The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-18 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPT BUSINESS

FRIDAY Sarramnza. IS. Jeoutt
THOMAS CROqTOIN painter, seennd meeting. tante Clarendon
Rooms, at E ll

A circular has been issued by Lieutenant-General Sir H
Vivian, Master-General of the Ordnance, to the commanding:
officer of each re4irnent of artillery, permitting a certain num-
ber of non-commissioned officers and privates, who may he dis-
posed, to enter the corps of artillery to beattached to the British
auxiliary force going to Spain. Their discharges are to be lint-
chased by Lieutenant-General Evans, and on rctnro from the
expedition the men are to be reinstated in their original rank
in the British service. The division of artillery in this garrison
has received an intimation to the above effect.—Limerick
Chronicle.

THE ITINERANT M.P. FOR SHEFFIELD.—GUILDFORD, SEPT.
12.—Mr. Buckingham, M.P., the itinerant lecturer, made his
first appearance on our boards on Thursday night, having been
engaged by a mechanics institution at a liberal salary, for three
nights' performance at our theatre. However, Mr. B. did net
draw. We regret this on account of the funds of the institu-
tion; yet it is gratifying to recollect that at previous lectureson
scientific subjects produced by a similar institution the house
presented bumpers. Mr. Buckingham on making his entree
was introduced to the audience by a vice president, which the
M.P. expressed himself grateful for; intimating that without
such an introduction the audience might possibly not he induced
to believe so great a personage had honoured them by exhibiting
himself. He then occupied twenty minute's in-yintlicetion of the
appearance of a senator as a Public' paid-seerturer. Barristers,
he said, were hired to speak, atui-freVquently neglected their par-
liamentary duties Cot tkeihirofessional. They were, he added,
paid for telling lies, but be was paid for telling truth. at was
saiktirat some wag here cried out "Query?" but we believe this
statement to be like much of the lecture—imayin.zry.) Some
of the audience were disappointed at not seeing Joe Hume and
Roebuck, one of whom it was expected would have sung between
the acts "Travellers see strange sights, they say." 1: was also
reported that Dau,,the big beggarman, was to appear as money-
taker, but he was not there.—Surrey Standard.
IRON Gic.—On Wednesday morning on elegant new sheet-
iron gig, built by Messrs. Reid and Hanna, and fitted up by
the Messrs. Walker, was lowered by a crane into her native
element. She is for one of the Irish canals, and was to be
towed over to Dublin by the St. George steamer. Including six
inches of a keel, she draws between eight and nine inches wa-
ter. A few feet of het forecastle is roofed over with a sheet-iron
eana:py, in prevent the escape water iot the locks from getting
aboard, and the stem. is neatly shielded with several layers of
cork to act as a fender between it and the look gates. Her sides
and roof, instead of being covered, like the gigs heretofore fitted
up with cloth, are covered with sheet-iron, the reason of which
is, that the thoughts of bearing any unpleasant degree of heat in
a boat with canvas sides and canopy, only bad the effeet, like a
lock upon leather, of making an Irishman's knife laugh.—Glas-
you, paper.

SINGULAR INSTANCE OF SENSIIIILITY.—An instance of ex-
treme sensibility, which undoubtedly caused the perpetration of
suicide, occurred in this neighbourhood on Saturday. A weaver
named Jonathan Chadderton, and living at Pailsworth, had a
family of six children, the eldest of whom was a girl named
Phcebe, about eight years of age, of a very active and lively dis-
position without the slightest approach to reserve or sullenness.
About lialf-past eleven in the forenoon she was sent by her mo-
ther to a shop in the neighbourhood for twopennyworth of pota-
toes, and returned in about twelve minutes, in company with a
man named William Lane, who inquired- train her parents the
amount of money given her. He was told twopence, and he
then said that the girl had been charged, by his daughter, with
stealing a halfpenny from her, and that he had followed and
also charged her with taking it, and that, on taxing the girl
with the theft, she said to him that rather than ne charged with
such a thing she would give him a halfpenny from the twopence
and take home only three halfpenny worth of potatoes. She
then thre.w.a halfpenny to him, on which he went to inform her
parents. After relating this story the halfpenny was offered to
Lane, but he threw it back upon the floor, insisting hewould not
take it, and went away. When he was. gone Chaddertou
charged his daughter with taking the halfpenny from Lane's
child, but she resolutely denied it. He theo asked her, by way
of reproach, why she had.tbrown the halfpenny to Lane, and at
the same time gave her a slight blow with the palm of his hand.
She still denied taking the halfpenny, and lin. father, by whoin
she had never been beaten, then threatened to beat her if she
did not confess the truth. She still declared her innocence, and
Chadderton went towards his loom, observing that he would
look farther into the matter. But before he went to his work
he gave her a halfpenny to take to Lane's child, and, repeating
his conviction that she was guilty, requested her to return im-
mediately: She went away but did not return that night, where-
upon, her parents being very uneasy, search was made over the
whole township, but without the slightest prospect of success.
'Ou Sunday night, however, it occuried to a man named Dun-
kerlev to examine a pit in a meadow about two hundred yards
from •Chadderton's house. Drags were procured.and about tea
o'clock at night, after throwing them in several times, the body
of the unfortunate girl was,drawn out. On Tuesday an inquest
'on view of the body was held by W. S. Rutter, Esq., when the
facts above stated were detailed, and the jury, under all the cir-
stances, returned a verdict of " Found drowned."—Man.

A MARRIAGE FEE IN FARTHINGS.—A few mornings ago a
voting man named Saunders, a constable, belonging to the K
-division of police, presented himself, with a young woman
whom he was about to make his wife, and three or four friends,
at the altar of Stepney Church for the purpose of being mar-
ried. The rector, the Rev. Dr. Barnaby, baying ascertained
that the bans bad been
,regularly published and that DO objec-
tion was offered to their union, proceeded with the solemn cere-
, mony and married the voung couple. As soon us the Rev. Doc-
tor had concluded, and'a regularregistry had been made, Satin-
ders drew front his pocket a canvass bag, and having untied the
string emptied its contents, 432 farthings, on the vestry table,
observing at the same time that' his reverence would find it all
right. The rev. gentleman, who, es well as the clerk, appeared
semewhat astonished at the circumstance, asked Saunders what
he meant by such conduct, and told bins that, as a.policemani he
should have known better. Saunders replied that he did not
think there was anything censurable in his conduct in what he
had done. He added, that while courting the young woman
whom he had then made his wife he had made up his mind to
get married as soon as he could save up in farthings as much as
would pay the marriage fee. Immediately after forming the de-
termination, he commented nutting by all the farthings which
came into his hands in the way of business, and having ascer-
tained that he had acquired the requisite number, he bad the
haus published. Dr. Barnaby made some objection to receive
his fee in such a shape; but Saunders observed he could not see
how he could object to that which was a current coiu of the
realm. The rev. gentleman, finding that he was not likely to
get any other, requested Saunders to count it ; but he refused,
saving that he had counted it already more than 100 times over
acid therefore felt convinced his reverence would find 9s. or 432
farthings, in the parcel. The bridegroom with his bride and
friends then, left the church.—Rvening paper.
ANECDOTE OF LORD EXMOUTH'S COURAGE AND H 1.41,1..
istTV.—ln her next cruise, the Indefatigable nearly lost her
gallant captain. On the 31st of Augast she had strong pies
and squally weather, the wind flying round from W. by S, to
N.H. S.E. and S.W. In the afternoon the weather moderated.
The ship bad been hove to under a close-reefed main-topsail,
with the top-gallant yards down, the sea running very high,
and the ship pitching much. It was Sunday, and the captain
was at dinner with- the officers, when a Bustle was beard on
deck. He ran instantly to the poop, and saw two men in the
water, amidst the wreck of a six-oared cutter. One of the tackles
had unhooked, through a heavy sea lifting the boat, and the man
had jumped into her to secure it, when another sea dashed her
to pieces. The captain stepped into the gig, which was carried
ever the stern above the cutter, and ordered it to be lowered;
and though his officers urgently dissuaded him from so dangerous
an attempt, he determined to hazard it. At this moment the
ship made a deep plunge aft, the boat was stove, and the captain
left in the water. He was much hurt, and bled profusely, for he
was dashed violently against the rudder, and his nostril was torn
up by the hook of one of the tackles. But his coolness and self-
possession did not forsake him, and calling for a rope, he. along
himself with one of the many that were thrown to him, and
cheerfully ordered those on board to haul away. As soon as
possible, the jolly-boat, with an officer and crew, was hoisted
out from the booms, and fortunately saved the men. This was
the third time within the present year that Sir Edward had
risked his life to save others. While the ship was being fitted
out, he had been instrumental in saving two lives at Point
Beach, A short time before she sailed, and while she was lying
at Spithead, the coxswain of one of the cutters fell overboard.
The captain ran aft, and was instantly in the water, where he
caught the man just as he was sinking. Life was apparently
extinct, but happily it was restored by the went! means. Perhaps
no man has oftener distinguished himself in tbis manner,--morons
Wee: Life of Lord Exmouth,

.1 .1,11,1 ICA l'.lP

RESIGNATION OF LORD SLIGO

A rumour has been abroad stating it to be the intention of
his Excellency the Marquis of Sligo to resign the administra-
tion of the government of this colony, so soon as the ensuing
session of assembly shall have terminated. Whether this be
the fact or not, we cannot positively assert. We arc of opi-
nion, however, that should the marquis resign, the government
of Jamaica will he admiuistere4 by Sir Amos Norcott. We
believe it is thn intention of the home government to have a
military man at the head of affairs in this colony, and not
again appoint a eit•iliarl thereto should the marquis deem it
proper to resign.—Royal Gazette.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.—TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1835.
The Speaker took the chair at three precisely, and having
.acquainted the ht, 4,e that they had met according to the go-
vernor's proclamation, appointed Messrs. King and Guy a com-
lathes+ to acquaint his Excellency therewith.
Shortly after the provost marshal general appeared at the
bar, and in his Majesty's name summoned the house to appear
'at the council chamber. The Speaker, preceded by the mace,
and followed by the members, proceeded over to the council
-chamber, when his excellency was pleased to deliver the follow-
ing speech.
Gentlemen of the Council,
" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly,
" Being aware of the personal inconvenience to which many
of vuu might be subject, by being called together at a period
of the year usually devoted to private business, I postponed to
'the present time your meeting, in the hope that the termination
of the crop in most parts of the island might obviate, in a great
measure, any injurious results in consequence of your absence
from your homes;—the necessity, however, for the re-enact-
ment of certain expiring laws, and the consideration of some
new measures of much importance, render further delay im-
possible.
" The bill establishing a permanent police and the first act
in aid of the abolition law expiring on the last day of the present
year, it is advisable that you should reconsider them.
It is with pleasure that I feel myself enabled to state, front
the reports which I have received, that the police has attained a
degree of efficiency not to have been expected in so short a time,
and without the assistance of inferior officers acquainted with
military discipline, or with the habits which are usual to similar
bodies `other countries. Had provision been made for the
suppoit of that force for a longer period, I could have procured.
either non-commissioned officers from the regiments of the line
in this colony, or other persons front England, duly qualified to
organize it. I have used every exertion in vain to obtain such
assistance, but I am -bound to state that notwithstanding this
disadvantage, the police has been of such great public utility as
to render its continuance absolutely essential to the preserva-
tion of tranquillity, and 'he maintenance of proper discipline on
estates. The law having taken away front the master the coer-
cive posirer be formerly possessed, it is necessary to replace it
by one more suited to the new condition of the working classes,
That this body has acted efficiently in the suppression of those
monetary ebullitions which have occurred, and which are inse-
parable from so great a change in the frame of its society, as
that which is now going on in this island, you will see by the
papers which I will cause to be laid before you.
"The only new measures I would at present propose to you
are an act for the legislative union of the Caymanas with Ja-
maica, aud an act for the encouragement of immigration. The
recent change in the relative positions towards each other of the
two classes of his Majesty's subjects, resident at the Caymanas,
and the absence of any legally constituted government, renders
it expedient that those lands, hitherto considered as dependen-
cies of the colony should be admitted to a share in its repre-
sentative privileges and be governed by its laws.
An act relating to immigration appears to be absolutely ne-
cessary. The frigbtful mortality and other circumstances at-
tendant on the *e!fforts which have been made for the introduction
of immigrants, are ton well known to You individually to need
any enumeration front me. A provision for their reception,
protestion, and the due enforcement on both sides of the ar-
rangements made between them and their employers, will, I
imagine, be deemed by. you to be requisite.
" I trust that the legislature will feel the necessity of coming
to some determination on the subject of my right of access to
the correspondence between the commissioners here, and the
island agent in England. You will feel, I am confident, that
the strong opinion which you will find in a future message, to
have been expressed by his Majesty's ministers, under, as is to
be supposed, the highest legal authority of the right of the go-
vernor of Jamaica, to order all such correspondence to be sub-
mitted to him, being at complete variance with the decision of
the commissioners, is entitled to tour most serious considera-
tion.

" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly,
" The principal point to which I must direct your attention,
as guardians of the public purse, is a grant for the continuance
of the permanent police. I am aware that the vote for this pur-
pose weighs heavily on the finances of this island; but it has
become a most advantageous arrangement in a pecuniary poiut
of view, it being only in consequence of the provision made for
the support of that force in its present efficient form, that I have
hitherto been enabled to postpone calling on you for the fulfil-
ment of the solemn engagement of this .colony to provide sub-
sistence fot his majesty's troops forming its garrison ;_ and you
will be pleased to learn that the sum I have hitherto drawn for
is considerably below the amount of your estimate.
" Gentlemen of the Council,
" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly.
" I sin happy at finding myself enabled to state, that this
Island remains in the most undisturbed tranquillity. Wherever
rumours of any discontented feeling have reached me, I have
taken prompt measures, and, where necessary, by the timely ex-
hibition of force, shown that l was prepared fur any einergeucy.
It affords me much pleasure to assure you, that the effect of the
precantionary steps of different sorts have proved in every in-
stance to be most satisfactory.
" The crop of this year has been got off in avouch more fa vour-
oble manner than could have been anticipated, consideriug the
extraordinary change which has taken place in the social ss stein
of this colony; that it has fallen somewhat short is undoubtedly
true, as I fetid by referring to the Custoruhouse returns (one of
which, from A,nnotto Bay, I have not yet received) that up to
the Ist of July 1835, 68.001 hogsheads of sugar have been
shipped, showing a diminution of 4,444. or about one-sixteenth
in comparison with the previous year ; but as I have not heard
of a single instance of any canes remaining uncut, this diusinu•
lion is to be attributed more to the failure of the produce of the
canes, in consequence of the weather, than to any want of sutil-
cieut labour to take them off.
"With regard to the approaching crop on the coffee pro-
perties, it appears likely to be most luxuriant, but the prepara-
tions for next year on sugar estates are not generally as for-
ward as usual. From the inquiries, however, which 1 have
made, though many are certainly rather backward, the average
condition is far better than I anticipated, having always consi-
dered the success of the next crop to he much less certain than
that of succeeding years. I still, however, hope that the desire
for gain on the part of the apprentices, which must promote a
spirit of industry, will enable the managers to make up between
the present time and the commencement of crop for the defici-
ency which now exists. I am happy to be enabled to inform
you that so general is the habit of working fur wages, and so
very few the instances where it has been roused, that the idea
once generally entertained of the apprentices being likely to
decline labouring at all in their own time must be abandoned.
" That a considerable change in the mode of beneficially ma-
naging properties has taken place is most certain—that a much
greater change will be found by experience to oe aecessary I
have no doulit, and it is my duty to impress" it on you. The ob-
servations I have made of adjoining estates producing such dif-
ferent results, convince me that the success or failure of the
' new system must in a great measure depend upon the mode of
administration which is adopted ; a plan of management which
was perfectly suitable while the slave law was in force, must
from the diminished number of legal hours of labour, and the
absence of coersive power in the acting managers, be relin-
quished, and one more suitabl i to the present time substituted.
It affords me the greatest satisfaction to be able to state that
this chance hay been adopted in a great number, I trust I may
say in a majority of estates, and that evident signs of mutual
good feeling and mutual confidence have lately appeared where
that system has prevailed. I trust that this precious germ will
be carefully nuitured, as its benefits begin to he experienced,
and that in the end I shall not find myself disappointed in the
favourable anticipations I still maintain, and which 1 have been
so happy as to feel myself on several occasions completely war-
ranted in communicating to you."
Copy of the speech of his Excellency the Governor, presented
by the Speaker, and on being read by the clerk, a great sensa-
tion was produced in the house—mauy passages created laugh-
ter, and drew forth loud cries of" hear, hear," the whole being
in direct variance with the knowledge of the house.
Dr. Whittaker moved after some preliminary observations,
that the speech be referred to a committee of the whole house.
The (louse having gone in committee, the subject of his
Excellency's speech was freely canvassed. Many members
proposed that the only answer to bis excellency should be,
that the house sate nothing in his excellency's speech of such
importance, buts.what might have been brought forward at the
usual session.
Mr. Speaker hoped the house would pardon him for interfering
in the debates of the committee, but perceiving that they were
about to depart from the usual course of proceeding, he felt
it his duty, after having been called upon so to do, to offer his
opinion as regards the manner in which the house should pro-
ceed.- Honourable members had thought it necessary before a
committee was appointed to draw up an address in answer to
his excellency's speeehe that the house should go in committee
on the subject, bet if that unusual course was obliged to be
adopted by the house, on account of the very extraordinary
character of his excellency's speech, yet it was necessary that
they ehonld not depart any further from the established customs
of ihr house. -There—was a-especial k.uowledge in the other
branches of the legislature, of the customs and rules of this house,
from which we were not suddenly to deviate. On the topics
embraced in the opening speech of his excellency, he would have
no opportunity of giving his opinien in the house ; he therefore
felt happy in doing so now. Exclusive of the question whether
the manner proposed was constitutional or not, he saw no cause
why au explicit ceii s are to all t he items in his excellency's speech
shenlil lie othdpenell. As regards the propriety of his excellen-
cy's calling the house together at this unusual time, he had
his own opinion spots that; there wag undoubtedly nothing in
his excellency's speech which justified his resorting to such an
unusual measure ; it would be therefore necessary that the
house should freely express their opinion on that subject. If
this is to he taken es a precedent for calling the house together
in July or August, without a clear case being made out of the
necessity that existed for doing so. well may honourable mem-
bers expect to be dragged from their homes at the mere will
soil pleasure sod the caprice of the executive; he therefore re-
commended that in some shape or other they would express the
regret they felt et the inconvenience themselves and the
country had been , put to lay the unusual calling of the house.
There ought to have been a clear case made out by his excel-
lency, of the emergency which required the house to be called
together et this period of the year. In this case, where no pre-
cedent could be shoe n for the unusual deviation from establish-
ed Limoges, it was the duty of bis excellency to show that there
was some particular emergency or cause which made it neces-
sary fur him tit depart out of the usual course • but was that
the case? Was there one single thing which justified it?
No. Ile hesitated not to say, and lie thought he was
borne out in opinion by . almost every member, that his
excellency's case bad completely fallen down. Unless, there-
fore, the house expressed their free opinions on this im-
portant subject, it would be a pretext in future for the
goveruor, if he be so disposed, to appeal to this case for
the exercise of his prerogative. Ile hoped the house would
agree to answer the speech clause by clause in the usual man-
lier. When he considered the pretext on which the house was
celled ,together, lie was fully justified in his observations. It
did not requite much reflection to perceive that the speech was '
not intended to produce any effect in this country; it was in-
tended to abuse the minds ot the people of Eneland. This was
the proper time, in order to have the desired effect of deceiving.
the people at home, that the promulgation of such assertions
as were contained in his Excellency's speech should go forth,
as it was fur the promulgation of those assertions in the most
official shape that the house was how called together. Every.
hon. member of this house, and every man connected with the
working of the syStem, was capable of flatly contradicting
every assertion contained in that speech.—Far be it from him
to impute any imprster motive to. his Excellency. Far be it
(torn him to offer tiny observations %shish might be thought dis-
respectful to the executive. He did not mean to accuse his
esseellepcy of .wilfully endeavouring to impsse" upon this

house, or to deceive the people of England ; but he would
unhesitatingly assert, that his excellency has been entirely mis-
iuforuied ; he hid not the least dhulit that his excellency had
been governed by information which he received from his crea-
tures, and which be had embodied in the address, now the sub-
ject of debate. In referring to that part of the speech in which
his excellency stated that the system was working so well, and
that the island was in a most tranquil state, his honour imagined
that there was not a man who did not look upon the last year of
the apprenticeship, but as upon the last year of the existence of
the country. There was a very important subject contained in
the speech, and that was the recommendation of some sufficient
measure for the importation of emigrants. However desirable
it might be for the house, and advantageous to the colony, that
men capable of keeping up its cultivation should be imported,
yet he saw nothing in that measure that could not just
as well be brought forward at the usual time. He did not
see one single subject of consideration that might not have
been delayed for three months longer—then when the house
would have been called together fur the purpose of raising
the supplies of the country, honourable members would have
been prepared with double information on every subject pro-
posed. Under these circumstances he considered it dangerous
to leave this speech unanswered. Were the house even to lose
sight of the principle of their meeting in their unnacustouied
time, it would be necessary that the people in England should
know the true state of the country in the same official form by
which it had been misrepresented. Every enquiry should be
instituted into-the allegations made by his excellency, and com-
mittees appointed to conduct those enquiries. He did not mean
that the house should wait fur the reports of those committees,
but it was necessary that investigation should he proceeded with.
It was certainly not desirable that the committee, which will be
appointed to frame the address, should deviate from the usual
manner of wording similar addresses; but if it pleased his excel-
lency to step out of the usual form, it became the house to state
the inconveniences which they suffered, and the difference of
opinion which they entertained on every topic embraced in his
excellency's speech. He did not think a necessary to address
the house at any further length, but he would merely observe,
that, should the address be longer than usual, it must be impu-
ted to the circumstance of his excellency's speech embracing
subjects which are not usually to be found in the opening speech-
es of governors generally; added to which was the fact of the
unusual course which his excellency had pursued.—He hoped
that the committee would be appointed, and that they would
proceed to frame the address dispassionately.
The chair having resumed, the report was read, recommend-
ing the house to appoint a committee to prepare an answer to
his excellency's speech.
The following gentlemen were then appointed a committee,
.viz.-111essrs.Whitfaker, Hyslop, Cox, ltslais, Bravo, Barclay,
Berry, Penton, and Leslie.

LORD BROUGHAM, EX-CHANCELLOR.

7'o THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST✓IND.IIWD,

Sic,--1 have read a paragraph in the last Liverpool Mercury
in praise of Lord Brougham, showing that none of his decisions
have been reversed, the celerity with which he despatched the
business of his court during the time he presided in it, and con-
veying a reflection upon some of his learned predecessors who
have sat in that court touchiog the " immense" mass of cases
which have been disposed of. It is quite early enough for his
lordship's decisions to be revised by a superior tribunal, if any
of them are of sufficient importance to justify the expense; and
I think I shall he able to prove that his celerity in deciding has
neither redounded to his lordship's credit, nor been satisfactory
to those who are best qualified to form a judgment on the sub-
ject, and that his lordship is not entitled to any merit on the
score of having decided an " immense" number of cases. 1
will commence with,Messrs. Deacon anti Chittv's reports of
cases decided since the Bankruptcy Court act, (a bantling of his
lordship's, and the first in order is "Ex-parte Lowe re Aaron,
Westmi r Hall, 20th January, 1832." The question in this
case w bather since the Ist and 2d William IV., c. 56, an
original petition in bankruptcy was to be heard before his lord-
ship, or before the judges of the Court of Review, and his lord-
ship spoke as follows : •
Loru Brougham.—" 1 have no doubt whatever upon the
question. The authority of the new judges is exclusive. *
I have come to this conclusion, not without due deliberation, nor
without competent advice. The new judges have the authority
out and out. * * I shall make, however, no order upon the
subject. All that I shall state decisively is, that I have no juris-
diction in the inciter now submitted to me."— Vol. 1, page 31.
The•sanie point as to the jurisdiction was shortly after this
decision argued more fully before Lord Brougham and the
Vice-Chancellor, by Sir Edward Sugden and Mr. Montague,
in " Ex-parte Langston re Hardy," and two other cases, in
Lincoln's Inn Hall, on the 18th February, 1832, when an order
was made directly the reverse of the opinion above expressed.-
1 Deacon and Chitty, nt supra.
In this volume of reports there are 146 cases reported, of
which Lord 13roughain has decided only six, and the Court of
Review the remainder. Two cases out of the six were of great
importance to the mercantile world, and yet his lordship gave
no reason for his judgments.
In the second volume of the same reports there arc 138 cases
reported, of which Lord Brougham has decided only two, and
the Court of Review the remainder. In one of these the report-
ers say, " This part of his lordship's judgment which relates to
the return of the dividends appears to be rather ambiguous. *
* There is no express determination by his lordship of the
second question proposed by the special case. * * It is really
very difficult to discover upon what principle this part of bis
lordship's judgment is founded. Conciseness proves sometimes
as perplexing as diffuseness. The reader cannot fail to remark
in the report of this case a striking contrast in those qualities
between the judgment and the argument. This, it must be ac-
knowledged, is somewhat a reversal of the order of things,
according to the former system of bankri!ptcy reporting, where
the argument is given so briefly, and the judgment so much at
length. In the present instance. however, the authors must
plead not guilty to any wilful departure from the ancient prac-
tice."

