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LITERATURE. Boons FAR REVIEW. &c.—New Books, Prints, Music, &c., intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red lion•conrt, Peet-street, London. addressed " to the liklitor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded, and receive attention. The Christian Life: a Manual of Sacred Verse. By Robert Montgomery, M.A. London :F. &J. Rivin g tor.. To criticise the works of so distinguished a poet as Robert Montgomery, would at this time of day be almost an impertinence. Who, that truly admires sublimity of thought, creativeness of imagination, elegance of diction, and deliciously harmonious versification, is not familiar with his inspired strains, and does not feel them in his heart to be above all praise ? Despite the cavils of those who were unable to comprehend the beauty, the grandeur, and the heaven-derived spirit of his composi tions, or of those who were envious of his growing fame, and therefore sought to decry Ws genius, the author of the " Omnipresence of the Deit3 "—that grand and sacred poem--has risen year by year in the world's estimation, and has at length, it may be confidently said, been acknow ledged by the universal voice as the first of living writers on those divine themes to which he has devoted his high strung and resounding lyre. His chief poems are beyond all question magnificent in subject, admirable in design, and wonderful in execution. They will bear comparison with any others in richness of imagery and gloving lan guage. They abound in " thoughts that breathe, and words that burn." But, far beyond this, they are redo lent with the perfume of sanctity, and exhale the odour of pure religion from every line. This is the real charm and value of Montgomery's works—far above their mere poetic worth, which however is surpassing groat. The collection of short poems, entitled " The Christian Life," now betore us, is in every sense worthy to take place with the author's greater works. They inherit the same noble traits, the same beautiful proportions, the same exquisite graces. The design of the collection was to peurtray in a poetic form the creed and character, the duties and dan gers, the hopes and fears, the privileges, the faults, and final destinies of a believer in the religion of-Christ ; and most excellently has that design been accomplished. But the collection has already attained a fourth edition, and therefore the seal of public approbation has been affixed to it. We need say no more. The very first poem in the collection is a glorious one " On the Idea of God," but it is t select a po oo solemn for extract in a newspaper; we must Here is part of on of one " RELIGION GAZI 'I Man r By vas s awe-inspiring ON THE PEA Eternity of waters there Thou art, Dear to the eye, and glorious to the heart Bounding in brightness as they plung I greet thy waves, and gladden in their roar ;e odebore, 1 ot Ali ri Religion only to thy power replies, And echoes back thy solemn harmonies, That seem to tell with supernatural tone, — Here God is reigning on His ocean-throne I " And ever, 0 tho►: Hast thon admit' it of miat To all who heard led to expand, And bathe t s of many a famous land, n the sea 1 (loth an lodes baffle change and time, movest thou, In ail the murmurs of 0 At echo of his mind thOu art ?assion intens, White Thrills And read How N lumns 'l' name. a didst seem - 3reathed a spell, 1 roam, 1 be thy mid should rn to pray .nd would lead h Him, '3ee flew thy mind would ope, Ih'd flowe from a Nurseling of hopes 3W did I watch eact And thine in spirit, c rook iet ng'd Ur y mournful one, leyond the sun 11 as thou st my May-borr th ta'n aw ul d say breath Thy wor In lite to ar thy Rise intc ►'d in the blood of Jesu white , art not thou it , ersity Magazine, for December The Pr sent State of Geolog t of the progress and present ce, and will probably excite the attention gists, but of the public generally, as under sent circumstances, when there is so much desire to ke a knowledge of the component parts of the earth er cold, such information may only of gei worth] Ilesm one) c nt to the ❑r own P, of the Creation from gt " Maurice Tierney, the le, however, is impor- w, as it overturns the fined to make eeological ripture, and ac of Ithe Mosaic ae 'esearehes. Chapter f Fortune," has all ,er paper on, Witchcra an exceed foundation a apprc gly good riate article " Christmas are introduced some very 'or December tr. worthily, the present being The first article, addressed to forms a searching of the fallivies of free trade. The Britain the favourite argument of prove the advan- s that the boast about I proves most convin without an equitable English agriculturist ith many tragical results of ihiit we extract a droll oinzs of a female cook, selected from the N's Legacy, a ombines some highly The - J the for _ iat enjoyment of much from the scarcity !it great cx- s a dinner for the equent upon the Y he hit ired some tolerable fare, lint of the co-operation aff)rfled by nmendcd to him by one of hie own 10KING EXTRAORDINARY!, hastened to the kitchen, which was so ^* the dinner sometimes Mrs. Bap, the new the table beside her was .ow to which protruded its iiere the Major had put it to c robust build, about half full, itenance of Mrs. Bags wore a not very intelligent smile, as she e nain tb , was roasting on a spit before done quite black, while the for the machinery which ningloon- mei not rr n rnotior urliftcd hands aba !" exclaimed Carlott lrilta !"—Wh!A a knave of a woman !) )us heavens!" said my grandfather, she's roasting it I Who ever heard of a roast ham ?" " A many years," remarked Mrs. Bags, without turning her head, and still smiling pleasantly, "have I lived in gentlemen'B families—" Here this fragment of autobiography was termi nated by a hiccup. " And the champagne bottle is empty," said Owen, handling it. " A nice sort of cook this of yours, Major. She stems to have constituted herself butler, too." My grandfather advanced and lifted the other bottle to his nose. "'Tis the old rum," he ejaculated with a groan. " But if the woman has drunk all this 'twill be the death of her. Bags," he called, " come here." The spouse of Mrs. Bags emerged from a sort of scullery be hind the kitchen—a tall bony man, of an ugliness quite remark able, and with a very red face. He was better known by his comrades as Tongs, in allusion probably to personal peculiari ties ; for the length of his legs, the width of his bony hips, and the smallness of his head, Zave him some , 'istant resemblance to that article. of domestic ironmongery; hut as his wife called herself Mrs. Bags, and he was entered in the regimental books by that name, it was probably his real appellation. " Run directly to Dr. Fagan," said the Major, " and request him to come here. Your wire has poisoned herself with rum." " 'Tisn't rum," said Bags. somewhat thickly—"'tis fits." " Fits !" said my grandfather. " Fits," doggedly replied Mr. Bags, who seemed by no means disturbed at the alleged indisposition of his wife— often gets them." " DOiirt alarm yourself, Major," said Owen, " I'll answer for it she hasn't drunk all the rum. The scoundrel is half-drunk himself, and smells like a spirit-vault. You'd better take your wife away," he said to Bags. " She can leave if she ON wanted." said Private Bags, with dignity: "we never comes where we ain't wanted." And he advanced to remove the lady. Mrs. Bags at first resisted this measure, proceeding _ to deliver an eulogium on her own excel lent qualities, moral and culinary. She had she said, the best of characters, in proof of which she made reference to several persons in various parts of the United Kingdom, and, as she spoke, she smiled more affably than ever. La picarilla no tiene verguenza," (the wretch is perfectly shameless,) criod Carlotta, who, having hastily removed the ham from the fire, was new looking after the rest of the din ner. The fowls, cut up in