The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-26 00:00:00

BURGLARY

AT MANCHESTER.

TVilliam Heyes, (18,) was indicted for having bur-
glariously broken and entered the dwelling-house of John
Huet, at Manchester, and stolen thereout a screw-driver,
a looking-glass, a brass candlestick, and a quantity of
soap.

Mr. Monteith conducted the case for the prosecution ;
and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Fitzgerald.
It appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutor was
a hardware merchant, and that he resided at Shude-hill,
Manchester. Upon the night of the 3d of February he
fastened up his premises, and retired to rest about twelve
o'clock. At five the following morning he was awoke by
a noise in the house, and after having listened for a short
time he heard one of the doors down stairs forced open.
He immediately got out of bed, accompanied by his wife,
and proceeded to the place from where the noise pro-
ceeded ; and as he was going down he heard several per-
sons running away. His wife called, " Watch, watch,"
and several policemen came and surrounded the premises.
One of the policemen observed the prisoner going from
the prosecutor's house on to the roof of an adjoining
house, and then sliding down a water-spout and slipping
into a stable. The officer followed, and on coming up to
the prisoner the latter at first pretended to be drunk, and
then that he had been sleeeping in the stable all night.
The jury returned a verdict of acquittal.
Several prisoners were then arraigned, and the court
adjourned at six o'clock to nine this morning.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—YESTERDAY.
(Before Mr. Baron Rolfe.)
His Lordship took his seat this morning at ten o'clock.
The cause list contains in the first, or West Derby List,
47 causes; and, on the second or Salford List 94 causes,
and there are ten special juries. Another cause was en-
tered at the rising of the court, by special application.
ASHWORTH V. RATCLIFFE.—This was an undefended
action brought by the plaintiff Mr. George Ashworth, a
commission agent, in Manchester, to recover from the
defendant James Ratcliffe, a cotton spinner, at Wols-
tenholme, the sum of £213 45., the value of a quantity of
cotton supplied by the plaintiff to the defendant.
Verdict for the plaintiff; damages £213 4s.
LORD V. FERRAND.—This was an action brought by
the plaintiff, John Lord, a small farmer, residing at
Bacup, near Rochdale, against the defendant, Mr. John
Ferrand, attorney, of Rochdale, to recover the sum of
£309 the principal and interest due on a promissory note
given by the defendant as long ago as the month of July,
1809. It appeared from the facts of the case that the
plaintiff had advanced the money to the defendant at the
time mentioned, for which the promissory note in ques-
tion was given for £2OO, and the remainder was for inter-
est since accumulated. The defendant pleaded, first, the
statute of limitations ; and, secondly, that the money had
been paid.
Messrs. Wortley add Noggins were counsel for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Watson appeared for the defendant.
Evidence was adduced to show that numerous applica-
tions had been made on behalf of the plaintiff for pay-
ment of interest on the note; and two letters were put
in, one dated in July, and the other in December, 1839,
had contained two remittances of £2O and £25 on ac-
count of the note. _ ,

On behalf of the defendant it was contended by Mr.
Watson that at all events only the sum of £BO and inter-
est thereo i since 1841 was due, and to prove this point
a letter was put in, and a conversation which took place
between the plaintiff and defendant in which the plaintiff
said £BO was due on the bill. Mr. Wortley contended
that this meant that the £BO was due for interest on
the note, and did not in the least affect the claim of
the plaintiff.
His Lordship baying summed up the case, the jury
found for, the plaintiff; damages £307 18s, ; and on the
application of Mr. Wortley execution was directed to be
issued in ten days.
SPECIAL JURIES.—FRASER AND OTHERS V. COPPLE-
THWAITE AND FRASER AND OTHERS V. COPPLETH-
WAITE.—In these two cases at the request of .Mr. Baines
verdicts were taken by consent for the plaintiffs, subject
to terms, in one for £2BO, and the other for £251 5s 3d.
DODD r. HAMPSON.—In this case Messrs. Martin and
Segar were for the plaintiff, and Messrs. Wortley and
Atherton for the defendant. It was an action brought by
the plaintiff to recover the sum of 138 for meal and pro-
vender supplied by him to the defendant.
The plaintiff is a miller at Lostock Mill, and the de-
fendant a small farmer at Aspull Moor, in the neighbour-
hood of Wigan. It appeared that the plaintiff had from
time to time supplied meal and provender to the defen-
dant from his mill at Lostock, but no account was deli.
vered until a few months ago, when the daughter of the
defendant affiliated two illegitimate children on the plain-
tiff, after which an action was commenced for the amount
of the goods.
The defence set up was, that the goods had been sent
to the defendant instead of money, as payment for the
maintenance of the children ; and several witnesses were
called who clearly proved that this was the case, on which
Mr. MARTIN said he could not resist such evidence,
and would therefore submit to the plaintiff being called.

