The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

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purchases at the cheap metropolitan market—to patio,..
Moses and Son, 4nd to buy their tea and coffee, sugar
and pepper, at the small, or no profit establishments, in- et."' - -
that there should also be some overt act in order to con-
stead of patronizing the local tradesmen, who were so
slit ute the offence. Therefore, the Grand Jury must be
generous in giving away to the foreigner the protection
which the l bad provided for their agricultural roducts. satisfied that the overt act was made out as well as the
Free Tradeaw was an excellent thing, to be appliepd to the compassing and imagining, and if it was not they ought
landowner and the resident gentry class. But the trades- to throw out the till]. Now, what wits an overt act ?
of Cambridge repudiate it as fit to be applied to It was absurd to say that words alone could not be overt
men
themselves. A meeting has just been held in their Town- acts. If he advised a party to kill his neighbour, and the
arty so advised did so -his words were an overt ac. Ii
hall, to protest against the enormity of London sbopping•
they were satisfied that there was such an overt act,t they
In the opinion of these wise parties, you may go where
would find the bill—if not, they would throw it cut.
you like for your corn and sugar in wholesale quantities,
In one of the casas, a number of overt acts were
but you must not go out of Cambridge for your weekly
charged, and if the Grand Jury were satisfied that
suply. Free Trade for all the rest of the communitTy ;
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but protection for the tradesmen of Cambridge. any one of them was matte out, it would be their duty
secure this it is suggested that the railway companies to find the bill. The next case was one of a very serious

ment. The pre
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should interfere, by stopping the issue of -day tickets, character—it was a cLarge against a tarp ooey cm persons
which enable "resident gentry " and others to go to Lon_'for murder, no fewer than six according to the calendar—
don a-shopping, economically, and to buy in the cheapest for the murder 61a policeman. They would require—some
market. Of course the railway companies will aid so of them at least—some direction as to what was the true
' ~., ...,. criterion of the case. It required some explanation as to
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matter of serhus importance to be properly understood
PELL'S SERENADERS.—We need say little more of this by the public, for if it was understood, persons would be
unrivalled company than that this i; their last week. One careful how they accompanied crowds when engaged in
of the most amusing features of the remaining entertain- unlawful acts. A man might be guilty of murder without
meats will be the promised reading of the conundrums knowing that a murder had been committed at all, and
sent in for the two silver cups. justly so too. If a mob of persons assembled together,
PHONETIC SPELLING.—The amount of ignorance and armed, with intent to beat down all resistance, to kill the
consequent misery and crime, which prevails in our coma- police or other respectable persons who might interfere to
try, has called the attention of the whole nation to devise prevent their purposes, and some man at one end of the
means for reducing it. After trying the punishing system crowd kills another, those at the other end would be
for years. men have at last perceived that the preventive guilty of murder though they knew nothing about it ; and
is the most effectual, and educational establishments for the only difference would probably he, that the parties
the poor are consequently rising fast over the country. who did not commit the act would not be so severely
The reports of the commissimiers sent by government to punished. Still all would be guilty, and liable to the
examine their efficiency, is, however, very discouraging. same punishment. But inasmuch as that depended upon
While we know that one-half of our population is unable the circumstance that all must have the common purpose
to write, and one-third unable to read, it is' melancholy to and common intent, they ought to see how far the corn-
find it stated by Mr. Mosely, in reference to 217 schools mon intent of the whole 'Tilly went, because it would be
of the midland district examined by him, that one-half of unjust to visit all with punishment when some had gone
the. children leave the schools, and are absorbed into the beyond the original intent of all. His Lordship then re-
labouring community of the country, not being able to ferred to a case tried before him in the year 1839, which
read or write. An attempt is now being made to strike was for the murder of a policeman in Liverpool, and on
at the cause of this deplorable result of etiaritahle efforts that occasion he stated what he conceived to be the law
to increase the knowledge of our labouring poor. The of the case which subsequent reflection had not caused him
cause is simply the great difficulties which they experience to alter. The jury, he thought very properly, found all
in learning to read, owing to the absurdities and complex- guilty of manslaughter only, they believing that the mob
ities of our present mode of spelling, to some of which on that occasion only contemplated giving the constable
we intend referring at a future period. A system of spell- a severe beating. In the ease to come bcfor,-.0.-
ing has been devised by MeSsrs. Isaac Pitman and Alex- Jury however, a deadly weanon
John Ellis."!A_P

one man

being t

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h will render the acquisition it ‘ias murder in any case, if usei
of a task, and brief instead Lordship then read the following
This system has been alreatlylso the case, which formed part of his c
found so many supporters, that we the trial of Inspector Ross :

are inst

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