The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-16 00:00:00

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erroneously credited to that office by the United States on
newspapers sent from the United States, through England,
to certain countries beyond.
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great virulence at New Orleans. The anniversary of
the landing of the pilgrim fathers at Plymouth had been
celebrated with the usual demonstrations. The comet
discovered by M. Klinkerfues, at Gothengen, on the 10th
June last, had been seen at the Washington Observatory.
Mr. Crampton, the British minister, had left Washing-
ushing, of the U.S. Cabinet,
°roe from interruption, the

ton with Messrs. Marcy and C
for the country, to discuss,
fishery and reciprocity questio

Intelligence from the city of Mexico, to the 16th July,
state the Mexican papers were bitterly opposing the pro-
ject of a Spanish protectorate, and all return, whether
partial or complete, to the Spanish yoke. The• union of
the Church and state was progressing. Crosses and) deco-
rations given by the Pope were publicly worn, add pre-
parations were making for the return of the Jesuits. The
penalty of death had been decreed against public-defaulters.
Advices from St. John's, N. 8., state that fires were
raging in the woods near Shediac, and had already de-
stroyed a large quantity of valuable timber. The survey
of the European and North American Railway was actively
going on, with the prospect that in a few months the-
grading would be commenced.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

Ava-tram 2.

Moi*Ev.—Stocks are lower, with very tittle promise of
a speedy recovery. Money was a little more in demand,
but there is no difficulty in negotiating good paper at 7
per cent., although some long dates go as high as 8 per
cent. Exchange on England, 1'

moderate demam

.O to 109 per cent.; in
Bills on France,,f 5 15 to f 5 DI

COTTON.—(From W. P. Wriyht's Circular, of Aug,
2.)—During Wednesday and Thursday of last week this
market exhibited symptoms of weakness, and sales
were made at a slight reduction from my quotations of
26th July. On Friday we had the Asia's accounts,
which were generally construed here as more• in• favour
of a pacific settlement of political. difficulties in Europe.
We also at the same time received by telegraph, from
Charleston and Savannah,. accounts of too much rain
having fallen in Georgia and South Carolina. These
circumstances gave new life to.our market, particularly as
orders for cotton were received per Asia from Liverpaol and
Havre, the decline was recovered, and prices clbsed yester-
day with much firmness and with only a limited supply
offering at the quotations of last week. The sales since
26th July have been 8500 bales, of which the larger pro-
portion has been for Liverpool; about 1000 bales for
Havre, and a similar amount for the north of Europe.
Our own spinners continue to. purchase to a limited extent
only. The export during the past week has been—to Li-
verpool, 1354 bales ; Bordeaux, 278 ; Gottenburg, 100.
Total, 1732 bales.

Caor.—This question continues to exercise an influence
on this market, varying according to the reports from the
cotton growing region. We have had, during the past
few days, accounts of injury from too much rain in Georgia
and South Carolina, which has caused some improvement
in the markets of Savannah and Charleston. The greatest
danger that could happen to the young crop, in its present
condition, would be the prevalence of rain during this
month of August; and the holders of eotton here are quite
alive to the importance of unfavourable weather during
this and next month ; hence the firmness with which they
hold on to the present stock.
The excess in receipts now amounts to 205,000 bales.
The increase in exports to Great Britain is 62,000 ; de.
crease to France, 1,000 • other foreign ports, 2,000. Total
increase in exports, 65,000 bales.
BEEIDSTUFFS.—From Tuesday till Thursday last week,
there were considerable transactions in flour at the rates
previously current, the turn being in favour of the seller.
On the receipt of letters by the Asia from Liverpool, to,
the 16th July, the market again took a sudden turn
upwards, and an extensive business has since been done
at an advance of 12fc. per barrel on our quotations of the
26th ult. An advance of 4e. per bsl. on wheat has been
realised since Friday, at which the article is still iridemand.
PROVISIONS.—Pork is in good demand, at $l5 87*c. to
$l6 for mess, and $l3-1 for prime. Beef continues in
request, and prices are well sustained. Ormige County
butter is in demand at 20c. to 22c. Cheese, 7.1,0. to 9c.
Lardr. in good request, and firm at 11c. to 114. c.,
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Europe..
The rates
flouri 2s. 2d. to 2s. 6d. per barrel ; grain, in bulk, 71d. to.
Bd. per bushel. Ta London, 2s. 2d. to. 3s. per barrel;
grain, in bulk, 80. to 9d. per bushel. To, Havre, cotton,
; flour, 60c. per barrel.
NEW OELEA,NS, JULY 29.—Asia's news receive& this
morning, and considered unsatisfactory. Cotton bas been
sold since its receipt at ie. decline, placing middlings at
1024 c. Sales for the week, 2,800 bales. Receipts for the
week, 900 bales.. Stock in port, 25,000 bales.
MOBILE, JULY 29.—Prices are without change; sales
limited ; stock 7,000 bales.

