The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-27 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

Chief Justice Wilde was so ill on Tuesday last that he was
unable to take his seat on the bench at the Dorchester
Assizes. Mr. Rogers sat for him.

The commissioners to inquire into the law of marriage
have announced that all communications made to them

parties commu-

nicating express a desire to that effect.
Mr. Justice Pattison, on Tuesday, condemned a man to
six months' imprisonment for refusing to obey an order of

two justices, issued to enforce the obligation of the pay-
- -ate which had been legally levied.
5 barristers usually follow the Oxford

circuit, 175 the Home circuit, 63 the Midland, 44 the
Norfolk, 120 the Western, 25 the Southern, 16 or 18 the
Welsh, and 250 the Northern ;—a total of 821 !
The Lord Chancellor on Wednesday affirmed the decree
of the Vice-Chancellor, which condemned Mr. Alderman
Gibbs to pay the costs of the recent proceedings against
him, respecting the parish of Walbrook.
At the opening of the Worcester Assizes, Mr. Justice
Coleridge remarked, in his charge to the Grand Jury, that
education was the thing principally needed to prevent
crime. In that county they now paid the greatest possi-
ble attention to the treatment of prisoners after trial, and
it was right they should do so, but surely thosenot tried, and
therefore possibly innocent, should not be neglected. A
prisoner who had been confined in Pentonville often came

out, lie might say, so adorned and accomplished as to be
the object of envy to his poor but honest brother, who
had committed no offence. He did not, indeed, think it
strictly constitutional to wholesale the sentences when
passed by the judges, and a repugnance would be felt to
pass the sentence of transportation when it was known
that it was not intended to be carried out. It was likely,
therefore, that more sentences of imprisonment would be
passed, and this was an additional reason why they should
pay attention to the system of their gaols. He had seen
with pleasure that a bill respecting the punishment of
juvenile offenders had received the sanction of the legisla-
ture. He did not know that he should not desire its
principle to be carried even further, and that it should
be applied, as had been suggested in the House of Lords,
rather to the nature of the offence than the age of the
offender. Perhaps they should come to that by and bye.
He could have wished, too, that the offences contemplated
by the act had been declared by the legislature not to be
felonies at all, and not liable to be treated as such. It
was wrong to brand a man as felon for life, because in his
nith he had committed a very trivial theft.
to this_ hereafter, when

ly, too,

the country was more ripe ior it, just as tney naa now
enabled to make an important alteration, which, some
time ago, might have been improper.

I LINCOLN ASSIZES

•TUESDAY, JULY 20,

ARNOLDBY POISONINC

uesaay, in the Crown Court, at
Lincoln Castle, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, was occupied
with the trial of Mary Ann Miller, aged 27, charged with
,iiree distinct cases of poisoning by the use of arsenic.
he 'lrst case, that of the murder of Mary Milner, her
lar 's mother, who died on the 6th of June, there
a iict of Not Guilty. The Court then proceeded
ie )nd charge, that of hay T poisoned Hannah
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)rotherrs Wife, on the 26th :of June. It ap-
from the facts. as proved in evidence that the
on the morning in question invited the deceased
ke of some pancake at her house, immediately

Le same evening

I Shortly after eating it, the do ceased said she was poisoned,
And commenced vomiting i whit was t 1 u jected from

The demand for India is less inactive, but prices are
lower. We quote from the Calcutta overland Price
Current of June 2 :

" With respect to imports, we have no very decided improve-
ment to notice, although in most descriptions of manufactures
and yarn the business done has exceeded that of the previous
month, attributable, however, more to some parties having
shown a disposition to meet the views of purchasers than to
any inclination on the part of dealers to come forward freely,
from which, .however, they are evidently prevented almost
solely by the tightness in the money market. The demand for
these fabrics has been far from brisk throughout the past
month, but we have nevertheless rather heavy sales to report,
some parties having been realising freely, although others have
been showing more firmness; the latter being apparently in-
duced thereto, not only by the probability of a more animated
inquiry ere long, but also by the uncertainty felt as to when
present purchases will be cleared and paid for. The lower
reeds of 39-inch gray skirtings continue to attract the most
attention, and have been placed to a large extent ; whilst,
although there is occasionally a better inquiry for the finer
makes, no advance on the late low currency has as yet been
obtainable ; bleached are in much the same position, but sales
have not been so heavy: low gray madapollams have been
realised at about rupees 2-2, but other descriptions continue
neglected. In jaconets, some large sales are reported in the
lower qualities, both of bleached and gray, whilst fine and
medium continue comparatively neglected. White twills have
been in more inquiry, but, although a moderate business has
been done in them, prices are, if anything, rather lower."
The corn markets are generally firmer throughout the
country, reports of injury to the crops from blight being
circulated very freely. Prices, however, have not mate-
rially altered.