The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-01 00:00:00

LONDON LAW REPORT.

ADMIRALTY COURT.—TuesnAy, 2Sth JUNE
THE HOWAHD—SALVAGE.
' The court having been applied to by the owners, Capt. Par-
sons, the master, and the crew of George the fourth steamboat,
to apportion the amount of salvage (£2UOO) decreed in this case,
hail deferred coming to a final decisi,n.
The King's Advocate having been now heard on behalf of the
above parties, Sir John Nichull delivered his judgement. He
was clearly of opinion that the owners were not entitled to more
than one moiety. With regard to the other moiety, considering
the relative rank and position of the captain and crew, and
that the captain was the animus by which the service was per-
formed, he thought he was entitled to .£3OO as his share, and so
decreed, and directed the remaining £5OO to be distributed be-
tween the ma crew. to be divided in proportion to the
Ivages each man received, including in this number a passenger
seaman who had also rendered assistat.ce.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—TUESDAY.
AN ACTOR.
Paul Banfi,•ld. a superannuated knight of the shovel, applied
obe whitewashed e. discharged). His application Was not
resisted by his et editors.
It appeared that the insolvent, who had followed the professi,nn
of a sweep for many years. had some time ago retired front pub-
lic life • his business devolved on his son Henry, who now pur-
sued the occupation with, it was said, credit to his family, who
had been in that line front time immemorial. He had purchased
the rest of the stuck for some time.
Henry, who was examined, was praised by his father for his
good conduct.

Mr. Commissioner Harris inquired how he got the money to
payy, fur the implements of trade ?
Henry blushed deeply. He said he was in tho theatrical line
—(hugliter),
Mr. Wmidroffe, who supported the old man—" What a sweep
by d.iy, and an actor by night ?"—tloud laughter.)
Henry confessed it was su; he was a daily sweep, and a nightly
dancer.

Mr. CoMmissioner Harris remarked that in a French company
he had seen an exceilent actor in the same line. It was credit-
able to the young man, and he 'rejoiced to see so much propriety
uf conduct in humble life.

The actor sweep enjoyed the scene as much as the auditors.
The insolveut Was discharged.

YANti.EI4; EDITORS,

Editor James Gordon Bennett was assaulted in the streets by
a rival editor, James Watson Webb, of the Courier and Inquirer.
The former gives the following opening, of this affair:—" It was
about half-past two o'clock—the sun was shining brilliantly—the
sky was clear—and no doubt the angels and spirits in heaven
were looking down 'through that azure sky, to witness how brutal
—how m id—how villainous—how cowardly—how ruffianly it
was possible. for one Man in New York to make himself. As
soon as I found myself attacked, I turned upon him. His su-
perior personal Strength, which God Almighty in his wisdom
has given him for some inscrutable_ purpose, was altogether too
powerful for me to contend with. The great crowd of brokers
mid others who collected around, cried out Shoot him Bennett,'
—* Shoot the d—d rascal,'—' Shoot him down, he deserves it.'
I wish I had had with me my good pistols, which I kept loaded
in my office. After a scuffle we were separated by the crowd.
My damage is a scratch of about three,quarters of an inch in
length, on the third linger of the left hand, which 1 received
from the iron railing I was forced against, and three buttons
torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for Cal. His
oss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat,
filch cost the ruffian 40 dollars. and a blow on the face, which
may have knocked down his throat some of his infernal teeth,
for antthing I knew. Balance in my favour, 39 dollars.9lc.
As to intimidating me, or changing my course, (proceeds Mr.
Bennett,) the thing cannot be done. Neither Webb nor any
other man can or shall intimidate me. I tell the honest truth
in my paper, and Leave the consequences to God. Could I leave
them in better hands? I may be attacked—l may be assailed—
! may be killed—l may be murdered. but I never will succumb;
I never will abandon the cause of truth, morals, and viitue. It
is not, nor never was, in James Watson Webb to intimidate or
(eghten from the exercise of his right, James Gordon Bennett.
it the public authorities do not choose to protect the peace of
the city, and secure peaceable men in the enjoyment of their
rights, I shall carry arms for my own protection. Hereafter I
shall be obliged to carry weapens to defend my person, and if
he gets killed in the street, the blood be upon his own head."
After insinuating that his antagonist is mad, the writer in the
Hewed proceeds—" Out of pi•y to the poor maniac. 1 shall to-day
make application to the commissioners of Bellevue Asylum, and
buniauely request jr. John Targee, the worthy head of that
establishment, to take him into custody—to give him good lodg-
ings—to treat him kindly—and by all means to have his head
shorn, and every bit of his whiskers shaved off. With the help
of heaven and topical bathings. I may be the means of restoring
poor NVebb to his long-lost senses. May God Almighty grant
it ! Amen." The wiiter, after modestly comparing himself to
Socrates, goes on telling.of the inward promptiugs of his ---
" I hear a voice, as it were. from beaten, by morning, noon and
exylag-we wisrd-in tire-crinee—of
vilization. In the mazes of Wallatreet—amid the solemn
chantings of Trinity—in the gallery of the Tabernacle, with all
the pretty milliner girls in town fishing for lovers—at the kissing
church, No. 17, Sullivan-street, in the midst of the very smack—.
hay, even at t hat. graceless fellow's theatre, Hamblin the hum-
bug—this voice is continually sounding in my ear, like the die-
taut voice of many waters, almost articulated into words, Go
on; the day of another 4thenian civilization is at hand—a new
Athens will again arise in another land; the barbarian and
brute, who weva whiskers, and attempts to beat down truth,
will himself be struck to the earth.' "—New Fork Herald.

