The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

THE TARIFF.-PRICES OF MEAT ABROAD

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as to the prices of meat on the continent at this moment,
more particularly in Belgium and on the coast of France ;
from whence it is anticipated by some that large quantities
of meat will be sent to the English market. We are most
glad to find that the anticipations, which we before expressed,
are well founded, that no mischief can possibly arise to Bri-
tish agriculture by the proposed alteration of the tariff, as
each of the countries, which is referred to, is an importing,
not an exporting, country, and the distance of Hamburgh
and the interior of Germany, from whence meat might be
obtained at a rather cheaper cost, renders it impossible to
import it to England except at an additional cost, which will,
together with the duty, cause a price to the English consum-
ers little short—if any—of that which they now pay.

BOULOGNE.
Beef at present sevenpence per lb., of good quality
Gravy beef fivepence.
Butchers supply a family with meat at sixpence halfpenny
Small quantities are charged sevenpence.
No beef is fed in that part of France ; the principal supply
comes from Belgium, and the week before last the price of
beef from thence rose a halfpenny per lb. There may be an
importation for a short time to England, but that will be
checked by the necessary increase of prices, as there is a de-
ficiency rather than a superabundance of meat in those coun-
tries.

In Ireland much better meat can be bought at fourpence
halfpenny than is bought at Boulogne at sixpence halfpenny
and sevenpence. The prices of meat here mentioned are
according to the French pound of 17 ounces, but the English
of 16 ounces has in it much more of nutrition.
At Hamburgh beef is selling at sd. per lb.
BELGIUM.

The price of meat in Brussels now, subject to a duty on
its sale within the town of about a halfpenny the pound, is,
by the kilograme, being 2 lbs. of 17 oz.
Beef-1 franc 20 centimes, to 1 franc 25 centimes ;or
12 pence the kilogram° of 2 lbs.
Mutton the same as beef. Veal is dearer.
Outside the barrier, where it is not subject. to duty, it is
selling at 1 franc 10 centimes, or 11 pence for the kilograme
of 2 lbs.
During late years a large importation of oxen has taken
place from Holland into Belgium.
The price of a beast of about SOOlbs. is 500 francs, or £2O.
Of this, the duty and expenses are about 70 francs, or £3,
so that the cost in Holland is 430 francs,
.or about £l7,—
rather more than fivepence per lb. Belgium sends cattle
into France, which is one reason for their importing from
Holland; and they think in Belgium that no exportation of
cattle will be allowed from thence to England, and that the
duty on exportation to France is to be raised.—Cambridge
Chronicle.

,ITSCELLANEOUS

The Nottingham election committee have declared Sir J.
C. hobbouse and Sir G. G. Larpent duly elected for that
borough.
Lord Auckland has been requested by his friends in India
to sit for his statue, to be placed beside those governors-
general who have preceded him.
The venerable Earl Grey was among the equestrians, on
Wednesday. on Constitution-hill, apparently in the enjoy-
ment of excellent health.
NEW MA GISTRATE FOR CHESHIRE.—The lord lieutenant
has placed on the commission of the peace for Cheshire,
Richard Orford, Esq., of High-lane, near Disley.
PUSEYISM.—The Bishop of Worcester has issued a letter
to the Rural Dean of Birmingham, in which lie forbids the
public use of the term " Puseyite," as applicable to those en-
tertaining tractarian opinions.
We regret to learn that "crows feet" have been scattered
in the neighbourhood where the recent assemblage of sailors
took place, for the purpose of laming the horses of the troop-
ers, one of which was picked up in the town of Stourbridge,
having been brought to our office.—Worcester Chronicle.
ARTESIAN WELL AT GRENELLE.—The sand and clay,
which have so long rendered the water of the Artesian Well
thick and muddy, appear to be completely exhausted, and for
some weeks the flow has been uniformly as clear as well-
filtered river water.—Athenteum.

