The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL MICHAELMAS SESSIONS.

The Michaelmas Sessions of the Peace for the borough of
Liverpool commenced yesterday before James Clarke, Esq.,
recorder.

The court having been opened with the usual formalities,
the following gentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury :
Henry Ashton, Esq., merchant, Cases-street, foreman.
William Anthony, timber merchant, Hope-street.
Swinton Boult, agent, Edge-hill.
James Brebner, merchant, Water-street.
Williarn Huson, broker, Sweeting-street.
Samuel Job, merchant, Pownall-street.
Edward Jones, merchant, Exchange-buildings.
Edward Brock Lyon, merchant, King-street.
William Mather, merchant, Goree.
William M'Cracken, merchant, Rodney-street.
Joseph Panton, broker. Exchange-buildings.
John Pemberton, mere hint, Fenwick-street.
Thomas Simpson, gen leman, Mount Vernon-street.
John Aspinall Syers, cotton broker, Everton.
John Wright, merchant, Exchange-buildings.
George Johnson Wainright, broker, Dale-street.
The RECORDER then proceeded to address the grand jury.
He congratulated them and the town at large, that at the
trials at the late special commission not a single individual
belonging to Liverpool had been tried. He also congratu-
lated the jury that their duties on that occasion would be
light; and thistle attributed to the breaking-up of some of the
worst gangs of ruffians during the two last sessions. The
two cases of receiving stolen property, in the calendar, were
of the most enormous description ; the one was that of a per-
son named Stevens, for receiving flour, and the other where
a large number of boots and shoes had been received. Refe-
rence was then made by the Recorder to the new Improve-
ment Act, and particularly that clause which relates to the
closing of public-houses on the Sundays. He described it
as a most valuable measure, and read a letter from Mr.
.
bitty on the subject. After alluding to the act for the car-
riage of passengers by merchant vessels, which, he stated,
would prevent the impositions upon passengers, the Recorder
discharged the jury to their duties.
The trials then proceeded, but nothing of public interest
occurred during the day. The calendar contains the names
of 61 prisoners charged with felony ; and 6 with misdemean-
ours.

A CONSERVATIVE CHAUNT.

Unfurl the bright banner, to loyalty dear!
Let it float on the breeze, for November draws near;
And, though oft we have beaten our Radical foe,
The first of November shall see his death-blow.
One hero already Lath fled from the field,
I'or the name of a GLAZEBKOOK forced BOLTON to yield ;
And to Castle-street Ward we with confidence look,
In spite of the efforts of HORNBY or CROOK.
And near the Town-hall the red banner floats bright,
Whilst the Genius of Britain thus speaks from her height:
" From this house, my brave sons, cast the Radical forth,
And place in his seat that true Tory, JOHN NORTH."
To Saint Peter's we turn—'tis the " rock " of Reform,
But HOLME will Gibraltar a second time storm ;
And its garrison, scared by so mighty a foe,
Shall yield up the town without striking a blow.
But why go we on ?—for the wards we'll win all,
We'll beat even BLACKBURN, the pet of Vauxhall;
Then, from labour released, we shall drink to the Queen,
And couple her health with the " Glorious Sixteen ! "
P. MARROW.
-Roscommon-street, Oct. 22d, 1842.

WIGAN—MoNDAY.

CHARITY SERMONS.—TWO sermons were preached in
Haigh Church, on Sunday last, by the Rev. W. P. Hutton,
M.A., Rector of St. Bridget's, Chester, and collections made
after each to defray the expenses of the Sunday Schools at-
tached to Haigh Church. The sum collected was but small,
as the indifferent weather prevented many persons being
present from Wigan on the occasion.
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE OVERSEERS OF THE
?ann.—Mr. John Whittle, Mr. J. Mason, and Mr. C. Sa-
vage, the overseers of the poor of the borough of Wigan,
appeared before the magistrates of the borough on Monday
(Yesterday) under the warrant of the chief constable, issued
by an order from the town-council, having the borough seal
affixed to it, for not paying into the borough fund the sum
of £7OO, being the remainder of a rate of £l5OO laid last
Year. Mr. Scott appeared for the overseers, and took seve-
ral objections to the informations. He also objected to the
chief constable giving evidence, as he was not a competent
witness, being a party interested in the matter, as his salary
was paid out of the borough fund. Mr. Scott also begged to
suggest that it was not right that any finagistrate being a
Member of the council should sit and adjudicate in the mat-
ter, as they themselves were interested in the case. He also
Contended that the warrant had never been served upon the
overseers, being merely left with the assistant overseer at
the Guardian-office. The magistrates, however, overruled
this objection, as the parties acting as overseers were in the
habit of using the Guardian-office to transact their business
therein, and the revising barrister having held that it was cor-
rect to admit thrt the place was the overseers' office. The
Magistrates had a long conversation on the subject, and it
was agreed to adjourn the case for a fortnight, as many
points had arisen out of it which were not expected, and to
afford the overseers an opportunity of paying up the arrears
due to the town.

