The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-12 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

LORD DENMAN.—The announcement of Lord Den.
man's resignation is premature. The Post says, " Should
no relapse take place in his Lordship's health he will go
the circuit according to appointment."
Leave was granted on Friday in the Bail Court to enter
judgment in sixty-six cases of ejectment which Feargus
O'Connor had instituted against his tenants who had been
located on the Chartist Land Estate at Lovell.
Lord Brougham has, without an instant's delay, re-
introduced his Bankruptcy Bill, as it should have been,
without the questionable improvements and unquestion-
able blunders introduced by the Commons.

THE AGAPEMONE.—In the case of Nottidge v. Ripley,
Sir F. Pollock on Thursday decided that the plaintiff was
entitled to recover the amount of her dividends received
by the latter during the time the lady was kept in a mad-
house. The dividends had been expended for her main-
tenance ; but, her confinement being illegal, she is enti-
tled to recover.

Mr. Justice Maule, while hearing a case in the Common
Pleas, on Tuesday, in which a confession of fraud was
made on each side, said :—" There was once a case in
Chancery, in which two highwaymen having quarrelled
about their booty, the one of them filed a bill against the
other, to compel him to divide it fairly; but the court dis-
missed the bill, and punished all concerned in it."
THE TEN HOURS ACT.—RYDER V. MILLS.—The
Court of Exchequer decided on Friday that the con-
viction in this case must be quashed. This decision is in
favour of the relay or "shift" system, and the ten hours
act is therefore practically repealed. The short time
committee have, however, issued an address, earnestly
calling on the friends of the measure to procure a fresh
enactment.

In the Bail Court, on Monday, Mr. Justice Erie com-
mitted John Richardson for contempt of court in false
swearing, and ordered an indictment for perjury to be
prepared against him. He was plaintiff in a case, and
swore that his uncle, the defendant, endorsed a bill in the
presence of witnesses, who were brought forward, and po-
sitively contradicted him. He appears to have been a man
of bad character previously. On hearing the Judge's or-
der, be fell on his knees, but was taken out of court by
the usher.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.—The case in relLaceton came
on on Wednesday. The commissioner suspended the
certificate for twelve months (which was of the second
class) without protection. In re J. Hicks.—Judgment in
this case will be given this day. The bankrupt applied
for his certificate on Thursday. He was opposed chiefly
on the ground that he had given a fraudulent preference
to his mother-in-law, by assigning to her some furniture,
in contemplation of bankruptcy. In re Jos. R. Pim.—
On Friday, in this case, Mr. J. R. Pim, a gentleman well
known on the other side of the water, appeared for the
sixteenth time to pass his examination. Mr. Evans ap-
peared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Rowe for the assignees.
Mr. Turner, the official assignee, was dissatisfied with the
accounts, because the balance sheet and books differed in
many particulars. There was a difference in one item
alone of a sum amounting to £lO,OOO. Mr. Evans made
a serious charge against Mr. Turner and a clerk in his
office, which was indignantly repelled. The Commis-
sioner again adjourned the inquiry for six weeks, protec-
tion being granted in the meantime. _ _

BREACYOF PROMISE.—In the Queen's Bench. on
Friday, the case of Dunmore v. Barrows was tried, which
was an action for a breach of promise of marriage, in
which the plaintiff had to complain of a violation of very
long-standing engagements. The parties had been at-
tached to each other for full fifteen years. There was no
just cause for the defendant's conduct, for that of the
the plaintiff had always been most kind and affectionate,
The defendant was a farmer, and the plaintiff was the
daughter of a small farmer, but she had gone out to ser-
vice. Their situations in life were not dissimilar, and she
was prudent and had saved a little money, which, in the
course of his courtship, he had borrowed and repaid.
The defendant's letters were read, and in them were
found various promises, numberless protestations of affec-
tion, and some, of those expressions which never appeared
except in the letters of those who considered themselves
engaged to each other. The defendant had, however,
thought fit to break off his engagement with the plaintiff,
and to marry a widow with some property, which was,
perhaps, the only intelligible, though not the justifiable
occasion of the breach of promise of which the plaintiff
complained. The jury gave the plaintiff £lOO damages.

RAILWAY

AFFAIRS,

Five of the arches of the railway viaduct over the Ribble
at Preston were so injured by the storm that is feared
they will have to be taken down.