In the other of these two cases his lordship made an order,
that the parties should forthwith proceed to a trial at law upon
certain issues, and his lordship
_Himself set out the issues to be
tried. On the 15th August, 1833, Lord Brougham gave judg-
ment and said—" The frame of the issue which I directed in this
case appeal: not to 'have been distinctly understood by the
learned judge who tried it;" upon which the reporters remark,
that " It may be permitted to observe, nevertheless, that the
terms'of the issue are, to say the least of them, wrapped up in
somewhat of an ambiguous phraseology;" and they proceed to
show that the learned judge who
.tried the cause told the jury,
" that the terms of the issue did not covrey the seal facts and cir-
cumstances which the Lord Chancellor wished to lie tried."

In the third volume of the same reports there are 158 cases
reposed. out of which Lord Brougham has derided only five,
and the Court of Review the remainder. In one out of the five
the report occupies.barteen pages, and the judgment five liars.
It is in these. words :

"Lord Brougharn C.—l think there is more in this case than
there appeared to be to the judges of the Court of Review. But
it is more a question of fact than of law; and. upon the whole, I
agree with them, and dismiss the appeal, but without costs."
The reporters of this case then state, that they are indebted to
Messrs. Itlonta-,ue and Birth for this summary account of the
judgment. " But they cannot help suspecting (to use the lan-
guage of the Lord Chancellor) that there must have been more
in the judgment than appears in this rep.rt. If his lordship
thought that this appeal involved 'more a question of fact than
of lao',' it seems rather extraordinary that the appeal should
nut, on this ground alone, have been dismissed with costs,—a
decision which would have been more consistent with the third
section of the Bankruptcy Court act, which limits the appeal
from the Court of Review to matters of law and equity, or the
refusal or admission of evidence only."-3 Deacon and Chitty,
Wt.

Here in these three volumes are 412 cases in bankruptcy, of
which Lord Brougham has decided 13, being exactly 1-34thpart
of the whole. It is, therefore, manifest that the bankruptcy
business is literally transferred to the Court of Review, and
decided there, whereby an "immense" mass of labour is taken
from his lordship's court.
I have taken a volume of" Buck's Reports in Bankruptcy"
decided during the time of Lord Eldon. It contains 193 cases,
out of which Lord Eldon decided 84, besides being frequently
consu:ted by the Vice-Chancellor, as appears from several of
the cases in which his honour gave judgment.
1 have also taken the second volume of " Glyn and Jameson's
Bankruptcy Reports," in which are 119 cases, of which Lord
Eldon and his successor, Lord Lyndhurst, decided 52.
Note the difference. One-half (within a fraction) of the
bankruptcy cases has been decided by Lord Eldon and his suc-
cessor, and one thirty-fourth part by Lord Brougham. These
are facts, and, as I have given the data, those who feel inclined
may examine them. After Lord Brougham's ungentlemanly
attack on Sir Edward Sugden, it is well known that be left his
lordship's court, and practised nearly altogether in the Vice-
Chancellor's, whither all the heavy and important business fol-
lowed him. These causes, therefore, co-operated to leave Lord
Brougham little or nothing to do, and account fur his jfirdahiE'lS
boast that he had not one case waiting for his decision. .13n
munch for the non-reversal of his lordship's judgment; so much
for his lordship's celerity in despatching business; and so much
for the "immense" number of cases decided by his lordship.
Liverpool, Sept. 16, 1835, G.

POLLING AT ELECTIONS.—A bill has passed both houses to
limit the time of taking the poll at contested elections of mem-
bers to serve in parliament to one day." This bill authorizes
the privy council, on requisition from five justices of the peace,
or from the high sheriff, to appoint additional polling places,
for any county or division of a county, and authorizes the jus-
tices of the peace, at the Michaelmas quarter sessions, to divide
such county or division into districts, and to assign one to each
polling place, so as to provide for additional polling places. In
cities atrit. tmrotrgheritre-peritiug be-vet:mese. ea eight o'clock
in the forenoon of the day next following the day of nomination,
(unless such following day be Sunday, and then on the Mon-
day following) and the polling to continue during such one
day only, and not to be kept open later than four in the after-
noon. On the requisition of any candidate, or his proposer or
seconder, the puffing booths to be so arranged, that trot more
than four hundred electors shall be allotted to each booth. The
oaths of allegiance, abjuration, and supremacy, not to be re-
quired of any elector. In case of obstruction to the poll by any
riot or open violence, the poll shall be adjourned at the polling
place where the disturbance takes place, to the next day, and,
if necessary, shall be further adjourned until the disturbance
shall have ceased.

AN INSTANCE op LORD EXMOUTH'S EXTRAORDINARY BOLD-
NZSS.—On the 1 I th of October the enemy were discovered, drawn
up in a strong line across the passage between Valicour, one of
the numerous islands On Lake Lehamplain], and the Western
land; and so well concealed by the island that the squadron had
nearly passed without observing them. They had fifteen vessels,
carrying ninety-six guns, fourteen of which were eighteen-pound-
ers (eight of them traversing), and twenty-threetwelves.
Gene-
ral Arnold commanded. The Carleton, being nearest to the
enemy, attacked at once, without waiting for the rest of the
squadron, though her force was only twelve six-pounders: Un-
fortunately, owing to the state of the wind, no other vessel could
come to her assistance, and she was obliged to engage the whole
force of the enemy single-handed. Sir Guy Carleton saw her
desperate position with extreme anxiety, but it was found impos-
sible to bring up the squadron, and he could only 'end in the
artillery-boats to support her. Meantime she was siiffering most
severely. Very early in the action Mr. Brown lost an aim;
and soon after Lieutenant Dacres fell, severely wounded and
senseless. lie would have been thrown overboard as dead, but
for the interference of Mr. Pellew, who now succeeded to the
command. lie maintained the unequal contest till Capt. Prin-
gle, baffled in all his efforts to bring up the squadron, made the
signal of recall; which the Carleton, with two feet water in her
hold, and half her crew killed and wounded, was not in a con-
dition to obey. In attempting to go about, being at the time
near the shore, which was covered with the enemy's marksmen,
she hung in stays, and Mr. Fellow, not regarding the danger of
snaking himself so conspicuous, sprang out on the bowsprit to
push the jib over. The artillery-boats now took her in tow,
-while the enemy maintained a very heavy fire, being enabled to
bear their guns upon her with more effect, as she increased her
distance. A shot cut the tow-rope, •and Mr. Fellow ordered
soma one to go and secure it; but seeing all hesitate, for indeed
it appeared a death-service, he ran forward and did it himself.
'I he Carleton was then towed out of gun-shot, haviug, with the
assistance of the artillery-boats, sunk the Boston, a gondola,
carrying an eighteen-pounder and two twelves; and burnt the
Roy.ll Savage, of twelve guns, the largest of the enemy's schooti-
ers:----From Osier's Life of Lora Exrnuatls.

i .

FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1835.

Our Demerara files reach to the 28th July. The co•
luny is quiet, but crime continues to increase.
We have also received Jamaica papers to the late date
of the 9th of August. The House of Assembly met on
the 4th, when the session was Opened by a speech
from the governor, Lord SLTGO, which created an
extraordinary sensation in all who heard it. Several
members openly declared that it contained misrepresen-
tations of a very serious nature, calculated to mislead
the government at home and the people of the mother
country. We cannot make room for all the proceedings,
but we have given at full length, under the Jamaica
head, the speech of the speaker of the House of Assem-
bly. It will be read with considerable interest.

A very interesting work has just issued from the press
It is entitled a The Life of Admiral Viscount EXMOUTH,
by RICHARD °sum, Esq." The character of the gallant
officer, who rose from the humblest to the highest station
in the service, is one of the noblest and most enviable
we ever studied. A high sense of honour, a keen per-
ception of right and wrong, a vigorous regard for truth
and justice, and a strong love of country, were almost
instinctive qualities in the mind of Lord EXMOUTH. He
was at the same time mild, generous, benevolent. He
had no patron in elevated places—no peer to push him
forward—no friendly commissioner to help him on. He
was too proud to seek favours; too much imbued with
conscious rectitude, and too confident in the integrity of
his intentions and the power of his resources, to doubt for
a single moment that his country would acknowledge
whatever merit he might possess, and do him justice for
whatever braYe and noble actions he might perform.
Lord ExmoUTH therefore depended entirely upon him-,
self. He drew his sword in the cause of his king and
country, and fought his way to renown. He captdred the
first and finest French frigate in the revolutionary war,
and he had the singular good fortune of recapturing the
first Pritish frigate taken by the French. He was ac-
tively engaged during the whole of that stupendous con-
test, and gloriously signalized himself in the last naval
victory of his country at Algiers. We call that the last,
for the affair at Navarino, in which that empty headed
person Sir EDWARD CODRINOTON is said to have distin-
guished himself, in conjunction with a French fleet, can
hardly be called a victory. 'Certainly it was not a glori-
ous one—it was not even an honourable one—it was
more an act of cruelty, piracy, and injustice, than a vic-
tory—for it was gained over the force of a friendly ally
who had never injured or insulted England, and it gave
to Russia the conquest of Turkey, and the sovereign
command of the passage to the Euxine.
In short we have seldom read a more delightful or in-
structive book. It is impossible to mark the early career
of the hero and follow it to its final close, without feeling
proud that Lord Exmounr was an Englishman. He
possessed all the sterling qualities of a British sailor.
He loved his king—he was ardently attached to all the
institutions of his country. But it is not only as an able
officer that we admire Admiral Lord EXMOUTH : he was,
besides, a consummate statesman. His views of foreign
policy were uniformly acknowledged, by the government
he served, to be'sound. He was frequently consulted,
and his advice was in numerous instances adopted. His
sentiments on domestic affairs were equally well consi-
dered. At the time when the French threatened to in-
vade Ireland, and make that island the means of hum-
bling the pride and power of England, many men, but
men of superficial minds, as events have proved, pro-
posed to avert the consequences of invasion by conciliat-
ing the Roman Catholics of Ireland. In other words,
they imagined that by granting concessions to popish re-
bels in correspondence with the French Directory—by
yielding to the DOILES, MURRAYS, and O'CONNELLS of
those days—England would be spared the trouble of
chastising the insolent republicans on the western waters
of the 41,teF island. Lord EXMOUTH thoroughly de-
spised these narrow, -4410, ;Ind ignorant views of policy.
We call them ignorant, because they were mere shifts,
evincing a total disiegarcl of historical facts, of the un-
compromising principles of popery, and the infarnOirs
designs of that pestilent and popish party in Ireland.
The biographer gives us Lord EXMOUTH'S opinions on
concessions in these remarkable words:—

" Lord Exmouth held a very decided opinion on this point,
and foresaw that strong coercive measures would become ne-
eessary iu co.useaLenee.„Re _welt 10.e.w. how:aeble JED* I€ 9.
the restraint imposed by any conditions contemplated by the ad-
vocates of change; and, in allusion to the remark of a noble-
man of the highest rank, who had expressed a belief that he
would think diffirently when he saw the securities which would
accompany the concessions—' Securities!' he said, it is all
nonsense! I never yet could see them, and 1 never shall!"
While the question was in progress he wrote—' The times are'
awful when the choice of two evils is left, a threatened rebellion
or the surrender of our constitution by the admission of catholics
into parliament and all offices. 1 think even this will net satisfy
Ireland. Ascendancy is their object. You may postpone, and,
by loss of character, parry the evil for a short space, but not
long, depend upon it. You and I may not see it, but our
children will, and be obliged to meet the struggle man to man,
which we may now sithk. By God alone can we be saved from
such consequences : may He shed his power and grace upon us
as a nation !' "

Were truer or more prophetic words ever uttered by
mortal man ? At this very moment, not much more than
six years since these concessions were granted to an in-
solent faction encouraged by the whigs, the people of
England are already engaged in a desperate struggle
with popery. The struggle of "man to man," which
Lord EXMOUTII spoke of, has not yet begun ; but who
can tell whether it may not commence before the expira-
tion of the next twelvemonths ? For many years the
most lawless agitation has prevailed in Ireland. It is
the work of the priests and their hireling desperado,
DANIEL O'CONNELL. It has, we grievously lament to
say, been tolerated by one section of the government and
encouraged by another. One minister has looked si-
lently upon it, and another has favoured it with smiles
and cheers of approbation. One administration have
resorted to the law-in.order to suppress it; but when the
guilty and infamous incendiary, the ruling fiend and the
principal murderer, has been within their grasp and at
their Mercy, they have changed their minds, allowed the
law to expire, and the criminal to escape. The criminal

TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

should have expired in %indication of the law, not the
NW for his protection.
However, in these few years we have lost.man of the
-safeguards of our institutions. The ministers- of the
Church of England—the teachers of our pure faith—ttfe
expounders .of the word of Goo—the meek distributors
of charity, in imitation of the good Samaritan, to those
who are weak and those who mourn—have been assailed,
in that part of the empire where their duties are most
onerous and their ministrations most requisite, in the
most ruthless and savage manner. In their homes they
have no security ; at the altar they are not safe; on the
highway, in open day, when the blessed sun shone upon
their gray halts as if it came from the gates of heaven,
they have been murdered—foully murdered— by incarnate
fiends, the auxiliaries of the Church of Rome. Oh GOD!
that such revolting deeds of blood should happen in our
day, and no arm raised, no sword unsheathed, no red
hand uplifted to avenge the crime! But this is Ireland
near the middle of the nineteenth century. The dirndl
is bespuiled before our eyes, and we remain passive spec-
tators. Popery rides triumphant on the whirlwind, and
for innocent blood there is no avenger. The poor curate
is robbed of his pittance; the rector and the vicar dare
not collect their tithes. The law is laughed to scorn ;an
unprincipled demagogue rolls in affluence upon the spoils
of crime, and drives amid the fair fields of England with
his chariot wheels oiled with the blood of protestant vic-
tims. He is not content with divided power—he is not
satisfied with a reasonable or equal participation in the
rights and privileges of Englishmen. He demands uni-
versal power—supreme power in Ireland—more power
than the King of England—and because this is refused
bYthe nobles and aristocracy and the people of England,
he pursues a course of malignant persecution against the
destitute and defenceless protestant clergy of the sister
island. They groan under the terrible visitations of his
malice, and we feel for them and sorrow over their mis-
fortunes from the bottom of our hearts; but an awful re-
sponsibility attaches to the people of England. O'CoN-
NELL and the priests are the vile instruments—the people
of England are the consenting parties, answerable for all
the wickedness. They have the power to punish the
guilty men ; it is their duty to arrest the progress of
crime, and do battle for the slain; but, alas, they stand
aloof and look on In stolid apathy, like men whom some
overwhelming judgment has totally bereft of under-
standing.

