The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-11 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Half-past Ten o'clock.

THE STATE TRIALS.

Court of queen's Bench, Julie 10.

(From our Correspondent.)
It having been fully expected, in consequence of what
transpired in the court on Saturday, that the Writ of
Error would be argued this morning. The court was
crowded to excess. At eleven o'clock all the members of
the Court were present, with the exception of the Chief
Justice ; in a few minutes, however, his lordship entered
the Court, and took his seat amongst his learned bre-
thren; at this time the Attorney and Solicitor-General,
Messrs. Bennett, Q.C., Holmes, Smyly, and Napier,
were present, as counsel for the Crown, the Crown-
Solicitor Mr. Kemmis was also in attendance; the only
counsel who appeared on behalf of the traversers was Sir
Colman O'Loghlen.
The Chief Justice said, Mr. Attorney-General do you
move anything?_ The Attorney-General—my lords in
the case of the Queen v. O'Connell and others, if the
gentlemen at the other side intend to argue the writ of
error, as the replication which we have put in on behalf
of the crown is in the nature of a demurrer, we have a
a right to commence, and my learned friend the Solicitor-
General will argue it.
Sir Colman O'Loghlen said it was quite true as stated,
that the replication put in by the crown was in the nature
of a demurrer. Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., who was with him
(Sir Colman O'Loghlen) in the case did not mean to
argue it, they would suffer judgment to go by default as
their only object was to have the judgment of the court
pro forma" upon the subject, the question intended to be
raised was the same as had already been decided against
the traversers by the court, when the plea in abatement
was under discussion, and they (the traversers counsel)
would not presume to trouble their lordships with a mere
repetition of the arguments which had then been urged
without success.
The CHIEF JUSTICE.—Very well, then, let judgment
be entered for the Crown. Mr. Attorney-General do you
move any thing else.
The Attorney-General bowed, and having no further
application to make, in a few minutes withdrew.
In a few minutes after, the Chief Justice, addressing
the Solicitor-General, who had remained aiter his col-
league left court, said it would be very• necessary for him
to see that the judgment of the court was properly made
up•

The learned gentleman stated he should attend to
its being duly entered, and then the subject dropped.
As term expires on Wednesday, this is probably the
last time the case will be mentioned in court. The pro-
ceedings to-day, which though almost unintelligible to
civilians, nevertheless were looked on with a considerable
degree of interest, it seems that it was necessary to have a
formal decision of the court upon the matters brought
before them by the writ of error. coram nobis, before they
could appear regularly on the record, and be submitted to
the final decision of the House of Lords.

The Dublin Evening Mail of last night, in reference to
this motion, says—" Another scene of the farce—for it
does not deserve the name of drama—was enacted this
day in the Court of Queen's Bench, as will be seen from
the following report ; but we only hope the managers may
have the courage to bring out the whole piece at the great
theatre in Westminster—tile Peers and Judges being the
audience, and we undertake that the thing will be damned
off-hand, and after the conclusion of the firstact. "

A most numerous meeting of the Repeal Association
was held to-day at the Conciliation Hall, Burgh Quay,
Lord French in the chair. No endeavour having been
spared to give it eclat, in fact such have been the exertions
made during the past week by the priests, backed by the
Repeal rent, to make the unfortunate peasantry bring in
the Repeal rent nolens volens, that the landlords of Ire-
land will stand a very indifferent chance of getting in
theirs next November, the poor dupes being forced to
bring into market, at no matter what sacrifice, produce
which would otherwise be kept over until an advantageous
price could be obtained.

Five o'clock.

The meeting at the Conciliation Hall is not likely to be
over until a very late hour. Up to the present moment
£2501 is the amount of rent received, but several other
sums from three wards in this city have not come in, but
are expected. The room is crowded to suffocation : pro-
bably there never was so large and formidable a meeting
of the Association.

ONE LONDON WATERMAN AGAINST A FOUR-OARED
FLEMISH CREW—The boat-race on Monday between
Robert Newell, of Battle-bridge-stairs, and four Flemish
waterman with a coxswain, terminated, contrary to gene-
ral expectation, in favour of the latter. It will be re-
membered that the same parties contended about a month
since, when Newell was declared the winner by a very
considerable distance ; but as the opposing party attri-
buted their defeat to the size of their boat, and were de-
sirous of having another trial, a match was made for £4O
a side. The former race had been rowed from Ostend to
Bruges, a distance of twelve miles ; but on the present
occasion the starting and winning posts were reversed.
BARBER AND FLETCHER, THE WILL FORGERS.—
These convicts are still at the penitentiary. Barber is a
tailor, and was seen in the course of last week making
breeches in the convict's apparel, and with his head
closely cropped. Having chosen this trade or occupation,
he is, as a matter of course, excused from the much more
disagreeable occupation of picking oakum, which is very
laborious, and very much taxes the eyes as well as the
fingers. Fletcher, whose profession as a medical man is
not likely to be called into exercise, and who cannot use
the needle or wax-end is regularly seated along with the
other convicts, and kept at work with oakum. They are
both in good health.

