The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-08-25 00:00:00

LIBEL.--READ V. VADE.

Mr. BLACKBURN opened this case, which was an action of
dauuigcs for libel. The plaintiff was formerly a respectable in-
habitant of Coventry, but, being reduced in his circumstances,
be came to this town, and was employed by Mr. Vade, a print-
seller, Scc., who published respecting him a notice to the follow-
ing effect in the Liverpool Mercury:—" Whereas Samuel Read,
I formerly of Coventry, having been received-into my employ for
the sake of charily, a short time ago condected himself in such
a manner as to render his immediate discharge necessary, and
since his dismissal has endeavoured fraudulently to obtain mo-
ney owing to me without my authority, This is to request that
no accounts of mine be paid to Samuel Read, who is neither
authorized nor instructed to receive money-or transact any kind
of business in my name." This n.tice, slightly altered by the
proprietors of the Mercury, appeared in that paper on the 7th
November. The learned counsel alleged that it had been ex-
tremely. 'injurious to his client, and the action was brought 16
recover compensation for the injury so inflicted. The learned
gentleman, having briefly stated the facts, called
Rogerson.—l am one of the publishers of the Liverpool
Mercury. I know Sam. Tucker, and recollect his coining to
the office on the oth NOvember with an advertisement (which
he produced.) Ido not know the handwriting. A few_words
were taken out, and Others substituted, and it was published ett
the-7th 'November.
Robert Somerville.-1 am assistant to my brother, a hOsier in
LiverpoOl. know the plaintiff, Who, ashen I first 'knew him,
'was a merchant at Coventry. The defendant is a stationer and
dealer in prints at Liverpool. I remember the defendant read-
ingthe adYertisement to my brother, and calling to caution him
against paying the plaintiff any money. A month afterwards
ado observed he did not think Read could bring an action into
court against him, for he had not the means. lie thought a
lawyer would not take it.
Gross-exiniined.—Read told me afterwards that he should
have got aome money if Mr. Vude had not followed him too
sharply to the customers.
Thomas. Hague, an engraver and printer.—Knows Read.
Had some negotiation with him last year about employing him
about nine or ten months ago. He was to solicit orders on a
commission of 10 per cent. A person named Jordan, my fore-
man, was instructed to give him some cards of introduction.
Saw an advertisement in the paper on the 7th November, about
a fortnight after the agreement, Which was thereupon broken
off. Perhaps he might have made 30s. a week.
Cross-examined.—Did not apply' for any character when II
engaged him.
Mr. Jordan, foreman to the last witness, confirmed his state-
ment.—A man may get from this canvassing 15s. a week, or he
may get £2 or £3,
Mr. Cits:sswitt.t. regretted the plaintiff had brought this ac-
tion, inasmuch as it would only tend to make thematter of com-
plaint more public, and it must at all events ba a losing game to •
the defendant, the plaintiff having no means to pay his costs,'
and this-being in fact a speculative action. The learned gen-
' tlernan contended that the defendant was bound in self-defence
to issue the advertisement. He should show by evidence that
the plaintiff had gone round to the customers up to.the very
time of' the public cautionary advertisement, attempting to ob-
tain money, and, in some cases, had offered large discounts-to
induce customers to pay money to -him.
Thomas 'Meadows, Thomas Fawcett, and others, were called
to substantiate these statements.—Verdict for the defendant.

Sheriff Raphael's taste of Parliament will cost him, we hear,
from first to last, little short-of £5,000. We know not exactly
how inueh,per day this will have been for the honour of stewing
in the House of Commons during part of the dog-days.

RELICS of THE CIVIL WARS.—The labourers employed in
excavating the ground at the brow of the hill in Dame Pugley's
field. above Stoke's crpft, h•ave within the last few days dog
into an ash-pit on the site where,,,in 1645, stood Prior's-hill
Fort, .one of the fortifications raised against the protector's
army under General Fairfax, then besieging Bristol. In this
pit were found numerous bullets, small measures supposed to
have been used for the Tsarpose of charging muskets with the
proper quantity of powder, curiously-formed tohaeco-pipes with
short stems, &c. Many of these are now in the possession of
collectors.—Bath Journal.

