The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Brewster has been appointed Solicitor General for
Ireland.
Bryan Seary, found guilty of shooting at Sir F. Hop-
kins, by the Westmeath Special Commission, has been
left for execution.
FOREIGN CORN.—A cargo of wheat, imported into
Dublin direct from Naples, entered into the Customhouse
Docks on Thursday last.
The election for Cork will take place on Saturday next,
when Mr. M'Carthy will be returned in the room of Mr.
Serjeant Murphy, resigned in disgust.
Mr. Lascelles and Lord Courtenay are mentioned as
-probable successors to Sir Thomas Fremantle, in the
office of Secretary for Ireland.
The Carlow Seratin. l gives the particulars of a daring
attempt to assassinate Captain St. George, of Altamount,
on last Monday evening. The gallant gentleman had a
narrow escape. _ _

BAIL COURT—FRIDAY
(Sittings in Banco )

THE QUEEN V. THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER

The Solicitor-general moved for a rule to shew cause
why a mandamus should not issue directed to the Lord
Bishop of Chester, commanding him to restore to a Mr.
Travis, two pews and sittings in the parish church of
Blackley. It appeared that the ancestors of Mr. Travis
had resided in the parish for several centuries, and as far
back as the oldest documents could testify his family had
been in possession of two pews and also a family vault
situated immediately underneath the said pews; about
four or five years ago, in consequence of the extensive de-
cay of the church, arising from its great age, it was pulled
down and a new one built in its place. The new church
was raised partly by subscription, and partly by the aid of
the church commissioners. A commission was subse-
quently appointed by the Lord Bishop, composed of three
clergymen, for the purpose of ascertaining the claims of
all persons to pews and sittings, and to make such awards
as they considered proper. Mr. Travis accordingly pre-
ferred his claim in the usual form, but nothing then
transpired that could lead him to suppose that his claim
would be disallowed. To his great surprise the Lord
Bishop, after receiving the report, had declined to recog-
nise his claim.

The Limerick Chronicle announces the arrival in that
port of a cargo of Indian corn which has been bonded
there, we suppose, in anticipation of a reduction in the

import duty on the article

STATE OF TIPPERARY.—The Sheriff of Tipperary hav-
ing recently made a large seizure of cattle for rent, near
Thurles, was obliged to bring a force of 400 military be-
fore he ventured finally to remove them.
A Galway paper states, that a man named Michael Red,
on his return from the market at Headford, accompanied
by his wife, were both waylaid and so severely beaten,
that Red died of his wounds the next morning, and his
wife remains in a most precarious state.
On Thursday evening week, Mr. Hugh Hanbury, in
the county of Meath, was fired at by an unknown as-
sassin, but the villian missed his aim, Mr. Hanbury had
been attending the meetidg for the amelioration of the
condition of the working classes.
A Belfast paper announces the stoppage of a London
housb, extensively engaged in the Irish provision trade.
Their liabilities are said to be £lOO,OOO, and one house in
Belfast in the butter trade is, it is said, involved to the
extent of £15,000 by the event.
LEE MlLLS.—These mills have been taken for the
House of Baring. It is supposed, however, that those
eminent men are but the agents of the government, and
that the latter have taken them with a view to providing
against the apprehended scarcity should it come.—Cork

Mr. Justice Williams enquired as to whether he had
another remedy?
The Solicitor-general replied in the negative. If the
claimant had proceeded in the Ecclesiastical Court, the
objection would he urged that the right was one at com-
mon law, and should be therefore brought before another
court. The present course was, therefore, the only one
left to him to take.—Application granted.

