The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL JULY SESSIONS

The Court resumed its periodical sittings yesterday, be-
foie Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The calen-
dar was numerically heavy, there being the names of 128
prisoners charged with felony, and 18 persons with mte-
demeanour. Out of the whole number, 60 can read and
write imperfectly ; 36 can read imperfectly ; 7 can read
and write well, and 43 can neither read nor write. The
offences, as will be observed by the;flecorder's chargepre-
sented, with a few exceptions, no peculiar feature of inte-
re,t or ag.gravation.
The following gentlemen were sworn as

THE GRAND JURY.
Chades Inman, Insurance Agent, Bedford-street South,

Foremou ;
Henry Booth, Gentleman, Bedford-street South ;
Swinton Boult, Merchant, Water-street;

George Bolton, Stock and Sharebroker, 'Exchange-street

East ;
Michael Bousfield, Cotton-broker, Rumford-street

John Caropb

I, Cotton-broker, Exchang

street N-orth ;

James Gibson Clarke, Distiller, Dale-street;
Henry Cleaver Chapman, Merchant, Shaw-street

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William Edward Thomas Duncan, Ditto, Exchange-alley ;
William Charles Fosberry, Ditto, Tithebarn-street ;

John Finch. jun., Iron Merchant, Sir Thomas's-buildings ;
Henry Glynn, Broker, Exchange-street East;
Thomas Arthur Hope, G3ntleman. Everton-terrace;
James Lister, Banker, Great Mersey-street ;
Thomas Marshall Myers, Broker, Exchange-alley West ;
Joseph Parton, Broker, Exchange-buildings;
Samuel Stitt, Iron Merchant, Drury-lane;
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Samuel Aspinall Syers, Cotton broker, Chapel-street ;
Henry Steele, Timber Merchant, Waterloo-road ;

Owen Tudor, SliarebrAer, Dale--trees ;
Henry Whitaker, Cotton-broker, Rumford-street

The proclamation against vice and immorality having
been read,
The RECORDER, addressing the Grand Jury, said that
the list of offenders on this occasion was a long one.
Within the last ten weeks, as it appeared from his calen-
dar, about 150 individuals had been sent for trial ; of
these 128 were charged with felony, and 21 with misde-
meanour. He waa sorry to say that amongst the offenders
for felony there were no fewer than 52 females ; and
amongst those charged with stealing pocket-books, purses,
money from the pocket, watches, &c., out of 18, 14 were
said to be females. There were three cases of children
being stripped of their clothes ; and it would be necessary
to check this disgraceful offence by making some severe
examples. There was one case of a woman who bad
uttered a number of base pennies, and after her appre:
hension she gave up ten counterfeit pennies made of lead.
There was one case of a person who intended to emigrate,
and being taken into a public-house, was induced to bet
on turning up of cards. Cases of ring-dropping had
prevailed half a century ago ; but these tricks at cards
appeared to have taken the place of that practice. For
this offence two men had been transported last year,
and if others were convicted he should consider it
his duty to rid the town of such characters. There was
a case of a man stealing the lease of a house of which
he was owner from his tenant. He considered this
of such a nature that it would probably not be laid
before them, but be sent for adjudication to another
court. There were no cases of embezzlement, or
breaking into warehouses by gangs of men ; and he was
glad to say that, though the number of prisoners was
large, the offences were not of a very aggravated nature.
He had the satisfaction to state that considerable good
had been effected by the improved prison discipline, and
especially by separate imprisonment in the gaol. The
new plan adopted had received the approbation of the Pri-
son Inspector of the district. It might be proper to state
that one of the main causes of crime in the town, as else-
where, was intoxication. This was shown by the nu-
merous cases brought before the magistrates at the police-
court, and all the evidence that was produced elsewhere led
to the same result. It appeared, indeed, that they had only
to know the number of public-houses and beer-houses, is
order to form an estimate of the: proportionate amount
of offences. In Glasgow and other places the same ap-
peared from statistical accounts to hold good. and it was
every where found that the greater the number of such
houses the more was the character of the people, especially
of the humbler classes, deteriorated or debased. He was
sorry to say that the proportion of public houses in Liver-
pool was so numerous ; and he should be glad to see that
proportion considerably diminished. He expressed his
gratification that so respectable an assemblage of gentle-
men of experience had appeared on the grand jury. It
was, therefore, unnecessary for him to offer them any
advice as to the nature of the duties they had to perform;
and he should therefore dismiss them to consider the
several cases that would be laid before them.
A petty jury was then sworn in, and the trials soon
afterwards proceeded. None of them during the day were
of an interesting character. :The following were the
results at the closing of the court last night :

Elizabeth Watts, for stealinz wearing apparel, &c., in
West Derby Workhouse—four calendar months and hard
labour.

