The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-14 00:00:00

LONDON CORN EXCHANGE-YESTERDAY.

At our market this morning we had a fair show of
Wheat from Essex, but from Kent and more distant
counties the supply was small; the trade in this grain
was very dull ; and it was impossible to effect sales of
even the finest qualities without submitting to a reduc-
tion of is per quarter on the quotations of this day
se'nnight, whilst the light and inferior samples must he
noted fully 2s per qr. lower than on that day. There
was also very little demand for foreign, and although
the above reduction would readily have been accepted,
the business done was altogether unimportant. Flom•
met a slow sale at barely former prices. Of Barley
the receipts were tolerably good ; choice malting qua-
lities found buyers at last week's rates, but other sorts
could have been bought is. per qr. cheaper. The ar-
rivals of Oats, both coastwise and from Ireland, have
been comparatively small; and our dealers evincing
some disposition to increase their stocks, the best par-
eels realised a trifling improvement. Beans and Peas
were in short supply, and rather dearer.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

TUESDAY, APRIL 14.—Wind S.E. Fair.

AR RI VED.—Alecto, Ayshford, from Jamaica, sailed Ist March—
William Brown, Franconia, and Canton, Gibson, from New Orleans
—Angelo, and Rose, from Mobile—Forrester, Parker, from New
York—Superb, Hamilton, from Savannah, sailed 19th March. On
the I lth instant, off Tuskar, spoke the England, for New York—
C G Van Agron, Schumaker, from Stralsund—Julia, Alwart, from
Rostock—Sophia, from Danzig—Perseverance, from Ostend—and
Bellona, from Odessa.

SAILED:— Garrick, Palmer, for New York—Shenandoah, West,
for Philadelphia—Jessore, Puteram, for New Orleans—Jane, Nu-
cleon, for Newfoundland—Royal William, Smith, for Calcutta—Ellen
Brooks, Lindsay, for Baltimore—James Diann, Furze, for Smyrna—
Susanna, Maberly, for Narva—Elizabeth Mary Ann, Balt, for Na-
ples—Glencira, Nawby, for Calcutta—Leila, Orfeur, for Leghorn—
Rob Roy, Albanese, for Malta—Mathew Bell, Jamieson, for Que-
bec—Loyalist, Skinner, for Picton, N. S.—Lynx, Watson, for Lis-
bon—Jan Freetrtz, Smit, Hambm. •

Helen, Symem.Yapp, from ni)xsaytkffir Palmontli, and pro.
Cambridge, Bursley, hence for New York, was spot en szytr:Teir.-
in lat. 41, long. 42
Medora, -, hence for Havana, was spoken 27th Feb. in lat.
45, long 21
Argyleshire, Scott, from the Clyde, at Savannah
Jessamine, Jarvis, hence at Ancona
Syren, Burgess; Triumph, Andrew; A-la-mode, Bartlett, and
Phoenix. Port, hence at I.eghorn
Lapwing,. Osborne, sailed from Leghorn for Liverpool Ist April
Reliance, Turner, and Isabel, Miller, hence at Genoa
Union, Vanderheyde, hence at Ostend
Catherine Cornelia, Berg, hence at Texel
Drie Gebroeders. Piester, hence at Zwolle .
Flora Reitzke, hence at Hambro'

Isabel, --, from Savanilla, at the Cove. On 9th April, in lat.
51, long. 13, spoke the Manchester, from Philadelphia for Liverpool
Caledonia, —, hence for New Orleans, was spoken 19th Feb
in lat. 16, long. 60
MILFORD, April 12.—A few casks of oil, part of the Sarah's cargo,
have been picked up
STROMNESS, April 9.—The Expedition, Krause, from Danzig for
Liverpool, arrived yesterday in Cawston Roads, making a great
quantity of water, and part of the cargo thrown overboard

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL.
APRIL IIOLR
14. Peter Petrie, (div.)
14. Blundell, Falk and Co. (Ist)

Clarendon Rooms, -I
Ditto, 2

,
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15. James Wilson, (Ist)
15. Joseph Taylor Hobson Ditto, 1
15. Benjamin Baker,(div.)
15. John Alexander Griffin, (Ist)
16. Samuel Lennox, (div.l
16. John Thompson, (filial div.)
17. Joseph Mitchell, (div.) Town-hall, Preston, 11
17. William Fairclough, (2nd)
18. Willis and Swainson, (div.)
18. John George Roth Bishop Ditto, 2
20. James Bretherton and William Harrison, Ditto, 1
21. John Wreford Hunt, (;.ind)
21. Edward Burrow, (2nd) Ditto, 12
21. Thomas Croft Huxley, (div.)
21. James Wilson, (2nd) Ditto, 1
21. John Barlow, (Ist) Ditto, 1
22. George Raw, (Ist). ..
22. Charles James Wilson Wharton, (div ) Ditto, 1
23. James Haddon and Co. (div.) Ditto, 13

SOUTH LANCASHIRE SPRING ASSIZES.

