The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-11 00:00:00

REVISING BARRISTERS' COURT,

Teasel r.
The barristers proceeded with the revision of the list from the
letter Dto H. No ease possessing the least interest occurred.
Out of 470 names called over, rot more than 150 persons suc-
ceeded in establishing their claims, and these appeared to be
about equally divided between the conservatives and reformers,
WLDNESDAY.
. The court commenced with the letter 1, and proceeded to the
end of M. An immense number of claims were disallowed, in
-consequence of the claimants not having paid their rates : these
were principally of the reform party, and persons in the lowest
grades of, life. There were only too or three cases of any in-
terest.
A person in thereform interest, of the name of Jones, claimed
for a house in Hurst-street. A portion of his rates had been ex-
cused by the magistrates, under the 54th Geo. 111., c. 170, which
gives them power to remit the rates of persons who apply to them
for that relief on the ground of poverty.
Mr. Penington contended, that, although under that act of
parliament, a person excused from payment of any portion of
his rates was no longer liable to the parish, yet that this was by
no means equivalent to payment—that the capability to contri-
bute to all the local expenses of the borough, and to the poor's-
rate particularly, was the test of a person's being considered
worthy of possessing the municipal franchise—that the muni-
cipal. reform act din, in fact, expressly provide that no person
who had
,received,' parochial relief, within a certain period,
should .b* entitled to vote; and what. else could a remission by
the justices he considered but a species of parochial relief. This
was not a payment within the letter, and certainly not within
the spirit of the act.
Mr. Atherton, in support of the claim, laboured to show that
a discharge to the party was the same as payrneut; and that he
being on Linger liable to pay, he stood in the position contem-
plated by the reform act.
The Barrister.—There is no doubt, as between the parish and
'the party, a remission is equivalent to payment; but that is not
sufficient to meet the object of this act. Here a franchise is
conferred upon certain conditions, and one of the most material
of these to an actual contribution to the public burthens; and
the claimant not having complied with this condition, we must
disallow the vete.
Mr. Samuel Johnson, Churchsstreet, appeared on behalf of
.frisson, Mr. John Harrison Johnson, who lived with him, and
contributed to all the expenses of the house, and had an equal
control in the domestic establishment, and was also jointly rated
to the poor's-rate.
Mr. Penington, in support of the claim, contended that this
was sufficient to constitute Mr. Johnson, jun., au inhabitant
Isousehblder.
Uppo cross-examination by Mr. Atherton, it appeared that
no rent was paid to Mr. Johnson, sen., the owner of the house,
and that the furniture belonged to the hitter.
The revising barrister, after a long deliberation, disallowed the
vote, on the ground that no rent was paid by the son.
Mr. J. B. Lloyd solicitor, endeavoured to establish his claim
fur an office. He proved that he was a moue), scrivener, and
had extensive accounts in that capacity with several parties, and
badepeaerr.oons in his office exclusively appropriated to his book-
-1: .
The barristers said the business of an attorney was the essen-
tial necupation of Mr. Lloyd, and that they should still adhere
to their decision. ,that, an attorney's office .was not a counting-
house within the act...,
Mr- Joseph Motinsey, blacksmith, (Who, we are informed, is
a very facetious,gentleman in his neighbourhood and a good
Cory',) claimed for a waiehouse in SpartiugLstreet. Upon exa.
_suinatien by Mr. Carson in support of his claim, he stated that
lie appropriated a room over his smithy as a store for na.ls,
chains, and Other articles.
Cross-eiainined by Mr. Atherton.—Now, will You tell us what
all these important goods, wares, and merchandize consist of,
which you keep in this magnificent cock-loft of your's ?
Clannant.—Why, I keeps every thing I sells.
Mt. Atherton. —But tell us what vou keep.
Claimant. —To he sure, I Sells what I have to my shipwrights
—(laughter)—they want.nails, and I get things from the coun-
try, and I makes nails and challis,- and I makes jamb/es, and
anchors, and every thing.—(Roars of laughter.)
Mr. Atherton.—But do you keep these in your smithy?
Claimant.—Surely I sells them to my merchants. I wish you
would buy a ton of nails.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Atherton.—Now.-Where are your bellows?
Claimant (with surprise).—My bellows?
Mr: Atherton.—Yes ! Dont you keep them in this very room ?
Claimant.-4 keeps nails end chains and jumbles, and any
thing else, there.—(Roars of laughter.)
Mr. Atherton —Now, you keep nothing in this room but the
bellows of the forge.
Claimant.—Dont I ? I keeps all manner of things, and I
sells them.
Mr. Carson.—ls it your practice to blow down the chimney
Or up, as they will have the bellows up stairs ?
Claimant--There is no chimney. I keeps every thing there.
Mr. Atherton to the Court.-1 submit this is not a warehouse
Within the letter or spirit of the act. If a miserable small loft,
Such as this, which, it appears, is principally appropriated as a
Place in which to fix the apparatus necessary for working the
forge of a blacksmith is to he construed a warehouse, then any
fraction of a building, where any old iron or rubbish is placed,
Will give a man a vote.
Mr. Carson.—He has spoken 'of new nails, chains, and
anchors.,
Mt. Atherton was proceeding, when a smithy-faced looking
radical who was present in the court, and apparently a rival of
the claimant, volunteered to prove that there was nothing in the
room but the bellows; but, upon cross-examination by Mr. Car-
son, he said there were bags there, which appeared to be full of
nails, arid,iron, and other articles The latter gentleman, there-
fore; iSrshoritted to the court that this evidence, in lac!, corrobo-
rated the Claimant's,
'rhe Batrister.—Will you sell a small quantity of any thing?
Claimarit.—Yes; I'll sell sixpen'orth of nails.
The Barrister.—Well, you shall have your vote, and you may
call this a Warehouse or a shop. Which will you have ?
Claimant.—l'll call it a warehouse.
The'clairttent left the box, apparently much pleased with bis
success' in puizling the learned advocate of the reformers.
Theatinay..
No case otinterest *as astred in court to-day, and the.list was
get through as far as the letter T. flitherto the success of the
teaservatives and tefonnere appears about eguaL In the list of

FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, -.1835.

As there is every probability that the people of the
United States will rush headlong into a war with France,
and in which they will be encouraged by the wily but
treacherOus Russians, we beg leave to present them with
a list of the French ships of war, which they are likely
to meet "along shore" of the Atlantic sections, or have
to encounter upon the ocean.
We borrow our information from an article in. the
United Service Journal, for. May, 1834, the writer of
which we have the honour to know; and a more upright
and intelligent officer, holding a high.office in the ser-
vice of his king, does not exist. The facts are taken al-
most exclusively from official documents, so that the ut-
most reliance may be placed on them.

SHIPS OF THE LINE—FIRST cLASS.
L'Ocean 126 gnus, I Le Trocadero, 126 guns,
L'Majestueux, 126 guns, Le Commerce, 126 guns,
L'Austerlitz, 126 guns, Le Friedland, 126 guns,
I
Le Wagram, 126 guns, La Vile de Paris, 126 guns,
Le Montebello, 126 guns, ILe Louis XIV., 126 guns
Le Souverain, 126 guns,
SHIPS of THE Lll
Le Jena, 86guns,
Le Foudroyant. 86 guns,
Le Diademe, 86 guns,
Le Duquesne, 86 guns,
Le Magnifique, 86 guns,
Le,Santi-Petri, 86 guns,
Le Neptune, 86 guns,
Le Aleesiras. 86 guns,
Le Suffrein, 86 guns,
Le Jupiter. 86 guns,
Le 'rage 86 guns,
L'Hercule, 8b guns,
sHipS OF THE LI
Le Tourville, 82 guns
Le Vitteran, 82 guns,
Le Breslau, 82 guns,
Le Nestor, 82 guns, ,
Le Marengo, 82 guns,
Le Trident, 82 guns,
La Vile de Marseilles, 82
guns,
Le Scipion, 82 guns,
L'Orion, 82 guns,
Le Superbe, 82 guns,
L'Alger, 82 guns,

QE-SECOND CLASS.
I Le Jemmapes, 86 guns,
Le Fletirus, 86 guns,
L'Ulm, 86 guns.
Le Duguay-Frouin,B6 guns,
I L'Annibal, 86 guns,
Le Turenne, 86 guns,
Le Henry IV., 86 guns,
I Le Navarin, 86 guns,
IL'Ajax, 86 guns..
Le Bucentaute, 85 guns,
I L'Eole, 86 guns,

