The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-14 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY COURT—Fan:we

THE SUSQUEHANNA-
This was a cause for damage by collision, brought by
the owners of the late sloop Elizqbeth against the Ameri-
can ship Susquehanna. It appeared the smack, on its
voyage from Carmarthen to Liverpool, with a cargo of tin
plates, was proceeding off the Great Ormshead, at eleven
o'clock, on the night of the 12th January last, on the lar-
board tack, steeripg E. by S., with the wind free, when
she perceived a flash from a light a considerable distance
ahead : this light proved to belong to the Susquehanna,
which was on the starboard tack, close-hauled. The sloop
according t^ '-• -"

'OLLISION

o her statement, ported her helm, and bore
away, the other vessel, instead of keeping her course, also
bore away for a short time, and then ran into the sloop.
The master of the American ship attributed the collision
solely to the darkness of the night.
The court, after consort:- ••, Trinit--

by such repeated and wide-spread suffering as the thirty
years which have elapsed since the cheapening system
was begun by the contraction of the currency of 1819.
Witness the three dreadful monetary crises of 1825, 1831,
and 1847, and the repeated recurrence of agricultural dis-
tress. Look at the effects of this system. It has left its
traces deeply furrowed and for ever marked in English
annals. It has produced consequences which will never
be forgotten, and to which the historians of future times
will point as the turning point of British history, an
eternal warning to future ages. it has produced the
The Court of Common Pleas will not deliver judgment revolution of 1832; disfranchised our whole colonies;
displaced the government of property, talent, and intelli-
in the case of the Bishop of Exeter r. G.)rham until next
term. gence, in the ruling island, and installed that of buying
In the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday. Lard and selling in its stead. It has severed the public
I policy from the protection of the lands and native indus-
Campbell ruled that in a civil case a barrister could legally
receive a brief without the intervention of an attorney. try. the real inheritance and only sure patrimony of the
The Court of Common Pleas have ruled to deprive a nation, and anchored it instead on the shifting quick-
plaintiff of costs for improperly suing at assizes, when the sands of commercial prosperity. It has destroyed the
action could have been tried at the county court. West Indies beyond the possibility of redemption, and
The rule for a criminal information against the pro- spread discontent so widely through our other colonies,
prietor of the Western Times for a libel on the Sisters of that it is universally known they are only waiting for
Mercy at Plymouth, has been discharged, the defendant some serious disaster to the parent state, or the advent of
having apologised and expressed his regret. a protracted and hazardous war, to declare themselves
A motion for a criminal information on behalf of Count independent. It has rendered every seventh man in
Pulski, against the publisher of the Quarterly Review, Great Britain and Ireland, taken together, a pauper. It
has been refused on the ground that the article, alleged to has driven from 250,000 to 300,000 industrious citizens,
be a libel, was not necessarily pointed against the Count, for the last three years, annually into exile from their
and, therefore, not calculated to injure his c'.aracter, native land. It has raised the poor-rate in both islands
In the Consistory Court, on Tuesday, Dr. Lushington to an unprecedented height, and, when measured by its
pronounced for the divorce of the Earl and Countess of true standard, the price of subsistence to double what it
Lincoln, at the suit of the former, on the ground of ever was before. It has implanted the seeds of ruin in
adultery. Drs. Haggard and Jenner, on the part of the our mercantile navy, by the rapid growth of foreign ship-
Countess, having considered the evidence, put a stop to ping as compared with British in carrying our own trade.
the case by saying they felt they could offer no effectual It has rendered our shores defenceless as they were in
resistance to the suit, the days of the Saxon Heptarehy ; and made one of our
On Wednesday, in the Bail Court, Sir F. Thesiger first admirals, Sir Charles Napier, thankful when the
moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information winter frosts closed the Baltic harbours, and secured our
should not be granted against a person named Frederick capital from the insulting visits of the successors of the
Watmough, for writing threatening, bullying letters to sea-kings of the north. It has rendered our means of
the Duchess of St. Alban's, in order to obtain the coati- raising a revenue so hopeless, that the "greatest bill bro-