On Monday the standing orders .were declared to be
complied with in the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport
Railway Bill, for lease to the Lancashire and Yorskhire,
and other objects.
DEMERARA RAILWAY.—The construction of the rail-
way is progressing satisfactorily. Seven-and-a-half miles
of the line are now at work, and the receipts for this
short distance are stated to be remarkably good.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.-At a preliminary meeting of
shareholders held on Monday, it was resolved to consent to
the compromise arranged with the committee. There
were only three dissentients.
The directors of the North Staffordshire railway com-
pany have been restrained by injunction from proceeding
in their application to parliament fir the construction of
a branch line. This, we believe, is a case without a pre-
cedent.

Au I, ir.—ln the House of Lords, on Tuesday,
Earl Granville acid that he believed that it wac the inten-
tion of the directors of certain companies to introduce a
bill for railway audits, and the. Government had resolved
to wait and see what the character of that bill might be
before they proposed any measure of their own.

WONDERFUL PROJECTS.—An American has proposed
to have a sub-marine electric telegraph communication
formed between New York and the Isle of Wight. What
The Times terms " a well-considered and elaborate
prospectus" has been issued for the formation of a single
line of railway from Calais to Mooltan, at an estimated
cost of £34,050,000.

Another portion of the Aberdeen railway was opened
yesterday week, for both goods and passenger traffic,
which brings the line now within seven miles of the city
of Aberdeen. The traffic on,the line continues to increase.
The number of passengers that now arrive in Aberdeen in
a week exceeds all the estimates hitherto formed, while
the goods traffic is proportionably great.
A RAILWAY ON FIRE.—On a portion of the South
Staffordshire Railway, in the vicinity of Wednesbury, the
seam of coal works out near the surface. During the for-
mation of the line, the men employed in a cutting, thirty
feet deep, came upon the old working of a mine; and, lat-
terly, a fire has broken out in the cutting, immediately in
the centre of the line. A number of navvies are at pre-
sent employed in putting out the fire, which is perfectly
red hot.

ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE
RAILWAY.—On Tuesday evening the passenger train
which left the Salford station at half-past six for Bolton,
having arrived at the Clifton junction, being a distance of
about three miles from Manchester, came in contact with
a luggage train, which the hurricane of wind had driven
down the line a considerable distance. Three carriages
were smashed to pieces in the passenger train, and a lady
in a first-class carriage broke her leg, and a few others
were severely bruised.

ALARMING RACE.—On Wednesday, during the hurri-
cane' a most alarming occurrence took place on the Bol-
ton, Blackburn and Clitheroe Railway. The heavy gusts
of wind which swept across the line had the effect of set-
ting in motion three heavily-laden coal-waggons, belong-
ing to the Earl of Balcarras, on a siding about five miles
above Bolton. These waggons, linked together, had been
placed on a siding (without any engine attached), and the
siding, being on a slight incline, the carriages, once in
motion, went forward. The coal waggons, on reaching
Bolton, went upon the the line of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Company, and dashed through the station
towards Manchester. The station-master became alarmed
for a passenger train of seven carriages, which had left
about ten minutes previously (6.30. p.m.), and despatched
a locomotive, with a chain and hook, after the coal wag-
gons, in the hope that they might be overtaken and grap-
pled by these means, so as to prevent mischief. Unfortu-
nately, however, the line for many miles towards Man-
chester has a decline, and the engine had no chance in
such a pursuit. The coal waggons came upon the pas-
senger-train just as the whole of the breaks had been
applied, and the steam of the engine shut off for the stop.
page at Clifton station. They ran into the passenger
train with extraordinary force, dashing the three last
carriages in it (third-class) almost to atoms, and strewing
the fragments across the line in all directions. The other
four ~taped from the collision with strained
buffers merely, but the engine, in front, was considerably
damaged. There were not many passengers in the train,
but such as were in it suffered more or less from the
accident.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Lord Aberdeen does not intend to bring in any measure
to regulate Scotch marriages.