To show that the ministers of the protestant religion
in Ireland have suffered and continue to suffer from the
unhallowed and merciless persecuticn of the popish
priests and their mercenaries, we borrow an extract from
the eloquent speech of the Rev. Mr. O'SuLuvAN, deli-
vered at Hereford only a few days ago:—

" Shall we look at one of the pictures on which these friends
of the human race may be supposed to dwell with so dignified a
resignation and composure ? It is the home of a persecuted
minister of the church in Ireland, one whom evil days have
overtaken and found, inaemporal matters, unprovided, because
he had never hoarded, except as he may have thought in the
morning as of those who tasted his bounty, whatever of income
strict economy had set apart as a surplus. He has been now
for some time under sore affliction. The external appearance
of the house shows you that it had once had little embellish-
ments of taste, which are now going to decay. We pass into
.the chamber where the sufferer has withdrawn to solitary
prayer and meditation. The shelves and presses, and a few
books still remaining, show you that this had been a library.
There is an open letter lying on that table; it tells that the last
day has come on which payment of an assurance can be legally
tendered. It is a sore calamity that he cannot meet this de-
mand. Ile had adopted every practicable retrenclimen..—he
had recalled his sons from literary studies—given up for a time
the effort to continue their instruction, and availed himself of
their assistance to till the ground, and procure by the labour
of their hands some scanty sustenance, by which life could be
painfully protracted. Until this distressing day, by much self-
denial and strenuous exertion, he had been enabled to lay up
that provision which was to relieve his widow and children from
the most appalling evils of orphanage and destitution. As a
last resource, he has been walking even to the houses of his
merciless debtors, soliciting that as charity they will succour
him. He has felt that the ban is in force against him—that the
anathema is its operation—looks of stern defiance, averted eyes,
brief or contemptuous refusals have told him that here there is
hope. He has communed in the solitude of his chamber
vith.hia heart, and is now still. He is on his knees, and the
prayer of the meek sufferer is silent resignation—he feels and
looks the prayer—' thy will be done.' (Loud cheers.) We
will look to another part of the picture—another stage in the po-
litical experiment. The wife and daughter of this sufferer are
scared from the air and light of day—if they presume to go
forth, brows scowling menace, words of disgusting import drive
them.back affrighted to the sad shelter of their home. The
shelter is now a prison. Look in upon those female forms—
fears and privations have marred and wasted them; but the
contumely from which they have hurried to escape has sent a
flush over each faded countenance. The suffering father
scarcely can retain composure as ho struggles to console them—
his words of hope and encouragement, the counsel to be of good
cheer, the assurance that England will not much longer permit
afflictions like this to continue, fall tremulously from his lips,
and have lost the power to call up in answer looks of even
counterfeited expectation. Shall we not congratulate the sub-
lime philosophy of the man who can tranquilly meditate on
hundieds of cases like this? (Much cheering.) I will not ask
you to go with me through all the chambers of affliction; but
we must proceed to another stage in the experiment. The ve-
nerable minister of the gospel has been permitted to suffer as
much preliminary affliction as cruelty in Ireland or pious spe-
culations here hold necessary. He is now to be dismissed to
his rest—not with the stern mercy in which justice gives a de.
linquent to death—not with the sudden destruction in which the
passion of revenge pours out the storm of its fury—he is not shot—
he is not with one fierce stroke smitten and cloven down—no;
there is a malignity which thirsts for more prolonged enjoyment ;
life must be drained from the victim by drops. It is the broad day
—passengers are on the way side—husbandmen busy in the
field—the venerable minister is walking slowly, for he is feeble,
and he has been visiting in the abode of sickness, and is pon.
dering thoughts which are congenial to such ministrations; his
abode is in sight, but his murderers are arosind him ; there is no
rage in their looks, but there is the cruelty which knows no re-
mission. I will not dwell on the picture, nor show you the
mangled form in which life lingered, nor speak of the anguish
and agony in which the martyr was mourned. liut another
stage must be noticed, because it teaches the result in which the
costly experiment may be expected to issue. (Hear, hear.)
Now, it might be presumed, the tormentors are satisfied, ven-
geance has been slaked, and the great truth that the blood of
martyrs is the seed of the church shall be confirmed in the con-
version of those who persecuted him to the death. The broken-
hearted widows, the desolate orphans are assailed with bowlings
and menace. Philosophers may come to witness a new pheno-
menon. A family of helpless females whom murder had reft of
their best earthly protection, whom literal, and, so far as religi-
ous distinctions are concerned, undiscriminating charities had
made poor, dared not go to seek an humble asylum in a less
barbarous land, without an armed escort; and could not pro-
ceed,wheu this strong guard kept sanguinary violence from
their persons, without having their ears shocked and their
hte it ifs To-riit-y Cala and conturiliiiioui ferllitigi. This is tieio
-helpless females, known in happier days more by their readi-
ness to do deeds of mercy than by outward trappings of wealth
and place—thus persecuted in their affliction. (Hear, hear.)
But all must be endured to promote the great experiment.
do not think converts are ever to be made to protestautism
merely by tormenting its professors. It is very difficult to be-
lieve that those who command the resources of the government
can entertain any such expectation, or that while they sec na-
tures so changed by acrimonious bigotry as to retain no pill.,
they can hope by indulging their malignity with spectacles of
distress, they can appease and win them. (Cheers.) Nor bad
they to look abroad for manifestations of this mournful and
humbling perversion of the human heart. They were brought
home to them here, to their doors, exhibited among the ale-
gancies of their literary enjoyments. If you were familiar with
representations of the state of society in Ireland, I might with
much boldness appeal to you whether I have, in the slightest
degree, exaggerated the sufferings to which many faithful minis-
ters are exposed, or added a single incident to the story of their
. afflictions."

Is there a human being who has any sense of justice,
or any feeling of pride, or any love of country, or who
has sipped a single drop at the sacred fount of christia-
nity, who can look upon this picture of misery andcrime
without shrinking from its agonies—without feeling his
blood boiling within him ? If there be such a man we
have no pity for him. He can be no christian. lie is a
monster, who--•

"- Doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile earth from whence be sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung."

Now return we to the Whig missionary O'CONNELL.
We have shown what this wretch has done in Ireland.
He has lived up• n the plunder of his poor deluded and
enslaved countrymen for many years. Under the fright-
ful denunciations of a fearful religion, the mite- of the
widow and the last farthing of the dying pauper have
been wrung from them to enable O'CONNELL and his fa-

roily to live: in splendour and enjoy
.all the- luxuries of
the Britisii metropoliw. He Ireland a land of po-
verty, and he has made it a land of crime. He has in-
creased to alleinotis extent the demoralization of a peo-
ple whom he professes to adore, and fleeces ►►nder the
pretext of securing to them rights which they can neither
understand nor enj ry. He calls himself the advocate of
the poorer classes, but let facts bear witness. He de-
clared that the forty shilling freeholders of Ireland were
a corrupt body, who abused their franchise and could not
be trusted ; and he consented to disfranchise them on
`condition that the scoundrel who libelled them should ob-
tain a seat in the British Parliament. There, owners of
cabins and a few acres in Ireland, this is your champion!!
Here is a man who calls himself your friend! Go back
a few leaves in his blotted book, fit emblem of his cha-
racter, and strive to remember what he has said and done,
and compare these with what he has the insolence and the
impertince to say now. But mind this. He has, by the
assistance of the priests, robbed you of your last. penny.
You that are poor he has disfranchised. He has set you
in array against your landlords, and you are starving.
He has imposed upon your good nature and your credu-
lity, taking 'immense pains to arouse your passions and
your prejudices in order that he might.plunder vim more
effectually, and leave you his dupes when he had extorted
all that you could or were inclined to spare. He has not
left you an ounce of salt to flavour your potato-6. In
some districts you are suffering all the pangs of famine;
but DANIEL, take our word for it, would not regorge a
single doit to save you from perishing from htinger. In
short the Irish rent has begun to decline, and he has
turned to the richer pastures of England in, the hope
he rna,i, levy a tax commensurate to the .defalcation on
the Irish catholics located in this country.
Roman Catholics of England, therefore, take care of
your pockets ! For every vulgar and brutal oration which
he delivers here, you may depend upon it you will be
called 'upon to pay. You have more spare money than
your brethren in Ireland, and he calculates upon a cor-
responding alacrity on your parts to replenish his family
bag—the bag of JUDAS filled to betray. It is more than
probable that O'Connell's present travelling expenses
are paid out of the secret service money ; but he will
not be contented with this. The sedition and the treason
he labours to inculcate must yield a more profitable re-
turn, otherwise he will spurn you as base-born, polluted,
and heartless Irishmen, contaminated by Saxon society.
With respect to O'CONNELL himself, and his English
and Scotch mission, we take leave to treat it on higher
grounds: The pretext that he is invited to dine at cer-
tain places is simply a falsehood. The invitation is part
of. the.plot originating with himself. The priests mar-
shal the way; the people he addresses are unknown to
him ; he is merely the wild beast of a caravan which the
mob flock to gaze at ; and when they come before him
he deluges them with ruffian invectives against the
higher orders—against the peers whom he hates--
against the protestant gentry whom he fears—against
Protestants of all classes whom he derides and calumni-
ates. He is, wherever he goes, unattended by a single
person of the slightest pretension to respectability. All
his supporters right and left are unknown men. The
keeper of a gin-shop is called an Esquire--a fellow who
retails poisonous beer is called an Esquire !—acontractor
for coffins and shrouds with the poor-law commissioners
is called an Esquire !—the stoker of a steam-mill passes
for a gentleman, a blackleg for a patriot, and a pig driver,
fresh from the shambles, plays the part of JEREMIAH
11/MILLIGAN, late M.P. for Waterford !• Who is Mr.
CATON of Liverpool ? Who ever heard of C. J. S. WAL-
, RER, Esq. ? What is he ?—where does he live ? He
may have indeed a local habitation and a name; but of
the two hundred other persons, said to have been present,
we defy the friends of O'CONNELL to point out one who
belongs to any other than the lowest class of people in
Manchester. To go below this is impossible.
The mendacious mendicant professes to instruct the
people who constitute his audience. Whether any of
them can read it would be bold to affirm, but that not a
score of them are conversant with the co►nmonest events
of history is made manifest by the vulgar liberties which
O'CONNELL was permitted to take with facts without
being kicked out of the room. He is represented as hav-
ing addressed the following remarks to the meeting :

" When the royal power was too strong for the people, and
exercised itself in attacks upon the subjects at large, the lords
then made common cause with the people, because :here was, to
a great extent, a community of grievance and suffering. The
kingly tyrant was put down ; but another equally great was set
up. Cromwell, a special humbug—a sort of Peel in his way—
he assumed supreme power, and set up as great a tyranny as
that which had been abolished. The restoration came next, and
James, the son of him whom the people had beheaded, after-
wards mounted the throne, and was guilty of the most abominable
treachery. But the people did not behead him; they had be-
come better instructed, and they IA his foolish head upon his
shoulders, allowing him to wander about Eur4e, a specimen of
the folly of trying to make the people slaves. (Hear.) Aud will
not people take a lesson from this ?"

