The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

SWINDLING BILL TRANSACTIONS,

John Bull is confessedly the most gullible of created
beings. He has a perfect appetite for being taken in. Our
courts of law 'reveal instances of this which are scarcely
credible ; and the present summer circuits have supplied
the usual quota. Bill-discounting is the popular mode of
catching gaping Johnny. The sharper advertises his wil-
lingness to assist gentlemen in temporary difficulty by dis-
counting their bills of exchange. When the bait is taken,
a bill-stamp is forwarded through the post-office to the
borrower, to be by him filled and accepted, in return for
which he is to be accommodated with the specified sum.
The accepted-bill is sent to the lender, but of course the
dupe gets no cash. We need not trace the further pro-
gress of the transaction through its various stages, until
intimation is given the acceptor that the bill is due, and the
affair is, perhaps, compromised by the payment of a large
sum to get rid of the liability. The particulars of one of
these cases we take from a leading article of the Times of
Wednesday, by way of illustration :
" In a contemporary print, which is favoured with a
peculiar circulation among seriously-minded readers, there
appeared the following advertisement :
To WESLEYANS.—The advertiser is intrusted with the
disposal of seven thousand pounds, which he is anxious to
apply to the piemotion of spiritual religion.. He would
advance in portions, at 41 per cent., either for the building
of a chapel or for alms-houses, or or any purpose which
might forward the interests of the connexion ; or, at 5 per
cent., he would have no objection to assist the struggles of
any of God's ministers on their personal security.'
" This considerate announcement attracted the atten-
tion of an unsuspecting minister in a remote county, who
blogged the chance of accommodation whiehluul thua-boen
thrown in his way. He communicated his wish-es accord-
ingly to the prdscribed address, and received by return of
post an answer couched in the most fraternal and serious
language, gently commiserating his trials, eulogizing his
services in the cause of the pure gospel, and delicately
foregoing the 10 per cent. which an ordinary case of per-
sonal accommodation was announced to require. In terms
as evangelical as the subject permitted, he was further
requested to return the bills, accepted by himself and
endorsed by his eldest son, to Islington, whither the writer
had been summoned to preside at a meeting for establish-
ing a Wesleyan Cemetery. Considering the channel of
communication, the language and the spirit of the letter,
it was impossible to conceive such, a thing as a suspicion,
and the bill was duly posted. The advertiser, however,
descried the full availability of his present correspondent ;
and the next post brought, not the money, but an intima-
tion that the bills had been irregularly signed, and that
duplicates must be forwarded, with certain corrections.
This request was also cheerfully complied with, and the
result was what the reader will either anticipate or remem-
ber,—that the poor minister appeared in court to defend
a suit against him upon four bills of exchange, for which
he had never received a farthing."
A thing of this sort might happen once; but it is difficult
to believe it possible for such, a trick to succeed twice.
Yet such cases are constantly occurring. One word of
advice to all who may be negotiating for assistance in
" temporary difficulties"—don't part with your money's
worth until you have got the money safe in your pocket.