The plaintiff was then nonsuited.
ALLEGED ILLEGAL SEIZURE.—BINTCLIFFE V. GAR•
NETT, ESQUIRE.—Mr. Baines and Mr. Greene were for
the plaintiff in this case, and Messrs. Martin and Cowling
for the defendant. _ _

Mr. BAINE'S stated the case. It was an action for tres-
pass arising out of an illegal distraint in having seized an
organ belonging to the plaintiff. The plaintiff is a publi-
can who keeps the Ogden Arms, in Oldham-street, Man-
chester, and the nominal defendant is Wm. Garnett, Esq.
the late high sheriff of the county, but the real defendant
a person named Huhne, who resides in Manchester. The
plaintiff was formerly a joiner in Ashton-under-line, and
married the daughter of Mrs. Sarah Wright, who kept the
Flying Horse at Ashton. In May last he entered on the
public house in Manchester, and at the suggestion of some
Druids, who held a lodge at the house, he purchased an
organ for their entertainment. This organ he procured
from his mother-in-law, and paid for it £49. Shortly
afterwards a sheriff's officer entered, seized the organ and
carried it off, and it was for this trespass the action was
brought.
Several witnesses were called, who deposed to the organ
being sold to the plaintiff in July last, and was paid for in
October, when £3O was returned to the plaintiff for work
done at the house of Mrs. Wright, his mother-in-law. In
the course of cross-examination it was elicited that a few
days after a writ had been served on Mrs. Wright, her
furniture was sold by auction, and the rest removed, so
that nothing was realized under tbe,writ of.fifa, with the
exception of the organ in question atrtl a piano-forte.
Mr. MARTIN, in addressing the jury for the defendant,
contended that the whole was a fraudulent transaction in
order to deprive the creditors of Mrs. Wright of the pro-
perty, and that the sale was a mere farce and pretence,
without the slightest reality.
[At the conclusion of the address of the learned gentle-
Man, his Lordship adjourned the case until to-morrow
morning.]

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daily increasing number of his pupils. The rapid transition from
stiff, scrawling, and frequently illegible hands, to an elegant and
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MR. ELLIS' STOCK CARPETS.—We beg to direct the atten-
tion of parties furnishing te the splendid stock ol carpets ad-
vertized by Mr. Ellis, in his new establishment in Lord-street.
A great convenience has been afforded to the public at this end
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Bucx's PATENT ELASTIC PEN-HOLDER.—We have been fa-
voured with a trial of an elastic horn pen-holder invented by
Mr. Burk, writing master, of this town. Its principle is exceed.
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has preceded it. It fully answers the purpose for which it was
intended. Mr. B. is about to retire from the profession of
writing master. Those, therefore, who desire to avail them-
selves of his talents, should loose no time in becoming pupils._
See adv.
TONTETH-PARK.—ELECTION OF GUARD lANS.-011 the casting
up of the votes last night (Monday), the return was found to be
as follows:—John Sheppard, Mill-street, gentleman, 1193 ;
James Robertson, Peel-street, merchant, 1172 ; Thomas Hunt-
ington, Park-road, flour dealer, 1143 ; John Payne. Upper Par-
liament street, plumber, 1135; John Hughes, Park-street,
builder, 1i 55 ; William McKee, St. James's-place, surgeon, 984 ;
John Walker, • Berkley-street, gentleman, 978 ; Thomas Lloyd,
Chester-street, timber merchant, 988; Alexander Ryan, Upper
Hill-street, lime burner, 1063; Joseph Appleby, Park-road,
gentleman, 984. The first five are, therefore, elected. They are
staunch Conservatives.
THE LIVERPOOL NORTH AND SOUTH DISPENSARIES.—It has
been urged, and not without good reason, by several of our
ac-
contel m-
poraries, that these deserving institutions of public sympathy, p
ed as they are at this moment in a state of great pecuniary difficulty,
have not been supported in so liberal a manner as the wealth of
this great town would justify us in believing they might have been.
During the past year only one appeal has been made from the
pulpit of the Established Church, and that was at St. Mary's Edge-
bill, by the Rev. F. Barker. This year the first sermon on their
titonwawas s a n
madeeloquentat andit
behalfi was preached by the Rev. William Mulyneux, at St. Luke's.
res
We would,siveone, and a,
on thishandso occasion,
earnestly s an im
conclusion.p
earnestly exhort not only the ministers of the Protestant religion
but also those of every
d
an example as those now
s denomination immediately to follow so good
they may be the mean set before them, so that in some measure,
institutions which, for many of rescuing from a state of bankruptcy
viating a vast amount ofalajtrars,.havei.been instrumental in alk-
mvery and suffering.

