The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

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Mr. JAMES then addressed the jury for the prisoners
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chasing power, according to its scarcity or abundance of M`Donou hand White ,after
g ; which upon
found guilty. The law also permits free discussion. _ a
supply. We have many of us painful reasons for knowing Mr• TINDAL krturisoN followed on behalf of his clients, all religious subjects • but it considers the possession of
the fact, the effect of which is aggravated by the further
The prisoners Donovan. Leech, Cropper, and Clarke, creed of common Christianityi to be inviolable, and there-
circumstance that, when gold is in abundance, paper
money is also in abundance; and when gold is scarce then addressed the jury at considerable length, in their fore holds it to be a crime for any person to endeavour to,
defence, after which the court rose.
paper money is withdrawn.
-senocremouti:
"If gold should become eoonny ~0,......:,...., , .- -
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WEDNESDAY. crime is increased where the multitude to whom
Evidence in defence of the chartist prisoners was pro- speeches are addressed are comparatively ignorant and
the destroy
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sp eec
speeches.
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ceeded with, and several persons gave some of the priso. depressed, and where the design of destroying the rli 1
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ners good characters. One of these persons ci,i ;,-, ~..-.. ---- ,---!.. • -

ui In 51118 country
not only spades and pickaxes, but cotton, sugar, and all othe
commodities would rise in price."—Manchester Guardian.
Of course, as compared with this depreciated metal
but with it only._ We conceive that it is unwise te

a comma(

ity, thus variable in its m

ion. that in a speech delivered b
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measure of value containing value in itself; and the
Guardian himself goes a great way towards an admission
of the fact when he contens that depreciated gold will still
serve as a measure. The ereat

Frost, Williams,a.;:a7o4,nneer
should
debme tliobetemperance until the character of your offence. It is my duty to endeavouriap
by a penal example, tashew that they will, by so doing, re,
The JUDGE—Do you know what those three people to themselves more misery and distress. The practical
had done ?
. The Witr administration of the law limits the sentence which I am

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tary system ,re conceive to be the adoption of a measure
of value which shall be exempted from the ordinary laws
of supply, and demand, which govern the price of commo-

The JUDGE
something worn

-They were guilty of treason and riot, and
- -omething like what Barabbas (if you
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ca &eu to pass in your case to two years
and I therefore order that you lie confined for that period;
that at the end of that time you find security, two sure-
ties in £2O, and yourself in. £lOO, for your good. be-
haviour for a further space of two years, and that you be
imprisoned until you find such. sureties.
John Bleasdale, a middle-aged man of respectable ap-
pearance, was indicted for having stolen a quantity of
coal from a mine near Wigan. Mr. Pollock and Mr.
itlyheler appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Jari.e_s,:a‘trtic.l

es ; whic

__ expand or contract, in accordance to
the increase or decrease of the functions which it has to
perform and maintain at all times an equable purchasing
power over all commodities.

ever neara of him) was punished for. The people then
called out that he should be spared, and so they do now ;
so that the world is much the same as it always was.
The Attorney-General having replied, and his Lord-
ship having summed up, the jury atter a quarter of an
hour's deliberation returned a verdict of guilty of conspi-
. racy furainct thc.

iJutiovau, aria guilty of
at unlawful assemblies against White and West.
His LORDSHIP then, after a short address, sentenced
Grocott, Rankin, Donovan, West, White, and Cropper,.
to 12. mouths' imprisonment in Kirkdale Gaol, and, at the

Jeing present

Jaz.. cur toe prisoner. it appearea irvw
dence for the prosecution,_ which occupied the whole of
the day, that the mine from which the coal was alleged
to have been stolen, belonged to the Rev. J. Gunning,
the Rector of Wigan, and a number of other parties:
The prisoner owned a nortion of the mine in question/

aulUil Ul unav perioa, to enter into recognizances for
two years, themselves in £lOO and two sureties of £25
each ; Leech, 9 months' imprisonment, with similar re-
cognizances; M`Donough and Chadwick, 6 months' hn-
prisonment, and to enter into their own recognizances of
£5O each ; and Nixon, 4 months' imprisonment, with. his
own recognizance of £5O.

and ft was contended 'that the prisoner knowingly ar"::
wilfully worked into that part of the mine which belonge'
to others, and appropriated the proceeds thereof to his
own use and benefit. The case was one of considerable
importance, when it was recollected that 144 yars of the
main street in the town of Wigan had been in dterfered
with ; that something like 220 houses had been under-
mined ; that 1200 tons of cannel had been taken away, and
that .VO,OOO worth of property had been utterly destroyed

On the prisoners' application they were allowed to be
confined amongst the first class of prisoners.
About twenty other chartists were then placed at the
bar, and the ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated, that as they
were willing to enter into recognizances to keep the peace,
he did not mean to press the charge against them, and
they were liberated on entering into such recognizances.
ie Joseph Barker, however, refused to do so, and the At-

and taken away.
The prisoner was found guilty. His lordship sentenced
him to seven years' transportation.

This closed the business of the assizes,

aCAL MEETINGS.

