The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-08 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Slit,—As you have frequently noticed the erroneous view
which our stipendiary magistrate takes in cases broug.ht before
him, I beg to call your attention to the following facts:—A ship
sailed from hence for the East Indies on Monday last, and re-
turned yesterday in consequence of an apparatus for making
fresh water from salt water being out of order. Soon after she
had anchored, several of the crew refused to do their duty and
declared their determination not to proceed in the vessel, and,
becoming outrageous in their conduct, the master was under
the necessity of placing them in irons. An application was
soon afterwards made to Mr. Hall, the magistrate, for is warrant
to bring these men on shore, and all the circumstances were
stated by the master of the ship, particularly that the vessel was
not in a place of safety, and that he did not consider himself
safe on board with such a crew, in the state they were in, when,
to his great astonishment, Mr. Hall refused to interfere, or to
grata's. warrant. What motive he had for refusing to act in
such a case, 1 am totally at a loss to conceive.
I have always understood that the prevention of crime and
loss of life was what the law aimed at effecting, but here a con-
trary course was pursued, and a refractory crew allowed full
scope for their mischief, to the great danger of a valuable ship
and the lives of the officers.

This morning another application was made to Mr. Hall for
a warrant to bring these individuals to justice, when, after con-
siderable altercation, he granted one, and nine of this refrac-
tory crew were subsequently sentenced to the tread mill for a
mouth. Hoping this statement may be the means of inducing
the reform magistrates to be more prompt in doing justice in
future, I remain, &c.. R.
Liverpool, 7th April, 1836.

GOOD FRIDAY IN LIVERPOOL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.4.IYDARD.
Sri,—ltis deeply to be regretted, that at a period when the
church has so much to fear from her enemies, she should be so
ill supported by her friends. This train of reflection was in-
dueed' by hearing a colloquy which took place on Thursday last,
(the day before Good' Friday,) between. the bench and the bar
with reference_ to the manner of keeping holy, or rather, I should
say, of keeping unholy, during the assizes that most solemn and
distinguished festival of our church. .
Shortly before the rising of the court on Thursday afternoon,
the: learned judge, addressing the bar, said, " It might.be con-
venient for him then to state, that, inasmuch as three hours of
the morning must be lost on the. morrow, he should makeup
it by sitting three hours later in the afternoon, namely, till eight
o'clock.; and that' hebar must, therefore, make their arrange-
ments for Friday evening accordingly." ,One of the leaders of
the circuit la silk gown)•obseived upon this, that mau.y.ol their
engagements'were already made, and that it would be very in-
co nVen tetst• tf-the vutirt--riitd-noVriacie, 1)e fore 'eight Wel
which the learned judge consented to rise at seven, adding that
" he should in that case sit punctually at twelve o'clock; for,"
he continued, i" the service I find begins at half-past ten, so that
every body any • very well be here. by twelve."

;ay well be here. by
So here we have one of the. judges of the land, while on. a
special rnisston to administer the laws for the. punishment of
vice and immorality, publicly announcing that he accounts the
time which was: to be spent on the morrow in devotional exer-
cises at church as so much time lost—allowing only 0710 hour tvui
a hal/tot—the ,performance• of those exercises, and thus either
carelessly forgetting or wilfully disregarding the sacred ordi-
nance especially appointed for that holy day, the decent observ-
ance of which, he might reasonably anticipate, would have had
an important effecton many of those persons whom the presence
of the judge himself had called together—setting an unfortunate
example in his own person and in that of the bar, of men- of,
rank and education; following their daily calling without scruple
on a day sacred to holy purposes ; and, finally, being thus the
means of compelling others to do likewise, whose better incline-
_ tions, if left unrestrained, would have led them to follow better
examples.
I observe in the Morning Herald of yesterday's date a para-
graph headed "Good Friday in London." It quotes from your
namesake the Standard, and gives a description of a wrestling
club having met at Chalk Farm on that day, wrestling all the
morning, and the dining together in the evening; and the para-
graph concludes with this pithy remark:—" Thus woe Good
Friday observed by three hundred gentlemen of • London in the
year of our Lord 1836." How might these wrestlers retort upon
the those
who Maine them by quoting the conduct of a judge of the
land and of the bar of the northern circuit on Friday last at
Liverpool.
Alas, poor Mother Church! It is thy own children who will
betray thee vet, as Judas of old betrayed bis blessed Master.
Liverpool,' edhead u 6th April, 18.36. A JURYMAN.
[We knew of no aoit'ier precedent for the proceeding COM-
-plained of by our correspondent except that of Pontius Pilate.]

ROYALTY AND THE FAN
and Therese Eisler, the celebrated TOE.—Mademoiselles Fanny
Preach
capital, were
sisters, as they have
been styled in the Fr
were recently engaged to
dance before the King of Prii)s'still'•
expressed' hit 4 grand
deli .tiled
given
stet:irt: His Majesty
.delifhted with the
grace and skill with
.which they executed
following day the King forwarded by one eoferlis:cah%,mbOenrlatihnes
and. for
a valuable parure of brilliants to Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle Therese a pair of ear-rings, richallaysuielYtavtith the
same costly jewels. The Emperor of Russia
seated to Madame Taglioni, the sister-in-law of Mademoiselleey
Taglioni, a parure of diamonds, said to be worth upwards of
£2,000 sterling.