The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

FREE TRADERS' ASSURANCE-BULLYING A

PREMIER.

The " liberal " portion of the corn' men are waxing
importunate for the remission of the four shillings duty
upon that article. Having bought up no inconsiderable
portion of the food of the country, both home-grown and
foreign, under the assurance that Lord John liussell was
squeezable in his composition, and that the high prices
would afford him an excuse for breaking in upon the
recent settlement of the corn question by the opening of
the ports, and transferring the amount of the existing
duty upon bonded stocks in hand into their own pockets,
they are alarmed by the very intelligible hints afforded
from all sides of falling prices and subsiding alarm. The
extent of the potato rot has evidently been exaggernted ;
and recent accounts from both America and the Black
Sea assure us of coming large supplies of all descriptions
of grain. Hence there is a bustle in the camp; and de-
putation after deputation is daily presenting itself in
Downing-street, to urge the step which these gentlemen
find to be so imminently important to themselves.

In the proceedings of one of these recent deputations,
we find a Mr. Cochrane reminding his lordship of an al-
leged promise to open the ports under certain circum-
stances, which that gentleman argued had now arrived.
Lord John demurs to Mr. Cochrane's version of the
promise in question, and says that his meaning was, that
" if he saw an extraordinary necessity, he would at once
resort to the use of extraordinary powers to meet that
necessity." Mr. Cochrane forthwith inflicis upon his
lordship the following piece of impertinent sarcasm. We
take it from the Times report :
" Mr. COCHRANE said, as it was of the greatest importance
that they should be permitted to understand what constituted
an extraordinary necessity,' he sincerely hoped his lordship
would forgive him if he requested some further elucidation, as
the suffering people would feel very anxious in this respect.
His lordship evidently viewed the exigencies of the country last
year of no ' ordinary' description, or he w, uld not have deemed
it proper to give the opinions and advice which he had spoken
or written—singularly enough at this period last year, possibly
on the very day and hour at which he was now addressing his
lordship—in favour of the total abolition of the corn laws. The
occasion on which Sir It. Peel thought proper to declare his
opinions in favour of the opening the ports could not be consi-
dered an ordinary' one—nor when he passed the modified corn
law this year, although corn was tos. per quarter cheaper than
it is now. It is difficult to understand that the present is an
ordinary' occa ion, as corn is 4s. dearer per quarter than whe❑
his lordship last year considered it, high price was 'the cause of
penury, fever, mortality, and crime among the people.' He
(Mr. Cochrane) most earnestly begged of his lordship to con-
descend to offer for their guidance some slight indication of
what he considered an ' extraordinary necessity.' "

Poor Lord John ! It is hard to be badgered this way
by one's friends. No wonder that the report goes on to
state, that his lordship " immediately rose up from his
seat, and briefly" (qy. tartly ?) " said, He had no fur-
ther explanation to offer.' We are glad the Premier
has too much of the old blood of the Russells in his veins
to submit to be thus outrageously bullied by disappointed
speculators. It would be, by the way, a curious object of
inquiry to ascertain how many of the members of this
and other similar deputations are holders of bonded
grain.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, WESTMINSTER,
NOVEMBER 28.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice Cresswell and
Common Juries.)
POOLEY V. TAYLOR AND WILSON.

Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Matthews appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Channell for the defendants.
The plaintiff in this case is a manufacturer of weighing
machines at Liverpool, having an agent in London, Mr.
James Butcher, whose office and wharf are in Earl. street,
Blackfriars. On the Ist of May last Mr. Butcher received
a letter from a person named Radley, stating that he was
in want of a weighing machine for the Western Gas-light
Company, whose office is at No. 11, Poultry, to whom he
referred. Mr. Butcher called there, and saw Mr. Tidd,
the secretary, and Mr. Taylor, one f the defendants, and
a director of the company. He showed them Radley's
letter, upon which Tidd said, " It's all right ; Radley was
making some experiments for them, to bring out a new
thing in gas." The machine was accordingly supplied to
Hadley. Radley's letter, ordering the machine, was ra-
ther ambiguous, ordering it as for himself, and referring
Mr. Butcher to the Gas Light Company. The present
action was brought for the value of the machine against
the defendants, as two of the directors of the company;
and the question was to whom the credit was given—to
Radley or to the Company ? the defendants contending
that the reference to them was merely as to the character
of Radley, and that it was Radley's order, he doing at the
same time some work for them. Radley turned out to be
unable to pay.
Mr. Justice Cresswell left it to the jury to say from the
evidence to whom the credit was given, and whether the
defendants authorised the credit to be given to them.

. After a short absence the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff, fur the value of the machine; damages £23 17s.

EDUCATION IN WALES

We find the following in the Merthyr Guardian :—lf
the statement be unimpeachable—and we must assume it
to be so, derived as it is from an official parliamentary
document—no one will venture to affirm that the system
of which it is the exponent, is calculated to promote
either the spiritual or the social interests of the Princi-
pality. It will be said, perhaps, that the low state of
education among the Welsh, precludes natives from tak-
ing their due proportion of ecclesiastical preferments;
but this only suggests the question, why education has
been suffered to getinto that low state ?

