The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

MINT CASES

Thomas Ford and Mary Ford were convicted of utter-
ing counterfeit coin at Liverpool, on the 4th of February,
and of having been previously convicted of the like
offence.—Mr. Wigham and Mr. Cobbett were for the
proseeution.—To be each transported for seven years.
John Hughes was convicted of uttering counterfeit
coin at Liverpool, on the 18th of February.—To be
transported for seven years.
Richard Connor was charged with uttering base coin at
Oldham, on the 11th of March.—The prisoner, who had
been previously convicted of having counterfeit coin in
his possesion, was found guilty, and adjudged to three
years' imprisonment.—The Prisoner : I would rather you
tronsported me.—He was then removed from the bar.
Ann Hughes was charged with having, on the 18th of
December last, at Liverpool, had in her possession three
counterfeit shillings.—Not guilty.

CROWN COURT.

.-SATURDAY

James Dougherty was convicted and sentenced to seven
years transportation for uttering a counterfeit sixpence.
He had been previously convicted of a similar offence.
Thomas Collins, for uttering counterfeit crown pieces
at St. Helens, was sentenced to six moths' imprisonment,
one solitary. _

James Walker, for uttering counterfeit crown pieces to
several persons, was sentenced to two years imprisonment,
with hard labour. The crown pieces showed much skill
in their manufacture ; they rang exceedingly well, and,
by a newly discovered process, had been slightly sheeted
with silver.

Thomas Ostick, a boy about thirteen years old, was
convicted of forgery. He was an office boy with an attor-
ney named Smith, at Manchester, and forged his master's
name to a post-office order for £5. Another indictment
charged him with a forgery to similar documents, for
£6 10s. Sentence deferred.
William Baybutt was found guilty of the manslaughter
of Peter Travis, on the 30th December, at Ormskirk. A
quarrel took place between the parties, and deceased used
great provocation, the prisoner resisting him in self de-
fence. The prisoner had been three months in prison,
and this was considered a sufficient punishment. He was
ordered to be liberated at the rising of the court.
Margaret Maguire was sentenced to seven years trans-
portation for stabbing Joshua Knott, on the 14th inst.,
in the Oldham-road. She had been seventeen times pre-
viously imprisoned.
Thos. Kay was found guilty of stabbing Joseph Mawds-
ey, at Ormskirk, on the 20th of November last. Sen-
tence deferred.

James Willis, Henry Finnigan, and Mary Williams,
were found guilty of assaulting and robbing Robert Holt,
of Manchester. Sentence deferred.
Richard Kirkman, a little flaxen-haired boy, eleven
years of age, and very small for his years, was charged
with a burglary at the house of Thomas Green, of Little
Bolton, in December. The boy had cut a hole in the
panellof the door, which took him from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m.
to accomplish. The boy confessed' the act to his father,
under a threat, and evidence of this being inadmissible,
he was acquitted. The father was fearfully affected in
giving evidence against his son.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—SATURDAY.
The only case of any interest tried to-day was an action
brought by Mr. P. G. N. Clarke, a sculptor of some emi-
nence at Manchester, against Mr. Jobn Holford, for an
excessive distraint. The plaintiff occupied a shop of the
defendant's in King-street, Manchester. The stock, which
it was alleged was worth £4OO, only realized £6O at the
sale. Some fixtures, which cost the plaintiff £5O, were
seized and sold for £5. The property consisted of busts,
statues, moulds, &c. Seventy moulds, worth at least £250,
and which might have been put up singly and sold to ad-
vantage, were sold in one lot for £34. The jury found
the defendant guilty of negligence in the sale : damages
£lOO., and that the real value of the property was £4OO.
This was without consideration for the fixtures.
Several undefended cases were then disposed of.

The trial of Thomas Riley, charged with the man-
slaughter of the twelve persons whose deaths were occa-
sioned by the late boiler explosion at Manchester, is fixed
for Thursday.
INFANTICIDE.—On Tuesday an inquest was held touch-
ing the death of a child in Roscoe-street. The mother,
Elizabeth Pring, lived with her aunt, a Mrs. Meacock,
and had' delivered herself. From the evidence of the
surgeon, the child died from external violence. A verdict
of wilful' murder was returned.
WeLsnmEN.--In the Crown Court, on Friday, much
delay was occasioned and considerable merriment created
by the manner in which prosecutor, who was a Welsh-
man, and his son gave their evidence. It was with the
greatest difficulty that the most simple question was ren.
dered intelligible to the father, notwithstanding he spoke
English tolerably well; and the son, to the first question
put to him, answered, in good English, "I ain't speak
English," and this be maintained throughout, notwith-
standing the expostulations of his lordship. The father
was sworn as interpreter, but he objected to the office on
the ground that he could not speak English. His Lord-
ship No, no :" the only time went 'the Welsh circuit
they tried-thattrick vn with-rae,:awill Beyer wotagatiwy
(Loud laughter.)