The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-16 00:00:00

BU .Arzo ,,. . 4-tacelND E g i q ue LECTION DINNER. . d ., -- 141 '4 0 .71 last , the triumphant return of Mr. Alder- Iterntn 'l Bo n, the " independent" the candidate, t y ent nominee, was celebrated by a grand dinner, over ktito:,4 Golden Lion Inn, Sunderland. The room t he bore 4 by the principal shipowners and tradesmen Itti auteugn amounting to about 140; and could a lel that cJently capacious have been obtained, three lig ena',ll,urnber would have been present, those o nly . L Tabled to obtain tickets who made early aPPlica. - a LoL t ies of chairman were ably sustained by iinatis'ungton, Esti• who proposed the Alderman's s ress ed °ll ', and to whom Earl Grey's waspish letter wa 'Y shad: ll , Pe* to the memorial of 158 electors , . of furni shed ' `ll P o litics ; a co of the said letter being to and Publish ed by Barclay's committee l , 'tlr the original reaching Sunderland, a s. td never been ont of Mr. Lothering . ton's . p nie moment, nor shewn to any individ ual toasts, with the exception of "His Majesty's ' l4Vin g been gone through, the Chairman, in , ert i ,,, , , proposed the Alderman's health, and h e • 4letnber returned thanks in an eloquent Tonal address. In a subsequent part of the Ald e .W r • mean proposed the health of his friend,. 'eau g h t , Esq , whose exertions had contri- Y to the victory they had met to celebrate; eatle rnan delivered an animated speech, at twhe Scotching effect of Mr. Wright's ad ,le.i. " hig Government is in no wise . weak iiiicil-lelstance that, during the discussions on at the Ministry had the advantage of his the Public measure, meetings at Sunderland in be-. it (said Mr. Wright), I cannot content myself, 1111108 t g r atifying occasion by merely expressing, the ut ty, my cordial thanks for the thi , s ua, ve been pleased to confer upon so humble an k e 4 l eif, by so distinguished a notice of my feeble tte n t li shing the victory we have now the happi :_oht(ecrteyers), but must also embrace this unexpect fiheugratulating you, my brother electors, and in the town of Sunderland, upon the me i! which has been so gloriously achieved— ig;:llll)ll which has exalted the character of this W erate est p o sition' of politi ca l em i nence amongs t the d boroucrhs which the reform bill has called or ilk raised to purity - (loud cheers); and which has e most unprincipled attempts at political np itietrti ass ailed the ind epen d ence o f so l arge an d ke en cY, or ever disgraced the most outrageous °Ple in the worst times of borough-mongering ,hiceLreased cheers. It has, indeed, been no cora n we have had to fight, and no ordinary wai sttn " w age. (Hear, h e ar.) W e h ave h a d t o iiaaa,lett tinited host of enem i es , possess i ng a mos t for ino of i nterests and influences, and adopting a 11 , st unc onstitutional means to effect their pro oni,eh I will venture to say, no election in recent rra'lel, calh no boroughmonger, even ir°ZeeBftopolit degradation, has ever - been able to nits for our judgment of these means by their nc e ncY or their diabolical eharacter. (Enthu iie•ntled, and reiterated cheering.) We have had I d rest uf a noble lord to whom I need not more e—whose .parliamentary influence has been I'lt s uch a series of successful efforts, and whose ea out earingtto those who crouch beneath his ao haughty and insolent that he ma p y fair ower , i ', n el ec tioneering affairs—the great Mogul of the 4a111: (Roars of laughter and cneers.) We have :elicge.eatiliantsisytttte interest and influenc.i of an hon. ba st t h e pro, Yers;has_b . eenengaged in a general renspierity of this port (hear, hear), and , s e ar p o r u o s u d d eered furious by that disappointment "Na of personal aggrandizement which have had 1 have" contributed to effect.. (Loud t ° infuriatehave contend against the exertions and f the - Population, amounting in numbers Le ' ter e constituency of the borough, who from . a at one , its and motives, associated themselves with cooln his unhallowed objects. (Cheers.) We !sp';lld against the interests and influence of a ' lO , unlike the generalty of the members of ha la ble body of our fellow-townsmen to which . tee o verstepped their characteristic habits of id allehernently engaged in political strife.