The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

every exertion should be used to insure Mr. Gladstone's (Laughter.) When did you sue for the fiat? Was it before
success on the 2d of November." the books were taken ?
Mr. HILL seconded the proposition, and informed the Witness.—l sent for it before the prisoner stole the books.
meeting that a certain attorney, whose name was in his pos- Mr. VENA.BLES.—You are a pretty witness to use such an
session, went into au elector's house that day, and made use expression ! What business have you to presume that th-
of the following threat :—" Unless you vote for Mr. Thorn. prisoner stole the books ?
hill you must pay the amount of your bill to me before three Cross-examination con'
o'clock this afternoon, or else I shall have you arrested." Mr. Crouch before Mr.
(Groans.) The bill was for £25 ss. The man's wife paid empowered to conduct t
the money, and got a stamped receipt for it the same after- meeting. The
noon. He mentioned this to show how necessary it w

es put into the shop were to buy and sell
rustees, not of Mr. Crouch. I sP-A

to 1 in the i

watch their opponents.
Mr. DAVIES, in a short speech, urged the burgesses to be
early at their posts on Monday, and victory would be theirs.
On the motion of Mr. GLADSTONE, seconded by Mr.
ISAAC HoLmEs, the chairman was presented with a vote of
thanks and the meeting then separated.

the fiat on Saturday night at ten o'clock. I dont know whe-
ther the prisoner could or could not have procured bail on
Sunday. I don't know that there is not a morning train to
London on the Sunday morning. I received the docket on
Tuesday. I sent for the fiat on Saturday, went before the
magistrates and preferred a charge of felony against the pri-
soner on Monday, and received the fiat on Tuesday ! The
prisoner told me at once, when I asked him, that the books
were in the hands of Mr. Toulmin, his attorney. I knew
Mr. Toulmin. I served him 14 years.

LIVERPOOL QUARTER SESSIONS

TUESDAY

COUNTERFEIT IRISH COIN. Mr. VENABLES.—Were you discharged from his service ?
James Howard, 27, was charged with having unlawfully Witness.—l walked out.
had in his possession, 460 pieces of false and.couuterfeit coin, Mr. VENABLES here put it to the court whether there was
resembling, or apparently intended to resemble, or pass for, anything like felony proved against the prisoner. He con-
the Queen' 4. current copper coin, called pennies ; and 270 sidered the charge most unfounded.
pieces offer-se and counterfeit coin, resembling, or apparently The RECORDER said that the case, if tenable at all, ap-
intended to resemble, and pass for, the Queen's current cop- peered to be cognizable only to the civil law. He was of
per coin, called halfpennies, well knowing the same to be false opinion that it did not call for a prosecution for felony.
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and counterfeit, aria with the intent to utter and put off the
same.

The jury expressed their concurrence ; a verdict of no
guilty was taken, and the prisoner was immediately dis.
charged from the dock.

Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Henderson conducted the prose-
cution and Mr. Venables the defence.
It appeared, that on the 2d September ult., police-officer
395 saw the prisoner leaving one of the City of Dnblin Com-
pany's steam-packets. He was then attended by a young man
who carried his box. Observing that the box appeared un-
usually heavy, he accosted the prisoner, and asked him if it
belonged to him. He replied in the affirmative. The officer
asked him what it contained. He said it contained his
clothes. As the box was small, and, as before observed, ex-
ceedingly heavy, the officer was somewhat suspicious, and re•
quested to see the inside of it. The prisoner immediately
took out the key and opened the box, when there appeared
some clothes and a few pence in good copper. The sagacious
officer, however, seeing that the few clothes exposed to view
did not account for the weight of the box, gauged it with his
stick, and found that the outside was some inches deeper than
the inside. He then requested the prisoner to accompany
him to the police-office. Arrived there, he asked the prisoner
het vt'' ^lol4- ' 'l, no-

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given.