nuance of an annuity, allowed by the late Duke, against ker in the world," Mr. Gurney, has declared that it
whom illegitimacy was insinuated. A rule was granted. must end in a national bankruptcy •, and that the leader
The defendant alleged in the letters that the late Duke's of the free traders himself, Mr. Cobden, has publicly said
father had had improper connexion with his (defendant's) that there is vo resource but to disband our troops, sell
mother. This was in some measure admitted by the our ships of war, and trust the national security to the
plaintiff's counsel. The defendant alleged that the late justice and moderation of our enemies, and the total ab-
Duke's father was married to his (defendant's) mother. sence of envy in our rivals. Such. and not public and
NOLAN V. MOULDING.—In this case, Mr. Aspland ap- passing felicity, is the price which the nation has paid for
peared in the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, to show cauge the ruin of its finances, the abandonment of the sinking
why a verdict should not be entered against the-plaintiff, fund, and the imposing of the public debt, for ever, as a
to give a peremptory undertaking to go to trial at the next burden, hopeless of redemption, on the country.—Bloek-
assizes. Dr. Nolan did not like to proceed with the trial wood.
last assizes because there was so much prejudice created
against him by the former trial (Nolan v. Pettigrew).—
Mr. Baron Alderson, after consulting with the learned
judge who tried the case (Mr. Baron Rolfe), said the rule
must be made absolute for a judgment, as in case of non-
suit. The plaintiff had not assigned a sufficient reason for
not proceeding to trial. The learned judge added that
Mr. Baron Rolfe had told him that he was by no means
dissatisfied with the verdict in the first case.
THE AGAPEMONE AGAIN.-011V readers will remem-
ber the extraordinary revelations respecting a society of
religionists, living at a place they called the Agapemone.
near Taunton, in Somersetshire, which were disclosed
some months ago, in the course of an action brought by
Miss Nottidge against her relations, for false imprison-
ment in a lunatic asylum. Further disclosures were made
by a petition and suit which came before the Vice-chan-
cellor's Court, on Tuesday and Wednesday; Sir T.
cue plaintiff in the
previous action, had, as it then appeared, three sisters, all
of them married to members of the Agapemone com-
munity. One of these ladies, Mrs. Thomas, is the mother
of the infant petitioner in the present case, and the
object of the petitioner was to remove the child from the
controul of his father, and place him during minority
under the care of guardians appointed by the court. In
the allegations of the petition, and in the statements of the
learned counsel, it was represented that the father and the
brotherhood to which he belongs were altogether under
the influence of the founder of the sect, Mr. Henry
Prince, and that they adopted blasphemous doctrines and
pratices. The petition then recounted very fully the
circumstances of the formation of the community by a
knot of Welsh clergymen, which have been published
before. It went on to say that Mrs. Thomas was
married under the influence of Prince (they officiating
at a chapel in Brighton), who told her and her sis-
ters that "it was the mind of God, who intended to
confer a special blessing upon her, that she should marry
Brother Thomas." Mrs. Thomas lived with her husband
about six months, and was then banished from the com-
munity for insubordination, arising it seemed from her
refusal to acknowledge Prince as God, and returned to her
mother, under whose roof the child was born. Mr. Thomas
then made forcible attempts to get possession of the child,
but failed, and both mother and child had since continued
to reside with Mrs. Nottidge, the grandmother, who had
provided for the infant. There were other allegations re-
specting the mode of life observed at Agapemone, but they
contained nothing new. The foregoing statements were
supported by affidavits, and by an address of Mr. Goldsmid
on behalf of the petitioner. On 'Wednesday last, Mr.
Thomas, the respondent, addressed the court. He con-
tended that he was the natural guardian of the child, and
had a right to its custody, and to superintend its educa-
tion. even if the allegations in the petition were true. He
denied, however, that he was under the influence of
Prince, or that either Prince or himself held blasphemous
doctrines, He repelled with indignation the charge that
Prince arrogated to himself the divine character, and de-
fied the whole world to prove any act of unchastity or
immorality a,,ainst the sect. The Agapemone was a work
of God, pure, holy, glorious. The council on the other
side having replied, his Honour took time to consider his
judgment