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENLYG.—The Consol market
closed rather flatter this afternoon. There were one or two
sales, and, though not extensive, they sufficed to give a back-
ward tone to prices. Consols for money left off 93-1 to
ditto, account, 934 to ; Bank Stock, 165/ to 1661; India
Stock, 252 to 254 ; Exchequer-bills, 565. to 58s. premium ;
3 Per Cents. Reduced, 93 ; 3/ per Cents. Reduced, 100/ to
1; New 3i per Cents., WI/ ; Long Annuities, 121; and In-
dm Bonds, 48s. to 50s. premium.—ln foreign stocks a shade
decline was also observable. Spanish Actives were finally
quoted 16* to +; ditto, 3 per Cents., 21* to *; Portuguese
Per Cents., 38* to 39k-; Danish, 82 to 83; Brazilian. 63/
644 ; Belgian, 1031 to 1041; Dutch 21 per Cents., 521 to
1; Colombian, 261 to 211; Mexican, 221 to 38g- ; and Peru-
vian, 16 to 16.

Whiggism, in its best points of view, is prejudice that re-
ruses. to be ehlightened, ignorance that defies instruction, and
!elf-sufficiency that defies experience. In its worst, it is
hypocrisy boasting of its candour, venality pretending to in-
"Patlence, and perfidy trafficking in principle. A whiz
can no more comprehend the constitution than a gambler
can honour the tenth commandment.—Blackwood's Maga-
ine for October.