small pieces, were boiling along with the sheep's head, and, probably . to save time, the estimable Mrs. Bags had put the rice and raisins destined for a pudding into the pot along with them—certainly, as Owen remarked, a bold innovation in cookery. Still continuing to afforilthem glimpses of her personal his tory. Mrs. Bags was at length persuaded to retire along with her helpmate. " What astonishing impudence," said the Major, shutting the door upon her, " to pretend to be a cook, and yet know no better than to roast a ham !" Carlotta was busy in remedying the disaster as far as she could ; cutting the ham into slices, and frv'ng it, and making a fricassee of the fowls, and fishing the raisins out of the pot. ex claiming bitterly all the while, in English and Spanish, azninst the tunanta (equivalent to female scountirel or scamp) who had spoilt the only nice dinner her pobrecito, her niuo, her qzterido, (meaning my grandfather.) had been likely to enjoy for a long time, stiipping occasionally in her occupations to give hint a consolatory kiss. However, my grandfather did not keep up the character of a martyr at all well : he took the matter really very patiently; and when the excellent Carlotta had set be dinner on the table, and he tasted the fine flavour of the mal treated ham, he speedily regained his accustomed good humour. " It is very strange," he said presently, while searching with a fork in the dish before him, " that a pair of fowls should have only three wings, two legs, and one breast between them." It certainly was net according to the order of nature; never theless the fact was so, all my grandfather's researches in the dish failing to bring to light the missing members. This,how ever. was subsequently explained by the discovery of the re mains of these portions of the birds in the scullery, where they appeared to have been eaten after being grilled ; and Mrs. Bags' reason for adopting this mode of cooking them was also rendered apparent—viz., that she might secure a share for . _ letection However. all this d:d not prevent them from making the best of what was left, and the Major's face beamed as he drank Carlotta's health in a glass of the remaining bottle of cham pagne, as brightly as if the dinner had been completely suc cessful. " It is partly my fault, Owen," said the Major, ' havn't a joint of mutton instead of this sheep's head " that you I. I ought before he was killed. Old Clotterbuck had secured a hatinch. and he a single man you know—'tis thrown a!‘ay upon him._ I [some for )argain, " We're lucky to get any," returned Owen. " Never was such a scramble. Old Fiskin, the commissary, and Mrs. O'Regan, the Major's wife, both swore the left leg was knocked down to them ; neither would give in, and it was put lip again. when the staff doctor, Pursum, who had just arrived in a treat hurry, carried it off by bidding' eightpeince more than eit and people say," doled Owen, " Mrs. O'Re;an avers openly " God knows I" said my grandfather, " 'tis a difficult thing in such a case to decide between politeness and a conscious ness of being in the right. Fiskin likes a good dinner." exciting account of the perils and difficulties experienced by the adventurous speculators and cutters of wood on th• rivers of Maine and New Brunswick, and other re- Blackwood finishes the wood's nalysis and refutat general p scale of d on fair tea Talc of t ludicrous memorable eves account of tt regiment to (Ire& an old Major, w of provisions con and di and h gazed stew" the fire —at lea ether oozed with warm creased a delusion 'ill au° the 'a few THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1851. mote parts of the States A no ice of " The Ansayrii, :enery, enticing and beautiful descriptions of Eastern manners, and customs, with apeculatione upon the won ders of modern modes of locomotion. This work, which is by the Hon. Frederic Walpole, R N., gives a descrip tion of a very remarkable sect, the Ansnyrii (or Assassins), the followers of the Old Man of the Mountain, so cele brated in the history of the Crusades. The number con with a review which extinguishes with consid,-rable vigour, tempered however with much humour and satire, a very vapid, crude, and ignorant work by a Mr. Francis, called " A History of the English Railway." Ireland, Past and Present. This is a little pamphlet, devoted to the report of a speech made by Mr. Joseph Fisher, one of the guardians of ioughal Union, at a meeting of various deputies assem iled at Limerick, in Octoberlast. Mr. Fisher, in this speech, takes a very comprehensive sketch of the general state of Ireland, and enters into laborious and interesting statis tics in regard to the exports of grain, in elucidation of his views. Mr. Fisher's arguments, founded upon the dimi nution of Irish exports end the increase of emieration, and his various calculations upon these subjects, evince great research and an intimate acquaintance with the general condition of Ireland. The tacts he establishes, and the remedies he sugzests in this speech. deserve the perusal of all who take an interest in Irish affairs. THE PROTESTANT ALLIANCE, days, will ing of tt ye been inquiring within the last few ) follow from the Freemasons' Hall meet- Protestant Alliance, and what the alliance persons ans to do That meet ng was held , we apprehend, chiefly to set an example to the country at large. The provincial towns seldom move in any public matter until they see the aolis. The Freemasons' 3n taken n P in ti Hall meeting tested pu It showed that blic opinion which conk only have been, previously surmised ; that the people were fully alive to the importance of the Mny nooth endowment, and would gladly aid any measure to abolish that endowment. The crowd which assembled on that occasion proved that there was no one subject on which the people felt more deeply. As to the next steps to be taken, we believe that Glas gow, and Manchester, and Birmingham, will quickly show that they require little instruction on this point. Public meetings are, we understand, in preparation in each of these towns. London was naturally expected to take the initiative: bu' London unsupported can do no thing. The whole country must join in the demand, and the Parlia nt will not then dream of withs tending the voice of its various constituencies The demand that Maynooth shall be removed from the list of national institutions, must be generally made, or it will not succeed. Every borough town, therefore, ought at once to meet, and place a petition in the hands of its representatives. Every village. also, should in like man ner apply to its county representative. Taken up in this manner, with one consent through the whole country, the application will be attended to; but if not so made, it will be evaded.—Record. MR. MECHI'S BALANCE-SHEET. There has been a lone and anxious inquiry for Mr. Mechi's balance-sheet. This gentleman,--a respectable dealer in razor-strops, in Leadenhall-street,—took a farm in Essex some five years ago, and has been zealously employed ever since in endeavouring to prove that free trade was an excellent thing, and that farmers might live very well on 365. per quarter for wheat. But what the farmers felt most anxious to see was, the balance-sheet. They knew, of course, that so long as Mr. strop profits on a farm in Essex,—so long that wonderful " experiment" might proceed. The only practical test to be applied to it was,—Does the farm, taken alone, pay ? And for the reply to this question, the balance-sheet was Mr. Mechi, at agricultural dinners or always been, " Where is the ere, their cr e-sheet ?" Within the last day or two, this desired document has come to light. And. strange to say, Mr. Alechi is forced ,11 his science and after all the adventi- tious aids which he has been able to give,—that the farm has yielded him, in the last twelvemonth—a loss of rather more than six hundred pounds! This is decisive. It' settles, pretty conclusively, the question of high-farming. It shows that fancy-expendi ture on a farm, like fancy-expenditure on a pig, or a race horse, may be a fair way of employing a man's surplus wealth ; but that, regarded as a matter of business, it will not pay.