The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

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same day. at Llautilto CI
FRANCES ELIZABETH. widov
TA DDY, ancient Sergeant and A
Dow2ger.

ney- General to the Q

Same day, GRANVILLE BURGESS, infant son
ALFRED IsUhGESS HAYWAKU.
Same day. ages 57, Mrs. GIBt•ON, widr.w of Lleuted

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II 3g Mr. E. JONES, for

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bane day, wh:ie tat n visa ti her ancle, Mr. :fag. M'Cosicrie,
of Great t evi ton street. atter a k w days' illness, aged 2!.
.1 Es IE. etdest d ughter of Mr. THOMAS NiICHAEL, of
C‘celtown.

,4 me (lily, at the heuse of Mrs. Ellis, fir
22. CIIA LES CAsti. may son of the /..tt.
this tom It, much respected by all who knew I;

ford.Etreet, E
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Saone dhy, Pentre. near st Asat.h. after a shot
aced 77. Mr. JOHN STORY. Di ceiisei vas an elde
Nieilndlist connexion for fifty years, and the
Wit in the city of st. Asbph, havipg laid the ccr:.ir
the first Calvinistic etutpe .

On the 26111 n t mo, aged 4 years and
AN N . ottly nangitter ttt Mr. GEO E

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same d, y. in Fir gum., West Dert y
WILKINSON. Esq , formerly of Nat

S. ihe day, in her •-uth year, ANN
JOIIN lIEL:43Y of Krti:ri‘t Areet.
Same esy, A 1.1( E M sOIZLEY
Same day, at Quarry
years a, d 6 months, S. PIJIA, daughter of Mr

I ranmere, of dysentery

KA MPLING,

architect
:mime day, aged 19 Truett re pected. HANNAH eldest datigit-
ter of JOSEPH Hilo HANNAH 1-101.1.11)AY, c t Oldhad sticet.
Sastre day. at II e residet,ce of her r,eptiew. W'rn Higt,y, Eml,
of Upper Cu ning sti vet, i her tivnci year, ANN HARRISON.
Name day at O'd Warden, Bedt, n'shire, in his 36th year, the
Man. FHEDEKICK ONGLEY, frit:th surviving son or the late

and 'Mother of the prtsent Lord Gurley
On the ...,,-th ultimo Mrs. NICi tot,.
of Bola square. (*better, in her ttist year.
Sane day. in this town, in the 24th year of his age. Mt.
JOSEPH \OR MA ~. y ungest son of the late John Noonan.
Esq., of Kirkanth ews- upom Ede-, Camberland.
Same day. aged i 2 months, JOSEPH, son of Mr. B. JONES.
of Cases-stscet.
On the 28th ultimo, at Egremnnt, Cheshire, Mr. ROBERT'
PAI KCI.OUG il, of her Wirjest)'s Co-` -----
On the 2 th u times. aged 41, A
JACKSON, and eldest naughter of 0
j.,iner;
Same day• at his residence, at Wal
Bittuvvr, Esq
On the:4,th ultimo, at Wevertree, in tl
A9N. the he,oved wile of W 11.1.1 A M PE -.1..401',i •
and builder, at that 'duce, sinecrily regretted ht al
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of Wal ertrce, formetry

