The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-07 00:00:00

CHURCH INTELLIGENCE,

(Frans the Oxford Herald.)
In a congregation holden on Thursday last, the followin g
degrees were conferred :

MASTERS OF ARTS.
Rev. Henry Sweeting, University College.
James Anthony Fronde, Fellow of Exeter College

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BACHELOR OF ARTS.
ih Henry Wilson, Exeter College

BRASENNOSE COLLEGE.
A. Fellowship is vacant in this college by the resignation of
the Rev. William Henry Egerton, and if a q
candidate shall offer himself, will be filled up in the course of
the present term.
Natives of the city or county Palatine of Chester, being
" of the cousinage or lineage of *John Williamson, clerk, some
time parson of the parish church of St. George, in Canter-
bury, or of the name, cousinage, or of the lineage of John
Port, Sergeant-at-Law, or of his heirs born within the said
city or county of Chester," are eligible.
This claim of kindred must be sustained with a pedigree
authenticated by the seal of the College of Heralds, and with
the opinion of counsel that such pedigree brings the claimant
within the relationship above described.
These papers, together with the certificate of birth within
the city or county of Chester, and the usual testimonials,
are to be presented to the Principal on or before the 17th
of March.

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The Rev. Charles D. Everett, 8.A., of Queen's College,
has been licensed, by the Lord Bishop of Hereford, to th
Curacy of Ullingswick, Herefordshire.
We are authorised to state, that the announcement which
appeared in our paper of the 18th of Febniary, of the ap-
pointment of the Rev. J. Dallas
the to S resignation of , Charthe Rev.
lton-on-
Medlock, Lancashire, vacant by
A. Hepworth, is erroneous in this respect, that that chapel
is still vacant.
Rev. D. B. Seymour, to the Curacy of Athlone, Ireland.
Rev. Charles Henry BrombY, M.A., of St. John's College,
Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Paul's, Chelten-
ham.
Rev. Edward Jones Walmesley, M.A., of St. John's Col-
vacant
lege, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Whaddon, Wilts,
by the death of the Rev. J. Eddy; patron, W. Long,
Esq., M.P.
Rev. Edward Henry Langford, M,A., formerly of Sidney
Sussex College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Marksbury,
Somerset, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Kitson
patron, General Popham.
Rev. George Woodley, of Taunton, late Missionary of the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, to the Perpetual
Curacy of Martindale, Westmorland.
Rev. Edward Hawkins, Perpetual Curate of Coleford.
Gloucestershire, to the Vicarage of Newport, Monmouth-
shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. A. A. Isaacson;
patron, the Bishop of Gloucester.
Rev. Thomas -East, Boyle Muraynstan's-, , M.A.inf o
th Pembroke
Londog Collen,
e,
Cambridge, Rector -e
to a Prebendal Stall in S Paul's Cathedral.
Rev. Thomas Maling Nicholson, 8.A., of Trinity College,
Cambridge, to the Vicarage of South Mimms, Middlesex ;
patron, W. P. Hamond, Esq.
Rev. William Thomas, M.A., late Curate of Cheadle,
Cheshire, to the RedtOry of Oakham, Surrey ; patron the
Earl of Lovelace.
Rev. Stephen Wilkinson Dowell, to the Curacy of Bath-
wick, Somerset.
Rev. Richard B. Suckling, to the Rectory of Dunsbourne
Abbots, Gloucestershire, vacant by the death of the Rev. C.
Mesman • patron, D. Mesrnan, Esq.
Rev. Booth, to the Curacy of Thurlton-with-Hardley,
Norfolk.

