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

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William Edward Th-omastouncan, Ditto, L.
William Charles Fosberry, Ditto, Tithebarr,
JohnFinch,jun., Iron Merchant, Sir Thomas
Henry Glynn, Broker, Exchange-street East
Thomas Arthur Hope, Gentleman, Everton-te
Jamei Lister, Banker, Great 1.1..T_
Thomas Marshall Myers, Broker, Exchani,
Joseph Parton, Broker, Exchange-buildings;
Samuel Stitt, Iron Merchant, Drury-lane;
Samuel Aspinall Syers, Cotton broker, Chapel-street ;
Henry Steele, Timber Merchant, Waterloo-road ;
Owen Tudor, Sharebroker, Dale-street ;
Henry Whitaker, Cotton-broker, Rumford-street.
The proclamation against vice and immorality having
been read,

street ;

ley West ;

The RECORDER, addressing the Grand Jury, said that
the list of offenders cn 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 was 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,
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watches, &c., out o

said to be females. _
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 had
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-Louse, 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 PH-
son Inspector of the district. It might be proper to state
that one of the main causes of crime in the toe n, 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, in
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 bad appeared on the grand jury. It
was, therefore, unnecessary for him to offer them any
advice as to the nature of the duties they bad 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 :

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Elizabeth Watts, for stealing wearineapparel, &c., iu
West Derby Workhouse—four calendar months and hard
labour.

Ann Sullivan, stealing a teapot—eight calendi
and hard labour.

months

James Hutchinson, stealing a chest full of clothes--
six calendar months and hard labour.
John Gunitnitt, stealing three bills of exchange, value
£Boo—ten years' transportation.
w, stealing a watch—eight calendar months

Martha Sr

and hard labour, ten dais solitary_
George Hughes, stealing a barrel of port —one calendar
month and hard labour.

Ann Williams, stealing a ham—one ca
and hard labour, ten days solitary.
Elizabeth Lennon, stealing boots—one calendar month
and hard labour, ten days solitary.
Ann Robinson—no bill.
William Burgess—acquitted.
Henry Martin, stealing a dozen of mats—seven years'
transportation.
William M'Key, stealing articles of plate, &c.—siz
calendar months and hard labour, and twice whipped.

month

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 bad not been proved.
Active measures are being taken to restore tranquil*
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 consi-
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 be
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 John
Russell.

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

LORD BROUGHAM AND THE PROTECTIONISTS.---
Lord Brougham entertained 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 Ellenhorough, the Earl of Lonsdkile, the Earl of
Stradbroke, Viscount Strangford, Lord Stanley, Lord
Lyndhurst, Lord Redesdale, Sir P. Crampton, Mr. W.
Brougham, and Mr. Alfred *Montgomery, at dinner, on
Sunday, at the'noble lord's mansion, in Grafton-street.
NEW ROUTE TO ROTTERDAM VIA 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
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nothing but the badness of the arrangements made, the
steamer engaged making a port fifteen miles from her in-
tended desti nation, 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.

THE WONDER OF THE AGE!
M
R. CARTER'S MAMMOTH HORSI
WILL BE EXHIBITED
FOR SIX DAYS ONLY!!
51, NORTH JOHN-STREET,
TWO DOORS FROM LORD-STREET.

AT No

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT,

DUCHESS OF KENT,
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE,
LORD ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE,
And many of the principal Nobility.

During the Exhibition at the Egyptian-hall, Piccadilly, London,
this surprising Animal was seen by upwards of
FIFTY THOUSAND PERSONS,
Of whom Thirty Thousand were Ladies.