The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-28 00:00:00

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Age. Whole Term of Life. One Year. Sewn Years
Quarterly Half-yearly Annual. Annual
Premium. Premium. Premium. Premium. Premium.
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20 0 711 0 15 9 1 11 2 0 17 4 0 18 8
30 010 2 1 0 2 1 19.10 1 1 3 1 '2 1
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50 1 0 4 2 0 4 3 19 2' 1 13 5 1 19 0

LONDO,V LAW REPORT.

COURT.-OF CHANCERY.—FarbAy, Aram 24.
THE LORDS COMNIISSOMERS. •

The Lords Commissioners, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-
ChanCellor, and Mr. -Justice Bosanquet, took the usual oaths
this morning in the Court of Chancery, as Lords ComMissiquers
appointed to hold the Great Seal..
The Master of the. Rolls, as Chief Commissioner, stated that
in taking upon themselves the duties of Lords Commissioners
of the Great Seal, their first object had been to arrange thp
business of all three Courts in that manner, that no intring►e-
ment of the portions of time appropriated to the administration
ofjustice should take' plaCe in either of the three Courts. The
arrangement as it regards the Court of Chancery was thisHt,
was the Lords Commissioners' intention to sit there on Satur-
days and Mondays in every week during term, and in the period
after term (which has generally been a period of recess), they
proposed to devote as many days to the business of the Court as
would make up the number winch, in the ordinary course, would
have been devoted to business in that Court. By this arrange-
ment they hoped to devote to each of the Courts as much time
as had usually been devoted to them. lie hoped this.arrange=
ment would meet with the concurrence of the bar, as they had
endeavoured to make this change as little inconvenient as pos-
sible to that learned body.
The first sitting in that Court would be to-motrow (Satur-
,day), and they proposed on Saturdays to take motions, and it
was desirable for a list to be marre out, as appeal motious would
have priority over others; and it was the wish of the Vice-
Chancellor as well as himself not tobe present at the discussion
of appeals from their own decisions, that a- list should be made
out in such a manner as would enable them to select those mo-
tions which each of them could hear. :
Their lordships bowed to the bar and retired.

KING'S BENCH.—TntresnaY.
NUGER V. GRA xr.—A TAILOR'S BILL.—Mr. Thessiger stated
that the plaintiff, a fashionable tailor in St. James's-street,
sought to recover £7B. 16s. 6d. upon a bill of exchange accepted
by the defendant, a young gentleman from the East Indies; and
nephew to Sir Colquhoun Grant, for clothes furnished for his
use in the months of April to September, 1832. The bill was
dated in December of the same year at seven months' sight.
He described the defendant as having a very considerable for-
tune, thou he had pleaded in bar to the action that lie was an
infant at the time of contracting the debt; that the articles were
not necessary; and consequently that legally he was not re-
sponsible. This., the learned counsel said, 'was a dishonourable
defence. He then called several of the plaintiff's journeymen
to prove the bill, and that the clothes were furnished. Among
the items in the bill for clothes were charges of twelve guineas
foie biue.clOth elnak; including in the charge one guinea for
rich rieckdanesaud tassels, two pounds fourteen shillings a pair
for trousers,, ei3 guineas for, each coat, &c.; and it. appeared •
that lathe cettese of six months the plaintiff hud ordered six
coats, seven waistceats, and ten pair of trousers. • ,
Mr. Jervis, juti:' cross-examined the witness on the part,-of '
the :defendant, and produced considerable laughter from the :
court and audieu'ce by the answers he elicited from the opera-
tives, who described Mr. Grant on his arrival to be dressed nut
in .the fashionable London costume of the Nugee style, and,
therefore, it ,became necessary to make him look well, and that.
the rich necklines were usually worn to, elothcloaks. ,
Justice, Williams.—Do you meant to say, witness, that
those are necessaries?
Witness.—They are usual, my lord, to make the gentleman
fit to appear fashionably dressed. In fapt he had nothing on fit
to appear before his uncle, his clothes were so ill made. .
In answer to further questions from ,Mr. Jet vis, the witness
did not, he said, inquire into the amount of his property from
'his uncle. The prices charged were the usual prices, though
he admitted latterly prices bad been reduced; yet• his master
kept a first-rate house, and charged high prices, and furnished
the best articles. Heived in the Regent's Park, and kept a
carriage.
Mr. Jervis.—l see you charge eighteenpence for straps; why
the-y may, be hought three pair for sixpence.
Mr. Thessiger.—Yes ; but I suppose my learned friend means
in St. Paul's. Churchyard. (A laugh.) ~Surely he would not
have my client's customer go east of Temple Bar.
Mr. Story, Mr. Stultz, and some other high-priced tailors
spoke to the reasonableness of the charges. Mr. Story said. he
lived in Bond-street, and the charges in the plaintiff's bill were
rather below the mark, though he admitted at the present, mo-
meut a reform had taken place, and that prices were lowered
even in the vicinity of St. James's. ;
Mr. Jervis, in the course of his address to the jury on the
part of the defendant, commented on, the evidence, which he
said had described his client's. East Indian dress as of Hottentet
description, and contended for the necessity there was of resort-
ing, to the pleas set down in the defence to guard against im-
position. The truth was, the defendant was the son of a sur-
geon at Berhamponre, in the East Indies, who, dying, left him,
not as his learned friend had stated, a very considerable for-
tune, but. only £1,200. Was it necessary, he asked, that a
young man so situated should have half a dozen coats, seven
waistcoats, and ten pairs of trousers for his use in six months?
Would any jury say those were necessaries? He put it to
them to return a verdict in his favour on the bill of exchange,
and, if they should think it necessary to give the plaintiff a ver-
• diet, only to give him such a one as would satisfy the justice of
the case.
Mr. Clark, of the secretary's office in the East India House,
; produced the register from the presidency of Bengal to show
the baptism of the-defendant, %villa took place on the 20th of
April, 1814.
The Honourable W. Ramsay was acquainted with'the father
of the defendant in India,:and remembered the latter as a child
in arms in 1814.

