The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANtIARfi.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Half-past Six o'clock.

BY EXPRESS.

DUBLIN COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Monday, May 6th.

All the avenues to the Queen's Bench were crowded

from an early hour this morning; the listlessness which
had so strongly characterized the public during the de-
livery of the long-winded and time• killing harangues of
the traversers' counsel, having, now that there appeared
some probabilty of judgment being pronounced this term,
given way to an intense anxiety to ascertain the result.
By eleven o'clock, the hour at which the full court usually
sit, every disposable inch of room in every part of the Court
was occupied. The front of the gallery was filled with
ladies. None of the members of the Court appeared at
the usual hour, which caused much disappointment to the
public curiosity. Twelve o'clock came, and still their
Lordships remained absent. The ladies, the gentlemen of
the bar, the press, and those liege subjects who are classed
as the public at large, might be seen in little groups, en-
gaged in the most animated conversation on such topics
as, what the Judges were now actually doing ? Whetber
they were, or were not, arranging and discussing their
judgment ?

- However, all the various and interesting speculations—
and they were numerous—were put an end to by the crier
shouting " Silence ! " a few moments after which Mr.
Justice Burton entered the court and took his seat, and
in a few minutes was followed by Mr. Justice Crampton,
and at a quarter past twelve o'clock the Lord Chief Jus-
tice took his seat, but Mr. Justice Perrin did not appear.
The Attorney-General and several of the Crown counsel
were present, together with the Crown Solicitor and Mr.
Hodges, the Government reporter. Some of the counsel
and agents for the traversers were in attendance, as also
were Dr. Gray, the Rev. Mr. Tierney, and Mr. Steele,
O'Connell's head pacificator.
The CHIEF JUSTICE having inquired if Mr. Attorney-
General wished to move any thing,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL bowed to the court, but
bad no motion to make, upon which
The CHIEF JUSTICE made the same inquiry of
Mr. BREWSTER, Q. C., who rose and said, that in the
case of Stringer v. Mac Donald, he had been instructed to
apply to their lordships for a new trial.
The motion was destitute of any feature of public in-
terest.

Mr. Brewster's motion having been disposed of, for the
present, upon a preliminary objection,
The Court proceeded to call upon the Queen's Counsel
present to move, according to their seniority, some of
whom having availed them of the opportunity, one or two
cases were heard, during the last of which Mr. Justice
Perrin, who, it was understood, had been engaged with
the Grand Jury in chamber daring the morning, entered
the court, and took his seat amongst his learned brethren.
After hearing two counsel on either side in support of
the application, which was a renewal of a writ of habere,
the Cowl- refused to grant what the plaintiff required, and
gave their opinion at some lenuth on the subject, atter
which the Court asked Mr. M`Danough if he had any
thing else to move, who was not at present prepared to
move anything. The same question was put to Mr.
Soott, Q.C., and to Sir Thomas Staples, Q.C., both of
whom similarly &dined.
The Chief-Jtc•tice then addressing Mr. French, Q.C.,
said, have yt,u anything to move? upon which the learned
gentleman, making a low bow to the bench, immediately
rose from his seat, and moved himself out of Court,
amidst peals of laughter at the learned counsel's mode
of answering the question, in which the Bench heartily
joined.

Half-past Three o'clock.

The Court, with the most provoking indifference to the
curiosity of the public, have not as yet said a syllable on
tree subject of the traverser' motion.

Half-past Four o'clock.

The Court bas just adjourned, without announcing•when
they will pronounce their judgment in the case or the
Queen v. O'Connell. On 'Wednesday the Term endi, so
that it is to be feared the decision will not be giveePtill
next Term.

The rent recei►ed at the Repeal Association to-day we
.£2481.-

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Eleven o'clock.

LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT, &c.

HOUSE' OF COMMONS..

On the rootion,of Sir H. DOUGLAS, the report on the
Gives pool Fire Prevention Bill was brought up and
agreed to.