The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH SESSIONS

The sessions terminated yesterday, having occupied the
court from Monday morning. The following is a summary
of the sentences of the prisoners :
Fifteen years transportation`—John Mulstay.

Ten years transportation.—Robert O'Meara ; John Wil-
liams ; John Welch ; John Tatloek ; Wm. Wignall ; James
Curran ; Sarah Dillon ; Charles Morris ; James Robinson.
Seven years transportation.—John Woodcock ; Thomas
Hunt ; Joseph Scbiavi ; Charles Quinn ; Catherine Maguire ;
Edward Scott ; Elizabeth Slater ; Margaret Welsh ; John
Kilshaw.
Teo years imprisonment.—Wm. Edwards ; Mary Camp-
bell ; William Pughe ; John Cooper ; Thomas Wind (and to
be whipped).

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Eighteen months imprisonment.—Catherine Armstrong.
Twelve months' imprisonment. —James Lacey, Catherine
Riley, Ann Richardson, John Jones, George M`Kinnon,
James Kilgallon, John Ryan, Mary Kelly, Elizabeth Doyle,
Thomas Coen, Elizabeth Starkey, Michael Connor, Marga-
ret Hanlon, and Michael Blood.
Nine months' imprisonment—John Maddison, Mary
Spelman, John Griffith, and Jane Cooper.
Sir months' imprisonment.—James Woods, Bridget Spel-
man, John Lloyd, Hugh Pardon, Sarah Watson, James
Wood, Mary Patterson, Elizabeth Bates, Peter Murtha,
Thoinas Hesketh, Catherine Henderson, John Shaw, and
Mary Shaw.

Four months' imprisonment.—Thomas Robinson, Mary
O'Donnell, Mary Ashton, :Jane Smith, Margaret Roberts,
Joseph Stiles, Sarah Stiles, Bernard Mulhauen, Mary Mul-
hauen, and Maria Isaacs.
Three Months' Imprisonment.--John Stockdale, William
Welsh, Margaret M•Ginnatty, Mary Ryan, William Brown,
Abraham Iken, Ann Iken, John Hushes.
Two Months' Imprisonment.—William Leeson, Mary
Macintyre, John Malone, Michael Emanuel.
One Month's Imprisonment.—William Murphy, Alice
Smith, Elizabeth Hughes, Elizabeth Smith, Thos. -Bradley,
Thomas Fairhurst, Thomas Harwood, Thomas Litmere,
John Clarke.

Three Days' Imprisonment. —James Green.
Two Days' Imprisonment.—John Sloan.
Acquitted.—James Hampson, Henry Smith, Jas. Gardner

THE NEW TOBACCO ACT.—The object of this new statute,
which bears date 3rd July, 1840, and which came into opera-
tion on the sth instant, is to do away with the Excise survey
on tobacco, and to provide other regulations in lieu thereof.
It repeals the statues 2d Geo. 1; 29th Geo. 3 ; 30th Geo, 3 ;
37th Geo. 3 ; 40th Geo. 3 ; 52d Geo. 3 ; that part of 59th
Geo. 3 which relates to tobacco and snuff, and Ist and 2nd
Geo. 4. It then provides for the due entry of premises used
for manufacturing. storing, and vending tobacco ; makes it
lawful for excise officers to enter such premises between the
hours of six in the morning and ten at night, for the purpose
of examining the stock : and fixes the penalty of £2OO, and
the forfeiture of the goods, for any snuff or tobacco concealed
on the premises. Clauses 4,5, 6,7, and 8, regulate the re-
moval of tobacco, the rule as to the delivery of permits, and
the keeping of the book of entry. The license duty on the
manufacturer is to be rated on the quantities entered for ma-
nufacture. By clause the 13th, tobacco is forbidden to be
hawked for sale in any shape or by any class of persons, un-
der a penalty of £lOO, and the forfeiture of all the goods so
hawked. Officers may arrest any person hawking tobacco,
and have the punishment summarily decided upon before a
magistrate, who has power, in default of payment, to com-
mit the offender to gaol to hard labour
for three months.
There is a provision in the clause for the protection of ser-
vants of dealers who solicit for orders, such being allowed to
produce samples in the due and ordinary course of business.
Sir Charles Lemon will not contest the western division of
the county of Cornwall. An active opposition is expected at
the next general election to the present members.—Sun.
TESTIMONIAL TO WELLINGTON.—A ,meeting has been
held at Halifax, Nova Scotia, to forward the object of the
national work to be erected in the Scottish metropolis in
honour of the Duke of Wellington.