COOK a. WETHERELL, CLERK.—The defendant in this
case has obtained a rule for a new trial.
On Tuesday. a conditional order for a criminal infor-
mation, was granted by the judges of the Irish Queen's
Bench, against the proprietor of the Belfast Vindicator
for a libel on the Rev Francis Jervis.
A case which involves the question, whether the naval
hero, Lord H oratio Nelson, had the right of alienating
the estates at Ftronte, given him on the 10th of October,
1779, by the King of the Two Sicilies, is now before the
Rolls Court. The suit is instituted in order to effect a
division of the property among the surviving relatives.
THE NEW IRISH CROWN SOLICITORS.—The Home
Circuit has been divided amongst Messrs. Julian. Seed,
and Elliott, each taking two counties, with a salary of
£5OO, and £2OO a-year for office allowances. Mr. Seed
leaves a vacancy in the crown solicitorship for Limerick
county, which, it is said, is to be given to Mr. George
Fleetwood.
In the Queen's Bench. on Friday, Mr. Cooper, agent
to Sir W. M Stanley, was sentenced to pay a fine of £lO
and to enter into recognizances to keep the peace for
twelve months, for a libel upon the Rev. Joshua King,
of Woodchurch, published in the Liverpool Chronicle.
The particulars were given in our columns when the trial
tookiplace, and the defendant was found guilty.
In the Court of Exchequer, on Thursday, arguments
were heard against making the rule absolute for a new
trial in the action of Newton v. Grand Junction Railway
Company, for an alleged infringement of a patent, The
action was tried in Liverpool, and a verdict given for the
plaintiff for £lOOO. The court was of opinion that there
had been no misdirection by the judge (Cresswell) ; but
on the question of excessive damages, the court hoped the
parties might be able to come to some arrangement; when
it was agreed that the verdict should be for £2OO, which
the plaintiff originally agreed to take, with some addi-
tional costs
In the Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday, two per-
sons named Chapman and Samo, were sentenced to one
year's imprisonment each, for being guilty of illegally
contracting to sell, through the medium of the patronage
Chapman had from Gen. Robertson, an East India Di-
rector, a chaplaincy to the company in India. The cir-
cumstances were these :—The East India Directors seeing
advertisemen's in the papers relative to the sale of a chap-
laincy in India, they instituted inquiries which resulted in
the complete exposure of a most shameful and illegal
fraud. Chapman's brother had been tutor to the sons of
n removed by the medical attendant, ' General Robertson, who was an East India Director, and
—'en death ended his suffer- Chapman entered holy orders, and was promised by the
- against general a chaplaincy in India, which he advertised to
- transfer to another person for a sum of money. Samo was
the agent in the transaction.
UNFORTUNATE BAN KItU PTCY.—In the London Bank-
ruptcy Court, on Friday, the case of Sir John Ross,
the well-known voyager to the polar regions, was heard.
His debts and liabilities are estimated at about £lO,OOO,
r,n.l his assets at about £6OO. It appeared that Sir John
had lost £3OOO by the failure of Mr. Webster, the publish-
er of his expedition in 1834, and a further sum of £lOOO,
being the amount of debts incurred in fitting out the expe-
dition. He had received 13 wounels, for which he received
a sum of .El5O a-year ; £3OO per annum being his half-pay
as captain in the navy, and £5OO a-year as consul-general
for the court of Sweden. A proof was tendered upon the
part of the trustees under a marriage settlement for
£4200, which money it was alleged bad been impro-
perly advanced to the bankrupt as far back as the year
1835. The learned Commissioner would not allow the
proof to be aelmitted, but let it stand as a claim.
Another proof was tendered upon a bill for £5O in
which case a judgment had been signed, after the issuing
of this fiat (tile 17th of the present month), and upon
which bill Sir John had only £lO. The case was ad-
journed.
WITNESSES EXPENSES.—In the Bail Court, on Wed-
nesday, Mr. Martin, on the part of Mr. Hill, of this town,
applied for a rule calling upon the judge presiding over a
certain court in Liverpool, (the Court of Requests, we be-
lieve,) to show cause why a prohibition should not be