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
At the congeegation the following degrees were conferred :

MASTERS OF ARTS.
Henry John Whitfield, Downing College.
orp
BACHELORS OF ARTS.
Samuel Harvey, Corpus Christi College.
John Samuel Bage, St. Johns College.
James Grant, Pembroke College.
Thomas Burnaby, Trinity College.
Arthur Childe, Trinity College.
Charles Philip Lindsay, Trinity College.
The Lord Bishop of Peterborough has collated the Rev.
Robert Bell, M.A., late Curate of All Saints, Nort
hampton,
to the Perpetual Curacy of Eye, near P
by the death of the Rev. James Henry Stone.
The Lord Bishop of Peterborough has instituted the Rev.
Thomas James, M.A., to the Vicarage of Theddingworth, in
Leicestershire, vacant by the death of the Rev. William
French Major, on the presentation of J. Cook, Esq., of Ho-
thorpe, Northamptonshire.
The Rev. Joseph Moore, M.A., of Lincoln College, Ox-r
ford, Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Morl,
ted and incum-
bent of Littlewortb, Berks, has been pre eysen to the
Vicarage of Buckland, in the sante county ;patron, James
Moore, Esq.
The Rev. Frederick Biscoe, M.A., formerly Student of
Christ Church, Oxford, has been presented to the Vicarage
of Coombe Bissett, Wilts, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. R. Bird.
.T che. Theodore
B. Cave.
al
Chaplain to
Coleridge,
Exeter iohfouEsex.eter College,
The Rev. Arthur Thomas Gregory, 8.A., formerly of
Lincoln College, Oxford, has been presented to the Perpetual
Curacy of Flixton Lancashire, vacant by the resignation of
MW.Aor•
The Rev. George James Cornish, formerly of Cor-
pns Christi College, Oxford, Vicar of Kenwyn and Kea,
Cornwall, has been presented to a Prebendal Stall in Exeter
Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. Whittington
Landon.
The Rev. H. Robins, 8.A., of Wadham College, Oxford,
has been elected Head Master of the Stepney Proprietary
Grammar School.
hasthe T
been
ee Inv
ry elected.
of Brasenose College,
The Rev. William Cockin, M.A.,
Oxford, has been unanimously elected to the Head Master-
ship of the Grammar School at Kiddermnster.
The Rev. William Pulling, Fellow of Brasenose College,
Oxford, has been appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Earl
Somers.
The Rev. W. Bousfild, of Lincoln College, Oxford, has
been presented to the Curacy of the third portion of Bamp.
ton Vicarage, Oxfordshire.
The Rev. Francis Rose, M.A., to the Rectory of Little
Woo
Recto to bold Frauds
same by dispensation, together with
the Rectory of Woughton-on-the-Green, Bucks ; patron, the
Queen.
rßird, to the Vicarage of Turkdean, Gaon_
The Rev. Roge
cestershirev.
The Re. W. Harrison, to be Sunday evening Lecturer of
St. Mary, Aldermanburym .
A
The Rev. J. Otter, ~, to the Vicarage of Ludford
Magna, Lincolnshire; patron, G. F. Heneage, Esq.
The Rev. J. W. Butt, m.A., Vicar of King's Langley,
Herts, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Clarendon.
The Rev. John Blissard, M.A., late Curate of Hampstead
Norris, Berks, to that 'Vicarage, vacant by the deuth of the
Marquis of Downshire
Rev. J. Reed ; patron,

