The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

iota! anZi probinrial getus.

To-day (Tuesday) is the last day for serving notices of
claim or objection for the parliamentary registration.
Another arrival of pine apples has taken place at Liver-
pool, by a vessel from Eleuthera and Nassau, New Pro-
vidence, having the large number of 16,200 on board.
Two thousand seven hundred and eighty-four baskets
,of fruit have this week arrived at this port by the steam-
ers from Hamburgh and Rotterdam.
The judges honoured Charles Lawrence, Esq., with
their company to dinner, at his seat, Mosley-bill, on
Sunday.

THE RURAL POLICE.—On Thursday, Mr. Sergeant
Wilkins, in the Crown Court, described the police as the
drainings of the mm asses of Connaught.
On Thursday last, Messrs. Amos Bigland and Son sold
a quantity of Shea butter, being the first lot that ever
arrived from Africa.
Messrs. Jackson Brothers, Castle-street, are appointed
tailors to H.R.H. Prince Albert, by special warrant from
the Marquis of Abercorn, Groom of the Stole.
SINGULARCOINCIDENCE.—On Wednesday, there were
three vessels, of celebrated names, laying next each other
in the Prince's Dock, viz., the Sir Henry Pottinger, 334
tons burthen ; Lord Hardinge, 424 ; General Sele, 406.
Mr. Chadburn, of Lord-street, has been appointed op-
tician and mathematical instrument maker, and Mr. J.
R. Isaac, of Castle-street. lithographer and engraver, at
Liverpool, to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
Several splendid pieces of plate, manufactured by Mr.
Wordley, have been presented by the merchants and ship-
owners of Liverpool to Chevalier da Silva, the Brazilian
Consul of this port.
WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—The, next Conference of
the Wesleyan Methodists will be held at Liverpool, to
commence on the 28th of July, 1847. It is probable that
the Conference in 1848 will be held at Hull.
THREE PERSONS DROWNED.—On Saturday evening,
Mr. Powlesland, tine-surveyor at Pile Foudrey, accompa-
nied by his son and a third person, called an extra man,
were:returning from Barrow in a boat under sail, when by
some accident the boat upset and all were unfortunately
drowned.—/ ancaster paper.
Baboo Nogendentauth Tagore, the sun of the late much-
lamented Dwarkananth Tagore, the Eastern prince, who
died in London about the Ist instant, was in Liverpool
last week for the purpose of viewing the public buildings
and objects of interest in the town. His head quarters
have been the Adelphi Hotel.

Mr. William Billing, veterinary surgeon and livery
stable keeper, of Soho-street, at whose establishment the
royal horses were quartered, during Prince Albert's stay
in Liverpool, has received a warrant from the Duke of
Norfolk, as Hereditary Marshall of England, appointing
him livery stable keeper to her Majesty, at Liverpool.
Joseph Pye, who absconded with the cash belonging to
the Temperance Excursion Committee, at Preston, was
last week traced to Paris, where he was found at the Hotel
de Normandie. He had carried with him £153, of which
£132 was recovered, he having spent the rest on his jour-
ney.
CRICKET.—On Saturday last, a match was played be-
tween the Royal Rock and Birkenhead Park Clubs, in the
New Park, Birkenhead, the score of which was as follows :
Royal Rock—First inninus, 37 ; second ditto, 35 ; total,
72. Birkenhead Park—First innings, 72. This is the
second victory which the Birkenhead Park Club has gained
during the past week.
We feel gratified to announce that the Council of the
ROyal Institution, Manchester, have awarded to Mr.
Richard Ansdell, of this town, as the artist of the best
oil painting in the exhibition there, the gold medal, one
of the " Heywood prizes," for his picture of " Return
from Deer Stalking. The prizes were this year limited to
artists resident in or within fifty miles of Manchester.

