The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-21 00:00:00

COX RESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—I take the following extract from the Dumfries and
Ga„iloftwicayriCßolusrliwereso.f—Fletbi.s2oOnth
record, 1843 : ---
(says
a recent writer)
that three bishops, in fifteen years, left £700,000 to their
families. A Bishop of Cloglier' went' to Ireandowooithtoonhtias
shilling, and after eight years died worth £400,000. The
aCnldoyanwre,
Welsh
ho
bdisiehdopi,n
wlhBo2od,idetrtec£l2o,
ityt although
ppreeerseoeninagl ptwroepnetryty;
value of t
children;Bhiisshbishopric was called a poor one, left .Zene a r
se
aomfboniusehra
r,
ot
epl
dys
children. By the probates at Doctors' Commons, it to
it ap-
peared, d indi
died within
to the enormous sum of £1.649,000—an avera
£70,000 for each bishop. This was the swor
personal property only, and some of the bishops
bishops, nor ear-
enot greedy of filthy.
to have bad very large possessions in real property. Now,
we will venture to assert that in no other professiony' will
be found that so large an average of wealth has been lef itr
the heads. 'rake the 24 last generals, the 24 last adm' t 13".
the 24 last judges—nay, the 24 last merchants—and theirpals"
sporonaticlhpriot.trEtAy whaolv,i,omt
must
tuable tbhlaatmeolfestsl,l
lucre.—Tim. I. iii.]"
I conceive this to be a random and false article. The
Bishop of Clogher therein alluded to was Dr. John Porter,
who died, I believe, in 1819. I
knew his cousin, and often
heard him speak of the bishops circumstances. That he
left no such sum behind him as £400,000 is quit
erefore, e certacon.
in—
nor, as I conceive, a tenth of it.
We may. th
elude that the other estimat are equally erroneous. The
d es
anius of the article is apparent—it is the fashion with the
Scotch to fall foul upon erscopacy and episcopalians, per
1 fas et nefaz, I have myself heard in Seotlind a
child suchwould see
tales re-
lated, and swallowed too, about bishops,
at our Presbyterian
as
the absurdity of. One would think
th
brethren bad S.) much to do at present with the state of their
own church that sins might, for a time at least, pass unmo-
lested, Whatever else usay be thought of such articles as the
one extracted, it certainly evinces very bad taste in the Dum-
friescourier. Tice public ought torrent, disabused upon the
point, particularly at the present w when the quiet,
uniform, consistent working of episcopacy is contrasted with
the factious and tumultuous doings of the Scottish establish-
ment. It may be worth while to inquire, why so insidious
an attack is made upon the English hierarchy just at the
present time. It has been said, that in the great cities, many
persons, disgusted with the quarrels of the courts, have ta
Ikendo
refuge in the peaceful harbour of the episcopal church.
not pledge myself for the truth of this, nor for the extent of
D.
it.—Yours, &c.,
Warringion,March 17 th, 1843.
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ANTIQUITIES.—They write write from Munic on the 25th ult.
othat the King of Bavaria is now building rho use in the park
f his summer palace at Aschaffenburg, near Wurtzburg,
which will he the exact copy of the famous house of Castor
and Pollux at Pompeia, which was cleared in 1839, under the
direction of the distinguished German arcbaiologist M. Zahn.
Th splendid mosaic work, the fresco painting, the altar, fur-
niture, utensils—in short, all the curiosities contained in that
ancient building. will be copied with the utmost accuracy in
the new structure now in progress of erection at Aschaffen-
burg, so as to afford a correct idea of the domestic manners
of the old Romans in our country, where nothing of the kind
exists.—Journal des DOCIill.
AN AnvocATea ZEAL.—At a late meeting of the judicial
committee of the privy council, Lord Brougham told the
following anecdote, illustrative of a barrister's zeal for his
client :--n I remember a cause at Guildhall, before Lord
" Now, do on
ide; examination?" ?';
Tenderden, in which, upon the cross-examination of a wit-
ness, I brought out the fact, that he had an interest in the
case upon which my noble and learned friend Lord Camp-
bell' (then at the bar) took a ten-pound note out of his own
poll was his zeal for his client—and handed it over
to the witness, who agreed to receive it in discharge of his
einotoefirermst ;wubpootnyowohiscilistemdytloeamrneedopfroieenydoosar
which the witness, of course, replied in the affirmative.
to
Lord Tenterden then turned round and said, 4. Now, Mr.e.
Brougham, what have you to say against the witness ?"
felt that nay objection was removed to another ground, and
endeavoured to convince the jury, that the man having
pledged himself by his evidence while he had an interest
could not possibly go back novr that his interest was at an'
end, without committing pe.rjurey.; _ but that, 'lrwin°. given
his evidence, and thus implicated himself, while he had a
interest, no credit ought now
to
allbe given to his testimony.
However, the jury, contrary
mistake, and found against tnea.nd( Lau titer. They acre
eeat
pleased with the nimbleness tact of my learned friend,rso
and with his great generosity, too, that
did n (Great laughter.)
giving him a ver .