PROPERTY.—" I do not know," says Dr. Paley, " whe-
ther our attachment to property be not something more than
the mere dictate of reason, or even than the mere effect of
assoiation. Property communicates a charm to whatever is the
object of it. It is the first of our abstract ideas; it
cleaves to us tile closest and the longest. It endears to the
child its plaything, to the peasant his cottage, to the land-
holder his estate. .It supplies the place of prospect and see-
IlerY. Instead of coveting the beauty of distant situations,
it teaches every man to find it in his own. It gives boldness
aftd grandeur to plains and fens, tinge and colouring to clays
and (allows."—Natural Theology.
BRITISH V. IRISH LANDLORDS.—A correspondent of the
,4eetting Mail, in remarking upon an assertion made by that
"arnal, to the effect that the farmers of the Lothians could
afford to live in comparative luxury after paying £5 or £6 an
acre for land, while the Irish agriculturists, paying but £2
13r £3, can barely exist, thus draws the line of distinction
adopted by landlords in the two countries, from which a hint
Wight be taken with profit by the owners of the Irish soil.
In Great Britain," says the above writer, "the landlord
builds the house and farm-office, and keeps them in repair,
pays a certain portion for permanent improvements. In
Ireland the landlord does nothing but receive the rent. In
the Lothians and adjacent counties, to which you particularly
allude, the landlords pay generally one half, and. not un-
fi'equently two-thirds of the cost of permanent improvements,
such as thorough drainage, &c., and this too on 19 years'
!eases. The tenant rents house and offices included with his
1,a°1:1, and has no dead outlay to make whatsoever. flow
different is the case in Ireland! The tenant must expend
mleis capital, both of labour and money, upon a dwelling-house,
on sheds, on gates, and fences, or drainage. When the term
of his lease expires, or that he wishes to remove elsewhere
his landlord considers it a most unwarrantable proceeding
When the tenant claims from £5 to £lO per acre for the
goodwill of the land ;' yet the demand is founded in simple
arid strict justice—it is a demand which will yearly become
stronger, as the information of the agricultural class in-
.sesif th landlords of Ireland do not nticiate it
9' a voluntary alteration of the system, at willsy et become
more difficult to deal with than tithes ever were. Under the
?resent system, £3 per acre is a higher rent than £5 or £6
ofWhich last, I think, is above the maximum) in the Lothians.
'file hovels, the wretched agriculture, all that shocks the eye
tnurist in Ireland, is attributable to the system of
t,,","11g lands by which the landlords give nothing and
'es all."
HABITS OF KING LOUIS PHILIPPE.—The King of the
Blei-tench enters this day (October 6) his 70th year, and I ant
soIIPPY to say, with every prospect of his going on well for
1,,,e years to come. All reports which; have been in circu-
fo`loll of his being afflicted with dropsy are utterly un-
i„ltuded. He has no organic disease, and his general health
'o' ranch better than is usually the case with ninety-nine men
D„tl of a hundred at his time of life. His habits are very re-
j';',lar, and, with the exception of his working hard up to a
loot hour of the night, or rather early in the morning, Re
st nothing which could, in the slightest degree, impair his
terigth. It is even doubtful whether this babit of satin
ia injurious to him, for it is not of new date, and !Ws
out Yet been found hurtful. lam assured that five nights
weic4f six the King is alone, writing, from eleven or twelve
thetcLell to three or four in the morning. It is at this time
ago ue corresponds with his ambassadors, and with his secret
theCts at the various courts, and also prepares his notes for
is business of the succeeding day. It is said also—but this
ho Probably mere surmise—that he devotes regularly one
svitilirl every night to the writing of his own memoirs. Not-
rise „standing the late hour at which the king goes to bed, he
the' early, and when in the country, walks for some time in
takeePen air before he sits down to breakfast. In Paris he
1104. exercise within doors. At breakfast he passes half an
411,4,1: cheerful converse with his family, and then devotes
those r half hour to the reading of the journals, as well
but e, of the opposition as those devoted to the government ;
* in add: • leas a secretary whose
exeio„ awn to his own reading, he.
to aiC7e business is to direct the attention of the sovereign
or tiet„,tuat is striking, whether it be in the way of comment
c.stra-e-t8 ; and he receives besides a daily bulletin containing
tone bs from all the leading journals in Europe. Towards
bleu efe gives audience'to his particular friends, and to the
aver, selence and art whom he patronises; and when thisis
his begins• the daily and regular business of the state with
h, ministers and others, so that in the four and twenty
rs
tree f,.‘ie has only the five or six which he devotes to sleep
is not occupation. With him, therefore, the kingly office
whio'V. a sinecure, to say nothing of the cares and anxieties
the
u are•
peculiar to him amongst all the crowned heads of
Pyris Correspondent of the Globe.

A FEW NOTES ON WEDNESDAY'S COUNCIL.

I. NOTE I.—What a pretty notion Mr. Alderman Evans has
of the " dulce et decorum" in matters of corporation expen-
diture ! It is pleasant and proper for the council to build a
new prison ; but the poor leypayers of the town must furnish
the materials. It is delightful for great projectors, con-
noisseurs in architecture, and patrons of architectural genius,
to inspect plans, determine upon sites, and exercise the pa-
tronage which the power to ezpend money confers and it
has a mighty sound to talk about the money in question being
raised "by this great and opulent town." But unfortunately
the honour thus attempted to be conferred upon " this great
and opulent town, rather than our great and opulent corpo-
ration, is little likely to be appreciated. " Honour," Sir
John Falstaff assures us " will not set a leg." Neither will
honour reconcile the tradesman, or the owner of cottage pro-
perty, to the necessity of putting his handsinto his well nigh
empty pockets, in search of the wherewith to pay a gaol rate,
whilst " rich and opulent" men like Mr. Alderman Evans can
drive home to their country houses without contributing a
shilling.
It is true there is something in the fear entertained by Mr.
Evans and one or two other gentlemen, lest, by the erection
of such a building as will be required, out of the funds at the
disposal of the Council, the " corporation ship" should be
" run aground." Such a consummation would be as grievous
as if the surplus funds of the Dock Estate should run foul
of Mr. Alderman Evans's favourite dock warehouses, or be
overwhelmed in the fall of Mr. Jesse Hartley's dock sheds.
Were the " corporation ship" to be run aground, there might
be an end for a while to playing at chuck halfpenny with the
purser's stores. There might even be created a necessity for
that word—