The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Gutteridge was too late in making his application
for a new trial, and we presume that he will, therefore, be
brought up immediately for his libels on the Bishop of
Manchester.

In the Common Pleas, last week, the court decided that
a foot race was a lawful game, Mr. Justice Coltman ob-
serving that he could not help being staggered by seeing
how much the decision might sanction the vice of gaming.
The legislature must, however, interfere, if that should be
necessary._

In the Court, on Friday, the Earl of
Chesterfield obtained a decree permitting Mr. Thomas
Slingsby Duncombe to disentail estates in Yorkshire, to
which he had lately succeeded by the death of his father,
in satisfaction of a debt of £86,000 due to the noble plain-
tiff.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-Phillips v. Charles.—
This action, for breach of promise, was tried before Mr.
Justice Patteson and a special jury at the last assizes for
the county of Gloucester, when a verdict was given for the
plaintiff with £lOOO damages. Mr. Whately, Q. C., now
moved for a rule. calling on the plaintiff to show cause
why There should not be a new trial, on the ground that
the damages were excessive. The Court said the conduct
of the defendant had been very cruel and unfeeling, and
the plaintiff was entitled to a considerable amount of
damages for the treatment she had received. Lie jury
were the proper judges of the amount of damages, and the
Court would not interfere. The rule would therefore be
refused. Rule refused.

LEGALITY OF HOLDING SESSIONS DURING ASSIZES.—
Our readers will remember that, at the Liverpool Assizes,
Baron Alderson expressed his doubts as to the legality of
sessions held during assizes; and on this expression the
question was raised before the Recorder of Manchester on
Saturday week by Mr. Monk, in the case of a person
named Smith, who was found guilty of breaking into a
house, and stealing a gold watchguard chain, the property
of William Kidd. Mr. Monk applied to have judgment
postponed, and an argument ensued. The Recorder re-
fused to postpone judgment, feeling assured that his juris-
diction could not be interfered with, and accordingly sen-
tenced the prisoner to be transported for ten years. In a
second case, where the point had been raised by Mr.
Pollock, it was also over-ruled, and the prisoner was sen-
tenced to 21 days' imprisonment and hard labour.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER—THE CHANCELLOR A WIT-
NESS—TAMLYN (PAUPER) V. COOPER.—This was nn
action to recover compensation in damages for libellous
words uttered by her Majesty's Counsel practising in the
Court of Chancery. The damages were laid at £5OO.
The plaintiff formerly in person stated that he had em-
ployed the learned defendant as his counsel. Afterwards
he had been unable to do so ; and the learned counsel
then made a statement in court, to the effect, that he (the
plaintiff) had entered into an agreement not to trouble
his lordship by bringing the case on any more. This was
a gross falsehood, and the first libel complained of. The
second cause of action consisted of a letter written by the
learned defendant, in which similar words were made use
of, and upon which the plaintiff conceived that his petition
had been dismissed. The Lord Chancellor being called
as a witness, had no recollection of the cases, except what
he gathered from his endorsement on the petition. Other
witnesses were called, but the plaintiff failed in all his
attempts of proof. Verdict for the defendant.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

-4,-

During the six months ending the 31st December last,
110 persons were killed, and 74 were injured, on all the
railways of the United Kingdom.
The cofferdam and the wharfs for the docks at Grimsby,
connected with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire line, are nearly completed.
The first locomotive engine and train crossed by the
tube over the Conway at ten minutes past twelve on Tues-
day last. There was not the slightest deflection, nor, in-
deed, perceptible vibration, during its passage.
The chain of communication between London and Paris,
via" Boulogne, is now completed by the opening of the
Boulogne and Amiens Railway. The journey will now be
completed in the short space of thirteen hours.
The shareholders of the Edinburgh and Northern
Railway, at their special meeting, formally approved of
their bills before Parliament in the present session. All
legal proceedings with the Edinburgh, Leith ;and Granton
are suspended until a final explanatory report has been
submitted to the shareholders.

