The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-23 00:00:00

THE GRAND JURY.

Abraham Gartside, Wool Broker, North John-street, &rennin.
Thomas Addison' Sharebroker, Dale-street.
Timothy Boarneßourne, Broker, Dale-street.
George Barnsley, Cotton Broker, Liver-court.
William Cliffe, the younger, Merchant, Exchange-chambers:
Thomas Froste, Merchant, Cook-street.
John Francis Goodwin, Corn Merchant, Lower Castle street.
Will-lain Huson, Broker, Sweeting-street.
James Nathan Holmes, Merchant, Back Goree.
John Herd, Merchant, Brunswick-street.
Thomas Hibbert, nerchant,.Sackville-street.
Gasket Johnson, Coal Merchant, Castle-street.
Robert Livingston, Merchant, Old Churchyard.
John Woo!fall Mulleneux, Rectifier, Dale-street.
Thomas Mather, Corn Merchant, Drury-lane.
Richard Ford North, Cotton Spinner, St. George's-plaop..
Robert Procter, Broker, Brunswick-street. _

Stephen Wrighi Kelso, ktip Broker, Lancaster-buildings.
James Beazly, Merchant, Rumford-place.

The proclamation against vice and immorality having
been read,
The RECORDER proceeded' to address the grand jury.
He said it would he found that there were named in the
calendar about 120 persons, who bad been committed
within the space of seven weeks, since the last sitting of
the court. He had known the calendar heavier, and he
had also known it lighter; a d in the present instance
the number was about the average. Contrary to the
usual list of offences, he did not find any serious charge
of breaking into and robbing warehouses, or robberies in
which carters were implicated, or robbing and plundering
of emigrants. He therefore inferred that the activity of
the police, and the severity with which that court had
visited such offences, bad tended greatly to suppress I
them. The most serious case was one in which the
parties were charged with having stolen £230 in cash.
The next serious case was one of breaking into a house,
while the family were attending Divine worship, and carry-
ing off valuables to a considerable amount. There was
also a case which showed how curiously crime adapted
itself to circumstances,—a man, pretending to be a doctor,
having found access to a house, to administer to a patient,
found means, (in company with another,) to carry off a
watch. There were two cases of ladies, who carried bags
in their hands, being robbed. It appeared that ladies
frequently carried such small bags, sometimes containing
their watches and money. If they are observed, they are
followed into shops, and often lost their property. Ho
had before had occasion to remark upon the increase 01
crime amongst females as compared with that amongst
men. Out of 117 prisoners charged with felony no fewer
than 47 were females. On many occasions robberies of the
latter were upon men who had got into drink, and went into
their company. One of these cases was that of a man who ;.
had lost £4O in money. He had taken the precaution, as
he thought, to hand it to a boy for safety ; but the whole
three were afterwards found in bed together in a house of
ill fame, and the money was stolen. The court, in this
and similar cases, could do- but little; and they must look
chiefly to the improvement in the morals and disposition
of those who thus throw themselves into danger, for
any great reduction in this species of offence. There
were several cases of picking pockets against young delin-
quents, but not so many as on some former occasions. The
court, by inflicting flogging on the males, had considerably
arrested it. When females were taken up for the offence, the
court must deal with them with some kind of equivalent
severity. Shoplifting was also committed more by females
than males, and some systematic mode of punishment
must be adopted for its prevention, but additional severity
was directed not sn much to punish offenders, as to deter
others from•like offences. He next remarked, that when
there were a great many prisoners in the gaol, it was
highly important that they should be kept, as far as
possible, separate, to prevent that contamination which
was the result of their being congregated together. He
had lately visited, with great satisfaction, the jail in Port-
land Island, in which the prisoners were kept separate
during the night. Here unfortunately, there was no op-
portunity of carrying out the separate system, and the
prisoners were necessarily put in proximity with each
other, into hammocks, in tier above tier, so that
communicaticn between them might be carried on.
He was, however, satisfied that the officers of the
jail, in whom he had every confidence, did all in their
power to reduce the evil, but they could not (from the
nature and crowded state of the prison) accomplish all
that was desirable. It became, therefore, the more ne-
cessary that in the punishment of offenders severity
should be restored. He then dismissed the grand jury to
the performance of their duties.
Several prisoners were tried during the day, but there
was no case of peculiar or general interest.

ADDRESS OF THE LIVERPOOL ORANGEMEN
TO 'V M. BEERS, ESQ., EX J. P.

At the usual monthly meeting of Lodge No. 40 of the
Loyal Orange Institution, held in their lodge-room, Bur-
lington-street, Liverpool, on the 10th of October, it was
Unanimously Resolved.
That the thanks of this ledge he given to Brother Wm.
Beers, Esq., for his gentlemanly, straight-forward, and
impressive letter, published rela ive to the affray near
Castlewillan, on the 12th of July last, and the proceed-
ings consequent thereon.
That while we, as a body, fully agree with every senti-
ment expressed in his excellent letter, we are certain that
we express not only the feelings of the Orangemen of
Liverpool, but the body of the order in England generally.
Signed in behalf of the lodge.
NELSON KENNAH, M.
JOHN LITTLE, D. M.
ROBT. BELL, Sec.