At a recent public dinner given at Brandenburgh the King
of Prussia spoke as follows :—" We can never regret the debt
of gratitude that Prussia owes to Russia. The Emperor of
Russia is not only my ally, but he is the best and most inti-
mate friend I have. I may add, that he is the real friend of
Prussia."
We have been favoured with a letter from an officer of her
Majesty's sloop Fantom
e, Capt. Butterfield, dated the 14th
of February, off Ambrig, informing us that they had cap-
tured, on the 12thinstant, two slave-vessels, one name un-
known, with 505 slaves, and the other the Diligencia, with
413 slaves on board. This makes 19 vessels captured, and
2,261 slaves liberated, by that vessel in the 20 months she
has been employed on the coast of Angola.
THETFORD ELECTION.—For this borough at the last
general election there was a double return, Sir James
Flower and the Earl of Euston being equal on the poll. A
committee have declared the former gentleman duly elected,
having placed him in a majority by knocking off one of the
voters for the Earl of Euston. Sir James is a strong con-
servative.

A statistical table of the cotton manufactures of the United
States shows an immense increase in the period between
1831 and 1840: that in capital having been 7,299,317 dols. ;
that in factories 198 ; spindles, 880,824 ; yards of cloth,
182,668,129; pounds of cotton, 45,095,824 ; value of manu-
factures, 18,280,143 dols. ; hands employed, 4,589; and
amount of wages paid, 857,912 dols. In the imports of cot-
ton goods there had been a corresponding decrease; the ge-
neral result showed that they had not increased with a de-
creasing and low tariff, while home manufacture bad
increased 75 per cent., although the population had increased
but 331 per cent.
NEWSPAPER NOBODYISM.—A newspaper can, properly
speaking, personally insult no one ; it may traduce, it may
calumniate, it may injure, but it cannot personally insult,
because to personal insult two parties are wanting—the man
insulted, and the man insulting, and from whom, according
to the law of society, reparation is to be exacted. If a news-
paper misrepresents a man, he has his remedy in a contra-
diction, for which the press is always open ; if it vilifies or
otherwise injures him, he has his remedy in the courts of
law, with jaws ever gaping for us ; but nobody expects him,
society does not expect him, to look for any other remedy ;
it is a paper or an abstraction that he has to do with, and not
a man that can insult.—Standard.
The New Zealand papers to the 3d of December give a
mournful detail of the butchery of a Mrs. Robertson, her
child, and some attendants, at the Bay of Islands, the pre-
ceding week. A native, of the name of Makutu, was the
perpetrator of the horrid deed, and after having despatched
his victims—merely, it is supposed, for the sake of posses-
sing their clothes and some few moveables—fired their resi-
dence and left their bodies to burn. He escaped to his
tribe, but was pursued, and after a long and perilous nego-
tiation was delivered over to the parties who bad investigated
the matter, and was at the date of these papers at Auckland,
in the hands of justice. There is no local news worth ex-
tracting.
The proposed commutation by the chancellor of the ex-
chequer of the railway passengers' tax, of one-eighth of a
penny per head per mile, to a general payment of 5 per cent.
on the gross receipts, is expected to cause a loss to some of
the great metropolitan lines, but to prove of the greatest be-
nefit to others, especially the Scotch, as the cheap carrying
lines having to compete with steam-boats have frequently
never realized any profit whatever. The alteration will,
moreover, it is thought, prove a great boon to the labouring
classes, as it will enable the companies to increase the ac-
commodation to the third-class passengers, and perhaps to
add a fourth class. The subject has excited much interest
among those concerned in railways, particularly the northern
lines, which are expected to derive the principal advantage.
AN HUSSAR KILLED IN DUBLIN.—On Monday morning
a soldier of the 10th royal hussars was thrown from his horse
while riding rapidly up Aungier-street ; falling backwards,
his head came violently in contact with the pavement, and
he was killed on the spot. The man was the bearer of some
some despatches, and going rather hard for street riding, a
dray appearing just before him as he passed Digges-street, he
pulled up suddenly, and threw his horse on his haunches.
The horse rose immediately but without his rider. The poor
fellow's brains were literally dashed out, and he never spoke
scarcely breathed—more. A verdict of accidental death was
returned.
The Wurtsburgh Gazette, of the 3rd, states that the King
of Prussia intends going to St. Petersburg on the 26th June.
His Majesty's absence from his dominions will be about a
month, at the end of which time he will return, and visit
the provinces of the Rhine, to be present at the grand
reviews of his army, which are to take place early in August.
The Prussian court will then reside alternately at Cologne,
Coblentz, Dusseldorf, Munster, and at the royal castle of
Stobzenfels. The Kings of Bavaria, of Wirtemberg, of
Hanover, of the Belgians, the Emperor of Russia, several
Archdukes, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and some
German and French princes, have, it is said, received invi-
tations to join his Majesty of Prussia on this occasion. The
resolution of the Prussian minister concerning the rela-
tive position of the Bishop of Jerusalem and the evangelical
Prussian church, has not been favourable to that clergy, who
has received orders to abstain from holding any discussions
on the Anglican church.

