The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
COMMISSION of OYER and TERMINER and
GAOL DELIVERY, for the County Palatine of Lan-
caster, will be Opened at the COURT HOUSE, in LIVER-
POOL, on MONDAY, the Ninth day of December next,
for the Trial of those Prisoners who shall have been com-
mitted to the House of Correction, at Kirkdale, to take
their Trial at the Assizes or General Gaol Delivery, or
with respect to whom Recognizances shall have been en-
tered into to prosecute or to appear and answer at the
Assizes or General Gaol Delivery to be held at Liverpool,
in and for the said County Palatine.
But this Notice does not relate to any Prisoner com-
mitted for Trial, or under Recognizances to appear and
answer, at any Sessions of the Peace.
The Trials of Prisoners, and of Persons committed and
subsequently bailed, are to proceed in the Order in which.
the names of the parties indicted appear in the Sheriff's
Calendar, unless where the Court shall otherwise direct.
The Cases will be classed in the Calender as follows ;
and the names of the Prisoners, and Persons so bailed as
aforesaid, will be arranged in each class according to the
dates of their respective commitments, except that priority
will in general be given to Cases within the First Class,
where the attendance of Medical or Surgical Witnesses is
required :-
1. Cases not included in any of the following classes.
2. Mint Cases.
3. Rapes, Abusing Girls under the age of ten years,
Abominable Offences, and Assaults with intent,
&c., (except cases from the Boroughs of Manches-
ter and Liverpool.)
4. Murders, (except as last aforesaid.)
5. Cases from the Borough of Manchester
6. Cases from the Borough of Liverpool. *
7. Misdemeanours, in respect of which costs are net
allowable.
Where one or more of several Persons charged with a
Joint offence shall have been committed, and the other or
others admitted to bail, or committed after the publica-
tion of the calendar, the Trials are to proceed in the same
order as if the Person or Persons so admitted to bail, or
committed after the publication of the Calendar, had been
committed at the same time with the others.
The Trials of other Persons committed after the publi-
cation of the Calendar, or admitted to bail in the first in-
stance for felony, or for misdemeanours in respect of
which costs are allowable (except those from the Bo-
roughs of Manchester and Liverpool) will be proceeded
with immediately before the Cases comprised in Class 5 ;
—the excepted eases from the Borough of Manchester
will be taken immediately after the cases comprised in the
last mentioned class, and the excepted Cases from the
Borough of Liverpool will be taken immediately after the
Cases comprised in Class 6.
The Prosecutors and Witnesses in Cases within the
first four Classes are required to be in attendance on'
Tuesday the 10th of December, at Eleven o'clock in the
forenoon ; and in all other Cases on Wednesday the 11th
of December, at Nine o'clock in the forenoon.
The Court will sit for the despatch of business each
day, at Nine o'clock in the forenoon, except on Tuesday
the 10th of December, and on that day at Eleven o'clock
in the forenoon.
The foregoing regulations will be strictly enforced,
and no costs will be allowed to parties making default
in the observance of them.
A Trial Paper shewing the arrangement of the business
for each day will be posted at the doors of the Crown
Court, and in the Crown Office.
By order of the Hon. Mr. Baron GURNEY,
T. S. SHUTTLEWORTH,
Clerk of the Crown.
Crown-office, Preston, Nov. 19, 1844.