• DANIEL forgot to tell the persons who listened to him
that JAMES the SECOND was a bigoted, sullen and treache-
rous papist, and that it was the attempt on his part,
aided by a popish faction, to restore popery to these
realms, that led to his expulsion from the British throne.
Had O'CaNNELL confessed the whole truth he would have
caused some astonishment in the room, and perhaps a few
of his hearers would have exclaimed, " NV hy, you yourself
and your priests are doing the same thing that JAMES did
and failed : and failing saved his head but lost his crown."
The interruption would have been pertinent and salutary ;
for what is the sole object of the agitator and his -agita-
tions but to extirpate the protestant religion in Ireland,
revive the mysteries of Roxanism, and give to the popish
priests unlimited power in that country. But as DANIEL
was not so interrupted we are warranted in concluding
that none of his audience were conversant with the subject
he had alluded to. How much better he will fare in the
north a few days will tell.

We have at length been favoured with a copy of the
act of parliament for the Regulation of Afuniczpal Cor-
porations in England and Wales. Tile short time it
has been in our hands has only enabled us to glance cur-
sorily at its numerous and important provisions. Of
course its application will be different in different bo-
roughs, for powers and privileges are reserved in some
places, which either did not prevail or are abolished . in
others. We have consequently confined our attention
to the principal enactments which have reference to the
inhabitants of Liverpool. By a clause in the bill the
'Privy•Couneil are—em Powered to' fix certain day in'the-
present year, other than those specified in the bill, for
carrying some of its provisions into effect, • particularly
the elections. of the new municipal authorities, and this
power, as probably most of our readers know, has al-
ready been acted upon. For instance, the clay of elect-
ing councillors has been postponed from the Ist Novem-
ber to the 26th December, 1835, the election of alder-
men from the 9th November to the 31st December,
1835, and the election of mayor from the 9th November,
1835, to the Ist January, 1836.
This, then, is tolerably plbin. In future years the
first mentioned dates will be the days of the several elec-
tions. Having cleared away the rubbish which clogs the
bill at the very outset, we shall now endeavour to give
our readers a short outline of the new municipal consti-
tution of the corporation of Liverpool.

Ist.—The boundaries of the borough are those which were
fixed by the commissioners under the reform bill; and, on or
before six weeks after the passing of the present bill, the borough
is to be divided into sixteen wards, each ward returning three
common councilmen. This gives for Liverpool fort-eight
councillors.

2d.—These councillors are to be elected annuallq by the
burgesses in their respective wards. A burgess must be a per-
son of full age, not an alien or pauper, who has been rated to
the poor of the parliamentary borough for three years, and he
must be either an inhabitant householder within the parliamen
tary borough or within seven miles of the same. The old free-
men or burgesses have no elective rights under this bill, They
can only vote, as new burgesses, by virtue of residence and
being rated to the poor as above described.

3d.—The councillors so elected are to remain in office for one
year. At the expiration of the first year, one-third of their
whole number, or one councillor for each ward, must retire
from office, and new councillors are to be elected in their stead.
Those who retire at the end of the first year are to be those who
shall have had the " smalle4 number of rotes in the present year."
Those who retire at the end of the second year are those who

SEPTEMBER 18, 18:35,

stialtlia7;e bad. " the next smallest numbers of vote's ; and those
who retire at end of the third year are those who shall have
been " for the limyest time in office without re-electicm.'t
_Where
any two or three or 'tore councillors have the same number of
votes, the whole council are to decide who are to retire and who
remain.

4th.—There are to be sixteen aldermen—one for each ward.
These are to,he el4.4`ted by the councillors, not by the burgeises,
and they are to remain in office for six years, with this differ-
ence, that the council is to decide who shall or shall not re-
tire at the end of three years. The councillors can vote a
moiety of the aldermen out of office at the expiration of three
years; the other moiety remaining for six years. if the council
do not expel them at these stated periods, they will be alder-
men for life. The councillors can elect the alderinen, as above
restricted, either limn their own bodS., or from the burgesses
eligible to be councillors; but we have been unable to find any
clause which provides fur a new election of councillors, sup-
posing the council should elect the aldermen from their own
body. The bill is consequenily defective in this respect.
sth.—The Mayor is to be elected annually by the aldermen
and councillors, and be must Le either an alderman or council-
lor. The mayor will be ex officio a justice of the peace and
returning officer for members of parliament; but the aldermen
are not invested with any judicial functions. Existing mayors
and councillors are to go out of office on the election of the coun-
cillors under this act. The council are to appoint the town-
clerk, treastire'r, and coroner, but they are not to be members of
.the council. The recorder is to be appointed by the crown.
The King is to have the appointment of all justices of the peace
for the borough; but those who are at present justices for bo-
roughs are allowed to exercise all the powers which they had at
the time of passing of this act, and to continue to do so until
the Ist day of May next, but no longer.

Gth.—Reservation is made in favour of the old freemen of all
rights of property, rights of commons, and beneficial exemp-
tions, to be continued to their wives and children, provided the
children were horn on or before the sth of June last. The old
freemen, too, are--to enjoy the privitegd of voting for members
of ptirliament the same as if this bill had not passed.

7th.—Any burgess under this act who may have house, ware-
house, counting-house, or shop in the borough, and stands rated
to the poor for three years, must vote in the ward where his
rated property is ; ' but, no matter what is the amount of his pro-
perty, he is only allowed one vote.

Bth.—On the Ist day of March, 1836, and in every succeeding
year, the burgesses of every borough are to elect from the per-
sons qualified to be councillors two burgesses who are'to be
called auditors of the borough, and two more burgesses to be
called assessors of the borough, who are to continue in office un-
til the Ist of March succeeding. Besides these auditors and
assessors for the borough, thus popularly elected, there are to be
additional assessors for every ward! It is enacted, that on the
Ist of March in every year the electors of each ward shall sepa-
rately elect two assessors for the ward, and the alderman and
his two assessors are to have the same power in his ward as the
mayor and his assessors will have in towns where there are no
wards.

9th.—The qualification for mayor, alderman, and councillor
in Liverpool is possession of real or personal estate of the value
of one thousand pounds, or being rated at £3O annual value.
It is, however, enacted " that if any person holding the office
of mayor, alderman, or councillor for any borough shall be de-
clat ed bankrupt, or shall apply to take the benefit of any act for
the relief of insolvent debtors, or shall compound by deed with
his creditors, such person shall thereupon immediately become
disqualified, and shall cease to hold the office of mayor, alder-
man, or councillor as aforesaid, and the council thereupon shall
declare the said office to be void; but every person so becoming
disqualified, and ceasing to hold such office on account of his
becoming bankrupt, or of his applying to take the benefit of
any act for the relief of insolvent debtors, or having compounded
with his creditors as aforesaid, shall on obtaining his certificate,
or on payment of his debts in full, be capable (if otherwise
qualified) of being re-elected to such office.

10th.—The council are empowered to take under their manage-
ment the watching, lighting, paving, cleaning, the sewerage, and
fire-establishment of the borough, the several local acts apper-
taining thereto being repealed. The present board- will, of
course, be abolished.

11th.—The mode of granting and continuing leases is to remain
as at present.

12th.--The expenses of all elections, the salaries of stipendiary
magistrates, recorders and coroners, and other subordinate offi-
cers, the expenses of prosecutions at the assizes, and a portion
of the expenses of county prosecutions, are to be defrayed out of
the corporation funds; and should these not be adequate the
council are empowered to impose a rate lima the burgesses.
13tb.—Burgesses are qualified and liable toserve on grand ju-
ries in the borough, and also upon juries for the trial of all is-
sues joined in any court of quarter sessions of the peace, and in
any Court of Record for the trial of civil actions triable within
the'borough. All chartered exemptions from serving upun ju-
ries arc abolished.

14th.—In cages in which corporations possess tilvowsens, or
the right of presentation to any benefice or ecclesiastical pre-
ferment, every such advowsou, and every such right of present-
ation shall be sold at such time, and in snch manner, as the
ec-
clesiastical commissioners appointed by his Majesty may di-
rect; provided always that any case of vacancy arising before
any such sale shall have taken place and been completed, such
vacancy shall be supplied by the presentation or nomination of
the Bishop or Ordinary of the diocese in which such preferment
is situated.

These, as far as we have had leisure. to examine the
bill, are its most important provisions. Property gives
no qualification, et'en though the person holding it be
the highest rate payer in the town, unless he be an." in-
habitant householder" within the borough, or within
seven 'biles of the borough. It consequently excludes
from the council the present mayor, several gentlemen
of great respectability, and not a few wealthy patriots
who were great advocates for the measure, who lifted their
sweet voices in its favour in Clayton-square, but who
never dreamt' that Lord .TorrN, its parent, would treat
them in so invidious a manner. There are some provi-
sions relative to charitable bequests, and trustee-ships
of considerable importance, which we have passed over
altogether, not being able to render them intelligible to
the general reader. We have seen enough of it, how-
ever, to convince us that it will lead to much confusion
if not to endless litigation. In this respect it is a wind-
fall to the lawyers—perhaps it was framed on purpose.
We shall return to the subject.

LONDON LA7'EST NEWS.

City, Wednesddy Evening, Half-past Seven ()Work.

The reported defeat of Don Carlos (for after all it is only
one version) has had but slight effect on the Spanish securities,
for the bonds, after being at 4O ft, left off at 398, and the scrip,
after being 201 discount, closed at 201 discount.
Our English stocks remain remarkably passive; but money
is scarce for commercial purposes, which -causes a degree of
heaviness in foreign bills, 16 to 18 being the premium. Con-
sols for account left off at 901 g, and omnium at 31 pin.
Portuguese bonds are, for the 5 per cents., at 85i, and the 3
per cents. are 56. All the republican bonds are steady, but
with little doing. Chilian bonds are 39, Colombian bonds are
31, and Mexican 36 to 37.- The advices from Mexico are very
favourable.

The various northern bonds are steady at 101-1 for Belgian.
1.022 A is the quotation for Dutch 5 per cents., and 54i that of
the 2A per cents. •
Other securities remain within a fraction of the quotations
at our last communication.

Immercial intenie,P,ace frotuatio..JaDeiro states. thalthere
had been much activity in coffee in that market. The accounts
from Europe were considered unfavourable, and the business
done hid been chiefly confined to the markets of the United
States. There appears to have been exported this year to the
United States, up to the 30th June last, 100,201 hags against
41,67(1 during the same period last year; and to Europe 154,826
bags against 'L3.3,503 bags in the same period last 'year. The
export of sugar to the 30th June this 'ear was 5,611 cases, and
to the same period of 1834, 9875 cases. The export of hides to
the same date was 10'2,215, and last year 100,323. At Rio
Grande hides were scarce. The following is a comparative ex-
port of coffee during the crop ending 30th June, 1834, and 30th
June, 1835:
To the United States. To Europe. Total.
1834 180,533 170 600 .
651,133 hags.

1835 227,268 310,866 538,131 ~
About 15,000,000 pounds less will have been received in
Europe from Brazil, and 7,000,(XX) more in the United States
in the first six months of this year than during the correspond=
ing period Of the last. The supply of flour was adequate to
double the consumption until October, when the new crop may
be expected. The importation of—the article during the first
six months of this year was 77,610 barrels against 57,866 of the
same period last year, being an increase this year of 25,744
barrels.

AItITHMETIC.-A workman, belonging to the Milanese terri-
tory, has just invented a machine with a cylinder, which exe-
cutes the three first rules of arithmetic. The Academy of
Sciences at Milan has consequently voted him a gold medal.

SW I MN! I G.-Eight of the best swimmers of the Austrian gar-
rison of Btegenz engaged, for a wager, to swim across Lake
Constance, from that town in the Tyrol to Lindau, a distance of
six miles. They started at ten o'clock, and at three minutes
before three o'clock, a private soldier named Tutaja, reached
the bridge at Lindau. In thirty-two minutes afterwards be was
followed by Lieut. Cepharowitsch. The six others only went
about half the distance, and then were taken into the boats that
attended them. The wind was blowing from the west, and the
temperature of the water was 17 degrees of Reaumur, or 7U. of
Fahrenheit. This is, perhaps, the greatest distance ever tra-
versed by swimming in fresh water. The two men who com-
pleted their task were perfectly blue when they landed, their
pulse was scarcely perceptible, and several hours elt peed before
their bodies tesumed their natural heat.—Paris .4drertiser.

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•S'QUIRE BY COVRTESI" .2ND B. B. BT FROFRRSIN

Rome men ate born fools, and some make fools of themselves.