THE MyractrAn AUTHORITIES of Troyes, France,
have just interdicted all young men and women who have
not reached their twentieth year, from appearing at any
of the public dancing places in the town. The police
agents have been ordered to enforce strictly this regulation.
FIVE Andalusian stallions and four small black Spanish
ponies have arrived at the imperial stables at St. Cloud.
The ponies are almost wild, and endeavour to bite any one
who approaches them. They belong to the Empress, who,
when in Madrid, frequently drove them herself, although
they are vicious and unbroken. Her Majesty having
expressed a wish to have them at St. Cloud, they have
been sent by her sister. The five horses are a present to
the Emperor from the Duke of Alba.
A STIFF STORY.—The Monongahela Republican, of
Pennsylvania, says that there is yet living near Cooks-
town, a slave of General Washington's. He is 124 years
of age, and can walk six miles in a day. He is so old that
his fingers and toes are nearly all white. He belonged to
Washington when he owned what is now known as Wash-
ington's Bottom, on which Peryopelis now stands. The
estate of Colonel Cook was, and still is, bound for his living.
DISCOVERY OF AMBER.—In recently cutting a canal for
draining a lake near that of Anserche, on the eastern coast
of Courland, between 57° 10' and 58° 20' of north latitude,
and not far from the Gulf of Riga, pieces of amber were
found, and, on the search being continued, more pieces
were picked up on the banks of the Lake of Anserche
itself. The quantity of amber already sold by the peasants
to Jew dealers has brought them in no less than 4000
silver roubles (the rouble is 4f. 5c.) ; but that is consider-
ably less than its real value. The pieces of amber are for
the most part transparent, and some of them are so large
that they fetch from five to six roubles. In some of the
pieces winged insects have been found.
CURIOUS PHENOMENON.—A letter from Athens of the
17th contains the following :—" A very curious pheno-
menon, which the Greeks attribute to an interposition of
Providence, has in a great measure removed the fears
which were entertained of the failure of the crop of
currants. For the last six weeks the disease with which
they were last year attacked had reappeared, and in a
short time all the fruit was covered with the white blight,
the precursor of its complete destruction. Suddenly,
myriads of small green insects, hitherto unknown, and
whit h came no one knows from whence, settled on the
vine ;, and whole vineyards were in a short space of time
completely cleared of the white blight by those insects,
which devoured the white substance with the greatest
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IYJNERAL

C:ishire, was opened in Liverpool.
Wightman and Mr. Justice Erle

The judgqs, Mr. Just

rived 1.3;' railway from

were met by the high-
lbot Clifton, Esq., his Worship the Mayor, and
n Clerk, who accompanied the judges to their
They afterwards proceeded to St. George's

At the st

here the commission having been opened the court
was adjourned till twelve o'clock on Thursday. Their
lordships on Thursday attended divine service in St. Peter's
Church. The calendar contained the names of 117 prison-

ers charged with various offences.
In the Crown Court, after the usual preliminaries, the
following gentlemen were sworn upon

TUE GRAND JURY.
Samuel Holme, Esq., Holmstead, foreman ; John Bentley,
Esq., Mount Fallinge ; Reece Bevan, Esq„ Wigan ; Har-
rison Blair, Esq., Manchester; James Thomas Bourne, Esq.,
Liverpool; John Fenton, Esq., Rochdale ; Gilbert Greenall,
Esq., M.P., Walton Hall; James Holme, Esq., Liverpool;
John Holmes, Esq., Everton ; David Hodgson, Esq., Tox-
teth-park ; William Ford Hulton, Esq., Bolton ; Joseph
Pollock, Esq., Liverpool ; Christopher Rawdon, Esq., Liver-
pool ; Thomas Rodick, Esq., Liverpool ; Albert Hudson
Royds, Esq., Rochdale ; Charles Turner, Esq., Liverpool ;
Ralph J. T. Williamson, Esq., Liverpool ; William Rayner
Wood, Esq., Manchester ; Robert Jill, Esq., Much Woolton ;
Sir John Bent, Liverpool, Knight ; John Hayward Turner,
Esq., Liverpool; John Blayds Molyneux, Esq., Liverpool;
William Potter, Esq., Liverpool.
CROWN COURT.

