The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

House of Commons, and certain to be
treated by the House of Lo

The end of all .1

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link, is to enable the capitalist to amass gold

The prosperous wo
every'

n his eye

the iron machine is
-ml's and the body's

health of the flesh-and-Mood wa

her and slave of

that machin

Bid the fatiline stop ; and let disease not touch
us. Let us not encounter any calamity ; and let no mis-
chief befal us.
Good and gracious Lord, by wh
rectory are made the harbingers of salvation

,se mercy even evil

so that she may bring forth her produce, and ripen her
choice fruit ; rebuke also the consumer, that he do not
destroy the fruit of our ground. Let the earth be full of
th) goodness, and with thy blessing replenish our land,
the land in which we delight.
We pray thee, 0 Lord, as thou showedst marvellous
deeds in the days of our departure from Ezvnt. so do now

den us according to ^the days wherecn^ thou hast
I afflicted us, and let us behold the glory of Zion. Ainen.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD

Stn,—We have now been in correspondence with a
considerable number of the Irish clergy for nearly three
months. We found them at Christmas busily engaged
in feeding, from their own scanty means, large numbers
, of their hungry neighbours of all creeds and parties. Had
1 they received no assistance, this their good work must have

and enabled to persevere in (to use the expression of one of
them) " detaining men alive." Their time and attention,
their feelings and anxieties, as well as their means, have
been absorbed in this work. Their health, both of mind
and body, has been endangered. In some instances it has
given way. Their own private affairs have been neglected ;
and now I fear I speak the truth concerning a great number
of them, when I Say that they have not, and cannot by any
unassisted efforts of their own procure, seed for their glebe
lands. Ido not speak from positive knowledge, because
none of them have written on this particular point. I
ascribe their silence to their delicacy, since while spending
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SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.

iilarlp hast pointed out to us, we have broken thy statutes, vio-
His human fated the covenant, and tran•zgressed thy laws.
But, even as a father bath compassion on his son, so The Commission of Assize, for this county, was opened
dost thou compassionate us ; if we return unto thee with yesterday, at the Crown Court, by Mr. thron Alderson.
truth and sincerity, if we circumcise our heart, and cast Shortly after 11 o'clock, the learned Julge entered the
away, each of us, our vanity ; if we are charitable alike to Court, and took his seat on the bench, when the usual
those that are far off and to those that are near; then ii formalities were gone through, and the following gentle-
thou increasest thy greatness, and again hast mercy upon I men sworn aq a Gmnil

us ; for thou woundest and bindest up, thou smitest and William Brown, Esq., M.P., Richmond Hill, Foreman
thine own hands heal. Elkanah Armytage, Esq., Manchester.
Thou, 0 Lord, our Rock and Shelter, behold, our soul Sir Thos. Brancker, Liverpool.
mourneth, and our spirit is dejected to the ground. Be Sir Joshua Walinsley, Wavertree Hall.
not silont to thn hanr. nf thnon mh,. ....,, f.;,, ...,44-h 1,,,,,....,.. Montague Ainslie, Esa.. Goredale Hall.

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F. D. Astley, Esq., Fell Foot.
Wm. Rayner Wood, Esq., Singleton Lodge.
• John Ireland Blackburne, Esq., Rutland Hall,
C. D. Archibald, Esq.
James Dawson, Esq., The Wray.
Leigh Clowes, Esq., Broughton Hall._

William Earle, Esq., Liverpool. f
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Adam Hodgson, Esq., Ilrecktield Lodge.
George Hall Lawrence, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool.
Htip;ll Hornby, Esq., Wavertree.
William Rathbone, Esq., Green Bank.

