The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-26 00:00:00

r. Win. Mercer, publican',

!herein a half crow(
iu all to upvi

of £2. sVonered iccotp, pgeuraint y°. ney, amounting

entence, (h,

•
years, traus-

• William Jones, 23, and James M' Donald, 28, were
charged with having, on the high-seas, within the juris-
diction of the Admiralty, stolen one purse, a half•so,,e-

July, the steamer Ayrshire Lassie went out of this port
with a number of passengers, about 400, who were anxious
ess the coniir.g in of the steam-ship Great Brita,n,

to witn

then expected to at ris;e
officers, in undress, Bu

'wo active police•
d Tool, were on board the

Ayrshire L issie, on duty. When that vessel was in the
outer channel, and shortly after reaching the N.W. Light.
ship, the Great Brit .tin was seen approaching, and Mrs
Fryer, who was acting as stewardess, v

%Ph succeFs

wing up, his Lordship ezr

that the evid
the vessel he

int sufficient

against Nl'D'ot

to Jones there could. he 01

The jury, however, did not appear to
I on the first point, and Mr. Wilkins v

le quite
s after.

The 'ju
guil

consultation. found both prisoners

went .as deferred un•il this day, and the
prisoners ifiiiinated their ilitention of raw

after a
. Judz-

ng au wrest of

I
I judgment on some points of law.
Thomas Keenan, 17, Thorn •.l Jone 4, 17, and George
at Lverpool, broken

Collins, were four

coat. &

nu had hecon- been convicted of felony,
and the other prisontrs had also been imprisoned repeat-
They were sentenced to ten

eputed

tering the house of Iliad. B. cket, wheelrrTght, Oswald
Ftivet, Liverpool, on the ►corning of the 27th July. Th
doo:s and windows Lad been secured. At four in th

morning Mrs. i3erket he

the street. Sh
of It- front kitchen and atiotber br

lie SIM a man Standing iu
rash, and found the door

missed a piece of beef, some candl• s, and some suet. A
policeman saw the prisoner come out of the cellar, and
afterwards got hold rf hlin in a piece of waste land. He
had the articles wall him. and at first ran away. The
jury found the prisoner guilty, and he having been in
. .

gaol several tiines before, his Lordship sentenced him to
ten year:,' transportation,

The court rose at 20 minutes before seven o'clock

NISI PRIUS COURT.—YESTERI
(Before Mr. Justice Cresstvell.)

RIGHT TO A WATER COURSE

WALKER V. CHAFFER AND ANOTHER.-

an action to reonv

SPECIAL

compensation in

damages for the obgtruction of a water course.
Messrs. Knowles, Tomlinson, and Cowling were counsel
for !he plaintiff, Messes. Baines, Robinson, and Hill for

e guano contained very

were found, but in general
little of these things.
This closed the case for the plaintiffs
Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury on behalf of the
fendant. The real question the jury had to try was whe-
ther-the cargo was of fair average quality of the guano
imported from Ichabor, and to a sound and merchantable
condition. He should prove to the jury that one-fourth

of the cargo was complete rubbish, and did not come up
to the terms of the contract; that about three-fourths of
it had been shipped from Mr. Doughal's pit, and it was
of fair average quality, but nearly the whole of the remain-
ing part of the cargo was that which hsd been taken from
the top of the island, and consisted of merely bones,
feathers, shells, and stones. It would be proved to them
that the servants of Messrs. Connell and Co. superintend-
ed the discharge of the vessel, and that there were in the
whole 6044 bags, of which 1128 were feathery,
were bad. If he proved these fees, he contended their I
defendant was entitled to their verdict.

ld 236

Mr. Francis A. Clint was then called, and he stated
that he bad acted as agent for the defendant respecting
the cargo in question. He was at Glasgow on the 22d of
May, when the Sarah arrived. Went nn board the same
day, and took samples of the cargo. They were analyzed,
and told the captain they were of goad average quality.
He said it was all of the same description, with t be omen-
bon of ten bap of inferior and ten bags of feathery. He
arranged with Messrs. Connell and Co. to receive the
cargo, which was afterwards discharged by mistake.
John Thompson, warehouse-keeper to Messrs Connell

and Co., of Glasgow, stated that be superintended the
delivery of the cargo. When he went to do bo, he took
a letter from the defendant, which stated that he would

quality.

