The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE

In the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Coltman delivered
judgement in the case Flight v. Gibbs. It was to the ef-
fect that Alderman Gibbs had not been legally elected
Churchwarden of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, in 1844.
On Tuesday, Lord Chancellor Cottenham did not at-
tend Court, in consequence of there being no more busi-
ness before him undisposed of. The same thing occurred
once in Lord Brougham's time, and once in Sir Thomas
More's time ; but never, we believe, before or since.
However, the existence of three Vice Chancellors makes
the occurrence now nothing very wonderful.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, the rule
for a criminal information against Mr. Busfeild Ferrand
was made absolute. It was obtained by Mr. Lewis, one
of the Poor-law Commissioners, for a libel in a letter to
the Times newspaper, charging that gentlemen with a
conspiracy to send a false report to Sir James Graham,
of proceedings in the Keighley Union, to upset Mr. Fer-
rands statement in the House of Commons.
PRIVILEGE OF A MARRIED WOMAN.—In the Court
of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, an action to recover an
upholstery bill was tried, in which the defendant pleaded
that she was married, and that her husband was living,
although she had been long separated from him. To this
it was answered, that she represented herself to be a
widow when she obtained the goods. Lord Denman told
the jury the only question they bad to try was, whether
or not the defendant was a married woman. The jury,
being satisfied that she was, found a verdict for the de-
fendant.