The Cobden tribute at present is about £61,662, of
which Manchester has contributed £24,000. The towns
in the district generally connected with Manchester hate
contributed £16,000. So that Manchester and the sur-
rounding towns have contributed £4O 000; London,
£11,200. From Glasgow, the report was £2,500; Li-
verpool had subscribed £7,500 ; Bristol, £BOO. There
were a great many large towns that had not contributed.
AIGBORTH.—It is said that the unoccupied portion of
the Aigburth-hall estate, nearest to the town, called the
Riversdale estate, and situated in the most beautiful part
of that truly aristocratic locality, is about to be laid out
for building purposes, in a style of architectural taste
rarely attempted in the provinces; that it will be adorned
with terraces, communicating by graceful flights of steps
with exquisite pleasure-grounds, in which will be foun-
tains, conservatories, statuary, and villas in the Italian,
Grecian, Gothic, Elizabethan, and other beautiful styles.
In consequence of the failure of the potato crop, it be-
comes a matter of prudence to adopt measures to mitigate
the evil. The time is not yet past for planting other kinds
of vegetables. Wherever there is a piece of vacant
ground. winter brocoli of all kinds should be planted, and
early cabbages ought to be put into the ground without
delay. Curled greens, Brussels sprouts, Savoy cabbages,
and brocoli, may all yet be successfully planted ; and
seeds of early cabbages may still be sown, so as to have
an abundant supply of cabbages in early spring.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT TILE MANCHESTER
ROYAL INSTITUTION.—We are gratified to learn that
our talented young townsman, Mr. B. E. Spence, who is
still, we believe, studying at Rome, has proved the suc-
cessful competitor for the second Heywood prize. " for
the best model in clay after nature," (which entitles him
to a Heywood silver medal and £5 in money,) at the
exh;bition of sculpture and paintings at the above insti-
tution. The group which obtained the above prize eli-
cited great praise, we understand, in an article on Eng-
lish sculpture, by a German critic, in the Frankfort
Journal.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—In consequence of the Great
Britain having touched the ground during a fog on her
outward passage to New York, the directors have felt it
their duty to the public not to permit ner to proceed
again to sea until her bottom be thoroughly examined in
the graving-dock. Her next day of sailing is, therefore,
postponed to the 22nd of September. We cannot suffi-
ciently admire the regard for the lives of the passengers,
'which has thus been evinced by the directors of tbis
splendid vessel. It is in itself a magnificent proof that
no expense or sacrifice will be spared on their parts in
the discharge of their responsible duty.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening, two re-
spectable young men were drowned, while bathing near
New Brighton. They had not availed themselves of the
usual bathing•ground, where the machines are stationed,
but had undressed on the rock, and injudiciously plunged
into the water near the Fort, where, at the turn between
the river and the sea, there is generally a strong eddy, and
they perished, we understand, in siAt of persons who had
no means of aiding them. The names of the young gen-
tlemen were Watkinsons and Dickens. Mr. Watkinsons
was an apprentice in the office of Messrs. Ewart, Myers,
and Co., and Mr. Dickens, a clerk with Messrs. Naps,
James, and CO.
LOYAL ORANGE INSTITUTION.—At a meeting of the
Grand Officers of the various Loyal Orange Lodges of
Liverpool and surrounding districts, held at the Standard
Arms, Fox-street, on Thursday last, the worshipful D. G.
M. in the chair, it was unanimously resolved "That every
exertion should be used to uphold the Protestant Institu-
tions of Church and State in Ireland, and every opposition
given to the principle of granting any endowment to
Popery." On a motion of Mr. Ftrench, D. M. of Bir-
mingham, it was suggested that an invitation be forwarded
to the Right Hon. the Earl of Enniskillen, to solicit his
attendance at a grand lodge meeting of the Orange Society
of England, to be held in Liverpool some time in Sep-
tember, for the purpose of hearing his lordship's senti-
ments on some proposed alterations in the institution.
INCENDTARISM IN KIRKDALE. —On Wednesday,
Samuel Greathead, a prisoner in Kirkdale Gaol, Liver-
pool, was committed for trial at the present Assizes at
_Liverpool, charged with having wilfully and maliciously
set fire, the previous evening, to a part of the gaol known
by the name of the Western Lodge, in which tt-e warders
of the prison usually sleep. The lodge is situated on the
west side of the chapel, but does not communicate with
any of the cells of the prisoners. The individual charged
with the offence is a young man who was tried for arson
about two years since, and acquitted on the ground of in-
sanity. He has, shine his acquittal, been confined in the
gaol, and he deported himself latterly in such a way as to
leave little doubt on the minds of the turnkeys that he is
in full possession of his senses. His object in setting fire
to the lodge was, according to his own confession, that he
might get transported.
PAVING AND SEWERAGE.— kt the meeting of the
Commissioners, on Tuesday, a communication was read
from Mr. Duncan, the engineer of the Green-lane Water
Works, who reported that, in consequence of the Dock
Committee's late act for dock extension, the laving of the
pipes in the neighbourhood of Wapping would have to be
stopped, and further that all those pipes already laid would
have to be taken up, thereby cutting off connexion with a
number of streets in the vicinity. After a short conversa-
tion, it was agreed that a deputation, c ,nsisting of the
chairman and the engineer, should wait upon the Dock
Committee, in order to ascertain how long it would be
before that portion of the works would be commenced.
Mr. Tinne complained of the bad paving of the streets
west of Park-lane, and said it was impossible to keep
them in a clean and healthy state, so long as the pavement
allowed large quantities of stagnant water to remain.
MANCHESTER PARKS.—The three parks were opened
on Saturday with great rejoicings. The Philips Park,
Bradford, which is 31 acres in extent, and rather more
than a mile and a half distant from the Exchange, as the
crow flies; the Queen's Park, Harpurhey, formerly the
Hendharn.hall estate, containing about 30 acres of land,
'and just two miles from the Manchester Exchange, on
the Rochdale road ; the Peel Park, Lark-hill, Salford, 32
acres in extent, and the principal entrance—the only one
for carriages—just one mile distant from the Manchester
Exchange, as the crow flies. This is well known, being
opposite the Salford Crescent, on the turnpike road to
Bolton, leading also to Pendleton, Eccles, Swinton, &c.
This last park was to have been given to the Salford Town
Council, but not having been done so, the Salford authori-
ties do not join in the ceremony—another instance of the
absurdity of placing Manchester and Salford under different
jurisdictions.
YANKEE BRITTALITY.—On Tuesday, at the Police-
:court, two American sailors, named Alonzo Lewis and
George Brookes, were charged with brutally illtreating on
several occasions, a poor widow, who was selling tracts,
an elderly negro sailor, and a poor Englishwoman who
was carrying a Mulatto child. The parties made no de-
fence, and had no other motive for their brutality but the
.colour of the parties they injured. Mr. Rushton expressed
the warmest indignation at the conduct of the prisoners,
not
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and told them that such conduct in England could
endured; that the laws admitted no difference between
white and black; and that the utmost punishment the
justices could award for the offence was much too light.
After consulting with Mr. Christopher Rawdon,
ho sat
on the bench, Mr. Rushton ordered each of the sailors to
pay the sum of Q. for each assault, and in default of pay-
ment to be im-ined two months; he also ordered them
to find bail to-Abe peace, or, in default, to be impri-
soned four militia.

