The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 19.

REGISTRATION APPEALS-SPLITTING FREEHOLDERS

TO CONFER FRANCHISE

RAWLINS, APPELLANT; BREMNER, RESPONDENT

This was .an appeal from the division of the revising
barrister of the southern division of the county of Lan-
caster, and it appeared from the case stated, that James
Peck and his four brothers claimed to vote in respect of
one-fifth share each in a certain house situate in Prospect-
place, Liverpool. The barrister had rejected the claim of
all the five parties.
These parties, it seemed, being ambitious to gain the
franchise for the county, applied to several persons infiu
entially to convey them, as tenants-in-common, a tene
ment for this purpose. At length Watson Peck, their
father, by deed dated the 18th of January, 1845, con
vexed to them the estate in question, in consideration of-
£4B ; it did not appear whether that sum was the full
amount of consideration, or whether each of the brothers
paid that sum ; it was clear, however, that the parties en-
tered into possession, and received the rent of £l2 per
annum, and that the property in the estate actually
passed. It was admitted that the object of the father and
sons in the sale and purchase of the property was to con-
fer and obtain votes, and the point was, whether this in-
tention invalidated the purchase and avoided the right to
vote.

Lord Chief Justice Tindal.—The Court will consider
this case with the others upon the same subject.

NEWTON, APPELLLANT V. RARGREAVE§, RESPON

Another appeal, as to the right of splitting votes, from
the northern division of the county of Chester. One
Robert Hargreaves being seized in fee of certain lands,
proposed to his two sons to confer upon them the power
of voting for the county ; a deed of gift was prepared,
whereby, in consideration of natural love and affection,
two closes of pasture land were conveyed to the claimants
for their lives as tenants in common ; the deed of gift re-
mained in the hands of the solicitor who prepared it until
a few days before the revision court was held, the claim-
ants depastured their cattle by the consent of the grantee
upon the land, and it was admitted that the conveyance
was made partly for the purpose of conferring the fran-
chise, and partly as a provision for the claimants. The
revising barrister negatived fraud, and decided the case
did not come within the 7th and Bth of William 111., c.
25, and therefore retained the names.
Lord Chief Justice Tindal.—This case will be consi-
dered also with others upon the same point.

HEYLAND, APPELLANT, V. BREMNER, RESPONDENT.
This was the last case in the list involving the same
point as to the right of splitting freeholds, and was from
the southern division of the county of Lancaster.

Certain members of a society at.llllancl;esie-r,Citlled the
Anti-monopolist Association, purchased a qualification
for the county of Lancaster, at a fair marketable value.
Each received the amount of rent sufficient to qualify him
as a voter; the solicitor of the vender knew of the object
for which the property was purchased ; the vender him-
self knew nothing about it one way or the other. The
revising barrister was of opinion that the case came within
the 7th and Bth of Wm. IV. cap. 25, and that the convey-
ance was void, being made for the purpose of multiplying
votes, and therefore rejected the names.

Lord Chief Justice Tindal.—The barrister came to a
wrong conclusion ; the decision must be reversed.

Judgment reversed accordingly

At the Rolls Court, on Wednesday, the injunction ob-
tained by Mr. Cooper to restrain Mr. James Battersby
from selling or otherwise parting with certain shares of
stock standing i❑ his name in the books of the Birming-
ham and Liverpool Grand Junction Canal Company, was
dissolved.

In the Court of Common Pleas on Thursday week, in
an appeal from Scarborough, against the decision of Mr.
Temple, the barrister, the Court decided that the name of
a Mr. Flounders had been rightly expunged, because he
had not ;nserted the number of his house in the list of
claimants. This the Court held as necessary for complete
and ready identification.

The rumour is revived that Lord Lyndhurst is about to
resign, and that Mr. Pembe: ton Leigh has resisted most
earnest solicitations from the Premier to succeed to the
Woolsack : and that, in consequence, the following ar-
rangements are contemplated—Sir Edward Sudgen to be
Lord Chancellor, and Sir Frederic Thesiger to be Lord
Chancellor of Ireland.

