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

ACROITD AND ANOTHER,

Mr. Martin moved in this case for a rule to skew 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 rallway 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,defendahts; 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 .454,000. 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
e
costs did amount to so' large a sum as £8 in each of
coststh
3,000 actions commenced in the County Court,
would not greatly exceed that amount ? -
dcaefseecindant (as was
of a similar number of actions in the sup
if there chanced
Mr. Martin said, no:doubt; but then,
• himself submitted to an examina-
tion, be 3,000 actions brought, as
would decade
the.
common-law court, the decision in one
was a reply upon the, part of the
remaining 2,999. It seems .
of the defendants
de-
trial on the 23rd of August. - One
add uceea:mitoti
came on
question, in
noiunfrotras
fended in person, and, .•after havinthge_see an
addressed the judge,
plaintiff, who in the end obtained a verdict. Now he
should contend, that if the defendants were-liable at all,
und
atfoteOrd.)wt -iacshthtehnere
proceeded to call two witnes
they could. only, be liable to one action at the suit of the
same plaintiff, seeing that whatever the order was, it was
given at one time, and that on the 10th, of July, On the
s;lis.at.
The
17th of September, the phiintiff t004,0ut.28 summonses
against the defendants for'lin aggregate amount not ex-
ceeding £303, whilst the various sums of which the total
was composed ranged from ss. to less than .f.. 5 each.
Baron Alderson.—Some person or persons, then, it was .

AMWORTH.- nere 15 every pronamlity that Capt
Townshend, a whig, will be returned without opposition
in place of Wm. Yates Peel, resigned.
The only English member who voted on Tues
in favour of Mr. Feargus O'Connor's mo

day night

committee, was Mr, Thomas Wakley, the eccentric coro-
ner for Middlesex.

ment of diplomatic relations between Englinda;:ciVQ.
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.
Russell announced that the 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 ably-reasoned memorial against the Colonial Immi-
gration scheme has been presented to Lord John Russell,
by the British and Foreign Anti slavery Society ; and a
series of resolutions, to the same effect, has also been for-
warded to his lordship from the Birmingham Anti-slavery
Committee.

Fate TRADE OPERATIONS.—The 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 Ccend
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 he
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 DISTRESS.—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 It. Peel, Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. Herries, Mr. Goul-
burn, Alderman Thompson, Mr. Labouchere, Sir James
Graham, Mr. Francis Baring, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr.
Cobden, Mr. Spooner, Mr. W. Beckett, Mr. Cardwell,
Mr. Hudson, Mr. Hume, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Glyn, Sir W.
Clay, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Thorneley, Mr. James Wilson,
Mr. Home Drummond, Mr. Cayley, and Mr. Tennant.
M.P.n for Wakefield,
whether they intendedpropose
asked the government to
the suspension of the Corn and Navigation
Laws beyond
the first of March. The President of the Board of Trade
House CORN
of ANDC Commons,
AMTrI
.0 N
Sanders; LAWS.—On Am —On Monday, in the
replied that it was not the intention of her Majesty's go-
r were
ourteiatr
ordered,
eeualfs. oe
dr
en,
g,ae
consequent
regaining
oietesg inetvi eauspttoei
incommer-
cial vernment to propose any' further extension, so that on
Onrten Wednesday, in the House of Corn-
the first of March free trade must be handed back to move
by the gradations' prescribed in the Corn Bill towards its,
final consummation. The effect will be to check wild
hasy.
returnsniN speculationnnms va
creditn whFgi answi et. tgPSet. rs—PCt aot°vri election to sit for West Yorkshire ;
Stockport' in the room of Mr. Cobden, who
kenny in the room of Mr. John. O'Connell, who sits for
Limerick; f e_
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-et 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, and 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, he some-
thing like the pas mei of a lame elephant.