HOW TO MAKE A CLOCK Go I—On Tuesday, two
men, named Thomas and John M'Carthy, were brought
up at our Police-court, charged with stealing a clock, the
property of Mrs. Cruse, publican, John's-lane. One of
them had got upon the table, and reaching down the clock
from a height of nearly ten feet, quietly deposited it in a
sack. They were observed in the act by a. cll.-driver
named Crawford, and on the sack being searched, a ma-
hogany cannister was found, with some tea and a silver
spoon in it. The prisoners, on being asked in the usual
way what they bad to say, one of them pleaded in defence
that he did not think his companion's watch was right,
and finding; the clock in the room standing still, he had
taken it down to make it go ! This excuse created a loud
and involuntary burst of laughter in court. They had,
as a pretence, when they entered the room, called for ink
and paper. and one of them pretended to be writing a
letter, but the sheet in their possession was found to con-
tain nothing but scribble. Notwithstanding their benevo-
lence in regard to the clock, the prisoners were committed
for trial.
THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—One of the most
striking features of the late conference is the fraterniza-
tio❑ of the Weslevans with their New Connexion. These
two bodies of Christians Lave been disunited since the se-
cession of the New Connexion, in 1797. They are now
uniting, the New Connexion having made the first ad-
vance. They sent the Wesleyan Conference a fraternal
letter, which was received in a spirit of kindness. On
Tuesday lest Dr. Hannah submitted a letter, proposed to
be sent to the representatives of the New Connexion, re-
spectfully and affectionately acknowledging their commu-
nication in favour of fraternal union, approving of its spi-
rit, and expressing a desire that all acrimonious feeling
between the two bodies should be discountenanced. The
letter was approved by the conference. The following are
the appointments to the Liverpool district :—Liverpool,
North, (Brunswick Chapel, Edward Walker, Geo.
Osborne, Daniel West; John Davies,supernumerary.
Liverpool, South, (Pitt-street, Src.,) William Smith,
John C. Leppington, Edward Brice ; Calverley Riley,
William France, John Aslin, supernumeraries. War-
rington: Joseph Burgess, John T. Yeates, Jas. Scholes.
St, Helens and Prescot : Abraham Watmough, 'William
Sherman. Southport and Ormskirk : William Coultas,
George Dickinson. Wigan : Leonard Posnett, Henry
L. Church. Preston and Chorley : Benjamin Firth,
Robert M. Wilcox, William Csttle ; Joseph Meek, su-
pernumerary. N.B.—Brother Wilcox shall reside at
Chorley. Garstanp : Thomas Brown. George Scott, 2d,
James Faulkner. Lancaster: Thomas Armson, James
Findlay, Edward Wafter, chairman of the district ; Geo.
Osborne, financial secretary.

DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The Sub-committee
of Works reported that the tender of Mr. Ca-to for sup-
plying some buoys was accepted. The Albert Dock
Committee recommended the appointment of gatemen to
that dock, at a salary of 21s. per week, and the usual uni-
form ; and Evan Vaughan, William Henshaw, and J.
Welch, as foremen of the hold. They also announced
that the charges about to be made at the Albert Dock
warehouses bad been revised, according to Act of Parlia-
ment, and that 3,000 copies of them were about to be
printed and distributed throughout the town. Some con-
versation ensued on the subject, in the course of which
Mr. Aikin said he was satisfied that the rates were too
high, and thought they ought to be referred to the differ-
ent associations for their opinion upon them. Mr. Hors-
fall said that probably that would be the best course to
adopt, and as Mr. Myers, of the East India and China
Association was at present engaged in revising the differ-
rent rates, they would no doubt be enabled to obtain some
information on the subject from him. Mr. Aikin would
be sorry to see the rates too low, for that would have the
tendency to cause the warehouses to be choked up, and
prevent them being of that utility of which they were
capable ; in fact, that would he the case if they were not
higher than the general rates, and he would like to see
them a little higher. It would, however, be better to
postpone the printing of the rates until some further con-
sideration I],cl been given to the subject. The matter
then dropped. The Committee proceeded to elect some
of the members to act upon the sub-committees. Mr.
Sandhach and Mr. Rankin were appointed as members of
the Sub-committee of Works; Mr. Kendall on the Har-
bour, Mr. Lockett on the Marine Surveyors', and Mr.
Rankin on the Finance Sub-committee.
DUBLIN AND LIVERPOOL STEAM-SHIP COMPANY.—
On Wednesday, the second half-yearly general meeting
of the shareholders was held at Dublin. The report
stated that the Directors, since the last meeting, in
February, had been actively engaged in completing the
arrangements necessary for carrying on the trade between'
Dublin and Liverpool in the most economical and advan-
tageous manner. In a short time everything will be in
readiness, and they only wait for the delivery of the first
two vessels to commence bperationA. The building of
these has been something delayed by turns out, but the
" Dublin" will be launched on the 3rd of next month ;
and a third to be called the " Tullamore," on the same
plan as the " Dublin," and " Liverpool," has been con-
tracted for and will be delivered during the winter. The
board are proceeding with the preparation of their station
at the Ringsend Docks, which is spoken of as very advan-
tageous ; and other arrangements are mentioned. The
board have not considered it advisable to form a separate
establishment in Liverpool, deeming it more economical
and prudent to transact the company's business in that
port through the medium of agents, who will be paid in
proportion to the freights received. An agreement of this
kind has accordingly been entered into with Messrs.
Thomas Martin, Burns, and Co., of Water-street, Liver-
pool. and it is hoped that the connection with a house so
well known and respectable, and experienced in steam
navigation, will he a guarantee for the style and spirit of
the management there. The company's balance-sheet for
the past year showed the amount of their receipts to have
been .£4,195 126. and of their expenditure, £2,530176. 6d.
The report was unanimously adopted ; and several ques-
tions were asked by proprietors, and satisfactory replies
returned thereto.

IMPORT OF COLONIAL AND FOREIGN WHEAT AND
FLOUR INTO LIVERPOOL.—It may be useful and inte-
resting to know in how far we are indebted to other na-
tions for a supply of bread stuffs, and as particularly
appertaining to this vast and important district, of which
the port of Liverpool is the deptit. We have made our
compilations from the prices current, both as regards the
average prices and weekly importations :

January

February
March ~
April...,
May ....