WILL OF THE LATE DUKE OF CLEVELAND, K.G.-

The will of thelateWarrYr: Duke of Cleveland, '1111)een
just proved in the Prerogative Court, by the executors,
Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Mr. Thomas Metcalf,
and Mr. G. B. Wharton. The personal property has :been
sworn under £1,000,000, upon which a stamp duty of £13,000
has been paid. The property has been bequeathed princi-
pally to his family, consisting of the present duke, Lords
William Poulett and Harry Vane, Ladies Laura Meyrick
(who is abroad), Arabella Arden, and Augusta Milbanke,
with the exception of some legacies and annuities to his ser-
vants. Lord Brougham and his executors are bequeathed
£1,500 each. The late duke's personal estate is the largest
estate left by any peer of his elevated rank since the late
Duke of Sutherland, whose personal estate was sworn as
amounting to more than £1,000,000 ; all sums beyond which
are not subject to probate duty. The dowager duchess is
handsomely provided for under the late duke's will.—
Standard.

A FORTY FEET LEAP.—While a train on the Glasgow and
Ayr Railway was coming towards the latter place one day
last week, and when on the highest part of the embankment
between Kilwinning and Irvine, a man, who was a passen-
ger in one of the third class carriages, asked a fellow-tra-
veller when it was likely the train would arrive at Kilwin-
ning. He was informed that he had just passed that place.
" What! past Kilwinning am I, gude faith, if that be the
case I'm lang enough here." So saying, he fastened his
skull-cap on his cranium—buttoned his coat—and, in spite
of every remonstrance, leaped over the side of the carriage,
at the steepest part of the embankment—nearly 40 feet—
down which he rolled like a ball, casting a series of not the
most graceful somersets, while the passengers in the train
were in great terror lest he had killed himself by his rash-
ness. He, however, found his level, where he was accosted
by a labourer in the adjoining field, who inquired if he was
hurt. " Hurt! no an inch 9' me atweel," and giving his
jacket a shake or two to deprive it of the dust which it had
collected during his descent, he stepped off across the field,
exclaiming as he went—alluding to the train, now in the
distance—" That wad be a go indeed !—You haurlin' me on
to Irwin, and me dressed and a' for our Mall's weddin' at
Kilwinnin'!"—Ayr Advertiser.

