The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

ABSTRACT OF THE LOG

May 16.—Sailed from Boston at 2 p.m.
17.—Running for Halifax.
18.—Arrived at Halifax at 8 a.m., and sailed for Liverpool

at 5 p.m

19.—Lat 44 32, (d. r.) lon. 59 52, course S. 87 E. 11, wind
variable, distance 150 miles, light airs and foggy.
20.—Lat. 44 32, lon. 54 40, course S. 90 E., wind S.S.E.
and S.S.W., distance 221 miles, light breezes and foggy.
21.—Lat. 45 16, lon. 49 18, course N. 87 E. 45, wind va-
riable and easterly, distance 236 miles, moderate breezes and
thick foggy weather.
22.—Lat. 45 34, (o. b.) lon. 44 26, course N. 84 E. 22,
wind N.E. and northerly, distance 215 miles, fresh breezes
and hazy, with rain.
23.—Lat. 46 23, lon. 38 53, course N. 75 E. 56, wind va-
riable, distance 2:53 miles, calm and fine weather.
24.—Lat. 47 29, lon. 33 18, course N. 75 E. 56, wind S.E.
and S.S.W., distance 240 miles, strong breezes and hazy,
with a heavy sea.

25.—Lat. 48 16, lon. 27 16, course N. 79 E
distance 245 miles, fresh breezes and cloudy.
26.—Lat. 49 18, lon. 21 10, course E. 54 E. 45, wind N.E
and N.W., distance 253 miles, light breezes and squally at
times.

wind N.W.,

27.—Lat. 50 18, lon. 14 58, course N. 75 E.,
by S., distance 251 miles, fresh breezes and cloud.
28.—At eight o'clock, Cape Clear bore N.E. by E

wind S.W

seven miles.
29.—Received pilot on board at 6 a.m., off Middle Mouse

VESSELS SPOKEN

May 20th, in lat. 44 32, lon. 54 40, spoke the barque St.
John, of Glasgow, and reported having picked up the crew
of the Gazelle, which was lost in the ice.
21st.—In lat. 45 16, lon. 49, 18, passed several icebergs,
and some small pieces.
22d.—Lat. 45 34, lon. 44 26, spoke the British brig Juliet
of Waterford, out 16 days from Cadiz, bound to Newfound-
land.

23d.—Lat. 47 29, lon. 33 IS, passed the barque Odessa,
with emigrants.
24th.—Lat. 47 29, lon. 33 18, spoke a brig at night, sup-
posed to be the Huddersfield.
25th.—Lat. 48 16, lon. 27 45, spoke the schooner Mary,
with emigrants.

26th.—Lat. 49 18, lon. 21 10, spoke the barque Wood-
stock, of St. John, from New Orleans, out 31 days, bound to
Liverpool.
28th.—Off the Saltees, spoke the ship Britannia, of New
York, at 6, p.m.

THE LIVERPOOL ABDUCTION CASE

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, SATURDAY

CRELLIN V. LEYLAND

Mr. Jervis applied to the Court on behalf of the defend-
ants, who are bankers in Liverpool, for an interpleader rule
calling upon Ann Crellin and John Orr 7- •
and decide their respective rights to a cer

n of money
action had

in defendants' possession, to-recover which an
been brought by Ann Crellin against the defend.-
peared, that AnnCrellin had lodged in thedefendants
a sum of money, of which a balance of £1,601 18s. y.
maimed. She had brought an action to recover this Bala
and defendants had received a notice, signed John

Macgill, stating, that he was the lawful liusband of Ann
Crellin, warning them, at their peril, to pay the said money
over to Ann Crellin, alias Macgill, and demanding from the
defendants that they should pay:the said sum of £1,601 18s. 9d.
over to him. This they refused to do, as it was notorious that
the said Macgill was, at this moment, inthe gaol of Kirkdale,
charged with having been guilty of the abduction of Ann
Crellin, of which charge; should he be convicted, the mar-
riage would be null and void. The defendants were perfectly
willing and desirous of paying the money to the lawful owner,
but it was rather hard that the question of the validity of
Miss Crellin's marriage should be tried in this manner at
their expense, more especially while criminal proceedings
were pending by which the question would be decided. An
application had been made for an interpleader rule to Mr.
Justice Wightman, but his lordship had directed the applica-
to be made to the full Court.
Lord Denman.—Who would be the parties to the issue?
Mr. Jervis.—l am afraid the husband and wife, my lord ;
but the act says nothing abqut that. The object of the act
clearly is to prevent parties standing in the situation of the
defendants, who are willing to pay the money to those who
have a right, being placed in this manner between two fires.
Lord Denman.—You may take a rule to show cause, on
bringing the money into Court.
Rule nisi granted.

