative friends with a corresponding degree
of confidence, in contemplation of the approaching
struggle. Let them fight like men determined to win
the battle. " A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull al-
together," during the present year, will secure the final
ascendancy of conservative principles in our municipal
councils. Let us not rest satified with anything less
than a clean " sweep out" of the Augean stable.

FAILURES IN MANCHESTER.—There have been two ex-
tensivelfailures in Manchester, Mr. Fort and Ma. Lavino.
THEATRE ROYAL.—Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Mackay
commenced their engagement last evening, and as may be
expected from their high reputation, they gave the highest
satisfaction. The " bill of fare" for the week is very rich.
Mr. Paul Bedford will appear this evening.—See advt.

MODEL OF WATERLOO.—We understand that this unique
and elaborate production, which has been visited and ad-
mired by thousands of our townsmen, and which has been
pronounced, by competent military authorities, the most
perfect thing of the kind ever exhibited, will be very shortly
removed from Liverpool. We recommend our readers to
avail themselves of the brief interval which will elapse before
the exhibition closes for the purpose of inspecting this
splendid model.
MR. HASSARD'S TABLES.—We understand that these
singular and beautiful specimens of workmanship have been
inspected by multitudes during the past week, and it will be
seen from an advertisement that they will be on view for one
day only. Mr. Hassard deserves well from those gentlemen
to whom he specially appeals for the disposal of his ingenious
works of art, as he has been compelled to make many sacri-
fices in defence of those principles he holds dear. As some
misapprehension was caused by the wording of the advertise-
ment in our last, we may as well state, that Mr. Hassard will
feel proud to exhibit his rare productions to all whp may
honour him with a visit, whether with the intention of pur-
chasing or otherwise. It will be melancholy, if Mr. Hassard
be compelled to leave our wealthy town without disposing of
his unique designs.
NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY.—The annual
meeting of the members and friends of the Liverpool Aux-
iliary Naval and Military Bible SOcietY was held last evening
in the Music-hall, Bold-street, and was most numerously
attended. Thomas Porter, Esq. was called to the chair, and
the proceedings were commenced by the supplication of the
divine blessing. The Rev. W. Maynard then read the report
of the committee's proceedings during the past year ; from
which it appeared that, since the formation of the Parent So-
ciety, in 1780, it had distributed no less than 356,000 copies
of the Holy Scriptures amongst the men belonging to the
navy and the army. The Liverpool Auxiliary .had been pe-
cutlery successful during the past year; the subscriptions
had increased from £37 to £lBB 18s. 6d. ; but still it entailed
a loss of £5OO upon the Parent Society. An association had
been formed at Birkenhead; and since the last annual meet-
ing, 907 copies of the Scriptures had been distributed, mak-
ing a total of 7,112 copies since the formation of the Aux-
iliary in the year 1832. The meeting was afterwards ad-
dressed by the Rev. W. Maynard, the Rev. J. H. Stewart,
Rev. J. Bavlee, Mr. Howard, Lieutenant Symonds, and the
Rev. J. C. Richards ; and the Doxology having been sang,
it dispersed, all being highly gratified with the proceedings.
THE MANCHESTER NEW POST-OFFICE.—This office was
yesterday week opened for business. It is said that there is
nothing superior in point of accommodation out of London.
The principal room covers a space of upwards of two hun-
dred yards, and is most profusely lit from the roof. The
number of private boxes are 1,320.
DESTRUCTION OF A COTTON MILL AT STOCKPORT BY
Ftrus.—On Thursday afternoon, about half-past four, an
alarm of fire was given, which was found to be at the
Churchgate Mills, the property of Mr. Elkanah Cheetham,
but occupied by a number of tenants who manufactured
weft from the lowest qualities of cotton waste, and which
made a catastrophe like the present exceedingly imminent.
It is said that none of them are insured. The building,
however, is understood to be so. Scarcely anything was
saved.

—CHESTER CATTLE FAIR.—The shOw of cattle on Thurs-
day was tolerably good for the September fair. ' Milchers
and barren beasts were in tolerable demand ; the former
averaged from £l5 to £lB, and the latter from £lO to £l3
each : fat cattle, of which the show was only moderate, sold
well, from 51d to 61d per lb. and sink. There was a fair
supply of sheep : fat weathers were worth 6-id and 7d, and
ewes 6d to 61d. Lambs had only a dull sale. Pigs were in
tolerable demand, at about the same prices as last fair.
Serviceable horses were in good demand. The city was not
very thronged, as the favourable harvest day kept many of
the farmers.away.