A commission, of which Mr. B. Hawes is chairman, is
gaged in a revision of the laws relating to bank-
ruptcy and insolvency. They are expected to complete
their report by the end of this month, and shortly after-
wards propose to call a public meeting of merchants and
traders, at which its recommendations are to be discussed.
The report will subsequently be laid before parliament—
most probably in the course of the present session.

now en

LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMEN.--I 0
the Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday an action was tried
before Mr. Baron Alderson, in which a printer sought to
recover £172. 10s. 6d., the amount of his bill for blank
scrip and other articles in printing and stationery, sup-
plied to the Irish West Coast Railway Company. A res-
pectable gentleman, named Burdett, one of•the provisional
committeemen was sued, and the Judge and the bar all
agreed that he was liable for so much of this bill as had
been incurred after he joined the undertaking. When a
verdict had been returned for the plaintiff, Mr. Baron
Alderson remarked,—" It is of no use to read a lesson to
some men ; they will run their heads into a halter—the
world will go on as it likes. However, it is to be hoped
that this case will do good in some respects, for it will let
people who have gone on to provisional committees know
what foolishness they have been guilty of.

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

The Lords of the Treasury have refused to make Fleet
wood a packet station for Belfast.

The Duke of Sutherland has contributed £3OO to the
South Staffordshire Hospital.

Sir James Graham, the Times says, is to withdraw his
medical bills.

The duty upon the importation of foreign wheat last
week advanced to 16s. per quarter.
The Rev. Mr. Newman was making a short sojourn at
Stonyhurst last week.
A man at Huddersfield died of hydrophobia last week.
He was bitten five weeks since on the thumb by a dog.
It is said that Government intend to propose this ses-
sion the abolition, of the Scottish University tests.

TLe Messrs. Darby, Coalbrooke-dale, have given
£2,000 to the League Fund.

The article onm Parliamentary Privilege," in the
Edinburgh Review, is by Lord Denman.
Lord John. Manners has given notice that he will to-
morrow move for leave to bring in a bill for amending the
bequests' act.
On Friday, at Bow-street Police-office, a surgeon,
named Cobb, was committed to Newgate on a charge of
bigamy.

A vessel last week discharged a cargo of iron at New-
port, Monmouthshire, from France. This is like sending
coals to Newcastle.

Without an order of council the militia cannot be called
out till the 10th of October, and it is highly improbable
that it will be called out at all.—Glasgow Examiner.
As a proof of the mildness of the season a jargonell
pear tree was in full bloom on Sunday last, in the garden
of Mr. It. Richardson, Bridge-end, Elland, Bradford.

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It was stated at a meeting of magistrates, for the county
of Norfolk the other day, that fifteen incendiary fires had
taken-place in the county during the last three months.
A GOOD CHANGE.—The committee of the Wakefield
Church Institution have taken the room in Crown-court,
formerly occupied as a Socialist Hall. ~..
There is at present in the garden of William Moore, at
West Lavington, Wilts, a sparrow's nest with four eggs,
upon which the hen bird is sitting. _ _ _

The vessels in the Wet Dock at Leith are lying three
and four tier deep at present, which speaks well for busi-
ness, and is rather unusual at this early season of the year.

Mrs. Partis, founder of " Partis College," near Bath,
for the widows and daughters of clergymen," and for
other gentlewomen." has just expired.
A new literary publication, to be called The Literary
Herald, comes forth next month. Its avowed object is
to introduce and encourage unknown authors.
The total number of militia regiments in the United
Kingdom is 127, of which 61 belong to England, 14 to
Wales, 14 to Scotland, and 38 to Ireland.
Persons at Leeds throwing orange peel on the footpaths
are to be taken up by the police and are liable to a fine of
405., under the local improvement act.