FLOUR. WHEAT. VALUE.
Brls. of Ig6lb. Quarters.
.. 109,400 48,351 325,563
41,917 19,720 123,269
65.752 10,7 i 0 116,2C2
17,5 gs 171.192
21,640 2 5,147
25,081 232,145
64,434 396.244
21,646 150,745

August (two weeks)

75.'95
92.3' 4
11831,1
190.705

228,580 1,748,569

Average of 13 weeks, from
2nd Jan. to 14th August 23,712
inclusive
The above gives a value for the year of £2,755,324, which,
at 50s. per head, would supply 1,102,129 of the copulation
with this all-important necessary of food. The parlia-
mentary document gives the amount entered for home
consumption during the first six months of the current
year. as follows :—Wheat, 1,660,399 quarters ; flour,
2,109,371 cwt., which, at the average prices, would
amount to £6,600,436, sufficient for 2,640,174 of the
population. The foreign and colonial arrivals have this
year been unprecedentedly large, and we believe that
there is yet a prodigious quantity now in the United
States, which would soon find its way to England did not
our prospects of abundant crops keep down prices at too
low an ebb for remuneration to shippers or importers.
The corn markets have rallied recently, partly owing to
wet weather, and partly to the alleged deficiency in the
crops of that valuable esculent the potato, but any chance
of prices rambling the new scale of duties will efficiently
prohibit.
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—This theatre has been en-
gaged during the last week in the exhibition of two of
Mr. Stirling's pieces—the " Sea-king's Vow" and the
" Jew of Liverpool" ; the latter of which Mr. Stirling
took for his benefit on Wednesday last, and played the
part of Ishmael Lyons with immense effect. That Mr.
Stirling is the author of upwards of ninety pieces, we
know to be true ; but still, famous as he is as a drama-
tist, we feel convinced, from the specimen of his acting
on Wednesday night, that he would rank higher in the
latter profession than the former ; for certaiiily, though
the part was in every way a most difficult one, nothing
could be more powerful arid thrilling than the whole de-
lineation. Mr. Stirling, we hear, opens the Royal Surrey
next month with Macready. We wish him every success,
and, at the same time, to experimentalise on the hint we
have given—" Act a little more, even if you write a little
less." The following address was spoken on the occasion
of his benefit :
Our Author's thanks to all—to ye who soar
On high, and you on pit's less attic 11 or ;
And ye, who placed in midway box serene,
With beauty's smiles shit greet the mimic acetic.
Thanks to our friends, in these steam piping times,
Who prize blank verse, nor are verse to rh) roes ;
But measure sense, howe'cr the metre goes.
Nor leave for abstruse cons. our simpler prose.
Too many, now, there are, whose learned rage
Skews us " no favour", and would " clear the stage" ;
'Who make " forched marches" on the march of mind,
And think the Stage must " halt"—a stage behind.
Nor should we grumble that this age affords
Some moral intluen e stronger than " the boards"
No ; let us own to what exalted ends
This change, th •t robs us of our patrons, tends.
Far nobler pastimes Artizans have 'ound,
And patent wisdom makes slim Clerks profound.
Now to some pothouse " Concert" both repair,
To seek amoosement and instruction 1!) there,
With Bully Blockhead nightly in the chair.
Tints of thin ‘• stout" each " ardent sin it " drains,
And " blows a cloud" to clear his misty brains;
There some free nymph his moral strength repairs,
With dainty ditties and ii decent airs;
Or some tow ranter stamps the sanded floor,
WWith vulgar jests provokes the drunken roar,
Mist rattling glasses jingle an "encore:".
How should the Dramatist presume to please
New tastes, so moral, so refined as these?
Called to a " Bar", where Thalia vainly sues,
And whistling cat calls shock our Tragic News ;
WhereessShhea selr,
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selfearse woulddrewfailto tdhreawthe tear,
beer.
But, to be grave such pursuits as these
Lessen the nnumbr whom we strive to please,
Unless
To you more grateful, with respect sincere.
Our Author thanks you for your presence here •
Well pleased to toil, whilst your approval gives'
Those honor'd smiles, wherein his fortune lives;
Turning the store from which his fancy draws,
To " Sterling pieces"--stamped with your applause.

OYSTERS.-It will be seen by an advertisement in our
first page to-dsy, that Mr. Duffy, who has been known
during the last ten years as the efficient and civil manager
of Marcroft's Oyster Rooms, Hanover-street, has t.uc-
ceeded to that established business. His arrangements
for a daily supply of well-fed London Native, as well as
Irish and Scotch oysters, are most complete, and from
the reputation he has as a judge, there is no doubt his
stock will equal, if it does not surpass any in the
town. We may also notice that oysters this season are par.
ticularly full and well flavoured.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.

