The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-28 00:00:00

LANCASTER ASSIZES.

A circular has been issuedfroin the prothonotary's office,
containing the following information respecting the arrange-
ments for the next assizes:—

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Prothonotary's Office, June 21, 1833-
The Lancaster Assizes are fixed for Monday the 12th August
next.

Rule day before the assizes, Thursday the 18th July.—Rule
day after the assizes, Thursday the 19th September.
Records to be ordered:—On writs returnable in July, on
Saturday the :3d August.—And on all other returns, on Satur-
day the 27th July, on which day the issues must be made up, if
not already done.—The August return will not be iu time for
the assizes.

The ballot for the order in which the jury process shall be
issued from the Prothonotary's Office will take place at Lan-
caster, immediately after the opening of the commission, on the
evening of the first day of the assizes, as usual.
Declarations against defendants in gaol on mesue process
must be filed on or before Wednesday, 14th August.
In pursuance of the general rule of court of September assize,
1824, the causes at the next assizes will be entered and tried in
the following order:-Ist List, for Lonsdale, Amounderness,
Blackburn, and Leyland hundreds.-2d, Salford hundred.-
3d, West Derby hundred, and places out of the county.
Witnesses in all causes in the first list must be ready to go
into court at the opening of the court on Tuesday morning, 13th
August; in all causes in the second list at the opening of the
court on Thursday the 15th August; and in all causes in the
third list at the opening of the court on Saturday the 17th Aug.

LivEaPoot Docxs.—ln the second Edition of our last num-
ber we gave, under the head of "The TRADE of LivEarooL,"
an abstract of the Dock accounts, which we now have great
pleasure in publishing in au entire form.
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A Comparative Statement of the Rates and Duties received in the

Year ending on the 24th of June, 1832 and 1833.
In the Year 1833, the Duties on Tonnage were £19,558 3s. Ild. ;
Duties on Goods £103,422 I Is. 50. • Lighthouse Duties £8,903 6s. 20.
Floating Light Duties .0,989 14s. lid. ; Graving Dock Duties £2,574
15s. Od. ; Graving Bloek Duties £1,216 10s. 00. ; Extra Dock Rent
£B3 15s. 2d. ; Total £199,748 16s. 7d.
In the Year 1832, the Duties on Tonnage were £74,530 4s. Ild. ;
Duties on Goods £95,517 2s. Od. ; Lighthouse Duties £8,491 4s. Id. ;
Floating Light Duties £3,799 Bs. 6d. ; Graving Dock Duties £2,773
19s. Od. ; Graving Block Duties £l,lOl. ls. Od. ; Extra Dock Rent
£202 ills. 3d. ; Total £186,415 9s. 9d.
Increase on Duties on Tonnage £5,027 19s. Od. • Duties on Goods
£7,905 9s. sd. ; Lighthouse Duties .C 412 2s. ld. ; Floating Light Du-
ties £l9O 6s. 50. ; Graving Black Duties .Cll5 9s. Od. ; Total £13,3;33
Gs. 100.

Decrease on Graving Dock Duties £199 4s. Od. ; Extra Dock Rent
£llB 15s. Id.

In the Year 1833, the number of Vessels were 12,954.—Tonnage
1,590,461.
In 1832, the number of Vessels were 12,928.—Tonnage 1,540,057.
Increase in Vessels 36.—Tonnage 50,101.

