The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-19 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL MARCH SESSIONS.

Yesterday, the quarter sessions for this borough were
opened before Gilbert Henderson, Esq„ the recorder.
The calendar contained the names of 57 prisoners charged
with felony—of which there were 45 district cases—and 10
persons charged with misdemeanours and assaults. The
offences were for the most part of the usual description,
and none of them presented any peculiar feature of interest.
The following gentlemen were sworn to constitute the
grand jury :
Harrison, Henry, George's Dock gates, merchant, Fore-
man.
Bold, Thomas, Water-street, ship broker.
Copeland, Henry, Crescent, brewer.
Cunningham, James, Exchange-alley, merchant.
Fairclough, Charles, Exchange-alley North, merchant.
Groves, Charles, Exchange-buildings, merchant.
Heywood, Robert, India-buildings, merchant.
Hope, Thomas Arthur, Everton-road, gentleman.
Jones, William, Exchange-buildings, merchant.
Jee, John Audley, Chorley-street, broker.
Jones, Christopher Herd, Everton-lane, goldsmith.
Joynson, Thomas, Mill-street, cotton broker.
Jones, Richard, Everton-crescent, merchant.

King, Joseph, Exchange-buildingS, share broker.
Lorimer, Charles, Exchange-buildings, broker.

Lightfoot, Thomas, Roscommon-street, broker.
Leece, James, Rumford-place, cotton broker.

Nickson' William Vernon-street, rectifier.
Procter, James, Water-street, wine merchant.

Robinson, Joseph, Chapel-street, cotton broker.
Symonds, Samuel Fleming, Lower Castle-street, wine

merchant.
Sleddon, Thomas, Tithebarn-street, cotton broker.
Serjeantson, Peter, Oldhall-street, broker.
The proclamation against vice and immorality having
been read,

The RECORDER briefly addressed the Grand Jury. He
remarked (with reference to the fact that so many gentle-
men summoned as grand jurors had attended that several
wereexcused until nex t sessions), thatit was seldom there had
been so overflowing an attendance—all having appeared
but one. There were between fifty and sixty cases to be
brought before them—about the average number for the
time that had expired since the last sitting of the court.
Amongst the cases was one against a female for the de-
sertion of her child, and another of a person charged
with an assault on a female by which her jaw was broken,
which would require their careful consideration. 'With
these exceptions the cases involved the usual violations of
the laws protecting property, and were not of a very serious
character. Still it was necessary that they should be duly
weighed, and so dealt with that crime should be restrained
within thenarrowest possible limits. After the usualinstruc-
tions to learn the nature of each offence from the indict-
ment ; to hear all the witnesses, and to decide whether
it should be returned for trial, or, if not sufficiently
apparent by the evidence, to arrest further proceedings
upon it by finding no bill, he stated that he conceived it
unnecessary to delay them longer from their duties, with
which they might then proceed.

In a short time several true bills were brought into
court, and the usual routine of trial commenced. None
of the cases throughout the day were of peculiar public
interest. The following are the names of the prisoners,
the charges against them, and the results up to the rising
of the court :

Ten years' transportation.—Joseph Hudson, aged 18,
for stealing sundry articles of wearing apparel from Hugh
Jones and John Jones.

Seven years' transportation.—Robert Haynes, aged
16, for stealing a watch from John Grimsby. Margaret
Ferry, 40, for stealing a coat, the property of Michael
Bowes.

Imprisonment.—William Morton, five months, for
stealing three cart loads of timber from Charles Chal-
loner. John Walmsley, six months, for stealing tools
from a joiner's shop. George Wilson, three months, for
receiving stolen money, a silver snuff box, and two rings.
Sophia Thomason, same time, for stealing six books.
Michael Williams, four months. for stealing six books
from his master, John Pye. Harriet Wilson, eight
months, for stealing a sovereign and a shilling from John
Rennie. John Lyon, five months, for stealing a watch,
coats, &c., from Samuel Slater.
The others tried were sentenced to minor terms of im-
prisonment, from two months down to two weeks.