ARRIVED—The Cabotia, Ashton, from New South Wales ; sailed
13th May—Tallahassee, Meany, from New York ; sailed 31st Ji/IY-
On 20th August, in lat. 50,10ng. 11, spoke the Tom Oringle, from Cuba
for Swansea, and the Splendid, from Liverpool for New York—Rosa-
lind. Fenrose, from Trinidad,; sailed 15th July. The Ann was to sail
the following day for Liverpool—Frances Ann, Hay, from Calcutta
and St. Helena ; sailed ad July—Aliee, Hepburn, from New South
Wales; sailed 23d April—Oscar, Cain, from New Calabar ; sailed 18th
May, and Fernando Po, 28th May—Hannah, Clayton, and Caledonia,
Mitchell. from Savanilia—Victoria, Williamson ; sailed 19th July, and
Grace, Tinnion, from Barlxrdoes—Ricardo, from Havana—Lucy, Gill-
man, sailed 13th July, and Mediterranean from Jamaica—Caroline
Augusta, LIMY, and Atulterlitz. Hammond, and Spartan, Leitch, from
New Orleans and Ilavre—Orpheus, Burnley, sailed Ist August, and
Lacific, Male, sailed 2d August, from New York—Corsair, Williams,
L
Halifax—Dibdin, Ogilvie; Lavinia, Jones; Nautilus, Irving;
argaret, —, and Herone, from Quebec—lsabella Wood. from St.
Andrew's-St. Andrew, Corns ; Edinburgh, M'Clay ; Wakefield, —,
end James, ----. from 6t. John, N.B.—Bounty Hail, Cornforth, from+
Miramichi—Sir George Murray, Beverly, from Rathnrst—.Emma, from
Odessa and Bristol—De Wicker, Redman, from Memel—:St. Agnew,:
egrie, from Havre—Memorialist, Havaside, from Sierra Leone...,
Cyrus, Robinson, from Restigouche—Heroine, from Bahia—Nimrod,
from New Orleans--George Canning, from Africa, and Susannah,'
Abbete. from Boston.
Also Aggivro—lsabella Napier, and Princess 'Victoria, from Lr,4-
donderry ; Hibernia, from Belfast ; City of Carlisle, from Carlisle ;
Adelaide, Walker, Clyde and Vulcan, from Glasgow ; Solway. from
Dundalk (all steamers)—Pilot, from Newhaven—William and Tom,
Murphy, from Cork—Jean Brown, Blind, from Strangford7—Fltmbe,
Edwardri, from Lyrrn—Active. Aldridge,from Hull—Wiley, trall,from
Yarmouth—Aconi, Jones ; Mary Ann, Couch, and Pheaton, Edwards,
from Poole—Trident, George, from Fowev—Maria, Comant, from
Poole—Catherine Caroline, Schlie, from 13iddeford. and Douglas,
from Wick.