—Morning Herald. LIVERPOOL WINTER ASSIZE. CROWN COURT.—TUESDAY. _ (Before Mr. Baron PARKE) As soon as the learned judge took his seat, John M. Guinness, convicted on the preceding day of wounding Thomas Titterington with a hammer at Chorley, was placed at the bar and sentenced to seven months' impri sonment in Kirkdale gaol. William Hutchinson, who pleaded guilty to a burglary in Manchester, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and hard labour. JANSLAUGHTER AT MANCHESTER Thomas Gleeson, 26, was charged with killing Joseph Younghusband on the 20th of September. It appeared that a dispute arose between the prisoner and the deceased at a beer-house in Stratford-road, Manchester, about a bet, and they went out to fight. He afterwards threw a stone at the deceased. He ran away, and a crowd followed him to a butcher's shop in Clarendon-street, where he took refuge. The people rushed into the shop, and a man named Cain, a witness in the case, kicked the prisoner, who was thrown to the floor, and whilst lying with his head against the chopping block, the deceased seized him by the hair of the head ; a blow was then given by the prisoner with a knife ; the deceased fell, and expired almost immediately. The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, but under extenuating circum stances, and recommended him to mercy. CHILD KILLED AT MANCHESTER. George Allcock, 23, was acquitted of an indictment of killing Louisa Teel, a little girl, at Manchester, on the 10th October last. Allcock, with some other young men, was firing a small cannon, on the occasion of the Queen's visit to Manchester, and the wadding striking the girl, who was on the opposite side of the street, in the face, penetrated through her right eye to the brain, and caused her death. His lordship said that the unfortunate oc currence seemed to have been the result of accident more than anything else. JOBBERY AT MANCHESTER, Thomas Kelly, 25, Jane Jones, 19, indicted, with other Persons unknown, for having assaulted and robbed Simon Davies, at Manchester, on the 15th October, were found guilty, and Kelly, who had been before transported, sen tenced to fifteen years, and Jones to seven years' trans. portation. MANSLAUGHTER AT MANCHESTER John Morgan, 38, a pensioner, was indicted for the manslaughter of Frederick Chinn, at Manchester, on the 3rd of October. The deceased was the keeper of a nut stall, in King-street, and some dispute having arisen between him and the soldier, the latter struck and kicked Chinn, who died in two days from the effects of the in juries.—Acquitted. ROBBERY BY A POSTMAN Daniel Eyre, a well dressed young man, was trans ported for ten years, on an indictment for stealing, at the Borough B-ink, in Manchester, on the 18th May last, a post letter containing a Bank of England note for £5, the property of Joseph Coward and another. A SOLDIER CONVICTED OF ROBBERY Daniel Gannon, 19, a private of the 28th regiment, was sentenced to seven years' transportation, for assaulting, in Manchester, on the 17th October, Michael Keeney, and robbing him of £2 12s. 6d. The soldier had assailed Keeney, while the latter, in company with his brother, was counting his money in a public-house, which he had entered for the purpose of inquiring his way to the rail way station. Gannon, aided by another soldier, tripped Keeney up, and then made their escape. Search, how ever, being made, the money was found concealed in the prisoner's bedding. WEDNESDAY. STREET ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER Maria M'Clean, Henry Johnson, and Henry Leary were indicted for having, early on the morning of the 12th November, assailed Mr. Wrigley Barton, a Man chester cotton-dealer, and robbed him of a parse contain ing twelve sovereigns. From the story of Mr. Barton, aided by the evidence of a police inspector (Harper), it appeared that about two o'clock on the morning in ques tion Mr. B. was returning home from a party. with whom he had been drinking at the Nag's Head. He was a little elevated. but. not tipsy. and was crossing Ducie-bridge, which spans the river Irk, and communicates with the Cheetham-hill road, when he was seized by the throat, nut by whom he could not say, pulled down, and ren dered insensible. Harper, who beard some scuffling in the street, came up to the spot just when two men were running away in the direction of Long Millgate. He pursued them for a short distance, springing his rattle to call the attention of the other constables in the neigh bourhood. He lost sight of the chase, however, in Long Millgate, and, returning, he captured a female (M'Clean), who was also endeavouring to escape. Mr. Barton, who, at first insensible, had now come to himself, was meaning deeply, as though in pain. He had been robbed of his purse. Shortly afterwards Johnson and Leary were ap prehended in Charter-street, along which they were running. by a constable on duty there, aided by a second officer. At the station-house the men were searched, and 16s. found upon Leary ; and upon Johnson, in the lining its coat, were found two sovereigns and a half sove- Johnson professed the most complete innocence said he was not aware he :Jon the woman. The latter was acquitted, but the jury convicted Johnson and Leary. in regarc ie money, nor FORGERY BY A BANK CLERK John Dutton, a slender, well-dressed man, of 32, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with forg ing a cheque upon the Bank of Eauland for £2B 95., purporting to have been signed by his employers, Sofeans Brothers and Co., of Manchester. Witnesses testified to the prisoner's previous good character; but Mr. Baron Parke said it was necessary to repress such a dangerous offence, and sentenced him to ten years' transportation. A FAVOUR REQUESTED BY A PRISONER Michael Dunn and Robert Owen were charged with having beaten and robbed of his wages John Foster, a join:•r, living in Manchester, who was returning home about eight o'clock on the night of Saturday, the 12th November. The affair took place in Piccadilly, and the joiner, who was in liquor, though tolerably sensible, re cognised Dunn as one of the parties who assailed him. Owen, he thought, was another. Evidence was called implicating Owen in the transac'ion, but the jury acquitted him. Dunn was convicted. Dunn, when asked what he had to say why sentence should not he passed upon him, replied that he had Lever been imprisoned before : he re lied upon the mercy of the court. The Judge then sen tenced him to transportation for ten years. No sooner had the sentence been pronounced than the prisoner asked if he might be allowed to speak. Permission being granted, The prisoner entered into a curious account of his his tory. He said—When I was eleven years old I first took to thieving, and was fully convicted in Manchester about six months after. I received three months' imprison ment and a month solitary, and to he whipped before dis charged. In two months after I was fully convicted again, and received fourteen days upon bread and water, and was flogged before discharged. When I was about twel7e years and four months old I received two months again, and at the age of thirteen I was trans ported out of my country. I was the oldest out of three transported, and the Judge said—" My boys, it will be a good j.)b for you ; you will be sent to the London Peni tentiary, where, with good conduct, you will learn a trade - to read -0, where.you will learn s and write. and become good scholars." 