The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-31 00:00:00

EJECTII ENT,

DOE DE 11. TRAVIS V:iiIIII7ANO OTIIERS.—This was
an action of ejectment, as uninteresting as the last case. Mr.
WATsoN appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. floGnlNs for
the defendants. The action was brought on the demise of
Joseph Hiley, against Hugh Hiley, Charles Stott, and Wm.
Rigg, to recover some coal mines in a place called Hunders-
field, in the parish of Rochdale. The jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff.

WORK AND LABOUR DONE.
TAYLOR v. HARGREAVES AND OTHERS.—The declarAtion
in this case alleged that the sum claimed by the plaintiff
was due to him for work and labour done by him for the de-
fendants. Air. WATSON conducted the case for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. KNOWLES that of the defendants, who pleaded
that as to £4 4s. which the plaintiff claimed they were not
indebted.

It appeared, on the part of the plaintiff, that be is a black-
smith residing at Tottington Lower End, near Rochdale, in
this county, and he sought to recover the sum of 4s. per diem
for 21 days, or £4 45., and £2 Ils. for other work done for
the defendants, amounting altogether to 15s. The de-
fendants John Hargreaves, James Scholefield, John Barlow,
Andrew Taylor, and Benjamin Taylor, were owners of, and
co-partncrs, in a coal mine near Pottington ; the last named
defendant had suffered judgment to go by default. The
plaintiff worked there, at his trade, for 21 days, at 4s. a day,
for which the four guineas were claimed; after which, some-
time in 1842, he set up a blacksmith's shop on his own ac-
count, to which the defendants sent the pickaxes, &c. of
their workpeople to be sharpened and repaired, for which the
amount of £2lls. was claimed. Mr. Watson strongly com-
plained that the defendants had removed the case out of the
County Court, and brought it to be tried at the assizes, at
great expense and trouble to the plaintiff, who was a poor
man.

On the part of the defendants it was attempted to be
shown that the plaintiff had been discharged by all the de-
fendants except his father, Benjamin Taylor, who, being a
partner, re-engaged him in the face of the express notice to
the plaintiff himself f.orn the other partners that he was not
in their service. The ground of defence, therefore, was, that
after notice had been given under those circumstances, the
act of Benjamin Taylor in re-engaging the plaintiff was not
the act of the other partners who defended this action.
Several witnesses were called in support of the defendant's
case, after which the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff,
damages .TCG 3s. _ _ _

The court adjourned at half-past six till nine o'clock this
morning.

THE CAUSE PAPER.
The state of the Cause List. at the rising of the Court
last night, was as follows :

FIRST LIST

Plaintiff—Nos. 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15,17,15,
24. 25, 27, 31, 39.
Defendant—Nos, 12, 16, 26.

•
Juror withdrawn—No. S.
ithdrawu—Nos. 32, 19.

SECOND LIST.
Withdrawn—Nos. 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 54, 75, 86.

SPECIAL JURY CASES

The following special jury cases, in the first list, have been
fixed :—No. 44, Hoyle v. Howard, will be taken on Wed-
nesday next; No. 21, Ferrand and another v. Moore, is fixed
for Thursday ; and No. 9, Farrar v. Deflinne. is fixed for
Friday. In the second list, case No. 10, Taylor v. Ashton
and others, in which Sir William Follett will appear for the
defendants, is fixed for Thursday week. Saturday week was
mentioned as a day likely to suit for the trial of the two
causes, Sherhourne v. Quarme, which were made remanets
at the last assizes ; but no day was definitely fixed.

TRIAL. Or A CITARTIST.-At the Leicester assizes on Fri-
day last, Wm. Jones, aged 21, was tried for having used se-
ditious language, and endeavoured to excite the people against
the police and the army. He was found guilty, and sentenced
to six months imprisonment.

STAFFORDSHIRE RIOTERS.—The trial of Cooper and
others, at Stafford, for the part they took in the late riots.
still drags its slow length along, and it is impossible to say
when it will terminate. Shoals of witnesses are daily ar-
riving, whom Cooper examines with tiresome detail, and
many are called to prove what has been already given in evi-
dence many times.

