The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

CONCLUSION OF. THE ASSIZES,

NISI PRIUS COURT.—YESTERDAY.
Mr. Baron Rolfe took his seat at nine o'clock.
FRASER AND OTHERS v. TOY, (S.J.)—ID this case the record
was withdrawn.

ACTION AGAINST THE SHERIFF.-HOWDEN V. STANDISH

(THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY).
In this case Messrs. Knowles and Henderson appeared for
the Vaintiff, and Met.srs. Martin and Crompton for the defence.
It will be recollected that last year a series of admirable
representations of ancient statues, was given by Professor .
Kellar, at the Zoological Gardens, near this town, and Kellar
being in difficulties, a sheriff's writ was issued against him.
The bona fide defendant in the present action, was Mr. Lawton,
sheriff's officer, of this town, and the proceedings had been
instituted against the plaintiff, to recover the sum of £lO5.
The plaintiff, Howden, had lent Keller considerable sums of .4.
money, and when the plaintiff learned that Keller was, through
a turn of . fortune, nightly realising considerable sums of
money, application was made to him for the amounts advanced;
and the plaintiff having occasion to suspect that Kellar was
about to leave the country, a writ was obtained, and Lawton
was instructed to arrest the defendant, when the latter was
performing at the Zoological Gardens, which, however, he
failed to do, and the defendant got off to Germany. The she-
riff was ruled to return the-writ—his return was non et inventus,
and it appearing that due vigilance, on the part of the officer,
had not been exercised, it was sought to recover the amount
from him. Lawton, it appeared, made a capture, but he had
got the " wrong pig by the tail" : he took a man who had been
dressed up to represent Kellar.
Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury for the defendant. He said
he did so with more than usual anxiety evinced in such cases;
for, in point of fact, if their verdict went against his client, it
would to him be absolute ruin, for he would have to pay the
debt claimed. An attempt had been made to compel the officer
to pay the debt on an alleged charge of dereliction of duty, but
he (Mr. Martin) would satisfy them that there had been gross
fraud in the case. He would prove that no order had been given
to arrest in what might be called the theatre. Lawton followed
his directions to the lett lin maki t► ' I

ier, anc. _..ing the arrest, had seizeu
and it was because of Mr. Lawton having

the wrong man

they (the jury) were called upon to takemoney-out of his (Mr.
Lawton's) pocket. Mr. Martin contended that it would have
been absolute madness for the defendant to have attempted an
arrest upon the stage; and he put Mr. Lawton before them as
a man who had used all proper caution, skill, and diligence, for
the purpose of making the necessary arrest. The present action
was brought against the defendant for not having arrested this
man; but did the jury think that, if he had have been arrested,
he would have paid the man?
Witnesses were called to prove that it would have been imprac-
ticable to have made an arrest upon the stage of performance.
evidence to the jury, leav-
Mr. KKOWLES addressed the jury for the plaintiff. He said
the witnesses called were " runners" for the other side, and
weHreisbaLloleßdntsolim,
pakreecuappiintutlhateecdattihsee.
ins it entirely with them to abjudicate-between the parties.
The jury, after a few minutes deliberation, returned a verdict
for the plaintiff for .'lO5.

A verdict w•as likken by arran
plaintiff, in a similar action.

Igetnent between " Keily v. the

SANSON V. SHEPHERD.—This was an action upon a promis.
sary note given by plaintiff to defendant for the sum of a
balance of .'lO of which was owing. The case possessed not
the slightest public interest, and the jury returned a verdict for
£9, with damages of '4O.
Thus ended Liverpool Assizes.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS

SPAIN

The Gazette of the 28th ult., publishes two Royal degrees,
the one removing the Duke de Sotomayor from the office of
President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs, and
the other conferring those two offices on Don Joaquin Fran-
cisco Pacheco. The new Ministry stood as follows :

N. Pacheco, President of the 'Council, and Minister for Fo-

reign Affairs ;
M. Salamanca, Minister of Finance ;
M. Benavides, of the Interior ;
General Mazarredo, of War ;
General Sotolo, of Marine •
M. Pastor Diaz, of Public Instruction and Commerce ;
The Department of Justice would, it was said, be occupied by
M. Lorenzo Arrazola.