The Laura of this port, from Philadelphia for Quebec, was lost near
Cape Ray 9th June ; crew staved.
Arabian, from Bristol for Mauritius, was spoken 3d July, in lat. 9 N,
long. 23 W.
Whitehaven, Barnes, from Antigua fur Londonderry, was spoken in
lat. 39, long. 51.
New Jersey, Barstow, hence for Boston, was spoken 31st ult., in
lat. 44, long. 30.
Miemae,-Brend, sailed from Sydney, N. S. W. for Launceston 20th
• April.
Jane Goodie, Simpson, sailed from Rio Janeiro for New South
Wales 12th June.
Mary, Kerr, hence, at Bonny.
Morro Castle, Wylie, hence, at ditto.
Ann, Hill hence, at New York. •
Roscoe, Delano, hence, at ditto,
Norna, Dott, hence, at Quebec.
Aid de Camp, Joycey, hence, at ditto.
Bee, Chalmers, from Newfoundland, at ditto.
Orwell Gow, hence, at ditto.
Hutchinson, Lloyd, hence, at ditto.
Calcutta. Banks, hence, at ditto.
Bolivar, Fenwiek, hence, at ditto.
Amelia, for Bahia, was spoken 12th June, in lat. 13 3, long. 37 W.
Susannah, Collins, from Constantinople, at Odessa.
hope, of Maryport, bound for Quebec, was spoken 23d June, in the
St. Lawrence, with loss of anchors, cables, and windlass.
Mary, Xeiber, hence for Constantinople, was spoken 31st July, in
lat. 41, long. IL
Bachelor, Ilene°, at Hobart Town.
---., from London, at ditto.
Ann, M'Alpine, sailed from Hobart Town. for Launceston 3d April.
Harriet, Rhodes, from the Cape of Good Hope, at Sydney, N. S. W.
Loehiel, Millons, from Leith and Hobart Town. at ditto.
Statesman, Quiller, from London, at ditto;
Charlotte, Pearce, hence, at Jamaica.
Richard Watson, Hosken, hence, at Bahia.
Ino, , from Bahia, at Falmouth.
The Cabotia, from Sydney, N.S.W. is aground in the Prince's Dock
Basin.
Caledonia, Coniehar, from Odessa, at Constantinople.
Alexander Robertson, Black, from Odessa, at ditto.
Thomas Crisp, Crisp, from Odessa, at ditto.
Laiming, Osborn, hence, at ditto.
William, Sanders hence and Syra, at ditto.
Ferdinand, Penek, hence, at Swinnentuntle.
Antelope, from Smyrna, at Dublin.
Maria. from Quebec, at ditto.
The Hannah, arrived here from %vanilla, left the facoving 'vessela
loading, and to sail on or before the Ist August. Barques Rowena
and Governor, aaci brigs Laurel and Skeen. On.llth Aug.,•in lat. 45,
long. 37 30, spoke the-Nithsdale, hence for Quebec.
The deek of-a vessel and severed pieces of wreck were seen floating
about 17th instant, 30 minutes north of Kinnaird's Head ; au pposkid to be the wreck of a vessel which had foundered in the Pentland
Frith,
Ltaimitex. 18th August.—The Aurora, of Aberystwyth, aupposed
from Bay Chaleur, was passed 23d July, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence,
water-logged and abandoned.
LEASWIGH, 12th August.—The Mangalore, Todd, from Liverpool for
St. Petersburgh, was wrecked on this coast during a hurricane_the Bth
instant; crew and most of the cotton saved; part damaged. the vessel
being full of water.

MONDAY, AUGUST 21.—Noon, Wind N.W.—Fresh breese.
AnitivEn—The Rolla, Wallree, from Nassau—Robert Watt. Master,
from St. Andrews—Bennett, Pressley, from Beyrontand
ALSO Aitß 1V no—The Alicia, WelcluironrWaterfoid—John'tficton,
Wore,' Newport.
The Frances Ann, llay. from Calcutta, at this port; left the. Sands
Headsl2th April, and St. Helena 3d July.
SAILED—The Leander, Williams, frkr Africa—John Brooks, Adams,
Valparaiso, Sze—Rebecca, Williatns, Demerara—St. Paul, Woodbury,
and Napoleon, Smith,' New York—Corinthian, Hill, New Orleans—
United States, Turner, Philadelphia—Peril, Sharer, Montreal—Psovi-
dence, Taylor, Newfoundland—Thetis; Hough, Bourdeaux—Sylvanus,
Lawson, Pugwash, N. S.

