The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

POLITICAL. MISCELLANY. w his declamation." There is, however, good in Mr. Cob-
' d en's 'vagaries. The man who rose above the polit ica
Mr. William Brown, M.P., has addressed a letter to h orizon like a rocket, is falling like the stick.
Mr. Secretary Meredith, combatting his doctrines. In America, the pro-slavery men are the free traders,
James Heald, Esq., M.P. for Stockport, was enter- whilst the anti-slavery men are the protectionists.
tamed at a grand dinner on Tuesday by his constituents. DESTRUCTION OF OFFICIAL PAPERS.—It is asserted
The Times has sent out a " commissioner" to ascertain. ' by a correspondent of the Morning Herald as a positive
the state of agriculture, and to see whether wheat can be fact that " our present most sagacious ministers have, for
grown for ss. a bushel. some days past, been busily engaged burning all unneces-
The Hon. C. P. Villiers, long known for his annual sary official papers."
motions against the corn laws, holds a sinecure office of CONVERSIONS TO PROTECTION.—At the Northamp-
£l2oo a-year. tonshire county meeting, on Thursday, the Duke of Graf-
. There was a great 15`rotectionist meeting in the De Grey ton, hitherto found in the ranks of the Whigs, came for-
Rooms, at York, on Wednesday, the Earl of Harewood in ward in person to declare his condemnation of free trade.
the chair. Amongst the speakers were the Duke of Cleve- At the same meeting, Sir C. Knightley said, "he was
land, Mr. Cayley, M.P., and Mr. W. B. Ferrand, and the proud to inform them that they had a deserter from Peel's
resolutions were carried unanimously. camp, in the person of Lord Claud Hamilton, who repented
A committee of inquiry is to be moved for, early in the of his sins, and would, he hoped, receive absolution at
ensuing session, by Mr. Young, M.P., and Mr. Parker, their hands."
M.P., to inquire into the general working of the Joint- NATIONAL CURRENCY REFORM ASSOCIATION.—The
stock Companies Winding-up Act, as carried out by the first public meeting of the National Currency Reform
Masters in Chancery. Association was held on Wednesday night at the London
Lord Lyttleton has addressed a letter to his tenantry, Coffee-house, for the purpose of promoting the objects
expressing his readiness to commute his present rents for which its members have in view. There was a very con-
rents estimated at the value of the produce. "I am quite siderable attendance of parties interested in the question.
aware that there are objections to this kind of rent ; but, Mr. F. Bennoch, president of the Association, took the
on the whole, I consider it is better fitted than any other chair, and in the course of a lengthened address ex-
for times like these." plained the principles of the Association, and replied to
Adverting to Mr. Cobden's pretensions to speak his many of the objections urged against the issue of paper
mind as " a landlord" at his Aylesbury soiree, the Morn- money by the Government under the sanction of Parlia-
ing Herald inquires how it happens that out of the 80,000 merit. The Association proposed to dispense with gold as
or 90,000 pounds collected for him, not more than £3,000, an internal circulating medium, and leave it to its natural
or £4,000 at the most, was invested in land by this saga- function of balancing foreign accounts. The new state
cious patron of agriculture. of things in our fiscal and commercial relations, he con-
Penenden Heath, celebrated for its public meetings, was tended, justified the re-opening of the question. Free-
the scene of a Protectionist gathering, called by the high trade in money had become a natural consequence of free-
sheriff, on Thursday last. The meeting was stormy in trade in commodities.—Mr. Twells next addressed the
the extreme, and when the two parties met on the Heath meeting in support of the objects of the Association ;
a desperate battle took place. About one hundred Pro- and the proceedings terminated shortly afterwards. No
tectionists, who were on horseback, were pelted by vol- resolutions were proposed, the purpose being to communi-
leys of stones and mud, and were obliged to gallop off at cate information, rather than to call for any expression of
full speed. opinion.
On Thursday, a Meeting of the landowners and tenant-
farmers of Leicestershire and Rutlandshire, was held at
Waltham. Mr. R. Norton was called to the chair.
Among the company were the Marquis of GrAnby, M.P.,
the Earl of Wilton, Lord J. Manners, Lord C. Manners,
M.P., Viscount Newport, M.P., Mr. Frewen, M.P., the
Hon. W. F. Norton, and a large number of the most in-
fluential agriculturists of the counties of Leicester, Lin-
coln, and Rutland.
Protectionist meetings continue to be held throughout
the provincial districts. To describe one is, for the most
part, to describe all. The free traders generally interrupt
the proceedings, and get ejected from the meeting in con-
sequence. They then usually assemble in the streets, and,
in masses, attack individuals as they issue from the locality
where they had held their deliberations. Much street-