DETENTION OF THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—The primary
cause of this detention seems to be the departure of the
Tweed from Jamaica without a sufficiency of coals to bring'
her back. She was consequently, detained at Chagres and
Porto Bello, and had been absent from Jamaica, by the last
accounts, no less than six weeks. This deranged the order
of the packets to windward, and the Actreon, one of the wind-
ward packets, was compelled to go down to Jamaica with the
windward mail, which deranged the service there. In the
meanwhile the Tay was put in quarantine by the authorities
at the Havana, which led to a misunderstanding between
them and the English consul, relative to the delivery of the
mails, and which proceeded to such lengths as to call for
military interference. Nearly at the same time the mail on
board the Actteon, then at Turk's Island, was prevented
from being carried to Nassau. Now, had this been done, the
mails would have been in England three weeks since by the
Medina. Subsequently the Tay and the Forth, contrary to
the instructions, it is said, of the company, and in direct
opposition to the advice of the Post-office commissioner,
M r. Rains, were ordered to proceed direct to England, both
leaving together and arriving together. The Dee, at Turk's
Island, in place of being allowed to pursue her proper course,
was ordered by an agent away to Jamaica, and thence to the
Havana. Thus three most important and connecting sta-
tions were altogether deprived of steamers to carry on the
service, the consequences of which can scarcely be calcula-
ted, but it may be imagined, when it is stated that the com-
munication between the West India Islands, Northern
will be, for a time, virtually
suspended, Ame-
rica,and the Gulf of Mexico,
suspended, and thrown into great confusion. Morning He-
rald.

THE BRAINTREE CHURCH-RATE CASE.—Dr. Lushing-
ton delivered judgment at great length in this case on Wed-
nesday last in the Consistory Court of London. The learned
judge appeared to be fully alive to the very serious responsi-
bility under which any judicial decree must be pronounced
involving the determination of questions so grave and exten-
sive as those which this must ultimately govern. The main
question raised in the case was—whether the minority of
the parishioners in vestry assembled, under a monition is-
sued by the Consistory Court, could bind the majority by
declaring a rate for the necessary repairs of the church, after
that proposition had been already negatived by the majority
of the parishoners ? That majority contended that the parish
was too poor to pay any such rate ; that it had been distinctly
refused by them for some years past ;—that after the usual
form of this court's granting a decree, a monition had issued
to the churchwardens, who thereupon, notwithstanding this
declaration of the majority of the parishioners, had proceeded
to levy a rate. It seems that this rate having been proposed
in vestry, by the churchwardens, bad been met by an amend-
ment, expressly refusing it, which was instantly carried. The
defendant was subsequently proceeded against for having re-
sisted payment when such rate was attempted to be levied ; and
the principle upon which the rate was now to be affirmed or
disallowed was admitted to be dependant on the admission or
rejection of the libel before the court. Dr. Lushington dwelt
at great length on the chief precedents, on the nature of ana-
logical cases, which were said to be relied on, and especially
that of " Gaudan and Selby," in 1794. The learned judge
then laid down in great detail and with much distinctness his
own opinion as to what was really the nature of church-rates ;
as to the obligation on churchwardens to levy them ; and as
to the legitimate objects of their application. He also dis-
cussed the several preliminary objections that had been raised
to the admissibility of the libel, such as that the rate was
to have been appropriated in this instance to repairs of the
chancel, which it could not legally be; but not affirming any
of the objections he rejected the libel, on the ground that the
rate was not a valid one. The learned judge remarked that
if the law was a defective one on this point, it was not for
the judges to alter it, but for the legislature to provide a re-
medyr for it. lie could only follow the course adopted by
sL d Ellenborough, in allowing the appeal by wager of battle,
long as that barbarous privilege yet remained part and par-
celo o
of the law of England. It is evident that this decision
against the power of a parochial minority in vestry with
the
churchwardens to make a rate admitted to be necessary
to maintain the fabric of the church, as in the Braintree case,
suggests matters for very grave apprehension.

In noniequence' of the great fall in the carn.tnarkete, the
bakers in Bath have lowered their bread bpd. par quartern,
The bobbin-net trade, which was so extensive in Leicester-
ghire in 1829, has now become nearly extinct.
Cambric for handkerchiefs has begun to be manufactured
in the north of Ireland to a considerable extent.
The Bishop of Lichfield is rapidly sinking, and very faint
hopes are held out of his recovery.
Mr. Justice Cressw•ell was knighted by her Majesty at the
levee on Wednesdsy.

The Northern and Eastern Railway is to be opened
throughout on Monday week.
The public opening of the South-Eastern Railway to Tun-
bridge is fixed for the 26th instant. The directors go down
on the 19th.