NE-THIRD CLASS.
ILe Jean-Bart, 82 guns,
Le Triton, 82 guns,
La Couronne, 82 guns,
Le Genereux, 82 guns,
Le Duguesclin, 82 guns,
Le Bayard, 82 guns,
I L'Alexandre, 82 guns,
Le Fontenov, 82 guns,
I L'Achille, 8.2 guns,
L' In flexible, 82 guns,
7,e Diomede, 82 guns, .
L'Hector, 82 guns.
as fine ships of war, almost
as ever floated on the seas.
each have upw,ards of forty
t-class, all of them carrying
Lders. She has ten frigates
lirty pounders. She has fif-

Here then are fifty-seven
all of them built since 1818.
In additibn to this the Fre
splendid frigates of the first
sixty guns—thirty-six potin
carrying forty-six guns—th
teen frigates of the third *class carrying 'thirty-two guns.
She has ten frigates of the fourth class carrying twenty-
six guns. She has twenty-four corvettes carrying from
twenty to thirty-two guns, and she has sixteen gun brigs,
But this is not all—she has twenty-seven steam vessels,
most of them being 160 horse power, and well and heavily
armed. In 1832 there were cast in the arsenals of France,
for the naval service, 1493 guns, and 1241 carronades, all
thirty pounders; and the estimates for the service of
1833 state that there were a sufficient number of thirty-
six pounder.guns and carronades to complete, with the
new pieces of thirtyil,the armament for fifty ships of the
line, twenty frigates, 'and twenty corvettes. Fifty of
PArxrtArt's pieces of eighty had also been cast."
This is enough we hope to satisfy our American friends
that they have a powerful enemy to engage with. They
will find by this, if they rush into the war, that to use a
Virginian phrase, they are likely " to come out at the
small end of the horn." In the meantime we would most
earnestly recommend our friends to ship their goods only
in British vessels. It would not surprise us if some "of
the American vessels at present an the Liverpool docks
should never reach America ! A word to the wise is
enough.

We congratulate his Majesty's ministers and the peo-
ple of England that O'CONNELL has left them no excuse
for misunderstanding his meaning or misapprehending
the nature of his •intentions. If the former do not de-
nounce him in the King's next speech, as they did in a
previous speech, the people of England perhaps will, be-
fore the expiration of three months, come to the almost
unanimous determination of denouncing both the minis-
ters and their ally, and making short work with the
power of the one and the head of the other.
DANIEL has addressed a long letter, a compound of bom-
bast, falsehood, and insolence, to a Leeds paper, which
purports to be a reply to Mr. BAINES, of the Leeds Mer-
cury. In this letter the character of the thief's attorney
is transparent enough.- It is DANIEL pleading his own
cause. He consequently does not attempt to Meet any
of Mr.jimislES'g arguments, hut • contents himself with
an explanation of his views, which we shall notice by
and by.
O'CONNELL feels most hurt- at being called a blun-
derer. This is like the man. Prince TALLLEY RAND is
said to hold as a maxim, that in diplomacy a crime may
be forgiven, but that an error is unpardonable. DANIEL
entertains the same opinion. He would rather be con-
sidered a successful scoundrel than the more innocent
blunderer--in other words, he would rather be called a
rogue titan a fool.
_ _

;This, after all, is purely a matter of taste ; but did it
never occur to the Irish beggar that a man may be both
Viltany is rarely successful for a long space of time; for
it generally, if not invariably, happens that the knave is
his own dupe at last, and sinks into the grave an unpitied
blockhead, the remains of a very much despised and
"unintelligible vagabond." This fate may be O'CoN-
NELL'S, and at no distant day.

In the letter referred to DANIEL explains at considera-
ble length the nature of the reform in the upper house of
parliament which he advocates, and with less than which
the imperious mendicant will not be satisfied. He com-
putes the whole' number of English, Scotch, and Irish
peers, those who are and those who are not members cf
the House of Lords, to be 620. He proposes to add to
this number 180 new peers, new creations by the King,
of course, thus increasing the peerage to 800. Of this
body of nobles, or rather of degraded nobles, he is will-
ing that 150 shall constitute the upper house of parlia-
ment, and thatAhey shall be elected by householders of
every grade, as common councillors are elected under the
municipal bill, with this difference, that the voting shall
be by ballot, and that elected peers shall only remain le-
gislative lords fo'r five years, one-fifth of their number
going out by rotation, and bring elected, or rt,-elected,
as the case may he, annually !
This is atran's House of Lords, Or.,
.a 4 it ought to. be