ATTEMPTED HOUSEBREAKING.—A young man named
William Potter was yesterday charged with this offence.
A Mr. Holt, who resides in Heath-street, said he and his
family had all gone to church on Sunday, and on his
return he found the back door (of the yard) had been
opened, and saw the prisoner about. The latter, on being
apprehended, was found to have a large bunch of keys in
his possession, evidently for the purpose of making entre
into dwellings or warehouses. He would no doubt have
entered the house by the back door leading to the yard,
but the key happened to be left in it, when the family
went out by the front. He was sentenced to three
months' imprisonment.
SALE or GUANO.—On Friday last 850 tons of this
fertilizing material was offered for public sale, the cargo
of the Commerce, from Ichaboe,-400 tons by Messrs.
Shand, Hughes, and Higson, and 450 tons by Mr. I. H.
Rayner. The attendance was so great that the sale was
adjourned to the Cotton Sale-room, over the Exchange
News-room. Of the quantity offered 100 tons were sold
at from £7 to £7 ss. per ton—nearly all on Glasgow ac-
count. The remainder of the cargo was taken in at
£7 10s., under which price, it is understood, it will not
be sold. From an analysis of this cargo by Dr. tire
(and a statement of the result of which was handed round
the room) it is stated that this cargo was of a fine quality;
that it contained a large quantity of amonia, and that it
was the first " clear sample" he had seen from Africa.

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—At the Stock-Ex-
change to-day business has presented no particular feature.
The broker for the Commissioners of Savings'-banks has
rather extended his purchases, and hence the firmer tone
of Consols which leave off 98k for money and the ac-
count. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. closed 1024 to
R.. Exchequer-bills were quoted at the lower premium of
68 to 70. Spanish securities were heavy at a fall of about
one half per cent., the news from Madrid causing the spe-
culators to make sales. The Actives closed at 24i to /,
and the Three per Cents., 35k to In other respects
there was no material change to notice. Belgian was
finally marked 104 to 105; Brazilian, 82 to 83; Buenos
Ayers, 37 to 38 ; Chilian 103 to 105 ; Columbian 141 to
15 ; Danish, 88 to 89 : Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
57/ to 2 ; the Five per Cents., 1011 to 102 ; Mexican, 351
to 36 ; the Deferred, 144- to / ; Peruvian, 291 to 30 ;
and Portuguese, 461 to 471.
TESTIMONIALS TO " TIMES' " REFORTERS.—The
Welshman newspaper, of last week, contains a long ac-
count of the intended (and deserved) presentation of a
splendid silver goblet and waiter to Mr. T. C. Foster, the
talented writer of the numerous and invaluable communi-
cations from South Wales which have appeared from time
to time in the columns of The Times during the late dis-
turbances. The inscription on the waiter is as follows :
" After the cessation of Rebeccaism,' this piece of
law of
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Farmers and others resident the districts which had
been before disturbed, as a very slight testimonial of their
sense of the important services rendered by him to the
Poor, and the good done to the country generally by his
able, truthful exposition of the actual state of South
Wales, continued from day to day with untiring energy in
the columns of The Times, as a mark of their sense of his
uncompromising spirit, unostentatious patriotism, and
devotion to the interests of the Welch community by re-
presenting their grievances, and inducing the governrnant
of Great Britain to send down a Commission to inquire
into them." The above is the second instance within our
knowledge of testimonials having been given to " Times'
reporters" for extraordinary public services rendered,—
the present, and the one to Mr. L. T. Gaskill, (now mes-
sager of our bankruptcy court.) Both gentlemen were
reporters upon the Liverpool Standard prior to their be-
ing connected with The Times. Mr. T. C. Foster suc-
ceeded Mr. L. T. Gaskill as reporter upon this paper, and
the latter in 1839 was presented with a gold snuff box for
his enterprising efforts and success in discovering the
means of delivery of The Times in Liverpool and Man-
chester, (a distance of 210 miles from London,) by four
o'clock in the afternoon of the day of publication.