The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-15 00:00:00

LANCASHIRE ANNUAL GENERAL SESSION.

On Thurs.day last the General Annual Session of the Peace
for (big county was held, by adjournment, at the Court-house in
Preston. The magistrates present were I'. Ainsworth, Esq.,
M.P., T. Greene, Esq., M.P., the Rev. J T. Horton, R.
Noble, 'l'. Moss, . Baldwin, H. A. Rawstorne, P. E. Townley,
John Taylor, I'. H. H. Welch, Henry -Tempest, John Parker,
W. Ince Anderton, T. B. Crosse, John Cunliffe, Adam Hodg-
son, Robert Lomax, H. T. Hesketh, John Lomax, James
Clarke, William Garnett, William Carlow, T. R. W. France
and W..W. Carus Wilson, Esqrs. ; T. Greene, Esq., M.P.,
was called to the chair. The greater part of the sitting was oc-
cupied in the passing of the county treasurer's accounts, and the
proceedings that supervened were not of peculiar importance:
On the readin.• of an item for the putting down of riots at elec-
tions, a general opinion was expressed that the respective towns
and hundreds, and not the county, should be liable to the csat of
their suppression; but no motion was made on the subject. On
the question of the Lunatic Asylum, to which considerable
arrears were due by several townships, a motion was agreed to
to the effect that Mr. Willan, treasurer, -should enforce the pay-,
ment of all undisputed accounts due, and that where they were
disputed or difficulties presented themselves be should be
guided by the visiting magistrates of Lancaster. The several
rolls required by the county treasurer were laid at about the
usual amount. Mr. T.D. Addison moved that 500 copies ofthe
list of county voters under the reform bill should be printed tbis
year, with a view to greater publicity; and that a copy should
be sent to each of the magistrates who were alone competent to
correct the numerous errors into which overseers had hitherto
fallen in their respective localities. The Rev. J. T. Horton ob-
jected to the motion ; he thought the less the magistrates
meddled with elections the better; and if they wanted the list
they could purchase it. On Mr. Birchall, deputy clerk of the
pehre, stating that be thought 200 copies fur both divisions were
sufficient, the rev. gentleman moved, as an amendment, that
that number be printed, and that the actual cost be the price at
which:they should be sold. This was agreed to by a majority
Of 12.-to
_petition was read from Elizabeth Harrison,
widow of the late taskmaster at Lancaster Castle, praying for
some assistance for herself and family: The court regretted
that they had no power to comply with its prayer. A memo-
rial was presented from Mr.. Gardner, contractor for. the con-
veyance of convicts, praying that the sum of £5O, .a fine im-
posed in 1832 for a slight breach of contract, might be remitted.
che court was of opinion that, as the line was imposed by the
Kirkdale magistrates, they could not with propriety interfere.—
, On the subject of ,prison discipline a motion was agreed to that
the old rules, (as required by a new act of parliament) as welt
as the new rules recently agreed to by. he justices, should be
transmitted to the Secretary of State, to-be passed by him—the
jurisdiction therein being, by theact, transferred from the judge
to that offic'er.Mr. Fleetwood's notice of motion relative to
refreshments to the magistrates was withdrawn, by letter from
that gentleman, who was in another county, and who assigned
as his reason for withdrawing it that the county rates were about
to undertro a revision in parliament.—On the reading of the
item of £286 Ils. 641. for the preservation of the peace and
Morton
down gambling at Aintree race-course, the Rev. J. T.
Horton deprecated such a charge on the county; and, after
considerable discussion, carried a motion that, in the judgment
of the court, the expense of the preservation of the peace at
race-courses, and especially the putting down of gambling,
should be borne by the committees, companies or parties who
establish or manage the sanie.—Mr. T. B. Addison then pro-
posed and carried a motion that will have the effect of rendering
the hundred of Salford, which is now liable for the support of
its own house of correction only, liable for the support of such
prisoners from that hundred as may be sent to Kirkdale for trial
as a common gaol. Mr. Horton adverted to some illegal orders
for the conveyance of prisoners to the lock-ups, Cc., aud pro-
posed a motion which was carried,—" That the county treasurer
refuse all orders for allowances for loss of time, char es for or-
ders and lock-up allowances, before commitment."—The chair-
man alluded to a notice of motion by himself relative to the
division of county rates, iir consequence of the division of
assizes, and said that, had he not been in the chair, it was his in-
tention to withdraw it, as he thought it advisable to await the
operation of the corporation reform meticar be Mr.
Addison was agreed to—" That the practice of advertising the
order in whichtha causes are to be tried be discontinued, the
same having become unnecessary in consequence of the rem:cal
of the assizes. The court then broke up after sitting from eleven
till four o'clock.

BROUGHAM'S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF.—It is said, we do
not know how truly, that Lord Tomkins Jenkins Brougham
and Vaux, a playful mood, the other evening, wrote the fol-
lowing epitaph on himself. Nobody can deny but that if his
eccentric lordship really did so, he has hit the truth complete-
ly—

" Here, reader, turn your weeping eyes—.
My fate an useful moral teaches ;
The hole in which my body lies
Could not contain one-half my speeches."
ONE or HUME'g OWN.--It will be recollected that Mr. Hume,
a short time ago, stated. upon the authority (as the Morning
Chronicle paradei it) of his "own correspondence," that the
majority at the collegiate church of Wolverhampton against
a church-rate *as six hundred, and that thtec-fourths of the
town were against such rates. The majority at the collegiate
church was forty; so much for Mr. Hume's veracity on the first
point. The extent of it on the sec-midis proved hy the fact,
that at a recent contest in the parish of St. John's',
.at Wolver-
hampton, a church-rate wcs carried by a majority of eighty !
Mr. Home seems determined to set both propriety and truth at
dcfianee.--4ile.