The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

64

2 6.132 14 61 59 9 5

Per Centage on Income,
about

ARREST OF A RAILWAY TRAIN.—A most extra-
ordinary method of executing the powers of the law,
was put in operation at the Newfoundwell station of the
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway. The collector of
county cess, Mr. Simpson, had made repeated applica-
tions for the payment of the county cess due on the lands
and premises held by the company, but could not succeed
in obtaining payment. Accordingly, being bound to
lodge the amount of his warrant on the first day of the
assizes, unless he could show that any part of it was
irrecoverable, and that he had used every necessary
exertion to recover it, Mr. Simpson, attended by a body
of his assistants, met a train at the Newfoundwell station,
and then and there producing his warrant he took
possession of the train and all it contained. There were
six grand jurors travelling by it to attend the Dundalk
assizes, which were open at 10 o'clock, and in ordinary
course they would have been barely in time to be sworn
in. Remonstrances with the collector were all in vain ;
the county cess he must have, and the train was not
aliowed to move a peg until his demand was satisfied.
Then the lost time had to be pulled up by increased speed,
and the released engine again snorted along the line which
had just been freed from the payment of a county cess
until the next assizes.—Louth Advertiser.
Tau HULL BRIBERY Commtsstosr.—This commission
is still sitting. The following letter from Mr. J. B.
agree
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otherwit hcleyao clearly, Moore has been put in as evidence " Liverpool,
inst.,stand Teaac
fith April, 1852. Dear sir,—ln reply to your letter of the
.:2dderyt.hbateroilteisabnetetleerctwioenschoomuledsuonn:
with regard to money matters. I shall stand to my pro-
positien mentioned to the deputation at Normanton, as
rsareed in your letter, namely, to go as far as £1,200 for
the legal expenses of the election--not necessarily that
this sum should be expended—but I will, if that sum be
required, go thus far and no farther; and I agree to incur
mother responsibility. lam wholly unacquainted with what
wile be required, having no exserience in these matters.
If the expenditure in this matter should exceed the above-
named num, the gentlemen in Hull must undertake to
exonerate me from all further demands. Being a stranger
I could net, with any judgment, select an agent, and
would leave this and the entire tnanagement of the election
in the hands of a committee. I think to provide against
a contest, the electors should subscribe a sure equal to the
positive requirements for fighting a good fight. The can-
didates herezre only responsible for .4:540 each. In offer-
ing myself to represent your borough, I beg to say I have
no personal interests to serve, and having plenty of leisure
to devote to •your services, I will come forward to stem
-the democratic torrent which threatens the country, and
the destructive policy which has been carried out, and to
indulge an honourable and laudable ambition.—Yours,
.trely, J. Bramley-Moore." One witness stated "In 1817
.he was chairman. of the Sculcotes committee for Brown
and Baines: was is correspondence with the National
Club, for a second blue candidate : Sir Robert Inglis was
written to on the subject, and he took considerable pains
to find a candidate; he ultimately, however, handed over
ahe letter to the National Club, and they named Mr.
ISands,,of Liverpool; -but when Brown came down, the
correspondence with the National Club ceased.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Southampton COT-
regpondentof The Morning Herald, under date of Friday,
says:--The tide of emigration from this port has, since
its commencement, been one continual stream of de-
partures to the land of gold, and two large ships are now
in dock preparing to sail, with passengers anxious to
reach the shores of Australia. The Athenian, a barque,
of 675 tons, will leave on Monday for Sydney. She has
embarked 140 paissangers, but iscapable of accommodating
206, statute adults, the whole of which she will, doubt-
less, receive prior to her leaving. Another large ship,
Credenda, of 900 tons register, is also in preparation to
depart for Geelong. This ship, which is capable of ac-
commodating 335 statute adults, has th,er berths built up
midships, which arrangement, doubtless, gives more
room for the admission of air from the various port-holes,
and thereby considerably improves the ventilation of the
ship. The Herefordshire, 1600 tons, will leave this port
for Sydney on or about the 10th August. Her passengers
will consist principally of railway labourers. The Pekin,
for Melbourne, 562 tons, also leaves on the Ist August ;
and the Epaminondas, 1171 tons, will leave on the 6th
proximo, for Adelaide. The government commissioners
also took up two other ships yesterday, the Poiters,
756 tons, which they intend fitting out for Port Philip, to
sail on the 7th of September, and the David Malcolm,
538 tons, for Adelaide, on the sth of the same month.
It is fully expected that both these vessels will embark
their passengers at this port. Since the first ship left
Southampton docks under the surveillance of the govern.
went commissioner of emigration, upwards of 6,000 per-
sons have left this country from this port for the Australian
colonies. Of these nearly 5,000 were English, the
remainder Irish, and a small portion Scotch. The first
government emigration ship left here on the 17th of
January, since which time nineteen first-class vessels
have departed from these docks. The arrangements
have been, as requirement suggested, improved consi-
derably, and the whole of the emigrants on board the
Athenian seemed perfectly happy in their floati hbi
tation, and cleanliness and order were to be a -
particularly
observed.