The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

.NCASIIIRE SUMMER ASSIZES.

On Thursday afternoon, the Commission for the South-
ern Division of this county was opened in the Crown
Court before the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Pistice
eresswell, who left Lancaster by the one o'clock train,
ttnd arrived in Liverpool at five. They proceeded direct
to the Crown Court, accompanied by the High Sheriff,
Jahn Fowden Hindle, Esq., of Woodford Park, near
Blackburn, and the Under-Sheriff, James Neville, Esq.,
of Blackburn. The Mayor, the Town-clerk, Col. Tern-
Peat, and other gentlemen, were present ; and after the
Commission had been read by the newly appointed Clerk
Of the Crown, Mr. T. S. Shuttlewortb, the court was
adjourned until half-past eleven o'clock the following
ning.
86'1111
and wrcilttelena t Assizes contains a list of 'at. for the presen
O
Prisoners. Of this number, 16 can read, 30 can read_
Yl2 imperfectly, 28 can neither read nor write, and
can read and write well. The ages of the pri-
toilers
thusng from 16 to 81. The cases to be tried may
"P lassified :—cutting and wounding, 6 ; throwing
altriol on the person 2 ; manslaughter, 7 ; burglary, 13 ;
horse-atealin 2 ; highway robbery, 7 ; bigamy, 4 ; for-
&err, 4 ; offences against the Mint, 5 ; rape, 4 ; unnatu-
frala crime, 1; attempts to murder, 5; returning from
tiunrdspeorr,talti.on, 1 ; concealing the birth of a child, 1 ;
Mur misdemeanours, 2. To this catalogue will
doubtless be added the name of George. Evans, for the
h der of at. Jane Millins, at Manchester, on Wednesday
anTile Chief' Baron sits in the Crown Court, and Mr.
tee Cresswell in the Nisi Prius Court.
...The Salford Hundred list, for the present Assizes, has
ses, and the West Derby list has 95 causes set dawn
for trial—in all 132 causes.
Is C/o Friday morning, at a quarter to eleven o'clock, the
abse
uudges attended at St. George's Church, where, in the
nce of W
the Rev. J. . hiaker D.D.,car of
tiwelareekrbeuardnb, and ChaplainW to thett High' Sheriff, prayers
the Reverend J. B. Monk. Their Lord-
libiPs then proceeded to the Sessions-house, and, at half-
test eleven o'clock, the Right Hon. the Chief Baron, Sir
Frederick Pollock, Kt., entered the Crown Court. He
Was dressed in his full robes as Chief Baron of the Exche-
quer,
...,The Court was opened with the usual formalitie§, and
'awn the following gentlemen were sworn as
JohnTh THE GRAND JURY.
• ;,parribe Tempest, Esq., Tonge Hall, Foreman.
The- Hon. Lindsay, Haigh Hall. Peter George Granville Francis Egerton, Worsley Hall.
Ainswcrth, Esq.. M.P., Smithill's Hall.
Peter Bourne, Esq., Heathfield.
'Samuel Brooks, Esq., Manchester.
William Entwisle, Esq.. M.P., Rusholme.
Joseph Fielden, Esq., Wilton House.
Frederick Sewallis Gerrard, Esq., Aspect House.
Gilbert Henderson, Esq., St. Anne's Hill.
Joseph Hornby, Esq., Liverpool.
Joseph Langton, Esq., Liverpool.
John Frederick Lees, Esq., Werneth.
Wm. Marshall, Esq., Penwortham Hall.
Thos. Moss, Esq., Otterspool.
John Lewis Phipps, Esq., Doe Park.
Shakspear Phillips, Esq., Barlow Hall.
Joseph Ridgway, Esq., Wallsuches.
Thos. Sands, Esq., Elm sWood, Mosley Hill.
Humphrey de Trafford,
Esq., Trafford Park.
Samuel Taylor, Esq., Eccleston Hall.
Wm. Gerard Walmsley, Esq., Westwood House.
David Willis, Esq., Liverpool.
