The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-19 00:00:00

:ftdividual to the office of secretary to the board of guardians
of Clonmel. The object of the return was to prove that, in
the selection of persons to fill important offices under the
poor-law commissioners i❑ Ireland, the most corrupt system
of partizanship was acted upon ; and it was to conceal the
existence of such a system that, in the return in question,
which purported to contain copies of the correspondence upon
the subject, interpolations had been made, dates falsified, and
material passages in one letter entirely omitted. So far as
Mr. Stanley's connexion with the offence in question is con-
cerned, it was fully admitted ; but as it was found necessary
that another gentleman—Mr. Phelan—should be brought
forward, the enquiry was adjourned till Thursday, when a
further scrutiny will he rigidly prosecuted into the subject,

and the public will perhaps be enlightened as to the nature
and character of the machinery by which it is proposed to
regulate the important question of the franchise in Ireland
by Lord Morpeth's bill.

In the House of Commons the anti-church-rate party had
—not a regular field-day, but—a skirmish of outposts, upon
the question of printing a petition of the Leicester martyr,
Mr. W. Baines. The name reminds me that a notice was
also given by the member for Leeds—Mr. Edward Baines—
of a proposed bill to regulate the registration of burgesses of
municipal corporations. The conservatives of Liverpool,
with the evidence of last year's proceedings of the "liberal"
party in the burgess registration before them, will not, I
imagine, be greatly in love with the source from which this
proposed amendment is to emanate; and must not lose sight
of the duty of attentively scrutinizing its provisions. Why

do conservative members allow so many subjects of import-
ance to be taken out of their hands by this tricky party ?

London, Wednesday Evening.

The addresses from the members of the Liverpool Trades-
men's Conservative Association, and from the Operative
Conservative Association, on the occasion of the birth of the
Princess Royal, were presented to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, on Tuesday last, and very graciously received.

TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN.—Before the
retirement of the Rev. R. P. Buddicom to St. Bees, the con-
gregation of St. George's, Everton, presented him with a
purse of one thousand pounds, accompanied with plate of
nearly two hundred pounds value. Mr. Buddicom's arms
and crest, as well as a design of St. George's Church, were
engraved on the various articles, and the 'whole harmonised
beautifully. The inscription on the plate was as follows :
"To the Rev. ft. P. Buddicom, M.A., F.A.S. Presented
by the congregation of St. George's, Everton, as a small
memorial of gratitude and affection for the fidelity and zeal
with which, for more than a quarter of a century, he has de-
voted himself to the duties of a pastoral office in that place,
and as a slight testimony oftHffir deep sense of his eminent
services in the cause of religion in the town of Liverpool.
December 24, 1840." In addition to this, the ladies of the
congregation presented Mrs. Buddicom with various articles
of taste, which were universally admired.
IMPRISONMENT OF A FREE BLACK AT CIIARLESTON.—
The master of a British ship, whose name did not transpire,
made application to Mr. Rushton, at the police-court, or; Wednesday, under the following circumstances :—lt appeared
that his vessel recently touched at Charleston, where a black
he had on board was taken and put into jail, in accordance
with the laws of the southern states of America, by which the
authorities are empowered to imprison any free black, found
within their jurisdiction, until some provision be made for
sending him elsewhere. In the present case the black was
kept iu jail for the period of sixteen days, and, as the vessel
was about to sail, he was sent on board, but along with him
was sent a bill, from the authorities of Charleston, for six-
teen dollars, being, as they stated, the amount of his keep
in jail during the sixteen days. The captain's application,
therefore, was, whether, under the circumstances, he was
bound to pay those sixteen dollars as well as the wages of the
black for the sixteen days, he having been deprived of his
services during that period, or whether the black himself had
not a right to discharge the amount claimed by the authori-
ties in question? Mr. Rushton decided that the captain
should pay it and not the sailor, inasmuch as it would be ex-
tremely hard to compel the latter to pay after having suffered
the sixteen days' incarceration.—The captain stated that he
was ignorant of the law of the place, while the black was
well acquainted with it, and contended upon this qound that
the latter had a right to pay.—Mr. Rushton said that the
captain ought to have made himself acquainted with it be-
forehand as well as the black. It was one of those conse-
quences brought on us by slavery, and was, no doubt, a badstate of things ; but, under the circumstances, the captain
was liable to pay and not the sailor.