ADVANCED DUTIES UPON IMPORTS OF LINENS
AND LINEN YARNS BY THE FRENCH GO-
VERNMENT.

The following appears in the London Times of yesterday :
" It is evident from a conversation which took place in the
Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday last, that the French
government will raise the duties on linen yarns and linen
manufactures by ordinance, within a few weeks from the
present time. We shall not pause to expose the folly of
such a measure, or to contrast it with the policy of the Bri-
tish government at the very same juncture • but the follow-
ing figures will prove that in attacking the linen trade with
Great Britain the French government is shutting up by far
the most important channel of commercial intercourse be-
tween the two countries. The trade is of very recent crea-
tion, for the duties were raised to prohibition in 1826; they
were, however, lowered in 1835 and 1836, and the result was
as follows :

Linen-yarns exported from the United Kingdom to France
lb. Value.
In 1832 76,512 £ 6,516
1833 867,288 68,229
1831
1835
1836
1837. 7,010,983 401,007
1838 11,485,680 600,806
1839
1840..

" Our whole export of linen-rim to all countries (inclu-
ding France) were in 1840, 17,733,5751 b. ; consequently the
portion sent to France is more than two-thirds of our whole
foreign and colonial trade in that commodity.
" The total declared value of British exports to France in
1840 was £2,378,140; consequently the value of the linen-
yarns exported amounts to more than one quarter of the
whole export trade of this country with France.
" Such is the extent of the evil—such is the enormous
blow about to be aimed at the commercial relations of the
two greatest countries in the world, in order to gratify the
claims of a few unruly constituencies in the north of France !"

It will certainly not be said that the distress which this or-
dinance must create, in those districts of Great Britain which
are dependent upon the prosperity of the linen trade, arises
from the restrictive policy, or at least the want of a feeling of
reciprocity towards the producers of other countries, by the
government of Great Britain. At the present moment, we
only wait for a concession in return, on the part of France,
to make a large reduction of the duties imposed by our tariff
upon French wines, spirits, &c. This increase of the duties
upon one of our largest staple manufactures, we imagine,
must settle the question of any reduction at present.

TROOPS FOR INDIA.—The utmost activity prevails in the
military department of the hon. company in Leadenhall-
street, in freighting ships for the conveyance of troops. The
large ship General Kyd has been taken up, and is now fitting
out as a troop ship in the docks, and will sail about the
middle of the next month, with 450 of the 84th and 29th
regiments.