— this combination has been rendered almost teeal,t,tne prodigious authority which thF posses iiltzbetincgarrying on of large mercantile specu temptations of patronage, have en 'f the of boroughmongers to exercise life e electors placed in dependent or needy cir ' (Hear, hear, and applause.) No less ' aPpear the' •• ' 'lll the opposition that we have had to resist, inistr e n od —r had-almost said the magic hold— iave h a Which these combined parties support — and • o e respects justly so, on pub thich their in Cl: l et and measures for the last re no w variance na as they have been with their tr, - ,w fast dwindling away. (Hear, hear, fol- W' and long continued plaudits.) Have we not ere not m Lords So-and-so the fathers of the „,, , y wh o "ugate r and cheers.) ". Did not .. our cate ia itve the elective franchise to Sunderland ? ro„crln gratitu de, to elect that candidate whom ,0 these questions I answer—" Fie upon such ills•sin attempt to strangle one of their political , g ` n e hour of its birth. (Peals of laughter and away with suc h g racious benefactors, who tak e ` . ges, and then immediately take them away (lift free, and then seek to enslave." (Cheers.) is ts t c ult must seem the struggle, when we call_ to h, hat have been employed to seal up the inde -41erlarid. Have we not heard of the threats, 4etunidations that have been used—of custom !rt a l t uni promised to others—of coals forbidden teb-,u i ndividuals—of notices to quit held over tt ; and even of a threat that the South ld 17 n ewledged de s ideratum for the port of Sup ; Have again opposed and thrown overboard . . Id „ler shall," an d ent h us i ast i c c h eers .) e lin te mptations and persuasions to the viola atrutnises and written engagements, held and a ich t td insensible minds, to an extent of moral ties : t ° one could have believed ? (Continued private " Yes, yes.") Have we not seen a hired character-(" Yes, yes, Lord Durham's leg e decency,—(cheers)—by wielding puhs i Uder, falsehood, and detraction,—(cheers)— ,journalist int o th e f eroc i ous bully—(enthn or 6,5 purpose of overawing the timid, mis el„ t, and d e l u di ng th e unwary ? (Cheers. 7 at ,",ve we not seen a misguided' mob commit stiritito 4 al •-'• d estruction of peace and property against 1 ,.. 1 0nk wearmouth who had the manliness t r oit i 7cord hi s vo t e i n favour of the indepen -41 • nave we not seen a letter of the Prime o dl e d b -:1 0oud shouts —a letter, I say, of the tut e ,., 3 / 4 31 gland, published, printed, and circu pos >n s ent of the party to whom it was ad -4184-N4l,o—it is to be hoped without the posi- Paltr,; (l ule Lord—(hear, hear, and cheers)—the elitt„J el ectioneering manoeuvre? (Reiterated , ibit e - , 4 1 ° 1 f all, have not the parties guilty of these ( f i ,tne audacity of charging the ind9enden ? I, r aeeful system of conduct which they been ~,k‘, l leers.) This, then, was the combiha red ,;"11(Inished, and these are the means which . iatriotiilleatory and ineffectual by a united, public, lav e e " °(l Y - of Sunderland tradesmen and ship eede frustrated all the machinations formed id a t kit their town, and now stand before the de Qor s ' es erving conquerors; (continued cheers) iti vigorl th is -borough a bright example, in tu the N,hi their efforts to preserve its freedd i til; 'h ha s etnpire a proof that that spirit of inde ttritishe?' been a prominent feature in the cha faci.'zen, can at all times, by due . energy, 1,(34a, hovvever powerful ; and withstand uhert violent (cheers) ; demonstrating that there it pri Y ~herent in the British people, that will or u o v „ l r Tges to any insolent domination, or any it t o &,neiPled tyranny with whieh any aristo th,‘ . ntract the freedom of election (cheers) ; res,jesuitical reasoners who, on the late occa 9t to sever obligations between man and ,tie f,Ca l ues in the community a high moral prin orag str atag a e t h . onour, which . no acts of so estrov li d ectioneering partizans, can hope kL cheers.) 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' ' 14 4 ~(I,4()estr2 THE LIVERPOOL a noble triumph. The flag of freedom has been unfurled in our virgin borough, (cheers,) and long may the banners of her independence wave in victory in the free air of heaven. (Cheers) But, in the feelings of security which victory begets, let us not overlook that determination of which no independent elector should be unmindful; I mean the resolution of union and co operation. (Loud cheers.) Remember, the same attack may be made again which we have so lately sustained. Remember, our enemies will lie in wait again to attack us. No scheme will be left untried to disunite us, for in our union is our strength, and in our disunion can only rest their hopes for our destruc tion. (Cheers.) I would, therefore, conjure. every independ ent elector—for I speak not to the slaves of power or of party— to adopt every means of union and co-operation. Let no petty feelings or trifling jealousies divide us : let one vigorous deter mination animate every heart, that " Sunderland is free, and shall for ever be free." (Enthusiastic cheering.) Then will you, at all times, be proof against the designs of any factious combination, or the grasping devices of any presumptuous au tocrat, who, under the mask of a patriot, may conceal the cha racter of a tyrant. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Wright concluded his brilliant and powerful speech by again thanking the company for having drank his health. He then resumed his seat, and the company rose simultaneously and gave him three sailors' cheers, and one cheer more. The scene was highly exciting. Among the other eloquent speeches of the evening was one by William Richmond, Esq., of North Shields, who, as a native of Sunderland, had been invited. Mr. Rich mond ably advocated the cause of the distressed shipowner and the hardy British sailor against the vicious free-trade system, which is fast sapping its foundations. The pro ceedings were truly harmonious—not a jarring chord was struck during the entire evening. NEW PRINTING MACHINE. Mr. J. Kitchen, of the Newcastle Journal, has in vented a printing press, which bide fair to revolutionize this department of the arts. It bears no analogy, even in appearance, to any machine for the purpose hitherto known. The form can be fixed in its place in a single moment, and will, when adjusted, remain stationary un til the work is finished. Complete facilities are given for regulating the power, and the quantity of ink, and for overlaying or obtaining register. The same machine will be equally applicable for the smallest job or the largest sheet ; it will be perfectly under controul, and only require one man during the process of printing; or where great speed is required, and the work is heavy, a man and afly-boy, whilst it can be sold for the same price as the common press. Mr. Kitchen is now engaged in the ap plication to his invention of a clock-work movement, so that the machine may keep a register of its own work, and thus act as a check upon waste of paper and idleness in the absence of the employer or overseer. The inventor, when practically engaged in the busi ness several years ago, was struck with the anomaly, that whilst printing was the medium of extending the boundary of knowledge, and communicating to the pub lic every experiment in science or mechanics, "THE PRESS" itself has remained precisely the same, in princi ple, to that employed when the art was first introduced , into this kingdom. Lord Stanhope made the machine of metal instead of wood, and conferred upon it greater power, with several minor alterations. This gave an impulse to improvement, and presses are now made greatly superior to Lord Stanhope's, but none of them deserve the name of new inventions. The slow lumber ing process of frisket and tympan ; the table with alter nate motion, and the dirty and inconvenient appendage of an inking table, detached from the press, are still scru pulously preserved, all of which were employed for the same purposes in the time of Caxton. Mr. Kitchen's first effort was directed to the construc tion of a press on the old principle, just described, with the advantages of a self-inking apparatus, and obtaining increased pressure by the - application of hydraulic power. In the first object he succeeded ; but, after a long series of experiments, found that the requisite speed could not be obtained by hydraulics, and turned his attention to some other 'plan. Since these experiments were commenced, the splen did foreign invention of the steam-press has been intro duced into this country ; but it is at once go.complicafed, cumbersome, and costly, that it can only be purchased by large capitalists, and employed in extensive offices. The same remarks will apply to the several modifications of it, to work without steam. The following is a copy of Mr. Kitchen's recent petiti tion to Parliament on the subject, presented by Matthew Bell, Esq., member for South Northumberland : To the Most Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled The humble Petition of John Kitchen, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, SHEWETH,—That your . petitioner has invented and constructed a Printing Press, which, from the comparatively small cost at which it can be manufactured, its rapidity and effectiveness when in operation, as well as the immense saving of labour over those now in use, would, if generally