The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE

SOUTH LANCASHIRE SPRING ASSIZES.—The commis-
sion will be opened on Thursday afternoon next, and the
general business of the assizes will commence on Friday,
at eleven o'clock. .
STAFFORD ASSIZES, MARCH. 17.—WHITEHOUSE V.
THE LIVERPOOL GAS AND COKE COMPANY.—The plain-
tiff entered into a written contract some time back to sup-
ply, for three years, as many gas pipes, of certain specified
dimensions, as should " be required by the said company."
The agreement further specified that the plaintiff was to
supply the pipes "to be ordered by the said company,
within • a certain time after. receiving notice •to that
effect." The price of the pipes in question rose con
siderably after the contract was entered into, and the
defendants, _according to the plaintiff's statement, or-
dered miles of pipes which they did not want for the pur-
poses of their business, as it was carried on when they
entered into the contract. The plaintiff supplied the pipes,
but claimed the market price for all beyond what were
immediately wanted for the defendants' business ; the
plaintiff contending that the meaning of the word " re-
quired ". in the contract was " wanted." The difference
claimed by the plaintiff was £2749. For the defendants
it was contended that they did actually want all they
ordered, and witnesses were called to prove it ; but when
his lordship was leaving the case to the jury on this view,
the defendants' counsel submitted that it was incumbent
on his lordship to construe the contract. His lordship
being forced to express a decided opinion, said, that by
the contract the plaintiff was bound to supply all the pipes
that were requisite for the defendants in any works which
they wished to carry out under the provisions of their act
of Parliament. The jury thereupon found for the de-
fendants.

Mr. Sergeant Talfourd has been officiating for Mr. Jus-
tice Cresswell on the Oxford Circuit, the latter having
been called from his duties by the indisposition of his sis-
ter.

On Saturday, the Vice-Chancellor dissolved an injunc-
tion which had been granted to restrain the sale of timber
by the Duke of Buckingham and his son, the Marquis of
Chandos.. The plaintiff was second mortgagee for £25,000,
and it appeared that the incumbrances on the duke's
estates amounted to no less than £BOO,OOO.
IMPORTANT DECISION.—A decision of considerable
importance was given a few days since at Bristol relative
to the contracting of debts after a party is clearly insol-
vent. The point arose on the examination of a person
who claimed the protection of the court ; but the judge
decided that as the party had gone on contracting debts
when he possessed no means ofdischarging them, he was not
entitled to protection, and the consideration of the final
order was adjourned sine die.
DAMAGE BY Riots.—ln the House of Commons on
Tuesday, Sir W. Clay asked whether parties who had
suffered damage by the breaking of their windows, some
of them of a costly character, during the recent distur-
bances in the metropolis, had any claim for compensation
on the county, or from any other authority, and, if so, by
what process I—The Attorney-General, in reply, stated
that by the Act of 7 and 8 Geo. IV.. it was made a felony
wantonly and with force to demolish, or begin to demolish,
the buildings therein specified. But in the cases referred
to by the honourable baronet there was no actual demol-
ishing, nor anything to satisfy the words " begin to
demolish!' Where the injury, as in the present instance,
was only partial, the hundred would not be liable unless
the acts were done under circumstances which would
satisfy a jury that the demolition would have been com-
plete if the rioters had not been interrupted. Those
elements were wanting here ; therefore the parties had
no remedy at law except against the actual aggressors
for the damage they had sustained.

CHARGES IN BANKRUPTCY.---At the County Court in
North Shields, on Monday last, Mrs. Elizabeth Farmer,
adininistratrix of the late Mr. James Farmer, Messenger
of the Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dis-
trict, brought an action against Mr. Emanuel Taylor.
The action was brought to recover £ll Bs. the amount of
the taxed bill of the messenger of the Court of Bankrupt-
cy, foriervices rendered to the defendant, Mr. Taylor, as
petitioning creditor, under a fiat against William Hender-
son, pipemaker, North Shields. It was usual for the
f n a in c:nirt to meet the expenses of working a fiat in
bankruptcy. In this case, however, the funds had been
exhausted by the solicitor's bill, and some other charges.
There was no doubt in point of law, that the petitioning
creditor was liable. Commissioner Fane bad decided a
few weeks ago, that the messenger's bill must be paid,
although there were no assets in the hands of the official
assignee. Mr. Wheldon said it was exceedingly hard
upon the defendant, There was no estate, and his client
had already lost a considerable sum. His Honour.—That
may be true, but why was the fiat issued ? The messen-
ger had performed certain services, and the defendant put
the machinery of the Court of Bankruptcy in motion.
The jury then returned a verdict for £ll Bs. Mr. Harle
then stated that there was another action in which Mrs.
Farmer was plaintiff, and Messrs. Walker and Turner,
assignees of Henderson, were the defendants. The sum
sought was £2O, the amount of the messenger's bill, for
services rendered after the choice of assignees, who must,
in point of law, discharge the bill. Mr. Wheidon said
this case was harder than the other. His Honour said
the law was clear, and a verdict was returned for £2O.