'Well, I begun to think I might do such a thing, and become ame nber of society perhaps. But instead of sending me to the London Penitentiary, they sent me to the Urilas, in Chatham Harbour, commanded by Captain Steadman; and kept me there, along with 600 more boys. The oldest was only eighteen. On the 18th Octoher I was transported, and in May the ship came into Chatham Harbour, and 335 boys were put on board of her, and sent to Van Diemen's Land. This was the " scholarship" I was going to learn, and the " good trade !" When we got there we were all examined, one by one, in the cabin, and tried by the Comptroller-General. I received two years to a place called Point Pure, where at that time were 1,100 boys. The trade they put me to was carrying wood off the mountains, hoeing - , harrowing, and cultivating the ground. We did go to school every other afternoon, for two hours ; and probably I should have learnt to read and write if I had paid a good atten.. tion to it ; but as for a trade, I did not know any. At the expiration of seven' years, in October, 1848, they gave me my freedom. In three weeks afterwards I shipped aboard an American whaler, and was with her fifteen months ; and now, my lord. all I have to say is, that you would do me the greatest favour if you would put five more years on that ten. Mr. Baron PARKE.—I ain not here to do favaursto any body ; and, therefore, I shall not do it. I think ten years pass that sen- a proper punisl tence upon you ,e crime, and STABBING AT PRESTON John Noble, 25, indicted for stabbing Richard Gard ner, during a quarrel at Preston, on the 29th November, was found guilty of unlawfully cutting and wounding, but not of felony. He was sent nced to imprisonment and hard hbour for one year. . _ William Hutchason, who was on Tuesday sentenced to a year's imprisonment for a burglary at Manchester, was recalled, and the measure of the punishment reduced one-half, in consideration of the latter sentence having been passed for a similar offence on Tuesday. THURSDAY. _ _ When Mr. Baron Parke took his seat this morning, Henry Johnson and Henry Neary, convicted of a rob bery, accompanied with violence, at Manchester, were brought up and sentenced to transportation seven years. John Charles Keith, a private belonging to the 45th Regiment, who was found guilt y, on Tuesday, of stabbing Wm. Pennington, at Preston, in August last, was brought up for sentence.—The judge, in consequence of the excel lent character given of the prisoner by his sergeant, inflicted the mitigated punishment of six months' impri sonment. A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND John Hampton was charged with an assault upon his wife, Mary Hampton, at Manchester, and inflicting upon her such injuries as to cause her death. _ The evidence went to show that the prisoner and his wife resided in a court in one of the densely populated districts of Man chester. They had been married about six or seven years, and did not live on the most amicable terms. On Sunday evening, the 17th of August, the deceased had had some friends at her house, and they had been drinking together, but it did not appear that the deceased was in liquor. Shortly before eleven o'clock a female in the adjoining house was awoke by hearing a noise as of some one falling down stairs, and there were other circumstances leading to the suspicion that the prisoner was ill-treating the deceased. Shortly after eleven the prisoner came out of the house, and in reply to questions put to him, said his wife had fallen town stairs and killed herself. This induced several of the neighbours to enter the house, when they found deceased lying undressed at thebottom of the stairs, in a position in which it was thought she could not have lain had the fall been the mere result of accident. The woman died on the following Friday, and the point at issue was whether the fall was the consequence of accident or from the act of the prisoner. The jury found a verdict of manslaughter. ALLEGED MURDER AT ROCHDALE. Charles Grindrod was indicted with killing Zachariah Smith, at Rochdale, in November last. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and, on account of his general good con duct, and the sorrow evinced by him for the fatal act, he was sentenced to one week's imprisonment. STREET ROBBERIES AT ➢IANCHESTER. Sarah Foster (aged 55), and Joseph Brown (aged 24), were indicted for having, at Manchester, on the 24th No vember, assaulted and robbed Joseph Bruce of £2 103., a tobacco box, a knife, and key. The case formed one of many tried at these assizes, where women have assisted men in committing robberies, with violence, in the streets. In this instance the evidence was insufficient, and the jury acquitted the prisoner. Joseph Bostock (aged 33) was indicted for having, on the 22d November, in company with a female unknown, feloniously assaulted and robbed Anthony Battinson. The prisoner was undefended. The prosecutor (an old, infirm man) is a butcher residing in Manchester, and at one o'clock on the morning in question was returning home through Dcansgate from a friend's house, when he was attacked by the prisoner and a female, who knocked him down, and robbed him of Is. Pd. The old man cried out " Watch," when a police-officer came up, and secured the prisoner ; the woman escaped. The prisoner was found guilty. His lordship, in passing sentence, alluded to the great number of street robberies which had taken place in Manchester. He was determined to enforce the law by punishing with transportation the perpetrators of those outrages. The prisoner (who was not known) was then sentenced to ten years' transportation, PERJURY CASES. Mr. Thorburne applied to the judge in the case of E. Cummins, one of the men committed by Mr. Ramshay for perjury. The learned counsel explained that his client had been twenty-four hours in custody, but the grand jury had been discharged—consequently, no bill had been found.—The judge said the man must be dis charged. Against another man named Tomlinson, also committed by Mr. Ramshay for perjury, the jury had found " no bills." The court adjourned at half-past six o'clock. FRIDAY. SENTENCES. The following prisoners were brought up for sentence : John Hampton, convicted of the manslaughter of his wife, at Manchester, on the 17th of August last, transpor tation for life.—Thomas Gleeson, convicted of the man slaughter of Joseph Younghusband, at Manchester, in September last, transportation for seven years.—Sarah Ann Joddrill, pleaded guilty to a burglary at Manchester, on the night of the 19th October last, nine months' imprisonment, with hard labour.—William Walker, con victed of burglary, in Manchester, in November last, ten months' imprisonment, with hard labour. ALLEGED MURDER IN MANCHESTER. Patrick Goulden, a labourer, aged 28, was charged with the murder of John Owens, at Manchester, on the 10th October last. Mr. Wheeler was for the prosecution, and Mr. Monk for the prioner. The evidence went to prove that, about twelve o'clock on the night in question, deceased and the prisoner's wife, who was the daughter of his wife by a former hus band, were standing in Cable-street. opposite Mahon's vaults, Manch.ster ; they were engaged in an angry dis pute about family matters, and, while so engaged, the prisoner, who lives in the house next to Mahon's vaults, was seen standing at a short distance, as if in the act of listening. During the dispute, deceased was heard to say something about her husband, and the female then said she was keeping him (deceased) in suspense until her husband came. The prisoner came up almost imme diately, when deceased, accosting him, said, " Your mis tress says you are able to fight me, and I will fight you in the morning." The prisoner replied, " I can fight you at any time." He was then seen to draw from behind his person something which glittered, with which he struck the deceased on the eye ; the latter staggered and fell ; be was carried to the infirmary, where he ultimately died, never having uttered a word after receiving the blow. The prisoner and his wife then went into their own house, and closed the door. A policeman demanded admittance, but was refused, and, when ultimately he forced an en trance, he found, on a stool in the house, two shoemakers' knives. Both deceased and the prisoner were shoemakers. Mr. MONK, in his address to the jury. chiefly endea voured to reduce the crime to manslaughter. The jury, after an absence of nearly four hours, entered the court at a quarter before five o'clock. Their verdict acquitted the prisoner of the capital charge. and found him guilty of manslaughter. Sentence—To be transported for the period of his natural life. MANS-LAUGHTER AT MANCHESTER Dennis Byrne pleaded guilty to an indictment for man slaughter. Mr. Murphy, the prisoner's counsel, briefly stated the'case. The prisoner was quarrelling with a man named Connor, at a public-house in Manchester, on Saturday night week, when he aimed a blow at his adver sary ; this blow unexpectedly missed the person for whom it was directed, and took effect on Connor's wife, who fell in consequence, and sustained a fracture of the skull, from which she died.