The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

rwo of the

were returned transports

they. were again

LnumpurLeu ; Inc Itura, not naving been before convicted,
was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. But the police
of Manchester knew more of this man, and when he came

achester. I mention thi;as an instance
and activity of the police of this town.
b at the depositions, one of the most prevalent
seems to be picking pockets. You will have
'fore von of this description, cases in which
are charged ; in one case £l3O had
hut fortunately it was immedi-

waiting trial in 111
of the intelligenc

many cases be

boys, girls, and worn
been taken from a person,

ets are brought before me, I have never an; hesi- g the law in force. At the last sessions a
ho bad picked the pocket of a person of
''• '•ruse ; as soon as the robbery was

tation in pu

) went

but the person who took the watcii was
iencd in this case that the person who had
is a professor of legerdemain, and he swore

tively to I

!entity, as to leave no doubt on the
his guilt, and they had no hesitation

Fie magistrate

t of eve

having -been en-

had no hesitation

in transporting him. At the sessions before a man was con-
victed, whose practice was to ride in omnibuses, and
rob ladies ; he, too, was transported. There aro a
class of persons who seem to make it their business to lie
in wait for unwary emigrants ; there are two cases of this
nature in the calendar. In one case a man, wearing a
ribbon on his bat, with the word Atlantic upon it, in-
duced a person to entrust to him his luggage, he stole it ;
in the other case, a man went on board a steamer from
Ireland, and carried off two boxes under pretence of
taking them to an emigrant all There is in ".
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town a large quantity of property deposited in ware-
houses; it is rarely seen by the owners, being entrusted
entirely to the warehouse keeper. A great deal of
plunder takes place in consequence of this system. In a
late case a man, carrying ou business as a corn merchant,
having an office, a stand in the market, and a regular
agent. was proved to have conducted his business by
bribing warehouse keepers to plunder their employers :
this man was transported. In another case somewhat
similar a person was imprisoned for twelve months. Ido
hope these cases may have produced some effect, because
in the present calendar I find but one case, and that a
slight one. There is a case in which a husband and wife
are charged with felony; now, in general, when a woman
commits a felony in the presence of her husband, the law
presumes that she is acting under his controut ; but if a
woman takes a principal.part in a felony in the absence of
her husband, she is then guilty. There is
,a case in which
a car driver is charged with stealing a £5O note, which
occurred through a female having dropped it in the car.
Now there is a difference between the ancient and modern
view of the law of larceny; the modern law is more strict
than the ancient was. There are cases in which some
difficulty might occur in charging a person with larceny
who has come into possession of property by finding : but
in the present case it may be sufficient to say that it has
been decided that a hackney coechman, or a car driver,
who finds a parcel or a £5O note in his carriage has no
right to appropriate such property without inquiry, and if
he does he will be guilty of larceny. kconclusion, the
Recorder expressed his pleasure at seeing so many gentle-
men present to discharge the office of grand jurors. He
was too well acquainted with their intelligence and judg-
ment to trouble them any further.

Lord Byron has contradicted the report of h is having
left the Church of England for the Church of Rome.
On Thursday night Sir John Barrow's monument was
struck by lightning, which partially destroyed the cupola
and damaged other parts of the building.