issued. In this case an action was commenced by Mr.
Scott against Mr. Hill for the recovery of the sum of
£2 15s. Bd., £2 2s. of which was charged as a fee for at-
tendance at a trial in a case that came before Mr. Cromp-
ton, and the balance was for costs. It was decided over
and over again by the judges of the superior courts that
no action could ever be brought for the recovery of fees
for the attendance of witnesses in a court of law, and this
question had been expressly settled by the Court of Queen's
Bench. In the present case the judge proceeded to make
an order for the payment of this money in defiance of this
decision, in consequence of which he was now instructed
to make he present application. Mr. Justice Williams
aN IRE LAND.—" If there be said that if this rule were to be granted, there would be
' said the minister, " which no reason why a similar rule should not be granted in
er from the adoption of this every case where there is an error in law. Application
action is Ireland." Holding refused.
g deliberately proposed the RAILWAY Scretr.—Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Mr.
butter, bacon, cattle, fea- Baron Alderson, and Mr. Baron Platt, have given an irn-
and flour trades of Ireland, portant decision in a question affecting the sale of railway
oration which the right hon. baronet of- shares. They have decided that the act known as the
-eatest of which he so " Joint Stock Companies Act" does not apply to railways.
Just a relief from the This judgment is a most important decision in the exist-
-se of maintaining the con-tabu- ing position of railway speculation, and one which has
~.ompanied, of course, by a still more been looked for with much anxiety both by repudiators
alization of the government of that most and anti-repudiators. Like most modern acts of parlia-
ial yens d'armerie, and a more perfect re- ment, the Joint Stock Companies Act (7 and 8 Vic., c.
administration of any control on the part 110) delivers itself with so much ambiguity, or at least
anal magistracy. Ilere we are not even with so much complexity, that it is quite professional for
ayment of our parish doctors, a boon gentlemen of the law to consider the intention of the le-
&-enured neighbours of England gislature and the effect of the act as doubtful, until a de-
ae justice to Ireland in this cision of the judges has settled any doubt by affording a
of patriots (1) will support it? precedent. It might also be asserted of our legislature,
ieb the poor staple of Ireland is that Acts of Parliament are like cheques signed in blank,
isla a pr,tc'ical occasion for the of which the judges afterwards fix the value by filling in
•ty Will the flax-spinners of the amounts. It is now decided, then, that the sale of
avers of Dublin—the butter ma- scrip or shares in any railway company, commenced since
-Prick, and Tipperary—the pig the Ist November, 1844, and provisionally registered, is
`amely on, while their de- legal; and that the 26th section of the act, which prohi-
-e consummated ? We bits the transfer of shares in companies until complete
registration has been obtained, does not apply to railway
companies, which cannot prosecute their projects without
vElv:i. an act of parliament. What may be the immediate com-
mercial effect of this decision, we cannot pretend to say;
doubtless many who have hen relying on the legality of
9—NI.
ens
we
M. C. Sre conferred on repudiation will be startled. the moral effect, we
wabey,
Masters of Arts—A. Hawker, trust, will be salutary. It pl •• •s the law on the side of
James, Taberda of Queen's ; J. Dar-
good faith ; it declares that i.en shall not with impunity
run off their agreements, v.l en they find it inconvenient
Rev. H. Stratton, Magdalen Hall. to abide by them.
Batty, Brazenose (grand coin-
VOTE MAN UFACTURING.—In the Court of Common
u, Brazenose ; P. Downward, Pleas, on Thursday, Lord Chief Justice Tindal delivered
I'. t_ arey • Christ Church ;
judgment' in the case Alexander v. Sunman. He said this
W. Heating, Exeter; J.
was an appeal from the decision of the revising barrister
for the county of York • ' and the question raised was
.esday the following degrees
whether a conveyance was void under the 3d section of
ry Masters of Arts—Hon.
7 and 8, Wm. 111., c. 25, such conveyance being made
of Lord Cottenham), Trinity ;