The CHIEF BARON then addressed the Grand Jury.
die said,—Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, in addressing to
You a very few observations on the calendar of prisoners
Whose cases will be brought before you, I am happy to
'observe, while it exhibits unfortunately, a deplorable
-combination of every possible erimethat can be committed
against the person or the property of her Majesty's sub-
]acts, almost without exception, it contains no cases of
sedition, or of any act tending generally to disturb the
rblic peace ; and I observe in the cases in the calendar
plorabl
'gentle of of any public discontent or disloyalty, and,
-, that is a great consolation in looking over so de-
, lairfee cases
.case ea catalogue, in which I find among a number of
amounting to ninety, between twenty and thirty
and of either wanton or wicked injury, involving the
Solar •sefetY or the health of her Majesty's subjects.
tang aglistheproportion of cases injurious tolife and indica-
eetialks,trieegard of the law upon a matter in which the law
and strong, for upon no point does the law
and the language an plain and so clear as that human life,
served aelisdafety of her Majesty's subjects are to be pre-
lore. that protected as far as possible. I may add, there-
handeLtint even while I am sitting here there has been
great au, to me the depositions of a case, involving the
Bloc serious charge of wilful murder, adding one
taakecql4e heavy catalogue of that description of crime.
-the 0„..‘ ese remarks specially with reference to one cose,
The -sacen v.
NOD. Swanton. It is in the calendar No. 7.
of mac°rorter's inquest appears to have returned a verdict
giatr nslaughter, and I think the commitment by the ma-
eloonutriaieettreitt one of manslaughter, but I think it right toactall
ion.to the case, and to.explain toyou h
'hefts e view of the law applicable to such awcase •,
iud eit may be by no means intended to withhold. your
vtirgetn.Anett,enrd I think it will be a fit subject for considera-
you will go beyond in your inquest that
Aria in the coroner's inquest was found,and send up the
by a tiers for trial. It appears to be a case of an attack
lane on his wife. I abstain from using any harsh
iadTa_zt,ge. I abstain from using any expression that may
sensegel any excitement of feeling, or any thing beyond the_
feelto,, ,wrong, and the sense also of compassion and of
thhi„,;:ards the other sex, whenever exposed to any
cetoritZe_l,Keepnveijodeennze or outrage, but it appears, according
that the wife of Wm. Swanton died in
Provoked be of an attack made by him upon her, whether
aoY misconduct on her part, and especily
terB"all,,'"?‘'oked by any personal outrage, or pabli: slur
shit I Wi ls-InrY On her part, it may be for you to inquire,
Stlbject. tO
the fist
I consider to be the law on this
tbe demi. ill the first place, whoever has been the cause of
firm. ii;;...._ofea fellow creature is held responsible, in the
iies on 4:1_11 e, as having been guilty of a murder, and it
creature Party who has produced the death of a fellow-
tillactor
tali Y reason
0 account for it, to explain it, and to give a
that which
th of the unfortunate and melancholy posi-
tity tcriale. G party stands apparently charged with
xtrd,heGentlemen an assault or blow will not jus-
to raja auothece that shall; produce death. If a person
bra "I'e the Cr,e if the blow be not violent, be not such as
breast if theatkrerne anger which may exist in the human
mistakeer°us we:low be lenient, and it be returned by a
reta to sap NM. that is undoubtedly murder. It is a
nahr Dosel that every little provocation, and be it
provocationtha
•. it its 4115uage alone will never furnish such
justif
len y "(hence th' Mistake to suppose that:any assault will
lye ce to produce
.1:shall end in death, especially if the vio-
s wee tending eth has been accompanied by use of any
wanPton theye° ° Produce death. In the case of William
of th 9 difficult,-in !vas nr,
; such instrument used, but I have
e nle•rar:sttaY.alg down the law to be, that such a use
armed
with ir a man may have (by clogs or shoes
ciao by h;,, 0n) indicating a cruel—indicating an inten-
np '4 acts, of doing some very grievous wrong—indi-
filVidilal:atire disregard of the life and safety of the in-
would, b respect to whom he is exercising that violence,
Part Y law, make him responsible for the life of the
08._,Yaso attacked, in my judgment just as much as if he
You come
etuhrtderous weapon. It will be for you to say when
theeoreexisamani7ex cu see vfiodretnhcee
violence
be laid
that
abtefo thatre yo
hue.you,
"and used towards his wife. It will be for you to con-
alder whether the nature of the attack that he made
her—whether the nature of the attack and the
of it, the part of her person that was the subject of
violence indicates that to your minds—always,
gentle his
remembering that in the course of the discharge orrtelte
solemn and severe duties of justice, you are still to re-
member the infirmities of our common nature, and to
take into your consideration every circumstance of eras_
Aeration, which, in your judgment. although nothing jus-
tifies, but which palliates the extraordinary violence that
appears to have been used. But I call your attention to
It in order that you may do your duty, taking care tern-
teratelY to exercise the important functions that belong
ilt/n7mt, and, at the same time, that it may be abundantly
•whtr that those extraordinary acts of violence with
calendar appears to be full, are not such as the
that Ittlot visit with the severest punishment ; and, also,
the it s made out by the inquest on your part, and
verdietl-
-
on the part of the other jury, that the case is
Which
othreduiaturally falls within those principles against
has directed its most solemn and most se-
ta namely, cases of wilful murder. Gentlemen,
Tcite au„ tiarY duties that you have to discharge, I am
he e need no information or assistance from me.
