The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER-FIB.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE LONDON DOCK
COMPANY.—IMPORTANT REVENUE CASE.—The Solici-
tor-General, with Sir F. Thesiger, Q.C., Mr. Watson,
Q.C., Mr. James Wilde, and Mr. Ballantine, were coun-
sel for the Crown.—Sir F. Kelly, Q.C., Mr. Peacock,
Q.C., Mr. Macauley, Q.C., and Mr. Groves for the defen-
dants. There are eleven informations filed by the Attor-
ney-General, and the present charged the defendants with
concealing 8,000 lbs. of cocoa, and 250. cwt of sugar ; with
landing said goods without paying duty thereon, or with-
out duly entering them, and for withdrawing them from
the ship without having duly reported them ; also, with
fraudulently concealing them. From the statement of
the case by the solicitor-General, it appeared that while
it had formerly been the duty of the Custom-house officers
to see cargoes which have been reported to the Custom-
house weighed at the ship's side, in order to ascertain the
correctness of the reports, since the establishment of the
docks the Crown placed such confidence in the Company
that they were allowed to warehouse the goods before they
were brought to the scales, and to deal with them in all
respects as if the duty had been paid. Notwithstanding
the confidence thus reposed in the Company, whose duty it
was to report all cases of fraud on the part of their ser-
vants, a systematic plan of abstraction from packages of
good sound sugar and other articles of importation had,
for a considerable time existed upon a very extensive scale
the quantities abstracted passing under the name of
" sweepings," and the strongest inducements to carry on
these practices, by which both the shipper and the owner
were defrauded, being he'd out by the Company to their
servants. The Solicitor- General havin g concluded, several
Custom-house officers were called, who disposed to having
seized a number of bags of cocoa, which were alleged to be
sweepings, or that portion of the contents of a cargo which
escaping by breaking of packages or otherwise become
mixed with dirt and is a perquisite of the Company, but
the greater portion of which they found to be quite clean.
On two occasions, also, a quantity of cocoa and twenty-
eight casks of first-class sugar, alleded to contain sweep-
ings, had been seized, the officer calculating that the value
of the seizure wag £3,000 or £4,000, and that he had left
several tons v:eight of sweepings behind.—After the
officers had given tlieir evidence the Court was adjourned.
The case was resumed on Monday morning.

The case occupied the whole of last week. The evi-
dence for the Dock Company related in a great measure

doings in Davis's corner, especially to the
molasses and black stuff which are made from drainings
and the washing of sugar sweepings. Towards the close
of the proceedings, a number of specific facts, which had
been sworn to by a prominent witness for the Customs.
were so distinctly shewn to be pure fictions by one of the
present witnesses, that the Lord Chief Baron said it would
he unnecessary to pursue that part of the examination any
further, as it was quite clear that one class of the wit-
nesses on that point were altogether unworthy of credit.
The case was then again adjourned:

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The United Slates Literary World anncunces, that
" hereafter authors will not be allowed to review their
own hooks in its columns !"
THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN ENGLAND
AND FRANCE.—It is stated that the plans of the proposed
submarine telegraph between England and France have
been lodged with the French government, and that the
company for carrying_out the undertaking is in course of

lefinite formation. It is mentioned also that a telegra-
phic commnniention from Calais to Trieste will be com-

