The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

Her Majesty and the Court still sojourn in the Isle of
Wight, and the Royal Family take exercise in the grounds
of Osborne House, and on the beach, at such times as the
weather will admit of.

The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere and the Ladies
Egerton are at Worsley Hall, where they purpose to pro-
long their residence until after Christmas.
The Lords Chancellors of England and Ireland, and the
Premier and his lady, have laid up for several days with
influenza but are now better.

THE QUEEN-DOWAGER AT MADEIRA.—The Queen-
Dowager has a very convenient residence above the Loo
Rock, commanding a fine view of the bay, as well as the
south side of the island. Her Majesty goes about a great
will then embark
the
on Howe, 920, is expected to arrive; she
a view of the Peak of Tenerife, and
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return to England by way of Cadiz, &c.
A LITTLE ROMANCE.—R. C. Wood, Esq., who was
appointed one of the pages of the presence to her Majesty
in 1840, died suddenly, at Broadstairs, on the 2nd instant.
A curious circumstance is connected with the first intro-
duction of Mr. Wood to the notice of royalty. It is stated
that when the Duchess of Kent and the young Princess,
her daughter, now Queen Victoria, were sojourning at
Ramsgate, they one afternoon found Mr. Wood, then
quite a youth, sleeping on the sands. The Duchess
awakened him, and upon asking him if he should like to
enter her service, the lad readily assented. Within a few
days afterwards, he was appointed to a situation in the
Duchess of Kent's establishment, where he remained until
he was promoted to a lucrative appointment in the house-
hold of her Majesty.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, SATURDAY, Nov. 13

PRACTICE IN THE COUNTY COURTS,

SPLITTING DEMANDS-CHEAP LAW

GRIMLEX- V.

ACROYD AND ANOTHER.

Mr. Martin moved in this case fora rule to spew cause
why a writ of prohibition should not issue, directed to
the Judge of the Worcester County Court for the reco-
very of small debts, to stay all further proceedings, and
to return into this court the plaint which had been heard
before the learned judge in this case, upon the ground
that the subject-matter of the action was beyond the
amount in reference to which the County Court had
jurisdiction. The learned counsel stated that the defen-
dants were railway contractors, and it was alleged by the
plaintiff that they had given orders to supply the men
who were engaged on the works with certain articles ;
and in this way the claim had arisen which was brought
before the judge of the County Court. This court would,
perhaps, be astonished to hear that no less than 3,000
summonses either had issued or were about to issue from
the County Court, in respect of the debt claimed by the
plaintiff from the defendants ; and if all these summonses
were proceeded with in the ordinary manner, the costs
consequent upon them would amount to no smaller a
sum than about £54,000. The case that has been already
heard in the court in question was for the recovery of
£ll 55., and upon which the costs were as much as
£8 Bs. Bd.

Chief Baron Pollock inquired whether, even if the
costs did amount to so large a sum as £8 in each of the
3,000 actions commenced in the County Court, the costs
of a similar number of actions in the superior courts
would not greatly exceed that amount ?
but then, if there chanced
Mr. Martin said, no.doub, ;
to be 3,000 actions brought, as these in question, in a
common-law court, the decision in one would decide the
remaining 2,999. It seems that the case came on for
trial on the 23rd of August. 0 . e ofd he defendants de-
fended in person, and, after having ddressed the judge,
upon the part of the
proceeded to call two witnesses. The defendant (as was
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understood) was then himself submitted to an examina-
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against the defendants for an aggregate amount not ex-
ceedinz £303, whilst the various sums of which the total
was composed ranged from ss. to less than £5 each.
Baron Alderson.—Some person or persons, then, it was