Ten years ago the province of South Australia was
tenanted only by kangaroos and a few straggling natives,
physically and mentally the lowest of the human race.
It is at present the scene of the enterprise and energy of
more than eighteen thousand individuals of English race ;
has an active and extending mining industry, a great
breadth of land under cultivation, and a greater covered
with flocks. It imported in 1842 from this country to
the value of some £32,000, and exported in the same year
to Great Britain to the value of £23,000, to Van Diemen's
Land, to the value of £B,OOO. And South Australia, we
learn from the Governor's financial statement of 30th
June last, is in this, the tenth year of its existence, a self-
supporting colony. The revenue for 1846 is estimated at
£42,970; the expenditure at £32,677.
RIOT AT Bo u LOGNE-SUR-MER.—On Wednesday after-
noon, Boulogne was the scene of complete commotion,
occasioned by a shipment of cows and potatoes for Eng-
land. The mob would not allow them to be embarked,
and a severe conflict took place between them and the po-
lice, during which the sous prefet, en grand tenue, the
mayor and authorities, arrived ; they were received with a
volley of stones and potatoes, several of which fell heavily
upon some of the great men in office. The sous prefet
had his order torn from his breast and was nearly killed.
During the time the authorities were seeing the potatoes
put on beard the Britannia steamer, a ludicrous farce took
place ; some boys and women cut the ropes to which
twenty-five cows were attached ; the beasts being set at
liberty, some were driven into the water, and others
hooted and pelted about the town, to the terror of the in-
habitants. The mob, about seven in the evening, paraded
the streets, singing the Marseillaise, and when they ar-
rived in the Rue de l'Eau, opposite the mayor's house,
they began breaking his windows. The magistrate ran
out of his house, sword in hand, and if the national guard
(horse) had not suddenly come up, the worthy mayor
would have been severely handled. Mr. Adam, the mayor,
has received several anonymous letters, stating that un-
less he prevents the exportation of potatoes he must suffer
the consequence. If a stop is not put to the exportation,
it is feared serious, and, perhaps, fatal consequences will
arise. The town is at present quiet, and several of the
ringleaders have been arrested. THE PEPLORAHLB EFFECTS OF THE REPEAL OF THE CORN
THE JEWS IN POLAND.—WARSAW, Nov. 6.—Since Laws.—We understand that at the Michaelmas audits of the
the lot of October, the memorable day on which the Jews Right Hon. Lord Feversham, held at Helmsley and Kirbymoor-
in the kingdom, by laying aside their national costume, side, last week, not one of his lordship's numerous tenantry
made the first step towards civilisation, has afforded us
made default, and that there was not a single arrear.---York_
shireman.
many comical scenes through the uncomfortable position
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in which the Jews have been placed by it. From all thee hope we shall never have worse "effects "to deplore
great cities of the kingdom respectable looking Jews ar- from " the repeal of the Corn Laws ;" but the "York-
rived in all the splendour of their most costly silk pelisses shireman " doesn't exhibit the customary shrewdness of
trimmed with sable, with their beards and ringlets in the his shire if he supposes people can be gulled by a para-
best order to obtain a delay at least for some years; but graph like this. The destruction of the potato crop has
they had come to meet their ill fate, for they were here de- given an accidental value to corn, and through a favour-
prived of their silk pelisses, their beards, and their locks able harvest the haggards of the farmer are well filled
by some barbers, who bad received the orders of the po- with wheat. He has then the unusual conjunction of a
lice, and the poor disgraced Jews stole clandestinely out high price and a large produce, and because with this
of the city. A few days ago a similar event took place, double advantage:he is able to pay his rent, we are to ac-
which excited no little sensation, in the remotest part of cept " the repeal of the Corn Laws "as a boon for which
the country, where " Chapictistn" exercises its powerful we, says the Cork Constitution, should be grateful !
influence on the demoralization of the Jews. A company, Under a potato pestilence, corn will no doubt command a
consisting of 80 men, with their Rabbi at their head, ar- price that will enable the grower both to live and to pay
rived at the gates of our city, in order to obtain from the his rent ; but how will it be when the potato is (as it may
Prince-Governor permission to retain their old costume. again be) abundant, and when consequently corn, from
That so strange a company, which might be distinguished the diminished demand, may bring little more than half
at a distance by their strange gesticulations, was not per-
its present rate ? What will the Yorkshireman say then ?
witted to enter the city without inquiry, may be conceived. However, the farmers are paying their rent, and if our
General A—, the chief of the police, being informed of
contemporary owns any, let him take them, and be thank-
the strange party before the city, ordered that they should ful. It is more, we assure him, than he wouln have an
opportunity of doing if he lived in Ireland. Here the rents
of-
fice ; and there, that without speaking a word to them,
be immediately put under a good escort to the police of-
are carried, not to the landlord, but to the bank. There
their beards and locks should be cut off, and their pelisses they are lodged, and thence, as we remarked last week,
slit up behind. In half an hour the poor people felt the they will in all probability be drawn in spring, to be car-
cold air on their bald unprotected faces, and when they vied by the defaulters to Canada, or Sydney, or New York.
recovered from their consternation, they found themselves All this time the land lies untilled, and the plundered
again at the gates of Warsaw, whither:they had been con- landlord, while struggling to support the labourer through
veyed. They bad now no further desire than to be allowed the scarcity of this year. is left to look forward to the
to take the clippings of their beards home, that they might famine of the next. This, friend Yorkshire, is the way
bury them in their cemetery. These, however, were dis- in which things go on in Ireland ; but we are not, though
persed to all points of the compass, and the travellers had the conclusion would be as allowable as yours, inclined to
now nothing more to do in Warsaw than to satisfy the proclaim it as the " effect" of " the repeal of the corn
barber's apprentices who came for their pay. laws."—Cork Constitution.

HAS A NUN CIVIL RIGHTS?—The following para-
graph makes reference to a law-suit pending in Ireland at
the present time :—" A curious question is now pending
before the Irish Chancellor, whether a nun can have civil
rights, or whether she be not absolutely dead in the eye of
the law. The case is M'Carthy v. M'Cartbv. All
parties are Roman Catholics; and Sir Colman O'Lough-
lin, a Roman Catholic barrister, will argue in support of
the proposition which bars the enjoyment of the claim."
If our Protenant State gives a legal sanction to the
usages of the Church of Rome, then the deluded creature
whose case is in Chancery can have no more civil rights
than if she had been dead twenty years before. We be-
lieve a part of the ritual employed in nun making is a
kind of funeral service—a requiem over one utterly dead
to the world, and separated from all its requirements, du-
ties, and sympathies. It is of the very nature of such a
condition that the novice should be prepared to make so
absolute a renunciation. But whether the State—Great
Britain, the land of Cranmers, and Ridleys, and Knoxes—
will legitimate the heartrending, unnatural rules of mo-
nachism, is another matter. It is surprising the question
should be mooted at all. What have our courts of law to
do with the senical—rather farcical—death of Romish
perverts in disposing of questions of property ?—Edin-
burah Poet.

THE CORN-LAWS AND RENTS