Et trrature.

VARIETIES

The poet Wordsworth is said to be in a state of imbe-
cility, sitting often in moody silence, with his gaze fixed
on vacancy.

GOLD PENS.—Nearly one million gold pens, in the
manufacture of which eight hundred pounds of gold are
used, are now annually made in the city of New York.
Douglas Jerrold says, " Assuredly F. M. the Duke of
Wellington and the Earl of Ellesmere have a dash of the
' true prophet.' The French princes have invaded Eng-
land, and taken possession of some of the royal palaces."
IT'S AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO ONE ANY GOOD.

—The disorderly crowds in Trafalgar-square have swept
away the hoarding from the base of the Nelson column !
It needed a supernatural interposition.—The Builder.

A WITTY DEDICATION.— Mrs. Clarke has just pub-
lished a volume of proyerbs from the works of Shakspeare.
She dedicates the work—" To D. J., the first wit of the
present age, these proverbs of Shakspeare, the first wit of
any age, are inscribed by Mary Cowden Clarke, of a cer-
tain age, and no wit at all."

DROLL SIMPLICITY OF A CHILD.—" Ma," said a little
girl about 8 years, " I don't think Solomon was so rich as
the Bible says he was." " Why, my dear, what makes
you think so ?" " Because it says that he slept with his
fathers, and I think if he had been so very. rich, he would
have had a bed of his own 'to sleep in."
THE Lures.—On examination the lungs will be found
full of innumerable little holes, like a sponge: These
holes are the cells into which the air enters when we
breathe. So great is their number that they have been
calculated to amount to 174,000,000, forming altogether a
~urface thirty times greater than that of the human body.
Every one of these cells is provided with a net-Work,of
blood vessels, by means of which the blood is brought into
immediate contact with
with
airtchecami
every i overamount
bnt
necessarye
zi every, rh
wklie
tPi:iitirarntiitOwso.n—toc F
fnf set
supplydah eletr draw.—Health
consider-
ation, surface.
et
oWs it) nhe lfuetnehlgis
tv
mosts
of 7'own'B Gaz x
It is a eleieiraordinary fact, and it will furnish a
lasting page in history, that within the space of sixty
years, all the monarchs of France, who reigned within
that period, viz.. Louis the 'l6th, Napoleon Buonaparte,
Louis the 18th, Charles the 10th, and Louis Philippe,
were dethroned. Louis the 10th was put to death by his
own people in 1793; Buonaparte and Charles the 10th
died 'in exile ; Louis the 18th, after having been expelled
by Buonaparte in 1815,. was permitted to return to the

throne, and the last of these, Louis Philippe, has found
an asylum in England. If the son of Louis the 16th,
asyled by the Legitamists, Louis the 17th, was ever really
a king, then, the number of dethroned monarchs in suc-
cession would amount to six.
COINCIDE/MRS.—We are reminded that it was about
'March, 18-14; that the Prince de Joinville inspected our
southern coast,' and pUblished his famous Report, which
excited so much disagteeable feeling at the time. In that
Repoil, he remiirked,.as 'one result of his inspection, that
in case of hostilities, Newhaoen,iii Sussex, would be the
best spot at which to attempt a landing. In3liirch,lB4B,
his own parents succeeded in effecting a landing at New-
horeu, in Sussex, !At under 'circumstances unforeseen
and unimagined alike by the Prince, his parents, and by

Ngain; it was in 1834,. that a French tra4ller, in

reviewing his researches in the East, used these remarka-
ble words :—" Yon se-o, by this• rapid sketch, that the
Ottoman enipiie is r.O empice at all; that the breath of
life Which animated it is extinct. You see that its fatal
and blinded • Administratiim has devoured the race of
; and that Tui.key is perishing for want of
Such language, coming from the li

roirq ufrors
Turk.v."