MR. WINTERBOTTONI, OF STOCKPORT.—We understand
that information has been received in this town that an
individual has been residing at Newmarket, in Monmouth-
shire, for the last three weeks, answering in every respect the
description of Mr. Winterbottont, with the simple exception
that he has no whiskers, which were rather a conspicuous
feature in Mr. Winterbottom's countenance. This individual
was consequently suspected to be Mr. Winterbottom himself ;
but the parties entertaining that suspicion, not venturing
to take him into custody without further evidence, sent to
this town' for some person to go over and identify him. We
believe that a police officer who knew Mr. Winterbottom
personally, went to Newmarket on Wednesday or Thursday
last ; but we are not aware that any information has been re-
ceived from him:—Manchester Guardian.
ACCIDENT.—On Friday last, as a boy iri 'the employ of
Mr. Jones' Castle-street, was cleaning the office windows,
he lost his hold, and was precipitated from a height of fOrty
feet, through the skylight of Messrs. Swainson and Son's
counting-house, and fractured his skull. Mr. Swainson,
jun., who was standing under the skylight at the time, nar-
rowly escaped being killed, the boy in his descent striking
him on the back. Assistance was immediately procured,
and he was conveyed to the Infirmary, where, we believe,
small hopes are entertained of his recovery.
SUPERB CIIINA.—We have inspected the truly elegant
stock of china, Bisque figures,
&c., at Mr. Hodgson's rooms,
Church-street. The selection of ornaments (some of great
size) for drawing-rooms, boudoir, &c., are most unique. We
understand the sale will continue the whole of this week--
See advt

FATAL ACCIDENT.—One of those accidents which, for-
tunately, are of rare occurrence in our town, happened in
Tithebarn-street on Friday afternoon, about five o'clock. A
gig, driven by a young man, was passing, at an ordinary
speed, through the street, a boy ran across from the opposite
side at the time, and, it is supposed, came in contact with
the feet of the horse, and fell. The gig passed over the neck
of the child, and when taken up he was found to be quite
dead. We are not aware that any blame can be attached to
the person who was in the gig when the accident occurred.
The child belonged to some poor people in Pall Mall.
THE CHARGE AGAINST L. J. HART.—We stated, last
Tuesday, that the legal advisers of Lewis J. Hart had ex-
pressed their intention of making an application to Baron
Rolfe to enlarge the prisoner on bail. On Saturday night
Mr. Crompton intimated to his lordship, that he was about
to apply to that effect, his lordship having had the deposi-
tions and certain affidavits laid before him on the preceding
evening. Mr. Watson said, he had instructions to resist the
application for hail, but certain essential affidavits which he
had to present were not quite ready, and others were only
just sworn. He wished his lordship to postpone the case till
Monday morning. Mr. Crompton said, there had been am-
ple time to have had an opportunity of seeing them. Mr.
Watson said, they had been got ready as soon as practicable ;
but there was one important affidavit, the affidavit of the
woman herself, which was not completed. Mr. Crompton :
" The woman herself I—That is a reply !" Mr. Watson :
"To be sure—and a most important one." His lordthip
fixed a quarter past eight for hearing the affidavits on both
sides. His lordship could not say, that he would hear the
application in open court, but it should be somewhere within
the building.—Yesterday morning, at a quarter-past eight
o'clock, Lewis Joseph Hart was brought before Baron Rolfe,
in his private chamber, in the Session's-house, for the pur-
pose of receiving formally the application of the prisoner's
legal advisers to let him go at large on bail. The witnesses
for the prosecution were in attendance in the ante-room •,
but, saving the official persons concerned; no one was allowed
to be present, the application being strictly private. Mr.
Crompton, on the part of the prisoner, produced the affidavits
of certain parties who formerly lived at the White Bear, and
of a person who was formerly a servant with Mr. Fadeuilhe,
and of the prisoner himself. Mr. Watson, in resistance of
the application, produced counter affidavits from parties who
were enabled *to contradict the allegations of the deponent
on the prisoner's behalf. His lordship, having heard the
argument of counsel on both sides, said he saw nothing in the
statements produced to justify his interference. His lordship
refused to allow the prisoner to be bailed.