Mr. H. Drummond has given notice of his bill for faci-
litating the transfer of real property (the first and greatest
facilitation would be the repeal of the stamp act.)
Ministers at length have en Irish law officer in parlia-
ment. Few free constituencies are willing to accept their
nominee ; bnt the accommodating borough of Windsor
has opened arms for the rec,dtion of the solicitor-general.
The Duke of WellinLton, although present in the
House of Lords during the reading of the speech, did not
attend the house during the debate on the address; nei-
ther did his grace give the ministry his support by proxy.
CoLonEsmt.—On Friday Lord John Manners was
elected by a majority of 623 to 386 over his opponent,
Mr. Cooke. The victory was an easy one, the majority
increasing every hour.
The election to the Bench, of Mr. Maitland, the So-
licitor-General for Scotland, in the room of the late Lord
Jeffrey,m y, has created another vacancy Kirkcudbright-

PROTECTION PROGRESSING.—When in the last session
the principles of protection and free trade were discussed
in a house of 400 members, ministers had a majority of
158, and that on the present occasion, in a house of 500
members, they mustered but a majority of 119.
The treaty of friendship and commerce between this
country and Liberia was presented to parliament on
Tuesday. There is a stringent clause for the promotion
of slavery and slave traffic, and in other respects the treaty
puts Great Britain on the footing of the " most favoured
nations."

MR. MIINTZ AND THE PRICE OF CORN.—Ina letter
Mr. Muntz states :—" My view has always been that free
trade, with the present moneylaws, will reduce everything
(except taxes and rates) lower than the prices of 1775 ;
and, therefore, I have fixed the future average price of
wheat at 355. per quarter, the average price :about 1775
being 405., because cultivation has much improved."

