The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-11 00:00:00

THE ASSIZES

We have been favoured, by a professional gentleman in
this town, with the following circular issued from the Pro-
thonotary's office, Preston :
Prothonotary's Office, Preston, 8171 Feb., 1842.

The next assizes will commence at Lanimster, on Saturday
the 12th of March, and at Liverpool on Thursday, the 21th
of March.

The records in causes to be tried at Lancaster, and at
issue on or before Friday the 25th of February, should be
ordered on that day ; and in those to be tried at Liverpool,
and at issue on or before Wednesday the 9th of March, should
be ordered on that day.

The last days for making up issues in time for trial at the
next assizes, will be,—in causes to be tried at Lancaster.
Thursday the 3rd of March : in► causes to be tried at Liver-
pool, Tuesday the 15th of March, on which days the records
must be ordered.

Eight exclusive days' notice of trial in all personal actions

must-be given for the next assizes in causes at issue for trial
at the last assizes.

The jury process for the trial of causes at Lancaster, will
be issued at Preston, on Saturday morning the 12th of March,
and for the trial of causes at Liverpool, on Thursday morn-
ing the 24th of March.
Rule day before the assizes, Thursday the 17th of February

istant.
Rule day after the assizes, Thursday the 1 Ith of April next.
Declarations against defendants in gaol on writs of capias

just be filed on or before Tuesday the 15th of March next.
In pursuance of the general rule of court of September

assizes, 1824, the causes intended to be tried at Liverpool,
will be entered In the following order .—lst list,—Salford
Hundred.-2nd list,West Derby Hundred.
Mr. Justice Wightman will go alone to Lancaster, and
will, in all probability, proceed with the criminal business in
the first instance ; but the causes must be entered as usual.
The business of the public offices will be transacted at
Preston during the assizes.

THE WEST INDIAN COLONIES,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

find that, on Friday last. Lord Stanley declared
in the Commons' House of Parliament that there was no
colour for the reports which were in circulation as to the in-
tention of the government to propose an extensive system of
emigration.
Can it be supposed that the Colonial Secretary is ignorant
of the distress of the planters in the West Indies, and that,
as far as Jamaica is concerned, there are not half-a-dozen
estates in the island which, for the last three or four years,
have paid the expense of cultivation? On the contrary, the
proprietors have had to advance money, some three, five,
and even fifteen hundred pounds a year, and this in the ex-
pectation that some relief would be afforded them by govern-
ment. If there be any doubt of the truth of thisstatement
respecting the situation of our West India colonies, but more
more particularly the island of Jamaica, I am ready to prove
it.

The noble Secretary for the Colonial Department would,
I think, feel rather awkwardly situated if, instead of re-
ceiving a princely income from his estates, he was obliged to
advance money to his numerous tenantry. The elevation of
the conservatives to office infused hopes of better times, but
unless some efficient and speedy help is afforded, the cultiva-
tion of the sugar cane must be abandoned in Jamaica, for
many estates are already given up, and the others must
fol-
low. With thanks to you, Mr. Editor, for your obedient
advocacy of the West India interest—l remain your
.n.
servant,

February 101 h, 1842.
[We shall not let this subject sleep. Our colonial interests
must not be neglected as they have been.—Ed• L.S'j

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SETTLEMENT OF THE

CORN LAWS,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—I think Sir R. Peel's new scale of duties on corn
will not be very palatable to two classes of persons—rnetn..
the law altogether,—
and of the Anti Corn-law League and the unfair trader in
corn ;—the first parties, on secounrof,not approaching any-
ways near their mad theory of repealin.
as beforen, hen t iey got above 665.
prevent their defraud-
and to the second class—because it will
owered
ing the exchequer, as there will exist no inducement to
raise the average falsely,
duty only
4s. ; so that b
a.ste_re urns, they obtained a ►greayt
per quarter; because beforee,.vrehve . they could raise the ave-
-25.
; ffraollms lf:9s:iitiod
rage is., say 675. to 6'7" tho
;12st. tittr7ped
15.., the
545. and sas., it only fallsls., and so"fr'om
thereby having to
705., it fell 3s. ; from Os.
false
the duty Is. From
benefit,raising tbhnetanvoewra,gbeylrsa.ibsrng .
triai
raise
fromwt
tsohe2e6sm7.
average Gls. :yo6, and
justly
s .i
they,n
infer
nronlyonly
a that
faGlsl s.
reduces.
will;
he nominally the
lowest duty, as at that price a great deal would be forced upon
the market by a many holders not waiting to raise the ave-
rages 4s. for the chance of is., and there would be little chance
of its getting much higher by a quantity being thrown on the
ingenet al I should think would be
smaatirskfieetd. zhhetchoempmlaunn,
__is G2s. 3d. per agricultut•ist.
benefits them materiall • whilst
it protects the agricultiut7y•i
tobfethnilsddsaeyal,ew2h4isc.h qfnoarrthetis.,tance the. average'
would be only leis.Bd. per quarter, under the NEW 1 •
and duty under
sca a it
—a saving of 14s

41. per quarter.
A. SUBSCRIBER

DEATH OF ONE OF WHIXHALL POISONERS.—The un-
fortunate woman Eliza Harries, who was committed to our
gaol, with her husband, charged with the murder of her aged
parent, by poison, died on Wednesday last, after giving birth
to a child a short time previous. An inquest was held on the
body. The child is still living.—Shrewsbury News.