fighting has ensued, and probably the free-traders look
upon such exercise as a good preparation for that revolu-
tion with which their chiefs menace the country in case of
their own views being opposed.
Also on Thursday, a public meeting of persons inte-
reited in the restoration of protegtion to British agricul-
ture, and its extension to every description of domestic
industry, was held at the Assembly Rooms, George Ho-
tel, Northampton, a spacious apartment capable of hold-
ing 3000 persons. About a third of that number was pre-
sent. The chair was occupied by Lord Southampton,
and upon the platform were—the Duke of Grafton, Sir H.
Dryden, Sir C. Knightlev, M.P., Earl Pomfret, Mr.
Maunsell, M.P., Mr. Stafford, M.P., Captain Vyse, M.P.,
Colonel Cartwright, Sir G. Robinson, the Hon. F. Vil-
liers, Sir G. Deering, and many others.
JOHNSON ON PEEL.—At an agricultural meeting last
week, Mr. G. F. Young said that he happened that day
to fall by accident upon the word Peel in Johnson's dic-
tionary ; and if it had fallen under the attention of Mr.
Disraeli the elder it might well have been introduced in
his " Curiosities of Literature," or would well have been
made the subject of enable comment by the gifted son of
that illustrious author. (Cheers.) According to Johnson,
the word Peel was derived from the French piller, to rob;
and the meaning of the word was thus illustrated by a
quotation from Dryden—
" Lord-like at ease, with arbitrary power
To peel the chiefs, the people to devour :
These traitor, are thy talents."
FREE TRADE AND ITS RESULTS.—Mr. Cobden says in
the 146th No. of the Bread-tax Circular, " By the adop.
tion of Free Trade there will be no complaining poor in
our streets—no income-tax—no poor-rates ; but all classes
will be benefitted." What is the truth ? Our poor-
houses are overflowing—poor-rates increased almost one-
half—the infamous income-tax screwed up to the highest
point, and claimed and exacted not upon profits but abso-
lutely upon the deficiency of income ; the farmer pays it
upon his rent—a rent which he cannot make under the
present price of produce. When will the bubble burst ?
when will the producing classes learn to cast off the incu-
bus of Peel and Cobden and the present Government, the
causes of all their losses ?—when will Electors bestir
themselves ?
The " Times' Commissioner," in a concluding' article
on the agriculture of Buckinghamshire, affirm that--" In
Buckinghamshire' the attention of the farmers appeared
intently fixed on prices as the only source from which
could come any effectual relief. They seem to consider
reduction of rents, or any increased produce on their farms
by means of increased capital invested, as quite inadequate
modes of helping Chem over their present difficulties, even
if those modes were practicable. On the grass lands it
was thought that something might be done by lowering
rents, but on the tillage lands this source of hope still was
generally considered quite unavailing. With reference to
the increase of farm produce by an increased investment
of capital, it was said that the farmers' means had already
been exhausted, and that, even if high farming was be-
yond all doubt profitable in its results, it could not now
be adopted."
Mn. COBDEN AT SHEFFIELD.-Mr. Cobden arrived in
Sheffield on Tuesday evening, on a visit to the constituent
freeholders of the West Riding in that town. He was
met at the railway station by a party of friends, and es-
corted to the residence of Edward Smith, Esq., at Fin
Dale, where he spent the day. In the evening a meeting
took place in the saloon of the Music-hall. The admit-
tance was by ticket at the small charge of sixpence each.
Edward Smith, Esq., occupied the chair, and simply ex-
plained the object of the meeting, which was to receive
the honourable and " distinguished member for the West
Riding, and to express sympathy with him in his patriotic
and philanthropic objects, especially in regard to financial
reform, the extension of the suffrage, the land and build-
ing society movement, and the maintenance of peace."
Thomas Birke, Esq., then moved a resolution recom-
mendinc, economy in the public expenditure, and a deter-
mined effort to obtain such reduction through the efforts
of the financial reformers in Parliament. William Fisher,
Esq., moved the second resolution, advocating a larger ex-
tension of the elective franchise, by the purchase by the
industrious classes of forty shilling freeholds in lands or
buildings. Mr. Cobden was then introduced by the
chairman, and was, of course, received with acclamation.
He spoke for an hour and forty minutes. Richard Solly,
Esq., then moved a vote of confidence in Richard Cob-
den, Esq., and pledged the meeting to spare no exertions
to maintain him in the representation of the West Ri-
ding. The meeting concluded at twenty minutes past ten
with a vote of thanks to the chairman. The following
morning (Wednesday) a public breakfast was given to the
honourable member, in the Cutlers' Hall.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

