The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL SESSIONS.

Yesterday the May Sessions commenced, before Gilbert
Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The calendar contained
the names of 88 prisoners, of which number 799- were
charged with felony and 9 with misdemeanour. A few
prisoners were added after the list was printed. Of the
88, thirty-four could read and write imperfectly, thirty-
two could neither read nor write, eighteen could read
imperfectly, and only four could read and write well.
The following gentlemen were sworn to constitute the

GRAND JURY:—
Thomas Stewart Gladstone, broker, Oldhall-street,
Wm. Ashley, merchant, Water-street,
George Bennett. wine merchant, Fenwick-street,
George Badenach, fruit merchant, North John-street,
John Best, merchant, Catherine-street.
Thomas Boyd, merchant, Salthouse Dock,
William Frederick Foster, broker, Colonial-buildings,

Dale-street,
Robert Hindley, brewer, Stanhope-street,
Richard Houghton, Jun., timber merchant, Upper Par-

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liament-street,
William Henry Higgins, iron merchant, Hope-street,
James Lea, cotton broker, Rumford-street,
John Middleton, merchant, Castle-street,
Charles Melhuish, merchant, Castle-street,
William Nixon, rectifier, Vernon-street,
William Nicholson, tanner, Blackstock-street,
Edward Penbury Parry, grocer, Temple-street,
Henry Alexander Stewart, ship-broker, Cable-street,
George Adams Fairley, sharebroker, Peel-street.
The proclamation against vice and immorality having
been read, the Recorder thus briefly addressed the gen-
tlemen who had just been sworn in
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury—You will find in the
calendar laid before you the names of about ninety per-
sons, who are to take their trials at the present sessions,
—the same number nearly as were produced before us
last year within the same time. Ido not see that any of
the cases are of a nature requiring any remark from me ;
and therefore I shall not trouble you with any observa-
tions on this occasion, or detain you from the perform-
ance of your duties, which I am sure will, from your at-
tention and intelligence, be well and faithfully discharged.
The jury then retired, and the trials proceeded.

LETTERS TO HAYTI.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR, We would be obliged by your inserting, in the
STANDARD of to-morrow, the following copy of a letter
received by us this day from Colonel Maberly, relating to
the transmission of letters to Haytirby the West Indian
Mails.

Your obedient- servants,
RICHD; SHEIL and CO.
Liverpool, May 22, 1848.
(copy.)

General Post-office, May 20, 1848.
SIRS,—The Postmaster-General having been in com-
munication with the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, on the subject of the Memorial signed by yoursel-
ves and other inhabitants of Liverpool, Glasgow, and
London, I am directed by his lordship to acquaint you
that it has been decided, henceforth. to despatch a Mail
to Jacmel, Hayti, by the packet leaving Southampton
on the 2nd of each month, in addition to the Mail which
is at present forwarded on the 17th or the month.
I am, Sirs,
Your obedient,,humble servant,
(Signed.) H. MABERLY.
Messrs. Richd. Sheil and Co.,
Liverpool.