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, 811 i Feb., 1842.
The next assizes will commence at Lancaster, on Saturday
the 12th of March, and at Liverpool on Thursday, the 24th
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, shuuld
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 he 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, WI Thursday morn-
ing the 24th of March.
Rule day before the assizes, Thursday the 17th of February
instant.

Rule day after the assizes, Thursday the 14th of April next.
Declarations against defendants in gaol on writs of capias

ust be filed on or before Tuesday an; 15th of March next

In pursuance of the general rule of court of September
assizes, 1824, the causes intended to be tiied at Liverpool,
will be entered In the following order—let 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

I'o 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 au 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 this statement
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 tot.
advance money to his numerous tenantry. The elevanut
the conservatives to office infused hoes of better time!..,L.
unless some efficient and speedy help is afforded, the cult
for
tion of the sugar cane must be abandoned in
jam3tT:t'
many estates are already given up, and the others
low. With thanks to you, Mr. Editor, for. Sour;obedient
advocacy of the West India interest—l remain you J. /3.
servant, nt'ren uou

February 10th, 18-12.
[We shall not let this subject sleep. Our colonial interests
must not be neglected as they have been.--La, L' S.]

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S SETTLEMENT OF THE
CORN LAWS.

TO THE-EDITOR OF T---HE
aon_itu i unfair trader in
of duties on corn
SIR,—I think Sir R. Peel's new scale
LIVERPOOL STANDAR D.
will not be very palatable to two clasts,es,T- persons—mein..
Leaguet
tiers of the Anti Corn-law
corn ;—the first parties, on accoun r I
,theappr any -
ways
theory of repta in t, law altoo-ethe •
ways near their mad tbeo .
w. . ~, 1 ,---
because
,iitu ntpre‘ent their defraud-
and to the second class—
ing the exchequer, " the
oiexist no inducement to
before, w ien they got above GGs.
raise the average falselY,
_as
- ter • because, before, when they could raise the aye
per quar ,
to 685., the duty dropped 0 c -
rage Is. say 675.
c, 70 to "2 •
Os. i s., it lowered 4-
..s. ; irom 695. to
705., it iell 3s. ;ft 'ill false :,. so that by
s. by
the average . . returns, they obtained a .
raisinggreat
but now, by raising it Is. the d
benefit, and
r_ . , duty only falls Is. •
r3s 54s -
from 525. to o • • oos•, it only falls I . and
s., and so from
66, to 675. (,Ss. and 695., it only falls Is., thereby having to
e 45., they one only
raise the average
_re(l nee the duty ls. From
that we may very justly infer that Gs. will be 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 Is. for the chance of lof its getting much higher s
.
,
and there would be little chance
by
a quantity being thrown on the
market. The community in general I should think would be
satisfied with the plan
it protects the agriculturist. plan, as it benefits them materially, whilst
titurist. Take for instance the average
of this day, whichsul
the old scale 245. 8d 625.
3d. per quarter, and duty under
s * per quarter, under the :NEW scale it
would be Only 10
.—a saving of 14s. Sd. per quarter.
A SUBSCRIBER.

DEATH OF ONE OF WHIXIIALL POISONERS.—The un-
fortunate woman. Eliza Harries, who was committed to our
gaol, with her hMsbawl, 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.—ShrettsbinT News.