The completion of the great iron tubular bridge over
the Conway, and the consequent opening of the Chester
and Holyhead Railway, are events of such importance
both to the communication with Ireland and to the cha-
racter of railway engineering in this country that we must
refer to them once again. We formerly noticed the happy
transference of the tube from the workyard to its position
between the opposite piers. But it was then at a great
depth below its final place. It had still to be pumped up
by a Bramah press and steam-engine to its height. The
pumping up of this great mass—nearly as large as one of
the rows of houses in Great George-street—by the two
ends, is perhaps the most formidable lift ever attempted.
It was effected at the rate of about 2 feet per hour, and
was done uniformly, quietly, and so insensibly from the
large mass, that it seemed rather that the ground and sea
and houses sank down below the bridge than that the
bridge itself was in motion. Trains have passed through
with great loads, and without producing vibration.—Rail-
way Chronicle. _ _

LIVERPOOL MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-
TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY.--The
The Dicrectors have is-
sued a " Special Report." in which they state that, being
aware that a strong feeling exists amongst some of the
shareholders that the line should be immediately aban-
doned, they have now determined to submit to the consi-
deration of the shareholders the simple questions, viz.-
1. Are the shareholders in favour of an immediate and
.total abandonment of the undertaking ? Or, 2. To drier

April 25, MA

ntelicius°roi
ptleieriocdonnsoitdeeraxetninogf
two
oe
yperaorpsri?etyAosfthsueycharao
ascertain the opinion of each shareholder fortkviiti4o
this question of immediate abandonment, in order.eto
they may be in possession of the views of the eroPrinrie,
as soon as possible, they send a circular to eeen., FL,„r°ro/0'
tor, with two forms, embodying answers to tab'',oo
questions. The directors state that, in order to re:at
any suspicion of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Ccne.
having a preponderating influence at the Board; t'lel,ctei
cured the resignation of two of the directors ee„nnogr,
with that company, viz. Mr. Houldsworth and /aliol,
per, and that they have elected Mr. Flews and Mr'
of Livool, in their stead. gat °1
From erp
official returns it appears that the era°
traffic for the last week, on 3,663 miles of railway'ler
£175,470, thus accounted for :—X86,385 for the ,43„,° of
ance of passengers only, £44,942 for the eau = old
P
goods, and a remainder of £44,145 for asseng'' 0
igoocordestooogfe tx1ie1r4,,5n360 to
vreesrptehcotively corresponding apportioned
as
week °esep
year, when the mileage was 2,812. The average/the
ings per mile last week were £4B, whilst in 184/

were £57

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
th.
On Saturday, the House of Commons adjourned
Easter recess until Monday next. - Vinc'fte.

Mr. Milner Gibson has resigned his office as
sident of the Board of Trade. °
A charg‘ d'affaires on behalf of the United
the court of Rome has been appointed. poted
A gold box, value 100 guineas, has been Pres" ""'
Mr. Cobden, by a body of commercial traveller:aid
grateful acknowledgment of his admirable and an
exertions in promoting the cause of free trade. npeir
Lord Ashley has written a timely address to thereon%
tives of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cheshire, OP St tl~
his sympathy with their difficulties and privationad exenr
present time, and his admiration of the mauly an
plary patience with which they are being endured. :;noti
Of the 28 representative peers of Ireland,.there,6lo
and never was, one in favour of repeal ; that of
peers, only three are avowed repealers ; and thVont.
Irish members of the House of Commons only t
re pfalers 14,..4tY
THE CHARTIST EXCHEQUER.-It came out dory,
Chartist Convention, on Thursday, that the fel)
completely exhausted. The expenses of the $l3 week'
"National Assembly" will amount to £3OO
_APerfol: f
The suffering classes are expected to find the oev"., uts,,
AIR. MIINTi AND THE CHARTISTS.-MY. ,7111
Birmingham, has contradicted a paragraph vilu,e„t Wit
that he presided at a Chartist meeting held in tr tba:
Mr. Muntz, however, declares that, in his 001000
would have been no impropriety in his presiding a
meeting. felfi
The little minority in the Commons are quite teu s
icl
of anger. that " open and advised" treason, a" gre,i
-• t,OO