Mr. Thessiger replied.
Mr. Justice Williams, in 'summing up, very politely called
the attention of the jury to the enormous charges in the bill,
and to some of the items, such as the rich neck lines, &c. They
would say whether such articles were really necessaries. His
lordihip thonght that the state of society would be much endan-
gered, if such frivolities were encouraged-, and if. every young
man similarly circumstanced were to be allowed to contract for
clothes for six months, which even were more than the first
duke in the land would think of enga;ing for. 13ut the jury
would say what sum, if any, the plaintiff under the circum-
stances of the case was entitled to.
The jury, after consulting some time, said they found the de-
fendant was a minor, but that they found also a verdict for the
plaintiff for

- LONDON POLICE REPORT.

UNION-HALL-FRIDAY.

The inmates of a house in Lion-street, Kent-road, where a
man named Cherry, and a son of his, a boy about ten years of
Age; lodged, were alarmed in consequence of a fire which broke
out in the apartment occupied by those latter persons.
It appeared that Cherry had given his son a very severe beat-
ing, and afterwards fastened his two legs together with a pair.
of handcuffs, and locked him up in a room on the ground floor.
at five o'clock ou Thursday morning, and left him there. The.
boy managed, by some means or other, to get out of the window
into the yard, where he was observed by the neighbours in the
condition described, and crying most piteously. The • neigh-,
hours got over into the yard where the boy was, with the inten-
tion of placing him in the house again, seeing that he was inca-,
pable of making any exertion himself, owing to the manacles
on hie legs. On throwing up the window of the room, in order
to put the boy through, a quantity of smoke issued out, and it
was then perceived that it was on fire in two places, and a pile
of rags was discovered all in a blaze underneath the bed, so as
to-leave little doubt some person had done it with the view of
setting the house ou fire. The boy Cherry having exhibited
marks of severe chastisement from the nape of his neck down
to the calves of his legs, the police were called iu, when the
fire was extinguished in the room, and he was forthwith taken i
before the magistrates of this office. In accounting for the
marks of punishment on his person, the boy stated they were
inflicted by his father, and gave such a description of his parent's
conduct towards him as plainly showed he had been treated.
with a degree of severity quite unjustifiable. When the boy
was
.questioned by the magistrate respecting the origin of the
fire in the apartment where his father locked Him in, his answer
was, thata few nights ago his father brought a female home
with him, and that sown after her departtire a gild pin was miss-
ing. His father accused him of the theft, and although he de-
clared his innocence, he beat him most unmercifully on Thurs-
day morning, and then left the house, about six o'clock, having
previously fastened his legs together by means of a pair of hand-
cuffs, and locked him into the room. At that time there was no
fire in the room that he could perceive,: and in about half an
hour after his'father was g,one he with difficulty got out at the
window into the yard, when he was seen by the neighbours,
The policeman said that in a very few moments the bottse
would have been on fire had not some of the neighbours got
into the room_ .and extinguished several articles of linen which
were on fire When they entered. The door was locked on the
outside. The policeman added, that the boy's father had kept
out of the way since the occurrence, and there was a report
spread about the neighbourhood that he had ignited some arti-
cles in the room before he left 'home on Thursday morning, in
order to destroy the place.