adopted, materially cheapen andlacilitate the dissemination of knowledge. Anxious to obtain for his invention his Majesty's Roy a l Letters Patent, your petitioner has sought for information in various books and documents, from which he learns that, in many disputed cases, patentees have struggled unsuccessfully in Courts of Justice against invasions of their rights. He has further made himself acquainted with the cost of taking out patents for England and Wales, and for Scotland, and Ireland; and your petitioner humbly represents that, after these exami nations and enquiries, he is impressed with a belief that not only are the present laws vague, ill-defined, and liable to eva sion, but that the enormous sums of money required for feeS, and for other charges, are equivalent to a stern and unrelenting denial of protection to the poor man, whatever may be his skitl in science or,fnechanics, however great the merits of his dis covery, or laborious and expensive the process by which it has been worked out to perfection. Your petitioner has been induced to lay before your honour able House the facts stated herein, from having learnt that a bill has been introduced into your honourable House to amend the laws relating to Patents for Inventions . ;—which bill,, your petitioner prays your honourable House would be pleased to pass into a law, or make such other alterations in the existing laws, as, in the wisdom of your honourable House may, seem best calculated to afford your petitioner, and all others similarly circumstanced, adequate protection without frightful sinking of capital, which, in his case, has hitheito deprived the public of the benefit of his invention , and would, if persevered Iry stun out from your petitioner all hope of return of the money„or of any remuneration for the timeand labour expended iu the , coni-, pletion and simplification of his machine. TAUNTON SPRING ASSIZES. APRIL 2.—John Giblett, Harry Penny, and George Giblett, were indicted ; the two former for forging and uttering, and the latter for counselling and advising, the torgery of a bill - of ex change for £2OO, drawn by the proprietors of the Glastonbury, Shepton Mallett, and Wells banks, on the house of Masterman and Co. in London, signed on behalf of the drawers, by Geo. Giblett, made payable twenty-one days after sight, to Jones and Co. and indorsed " Jones and Co." _ _ _ Mr. Moody and Mr. Kinglake conducted the prosecution, —Mr. Sergeant Bompus and Mr. Jardine defended the pri soners. John Reeves—l am a partner in the Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet banks. George Giblett was a managing clerk in the Wells branch. Penny had been a clerk in that establishment for seven years. He left it in 1828. John Giblett is brother to George. He is not employed by us, but he sometimes assisted his brother. Masterman and Co. are our London bankers. The signature " Jones and Co." indorsed on the bill, is in the hand-writing of John Giblett. The body of the bill is in the hand-writing of George. George Giblett had authority to draw on Masterman and Co. for our customers. We had no cus tomer of the name of Jones and Co. I produce three letters, dated the 17th, 26th, and 27th of February last in the hand writing of George Giblett, directed to Penny, at Oxford-street, London, and subsequently found in possession, of Penny. Each of these letters contains a memorandum in the hand-writing of Penny. We make un our accounts monthly. On the 4th of March last, George Giblett reported to us that the Bank had been robbed of a large sum of money. In consequence of some information which we received, we had him arrested on the 6th. Penny was also arrested in London and brought down STANDARD. to Wells, but not upon this charge ; it was after he 6:1 been brought to Wells, that a discovery was made which induced us to prefer this charge. Cross-examined—George Giblett had authority to draw such bills as this, for the accommodation of any person who paid him the amount first. He was not authorised to make remit tances to Masterman and Company, in order to meet such bills. The letters which were found in Penny's possession having been read, it appeared from them that George Giblett, having got into difficulties in consequence of having lent considerable sums of his employers' money to various persons without autho rity, who' were not prepared to refund in due time, and being obliged to settle his accounts at the end of the month, in order to make them square—he sent forged bills, to the amount of £1,200 to Penny to get them discounted, intending at the same