Paper.
On Saturday night week, Mr. Christopher Harrison, a
solicitor, was waylaid and murdered, near Strokestown,
County Roscommon. A few days ago. Mr. W. Grogan,
of Currawne, Leitrim, had a very narrow escape from a
similar attack, the slugs from a pistol having grazed his
face.
At the Dublin police-office on Wednesday, Mr. Henry
Augustus Browne, barrister-at-law, was brought up on a
charge of bigamy, he having married a daughter of Mr.
Copeland, the mannager of the Dublin Royal Bank, his
former wife being then alive. There seemed no doubt of
the prisoner's guilt, but he was remanded until the re-
turn of Mr. Copeland from the continent, who had gone
there in pursuit of the prisoner.
DEATH OF A VETERAN ORANGEMAN.—Died, on the
25th ultimo, at Dromore, Mr. Henry M`Dade, aged 85
years. This worthy Protestant was made an orangeman
when he was 27 years of age., and he was the first person
an Orange warrant, No. 113, into Dromore.
11161 the period of

to introduce
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his death, and maintained throughout his entire life an
unshaken attachment to the Orange institution.
WESTMEATH COMMISSION.—MichaeI Martin, Michael
Kiernan, and Christopher Martin, having been found
guilty of an attack upon the police at Ballintree, were
sentenced to be transported, the first-nz.med for life, the
other two for fifteen years each. Bryan, William. and
Michael Duffy were then sentenced to transportation for
life for assaulting Hugh Irwin. Edward Keena, for
serving a threatening notice upon Mr. Digby, was sen-
tenced to be transported for seven years.
MORDEIt.—On the 21st -
park, near Lis

an inquest was held at Deer-
e of James Connell, who
from the effects of a violent assault

by his

ight of the 6th of January, as
be was returning ~. lir of Ballyduff, in this county.
The unfortunate man, thstanding that four pieces of
his skull had be .d by the medical attendant,
lingered till the 10th instant, when death ended his suffer-
The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against
--prned—namely, two men of the name of
' 'he two Hurlers. One of the

the persons
Murray am

trudge, it appears, had for
a the deceased and his mur-

An old

Wale7f.rd Mail,

REPEAL ASSOCIATIO:,
1.," Mr. O'Conn

—At the usual weekly meeting
11 announced that he should go
e purpose of demanding im-
,ho were threatened with fa-
v measure calculated to sa-

!ning, for t

minister to establish
. Mr. Smith O'Brien had all the sedition
'f; but the chairman, Mr. Maurice O'Connell,
-ary for the , of himself and the associa-
- honourat

granaries

s reflections on the pr 0...,
..., against the proprietor of the Nation.
I solemnly he would not arm in defence of Eng-
on certain conditions, and alluded to the pos-
-1 Irish militia of the present day acting like the
'B2. The rent was £196 Os. 2d.

tion to stop t

secutlon In prog
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,e returns of crime of an
imerick, Leitrim, Tipperary,
d lately. are unusually large.
of Rockitea, threaten-
, se.zing arms, and beating
were of frequent occurrence for the previous few
~ The offences, however, were not of a very violent
nature, considering the perpetrators thereof. Six men
have been fully committed for trial charged with the
murder of Laurence Leahy, and one of them has been
identified as one of the party who fired on the police at
night of that murder. In the Gazette of
's a proclamation from the Lord Lieu-
the baronies of ( lanwilliam, Owneybeg,
_id Coshlea, in the county of Limerick,
,isturbance, and requiring an additional es-
,. of police. His Excellency has offered a
-I of £lOO for the conviction of the murderers of
Lynch, who was shot in the county of Limerick
12th instant; and also a reward of £lOO for the
,n of the person who flied at Mr. Jas. Hanbury,

