The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH SESSIONS

The intermediate sessions for the borough, which are
usually held in August, but which had been adjourned
until the close of the assizes, commenced on Friday, be-
fore GILBERT HENDERSON, Esq.. Recorder. The calen-
dar contained 91 prisoners for felonies, and 15 for misde-
meanors. Of these, 46 could not read at all ;40 could
read and write imperfectly ; 17 could read imperfectly ;
and 3 only could read and write well. 15 other prisoners
had been committed since the calendar was printed.
The usual, proclamation against vice and immorality
having been read, the following gentlemen were sworn on

THE GRAND JURY. •
Joseph Langton, banker, Great George-square, foreman
Ellis Martin Brodie, merchant, Exchange-buildings.

Samuel Bulley, cotton-broker. Exchange-buildings
James Bent, brewer, Mount Vernon-road.

Nicholas Ciook, merchant, Brunswick-sheet.
William Clare, cotton-broker, Exchange-buildings.
Thomas Oldfield Cooper, merchant, Rumford-street
H enry Cram, ship-broker, South John-street.

John Eason. broker, Tithebarn-street.
Samuel Taylor Hobson, merchant, Catherine-street
Michael Humble, ship-builder, Waterloo-road.
Charles Wilding Jones, merchant, Vernon-street.

Gerrard Lynch, merchant, James-street.
Francis Maxwell, merchant, Water-street

Henry Newman, merchant, 13, Canning-place

John Jackson Starkie, ship-broker,

Vim. Pearce, merchant, Derby-buildings, Fenwickistreet
Alfred Bower, cotton-broker, Dingle-road.

Thomas Tomlinson. merchant, St. Anne-street.
Mr. Macviccar, cotton-broker, Shaw-street, was fined
£5 for non-attendance.

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the extent of the business which will have to come before
you, but to make the fact generally known, that members
of the community, especially those in chief stations of
influence, may sec the importance of exercising all the
means they possess to repress the progress of crime in
this borough, which seems at the present time to be
making such fearful strides. The most serious cases,, as
to the amount of property stolen, are two, in one of which
a man is accused of robbing his brother-in-law of a ..)(21
note; and in the other the party is charged with stealing
300 barrels of flour, being part of a cargo of 1200 barrels
entrusted to the Prisoner to despatch to various places.
In both these cases the stolen property has been reco-
vered. Although the cases are more than usually nu-
merous, I am happy to add that they are generally of a
lighter character. I regret to see several rather serious
charges of assault which seem to have arisen from a dis-
position to deter men who have served an apprenticeship
to the business of shipwright in other towns from exer-
cising their callings, and so gaining a livelihood, here.
I am confident the great body of shipwrights are too

intelligent, too well affected towards the laws of their
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country, and too high spirited to resort to illegal or op-
pressive intimidation. If, however, on the part Lf any
individuals such attempts should be mode, tly7 may de-
pend upon it, that most assuredly t',e authorities !rill put
down such attempts, ant the offenders will be visited by
the most exemplary punishment. I know the great ex-
perience of some of the grand jury too writ to say a
word as
to the manner in which you should discharge
your duties in the grand jury room ; but if any doubt or
difficulty should arise on any point of law, I shall be
happy to render you every assistance.
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were made for non-attendance, principally on toe ground
of sickness. Mr. W right, the clerk of the peace, stated
that he had summoned eighty persons, and he did not
think there were above forty able to attend.