The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-05 00:00:00

(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)

At an inquest which was held on Thursday attire Green Gate;
before Mr. Baker, but which was adjourned, Mr. Wheeler, whose
house was► that morning burnt down, and at which calamitous
event two persons lost their lives, one Miss Mary Anne Golden,
twenty years of age. a cousin of. Mr. Wheeler, and the other a
servant girl aged about twelve years, appeared before the co--
roner in reference to the inquest upon his unfortunate relative
and the servant.
Mr. Wheeler 'stated that he was awakened that morning
about three o'clock by some water having been flung up at h►s
window, when-he found that his premises were on fire. He
called to the baker who was at the back of the house,-and who
also had been alarmed. He had but a short time to effect his
escape, having to assist Mrs. Wheeler, who was almost over-
come by her fears: .„
Ceroner:::--Is y4'E:bakehouse in your house ?
Mr. Wheeler.—No, at the back. •
Coroner.—ls the bakehouse burnt?
Mr. Wheeler,—ljive not seen it. The ruins'are in such a
state that I cannot get at the bakehouse.
Coroner.—Do.'yott know the orign of the fire?
Mr. Wheeler:—No, nothing of rt. •
juror.--Does'your man know anything of the fire?
Mr. Wheeler.—He was asleep at the time.
Juror.—Who was the person who first alarmed him ?
Mr. Wheeler.—The Young woman who is dead.
Mr. Wheeler then asked the coroner if the inquest would be
held that day ?
The coroner, replied that he had then to attend an inquest at
Mile-end; but, as there were no witnesses to prove how the fire
first broke. out, they might have to cuter into a long examina-
tion to prove that point.
The inquest was then appointed to be held Friday.
On Thursc ay morning, at nine and twelve o'clock, the bodies
of the two unfortunate persons were dug out of the ruins in a
dreadfully mutilated state, and taken to St. Luke's Workhouse
in the City-road.
01•1111• MI! IRMA& • \
GEORGE CANNING.

We have often noticed with pleasure the poems of that ex-
traordinary writer Ebenezer Elliott, a man who Combines the
sternest energies with the most humane, affections, and who can
clothe. both in appropriately forcible and beautiful expression.
He has just published an additional volume, from which we
select a very striking•tribute to the memory of Canning:—
" lie rose—a veteran, proud of honest scats;
He stood—a bard, with lightning in his look;
He spoke—Apollo had the voice of Mars;
His frown all hope from phalaux'd faction took,
While flashed his satire, like-a, falchion bared,
On all who meanly thought, or basely dared,
He spoke and died. :And therefore must the sky
Return to sunless, moonless, starless night ?
And therefore must the hopes of commerce fly,.
To climes unsatrapp'd? Oh, departing
Linger awhile! thy loveliness is might, .
And youth, and glory. Earth, from east to west, • -
Uplift thy multitudinous hands in prayer!
Laugh stormy Russ! to thee the worst is best. ,
Shout, foes of man! the scourge and rack prepare!
But, Erin, there is hope in thy despair. •
And, Freedom! faint not thou,, though Canning dies. •
• Weak is the state, and tottering to its fall •
That on one mind for strength and life relies;
That state shall be an omen unto all
Who stand not self-supported, and appal .
Ev'n tyrants, blindly digging their own graves.. -•
But Freediim's hope, when other hope is nous!, . 1 •
Calm or perturb'd, remains; like winds and waves,
Alike surviving battles lost or won;
More deathless than the. dust of Marathon,"— Times.

LONDON LAW REPORT.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COORT.-THURSDAY.

RaMOYAt. OF A NUISANCE.7-GIIISiELL MARQUIS OF SAL'S-
DO:Y.—Mr. Wright moved, on the part of the plaintiffs, for en
injunction to restrain the Marquis of Salisbury from appropri-
ating the first floor of certain buildings erected by his lordship
at the back of Fenton's Hotel, St. James's street, to the pur-
pose of stabling.• The plaintiffs were the landlords of Fenton's
Hotel, being trustees under the will of Mr. Pete. The bill al-
leged that:the defendant had erected certain new buildings close
to the party wall of Fenton's, and that it was his intention to
domicile horses upon the first floor, the inevitable consequence
of which would be, that the rooms occupied by the horses would
be upcin a level with some of the back rooms of the hotel, which
had always been
,considered by persons temporarily residing
there as the most quiet kind retired rooms in the house. They
also alleged that the nuisance arising from the noise, the smell,
and many other, disagreeable circumstances would be attended
with certain ruin to the establishment, many persons who fre-
quented the hotel having expressed their determination to
remove elsewhere, if the buildings were tenanted in the manner
proposed. It would be much less objectionable, if the premises
were used by the defendant as stables; but, from public notice,
it was too evidently the intention of his lordship to let them.
Mr. Wigrani, on the part of the Marquis of Salisbury, op-
posed the application, contending that it came too late. The
plaintiffs were always aware that it was his lordship's intention
to raise the building that existed in the same spot before higher
for the purpose of receNing the horses on the first floor, and yet
it was not until after the buildings had been completed that they
were complained of as a nuisance. He submitted that no nui-
sance had been
.proved, and that at any rate the court would
permit the experiment to be tried, and not pronounce the occu-
pation of the buildings to be a nuisance by anticipation.
Mr. Knight replied at considerable leng,th.
The Vice-Chancellor said, cases of this description were ex-
tremely difficult to deal with, it being z.o hard to foresee what
the real amount of the inconvenience would be. There had ori-
ginally been stables on the premises in question, and Lord
Salisbury proposed to do that which he had an undoubted right
.to do, namely, to raise those buildings a few stories higher which
were formerly occupied as stables on the ground floor. But it
was said his lordship had no right to occupy the first floor in the
manner proposed, because it would be injurious to the inmates
of the hotel. It did not, however, follow as a necessary conse-
quence, that if the upper rooms were used as stables there would
be such a degree of additional annoyance as in law would
amount to a nuisance. It was ohylous, where the inhabitants of
a large. town lived together in houses so closely situated, there*
must be sonic degree of forbearance towards each 'other. A
person.might live next door to a lady of fashion,..who was con-
stantly M the habit of giving routs and balls, which might be
very annoying to her next-door neighbour,- but he thought,a
patty would have some difficulty to maintain an action against
the lady fora nuisance. His honour himself °nee had the good
fortune to have Mr. St. John Long for a next door neighbour,
who was in.the habit of keeping diseased.. sheep in his cellars, for
purposes unknown to his honour. The pooranimals were bleat-
ing by day and by night—whether it was by way of returning
.thaelts for auy wonderful cures wrought upon them or a prayer
.for their deliverance, his honour would not say; bat certainly
-the noise was incessant. (A laugh.) He felt this to be a great
inconvenience ; but he never publicly complained of the nuis-
ance. It was evident there was a variety of cases in which a
perso's neighbour might legally annoy him, and he must bear
it. It the nuisance in the present case was to arise from the
peculiar use of the stables, before the court could decide upon
the quantum of nuisance it must know what the use really was.
The matter was so involved in difficulty, and was so uncertain
and untangible, that he knew not how to deal with it. The'best
course would be for him to make no order and let the motion
stand over, with liberty to the plaintiffs to ,bring an action at
law when the use should be felt as a nuisance.

Mr. Wig Yam said Mr. Fenton might understand from him
that it was the intention of Lord Salisbury to use the stables
himself.

His Honour said, for his own part, with that assurance he
would as soon occupy one of the rooms at the back of the house
as he Would at the present moment when the stables were un-
occupied.

COMMON COUNCIL OFoLONDON.