alzher
MPortant f of years that many of you have exercised the
u_ unctions that belong to the offiee, renders it
r ..,,iyutnoeceaarY for me to remind you that your duty
Patt the ascertain whether there is evidence sufficient
18aZiaa You ti)rtY on his trial. With these remarks, I
3:tene?l:sau!i°lliiirseliarge your important duties."
tudawf -uratta. Y then retired.
N„, ally,
untied raaliciously, and feloniously stabbed a
grie k r„
in, aged 37, indicted for having, at Wigan,
igannd,
eitaZraas 474 arm, was found
„Ddiniy.,h ‘..attera'll, with intent to do him some
nt
ouitP. 'rig him 8°", 27, pleaded gguuiillttyy ofto aannainsaduicltt.me
to °f cor- with having at Manchester, thrown an
teburn and rpive fluid upon Phoebe Cockup, with intent
ic,hard .&.:figure her.
taancuester °Mouse, 17 was found guilty of having, at
dl
s,agnaure her.
freY a ' unlawfull • • h uon Jane
quantt„, and maliciously t rown P ,
°' aquafortis, with intent to burn ana
to the usi
guilty house of Te 18, charged with committing a burglary
Pat,. sePh Gregory, at Manchester, was found
Nvanturick 211' e
WaiaZ •rec, 30
-132grievahntet ivy was found guilty of stabbing and
s defence." bodily AvoY, at Rainhill, with intent to do
d• The hartn.—ln all these cases sentence
"e court rose at half-past five o'clock.
Mr. NISI
before Justice
cl 411 IS COURT.—FRIDAY.
12 re"
oek, ell took his seat in this court a little
, The luouty
AO rd plaintiff , BART
Ey
that
is nt—eat"attnis
b °f the v..WORSL .
hitcher of Are is Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart.,
leAded 1,0, in vi 'anchester, and the defendant., a
0 ation of the right of the plaintiff,
feati he and others a stall not authorised. It was stated
Und 44 the ri s"era had of de
-
lord gut of the lord ofneforthe
sev:cnotbi d
erdictsthe manor.. The case was
ea were
Mr. air for the . . hers of a similar nature.
plaintiffs In all.
4or P°i2uct u• ItEDELLIEN.
the
dole plaint., with whom was Mr. Compton, appeared
It wet°dant!fl; and Mr- Watson and Mr. Atherton for
Paytt, as action brought to recover the sum of £3OO as
44eact goods sold and delivered. The plantiff is
blew urer at M bargaiiintie de laic Manche and the defendant aidealer in
that was „,..nes, at the same place. In January last a
Ilrldredlatter should b
h e '"a between the plaintiff and defendant,
leality ofPleces of
upon as
the
rn o ues liunpe pld
'ed by the formerlwe
e laines, a samp iof the
so 11^-.1%..- bleb Was shown at the time. The price was
as Posh. goods promised to be delivered as
During the month of February, at s