The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

DICKENSON V. THE BURGESSES

GRIFFITH V. THE BURGESSES

The appellant had been collector of highway rates in
the township of Everton. He estimated his emoluments
at £lO4 per annum. Judgment of the court in favour of
the appellant £320, and costs £4l.
The whole of the decisions are thus in favour of the
appellants, at a cost to the town of the large sum of
£10,628.

We deeply regret to state that Mr. Thomas Mercer
Sudlow—an active and clever cashier in Messrs. Moss
and Co.'s bank—died of typhus fever on Saturday. He
was taken ill on Tuesday.
MISS KEELE'S CONCERT.—Miss Keele will give a con-
cert, on Tuesday next, at the Hall, Lord Nelson-street,
at which, amidst a host of talent, including Miss Grant,
Mr. Weiss, and Sig. Guilio Regondi, a young lady, pupil
of this highly gifted pianist, will make her debilt
THE DEE YACHT CLUB

.—We are glad to find that this
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did violate the law, and, in the letter by which your lord- club, which is yet in its infancy, has been honoured by
the patronage of our most gracious Queen, and is, cause-
ship did so, your lordship, with singular candour, acknow- quently, now entitled the " Royal Dee Yacht Club." It
ledged that all your calculations and all your anticipations
had been shown by the events to be wrong.' " is expected that next season the number of members will
be much increased, and no doubt the club will pull well
A similar impression was made upon the minds with the " Royal Mersey," to their mutual advantage.a
of some of the members of the Liverpool Deputa- Royal, C CEsßTfi.x—eilleSrS
to-morrowWhitnali'S eevoennCienr ,
week.at the
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tion, as to the Government's ignorance of the ex-
tent of the suffering felt throughout the country. treat that is ever experienced at the musical displays of
which she takes the management will, we hope, ensure
Men cannot, moreover, lose sight altogether of the an audience that will recompense ber for the exertions
fact that every calculation of the Free Trade party she uses to present a concert of the highest order.
in parliament and out of doors, with respect to thetione
feffaots state
prevailsfro
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. aDtEaCIDeE NOT
eaHt
misconception
re-
compatibility of -a restricted currency with un- that
spect tov the circumstances attending an execution in the
limited imports has been falsified. We began to house of a merchant in this neighbourhood, which has been
import more extensively the breadstuffs of Europe the subject of comment in the public papers. The gentle-
and America ; we threw our markets open to the man most painfully alluded to has placed the matter in
planters of Brazil and Cuba ; we encouraged the the hands of friends, and we are desired to request that
importations of foreign silks and other articles of the public will suspend their judgment for a few days.
luxury ; and we were assured that, pari passe, we SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday afternoon, a man, named Thomas Joynson, was found sitting in-the cook house at
should extend our manufactures and pay for these the Duke's Dock, frothing at the mouth, and unable to
new supplies in increased exports of the products speak. Assistance was brouhht, but he neveripr died
drr
of machinery on our industry. We saw, however, spoke,ate aratilsd. thAonug.hatiauessutrgweaosn
heldk-t yseesntterfday,
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before Mr.y
in the first instance only a drain of specie from the
Curry, and it appearedl from the examination of the body
country, to pay for our increased imports; and
when at length a prospect presented itself of ma- that deceased had died from rupture of a blood vessel of
the heart.
nufactured goods being in demand; when orders I THE LATE MR. Ban/
poured upon us from tl f---' • '
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,hose countries, rrom which
we had been drawing our supplies of breadstuffs
and other foreign commodities; the bank inter-
posed its veto. It had itself to protect. The
specie which had been extracted from its coffers
compelled a resort to limitation of discounts and
of paper issue ; and, with orders to be executed,
and bills, remitted to pay for them, we were in a
dead lock. The usurious interest demanded for