CROWN COURT.-FRIDAY.

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His LORDSHIP, with his accustomed punctuality, took his
seat on the bench at nine o'clock.

SENTENCES OF THE REMAINING CHARTISTS.
John Wilde, George Jackson, and William Aitkin were
placed at the bar to receive sentence. His Lordship ad-
dressed them in nearly the same language which he used to
the other prisoners. He lamented that parties of such abili-
ties did not devote them to improving the condition of them-
selves and neighbours, in place of involving themselves in
dangerous political disturbances, in the vain hope of altering
or amending the institutions of ;he country, or improving the
general condition of society. In their own sphere they might
do good to themselves and others. After a kindly ad-
\ monition, his Lordship sentenced each of them to 9 months
imprisonment in Kirkdale gaol, and at the expiration of that
period to find sureties to be of good behaviour and to keep
the peace for three years, themselves in .1;2(10 each, and two
sureties in £5O each, and to be further imprisoned until such
sureties should be found. - _

In the sentence of Wilde (on a representation of his health,
and that he had friends in that town), he had his place of
imprisonment changed to Lancaster.

MILITARY OUTRAGE AT WIGAN CONTINUED.,
John Whittle.—l went to the Three Crowns on the night
in question. I found Farnworth, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Plunkett,
Mr. Cash, and two others whom I did not know. Lamb,
and Swarbrick, and Smith, and Heath, policemen, were also
there. The soldiers came in, and called out, " Where is he?
where is he ?" Mr. M`Nally, a magistrate, was there.
They knocked the table over, seized hold of Mr. Frazer, and
dragged him across the room. Mr. Farnworth having hold
of him, Farnworth was dragged by the soldiers to the ground.
I did not hear Plunkett give orders to the soldiers to ab-
stain. Some of the soldiers afterwards returned. I had
previously sent for a magistrate to read the riot act, and get
them to disperse. I and Mr. M`Nally requested them to
go, but they paid no attention. Mr. Plunkett spoke to them
twice. He said, "Go to your barracks." I went to the
barracks with Mr. Farnworth the first time, half an hour
after Frazer was rescued. Farnworth pulled at the bell and
was told that the commanding officer was not hi, but would
be in in half an hour. I went a second time with Pam-
worth and Rylance. Farnworth was told the commanding
officer was not in. The door was open and Mr. Cash was on
the lobby. He said he would only see the bead man. Mr.
Cash saw me at the Three Crowns, but I did not tell him
that I was head of the police.
Cross-examined.—On the first occasion it was half-past
seven. It was about an hour after the rescue that we saw
Mr. Cash. I ascertained afterwards that Mr. Cash was
lame. . _ _ _

----Cross-examined by Mr. WILKINS.—The soldiers cried on
entering—" Where is he ?" I did not know but Mr. Plun-
kett belonged to the Wigan detachment. I apprehended him
at Haydock Lodge. On the night in question he appeared
to be perfectly sober. I was present during the rescue.
While I was in the room, I did not see Mr. Plunkett touch
Farnworth at all.

Re-examined.—When the soldiers entered, my attention
was drawn towards them.

John Maelead.—l am a clerk to Mr. Wallace, sheriff's
officer. I was outside the Three Crowns that night. I saw
a crowd of all sorts. I saw an officer going from the direc-
tion of the barracks towards the Three Crowns. It was, I
have since learned, Mr. Cash, who sits there. There were
a number of private soldiers with him. I saw them go into
the inn. I did not see the officer go in, but I saw him close
to the door. I heard some one say that the magistrates were
coming to read the Riot Act. Some one of the soldiers said,
" Hell to the magistrates ! They will not be magistrates much
longer for us ;—we'll have him out." They came out in about
five minutes with Frazer with him. He was in front, and
the soldiers on each side of him. They said—" Who'll take
him from us now ?"