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in Suffolk

&c. from the

rs. Murray and Brown, brass founders, were
On the - of them was found a
1 all previously been

it . lad anything in his box besides c—oes . sail
thing but about eighteen pence in copper. The officer, con-
vinced that this could not be the fact, turned out the clothes.
The inside then appeared fair and smooth, papered through-
out. On tearing away the paper, a board was discovered,
which formed a false bottom. This was removed, when there
appeared a number of paper parcels, which, on examination,
were found to contain base copper, made up in sums of 5s and

lOs each. The quantity would have amounted
or £5, supposing it to have been good. _ _

to about £4

Mr. Powell, the inspector of coins for the mint, stated that
the pennies in question were base. They were made of pot
metal. The difference in sale and value together between
these and good pennies was about 11(1 in every pound of
avoirdupois. It was stated that the gain in the transaction
would have been 19s Ild ; and as the prisoner was presumed
to be frequently passingbetween this country and Ireland, his
profit on this sort of exchange might be very considerable.

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The defence set up was, that the prisoner was a baker of
buns, and had sold his commodities at Donnybrook fair.

where he took the copper, and had merely packed it in this
false bottom for safety. A boy from Dublin was called, who
stated that he had advised the prisoner to put a false bottom
in the box. Witnesses were called, who gave the prisoner a

good character.
The RECORDER passed sentence of two months' impriso
ment.

WEDNESDAY.
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEM

James Latham was put to the bar, charged with having
feloniously embezzled and secreted the several sums of
£49 55., £6B, and £lB 45., which he had received and taken
into hiS possession, for and on account of Messrs. Henry
Lovett and Richard Taylor, his masters.
Mr. Lovett having deposed to the fact of the embezzle-
ment, he was submitted to a severe cross-examination by
Mr. Murphy, as to whether he had not negotiated with the
prisoner, that if the latter gave security for the money the
prosecution would be dropped. lie admitted, at first, that
something of the kind had been in contemplation between
them for three weeks, and that in letters which passed be-
tween himself and his partner, Mr. Taylor, he stated the
prisoner had offered terms, but that he had not decided whe-
ther they should or should not be accepted. He ultimately
admitted, that if he could have got security for the money,
no prosecution would have taken place.

Mr. MURPHY here applied to the court to quash the pro-
;ecution under the circumstances admitted.

The RECORDER was of opinion that it ought to be quashed.
Mr. VENABLES, with warmth, contended that the trial
could proceed.
Mr. MURPHY said that it was only trifling with the time
of the court to contend for anything of the kind.
Mr. V- -"--1 that 1--

. ENABLES reptim. ne was not in the habit of
.ritling with the time of the court, but especially in such a
case as the present it was the furthest froth his intention.
The jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

PRESENTMENT AND DISCHARGE OF THE GRAND JURY.
The following presentment of the grand jury was here read
by the clerk of the cow t :
" The district surveyor having brought before the notice of

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he grand jury the dangerous state of certain premises situ-
ted at the corner of Cases-street, in Ranelagh-street, inha-
ited or tenanted by Peter Woodworth, John Bowman Jo
nd E. and A. Lewis, also, premises 73, Paradis

he occupancy of George Kenrick ; and the grand jury, hav-
ng deputed two of their number to inspect the buildings and
•eport, and having had before them the district surveyor and
he town surveyor, do, on such inquiry, consider the pre.
nises in an unsafe condition.

" The grand jury feel it their duty to express the satisfac-
tion they have received from the clear manner with which
the police have on every occasion delivered their testimony,
and the evidence of activity they have exhibited in detecting
crime; and, in conclusion, the jury wish to impress on the
attention of the proper authorities the necessity of amending
the condition of many of the public streets and highways, as
well as following up, by all legal means, the abatement of
public nuisances."
The Learned RECORDER then said that the grand jury had
performed their duty with great vigilance ; that the public
were greatly indebted to them for their attention ; and that
he felt happy in being then able to discharge them.
The grand jury hereupon bowed and retired.