The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-10 00:00:00

CONVICTIONS UNDER THE FACTORY ACT.

At the Ulverstone Petit Sessions, held on the 29th ult. before
William Gale, Esq. John Penny Macho', Esq. end the Rev. R.
Graham,—Messrs. Ainsworth and Sous, of Backbarrow, cotton-
spinners, appeared to the notice of Mr. John .1-leatheote, Super-
intendent of Factories, for several offences against the Factory
act. Mr. Ainsworth admitted the cases. Being the second of-
fence, they were fined £lO for not keeping the time hooks; £lO
for working twenty children, under twelve years of age, more
than nice hours per (lay, or forty-eight the week; and £5 for
working several young persons. under eighteen years of age,
more than sixty-nine hours per week. The amount of the penal-
ties deducting the costs, was left in the hands of the magistrates,
to be given to the National School at Haverthwaite.—Mr. l'hi-
lip Hartley, at Ulverstone admitted the charges preferred against
him. Fined £5 forworking young persons, under eighteen years
of age, more than 69 hours per week; and £5 for not taking out
medical certificates for children under twelve years of age.—
Mr. Robert Briggs, of Ulverstone, pleaded guilty. Fined £5
for working young persons more than twelve hours per day;
and £5 for not allowing the regular time for meals, and snaking
false entries to his time book. The amount of the fines, after
deducting the costs, to he divided between the National and
Town Bauk Schools, Ulverstone.

At the Court House, Preston, on the 31st. ult., before the
mayor,.Messrs. Barker and Swainson, of Preston, cotton-spin-
ners, admitted several complaints preferred against them by
Mr. John Heathcote, Superintendent of factories. Fined £5,
and costs, for not having required and received medical certi-
ficates for several children under twelve years of age. The other
charges were withdrawn. The amount of penalty to be divided
between the schools.

At Frome an organised gang of depredators has been formed,
whose principal source of plunder is to rob houses on Sunday
evenings when the inhabitants are absent attending divine ser-
vice.

DUELS EXTRAORDINARY.—;A lieutenant in the navy, while
ascending the river in a steam-boat, became involved in a quar-
rel with three persons from Arkansas, two of them brothers.
He was challenged by one of the brothers, and endeavoured to
" back out," but the other party insisted upon a fight, and a
gentleman volunteering to be second for the officer, they went
ashore to settle their difference. At the first fire the lieutenant
received his adversary's ball in his hip, and asked if he was sa-
tisfied, to which his antagonist replied, " No, not nntil one of
us is killed." They took another shot and the lieutenant's ad-
versary fell dead. His brother then insisted on a fight, which
the second of the lieutenant endeavoured in vain to prevent.
They fired and the other brother was shot dead. The second of
the deceased, becoming enraged with the lieutenant's second,
shot and killed him, and was in turn shot dead by the lieuten-
ant, who was conveyed from the field much exhausted by the
loss of blood, and is now at Louisville, recovering, under the
care of his physicians. Thus four men were left dead upon the
field.—Cincinati P,14.

NOVEMBER 10. 15:35.

DESERTION OF MILITARY Felt TIIE QUEEN 0

SPAIN'S SERVICE.

We regret to have-to-notice that six of the privates of the 60th
Rifle corps, in this garrison, have disgraced themselves by.- de-.
sertion from the service of the King to that of the Queen of
Spain. This discreditable act occurred on Wednesday. They
left the barracks in the morning, and made their way to Cove,
where they joined the 2d, or, as they are called, Queen's Own
British Legion of Lancers, on board the Royal Tar steamer.
which was, we understand, to have this day sailed for Santander.
As soon as this intelligence reached the officer in command, the
Hon. Col. Ellis, he directed Adjutant Townsend to proceed to
Cove, with a serjeant, a corporal, agylTour privates, for the pur-'
pose of arresting and bringing them back. to Cove accordingly
the adjutant and his teen proceeded, and having obtained the
assistance of Deputy Water Bailiff, Captain Storey, they pushed
off in a small boat, for the Royal Tar. Arrived alongside, as'.
if aware of the object of their visit, preparations for resistance
'were immediately visible among the auxiliaries. Mr. Townsend
was told that neither he nor his party would be allowed to go on '
board, and that if they attempted it, it would be at the hazard
of their lives. Mr. 'l'ownsend inquired for the officer in com-
mand, and that gentleman having made his appearance, the ad-
jutant acquainted him with his business. The officer, turning
to his men, reqnested that Mr. Townsend should be permitted
to go on board. This, after some time, was assented to, and
Mr. Townsend went on board and demanded the deserters. The
"Queen's Own" denied that there were any there. He required•
permission to search the vessel, and that the men whoa he had
brought with him should he allowed to accompany him. This
also was assented to, and the serjeant and men went below for
the purpose of instituting the search. On arriving at the coal
cellar, they requested to be accommodated with a light. This
was refused, and they had to grope about in the dark. Tbey
succeeded, however, in finding the men whom they were in par-.
suit of, and drew them one by one from their lurking-place.
They were brought on deck, and handed over to the adjutant,
but no sooner was this done than a most furious and. savage
assault was made on •M r. Townsend and his small party by the.
" Lancers," wire had'armed themselves with staves, handspikes,
iron bars, grappling irons, &c. Their arms were thrown over-
boaad, themselves beaten, one of them flung into the water,
whence he was with difficulty rescued, and the adjutant threatened
with death. Some of the scoundrels *ailed out several times;