made a distinct and tangible offence ! This is,
for the more liberal organs of " pregress." Jtra„
and the Times are just now eulogising the nesv-:.„,-.00:0
alty of the Weekly Dispatch ! This Sundayf;lo-
- democrats begins to fear whether Charlespe,
Communism will answer, when swarms of H.,titisa
bidders for popularity come into the field of color .410
M
The nomination of candidates for the united
of Bewdley and Stourport took place on Mondeb rthe ti°
candidates were the Hon. Spencer Lyttleton, for,
Lord Lyttleton, Lord-Lieutenant of the county (!,,e,ev,_
cester, in the Liberal interest, and Lord MandevlHpf
est son of the Duke of Manchester, and a rejected tiem.
date for Westminster at the last general elect/nod;
Conservative interest. The show of hands was declare r,
he in favour of Mr. Lyttleton. The poll took fowl"
the following day, when Lord Mandeville was e'
a majority of 171 to 156.
rep rtetfiril
POPISH LIBERALITY.—Lord Beaumont is .(
have said, in reply to Lord Redesdale, that be Jes 11 I
Redesdale) " was mistaken in supposing that Ole iat.6
were in any way connected with the Tablet ';',,borht
lish paper which hopes the Queen's troops wrinr
in Ireland. Now, the fact is that several coP'lo°llp
Tablet are taken by the students at Stonyhurst ,
they are obliged to subscribe to that paper, othell.r
being forbidden. The Times is strictly forbidde.H_ pin
very long ago several students, disgusted with ta; 0 P'
contained in the Tablet, petitioned their profelos;
allowed to change it for the Times. Their reques.„os4,t,
fused, with the observation,—" The Tablet isgoo
cellent paper, and ought to be printed in letters °f frop
—Times. don cei
EMPHATIC.—The following decisive declare 4eo,gy
the prime minister of England has, at all events, !_tril..
the alarming rumour which charged the
a disposition to concede the Repeal of the , 4
Union. In his place in the house on Tues?2,lo:g
Lord John Russell emphatically declared
bound to negative all motions, in whatever forTetbete
the Repeal of the Union for their object ; if dergf
discussion, if discussion they choose ; in debate, esrP;#.
they choose ; by argument or in other ways 110
the people to arms, and by urging them to take 0 Vilif
of force, by force if force be necessary ; as long 144,,
breath or life in me I shall oppose the ReLlaas'
Legislative Union between Great Britain and OV.;
tho•
THE ELECTORAL FRANCHISE.—It appears 10
ish
ever the constituency is composed either whogYeebald
governretir.
of a class of voters lower than theten-pound beast get!, ger
corruption shows itself; and it is found to be ler el,aloo,
and inveterate in those places in which the 10,00,„,a0
voters preponderate. It is clear that what is rist2 the
improvement in the quality of the electors, :an
_mot "Yar-
to numbers in the lower and more corruptible d 4,01
constituencies, would be merely to make Oledgu
mouths of all the boroughs in the kingdoln,4ol, sLyencl
state of the constituencies of Liverpool, BP' cang'-tatit°
furnishes unanswerable evidence, that a bieto 01.
might be far more numerous than it is pOssibi allll4l'
the constituencies in smaller places, even i.iinfitlf
suffrage, and jet be as corrupt as Yarmouth or „no,
Mere numbers are thus no security for PuritA
preponderance of ignorance and violence in whigflo,
encies renders them doubly objectionable' 0/19"yry
A CHARTIST CHOKER.—An ultra Chartist, inn 4te
ter, wishing to give full force to a demonstratio fe7i
plated to take place in the neighbourhood in a taSallOr
recently wrote to a brother Chartist in London 0"0
him with a certain number of " Murphy's I‘l,;orpre'
Pikes," at sixpence each, as the Chartists ofbb
were determined to "try their strength !" to v/Hjpsilta'
ceived the following reply :—" Dear Brother•--`
to your application, I beg to say that as Chartism pi
don and many other large towns is now at hale et
count , and never likely again to be at er'olve v/eatiyel
dined the retailing of pikes and other "ce ;liana>,
for the purposes of Chartism. Therefore 3i-of strew'
of your party are determined upon a trLa f using 01/a
the more legitimate way would be, instead °troll:4o
and guns, to take ropes, and try the strertg".`bie
necks as Chartism is `no go !" Yours,
Joshua R—ds." ; Prevl,
A 0,0 0
FRENCH FRATERNITY AGAIN.—no OPI e
England that the expulsion of the English AW
France was occasioned merely by the action .?!..te Wog
The following quotation from Michaelet's
the Revolution will show that they have nq,,,1„70
