Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-08 00:00:00

BOROUGH SESSIONS.

The Liverpool Court of Quarter Sessions was opened
yesterday, at St. George's-hall, by I. B. .Ispinall, Esq.,
deputy-recorder, the recorder being ill. The following
are the names of the

GRAND JURY:--
Robert Crosby, tobacco broker, North John-st. (foreman).
James Alexander, merchant, York-buildings.
John- Bingham, merchant, 12, Brunswick-street.
T. 31:Blythe, merchant, 64, Tower-buildings South.
Jeremiah Bower, broker, 4, Oldhall- street.
George Cunliffe, merchant, 9, Brunswick-street.
H. K. Claypole, merchant, 41. Lord-street.
Charles Cummins, merchant, 7, Exchange-buildings.
Charles H. Cox, broker, 4, Oldhall-street.
Thomas Darcy, merchant, 11, Covent-garden.
Frederick Edwards, merchant, 7, Cook-street.
F. J. Eaton, broker, 7, Tithebarn-street.
Edward Evans, wholesale druggist, 52, Hanover-street.
Edward Glazebrook, wine merchant, 7, Brunswick-street.
Robert Gill, jun., broker, 1, Chapel-street.
Thomas Joynson, broker, 1, Tithebarn-street.
Charles Langton, insurance broker, High-street.
H. B. Molyneux, share broker, 4, York-buildings.
W. F. M'Gregor, ironfounder, 50, Vauxhall-road.
Hugh Perkins, woolbroker, 21, Hackin's-hey.
The Grand Jury having been sworn, and the procla-
mation against vice and immorality having been read,
The Deputy Recorder said, that in the unavoidable
absence of the learned Recorder, the duty of conducting
the sessions devolved upon him. Although the list was
a very long one, which was almost inevitable at this
time of the year. There was no case, in a commercial
sense, of any great importance excepting one, and he
thought there was no other case which required any
observations from him. The only case which he thought
it was in the slightest degree necessary to mention, was
that of a captain of a vessel, whom they would find
char.ged with embezzling considerable sums of money
receive =1 by him on account of his employers. It was a
sort of embezzlement which arose under somewhat novel
circumstances, and it might be" that, in the event of
their finding a bill, some questions of law would arise ;
but he should recommmend them to confine their
enquiry to the question whether in their opinion
there was a priind facie case to shew that the sums of
money, which he, (Mr. Aspinall,) did not know that
there would be any. doubt that he did receive, were
fraudulently appropriated by him, with the intention of
cheating his employers, and with the knowledge that he
had no right to retain the money. For even supposing
a man to be mistaken upon a question of right, yet if he
had a real bona fide opinion that he had a right to
retain the money, it was not embezzlement ; there
was a great difference between a mistake and a felony.
Therefore, before they brought a bill, he should recommend
them to see that there was a prima facie case, chewing
that at the time he retained the money and neglected to
account for it, he knew that he had no right to do so,
and intended to defraud his employers. If they sere
of opinion that there was a prima facie case, they ought
to find a bill, and leave the matter to be settled by a
common jury in open court. The Deputy Recorder
concluded by expressing his readiness to lend them his
assistance if any question should arise in the progress of
their inquiries ; and, shortly afterwards the trial of
prisoners was commenced.