The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

,iregson, Furth-road, merchant.
Thomas I). Headlam, Wavertree, insurance broker.
Timothy Bristowe Hughes, Sea Bank, Liscard, ditto.
William Henry Higgins, Hope-street, iron merchant.
Timothy Jevons, Park Hill-road, ditto
Thomas Critchlow Molyneux, Knotty Ash, cbain cable
manufacturer.
William Mather, Finch House, West Derby, lead and coPPCS
merchant.

Simon Lee Trotma

•ombie.square, broker.
Park -road, merchant.

James Stitt. Islington iron merchant.
Alex. Shand, Elm Cottage, Ullet-lane, Toxteth, merchant.
George Winstanley, Walton, wine merchant.

The usual proclamation having been read,
The RECORDER charged the Grand Jury. He saLa
that although seven weeks had scarcely elapsed since the
last sessions, within that short space of time no few:,
than one hundred prisoners had been committed for
bony, and fifteen for misdemeanours. The most numernT,
cases of the graver kind were for shoplifting, of whit':
there were fifteen.. Several of these were of parties irrn
had taken goods that were temptingly placed at or near
,:
the doors of the premises. It bad been customary ui
the court not to allow the expenses of prosecution. eat
to this practice he should abide. He thought that in en
instances it would be well for the local authorities to en.
force the penalty of 40s. imposed by the local act on Perk
ties thus exposing their wares. The next cases worth''
w",
more particular notice were those of stealing from
person. No fewer than eleven abandoned wore_.%,
awaited their trials for this kind of offence. Here eri,
the parties who had lost their property had shown a gr"
want of prudence and discretion, which too often tor
pened in the intercourse of men with such charactel
There was one serious case of an attempt to capon,
highway robbery ; and he regretted to say, there Walt
other cases of a like nature, in which the parties had no
been apprehended and brought to punishment. 11,
should certainly deal with severity with such offendel
whenever the case was brought home to them. At 1110
last sessions, an individual found guilty of the offence try
transported for ten years, although it was the first time°
had been brought before the court. With this exception!
there was no very serious case requiring comment from
him, or on which they would probably find any difficult/
in deciding. He should, however, remark that these Web
four instances of thieves being brought to justice throng
the agency of pawnbrokers. This was highly satisfae:
tory, and creditable to the latter. He hoped the exarnPlct
thus set would be followed, and that the whole of that
class would co-operate, for none had more in their poorer;
Amongst those who had thus acted in a praisewortin
mariner were Mr. Mc. Pherson, Mr. Gillaird, Mr. MO'
and another pawnbroker, whose name be had not yet en'
certained. The example they had shown was well wortbi
of imitation. He thought the grand jury would not fins
anything of a legal kind with which they might be at,
loss. Their province was merely that of a preliming4.
character, and did not involve a trial of the accuse_!A
They should weigh well the evidence, and if it appenTa
conclusive, send the parties for trial; if otherwise, an
n
the probability was that no conviction would result, '
would be their dnty to check all further unnecessary ea'
quiry by throwing out the bills.
The trials then commenced, but during the day well
not of general interest.

LEAGUE MEETING—LAST NIGHT.
A meeting of the Anti-Monopoly Association was held
last night in the Mechanics' Hall, Lord 'Nelson-street'
to petition parliament for the total and immediate rePe.B
of the corn-laws. Wm. Brown, Esq., was in the chair'
The meeting itself, however, was a poor affair, consisting
chiefly of working men drummed up for the occasion;
and the prevailing sentiment of every one present apt
peared to he, that in the measures of Sir Robert Pe,e,,
they had obtained more than had ever ben expected v.',
reasonable men. The expressions of all the speaker,:
conveyed gratitude to Sir Robert, and fulsome adulati°oo,`;
for his efforts in the carrying out of _their own free-'c
notions,—mingled, however, with some little contempt
for his truckling subserviency, and triumph over the fact
of his being compelled to come into the recognition °
their views.