To these resolutions, which were transmitted to Mr.
Beers, that gentleman returned the following spirited,
but temperate reply:—
DEAR BRETHREN,—I have had the pleasure of receiv-
ing your kind and flattering address through Brother
William Rankin, approving the sentiments expressed by
me in my first letter to the Protestants of Ireland, for
which please accept my warmest thanks.
I considered it my duty, as a sincere Protestant, to
write the letter alluded to in your address, being devoted
to the cause of Protestantism, for the defence and support
of which (in every lawful manner) I trust I shall never
flinch. We should be more united than ever now when
our enemies are increasing and encroaching, and be ready
at any moment to support the laws and the constitution
of this country, and, above all, the Protestant faith, for
which our forefathers have died. We have great privi-
leges as Protestant people : may the King of Kings guard,
protect, and keep us, and may we be his instruments for
the promotion of his truth. Believe me, dear brethren,
faithfully yours,
WM. BEERS,
Grand Master of the Comity of Down Orangemen.
Newcastle, Castlewillan, 16th October, 1849.

THE CHOLERA.—At length we are enabled to congra-
tulate our readers on the almost total cessation of the
ravages of cholera. For the week ending Saturday last
there were only 19 deaths from this disease, which, in the
week ending August 18, carried off 572. This week there
have been very few cases reported, and the services of the
extra medical staff appointed by the select vestry will be
immediately dispensed with.
TIIE BURIAL GROUNDS.—Dr. Sutherland has been in
Liverpool in respect to the burial grounds, and in com-
pany with the inspector of nuisances, made a personal
inspection of them on Tuesday. He requires further in-
formation, however, as to the size of each cemetery, and
the space still at disposal'in each for interments, and the
necessary information is under preparation in the borough
engineer's department.
On Tuesday morning, an aged woman, named Anne
Jones, residing in Southwell.street, Toxteth-park, was
found dead on the footwalk in Mersey-view-street. She
left home about ten o'clock the preceding evening, quite
well, and nothing was beard of her until she was found as
above described. On a post mortem examination of the
body, it appeared that death had resulted from concussion
of the brain, caused by external violence.
On Monday, Thomas Carter, a man in the employ of
Mr. T. ltoose, spirit dealer, Temple-street, was driving a
shandry along Whitechapel, when the horse took fright,
and ran at a furious rate towards Lord-street. The driver
tried to pull up, but the horse ran against a post at the
bottom of Lord-street. The shock threw the driver out,
who was so seriously injured that he died the following
day.

EDUCATION.—It will be seen that two sermons will be
preached on Sunday next, in St. Matthew's Church,
Scotland-road, in behalf of the day and Sunday schools
attached to the church. We sincerely hope that on this
occasion the liberality of the public will be generously
extended, as the schools are situated in a densely-popu-
lated, but poor district, and afford accommodation for
800 children ; and the committee are ready to open them,
so soon as they are furnished with the means of doing so.
Considerably more than the number of children we have
named are already desirous of entering the schools, and
we need not anticipate what will become of them if they
are not permitted to do so.
THE NEW BATHS.—The baths and washhouses sub-
committee for the erection of the Cornwallis-street baths
and washhouses have accepted the tender of Mr. William
Tomkinson for the building, Mr. Richard Turner for the
roof, and Messrs. Smith and Wylie for the pipes and
boilers. Leave was given to Mr. Tomkinson to proceed
at once.—Mr. Parker stated that the total area of the
plunge baths in Paul-street was 45 feet ; those to be con-
structed in the Cornwallis-street establishment would be
of an area of 1500 feet, from four to seven feet deep.
Then in Paul-street there were 38 private baths, the
partition dividing some of which did not reach to the
roof; in Cornwallis-street there would be 54 bath rooms,
and 46 shower baths. Each female would there have a
separate room to wash in, and the drying would be
effected in 40 minutes.
BIRKENHEAD VESTRY.—At a vestry meeting held on
Thursday, Mr. Harwood consented to resign the situation
of assistant-overseer, which be did in the following terms :
" In tendering my resignation to the overseers, I take the
opportunity of stating, I believe the statement put forth
in the printed circular to the owners of property and rate-
payers to be correct, on the understanding that, at the
same time, the overseers state that nothing contained in
such circular is intended to reflect on my honesty. Robt.
Harwood."—The resignation of Mr. Harwood being ac-
cepted, Mr. Craven submitted a paper which had been
drawn up, defining the duties and mode of appointment
of Mr. Harwood's successor. The paper stated that the
assistant-overseer was to be paid five per cent. out of the
amount collected, and find sureties in £5OO, by the Gua-
rantee Society of London. The vestry adopted the sug-
gestions.