lAbraham Wood, Esq.,iarkey
Richard Walker, Esq., ➢S.P., I

John Potter, Esq., Manchester

. . ,
The Royal Commission havinc, been read,
His LORDSHIP proceeded to addres3 the Grand Jury to
the following effect :—Notwithstanding the great distress
which pervaded this town and its vicinity, he was glad to
perceive that in the present calender there was not so very
great an increase in crime as might have been anticipated
under the circumstances. The crimes themselves, with
the exception of four or five, were not of very greatlno-
ment. There were indeed some cases at which common
humanity shuddered ; one of them was of the nature of
those cases where the sacred relation which existed be-
tween parent and child had been violated. That case
would require their very careful and serious atten-.
tion should it come before them. They would, he
hoped, give that case their serious consideration, and un-
less they had full grounds for putting him upon his trial,
of course they would not do it, because they must be
aware that the publication of such a case in an open
court had a direct tendency to corrupt and destroy
the morality of the public mind. They should be
careful, and put no person on their trial in a court
of justice, on a charge of that nature, unless they
thought there was every likelihood of the guilt of the
party charged being fully and substantially proved. But in

nary investiga

ion in

power, so that by their examination they would separate
01l d.uhf +ha nnvfo;ll4,Fr of

all UUUUIi 'rum tae cerLainty or toe cases orougnt oerore
them. There were two other cases to be brought under
their notice to which he would direct their attention. They
were cases of murder—one of them by poison. The point
to which their attention in that case should be directed to
inquire whether the crime had been committed by poison.
And as this used in this case was of a mineral nature,
they would see that the only sort of evidence which they
could safely rely on was that of finding the poison itself
in the body of the deceased ; because the human frame
was too apt to suffer change from the effects of various
diseases ; and medical science was too uncertain in those
d -'t of ' 'he n,—

matters to admi. their judging by the appearances
which the body presented. They should, however, take
into consideration the symtoms of the body; and also the
conduct of the party ; but still he would impress upon

evidence short of the production. They would, however,
judge for themselVes, as his object was merely to direct
their attention to these cases. The other case of murder
was one of those unfortunate cases which too frequently
occurred in this county. He alluded to the too frequent
use of the knife. This case, it appeared, arose out of a
quarrel, and it would be for them to say whether the

taliate in that way. They Wouldnoiialeintoii-Acc-n-i-
-sideration any provoking language—no matter however
provoking or injurious to his character it might be—

regarded a

a justification

being would be destroyed. They would inquire, however,
if any altercation resulting in personal violence had taken
place previous to this unfortunate occurrence. And if

prisoner, they would inquire what time had elapsed Je-
tween the period of this altercation and the time when
the latter used his knife. At the same time he hoped
that they would make all due allowance for the strength
of the human passions; and the infirmity of human nature
in order to enable them to come to a just and rational

;ed to the prisoner was of such a nature

as Lo oe calculateu to provoke him, in a tit of passion, t
the commission of this act, then the crime would be re
duced from murder to mancirnwhtnr • lint sthnvP nll thin°

"e wished them to endeavour to ascertain, it pos.
how far the prisoner was actuated by feelings of rev(
He began his charge by alluding to the distrc

le country

'0 it a great c

tne immense influx of destitute people which came into
this town. Most of these people assumed the avocation
begging: but his opinion _ of their conduct was

[ieved t

be put upon their trials

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for obtaining money. under false pretences. Yes, and he
would go even further, and say, that if any such cases
came before him, he would assuredly transport them ; for.
he thought they were the worst class of persons in the

channels of human luridness and charity;
prevent those who were worthy object

fgr relief

prom receiving it. Amidst all this, however, he could not
but see the serious working of a merciful God. Perhaps
nothing short of this awful calamity could have awakened
the people to a sense of their duties.. And being now
awakened to a sense of those duties, he ,honed that such

measures would be taken as would prevent the recurrence
of so much misery in the kingdom. That it would lead

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permit him to call their attention to another subject,
which was closely. connected with the administration
of justice.. He alluded to imprisonment which
wa.a ahnnt. 4n anlann 111 +lln

garded the mode in which both primary and secondary
punishments were conducted. It was some time since he
had directed the attention of this Grand Jury to one great
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