The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

LA TV INTELLIGENCE.

At the Court of Exchequer, on Monday Mr. Francis
Crossley, soap-boiler, of Old Montague-street, White-
chapel, was convicted in a penalty of £7OO for illegally
filling some of his vats, without due notice being sent to
the Excise officers.

In the District Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter, a few days
since, in the matter of the Honiton Bank, the official
assignee (Mr. Hirtzel) stated that he had sent out appli-
cations for £40,000, and had received only £140; and he
feared that many of those who had been put down as
debtors to the estate would turn out to be creditors.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, the
Duke of Brunswick obtained a verdict for £lOOO damages
against Mr. Pepper, the printer of the Satirist newspaper,
for libel. On the same day, in the Court of Common
Pleas, his Highness obtained a verdict for £750 damages
against Messrs. Abraham Slowman, John Barker, John
Townshend, James Miles, and Benjamin Brown, who,
except Mr. Townshend, who is a solicitor, are officers of
the sheriff of Middlesex, for forcibly breaking open, and
entering the dwelling-house of his Highness in Brunswick-
place, on the evening of the 15th of May last.
THE LAW OF DISTRAINT, AND LENDING GOODS ON
lIIRE.—The law of distraint would appear to require an
immediate amendment. Messrs. Collard and Collard, the
celebrated piano-forte makers, of London, have called the
attention of the Guardian Society to the oppressive and
unjust operation of that clause of the landlord and tenant
act relating to distraint, whereby the property of traders
lent on hire to tenants and lodgers is frequently sacrificed
to the claims of landlords, without the law affording the
owners the slightest remedy, except by payment of the
debt which may be due by the lodger. Messrs. Hime and
Son, of this town, tell us that, at this moment, they have
a piano-forte, which had been lent out on hire, retained
by a landlady on the plea that the party who hired the
instrument, owes her upwards of ten pounds rent. The
result is obvious : they must lose the piano-forte and debt
due to them, or pay the rent before they become possessed
of their own property.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

ITALY.

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Sicily is still the scene of bloodshed. "The troops have
been driven from the forts round Palermo, with great
slaughter on both sides. There have been no satisfactory
negotiations. ThelCing refuses a separate Chamber, but
offers that the Chambers should hold-session alternately
at Naples.and Palermo. With these concessions the Sici-
lians are dissatisfied. Insurrection is, from appearances,
feared at Messina.

Advices froni'Naples describe that city as the scene of
great rejoicing. The King rides daily through the streets,
receiving the congratulations of the people. When any
symptom of discontent has shewn itself, .he has himself
addressed the people, explaining the nature of the consti-
tution, and has called in the assistance of a monk to
harangue the lazzaroni, and thus render the new order of
things more- generally appreciated. Bozzelli, a councillor
of state under Murat, and afterwards a liberal refugee,
has been appointed Minister of the Interior, and has been
ordered to make a draft of the new constitution. The
popular insurrection may be regarded..s completely tri-
umphant.

'THE LITIMPOOL STAN'DA'RD.