FALMOUTH, MAY 26, HALF-PAST 11 P.M.—The royal
mail steamer Solway, Captain Britten, with mails from
Mexico, the West Indies, &c. (about a fortnight overdue),
arrived an hour since, with 70 passengers, and about 400,000
dollars and 50 serons of cochineal on freight. Her dates are
as follow :—Havannah, Ist May ; Nassau, 4th May ; Ber-
muda, 10th May ; and Fayal, 21st May, bringing mails from
all the different ouartas within the limits of their contract
(with the exception of Honduras), and a Jamaica bag- with
dates to the 15th of April. The Tweed steamer brought up
the mails from the latter to Turk's Island, whence they were
conveyed by the Trent to Nassau ; and the Teviot arrived at
Havannah on the 30th April with the mails from Vera Cruz
only, those from the city not having arrived down in time to
be despatched by her. We do iaot ascertain of this arrival
bringing any news of moment either from the West Indies
or Mexico. General Bustamente, the ex-President of the
latter republic, is come passenger by the Solway. The ad-
vices from Vera Cruz, received by the Solway steamer, are
to the 21st ult„ by which we learn that the proclamation
of the Texian government, declaring the Mexican ports
on that coast in a state of blockade, had not caused much
sensation there, particularly as it was supposed the European
powers, and England in particular, would not respect such a
measure, coming from a government the latter had not yet
fully recognized, and which must prove so detrimental to her
trade. The new tariff was to be published in the course of
a week, and was to be put in force six months after that
time. The elections of the new Congress had turned out
decidedly against the party of Santa Anna, and from the
strong military force the latter had ereated about him, it was
much to be feared he would openly oppose the meeting of the
Chambers, and thus give rise to new broils and disturbances
between the two parties contending for power. A conducla
from Mexico was advertised to leave for Vera Cruz the 25th of
April. Business continued very dull.
EXECUTIO" IN FRANCE.—On Tuesday week the small
town of Berns, in the Sarthe, was the theatre of an awful
spectacle. At the sitting of the Court of Assizes for the de-
partment, on March 14, four men, Louvard, Belland, Drans,
and Chambrier, were convicted of the threefold crime of
arson, robbery, and murder. The first two were condemned
to hard labour at the hulks for life, and the remaining two
to death. The court further ordered that Louvard and Bel-
land should stand on the pillory, and Drans and Chambrier
be executed at Berns, were their crimes were consummated.
Early in the morning the scaffold and the pillory were
erected within a few paces of each other. An assem-
blage of from 12,000 to 15,000 people gathered from all
the surrounding country round these preparations for
the exhibition of shame and. ignominious death, and,
notwithstanding their appearance in the centre, the scene
assumed all the aspect of a fair. Booths were raised,
tables were spread, tons of cider were broached, and even
games were set up. It required all the firmness of the ma-
gistrates, supported by the gendarmes and a detachment of
troops, to prevent still more scandalous proceedings. At
eight o'clock Louvard and Belland were fastened in the
pillory, so placed that they could see the house of their
victim, and Louvard that in which he had himself lived.
He appeared to be much overcome, but Belland displayed a
disgusting effrontery in both gesture and language. Having
os
stood their time they were removed.tchaJ.kb
se under a strong
tout 12 o'clock
Drans and Chambrier arrived in a P
escort. They were accompanied by a young priest, who,
with much force, but mildness, endeavoured to bring the
crowd to a state more suited to the scene they were about
to witness, and then turned to the immediate objects of his
overspread his countenance,
care. Chambrier was resigned to his fate, and in a moment
expiated his offences. Drans, however, was in a most pitia-
bleplatform of the guillotine. In a
few minutes .
condition. A livid paleness
and his limbs trembled so convulsively that it required three
men to
afterwardsliiup to
the the
two several bodies were lying to-
one grave in an obscure corner of the cemetery of
carry
crowd, so thoughtless and even licentious in
the morning, overcome by the sad tragedy they had wit-
nessed, separated
in solemn silence.
gßeetrhnesr. in
The

THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS EXTENSION
LINE, AND THE JUNCTION WITH THE LIVER-
POOL RAILWAY.

We last week noticed the fact, that the whole of the pur-
chases of land fcr the extension of the Leeds Line to the
Hunt's Bank Station had been completed. We understand
that the contracts for the same, two for the formation of the
works of the line, and a third for the erection of the station,
arc to be let on the Gth June; and it is expected that the
whole of the works will be completed, and the line open to
the public, to the Hunt's Bank Station, in all September,
1843. We understand that the Manchester and Liverpool
Company are also proceeding rapidly with the purchases of
those portions of the land required for the Junction Line,
which are situate between the Hunt's Bank Station and the
station of the Manchester, Bury, and Bolton Railway, in
New Bailey-street; and we hear it is probable that they will
succeed in purchasing the whole, without any necessity for
the intervention of a sheriff's jury. The land lying between
the Bolton Station and the Liverpool Line, which belongs to
the Bolton Railway Company and the Old Quay Company,
they have already entered into agreements for, and they have
now a bill before parliament to confirm these agreements.
The measure is, of course, unopposed ; and we see by the
papers, that the select committee on this bill had leave to sit
and proceed yesterday. We believe it is expected that the
Junction Line will be completed by the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway Company by the same time as the Manches-
ter and Leeds Extension Line ; so that this important link
in the great chain of railway communication across the island
from Liverpool, through Manchester and Leeds, to Hull,
will be completed in the autumn of next year. It will also
connect the Manchester and Birmingham Line with the
lines northward, on both the west and east sides of the
island ; and, in short, it is not easy to estimate its importance
and advantages, by thus giving continuity to the various lines
of railway communication to various parts of the kingdom.
Of course the junction of all these lines will require a spa-
cious station; and the Manchester and Leeds Company
have already purchased ground for this purpose around
their offices in Clowes's-buildings, Hunt's Bank, comprising
in one plot nearly five acres, or about 23,720 square yards of
land. We see that the Mersey and Irwell Navigation
Company (the Old Quay Company) have set labourers to
work to remove the masonry of the old abutments, together
with the loose stone and rubbish from the river beneath the
Victoria Bridge; in order to make the river navigable from
that point up to Hunt's Bank, where the company will
establish a communication zeith the lines of railway.' In our
next we shall probably notice the course of the proposed line
of the Extension Railway from Collyhurst to Hunt's Bank,
the direction which it is at present proposed to take for the
Junction Line from Hunt's Bank to the Bolton Railway
Station, and thence to the Liverpool and Manchester Line.—
Manchester Guardian.