We must now proceed with our review of the Church
in North Wales. We had left off that period when we
showed that eleven men, Bishop's relatives, received
from the diocese of St. Asaph alone £12,292 per annum.
Our attention, in the next place, is naturally drawn to
the Chapter. This, also, will prove to us the manner in
wh,ch it has been customary to encourage and reward the
native clergy. Our authority is again the same, the re-
port made to the House of Lords. Here we find there
are fourteen dignities in the Cathedral of St. Asaph.
Nine of these are held by Englishmen, and five by
Welshmen. The revenues of those held by the English
amount in the aggregate to £1,8,11 per annum ; and the
total amount of fines, at the time of making the returns,
during an average of three years, were £772.
On the other hand, the revenues enjoyed by the five
Welsh amounted to £3l per annum, and the fines during
the same period of three years were £2Ol per annum.
Thus;—

Total income of Englishmen .. £1,841 per annum.
64 Welshmen .. 31 If
Total fines of Englishmen .. 772 f f
Welshmen .. 201
Total received by Englishmen during three years £2,613
f Welshmen .. 232
Excess received be Englishmen over Welshmen £2,381

A meeting of the clergy of this town, convened by the
rectors, was held yesterday at the Blue School, for the
purpose of receiving a proposal for the formation of a
" Parochial Assistant Association for Liverpool, Birken-
head, and the neighbourhood," which his been sanctioned
by the Lord Bishop of the diocese.
MISCONDUCT OF A POLICE-OFFICER.—At the Police-
court yesterday, officer No. 478 was suspended by Mr.
Rushton, for drenching a female prisoner with water, in
the Bridewell, after he had taken her there on some
trifling charge. The woman was discharged.
BIRKENHEAD MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—We are
glad to hear that lectures, in connection with this institu-
tion, are being delivered in the Craven Rooms, Chester-
street, every Monday evening. On Monday week, Saml.
Wilderspin, Esq., lectured on infant education, to a nu-
merous and respectable auditory. Mr. Hogg, of the
Liverpool Mechanics' Institution, delivered a lecture last
evening, on " Chester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead."
MEETING OF THE PROTESTANT AND REFORMATION
SOCIETY.—It will be seen, from an advertisement in our
columns, that the annual meeting of this society is fixed
to be held in the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, on
Friday next. The Rev. Canon M'Neile will take the
chair, and several other influential gentlemen are expected
to attend, and to address the meeting. No doubt the
meeting will he crowded and enthusiastic, es our Pro-
testant friends have not such opportunities of having their
faith s'rengthened as frequently as they ought to have.
VALUABLE PREFERMENT.—The Bishop of Bath and
Wells last week collated the Rev. T. Newberry, M.A., of
Queen's College, Cambridge, and lately incumbent of the
district parish of Shipley-cum Heaton, Yorkshire, to the
Rectories of Hinton—St. George and Scavington—St.
Michael, with Dinnington annexed, in the County of So-
merset ; vacant by the death of the Rev. R. A. Cox ; and
to which he has been presented by the Most Noble the
Earl Pauiett. The rev. gentleman has received a splendid
and valuable testimonial from his late parishioners, on his
removal from them, expressive of the high estimation in
which he has been held, and the grateful appreciation they
entertain of his ministerial labours amongst them.
STABBING CASE.—We have elsewhere given the parti-
culars of a charge brought before Mr. Rushton last week
against James Hunter of stabbing Charles Winslow, in
the street, on Tuesday morning last. The final hearing
came on yesterday, before Mr. Rushton. Several wit-
nesses were examined, but no new facts were elicited. It
appeared that the whole of the parties were partly intoxi-
cated, and that some provocation in words was given, but
nothing definite was heard or stated. One of deceased's
companions, a seaman, having heard the deposition made
by deceased in the Hospital, said it was not correct. One
witness said that he saw the blow struck at the deceased's
belly by the prisoner, who was kept sight of and appre-
hended, but he could not see whether a knife was used by
the assailant. The sailors, be said, were. all fighting to-
gether. The officers who took the prisoner found a clasp
knife in his pocket. Mr. Dean, surgeon of the Northern
Hospital, said the deceased died there on the following
day, from hemorrhage in the intestines, a large blood
vessel in the intestines having been opened by the wound.
The prisoner said that he was not the man who committed
the act, and that he bad heard from a man in the Bride-
well that deceased was stabbed by a man named Kelly.
Mr. Rushton ordered the depositions to be taken in writ-
ing, and committed the prisoner for trial at the assizes.
MURDER OF A HUSBAND BY HIS WIFE.—The disco-
very of a mysterious case of poisoning in the village of
Acton, a short distance from Sudbury, within the last
few days, has created the greatest sensation in that part
of the county of Suffolk. The circumstances connected
with it are of a very complicated character. About a
month ago a healthy-looking young man, named John
Foster, 24 years of age, was married to Catherine Morley,
aged 18, the daughter of a widow residing in the village.
For three weeks they lived with the mother apparently on
good terms, when, on the afternoon of the 17th instant,
he complained of heartburn and sickness, and in less than
twenty-four hours expired. The sudden nature of the
death having been communicated to the coroner for the
county, an inquest was held in the village on Saturday,
the 28th instant. The deceased died soon after eating
some dumpling made by his wife. The post mortem
examination discovered arsenic in the stomach of the
husband, who appeared to be a perfectly healthy subject ;
and after a good deal of evidence the jury returned a
verdict of " wilful murder" against the wife, who was
committed to the county gaol for trial at the assizes.