time, as appeared by the letters, to meet such bills when they became due by means of payments made by those whom he had accommodated. Various plans were suggested forgetting such bills discounted. It further appeared that the bill in question had been sent up to Penny without the endorsement; and in another letter he stated that he should send up his brother to endorse it. Such was the substance of the letters. William Tradewell, a Quaker, discounted this bill for Penny on the 2nd of March; left it for acceptance at the house of Mas terman and Co. on the 4th, and received it on the 6th, when he put it in circulation. I g,ave Penny the amount partly in cash and partly in wine. I discounted for him, altogether, bills to the amount of £l,lBO, of which he took £2lO worth in wine. Cross-examined—l don't recollect that he requested me not to circulate it. lam not a wine-merchant-1 am a victualling agent; but I sometimes sell wine. The confession of John Giblett before the magistrates was here read, which stated that his brother sent him to London with a letter to Penny, telling him that he was to write some thing on a bill. When he went to London and saw Penny, he asked him if his brother told him that he was to write on a bill. Having answered in the affirmative, Penny produced the bill, and he wrote " Jones and Co." on the back of it, as directed by Penny. He saw Penny the day afterwards, who told him he was unable to procure cash for his brother. He then left Lon don, and returned to Wells. This was all that he knew of the transaction- - ' George Giblett made a confession to the same effect. The prisoners got a good character from several persons. • Vercrtet.—Guilty. Mr.. Justice Park, in passing sentence, regretted his inability to make a distinction in the punishment, for he thought John Gibiett, who was merely a boy, by far the least culpable of the three; but his• lordship had no discretion as to the punishment, which was transportation for life. The accounts from the East Indies, received at the India House, are of a most discouraging complexion. The genius of reform and revolution appears to have cast a blighting look upon that portion of the British dominions in common with its sister of the Western hemisphere. A conspiracy had been disco vered at Barrackpore among the native troops, the object of which was to out off and destroy the 62nd regiment. Several of •the leading conspirators had teen blown to atoms from the cannon's mouth, a great number imprisoned, and many dis missed to their homes. But matter of much more serious import is occurring in that important quarter. Serious disagreements are reported among the chief authorities. To such a height, it is stated, have the disagreements between Lord Clare, the Governor of Bombay, and General Hackett, the commander of the troops in that government, arisen, 'that the general, in imitation of the Pigott precedent, has threatened to send the governor home in irons. Nor, it is said, do'the governor-general, Lord W. Bentinck, and General Barnes, the commander-in-chief, work more harmo niously together at Calcutta. The general there is almost equally, disposed to strong measures with his subaltern of Bombay. How facile is change—how gracious popularity—how awful revolution ! --Facilis descensus averni, eS d revocare gradunt. —Guardian. STATE OF CRlME.—Report of the Treasurer oldie West Riding of Yorkshire.—An important document has just been published, which shows the receipts and payments made by the treasurer of the West Riding, from the year 1821 to 1832, and also the number of prosecutions at the assizes and sessions for each year, from which it appears that the increase of crime is fogruidable and alarming. In the year 1821 the number of prosecutions at the assizes was 66, at the sessions 251 ; in 1832 the number at the assizes was 88, and at the sessions 976 ! Thus within twelve years the total number of prisoners for criminal offences has in creased from 317 to 1064, or more than three fold! The increase of population in the same space of time has not much exceeded one-fourth : and if we may consider that the same class of crimi nals Is`now tried at the assizes as in 1821, the increase of crime of high magnitude would only be about in proortion with the increase' of popUlatiolu: It is therefore in the lower class of fe lonies and in larcenies that the frightful increase must have •taken - place. We confess we are unable to account for this ra pid progression of crime, but it is deserving of every attention being paid to it by the magistrates and by the government. — We