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,
ON THE IST SEPTEMBLR, 1848.
(From Colburn'i United Service Magazine.)
[Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at
which the dep& of the regiment is stationed.]
Ist Life Guards—Hyde Park 56th—(1st batt.) Corfu.
2d Ditto—Windsor (2d batt.) Cephalonia
Royal H. Guards—Regent's Pk 37th—Ceylon, Chatham
Ist Drag.Guards—Cahir 38th—Halifax, N.S., Boyle
2d—Piershill 39th—Preston '
3d—Nottingham • • 40th—Galway
4th—Manchester. Ist—Buttevant
sth—Birmingham 42d—Bermuda, Isle of Wight ;
6th-=-Dundalk
42dt 2d—Athlone he two
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re ida -e Reserve batt., Bermuda.
7th—Brighton 436—Tem plemore
Ist Dragoons—York 44th—(1st batt.) Malta
(Reserve batt.) Malta
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3d—Bengal, Maidstone
6th—Dublin 46th—Liverpool
7th Hussars—Dublin 7th—Clonmel
sth—Newbridge 48th—Dublin •
9th Lancers—Bengal, Maidstn. 49th—Dublin
10th Hussars—Bombay, Maid- 50th—Dover
stone 51st—Madras, Chatham
11th Hussars—Hounslow 52d—Hull
12th Lancers—Cork . 53d—Bengal, Chatham
13th Lt. Dragoons—Longford 54th—Antigua, Jersey
14th—Bengal, Maidstone 55th—Dublin
15th Huss.—Madras2 Maidston 56th—(1st batt.) Gibraltar
16th Lancers—Norwich (2d batt.) Gibraltar, I. of
17th—Dublin 57th—Enniskillen [Wight
Grenadier Guards— 58th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
(Ist batt.) St. John's Wood 59th—Templeinore
(2d batt.) The. Tower 60th—(1st bt.) Bombay,Chathm
(3d batt.) Portman-st. Bar. (2d bt.) Dublin
Coldstream Guards— .Ist—Bengal, Chatham
(Ist batt.) Windsor 62d—Bury
(2d ban.) St. George's Bar. 63d--Newcastle-on-Tyne
Scotch Fusileer Guards.— 64th—Limerick
(Ist batt.) Chichester 65th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
(2d batt.) Wellington Bar. 66th—Barbadoes, Kinsale
Ist Foot— 67th—Gibraltar, Portsmouth
(Ist batt.) N. Scotia, Stirling Reserve batt., Gibraltar.
(2d batt.)—Barr 68th—Mullingar
2d—D üblin 69th—Malta—Portsmouth
3d—Pilltown 70th—Cork
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batt., Mauritius,l72d—West Indies, Sheerness
Isle of Wight . . 73d—Cape G. Hope, Fermoy
6th—(lst batt.,) Cape G. Hope 74th—Thurles
Reserve batt. 3co.'s,Hud- 75th—Kilkenny
son's Bay 3 co.'s,Yoghal 76th—Zante—Portsmouth
7th—Halifax, N.S., Waterford Reserve batt., Corfu
Bth—Bombay, Chatham 177th—Portsmouth
9th —Dublin 78th—Bombay, Chatham
10th—Bengal, Chatham
11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
12th—Weedon 181st—Preston
Reserve batt., Mauritius,B2d—Devonport
13th—Belfast _ 'B3d—Kilkenny
14th—Newport 84th—Madras, Chatham
15th—Ceylon, Brecon ,85th—Templemore
16th—Corfu, Guernsey. ;86th—Bombay, Chatham
17th—Chatham ' . I 87th—Weedon
18th—Bengal, Chatham ' 188 th-1-Trinidad, Tralee
19th—Montreal, Castlebar 89th—Birr
20th—Canada,_Isle of Wight; 90th—Ashton-under-Lyne
Reserve batt., Canada 91st—Gosport ; Reserve batt.,
21st—Edinburgh Cape of Good Hope
22d—Bombay, Chatham ,92d—Limerick
23d—Halifax, Isle of Wight ;193d—Edinburgh
Reserve batt,, Canada 94th—Madras, Chatham
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25th—Madras, Chatham 96th—N. &Wales, Chatham
26th—Cork
27th—Glasgow . - ''' Reserve batt; Jamaica.
28th-
29th—Bengal, Clottham
30th—Manchester Ride Brigade-
31st—Ashton
32d—Bengal, Chatham Bristol
33d—Manchester
34th—Gibraltar, Nenaglf. Wight
—Jamaica
35th—Dublin _
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Riflemen—Cap GanooaddaHo Pe
Ist West India Regci°mLse:nel‘rr;
2d Ditto—Windward and Leeward Islands,
3d Ditto—Demerara,
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Cey :On and China
Leone, &c.
Quebec,.
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Royal Newfoundland Cempanie,;—Newfoinidiend
Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta
St, Helena Regiment—St. Helena 1

SOUTH LANCASHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES

CROWN COURT.-TIIESDAY

This morning Mr. Justice CanswiLT;entenced John
Flyn, James Downey, James Mooney, Owen Gunn, and
Edward Birch, to fifteen months' imprisonment, for riot
and assault at Newton, near Manchester.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY.
(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.)
TITHE CASE.