CAIIBRIDGE ASSIZES.—BELT.AMY V. TOTTON.--This
was an action in which the plaintiff sought to obtain compen-
sation from the bands of the jury for certain libellous ex-
pressions made use of by the defendant concerning him, un-
der the following somewhat novel circumstances :—The de-
fendant is the rector of Meldreth, in this county, but resides
on another living in Essex, in consequence of which it has
always been necessary for him to appoint a curate for the
former piece of preferment. In this capacity the plaintiff
dwelt at Meldreth for two or three years, at the end of which

period his connection with that parish ceased, the defendant
having, as he imagined, reason to object to the inculcation
and introduction by him of those doctrines, forms, and ob-
servances which arc commonly known to the world under the
term " Puseyism." Whatever the merits or demerits of the
course adopted by the plaintiff might be in the conscientious
discharge of his parochial duty, and with whatever propriety
he might have conducted himself therein, it certainly did ap-
pear that strife and bickerings arose about that period in the

once happy parish, there being two sides to this.as well as to
all other questions, whether of fact or faith ; and matters
went so far us that the interference of the diocesan was loudly
called for. Though the plaintiff, as appeared in evidence, did
not take any part in those proceedings, simply contenting him-
self with the establishment of weekly sacraments, and a strict
observance of the saints' days and festivals of the Church,
which many deemed " novelties and papistical practices."
The defendant, in the exercise of his discretion, replaced the
plaintiff by another gentleman of directly opposite views,
whose conduct gave as much offence to the one party in the
parish as had that of the plaintiff to the other. The con-
sequence. therefore, of the change, wss anything but sa-
tisfactory to 'the rector, or agreeable to the parish as a
body, and the favourers of Mr. Belany took active steps to
procure his restoration to the post of minister, and unfortu-
nately, though the plaintiff took no share or concern whatever
in the promotion of that object. some kind friend made a
communication to that effect to the rector, who, annoyed at
what he termed " his uncalled for and unclerical interference
with his parish, addressed a letter to a friend of the plaintiff,
wherein occurred the passages out of which this action arose.
Having lamented in this letter the distressing discord which
was rending his parish, and his inability to south the agitated
minds of his parishioners, the writer proceeded to express
his regret that that difficulty and discord arose from the un-
warrantable interference of the late curate, Mr. Belany, whom
he accused of revisiting the parish under a " vile spirit of
rancorous revenge," while he further avowed his firm belief
that he was nothing more or less than " a Papist in disguise."
This production was handed about from man to man among
the plaitiff's friends, and thus by their misjudging zeal the
present truly lamentable appeal to a jury was called into ex-
istence. The defendant having only pleaded the general
issue, and the letter being clearly proved to have emanated
from him, Mr. Serjeant Storks, in a speech of great power,
addressed the jury for the defendant, deeply deprecating such
an exhibition between two clergymen, and submitting to them
that tile letter was no libel at all, but a communication which
the rector was privileged and bound to make to a parishioner
touching the spiritual condition of his preferment ; and se-
condly, that, at all events, if libellous, it was a letter for which
the smallest coin in the realm would be ample compensation.
His Lordship having laid it down to the jury that the letter
was not of that class to which the learned sergeant had sought
to attach it, inasmuch as it reflected upon the conduct and
motives of one who was no longer concerned in the parish,
left it to them to say what damages they would award to the
plaintiff. Verdict for the plaintiff-40s. damages.

ATHLONE ELECTION:—The Dublin Evening Mail says,

that Mr. Ashton Yates is the radical candidate for the bo-
rough of Athlone. This is the gentleman who some time
since was the priests' representative for county Carlow.
MURDER OF AN INFANT.-011 the 15th instant, a woman
of the name of Bridget Bullock, at Celbridge, near Lein-
ster, strangled her new born child and threw it into the river
Liffey. She was found guilty of murder at the coroner's
inquest.

ANoirftEß MADMAN.--A person of the name of M'Cole-
man. whose insane vagaries appear to have fixed upon the
Premier of England, made his appearance on Tuesday in the
Sheriff Clerk's office, at Glasgow. his business, he said, was
to have two clerks to go up with him to Sir Robert Peel on
important business. The poor man talked incoherently on
different subjects with the persons in the office, but always
ended in something about going up to London to Sir Robert.
He insistsd, also, that he was the father of M'Naghten, and
threatened, if his widies were not complied with, to make
skeletons of all and sundry. He is detained in custody.
RolmEß's( IN THE BANK OF• IRELAND.—A robbery to

rather a considerable amount was, on Saturday, committed
in the Bank of Ireland—the sufferer, we regret to observe,
being Mr. Jeffs, of Ilollybrook-park. Mr. Jeffs bad been
transacting some business in the cash-office of the bank, and
had just deposited his pocket-book, containing a such of six
hundred pounds, in his pocket, when his attention, with that
of other persons present, was attracted by the appearance of
one of those extraordinary looking beings, the 'White
Quakers, who happened to enter at the time. After a few
moments Mr. Jeffs ascertained that his pocket-book bad been
abstracted by some adroit and successful thief, who contrived
to escape before the loss was discovered. IJ