ps of a

in England with a natural sus
nt. For a general consent of almost all Protes
6,reters'iineludinz the Assembly's Annotsitinn

of Scripture

at.d7,latthew .bad eoeneeted " the EuphrateS"
iu Siziptitre with the Turkish empire; arid here. Frcnch
ftyprant was aent to give fl warding-that the Euphrates

dried u-p"; • innriediat;ly following which,
many wonders are predicted by the • inspired apostle.
However, a dozer: years pus away, and.we find this same
French traveller, Laoartine, suddenly borne up on the.
w of Itori ci !AMA 're V 0.4! ti,Qll2. 'Oa -11140'#5.6 kb:re:o4.
ritaseti—Tßocerat - •.; • •

w.az be

cure 50
SECURITY AGAINST enactments and
vigilant and vigorous police may, perhaps, se
iii broad daylight in public streets; but they thus_ is the
delude men by making them imagine that there is ao
spirit of peace in the national heart, while there out,
peace. They can, indeed, dress up,
side of the mountain, and can make it look
/1,31100'
flourishing with the olives of peace and vines 6,4"0cu1.
but they cannot touch the volcano below, which P,,
dering in its dark crater, and ready to burst for% tlis
n a
flnod of fire. No quellthey cannot repress turbuletlandee•
national mind, or it in the secret haunts or e
tine cabals. It is religion—it is religion alonje
of beg
can do this. It is the dread of judgment and
limit
which can give übiquity to law. It is the GOY; Noe'
the Gospel alone—which can hallow a state, and a--
crate a throne, and shield the sovereign seated lIP°
Dr. Christopher Wordsworth. ;hit 118
AN INFANT'S DEATH.—The death of a ca.---'witiier
words are full of a strange and moving meaning i.„ncifGl
as it were, thf oti
following spring, nightfall succeeding to dawn?
ideas crowd upon the mind hand in hand wit" '„orttl
truths. That little being who knew nothing beeeVidoca
which wondered at the ticking of a watch,
know the end of all things ! That vacant •inte'ltleP
now toottichi
stapd the mystery of its own being ! My own ch ,"`.oe3d
was to hang upon my lips for instruction, now gilion
where one word from its own would be a reve'f' aro,
me ! That helpless creature, borne from are' I`%rita
guarded by day and watched by night, too shy to vein the
e
approach of a strange face, now launched alone but
" vast profound," escorted by intelligence divinnf
strange! d.
Will there be one among that crowi%fipiti
franchised spirits who will claim an eastb, li esl
wall it ? Will the little brother who depart(
ago recognize this as the babe who entered the bonds
ioat
flesh as he was leaving them ? Or will itt."-les°
of the first signs of a better existence that the 1,1
blood are not needed in it ! Of all the sorrovisliib it
world, that for the death of a young child brine
the readiest healing. Would you grudge its haLluc;),-,
tcheieveridghptrs oomcti.ticoi withoutcitizenship
nizenshipw
piatyhionugttrheesidpeunrccehtr_e
tire "c
d eitsiino;
cate of humanity.without the service ?—the end an chil4
of life without this weary life itself ? The death of a 110
lions
fmroamy dtrheeawmeaaknnd•eswsonofdetrilaatnidifefowrlmlichst
has
is an enigma, but one which solves many others. oda,
gyei ell ciao°
the strong arm of death • but two truths remain distend'
ant
more plainly read on that cold marble church than °- ets•
rthl
other form of lifeless clay, and those are, the ".° ender
ness of that breath which a child is summoned W.ble
up, and the freeness of that grace which a child is 8
inherit.—Fraser.

