Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-06 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH SESSIONS.

The intermediate quarter-sessions commenced yesterday,
before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., Recorder, in the Crown
Court, St. George's Hall. There were sixty-four prisoners
for trial.
The following gentlemen were sworn on the grand jury
Robert Dixon, 10, Rumford-place ; foreman.
James Brown, merchant, 19, Tower-buildings North.
William. Barry, merchant, Exchange-buildings.
John Baron broker, Oldhall-street.
Richard• Bennett, wine-merchant, Fenwick-street.
• Henry Crain, shipbroker, 35, South John-street.
William Leigh Clare, cotton broker, Exchange-buildings.
Jonathan Cook, drysalter, Batchelor-street.

William Edward Thomas Duncan, merchant, Exchange-,
alley North.
Air. James Fernie, merchant, 6, Water-street.
.Thomas Gardner, wine and spirit merchant, Dale-street.
William Stanley Harris; whole Sale stationer, Drury-laue.
Charles Higgins, merchant, 26, Seel-street..
Homy Warren Meade King; merchant, Hackin's-hey.
Thomas Kemp, corn merchant, Fenwiek-street.
Thomas little, rectifier, Vernon-street.
Robert Makin, jun.; corn merchant, Br. mswick-street.
-William James Powell, broker, 19, Sweetingstreet.
Charles Ross, metal broker, Exchange-Street East.
Robert StattLT, wine merchant, LoWer Castle-street.
William Union, wine merchant, Rumford-place.
The Recorder, in delivering his charge, said that, after
the lapse of little more than four weeks, the jury would find

sixty-four prisoners in the. calendar—a list Which would;
probably, be increased before they had terminated their
duties. There was 'no charge of doing any serious bairn
included in the calendar. Offences of embezzlement seemed
to be prevalent, but the amount of money taken did not appear
to be large. Formerly there had been a class of cases in
the calendar which had forced on their attention the state
of- juvenile crime existing in this town. The calendar m
logger presented such a feature, for they would find that
there was only one case of juvenile crime, and that was
where a youth of fourten years.of. age was hared with
an offence. Now this, hee thought, might bec regag
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some proof of the result of the re;ormatory system ; for,
although generally, the magistrates .-.ealt with such offences
themselves, yet there were occasions on which they
were obliged, sometimes, to send them to this court. Ho
knew, however, from other • sources, that a very great
diminution ha tak n place in offences 'of this nature.
Every youth sent to a reforamtory passed through a certain
,state of discipline, and it was. to be believed that the system
pursued there had had the effect of 'causing a marked falling
off in juvenile crime. Now this; he thought, might be at-
tributed to the excellent manner in which the system was
carried out in this t!Avn, and to the great pains taken with
the children sent there. Referring to the relative numbers
of male and 'female prisoners, the learned gentleman re.-
tnt tinuoTte
al,aerrlenin,go,lBw.lnien-
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a the t IgleaollituVrif,litliiit.a,rt
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nes(tl that the majority of the prisoners were women—
an unparalleled filet!' The number was 517 females to
501 males. Now, this number was not, perhaps, altogether
a correct criterioa, because he was aware that there were
,:ow a large number of women in the prison awaiting their
removal, under sentences of penal seriitude; but making all
just allowances for these, it would be found that
the female prisoners here were in excess of the number of
males. They would also find that a large proportion of
those Who. swelled the gaol, and crowded the cells, were
those unfornun ito women who •roamed about in the night:
Great numh,rs of them pursued the occupation of pick-
pockets, and they would tied one case in the calendar where
a man had his
.pocket picked of
.ClOO by one of these
women. -In concluding his charge, the learned gentleman
directed the attention'of: the jury towards devising some
means for checking the numbers of thiS class of offenders,
and expressed ilk hope tfita tue calendar rili-2;ht be relieved
nianner 'similar to that which had

with respect to
had the etreeL

The jury u r

lineinf, 'the number of juvenile offenders,
,to their duties.

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J. Gorsite•;, llair-C der and Perfumer, No: 7, Parker-
street, bags uau,t Teipecttully to thank his friends mid the
public for t.i! patkona,N bestowed upon him daring-
the fourteen )ears has has been in business in Liverpool,
and furthermore, solicits a continuance of their favour, which it shall ever be his study to deserve,
present- opp . ' announce oat the la,tei.fleia..r.t.ne.r6,lli
if and J axes' lirync, dissolved
existing haw.
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