The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-31 00:00:00

THE TREASURER OF THE-COUNTY IN ACCOUNT WITH THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER,
FROM JUNE 1, 1853, TO MAY 31, 1854.
CR.
By Cash paid for salaries
Ditto for expenses of prosecutions
Ditto for prosecution of juvenile offender
Ditto for removing offenders to prison....
Ditto for removing transports to the hulks..
Ditto for expenses of-criminal and vagrant
lunatics
Ditto for expenses of Lancaster Castle
Ditto for inspecting and examining weights
and measures
Ditto for coroners for taking inquisitions.
Ditto for printing, stationery, &c.
Ditto for law expenses
Ditto for militia expenses
Ditto for sundry contingent exnenses
Ditto for private lunatic asylums
Ditto for maintenance of assize prisoners
Balance •

DR. je s. d.
To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1853
Cash received from rates
Ditto from orders on boroughs
Ditto from the treasury l6OlB 0 4
Ditto on account of Lancaster Castle, viz.:—
From the treasury 893 4 5
From boroughs l6O 7 2
Earnings of prisoners 23 1 4

£ •. d.
500 0 0
15407 3 0
189 1 7
1363 6 3
411 12 4

069 16 4
3867 7 8

Sundrie's

63 4 4

639 17 3
Ditto from inspectors of weights and measures 275 6 3
Ditto for fines and penalties
Ditto for sale of lists of voters 244 0 6
Ditto for rent of judges' lodgings
Ditto for interest, less commission 5 18 9

955 13 8
3219 5 1
891 9 0
1625 4 3
1447 4 5
1815 3 11

76 15 11
1386 5 8
5300 4 3

443725 13 4
LUNATIC
To Balance in hand, let June, 1853 2646 10 11
Cash received from rates
Ditto from orders on boroughs
Ditto on account of Lancaster Asylum 46 13 6
Ditto ditto Prestwich Asylum....
Ditto ditto Rijnliil; Asylum ll 0 0
Ditto from visitors of ditto, balance of origi-
nal building account
Ditto for interest, less commission 3O 6 3

443725 13 4

ASYLUMS.
By Cash paid committee of visitors of Prestwich
Asylum, balance due on original building
account 77 3 3
Ditto for building, furnishing, and repairs of
the Lancaster Asylum 1226 4 8
Ditto for building, furnishing, and repairs of
the Prestwich Asylum 1979 3 6
Ditto for building, furnishing, and repairs of
the Rainhill Asylum 2303 1 1
Balance 3581 7 0

9166 19 6 1
NEW LUNATIC ASYLU

To balance in hand, Ist June, 1853
Cash received from orders on boroughs
Ditto for interest, less commission

8531 19 7
4582 18 1
108 11 11

MS.—LOAN ACCOUNT.
By Cash paid for interest on loans and instal-
ments in repayment thereof
Balance

11600 0 11
1623 8 8

'13223 9 7
COUNTY

£13223 9 7

To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1853
Cash received from orders on boroughs
Ditto for interest, less commission

2005 11 2
147 2 11
43 19 10

BRIDGES.
By Cash paid on account of bridges
Ditto for law expenses

520 9 0
7 5 2
1669 8 9

Balance

.€2196 13 11
GENERAL POLICE.—HEAD-QUARTERS
206 19 7 By Cash paid for pay, clothing, and contingencies 2997 17 9
3101 7 1 Ditto for law Expenses_
46 0 4 Balance • 315 6 7
610 6

£2196 13 11

To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1553.
Cash received from rates
Ditto for services of constables
Ditto for interest, less commission

£3360 17 6

£3360 17 6

LOCAL POLICE

To Balance in band, Ist June, 1853.
Cash received from rates
Ditto for services of constables and conve;
ante of prisoners
Ditto for interest, leas commission

—NORTH LONSDALE DIVISION,
213 15 10 I By Cash paid for pay, clothing, and contingencies 1278 12 7
1125 11 3 Balance

207 6 10
3 14 4

£1550 8 3
SOUTH LONSDALE DIVISION
101 19 9 1 By Cash paid for pay, clothing, and contingencies 587 17 9
464 13 8 1 Balance B6 13 1

£1550 8 3

To Balance in hand, Ist June, 1853
Cash received from rates
Ditto for services of constables and convey-
ance of prisoners
Ditto for interest, less commission

106 13 5
1 4 0

X 674 10 10

Eiberpoot f.tattbarb.