The magistrates on hearing the statement had the boy sent
the workhouse to be taken care of, and issued a warrant fur
Lhe apprehension o: his father.

THE SELF-STYLED FRIENDS OF THE CHURCH

We have been requested to give insertion to the following lets
tdr, the handiwork of ,Mr. J. B. Gracie,. with whose name the
public of Bdinbtirghis familiar
.enough, as a very busy agent
of and the-whig clique. It ,did-not
pear to 'us that the single observation which we last week penned
in regard to either called for or justified a reply on his
part. We simply stated a fact which he has not attempted to
deny, viz. that he, an elder of the Church of Scotland, counte-
nanced a meeting chiefly composed of Voluntaries, and the un-
doubted objectof which was to prevent the extension of reli-
gious instructiotr, in the principles and doctrines of the esta-
blishment, to the pauper population of Scotland. We have no
hesitation, however, in giving a place to Mr. Gracie's effusion,
especially as he appears to think that it will du him good.
The conduct of these self-styled friends of the church, who
are rousing themselves in unseemly opposition to the deliberate
proposition of the principal lees!ers in the establishment, whiffs
and tories indifferently, who are desirous of extending the bles-
sings of the gospel to the.great mass of the poor—such conduct
is obviously irreconcileable with a true attachment to the church,
and a just appreciation of the value of 'religious instruction.
We can understand why voluntary dissenters object to the en-
largement of the means of the established church—they abhor
and decry the thing. itself, and the•very principle of •its
ence, They act, therefore, with perfect consistency, in oppos-
ing the scheme for additional endowments; and Mr. Adam
Black and the American doctor John Ritchie, of the*Potterr-
row, in taking that course, only follow .out their often avowed
opinions, that the established church his damned more souls
than it has saved ! But one would imagine that, if no Stronger
reason could be found for supporting the proposal which is now
the subject of controversy, the simple fact that such men as
Mr. Black and the American doctor, with their respective tailS,
are fiercely opposed to it, would form a sufficient aignment in
its favour.

Is it a bad or an immoral thing to build additional churches
or grant new endowments for the purpose of enlightening the
poor and furthering the interests of true religion ? Would
there be any thing wrong or even absurd in the proposal to
erect a church in every street, with a christian pastor appointed
and endowed by the state? Would the public be losers by such
a scheme—would the poor-rates or the prison-rates be increased
by such a system? It is beyond all doubt that the expeuse
would be amply redeemed by the benefits which the adoption'of
such a measure would confer upon the community at large.
But now, when it is proposed merely to tax (we give our adver-
saries the benefit of the odious word) the public to the amount
of something less than a farthing a-head to effect a great na-
tional blessing, an outcry is raised by the voluntaries and false
"friends" of the church enough to bring down the roofs of the
eonventicles in which their most sweet voices are exercised.
That men who take their station amongst the office-bearers of
the church should mix themselves up with such parties profess-.
ing such views is a most melancholy proof how far either per-
verted judgment or a factious disposition will lead men from the
plain path of duty.--Eilinburgli E5l Sly Pest.