Stamford was agitated on Thursday ,by an awful occur-
rence, the death of Mr. T. Boyfield, under-steward to the
Marquis of Exeter. He fell down dead in Burghley Park,
without any known previous illness.
The Government of Bavaria has just issued an order pro-
hibiting the homeopathic system of treatment in all hospitals,
prisons, and other establishments, until further and satisfac-
tory information shall be procured as to its efficacy.
ADVANTAGES OF WATER-TIGHT BULKHEADS.—These
are shown by the following account of the Nemesis, iron war
steamer :—" January 15. The Blenheim sails with Sir H.
Pottinger to Macao, and the Admiral proceeds to Chusan in
the Nemesis, which right arm of our force has a large hole
in her bottom and requires to be hove down."—Bombay
Times, March 23.
THE M.P. FOR THE MONTROSE BURGHS.—HAPPY Lo-
cATION.—A Welsh contemporary very aptly places the
election of Joseph Hume among several notices of quack
medicines.

CHRIST CHURCH, CHELTENHAAI.—The Rev. A. Boyd,
M.A. has communicated to the trustees of Christ Church
his intention of permanently accepting the Incumbency of
that church.

ALTERATION OF CIRCUITS.—In addition to the alteration
in the Northern Circuit, the judges have determined to take
Warwickshire from the Midland Circuit, and attach it to the
Oxford Circuit ; and take Shropshire, Herefordshire, and
Monmouthshire, from the Oxford Circuit, and attach them
to one of the Welsh Circuits.
THE TIMBER DUTIES.—It is understood to be the inten-
tion of government, in the new tariff regulations with respect
to colonial timber, to allow all such timber as may arrive In
this country before the 10th of October next, to have a privi-
lege equivalent to that of bonding, whether such timber may
be deposited iu bonding yards, or may be received in ports
in which no such yards exist.
CAUTION TO Po BLICANS.—It has just been decided at
Bristol, by Sir Charles Wetherell, the recorder, that publi-
cans suffering not only card playing, but bagatelle, and the
like, although not for money or money's worth, are liable to
the penalties imposed by theialehouse act of parliament.
The duty on indigo is to be reduced to 2s. per cwt. on fo-
reign, and Is. per cwt. on colonial. The present duty is 3d.
per lb. ; and the reduction to Is. per cwt., which is less than
one-eighth of a penny per lb., will be a considerable boon
both to the manufacturing interest of England and the agri-
cultural interest of India.
The Archbishop of Canterbury gave his fourth and last
dinner for the season, on Saturday. Sir H. Douglas was
amongst the honoured guests.
On Saturday afternoon a gentleman had his pocket picked
of bank notes, &c., to the amount of nearly £lOO, at the
money order office of the London Post-office.
Captain Reynolds, formerly of Lord Cardigan's regiment,
and who has lately been restored to his rank in the army, has
again retired.

