The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

DR. SEY.—This- reverea entlernin%/ts published
a letter in reference to the late proceedings instituted
against Mr. Ward, in which, after stating that he " signed
the articles it their • literal grammatical sense,' deter-
mined where it is ambiguous by the faith of the whole
Church before East and West were divided." He says :
"The Articles I now sign in the way in which from
Archbishop Laud's time they have been proposed by the
Church; this test I should have to receive, not from the
Church, but from the University, in the sense in which
it is proposed to me by them. Could then ever so much
satisfy myself that I could take the test according to any
general meaning of the words, I must know from past
experience that I should not take it in the sense in which it
was proposed to me.,l could not then take it without a feel-
ing of dishonesty. You will imagine that I feel the responsi-
bility of making such a declaration, knuwing, as I must,
that in case, in the present excitement, the statute should
Pass, younger men, whom it might involve in various diffi-
culties might be influenced by my example, I know, too, of
course, that some will he the more anxious to press the test
in hopes that my refusal to take it may end in my removal
from this place. Whether it would or no I know not.
But, whatever be the resalt, it seems to me the straight-
forward course. It is best in cases of great moment that
people should know the effect of what they are doing. I
am ashamed to write so much about myself, but I cannot
explain myself in few words. What is my case would,
probably, be that of others. It has often been painful to
witness the apparent want of seriousness in people when
things far more serious than office, or home, or even one's
allotted duties in God's vineyard have been at stake. But
people now feel more readily what it is to lose office and
home, and the associations of the greater part of life."
Without stopping to inquire where " the faith of the whole
church" is to be found, we may ask whether if the above
letter means anything, 'it is not this—that if the proposed
statute be passed, Dr. Pusey goes to Rome.

THE COURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
with the infant royal family, remain at Windsor Castle,
in the enjoyment of excellent health, taking their usual
out-door exercise as the weather permits.
The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha,
and the Grand Duke Ernest, of Wirtemburgh, left Wind-
sor Castle on Tuesday, and embarked at Dover for Os-
tend.

It is now positively stated that the accouchement of the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz will take place
at Cambridge House.

LAW INTELLIGEIVCE,

COMMON PLEAS.—ST. STEPHEN'S WALLBROOK.—
Gibbs (Lord Mayor) and another v. Flight and another.
This action, brought on Thursday, to recover possession
of books claimed by the former as churchwardens, and
kept by the latter, who have been also returned as church-
wardens, ended in a nominal verdict for the plaintiffs,
which verdict is to be hereafter turned into a special. case
for the opinion of the court above.
SEDUCTION.—An action was tried in the Court of Ex-
chequer, Dublin, on Saturday week, in which the defend-
ant was a Mr. B. A. Yates, a magistrate of the county of
Kildare ; and the plaintiff a very poor woman, named
Smith. It was an action fur the seduction of the plain-
tiff's daughter, a girl of about eighteen. It appeared that
the defendant had first seen this girl when she appealed to
him as a magistrate to interfere on behalf of her mother,
who was then a prisoner in Naas gaol. The jury found
for the plaintiff, with £3OO damages.
THE ARCHIMEBEAN SCREW.—A very important deci-
sion was given in the Court of Queen's Bench, on the
10th inst., in the sittings at Nisi Piius, at Guildhall,
before Lord Denman. The plaintiff, Mr. Lowe, i,s a
smoke-jack maker, who in 1838, took out a patent for
propelling vessels, by means of a screw working under
water at the stern of the vessel, and the defendants are
Messrs. Penn, the celebrated steam-boat builders. The
nction was brought for an infringement on the plaintiffs
patent, by applying the screw to the steam-boat Infant
Prince. It appeared that, after the plaintiff had taken
out his patent, he in 1839, made various alterations in his
screw; in consequence of a series of experiments, which
he mode on board of the Wizard, at which Mr. Smith,
proprietor of the Archimedes was present; that the Ar-
chimedes was originally built with a whole screw, which
occasioned a disagreeable vibration at the stern, but
which was afterwards got rid of by altering the screw to
an open one. For the defence it was contended that the
invention was not a new one—that it did not differ in
principle from Shorter's patent sculling machine, invented
in 1800; that it was identical in principle and near in de-
tail with Millington's propeller patented in. 1816;
Brown's invention in 1825 ; Trevethick's in 1815, and
Crammerow's in 1829 were also referred to. Mr. Ren-
nie, the engineer, gave his opinion that Lowe's patent
differed in nothing from these; in cross-examination,
however, he stated that in every one of the above inven-
tions the vane was flat, excepting Cemmerow's, which
was for a whole screw, and not for a section of a screw,
as is Mr. Lowe's. The jury retnrned a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages forty shillings.