The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-17 00:00:00

SACRILEGE.

John Crook pleaded guilty to having, at Harpurhey,
sacrilegiously broken and entered Christ Church, and
having stolen therefrom four lamps, one inkstand, three
books, and 201bs. weight of lead. Sentenced to three
months' imprisonment.

ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO ROB.
Thomas Kelly was found guilty of having assaulted and
beaten, in company with another person unknown, on the
night of the 11th of April. Wm. Smith. a moulder, near
St. Andrew's Church, Manchester. The prisoner was
recommended to mercy on account of his previous good
character. His lordship sentenced him to three months'
imprisonment and hard labour.

ARSON.
Thomas Donoghue was indicted for having, on the 31st
of March last, at Bold, feloniously set fire to a stack of
wheat. the property of Henry Baker, a farmer. On the
31st March last, whilst Mr. Baker was absent in Liver-
pool, attending the assizes, prosecuting a man named
Kenwright, who was charged with setting fire to a rick of
hay, also the property of Mr. Baker, one of his stacks of
wheat was set fire to and destroyed, and suspicion attached
to the prisoner. The jury, after a short consultation,
found the prisoner not guilty.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.
John Connor, Jonathan Wood, and Mary Ann Riley,
were indicted for having, at Manchester, violently beaten
and assaulted Edward Wright. and robbed him of a watch,
value £6, on the 13th of April last, when returning from
Knot-mill fair. The prisoners were all found guilty.
Connor and Riley, who it appeared were man and wife,
were each sentenced to ten years transportation ; and
Wood to two years' imprisonment and hard labour.

BURGLARY.
Henry Haque was found guilty of having, on the 24th
of April, broken into the house of Robert Halsall, in
Manchester, and stolen a quantity of wine and brandy.
Ten years' transportation.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.
John 2111 Andrew was found guilty of having, at Man-
chester, on the 21st of May, feloniously beaten John
Lloyd, and robbed him of 9s. 9d. A previous conviction
having been proved, he was sentenced to ten years'
transportation. FORGERY AND FRAUD.
James Aspinall was found guilty of having at Bol-
ton, on the sixth of May last, procured a coat from
William Saunders, a tailor, by forging an order purport-
ing to be from Mr. Joseph Holden, painter, who had for-
merly been his employer. There was another indictment
for a similar offence. Sentence, 12 months"' imprison-
ment and hard labour.
The court was then adjourned to nine o'clock onTriday
morning. During the day repeated complaints were made
by his lordship that he was,umable to hear the remarks of
witnesses asid counsel. The corepluiets of the bar were

equally numerous that his lordship and the witnesses were
inaudible, although the voices of all parties were pitched
to their highest key.

FRIDAY

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

James Roughley, Charles Mack, Martin Heffern, and
Hannah Moore, were charged with having robbed John
Mitchell, at Manchester, on the 14th of May last. It ap-
peared that prosecutor, a hawker, residing at Broadbot-
tom, had been inveigled by Heffern into a beer-house,
near the Sheffield and Manchester Railway station, where
the offence was committed by the prisoners. The jury
found all the prisoners guilty. Previous convictions were
proved against Mack and Moore. Roughley was sen-
tenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour ; the
other three prisoners were transported for 15 years.