—Mr. Cross, who appeared for the prosecution, confirmed this statement of the facts, and a witness was called to speak to the general good character of the prisoner. The judge passed a sentence of fourteen days' imprisonment. MANSLAUGHTER FROM FIGHTING Frank Illawdesley, a youth of about 20, was indicted for the manslaughter of John Chesworth, at Preston, on the night of Monday week. The prisoners had been drinking together, and afterwards had a fight, and the deceased was several times knocked down. He expired on the following morning from apoplexy, the result of severe blows about the head; there was an effusion of blood on the brain, and rupture of the stomach. The prisoner was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment, with hard labour. HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR MANCHESTER. William Murphy, Michael Nevy, John M`Ewerr, and Bernard Callaghan, four lads, were indicted for robbing Charles Dillon, at Stretford, near Manchester, of two pence, a fourpenny piece, and a Casino check, on the night of Saturday last.—The jury found Murphy and Nevy guilty, and acquitted the other two prisoners. Murphy, who had been previously summarily convicted, was sen tenced to four months' imprisonment, with hard labour, and Nevy to half that term. PERJURY John Lee was accused of wilful and corrupt perjury. Mr. Monk prosecuted. In a cause tried at the last autumn assizes, Hayes v. Williams, the plaintiff succeeded in proving an exception from certain liabilities, unier the statute of limitations, on the evidence of Lee. On that occasion Lee was asked if he had ever been accused of stealing ; or if he had ever been summoned, or had ever been tried at Preston sessions. To the questions he had replied in the negative ; and it is alleged he had answered falsely, he having been both tried and convicted at Preston. The jury found him guilty. ASSAULT, Peter Ashworth, aged 28, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding Samuel Mather, at Bolton, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Milne prosecuted ; Mr. Monk appeared for the prisoner. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on one count of the indict ment only. Sentence, one month's imprisonment. • • THE BRICKMAKERS' RIOT. Thomas Millington, William Murray, John Murray, and Samuel Harrison, journeymen brickmakers, were indicted for unlawfully and riotously assembling with others at Droylsden, and beating and wounding one John Carr. and for having, at the same place, unlawfully con spired to prevent the said John Carr from following his lawful employment.—Mr. Monk prosecuted, and Mr. Wheeler appeared for the prisoners. The case was post poned from the last assizes, since which time the prisoners have been out on bail. The circumstances are already sufficiently known. The learned judge said the case was one of a very serious nature, and presented a state of things which ought not to be allowed to exist in a free country. He considered it high time to put a stop to such proceedings on the part of workmen. Sentence — two months' imprisonment, and recognizances in £2O to keep the peace for one year.—The court then adjourned. SATURDAY Mr. Baron Parke, on taking his seat at nine o'clock, pro ceeded at once with a long and tedious case involving a charge of perjury, preferred, at the instance of the County Constabulary Committee, against two men, named John Hartley and William Whewell. Hartley was first placed in the dock. Mr. Wigham prosecuted, and Mr. James was for the defence. The facts of the case are briefly these : Hartley and Whewell are both beersellers, residing at Oswaldtwistle. On Saturday, the 7th December, 1851, they were visited after eleven o'clock at night by police-constable Procter, who found company in their houses, and the circumstance was duly reported. On the following day (Sunday), Proc ter being on duty at Lonswithin, called at a public-house kept by Jacob Houghton, and there he found Whewell and Hartley. Of the circumstances which took place in the house different versions were given. Whewell and Hartley stated, that Procter received from them ss. ficl. each, in order to quash the information of what he had seen the day before ; and that statement they made on oath before the magistrates of Haslingden, when Procter was charged by the police-superintendent of the district, Mr. Edwin Sheppard, with violation of his duty in accept ing the bribe. Procter on that occasion called witnesses to disprove the statement made by Hartley and Whewell, and satisfied the magistrates that their story was untrue. The magistrates dismissed the charge, and the case was reported to the Constabulary Committee, who directed that a prosecution for perjury should be made against Hartley and Whewell. Several witnesses were called for the prosecution. _ _ _ _ _ _ Mr. JAMES addressed the jury for the defence: The witnesses for the defence altogether contradicted the main features of the evidence for the prosecution. In summing up, his LORDSHIP said he did not know whether the jury could find their way through the evi dence; there had certainly been the greatest quantity of perjury, on one side or other, he had ever witnessed. It was requisite in cases of perjury there should be something more than the evidence of the person who made the charge. It would be for the jury to consider whist' of the two parties told the truth. There was evidently a com bination on one side or other. The witnesses agreed as to the policeman having refused the bribe in the first instance, but they differed in their statements as to what became of him afterwards. The result would be, that the jury could not pronounce the policeman guilty of perjury. The jury immediately returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged. In the case of Whewell no evidence was tendered, and, by his lordship's direction, he was discharged. Mr. JAMES applied for costs in both instances, which were allowed. At the conclusion of the above case, the prisoner John Lee, convicted on Friday of wilful and corrupt perjury, in a cause tried at the last autumn assizes, " Hayes v. Williams," was placed in the dock. His LORDSHIP, in passing judgment, said that perjury was a crime which was frequently committed. They had had specimens of it that day. In the case which bad just been tried, four or five of the witnesses examined must have been guilty of perjury; but it was doubtful who were the false swearers. In the case of the prisoner at the bar there could be no mistake. He chose to tell an untruth for the purpose of protecting his own character. Instead of re fusing to answer the questions put to him, as he ought to have done, he positively stated on oath several times that he had not been convicted of larceny, when such was the fact. As it was a fact affecting his own character, the offence was in some degree pardonable, and on that ac count he (the learned baron) would not inflict the punish