....it.. ne Masters,
said that both vessels were.oringin fault; the Susquehanna for
not keeping a good look out, and the other for not actintr
more promptly, Consequently the usual decree must issue
that both vessels were to blame.

Chronic Ili
(From the Cambridge
_II, , ,
At the Linton Petty Session 9, Aloil laililaiSt,Y4
brooks was charged by James Standing:. boiarolo
gregation of Primitive Methodists, with Wes'
the G e o congregationlge
Standing at
deposedtlieniee meeting
that hboeu
„rs ea,840e11:11.5):0;, I
gious service at the meeting house B',l fallill
about
ti
going to him said- -he did not care a ,
,s if; ia
~,,t,„
when he saw the defendant laughing ay......" foist ,
William Marsh was also exhorting, wi'" isial`"of
TAXES : HOW TO LESSEN THEM CONSIDERABLY.
STRONG ARGUMENTS AND STARTLING FACTS WHICH
stahei
CANNOT BE CONTRADICTED.—The numerous and llCCU-
mutated profits which real consumers have to pay for gregation laughed. Witness never
„,cioc A i
e‘rEnsleecletrpircevicehleesre;opheeimu aldl%ns,tto_t?ni ,
various articles, afford a good opportunity of laying bare open late; had been there till eleven ("hol,:1; ‘L the position of some houses compared with others; and had heard of it being kept open later. ~e diet;pt.j
it is our purpose to elucidate how and why it is—convinced his congregation violent, when under tilyr a
ckir
that we shall be enabled to throw a strong light on this hitherto
and on' ba
neglected subject, and prove the enormous taxation thus laidunconscious, a
believed them to be
0_ their tiof on domestic expenditure. In order to hold this system up to Power ; had seen women he down on
_ threats hum ,o,:ttio ', of
fflie' ki
public investigation, we shall endeavour to show, in the first their legs up.
member O hes i
place, simply the number and extent of the profits that all Thomas Newman, labourer, a .,,v; 90 opilkil l'e 1
classes are really burthened with :--lst, profit arises from ma- tion, and licensed preacher., was preachinsootb bl qe , Ili ,I,tete
nufacturers buying articles in the raw state; 2nd, profit arises tau hod •• saw him put a bottle to his 11),d t° oft !II NN. ~,q,..5 1.
from merchants purchasing from the manufacturers ; 3rd
profit arises from London or wholesale houses buying from our remonstratedf with him, when he 4,. _ d___ ~...j , N 1
.478
merchants; 4th, profit arises from small retailers having to eyes, and he called Thomas Marsh as,_,„, taa,,it 1 ,„. t 4 ,5 „ 0
purchase from wholesale houses; sth, profit arises from small witness appeared in a very excited 0.7 to '1 i Vi4),04,, 440'4
, 11.1 N fo
the consumer! Now, upon ejaculated in the most solemn manner a , #l3O ,ty , ~, , , %,:‘, r
.Whist ‘dietuation, these five profi . amount to at least 50 per thp troth lr. it— r........." of his Mahal.; rof "-VW , I,'Wlll igh 1
tradesmen's exorbitnot charges to
.' ""s" ''' ----" "'''' ' `1"--1"“'"1"6 "1"1"" Joseph Frost, labourer, is a mom e dent Id II sjl. )10ti 414
ciple so extravagant to the pockets, that it needs only to
be enquired without to e th• mighty understood. allude
there is no rule a, exception, we will next Marsh was preaching about the ' J'l", of le',F7 0,44, N' 7cl
to one establishment wh a the artizan can get his cloth- saw the bottle in his hand ; took holabee ew .5,4 r,,, 14 ik Deli,
inq at first cost, and wh e the proprietor has no intermit- and ~oes out exhorting. Saw the
,cLefieeentrio. A flod ~t;, ht-4 Ills 4 b;
diate profits to pay; ne.. we say that we allude to B. Hvsst, •
the constable at the meeting, who bee 6, f/ ' t't'tt'
national tailor and cl, ier, 63, Lord-street, Liverpool. Hethe hce 00.. r l't,g
and a aa fr
manufactures extensi •ly for his own branches in every stage Thomas Marsh, a labourer, a _ doic id .0, Ip'
from the raw materi• to the most superbly finished coat, at was requested by Mr. Standing to gu ancl tooe' 11
"one cost" and at one profit." This, then, accounts for his the people to be quiet ; and he went,..tarbltobli d/t
vast success and t e extraordinary low prices at which he can dant it was not a place to make a tit 036 0 •
society to attend to quell disturbanq Ils .4 1., 5t
afford to sell li' clothing; in fact, it is well known by the public that he s, Is the most superior description of garmentsbe ,
co pc° 01., Is•
lower, infinite • lower, than any other smaller establishment not see the beginning; has seen t"`• boe t,
Chapel.
ide 0 p 0 'IN
charge for in rior. Now, we ask the reader a simple question Mr. Jackson called several witnesses, the el we 4, , 9i fro
—Does it n' sound to reason that HYAM has advantages for defendant, who altogether disprovetrughtel.'oololf, 10'',_4•; ;4,, th,,