The final hearing of the case of Mr. Joseph Robinson
Pim, a bankrupt, has been fixed for the Bth of February

The certificate of Mr. Robert Tayolr, ironmonger, has
been suspended for nine months, with protection from
month to month. A first-class certificate will be granted.
The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay has been elected a
bencher of Lincoln's-inn, an honour usually restricted to
Queen's Counsel. The proposition was made by the
Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and affirmed by a large
majority.

ft is said that the Bankruptcy Act of last session is to
be repealed, and a new one substituted, restoring the
measure to its origin< I form, before it was mangled by the
Commons' Committee. A mere amendment act would
not suffice to cure the legislative blunders.

Leave was granted on Friday in the Bail Court to enter
judgment in sixty-six cases of ejectment which Mr. Fear-
gus O'Connor had instituted against as many of his
tenants who had been located upon the Chartist land
estate at Lovell.

The Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday, granted a new
trial in the case of Higginbottom v. Waters, tried at
Liverpool, last Assizes, when the jury, during their ab-
sence to deliberate, were supplied with brandy, sandwiches,
and cigars.
In the Court of Common Pleas a surgeon named At-
kyns has recovered £lOOO from a gentleman of the same
profession, with whom he had been in partnership in
London, for residing within two and a half miles of
Dorset-crescent, the place of business of the plaintiff,
contrary to agreement entered into previously between
them.

JUDGES' CIRCUITS.—MidIand : Lord Denman and Mr.
Baron Parke.—Home : Sir T. Wilde and Mr. Justice
Maule.—Norfolk : Sir F. Pollock and Mr. Justice Wight-
man.—=Northern : Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron
Rolfe.—Oxford : Mr. Justice Patteson aAd Mr. Baron
Platt.—Western : Mr. Justice Erle and Mr. Justice Tal-
fourd. North Wales : Mr. Justice Cresswell.—South
Wales : Mr. Justice Williams.

In the Court of Exchequer, on Friday, Mr. Cranston,
a schoolmaster, obtained a verdict of £4O damages, being
the repayment of £32 10s. passage-money, and £7 10.
expenses, incurred by the plaintiff, who had taken his
passage by the Asiatic, advertised to sail from Plymouth
on the 15th of August, for Adelaide. The ship was de-
tained for some time beyond the period announced, and
the emigrant went with his family in another vessel, the
Constant, the proprietors of which had taken his receipt
for his passage by the Asiatic in part payment, and were
stated to be the real plaintiffs in the present action.
SPRING CIRCUIT OF THE JUDGES.—Northern Circuit:
Judges, the Hon. Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron
Rolfe :—Northern Division of Lancashire, Saturday,
February, 16th, at Lancaster ; Westmoreland, Wednes-
day, 20th, at Appleby ; Cumberland, Friday, 22d, at Car-
lisle ; Northumberland, Wednesday, 27th, at Newcastle ;
Town of Newcastle, same day; Durham, Saturday, March
2d, at Durham ; Yorkshire, Thursday, 7th, at York.
Castle ; City of York, same day, at the Guildhall ; South
Division of Lancashire, Thursday, 21st, at Liverpool.—
North Wales and Chester Cireuit ; Judge, the Hon. Mr.
Justice Cresswell :—Montgomeryshire, Tuesday, March
12th, at Welchpool ; Merionethshire, Thursday, 14th, at
Bala ; Carnarvonshire, Monday, 18th, at Cardigan ;
Anglesey, Wednesday, 20th, at Beaumaris ; Denbighshire,
Saturday, 23d, at Ruthin ; Flintshire, Wednesday, 27th,
at Mold ; Cheshire, Saturday, 30th, at Chester Castle ;
City of Chester, same day, Mr. Justice Williams, after
proceeding through South Wales, will meet Mr. Justice
Cresswell at Chester.

CHURCH-RATES.—Judgment was taken on Tuesday in
the Exchequer Chamber on the long-pending Braintree
church-rate case, which has been before the public since
1841. The question in dispute, it will be remembered, is
the validity of a church-rate made by a minority. There
were seven Judges attending, and, not concurring, their
lordships delivered judgment seriatim. The majority,
Barons Platt and Alderson, with Justices Cresswell and
Maule, being in favour of the validity, confirming the
judgment laid down by Lord Denman in the Queen's
Bench ; Chief Justice Wilde, with Barons Parke and
and Rolfe, supporting the reversal of that judgment.
Under these circumstances, there will no doubt be a fur-
ther appeal to the House of Lords. Baron Alderson, in
giving his opinion that the judgment of the court below
should be affirmed, said that " the parishioners were
bound to maintain the fabric of the church. A vestry
meeting bad been legally called to make a rate, and that
rate was made by the minority ; and as the act of the ma-
jority, in refusing to make the rate, was an illegal act, the
act of the minority must be held to be valid." The de-
cision is thus given by four judges against three. The
Dissenters will of course make much of this fact. But let
them not overlook another circumstance of at least equal
importance—namely, that all the judges, of all the courts,
entirely agree that it is the duty of the parish vestry to
make the rate. They differ only as to whether the re-
medy applied by Mr. Veley was the right remedy. Those
judges who question the propriety of the course taken by
Mr. V. state distinctly that other means might be found
to compel the parish to do its duty. Let the Dissenters
ponder upon this circumstance. Let them never forget
that there is not a single judge, of any court, who deems
the refusal of a church rate a justifiable proceeding.