The returns of the Preston and Wyre railway for the last
six months, are £6,154 13s. 6d. ; those for the former six
months are £6,226 12s. 3d.
Mr. C. Pearson, the city solicitor, has withdrawn from the
contest for the office of town-clerk of the city of London, and
Mr. Serjeant Merewether, and Mr. W. Pritchard, and Mr.
W. Hughes are now the only candidates. It is considered
that the former gentleman is ineligible, not having been a
freeman two years.
On Sunday last, quite unobserved by any one, £lOO in
bank notes were left in the vestry of All Saints' Chapel, Bath.
after divine service, and have been applied to the purposes
contemplated by the charitable and Christian donor.—Bath
Gazette. [The donor was a lady labouring under mental ex-
citement, and the rector afterwards repaid the money.]
PLEASURE TRIPS.—The directors of the Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway Company intend to have a cheap train on
Whit-Monday, the 16th instant, for parties who may wish
to visit Carlisle and Gilsland Spa on that day and return in
the evening. The Brandling Junction Railway Company will
have a special train from South Shields and Sunderland, to
enable persons to join the train at Newcastle and Redheugh.
A pleasure trip from London to Sheffield is in the course of
preparation with the North Midland and other railway com-
panies for the purpose of offering to the public at a cheap rate
an opportunity of visiting that ancient seat of the cutlery ma-
nufacture. On Whit-Tuesday there is to be a pleasure trip
from Sheffield to Derby, with leave to alight at Amber-gate,
for Matlock, thus giving the traveller a sight of landscape
scenery the most enchanting, and for which this part of the
country stands unrivalled. The first of a series of pleasure
excursions by the South-Western Railway to Southampton
and the Isle of Wight " comes off " on Monday.
We are informed that the leading individuals connected in
the Paris and Rouen Railway, after having been for some
time in negociation with the French Government, have at
length arranged the terms on which a Company will be for-
med for making a line of Railway from Rouen t, ,vre, in
continuation of that from Paris to the former pla, that
the law has already been introduced into the Chamber of
Deputies by M. Teste, the minister of Publ'-; Works, it
having previously received the sanction of the Council of
Ministers. The French Government, we understand, give
to the new Company £320,000, and lend a further sum of
£400,000 at three per cent. interest. The town of Havre
also contributes a gift of .E 40,000 ; so that the capital to be
raised in shares will be comparatively small. It is intended
to give a preference to the Paris and Rouen shareholders
in the distribution of the shares for the new undertaking.
The parties having the management of the Paris and Rouen
line, will, it is understood, take the charge of the line to
Havre.—Railway Times.

CAMBRIC.—It is 'with much satisfaction we learn, as a fact
connected with the new tariff, that the article of cambric for
pocket-handkerchiefs is now manufactured in the north of
Ireland to a very considerable extent. This cannot fail to be
very advantageous to that part of Ireland, and the finishing
of the cambric will afford suitable occupation to the female.
portion of a great number of families at their own homes.

CURIOUS CLAIM OF PRIVILEGE.—In the Excise Court
on Thursday an information was laid against John Turner,
of 19, Ranelagh-street, Pimlico, for having sold there spirits
without a license, his license being for beer and tobacco only.
On the officer going to his place and asking for his license,
the accused pointed to a likeness of her Majesty, and said,
" That was his license." fle said that her Majesty had called
at his house some time ago, when in a very weak state—he
believed from fatigue—and remained there upwards of half
an hour; he had supplied her with some refreshment, which,
happily, had the effect of removing the temporary weakness
under which she laboured and of restoring her strength.
When she was going she gave him permission to put up the
royal arms free of all expense. The Bench, of course, could
not listen to such a defence, but allowed im to escape this
time, on condition of not repeating the offence.
A man of the name of Jones was apprehended in Welling-
ton-street, Blackfriar's-road, London, on Saturday, by two
excise officers, who discovered on his premises an illicit still
in full work, with several gallons of spirits. When the offi-
cers were about to remove their prisoner, he seized hold of a
measure containing about two gallons of spirits, which he
dashed into the fire, and which instantly ignited and ex-
ploded with a report equal to a discharge of artillery, blowing
the windows into the street and setting the room on fire,
besides dreadfully burning the officers, who, however,
though at the imminent peril of their lives, never quitted the
room until they had recaptured the miscreant.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London
had an interview with Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham
at Sir Robert Peel's house in Whitehall-gardens on Saturday
last. We understand that in consequence of the continued
distress in some of the manufacturing districts of the coun-
try, and especially in consequence of the exemplary patience
with which, speaking generally, that distress has been borne
by the labouring classes out of employment, it is in contem-
plation to issue a Queen's letter authorizing the clergy to
make an appeal in their several places of worship on behalf
of the distressed to the sympathy and liberality of the
public. .