SERIOUS GALE IN THE IRISH CHANNEL.
LOSS 01. LIFE & DAMAGE TO SHIPPING.

(From our Second Edition of Tuesday last.)
At the close of the week before last, a heavy gale from
the south-east prevailed in the Channel, and occasioned
serious destructio.: of life and property. .

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" Wexford, 17th March, 1844.
" Thomas Court, Esq.
" Dear Sir,—l regret to state that the Georgina, Wil-
son, master, from Liverpool to Arica, with a genera
cargo, struck on Blackwater Bank this morning, and sunk
about a mile from the shore, part of her masts over water.
Twelve of the crew were lost coining on shore in the boat.
William Curran, mate, and David IVl'Lean, seaman, were
saved." _ .

The Georgina is, we understand, owned by the executors
of the late John Worrall, deceased, and the loss of ship
and cargo is estimated at upwards of £40,000, little of
which, we are happy to learn, is insured in Liverpool.

" Pwilheli, 17th March, 1814, 10 p.m.
" Thos. Court, Esq.
" Dear Sir,—Since my report of last night. the gale
continued with great violence all night, and most part of
this day. At daylight this morning there were only three
vessels that rode out the gale at St. Studwell's-roads,
viz., the schooner Myriam, of Pwllheli ; the Content,
Roberts, of Pwllheli ; and the French brig. In all, 12
are now on shore, including those I reported last night,
viz., schooner Hope, of Milford ; schooner Roberts, from
Bangor for Exeter; schooner Elizabeth, from Barrow for
Swansea ; smack Gelert, from Portmadoc for Bridge-
water; smack Ellen, from Portmadoc for Swansea;
smack Unity, of Cardigan ; smack Hopewell, of Cardi-
gan ; brig Catherine, of Whitehaven, from cvhitehaven
for Cardiff, with iron ore, carried away windlass and
bitches, slipped both anchors, and makes a deal of water."

" Dublin, 18th March, 1844.

" Thomas Court, Esq.
" SlR,—The night of the 15th instant, and all the sub-
sequent day, it blew a perfect storm from the N.E., and
continued until yesterday at noon. Several colliers and
light craft have been wrecked at Kingstown Harbour, of
which the names are annexed. The Kish Bank light-ship
also broke her chain, and ran for this port, but we expect
will be replaced this tide, or, at furthest, the next tide, by
a relief light-ship, as every exertion is making to get her
out to her station. The schooner Active, of Leith, Capt.
Norman, with wheat, from Derry to Drogheda, went to
pieces near Clogher Head ; crew saved. The schooner
Majestic, Corichill master, of Ramsey, from Runcorn to
Dublin, with coals, is on shore on the Velvet Strand, near
Baldoyle, but expected to be got off if the weather keeps
moderate. The schooner Mary, of Milford, James mas-
ter, with oats, from Killala to London, is stranded badly
on the Wicklow Bar, and has damaged her cargo. The
schooner Seymour, of Bray, struck on the Burford Bank,
and capsized, crew drowned. Weather now moderate.

LIST OF WRECKED AT KINGSTOWN HARBOUR.
Brig Helper, of Maryport, with coals.
„ Mary, of Whitehaven, ditto.
Schooner Betties, of Liverpool, ditto.
Brig Tom, of V% hitehaven, ditto.
Schooner Agnes, of Preston, ditto.
Schooner Belview, of Greystones, ditto.
Schooner Jane & Francis, much injured.
Brig Pandora, ditto.
Sloop Catherine Mary, ditto.
Brig Maria, of Whitehaven, ditto.
Sloop Colonel Smith, of Carnarvon.

