The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

COLLISION.

LEES AND OTHERS V. TAYLOR.—This was en action
to recover the sum of £2O 35., for injury done to a horse.
The plaintiffs are manufacturers in Fountain-street, Man-
chester, and the defendant, a farmer, at Stratford, near
Manchester. On the 17th of December last, a man
and horse belonging to the plaintiffs were standing
at their warehouse-door, in Fountain-street, Manchester,
when a cart and two horses were passing, and, as it was
alleged, through negligence, had come in contact with the
van, and injured the horse so as to render it incapable of
work. The plaintiff claimed £6 14s. 6d., the veterinary
surgeon's bill for attendance on the horse, and £l3 95.,
for the hire of a horse and cart in place of the horse in-
jured. The question was, as to whether there had or had
not been a negligence on the part of the driver of the de-
fendant's cart, and on this point there was conflicting
evidence.

The_ jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages
£l5, costs 40s. Counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Hill: for
the defendant, Mr. Martin and Mr. Cowling.

The Great Western steam-ship from the West Indies
brought £139,928 specie, on Sunday.
THE ANTIPHONEL.—This beautiful arid we may say
wonderful instrument, which may be seen gratuitously at
Mr. Smith's, Lord-street, is worthy the inspection of the
numerous strangers in town at this season.

THE BELGRAVE WINE TRAY.—A very beautifully-de-
signed tray in napier-mache has just been produced and
registered by Messrs. Jennings and Betteridge, for the
purpose of a wine salver. In shape it is perfectly novel,
and the workmanship is chaste and elegant. It is adver-
tised in our paper to-day, by Mr. Roberts of Church- •
street.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The managers of these gar-
dens have added to their list of attractions a panorama
illustrative of the incidents and scenes of the last French
revolution. The work is well executed, and though as
melo-dramatic as could be desired, is as carefully correct
as strict art requires. The crowded picture gives a vivid
idea of the roar and agitation of the great city in the
agonies of a civil war. Amongst the most prominent
views may be mentioned, General Cavaignac and staff be-
fore the Pont St. Martin, and the subsequent attack on
the temple—the attack and burning of Maubert—the
Storming of the Faubourg St. Antoine—and that most
sanguinary and melancholy event, the death of the Arch-
bishop of Paris. The panorama is being exhibited every
evening.
THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—Reader !
Saint Paul's cost the country £736,752 2s 3d. The
Houses of Parliament will cost nearly, if not quite, two
millions. Look at the two sums, look at the two struc-
tures, and then look at the discussion on the Miscella-
neous Estimates which took place in the House of Com-
mons on Tuesday evening last. To hear Lord Morpeth,
one would think that England hardly knows what to do
just now with her money, and that poor working people
are actually suffering from a plethora of the good things
of life. No one, we presume, is indisposed to give Hon
Gentlemen all the accommodation and comfort they can
reasonably look for, or to provide the country with a
. building suitable to her power and greatness ; but there
is a limit to all things. Comfort may degenerate into
effeminate luxuriousness. A country's greatness need
not be exhibited at the cost of her substance. We are
certainly overdoing things at Westminster. If you need
to be impressed with the fact, call upon Lord Ashley,
request his Lordship to accompany you to a few streets
with which he is tolerably well acquainted by this time,
and which are all within five minutes' . walk of the new
palaces, and then immediately afterwards plunge into the
gaudy chamber of the Howe of Lords. If you do not
agree with us that it, is as distressingly painful to see the
unhappy creatures who infest the sinks of Westminster,
left. to their io..edied ignorance and vice, as it is painfully
ludicrous to behold Lords Brougham and Campbell trans-
' ;,,...bing their business in the midst of the gorgeous gnu-
crockery by which they are surrounded, we have either
mistaken the correctness of our own impressions, or sadly
miscalculated the
.00111/11011 sense, the humanity, and wis-
' dem, of this country.