TILE ORIENTAL.—The splendid steamer Oriental arrived
at Falmouth on Wednesday morning, at 6 a.m., from South-
ampton, to receive the mails for Alexandria and India. At
a very early period after she put in, the Mayor, S. Blight,
Esq., and the corporation, were accompanied on board by
Captain Plumridge, in his barge ; and she was likewir visited
by a large concouse of the gentry of the town and neighbour-
hood, admitted at is each ; amongst them were Sir Charles
Lemon, M.P., and family, J. Ennis, Esq., W. Vice, Esq.,
Captain Pengilly, R.N., Lieutenants Herrick, Leslie,Crook,
Coghlan, and Smith, R.N. We learn that so large a sum
as £94 was collected, by the admission fee, towards the funds
of the Fishermen's Charity, whilst she lay at Southampton.
The extreme civility of her commander and officers, and her
magnificent but chaste fittings, with the cleanliness and order
prevailing, excited the admiration of every one. There were
103 soldiers of the 77th regiment, Captain Egerton, in Com-
mand, and ensigns Rook and Duff. She had passengers for
Alexandria—Captains Reed and Ewart ; Messrs. St4ton,
Ford, Weller, Stockham, Palmer, Daly, Powell, Rich, Black,
Fletche, Strath, Dr. Fletcher, and Hassan Gammiel. For
Malta—Colonel Gordon and family, Captain Rawlinson and
lady, Captain Gardner, Lientenant Middleton, Lieutenant
Munro, Mr. and Mrs. Dick, Messrs. Harvey,
Duniell, Wil-
liams, Reynolds, Langhorne, Hanson, Privilege,
and
Terry,
rs. Lrvant, Mrs.ancaster. FCustanbor Gice, Dr. Stewart
nrt , and Mrs. Custance
se and Messrs. Em-
mett and Savage. She left Falmouth at half-past 1 p.m.,
Lieutenant Turncock in charge of the mails. Lieutenant
Green goes out to take charge of a mail steamer between
Malta and the lonian Islands. There appeared an uncertainy •
whether the Oriental would return to kalmoutli or go up to
Liverpool direct.
Blackpool. Southport, Waterloo, Crosby, and otherbathing
places, have for a few weeks past been quite overflowing.
THE ISLAND OF IHINDY.—This island, situate in the
mouth of the Bristol Channel, and forming part of the hun-
dre-d of Braanton, in Devon, was last week sold for 9,400 gui-
neas. It is three miles long by one mile wide, and contains
nearly 2000 acres of land. It possesses a mansion, with
offices and outbuildings, including a smith's shop and forge,
and there are several labourers' cottages. It is said that a
small harbour might easily be formed near the present land-
ing-place. Lundy is famous for its butter.
SHAKSPERE'S DERR STEALING.—MaIonc, it is known,
threw doubts on the fact of Shakspere's deer stealing in his
early days, thereby offending the poet's admirers, inasmuch
as otherwise the bard's' attack upon Lucy of Woodcote
seemed unaccountable ; and the reason he gave was that the
offence could not have been committed, inasmuch as Sir
Thomas Lucy, so Malone averred, had no deer walk to be
poached upon ; but time, the great settler of all things, has
set the matter, as well as the commentator, right ; for it ap-
pears, froth a record of those who sent presents to Chancellor
Ellesmere, when he entertained Queen Elizabeth, at his seat
at Harefield, that among the givers of bucks on the occasion
was the aforesaid Sir Thomas. This corroboration of the
poet's deer stealing is now on veritable record among the
papers published by the Camden Society in their last volume,
from'" the Egerton papers," furnished by. Lot d Francis, the
'owner of these curious and hitherto unknown documents.

LIVERPOOL SUMMER ASSIZES

NISI PRIUS COURT.-FRIDAY

THE MILITARY ASSAULT AND RESCUE AT WIGAN

At the sitting of the court this morning, Mr. Crompton
said he had to show cause against a rule nisi, for an attach-
ment obtained against the defendant, Mr. Adolphus Fraser,
for a rescue, at Wigan, of the body of Mr. Plunkett, now in
prison at Lancaster. The learned counsel contended, that
Mr. Fraser had already been sufficiently punished for the
offence and public justice satisfied; that the. body of Mr,
Plunkett having been eventually taken, the plaintiff (Mr. J
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ornbbs, of Manchester) hail had his a private
individual, in an oppressive manner, and at an unnecessarily
late period after the offence. He submitted that it could
answer no purpose but that of throwing costs upon the de-
fendant ; that the issuing of an attachment for contempt was
optional with the court ; and that this was not a case in which
the court ought to interfere.—Mr. Martin appeared in sup-
port of the rule, and contended that the issuing of the at-
tachment on proof of contempt was a matter of course, and
that the court was bound to accede to the application. When
the application was argued on the merits, he should be pre-
pared to show that the application was not wanton or op-
pressive, but was in fact the only means the plaintiff had to
met at his debt and costs. He would assent, however, to the
enlarging of the rule, until nearer to the period of the de-
fendant's imprisonment ; and applying for it in term time,
so as to allow both parties a full opportunity of being heard.
—The learned judge, after expressing his concurrence in the
view taken of the application by Mr. Crompton, acquiesced
in the arranzement.

PRESTON AND OTHERS V. FORD

The plaintiffs in this case are.M7 Robert Preston on his
own part, and Messrs. Jones and Dagley, as assignees to Mr.
Herdman, bankrupt, formerly Mr. Preston's partner. The
plaint ifs, Preston and Herdman, were wine and spirit mer-
chants at Manchester, and the defendant is a publican in that
town. The action was brought to recover the amount of £27
odd, the balance of an account due -from the defendant for
goods sold and delivered. The case possessed no interest.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs for £26 lOs 4d.