SUBSTITIITS TORFRAMES IN Ho7-BEDS
the Rheinlandlshe Garlenzettung is described a sub .•
In
foe
he
glazed frames of hot-beds and green-house stitute
deserves the attention of florists. Instead of glass s, which
white
are
covered
with a fine cloth of cotton.
the frames
In
render this more transparent, and enable it to resist order to
it is covered with a preparation, the ingredients ofmoisture
four ounces of pulverised dry white chese, two which are
and four ounces of boiled l'
ounces of
These three the
having been mixed withulseed oil'
four ounces of the white of eggs, and as much of each other
are added, and the mixture is then made liquid by the yolk,
The oil combines easily with the other ingredi heating.
varnish remains pliable and quite transparent. ents, and the
of a forcing d in this
bed arrange
The expense
and it yields at the same time many other advanrsiderable,
a hot-bed needs not the anxious attention requiredages. Such
ordinal'', ones covered with glazed frames. During
by the
strongest rays of the mid-day sun they do not During the
particular covering or shade; the atmosphererequire any
th •
serves a only to
temperature almost the therein pre-
requires to be changed from time to time, whole day, and
nos.circutssi If such a bed is Providere, according to
horse dung. and a proper thickness of with a soil of
heath mould is spread thereon, !somesome fertile, finely
dowers, early vegetables, and other ,
layer of all sorts of
from seeds in it.—Anna/s of Chemistryl).ants may be reared
CHs which
additioh
trophies which adorn the hall of this nobleas militarye to the
warnsists of flags which were captured asylum.
with China, and which, from their during our recent
strange character, form a striking c freshness and very
tattered memorials of former Co contrast to those dirty and
have found a place. These flags,nquests among which they
are of very rich silk and satin which are six in number,
colours—scarlet, yellow, and green,and of very gay and showy
They are all triangular in shape, being the most prevalent.
Dished with long streamers, and some of them are fur-
tion in Chinese characters., o,lrl which is contained an inscrip-
of uncouth and grotesque objects,
standards present a variety
which is the dragon, which i the most conspicuous of
of the Chinese empire, the is of the supernatural animals
phoenix, and the tortoise. The
three being the stag, the
same that is said to be affixed ie figure on the standard edict e
books, instruments, and all to the Imperial precepts,,
China what the British lion the insignia of royalty, being to
monster embroidered on" is to our national arms Tie
head, wide these standards, with his horn.•d
an objecsufficientlyt yawning jaw and contorted form, is
chimeras and hydras rrific
to all who believe in " Gorgon
to resist the mightof dire," but, as the trophies attest, unable
viewed by the brave the British lion, an _1 as such they are
ave old warriors whose noble hall is adorned
by these recent importations
from the " flJwery nation."
CRIIkI - OIN AL OFFENDERS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.—
The most important'
will be information on legal and moral statistics
derivable from the minute and systematic series of
returns of • •
criminal prosecutions now annually presented to
Parliament from both ends of the land. We have now before
us the respective returns for England ties often
for 1841.
alelst continues to exhibit—what has often been shown
by ab writers—the great superiority of the Scotch system of
procedure, through stipendiary prosecutors and convictions
by a majority of the jury, as a means of conning Lc the truth,
and convicting the accused when he is guilty. k. England,
for trial, or bad, d,
the number of persons con3mitted , .
This includes the case, where bills were
the year, is 21,760. nting to 204 S ; end likewise
ignored by grand juries,
8°1" to.ii_46 ; leaving 25,326 cases
cases not prosecuted, amounting
•ttals by find
brought to trial. In these, the acqur
ofings of not
• 19 and 4-2ths per cent. the whole
guilty were 5018, being
number tried. In whatever way this be contemplated' it
shows a fearful state of defectiveness in the law. If we pre-
sume these 5018 men to be all innocent, then has the uncer-
tainty and caprice of the English law expoied that number
to the risks of a trial, and the certainty of ruined fortunes
and a blighted reputation. If we suppose them all guilty,
then has the law, by its feebleness, left society exposed to the
machinations of 5018 acknowledged criminals. In Scotland,
the total nu of " offenders" (as they are very inaccu-
rately called, since th includes not only those who are
acquitted, but those whomre discharged befors trial) was
3562. From this number we have to deduct 653, who were
discharged before trial ; when we have 2909 actually brought
to trial. Of these, the number acquitted was 216, or 7 and
2-stlis per cent. Yet even this small number were not sent
forth with a vague and general finding of not guilty, as in
forth In 191 cases, the verdict is " not proven"—n
declaration of suspicion, which tells the world, that the a
cused must produce something more than what a i • ac-
)eared at
his trial before society can receive him as an innoici
This is a species of verdict both just and humar eat
Man.
whose in is undoubtedit leaves ro 'e
to
tiliThe
distinct line between them and the suspecti of to draw a
•d
have our juries been in returning .. So cautious
the hi,,l•er • I.that'
there are only twenty-five causes (nots, , verc ict,
number brought to trial), where theone per cent. in the
verdict is
—Juryman's Legal Head-Book. "not guilty."