THE FLIGHT OP LOUIS PHILIPPE.—A passenger PP'
Express steamer communicates to the Hampshir!, sitt
pendent several interesting circumstances connote', 00
Louis Philippe's voyage to this country. The voisaeool
been lying off Havre for two days, when " an,e`„s, sr
apparently lame, dressed in a large travelling en)",, Fret:
his face nearly covered with a shawl, a pair of gree„"t d of
tacles, and a travelling cap, came on board,ss„asssaseser
the British-consul and Captain Goodridge. e,
ing on board, I heard the consul say to him, Jr.„2-rss,ls'
uncle,' -as if he was speaking to a relative, and ""
him to be careful how he stepped on the ladderlseetl
passenger was immediately conducted to the eng4ool
room (a most unusual place for a passenger to be -slit,
into), but owing to its small size, and a fire burningsit°
he was unable to remain there, and was obliged to bowl'
the saloon. As soon as the old gentleman was 00 eels'
Capt. Goodridge escorted an elderly lady down the g 1
way. I heard her say to him, 'I am obliged to I.„°"'ISIY
from her pronunciation I knew she was not an rinifle
woman. She was very plainly dressed. Her hall,,stassce,
white-as silver, and I thought I never saw a counets''
in which anxiety, fatigue, and fear were so visibly ti_eP; ie
As soon as she was iu the saloon, I could readily Pe 1101
that she had been, and still was weeping." We 11700'
say that it was the ex-King and Queen. " Ab°ll-0
night we were nearly run down by a large brig. a sere
sel ever had a more narrow escape than ours. TAT%
within three or four yards of the brig. Fortunil'esir
were going at about half speed. The noise and ennigee-'
on deck arising from this disaster aroused the easle
Her majesty rushed out from her cabin into the sto
exclaiming, Oh ! where is my dear gentleiisand
King endeavoured to consola her. She embratiseat;
affectionately, crying bitterly, and talked to hinl,ss"'
ing that his dangers were not yet over, notsvithss'i,e, to°'
the many he had escaped. The King was inuch,,..tause,,F
and he wept and sobbed violently. Her NIAVO
implored to return to her cabin, but she declared t''by b,s,"
would not again leave the King, -and she lay down osta"
side on the floor of the saloon during the remainder
night."
TRIAL BY JURY IN AUSTRALIA.—A member "r '„As5Ws
has been speared by one of another tribe, who baPressl.,"
be patronised by a farm-settler, and is oceasiona"Ya;
in hunting-up stray cattle. The friends of the de or
proceed to punish the assassin according to their °Atoll;
reditary laws; they surprise him suddenly, and s_Pe'lsiest°:
The farmer writes an account of the fact to the r,'''ssoss
of Natives at Perth; and this energetic individual'
hastily from dinner, calls for his horse, and ea,' goo°
himself with a blue woollen shirt, and a pair of ,r
spurs, with a blanket tied round his waist, fearlesso;pse
pt
mits himself to the forest, and repairs to the S''ir,set‘
slaughter. He learns from the mouth of the fal:dy sr
tier, that the facts are really what he had been a ,Iresist
prised of by letter; and then, having left vs°,russr'ss' Ns/
offender may beg caught
aas t sooneri
sbaa as possible,gtoa
o'
family ; and thenext morning delivers a saitase -ep &fig's;
his excellency the governor of all that be has Per' ;
In course of time the native is apprehended—W.l)ot ,S,
a friend for a pound of flour—and brought to thestsila.ii
justice. His natural defence would be that he esetid tlt,;
slew an enemy, as he is accused of having done,,u io");
it was a meretorious and necessary act; he elnric-doser
his own laws required that he should slay the renrils, ea
his relative ; and his own laws therefore accuse litolass
'What are English customs, prejudices, or lawsbabits, ,9)
He is not a British subject, for he is is not the 1" pied
of a conquered country (as English governors tensest
nor has he, or any of his tribe or complexion. e".„. Ist'
or wished to be placed under the protection of or, arl7
Why, then, should he be violently dragged from treseltl;
of his wilgied sqaws, and his little pot-bellied P.l d 4 oft,
nies, and required to plead for his life in the 111 sills
large room filled with frowning white
obliged is he to the judge, who kindly tells hie no
the interpreter, that he is not bound to cOnv'e',lste,,
and need not acknowledge anything that may °e-afertli
his disadvantage in the minds of the jury. Theillbesslso
nate savage disregards the friendly caution, a",usstell'ers
not ; be maintains, stoutly. that he gidgiea
through the back, because Womera had gidgied.,s'sofrd
through the belly. He enters into minute detail': tiles
fneef,s, thrtif,
gentlemen of the jury of the manner in Wille"sPi'
slaughters were effected, and describes the extents sort
rection of the wounds, and every other interestitlerjsr,lo''i
cular that occurs to him. The gentlemen of lt"tiso,l g
after duly considering the considering the case, re` pia
necessity) a verdict of ` Wilful murder,' and thg co;
pronounces sentence of death, which is aftersvars, to t
muted by the governor to transportation for lit;or,fill
Isle of Rottnest.—The Bushman, by E. W. lan ,tile Whet
JENNY LiND.—Whether the Swedish Nightinestietss
maintain her extraordinary fascination through
coisur
season depends very much on the characters seleo9 9.jel
her. That she *as placed in difficult and danger 0110
cumstances last year, that sometimes she scarcely
woe of
us above conventional pleasure, and at others aPP,pell'sef
imminent peril of failure, is certain. The lasls,;s arts,
Verdi, I Masnadiere, sorely tried her ; it was "istrill ic
power to give interest to bombastic and artificiaos 1310
or to forced and uni &tura'. situations. Never slial/ti,
tragedy with more difficulty saved from a langh'colietlo
the scene in which-she snatched the sword from
..,05eilto
We hope that her fine talent will no more he e'craot sit
such injudicious risks; for it is plain that she 1n131.00,1!"
meretricious art of Malibran in adorning vapid 1" 04'1,4
creating something out of nothing. Her genius of ei,d,
to be developed with judgment ;- in the express' else
domestic sentiment of the affections, in tideuslie se(
goodness, and such sweet feminine portraiturep
id
tains the common ideal of mankind. In „sell tbe
peculiar walk every bosom responds to her; sue - d
in her own person the sentiments she utters a" set red
natural constitution of her mind excludes frcloactif
expression of dark and malignant passions, she is ° tP;tf
in the limit. Tones sacred to goodness are Weer/1'00:e,
emotion than those of mere wild passion, of wbiositeirse
an overflow in the world at all times. It will rate 01 ill
culler judgment and musical experience to creny yelpf
gressive interest through the next season of .1 ,e°e last' 00,',
performance assigned by common report as the the
it is plain that her talents arc little adapte" le 4)/
ventional run of modern Italian opera. Ile INor,ert'
rather modern German than modern 101•41;,ssical °IA
she appear to be much cultivated in the , alr,t,„o"
though she sings it with intelligence, oi-on
adopted. Agatha in the Freysehiitz is mut
nifest- respect for the original. New charade hea't
sought for her, or, better still, her own selection e 000#0
that, prom ote
missed ; this is so well suited to her, that eothing
higher interest than she has ever excited am°!resn'/'illrs
Heirs as Alice in Meyerbeer's Robert.
the London enthusiasm, it is contended in -'OO tbcell
Jenny Lind is no dramatic artist—an assert' if bortg
are certainly disposed to qualify, but which Thes
plained by the admitted limit of her powers, a" jyro,it?
of effect in adorning the merely conventional, be Idis
tare is censured as too confined ; she " teleglsheinsell"
her arms too frequently, even to the verge.Ossea
Her voice is the subject of more WM"-