CROWN. COURT.-TUESDAY

Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN took his seat on the bench at
nine o'clock precisely.
Mr. Sergeant BAIN and Mr. COBSETT appeared to pro-
secute on behalf of the crown; and Mr. E. S. POWELL,
inspector of her Majesty's Mint, was in attendance.
William Scott was indicted for having in his posses-
.

sion a mould and other materials for making counterfeit
coin. Guilty. Sentence deterred. _ _

Eliza Grijiiths, alias Kennedy, 28, who had been re-
manded from the last assizes, was charged with having,
on three different occasions, uttered counterfeit shillings,
with a euilty knowledge that they were false and counter-
feit. Guilty.

Patrick Roach, 45, was indicted for having in his pos-
session, at Liverpool, a mould fir making the current
coin of the realm called a sixpence. Guilty. Sentence
deferred.

William Burns, 22, was charged with having uttered,
to George Darwell, of Ashton.under-Lyne, a counterfeit
shilling, and having in his possession six other pieces of
counterfeit coin. Acquitted.
John Holden, 28, was indicted for having in his posses-
sion, at Great Bolton, 17 pieces of counterfeit coin resem-
bling shillings. Guilty. Sentence deferred.
James Kelly, 23, was indicted for having, at Aintree,
uttered to Ann Smith three counterfeit shillings. Guilty.
Sentence deferred.

In the case of Betsey Gaynor, charged with uttering a
counterfeit shilling to Jane Holmes, no evidence was
offered, and the prisoner was accordingly discharged.
William Jeff,rson, 21, was charged with having, at
Warrington, feloniously killed Charles Vickers. Wiliam
Johnson, who saw the prisoner and deceased fighting, de-
posed to seeing deceased fall against the wall, when some
one said his neck was out, and tney tried to pull it in, but
without effect. The jury, after a brief consultation, ac-
quitted the prisoner.

- John Lyihqoe, 15, and William Standish, 14, were in-
dicted for having entered the dwelling-house of Robert
Dugdale, at St. Helens, and stealing a quantity of cord,
&c. The jury found the prisoners guilty, but recom-
mended them to mercy.

John 111` Allister, 24, was charged with having broken
into the dwelling-house of James Wright, at the Old
Swan, and s tolen therefrom several articles of wearing
apparel, some silver coin, &c. Guilty, and sentenced to
seven years transportation.
In the case of William Fairhurst, charged with the
manslaughter of Jane Fairhurst, at Sutton, the grand jury
threw out the bill.

The bill against Charles Gent, charged with the man-
slaughter of John Magrath, at Liverpool, was also thrown
out.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
LITTLE V. POLLITT.

This was an action for slander.

The plaintiff, it appeared, was a plumber and glazier at
Manchester, and on the 24th of February last was, with
his workmen, engaged in the course of his occupation in
repairing some of the gas apparatus at the Spread Eagle,
a public-house at Hanging-bridge, Manchester. The de-
fendant, it appeared, is a calenderer, and carrying on a
somewhat extensive business. He is, it was said, a man
of somewhat hasty temper, and being in the Spread Eagle
on the occasion in Question, came suddenly out to where
the plaintiff was employed with one of the gas-pipes, and
told him to brick it. The plaintiff said it was no use to
brick it, as it was done, and it would be necessary to have
a new one. He said Mr. Pollitt might try it. "Try it
be said Mr. Pollitt ; " there's no use trying it
while you are there, you are nothing but a thief ; you are
robbing Mr. Westall, (the landlord of the public-house,)
and if I were Mr. Westall, I would not have such a fellow
about the house." The plaintiff to this tirade made very
little reply, further than to ask Mr. Pollitt who he was
speaking to. Mr Pollitt said, "I am speaking to you,
you wastrel." Those observations were addressed to the
plaintiff in one of the principal thoroughfares in Man-
chester, in the presence of his own workmen, and in the
hearing of several passers-by, who were called as witnesses.
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS addressed the jury for the de-
fence. contending that the ob:ervations of the defendant
were mere words of abuse, he having no intention to im-
pute a felony to the plaintiff, but merely to accuse him of
an unskilful and wasteful mode of making the repaiis in
the gas-pipe in question. He was proceeding with these
observations when some conference took place between
the learned counsel, and the matter finally resulted in a
juror being withdrawn, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins disclaiming,
on the part of the defendant, any intention to impute a
felony to the plaintiff.