The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-17 00:00:00

soned for one month, and to find security to keep the
peace, himself in £lOO, and two sureties in £5O each.
The prosecutor begged his lordship to discharge the pri-
soner-at once.

His Lordship said he would be happy to accede to the
wish of the prosecutor, which was highly creditable to
him :. and that part of the sentence relating to the impri-
sonment would not be carried out against the prisoner:
The requisite sureties having been given in, the priso-
ner was discharged.

William Gazzard, Abraham. Shore, Mary A. Broad-
bent, and Ann. Crowther, were charged with having, at
Rochdale, feloniously assaulted Thomas Corkin, putting.
him in bodily fear of his life, and violently stealing from
his person some money and other articles ; and William
Gazzard was further charged with wounding the said
Thomas Corkin on the finger of the right hand. Mr. J.
Pollock stated the case for the prosecution. The priso-
ners were undefended. Shore, against whom ninny pre-
vious convictions were brought, was sentenced to ten
years' transportation, and the other three prisoners to
seven years' each.

CROWN COURT.-SATURDAY

Four young men, named Pendlebuii:Len2ing, Harri-
son_ and Whiteside, were acquitted of the charge of as-

saulting feloniously, at. Preston, Cithcrine Sherlicker, a
girl of rather prepossessing appearance only fifteen years
old. The prosecutrix did not make any complaint for a
week,. when, being taken ill, she informed her mother.
According to her account the prisoners.behaved towards her
with treat indelicacy and. brutality. A girl named Willis,
however, deposed that the prosecutrix was a consenting
party, to all that took place with.Pendlebury.
John Clarke, indicted for a similar offence at Man-
chester on a young girl, was found guilty of an. assault,
and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

Edward Richards, a respectable man, indicted for mali-
ciously stabbing, at Salford, John Bradburn, was found
guilt, of an assault. He was ordered to find bail, and the
prosecutor consented to become his surety, for which lie
was commended by the judge. The transaction arose out
of a family quarrel.
The trial of the parties connected with the late brick-
layers' strike at Aghton-undt.r-Ixne wa, trprorcpri to tbn

next assizes on the ground that the prisoners had been
committed on one charge and the bill of indictment
charged them with another.

NISI PRIUS COURT-SATURDAY

John Struth6s. a pensioner, was sentenced to two
months' imprisonment for having obtained from Mr. J.
Duggan, New York Tavern, Waterloo-road, two sums of
money by means of forged orders. The prisoner recsived
a good cirtracter from his commanding officer.
Dominic Bodkin, an Irishman, was sentenced to seven
Years' transportation fo, stabbing with a clasp knife, in
Stuart-street, on Sunday, the 3rd ultimo, a young seaman,
named John Shields, during a fight. _.

Connor Egan was sentenced Co a similar term of trans-
portation for stubbing Thomas Larkin, on the 25th ult.,
at a court in Milton-street.

The celebrated pedestrian, " Mickey Free," was sen-
tenced to nine months' imprisonment for shooting at his
wife, under the circnmstances we lately made public.
The jury strongly recommended him to mercy, as it ap-
peared that, when he had anything to drink, he was com-
pletely stupified.
William Watkins. a seaman, was sencenced to seven
years' transportation for stabbing with a knife Mr. Henry
Bevan, publican. of Edmund-street. The prosecutor was
demanding payment for two glasses of ale when the un-
manly assault took place.
Isaac Smith and Abel Smith, father and son, were
acquitted of the charge of killing and stealing a sheep, the
property of a butcher at Warrington.