The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, DUBLIN, JUNE 21
ACTION FOR SLANDER AND DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER

THE REV. DENIS LANE BRASDIE V. THE REV.
LAWRENCE F. RENNEHAN, PRESIDENT OF THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTH.—The declaration
in this case alleged that the reverend plaintiff had been a
Roman Catholic priest, and had discharged the duties of
that office with propriety ; that in July, 1844, lie thought
it right, from conscientious conviction of the errors of
that religion, to renounce it, and become a member of
the Established Church ; that, having done so, he was
about being employed by the Rev. 8.,8001e, of Birming-
ham, as an assistant curate, at a salary of £lOO per an-
num, and would have been employed were it not that the
defendant wrote a letter, the alleged libel, to the Lord

Bishop of Worcester, in whose diocese the curacy was si-
tuated, falsely stating " that he (the plaintiff) was a de-
graded or suspended clergyman of the Roman Catholic
Church, and was unfit to be a clergyman of any church."
Damages were laid at £5OOO, and the defendant pleaded
not guilty, and the general issue. The' jury were locked
up all night, and at eight o'clock the following morning
agreed to a verdict for the plaintiff of £25.

POLITICAL GOSSIP,

Sir J. L. Goldsmid is a candidate for Beverley

Two Conservatives, Messrs. J. Masterman and Alder-
man Johnson have come forward as candidates for London.
General Sir Harry Smith has been invited by the Con-
servatives to stand foi the borough of Cambridge, but
declines on account of ill health.

The Hon. Colonel Lindsay, T. B. Crosse, Esq., and R.
Thicknesse, Esq., will be the candidates for Wigan at the
approaching general election.
Mr. Cardwell has resigned as a candidate for the repre-
sentation of the Uriversity of Oxford, and the contest now
lies between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Round.
Messrs. Jones and Miall are the only candidates for the
borough of Halifax. Mr. Jones comes forward as the
chartist candidate, and Mr. Miall is the well-known non-
conformist. _ _

On Saturday, Mr. Thomas Rimmer, timber merchant,
a conservative, was elected, without opposition, for Pitt-
street Ward, in the placc of the late lamented Mr. James
As pinall.
BOLTON.—Dr. Bowring, Mr. John Brooks, and Mr. P.
Ainsworth are the candidates. The Conservatives will
support Mr. Ainsworth, and are endeavouring to get Mr.
Bolling or some other gentleman to stand with him.
DUBLIN CITY.—Mr. Ferrand, it is said, will stand for
the city on ultra-Protestant principles. The Mail says
there will be no contest. The Packet says—lt is rumoured
in certain government circles that a Whig candidate will
offer himself to the electors.

NORTH AND SOUTH CHESHIRE.-Mr. Tatton Egerton
and Mr. E. J. Stanley are the candidates for North
Cheshire ; and by some sort of an inexplicable " arrange-
ment," Mr. Cornwall Legh has been put on one side,
For South Cheshire we hear of no opposition to Sir P.
Egerton and Mr. Tollernache. _

CAMBRIDGE.-Mr. Sutton, the Conservative member
for Cambridge, met his constituents on Monday evening,
to give an explanation of his parliamentary conduct. The
hon. gentleman entered into a long defence of the policy
Gir Robert Peel and concluded by declaring his inten-
tion to retire from the representation.
LEEDS.-Mr. Sturge, after visiting the various wards of
the borough during the last fortnight, has declared his ac-
ceptance of the invitation to become a candidate for the
representation of this borough, and has issued an address
offering his services to the electors. The friends of Mr.
Wm. Beckett met on Tuesday, to promote his election.

- -D;;;;=—O;lll;site,invvey.-:On' Thursday the govern-
ment experienced a defeat in the Commons, through the
carrying of an amendment moved by Mr. Borthwick, in
the Poor-law Bill, that married paupers, both above 60
years old, shall not be separated in the workhouse ; and
on Friday the house decided against the central authority
proposed to be given to the commissioners by the Highway
Bill by 50 to 48 votes, on which the bill was withdrawn
by the government till next session.
MAIDSTONE:—Mr. Salomons has issued the following
pithy address to the electors. It is understood that the
circumstances" alluded to, are a demand that Mr. Sa-
lomons should pay the whole amount of the outstanding
debts contracted during the contest in 1838, before he
commenced his canvass :—" Gentlemen,—lt is with re-
gret I this day learn that circumstances, in connexion
with the election of 1838, for which I am not, and ought
not in any way to be made responsible (my connexion
with your borough having only commenced in 1841), are
to be presented as an obstacle to damage my prospects of
a successful canvass for the honour of representing you
in the House of Commons. I, therefore, decline to enter
upon a canvass, and withdraw my pretensions to repre-
sent your town."

