The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

COURT.-FRIDAY.

Benjamin Anderton, managing clerk to an attorney in Man-
chester, appeared to surrender on a charge of having forged
two several orders for the delivery of goods. He appeared to
have his trial postponed to the next assizes, which was granted,
and he was bound over to apppar, himself In
sureties in 100 each.
THE INDICTMENTS FOR CONSPIRACY.
William Macklin, Joseph Radcliffe, and Wiliam Bolton,
were arraigned upon an indictment for a treasonable conspi-
racy at Ashton under-Lyne. They all pleaded not guilty, and
expressed their intention to traverse to the next assizes.
James Flinn, Daniel Donovan, Michael Carrigan, Joseph
Spooner, Peter Feeny, Thomas Webb, Mark Hulme, William
Chadwick, Michael M‘Donnough, Henry Ellis, 'I homas Whit-
taker. Thomas Edward Clarke Cropper, Thomas Rankin, Ro-
bert Ramsden, Thomas James Dolan. Joseph Leman, John
Joseph Finnigan, Henry Williams, George Rodgers, James
Hoyle, and James Downey, were next arraigned on an indict-
ment for conspiracy at Manchester. They all pleaded not
guilty, and several of them expressed a wish to traverse. The
following asked to be tried during the present commission :
E. C. Cropper, P. Feeny, Chadwick, Joseph rowney, J. J. Fin-
nigan, H. Williams, George Rodgers, M. Carrigan, Joseph
Spooner, and James Dolan..

THE LIVERPOOL PRISONERS

The prisoners Cuddy, O'Donnell, Somers, Murphy, and
O'Brien, were then placed at the bar, and arraigned on an in-
dictment for conspiracy. They severalty pleaded not guilty,
and expressed a wish to traverse. About three o'clock in the
afternoon, however, they were aeain placed at the bar, and de-
sired to be allowed to withdraw their traverse, and to be tried
at the present assizes.
Thomas Lees, William Penny, William Morris, and James
West, were charzed with conspiracy at Ashton. The prisoners
pleaded guilty, but wished to be tried at the present assizes.
Joseph Sandiford was sentenced to transportation for life for
a rape on a little girl only nine years of age, at Manchester, in
May last. .

John Goddard was acquitted of having used a certain instru-
ment to procure the miscarriage of Mary Bailey, at Heaton
Norris, in June last. •

NISI PRIUS COURT.-FRIDAY,

The case of Clarke v. Holford, for ine.:al distraint, was re-
sumed, and after a very humourous examination of the auc-
tioneer by Air. Serjeant Wilkins, thejury found a verdict for the
Waintiff on the first count, for .el7O for the value of the
goods, and £l6 for the fixtures. For the defendant on the se-
cond and third counts; the fourth count was withdrawn; and
on the fifth count the verdict was also for the plaintiff. [the
verdict, according* to the statute, which doubles the amount of
goods illegally distrained upon, is £530.)

CROWN COURT-SATURDAY.
SENTENCES.

The following prisoners were brought up and sentenced :
Jane M`Lane' convicted of the manslaughter of her child, was
sentenced to transportation for seven years.—Parker Untworth,
the butcher convicted of the manslaughter of a man named
Clarke. Three calendar months.—Co, nelins Jones, a boy con-
victed of manslaughter through careless and furious driving.
Fourteen days imprisonment.—Joint Finneron, Michael Hogan,
and George IVm. Knowles, convicted of cutting and wounding,
&c., were severally sentenced to transportation for seven years.
EllzcOeth Wilson, convicted cf stabbing. Six months' impri-
sonment, wit i hard labour.— Anthou y Carroll, Nicholas Car-
ter, John Smith, John GYhitham, Joseph Thompson, Thomas
Case. John Davies, severally convicted of assault, were next
put up. Thompson, Case, and Carroll were each sentenced to
twelve months, Whittle to nine montlis,Xarter and Smith to
six months, and Davis to one month's imprisonment. —Ellen
Moss, convicted of concealing the birth of an illegitimate child,
was sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, with hard
labour,—Ethed. Parsons, convicted of forging a post-office
order: Eighteen months.—Win. Whillan, convicted of forgery,
by endorsing a bill of exchange. Eighteen months.—Elizabeth
Marriot, who had pleaded guilty to forging a signature to a
postotlice order. Six months.—.Tohn White, who had pleaded
gni:4- to uttering a forged warrant. Three months.—Benjantin
Anderson, convicted of uttering a for,eil order for the delivery
of goods. Nine months.— 31iii:phg and Wm Travers,
r,,spectively found guilty of uttering a forged seaman's note.
Twelve months.—His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence on the
two latter prisoners, said the crime was, unhappily, of frequent
occurrence in this borough. If he found the crime undimi-
nished, he would punish it with transportation.
The case of Dr. M`Douall, the Chartist leader, charged with
sedition and conspiracy, was mentioned several times in the
course of the day. On his name being called he failed to appear,
and the case was postponed for a short time, when the Attor-
ney• General again moved that the recognizances be estreated,
which was done accordingly. About haltpast twelve, however,
the prisoner appeared; and on the application of his counsel,
the recognizances were restored. A long argument then took
place as to whether the prisoner should be allowed to traverse,
but ultimately his lordship ruled that the trial should proceed
on Monday morning.
The case of the Liverpool conspirators was fixed next in
order, after M`Douall's case. Serjeant Wilkins advised Cuddy
to traverse, but this the prisoner positively refused to do.
In the case of the trial of Rogers, Spooner, Williams, and
Carragan, for seditious Conspiracy, the case for the prosecution
not being ready, Williams and Carragan were discharged on
their own recognizances. A similar arrangement was come to
in the case of Itealey and others, and also in that of Flinn and
others.

Tfiiiiinnt Dawson, 39, of Oldham, was sentenced to trans-
portation for twenty years, for a rape on Charlotte Bradley, a
gir; of 16, the daughter of a woman with whom he cohabited.
This finished the criminal cases, except those charged with
political offences.