We beg to call the attention of our readers, and particu-
larly of such of them as are shareholders in the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway, to those parts of the above statement
which we have marked :in italics. The proposed Hunt's
Bank junction, we are told, will " also connect the Manches-
ter and Birmingham line " with the lines to the north and
west. It will do no such thing. A gap will still remain be-
tween Hunt's Bank and Store-street; and the Manches-
ter and Birmingham and Manchester and Sheffield traffic will
remain isolated from any connection with Liverpool until a
communication is effected between those two points. When
will that communication be made ? Will it ever be made 1
Again—" of course the junction of all these lines will re-
quire a spacious station," and that station is to be upon the
low ground near Hunt's Bank, to the north east of Manches-
ter, whilst the business part of the town and the residences
of the most respectable portion of the inhabitants are fast re-

moving to the south west. The Post-office has been removed
in that direction within the last three years. The Exchange
will follow it in a few years more. The principal hotels are
already there. If " a spacious station " for the convenience
of all the railways is desirable, it should be a central station;
it should be, moreover, so situated, as to elevation, as to ad-
mit the greatest possible facilities for carriages to and from it.
The neighbourhood of Piccadilly or Store-street, or any
neighbourhood between those streets and Oxford-road would

present such a situation. Hunt's Bank is not central, and it
is the lowest elevation which could be selected in the neigh-
bourhood of Manchester. It is, in fact, a heavy drag from

it to every point in the compass ; and the only recommenda-
tion which it possesses is, that its selection as the site of the
" spacious station " of the Manchester railways will confer
a value on the unsaleable and untenanted property of Mr.
Robert Gill !

But above all we beg the earnest attention of the Liverpool
and Manchester proprietors to the proceedings of the Mersey
and Irwell Navigation Company. These gentlemen, it will
be seen, have already " set labourers to work to make the
river Irwell navigable up to Hunt's Bank," in order to inter-
cept the very traffic from Leeds and Hull, of which we have
heard so much as the fruits of this very Hunt's Bank Junc-
tion. The merchandise of the West Riding of Yorkshire
will travel per Leeds and Manchester Railway only to be.
shipped on board the flats of the Old Quay Company for its
transport to Liverpool ! Glorious consummation ! The
Manchester and Birmingham Railway, too, unprovided with
an eligible junction with Liverpool, will lay down the mer-
chandise brought by it, just at tlieprecise point from which
it can, most conveniently, be put on board the boats of the
Rochdale Canal for transmission to this port. The cutlery
and hardware of Sheffield—the whole of which must other-
wise have travelled per railway--will now necessarily travel

per canal from the same point to Liverpool !
We should really imagine, that with these significant facts

before them, the Liverpool and Manchester Board will begin
to see the hostile influences that have been A work to drive

dention c

s unfortunat

them up. First--not to speak of private interests—the inte-
rest of the Leeds and Manchester Railway to cut out its com-
petitor, the Sheffield and Manchester, from any share in the
carrying trade from Liverpool to the north and east of Eng-
land. The Ashton Canal—to strike a blow at the same un-
dertaking. The Old Quay Company and the New Quay Com-
pany—to seize upon the traffic from' Yorkshire at Hunt's
Bank. The Rochdale Canal Company, and the various car-
riers using it—to seize upon the traffic left isolated at Store-
street. The Birmingham Company—to keep its traffic from
the Grand Junction ; and the Bolton Company—to carry out
ultimately, by the aid of the Leeds Company, its projected
northern line to Liverpool itself? An amount of influence
here, actually at work, and intimately dovetailed together,
which those who have been its dupes will, in time, learn to

weigh and to value accurately.
We shall be told that it is too late now to turn back from
the course into which the Liverpool Company have been se-
duced. It may be so. Still that company, we presume, is
not fastened to this splendid " spacious station " scheme. If
they are so let them keep out of it.