DISPUTED POSSESSION OF A STALL.—On Tuesday last,
at the police-court, a master butcher named Levin, was
placed at the bar, at the instance of Benjamin Crowther, of
the same vocation, on a charge of having taken a quantity of
meat from his stall. The case excited much interest amongst
the fraternity of butchers connected with the markets, and a
considerable number of them, both from St. John's and St.
James's markets, were distinguishable in court by their light
blue attire. Mr. Venables appeared in behalf of the prisoner.
Benjamin Crowther said that he kept a butcher's stall in St.
James's market, and that the prisoner had that morning
taken away the meat from the stall. Patrick Bird said he
knew Crowther's stall ; but he did not see the meat taken.
In reply to Mr. Venables, he admitted that he knew Levin's
wife occupied the stall before he went to America, and that
he believed the market committee had re-let it to the com-
plainant before his return. Poli2e market-looker No. 14,
said he heard that the prisoner was going to remove the meat,
and told him he should not do so in the absence of Crowther
the owner. The meat was put by the prisoner upon the next
standine. Mr. Falcon, solicitor, who appeared in the ab-
sence of the deputy town-clerk, by desire of Mr. Rushton,
explained the manner in which the stall had been let. It
appeared that Levin had rented the stall, and on leaving the
town some time ago, his wife occupied the stall, but soon
afterwards she died, and it became, as the market committee
considered, vacant, and was let to Crowther. Mr. Falcon

he committee, w

then read a letter from Levin
his return and dated the 10th of the

ten after
It was

3resent month

to -the effect that he had lately been obliged to leave the

country ; that the stall he bad left in possession of his wife
had since been re-let, add that he would be glad if the corn-

.19itt ee would allow h'im the first vacant stalrthat would suit
".,"11, as he now intended to follow his trde in this country.
reply to questions from Mr. Rushton,a Mr. Falcon stated
that the rents of the stalls were paid quarterly ; that Levin's
wife had occupied it after the commencement
.of the present

quarter (the Ist of January), and that the rent would not be
due on that quarter until the Ist of April. Mr. Venables
Put the question to Crowther whether he had not had the
prisoner taken into custody on a charge of felony. Mr.
Rushton said the witness was not ols/iged to answer that
question. Addressing the prisoner he said that he had done
wrong in taking forcible possession of the stall. His wife
had died, and as he was absent from the town, the commit-
tee considered that it was vacant. He (Levin) had written
to the committee requesting the first vacant stall, and if he
had continued to act in that spirit, and applied for redress
in the proper quarter,lhe matter would doubtless have been
arranged. He (Mr. Rushton) would say that though he
(Levin) had acted wrongly in removing the meat, there was
nothing in the matter upon which to impute to him a charge
of felony. The prisoner was then discharged, and Mr. Ve-
nables addressing Mr. Crowther, said—You will hear of this
by and by;—thereby intimating (as we understood him) that
an action at law would be brought against him on the part of
his client.

