The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

JULY BOROUGH SESSIONS.

These sessions oommenced yesterday, before Gilbert
Henderson, the recorder, whose charge is a sufficient
commentary on the extent and character of the calendar.
It was to the following purport :—The calendar was a
long one, containing the names of one hundred and seventy
persons charged with various offences ; at the same time,
having read the depositions, he (the learned recorder) was
able to assure the gentlemen of the grand jury that very
few would require any length of time to investigate.
Shoplifting was a little on the decline, still robbery by
domestic servants and picking pockets were becoming
more frequent. Wherever he should find such to be the
case, he should take occasion to visit the offenders with a
more severe punishment, in order to put some check to
such offences. It had been found that a very salutary
check had been imposed on this class of offences by the
administration of corporeal punishment. The present
calendar only furnished one case of stealing lead from
buildings, an offence very common, every session pre-
senting five or six cases : there again was a proof of the
check which corporeal punishment had supplied; and
having observed these effects, he should act, in visiting
such cases with corporeal punishment, cautiously and
prudently, but still he should not scruple to exercise those
powers the law gave him. In referring to the cases of
picking pockets, though more numerous, the recorder did
not mean to say they were of the same serious character
they formerly were ; such as cases in which persons coming
from banks were waylaid, clerks going to the postoffice
with letters of value were robbed, or when omnibuses
were visited by thieves for the purpose of plunder. Such
cases of pocket picking he considered much more serious
than where the property lost consisted of a handkerchief ;
at the same time, when he observed a certain class of
offences on the increase, he should meet the case with
that severity he deemed proper, and he would warn the
offenders in such cases that a severe punishment would
await them. The following is a list of the names of gen-
tlemen sworn on the grand jury :

Mr. Harold Littledale, Exchange-buildings, (foreman.)
William Armstrong, merchant, South Castle-street.
Thomas Philip Hanson, cotton broker, Exchange-alley
North.
William Edward Thomas Duncan, merchant, Exchange-
alley North.
William Charles Fosberry, merchant, Tithebarn-street.
Edward Finch, iron merchant, Sir Thomas's-buildings.
E— Thomas Stewart Gladstone, broker, Oldhall-street.
Michael Harnett, broker, Fenwick-street.

RiCh;rllifoughton the younger, timber merchant, Sefton-
street.
Samuel Kearsley, broker, Exchange-street East.
James Lea, broker, Rumford-street.
William Duncan M'Andrew, brassfounder, Percy-street.
Charles Moore, merchant, Rumford-street.
. . . .

.liiiOiiomvooilNicholson, hide dealer, Blackstock-street,
Edward Penbury Parry, wholesale grocer, Temple-court,
Joseph Parton, broker, Rumford-street.
John Smith, wine merchant, St. Anne-street.
William Stock, glass merchant, Dale-street.
David Taylor, broker, Dale-street.