LETTER 11.
In resuming the subject of my formei letter, allow me now to
say a word or two as to your silly rhodomontade on the subject of.
Your million of " fighting catholics." You ridicule the idea of
being opposed by a hundred thousand orangemen. You have a
strangely oblivious memory. What think you of the sixteen
Millions of protestants in England? Talk of your "milllion of
tatholics I" a few thousands of the maligned orangemen would
"nu scatter the cowardly, superstitious crew which yells at
your heels into their native wilds. Indeed, 'I would engage to
Pick KW mountain-boys from my own loved land of the harp
and song, inheriting the bravery of their noble ancestors, who
put your vaunted million hors de combat "in less than no
time." That they would be warmly disposed to engage in such
praiseworthy enterprise, you may infer from the pitiful pro.,
Portion of radicals which Wales has returned to the House of
i,
"mroons. Your reliance on the physical force of your "finest
IlMatry on the face of the earth" is, therefore, a contemptible
piece of humbug. They may be very well for a midnight attack
fin defenceless females and unresisting children; they may
acquit themselves very well in lying in ambush for a protestant
parson or magistrate, and in secretly levelling their deadly
weapons at the unprotected and unarmed traveller; but they
'will never stand a regular fair battle. In such a predicament
they would prove too discreet to indulge their murderous
elmpro-
ities ; too prudent to trust to any thing but---:their heels.
Need I say that, in this respect, your character is closely assi-
Milated to theirs? You are a great hero—on paper. You
• 74)414—as was well remarked in the Times—sooner bite your
imlgue out of your head thLva say the things which you have
l'resurned to write in the presence of Sir Robert Peel.
1:01i significantly remark that the million of raggamuffins
‘4
~,srmi you represent would be delighted "to get leave to fight."
"110 hold them in abeyance? Do you not wish to intimate
that Yu" havecogy, to let slip the dogs of war, and Ireland will
be deluged with blood? 1 •
-
Your sneering and treasonable remark on the Duke of Cum-
, t?erland, and the objects of the orangemen, with reference to
so succession to the throne of England, are such as are calcu-
lated to stamp your character with indelible infamy, if this had
been
the only act of turpitude which you ever committed.
Chat right have you to infer such rebellious designs? Have
°oua tittle of evidence to offer for your villanons insinuation?
L2t me tell yon that loyalty and attachment to protestant
government are the proud distinctions of the orangemen.
heir fealty is not likely to be withheld from the Princess Vic-
toria, sedulously instructed as she is in those principles, for the
'ainlenance of which-they are leagued together in a justifiable
itniance •

ton-plainly and frankly inform us that the justice which you
telait° for Ireland is that which would be conceded by a domestic
e``gislature, nominated by yourself. Thank you. We are thus
Itahled to estimate the degree and extent of that control which
/°4 exercised over the Melbourne ministry. We know what
Your designs, your inordinate expectations, are; you say that
You anticipate the fruition of your hopes from the hands of the
!'resent cabinet; you thus let us at once into the secret of their
414tuated policy with .reference to Ireland.
I° imitation, of yourself, I proceed to invite your special
`'tendon
to these few facts.
'our despicable, purblind, °awkward squad" in the House
:reroninons, last year pronounced the appropriation principle,
applied to the church of Ireland, a piece of robbery at once
I.oel and impracticable.
This year, the same delectable "awkward squad" unseated
Sir Robert Peel by gulping down this objectionable morcel of
legislative fatuity.
1„4 doing this, they—the "awkward squad"—were drilled by
1,
They were conscious that they could not. carry such a
kt. 'Posterous resolution. Your ends, however, were served°ll gained your long-desired ascendancy,
.and secured fresh
?).
"-°44d for agitation.
Are You not over-stepping, the bounds of discretion in allud-,
after your insolent fashion, to the offer of £ 70 and £72 15s.
'-t cent. to the hi& clergy, as a substitution for the tithe corn-
t.°tion income. Have. they not a right to the whole amount?
kh;4 has frustrated the exaction of this right in the payment
Al tithes? You have; and you audaciously demand the acqui-
ekellee of the British senate in your scheme of unqualified
Pit;4der.
vr:0110 point have you been so unfortunate as in the slar which
jilt have eyleavoured, to cast upon certain members of the
t'itl3° of Lords. Your "catalogue raisonnee" of the conser-
Z,t-re party stands in ludicrous juxta-position with the por-
'4 which you last year gave of your present allies—the
ehigs.
.The following is from your own.pen...My countrymen will
t-,liddY allow the fidelity of the description.
Your manifesto last year, you describe "Wellesley as
t. z"g in vice-regal dotage; Littleton as incapable and con-
Atible ; Melbourne as utterly andentirely inefficient; Dun-
-11,41141'r eharacter as having gone for ever; Brougham as
~;4141.1 put a fool's-cap over his chancellor's wig, and talking
nonsense, and matchless and immeasurable aburdity,
q:ah all the lest put together." Here is a quintetto which is
uite equal tublimeo your more recent attempt at the ridiculously
.‘re have reason to think that another laughable "catalogue
might be composed out of the materials furnished by
l':uhr, Own "awkward squad." Let us try. You seem to de-
wiu alliteration. Take a specimen. There is Daniel,
eight of the death's head, (that's yourself,) the big beggar-
hi 4, bothering a bevy of bumpkins with- his blarney and born-
teetical hogtrottery • Sheil, wholesale dealer in bubble and
iCeetdcl Ruthven, gentleman of no school at all; Roebuck,
t threadbare threehalfpenny politician ; Buckingham, the
t:a.ebraterl circumnavigator, who thinks it a mortal sin for a
03 be "half seas over;" Ewart, the dunder-headed dandy;
the widow's mite, floundering in mysterious profuu-
tit t tallow-brained Thomson, advocating unilateral recipro-
e.4,.Y.; Rhinoceros Rice, whose hide is as impenetrable as his
the':l-7"itn; and last, though not least, in the comical register,
12 Hume, the Middlesex gander, cackling his queer cal-
-I,„e
-ti°u
tos, which even the Rhinoceros has the sagacity to dis-
br be fallacious.
fre."t lam weary-of the muster-toll." I could amuse you
drea day
tiro by introducing your old friends to your notice,
4" in these fanciful habiliments. Let the above suffice.
le:cur to the 'serious parts of your letter. What drivelling
oft h")°lery it is to talk of the constitutional rights or liberties
as tke /3ritish people, if such despotic, such tyrannic conduct,
161-;* licuse of Commons has recently exhibited, should go un-
-0 Itt'hed• Are the desperate and inquisitorial functionaries of
liei-'°use of Commons to be the absolute arbiters of the &a-
te "°I millions? Is a contemptible knot of needy Irish papists
pri:.tereise an unlimited and unaccountable control over the
Fe egos, the property, and the lives of sixteen millions of
latlh protestants? The reply will be speedily furnisheo.,
0° 'Your satisfaction.
itet°,ll enumerate the separate acts which the lords have re-
kee:;4. during the last session. I take them up in your own
havi They have annihilated the Irish church reform bill, and
thas &.voided the guilt of a sacrilegious and cruel proceed.
eweer hey have rejected the Irish constabulary bill, and have
tlied
e to the protestants some shadow of protection, which
bt)uhi never haveenjoyed under a' bloody popish police.
Ihey have thrown Out the Irish marriage bill, which whig
disapproved of.
Ith..,a hey have rejected the Dublin police bill, in concocting
Ilelho; the rate-payers; who would have' to pay for carrying its,
"ai
qtis into execution, were not even consulted.
cushioned the Irish corporatien reform bill, a mea-
t!, -lrhlch was intended to augment indefinitely the power of
of ti:ornish priesthood, and to deprive the oiners of friur-fifths
it)h„,lll.oPerty ef. Ireland of every one of their representatives
prnament.
hia::.rlteY threw nut the Irish registry of voters' bill, which
tie 'emitr tted to give you the right of nomination to every mem-
lyye 'Ol Ireland. This banged Banagher hollow. This would
Pm
th 4 English boroughmougering system for ever.
44 Itiru; accuse,
the Duke of Wellington of forgetting that he is
'tiat .-44uan• The circumstance of Daniel O'Connell being
\"44. 4',tolost enough to sicken any one at the name.
a'l, whether the duke has ever been suspected of a gene-
-94-ett"n• I shall relate several most conspicuous ones soon.
I,"estion is an awkward one for you to ask. Where is
itt /nrlerosity? Of your avarice we have sufficient evidence
ttlf-e•ete47lorictioly fact that you have, within the last five years,
'444 480,000 from the poor starving potato-diggers of Ire-
tileieuder the dishonest pretence of sacrificing your profes-
-404 enlolutnents for the purpose of redressing their griev-
Itas 3.
The truth is, you are idle and ambitious; and must
)44 I.,'geY to support your indolence, 'and help
,to gratify
AQ aiebition.
ti°l3Zlit roe, in conclusion, to whisper a word of friendly cau-
Ni - You, which it may concern you to listen to before it is
.1,041 e.
)044.111115t have perceived what lamentable consequences
%telt ittteniperate invectives have brought upon your poor
is
OwLYI"I3, of the same creed as yourself, in New York. It
face 4;"R to you that a Roman 'catholic scarely dares show his
iNttert a'.'6W his religion in that state. Do you want to bring
15
to-le_tr.o the same pass in England ? Do you wish to cause
Bntre.crate the presence of an Irishman and a papist?
hot re, this dismal consequence will supervene if you are
l'ert,!eskted in your triad career of agitetiaa xeiolence.
shall iii
from me again when it 101%* azavanlimMi
I have the honour to be,,,ir„
Your obetlient,,sestwateat„
Pu°l, Sept. 27, 1835. INZILIHXAV•

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' 41e, p Prot-Jai-o.v go through a course of studies in one,of
.ngland

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13-1' !SIN G

•Tuessday being the day appointe4 bythe revising b misters
fur the.suuthern division of the
.connty to sit in this town, for
the• purpose of revising the lists' f voters for the election of
knights of the shire, John 'Berwick Greenwood, Esq. took his
seat on the bench at the Seisions Court at ten o'clock. It was
arranged that the above named gentleman should undertake
the revision of the list in respect to property situate within the
parish of Liverpool, while his three colleagues attended to those
of the adjacent parishes, townships, Br.c. The first case crf in-
terest that occupied the attention of the court arose out of an
objection being taken by Mr. Peacock„ solicitor to the conserva-
tive association, to the .validity of a notice of objection served
ou Mr. Ackers by Mr. P. F. Curry, solicitor to the reform asso-
ciation. Mr. Peacock contended-that the objector's iesideuee
was not clearly defined as required by the act, being dated from
Knotty Ash, which was not the name of any town, township, or
village,
.but
,the name of a house so called on the Prescot-road,
from the circumstance of an ash tree growing on the opposite
side of the road. It was proved by evidence that Mr. Curry's
place of abode was some hundred yards distant from the knotty
ash house, that Knotty Ash was not recognised in the books of
the overseer of the township of West Derby, in which it is sitn-
ated, that it was not known in any county proceedings, and that
indeasing property in the neighbourhood no mention of such a
place was made. Mr. Atherton, a special pleader, appearedon be-
half of Mr:Curry, and contended the neighbourhood was popularly
known by the name of Knotty Ash, and that the place of abode
was sufficiently described—aiul called evidence to prove that a
letter directed to Knotty Ash would be regularly delivered
through the Post-office. l'he court took the same view of the
case, and-decided that the objection against Mr. Curry's notice
could not be admitted:

The court having then gone through the list, for the purpose
of taking the objections of the Overseers as regarded cnauges
of residence, deaths, &c., proceeded immediately to the business
names the day, taking the paei in kbeir alphabetical order, as they
occurred on the stateinent of those objected to.
Mr. Charles Adlard, Scotland-road, Was first called. The
objection against his name was but trifling, and his claim was
immediately conceded,

Mr. Thoruas Abraham, of Great Newton-street, did not ap-
pear. His brother, Mr.,Robert Abraham, however, answered
for him, but on examination stated that be had done so without
the authority of the former, upon which the name of Thomas
Abraham was struck off the list. "

Mr. Robert Abraham, Roseotnmon-street, then stood forward
on his own case. He was objected to by Mr. Atherton, who
appeared on behalf of Mr. Curry. Mr. Atherton having proved
the aervice of the notice of obkctiort, proceeded to 41.stst. that
the peOperty for'whielf Mr. Xbrabam.ctainied to • fie registered
was leasehold and not freehold. Mr. Lowndes produced the
deeds, and showed that the claim was good, inasmuch as the
property was land and houses on lease under the corporation for
three lives and twenty.one years. The claim was allowed.
Mr. John Andrews, Scotland-place, claimed for leasehold
property situate in Banastre-street. Mr. Atherton appeared for
the objection and proved service of notice on the 25th August.
Mr. Peacock said he stood in behalf of Mr. Andrews, but subse-
quently aoknowledged that he was not prepared to prove the
qualification. The name was therefore erased.
Mr. James Aekers, Orrell, Sefton. Mr. Peacock stood up
and stated that he appeared for Mr. Ackers at the same instant
as that gentleman himelf stood forward on the bench. Mr.
Greenwood said that he could not permit that a solicitor should
appear on behalf of a person who in person presenotl himself.
After a short discussion it was arranged that the solicitors for
parties should conduct the cases and examine their clients as
witnesses touching the proofs. Mr. Ackers was objected to by
Mr. Atherton, but he prdved his claim, and his name stood on
the list.

The objections against Mr. William Andrews, Great Orford-
street, and Mr. Thomas Allen, of Macclesfield, were with-
drawn.