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—The Queen v. H. L. Al-
leyne.—This was an indictment against the defendant for
sending a hostile message to Mr. H. Power, a solicitor of
Atherstone, in the county of Warwick. The case was brought
to trial at the last assizes, and the defendant having been
found guilty upon the indictment, he was now brought up for
the judgment of the Court. The reports of the case have ap-
peared at great length ; but the following will be found the
most important features in the transaction. It appears that,
in the autumn of 1838, the defendant, with a Miss Alleyne,
represented to be his sister, were staying in a boarding-house
at Ramsgate, where they lived in great style, and where they
became acquainted with the Rev. Mr. Roberts, of Witherly,
in Warwickshire, by whom they were invited to visit Witherly,
which invitation they accepted. During their stay there
they were introduced to several of the neighbouring gentry,
amongst whom were a Mr. Dempster Heming, a banker, 60
years old, and a Mr. J. Sandford, the nephew of Mr. Heming,
Mr. Sandford paid attentions to Miss Alleyne, who was re-
presented as being the niece of Sir Reynold Alleyne, formet ly
Governor of Barbadoes. Mr. Heming consequently autho-
rised his nephew to invite Miss Alleyne and her brother to
his seat, Caldecote-hall, and proposals were soon after made
by the nephew for Miss Alleyne 's hand. The engagement,
however, was ultimately broken off; and Mr. Heming him-
self falling in love with Miss Alleyne, married her. The in-
tended marriage of Mr. Heming having excited very un-
pleasant feelings in his own family, inquiries were set on foot
for the purpose of testing the veracity of the statements made
by Mr. and Miss Alleyne about themselves ; and, as oppor-
tunities were afforded for consulting some of the near rela-
tives of Sir R. Alleyne, as well as communicating with Sir
Reynold himself, it was ascertained that he never had had a
brother, except one, who died at Eton at the age of 16. A.
general impression had moreover grown up in the neighbour-
hood that Mr. Alleyne and Miss Alleyne were not really
brother and sister, but man and wife. The defendant having
assumed or ascertained that the prosecutor was one of the par-
ties who had uttered this " foul and malignant slander," called
upon him for satisfaction ; and upon Mr. Power's refusal to
give a hostile meeting, posted him as a slanderer, a liar, and a
coward. A number of affidavits were read on the part of
the prosecution, the object of which was to show that the
defendant, and the now Mrs. D. Reining, had given false
accounts of themselves upon several occasions, and were not
the children of the persons whom they represented as their
father and mother ; that the defendant Alleyne was really
the son of a shipwright of Lyme Regis, of the name of
Chard; that the female at different times had assumed the
names of Chard, Elworthy, and Alleyne; and that, whatever
might be the truth of the reports which were in circulation
about them, those reports were generally believed in War-
wickshire, and had not originated with Mr. Power, but with
some other persons ; and that Mr. Power had only brought
the matter forward when a proposal was made to appoint
Alleyne a director of a bank at Hinckley, in the character
and prosperity of which Mr. Power was deeply interested,
professionally and personally. Such was the general nature
of the affidavits. Lord Denman, in giving judgment, said
that it was the opinion of the court that the statements
which were already in evidence were sufficient to show the

commission of conspiracy and fraud by the defendant and
and his sister. His lordship also observed, that the state-
ments in question wculd have some effect, when the court

came to consider the amount of the penalty to be imposed
upon the defendant. It was, however, only proper that he
should have the opportunity of answering such points of that
statement as he might be able and might think it necessary
to answer. Such affidavits, therefore, as were intended to

be relied on, aniiremained Yet unread, upon the part of the
prosecution, would be handed over to the defendant, who
might hereafter be brought up for judgment again, if the
prosecutor should think it worth his while to do so. His
lordship stated, in the course of his observations, that Mr.
Power appeared to have acted with perfect propriety in his
intercourse with the defendant upon the subject of the in-
dictment; and that the affidavits, although they disclosed
indisputably that Mr. Alleyue and the lady had been guilty
of misrepresentation and fraud, also proved that the parties
were brother and sister, and not man and wife. No addresses
were made upon the present occasion by any of the counsel
on either side, and the case was directed to stand over gene-
rally until next term.