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on to Lord Hastings), .1 riniLy i
fide conveyance, accompanied with a real transier, spu
i of Lord Aberdeen), Trinity ;
without a secret trust or any stipulation as to the exercise
M. A., All Souls', Oxford. of the elective franchise. The statute 7th and Bth Wm.
kllen, Trinity : W. H. Tyrell,
111., c. 25, even if it stood singly, was not capable of being
:it. John's ; D. Drew, Sidney.
applied to any other than a conveyance of fictitious nature,
H. P. Nlarsham ,Trinity-ball. which had nothing more than parchment and a seal, tl
Soct ETY. —The Committee in parties to it having agreed that no actual interest sl
a matter of some satisfaction r-;,.:_ Thee existed no restriction in law to a man's

mselves enabled to rn7
bled during the past f.reello!ds to the amount of 405., although the express
-., object was to acquire the right to vote, provided the con-
.f
it its former position, but to en- veyance were in other respects bona fide. But if the con-
,f its exertions and usefulness. The veyance, however, were in form only, and never intended
ovvards the employment of additional to have any real effect, it was then always held to be void,
le year ending Easter, 1844, had been whatever the secret trust might be. The statute of 7th
to 196, has during the past year been and Sth Wm. 111, names only conveyances, and makes no
and since Easter to 244. To these reference to contracts ftir the sale of land, and that went
- 1 of endowments, by which
to show that a bona fide conveyance was not intended to
clergyman in each district ,
e avoided on the gi OM" '. ,lerely of the motive of the par-
d. The gri
rants thus made, ties. The 10th Anne, c. 23, both in its title and recital,
an annual expenditure of
drew a clear distinction between fraudulent and real con-
intenance of 268 additional veyances for the r- :pose of giving the right to vote, and
SSIONARY COLLEGE.—The
when the first s, ion was looked at it afforded a confir-
r this institution, irrespec-
matory exposition of 7 and 8 Wm. 111., c. 25, taken in
s amounting to £5OO, is
the sense which the court had put upon it. On the whole
formed on the plan of the
case the court were of opinion that a conveyance bona fide
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made, where money and possession passed, and there was
s of our own universities, and the
no secret reservation, was not avoided by reason of the
s consented to give statutes
existence of a motive by the parties to multiply votes, and
lion. The college will con-
as the revising barrister had brought the case under that
1, who is to be a master of
distinction his decision was clearly right.
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THE C.,URT - FASHIONABLE WORLD.
d tuition of the students.
--6 e are to be nominated by the Lord and Lady Ashley and W. E. Gladstone, Esq. and
sof ( iterbury and York, and the Bishop of lady had the honour of dining with her Majesty on Friday.
r the - being, as being the prelates more The youthful Earl of Stamford and Warrington has
con •th the Church in the colonies ; been entertaining a select party with the sports of the
le pre ne-named will rest entirely the field at Dunham Massey, Cheshire. His lordship and
id app at of persons to fill the offices in friends shot, in one day, 3000 head of game on the pre-
The Archbishop of Canterbury, for the time serves.
be visitor of the college. The object for It is said that a marriage is on the tapis between the
Itution is founded is to supply the want of a Viscount Castlereagh, son of the Marquess of London-
er of ministers duly nreeared, by special derry, and the Vi,countess Powerscourt ; but, as the
,ur in the dependencies of the British em- lovely widow has been already reported to bon the eve of
s are the zealous men now labouring there, f granting her hand to two other suitors, this last rumour
..,,Cs to the heathen, they are few in compari- may be as unfounded as the previous ones.
son with the extent of the field of labour. It is, therefore, On Monday, two young Australian boys, with Mr.
the object of the college now in progress to provide an Eyre, the Australian traveller, who brought them to this
education to qualify young men for the service of the country, were introduced to the Queen and Prince Albert,
Church in foreign settlements, with such regard to eco- at Buckingham Palace, by the Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
nonly and frugality of habits as may fit them for the stone. Her Majesty received her Australian subjects very
special -u-t • r'es to be discharged, the difficulties to be graciously, and seemed much pleased with their general
encountered, and the hardships to be endured. appearance and manners.