It was believed that the sitting of both houses would be sus-
pended for some days, to enable the Administration to orga-
nise itself and ascertain the dispositions of the Congress; Mi-
nisters also intended to publish a programme, in which it was
said they would declare their determination to goverri•accord-
ing to Moderado principles. The grant of a general and un-
conditional amnesty was also talked of.
Letters from Madrid received by express in Paris on Friday
stated that hopes were entertained of reconciling all parties.
The London Embassy would be offered to General Espartere ;
the Paris mission to General Narvaez ; M. Olozago would- be
recalled, and a general amnesty proclaimed.
On the 29th ult. the new ministers had presented themselves
to the Cortes, and in each M. Pacheco explained the circum-
stances under which he and his colleagues accepted office.
M. Gonzales Moron, and other members belonging to the Mon-
Pidal fraction, having moved in the Chamber of Deputies that
the accounts between the late government and M. Salamanca
be submitted to the house, the motion was negatived by a ma-
jority of 134 to 56. General Cordova had been appointed cap.
tamp-general, ad interim, of the province of Madrid. General
Serrano had appeared before the officer charged with his prose-
cution, which it was believed would be dropped. The Minister
of Justice had not yet been named. Three candidates were
spoken of for that office—Messrs. Babamende, Pena y Aguayo,
and Calderon Collantes.

" The struggle between England and France in Spair
the Siecle, "is a struggle of liberty. The cabinet of the Tulle-
leries supports the Narvaez, the Gonzales Bravos,, the Pidals,
the Bravo Murillos, the Bretons, and all the partizans of cor-
ruption and reaction. The cabinet of London has only one
course to pursue, that is, to support the Liberals, the promo-
ters of material and moral progress, and they will thus turn
against us all the rising men in, Spaiu "

GREE CI

We have received, by this expresusr,
correspondent
from our corre-
spondent in Athens, dated March 20. They regard the
the
espvuttoe
between the Greek and Turkish Governments as virtually at an
on
end, but they arrive at this conclusion through an assumption
which does not appear altogether warranted. They take for
granted that the reply of M. Coletti to the representations of
the Porte would be accepted, of which, nevertheless, doubts
were entertained by highly informed parties. In that reply,
M. Coletti required that the Turkish Envoy
.to the Court of
.fAthensjanu
January last
Aiu S,Svuot:ul
would
)be given.
changedg i
n; thatthis "p
proposed
oopionsneido arrangementconcession
it w couldas
,bleioinw
eaeer.,,"dbouutb thatdoubted
t that
this h
the
successorpo Porte
efull satisfaction
acl uies_ce4l
the extraordinary and offensive conduct of thie:tinai
peal p
hence the termination of the difference did
tain, or at least so near at hand as o
—TitkaP2 eSPOrident assumes.

REPORTED LOSS OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM-
PACKET SHIP TWEED.

By the arrival of the Calpe, South-Western Company's
steamer, at Southampton on Sunday we have received the
melancholy intelligence of the loss of the Tweed, and 60
lives, as we gather from the following particulars, extracted
from the New Orleans Picayune of March 1, which, with
files of other American papers down to 10th ult., had ar-
rived at Havre by the Baltimore, Captain Jahnstone
• "The Yucatan schooner, Atrevida, Captain Zanchez, arrived
at this port this morning from Campeachy, having sailed the
19th of February.

"A letter hasbeen received by her from a commercial house
at Campeachy, announcing that news reached that city on the
evening of the 17th of the loss of the British Royal mail steam-
ship Tweed. She was lost on the 12th of February on the
north-east end of the Alacranes, and 60 persons were drowned.
The Tweed left Havannah on the 9th ult., for Vera Cruz and.
Tampico. Expeditions were sent from Campeachy to her as-
sistance. TheAlacranes lie about 70 miles from the coast of
Yucatan, directly north of Merida."