01
I,lt A
version : be,, , ,ti )roo
" It were absurd to deny that she possess" a l' °Vile(
respect extraordinary degree of vocal cultivelit4e 0- i;1,
musical car will scarcely listen to her in any reciO4,f tbei ; vo
air with Out unpleasant disturbance. The whole "veir os".0
register of her voice is, as her admirers expreo Iti'e '1;105 Wr
1 cannot refrain from describing this impel)etil-/ noise , '
intolerable hoarseness. It pervades even her hit ' I bvtlet
as she beii. a to force them." crC3(ii„woli
It' the writer who demonstrates this inaliriou9ater°o; if
men bad not also admitted the enchantim4 ril so e Se e,
song, pert should have been disgusted with snit; ,t n°,,s°e!-J
of hypriticism and affected singulairity• frittio tb4.
more aware that there is foundation of trillt:fjcoTtott::
marks than the subject of them. The voi"'`,o', bwilot°'
is a volume of great power and beautiful '1".9 iiroe4 ',..a 1",
jest to sudden alterations, anti apparentlY,°;,b,equood
nageable. Her hoarseness was fregiwntlYl-5110 `'"itr"4l'
ing the last season, and the care with 'Ala" to 51.`, AO4 ;
notes which lay even moderately below tbe t!':ft3 stcoo
obvious.
In the little sow,. •‘ D 1 vielli' I e °rlt''cr
:,, e ' - eft 1, 00'd
Fivaro, she was obliged to alter the note'
gene fiero,ct
to avoid touching middle C ; though her gel'i tell,6f'
tion of the air was so tine in its simplicity sitt„ -.:„ore"
M to create a breathless interest in the idiots„.
of
is, that the tenure of Nlademoisellc Lir“l''' lo" °.lll)erre
macy is peculiarly fragilo; that teullo'r3.4-• otte‘j,lll4 tt---
rocrs, which she has experienced more 11,1°,7004.i. 17,
life, scams ever impending, and her nigh"), i, tire'% '
said to be ever more or less alloyed wit)! I;,.i'is t. 0130"
any cafe, it' report -.spea.); trtte,-lici 11;i0044.e Is Foil"
belont,.apd; for' the rent. we -WOO.* m" • .!--
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