The Carraboo, Fell, from Valparaiso, at Cowes, sailed 280 May.
On 14th June, in lat, 48 2 S, long. 52 30 W, spoke the Mary Scott,
'hente for Valparaiso.
Kent, Coubro, hence, at Bombay 3d April.
Freak, Bouch, hence, at Sydney, New South Wales 28th April.
Mngarn, Rigby. hence, at
Eliza Johnstone, Petrie, hence, at Pernambuco.
Nailer, Danson, hence, at Bonny.
Rolla, Blythe, hence for Quebec, off the Magdalen Islands, the 19th
July,
Unity, Robinson, from Newfoundland, at Halifax.
Brothers, 'Bell, hence, at Nassau.
Jaseune, Murray, from Jamaica, off ditto.
Harvey, Hepburn, from Quebec, at Newry.
Amatia, hence to Ceara, was spoken 7th ult., in lat, 10 N,
long. 39W.
Coma's, sailed from Bahia for this port 4th July.
Teviotdale, sailed fro Miramichi or tis port tlth July.
'Elizabeth Walker Moom re, Payta, sailed for Coquimbo 22d May, at
.Valparaiso.
Brooke, Campbell, from Realijo, at Valparaiso.
'Samuel Winter Rogers, from Islay, at ditto. Charles Eyes, Moss, hence, at ditto.
Cervantes, - , from Mar-seines. to Mauritius, was spoken 27th,
July, Inlet. 14 2 N, long. 26 24 W.
Europe,'Marahall, hence for New York, was spoken 4th instant, in
lat. 45, long. 24.
Marathon, Eldridge, hence fsr.Boston, was spoken 13th. August, in
at. 48, long. 16.
Isaac flicks, Ingersoll. hence for New York, was spoken sth Aug.,
inlat. 17, long. 38 34.
Aurora, Drenning, hence for Mirarnichi, was spoken 26th July, in lat. 46, long. 58.
The Cabotia was got off last night, apparently with trifling damage•
and making a little water.
The Orion, Chord, from Newfoundland to Quebec, was lost near
•
Cape Ray previous to 4th instant.
Tbc George 111. (convict ship) from Woolwich, was wrecked on a reefat the mouth of the river Derwent, Van Diernens Land, 12th Of
April; 132 persons drowned and 160 saved.

LIVERPOOL TIDE TABLE.
Days, I 3lrn. Ern. 111. Festivals, 4c.
AUGUST.I H. Y. 11. B. P. I.
Tuesday 25 11 59 - 17 0 James Watt died 1819.
Wednesday 26 .0 a 7 036 17 9
Thursday •27 036 I Iti )8 2 Ember Week.
Friday 28 133 155 18 3 St. Augustine.
5at,,,by.....23 218 241 17 8 St. John Baptist beheaded.
SUM) Y _3O 3 5 331 16 4 11th Sunday after Trinity.
Idouday 31 4 0 431 14 11

LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET. AuGcsl“24.
A good business continued to be done in dry Butter, particularly in
approved`brands. Pickled is also in good request, and sales have been
erected at rather higher rates.-.. Beef anti pork„are in .recinest.—For
Bacon, Lard, or Hams there is little inquiry. .
11. 0. -0. 41. '
BUTTE a.—Belfast,new
Banbridge, new 7O •0 —l2 *0 ---
Colerain 7l 0 , 72 0 "."••
Sligo, old.. 7O a 71 0 -•,._
Derry., old • ..... 71 0 7g 0 -
Waterford, new....... 70 0 74 0 --
Limerick, new OO 0 70 0 •—•••
Cork, new OO 0 72 0
Do. pickl-ea 2ds, new 69 0 70 0 "--
Do. dry 36, new
Newry 73 0 74 0
Do, dry Ist, new
Dundalk ' OO .0 00 0 --
Carlow, new.
BEEF.—New Prime Mess 95 0 102 6 per tierce,
New India ...105 0 110 0
PORK . .
Do. . 25 0 30 0 per I barrel.
BACON, new O2 0 34 0 per cwt.
Do. o!d
DRY HAMS- 42 0 ~ 46 0 -- _
WRT Do -
LARD,—Firkin
Bladderecl • . 48 0 50 0

,BN FO

,UGUST 21.

Rye: 13ns.
s dls d
31 0 40 2
31 5 40 3
:22 9 14 0

THE LAST WEEK.

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