Lord Ashley has issued an address to the electors, 0
Dorsetshire, regigning his seat because he is " of opitil°o
that it is no longer expedient to maintain protection%
He states that he will appear on the hustings at thenotol(
nation to ascertain by a show of hauds the sentiments
the constituency. •

ODD FELLOWSHIP.-- Colonel Reid and Mr. RAP)!
Neville, the two members for the borough of New Win"'
sor, have both been elected members of the Odd Felleo
Lodge held in that town. • ~;;
Sir T. Freemantle, Secretary for Irel,nd, will, on ":
appointment as Chairman of the Commissioners of
toms, vacate his seat for Buckingham, in whicli• he will
succeeded by the Marquis of Chandos.
Lord Farnham, in a letter to a Dublin paper, na°sfe
that "he does not consider himself at liberty to state °l,
reasons which induced him to decline seconding the nal
dress in answer to the speech from the throne, elf,e'
that they had reference solely to the question of corn. g,
RAILWAY NEGLIGENCE.—At the Ilford petty session,
on Saturday, Thomas Blackburne, an engine-driver, ``he
fined £5, for having left part of a luggage train en
main line of the Eastern Counties Railway, wherebl4
collision was caused. A few days ago, John Burfielrl.
engine-driver, was fined £5, at Darlington. He had cite
%
of the coal train on the Great North of England lin
which was run into by the mail train,
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The nomination for the West-Riding election will - 4,6
place to-morrow. George Lane Fox, Esq., has C i
forward to
.oppose Lord Morpeth ; and Mr. Ferrao,
actively engaged in support of the conservative interests)
He deserves for his strenuous exertions some substaolo`,,
testimonial, and we hope all friends of the constitutilf
will help it forward. Had Mr. Fox presented himg„,,r
little earlier, his election would probably have been 'but
vied easily, and even now it does not seem unlikely
yea
that Mr. Ferrand's zeal and de lotedness will be crew

with success.
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PORTRAIT OF MR. ASKEW.—We were extreme,'
~-teo
tified a few days since by the inspection of a well exec,,",;lo
likeness of Mr. Askew, our able and long tried baret,
master, painted in oil by Mr. Lovatt, of Duke-streba.
Mr. Askew is represented seated in an arm-chair 0140
scroll of paper in his left hand ;‘and the artist has ,"•;‘,O,
very successful in placing oil the canvas all the aninla':elf
intelligence, and good humour which beam so express,_`,o9
in the countenance of the original. When the fres°,,Pecli
of the colouring has worn off the portrait will be iroPN'tlie
but it nevertheless reflects, as it is, much credit 00 tyß
artist. We believe Mr. Askew will be happy to she uy
likeness to any of his friends at his office in the oust°

house. re.
AUSTRALIA.—FiIes of Australian papers have heel of
ceived to-day, extending through the months of lel,
and part of September. The capture of Jackey Ja,,nor
and other notorious bushrangers, had made quite a s`-oiltj
tion at Hobart TOM:), where their ravages among 0;01
side stations of the agriculturists and sheep farraeL'„blP
created much -alarm. Business at Sydney and P:00
Town was steady. The value of flour and whea'frO/
rising at the latter place. A ship arrived at Sydney th."
New Zealand. and reports among other intelligence vtl'
a chief named Noble, with his tribe, had joined fbeisrei
tish, in consequence of which another tribe had deco°
in favour of Heki, who is now said to have upwar.
3,000
PR PROTECTION TO BRITISH INDUSTRY,On Tllll.
the Central Agricultural Society, under the presidenetia
his Grace the Duke of Richmond, held a special ale
for the purpose of considering the ministerial scbefiel
and the following resolutions and recommendations airs
unanimously agreed to :—" That this society vielobel(
the utmost alarm the proposed measures of Sir al °
Peel for establishing free importation, and withdrlloo,
protection from the productive classes." '• That tsof`;
ciety feels convinced that the results of such me-0 6
would produce a revolution of such fearful extentiotif,
involve not only the agricultural but the other pr°!,coSi,i
classes of this country in certain ruin." "It Is the
mended to the country and local protection societies tiol
they do immediately form committees, of not olorfefer/4
12 gentlemen, to wait upon the members in theirs e 0
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different constituencies for" a sanction of the CP

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3,184 G. ,0,
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