cash, for bills of unexceptionable character, swept
away the margin of profit derivable from the exe-
cution of such orders at legitimate prices. As the
result, our mills are standing ; our manufacturing
population idling in the streets of our large towns,
hunger and penury are in the poor man's home, and
insolvency stares his employers in the face.
This great commercial country, by the aid of its
vast mass of capital and its indomitable industry,
was to become., by the aid of our free trade system,
the depot of the produce of the globe. We were
to be the merchants, the warehousemen, the
bankers, and the brokers of half mankind. We
duly received the promise of consignments ; but
our means to hold them broke down in the effort.
Only an artificially restricted currency is given us
to transact a business which was to be without
limit. The result has been ruin to the merchant
who has embarked in large transactions on the
faith of the promises held out to him, and serious
loss to the foreigner who has entrusted his adven-
tures in our hands. We have failed in fulfilling
the trust reposed in us; and we shall be trusted
no more until a better and more healthy regime is
provided for us.
It is urged against commercial men, that they
have been improvident ; that they invested too
freely in railways and other similar undertakings.
It seems that we have done so. We did not, how-
ever, find out that fact until our boasted system,
.which was to check improvident investments, re-
minded us of it, when it was too late to retrace our

steps. Did any of our currency doctors tell us any
thing of this in time ? Did Sir Robert Peel, when
he was performing on the Trent Valley Railway the
part of an amateur navvie, whisper a fear that the
prosperity surrounding us was too exuberant to
last ? Not a word. We saw the price of the na-
tional securities run up until the Right Hon. Bart.
was enabled to perform the financial operation, by
which half per cent. was saved in the payment of
interest upon a portion of the national indebted-
ness. But we never heard a word about any diffi-
culty until we had to perform the clumsy operation
of paying into the Exchequer the railway deposits.
Still Parliament never interfered to stop us in our
railway mania. Lines were sanctioned which it is
now said are not needed, and for the construction
of which there is not money ; but for the evidence
of a check or a hint on the part of Government or
of Parliament, we look in vain.

PORTRAIT OF THE REV. DR. M'NEILE.—Of the
various portraits of this excellent divine, we were last
night favoured with a sight of decidedly the best—at
least as regards an inimitable likeness—which has yet been
taken. The reverend gentleman is represented as stand-
ing on a platform, with his arms folded in his characteristic
dignified posture, addressing a public meeting, and the
attitude and expression of countenance are, we think,
precisely those which Dr. M'lsTeile's friends would wish
the painter to have caught. The portrait is painted in
water-colours, and has, we understand, been taken by
Mr. Tatham, the artist, for the purpose of being introg
duced into the painting of the stone-laying of the Sailors
Home, now in course of completion, by that talented
gentleman. We observe that the painting will be on view
for a week at Burland's rooms, in Church street.
POLICE COURT.—There were about a hundred and
twenty prisoners brought before Mr. Rushton yesterday,
but none of the charges were of importance, by far the
greater number of cases involving a charge of " drunk,
and booked for safety," or " drunk and disorderly." The
prisoners of the former class were nearly all discharged
without other punishment than their night or two nights
lodging in Bridewell—the gathering having included Sa-
turday and Sunday—the gaol being, we believe,
female, named Elizabeth Smith, was charged with steal-
ing several salted hams from a person named John Woods,
on Saturday last. The prosecutor kept a stall, and the
mother of the prisoner the adjoining one. Four hams
were stolen, but two of them only were traced to the pri-
soner. The entire value was £2 4s. As further evi-
dence was expected, the case was remanded to this day.

Further evidence went to show that on the night in
question deceased was first struck by a man named Brady.
Freeman and his wife were in custody in court. The
former said a few words, to the effect that Brady had first
assaulted the deceased. The latter said nothing.
Mr. Bradshaw, surgeon, said he had accompanied Mr.
St. Pierre to see the patient the day before his death. His
evidence merely went to show that he neither approved
nor disapproved of Mr. St. Pierre's treatment at that time.
Mr. St. Pierre said that he had been urged by the
friends of deceased to bleed him, and that being unable
to obtain blood from the upper part of the body, he had
resorted to the lower, and had also applied salt. His
treatment, whatever was there thought of it, was war-
ranted by the practice of the first medical man on the
continent. He elicited from Dr. Bradshaw the fact that
he was perfectly sober, and not drunk, as had been
stated in some of the papers.
The Coroner summed up at considereble length. A
blow had undoubtedly been struck, and 'a mortal one, by,
it appeared, Brady, and a question arose whether Freeman
and his wife were accessaries in the second degree. In law,
however, though such a blow was dealt, if death
were afterwards accelerated by the gross negligence of
a practitioner, regular or irregular, or through his crimi-
nal inattention, or culpable rashness, such practitioner
was amenable to a charge of manslaughter, and the in-
flictor of the deadly blow was absolved. He explained the
case as affecting the parties, and read a " note received
from Mr. St. Pierre Kemble, by which he certified that
the deceased was (on the day of his death) in so precarious
a state that his death might be anticipated under two
hours," which death, he adds, has beerroccasioned by my
interference with Mr. Lynch's treatment of the case, or
by blows received on the 10th October, inflicted by Thady
Freeman, his wife Bridget, Martin Tobin, and others.
The jury retired, and after a consultation returned a
verdict of manslaughter against Grady (not in custody)
and Freeman and his wife. The two latter were conse-
quently conveyed to Kirkdale, under the coroner's war-
rant, to be tried at the next assizes. The female had
merely uttered a harsh expression relative to the deceased
on the night of the assault. The coroner then discharged
Mr. St. Pierre.