fear the West Riding of Yorkshire is not singular in this respect, but that the same phenomena are presented throughout the country. It will be found that the greatest increase has taken place during the very last year; there was little increase from 1828 to 1831, the prosecutions at the sessions in the former year being 716, and in the latter 744; but in 1832 the number suddenly swelled to 976. The next greatest increase within this period of twelve years was in 1826, when the number of prosecu tions increased in one year from 451 to 595. The expense of prosecutions at sessions is small compared with that of prosecu tions at the assizes. In the year 1832, there were 88 at the as sizes which cost £4555, and 976 at the sessions which cost £7720; eleven times as many prisoners are tried at the sessions as at the assizes, and yet the expense of the greater number is not double that of the less. The great sum 0f£85,396 has been paid in eight years, by the West Riding only, for new buildings at York Castle. The expense of conveying Scotch and Irish va grants has been reduced from £2471 a year to £BOO. The ex penses under the Reform Bill have been moderate, namely, £457. LOCAL. THE FALLEN ANGELS.—Numbers of our fellow-townsmen haven() doubt noticed the two cherubs supporting the bust of the Lord Chancellor, in the centre of the terrace opposite the Low Hill Cemetery, (which by the bye is adorned with a Bishop's instead of a Chancellor's wig,) and we are very much grieved to learn, that a few nights ago, the said cherubs made to themselves wings and flew away, leaving the poor Chancellor unsupported and solitary. Surely this cannot be prophetic of the departure of his lordship's good genius, we rather think these cherubs have ascended to prepare a place of greater har mony than he enjoys at present, for quite sure we are that his lordship is not either mentally or corporeally "upon a bed of roses: That patriotic individual, who has proved himself such a staunch friend to purity of election, and to the freemen of Li verpool generally—the honourable member for Ipswich, is now in town, no doubt for the purpose of receiving the congratula tions of his friends and of the burgesses generally for the praise worthy efforts he has made for their purification. Of course iirchre ivill doubt that it is much more delightful to him to re ceive Such congratulation, `than it would :have been. bad the eldige of hundreds of pounds of bribery been clearly esta blished. His high regard for the town at large and especially for the corporation thereof is easily accounted for, as is well known that the corporate improvements contributed in no slight degree to the wealth of the honourable M. P. z PRESENTATION OF PLATE.-It is worthy OlTthumc notice, and highly creditable to the good sense and generous feelings of that part of the Select Vestry of Wavertree, who have con tributed to the purchase of, and have presented, a handsome piece of plate to Mr. John Wignall, their Secretary, for his efficient honorary services; a mark of esteem which must be very gratifying to him. Such grateful conduct from his col leagues is truly - honourable, and affords a pleasing contrast when compared with the disgraceful proceedings .of the late an nual Vestry Meeting at Liverpool. On Saturday night about eleven o'clock, information was received at the police office, that a woman of the name of Lloyd had been burnt to death under suspicious circumstances, in Pitt-street. On the arrival of the officers she was found lying on the floor, near the fire-place, quite dead, and in a horrible state, her - clothes having been burnt off the upper part of her body, There was no fire in the g rate , and her husband is now in custody to await the result of the coroner's inquest, which will be held on the body this day. LIVERPOOL EASTER SESSIONS. Yesterday the Epiphany Sessions for this Borough com menced before the worshipful, Charles licirsfall,Esq. Mayor, the Recorder, and a bench of Magistrates. The learned Recorder, James Clarke, esq, charged the Grand Jury in the following address GENTLEMEN OF THE GRANT) JURY It is much to the credit of the inhabitants of this town, that the late -assizes for the county were not troubled by any serious offences from this part, and that there was scarcely a Prosecution of any weight, with the exception- of some by the Mint. If a similar observation could be made with reference to the business now to be brought before you, I should cheerfully make it, but I cannot safely do it. • Upon reference to the calendar, there is 'treat reason to la ment