The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-08-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BEANCKED AND ANOTHER V. MOLYNEUX  This was an issue from the Common Pleas to try certain points arising out of an action tried at the last assizes, to recover the value of a large quantity of cotton. The plaintiffs were the assignees of Messrs. Humberston and Frodsham, bankrupts; the defendant had seized the cotton in question as mortgagee of the ship in which,a was imported, and the question was, whether he had legal power to do so. The case occupied several hours, but was entirely destitute of interest. A verdict was entered for the defendant upou the principal issue, subject to a case for the opinion of the court above. The court adjourned at half-pass six.  TIIE CAUSE LIST  The following is the state of the cause list up to the close of the court last evening.  FIRST LIST  -WEST DERBY HUNDRED  For Me Plaintiff-Nos. 1,2, 3,6, 7, b, 9, 10, 11, 13. 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 66, 80.  Withdrawn—Nos. 4,5, 19, 35, 42, 48, 49, 52, 63, 75  Referred—No. 40. Struck oat—Nos. 54, 60. Twenty-one cases remain to be disposed of in this list. Four of them will be tried before special juries, namely, " The Queen v. Prentice," which is fixed to come on the first to-morrow morning (Saturday) ; " Blundell v. Lord Camoys" (the great will cause), which is fixed for Wednesday next; " Adamson v. Mitchell and another," also fixed for Wednesday ; and " Haydock and others v. Grugeon and another," which is appointed for Monday. There were altogether 82 cases in the list for the hundred of West Derby, and 93 in that for the hundred of Salford.  ~„„~.rv,,...,,~,.a05Kr5.~n~r..~0r.N..  DA. SoUTHEY.—The delicate health of the poet laureate has obliged him, for the present, to abstain from all literary  labour  The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lord Poltimore tc be a Lord of the Bedeamber in the place of Lord Gardiner. Ministerial paper.  The radical papers are reporting that the Duke pf Beaufort is turning a Whig ; true,—he is turning her Majesty from a Whig to a conservative.  The queen dowager, we understand, has taken Sudbury Hall, the seat of Lord Vernon, and that her majesty will enter upon her tenure in September next. —Derby Reporter. CHARLES KEAN AND THE MURDERERS OF LORD NoßßußY.—(From the New York Herald.)—By the recent arrivals from England, we perceive that the Loudon papers have asserted that " Charles Kean brought home from America the confessions of two men who Were implicated in the murder of Lord Norbury." As we happen to know the facts of the matter, which were communicated to us by an intimate friend of Mr. Kean, it may be as well now to give them publicity. Whilst Mr. Kean was staying at the Globe Hotel, an Irishman called there, and introduced himself as a sub-engineer employed on the Croton Water Works. He said his object on calling on Mr. Kean was to induce him to state to some person high in authority in England the fact that two brothers, of the nafne of —, were working as labourers on the works, who made it their boast that they were the murderers of Lord Norbury. , One object Mr. Kean's visitant said he had in view, was the reward which he understood had been offered in England for their apprehension ; and lie wanted Mr. Kean to take the necessary steps, on his arrival in England, to have a demand made for, the brothers by, the British government. Mr. Kean mentioned one or two noblemen as likely to forward his views; but both were objected to as belonging to the high tory party. Mr. Kean then told his visitor, that he would communicate with the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the subject ; and taking the man's name and address, they parted. Mr. Kean at the time conceived it to be all a hoax, but wished the incident not to get into the New York papers unlit after, his arrival in England. We are not of opinion, that any men, even Irishmen, would tie so lost to shame,as openly to boast of the commission of a murder; and we should be induced to think that it was a ruse to cover the retreat of the guilty parties, who, in all probability, are now lying perdu in the old country.