lIESKETH AND OTHERS V. LYNN.—In this case, John
Hesketh and several other of the inhabitants of the parish
of Calbeck, in Cumberland, were plaintiffs, and the Rev.
James Lynn was the defendant. The issue was to try
whether there was an immemorial district in the parish,
called Swineside and Mosdale, and whether the sum of
18s. 10d. was to be paid the rector of the parish in lieu of
predial tithes, on every St. Andrew's Day.
Mr. MARTIN stated the case. The plaintiffs were the
inhabitants of a district called Swineside and Mosdale, in
the county of Cumberland ; the defendant was the rector
of the parish since 1814 ; and the two questions to be
decided were as to the existence, and also as to the tithes,
of the district. This was the fifth case of a similar kind
which had been tried on the northern circuit ; and the
rights of the parishioners, in the present case, had never
been questioned or disputed, under which property had
been bought and sold for centuries, and which had existed
without controversy until the defendant, the Rev. Dr.
Lynn, became the rector of the parish in 1814. He then
having thought proper to dispute them, the inhabitants
communicated to him that they were prepared to try the
question. Five years afterwards the defendant submit-
ted, but in the year 1833 he filed a bill in chancery ; he
subsequently abandoned that bill, and now, after the
18s. 10d. had been paid regularly for the last thirty-four
years, he had thought proper to bring the whole question
to discussion. The first issue was this—was there such a
district as Swineside and Mosdale in the parish of Cal-
beck ; and with reference to this question, there would be
no real dispute, because it would be proved that the dis-
trict was an old one, which paid its own poor-rate and
highway-rate, and the only thing it had in common with
the rest of the parish was the payment of its church-rates.
The only question, therefore, was whether there was pay-
able by the occupiers of that district a modus of 18s. 10d.
only, in lieu of tithes, on St. Andrew's Day in each year.
The defence seemed to turn upon an ambiguous word in
an ancient document, called a terrier, which had been
drawn up and signed by the rector of the parish in 1749,
and which minutely get forth the items of inenme which
that rector was entitled to claim. " Small tithes " and
" great tithes " were both mentioned in this document ;
and after having explained at some length the difference
commonly understood to attach to both these descriptions
of tithe, the learned counsel contended that the 18s. 10d.
mentioned in this document as payable by the district in
question covered everything grown upon the earth. When
the defendant was appointed rector, in 1814, the inhabi-
tants of the district went to the rectory on St. Andrew's
Day, and tendered their 18s. 10d. The defendant refused
to receive it then, and he also refused to receive it for
some years after; but they, having taken legal advice,
went annually to the Messrs. Foster's bank, in Carlisle,
and regularly deposited that amount of money. In 1818
the defendant thought proper to accept the money so
deposited in Foster's bank, the inhabitants saying at the
time, " We give you this sum, which is tithe for every-
thing off the land, and we are ready to have the case tried
if you dispute it." From 1818 to 1833, he continued an-
nually to receive the money, saying, every time the 18s.
10d. was put down, " I take this without prejudice; "
but this observation was immaterial : the 18s. 10d. was
his right, and neither more nor less than his right, and
the jury, there was no doubt, would find that he was not
entitled to a single additional shilling.
A great number of witnesses, consisting of the oldest
inhabitants of the parish, were then examined in support
of the plaintiffs' case.
Mr. KNOWLES, in addressing the jury for the defence,
said that although his client came before them with all
the prejudices which men heaped on the sacred calling of
a clergyman of the Church of England, he hoped they
would do the same justice to a minister of the establish-
ment which they hoped to receive themselves. He con-
tended that the Hs. 10d. was not a payment for the dis-
trict, or from one inhabitant, but that it was a farm pay-
ment, and that there was no case upon the part of the
plaintiffs to go to the jury.
The learned JUDGE briefly summed up the case, and
gave it as his opinion that the terrier afforded strong
proof that the 18s. 10d. was one payment for the entire
district, in lieu of all that grew out of the ground.
The jury, at three o'clock (the case having lasted six
hours), found a verdict for the plaintiffs.
Several other issues were tried, arising out of the above
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case.