PUBLIC MEETING AT BIRKENHEAD LAST

to no it.—ivir. HALL said the legal trustees of the
building had never received notice of the sale. Mr.
Bogie only had been informed of it, and he had
not communicated it to the rest.—Mr. BANNER did not
consider he was to blame for the neglect of the trustees.
He was not acting for himself, but for others.—Mr. HALL :
It would only have been fair to give all the trustees notice
of the sale. To pick out one person looked as if there
was some collusion. He wished them to understand that
they must take upon themselves all the consequences
which might arise out of the sale. They might depend
upon it he would have an eye upon them.—Mr. BANNER
begged that Mr. Hall would be cautious in the observa-
tions he made. He did not understand the meaning of
the reflections he had made.—Mr. BRANCH (the auc-
tioneer) did not see that the present discussion had
anything to do with the sale.—Mr. Hall seemed
to be intent upon a personal attack on Mr. Banner.
The conditions were here read, and several questions
were asked upon them, and as to the terms of the
lease on which the property is held from the Corpora-
tion.—Mr. HALL wished to know from Mr. Banner, soli-
citor, whether he was not aware that the Trustees had
the power to sell the property for the purpose of paying
off the mortgages, which might have saved them the
trouble of the present sale.—Mr. E. BANNER, solicitor.
was not aware of it.—Mr. HALL felt much surprised at
that.—On the suggestion of Mr. HALL, the conditions
of the lease referring to the purposes for which the build-
ing was to be used, were read. They stipulated that
it was to be used only for the celebration of divine ser-
vice according to the forms of the Church of Scotland.—
Dr. WINTYRE thought that a building which had cost
£14,000 ought not to be sacrificed for a mortgage of
£2,000. The mortagees had sent notice to certain of the
trustees, six or eight months ago, of their intention to
sell, and the meeting would easily imagine the consterna-
tion of the shareholders when he said that only within the
last week or two had they been made acquainted with it.
What had taken place at the opening of the sale might
have appeared irregular, but he thought the gentlemen
present would agree with him that the shareholders had a
right•to complain of the conduct of the trustees. He
made this explanation to satisfy Mr. Banner. He regretted
Mr. Hall had insinuated any collusion on Mr. B.'s part.
It was evident that gentleman was only acting for others,
and if the property was sacrificed he could not be blame-
able.—A SHAREHOLDER here asked if £3 18s

annum, payable to the Corpor
mid.—Mr. E. BANNER t Nn

had r

per
gularly

atmg that there is 231
years' rental due. (Laughter.)—Mr. BRANCH here put
up the property. The first bid was £2OOO from Josias
Booker, Esq., followed by a bid of £2lOO from Mr.
Andrews. These gentlemen had, indeed, all the bidding
to themselves. The bidding ran up to £4OOO by Mr.
Booker, and £4050 by Mr. Andrews, and after a pause of
some duration Mr. Branch endeavoured to obtain another
bid from Mr. Booker. when that

" No, I have done, and since I have found out that the
gentleman bidding is doing so for its being made into a
Wesleyan chapel, lam sorry, 1 bid so much. I live near
the place, and was afraid it might possibly be converted
into a foundry, or some other such nuisance." (Laughter.)
The property was ultimately knocked down to Mr. An-
drews for £4050, who, it is understood, has purchased it
on behalf of the Wesleyan Methodist body.