The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-01 00:00:00

Lawrence R. Bailey, arerase adjuster, Exchange-buildings,

foreman.
William Cliff, the younger, merchant, Tithebarn-street.
Henry Cot, broker, Oldhall7street.

Charles Lee Campbell; broker, Tithebarn-street.

James Charnbtrs merchant, Water,street.
Richard Derhs:dire; nierahant, Temple-stfeet.

Wm. Douglas, merchant, High-street.

Wm. Doweon, merchant, bldhall-street.
Wm. Dyer, shipowner, Nelson-street.
Thos. P. Danson, broker, Exchange-alley North.
Daniel Powell, merchant, North John-street.
Robert Vining, merchant, Chard-street.
John Williams, iron and copper merchant, Cook-street.

J 43. Ricarby, nierchant, South John4treet.
Edward Senior, metal broker, India-buildingg.
Pereira] Tonge, broker, Runiford-street,
Jonathan W. Whitehead, broker, Exchange-alley North.
John Wood, merchant, Oldhall-street.

The proclamation against immorality having bee❑
read by the Clerk of the Peace,
The usual formalities having been disposed of,

The Recorder charged the Grand Jury as follows :
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, you will have presentcd
to you a six weeks' calendar, which contains the names
of seventy-eight persons sent for trial in that period.
You will find that the cases arc, with very few exceptions,
very light in character, and so simple as to require little
trouble in the investigation on some parts, and to call for
no comment from me. I presume many of them would
have been disposed of bps magistrate had it not been for the
previous known misconduct of all parties accused. There
are two cases of embezzlement, one of which is said to involve
an amount
_of upwards of £2OO. There is a case in
which a tradesman had been drinking and fell down in
the streets, and was assisted to rise by several persons,
one of whom seems to have helped himself to his. purse,
for immediately afterwards it was missed, with orders
for money to the amount of £l5O. One of the orders,
for £22, was traced a few days afterwards, and two
women were now charged with receiving it, knowing
it to have been stelen. In another case a bookkeeper,
on his way home, with the cash of the office
in a bag, was jostled in Cook-street by a woman,
and directly afterwards he missed the bag, which
contained L 77. Part of this money consisted of a
£5O note, which was fortunately found in the street
near the place early nett morning. These, gentlemen,
are the cases involving the largest amounts of money in
the calender. The only new feature in it is the large
number of charges for plundering lodgings: There are
no less than ten cases of this description. The sufferers
are in general poor people, and the property taken of
small value ; yet when an offence so mischevious becomes
rife, it may be necessary, for the sake of example, to visit.
that sort. of cases with proper severity. Gentlemen, in
ascertaining the recent amount of crime in the borough,
I know of no better criterion than the state of the borougl,
gaol. The new prison at Walton, was constructed
to contain about 1,080 prisoners ; but since its
erection it has frequently been found to be insufficient,
the numbers committed etceedifig that extent. There
has latterly been considerable imprisonment; in the
course of last year the average number of persons in the
gaol, in confinement, was 920 ; but since that I have
noticed a progressive improvement, but never any so
satisfactory as I have to call your attention tout the
present, when I state that on Saturday last the number
in the gaol was 687. And when one considers the vast
population of this great community, and the element,
of which.itis composed ; the unparalleled extent of its
commerce, and the vast quantity of property which is
stored in the town; when all these and other circum-
stances are considered, I cannot help thinking that we
may dwell. with some complacency on the present state
of the borough. With these observations, gentlemen,
I shall dismiss you to your duties, with which no doubt
you are Welt acquainted.
• -The grand jury then retired, and shortly afterwards
returned iith several true bills, and the trial of prisoners
proceeded.- •