Isaiah Ashlin, Rose-place, was objected to by Mr. Peacock,
on the ground that he was a collector of taxes. It was proved,
however, that Mr. Ashlin was merely a collector of parochial
and not of government rates, as had been supposed. Qualifica-
tion allowed.

Mt. James Aspinall, Grove-street. Objection made by Mr.
Atherton. Mr. Aspinali did not appear, and was struck off the
list.

Mr. Richard Addison, Mount-pleasant, was registered as
trustee, in receipt of rents of certain warehouses. Mr. Hewitt
objected, on behalf of Mr. Curry, and proved service of no-
tice on the 10th of August. Mr. Addison said, that he was a
trustee under the late John Bridge Aepinall. His wife had an
interest in the property. He (Mr. Addison) received rent from
the property to the amount of more than forty shillings per an-
num. Mr. Hewitt objected, that the will settled the portion of
the property enjoyed by the wife upon herself. Mr. Greenwood
decided that Mr. Addison was trustee for his wife, and was in
possession for his own use, hence the qualification was good.
Mr. James Ashton, Upper Newington. Mr. Peacock ob-
jected on the ground that Mr. Ashton had described leasehold
property as freehold. Mr. Ashton did not appear when called,
and- his name was consequently struck off.
Mr. Benjamin Allport, St. Anne-street. Objection with-
dritin".

Mr. James,Ashton, Tyrer-street North, was registered for
houses in Tyief-street and Regent-street. Mr. I'eacock ob-
jected on the ground that this did not sufficiently describe the
property. Mr. Atherton was of opinion that the revising barris-
ter had the power of correcting an error of this sort. Mr. Pea-
cock thought otherwise, where a notice of objection had been
sent in. Mr. Atherton suggested, that in any case where the
revising barrister was satisfied, he had the power of supplying
an'timission. Mr. Greenwood agreed with this opinion, and al-
lowed the vote to stand.
Mr. Michael Ashton claimed qualification for a freehold
house in Gildart-street, of which he was himself the occupier.
On the ground of such qualification, his name was erased.
Mr. Thomas Adcroft, 85, Gerar&street, claimed for two
houses, 84 and 85 Gerard-street. Mr. Atherton objected that
he occupied the house No. 85. Mr. Adcroft proved, however,
that he received rent to the amount of £2O per annum for the
other. His qualification was pronounced good.
Mr. Obadiah Arrovrsinith, 21, Islington, was objected to by
Mr. Peacock. Mr. Arrowsraith proved his title to half-a-share
in freehold property to the amount of £2OO per annum, which
he had directly. by will from his wife's itutt;, Qualification
LI) rovvu(i. •

Mr. James A ntrobus, Castle-street, was objected to by Mr.
Peacock. Did not appear, and was consequently struck off the
list.

Mr. James Ashburner. Objection withdrawn.
Mr. Thomas Harris was.registered for three freehold pews in
St. Ann's Church, Nos. 52, 53, 58. He was objected to by Mr.
Atherton,- on the ground that re freehold right, according to the
act for the regulation.of the church, viz.: 12 George 111. cap.
36, vested the freehold right in the trustees of the church. It
appeared, Irowever, that according to the second section of that
act the trustees were empowered to convey the property of the
pews to individuals, and that Mr:Harrison had paid for two of
them £145, and had received legal conveyance. Oue of them
let for £7 per annum, out of which two guineas per annum went
to the churchwardens; the other two let for £l4, and four guineas
went to the churchwardens. Any sums which were paid towards
church repairs were voluntary, to make the property more bene-
ficial. Mr. Peacock observed, that when the act of parliament
gave the right to be conveyed as freehold, it must be so. No
doubt could arise on the subject. Mr. Greenwood agreed with
this opinion and qualification was declared good.
Benjamin John Barrett, Cow-lane, was objected to by Mr.
Peacock. Mr. Barrett did not answer to his name, and was
Struck off the list.
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_Thomas Banks, Finch-street, objected to by Mr. Atherton.
Mr. Banks, had a grant of his interest from the executors of
the late Dr. Solomon, for three lives and twenty-one years, two
of which lives are yet to run. Claim allowed.
James Balt, Birkenhead, Cheshire, objected to by Mr. Pea-
cock; did not appear. Struck off.
Thomas Ituddicom, Blackburn, objected to by Mr.' Peacock;
did not appear. Struck off.
Daniel Bride, Kirkdale, objected to by Mr:Atherton; did
not appear. Struck off.
Bradi:, Litherland, objected to by Mr. Atherton; did
not appear. Struck off.
Henry Miller Barclay, Birkenhead, objected to by Mr. Pea-
cock; proved his qualification, which was admitted, and his
name retained. _

Francis Barnes, Dansie-street, objected to by Mr. Atherton ;
did not appear. Struck off.
George Bainbridge, Russell-street, objected to by Mr. Ather-
ton. The son of Mrßainbridge produced deeds which proved
his qualification, and the registration was pronounced good.
Samuel Beverley, Great George-street, claimed registration
in right of a freehold pew in St. Mark's Church. Mr. Atherton
objected on the ground that the freehold was otherwise vested,
and that the trustees could only dispose of a right of occupation
for attendance on divine service. Air, Greenwood on eFamina-
lion of the deed 4 coincided in this opinion, and Mr. Beverley's
mine was struck off.

Joseph Miles Bennett, Great Newton-street, objected to by
Mr. Peacock did not appear. .Struck off.
John Bettelv, Woodside, objected to by Mr. Peacock. The
grounds of objection were,sat aside and the qualification allow-
ed.

Robert Baukes, Scotland-road; objected to by Mr. Peacock;
did not appear. Struck off.
Richard Bateson, St. Ann-street, as owner of a freehold pew
in St. Ann's Church, objected to by Mr. Atherton; had his
claim ratified.

ThOmas Blanchard, Rathborie-street, objected to by Mr. Pea-
cock; cF.d not answer. Struck off.
Rev. Richard Blacow claimed right of registration in respect
of certain freehold property in St. Mark's Church, granted by
act 56, Geo. 111. cap. b 5, as a freehold benefice for life. Mr.
Atherton objected, on the ground that the freehold was vested
in the trustees, in support of which opinion he presented a va-
riety of arguments, which were overruled by Mr. Greenwood,
who allowed
Thomas Brancker, jun., Breek-lane, objected by. Mr. Ather-
ton, did not appear. Struck off. •
Thomas Branch, objected. to'by Mr. Atherton, had his qualifi-
cation proved as trustee to property held by his wife. Qualifica-
tion held good.
David Beckett, Lord-street, was objected to bvMr. Peacock,
for a mistake in his place of abode, which Mr. Greenwood recti-
fied. and allowed, the vote.' • •
Amos Bigland, Toxteth-park; objected to by Mr. Atherton;
did not answer. Struck off.
John Molineux Bird, St. James's-street, was objected to by
Mr: Atherton, and the objection acknowledged to be good by
Mr. Peacock. Mr. Bird's name was therefore struck off.
Joseph Barton objected to bv Mr. Atherton, proved his quali-
fication as trustee to property held by his wife. Claim allow-
ed.

•Tames Birkett, Walton-on-the-hill, stated that be bad not re-
ceived notice of objection, and his name was ordered to Stand
on the list.

William Birkett, Lord-street, objected to by Mr. Atherton.
Adtnitted that his qualification as regarded a warehouse in Bath-
street was bad, inasmuch as he was a partner in the firm which
occupied it; but proved qualification in respect to a dwelling-
house in Gerard-street. Allowed.
Rev: Jonathan Brooks claimed qualification in right of a free-
hold benefice, as a rector of the uiediety of the perish of Liver-
pool, consisting of emoluments issuing out of all houses and
buildings in the aforesaid parish. Mr. Atherton objected, on
the ground that Mr. Brooks was as rector a member of a cor-
poration aggregate under the act 10 and 11 William 111, chap.
36, that he had capacity as such in all cases. Mr. Greenwood
said, that under this view of the case the rector could not vote
by law. The Rev, Mr. Brooks' name was therefore struck off.
The Rev. Thomas Charles Gladwin, Minister Incumbent 'of
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, claimed in right of certain- pews in
said church, which pews were appropriated to the use of his
family and servant's. Mr. Atherton objected to the effect that
the whole property in this church was vested in the mayor, bai-
liff, and corporation of Liverpool. Mr. Greenwood said that the
pews being given to Mr. Gladwin for the use of his family and
servants would not confer a vote; Mr. Gladwin's name was
therefore atruckoff. • •

WEDNESDAY.
Mr. Thomas Leathom claimed for the Spekelands estate as
,devisee in trust in the will of the late Thomas Earle, Esq. Is
,appearing.that :Mrs. Earle had the estate for her life, and wat
4,o,possession, and that Mr. Leathino never interfered in the ma-
tatagemi4llt:of the property, the barrister decided that he had no
vote.

"The Rev. Bug'n M'Neill claimed for a pew in St. Jude's
church. Itarpearing by the conFecration deed that the free-
bold was in the trustees, anti got lse bax.l merely the use of the

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• :ell-. • 'rhe- barrister decided that it was only an
.easeme.nt,- and
likeetel the claim.
Mr. T. 'M Horsfall -claimed as a trustee of this church. Vote
good.
WEDNItSDAY. 11"
The Rev. Jamei Martineau, of No. 3,
,MiSimt-street, elaiMed
on freehold pews as minister of the unitarian chapel in Para-
dise-street. Mr. Peacock opposed the claim, on. the ground
that the right of voting was vested in the trustees of the chapel.
Mr. Martineau stated that he considered himself entitled to
vote in consevence of a life appointment in his office, as neither
the congregation nor the trustees could remove him. He ad-
mitted that he was not in a d ireet receipt of the rents. Mr.
Peacock submitted to the court that the legal estate was vested
'in the trustees, and not in Mr. Martineau, as he had himself ad-
mitted that he was not in the receipt of the pew rents, and it
did not appear that he was in the receipt of 40s. per annum
arising from lands or tenements. Under these circumstances
he thought that the claimant's name as a voter should be struck
off the list. The revising barrister (Mr. Greenwood) here re.
ferred to a case in Delaney's election cases, in which it was
held that where a trustee considered he held his otlice for life,
without the power of removal, and being in the receipt of pew
rents, the vote had been held vol. Mr. Peacock said, with all
due deference to the court he must contend that the present case
was distinguishable from the one cited, all Mr. Martineau ad-
mitted himself not to be in the receipt or the rents for his own
use. The revising barrister considerettthe cases to be similar,
and admitted the vote.

The Rev. Mr. Hull:Minister of the Blind Asylum Chapel,
claimed to register for freehold interest in the pews of the said
chapel.
Mr. Atherton, for the Reform Association, objected to the re-
gistering, alleging that the right of voting was vested in the
trustees, and wardens of the institution. The claimant had no
direct benefit in the freehold, as he did not collect the rents for
his own use, but was merely paid a salary out of the funds
arising from the freehold. It was necessary that the absolute
controul of the freehold should be in the hands of the minister to
entitle him to vote. If it could be proved that he had such eon-
troul, then he would not object to the vote being registered.
Mr. Peacock considered that Mr. Hull's case and Mr. Marti-
neau's were similar, and Mr. Hull, who appeared in person, pro-
duced the act of parliament, authorizing him, in the 33d section,
to let the pews of the chapel, and pay himself out of the pro-
ceeds, in the event of the committee refusing to pay him, or to
interest themselves in the chapel.
Mr. Atherton, after perusing the act of parliament, said that
there certainly was a clause authorizing the chaplain to let the
pews, but it was only a provision against auy negligence on the
p_ast of the committee. This contingency had never arisen.
The' eltavel- *as not an ordiniey place of woTehip, it was
attached to a public charity, managed by trustees and wardens,
who received the rents and contributions, end paid their offici-
ating chaplain a salary therefrom; and it appeared from the
act the chaplain. had the power of suing the wardens in the
event of non-payment.
Mr. Hull said, the right given him by the act to let the pews
and receive the rents, entitled him to a vote.

After some further conversation on the subject, between Mr.
Atherton, Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Hull,
The Revising Barrister (Mr. Greenwood),said, that to entitle
the ellimant to vote, he must not only be in possession of a
freehold office, but hold freehold lands or tenements direct-
ly of the value of forty shillings annually. Here it ap-
peared by the act, that certain trustees were appointed
to receive the rents of the pews, and the committee were
cbosen by these trustees, and the profits were appropriated by
them for the benefit of the institution. Out of this fund Mr.
Hull was entitled to a stipend, which it not paid, his remedy was
an action at law. Under these circumstances, he (Mr. Green-
wood) did not see how he could decide that Mr. Hull was in
possession :the freehold, and it was his opinion that Mr. Hull
had not established his claim to vote as a freeholder within the
meaning of the act of parliament. Supposing that he had acted
upon the right given to meet the contingency of negligence on
the part of the committee by letting the pews himself; then it
might have been different.

Mr. Hull.—Then am Ito wait for that contingency?
Mr. Greenwood.—! hope not.
Mr. Hull.--I presume there is no appeal against your de-
cision ?