ment of transportation. The sentence of the court was, that he should be imprisoned in the gaol of this county for a period of twelve months. The judge having con sulted the act of parliament, intimrted that the imprison ment must be accompanied with hard labour. The court rose about half-past six o'clock, the whole of the business of the assizes having been disposed of. NISI PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY (Before Mr. Justice Elms.) _ As soon as his lordship took his seat, Dominic Dowd and James Cain were brought up for sentence, having been convicted of stabbing. The former was sentenced to four, and the latter to nine months' imnrigonment. William Wils•n, charged with stealing a cow belonging to Thomas Jackson, at Ashton, was acquitted. some par tial agreement between the prisoner and Jackson being proved. MANSLAVGHTER AT MANCHESTER Edward Wood was indicted for the manslaughter of James Gamin, at Manchester. On Saturday, the 25th of October, the prisoner was at the Nelson Tavern, Great Ancoats, with Gamin. There was a club of tin-plate workers met at the same house,and both men belongedto this club. A quarrel arose, in the course of which the prisoner took up the poker, and struck at the deceased, hitting him on the head with it, and Gamin fell upon the floor from the effect of the blow, and went into fits. He died from the injuries on the 12th of November. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but as evidence had been given that the prisoner had received provocation, the Judge only sentenced him to five calendar months' impri sonment with hard labour. William Henry Brady, who pleaded guilty to the charge of having obtained, at Manchester, several sums of money from philanthropic societies, by forged orders upon the officers, was sentenced to transportation for seven years. _ _ Joseph Brooks was sentenced to transportation for twenty years, for an aerravated assault upon, and at tempt to rob, Samuel Williams, whom, on the 11th of October last, he brutally ill-treated at Salford. Brooks took advantage of his victim being in a helpless state of intoxication. Robert Jones, late collector of rates, pleaded guilty to embezzling certain sums of public money. He was sen tenced to 12 months' imprisonment, and hard labour. Thomas 111' Donnell, aged 19, was charged, on a coro ner's inquisition, with having, at Liverpool, feloniously killed and slain a child named James Fitzhenry. This was a driving-over case. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to twelve mon ths' m prisonm ent with hard labour. Patrick Cole was found guilty of killing Patrick Caf frey, on the 15th of November of last year. The occur rence took place during an Irish row in No. 14 Court, St. Martin-street, in this town. The prisoner was sen tenced to four months' imprisonment., with hard labour. David Shepherd, 22, and Joseph Berry. 25, were each transported for ten years for having assaulted, at Bury, William Bewley, putting him in danger of his life, and stealing from him money and other property. Gilbert Levy, a boy of 12 years old, was charged with the murder of another boy, John Rothwell, at Aughton, on the 3rd of November ; but it appearing from the evidence that the death arose accidentally during a contest for the posses sion of a stick, the jury acquitted the prisoner. He was then formally arraigned on the coroner's inquisition on the charge of wilful murder, (for the same offence,) and acquitted. The prisoner was discharged, with a caution from his lordship. WEDNESDAY CURIOUS DISCOVERY OF A ROBBERY IN LIVERPOOL John Barrington, 28, was indicted for having, together with two other persons unknown, feloniously assaulted James Livingstone, and, with violence, robbed him of one Bank of England note of one hundred pounds, two twenty-pound notes, a watch, and a bank post bill for £B7 4s. Bd., on the Bth of October last. On the Bth of October, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock at night, Mr. James Livingstone, a merchant, residing in 13; Bold-place, was returning home, and when within a few yards of his own door, he was Pttacked by two men, one of whom gave him a chuck in the neck, and the second held him tightly around the throat. A third man then came up, whom Mr. Livingtone swore was the prisoner, and cut his trowsers open, ai.d his pocket off. The pocket contained the amounts stated in the indictment, and Mr. Livingstone's watch was then dragged from his neck. Some days after the prisoner called at a public-house, kept by Mr. Holmes, in Whitechapel, and there left a sum of £BO, to be taken care of for him. On the day following be called and drew £2O, and in the course of the following week also received £2O, from Mrs. Holmes. With this money, the prisoner appeared to have taken a beer-house, situate in Bronte-street, from Mrs. Margaret Crouley, for the possession of which he paid upwards of £l5. In a pigeon -cote, at the top of the prisoner's house, the officers found the watch stolen from Mr. Li vingstone, and eleven sovereigns, which the prisoner claimed as his property. When asked, he denied at first that he had left any money at. Mr. Holmes's, but he sub sequently claimed the £4O which had been handed over to the police, together with the money found in the pigeon cote, as his property. A verdict of guilty was returned against the prisoner. A previous conviction, for which sentence of transportation for ten years had been re corded, was proved against him.—His lordship sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life. STREET ROBBERY IN LIVERPOOL Philip Farrell, 21, Robert: Smith, 29, and Michael Kelshaw, 28, were indicted for having feloniously as saulted Hugh Evans, and, with violence, stolen from his person the sum of four shillings and sixpence. Kelshaw was further indicted for assaulting Patrick Grady, and robbing him of twelve shillings and sixpence. On the morning of Sunday, the 26th of October, Hugh Evans, a dock labourer, was passing through Freemason's-row, on his way home from Birkenhead. He had had some liquor, but was perfectly able to take care of himself. Whilst passing along the street before named, he was at tacked by three men, who seized him by the throat and pressed it very tightly. He attempted to cry out, but was unable, and at last he was thrown on the ground, arid one of the men thrust his hand into his pocket, and took from it four shillings and sixpence. A verdict of Not Guilty was returned ; but Kelshaw was placed at the bar. on the second indictment, and the jury found him guilty. He was sentenced to 15 years' transportation. ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER. John Atherton, a man of 60, was charged with the manslaughter of Thomas Kirkham on the 24th of Octo ber. The deceased and the prisoner had been drinking together, and the former was found dead near the farm of the prisoner, having received severe injuries ; but as the evidence did not connect the prisoner with those injuries, he was acquitted. ROBBERY AT LYTHAM Mary Hilton, 33, a respectable-looking woman, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging her with having, at Lytham, feloniously stolen one sovereign, six rolls of ribbon, one piece of cotton, and various other articles, the property of Jchn Edmundson, her master. She was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. A FRAUDULENT BANKRUPT. Patrick O'Toole, 35. was indicted for having, at Liver pool, feloniously and wilfully neglected to surrender him self in the District Court of Bankruptcy, after his adjudi cation in bankruptcy had been filed against him. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Blair, supported by evidence, that the prisoner had been, up to the end of last year, in business, in Marvbone, in Liverpool, as a retail provision dealer, and previous to December, last year, he had incurred debts to a considerable amount, and amongst others to a Mr. Bristow, a provision merchant. On the 21st of December he owed Mr. Bristow £338-, who pressed repeatedly for payment. Mr. Bristow's warehouseman called on him again and again, for the purpose of getting some money, and finally, an arrange ment was come to that he was to hand over £5OO for division amongst his creditors, and be promised to hand over £2OO or £3OO in a few days. On a day named for an arrangement, Mr. Bristow's man sent to the shop, and then, to his great surprise, found the name of O'Toole had been erased from over the shop, and the name of a person called Sheppardson was over the door, and this person was in possession at the time. On the day before the prisoner had assigned his property to Sheppardson, proceedings were taken in the Bankruptcy Court, and the prisoner having absconded to America, he was out lawed. A verdict of guilty was given. CHARGE OF STABBING. William Hal&?ton was indicted l'er stabbing Thomas Broxon, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, at Sherrington, on the 13th September last. The indict ment contained a second count, charging the prisoner with cutting and wounding only. On the 13th of Sep tember last. the prisoner and Broxon, who are colliers, were drinking at the George and Dragon public-house, Sherrington, when a quarrel arose between them, and some blows were interchanged outside of the door of the public-house. The prisoner threw down the prosecutor in the first case, but the latter, being the stronger man, got up again. They were then separated, but again quarrelled, and in the second altercation the prisoner drew a knife, with which, after he had received some pro vocation, he struck the prosecutor on the fleshy part of the hip. The prisoner was found guilty on the second count of the indictment. THURSDAY. _ _ _ _ _ Patrick O'Toole, convicted on Wednesday of felo niously neglecting to surrender himself in the Liverpool district court of bankruptcy, was sentenced to seven years' transportation. William Houghton, found guilty on Wednesday of cutting and stabbing Thomas Broxon, at Sherrington, was sentences to twelve months' imprisonment. ASSAULTING A CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICER. Jo/in — /Ii11;mm was indicted for having, at Liverpool, unlawfully and by force and violence assaulted, resisted, and obstructed George Jones, he being an officer of the customs, in the execution of his duty. Mr. Blair and Mr. Simon were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. James and Mr. Atkinson defended the prisoner. The circumstances of the ease, as stated by Mr. Blair and proved by the witnesses, were these—George Jones, the person assaulted by the defendant, is a tidewaiter. On the night of the 24th and the morning of the 25th of November last, he was on duty at the Coburg dock. There was a vessel lying in the dock called the Astrologer, of which the defendant up to that period had been the commander. He was about vacating the office, and a person named John Walker was going to take the command. Anout two o'clock in the morning of the 25th of November, two persons were seen to leave the Astrologer ; they were the defendant and John Walker, and just as they left the ship Jones came up. The latter saw a bottle projecting from Walker's pocket, and took it out of the pocket. The defendant endeavoured to get possession of the bottle, but, failing in doing so, he made off to the ship. The officer followed him, and while he was running he heard bottles chinking in the defendant's pocket, and observed liquor running from his coat. The officer got hold of the defendant ; the defendant struck him several times, cut his lip, and used considerable violence. The defendant then threatened to throw him into the dock. They then came to the side of the dock, and the defen dant, in attempting to jump on board the vessel, fell down. The officer was thrown down on the side of the quay ; the defendant was pulled on board his vessel ; and Jones, calling the assistance of Alexander 'Wilson, a brother officer, and a policeman, went on board and into the cabin where the defendant was. Subsequently there was another struggle, and the defendant again assaulted the officer, and nearly tore several buttons off his coat. Mr. JAMES addressed the court for the prisoner, and called several witnesses who gave him a good character. but they did not disprove the assault. The jury, after consulting is the bos for about five minutec found the prisoner guilty, but strongly recOnl' mended him to mercy. In reply to the usual question, the defendant said -4 have nothing to say, my lord and gentlemen of the int!' further than that he (Jones) swore, in three different in stances, a false oath, to injure my character ; bat I sub miti, to your decision. I never lifted my hand to st m t him. 1 never had such an intention. I never got hold of him, but I endeavoured to prevent him taking hold of ne• The prisoner was sentenced to be i'eprisoned six weeks' HIGHWAY ROB CRY. Thomas Cunlife (aged 25), and William Cunles ( 23 )' were charged with having, at Parr, feloniously assanlte Robert Bullock, putting him in bodily fear and danger of his life, and stealing from his person two half-crown s ' The case against William Cunliffe was not clear, and be was acquitted, but the jury found Thomas Cunliffe guiltP and he was sentenced to imprisonment and' hard labour in the House of Correction for twelve months: ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER. James Aspden (aged 57) was (+arced with having. at Blackburn, killed and slain Paul Parkinson. Tne evidence was to the effect that three boys, one of whom vies the deceased, had made game of the prisoner and threw Mis siles at him, and that in his passion he had struck the boy with a stick, and caused his death. Mr. Blair, the Pr i ; goner's counsel, argued for the probability that the woun d which caused death was received by the falling, and 11° ' from a blow with a stick. The jury acquitted the prisoner . His lordship said he was sure the pri.oner's own feefelP had been a sufficient punishment. He need not warn bun to guard against using such a stick as had been described' against a child in future. JUVENILE JACK SBIPPARDS. Frederick Jones and William Walker, two boys, wer e. charged with having, at Heaton Norris. assaulted Ellen Wood, by presenting a pistol at her, with intend to rob' They were also charged with assaulting in a similar manner Harriet Beckett, at Levenshnlme, near Manchester, with intent to rob her. To both indictments the prisoner! pleaded guilty. Mr. Sadler, the head of the Stockport police, stated some curious facts to show the evil copse' quences of reading low publications. The boys, who were about 16 years of age, were about a year ago unfortunately put to work under a man who had long been in the habit of reading, and who continued to read, low publication! , such as Jack Sheppard and Paul lifford, and others illus trating the vicious habits of notorious robbers. These boys had been eneotyraved by that person to read such publications, and he (Mr. Sadler) b►:lieved that that had led them to the commission of the offences to which the)" had pleaded guilty. They had had the best of example! set them by their parents, and he had ascertained that 11P to the time of their goime to work at the place to which he had referred, they were extremely well-conducted youths.—His lordship said the information given by the police-officer was very important, because the two offence! were of an extremely desperate description—that of pre senting a pistol at two women, and persisting in demand' tog their money. Subsequently his lordship sentenced each of the youths to six months' imprisonment, and gale them a suitable admonition. William Dupdale, who had pleaded guilty to an in: dictment for bigamy, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Isaac Lawton, who bad pleaded guilty to a similar offence, was sentenced to SIX months' imprisonment._______ FRIDAY. .Tothua Blunt, who pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with the man4augherof his brother, WM. B tint, on the 28th of November, in 'Toxteth park, was brought up for sentence. His lordship remarked that , after giving the best consideration to the case, he could not find• that even the eye-witnesses s l / 4 w hi m•give the blase which killed his brother. He had been attacked and beaten; still that was no justification for the use of the knife. He should sentence him to be imprisoned for twelve calendar months, with hard labour. HIGHWAY RCBBE FtY S 1111,..