The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

PRESENTMENT OF THE GRAND JURY,

The Grand Jury, before being discharged, handed to Mr.
Justice Cresswell the following presentment against seditious
and treasonable clubs :

" The Grand Jury cannot separate without expressing their
conviction that the law, as it at present exists, is inadequate to
cope with sufficient promptitude and effect with these clubs
and associations, which, in connexion with Ireland and other
parts of the United Kingdom, have for some time endangered
the tranquillity of these realms.
• " That from the difficulty of repressing in their earlier stages
the mischievous attempts of these clubs to establish an exten-
sive system of organization and arming, sedition and treason
have been encouraged, the ignorant and unwary have been
seduced by apparent immunity into the designs of the disaffect-
ed; and formidable preparations have been matured for out-
break and rebellion, which, with some modification of the law,
might have been checked in the outset, by the energy and deci-
sion of those who are charged with the preservation of the
peace.
"The Grand Jury, therefore, express the hope that such mea-
sures may be adopted by the Legislature for the vindication of
the law with respect to these clubs, as to its wisdom shall ap-
pear most conducive to the security of the Throne, the liberty
in
stitutions
which the subject, and the stability of those national
which the country at large is determined to maintain."

NISI PRIUS COURT.-WEDNESDAY.
JENKINS V. BROWN AND OTHERS.

In this case Francis Jenkins, corn-merchant, of London, was
the plaintiff, and Messrs. Brown, Shipley, an,' Co., merchants,
of Liverpool were the defendants. The action was one of
trover, to recover the value of a quantity of Indian corn,
which, it was alleged, belonged to the plaintiff, and had been
illegally sold by the defendants.
It appeared that the plaintiff was largely engaged in corn
speculations, and that he imported a cargo of Indian corn from
New Orleans. Bills of Exchange were drawn upon the plain
tiff by Le Gendre and Co., the house that made the shipment.
Two of. these bills, for a sum of .2,513, were drawn against
the cargo, and became due on the 17th of June, 1847, and these
bills were held by Denison and Co., bankers, of London, on
behalf of defendants. The plaintiff entered into a contract
for the sale of a cargo, and tendered the money in payment for
the bills at Messrs. Denison and: Co.'s, but the bills were not
produced. 'I he plaintiff consequently was unable to deliver
the cargo of corn, and no sale could be effected. The plaintiff
subsequently became embarrassed in his affairs, and was
obliged to effect an arrangement with his creditors, and under
that arrangement a composition of 2s. in the pound was paid
on the bills in question. The plaintiff, it was alleged, had
therefore a right to recover the value of the cargo from the de-
fendants, because it had been sold by them in October without
any intimation being given. The value of the corn was
.793 18s. 6d.

Mr. MARTIN, in the course of his speech for the defence,
stated that the glintiff had been offered the bills on the 18th,
and that he wouid not take them up ; that, subsequently, he
offered to throw up the whole affair; that the defendants were
losers by the transaction to the amount of -'15,000 and that
they had a right to sell the corn, the plaintiff having no claim
or title to it. He contended that a more unfounded claim had
never been brought before a court of justice.
By direction of the Judge, the jury found a verdict for the
defendants. upon the ground that; under the circumstances,
the plaintiff was not possessed of the corn, and that they had
the right to sell it under the authority obtained from Le Gendre
and Co.
The.other.cases to-day.were unimportant... . -

CROWN COURT.-THURSDAY.
SENTENCES.

Ann Williams, for stealing a child at Salford, twelve months'
imprisonment. • •
Mar, Haigh, for having, at Chadderton, attempted to con-
ceal the birth of her child, six months' imprisonment.
Ellen Griffith, for having, at Liverpool, attempted to drown
her child, one months' imprisonment and hard labour.
Robert Walton, for bigamy, at Saddleworth, nine months'
imprisonment.

John .Smith and Thomas Smith. for burglary, at Liverpool,
each twelve months' imprisonment.
Bear?, 'Woodward, for burglary, at Broughton, twelve
months' imprisonment.
John Ersiant, for laceny on the high seas, seven years' trans-
portation. _ _

Walker Ellwood, for stealing in a dwelling-house, at Rad-
cliffe, after previous conviction for felony, fifteen years' trans-
portation.

John Sumner, for larceny, at Litherland, seven years' trans-
portation.:
MURDER OF AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.
Jane APLane, 33, was brought up, and pleaded not guilty to
a charge of having at Ashton-under-Lyne, wilfully murdered
William M`Lane, her illegitimate child. Mr. Monk appeared
- for the prosecution, and Mr. Atkinson defended the prisoner.
On the 24th July last the prisoner, in company with a man
named William Johnson, with whom she cohabited, went to the
Old Cross Inn, kept by Mr. Hall, and had four quarts of ale.
About five o'clock prisoner was seen to leave the vaults and go
into the yard, with the child, about nine months old, in her
arms. She returned about half an hour afterwards, without
the child. She was in a state of intoxication, very noisy, and
was turned out of the vaults. Prisoner subsequently returned,
and, appearing in great trouble, requested to be allowed to go
to !he necessary. On her being interrogated as to where she
had left the child, she replied, "At home." Shortly afterwards
the daughter of the landlord went to the privy and discovered
the infant in the soil, quite &ad. The jury found the prisoner
guilty of manslaughter, and recommended her to mercy.