Cross-examined by Mr. MURPHY.—I could not see all
that occurred, as there was a great crowd. I was not exa-
mined before the magistrates as to these facts. Ido riot
know how it is lam brought here as a witness. One of the
police told me I should he wanted. Ido not know how he
knew that I could give any information. I might have men-
tioned to somebody that I saw part of the row. I mentioned
it next day in a public house. A fortnight since. I heard for
the first time that I should be wanted. This was subsequent
to my speaking to Rylance.
James Rylance.—l am an attorney's clerk. On the night
in question I was coming down the street about 7 o'clock.
I saw a number of persons in the street. I went up. A man
dressed as an officer's servant ran into the Three Crowns
lobby. In about a minute he returned. Mr. Cash came
out immediately after him, and went in a direction to
the barracks. In a minute or so I saw a large number of sol-
diers in their undress uniform. Mr. Cash was with them.
They ran into the Three Crowns lobby. I did not see Mr.
Cash enter with them. He was about eight yards off. They
shouted. (Here witness imitated an Irish howl.) (Great
laughter.) One had a stick as thick as my wrist. They came
out with somebody crying, "We have him ! We have him !"
I then saw Mr. Cash walking from the barracks towards the
Market-place. He passed the Three Crowns on the opposite
side. I said to him, " Recollect, sir. I have marked you as
the ringleader of this row." .He did .not reply.
Cross-examined by Mr. MURPHY.---There appeared to be
two =allies of soldiers from the barracks.
John Hodgkinson --I am a traveller to an ale and porter
house. I saw the soldiers rush into the Three Crowns. I
was in the house, and went out at the back door. I might
be a little frightened. I saw Mr. Cash in the street. He
was about ten or fifteen yards from the door of the inn. -He
was in the middle of the street. I saw Rylance two or three
minutes afterwards., He asked me what was the row, and I
said it was a row with the soldiers.
William Irving, a traveller, saw Cash with the soldiers,
after the rescue. He did not interfere to quiet the soldiers.
John Copeland —Saw the soldiers going to the inn. I saw
Mr. Cash soon after the soldiers came out.
Rylance recalled.—Mr. Cash had a cap, I think a glazed
one, and a coat buttoned up. He had a thick stick in his
band, with a knob the size of my fist. I think he bad slip-
pers on.' I cannot tell the precise kind of coat. It was gas-
light.

-William Rider, a boy, saw the soldiers• come, some run-
ning an-1 some walking. I saw John Bergen, the little
drummer, and Mr. Cash. Mr. Cash was seven or eight yards
troll the inn. I knew there would be a row. I ran away to
lo k up the shop, and then heard them shout, " We've got
him ! we've got him !"
Cross-examined by Mr. MURPHY.-Mr. Cash was walk-
ing. The soldiers might be going a littl piteker than he.
There were some soldiers behind him as well as before.
This was