teachers (See Bohn's edition, page 455) dissio;er
of two kinds of men (English and French) so,
as ilk pr,
our public works is a great injustice, inasmuello
cessive and confined specialty of the English,riortti;the
feriority as a man) tells in his favour as a Sur- opdei 0//
is as absurd as cruel to place a Frenchnoiliag
orders of a foreigner who knows little or ncTsia IH;aticl
language, and to whom he can neither el:Pr 01,1
nor complain. It is immoral to place a sober sewece
the direction of a thing brutalized by ginipt
them are never free from intoxication. in Orr"
thrice impious, is it to behold a Frenchman, the
under the rod of an Englishman—the son 0' bat
Army under a serf whose father made nothing s for'iic,lll
the Englishman a tool. But we can
or something more trivial. The German the izre
say totip
man, 'Thou art still a man!' " tares ilse
00/ in--„aa
THE ECONOMY OF EDUCATION.—Ina v;',1501:1
tb
pamphlet, just published, entitled, " The J..yr.vo-
aSucthhooorl,;
tahoLßetetve.r
jotohnLpourdftoiJio,hmn
.RAu.i,nsstiteeelri,rictobricoblv;eo:
home, Kent, makes an attempt—theinfirtislteNvicti;eo:!tisfrooSl
of
fetmhbe member to
whichhaN- have seenn—ortonfcoer m
entails, an ap p.roxi tie te TO ° 0 °`
perism. As no general return exists, the ea' fevirdet,l;
founded on the results of inquiries made ink the VOllO
but the subject is so important that we thin.aipeat posis
O° 'AO
ment might very properly include the a the„
door paupers in reading and writing, araollir. Ys`tiol'el
poor-law statistics. The following. are diuoln 050:,,j0
remarks :—" But, it will probably be in the is
enerir
pauperism that the national saving will be rle,ts 05-,pj
felt. Although possessing no official refittAoo-4ellyi
the comparative amount of educated and alloal‘•
pers in our union workhouses, we are be
without means of ascertaining the result, w tbe 11 00;6,
obtained by a general investigation. Frnte, we le of
tions of the ' Central Society•of Educationibe aged 1006
state of intelligence among paupers above rpoll! tir,
the inmates of workhouses in the two ineguffolay ia ft,
dreds and ten unions in the county of 00504 of
three incorporated hundreds and twelve in thjeptleaod
county of Norfolk, and the twelve union',s in'ealf3l'
division of Kent. The number of pauP42 ,soln I 0(
these returns is 2,725, viz., 1,313 men, 1,.1 .11114,"
the time when the information was colleeters,,oooo,oo
* * It appears that out of 2,725 Pau Plied 91,htb )0, 0'
1 in 195, could write well; and if we ,a 000-eTtroclito,'
write decently, they will make up ins' a;
may be described as having some degree i•
rec., 040 soy
Allowing my former calculation to be cor., 0116 00 • e
thirds of the people of England can write' jov1:10 1100 (Poo
in a given number there are five paupers, ars!, 01011 f
attained this degree of instruction, to olwrol,sbvitsto et
same ignorant condition taken :in a tbstreelori,
whole population of England and Wales,., try ea,
uneducated man is five times more Ilse tiieele a 0
•ed the 00, ,
burden to society, than if he had rem' ,
knowledge of reading and writing..
amount of poor-rates raised in anle_,ool
£6,000,000, and making full allowance Poe!foyff
curnstances of every description, there„dcaneef Ilayr
balance of £4,000,000 available for the 7,,paitf"..
education, and the real welfare of the conl,u_: bettelloo4.4
ot a Is ,
this is a practical argument in favour ~,ho ~se A
troempoayveldlisabshmaTredoefsttihtuettiaoxn,focranthaen eirch,o
sion for education, which everyspuroepnepir.l:obliee:,:lshvo°,
idle, and improvident. The alternative I. ,_cidafocostil
It to Lie
rates and poor rates. It is not difficult the I'd Pee t°
the less obnoxious tax. At the meeting u_ state ,pitive
Public School Association, the chairman_bahlY,r rev
assessment of 41d. in the pound would Prspolirlicli,?'
carry out their scheme; and a very nlail;t to athe;e"yler
tion in the amount of pauperism than tryakfvc
Dufton points would, therefore, leenl.----.
rinient a most profitable one in this con t"
Guardian.

I

7'he
Re)
AV

'il2s, 184 S.

if such a step for
s they are anxious
holder forthwith,. ,00
went,
in order forthwith,
vs of the proprietql
[liar to each ProPr
iswers to these 01°
. _
in order to rar'
Yorkshire CooPO
the Board, they !.;
directors conner
worth and Air. lor
?lews an Mr. to
d

that the arnount.of
files of railway, I(ss
,385 for the covver,
for the carriage sod
l
for passengers
all
portioned ; being
onding week of 10
The average Oro;
whilst in 1847 tbe'