that so many young persons are committed for acts of fe lony, and that there is so little prospect of checking crime in its earliest stages. To send them for their first offence to a crowded prison, is to train them up in the arts of villainy ; and no more successful method for accomplishing that object could be adopted, than the practice which prevails at present. The fault does not rest with the committing Magistrates; their wishes ' and their duty are here quite at variance. Admitting that there is a strong repugnance to giving, Magistrates the power of pu- , nishment, without th e p revious fi n di ng o f a j ury, st ill a judicious alteration of the law might take place without infringing this principle. If a child be taken up for a felony, a jury composed of not.. less .than four persons might be impanelled to inquire of the crime, and a magistrate should immediately act upon their find ing. This inquio should be speedily after the offence, and in many cases the accused might be safely given up to the parents, or, if p unished by imprisonment, some place of confinement, where labour and discipline were strictly enforced, and where the influence of bad society was carefully excluded, should be selected. At.present the interval betwixt the commitment and . . trial of children, spent as it i s i n a crow d e d pr i son, comp l etes ' their ruin, and every chance of amendment is placed at a great distance, and perhaps cut off for ever. • I wish, gentlemen, sh or tly t o a ll u d e t o one other subject though, happily, no offence connected with it will come before_. you. Within a very short period, no less than six persons have been killed, and others placed in great jeopardy, by the falling. of goods, which were in a course o f remova l f rom ware h ouses in different parts of the town. The right of free and safe pas sage through the streets is the great paramount right of the public—that of removing goods is a private and subordinate one; and the greatest care and caution should be observed, that it may not conflict with tha public one, and both may with pro priety exist together; and I trust, hereafter, there will be no reason to complain of what I must consider very culpable.ne gligence, in the manner of lowering goods front/the different stories in warehonses. In all cases it is improper to throw goods out of a warehouse into the street, and yet this'has been done, not without fatal consequences. These are not accidents, for nothing ought to be so denominated which arises from cri minal misconduct. I have no further observations to make to you. The following prisoners were tried and found Guilty:— William Barnes, for stealing five handkerchiefs, the property' of James Williams ; and also for stealing one hundred pennies and two hundred halfpennies, the property of John Middlebrook. —One month's imp. Alice Bennison and Ann M`Casisi for stealing twelve yards of flannel, the property of John Scott.—The former four, and the latter two months' imp. • Robert Beattie, for stealing one box and 100 lb. of oranges; the__ property of Thomas Chapman.—Six months imp. Margaret Morris, for stealing two blankets, the property of Henry Clare.—Four months imp. Ann Hall, for stealing one crow n, two halfcrowns, five shil lings, ten sixpences; two pair of spectacles and a knife, th e property of William Houlton.—Four months' imp. and hard labour. Peter Huson and John Howard, for stealing two pair of pan taloons, a coat, waistcoat and handkerchief, the property of William Atkinson.—Twelve months' imp. in the house of cor rection. Robert Smith, aged 15, Peter Winstanley, aged 18, and John Goodwin, aged 22, for assaulting Elizabeth Jones with an in- tent to rob, and for stealing from the person of Eliza Banks a half crown, two shillings, and other articles.—Were sentenced to fourteen years trans. each. Wm. Faulkner, a youth of 17, also received the like sentence of transportation, for stealing sixteen caps, a blanket and other articles, the property of Samuel Hard, and other articles, the property of Mary Harrison and Benj. Stout. REMOVAL OF THE ASSIZES. The solicitors of Manchester are vigorously.perseven: ing in their efforts to obtain an adjournment of the sizesas for the county of Lancaster to the borough of Liver pool and the town of Manchester. The following is a copy of the petition about to be presented to the House of Commons on the subject : To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of the undersigned Attorneys-at-Law, residing at Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, Sheweth,—That the county palatin e of L a n cas t er i s divided into the six hundreds of Lonsdale, Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland, Salford, and West Tier by. That the population of the county, according to the last cen sus, is 1,335,800. That the population of the several hundreds in the county, according to such census, is as follows : Lon sdale Amounderness Blackburn 168,057 Leyland 48,3:38 West Derby. 