1,128 we
very bad,

3e can

provided

iere were altogether 6,C61 bags, of which
arked with a cross' as feathery, and 236, as
e marked No. 1. The latter appeared to be

nothing but earth and

(one of the firm of Messrs

Mr. J. C. I layner, guano merchants, were then called
and they stated that the 6064 hags were nearly an average

,id. .r it an a%
Mr. W ATS

U,re is

LIVERPOOL BOPOCCII SESSIONS.—The sessions, which
bad been appointed foi to-morrow, (Wednesday,) in order
to meet the convenience of those members of the bar, at
the pres,nt assizes, who attend them, have been postponed
until the regular period, the_2sth_of October. The pre-
plat MIMIC for u•viauge-uas not transpired, but it is un-
derstood to have been made in def,,rence to some legal
doubts expressed by Mr. Baron Rolfe.

REMOVAL OF THE COTTON TRADE TO SHEFFIELD
!
The effect of the approaching opening of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway has been to originate the formation
of a company for the establishment of cotton-mills, the
object being the employment of the young population of
both classes. A preliminary meeting for the purpose
was held on Thursday last. We hear of a large spinner
and manufacturer removing his present establishment
nearer to Sheffield, on the same line of railway, for the
advantage of its cheap coal.

ZOOLOGICAL GA RDEN s.—The Ferond of Julien's Con-
certs Monstres, postponed from Tuesday last in conse-
quence of the unfavourable state of the weather, took
place last night, when the audience, considering the wea-
ther, was very numerous. The programme comprised a
selection of the choicest pieces of the day, all of which
were admirably suited to spew the various musical abilities
of the body, as well as the leaders of this monstre corps.
Th's was positively Julien's last appearance here this
season.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE IN NAMES AND OF-
TENCES.—It is somewhat extraordinary that, in the
Crown Court, at our present Assizes, and on the same
day, a man named Robert Brooks was tried, on a charge
of having wounded William Leming, with (amongst
other counts) intent to commit murder; and a man
named William Brooks was tried for wounding Mary Ann
Leeming, with the same intent. Both acts occurred in
the month of May; both were perpetrated with sharp-
edge instruments; and both prisoners were found guilty,
(the first of a common assault, and the other to the full
amount of the major charge); yet the former took place
at Bury, and the other in Manchester ; and none of the
parties—either aggressors or sufferers—were related, or
even known to each other.
THEATRE-ROYAL.—The leading attraction at this I

theatre during the past week has tieentieOpir;Of the
Bohemian Girl, the principal parts sustained hi, tlarrison,
M. Borrani, and Mks Romer. The other. ch4r.r.t.....nd

he choruses have b,

of the regular company. The p
tably got up by Mr. Hammond
well disposed to ream

has been most credi-
, the manager, who seems

Is establishment to its proper
position as our royal house. The part of Devils/10qt;
which we have been accustomed to see played by Morley,
has been well filled by M. P. Corrie—a bass of no mean
pretensions; and Miss roveney has dene justice to her-
,elf in the Gips-y Queen. Last night Bal'e's new open
of " The Enchuntres "

rought out in

DARING ROBBERY, AND BOLD CAPTURE. Yester-
clay a man named John Brelien was brought up at the
befhre Mr. Rushton, upon a charge of
having sloleri a silver watch from the boast; of Mr. Jobn
Deacon, n clerk in the Custom-IMuse

in Myrtle-street
Thete were two witnesses only, Mrs. Deacon and
El.zabeth Norhury, the maid servant, and from their tes-
timony it appeared they had observed the prisoner loiter-
ing abnut the opposite side of the street the whole
forenoon. A silver watch had been placed in a drinking-

.eben window, it

as quit