The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-19 00:00:00

ROBBERIES IN THE 'LORD CHANCELLOR'S COURT.—On
Monday, about half-past two o'clock, Mr. J. A. Fructuoso, of
No. 69, Portland-place, while in the Lord Chancellor's Court,
Westminster-hall, was robbed of a plain gold watch, maker's
name Grimaldi, Strand, with a gold curb chain, gold seal, and
gold key attached.—Captain Willin, of No. 42, Mornington-
place, about the same time, and in the same Court, was robbed
of a valuable gold hunting watch, jewelled, to which a black
riband, with a gold mourning ring and two keys were attached:
Captain Willin's pockets were also emptied of a red silk purse,
containing some gold and silver moneys and a bunch of patent
keys.

We understand that two serjeants and five police-constables
of the metropolitan police establishment have been sent to
Liverpool to join Mr. Dowling, late superintendantof the Lam-
beth division of metropolitan police, who resigned for the ap-
pointment of superintendent of the dock police at that town.
I'he inspector arid other officers have been selected to assist
Mr. Dowling inimproving the police of the Liverpool Docks,
and introducing the system which is pursued in the manage-
ment of the metropolitan police force.—London Paper.
PRISONERS' COUNSEL BiLL.—The bill brought in by Mr.
Ewart, enabling prisioners to have counsel, gives'the prosecutor
no right to reply, unless the prisoner calls evidence. It also
provides, that any person charged with misdemeanours, felo-
nies, or offences for which justices of the peace have a power to
convict summarily or inflict penalties, may claim to make a de-
fence in a police-office, through the means of counsel, or any at-
torney or solicitor they choose to appoint. In all trials for felo-
nies or misdemeanours, the prisoner, if unable to pay for a coun-
sel, may call on the judge to, assign him a counsel, who is to de-
fend him gratis.

REPRESENTATION OF PAISLEY.—The fleeting nature of
popularity, and the effects which may be expected-to follow a
rigid system of pledging, have been pretty well illustrated by
the local political proceedings of the week. A few short mouths
ago, Sir John Maxwell was every thing that was
.good,. great,
magnanimous, liberal, enlightened, patriotic, wise, sincere,
trustworthy.- Now, reversed. The cry now is—" We have
been disappointeil, deceived, betrayed, gulled." Then one of
his friends declared at a public meeting, and the favour with
which the assertion was received showed how consonant it was
to popular feeling, ,'° That were we to search Scotland with
lighted candles, we could not find a better Member." Now,
the complaint is, that we could not find a worse; and he has
been denounced as, a violator of pledges; as unworthy to be
trusted—corresponded with—or recognised as our Representa-
tive. Is Sir John less a patriot that he was during the election ?
No.—Less a liberal? No.—Less attached to popular liberty ?
No.—Less desirous to see his constituents flourishing? No.—
Less solicitous to see the nation prosperous, enlightened, and
happy ? Assuredly not. Why, then, this wide breach between
him and a part of his constituency ? Simply because he allowed
himself to promise too much, and more than he could perform.
Had he not been bound down by the pledges, his friends could
have palliated his vote on Mr. Hume's motion, on the ground
of the danger to be apprehended of ousting, the Ministry, and
throwing the Administration back on the hands of the Tories.
They could have justified him on the plea of sheer necessity,
in his vote on the Irish Coercion Bill. But here are the
pledges; bow is this conduct under them to be justified ?
There, indeed, is the rub. That the men who pledged Sir
John so rigidly should be the first to condemn him is reason-
able enough. In doing so, they act with proper consistency.
The administration of pledges would only have been mockery,
unless they had been followed up. The evil lay in sending a
Representative to Parliament who was required simply to do as
he was bidden, while he must shut his eyes to passing events, his
mind to evidence, and his ears to logical reasoning, and sound
argument. It is, we are convinced, the cool and deliberate
opinion of a very great body of the constituency that the
sooner the list of pledges is thrown into the fire the better.
We see the result when we have had an honest man to deal
with, and what effect will they produce should we fall into the
hands of a rogue ? If we hang them up, like a scarecrow, on
the flag-staff of our hustings, men of honour, influence, ability,
and experience .will shun us, and we will be constrained to se-
lect, as our Representatives, men who will not hesitate, for
Parliamentary notoriety, to sacrifice their independence, their
knowledge, their wisdom, their experience, their understanding,
and their integrity, at the shrine of any little knot of pseudo
lawgivers, void of every thing that can lay claim to the dignity
of legislative experience, but who'may, fur the time, have got
some little hold of the ear of the constituency. It will be seen
from the resolutions of Monday night, and from the proceed-
ings in opposition to them, which, during the week, have formed
a fertile theme of discussion, that there is a complete split in
the constituency. The one party are determined to award to
Sir John Maxwell the sentence of condemnation, the other of
acquittal. A fair trial of strength is immediately expected.
The latter party reckon pretty confidently on the assistance of
the moderate Reformers and the Conservatives, while the hopes
of the former are founded on the strength of the extreme gauche.
We do not pretend to foretel to which party victory will incline,
but that will, doubtless, be decided during the course of the en-
suing week.—Paisley's Advertiser.

FACTORY SYSTEM.
The calculations made by Mr. Sadler were founded on cer-
tain tables in the appendix to the Report from the Committee
of the Ilouse of Commons showing the duration of life in various
places ; the results are exhibited in the following Comparative
Table of Deaths in 18 years (1813 to 1830) in the undermention-
ed places :

In every 10,000 of the Persons Buried there Died—