The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL OCTOBER SESSIONS.

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GILBERT H ENDERSON, Esq., Recorder. Thecae nuo
peace
Court fr
contained the names of 116 prisoners for trials on charges,
of felony, and seven for misdemeanours, to
123. Of these only eight are recur ed as being able.,
read and write well, 41 can read and write im
Pe.-ectly, ;50,,
ran read imperfectly, while the very large proportion I
43 have never been taught either.
The following gentlemen were sworrrthe Grand Jury
at
th
the b o
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Robert Crosbie, Esq., -of North John-street, merchant;
William Anthony, of Hope-street, timber-merchant;
Joseph Brice, of Bedford-street, corn-merchant;
Samuel Beckwith, of Tower-garden, hide-broker ;
James Breimer, of Water-street, merchant;
Robinson Duckworth, of Canning-street, merchant;
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Abraham Gartzide, of North John-street,
•
broker;
Edward Jones, of Exchange-buildings, merchant;
William Logan, of Bath-street, anchorsmilh ;
Edward Langdale, of Shaw-street, timber-merchant;
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John Woolfall Mulleneux, of Brougham-terrace, re
c'
;
William Maxwell, of Union-court, wine-merchant;
Thomas Mather, of Drury-lane, corn-merchant; ,
making a total ot
John Mather, of Mount-pleasant, merchant ;
John Pemberton,. of Fenwick-street, merchant;
William Rotherham, of Exchange-street East, merchant;
John Daniel, of Thornley, Hope-street, merchant ;
Joseph Ridgway, of South Chapel-street, cotton'
broker;
Robert Taylor Woodward, of Irwell-street, merchant;
Isaac Worthington, of Percy-street, cotton-broker.
The Le'rned REcortirma, in deli, ering his charge to w
he
Grand Jury, spoke as follows :—Gentlemen of the Grand Jac
_lt appears from the dei,ositions before me that there are I
prisoners to take their trials at this Court. It is tatisfactorri;
however, to observe that large as that number is, it is less the t
the number of committals in the corresponding period of
year, which amounted to 136. In disposing of these cases, gen
tlemen, it must be our duty so to enforce the law as most etre't,
ually to restrain and prevent the future commission of crime.
It is a reproach to the administration of justice when offence!
go unpunished : it is a still deeper reproach to confound ion%
cence with guilt. Under these sentiments, gentlemen, you .
have to institute a preliminary investigation into every case:
you will call for the witnesses before you : you will hear the
evidence : you v ill weigh it : and judge whether it is such as'
in the absence of defence, ought to warrant a conviction of the
individual accused. Where you find it is of a satisfactory an
conclusive nature, it will be your duly to find the bill but
where, in any case, the evidence is not of that description, that
does not bring home the charge to the party accused, it will be
your duty to stop at once all proceedings by throwing out the
bill. Gentlemen. the eases are in general of a slight and ordi-
nary character, and do not seem to require fro, / me any re-
marks for the guidance of gentlemen of such intelligence as
hive now the honour of addressing. There are some offences
however, the frequent recurrence of which seem to call for ea-
emplary punishment. I allude more particularly to the offenoe9
of stealing from shops and stealing from the person, which Yon
will find constitute a large portion of the cases in The calendar.
I will take this opportunity of correcting a misapprehension
which, from applications made to me, I know to prevail. that
when a sentence of transportation is accompanied by a recol.n:
mendation to the Penetentiary, it is supposed that the convict
will not he sent out of this country. That, gentlemen, is a mis-
take. take. It is seldom, now, that a sentence of transportation !'
not carried into effect by the sending of the party out of till
country. When the recommendation to a Pentitentiary is acteoe
upon, the Penitentiary is only the portal to a penal colony; rh
party must look forward to pass a long period, if net his whole
life, in toil and in labour in a distant country. It is, therefore:
gentlemen, always a sentence fearful to undergo, and which
always calls for great deliberation in imposing it I menticn
this because many parties are under the impression that it Is
not always carried into effect by sending the convict out of the
country. Gentlemen, T shall not trouble you with any furthq
observations, or detain you from those duties which lam alts, •
viul occupy you some time..
The Grand Jury then retired to their room ; and shortly
afterwards the trials commenced. The cases during the
entire day were of minor interest, and all of them have
been previously noticed in this paper.