The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-03 00:00:00

NEW DOCK WAREHOUSES

The report of Mr. Hartley on the subject of the new Dock
warehouses was read, which stated that he had given much
attention to the subject, so as to combine the greatest econo-
my consistent with proper security. A plan was also placed
in the committee-room for the inspection of the members.
In reply to a question from the Chairman, the Surveyor
stated, that the warehouses were as perfectly fire-proof as it
was possible to make them. After some conversation, it was
suggested by Mr. Bold that the opinion of Messrs. Holine
and Stewart should be obtained, and the consideration of the
subject left over for a future meeting.
The Committee then proceeded to the consideration of
financial matters, and soon afterwards adjourned.

The gross amount of investments in the Limerick Savings
Bank is £127,003.

Some one advertises gold, as the only article for stopping
the teeth. In stopping the month, gold has often been very
useful.

The Earl of Aberdeen was unable to attend the Privy
Council, on Wednesday, in consequence of indisposition.
Dr. Holland is in attendance on his lordship, but his illness
is not likely to interfere with his official duties. •
A TREASURE.—A few days ago, says f he Echo Tournaisien,
a cellar, the existence of which was unknown, was discovered
in a piece of ground at St Ghistain, on which stood formerly
the large Abbey of that place. 12,000 bottles of fine wines,
in excellent preservation, were found in the cellar.
On the 21st instant, about three o'clock in the afternoon,
four men, whose faces were disguised with handkerchiefs,
entered the house of a man named Patrick Balfe, of Bel-
mount, near Hacketstown, in this county, and after threaten-
ing Balfe and turning out his family, they levelled his house
to the ground!—Bellast Times.
THE BAR AND THE PRESS.—The privileges of the bar are
properly very extensive. It is only necessary to contrast the
position of the feed advocate of a culprit with the unfeed ad-
vocate of a public causethe barrister with the journalist—
to appreciate the prodigious extent of the privileges of the
bar. A barrister may tell for his client what he knows to be
lies, and malignant lies, and use every artifice to give these
lies the colour of truth. It is enough for him if they are set
down by an attorney no more responsible than himself. For
his client a barrister may insult one whom he knows in his
secret heart to be an honest man, as a perjurer and a villain,
and try to entrap him into some error that shall afford ground
for the odious imputation. That these privileges are not
suffered to lie idle is proved by every day's experience ; in-
deed, the barrister must exercise them if he would thrive in
his profession ; for as manners and moral character are no
indispensable requisites at the bar, and as he who shall go
furthest for a client will cceteris paribus always be preferred
in all but the very highest rank of the bar, we are sure to find
the readiest perverters of truth, the most unscrupulous bul-
lies, whether of judges, juries, or witnesses, the favourites.
The journalist, on the other hand, generally a man of better
birth, education, manners, and morals, than the majority of
barristers, and therefore restrained by the feelings proper to
this superiority—restrained, too, by the care for a good cha-
racter, the loss of which, to him, would be fatal—has none
of the privileges with which the barrister is armed. So far
from being allowed wilfully to state falsehood (a privilage
which we most joyfully renounce) he is not always permitted
to tell even the truth, and when imposed upon by misinforma-
tion the clearest proof of the imposition offers no excuse.—
Standard.

R . —The Times offers some remarks upon the arti-
cle which we extracted on Tuesday from the Westminster
Review, in which we cannot altogether agree. In the first
place, we think our contemporary's general estimate of the
bar much too high. It has been our good fortune to meet
several men of real learning and of gentlemanlike manners at
the bar, but it has been also our lot to meet a greater num-
ber whom this description certainly will not suit. We
are willing to concede what may be called the front rank
of the Queen's Beneh bar, mustering perhaps a score,
as presenting a body of gentlemen of whose manners, at-
tainments, and talents the profession and the country may
be proud. In the equity courts, again, there may be a dozen
or a score of gentlemen of a highlY-respectable class; but
step into the Common Pleas, and see at what rate learn-
ing, talents, and manners are valued there. Ask for
the leader in that court. Again, our contemporary is,
we think, unjust towards the gentlemen practising in the
Old Bailey. They are, as far as we can judge, men fully
equal to the average 9f the bar in all other respects, and
above it in talent. The real question between the bar and
the press is, however, less What men may be judged to be,
than what from circumstances they must be, The journalist
employed, after long trial of the public approbation, and em-
ployed under a vast variety of subjects, must, if succesful, be
a more able, a more accomplished, and a more learned man
than the average barrister. And, again, the journalist, whose
bread depends as much upon character as upon talent and
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or to colour a falsehood.—Standard.