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letermi

sale of the blasphemous
dant was the proprietor

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publication of which the deten-
. Mr. Barker, in great excite-

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—On Wednesday the usual
eekly meeting was held. Mr. M'Culloch, seconded by

Luc .n.Lturney-tienerai Dad no evi-
dence against him ; but the learned gentleman merely re-
plied, " Don't be too sure of that, Mr. Barker."

Mr. Harrison, moved that the township of Bootle be
annexed to the district of which Mr. Shearson was-Ehe
relieving officer, and that £2O a-year be added to the
salary of that officer. On the motion of Mr. John Birch,
the increase to Mr. Shearson'S salary was limited to £lO.
Dr. Whittle and his assistant attended before the Board,
for the purpose of answering some complaints which had
been made against the latter gentleman for alleged inci-
vility and inattention to the pauper patients. After hear-
ing the facts of the case pro and con, the Board dismissed
the charges as frivolous. After considerable discussion,
and a division, a committee was appointed to inquire into
the practicability of introducing mills into the workhouse.
DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—The sub-committee
reported that the deepening of the Queen's Dock would
be proceeded with simultaneously with the alterations at
the Wapping Dock. S It was stated by Mr. Hartley, that
on Monday the marine surveyor would commence moor-
ing the landing-stage to its permenent position, and the
members of the Ferry Committee and Marine Sub-com-
mittee are to meet and consult as to the regulations to be
adopted for the stage. The Warehouse Sub-committee
recommended a reduction in the staff of officers at the
Albert Dock warehouses, and that the following dirks,
&c., be dispensed with :—Three warehouse-keepers, one
wharfinger, one cargo clerk, one ledger clerk, and nine
landing clerks. Three months' notice is to be given to
the clerks, and the committee wish it to be distinctly
understood that there is no imputation on the character
of the officers so dismissed. The saving thus effected will
be £1330 a-year. A letter from Mr. Peter Wright was
read, complaining of detention in consequence of the
dock gates being open on the Sunday previous. Referred.
A letter from Geo. Maddock, of Church-street, Toxteth-
park, enclosing a plan for opening and shutting the dock
gates by means of water, was referred to the Sub-com-
mittee of Works.

SENTENCES,

Samuel Grantham Anderton, convicted the first day of
the assizes, for having, at Manchester, under the pretence
of having issued a writ against a debtor, obtained more
than double the debt and costs, was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment, with hard labour, his LORDSHIP
stating it was with great difficulty he had persuaded him-
self not to transport the prison: r.
Robert Brymer, convicted of a robbery and assault on
John Carter, at Manchester, and John Murray, charged
with having received part of the stolen property, were
sentenced, Brymer to ten years' transportation, and Mur-
ray (there being mitigating circumstances) to two years'

John Houghton, convicted of having, at Liverpool, felo-
niously married Catherine Hunter, his first wife being
then alive, was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to
hard labour for one year.

Henry Moss, who pleaded guilty to have in his pos-
session a mould for making base sixpences, was sentenced
to ten years' transportation.

William O'Neil, convicted of having, at Ashton-
under-Lyne, stolen a gelding, was sentenced to two years'
imprisonment, with hard labour.

James Adamson and James Kitts, convicted of a lar-
ceny, were sentenced to two years' imprisonment. '
Wm, Webster, who pleaded guilty to having put off a
forged acceptance to a bill of exchange for £3O, with in-
tent to defraud Edward Benson, was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment.
Robert Daniels, convicted of uttering, in Liverpool,
several forged orders for the delivery of 250 lbs. of twine,
with intent to cheat John Hartley Hind, was sentenced
to imprisonment and hard labour for one year.
Benjamin Evans, convicted of an assault on Edward
Fletcher, at Heaton Norris, was sentenced to one year's
imprisonment.

FINANCIAL REFORM ASSCCIATION.—On Wednesday
night, a public meeting of this association was held at
the Concert-hall. The room was well filled. Mr. Ro-
bertson Gladstone occupied the chair.. He applauded the
press for its advocacy of the association. The object. he
said. was to economise, and to conduct the public affairs
in the same manner as any father of a family would ma-
nage his private and domestic concerns. (Applause.)—
Mr. Somerville (known as " One who has Whistled at
the Plough") read a satisfactory report.—The Chairman
read a letter from Mr. Cobden, M.P.,which we have
noticed in another column.—Lawrence Heyworth, Esq..
inveighed against the enormous taxation of the people of
this country, and said the time was fast approaching
when the necessaries of life should no longer be taxed,
and when the national income should be raised from the
property. of the wealthy classes. He promised to give
Mr. Cobden his cordial support in the house, should that
gentleman submit any measure of financial reform. He
moved a resolution to the effect that the association
would support Mr. Cobden's views. as to his national bud
get.—Mr. F. Boult said the object was not to tax pro-
perty alone, but to make all classes pay their fair share of
the necessary national burden. He anticipated that the
association would speedily be successful in accomplishing
its important ends. In addition to the reduction of
£10,000,000, they would have a reduction of £5,000,000
more, and do away with the Custom-house.—The reso-
lution was carried by acclamation.

