The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

THE ROYAL VISIT TO THE CITY,

His X.yal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left Windsor on
Tuesday morning, about ten o'clock, end arrived at
Buckingham-palace shortly after eleven. They left the
palace for Whitehall about a quarter-past twelve o'clock,
and were received in their passage through the park with
the most lively demonstrations of loyalty. At twelve
o'clock, the lord mayor and the civic authorities entered
ae sate barge, and proceeded up the river, followed by
all the barges of the city companies, gaily decorated with
flags. At twenty-five minutes past twelve, Prince Albert
and the royal children, attend, d by the Msster of the
Horse, and by Lady Lyttelton, &c., arrived in three car-
riages at Whitehall stairs, wilt re they were received by
Lo-d Adolphus Fitzelarence, who conducted then. to the
royal barge. They looked very well, and were enthu-
siwtically cheered.
The procession started from Whitehall at forty-five
minutes past twelve, in the order mentioned in the pro-
gramme, and had a most imposing appearance. The river
was covered with boats. Of every kind. The windows and
roofs of the houses. indeed every point fram which a view
could be obtained were crowded with spectators. The
Hungerford Suspension Bridge literally bent beneath the
weight of the crowd assembled on ii, and the other
bridges were equally crowded. Tire weather was splen-
did, and the whtre scene may be described as unequalled
in the annals of •aquatic pageantry. The procession
arrived at the Custom-house at one o'clock, and the royal
party were received on landing by the corporation, headed
by the recorder, the Dukes of Cambridge and Wellington,
the Marquis of Anglesey, rrid Sir Robert Peel.
Tie interior of the exchange pr,lented a magnificent
appearance. At twenty minutes past one, the prince
entered the building, leading the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, and accompanied by the lord mayor, the
prime minister, aid the other officers of state and mem-
bers of the household, and were received with tremendous
cheers.

The recorder read an address to the prince, who made
a suitable reply. Several gentlemen were then introduced
to the prince, and after some few minutes spent in admir-
ing the building, a splendid luncheon was served up, the
lord mayor proposing the usual loyal toasts, winch wore
warmly responded to.
The royal party I,ft, on their return, shortly before three
o'clock, emharkine on board the Fairy yacht. The pro-
cession reached Whitehall shortly after half-past three
o'clock: The prince left for the Paddington railway sta-
tion, on his return for Windsor, shortly afterwards.

COMMON SENSE VERSUS COMMON LAW.

A SCENE IN AN IRISH COURT OF LAW HALF A CENTURY

SINCE.

(From the Dublin University Magazine for Nov.)

" 13 fore such masters of equity as Lord Redesdale or
Sir Edward Sugd-n, an ignorant practitioner was soon
w•eighecl in the balance and found wanting. The stimulus
to exertion which an early marriage gave Mr. Bennett,
sent him speedily into the Court of Exchequer. The
Chief Baron was a man of peculiar sagacity; the in-
tricacies of the Irish character were instinctively faini:iar
to him. The Wrong common sen'e of Mr. Bennett soon
orought him into tavimrable notice in the court, and busi-
ness began to flaw in upon him rapidly. At that time
proceolings of our oiurts did not, as now, become public
prop;-rty, by the aid of reporters ; and, in the natural
emirs, of things, liberties were taken, in the confidence of
a cornier, which could scarcely be allowed in the op-n
publicity of our present practice. The Chief Baton, in
the nook of the Exchequer Bench, with his droll, waggish
countenance, demolishing an argument with his wit, or
scouting subtlety with a sneer, the fraud of the litigious
tenant had no pro.pect of escape, and the claim of the
landlord as little chance of defeat. A nice way of pay-
ing rent with a special demurrer,' was the caustic pre-
face to the ominous words, 'We nut overrule y,ur
dermnrer.'

" How we remember our enjoyment of a scene in court,
when a member of the bar, since honourably distinp,niilied
in his career. determined on making, the Chief Baron
litten to a learned' argument. A young fop had hir,d
a horse to ride from Dublin to the race-course, at Bel-
lewstown, (about eighteen miles,) he returned on the
same day, and from the length of the journey, and the
severity of the ride, the horse died. The owner demanded
the value of the horse, but the young ga!lant resisted : an
action of trover was b-oui,lit, and the dtfenne set up was
infancy. It was urged that this was virtually a case of
contact, and infancy a full defence. The jury, however,
under the di,..etinn of B iron Pennefather, f,und a verdict
for the plaintiif, and his lordship reserved for the con-
sideration of the Court of Exchequer the que•tion of the
law. When , the leadlig counsel, the present Judge
Perrin, staled the point, he was interrupted by the Chief
Baron, thus:—

" Mr, Perrin, suppose the v num: man had shot the
ho se. you say he was not resptu ?'
".The acute mud of Judge Perrin at once perceived
That ti;is question exposed the invalidiv of the defence;
and he reheved hin,self from the difficulty by saying,
• That was nut. this cas,e;' but that his lei.rned friend who
was on the same side, was preparrd to :'rgue the quest,on
i,utmor:ty. The ji-inhuT, with a pile of hooks, folio,
quarro, and nc avo, looked • unutterable things;' the
Chic: Baro;! le( red jo.Tosely at the 'l;i-eat guns' and
mi.Aetry, and the a tack commenced.
•• Counsel.---' My lord,, I propose in th's case to call
aLur a ten;ivn to 5011:0 atlth,ritie, two hundred .re...rs old,
jukes 1111(1er:400U the co:union law oetter than they

" Chief Baron.—` May be so ; but we're b.tter up to
horses now.'

