The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-19 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL MARCH SESSIONS.

Yesterday, the quarter sessions for this borough were
opened before Gilbert Henderson, Esq„ the recorder.
The calendar contained the names of 57 prisoners charged
with felony—of which there were 45 district cases—and 10
persons- charged with misdemeanours and assault*. The
offences were for the most part of the usual description,
and none of them presented any peculiar feature of interest.
The following gentlemen were sworn to constitute the
grand jury :
Harrison, Henry, George's Dock gates, merchant,• Fore-

man.
Bold, Thomas., Water-street, ship broker.
Copeland, Henry, Crescent, brewer.
Cunningham, James, Exchange-alley, merchant.
Fairclough, Charles, Exchange-alley North, merchant.
Groves, Charles,. Exchange-buildings, merchant,
Heywood, Robert, India-buildings, merchant.
Hope, Thomas Arthur, Everton-road, gentleman,
Jones, William, Exchange-buildings, merchant.
Jee, John Audley, Chorley-street, broker.
_ _ _

Jones, Christophev Herd,Everton-lane, goldsmith.

Joynson, Thomas, Mill-street, cotton biliker.
Jones, Richard, Everton-crescent, merchant.
King, Joseph, Exchange-buildings, share broker.
Lorimer, Charles, Exchange-buildings, broker.
Lightfoot, Thomas, Roscommon-street, broker.
Leece, James, Rumford-place, cotton broker.
kackson' William Vernon-street, rectifier.
Procter, James, Water-street; wine merchant.
Robinson, Joseph, Chapel-street, cotton broker.
Symonds, Samuel Flemhig, Lower Castle-street, wine'
merchant.
Sleddon, Thomas, Tithebarnstreet, cotton broker.
Serjearktson, Peter, Oldhall-street,.brokvr.
The proclamation against vice and immorality having
been read,

The RECORDER briefly addressed the Grand Jury. He
remarked (with reference to the fact that so many gentle-
men. summoned as grand jurors- hactattended that several
wereexcused until nextsessions), that it wasseldom there had
been so overflowing an attendance—all having appeared
but one. There were between fifty and sixty cases to be
brought before them—about the average number for the
time that had expired since the last sitting of the court.
Amongst the cases was one against a female for the de-
sertion of her child, and another' of a person charged
with an assault on a female by which her jaw was broken,
which would require their careful consideration. With
these exceptions the cases involved the usual violations of
theiaws protecting property, and were not of a very serious
character. Still it was necessary that they should be duly
weighed, and so dealt with that crime shouldhe restrained
within the narrowest possible limits. A`fter theusualinstruc-
tiorrs- to learn the nature of each offbnce ftom the indict-
ment ; to bear all the witnesses, and to decide whether
it' should• be returned for trial, or,. if not sufficiently
apparent by the evidence, to arrest further proceedings
upon it by finding no bill, he stated' that he conceived it
unnecessary to delay them longer froix.their duties, with
which they might then proceed.
In a short time- several true bills were brought into
court, and the usuaFroutine of trial commenced. None
of the cases throughout the day were of.peculiar public
interest. The following are the names of the prisoners,
the charges against them, and the results-up to th3-rising
of the court :

Ten years' transportation.—Josephlludson, aged 18,
for stealing sundry articles of wearing.apparel from Hugh
Jones and John Jones.

Seven years' transportalion.—Rnbert Haynes,. aged
16, for stealing a watch from John Grimsby. Margaret
Fe•ry, 40, for stealing a coat, the property of Michael
Bowes.

linprisonment.—William Morton,. five months, for
stealing three cart loads of timbertfrom Charles ChM-
:on-en John Walmsley, six months, .for stealing, tools
from a joiner's shop. George Wilson, three months, for
receiving stolen money, a silver snuff box, and two rings.
Sophia Thomason, same time, for stealing six books.
Michael Williams, four months. for stealing six books
from his master, John Pye. Harriet Wilson,. eight
months, for stealing,a sovereign and' shilling from John
Rennie. John Lyon, .five months, for stealing a watch,
coats, &c., from Samuel Slater.
The others tried'were sentenced to, minor terms of im-
prisonment, from two months down to two weeks..