MR. COBDEN'S " TENANT FARMERS."—A meeting
of tenant farmers and tradesmen favourable to an equal
system of Protection took place on Saturday last at Pet-
worth, and in the course of the proceedings the following
amusing exposer of Mr. Cobden, his vast estate in West
Sussex, and his " tenant farmers," was made by Mr. Wm.
Hodson, of Cocking, who said that that estate consisted
of thirty-nine acres of arable and 110 of wood. One of
Mr. Cobden's tenant farmers hired nineteen acres—
(laughter)—and was a miller; the other was a shopkeeper,
and both paid their rents, not out of the produce of their
land, but from their trades. One's name was Mill, the
other's Newell ; and both hired their handfuls of land as
a matter of convenience in their business. Mr. Cobden
stated that he had no tall chimney, no town in the neigh-
bourhood to enhance the value of his land ; but he had
the miller and the shopkeeper. Mr. Cobden stated that
his estate was distant ten miles from a market town ; but
those present knew that the estate was within three
miles from the borough of Midhurst, and within seven of
Petworth. The rate of these two farms to the poor rates
was £27 7s. 6d. ; and Mr. Cobden held the remainder of
the estate, the woodland, which was rated at £lO. Now
the rateable value of the two farms was a high value ; yet
Mr. Cobden obtained for them £4O a year. If these te-
nant farmers, as Mr. Cobden called them, lived on the
produce of these farms, and paid for labour, tithes, rates,
and rent, Mr. Cobden would seize the whole of the stock
and crop, in less than two years. Yet Mr. Cobden sets
himself up as the pattern landlord for West Sussex.
That might do for his friends at Aylesbury ; they would
not hear it at Petworth. It was humbug.—(Cheers.
MR. COBDEN'S POLICY.—We are not the admirers of
foreign loans. The country has already speculated in
them to its hurt; and, besides, there are many domestic
enterprises in which our capital might be invested profi-
tably and patriotically. But to prevent people from in-
vesting their capital as they please, is, in point of fact, to
assume a joint ownership in their capital. If capitalists
are not to lend their money to Russia, because it may be
used to their country's hurt, then, for the very same rea-
son, we ought not to trade with Russia, because trade
must supply the Russians, as it has supplied the British,
with "the sinews of war." Why does not Mr. Cobden
abuse the shipbuilders of this country for constructing
war-steamers to the order of the Emperor of Russia ?
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with it in supplying our wants. We mention it to expose
it, and to exhibit Mr. Cobden in the silly situation of
blowing hot and cold. The moral of this affair is Mr. Cob-
den's native littleness. Here is a man who deliberately
stultifies his own principle of •" buying in the cheapest,
and selling in the dearest market ;" who bids us deal with
Brazilian slavedealers, and forbids us to deal with the
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LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, JAN. 22.

PARTNERSHIPS _DISSOLVED,

W. Walker and J. A. Bird, Liverpool, auctioneers—R. How-
arth and S. Ayland, Manchester, dyers.

DECLARATION OF DIVIDENDS.

J. Higginson and R. Deane, Liverpool, merchants—first div.
of 2s. 3d. in the pound, and second div. of 9d. in the pound,
any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool.
W. Potter, Birkenhead and Liverpool, merchant—second
div. of sd. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr.
Cazenove, Liverpool.

BANKRUPTS

John Hignett, Weaverham, Cheshire, shoemaker, Feb. 1 and
28, at 11 o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy:
solicitor, Mr. Dodge, Liverpool ; official assignee, Mr. Turner,
Liverpool.

William and Samuel Shaw, Upper Mill and of Grasscroft,
Saddleworth, Yorkshire, timber merchants.
James Bannehr, Exeter, law stationer.
Jesse. Hinton and Jonathan Fisher, Foleshill, Warwickshire,
silk manufacturers.

Robert Kennet, Broadway, Westminster, and Wilton-road,
Pimlico, licensed victualler.
John Oliver, Queen's road, Bayswater, plumber.
Daniel Bishop, York-street, St. James's-square, London,
wine merchant.

Robert Fulford, Fulford-place, Southgate-road, Middlesex,
builder.

George Hammond, Milton-next Gravesend, and of Mill-wall,
Poplar.

DIVIDENDS.

Feb. 14, G. Hinchcliffe, Leeds, cloth manufacturer—Feb. 1
H. C. Brown, Winchester, builder.
CERTIFICATES

To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the
day of meeting.

Feb. 16, J. Yeomans, Sheffield, merchant—March 1, C. Cur
tis, Nottingham, corn factor.