Mr. Greenwood.—Yes, you have this appeal. You may ten-
der your vote at an election, which will he refused as not being
upon our register, and if that is not satisfactory you can appeal
to the house of Commons against the return.
Mr. Hull.—l voted at the last election, and shall certainly
tender my vote at the next. •
Mr. Peacock, on hearing the decision of the learned barrister,
submitted that Mr. Hull had proved every fact adduced in the
case of Mr. Martineau, which had been decided in that gentle-
man's favour. He had, in fact, proved more. He had shown a
life appointment by act of parliament. The rents in Mr. Hull's
case were received by the trustees, and the legal estate, was
vested in them, which 'were precisely similar facts• to /those
proved in Mr. Martineau's case. He should be happy to hear
the learned reviser's opinion in distinguishing the two cases; as
he considered it due to the clergy of Liverpool that they-should
know the distinction when the facts appeared identical.
The revising barrister being still of opinion that the two cases
were different, Mr. Peacock said he was prepared to bring for-
ward another case which ran parallel with the two just decided,
—the case was that of the Rev. Cyrus Morrell, who would prove
his appointment for life,end every other fact brought forward
by Mr. and Mr. artineau. Mr. Peacock then called Mr.
Cyrus Morrell, who having left the court, the hearing of his
case was deferred.
Mr. Edward 'Willmer, of Church-street, and several other
unitarians put in their respective claims to vote by virtue of
holding pews in the unitarian chapel iu Paradise-stiect. It is
needless to add, that their claims were rejected.
Robert Bennion claimed as a trustee of the dissenting chapel
in Sidney-place. On production of the trust deed it appeared
that the trustees were to permit the minister to receive the rents,
and to pay his salary, and alt disbursements thereout. The
barrister decided that the word " permit" gave the freehold to
the minister on the authority of a case quoted in Roper on le-
gacies, vol. ii., p. 416, and that the trustees had no right to vote.
Joseph Varran; Jehasophat Griffith, Thomas Jackson, James
Knox, and William Morris, having also claimed as trustees of
this chapel, were at the same time struck off. The Rev. John
:Underhill, the minist,er of the chapel, Inra.tetinedOu .
Mr. J. B. Falkner having claimed for a pew in Walton
Church. was objected to. No vote.
Mr. W. Harrison for a pew in Derby Chapel was objected to.
No vote.
The Rev. Robert Pedder Buddicom claimed to be entitled to
vote as minister of St. George's church. It appeared by the
act of parliament that the freehold of the church tvas absolutely
mited in the minister, excepting some seats, out of which the
trustees were directed to pay bins his stipend. It was objected
that he derived no benefit, as from a freehold, by this mode of
receiving his stipend; but it appearing that another seat was
reserved by the act for the use of the minister, and not included
in the excepted seats, of sufficient value, his claim was held
to he gool.
The Rev. Thomas Tattershall claimed to be entitled to vote
as minister of St. Augustine, and the act of parliament being
similar to that under which Mr. Buddicom, was entitled, his
claim was allowed.
_ _

John Bruce claimed as owner of shares in the Necropolis.
It appeared by the deed that the land was vested in trustees,
and the deed contained different regulations as to the mode of
dividing the profits amongst the shareholders; but it appearing
that the shares were declared to be personal property,and trans-
ferrable as such, hetwas struck off.
Eight other claims were made in respect of these shares,
which were all struck off. . _

Alexander Thomson, who claimed in respect of ten copyhold
houses, rented at £9 a year each, in Poplm...street, was objected
to by the overseer as being within the parliamentary borough;
but it was held that as they could only be held separately, andthey
Could not separately qualify any .person to a vote for the
borough, the owner was entitled to vote for the county for the
entirety.
Samuel Job claimed as one of the trustees of Claremont cha-
pel. It appeared by the evidence of the minister that the cha-
pel was vested in "trustees, who, on his nomination, which he
considered a nomination for life, appointed an agent to collect.
the seat rents, all of which, amounting to f.:6U a year, was paid
over to the minister, and that the remainder of his salary was
raised by contribution from the congregation, and that the
minister and cointonnicants had the entire management of the
chapel. It was held that the trustees had a bare trust, and not
a freehold in possession. He was struck off.
Three other similar claims were struck off. The claim of
Joshua Tunstall, the minister of the chapel, was allowed.
•Thomas Wm. Medcalf claimed as tenant in receipt of rents
of a freehold house. It appeared he was trustee under a will,
and had the entire management and cont:ol of the letting, and
repairing, and 'receiving the rents for :he benefit of two
daughters of the testator, who were minors, until they come of
are. Claim held good.

RIGHT OF TRUSTEES AND MORTC;AGEFS TO VOTE.
Mr. Robert Clay claimed to vote as a trustee of certain free-
hold warehrnases and offices in Moore.street. He was objected
to by Mr. Atherton, for the radicals, who contended that Mr.
Clay, being a mere trustee of property, was not entitled to vote.
Ihe resising barrister, Mr. Greenwood, before the state-
ments were gone into, said that the question was* very hit-
poitant one to decide, and before he gave' his opinion ho should
like to call in the assistance of his colleagues, as there was a
great diversityof opinioa on the subject.
On their coming into court Mr. Peacock was called upon to
support the claim. He contended that trustees in receipt of the
rents were admissible. Before the passing of the statute of
seveu and eight of
,William, persons having the dry legal
estate were the only persons whom the law recognised as admis-
sible voters, and the statute referred to was purposely passed,
with a view to remedy the hardship under which certain parties
beneficially entitled to vote laboured.: The 7th section of that
statute was precisely the same, but it only had the; effect-of
takitigaway the right of trustees to vote in certain cases. Thee
next statute referred to was the 10th of Anne, chap. 23, sec. 2,
which enacted that no person shall vote fOr knights of the shire,
and in respect or in right of any lands or tenements for which
such nersous shall not have received the rents and profits, to the
fullamount of forty 'shillings or more annually, for his own use.
The words for his own use" were introdUced into the set:-
lion for the express purpose of preventing the fraudulent
multiplication of votes by conveyance of property for election
purposes, as it often happened at the time it was framed, as in
the present day, that a party appeared to the world to be the
visible owner, but had to.account to the real owners for the pro-
fits ; and it was to restrain this practice only that the words
were introduced. This statute, however, was found not to have
the desired effect; and another statute, the 18:11 Geo. 11., chap.
18, was passed for the purpose of restraining the practice just
alluded to ; and by this statute the voter was compelled to swear
at elections that lie was iu the receipt of rent to the amount of
40s. per year for his own use; and by the sth section of the same
act it was enacted that no person should vote at elections with-
out having a freehold estate in the county for whiels he should
vote of the clear value of 405., or without having been in the
actual possession or receipt of the rents and profits tier his own
use above twelve months. He (Mr. Peacock) merely referred
to those statutes to show that the words for :is own roe were
merely introduced for the purpose, as expressed in the title of
the statute of Anne, viz., to prevent frauueieut conveyance of
votes. It was never, lie contended, the intention of those words
to affect the right of trustees to vote. It heel hoe& the anieesee
practice, from the year 1696 to the paesingof the reform act, for
trustees to vote, and this he had no doubt woreld be conceded to
him by the leas red gentleman who objected to the claim. The
questieu that now arose was, whether there'weil anvthing in the
reform bid which took away the right that existed in this ease
before that bill passed. Now the 23d section of the ectorni bill
was an exact re-enactment of the statute of 7 and 8 of William.
before adverted to. Mr. Pea,cock then read the section alinfletl
to, which enacted that no person shall be allowed to vote in an
election for knights .of the shire fur or by reason of any
trust estate or mortgage, unless such trustee or mortga-
gee be in actual possession or receipt of the recta and
profits of the same estate, but that the mortgager, or parties
in possession, shall and may vote . for the same estate, not-
withstanding such mortgage in trust." This enactment was a
confirmation of the rights of trustees; and, had it stood alone,
no difficulty would have arisen, but when placed in juxtaposi-
tion with the 26th section of .the reform bill, great difficulties
arose. By that section it is declared that no person shall be
allowed to vote \unless he should have been in the actind possess
sion, or in receipt of the rents and profits for his own use. How,
he would ask, could a trustee he said to be in possession for his
own use ? If the words were intended to imeort that ho was to
be in possession 4,s owner, then ma trustee or unirtgagee could

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er registered. Now, it would appear that the sole object, of tha,
26th section was to limit the time during'wbich the party regis-
tered should be in possession; and if it were to he held that the
words " for his awn use" were to refer to trustees, then the
lid section would be a dead letter, and the rights of trustees, as
confirmed by the section, destroyed. He begged to impress
upon the court the object of the legislature in first-tuaking
use of these words, for, as he had already shown, they were
merely made use of to prevent fictitious votes being given at
elections, and were never held to apply to cases of trust-which
were fairly open to inquiry. He (Mr:PO conceded the point
that a naked trustee, not in possession, would have no right to
vote ; but in all cases where a trustee was in possession, and
had the entire control of the estate, be bad a clear right to vote.
If it were held otherwise, nearly one-lcalf (capital) of the real
propotyin England would be unrepresented, as it was chiefly
vested in trustees. It would consequently follow that in every
instance where there were married women-or infants, the pro
perty.woulcl. be entirely deprived of the advantage of represen
tation. He, however, contended that trustees in possession for
-the time being were owners of the property, and subject to all
taxes, such as that upon land. repairs, and other legal pay-
ments made for his own use, inasmuch as it was a discharge of
his own responsibility. There- could be no doubt of the
meaning of the legislature as to the point, for when the
23d section of the act was before the House of Com Mons,
Sir RLward Sugden enquired from the law officers of the crown
what construction they intended to put upon it, and whether
there was any intention to alter the law as it existed respecting
trustees and mortgagees, when Sir William Horne in reply
stated that itewas not intended to make any 'alteration. In this
statement to was confirmed at the tine by Lord John Russell.:
He (Mr: P.) had already shown that before the passing .of the
reform bill trustees in his case were clearly entitled to a vote,
and it would be absurd to suppose that the words "'for his own
use" were introduced in a mere matter of detail to deprive the
trustee of his unquestionable vote.
Mr. Atherton for the objection replied fully to Mr. Peacock's
argument: but did not at all shake it. lie contended that the
26th section took away the right of trustees to vote in all cases,
unless the trust was accompanied by some beneficial interest.
Mr. Greenwood then returned,' and after an absence of about
a quarter of an hour, informed the court that trustees in posses-
sion were entitled to vote, and that was the opinion of his col-
leagues unanimously. It was quite clear to him and them that
the legislature did not intend to take away the rights of trustees
to vote at elections which had e)iiSted hefet e the reform bill
passed. Ile; Mr. Greenwood, and. others of the revising bar-
risters, had their attention called to the. peiut during the pro-
gress of the bill, and if such had been' -the. intention, a fresh.
enactment might have been made touching the 'clat*e in ques-
-tiaels e•die-did. not meant) ,sayAlukt.the decision would apply to
public entity trustees. -
The claim of Mr. Clay was then declared to be allowed.

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Mr. Henshall's concert uu Wednesday night was well at-
tended, end the performauces, generally, were much appiauded.
Mr. Heushall sang two of his own compositions, " We part,
dear maid," and "The oniy eircuinstance of life;" to altu latter
a chorus was added, which gave a fine effect to the air. This
piece was enerwed. The principal novelty was the introduction
of Miss and Miss Margaret Hamilton, sisters of Miss E. Hamil-
ton, who has been singing in Liverpool for about the lest twelve
months. With somewhat less vocal powers than their sister,
they are decidedly her superiors as musicians, and will be found,
if it be their intention to remain here, a valuable addition to our
stock of musical talent. Miss Hamilton's is a coutr'alto voice,
that of her sister a very sweet and powerful treble. They sang
a duet from Semiramiile (Rossini) so well, that we almost ima-
gined they were importations trout Italy instead of Ireland.
Miss Ilaulihon sang the sceua, "Ohl l'ictria," from Tencredi,
with very fine effect; she also introduced a very pretty air,
" Why hiist thou taught me to love thee,'' accompanying her-
self on the piano, in which she was rapturously encored. Miss
M. Hamilton was equally successful in the comic son.. of
"Rory ()'More;" in this she delighted the audience with her
playfulness. She also sang a " Gratias Agimus," (Heushall,)
an a very superior manner. The other pieces which attracted
the greatest notice were "Beata Nobis Gaudia," (l3onfichi,)
by Messrs. Gillow and Davies; Glee, " Mild 'as the moon-
beams," (Brahain,) and the prayer, quartette, and chorus from
Mose e :Egetto, (14,Assini.)
The succeis of Mr. Henshall, in this his first essay as the
conductor df a-public concert, will, we trust, induce him to tura
his attention to that part of his profession. A succession of
good musical performances during the winter season is much
wanted in Liverpool. Were Ur• talent to be found here more
frequently embodied and called into action, there is nu doubt
that it would be liberally patronised.