The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

BOROUGH SESSIONS.

The July sessions commenced yesterday morning. The
cases for trial were of the ordinary character, comprising
ninety-three prisoners committed for felony, and twelve
misdemeanours. Of these 36 could neither read nor
write, 63 could read and write, or read only, imperfectly,
and the remainder were considered to read and write well.
There were six whose ages were either fourteen or under
(which may justly be stated as the number of that class
generally designated as juvenile offenders) presented.
The Recorder entered the court soon after ten o'clock,
and took his seat on the bench, when the Clerk of the
Peace called over the names of the grand jury, which were
as follow :

Mr. Robt.Crosbie, tobacco broker, North Jo?m-street, foreman
Mr. Wm. Bowman, merchant, Fenwick-street,
Mr. Thos. Bouch, merchant, Oldhall-street,
Mr. David Cannon, merchant, South Castle-street,
Mr. Robert Dirom, merchant, Rumford-place,
Mr. Edward Eccles, cotton broker, Rumford-ylace,
Mr. Thomas Stanton Eddowes, anchor smith, Bath-street,
Mr. Geo. Langford Fosbery, merchant, Tithebarn.street,
Mr. Hancock Gregg, merchant, 11, Brunswick-street,
Mr. Edgar Garston, merchant, Rumford-place
Mr. John Gatty, merchant, 24, Bedford-street'Nortk
Mr. Geo. Glen, merchant, India-buildings,
Mr. Gordon John James Grant, tobacco broker, Sweeting-street,
Mr. Hilton Halhead, merchant, 37, Sefton-street,
Mr. Jacques Myers, broker, Exchange-alley West,
Mr. Henry Harrison, merchant, George's Dock Gates,
Mr. Thos. Duckworth Headlam, insurance broker, Exchange-
buildings.
Mr. Samuel M`Gill, merchant, Brunswick-street,
Mr. Thomas Lewin, wine merchant, Castle-street,

Mr. Frederick Boardman, merchant, Sweeting-stieet,
Mr. John Willis, the younger, cotton broker, 1, Rumford-place,
Mr. Frederick Robinson Lowe, cotton merchant, Lower Castre-
street.

The iiiiiA jury being sworn, and the clerk of the police
having read over the Royal proclamation against vice and
immorality, the Recorder proceeded very briefly to deliver
his charge, which was to the following effect :—He was
pleased to be able to say that the state of the calendar was
more satisfactory than had been the case for some time.
There were one hundied and five prisoners for trial. He,
the learned Recorder, having read over the depositions,
might rdd that the cases generally were of a very trifling
character, it was not, therefore, his intention to trouble
the grand jury with any further observations, but he would
send them at once to discharge those duties for which their
experience and intelligence so well fitted them. In a few
minutes a true bill was found and the judicial business
commenced. Several gentlemen on the petty jury not
having answered to their names, the Recorder imposed,
in each case, a fine of 40s.

Frank Foley, 7 years ; John Clarke, 3 weeks, and 1
solitary ; Thomas Cunningham, G weeks 3 days solitary ;
Ellen Wilkinson, 5 months ; Bridget Flannery, 11 days ;
Rose Fay, 5 months •, John Pearson, 8 months, and 2
whippings ; John M'Anally, 7 years ; James William
Kearney, 6 weeks, 1 week solitary; Rose Ann Burns, 4
months ; Mary O'Donnell, 5 months.