" Some eases were ci'ed and patiently heard; wl.en the
counsd th.iught a little illustration might enliven the
argument.
" Counsel my suprose an infant, wiSh-
t, make a show of rr,:iierty, b,ri owed my Imrse,
pocket-luyik. anti n•iu-ed to pay or return it, would
trover main'ainatde 1'
" Chief Baron.—` Perhaps not ; it is not unlikely that
if the young gentleman disposed of the cm-tents of the
purse. he might properly be indicted a.id hanged.'
" Tne discomfiture of the counsel, and the arch gravity
of the Chief arroo's couatenance, non never he for-
gotten by any who *hared in the mertiment of that me-
morable rencont e.

" .Nly lords, Ibis is virtually
,a contract of
hiring ; thi-re is no t.,rt—n.) ri et armis—nothing which
any man who understam?s the- law of the land can say
inners phis .ase out, of the oFeration of the general rule as
to the c:iritrai is of infants.

" Atter roc+ eding in this strain for a long period, nod
exhausting all the auOtorities which he had brought into
court, he sat down uaer the belief that he had ° wen the
Chief Baron a ' nut to crack,' which would': try his
powers.
"Now the peculiarity of the Chief Baron was this,
whenet er lw got hod of a good plain sterling principle,
which di,posed at the vase before hini, he disregarded ar-
g,urn,nt and authority as the idle wind.' ".
Here, said he, a horse was hired ; he was ridden to
the race-course; rJreshed with a canter there, and then

Since the conviction of the Mannino several circum-
stances of very considerable importance have come to
light, which, if any doubt could possibly exist as to their
guilt, would appear to be almost conclusive on the sub-
ject. It will be remembered that, after the verdict had
been pronounced against the prisoners, the woman made
a violent speech, in which she asserted her innocence, and
appeared to make it a strong point in her favour that she
loved the deceased, and could have been married to him
if she had pleased. It has, however, since been ascer-
tained that for son's t me before the murder O'Connor
Tad been paying his a, d eases to a young woman, and
they were on the point of being married ; it is known
that Ma deg an' Lis w'fo were aware of the fact, and it
is probable that, feeling t re marriage would in all proba-
bility have the effect or breaking off all connexion be-
tween them, they determined upon the desperete measure
of getting possession of his property by murder.
Another curious fart has also come to light. The trial,
as our readers are aware, lasted two days, and the prison-
ers each day retired from the court for a short time to
take refreshment. Of course when the prisoners were
first received at Newgate they were narrowly searched,
and every instrument with which they might. inflict injury,
either upon themselves or others, taken away from them.
Upon the second day of the trial, in- consequence of
something that came to the knowledge of the prison
officials, it was considered prudent to search the female
prisoner, and in her pocket there was found a large piece
of broken glass, a most dangerous missile, well calculated
to have inflicted very deadly injury upon any person who
might have been struck with it. It was immediately
taken from her, and thus no doubt. from the violence
subsequently exhibited by the prisoner, some desperate
mischief was prevented. How she obtained possession of
the glass remains a mystery.
The counsel for Mrs. Manning have resolved to aban-
don their application for a writ of error. The point,
however, whether she stands in the po,ition of an alien
will still be submitted to the Criminal Court of Amon'.
The next sitting of the Court will be on the 10th of
November, and if the question sletuld he sent before that
tribunal it will, of course, be disposed of on that day.
Manning has made some extraordittary disclo,,eres
relative to the murder and his former connexion with
O'Connor, which will not he made public until after the
execution. He persists in the statement which was handed
to his learned counsel, Mr. Serjeaet Wilkins—" That his
wife shot O'Connor, and afterwards tt reatened to shoot
him unless he helped her to bury the body." He seemed
more composed on Monday, after his interview with the
chaplain, and several times wished to see his brother and
his solicitor, Mr. Nuns, to whom he wishes to make some
communication. His brother called at the gaol on Moe-
day, end delivered a letter from his sister in the coure-ry.
The letter was shortly afterwards delivered to hint by the
governor, and the asntents seemed to affect him in a great
decree, as he wept several times on reading it. 11:s
brother did not see him. Prior to the trial, and while his
unhappy wife was confined in the gaol where she now
remains, she wrote several indecent letters to her hus-
band, couched in the most obscene language and written
in broken English. In none of them, however, does she
allude to the murder, but she defies him to get her gold
watches. Copies of these letters were shown to Mr.
Ballantine and Mr. Parry during the trial, likewise to the
Attorney-General, but no attention was paid to them.

AUTUMN.

(FROM POEMS ItY7THOS.--J. OUSF.T.EY.)

The flowers nil are fading,
Their sweets are ritlA now;
And night sends forth her shading,
Along the mountain brow;
The bee bath ceased its winging,
To flowers at early morn :
The birds have ceased their:singing.,
Sheaf'd is the golden corn :
The harvest now is gathered,
Protected front the clime ;
Tie le tres are seared and withered,
That late shone in their ju•iioe.
Thus when fourscore years are gone. o'er the frail life of man,
Time sits heavy on his throne, as rear his brow we scan;
Like the Autumn leaf that falls, when winds the branches wave
Like night-shadows daylight pails, like all, be finds a grave.

SECOND l'7M N

Standard Office, Hull-past Four o'clock.

THE ELECTIONS THIS DAY.

The eventful contest is now over, and though the oppo-
nents of the Pike Scheme and the atlvlcates of Duck
Rating have not succeeded in every instance, yet they_
have returned no doubt a suff:ient number of their
friends to defeat one scheme a.:11 carry the other.

The following tabli
Lou: (as far as we ca
at. the election just cl
printed in italics:—

le exhibits the, state of the poll each
mid procure it) in the contested wards

Lased. The advocai

'ea of the Pike are

Pike
4. Maj.

I
1351:
• ,
1301,
110

111371
255 304:
?,41 265'
I
161 1841
199 227 i
I 1
1423 i
88 2141
84 85!
74