IMPORTANT CASE.—On Tuesday week, Benjamin Johnson,
John Suthers, James Suthers, Joseph Whitely, Saml. Crossley,
William Dean, and Charles Dean, were brought before, the
magistrates, John Waterhouse, Esq. and George-Pollard, Esq.,
charged by Mr. Bernard Hartley, manufacturer, with having,
after contracting with him to serve him exclusively us weavers
in the weaving of certain woollen goods, absented themselves
from their service before the contract was completed. The
charge was laid upon the statutes of the 4th and 10th of his late
Majesty. Mr. Stocks appeared for the defendants, and con-
tended, on the authority of the act of 17 Geo. 111., that such a
charge could not be brought unless the defendants had absented
themselves for eight days. It appeared, however, that the pos.
terior statutes above mentioned, on which the charge was laid,
contained no such provision; and that the act of Geo. 111. was
referred to in the last statute merely for the purpose of describ-
ing the kinds of workmen to whom it was applicable. The ma-
gistrates expressed their conviction that the defendants were
liable to the statutory punishment of three months' imprisonment;
and, as the evil had risen to a height whice threatened the most
serious consequences to the manufactures of the country, they
declared their determination to inflict the full punishment of the
law. In consideration, however; of the defendants having fa-
milies, the magistrates were induced to commit. them for only
two months. We sincerely hope that this example will serve as
a warning to those who are deduced or intimidated .by the
Trades Unions into an abandonment of their duty.—llistifax
Guardian.
The Newfoundland papers furnish further particulars of' the
loss of the Lady of the Lake, as given by Mr. Wright, one of
the passengers. It appears that the number of passengers and
crew on board was 231 souls, and that about five o'clock in the
morning of the 10th of May, the ship came to the edge of a
large held of ice, about 250 miles east from the Cape St. Francis.
The captain, expecting to make his way through, held on un-
til about eight o'clock. when, finding the ice to thicken so as to
impede his progress, he put about, and had nearly returned to
the edge of the ice, when, about half-past nine, the vessel had
three timbers of her starboard bow forced in by a piece of ice,
and the water rushed in so violently that in 20 minutes she sunk.
'When the state of the vessel was -nown, the captain is said to
have lost all presence of mind and to have made no further ex-
ertion for her preservation. The mate used every effort to stop.
the leak, and finding all fruitless he ordered the boat to be
lowered, when the rush was so great that she swamped and
righted and swamped again, when numbers peritled. The
third time about 30 persons, including the captain, got in
and succeeded I •leaving the . vessel. n the mean time the
mate and one seaman iuceeded in gettine, some beet' and a com-
pass into the stern boat, which put off, numbers getting iu,
and she had not proceeded far when the vessel turned over in
the water. The manner in which those remaining in the boats
were picked up is already known, to which we may add, that
when the long. boat fell in with the wreck of the Harvest Home,
the 18 men lest by her on it, finding a boat, lowered it, and were
Ultimately rescued by the Messenger, of Torquay, With the ex-
ception of five who were drowned in attempting to follow the
captain from the wreck. The folloWing is a statement of those
saved and lust. • Twelve saved in the long boat, eight in the
stern boat,
.thirteen iu the boat of the Ilarvest Home, cue
picked up by the Lima; total, thirty-four saved, anti one La-
u:fedand ninety-seven perished.
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CLEgGY I'E mioN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.4NDJRD.

Sitt,—ls it
_possible that you can hie been correctly informed
respecting the individual alluded to in your-2st, who, if he
really has done what is imputed to him, has forfeited'ad—Claidi
to professional respect, by intruding hiniseli. into an assembly
of his brethren, soiely, as it should seem, to betray their cont.-
den ce and bely,their actions' •
You might have added, that the natural reason for- pacing
the petition (Which had only been -engrossed that' morning) in
the vestibule at the TownXall was uot, as.has been basely in-
sinuated in the enemy's paper, to solicit subscriptions, btlt only
to save the clergy wh; dined there the trouble -of th'e
Blue Coat Hospital to sign it,- as was agreed, 'mi.& following
day.
Charity still induces me to hope that the anenymons'llheller
who furnished the newspaper you quote from,- wiih ,i,ts two
editions of falsehood, cannot be IL Clergy:min; and that we have
not in the town one of those men who, from disappointed
hope or. mortified ambition, wish to cut down the tree which
they have not ability to climb, and, despairing of promotion by
honourable means, blunder on in awkward Struggles !to' make
friends of the mammon orunrigbteousness, but blunder in vain.
Both sides will repudiate them. Rats are always loathed as
well as hated: renegades .never. prosper: " ill birds" are a
proverb of reproach: Judas, it is true, got, his thirty pieces of
silver, but he went and hanged himself ; and. the -clerical.
Judasses of the present day will not even get' the silver they
bargain tor. The priests of their temple will take good care
that there shad be no treasury from which they can be sup-
plied.
As for the petition, respecting which the Radical papers have
told nothing hut falsehoods, ii happens drolly enough not to be
against, but,/or the ministerial measure. Ministers have very
wisely decided to fulfil its most important prayer, namely, ii,;t
to " apply church property to any -_other than church 'pin-
poses, and, therefore, any poor man- who abstained from sign-
ing the petition because he was afiaid of affronting ministers,
has built his house on sand.—Yours, &c.