ANOTHER MANIAC.—On Tuesday morning, Bernard
Fitzpatrick, an Irishman, about 50 years of age, was taken
by the constables before the magistrates, was charged
threatening to shoot the Duke of Wellington and Sir R.
Peel, the former for having prevented him, as he asserted,
from obtaining a pension on leaving the 74th Regiment,
and the latter for putting Mr. O'Connell into prison. It
was proved that the threats had been used by the prisoner ;
but it appeared that he had twice before been an inmate
of the Hanwell Pauper Lunatic Asylum, and Dr. Hoffen-
den, of Hanwell, having certified that he was now again
insane, an order was signed by the magistrates for his
readmission into that institution, where he was accordingly
conveyed.

THE TEA TRADE.—The accounts from China, received
by the overland mail, respecting the leaf, have caused
much heaviness in the market. The merchants, in con-
sequence of the expected supply from China, are disposed
to sell, but dealers are cautious, and out of about 15,000
packages brought forward on Thursday, not more than
about 1,000 sold at former rates. Congous fetched 10d.
for very common quality, and from 2s. 3d. for fine.
Gunpowder, for fine quality, brought 4s. ld. to 4s. 6d.,
and twankay Is. nd. to Is. 4d. The duty upon the leaf,
as paid up to Saturday last, is as follows :—London,
10,147,574 lbs. ; Liverpool, 1,674,299 lbs. ; Bristol,
308,790 lbs. ; Hull, 133,709 lbs. ; total, 1844,
12,264,372 lbs.

