The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-11 00:00:00

cheers.

." To help this grand work of neeebz..
'My highest ambition upcn earth ; and I :know nc
way to do it than to make Ireland arm for battle.
'it is a grateful and blessed sound, this. cry, The people
are arming." Thank God, they are arming. Young
men everywhere in Ireland begin to love the clear glancing
of the steel and to cherish their dainty rifles as the very
apple of their eyes. They walk more proudly ; they feel
themselves more and more of men. Like the Prussian
students (when this work had to be done for Prussial.

;y and mercy is

To me

they take 'the bright weapon to Their ;;;;t;,.andars'p'
their virgin swords like virgin brides,
"How long will your detectives, your swearers, your
villainous back stairs panderer to the hangman, check
this noble passion—this most holy crusade ? Think of it
well.—l remain, my Lord, with profoundest contempt,
" Your very obedient servant,
" JOHN MITCHELL.
"P. S.—l had some thought of addressing to you an
expostulation about the packing of our juries next term.
I fancied some fecling of decency, or even of justice,
might induce you to give orders that the ordinary but dis-
graceful practice of the Crown-office should be reversed.
I have changed my mind. He who employs a spy
will pack a jury; and I, for one, scorn to appeal for any-
thing to a man who lays a plot for massacre. Pack
away, then, if you dare. I expect no justice, no cour-
tesy, no indulgence from you; and if you get me within
your power, I entreat you to show me no mercy, as I, so
help me God, would show none to you. J. M,"
This is wicked enough ; but there is a dash of honesty
about this man which places him high above his fellows.
A correspondent of the paper complains that the move-
ment is too democratic, and that thousands are therefore
prevented joining in the fight. Mr. Mitchell, however,
says that the movement must be a democratic one, be-
cause the gentry take no part in it, though they will be
shattered to pieces with the first crash of it. Mr. Mitchell
gives a recipe for making cheap domestic gunpowder. and
an essay on drilling.

In the Nation is a letter from Lord Ffrench, breathing
a most sanguinary spirit. He says, " The moment Lord
Clarendon draws the sword—spills the blood of that rem-
nant of a suffering people who still survive his reckless,
inhuman, and heartless policy, that sword will not be
sheathed except with the triumph of popular victory, or
with the utter extinction of the people of Ireland."
In the provinces the movement is rapidly extending its
ramifications.

BATHS AND WASIIHOUSES

We quote the following paragraph from a contemporary
of Saturday :
"The wash-houses for the working classes is another bubble
—an expensive one for the corporation. That, too, has burst.
It does not answer the object of its patrons. Those who go to
these places to wash and be washed, are not those who, for
sanatory purposes, ought to wash and be washed. It is all
claptrap, humbug, and delusion."

It is easy to make random assertions like these, but we
fancy that little regard will be paid to them. Every pre-
caution is taken to prevent any persons using the wash-
houses of the corporation, except those who would lite-
rally have to wallow in filth without them. No one is
permitted to wash for another— not even for a sick neigh-
bour without a proper certificate—and the mere fact that
during the month ending the 23d ultimo, no fewer than
3676 washing-tubs were used at the establishment in Paul-
street, proves the wide spread benefits conferred by these
institutions. That their utility is also increasing in the
estimation of the public is abundantly evidenced by tie
fact that the receipts for the past week are double those
of the corresponding week of last year. Whilst we are
upon the subject we may as well give the last monthly
report of the Paul-street Baths and Wash-houses. It
will be seen that the persons allowed to bathe gratuitously
exceeded in number those who were able to pay the usual
small charge for the accommodation
Number of baths, Males

Females

BATTIER GRATIS
Corporation School, North
Ragged School, Naylor-street
Number of Soldiers bathed
School Teachers

Gross total
Number of tubs used, 3676 ; 7352 dozen clothes washed
. -1 -:

Receipts for bath

£33 3s. 3d

Ditto for washing

£4B 9s. 7d

110 doze

GLOCESTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 8

(Before Mr. Justice PArrESON and a Special Jury.)

MUTLOWS V. HIGGINS AND ANOTHER

This was an action for libel, brought by the plaintiffs,
attorneys at Ledbury, against the defendants, attorneys
in the same town, under somewhat peculiar circumstances.
The defendants had been engaged as solicitors for a gentle-
man named Greenaway, who died in 1832, and since that
period had acted as professional advisers of his widow and
of the trustees of the will until the spring of 1847, when
the widow and the acting trustee died. The other trustee
became anxious to benefit the plaintiffs, who thereupon
put themselves in immediate communication with various
clients of the defendants, which, being discovered by the
latter, caused not only great dissatisfaction, but led to a
lengthened and acrimonious correspondence, without pro-
ducing a satisfactory result. The defendants, considering
the behaviour of the plaintiffs to be unprofessional. addres-
sed a circular letter to all their professional brethren in
the neighbourhood, requesting them to assemble at the
Feathers Hotel, at Ledbury, on the 25th of August, to
investigate conduct which the defendants stated they
"conceived to be grossly unprofessional." Sixteen gentle-
men assembled and constituted a kind of court of honour,
at which the plaintiffs refused to appear, when the defen-
dants brought forward their accusations, and examined
witnesses in support of them ; and the meeting came to an

unanimous vote against the plaintiffs. • •Thii action
brought in consequence of this resolution, the alleged
libel being the circular letter sent by the defendants
ting the attendance of parties at the Feathers Hotel.
The defendants pleaded a justification in reference to
's clients alleged to have been seduced or attempted to