ATTEMPTED ITOUSEDREAKING.—A young man named
'William Potter was yesterday chrsged with this offence.
A Mr. Holt, who resides in Heath-street, said he and his
;family had all gone to church on Sunday, and on his
return he found the back door (of the yard) had been
opened, and saw the prisone: about. The latter, on being
apprehended, was found to have 1. large bunch of keys in
his possession, evidently for the purpose of making eiztr
into dwellings or warehouses. He-would no doubt have
entered the house by the hack door leading to the yard,
but the key happened to be left- in it, when the family
went out by the front. He- was sentenced ta three
months' imprisonn3ent.
SALE OF G WANO.—On Friday last 850 tons-.of this
fertilizing material was-offered'for public sale, the cargo
of the Commerce, from Ichailoe,-400 tons by Messrs.
Shand, Hughes, and Higson,,and 450 tons by Mr. H.
Rayner. The attendance was so great that the sale was
adjourned to. the Cotton. Sale-room, over the Exchange
News-room. Of the quantity. offered 100 tons, were sold
at from £7 to £7- ss. per ton—nearly all on Glasgow ac-
count. The• remainder oft the cargo was taken in at
£7 10s., under, which price, it is understoodi it will not
be sold. From an analysis of this cargo by Dr.. Uri
(and a statement of the result of which was handed round
the room) it'is stated that:this cargo was of zeiine quality;
that it contained a large lonntity of arnonia; and that it
was the first "-clear sample" he had seen from. Africa.
THE FtTNDS, SATIM4,3PAY NIGHT.—At the. Stock Jgx-
chanee to-day business has presented no particular feature.
The broker for the Commissioners of Savings'-banks has
rather extended his purchases, and hence the firmer tone
of Consols- which leave off 981 for money and the ac-
count. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. closed 37024 to
E'xchequer-bibs were quoted at the lower premium of
68 to 701 Spanish securities were heavy, at a fall of about
one half per cent.,, the news from Madrid' causing the spe-
mila,tors to make sales. The Actives closed at 241 to
and the Three per Cents., 351- to In other respects
there was no material change to notice. Belgian was
finally marked. 104 to 105 ; Brazilian, 82' to 83; Buenos
Ayers, 37t0 38; Chilian 103 to 103'; Columbian 144 to
15 ; Danish, SS to 89 : Dutch Two-and-sa,Half per Cents.,
571- to ; the Five per Cents., 10/1 to 102; Mexican, 351
to 36 • the Deferred, 141- to 1-• Oernvian, 291 to 301 ;
and Portuguese, 46-/ to 47k.
TESTIMONIALS TO " TIMES' " REPORTERS.—The,
Welshman newspaper, of last week, contains a long ac-,
count of the intended (and deserved) presentation of a
splendid silver goblet and waiter to Mr. T. C. Foster, the
talented writer of the numerous and invaluable communi-
cations from South Wales which have appeared from time
to time in the columns of The Times during the late dis-
turbances. The inscription on the waiter is as follows
" After the cessation of Rebeccaism,' this piece of
plate was presented to T. C. Foster, Esq., Barrister at
law, of the Middle Temple, February 4th, 1844, by the
Farmers and others resident in the districts which had
been before disturbed, as a very slight testimonial of their
sense of the important services rendered by him to the
Poor, and the good done to the country generally by his
able, truthful exposition of the actual state of South
Wales, continued from day to day with untiring energy in
the columns of The Times, as a mark of their sense of his
uncompromising spirit, unostentatious patriotism, and
devotion to the interests of the Welch community by re-
presenting their grievances, and inducing the government
of Great Britain to send down a Commission to inquire
into them." The above is the second instance within our
knowledge of testimonials having been given to " Times'
reporters" for extraordinary public services rendered,—
the present, and the one to Mr. L. T. Gaskill, (now mes-
sager of our bankruptcy court.) Both gentlemen were
reporters upon the Liverpool Standard prior to their be-
ing connected with The Times. Mr. T. C. Foster suc-
ceeded Mr. L. T. Gaskill as reporter upon this paper, and
the latter in 1839 was presented with a gold snuff box for
his enterprising efforts and success in discovering the
means of delivery of The Times in Liverpool and Man-
chester, (a distance of 210 miles from London,) by four
o'clock in the afternoon of the day of publication,

March 19, iSti.

STATE OF THE AMERICAN COTTON-MAR
AND PROSPECTS OF THE CROP.