The Glasgow Constitutional asks, " is Lord John Rus-
sell, the new-made citizen, bound, like all other burgesses
of Glasgow, " to grind his corn in the town's mills"?
IDENTICAL.—In the Quebec shipping-list for tt,e 10th
of December, we find the following :—" Sir Robert Peel
!n the mad, but supposed to be safe."
A servant woman in London, on Monday week, Lurst
a varicose vein, and although the aperture was not larger
than would admit a pea, she bled to death.

A verdict of wilful murder has been returned, at Ilan•
ley against Sarah Bowyer, for having starved to death her

Mr. Isaac Cohen has hft £15,000 to the various chari-
ties in the metropolis ; £3OOO to the Jowl:di school, and
£3OOO to the synagogue to which he immediately belonged.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—Mr. Evans, smith and bell-
hanger, of Newport. Nloninnuthshire, a very intelligent
tradesman. destroyed himself on Saturday by firing a
loaded pistol at his temple. Verdict, insanity.
It is said that Mr. Bright will offer himself as, a candi-
date for Wolverhampton, on the dissolution of parliament,
to replace Mr. Villiers, who is to stand fur South Lanca-
shire.

Mr. Miles, of Freeleigh Court Farm, near Tiverton,
a few days ago, was Charged with wilfully pushing Mr.
Butt, of Telbury, into the river near French Weir, with
intent to drown him.
_ _

John White, retailer of beer at Chatham, was last
week convicted in the penalty of £lO, a mixture of sugar
and salt, which is sometimes used for adulterating beer,
having been found on his premises.
A public meeting was held in Birmingham, on Tuesday
evening, " to petition Parliament against the proposal to
call out the militia, and in favour of introducing an arbi-
tration clause in our treaties with foreign powers."
The Hon. James Stuart Wortley has been appointed
Judge Advocate. A vacancy therefore ensues in the re-
presentation of Bute. In all probability, however, the
hon. gentleman will be re-elected without opposition.
On Monday, a labourer, who had been previously ob-
served desponding, threw himself down on the Great
Western line on the approach of an engine, which passed
over him, and killed him instantly.
The other day, as a flock of pigeons flew over the house
of a gentleman in Locharran, he shot one of the birds. It
dropped down the chimney into a pot of soup which hung
over the fire !—lnverness Courier.

In consequence of the non-publication of the state of
the pole at Carmarthen, on the neat day but one after the
last municipal election, as required by the act, Justice
Patteson has, on application, decided that there must be
a new election.

One of the auxiliary improvements at the London Post-
office, is an engine of 12-horse power, by which the bags
and men are raised and lowered from and to the upper
story. _ _ _

The Halifax Guardian says that the Leeds and West
Riding Bank has had its drafts dishonoured by the Lon-
don agents. On Friday the bank was crowded with per-
sons getting its notes changed.
All the rats and other vermin caught on the farm of the
Rev. A. Huatable, at Sutton Waldron, are thrown into
Sulphuric acid, by which they. are soon converted into
manure as valuable as bone dust.

A large pond, situate between Rhymney and Tredegar,
broke through the sides, and, in its impetuous career,
drowned an aged woman, and swept away two frail cot-

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A valet of George Hudson, Esq., M.P., named Adams,
a night or two back, in a state of intoxication, fell over a
bannister, at the Burlington Hotel, London, and was
killed.

The Morning Post states that Lord Farnham was to
have seconded the address in the House of Lords, but
after hearing the royal speech read at the Duke of 'Wel-
lington's, he withdrew his consent.

On Wednesday week, a soldier, of the 92nd Regiment,
being rather in liquor, attempted to escape for the night
from Edinburgh Castle. He got on the wall at the
Argyle rampart, was immediately precipitated over the
precipice, 200 feet in height, and killed on the spot.
The Presbyterian Review states that the Jesuits have
published an edition of " The Wandering Jew" in
English, expunged of all the terrific exposures of Jesuit-
ism contained in the original edition ;—a very Jesuit-like
act.