CUSTOM HOUSE FRAUDS

om-house,
theS nv,earsi to inquire
s' Court
(From the London Times.)
A case, not only important for its illustration of
but also singularly novel in the conduet of its aon
tern, or rather the no-system, prevalent at the Cust
,vtihge
tsiys..,
a swats
t, Thursdaytried befc:r. e commissionaThspeeacbiajlecctomorthisesionin
whether Mr. Dean, (who is an importer of silk,) .
was indebted
in any sum to her Majesty for duties on foreign
ported into this country ; and, if so, to what f goods im-
will, therefore, be seen that this differed in two mount? It
the generality of cases tried in the Sheriffs' c respects from
not simply to assess damages on an undefended rt.
It was
was it an ordinary prosecution of a subject at action ; nor
Crown. It was promoted, indeed, for the t the suit of the
of proving a tort and assessing damages two-fold purpose
be rather in then ature of an inquiry condu it professed to
Crown and the delinquent, and had this cted both by the
that the person who, as defendant, could not
feature—
as a witness in a civil suit, was in
this t have appeared
attend as witness, and did attend by
counsel in that capa-
It is not our intention to discuss the
iogs so unusual as these were, nor to balancepropriety of proceed-
evil effects of their anomalous nature. the good and
occurred ; they very seldom can occur; a hey hare seldom
however unconstitutional in their form and
we believe that,
likely to create positive mischief as to ' they are as little
nefit. cause any certain be-
Our business is with the main facts
ing the examination, which are briefly that were elicited dur-
Mr. Dean, in the month of Febru as follow :
cases of silk from Boulogne. These ary, 1841, imported two
to the Queen's warehouse, and were two cases were brought
suroption by a Mr. Tighe, on behalf entered for home con-
custom, when goods are entered for of Nlr. Dean. It is the
an agent to attend on the part of the home consumption, for
or limits any mistake or overcharge importer, who corrects
the crown, as the amount of dutyrge made by the agent for
of the goods. On this depends upon the warrant
occasion, a Al
the part of the customs. Ile. ' ' r. Berners attended on
oto, a ,arrant specifying the we'Vx,:vir Tii,he thcr to, de
and the weight of the silk 401b.13 - of the cases to be stflb.,
duty was paid by Mr. Dean. ; upon which, and no more,
Several witnesses,
connected •
th the silk trade, came for-
ward, and declared that with
the two cases in question were capa-
ble of containing 4201 b. of
the first kind the valuer one kind of silk, 7701 b. of another,
and 8401 b. of a third.
nearly £7OO, and of the Ofould be
fir. Tighe, who acted second £2400. It also was not a li-
pred that
as agent for Mr. Dean, w
censed cusous
allowed tot acom-ht in thae aent, and thatbeen known that he was
; ahe would not have been
without a licence t cagpacity had it
also. that the document vouching to the
accuracy of the return made was in the writing of Berners,
an accredited officer of the customs, and countersigned b)
M'Vicar, the •
Thus inspector.
we have a gross a d al able fraud upon the revenue
of the country practised an
P
lily a rich and "respectable " (your
rich. people always are hig respectable) silk merchant, con-
nived at by one officer of the Customs, and overlooked by
another, and that other one whose special business it was to
prevent or punish the naalyersatiou of his subordinates. The
parties in this transaction are guilty of a triple iniquity—first,
in defrauding their SOVEREIGN ; next, in taking the bread
out of the mouths of the humble operatives of Spitalfields;
and lastly, in tempting the officers of Government to become,
he unfortunate Mr. Caiger, whoes delinquencies were
exposed in the trial in Thursday's paper, accessories post
factum to the crime they have perpetrated and then as to
these latter functionaries themselves, it is true that they are
supported at an expense of nearly £BOO,OOO per annum, for
the express purpose of protecting the integrity of the revenue
from fraud ; but what of that? What is a man's country
compared with his friendships? What the duties of his office
with the demands of generosity? And what generosity at
once so comprehensive and so cheap, as that which gratifies
the solicitations of private friends at the national cost ?
We are not ironical. This mode of reasoning is by no
means rare or new.
" Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona."
There have been many Bernerses and M'Vicars before this;
unless Government take timely steps to prevent it, there
and,
will be many more.
Let us now see the beautiful effects of
eats amiable eo bi
nation of social economy and political ava m--
gance. Mr.
Beckwith, a silk manufacturer, thus deposes—
" I have given up importing foreign silks. because the
smugg/ers beat me. I found that they could sell full
cent. under me or any other fair trader. . . 30 per
While this
system of cheating the revenue is being carried on, the smug-
glers of the West-end are prospering, and
weavers starving." the Spitalfields
If frauds on the revenue are crimes (which
doubt), and if the crimes of the fathers some folks
children, wo to the little Deans, Bern are visited on the
os yet unborn or unbegottsn. erses, and the M'Vicara

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