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A woman, 68 years old, who is deaf and dumb, was mar-
ried for the fourth time at Jordaston Church, Pembroke.
shire, on the 21st ult., her bridegroom being a young
man of 21.
On Monday night a fire broke out in the Hargrieve
Cotton Factory, situated at Duntocher, ten miles from
Glasgow, and the property of Messrs Wm. Dunn and
Company. The loss is computed at about £12,C00.
The Earl of Eldon will, at his own expense, exhibit at
the Great Exhibition a noble work of art, called " The
Eldon and St: well Group," a colossal group in marble. 1
AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE.—At the Bristol Police 1 Pmee'
Court last week, George Livings was sent for trial for
having stolen a " dummy," in imitation of a loaf of sugar,
from the shop of a grocer.
A fox, chased by two shepherd's dogs, rushed into the
kitchen of the Joiners' Arms Intl, at Cliburn, Westmore-
land, a few days since, and took refuge in the cellar,
where he was speedily killed by his pursuers.
On Tuesday, Mr. Parnell, a gentleman, aged 88 years,
residing in Baker-street, London, was burnt to death as
he sat in his chair reading a newspaper. It is supposed
that a spark must have flown from the grate upon the
newspaper the deceased was reading.
A toad was discovered, a few days since, in the centre
of a rock, on Combo Down, near Bristol. The animal
lived about three days after being brought to light. Its
mouth was closed, but it breathed hard through its nos-
trils on exposure to the atmosphere.
The Doncaster Gazette says that a rose tree in a gars I
--I.,nhle b. ---
den at High Field House,. presents a remarkable appear-
TRAGEDY
ance. It is covered with last year's flower-buds, which
never expanded themselves, and which have withstood the
winter without changing their appearance.
The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng-
land has decreased from £14,347,457 to £14,278.164,
being a difference of £69,2:33. The paper in actual circu-
lation has decreased from £20,812,657 to £20,381,557,
being a difference of £431,100.
A cap, of the most exquisite finish and workmanship,
has been prepared by Mr. T. Middlebrook, can-maker, ofi
Leeds, for the great Exhibition. It is composei of the
finest white satin, and is most profusely and elaborately SINGULAR FREAK OF A DOGe—A person of the name of
embroidered. James Casson, residing at Linthwaite, has a small broken-
haired terrier. For some time
At.the Cambrian 1 Twery, Cardiff. on Wednesday week, ; past they had been visited by
a respectable farmer and a pig-drover got dead drunk ; a rat, which defied all efforts to destroy it. A 'levy days
ago, however, the visitor was again heard, and everyplace
they were littered down in a shed, and when the drover
arche in order to its at length
carne to his senses, he found his companion lying by his
side a corpse though the importunities offind hidi
the dog,ng' theplace; lower one of a
The first piece of carpeting ever manufactured in the chest of drawers was opened, and out jumped the rat and
Highlands of Scotland, was exhibited at Inverness a few theminstantly pounced upon his canine enemy, who, after
days since. The round is of that eculiar brown and
killing it, took it out into a field a couple of hundred yards
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white, called the Ord mixture, and the check is the royal distance, and there with his paws scratched a deep hole,
Stuart tartan. It will be sent to the great exhibition. into which the dog placed its victim, filled up the grave,
A. reward of £5O has been offered by government to and then left it.—Halifax Guardian.
any person who shall give such information as will lead to The Rev. Septimus Hansard, curate of Ste Mary's,
the conviction of the parties who cut the rope at the Paddington, charged Mrs. Penny, at the Marylebone
Oldfield Colliery on the 23cl ult., which occasioned the iPolice-office, on Tuesday, with threatening to " scratch
death of three persons-. , his eyes out." The reverend gentleman had found the
A esubLe dinner to Mr. Macready, the distirguished le-oman in a state of starvation: she had been the mistress
tragedian, on his retirement from the English stage, is an- i sta wealthy individual, on whom Mr. Hansardprevailed
nounced to take place at the London Tavern on the Ist of .:o make her a weekly allowance. A portion of the money
March. Sir Edward Balwer Lytton, Bart., will occupy laving one week been detained, the woman attacked Mr.
the chair. ilansard as the cause, with gross insinuations against his
The Minister of Commerce of Berlin has decided that norality. She expressed great contrition as well as gra-
all the manufacturers, workmen, and exhibitors proceed- itude to Mr. Hansard, at whose intercession she was
inn to the Grand Exhibition of London, or returning see
ely reprimanded, and bound in her recognimnees to
therefrom, shall only pay two-thirds of the usual price on leep the peace.
lAN DECANTER.—There will come from the Prussian railways. A man named Charles Gill, living in Clerkenwell, was
us decanter of cut crystal, without a Notices have been issued from the General Post-office, committed onFridav for trial, ehargedwith sending a letter
I thing is of such dimensions, that that, henceforth, all newspapers to be sent to the colonies threatening to take Lord John Russell's life if the Premier
.ary height may sit with ease inside, or possessions abroad, or to foreign parts, must be put cid not redress some fancied grievance. The prisoner
et dinner on a round table a yard ii into the Post-office within seven days after that on which tireatened in the letter to give the premier, "'a black
)le ladder serves to bring people up and they were published. efe and a bloody nose, if he did not allow him to show
decanter, which has been manufactured The strike of the sailors at Sunderland still continues. tee world that he was a great engineer ; and if the black
fry of the Rue St. Sebastian, in Paris; The matter of wages, £4 10s. per voyage, is generally eee and bloody nose were not sufficient, half an ounce of
ht from the base to the shoulder is three agreed to by the shipowners. The strike. is now alto a-. gunpowder and one pound- of lead would, according to
arcumference nine yards. The stopper ther against the shipping offices and the register tickets, Xr. Cobden, test the resisting power of his skull." The
id the whole decanter 12 cwt., and it is which can only be altered or abolished by an act of the Prisoner, who is represented as a man of some mechanical
:nine eight hectolitres and a half of wine. ,legislature. genius, and who thinks his talents neglected, said his
periments have been made with the voice 'While a lady was passing along a street in Glasgow, on cbject was to have his name better brought before the
receptacle; the effect of a song on the Tuesday week, a bold thief seized her gold watch-guard, public through the press.
,s described as something unearthly. which instantly snapped, as the watch was fastened to her DIMINUTIVE STEAM-ENGlNE.—Duting the past week,
of Exchequer on Monday, Holmes, a dress. Luckily, however, the gold seals, key, and ring s Lilliputian steam-engine, which, exclusive of the boiler
so sued as a pauper, obtained £6O. damages I connected with the chain, fell into the side pocket of her cod steam-pipes, only weighs three-quarters of an ounce,
Lazarus, and Fanny, his wife, for an assault i cloak, so that the thief missed a part of his intended booty. las been exhibiting at Huddersfield. This truly wonder-
isonment. The plaintiff had been six weeks i While a man, named Edwards, was standing near a fa piece of exquisite workmanship, when the steam is on
of the defendants, when one morning they labourer who was driving poles into the earth at Borth,, st full, works at an inconceivable speed and velocity, the
ping a gold watch on the table. On their Cardiganshire, a few days since, the ring which guided the 4-wheel completing, it is said, 3600 revolutions per tni-
l'r boxes,itito cubs
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sisssmg, and they sent for a policeman, who head of the mallet suddenly flew off and struck Edwards tote, the perfection of its various parts, and the rapidity
othnetfhoeillotv‘eaindg, wdo4uy.nding him so severely that he died ore et* its motions, eremit; a beautiful and musical humming
'about ajarring or discordant sound ! Besides this, the
ame home, and then it came out that he 1 Two young men, twin brothers, belonging to Nairn, raker, Wm. Radcliffe, who resides near Fraddleworth, has
on the table had put it away in a drawer' named .lameis and William Wilson, were drowned between also been exhibiting a piece of fine flannel, which contains
The girl was of course at once liberated, Nairn and Comarty, on Thursday, the 16th ult. They 110 picks or threads of weft in one inc's. Both* of these
-id she deserved what had happened, were proceeding to Cr°martY in an open boat to see some ciriosities are intended for the groat Exhibition of All
lie watch, she lad other things. I relatives, and it is supposed that in a sudden squall or rations.
`-----,.. I shift of wind, the boat was caught and capsized. MR. ROUALEYN GORDON CUMMING.—We understand
DENSE Foa.---On Thursday, London during the entire teat this renowned sportsman has just returned to En-
afternoon was enveloped in a dense fog ;it came on about g'and from a hunting expedition in the Eastern parts of
twelve o'clock, and gradually increased till two, when it Europe, where, since August, he has been hunting with
became as dark as night, and continued so till three les usual success the nobler varieties-of game, which are
o'clock, after which it slightly cleared off, but still re- still to be met with in the more remote and wilder dis-
- ' r thick. tticts. True to his old custom, this indefatigable N
im-
- ---,,tv of the Earl of Lonsdale, 1 red has exerted himself with indefatigable zeal in amass-
in; extraordinary relics interesting to sportsmen and
naturalists, and has succeeded in bringing to England a