It perhaps may not be generally known that the new
First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Ellenborough,
was once a midshipman in the navy, having commenced
his career in her Majesty's frigate L'Aigle, when she was
commanded by Captain Wolfe.
CURIOUS COINCIDENCE : QUITE A TRAGIC AFFAIR.
—On Wednesday week, at the Marylebone Police Court,
Macready was brought up for disorderly conduct, and im•
mediately after that case was disposed of, Kean was
charged with being a deserter, and was committed.
On night, part of the steeple of the church
lately T
erected atdhill, near Reigate, was blown down.
The stones, &c. fell through the roof and shivered many
of the seats to splinters. It is uncertain whether the
church will be again fit for service.
PERVERTS.—The Rev. J. B. Morris, fellow of Exeter
College, Oxford, has joined the Romish Church. This
makes forty from Oxford. J. B. Watford, Esq., under-
graduate of St. John's, Cambridge, has also joined that

church. This makes fourteen from Cambridge.
TWELFTH CARES.—CAUTION.—The Derby Reporter
of Friday, contains a long account of an inquest held on
the body of Sarah Ellen Woollatt, a girl four years of age,
whose death had been caused by her having eaten some
of the ornamental part of a twelfth cake.
We understand that an increase in the army, to the
extent of 6000 men, will be proposed in parliament. It is
said that the Duke of Wellington was anxious to add
10,000 men to our military force, but tna,
opinion was overruled in the Cabinet.—Post

grace's

The Medical Times mentions a case of hanging, in
which Dr. Noyce restored the patient by effusion of cold
water after respiration had ceased, the heart's action con-
tinuing, though. feebly. Respiration was completely re-
stored, and venesection produced consciousness. _ _

A grave-digger lost his life at St. Thomas's burial-
ground, Birmingham, last week, owing to a quantity of
earth having fallen upon him and entombed him at the
bottom of a grave, 15 feet deep, which

had been dig-

ging.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. On• Wednesday week,
Mr. Clark, of the firm of Clark, Plummer, and Co., flax
dressers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was killed by a fall from
his horse. The deceased was nearly 70

'ears of age, and

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highly respected.
A rumour gains ground that the Queen proposed to
Lord John Russell that the rank and dignity of King
Consort should be conferred on Prince' Albert, and that
Lord John held out no hope of accomplishing the mea-
sure.

SUBSTITUTE FOR A MACINTOSH.—On Thursday, at the
Borough Court, Manchester, a drunken tin-plate worker,
who was charged with disorderly conduct on the previous
night, said he had been to Bury, and had certainly taken a
drop, but it was to keep the rain out.
On Tuesday an "immense" meeting in favour of the
abolition of the Corn Laws was held in Norwich. Mr.
Cobden attended, and Mr. Wodehouse, the county mem-
ber, in vain proposed an amendment in behalf of protec-
tion.

ADVANTAGE 01? SMOKING.—An inveterate smoker in
the neigbourhood of Matlock, was told by his medical at-
tendant, a few evenings ago, that tobacco would be the

means of shortening his dais, to which he replied, _
never mind, it has afforded me the means of lengthening
many of my nights.”—Derbyshire Advertiser.
A REMINISCENCE OF GUY FAWKES.—On Thursda3
morning, according to custom, about two hours before
her Majesty's arrival to open parliament, tilt
the House of Lords underwent a

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:rict search

Chamberlain, the Usher of the Black Rod, and
Kincaid, with a detachment of the

Mr. Harrison Ainsworth has resumed the editorship of
Ainsworth's Magazine, which he was understood to have
relinquished some months ago, when he entered upon the
editorship of Colhorn's New 111:nthly. Both these pe-
riodicals are now under Mr. Ainsworth's literary ma-
nagement. .
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