The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-12 00:00:00

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The General Borough Sessions commenced O edifet,'• (7 . ,-,"
before James Claike, Esq., Recorder. The LearePd e;l%ii ~ ~..t, V. j 7,1
took his seat at ten o'clock. .The calendar contaitg t 014.14.1,2,,t ti...,
of thirty one prisoners for felony, and rtur_.l4 intae an'evo-2. --•.'l'.ri:.
and assaults. The following gentlemen were swung, ketelay..'../
tote the grand jury : a si tl.
Wm. Brandreth, Foreman Samuel Kearsley
Thomas Barder Daniel Mather
James Alison , Charles Stuart Middleton
Richard-Bryans, jun. Samuel Needham
William Dixon, jun. John Noble ~
James Duncan - Joseph Sanders
William Hadfield Alexander Smith
Joshua Heap Anthony Swainson . :.
Thomas Hobson John Hayward Turner
William Hopp Alfred Waterhouse
Robert Johnson . and ,
Thomas Jevons . Edward Wilson, 'Esqrs. t
The usual forms of the court having been gone through, the
Learned Recorder proceeded to deliver his charge to the fol..
lowing effect :—He had, he said, extreme satisfaction in in-
forming them that, in proportion with the business which fre- ,
quently devolved neon grand juries at'that court, their duties
would be com'paratively light. He had looked over the calen-
dar, and there was Scarcely a case which called for Observation: . •
They were the ordivary class of felons,.and the good sense of
the grand jury would enable them to overcome any trifling
difficulties which Might present themselves. ,There was one
case, hoc,eyer, on which it would be his duty to make a few
remarks, as points of law would arise in trifling cases, as well ,
as those that were important. The case to which-he alluded
stood No. 17 in the Calendar. The committing magistrate had
very properly, on re-consideration of the, case, altered his
opinion respecting it. The prisoner wes,,in the first instance*.
committed for having received a quantity of clothes knowing
them to be stolen. She would, however, come before them for
stealing the property. The judges hail very
_.properly held.
that obtaining goods from a carrier by any trick or.nalsrepre• .
sentation, constituted the crime of stealing. The carrier. had --,•=
the goods in his charge to deliver, and if he was deprived of
the goods by any party who made a false representation to him;
the owner was thereby deprivea of them, and the individual
so obtaining the goods was held by law to be guilty of the crime .
of stealing ; and it was so in fact, for if they considered the va-
rious modes in which. felonies were committed, by fume and
fraud. by juggling and trickery, it was evident that this was
one of the stratagems employed, and that so to obtain goods was
felony. • The case No. 17. they would find, involved this prin-
cipl-.. The party went and said "I am sent for this property,"
and thereby obtained it. It was at first called a case of obtain-
ing goods under false pretences, hut the committing magistrate
had since, very properly, held that it was a case of stealing.
Upon his arrival bete, he made very anxious inquiries as to
whether there were any cases of stealing by warehousemen.
He found there were none, and he was very glad of it, Ware-
housemen were in places of confidence, entrusted with large
quantities of property, and the offence of stealing that property
was enhanced by the facility with which it could be removed.
He wished it to be.well understood, that warehousemen had no
right, under aNty circunistances..to sell the property of their
employers. They might endeaiOur to palliate it to themselves
by considering it a mere sale, but in the law it was felony,
he considered it felohy of - the worst description, and the party
or parties who purchased such property were involved in the
crime of stealing. Those who tampered with men in any man-
lier to incite or induce them to the comthission of such an act,
were guilty of one of the biehest description of crimes against
society. Look at the responsibility of the warehouseman, and
at the sort of situation which he held. Undiscovered crimes
might go on for years. If persons, charged with this description
of offence, came before him, he must put the law in force
against them, whatever their previous situation in life or char
ratter might have been. However respectable, though it might
be a painful and bitter task to him, he held it out to the town
of Liverpool, that he would do inflexible justice. He had the
satisfaction of knowing that he was supported by her Majesties
Government and it was, therefore his duty to say, that he
should administer the law, in such cases, with the greatest se-
verity.
The cases tried have very recently been fully before the pub:. ~ .
lic in the form of police reports. they were generally of such
trivial interest, that we do not deem it necessary to enumeritite -
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Alanchester, Tuesday Evening.