SPLENDID PIIESENTS.—The inhabitants of Hartlepool
have presented to Mr. R. W. -Jackson a magnificent
silver vase, valued at upwards of £5OO, as a token of
their admiration for his skill, energy, and patient per-
severance displayed in projecting and executing the
Hartlepool West Harbour and Docks. They have also
Presented to Mrs. Jackson a.beautiful miniature of her
son, set in fine gold, as a brooch ; and to Mr., Jackson,
jun., they have given a handsome gold lever watch, with
chain, seal, and key as a further acknowledgement of his
valuable services.

DREADFUL _ .—On Thursday, an- elderly
man, named Ponder, a tailor and an• old soldier. at Col-
chester, cut the throat of a woman with whom he was
cohabiting, whilst she was asleep, and afterwards hung
himself by a cord to the bedpost. The bodies were not
discovered until the next morning,- when the room was
broken open in consequence of- neither party. making
their appearance. It is supposed that povertrand dis-
tress, combined with the weak intellect of the man.
caused him first to take the life of the female, -and then
his own.

section, wawa, we ULILIC/3L2114U, isf.,-
-scss,ety to be added to his already unique and unrivalled-
excibition,at the Chinese Gallery, Hyde Park Corner.
sned Goddard, I Some of the wild boars which fell to his rifle were of
parcel for which a reward of incredible weight ; and the antlers of many of the at-
into an vin- I rival in size and grandeur even those of the fa-

ABOLITION

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