The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-24 00:00:00

KIRKDALE SESSIONS.-.YESTERDAY

These sessions were resumed yesterday at the Court
House, Kirkdale, when the trial of prisoners was
proceeded with. G. Henderson, Esq., the Recorder of
Liverpool, presided. The other magistrates present on the
bench were Messrs. Hall, Pollock, Preston, Oatupbell,

Theakstone.
The usual formalities having been disposed of the follow-
ing gentlemen were selected as the
GRAND JURY,
J. P. Mather. Bootle, tea merchant.
Alexander M'Culloch, grocer.
John Mark, shipbroker.
John Carter, confectioner, Liverpool.
F. J. Eaton, broker, Everton.
Peter Edwards, gentleman.
Joseph Follows, shoemaker.
Richard Ledger, Kirkdale, timber merchant.
Christopher Meadows, pawnbroker.
Berge Molyneux, miller.
Anthony Myers, gentleman.
Thom Is Hutton, Ortnskirk, printer.
J. Mawdsley, grocer;
Richard Owen, ironmonger.
Henry Sharrock, grocer.
Joseph Stoner, grocer.
Alexander Logon, Bootle, engineer.
J. Robinson, Urmskirk, broker.
J. Fairclougtt, Everton, builder.
William Elias, joiner.
Edmund Creason ironmonger.
G. Peet, Ormskirk, joiner.
The usual oath having been taken,
The Chairman addressed the gentlemen to the following
effect-'He said: In the absence of the appointed Chairman,l
have been called on, most unexpectedly, to open the court
on the present occasion. No doubt you are all aware that
the vacancy of chairman, which Ills so long existed, was
yesterday filled up, when the magistrates made choice of a
nobleman, not so much for his high rank and station, but
because he has, as a member of this body, given at an early
age the strongest proof as to his capacity for business ; and
I do most sincerely trust that this court will soon reap the
benefit of these qualifications. It is true that he has not
had the advantage of a legal training, but looking at his
high character, and seeing that he has promised to fulfil
the duties of the office to the best of his abilities, I have
no hesitation in saying, that I feel convinced that the
distrusts of some, as to the necessity of having a gentleman
of the legal prcfession to fill the office, will speedily
vanish, and that he will, by his ability and energy, fully
compensate for the want of having followed professional
legal pursuits. Gentlemen, by the calendar before me, I
find that there are fifty persons for trial, but perhaps it
would be wrong tor me to say that this shows
an increase in crime, seeing that, at least, forty other
cases have been disposed of summarily—a power granted.
by a rnent act of Parliament. The chairman then
dismissed the jurors, requesting them to proceed with the
finding of the bills
Several appeals were entered and respited.

APPEALS,

TRIAL OF, FRISINERS,

The court then prJceeded with the trial of prisoners.
The calendar showed that there were forty-nine prisoners
for trial at these sessions; of whom eighteen could read and
write, improperly; nine could read ; and sixteen of them
could neither read or write.

Lord Elgin having refused the Governor-generalship of
Victoria, his late Canadian private secretary, Mr. Oliphant,
is now talked of.
The Daily News says :—A step in the peerage, has, we
believe, been most graciously offered to the Earl of Claren-
don, and respectfully declined by his lordship.
The President of the Berlin Police has intimated to the
journals that it would be desirable they should not allude in
any way to the betrothal of Prince William Frederick with.
It
the Princess oyal of England.
The Opinione of Turin says, that the memoir of the Sat-
diniAu Plenipotentiary, on .the Italian question, was sub-
mitted to the approval of the Emperor of the French and
of the English Government, at the formal invitation of the
Emperor himself.
COMMISSIONS WITHOUT PURCHAqE.—Since the breaking
out of the war 1,241 gentlemen have been appointed with.
out purchase ; 317 commissions have been given to militia
officers, in consideration of having obtained volunteers ;
and 170 non-commissioned officers have received couinds-
sions without purchase—total 1 7',8
•
SCHOOL or A 3.T, LIVERPOOLiNSTITUTR, MOUNT-BTRIM•
—A short time ago we noticed that one of the:students in
this school had gained a prize medal at the -exhibition of
drawings Pt Gore-house, London. We now learn that an
art pupil teachership, value 20,'and tenable for two years,
has just been awarded to Alexander Banner, another of the
students. This ease must not be confotinded with the mere
granting of a certificate of prc,ficiency in drawing to a pupil
teacher in a parochial or public _school for general instruc-
tion under government ,inspection. The prize awarded to
Mr., Banner is one which is granted only to rare merit, and
is, in fact, the highest distinction, save one, that an art
student can have conferred on him—the higher prize being
a metropolitan scholarship, worth above £lOO. This is the
first art pupil teachership that has been gained by the
Liverpocl schools, whose connection with the department of
practical art dates very recently—a fact that renders the
circumstance we are recording the more gratifying, and the
Institute has good reason to be proud of Mr. Banner's
success. We understand that another pupil teschership, a
studentship, and other prizes, are shortly to be competed for
If in the school.