SAVAGE ASSAULT ON AN AGED FEMALE.—A person,
respectably dressed, who called his name Frederick Smith,
was brought before Mr. Rushton on Wednesday under a
warrant, charging him with having thrown an aged female,
named Catherine Brennan, down the steps of Elliot's office,
in Union-street, by which her leg was fractured in three
places. The circumstances under which the assault took
place were detailed by the complainant's witnesses as follows :
Elizabeth W. Leigh deposed that she was married woman,
and that she had lately taken a house from Mrs. Elizabeth
Beale, in Union-street. On Monday afternoon her husband
went to see the furniture brought up to their new residence,
and, some time after, witness went to the door to see if the
waggon with the goods was coming. While there, the pri-
soner spoke to her across the way from his door, the doors
of both houses being opposite to each other. Not under-
standing what he said, she went across and stood at the bot-
tom of his steps to ascertain what he wanted. Ile then asked
if her name was Mrs. Leigh. She replied in the affirmative,
whereupon he said, "You have made an agreement with
Mrs. Beale, and I am sorry you have, for she's a swindling
woman." Immediately upon this • being said, Mrs. Beale
and her daughter, and also the complainant, Mrs. Brennan,
came to the door, when Mrs. Brennan, addressing the pri-
soner, said, I know Mrs. Beale well ; you have injured her ;
and whatever you have got to say to ier say it now." Mrs.
Brennan then went up the steps where the prisoner had been
standing, and followed him to the office door, when he caught
her by the wrists, turned ber round, and threw her down the
steps, in consequence of which her leg doubled under her
and was broken. She was then obliged to be carried into
Mrs. Beale's house by two persons. Mrs. Brennan is sixty
years of age, and is nearly blind. Mrs. Elizabeth Beale, and
her daughter, Miss Hannah Beale, corroborated the fore-
going facts. The defendant then called sevral witnesses,
who proved generally that the complainant had grossly abused
him ; that he did not throw her down the steps, but that she
fell down ; that after falling she walked across the street to
the house of Mrs. Beale ; and that both herself and the
Beales were more or less intoxicated. Mr. Cripps, surgeon,
stated that he was called to attend the complainant on the
evening of the occurrence, and that the larger bone of her
leg was fractured in two places, the smaller in one ; her ancle
was also partially dislocated. She was in a very precarious
state at present, but not worse than persons were under like
injuries at such an age. Ile should not, perhaps, be justified
in saying that her life was in danger, but he had very fre-
quently seen death ensue in similar cases. Mr. Rushton
ordered the defendant to find security, himself in £lOO and
two sureties in £5O each, to answer any charge that might
be preferred against him at the sessions, and to give forty-
eight hours notice of the bail.

CHARGE OF STABBING.—On Wednesday, a decently
dressed man, who said he was a carpenter, and that his name
was John Wade, was examined before Mr. Rushton, at the
police-court, on a charge of having stabbed Wm. G.
Dockerly, a sailor, with a knife, and assaulted him with a
leaden ball. The complainant stated that, between twelve
and one o'clock on Friday morning last, be was going home,
along Whitechapel, in
.company with another young man
who was rather tipsy. Complainant was quite sober. When,
they got to the end of Preston-street, the prisoner and ano-
ther fellow came up and said something to the young man,
but complainant did not hear_ what it was. The prisoner'
then knocked the young man's hat off, and collared him •
complainant picked up the hat, but immediately after doing
so his own cap was taken off. While he was looking for the
cap he received a blow on the head, which knocked him down.
When he got up, the prisoner had hold of him, and in a mo-
ment after he felt something warm at his side. The prisoner
then let go his hold, and complainant staggered into the
street, where he found that blood was issuing from his side.
He instantly' called out that he had been stabbed, and laying
hold of a man who was passing at the time, tore his shirt
to put it into the wound. He did not recollect what hap-
pened after. In the scuffle with the prisoner he receivedanother cut on his left arm. He was quite certain the pri-
soner was the man who stabbed him, because he took parti-
cular notice of him, and there was a gas-light burning near
the place.—Hannah Doncaster deposed that she
.saw the pri-
soner strike the complainant with something fastened to a
string, and that the force of the blow knocked. him down. She then saw the prisoner draw a knife, either from the. rant
pocket or the sleeveof his coat, and stab the complainant
with it in the side.—Policeman No. 57 deposed that on hear-
ing the cry of " Murder" he proceeded to the spot, and
found the complainant lying down and the prisoner kicking
him. The prisoner had a deadly weapon in his hand, com-
posed of a ball of lead fastened to a string ; the string went
round his wrist. Witness took this instrument from him,
but had scarcely done so when he received a blow which tum-
bled him on the ground. If another policeman had not come
up on the instant, the prisoner would in all probability have
escaped. When arrested, the prisoner's right hand was co-
vered with blood ; there was blood also upon his trousers ;
and, on searching the place where the scuffle occurred, a
knife was found.—Mr. George Owenstone, surgeon, said he
hail examined the complainant, and applied leeches to a stab
he had received in the side, which was about two inches in
length and an inch and a half in depth. He had another
wound, of no consequence, on the arm ; and his life was not
in danger.—The prisoner was committed for trial at the
;assizes.