380,078 Salford. 612,414 That assizes are held at Lancaster, the county town, twice every year; at which the ci v il an d criminal business of the whole county is transacted. That Lancaster is distant from Manchester and Liverpool fifty-three miles; and the average distance of Lancaster from the hundred of Salford is forty-nine miles, and from the hun dred of West Derby fifty-one miles. - That the number of causes, supplied by the hundreds of Sal ford and West Derby, may be estimated at from three-fourths to four-fifths of the whole number entered for trial at the assizes for the county, as will appear to your honourable house by the following table, which has been taken from authentic lists of causes published at Lancaster : Lens. Amound. Blackburn West Derby and Leyland. Salford. and Elsewhere. 1826 61 151 163 1827 74 176 210 1828 69 118 • 114 1829 55 141 145 . 18.30 61 111 182 1831 57 87 110 4 1832 54 132 126 • That commissioners, appointed to inquire into the practice of the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster, and to consider the propriety of removing the assizes from Lancaster, have, in their report, published by the order of your honourable housb ' on the 20th of July last, stated, that 'lt cannot be doubted, that the practice of holding the assizes at a place so distant as Lancaster, from the populous districts of the country,—froin which the crown calendar and cause list, at the, assizes, are principally supplied,—and accessible to them but by one route, is attended with a burdensome expense to the parties, great hin drance to the administration of justice, and with the most seri ous inconvenience to jurors and witnesses." That the experience of your petitioners enables them to Con , - firm the above statement, and also most fully to concur in the further report of the said commissioners, that " The great expence of a, cause, arising in one of the southern districts of the county, consists in the costs of witnesses; which fre quently constitute one half of the total expense of the suit; that the expense of carrying witnesses from Manchester or Liverpool to Lancaster, and maintaining them there, amounts, on an average, to not less than seven pounds each witness; that it is probable, in a majority of cases, the costs of,witnesses alone exceed the amount of the sum recovered; and it has been justly observed, that the expense thus occasioned, at a single assizes, exceeds all that could be saved, by paring - down minor expenses, in the course of ten years; and that the great expense of a cause, thus occasioned, principally by the costs of witnesses coupled with the further circumstance tliat the costs allowed on taxation are, in all eases, inadequate to the costs actually in curred, is productive of intolerable hardship and injustice." That your petitioners respectfully submit ,to your honourable house, that the trial of prisoners, for offences committed in the hundred of Salford, at so remote a part of the county as Lan caster, occasions great and unnecessary expense to the county ,• is burdensome to jurors and witnesses; and productive, in all cases, of great hardship upon, and in some, of positive injustice to prisoners, who cannot afford the expense of procuring the attendance of witnesses on their behalf. . . .. __ That there is a gaol in Salford, in the parish of Manchester, of large extent; which might, at a moderate expense,'be en larged and made capable of accommodating all the prisoners who are now committed to the castle of Lancaster to take their trials for offences committed within the hundred of Salfird: and your petitioners believe, that the saving in the expenditure of the county, by holding assizes at Manchester and Liverpool, would be so great, that the expense of enlarging the said gaol, or of erecting a new one, if necessary, would be paid out of such saving, in a very short time, in the expenditure of the count '. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your honouta le house, to pass a bill for the adjournment of the assizes for tthhe county of Lancaster, from the county town, to the towns of Manchester and Liverpool. 1 . And your petitioners will ever pray, &c, . .