By the arrival of the Hibernia, mail steam-ship, we ar:,
favoured with the circular of Messrs. Stewart & Wrigil
of New York, dated the 28th ult together with a private
•,
letter dated on the 29th ult., at the latest hour which
would save the packet. The substance of the inforniSt'
conveyed by this document, and from other sources OD'
our reach, we here give.
The writers adhere to the opinion expressed in their
circular of last month, as to the extent of the crop, wuerk
they set down of 1,800,000 bales, although they rem
that the majority of an
cl
the letters from New Orleans ,
Mobile—and these not from parties solely interest!!! 't;
the staple—speak with more confidence of 1,600,01.4
1,700,000 bales. The ground of this confidence is in t,.
the falling-off of the quantity received in these and ot4g
ports as compared with the quantity at the correspone:he
period last year. At New Orleans the receipts up to
At
17th of February show a decrease of 227,937 1331es'iguiti
Mobile, where the total receipts have been ualetthe
upon as equal to those of last year, the receipts uP ja
17th February exhibit a decrease of 12,435 bales. , 0
Florida and the Atlantic States the crop is representeu
being already nearly all received; and the total dila
panel, as compared with last year, amounts to 314, jog
the quantity received last year up to present dates heigig
1,496,179 bales, and this year only 1,181,69'4. There Ike
therefore be over 600,000 bales still to be received tonlhit,
up the estimated crop of 1,800,000; and this, n0tw.,,,,,
standing planters must have hurried forward their crops
to meet rising markets, and of late have done so fr°
fear of the rivers, which are rapidly falling, heetns
unnavigable.
cir'
The fact, mentioned in Messrs. Stewart and C 0•11
cular, is worthy of consideration, in estimating the
bablc amount of the crop, that whilst in the AtlantiCP°ol,
the quality of cotton bas been better than usual as '17,01
lour, cleanliness, and staple; the arrivals at Mobile iv
New Orleans, since the first week in February, have crud
tamed a great quantity of very inferior—in fact of els,
plete trash—which has become known as storm co of
and is represented as scarcely merchantable. Soinead
attbade.ihntthe
ante
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oft Vdrmaaaser
nhri Various
ouh
f as
soundntestimateshtae merchantable
kindlportion
cotton
ot
this description has been sold as low as ten dollareiwy-
ittotoaonraneor
frfr
likely that it may be large enough to have an intluenr. to-
wards making even the smallest estimate a liberal ai,.01";
r ending
tennber, 1844.
The stocks on hand in all the ports- are 620,9941/sl°
against 422,137 at the corresponding period of last Y'"),
This excess of stock is principally held at New IV
which contains 152,000 bales against 30,000 last year, 40
New Orleans, which contains 225,930 against 187,365,1
year. Nor does there appear any probability, of this 0"7„a
tarehrie;te.h
the
on fd the eisptrhoobuagbhletqtFloti
being forwarded fir awhile, partly owing to the ines.•
crop, and rolusutt:
price asked for freights and the unfavourable'rate of of
change. In New Orleans, on the 10th ult., there welfor
attempt made to ship and some vessels taken Is 9
Liverpool ; and these will take in all 20,000 bales.
Mobile, for the week ending 17th February, theta...v.-A
not a single bale exported to Great Britain ; and froLg
letter from Savannah, of the 20th February, we-learnn„ •
" although tonnage is abundant. stock, ample, and I';‘,
ling exchange in demand, there has not been a shaglig.ot
chase on English account in this market since the sal
of the last steamer." In New York some vesselichtnt
been taken up, and more cotton is in course of shirlloo—C
than at any previous period this season; but this 1r ,y
on account of recent purchases but for purchases, 10-00,
within the last three months, which are to be held inPje
rope until the issue of the crop is decided, and are 111;;a
now in anticipation of a' feed in Exchange and ad"
rates of freight.
It is evident, from all that we have said, that OA,- 4
not likely to have any great pressure of stock upon 1:a,
own market, to arise from large arrivals for awhile,_APlD.
vided the speculators in the United States can Ono
hold for firm prices. In the meantime money conum.,fe'
abundant; and although the latest advices before ,1!"-gt
some reports of an increased estimate of the crop, it ihs
generally believed that this was only an attempt, 0° hi
part of buyers to invest on more reasonable term.,
creating a temporary panic ; and holders, there.°
sheared no disposition to force sales.