Mr. Justice Wightman, who presided, in his charge to
the grand jury, said,—l regret to find that the calendar is
very heavy. It contains the names of 124 persons, whose
cases will be brought before you, including seven brought
in since the calendar was printed, making altogether 98
distinct and separate charges. Some of these you will
probably dismiss when they are brought before you ; but
there is little doubt that there will be not much less than
100 cases to be, investigated at these assizes. Amongst
those there are ten charges of homicide, including five of
wilful murder, 11 of felonious wounding, 11 of robbery
with violence, 20 of burglary ; and without troubling you
with a farther enumeration, there are charges, I believe,
of every offence known to the law except high treason.
However alarming at first sight such a number and such
a catalogue of crime may appear, it becomes less in
reality when the extent of the population of the commer-
cial towns of Liverpool and Manchester is considered,
from which so great a proportion of the charges originate ;
but it certainly does not appear by the present calendar
that there has been any diminution in the amount of crime,
although, as I am informed, there has been no waet of
employment, and wages have been comparatively good.
One of the most serious charges in the calendar is one of
murder against Susan Campbell. It appears that the
prisoner and the deceased were in a public-house in this
town ; that she asked him for drink, that he refused, and
, that she used ill language to him, when, according to the
statement made, he slightly struck her with the back of
his fingers ; that the prisoner then left the deceased, who
remained in the same room; that she went away, and re-
turned in a. few minutes, when she stabbed him in the
neck, giving him a wound which caused death instanta-
neously. From the evidence, as stated in the depositions,
I can find no reason for reducing the charge to man-
slaughter. There is a charge of murder against Daniel
Miller. The occurrence took place on the high seas, on a
voyage between Demerara and England. No third person
appears to have been present at the time ; but the captain
states that the prisoner, who was mate of the ship, came
to him voluntarily and stated that he had =ordered the
carpenter. He added, that he had done so in self-defence,
and that the carpenter had attacked him with a. knife. I
do not find anything to warrant you in finding a. bill for
less than murder, under the circumstances brought out.
A woman, named Mary Hodgkinson, is charged with the
murder of a child, a few weeks. old, of which she was the
mother. There is no doubt that the case is one of wilful
murder, if the prisoner was in a state of mind at the time
to be responsible, which, from the depositions, thennfor-
tunate woman would hardly appear to be. The other
two charges of murder are against women, cases of the
murder of children of which they had just been delivered.
There may be other cases which call for remark, and pre-
sent points which, in so great a mass, require comment or
explanation. Should such be the case during the'process
of your inquiry, and you require assistance from' me, I
shall be happy to afford it. But, before we part, I wish to
mark an omission which I find. In all the depositions
taken at Manchester, and some other places, it is not
stated whether the prisoner was asked if he wished to
make any statement, or whether he made any statement
or not. I cannot suppose that the magistrates do not ask
such a question ; but if any statement were made it ought
to appear on the depositions, and if the prisoner declined.
to make any, that fact ahould be given.. The omission is-
by no means conducive to the ends of justice, and I strongly-
recommend the magistrates to see that the practice is=
altered for the. future, as it is most important that nothing
which may legitimately occur at that , time should be
kept back ;: and in many cases it is important to know
for the sake of the public and the prisoner himself, what
voluntary view of the transaction he gives when before
the magistrates. And now, gentlemen, I will no longer
detain you.

The 'grand. jury then retired; and shortly afterwards
returned with several true bills into. court.