The Tweed was the packet now due ; possibly the Tay
or some other uessel may bring the West Indian mails
home in her stead, and shortly furnish additional particu-
lars, The Tweed was commanded by Mr. George Par-
sons, R.N., a very skilful officer.

THE SPEAKER'S CHAIR.—Mr. Howell, bookseller, of
Church-street, has now in his possession the chair used
by the Speaker of the Old House of Commons, previous
to its destruction by fire in 1834, where it may be seen by
those who are curious hi such matters.
The Rev. George Read, curate of Ballina, has for some
weeks past had eight men employed in sowing carrot seed,
and in preparing ground for barley and oats in his parish.
The demand upon him being great, and his funds almost
exhausted, it is to be hoped a portion of the sympathy of
charitable Christians will be placed at his disposal.
An infant, 3 months old, the child of Edward and
Ellen
Lloyd, was on Saturday night suffocated in consequence
of being overlain by its mother. A similar instance oc-
curred in the case of Mary Susannah Ashmore, infant
daughter of Thomas and Hannah Ashmore, Bedford-
street, in the park. _

We' perceive by a advertisement in our paper of this day,
that t
connexion with
annual sermons
St. Jude's
church,
supportof the Chanty t o
bepreached
in
by Mr. M`Neile on Sunday next, and we rejoice to observe
tblei a h
pt
reisse
nwto
atr theone of
tMayorhem a. hTshsei gnistfi. ed
Jude'shis i nst
otioolsn to
s we
understand derive no part of their support from any
public fund, they are maintained entirely by the annual
subscriptions of the congregation, and .the collection 4
made after the annual sermons. We cannot doubt that
Mr. W/sTeile and his congregation will on this occasion,
meet with ready support from the friends of Scriptural
Education.
A SUPPOSED MURDER IN LlVERPOOL.—Yesterday, a

woman named Francis Downs, who keeps a brothel in
Peter-street, was taken into custody on suspicion of hav-
ing caused the death of a prostitute, named Martha Sur-

ppeared that

about four o'clock yesterday morning the deceased and
prisoner were left sitting on the bed in the room in which
they slept ; an alteFationsnsued about some money, and

about six o'clock the accused party made an alarm that
the deceased was dead, and upon a person, who had previ-
ously been in the room, again going in, she found deceased
upon the bed, in the same position she had left her, but
dead, and a wound appeared above the right eye. The
police-officers were called in, and a poker, bearing marks
of blood, was found under the bed, with which it is de-
posed the deceased was struck. On a post-mortem ex-
amination being made it was found that the deceased, ac-
cording to one 'surgeon, had died from congestion of the
brain, the result of natural causes; but from the evidence
of the other medical gentlemen a doubt existed whether
or not death was caused from violence. The Coroner, in
order to obtain further evidende, adjourned the case until
to-morrow.

INTERESTING GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERE.—The new
red sandstone of this district and neighbourhood, has be-
come celebrated in the annals of Geology for the man)y,
interesting phenonema of impression of rain drops, ot
vegitable, &c. discovered in it by Mr. Cuningham, Arch-
itect, who has recently made another of an important
nature in the strata of the same formation at the south
end of the brick hill, where excavations are now being
made in the formation of a road. The excavators have
carelessly thrown aside several blocks containing the ial-

pressionof animals, footmarks of the reptile family, sim:
filar to those found at Storton hill. The most importanN
however are the remains of vegetables imbeded in th
blocks, which remains are of such rare occurrence in the
new red sandstone formation, they have been apparentlf
of a soft, spongy or cellular structure, from the circum-
stance of the sand which displaced the vegitable matter'
although in an incoherent or loose condition, still retains
that form throughout. These plants are to be seen
situ in the section of the strata on the side.of the roa?,i
Those feeling an interest in such matten will be well pal"
for their trouble by a visit to the spot.. The blocks CO:
taining the impressions of the anirnalp are lying among
number of small stones, south from, the new church On
building by M. Laird, near tt:,e, new, piles of Laboure'"
Cottages