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING

SINCE returning from their autumnal sojourn in the
glens of Brae-Mar, HER MAJESTY and the royal family
have chiefly resided at Windsor, where they will remain
till towards the end of next month, for the purpose of
celebrating the anniversary of the birthday of the PRIN-
CESS ROYAL, who completes the fourteenth year of her
age on the 21st proximo. After that event has been
duly honoured, the court, it is understood, will proceed
to Osborne House, and will remain there till the middle
of December, at which time, it has now been announced
in a semi-official manner, the long talked of visit of LOUIS
NAPOLEON and the EMPRESS of the FRENCH will take

place. The visit—so say those veracious chroniclers, the
court gossips—will be paid by the imperial visitors at
Osborne, whence, accompanied by HER MAJESTY and
Prince ALBERT, the " illustrious strangers" will proceed
to Windsor Castle, where they will occupy the same suite
I were tenanted by the King of
£9166 19 6 I Pnrssri on his late visit to this country. For the pur-

of apartments

pose of accommodating their imperial Majesties, the
apartments are to undergo a complete overhauling, at the
conclusion of which they will be fitted up with an eye to
,t less than to regal splendour. The
stay of the EMPEROR and EMPRESS will, it is expected,
extend over six or eight days, which time will be devoted

domestic comfort

to a series of festive entertainments unparalleled in splen-
dour by any of the festivities which have taken place

during HE MAJESTY'S reign. Conspicuous among these
celebrations, it is said, will be an investiture of the garter,
at which the EMPEROR will be installed a knight. Before
this ceremony takes place, however, it is asserted by the
Beau TIBBSES of the clubs that the banner, sword, man-

tle, and helmet of the Emperor of Russte, he being held
a recreant knight, will be plucked down from the place
they occupy above one of the stalls in St. George's Chapel,
thrown into the aisle, and swept by the choristers beyond
the precincts of the castle. This course of action is said

.ceive a sort of quasi countenance in the fact that the
r himself has called on a Wallachian of high position
to restore the decoration bestowed upon him during the
Russian occupation of the principalities, on the ground
that, since their evacuation, the Wallachian knight, hav-
ing joined the Austrians in their support of Turkey, has
forfeited his title to the honour. Should such a proceeding
take place, by order of Garter King-at-Arms, it will create
no small sensation, and completely eclipse the recent eclat
of the Windsor courts-martial.

Apropos of these courts-martial, it appears his worship
the Mayor of Windsor is overwhelmed with contributions
to the " PERRY Testimonial Fund," which now exceeds
£2,400. What the good-natured public mean to demon-
strate by this extensive pecuniary testimonial, it would
perplex even a Philadelphia lawyer to determine. A sum
of money to cover the outlay incurred by Mr. PERRY, in
resisting oppression and counteracting the proceedings of
vindictive injustice, is comprehensive enough, and does no
discredit to either the contributors or the recipient; but
when it changes its character from a "Defence" to a "Tee-
timonial Fund," one is led to question what meritorious act,
or what great moral principle is to be recognised in the tes-
timonial ? If I recollect aright, the ill-used subaltern was
invited by a brother officer, and accepted the invitation,
to join in a drinking bout along with the inviter and his
chere amid; that he did this, and also joined in gambling
with such success, that his opposing "brother," inflamed
by wine and ill-luck, originated a riot, out of which the
whole disgraceful trial proceeded. Is it for success in this
tripartite achievement of gaming, immorality, and drunk-
enness, that the moral English people club their pennies
and their pounds in establishing a "testimonial fund?
Sincerely do I hope not ! National gratitude may readily
find objects of purer virtue and more lustrous beauty than
this to testify their admiration of.