MORE POPERY.—A bill has been brought into th
House of Lords, by Lord Beaumont, which is connected
with the laws affecting charitable bequests, and which
ought, we think, to be carefully watched, as it specially
provides for the validity of bequests to Jesuits—an order
of men so dangerous from their bad principles, that even
in some Romish states they are still discountenanced,
and were once suppressed universally as conspirators
against the peace of society. At Hanley, in Staffordshire,
fifteen persons who have become perverts to Popery, have
been confirmed ; at Manchester the other day there were
four hundred and fifty apostates from Protestantism, and
in Liverpool recently many persons have left the Church
of their Fathers to return to the errors and superstitions
of Rome.
ARRIVAL OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF DENMARK IN
SCOTLAND.—On Friday morning, about half-past four
o'clock, his Danish Majesty's frigate Gafien, 48 guns,
arrived in Leith Roads, having on board his Royal High-
ness Frederick, the Crown Prince of Denmark. The
Gafien was accompanied from Copenhagen by the frigate
Thetis. His Royal Highness's stay in Edinburgh, we
learn, is limited to a few days, when he starts on a short
tour through the Highlands. He afterwards proceeds to
the Faroe Islands upon a geological tour. Frederick,
Crown Prince of Denmark, was born the 6th of October,
1808, and is consequently in his 36th year. His Royal
Highness is a stout, handsome person, rather tall, with
dark hair, and altogether of a very prepossessing exterior.
—Edinburgh paper.
DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION.—A fire broke out at
Gravesend on Sunday night, which was not extinguished
before it had consumed twenty-five houses. and seriously
damaged 15 or 16 others. Three barrels of gunpowder in
a salt warehouse which caught fire, blew up with a ter-
rible explosion. A house was pulled down in which the
son and daughter of the occupier lay in bed, in the last
stage of consumption; they were hastily removed, but the
fright had a fatal effect upon the youth, and he died next
morning. The daughter is not expected to live, the esti-
mated damage varies from £lO,OOO to £15,000, The
greater number of sufferers are very poor. During the
fire a woman just out of her confinement, was conveyed to
the Falcon Inn, wrapped up in flannel, and apparently
in a dying state ; and a poor shoemaker, named Hooker,
was observed to leave one of the houses in a hurried man-
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EXPENSIVE MUNICIPAL CONTEST.—Last week a
strong contest took place for one of the wards in the town
of Nottingham, in consequence of the death of one of the
late representatives. The whig party brought forward a
lace manufacturer of the name of Bacon, a very influen-
tial and wealthy gentleman, to oppose Mr. Shelton, the
conservative, but the latter gentleman was returnedby a
majority of 278 to 231. Between £1,200 and £1,500 has
been expended on the election, as the radicals resorted to
all sorts of bribery and intimidation in order, if possible,
to reduce the conservative majority in the council.
ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.—A special general meeting
of this society was held, on Monday last, in Exeter-hall.
At the recent meeting, it was resolved, that a meeting be
called to take into consideration a part of that rule which
recommended "the use of free-grown produce, and to
promote the adoption of fiscal regulations in favour of
free-labour." The present meeting was called for that
purpose. The Rev. J. Hinton moved the confirmation of
the rule. Mr. E. Smith, of Sheffield, seconded by Mr.
Bright, proposed an amendment, the effect of which was
to annul the clause. The amendment was supported by
Mr. George Thompson. Eventually the original motion
was carried by 82 to 7.
CASE OIT BRENT SPENCER, A LUNATIC.—At the
Queen-square Police-office, London, on Wednesday last,
Mr. Deering, a magistrate, of Bucks, describing himself
as a friend of the late R. pencer, assured the magistrate
that the charge made against Mrs. Pelham was a gross
tissue of falsehoods. On Thursday, Mrs. Pelham and
her son, Wilson Pelham, were brought up at Queen's-
square. Mr. Deering sat on the bench. There being no
evidence against Wilson Pelham, he was discharged.
Further evidence was heard against Mrs. Pelham, as re-
garded the charge of cruelty to Brent Spencer, to whom,
it appeared, some property had been left, part of which he
had made away with, He had, however, if one witness
was to be believed, been coerced, and treated with some
degree of neglect. He had himself grown very dirty in
his habits. Mrs. Pelham was ordered to find bail to an-
swer the charge at the sessions. Mr. Deering offered to be
bail for Mrs. Pelham, and said he would take care that
her conduct should be set in a just light before the world :
he would write to the Times on the subject.
THE COLLIERS.—The dispute between the pitmen and
coal-owners of Durham and Northumberland has not yet
been brought to a conclusion. A few of the men have
resumed work, but the great majority of them are still on
" strike." The districts of the Tyne and Wear are suf-
fering immensely from the stagnation occasioned by the
ptolonged dispute. There are several pits in the West
Riding of Yorkshire closed or nearly closed, owing to the
men there having also struck for an advance of wages,
Some of the masters have given the advanced prices, but
the majority refuse to do so. It is much to be regretted
that the masters and men cannot come to terms of agree-
ment. A little bending on each side would no douht
bring about what all must regard as "a consummation
devoutly to be wished." Our Barnsly correspondent
says—" Most of the pits in this neighbourhood are now
more or less in operation. During the week a number of
miners denounced the union, and went to work at the
collieries belonging to Messrs Field, Cooper, and Co., at
the old wages; and on Monday next, it is expected that
a return to work will be almost general in this district,
the men being entirely worn out."
DRAMATIC INTELLIGENCE.—We grieve to be under
the necessity of believing that the glories of Covent-
garden as a theatre are at an end. According to current
report it is about to he converted into a species of bazaar
and exhibition, and for this purpose an offer has been
made to the proprietors which they do not feel warranted
in rejecting. It has been long closed as a place of dra-
matic entertainment, and it is singular that, as far as re-
gards the present structure, the family of Kemble has
witnessed its highest prosperity and its lowest decline.
Blue Beard (with horses) and Timour the Tartar were
produced in 1811, under the management of Mr. John
Kemble, when the receipts for the season exceeded
£112,000; and within very recent memory, under Mr.
Charles Kemble, the " takings " at the doors were not
sufficient to enable the proprietors to keep them open.
We have so often adverted to the more obvious causes of
this depression, that we need say nothing of them now.
All we have to do with at present is the fact, that the
state of dramatic affairs is such, that a theatre which cost
more than £300,000 for its construction is perhaps speed-
ily to be diverted from its original purpose, and applied
to more profitable uses.—Observer.