Feb. 12, 1850,

vinTst.eetiAotniastnethre'ols
conduct of the Free Traders compelled the chalrt'ofed,
county meetings
meetingcontinue at t
dissolve the meeting before a single resolution was a'
so much for freedom of discussion under the auspice-
Cobden.
72 in fo'cl
Romani Mem/ BILL.—In the minority of . .
of the introduction of this measure we find J. Brig;oritr
Brotherton, J. Greene, and J. Heywood ; in the roil
of 77 were Sir R. H. Inglis, W. Cubitt. B. Di9ratle;il:e,
Goulburn, G. Hudson, Col. Lindsay, Lord Men•
J. Masterman, J. Napier, G. Sanders, Col. SibthorArt,
Hereford, the
Jan
to
Spooner, E. Stanley, Lord C. Wellesley, and .f. S• "
ley. • 1114
The London correspondent of the DublinEvenf.ntoo
says, that important alterations are in conteinelau;!;oro,
the department of the Woods and Forests.
the near connexion of Lord Lansdowne, it is said, ileust;
the chief commissioner, with a salary of .E2,50° alo be
Mr. Hayter, the present secretary of the treasurYs,sw;
0
the second commissioner, with an equally "d
and Lord Carlisle is to be removed to the Duchy-°f
caster.
MESSRS. GRAHAM AND ELLIOTT.—Lord Dr°"" he.
on Tuesday night, inquired in the House of Lards v
„co(
ther there was any intention of mitigating the sentel.e.„
Messrs. Graham and Elliott, who pleaded guilty of d
of
tion, to which they had been driven by the Oran, Ito
Commander Pitman. His lordship said they had nvis of
point of fact, been guilty of desertion. The MarLiurdef
Lansdowne said he would confer with the First
the Admiralty on the question. • norliSt
A vigorous effort is being made in several Mr'
towns to obtain the repeal of the excise duty upon Ply
That necessary article, of which the raw material, or
.nly 2s. per cwt., or lees than a farthing per 1131,'"upoll
-sed with a duty of threehalfpence per lb., which' crerk
the coarse brown paper, used by grocers, ;ronsolli the
drapers, and others, amounts to about two-fifths o fat
whole value. • Why did not the free-traders clara°:enoefit
a repeal of all excise duties before they sought to .es?'
foreigners by demanding the reduction of import dlt_lff,ll
The Mark-lane Express of Monday says that taweheo
in the value of wheat duritig the period of the Yesriot of
the foreign supplies are smallest, viz., from the
January to its close, was not less than from 45. to soreri
quarter, and that, in many parts of the country, f3r„ood
are not receiving more than 355. per quarter for 6.0
qualities of red wheat. The free-traders admit bs.iii
cannot be grown at the price, yet the government.a
not admit the existence of distress. Joe Hume se1„0
the house on Monday, that parliament had nothing ‘,"
with the subject except as it regarded the consumers ••ft
MINISTERIAL REMEDY FOR IRISH DISTRESS' ;
the " speech" from the throne, ministers propose,o,
grand panacea for the accumulated miseries of the 5' Of
,t
ing populace of Ireland, the singularly novel sPecL, tbe
increasing the electoral power, by largely adding 1,',14
numerical amount of voters. Will any one kin
lucidly explain to us, by what recognised or unrecoo;gir
description of curative process, can Universal SW. at
relieve the affliction of Universal Su
ffering or by s'reo
hitherto undiscovered magic can Vote by Ballot, setgo
that crying nuisance to rent-requiring Irish laer""
Payment by Bullet.—Manx Liberal 11
LORD GREY AND His FA RMS.—It appears Earl, - re• A
choice farm of West Learmouth, the letting of which
literally been hawked through the county for many "IEO
has obtained no higher bid under the free-trade 5190,t
than £1,600 a year, whereas, whilst protection Frt
awarded to the honest, industrious farmer, Mr. Smith rd,
a willing tenant, at a rental of £2,250. The noble, ,
mortified to see so heavy a blow inflicted upon a PO,Ol
—0
gamble would be the more appropriate term —of wh'°'•
atO•
was one of the chief promoters, and unwilling to et de'
nance any reduction of rent upon his own lands, bas gt,
dined in a pet to accept the offer of £1,600 made by
,o•
Jas. Thompson, of Mindrum, and has taken the farm ill
his own hands, intending to show, if he can, that falei
in this country is yet profitable, with wheat realisingo
than 40s. a quarter, and that the views and opinions°.
amateur agriculturist are more to be relied upon that' oj,
laborious efforts of an old and skilful cultivator of the
We shall see.—Newcastle Journal.
CORN RENTS.—The Times, in a leading article, roks ,/
the following announcement from a correspondee'citp
" His Grace the Duke of Portland has just announcei,,te
the tenants on his immense estates in Nottinghaw, be
that from Lady-day last a moiety of their rents 90'08
calculated according to the average price of wheat foru4
half-year preceding the usual time of payment, tsito
565. per quarter as the standard of the present rents•
tivi
venerable Duke has for some time been engaged in rititli
himself acquainted with the circumstances connectea
each farm ; and wherever any appeared to be higher te°d
than others, after ascertaining the cause, he has ote'-eOl
such additional reductions to be made as will put tbili;
on a par with their neighbours. To other tenotsgerit
Grace has given the option of remaining at th • Pre•
their A t
rentals, if low, or having their farms revalued, 01;1,0
rents adjusted to the present price of corn. His '"oe'
has always been looked upon as a model landlord, ,es.jbe
cially in the dukeries ; and, as a practical agriculturist'
knows so well what is just to tenant-farmers, that 'llO,
matter like the present. of such immense irnportanee'ej;
noble example will, no doubt, be very generally follo,el
The Times then remarks :—" We presume that his Grp
proposal will work as follows :—lf the rent be .£2'loo
annum, and if next Lady-day the average price of i!
during the previous half-year shall have been 'lO
quarter, the rent for that half-year, instead of being
will be £5O £5O ; or, by reducing the frac'tio,
£B5 14s. 3d. The rent will be thus of a composite v's
ruoi•Pr, half a money-rent and hnlf .•01$'
landlord will share with his tenant the fluctuations of
market."