The anxiety we last week noticed as existing iu the turf
circles, for the appearance of the Chester Cup entry, no longer
exists. Upon its debut, business at once became more animated
as the character of the entry was pronounced, by those who
were competent to pronounce an opinion upon it, uot only good,
but very likely to be productive of a long run of varied specu7
laiion. The spirited manner in which some half-dozen horseit
at the fag'end of the twenty-six candidates have already been
supported, renders,it probable that there will be a strong pha-;
lanx of favourites, should the weights not exceed the expectation
of the parties so .early in the field, and backing such horses as
King Cole, Drone, Mersey, Master of the Rolls, Ludford, and
Lord Derby's Parolles; ail of which have been more than once
taken in a lot, and backeJ at 100 to 2 each. Indeed, yesterday
•the•lavers were somewhat shy of the speculation, and justly so;
for, should Birdlime start the handicap after the heavy fashion
of Newmarket handicapping, the sC's to-I will not look amiss
in the takers' books. Birdlime may be considered as simply
having the lean, and 10 to I is the current and every-day offer
on the field. To-day she would have been freely supported
against either -Sylvan or Abraham Newland at evens. IVIr.
Robinson's Whaley was backed in the course of the morning,
300 to 11 being booked. Mr. St. Paul's horse Galewood;
coupled to Parolles, was also backed to-day at 100 to 5. The
weights are not now less anxiously looked for than the full
entry was this night week; and caution no doubt will be the
watchword for the remainder of the week, as it may be retnetn
bered that, during the corresponding week of last year, the
celebrated horse General Chasse stood at 7 to I, with " takers;",
but in seven days afterwards, he (in consequence of the appear-
ance of the handicap) sprung to A to 1 taken, leaving all his,
opponents six points behind him. It is not itnnossible for
another jump forwards before Monday, after the fashion of last
year. This, however, all depends upon the ability displayed in
dealing out the weights. Should the thing be well done, there
is no doubt the event will become as prominent a hooking race,
in the provincial markets, as others that have long since passed
into the pages of Weal herby.—We may notice the Derby.
favourites, as regards the two leaders, much as before. There
is, however, a little further improvement in Grey Momus. The
rise of lon in the London market, yesterday evening, to 17 to I;
might, in truth, have been anticipated here-20's to 1 being
freely taken. There were also some rather heavy double en-
gagements made, as will be seen by a reference to the quota-
tions. There is still a good deal of mystery as regards
Scott's team. The Nonplus colt is firrn ; and still the colt out
of Tranby's dam continues in favour. On Saturday, n little
silver was sported for 200 to 7 to be laid; 500 to 20 was also
taken upon the same colt. The cayroscenti rank the St. Leger,
entry very high. It appears a puzzler to name a second favou-
rite. Lord Chesterfield's Don John shines as premier; and
Picaroon has also been nibbled upon, since the list made its
appearance. The following are the average prices of the horses
iu any particular request :
THE CHESTER CUP, P.P.—Acceptor not.)
10 to 1 on the field (offered.)
11 to 1 against Mr. Mostvn's Birdlime.'
11 to 1 „ General Yates's Sylvan.
11 to 1 „ Mr. Fairlie's Abraham Newland.
16 to 1 „ Captain Lamb's Chit Chat (taken )
16 to 1 „ Mr. Walter's Prime Warden (taken.)
2, to 1 „ Mr. Bawers's Lord Stafford (taken.)
25 to 1 0, Mr. Robinson's Whaley (taken.)
26 to 1 ~ Lord Eglinton's Potentate (taken.)
1110 to 2 „ Lord Derby's Parolles (taken.)
Offers to give 9 against the field, and take 10 freely.
THE DERBY.
10 to I against Lord G. Bentinck's D'Edgville.
12 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt.
100 to 7 „ Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus.
15 to 1 „ Mr.-E. Peel's The Early Bird,
16 to 1 „ Mr. A rmitage's•Nonplus colt.
•20 to 1 „ Colonel Peel's, lon (taken.)
25 to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield's colt out of Tranhy'i dam.
-`95 tort „ Sir J. Milk's Volunteer (taken.)
2' to 1 „. Lord Suffield's Bamboo (taken.)
10 tto 3 „ Mr. Worrall's Dormouse (taken.)
lout) to 20 „ The Early Bird and Ninny winning the Derby
and Oaks (taken.)
1000 to 20 „ Grey Momus and Ninny, for the same events
(taken )
200 to 4 ;, D'Edgville and Lord Jersey's filly (Glenara,l
for the same races (taken.)