Anti Sullivan, stealing a teapot—eight calendar months
and hard labour.

James Hutchinson, stealing a chest full of clothes—
six calendar months and bard labour.

John Gummitt, stealing three bills of exchange, value
£Boo—ten years' transportation.
Martha Shaw, stealing a watch—eight calendar months
and hard labour, ten days solitary.

George Hughes, stealing a barrel of pork—one calendar
month and bard labour.

Ann Williams, stealing a barn—one calendar month
an dhard labour, ten days solitary.

Elizabeth Lennon, stealing boots—one calendar month
and hard labour, ten days solitary.
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Ann Robinson—no bill

William Burgess—acquitted.
Henry Martin, stealing a dozen of mats—seven years'
transportation.

INl'Key, stealing articles of plate, &c.—six
calendar months and hard labour, and twice whipped.

Captain Houston Steward has succeeded Lord John
Hay in the superintendence of Woolwich Dockyard.
Sir Charles Adam has been appointed to the Admiralty,
Sir William Parker having declined the offer of a seat at
that board.

On Saturday the Lords' Committee decided that the
preamble of the Bury branch of the Blackburn, Bolton,
and Darwen Railway had not beer► proved.
Active measures are heing taken to restore tranquility
at the Cape of Good Hope. Two regiments have been
ordered thither, and further reinforcements are contem-
plated.
On Sunday morning a fire broke out in the Commercial
Coffee-house, Newgate-street, London, which did con.pi-
derable damage. A young man named Cookson jumped
from one of the windows, and was so much injured that
he expired soon after.
A gentleman named Charlesford, in attempting on Sa-
turday to get on a train which had just started from
Blackwall station, missed his step and fell between two
carriages, whereby he was so frightfully crushed that he
died in a few minutes.

A strong protest, signed by the Venerable Clarkson►
Stephen Lushington, Sir E. N. Buxton, S. Gurney, and
other tried friends of the anti-slavery cause, against the
proposed introduction of slave grown sugars into the
British markets, has been presented to Lord Joho
Russell.

A public meeting will be held in London to-day, is
Lambeth, B. B. Cabbell, Esq., in the chair, for the pur-
pose of co-operating with the " Poor Man's Guardian
Society," in aiding the poor in their application for paro-
chial relief, and securing to them the legal and humane
dispensation of the laws.

LORD BROUGHAM AND THE PROTECTIONISTS.'"
Lord Broughamentertained the Duke of Wellington, the
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. the Duke of Rich-
mond, the Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of Beaufort,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Granby, the
Earl of Ellenhoraugh, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of
Stradbroke, Viscount Strangford, Lord Stanley, Lord
Lyndhurst, Lord Redesdale, Sir P. Cr.mpton, Mr. W.
Brougham, and Mr. Alfred Montgomery, at dinner, oil
Sunday, at the noble lord's mansion, in Grafton-street.
NEW ROUTE TO ROTTERDAM VI YARMOUTH."'
An experiment was made last week by the Et stern Coun-
ties Railway Board, in connexion with the Norwich and
Brandon, to determine the probability of making these
two lines, with Yarmouth as a port, the shortest route to
Rotterdam and the North of Europe. A large number
of passengers was assembled; but the attempt proved
nothing but the badness of the arrangements made, the
steamer engaged making a port fifteen miles from her in-
tended destination, where the passengers were detained •
all night, getting into Rotterdam next morning. A host
of other mishaps occurred, rendering the trip anything
but a pleasant one ; the passage back to Yarmouth being
very stormy and difficult.

TELEGRAPH OFFICE, JULY 20.

Wind at Holyhead West, fresh breeze.
Off Holyhead, at 7 a m. No. 8057, Nautilus. I
6104, John, barque, from Quebed, at S a.m
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