The Caroline, a fine ship, belonging to Messrs. Wilson
and Dawson, of Chapel-walks, in this town, which left
here in the early part of last week, foundered in the gale.
She was bound for Africa, her crew consisting of 29 per-
sons. -On her arrival off the Welsh coast, it came on to
blow very bard, and Captain Jackson deemed it prudent
to run for the Studwell Roads for shelter. The entrance
had scarcely been gained before both her anchors were
obliged to be dropped for her safety. The gale increased
from the N.N.W. with a tremendous rolling sea on, and
after weathering for some time, she was driven from her
moorings on to the rocks on to the westermost Studwell
Islands, and quickly went to pieces. The captain and
some of the unfortunate fellows swam to the island, but
were as soon swept off by the surf, and perished. The
remainder of the crew saved themselves by the jolly and
long boats, although in a most dreadful state of exhaustion.
Her loss will be very heavy.
A letter from Belfast, dated the 16th, gives the follow-
ing melancholy intelligence :—" We had a most awful
accident in the Lough to-day. Lieutenant Victor, R.N.,
and his crew, consisting of eight men, in going down to
the hulk at Gartnoyle, were upset in a squall, and, melan-
choly to relate, very soon perished."
Arklow Bay was the scene of a distressing shipwreck
on Saturday. The flat Penrhyn of Liverpool came on
shore ; all hands saved. At three p.m., the schooner
Brothers, of Arklow, laden with copper ore, bound for
Bristol, came on the beach about 300 yards from the
shore, the sea at this time running over, the ship. Capt.
Hore, while the vessel was going to pieces, attempted,
unsuccessfully, with a number of persons who were pre-
sent, to rescue two of the crew who were entangled in the
ropes. The remainder of the crew were saved.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

THE EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN

RAILWAY COMPANY.

At a special meeting of the proprietors of the Edin-
burgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway Company, held
within the Waterloo Hotel, Edinburgh, on the 18th day
March, 1844, Erskine Douglas Sandford, Esq., Advbcate
and Steward of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in the
chair—

The Secretor) laid on the table the newspapers contain-
ing the notice of meeting, and a copy of the circular sent
to the shareholders. _