LIVING BEINGS.
The immense muititude of beings which people the earth,
and the ample provision which is made for their necessities,
furnish irresistible evidence of divine goodness It has been
ascertained that more than sixty thousand species of animals
isibillenieahi:rianicgibtiaielr.tys,,til,l(e,, Ni
r,Uthe l Be
earth, On
nFd the waters, besides many thou-
tkhieh have not yet come within the observation of the
nsaantudsralist. On the surface of the earth, there is nut a patch of
ground, nor portion of water, n single shrub, tree, or herb, and
a single leaf in the Inres but teems with animated
How maim hundred; of miltious have their dwellings
in the clefts of rocks, in the bark ct• trees, in ditches,
the ocean, and spurt
atbhie f
e shoalsi ts, the
What iresoffi mountains,
juhnaticiiins, and the valleys!
t
to the sienittisuautiiied'rl titers! What millions on millions of birds and
fling insects, in endless variety, wing their flight through the
atmosphere above and all round us! Were tie to suppose that
each species, on an average, contains four hundred millions of
of individuals, there would be twenty tour billions of
livntK creatures, belonging to all the known species K blip inha-
bit the different regions of the world besides the multitude of
unknown species yet undiscovered, which is thirty thousand
tin es the number of the human beings that people the glebe.
Besides these, there are multitudes of animated beings which
no man can number, itivisible to the unassisted eye, and dispers-
ed through every region of the earth, air, and seas. In a small
stagnant pool, which in summer appears covered with a green
scum, there are more microscopic animalcules thin would out.
number all the inhabitants of the earth. now immense then
must be the number of these creatures throughout every region
of the earth and atmosphere! It surpasses all our conceptions.
Now, it is a fact that from the elephant to the mite, from the
whale to the oyster, fruit, the eagle, to the !um, or the
sciptc animalcule, Ii anuhar can subsist without now isliment
.Every speciesi too, requiles a ctifletent kind of food. S.:mile
lit e,on grass, smile on shrubs, some, on flowers, and sa nie on
trews. SAne teed only on
.the runty of vegetables. some on
the leaves, some en the ftuit; shots on the seed, and some ott
-the ho.e. plant ;, some. preft r one species of grass, some
snottier. Yet-stich,islhe unbounded intiniti ence of the Crea -
tor that all to rinds of sentient beings are amply provided
1,.r a lot .lionlithea Ity his bounty ! The eps.:of till these ltsok
utitO lino he openeth Isis baud and satisfieth (Ito desire) of
every ;lying thing." •