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THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—We may now
venture to state it as an ascertained point, that it will be
necessary to defer the prorogation of Parliament to a date
somewhat later than that which a short time since was
contemplated. Friday, the 23d of July, is the day which
will, in all probability, witness the termination of the
session. With respect to the dissolution, that is a matter
of more uncertainty, and will depend in a great degree
upon the weather. Should the crops ripen rapidly, it will
be necessary that they should be gathered in before the
country is thrown into the turmoil of a general election,
and in that case the dissolution will not take place until
the autumn is well advanced ; but should the harvest
prove a late one, advantage will be taken of the compara-
tively idle interval, and the dissolution will follow imme-
diately upon the prorogation.—Britannia.
MR. COBDEN.—This gentleman has addressed his con-
stituents in a letter dated " Venice, June 15," soliciting
their suffrages for his re-election. The address is mainly
occupied in enforcing the principles of free-trade, which,
he says, has not yet had a fair trial. Towards the conclu-
sion of the address, Mr. Cobden observes—" Should you
honour me with your confidence, I shall hope to be found
with renewed health at my post, prepared to show
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the prosperity and harmony of the whole community;
and I shall return to England confirmed in my opinion by
the sympathy expressed for our principles by the best and
wisest men in other countries, that if we continue with
firmness to offer to the world a good example, it will be
eventually followed by all other civilised nations."
CANDIDATES AND THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—The
rapid approach of a general election naturally suggests
inquiry as to what the questions are on which the choice
of candidates will depend. With the commercial and
shipping interests evidently the questions are the policy of
the navigation laws, and the laws which regulate the cur-
rency of the nation. Of the first, much as we have written,
we have not, nor are we able to give it all the attention its
importance deserves. At present we would call the attention
of the electoral body connected with the shipping interest
to the necessity which exists for making right opinions on
the navigation laws the first and almost only qualifica-
tion of the candidate to whom they will give their support.
Hitherto the shipping interest has neglected this duty most
shamefully. In almost all the outports, the shipping in-
terest has allowed itself to be divided and defeated by the
mere war-cries of party. We do trust that, at the forth-
coming elections, the ports will do their duty. If they
hope to maintain their present position, they must one and
all send members to sustain the navigation laws. We say,
deliberately, pledged, because it is the cant of the present
day to call it unconstitutional to demand pledges. For
our own part, we take it for granted, that the candidate
who refuses to afford that assurance in a case of national
importance, intends to betray the interests of his consti-
tuents whenever it suits his own convenience or interest.
—Shipping Gazette.
REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL.—It is with no or-
dinary satisfaction that we make the announcement of a
large and influential meeting of electors having been yes-
terday held at Liverpool, at which it was resolved that
Lieut. Colonel Sir Digby Mackworth should be invited to
come forward as a candidate to represent that vast con-
stituency in the ensuing Parliament—determined opposi-
tion to the Romish Church, and a firm support of the
Navigation Laws, being the two points on which the reso-
lutionists insisted. The gallant colonel's sentiments on
both points being ascertained to be entirely in unison with
those of the meeting, a requisition was immediately de-

spatched to him, his. reply to which was as immediate.
Having left London by the early train this morning, he is
at this moment in Liverpool. May every success attend
him. He is, we believe, a perfect stranger to Liverpool.
The selection of him as their wished-for representative,
has proceeded entirely on their appreciation of his proved
integrity and consistency of character, as an unflinching
champion of Protestant truth. The selection of such a
man, at such a moment, is as honourable to Liverpool as
it is to him. The importance of such a bold decisive
movement by the second great town of this great empire
it is impossible to overrate. The adoption of such a can-
didate, coupled as it is with the rejection of such a man
as Lord Sandon, speaks a language that will be understood

,nd, we, trust, reap
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