:Tone Jones, for having, at Lawton, concealed the birth
of a child, was, after a severe and appropriate admonition
from his LORDSHIP, who expressed a wish that he could
punish the father of the child, sentenced to be imprisoned
one month.

•
CROWN COURT.—TUESDAY
(Before Mr. Justice Erle)

THE LIVEREOO;. CONFEDERATES.----Ti;o prisoners con-
victed of the conspiracy at Liverpool, O'Donnell, Somers,
Hopper, O'Brien, and Smythe, were brought up, when
his Lordship intimated that, as he had ascertained it
would be inconvenient to send them to Lancaster Castle,
he would alter their sentence, and order their imprison-
ment in Kirkdale. As regarded an application he had
received from one of the prisoners, that Kirkdale would
be injurious to his health, he intimated that the gaol at
Preston was within the regulations. Smythe replied that
the Preston gaol was the same as Kirkdale, in respect to
the silent system ; but his Lordship said he had no option
between those two.

James Shirt was indicted for having, at Stalybridge,
stolen a truck, a crane, and a great variety of other arti-
cles, the property of the London and North-Western
Railway Company. It appeared that the station at Sta-
lybridge formerly belonged to the Manchester and Hud-
dersfield Railway Company, but that by the provisions of
the late act of amalgamation, it was now in possession of
the London and North-Western Railway Company. At
the time of the amalgamation there were certain altera-
tions of the works which were contracted to be completed
by Messrs. Attersley and Nowell, who took all the work-
ing materials at a valuation, and employed the prisoner
to superintend the works. A dispute having arisen be-
tween Attersley and Nowell and the railway company,
it became necessary to take an account of the company's
plant, and thereupon the prisoner refused to surrender
the articles named in the indictment, alleging that they
his property. The question in the case involved the
llmple one of actual ownership, and the prisoner was ac-
quitted.

TuE HEALTH Com mirrEE.—At the meeting, on Thurs-
day, there were present twelve members, Mr. Tmne in
the chair. The inspector of nuisances reported progress,
but we shall not descend into the numerical minutiae of
" middens" emptied, &c., in which our contemporaries
seem to take delight. Four additional officers were ap-
pointed on the staff of the inspector. Mr. Harbord ex-
pressed his high opinion of the valuable services of Mr.
Fresh, the inspector of nuisances. Dr. Duncan reported
that four fatal cases of Asiatic cholera had occurred du-
ring the week, three of them in a poor Irish family in
Back Portland-street. The number of deaths from gene-
ral diseases was, however, less than during the previous
week. To some questions put to Dr. Duncan, he replied
that he did not think it judicious for the board to inter-
fere with the practice pursued by medical men in respect
to the disease. After some conversation relative to a let-
ter from Dr. Hawthorne, which had been handed round
the table, the same was read. It was to the effect that
the writer had by means of his pills cured one patient ins
malignant stage of the disease ; that he hoped the direc-
tions he had published a month ago would be attended to;
that the application of hot dry substances to the bodies of
cholera patients was indispensable to their cure, so as to
raise the heat of the body above the natural standaldr
&c. The doctor, towards ihe end of his letter, says, with
rather too much assurance, " Now, I am in the midst of
the scene where my ability to cure the disease has been
already put to the proof, and where the infallibility of mY
method of cure will soon be further brought to the test,
and I unhesitatingly assert that if I had been called t°
any of those seven cases, at any time before they were la
fatal collapse, I could have cured them." It Was finally
agreed that Dr. Duncan should write to Dr. Sutherland,
who had been appointed to go from place to place toventen
the progress of the disease, with the view of ascertaining
whether there was any new feature in the disease which
would require any alteration in the preventive means to
be adopted. It was agreed that High Park House, late"
purchased for baths, should be used by the West DOT
guardians as au hospital for cholera patients'

- John Blackhurst was found guilty of having, at Hale-
wood, been unlawfully armed at night on the land of
George Wright, for the purpose of taking game, and as-
saulting the gamekeeper. He was sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment.
Timothy Shaw, George Pilling, and James Cunliffe,
pleaded guilty to having, at Raintord, in the night time,
entered certain enclosed land in the occupation of William
Foster, for the purpose of taking game. They were bound
over in recognizances and discharged.
Joseph Booker, a man of genteel appearance, was in-
dicted for having, at Heywood, on the 13th of August last,
uttered a false, scandalous, seditious, and blasphemous
speech. From the evidence it appeared that on Sunday
morning, the 13th of August, the prisoner addressed a
large meeting of Chartists in the market-place at Hey-
wood. After reading a hymn from a Wesleyan hymn-
book, he proceeded to denounce all sects of religionists,
and charged them with preaching blasphemy if they
preached according to their Bibles and Prayer-books.
" If," said he, " I had a black coat, a white handkerchief,
and fine linen, I might have as wealthy a situation as any
of them. I come here to do good as Christ did good, and
why should we not shed blood for the good of others ? I
sa3 shed blood, and do it effectually, and be determined.
There is Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of
Wellington, and Lord Nelson—have they not shed, blood,