Btstrirr. getus,

The town council of Preston has agreed to raise Jr
formbeusislrdsi.n gs
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oefs.
Preston, are ab°ll
erect a new cotton mill near to Penworthan-bridge•
On Sunday night week, after the thaw, an in° 01f
mass of earth fell into the Lancaster and Kendal esl/
and stopped the traffic for about ten days.
The brig Portia, of Sunderland, with ballast owl' tbe
ashore about a mile north of Blackpool, duriegicee
storm. It was reported that one or more vessels
,130;
lost on the banks at the mouth of the Ribble. The: 40
of Southport was covered with palm oil, no doubt P"'
the cargo of some ill-fated ship. .
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BURGLARY IN CHESHIRE.—During Thursday - fop,.
burglary was committed at J )ddrell Hall, near K14'60
the :eat of Egerton Leigh, Esq., and the followiegoeoir
ties were stolen :—One pair of small (very aid)
ft
table candlesticks, with the inscription, " The Pods
John Locke, to Elizabeth Stratton" ; a plated i,iks A
with two bottles and candle-nick, a heavy wafer seal
a very valuable ruby brooch, set in diamonds, severT
seals, and one double sovereign gold piece, a quentliat/
Lea, in canisters holding six pounds each—together
silver caddy spoon, and sundry other articles e
s d COAT OF ARMS OF CHESHIRE. The apt!
county of Chester, to be pl teed in front of the G,,°,i1150
Asylum, are now completed, after a tasteful design ' §l4
910
Edward Cust. The pediment over which the arotl
placed is 36 feet by 7 feet 4 inches ; on this re' tale
sword of Hugh Lupus, wlveli forms the basemen
this is encircled with a ribb,in, and the motto, "Jfitlo4.4
dignitate gladii." In the centre of the arms eireeier7l
garbs of wheat sheafs ; the -upporters are two ‘,;% ifel
of the order of dragons, grasping the feathers, fib
the title of Chester borne by the Princes of Ws'e'o7
showng: the connexion with the Tudor soverog ntv
an 19
the Principality. The shield is crowned with an trlo
coronet—and, as Sir Edward Cust says, the -"„vet.l
Chester were never earls of parliament," the or" pd'"
not borne with a caul or bonnet. The arms are surrellii,
with carved work foliage, boldly executed. The ere
tural style of the arms is basso-relievo.
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DESTRUCTION OF ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, ..'" broke
TER, BY FIRE.—On Wednesday evening, a fire,er,"
out in All Saints' Church, Oxford-road, Manches`bletrj
which it was almost entirely destroyed. The &ciao
out about six o'clock, and is supposed to have oriEeier,
'rom the overheating of a flue which passes from
try to the organ loft. The fire was discovered
~bat,r,
reflection of the light through the windows of the 'moil
by some people who were passing, and an alarm
ey,4l
been given, the fire brigade was speedily on rb,er
but the flames had obtained too great a mastery
edifice, and the roof fell in shortly after they arrIZA
which the seats in the area, and the beautiful tel." 17:s
pulpit and reading desk were very much damag,eue DS(
fine organs, and two stained glass windows, etc t 0,,,
completely destroyed. The outer walls and ;Poo- r
have been left standing ; and in one of the Tvin °
%sea
der the organ gallery a beautiful painting, rer-ecsoi
our Saviour in the Garden of Gethsemane, has 404
without injury. The Rev. Dr. Burton was the',l
bent and proprietor of the church. The church,ot
was a very handsome building, of the Doric 1bos?
architecture, and quite an ornament to the neitb
hood, was erected by the Rev. Dr. Burton, in pe7
1819, at a cost of £16,000. Since
with the exception of a short interval, the ilo_nerti
doctor has ministered in the church to a nutner24oo4l
gregation. The damage done will amount to jag 11
£5OOO. The building has not been insured dar_o
last ten years. One circumstance in connection Tor
burning of the church deserves to be recordetLd ta Pro
perhaps unparalleled. Two marriages were fix!' iieelitof
place on Thursday morning ; one, we believe, ei,e
and the other, in due course, after the " asking itLAP
church. The persons who were to have been 07.0
table ceri
together" by license, moving in a resPe.e the tyr
proceeded to the Cathedral, where we believe 0%40
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mony was performed ; but in the other case htpd 110
was different. The banns had been publish;
Saints',—the man was of the labouring class. or,
not defray the cost of a license,—nor could hbe_'.ll ce,
apparently bear the delay which would have c.! on?
by a repetition of the "asking" in anotheLpel of
The performance of the ceremony was accore'd 144
quired ; and there, amidst the ruins,—surround tie 0,
blackened and charred rafters,--exposed to at,ithin;"
influences,--did the wedding party stand "s to 09,
broken and shattered rails of the altar, the etejled bey
were covered with rubbish and loaded with bur" for
—and William Briscoe took Margaret fiele'd 17/4ir
" wedded wife." The ceremony was perforn3eog??,
Rev. Mr. Garrett; and the strange sp.ectaerls /of
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men.
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