PIXTON V. RHODES.
This was an action brought by Elizabeth Piston, tenant of
T. J. Trafrord, Esq., for the Croft Bank Farm, to recover
about £5O rent of the defendant, a farmer, to whom she had
let about 1,100 square yards of land. For the defendant it
was contended that he was not liable to the plaintiff, but to
Mr. Trafford, for the rent.—The jury found for the plaintiff,
damages £46 10s., there being a set-off of some £3 odd.

ALLEGED LIBELS ON A BEER RETAILER.
HAWLEY v. WA GG.—The declaration stated that the de-
fendant had published two libels of the plaintiff, and the de-
fendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. John Hawley, the plaintiff,
is a beer retailer at Grcenheys, near Manchester, and has
also been an excavator ; and this action was brought to get
compensation in damages for the libels in question. In Ja-
nuary last, the defendant, William Wagg, who is a police-
man at Staveley, in Derbyshire, came to Manchester, and,
amongst other places, went to the plaintiff's beershop, with
some of the Manchester police. The plaintiff was out, but
they told Mrs. Hawley that the, had come to search the
house. She made no objection, and they searched, during
which process the plaintiff came in, found nothing, and went
away. Some time afterwards, namely, on the 29th of Fe-
bruary, the Derbyshire Courier, published at Chesterfield,
contained one of the libels ; and, as that paper circulated in
Manchester and the neighbourhood, they had, it was alleged,
done great injury to the plaintiff in his busineis. The
libels in that paper, and in the Derbyshire Chronicle,
were the result of communications to reporters for those
papers, made orally by the defendant (Wagg) himself, and
appeared as news. That in the Courier was headed—
" Spirited and Successful Pursuit of a Thief." After stat-
ing that there had been many robberies in the neighbourhood
of Stavely, and that Wagg had been directed by the Staveley
committee of police to spare no expellee to trace the thieves,
it went on to say, that Wagg, having some suspicion, ob-
tained a search warrant to search the house of Hawley, who
formerly lived in the neighbourhood of Staveley, but then
resided at Manchester ; and that in his house at Green Edge
IGreenheys], parish of Holme [township of Hulme],_YVagg
found a quantity of property,—not, however, the produce of
the recent robberies,—which induced Wagg to leave Hawley
in custody. The article then .related the circumstances of
the apprehension of a man named Platts.—The alleged libel '
in the Derbyshire Chronicle was in somewhat similar terms,
being headed,—" Dispersion of a Gang of Thieves, and Cap-
ture of one of the Leaders."—Mr. John George Portman,
sub-editor and reporter of the Derbyshire Courier, proved
that the defendant communicated to him the paragraph in
question for publication, which was read over to him, and he
said it was all right. The defendant, subsequently to its
publication, said if any one came to inquire about it, the
printers might give his name as the author.—Mr. Henry
Adams, editor of the Derbyshire Chronicle, gave similar evi-
dence as to the oral communication of the statement by Wagg
to him for publication in that paper. He subsequently
showed Wagg a proof, and Wagg said it was quite correct.—
Mr. Cyrus Alcock, superintendant in the Manchester police,
stated that he went with Wagg to search the plaintiff's house,
and on the way there he told Wagg that he lie had known
Hawley and his house some years, and he thought him re-
spectable and honest. Witness was very sorry afterwards
that the search was made at all. No stolen property of any
kind was found.—lnspector Richard Green gave similar tes-
timony.—Mr. Brailsford, of the Brown Bull, Salford, proved
that he took the Derbyshire Courier; and another witness,
named Lowe, proved that he had read the paragraph aloud to
the.company, and then he and his companions determined
amongst themselves not to go again for beer to the house of
Hawley, in whose neighbourhood they lived and worked.—
Robinson, another workman, gave similar evidence.—For the
defendant, Mr. Watson addressed the jury, admitting that
the plaintiff must have their verdict, but urging circumstances
in mitigation of damages.—The learned judge said there could
be no doubt that the defendant was the publisher of these
statements ; and it would be absurd to say that they were not
libels. He thought juries ought to deal liberally with plain-
tiffs in cases oflibel of this kind ; and if it was once allowed
to defendants to escape, on the supposition that a man who
publishes what injures another is not to be civil!y responsible
for it, there would be an end to all free discussion. The de-
fendant, there was reason to believe, had not been actuated
by any malignant motives. This was one of a class of libels
which ought to arrest the attention of juries, being so parti-
cular and specific in statement. The jury found for the plain-
tiff, damages £2O.
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