A deputation from the shareholders in England then
produced mandates for 2740 shares, having 142 votes,
and, from other parties, 780 shares, having 80 votes,
which were laid on the table.
The Chairman then rose and stated, that a matter of
great importance was now to be considered by the share-
holders of this line, placed in the position to which they
had so long looked forward, as likely to afford them a
fair and ample remuneration for the difficulties in which
they have hitherto been involved. It may be known to
such of the original shareholders as are now present, that
the plan of a line to Newhaven, or Trinity, and Leith,
was originally projected in connection with the Edinburgh
and Glasgow, the prospectus of which contemplated its
termination in Market-street, where it would have been
joined by the Edinburgh and Newhaven line, thus afford-
ing a free access for the traffic to the sea. The Edinburgh
and Glasgow found it necessary to give up the extension
to Market-street, but in• the meantime our bill had
passed, and it was necessary that our work should be
commenced. I merely mention this for the purpose of
calling to your minds that the junction with the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow in Market-street was a prominent and
leading principle in your plan ; and that the abandonment
of it nearly paralysed all the efforts of your directors, and
was felt to be a great and, serious evil. We have, how-
ever, always done our utmost to keep up an amicable
relation with the directors of that company, and we have
hitherto succeeded ; and I will say that, while your direc-
tors went on quietly and unobtrusively to do their duty,
through evil report and good report,interferiag with no one,
they were always willing to treat upon the most amicable
terms with the directors cf that more powerful body, and
to meet their views as for as they could consistently with
a due regard to their own interest. When the directors
of the Edinburgh and Glasgow had at last determined
upon the extension, for the purpose of obtaining an outlet
to the shipping ports for their great and increasing
traffic, we had several interview, and• as the directors of
the Edinburgh and Glasgow were desirous, and indeed
interested, that even the details of arrangement as to joint
traffic should be reduced into clauses, for the purpose of
being introduced into the proposed bills connected with
their extension, and our new branches to Leith and
Granton, we even agreed to that, but subject always to the
approval by you of the proposed arrangement. Now, I
think it right to state, that the principal point for your
consideration is, what is contained in the fourth clause;
and is one of principle, and of that all of you can judge.
It is this—whether you are to allow the Edinburgh and
Glasgow to fix the rates for which goods are to be carried
along the joint lines ? They insist upon this as essential
to their proceeding. You are to understand, they are
willing to make up for this concession, that you should
have four miles instead of three ; and, considering their
great interest, it is not likely that they would affix a low
rate, a rate at which no profit would arise ; therefore, you
will draw one fourth -more than you would strictly have a
right to. The quantity of goods to be sent along the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow line to Leith and. Granton is likely to
be immense. Last year their report shows that they car-
ried at the rate of 120,000 tons, and this increasing, you
will consider whether the certainty of this will not coun-
terbalance the rights which you give up in regard to the
fixing the rate, upon those goods ; of course the right of
fixing your own rates upon goods coming to Edinburgh
from Leith' and Granton, and vice versa, is untouched.
If you trust the prudence and good faith of the directors
of the Edinburgh and Glasgow—if you believe that they
will act as prudent men in 'the management of their own
affairsthere can be, no reason for your not giving them
the power required in return for the boon offered. The
Chairman stated some of the rates charged by the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, for the purpose of showing that the
'Share apportioned to the Edinburgh and Newhaven would
afford in moat instances an adequate return.
Mr. Richard-Dawson, of Liverpool, said—Sir, on rising
to propose a resolution in support of the very clear and
candid statements'you have now made, I have great satis-
faction in congratulating the meeting on the prospects of
this undertaking. Ibeg to call the attention of the meet-
ing to the very strong "interest held in England, which I
have been called upon to protect, and to express the opi-
nion they entertained on-the receipt of the circular an-
nouncing the heads of proposed agreements between the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and this company, to be
submitted for your consideration this day. Strongly im-
pressed with the importance of our railway, from its pe-
culiar situation, and well knowing the great advantages
the contiguous railways will derive from our line of sail-
way, with its branches, being the only outlet to the sea,
I beg without any further comment to propose the follow-
ing resolution, as calculated to secure to ourselves all those
rights and privileges which I consider so essentially ne-
cessary for the interests of the shareholders at large, thus
maintaining their independence :
" Moved—that this meeting disapprove of the heads of
the proposed agreement now laid before it, and desire that
the directors do forthwith withdraw the same, and of any
clauses being introduced into the respective bills now be-
fore parliament as to matters of details, as they are not
aware of its being usual to have any such clauses intro-
duced into acts of parliament, referring to connecting
lines, under similar circumstances ; and they are of opi-
nion that such details ought not to be considered until the

respective acts, above alluded to, are obtained,—But,
Resolved—that a clause giving
i a general power to the re-
spective companies, to enter into such arrangements as
may be mutually agreed upon by the said companies, and
confirmed under their respective seals, be permitted."
Mr. John Macfarlane, of Manchester, said—Fully con-
curring as I do, in the sentiments which have been ex-
pressed by Mr. Dawson, and being at the same time con-
vinced of the evil consequences which would arise to this
Company, were the proposed heads of agreement between
it and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, to
be adopted—more particularly as regards the clauses num-
beredfour and seven—l have much pleasure in seconding
the motion now made by Mr. Dawson.
After a few general observations were made by other
gentlemen, the motion was put from the chair and carried
unanimously.
Mr. John Macfarlane, of Manchester, was proposed as
a Director, to represent the English Company, and was
unanimously elected.
Thereafter the cordial thanks of the meeting were given
to the Chairman and Directors not only for calling the
shareholders together upon the occasion, but also for their
conduct in the management of the affairs of the Company.

We understand the Directors in the evening entertained
the senior Magistrate, the Lord Dean of Guild, Council-
lor Maefarlan, the deputation from the shareholders in
England, with several influential residents of the city,
at dinner, within the Waterloo Hotel, which, with the ex-
cellent wines furnished by Mr. Rampling-, in his usul good
style, gave a zest to the entertainment that kept the com-
pany together to a pretty late hour.