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DAY MORNING, SEPT. 1, 1846

We had exhibit= d, in our Crown Court, on Mon-
day week, a spectacle which we do not think can be
parallelled in any other land, whether for the magni-
tude and singularly horrifying circumstances of the
crime alleged to have been committed by the prison-
ers tried on the occasion, or for the patient investi-
gation which the case received from the court and
jury, and the jealous fear displayed lest, under the
influence of feelings excited by the unusual horror
of the circumstances, the law should be permitted
to deal its blow upon heads which did not deserve
to suffer. We refer to the trial of the murder case
from Greenheys, Manchester. Two boys, one of
them a mere child, were arraigned for the murder of
a poor vender of blacking, about 15 years of age,
the robbery, and subsequent disposal of the body.
The prisoners had no powerful friends to come for-
ward in their behalf. They were of the humblest
class. The atrocity of the charge, their apparently
_hardened conduct after the murder, compassion for
the parents of the unfortunate deceased, and the
powerful chain of evidence adduced against them
before the coroner and the magistrates, had pro-
duced in the public mind a feeling of personal de-
testation of the prisoners, and a conclusion of their
guilt. Yet, over the lives of these two boys, thus
predoomed by public opinion, British justice watched
with as much, or even greater, care, than it would
have displayed had the offenders been of a higher
grade, with powerful friends and wealth to protect
th3m. A learned sergeant-at-law was retained to
d3vote to the task of their defence his great eloquence
and legal acumen. The evidence of every witness
—and there was an array of thirty-two witnesses for
the crown—was sifted thoroughly. Their learned
counsel bestowed two hours and a quarter upon his
speech in their behalf; the learned judge spent above
an hour and a half in explaining to the jury the
bearing upon each other of the various links in the
chain of circumstantial evidence adduced ; and the
jury themselves were nearly half an hour in delibe-
ration, although they had already been sitting for
twelve hours upon the case. The evidence, they
felt, was but circumstantial—the most dangerous
evidence to convict upon;—the boys had borne a
good character up to the moment of the alleged
murder; and, for the credit oF humanity, they could
not believe that they could have become all at once
such very fiends, as they must have been, had it
been poss:hle imagine them capable of all the
atrocity alleged against them. _ _ _

The tri itself presents features well calculated to
make Englishmen proud of their country and its
institutions, which throw the same shield over the
defenceless which the powerful and the wealthy can
procure for themselves. A trial thus conducted, and
its result, assure the world that it is no mere formal
maxim of law—no cold and deluding abstraction--
which is proclaimed by our criminal practice, when
it says that even the guilty are to be assumed to be
innocent until their guilt is proved.
One feature of the case, however, disclosed dur-
ing the proceedings before the court, is, we regret
to say, not so creditable;' nor is it at all consonant
with our notions of the spirit of British jurispru-
dence. We refer to the police interference shewn
to have been practised in the getting up of the case
for a jury, in hunting out evidence to fill up gaps in
the chain of circumstances, and apparently keeping
back any thing which tended to raise a doubt in
favour of the accused. We insert, in another
column, some remarks made by the London Times
upon the same practice, as prominently displayed in a
trial before the Central Criminal Court, which, sin-
gularly enough, took place on the same day, and in
which the police appeared in the character of public
prosecutors, putting forth all their activity to pro-
cure a conviction. Many of the facts apply for-
cibly to the case tried in our own town. Such a
practice is not English, and should be put a stop to.
The police have arduous and useful duties to per-
form ; but their active interference should cease so
soon as the offender has passed through the hands
of the committing magistrate. They are then in the
keeping of the law, and the law will do justice to
them and to the community.

We are happy to observe, that the subject to
which we referred last week, and which was so for-
cibly placed before the public by the letter of Dr.
Harbord, viz., the frightful amou t of disease en-
gendered in the town by the neglect of parties to
remove nightsoil, the contents of cesspools, and
other impurities, has been warmly taken up by the
Health Committee of the Council and the authori-
ties generally; and that prompt measures are about
to be taken for the abatement of the evil. This
much is clearly practicable, at no very great cost to
the town. Its entire removal cannot perhaps be
accomplished until after the first of January, when
the provisions and powers of the new Sanatory Bill
will come into operation.
In the mean time, the attention of scientific and
practical men may be advantageously drawn to the
most efficacious mode of effecting the desired relief.
Something upon a comprehensive scale must in the
first instance be done, to prevent the continual nui-
sance in every neighbourhood, caused by the mode
of removal of offensive substances by the present
method. To obviate this is a grand desidera-
tum ; and a plan has been explained to us, and
is, we learn, highly approved of by several gentle-
men interested in the movement now making to
provide for the better sanatory regulation of the
town, which appears to us to possess many advan-
tageous features. We refer to the plan of Mr. W.
Murray Ross, which, we understand, will he laid
before the Health Committee by Mr. Rathbone at
its next meeting. The plan in question possesses
several important features. In the first place, it is
proposed by the aid of ingenious and powerful ma-
chinery, devised for the purpose, to dispense altoge-
ther with the use of the ordinary nighttnan's bar-
row, and to avoid the annoyance created by the ne-
cessity, under the present system, of depositing the
offensive mat' nts

revious to

vevance into the c

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