The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-07 00:00:00

the Protestants who wer

present. The scene was actually terrific
torn up and converted into missiles—evi

—the forms

ery piece of wood

_ .
which could be made available was turned into a weapon ;
and as the work of intended slaughter proceeded, the cries
were for " O'Connell and the Pope." We heard ourselves
some of the sanguinary scoundrels utter the words, " Make
at Gregg, boys,—blash his b—y orange brains out ;" "To
h—l with the Orangemen—tear their livers out ;" and many
expressions of a similar description. Had it
• nely arrival of the police (who had been
time before,) it is out of human calcula-
cf w

ier agree

ut a st

tiou to for

or when the thirst of the mur-
I. There is no use of mincing

but they did come to the meeting organised ana

vident from th

Gregg, and every one whom they could
—Belfast Times.

eeognise as a Protestant

BANKS.--It is a circumstance not generally
known, though of great public importance, that the National
Debt Commissioners are empowered by sec. 50, of the 9th
Geo. IV, cap. 92 (July 28, 1828), to purchase exchequer-bills,
as well as stock, with the moneys paid over to them by the
officers of the savings' banks, which bills, instead of being
ged for new bills, or paid off in money at the periods
advertised, are cancelled, and corresponding amounts of
stock are created in lieu of them at the average price of the
preceding quarter, and placed to the credit of the National
Debt Commissioners at the Bank of England, to form part
of the funds standing in their names on account of the
savings' banks, in conformity to sec. 51 of the said act. In
this way the National Debt Commissioners have the power
of increasing the permanent public debt—a power which they
have exercised during the last seven years to the following
extent :

SAVINGS

exchan

Value of Exchequer • Permanent
Bills cancelled, Three per Cent. annual charge,
including Stock created. including
interest. management.
1,079,430 11 3 1,177,878 17 1 35,689 14 6
1,533,878 16 3 1,702,989 15 2 51,600 11 3
601,790 8 4 648,264 211 19,642 8 3
500,782 10 0 541,386 9 8 16,404 0 1
500,164 1 3 546,627 7 9 16,562 16 2
700,712 10 0 778,569 811 23,590.13 1
1,063,713 5 2 1,191,177 1 1 36,092 13 2

1836.
1837
1831.
1839,
1840.
1841.
184 a

Totals £5,980,472 2 3 £ 6,586,893 10 2 £199,582 16 6
The rate paid to the Bank of England for management is
£3OO per million.

RIGHT OF RATE-PAYERS TO INSPECT RATE-BOOKS.—
On Wednesday,ta the Worship-street Police Office, London,
the vestry clerk of the parish of St. Leonard was summoned
for refusing to certain rate-payers the right to inspect the
parish books. Mr. Bodkin said the defendant was anxious
to produce the books but he could not act contrary to the
orders of the masters who had the control over the books
along with the collectors, and they were the proper parties
to be proceeded against. Mr. Broughton, the sitting ma-
gistrate said, it was the clear and manifest law of the land
that every ratepayer in every parish in the kingdom had an
indefeasible right to examine, at all seasonable hours, the ac-
counts of his parish—a right he had never even heard disput-
ed, and he could not conceive why it was refused in this ins.
tance. It had been granted to two of the witnesses, and
should not have been denied to the complainants merely be-
cause they had been constituted a committee by their fel-
low-ratepayers. He was sorry to witness the ill-feeling which
subsisted on both sides, and had hoped the adjournment of
the case would have produced a conciliating effect ; but as
such had not been the ease, he was bound to give his deci-
sion, which he had taken considerable pains to arrive at. The
language of the act of Parliament was exceedingly ambiguous,
and it was to he regretted the complainants did not apply to
the Court of Queen's Bench for a mandamus, when the deci-
so n of that Court would have been eiven on its construction.
The 69th section said, the clerks to trustees should be sued
instead of the whole body, but that he conceived to apply to
courts of record, and not to criminal proceedings. The chief
g-block was its use of the word " custody," without
real or legal custody, which made the case difficult
In this instance it was proved that the legal and
tds°t:nfildnfitebnrjuiclicte'tive custody was in the trustees, while the real cus-
tody was in the collectors; and there was so much nicety in
the construction of the clause, that lie thought he should
best administer justice by dismissing the summons ; by
however, the complainants would suffer no wronc,

't—lie—ledger from which the rate-books were copied was in
office of the clerk to the trustees, and always open for

nsPectio

THE COMET
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have r

—S!r J. Herschel' has published a long let-
s., in which he proves that the light which
garded as nothing more than a zodiacal light
„ Alt the tail of a comet. The professor says that the
henornena are so utterly unlike that he does not understand
-m can confound them, and gives the following
7s, as his reasons :—The zodiacal light, as its
, invariably appears in the zodiac, or, to speak
' • kb/ in the plane of the sun's equator, which is 7
ore
inclined to the zodiac, and which plane, seen from the
deg. the ecliptic in longitude 2sec. 18deg. ann
18 deg., r so much in advance of the equinoctial
Ssec• tit. 17th land nn
sun, intersects o

me, when I have observed the comet, the zodiacal
vs also been displayed in the most striking and per-
' • Inner, and indeed with a brilliancy

~wined of its varying from season to
season in intensity, were it not for the habitual and exceediti'
purity of the atmosphere in this favoured corner of our island,
which is altogether free from smoke, and most commonly so
from haze, and (in the absence of actual cloud,) quite upon a
par (so far as a three years' residence will enable me to judge)
with that of any region I have visited. I have myself
distinctly seen the head with its so-called

;1--)iih I should cerLami)
the opinion generally en

on one occ

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mind of the possibility of

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find it,

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horizon. Moreover, the nest night,(Sunday,) tits of ;,,;',.ate... The thieves effected an entrance by raising a
observation earlier and pw►Erring it later, with ladder• to the staircase window, and breaking a pane of glase,.
---- nnd on an equally good sky, this nebula and so' raising the window.. They . departed about three
rheselacts I cons►der as well worth• to o'clock, but the poor creatures were left bound, and so lon-
a rapidity of ,dimin,plion tinued until six o'clock, when the housekeeper soeceeded in
' ' he window, and waking herself beard by a perso4