SACRILEGE AND LADUENY.—CharIes Seddon, aged 24,
remanded from the last assizes, was charged with sacrilege.
On the 2nd or 3rd of March a chapel-of-ease, belonging to
the Established Chnrch,,at Peel, in the township of Little
Hutton,; this county., was broken into, entry lowing
been effected by the removal of several panes from one of
the windows. Several chandeliers and five bronze candle-
sticks were stolen. A cover, which had been taken from
the pew of Mr, Jacob Fletcher, was also found torn up iii
the vestry, One portion of it had been torn off, and evi-
dently carried:off the premises. The night after that the
prisoner was arrested and searched, when a piece of print
was fotuidin his pocket with some bread in it, and which
corresponded with the part taken from the cover of Mr.
Fletcher's pew. The jury returned a. verdict of not guilty.
There was a second indictment against the • prisoner, of
having, on the 21rd of February, entered the Independent
Chapel,. at Farnworth,, and stolen fourteen gas pendants
and burners, and a piece of green baize from behind the
pulpit. None of the pendants had been found ; but it ap-
peared that a woman named M`Manus, in Manchester,
with whom the prisoner lodged, found a piece of green
baize in the house, which the prisoner said was his, and
which was found to-correspond with, that taken from the
chapel at Farnworth. On this charge the-prisoner was
found guilty. A previous conviction for felony, for steal-
ing gas pipes at Pendleton, was then proved against the
prisoner, who was, sentenced to be-transported for seven
years.
MINT CASES.--William Jackson, alias James Patten,
aged 36, was indicted for having, at Liverpool, feloniously
in his possession. 18 counterfeit half-crowns, with intent
to utter them, he having previously been convicted of a
similar offence. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to
transportation for seven years.—John Lyons, aged 42,
and Bridget Lyons, aged 30, were indicted for having,. at
Liverpool, knowingly and feloniously in their possession
a mould for the manufacture of base sixpences, and. also
with having in their possession twelve counter-
feit sixpences, knowing them to be false and counterfeit.
Verdict, " guiltY." John Lyons was sentenced to twerve
months, and. Bridget Lyons to nine.months' imprisonment,
with hard labour.—Thomas Gahan, aged 24, Thomas
Edwards, 88, and Mary Bulger, 32, were indicted. for
having, at- Liverpool, knowingiy and feloniously inktheir
possession, a mould for the manufacture of base shillings.
The jury found all the prisoners guilty. Gahan and Ed-
wards were sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment
each, with hard labour ; and Mary Bulger, who had pre-
viously been convicted at the Liverpool assizes of passing
base coin, to seven years' transportation.— Thos. Crawley,
aged 28, was indicted for, having, at last Aintree races,
passed a base sixpence to Mr. Smith, publican, and, on
being searched, six counterfeit shillings and a. sixpence
were. found in his possession. Guilty. Imprisonment
for four calendar months.
BunoLAny A.T MANCHESTER. —John Jennings, aged
19„ and John Tongs, aged 20, were- indicted for
halting, at Salford, burglariously entered the dwelling-
house of John Homcks, publican, in OMfield-road,
Salford, and stolen. some plate and money. On the
19th of June, the, house was fastened up as usual,
and, at half-past dew= o'clock, the inmates retired to rest.
In the morning Mn. Horrocks got up and discovered that
the house had been burglariously entered, by means of
a window, the latch of which had been,loosened by a knife
or other instrument. The money drawer had been pulled
out, and was lying upon the counter„ minus a small quan-
tity of silver money which had been left in it the night
before, whilst some copper which. it contained remained.
untouched. The plate basket WA lying in the yard, and,
he found that a quantity of spoons, &c., of Nickel silvei
had also been stolen. Next morning the prisoners were
apprehended at the Victoria-station, with the stolen spoons
and some money in their possession. The prisoners were
found guilty ; and a previous conviction for felony having
been found against them, they were sentenced to be trans-
ported for seven years.
ANOXIIRR BURGLARY AT MANCHESTER. —Samuel
White, aged 26, was indicted for having, at Sailor' d, felo-
niously entered the dwelling-house of Gilbert Yorston,
and stolen 3s. 11.1 d. and- a cake. A verdict of guilty was
returned against the prisoner, but in consevence of his
expressing a wish to call a man, named Hugh Jones, to
speak as to his character, his sentence was deferred. Mr.
Jones, on Friday, gave the young man a good character
and promised to take him into employment again. His
lordship ordered him to be put down.
At a quarter-past six o'clock the court adjourned, until
nine o'clock the next morning.

FRIDAY.
The Court opened at nine o'clock.
MANSLAI7GATER.—CharIes Crowther, aged 17, Imper-
fectly educated, was charged with manslaughter. It
appeared that the prisoner, was a lorry-driver, at Man-
chester. On the 2nd of May his lorry was loaded with
barrels, and while passing through a gateway into the
yard of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company,
a barrel that overhung a few inches the side of the waggon
came in collision with a gate-post, whereby it was thrown
off along with another, and one of them fell upon the head
of a boy, named William Swan, who was thrown off the
waggon by the collision, whereby death immediately
ensued. Verdict, guilty, with a strong recommendation
to mercy.—His Lordship commented favourably upon the
accidental nature of the fatal casualty, and in consideration
of the prisoner having been already three months in
prison, sentenced him to only three days' imprisonment,
inclusive of the two days already served.
Ansort.—Mary Churchhouse, aged 23, could neither
read nor write, and Hannah Greenhalgh, aged 55, who
could read and write imperfectly, were charged with
having maliciously set fire to the house of Mr. John
Myerscough, pork-butcher, 43, Chapel-street, Salford. In
November last, Mary Churchhouse and her husband, who
is a tailor, with their two children, took two rooms from
Mr. Myerscough. Mrs. Churchhouse's father had also a
room in the same house, adjoining. They ran into arrears
with their rent, to the extent of £5. 3s. 9td. They were
frequently asked for rent, but continually deferred pay-
ment. On the 28th of March last, the husband Church-
house said he was going to get some money from a loan
society. On this evening, Mrs. Myerscough put her three
children to bed, about a quarter past eight, and left all
safe. A little after nine o'clock, a Mr. Spencer, brother-
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