MESMERISING THE PlG.—The noisy propensities of
the grunting tribe have hitherto acted as a barrier to their
abduction without their owners's knowledge ; but to ob-
viate this difficulty, some daring invader on Saturday
night tried the effects of mesmeric influence upon a fine
hog of nine or ten score, belonging to Mr. Bushell, of the
Gate public-house, on the Dover road, about a mile from
this city. Taking a liking to Toby's " fair proportions,"
he was anxious to secure a removal without disorder—
possibly to locate him in another parish; and after sundry
mysterious passes, which, no doubt, at first excited piggy's
wonderment, the grunter laid his full length along in not
quite a " perfect state of coma ;" for, on the mesmeriser
attempting to raise him, clairvoyance was very evident.
Pigs generally run the way not required, and to do that
which is not desired. The pig in this instance did so,
and displayed his perverse inclination. and made a terrible
squeaking, which drew " mine host" from his drowsy
arm chair, just in time to see some one leap from the sty
and decamp. Mr. Bushell tried to demagtise his favourite
hog, but his unskilfulness did not succeed, and as piggy
had no notion of tune he did not like his organs to be
played upon, and, with the ferocity of a wild boar, attacked
his owner till other means were devised for quieting the
unruly beast. The pig was killed.—Canterbury Journal.
THE POPISH MURDER AT BRADFORD.—The investi-
gation before the magistrates relative to this painful event
was brought to a conclusion yesterday week. Five men;
named Thomas Rogan, John O'Brien, Daniel Donovan,
Daniel Power, and William Quin, who had been examined
on the preceding Friday, were again taken. before the ma-
gistrates, at Bradford, and after the examination of several
witnesses, whose evidence did not vary any of the facts
before stated. the bench said," It is our duty to commityou,
Rogan, O'Brien, Donovan, and Quin, to York Castle for
trial, on the charge of wilful murder." Power was ad-
mitted to bail, himself in £lOO, and two sureties in £5O
each, to answer the charge when called on. The prisoners
were then removed. Donovan and Quin, the latter of
whom was affected almost to tears, asked permission to
see their wives and children before they went to York,
which was granted them, on the condition that it was in
the presence of a constable. Rogan received the decision
of the magistrates with an air of bravado. On Sunday
week the funeral of the poor man, Benjamin Gott, took
place at the parish church of Calveley. Above a thousand
people attended to hear the funeral sermon. It is some
alleviation of this lamentable affair that but one person has
fallen a sacrifice to this brutal assault, the Halifax Guar-
dian being in error in announcing the death of a second
man.

" GASTON DE Foix."--A good historical novel is one
of the greatest treats that can be placed upon the table of
the literary epicure. The work before us is a chef-
d'ceuvre. The story is laid amid scenes of the most sur-
passing interest; and the author has treated it in a man-
ner that will raise his reputation to a level with the first
writers of tie day. In descriptive narrative he is unsur-
passed. His characters are all drawn with a life-like
fidelity of portraiture, a graphic power of minute delinea-
tion, which bodies forth to the eye of the reader the almost
real presentment of the principal actors in the important
events which he describes. The reader is successively
introduced to three of the most remarkable rulers of the
age—the Emperor Maximilian, Louis XII., and Pope
Julius II.; and this at a period of their history when the
peculiar and distinguishing traits of their characters were
most prominently and strikingly developed. Gaston de
Foix, upon his first arriving in Italy, happened one day
very unexpectedly to come in collision with no less a per-
sonage than the Pope himself. The following is the ac-
count which the author gives of this extraordinary meet-
ing. * * * There are many extracts which we might
give, but we prefer allowing the reader to refer to the work
itself. We can assure him that in the perusal of it he
will be amply repaid. " Gaston de Foix" is undoubtedly
one of the best historical novels that has appeared for
many years.—Sunday Times.

ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—On Thursday last, a man
named Markham, forty-five years old, went into the toll-
house, on the Spilsby-road, near Louth, and, after eating
a biscuit, fired a pistol at Griinsley, the toll-keeper, but
missed him. He then pulled out a heavy hammer, and
struck furiously at Grimsley's head. The wife of the
latter rushed from an inner apartment and seized the ruf-
fian by the neckcloth, when. to release himself, he seized
her hand in his mouth and bit off half of her finger. He
then felled the poor woman to the earth with his hammer.
Grimsley's son, a stout young man, hereupon rushed
into the room, when the villain fired a second pistol at
hire, the b3ll of which lodged in bie arm. The young
man grappled with him, but he pulled forth a razor, and
cut most savagely with it, the young man succeeded in
getting the hammer, with which he struck the ruffian on
the head. The shalt of the hammer was broken in the
struggle. After further conflict, the villain seized a
loaded gun, from which, however, ho lost the cap. The
old man contrived to get hold of a sword stick, with
which he stabbed the assailant with as much strength as
he had remaining. Ultimately all of them were so much
exhausted that they cou Id not continue the struggle, but
the ruffian contrived to escape while the old woman was
absent looking for assistance. Markham was subse-
quently taken into custody. On the appearance of the
officers he cut his throat with a razor, and is not expected
to live.

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