supplying e million 40 per cent. lower than others? Certainly stated that Joseph Frost and his ue nrerl bit° ifi It! IV. w'ttlt"
he has I .' d this he unquestionably does— thus saving the seized the defendant, who had been rggednple..i'i htt th:id. 4(
pockets , all, more than any person could imarine, did they not dive nto the minutia of them ysteries of clothing. Aain
that t oft t, I. it,l 56 °IN
sitting in the chapel, and forcibly erlibe Plittliy (,',,it •ki ba •
HYAM having twelve of the largest tailoring and clothing eats- seat. All the witnesses proved
~ habit. ,of of , t a,. .. t, 178
2eZblishments in the United Kingdom, viz.:—London, 36, Grace. neighbourhood were in the constant,
...etic.6l_ f N.VV4t. Id'. this _
urch-
Marketstre
street
eLti Liverpool, er p
Birmingham,ool,63att d 6253,, Lord-street New -e t reet ;;
Glasgow,Manchester : theg r
egchapel
tt
ho a see
hethceonesxttarabioerdfrienqaurY,enPtolTyeircletrj:obeo, Privlv;/$
i':tti).7,ll9,l:.coaib:totieitil:,
street ; Dublin, 30, Dame-street ; Bristol, 42,
Argyll-street ; Exeter, 193, High-street ; London, 86, Oxford- to. quell disturbances—that one of the )we ot'ote, :k-'it 4 e]t '
of Ginn, eel'
Sib qv 0 Der,d,p4,,. Pt
Bristol, 6, Union-street ; Leeds, 42, Briggate ; Hull, 17, Mar- with a wooden leg, (of the name
defended
her._„ „it of 4 Itu Itig
ket-place—and all in active operation, it makes it worth his
Wine-street ;
the floor of the meeting, had ~deo leg they (~, iq: Itute Li
while to manufacture his own goods of every description ; thus constable by " sticking up her Vl°`',loll
euji 0'0;0/ kji,lotiltillti to
combining in himself the true title of manufacturer, merchant, and women had been frequently seen:worn cod; of t 5
0 totlcPe
wholesale and retail vendor for his own immense nd widely- during service, and the clothes of ,the indecorale „or 4( ktiptock.kpli
spreading temples of commerc. Another point etampnce andaltogether • proved that the e the Reel AIN, psi •
it was
we next take up : a tradesman in a gigantic line of 'msiness
/to its- ost, eye to I: Oi. ,flid
like IlvAm, even net possessing the advantages above stated, lent conduct of the congregation
,„ner
,_ ta , e,sti 141. (it
titinfluence of
have a shop, shopmen, gas. rent, and numerous other expenses promoted anything but a religiou3 !uconsta to It.o 0,, 4 , ,311, d e
incidental to business, which nearly amount to as much as a Mr. Charles Crime, miller and nt ford;l111 Ai; t'llitict.2rd
larger shopkeeper (such as Hyam), whose returns are probably Colville, stated he had often been se t elosi 0 Ply 'UN) senate'
a hundred times as much. Again, look at the immense ex ley
occasionally n° joclis°,,Obefo4/ , qq. *
rience, the sound judgment, and the unbounded capital a pro- at the chapel. It was
,in gr.
..,,j„ 0013 ot,Cltli 'ks23(
prietor of tsve;ve such mammoth establishments must possess one o'clock in the morning. `-'
~,ewelissea, 0 I vq) L„, 444
in making up goods, to a small tradesman, who only has to him to state what he saw there, lie ion i
pco 5 It. ,/3„,, 11121
make a handful at once ; why, it is like comparing a molehill know what to tell ou what I have to 614).;10 oeSfr k).,'. pi.. Pk ''..
to a mountain. Whilst purchasers at " small" shops must would scarcely believe if you were fyiqg itY ,' ltilit 44A ilk tali
Pave "small" choice to select from, "small" chance of getting°W en • wag tit ~' it; tin 4st
and the w toe • ‘ ' 0
suited, and a much " smaller" one of obtaining satisfaction, people jumping about,
~.,,0.,_ _ , 'guild
~ (._ Let all, therefore, who would only pay " one profit," 00 TO sometimesa PY Air, lj 1 •tt "'"
backs and their bellies,.clothe ,by . ,oi tki
..% nt 1
HYAM'S. Those who wish to throw money away, certainly and then the other, with their._„„ea , bir..,or, I ~,r5,•41,1% ,
should go to small tradesmen ; but it is the public's interest to witness was proceeding, but Was Stuy.'"botil_ 011Oiror AA° t rid
1;1
Patronise an establishment raised for the good of the 'nimbi- th the ease ' slce Iv / 'ti tZB 1
e magistrates dismissing ..y,aes ch p 0 cl, titi 7 4
tents of this populous district, and, in return, the proprietor "n an 1-1- 611- tell Niptii 1
i ;„, to ~,
tib
and the Rev. J. Graham
pledges himself to work his talents and immense resources for
their benefit. and never forsake the cause and customers who damning the practice° 11 0/10116. - itt
Lave proclaimed Wu the "national tailor and clothier of the "fun," and cautioning II
great Dritain.".
a religious congregation. 1

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