•• ./11 • Hugh Piaharan, aged 23. was indicted , ' for having',.st Parr, feloniously assaulted Richard Potter, wit the In tent, of robbing hint. Mr. M'Oubrey prosectited. The prosecutor wasreturcinghometo Ashton. from St. Helen'St on the night of the 28 h of October, when the prisoner , amongst others, attacked him and attempted to rob hito• —The prisoner was found guilty. CONVICTION OF MR. DEANE FOR FORGERY The trial of Mr. John Deane for forgery excited cone; derable interest, from the respectability of the accuse and his long connection with the town as a tradesman . The facts, however, some of which have been already mentioned in our paper, lay in a small compass.. The prisoner was indicted for forging and uttering hill of exchange for £154 103. 3d.. with intent to defraud John Winter Moss, and others. Mr. Simon and Mr. Rushton conducted the ease for the nrosecution, and Mr. Tindal Atkinson and Sir George Stephen defended the prisoner. Mr. SIMON stated the case to the jury. The prisoner drew a bill, dated July 20th, 1851, upon one John-Ainlel, broker, of Leeds. The bill was rendered negotiable et Glen's, London, and was paid to the prisoner's a ccount over the counter at Messrs. Moss and Co.'s, hanker g ' Dale-street, Liverpool. When the bill arrived at matu rity it was dishonoured. ant then the question arose as tO who ws the acceptor; inquiries were made, but it wog found that no such person as John Ainley, a broker, re-. sided at Leeds. The prisoner was apprehended upon, the charge of forgery, and, in answer to the charge, Deane said that Ainley, the acceptor, had gone to America. The learned counsel said that it was for the prisoner tO produce the person named John Ainley, who, on the face of the bill, was made the acceptor. He (Mr. Simon) would produce witnesses to prove a guilty knowledge oe the part of the prisoner in this transaction. Mr. John Winter Moss, hanker; Sullivan, of the de tective force ; Mr. Thomas Green Robinson, teller at the bank ; Mr. Richard Pemberton Williams, cashier of the Borough Bank ; Mr. Richard Anderton, cashier at Nei' wood's Bank ' • a gentleman of the name of John A.inleft from Leeds •, Thos. Btebner, police constable, of Legde; and Mr. Tudor, a Leeds sharebroker, were examined in evidence. Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON then addressed the jury °II behalf of the prisoner. He said Mr. Deane was an old, respectable, and respected tradesman of Liverpool. °vb.° had been in business for upwards of forty years , — a tee ' of unblemished reputation, of an unimpeached and unite" peachable character. His learned friend had appealed them that it was their duty to guard closely, and to iv% narrowly, anything like a transaction of tampering W' t ec t negotiable securities. No doubt the law had - b edg negotiable securities with heavy pains am: penalties, ae: very necessarily so, too ; hut just in proportion as the hedged this crime with heavy penalties, they must b e careful that a person lying under such a charge should 4 guarded against any matter being unduly feigned agsief him. They would please to remember that the bill question had been placed to the prisoner's credit with those highly-respectable bankers, Messrs. Moss. I t W T. not a bill which Mr. Deane had got discounted for hi' own purposes, but it was a bill placed to his credit as se; curitv against an advance to the debit, within a very few pounds; and this had been done in consequence of se l l remonstrance offered to Mr. Deane in relation to WI state of his account with the bank. The learned count° proceeded to argue that the prisoner had no guilty Iteli ledge of the forgery, and that the case was not established against him. to The following witnesses were then called to depose 4,0 Mr. Deane's character :—Mr. John North, soliciterjr. the dock estate; Mr. John Greene, sharebroker_.; Myers, secretary to the East India Association; Mr•dse Kaye, proprietor of the Courier ; Mr. Thomas Se ° merchant ; Mr. Wm. Dalrymple, and Mr. Wm. Gor e ' e r The jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoe gu M ilty, but recommended him to merc observations a rt Mr . ATKINSON offered some on the p art of the Messrs. Moss in favour of the prisoner. The prisoner having been called upon in the o°l manner to receive judgment. bee ° Mr. Justice Ea have at John Deane, you havet of convicted of a grievous offence against society, s_oo, forgery, and the utterance of forged instruments to un, siderable amount. It is impossible for me or any reas bee ° able person to doubt for a moment that you have d og pursuing those practices for some time, notvvithst an g es the high character you have received from the vii.t°ehke called on your behalf. In a commercial commuell the this, the offence of which you have been convicted, clearest evidence, is one of the deepest dye ; it Is i e gie' which, until a recent and merciful alteration of the esf lative enactment, was punishable by death upon tnl t ice fold. This system must be checked ; and these ~bers I am about to pass upon you will, I hope, d e t u• ee r; from pursuing a similar dangerous and fraudulent ft` ba te that sentence would have been heavier, and I 51°I t i e a rei °f felt it my duty to pass upon you a much longer, jitherto imprisonment but for the good character you hall% Jon borne. The sentence of the court is that Y ° , logo ° Deane, be transported beyond the seas f or the ten years NIGHT-POACHING. ; Oct °b e f er Robert Wright was indicted for having, - n .,„„ s liiP, last, with other persons unknown, at the t ° """ ta loll° ' Bickerstaffe, been out armed, for the purpose efl game, and with beating Peter Cropper, authorised to apprehend him. The circumstance: fourol case possessed no interest. The prisoner w a s ? t rails' guilty, and the Judge sentenced him to ten yea r portation. a person vo't, to L a LE p G o E li D eem PE a li n John Whittaker A , was indicted for wilful and The c se arose out of someevidence corrupt perjury: er iris ea s of assault before given by the prison A dter long inquiry the prisoner was acquitted, his Loru e , to hie marking that not the slightest imputation attach " character. A of Thomas war'• s a Boydell was convicted of stealing uP 0 a £2O from Thomas Wilcock and others, at Lowton, sentenced to three months' imorisonment. joufiLtirbe Preston dicuilati; The Court adjourned soon after six o'clock. SATURDAY. _ n a p r:r Mr. Justice Erie took his seat at nine eclock,* • list , onb" b ceeded to dispose of the only cases remaining the details of which Vies' are unfit for publication. „t ._ William Groves, 21, charged with having, 'osheli Derby, committed a felonious assault upongrg• Howarth, was acquitted. A. for 1Y " 1 ra The next was a case of similar nature, the 01 1_ 0 pee. , ence being, that the prosecutrix was a girl tbilrlmej 4(! of age. The prisoner was named Henry Gotile`,1•0101, and he was charged with having, at Rusholine, eitir. as an j th° ously assaulted Amelia Gould. There rr • t o " den ce , go, absence of the customary corroborative evi , ~,, 0 .. statement of the prosecutrix was contradictenavi/a 011; Brassendale , to wh om she acted as servant, -tted• a h ous e the offence was said to have been conarai j ., their at! eat pr i son er was acquitted. el His Low:lame then thanked the jury for ~.00 0 once, and the business of the Nisi Prius Cour' w 814ortly before three o'clock,