Speaking of the proceedings of one law-eourt, suggests,
without much violFnce to the legal unities, the displays
in others, and this brings into view a recent scene at the
Middlesex Sessions, where ,in an encounter between a bar-
rister and the presiding Judge, Mr. Serjeant ADAMS and
Mr. PARRY, in a manner more forensic than courteous,
discussed the merits or demerits of a certain voluntary
association for the prosecution of a particular class of
crimes. On Tuesday, the learned judge was engaged
in trying two alleged charges of assault upon girls ; the
prosecution being undertaken and conducted under the
auspices of the Associate Institute for the Protection of
Women. One of the cases entirely broke down, and in
the other the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. The
details, as given in evidence, were quite unfit for publica-
tion, in this respect proving too strong even for the
columns of the Times. The learned judge characterised
the cases as disgusting and the proceedings as disgraceful,
adding that, if such charges were to be indulged in and
continued, no individual would be safe, as he would be
liable to prosecution at the instance of even the most
abandoned women. In pursuance or this view, he refused
to allow the costs of prosecution, and rather more than
insinuated that the charges had been voluntarily got up
with a view to the recovery of costs. On the following
day, Mr. PARRY, as standing counsel for the Institute,
appeared to make a motion to have the costs allowed, and
the aspersions, as he called them, laid by the judge
against the society and its solicitor retracted. In
urging his motion, which he did with great warmth,
the irate barrister said the pecuniary question of
costs was of no value, as these would be defrayed by
the society, which he maintained was of the highest
respectability, numbering among its members many
of the first men of the day. The Archbishop of
CANTERBURY was, he said, its President, and such
laymen as Mr. SAMUEL GURNEY and Mr. JoUN LA.
BorcnEßE were members of it. In conclusion, he inti-
mated, in strong terms, that if the learned Judge, whom
he peristed in designating simply as Mr. SEUZEANT
ADAMS, did not rescind his judgment as to the costs, and
withdraw the offensive remark as to the Institute, the
case should be laid before the Secretary of State. The
judge properly repelled the ungracious interference, and
maintained the propriety of what he had said and done,
remarking pointedly on the threatened application to the
Secretary of State, as an attack upon the independence
and dignity of the bench. Throughout the whole of this
remarkable and unbecoming scene, Mr. PARRY gave un-
mistakeable evidence that, how respectable soever the so-
ciety itself might be, there was great room for improve- '
ment in the temper and conduct of at least one of its "law
officers." That such a society may, under judicious ad-
ministration, be a potent instrument of good, is scarcely to
be disputed, and as little reason is there for questioning
the fact that the objects sought by its promoters are of a
creditable and praiseworthy order; but here we have it,
on the authority of a highly-respectable judge, after ma_
ture deliberation and ample experience, denounced as a
nuisance, the bullying tone and swaggering demeanour of
its accredited defender lending strong confirmation to the
accuracy of the judge's allegation. Under these circum-
stances, surely the venerable prelate, and those respectable
laymen who, with the best of intentions, have lent it the
respectability of their names, will see the propriety of
withdrawing their countenance from it, or taking such
steps in remodelling it as will effectually guard its ad-
ministration from incurring the severe censure it has
called down from the bench. Many sound philanthro-
pists and enlightened men are inclined to question the
propriety of public inquiry into such cases as those
referred to at all ; and few, indeed, are they, with rightly-
constituted minds, who will not severely condenn the
publication of their details; by publication I would not
confine the word to signify putting them in print, I mean
to include the discussion of them in a public court, and in
this sense fully sympathise with Mr. Serjeant ADAMS
in denouncing them as disgusting. As we are eloquently
told by the poet and moralist,
Vice is a monster of such frightful mien,
As to be hated, needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with the face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Holding this view, I cannot restrain my feeling of appro-
bation of the course adopted in the criminal courts of our
Scottish brethren, where all cases of the kind referred to

are tried with " closed doors," that is, all parties are ex
eluded from the court except the jury and members of the
bar.

Foremost among the topics of general as of individual
consideration, are the incidents and probable fortunes of

These incidents are looked for, and attention is
concentrated on the hostile movements in the Crimea.
Connected with these movements, great, and it appears
unnecessary, dissatisfaction has been expressed, by means
of the press, and the dissatisfaction so uttered has found
only too ready an echo in the public voice. That the
statements on which the complaints alluded to are founded
arise from sincere conviction on the part of those who
furnish them, seems not to admit of any doubt; but the
question still remains, as to how far the narrators are im-
partial and unbiassed witnesses—how far, in point of fact,
their judgment, not their veracity, is trustworthy. The
allied armies and fleets are entrusted to the care of leaders
who know their duty, and will not neglect to execute it,
nor unnecessarily urge it to a rash conclusion, as danger-
rine as it might prove fatal to our gallant

the war

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