" Hang him from the yard arm," and but for the interposition
of their officers, particularly of the serjeant-major, there is lit-
tle doubt but they would have made the attempt. One fellow
struck at him with a grappling iron, but the blow was warded
by a Spanish officer. The serjeant was rut in the temple, and'
one of his party wounded in the head with a bar of iron. For-
tunately, however, they escaped without much further injury,
and having got into their boat, they returned to Cork. Here
they lodged informations of what had occurred, and SheriX
Rogers and W. P. White, Esq., Harbour-master, with party
of the city constabulary under Chief Constable Haduett, ,and
about one hundred of the 60th Rifles and of the 90th Regiment.
under Major Slane, proceeded by the Lee steamer for Cove.
They immediately hoarded the Royal Tar, and commenced a
search for the deserters, but these had been sent on shore in the
interim, and as it was then late in the evening the party were
unable to obtain any tidings of them. They captured. however.
seven of the " Lancers ' charged with the assault on Mr

Townsend's party, and brought them into town. Their names.
are :—Serjeants Thomas Murphy and Edward Ward; Cor-
poral Patrick Ryan; Privates, Patrick Sweeny,, Thomas R,ior-
dau; Michel Donegan, and Timothy Donovan. They are
charged with riot and conspiracy, and have been committed to
to gaol to abide their trial on Friday next before the Recorder.
The Rifles are under orders for foreign service, and this is sup-
posed to have been in some measure the cause of the desertion
of the men.—Cork Constitution.

BANKRUPTCY ANNUITANTS.

The Morning Chronicle of Thursday made an awful mistake
in saying that the bankruptcy annuitants were paid by the public-
We are glad, however, that our contemporary did make thif
mistake, because it gives us an opportunity to call attention to
a Whig job more flagrant in moral turpitude perhaps than any
which disgraces the annals of whiggery.
Unless we could prove the fact by means of unerring figures,
such as that two and two make four, we should almost shrink
from stating it, that the sum of sixteen thousand pounds per ann tea
is whiggisjilv extracted from ruined bankrupts and their credi-
tors under the plea of compensating—that is the word, compen-
sating—the discarded and despised Septuagint, whose miscon,
duct in their office rendered it " expedient "—we use the words
of the act of Parliament—" to provide means of administering
and distributing the effects of bankrupts with as little expense,
delay, and uncertainty AS POSSIBLE!'
Now the old Court of Bankruptcy which was thus declared
impliedly by. the legislature to be dilatory, expensive, and tin-
certain, consisted of seventy commissioners paid by fees, which
fees were always voluntarily paid for some apparent service'
rendered to the parties concerned. In case of dissatisfaction as
to the adjudication of those seventy tierntots, there was aIWY'
an appeal direct to the Chancellor. All this our readers know'
was bad enough, and they also know that we laid the axe to the
root of the tree, and that we did not relinquish our blows until
we felled the monster. But, alas, alas ! how vain are the acts 0
finite creatures. Little did we think that nut of OUP unbounded
desires and unwearied exertions to benefit the community, we
were in fact opening the door for the rush of reform in the shape
of 'compensation money to old commissioners, &c., amounting !c,',
nearly as much to be paid compulsorily as was formerly pad
voluntarily; and that superadded to this compensation money,
there was what Cobbett called a dead-weight of living incubi t)
be paid annually, above twenty-six thousand pounds
Thus the matter stands :

Compensation Money £IG,OOO
Four Judges 9,01X)
Six Commissioners
One Secretary
Two Registrars 1,400
Eight Detiuty Registrars
First Clerk to the Secretary 5OO
Second Clerk to the Secretary 3(t)

£42.'200

Here then--say nothing about the myrmidon-monsters in tho
w shape or nssengers, official assignees, B:32.—Tvb haie' forty"
two thousand per annum, extorted by reform law out of
the wrecks of bankruptcies ! No wonder our vicarious contem-
porary, the Morning Chronicle, wanted to persuade the world
that the public at large bore this burden.
Now we maintain, in spite of all the lawyers in England'.
that the legislature. had no actual or delegateEl power to confis:,
eate the private property of the King's subjects for compensating
discarded judges, whose services, good or bad, in former bank'
ruptcies, had not and could not by possibility, have any refer-
ence to the bankruptcies from which the compensation motif).
is now extorted. And we further maintain that the legislature.
in thus confiscating the private property of the King's subjeet9•
was guilty of an odious and flagrant piece of tyranny. More
anon.—Age.