The only English member who voted on Tuesday night
in favour of Mr. Feargus O'Connor's motion for a repeal
committee, was Mr, Thomas Wakley, the

ner for Middlesex

:entric coro

Lord Minto has signed a convention for the establish-
ment of diplomatic relations between England and Rome.
It is said that Cardinal Breffondi, " a man of very liberal
mind " is to be the Pope's representative in London.
THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—On Thursday Lord J
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asse_ announces _ae measure respecting the navi-
gation-laws alluded to in her Majesty's speech, would not
be brought forward until after the Christmas recess.
The London correspondent of the Scottish Press, giving
a description of the scene at the opening of parliament,
says, "C. J. Fox, lately Unitarian minister, and Anti-
Corn-law lecturer, sat on the bench immediately behind
Mr. T. Duncombe, who was not present."
NEW SANITARY COMMISSION.—Mr. Chadwick, it is
expected, will be at the head of some such board. The
Morning Chronicle describes him as having "been in-
duced, by his great zeal in this investigation, to traverse
upon his brown pony countless miles of the London

sewerage

An ally-reasoned memorial against the Colonial Immi-
gration scheme has been presented to Lord John Russell,
by the British and Foreign Anti slavery Society ; and ti
series of resolutions, to the same effect, has also been for-
warded to his lordship from the Birmingham Anti-slavery
Committee.

FREE TRADE OPERATIONS.—Thp value of corn and
provisions imported into Great Britain
during ten months
in 1845 was only £4,410,091, while in 1847 it amounted
to £31,241,769. The value of British and Irish produce
exported in the same months of 1845 was £41,732,148,
which in 1847 had diminished to £39,975,207.
At the personal request of Lord John Russell, in con-
sequence of the indisposition that at present renders him
unable to attend to public business, Lord George Bentinck
has postponed for a short time his motion on the state of
the West Indies, of which he gave notice in the House of
Commons a few days ago.
In the House of Commons, on Wednesday, Lord
Arundel—a Roman Catholic—said that the bull, In Cceni
Domini, had not been published—and was not therefore
in force in this country; but he added, with his usual
candour, that the publication of it mattered little, for be
was ready to admit that this bull was not stronger than
other canons now in use, by which all are excommuni-
cated who differ from the Church of Rome.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC " RELIEF " BlLL.—Amongst
those members who voted for this bill were Sir T. B.
Birch, E. Cardwell, Sir J. Walmsley, W. E. Gladstone,
W. Ewart, Sir J. Graham, J. Heywood, Sir J. Jervis,
Lord R. Grosvener, Earl of Lincoln, and T. Thorneley.
We find the following amongst those who voted against ;
Lord Ashley, Sir R. Inglis, H. Goulbourn, Sir P. Eger-
ton, W. T. Egerton, J. C. Herries, G. Hudson, Col-
Sibthorp, Lord Seaham, and J. Tollemache.

COMMERCIAL Diexe.t.ss.—.-The following are the names
proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to compose
the committee to inquire into the causes of the recent
commercial distress :—The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir R. Peel, Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. Herries, Mr. Goul--
burn, Alderman Thompson, Mr. Labouchere, Sir James
Graham, Mr. Francis Baring, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr.
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Mr. Hume,
M Mr.
Clay, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Thorneley, Mr. James Wilson,
Mr. Home Drummond, Mr. Cayley, and Mr. Tennant.
CORN AND NAVIGATION LAWS.—On Monday, in the
.W. Ricardo, ck Beckett, Mr. MGriyn Cardwell,
glirsvell:vv
House of Commons, Mr. Sanders, M.P. for Wakefield,
the first of March.
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grain for a season, and so give to commer-
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has made his election to sit for West Yorkshire ; for Kil-
kenny in the room of Mr. John O'Connell, who sits for
Limerick ; and South Lancashire, in the room of Mr. C.
P. Villiers, who sits for Wolverhampton. New writs
were also ordered for Liskeard, in the room of Mr. C.
Buller, who has accepted the office of chief commissioner
for carrying out the administration of the law for the re-
lief of the poor; for Weymouth, in the room of Mr.
Christie, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds; and
for Edinburgh, in the room of Mr. Cowan.

The Times says that Sir. R. Peel's late speech was an
irresistible appeal to the "honesty of the nation," and
then tears him piecemeal for his ignorance on other
points, apd for not travelling with the Times, in the same
line" of causation. Sir Robert sought to make the
house merry with the poor bankers, who were going from
place to place trying to borrow money, and meet-
ing everywhere with no effects ! This, we are told, excited,
"roars of laughter!" Very funny, to be sure, for the
scores of firms ruined—partly by his free trade with
foreigners and slave-grown sugars, and partly by the de-
pletion of his currency bills. The " ponderous levities"
of the ex premier must, in his present isolation, be some-
thing like the pas end of a lame elephant.