.A.NGLICANUS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.IND.IRD.

Sin,—The presentation, by Mr. Ewart, on Monday week, of
a petition to Parliament, stated to be from the merchants. and
shipowners of Liverpool, praying for " the removal of all re-
strictions upon the importation of sugar for the purposes of
refining," is a bold challenge indeed of the powers and spirit
of the British colonist to defend himself from such unheard-of
innovation, and, as if another successive and more fatal blow,
added to the many so recently received, was meant to be aimed
at his rights and privileges as an English subject, so that he
now left only to determine whether he will be a passive specta-
tor of the threatened spoliation and complete destruction of his
rights and fortunes, or he will stand forth manfully to contest
and defend the same with his utmost powers. lie ought, with
the privileges and liberty of an Englishman, firmly but respect-
fully to appeal to the King, Lords, and Commons, that with due
regard to the inviolable laws over which they preside, and
under the assurance whereof be has embarked his money and
exerted his every energy in colonial property and trade, they
would enforce and unalterably preserve the same to protect hint
from injustice and oppression, when, there is no doubt, his voice
will be heard, his wrongs considered, and Justice will lift aloft
her balance to determine his rights; and, though she be blind-
fold, will nevertheless perceive the precise moment when to
arrest and prevent the attempts and progress of Injustice front
overwhelming him.
It does not., in my opinion, require great penetration to trace
this petition to its prime source. The refiners have evidently
been its authors, to whose schemes only a certain class of mer-
chants and shipowners, interested therein, would be induced. to
concur and co-operate to promote. Ministers will not fail to
discover that the object of it is very circumscribed, and that, if
accomplished, it would mainly and almat exclusively benefit
the refiner, to the manifest injury of the British sugar planter,
the demand for whose produce would be lessened in the direct
proportion to the quantity of foreign sugars which shall be
admitted to be imported at an equal rate of duty. Besides, all
other considerations apart, the toreign sugar grower has many
colonial advantages, so well known that I need not enumerate
them here, which enable him to bring his produce to our mar-
kets at much less cost than the British planter can possibly do;
therefore, unless government can place its own subjects on an
equal footing with the foreigner in those respects, it would be
extremely unjust to allow the latter to import at the same duty,
and thus to wage a ruinous competition against our own colo-
nists.

There is something very specious in the statement made by
Mr. Esvart, in presenting this petition, that the colonies do not
contribute any thing to the revenue of, but are a burthen
this kingdom. This assertion, if true, though I believe it would
be falsified in every way, by officially financial documents,
cannot promote the object of the refiners, would only prove
that, like all .our foreign channels for British enterprise and
manufacture, it has been the policy (good or bad) of this coun-
try to purchase such markets tar the support of our trading in-
terests; for the employment of the operative, merchant, ship-
owner, and all that follow in their train, with their various
ramifications. For our colonies, and to protect our foreign
rights and trade, did not. Nelson fight and die, exhorting and
exclaiming to his tars, " England expects every man to do his
duty?" and for that end did not Wellington wield his sword
and vanquish our foreign foes ? And are we now, in order to
foster the interests of .a few sugar refiners, to relinquish all our
foreign possessions, whereby the sugar trade has been created,
that gave birth to the sugar refiners ? Ay, thus ungratefully
would they trample on the authors of the prime source of their
wealth, (which, be it. considered, they may be too soon and too
rashly spurning from them,) and would suffer them, their pos.!
sessions, and investments, to be ceded to or become the unpro-
tected prey of America, France, Spain, or some other more
powerful and ambitious candidate fier their dominions. Na-
tional policy forbids it.
These petitioners stultify themselves; for whilst they pray
that Parliament, in legislating for,,the benefit of the slaves,
would also consider the future welfare of the labouring popula-
tion at home, who are dependent upon foreign commerce for
daily bread; they (hypocritical philanthropists !) at the same
time insinuate that the foreign commerce of the British colonies
is not worth retaining or preserving.
The forcible simile you used of the Whigs is very applicable
to the said petitioners, " that some persons would" burn down
their neighbour's house to roast their own eggs." Ido think
that ministers are, by their blind mal-legislation at home for
the colonies, kindling a fire to roast all the addled eggs they
are hatching.—Yours, &c.
Liverpool, June 24, 1833. A JAMAICA PLANTER.