Mr. Mortisnaz then addressed the jury on behalf of the
defendant Cash. These two young men belonging to an
honourable profession, would, if their verdict were against
them, not only be submitted to the civil consequences, but
their prospects in life must be marred ; for they would also
have a still more severe infliction to undergo—the loss of
their commissions in the army. The question to be deter-
mined was, not whether Mr. Plunkett had represented him-
self as Mr. Frazer,—that was but indulging in a natural
feeling to endeavour to save his friend from arrest,—but
whether the defendants sanctioned the interference of the
soldiers, and aided or abetted the rescue. He then proceeded
to make ingenious deductions from the evidence. The cir-
cumstance of the officers retiring to a corner of the room was
natural enough, the probability being that they were merely
speaking or whispering in private as to the means of raising
the money for their friend, so that he might be released. It
was not to be assumed that they were concocting a rescue.
Even Farnworth admitted that he thought it likely they
were conversing on the raising of the money, He then dwelt
on the insults given by the drunken landlord of the inn to
Mr. Cash, who, peculiarly sensible from his rank and station, •
naturally lifted his stick, which any other man would have
done under similar aggravation. After the rescue, too, Mr.
Cash was seen in the street, walking up nobody knew where,
and altogether unconnected with the soldiers. It was not won-
derful that the soldiers, hearing that a favourite officer was •
insulted and kept, as they thought, wrongfully in custody,
should in their mistaken zeal•and attachment towards him,
make a rescue. This was perfectly consistent with the inno-
cence of Mr. Cash, who was not seen leading the soldiers on
or in any way aiding or abetting. He was in undress at the
time, had no command over the men, and took no active part
whatever in the rescue. A strict analysis of the whole evi-
dence led to the inference that Mr. Cash was no participator
in what was done by the soldiers.
Mr. WILKINS then spoke in behalf Mr: Plunkett. The
evidence went to show that many of the Witnesses had shown
a disposition to pervert and exaggerate the facts. lie then
alluded to the press, which had taken great pains also to
create prejudices against his client. One of the papers in
particular had given a garbled, false, and pervArted account
of this affair, and had the audacity to state: that it was
derived from a gentleman of high respectability in the
legal profession. This he denied. Such an account
must have been furnished by sonic scrub of a lawyer's-
clerk, who had nothing to do, and wrote the disgrace-
ful statement for a penny a line. Never was the press
inure dangerous than, when thus employed in perverting the
truth ; and he trusted they would dismiss from their minds
all impressions injurious to his client that might have arisen
from the perusal of those statements. He declared his
absolute conviction that Mr. Plunkett never kicked Mrs.
Burgoyne at all. (The learned counsel here made some re-
marks relative to the alleged kick, which called forth an in-
terruption from Mr. BRANDT, who said that his learned
friend was mistaken as to the evidence of Heath on this point.
The learned JUDGE referred to his notes, and it appeared
that witness had not said that Mr. Plunkett merely lifted his
leg to keep her off, as had been stated by the defendant's
counsel--Mr. Wilkins; but that, in cross-examination,
he said " it might have been to keep her off; I think it was
a kick." Farnworth was recalled, and examined as to
whether the kick was given by Mr. Plunkettwhile he lay on
the table, arid in reply to the Judge said, " Half an hour in-
tervened between the time when he lay on the table and
the giving" of the kick. Mr. Plunkett. was standing up
at the time, within less than a yard of Mr. Burgoyne,
and while he held the gas suspender in his hand.
He could not have held the suspender in his hand,
if he were lying on the table.") The learned counsel endea-
voured arduously to throw discredit upon the evidence of
several of the witnesses. He concurred with his learned
friend, that the whispering was to he construed into a con-
sultation on raising the funds, to obtain the release of their
friend. Mr. Plunkett was grossly insulted and goaded.
lie concluded by pronouncing a warm eulogium on the
aristocracy of the land, to which his client belonged,
and to whom the consequences of a conviction would
indeed be dreadful. He belonged to one of the first
familes in the kingdom; his name had never yet been tarnished,
and he (the learned counsel) trusted that the verdict of the
jury would leave it still untarnished. •
The Learned JuocE prefaced his summing up of the evi-
dence, by stating that the two counsel who had just ad-
dressed them, had taken higher grounds than their clients
were entitled to. The conduct of Mr. Plunkett was cer-
tainly reprehensible; and if some circumstances occurred
not altogether agreeable to his feelings, be had no right to
complain in such high terms, as the cause arose out of his
own iiriiseretion. It was quite certain that he had done
extremely wrong. He had deceived the sheriff's officer, the
result of which, had the deception been continued, might
have been attended with serious consequence to that in-
dividual : it might have saddled the officer with debt
and costs. He (the learned Judge) did not, therefore, con-
sider this a case which entitled the parties to take the high
ground which had been assumed. With regard to Farnworth
irritating Mr. Plunkett or behaeing uncivilly towards him,
the opposite conduct was his own interest, and he neither
knew Mr. Plunkett nor entertained any animosity towards
him. He made these remarks in justice to the wittiesses,as so
high a ground had been taken in the defence. His lordship
then said, the jury would first have to consider whether the
defendants had aided or abetted the soldiers ; and next, whe-
ther they had committed the assaults charged against them
as having been committed on Farnworth and-Mr. and Mrs.
Burgoyne. His lordship then carefully summed up the evi-
dence, commenting upon it as he proceeded. With reference
to the officers not at first ordering the soldiers away, and
the defence set up, they (the jury) were as good judges
of military affairs as either of the learned counsel. They
could not for a moment entertain the opinion-that one of the
defendants, being in undress, and the other belonging to a
detachment quartered at Ilaydock House, a few miles dis-
tant,—they had therefore, no power to order the sol-
diers to go. Had they been so ordered, they would in
all probability have dispersed ; hut nothing of this kind
had been done until after the rescue. Plunkett had the
power to order them home, and might have done so at
first if he had chosen. In conclusion, he -stated that
the consideration of their verdict was most important as af-
fecting these officers. If they were not satisfied that the
charges on either of them were made out, let them acquit the
defendants. On the other hand, if they were so satisfied,
and it appeared that the defendants, with a view to save their


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friend, had ari far forgotten themselves as to act in the man-
ner imputed to them,—it would be their duty, however pain-
ful it might be, to find a verdict of guilty.
Sentence deferred.