The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL SESSIONS.

Yesterday the May Sessions commenced, before Gilbert
Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The calendar contained
the names of 88 prisoners, of which number 79 were
charged with felony and 9 with misdemeanour. A few
prisoners were added after the list was printed. Of the
88, thirty-four could read and write imperfectly, thirty-
two could neither read nor write, eighteen could read
imperfectly, and only four could read and write well.
The following gentlemen were sworn to constitute the

GRAND JURY:—
Thomas Stewart Gladstone, broker, Oldhall-street,
Wm. Ashley, merchant, Water-street,
George Bennett. wine merchant, Fenwick-street,
George Badenach, fruit merchant, North John-street,
John Best, merchant, Catherine-street.
Thomas Boyd, merchant, Salthouse Dock,

William. Frederick Foster, broker, Colonial-buildings,
Dale-street,
Robert Hindley, brewer, Stanhope-street,
Richard Houghton, Jun., timber merchant, Upper Par-
liament-street,
William Henry Higgins, iron merchant, Hope-street,
James Lea, cotton broker, Rumford-street,
John Middleton, merchant, Castle-street,
Charles Melhuish, merchant, Castle-street,
William Nixon, rectifier, Vernon-street,
William Nicholson, tanner, Blackstock-street,
Edward Penbury Parry, grocer, Temple-street,
Henry Alexander Stewart, ship-broker, Cable-street,
George Adams Fairley, sharebroker, Peel-street.
The proclamation against vice and immorality having
been read, the Recorder thus briefly addressed the gen-
tlemen who had just been sworn in :
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury—You will find in the
calendar laid before you the names of about ninety per-
sons, who are to take their trials at the present sessions,
—the same number nearly as were produced before us
last year within the same time. Ido not see that any of
the cases are of a nature requiring any remark from me ;
and therefore I shall not trouble you with any observa-
tions an this occasion, or detain you from the perform-
ance of your duties, which I am sure will, from your at-
tention and intelligence, be well and faithfully discharged.
The jury then retired, and the trials proceeded.

LETTERS TO HAYTI.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—We would be obliged by your inserting, in the
STANDARD of to-morrow, the following copy of a letter
received by us this day firom Colonel Maberly, relating to
the transmission of letters to Hayti, by the West Indian
Mails.

Your obedient servants,
RTCHD. SHEIL and CO.
Livernool, May 22, 1848.
(copy.)

General Post-office, May 20, 1848.
SIRS,—The Postmaster-General having been in com-
munication with the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, on the subject of the Memorial signed by yoursel-
ves and other inhabitants of Liverpool, Glasgow, and
London, I am directed by his lordship to acquaint you
that it has been decided, henceforth, to despatch a Mail
to Jacmel, Hayti, by the packet leaving Southampton
on the 2nd of each month, in addition to the Mail which
is at present forwarded on the 17th of the month.
I am, Sirs,
Your obedient, humble servant.
(Signed.) H. MABERLY.
Messrs. Richd. Sheil and Co.,
Liverpool.

NOVEL MILITARY TACTICS.-EATING UP
AN RIVFAT

The capacity of a German stomach is proverbially great ;
but we never yet heard of its being brought into requisi-
tion as a weapon of offence against an enemy in the style
described in the following paragraph, by the correspond-
ent of the London Times :

" Though General Wrangel remains stationary at Kold-
ing, hovering as it were on the frontier, his countrymen
ought to do him and his army the justice of admitting that
they are doing their best to destroy the enemy by the more
quiet process of living on them. The South. Jutlanders
are being " blandly absorbed " by the troops of the Con-
federation, exhausted by requisitions of supplies, which it
is perfectly understood must be forthcoming. General
Wrangel has a force of about 18,000 men in and around
the head-quarters. of Kolding ; for this number of the
Danish officials and inhabitants of the district of Veile
have to furnish every day the following amount of provi-
sions :—beef, 20,7001 b. ; rice, 5,2001 b. ; salt, 1,400 ; but-
ter, 2,6501 b., or bacon, 5,2001 b. ; brandy, 5,100 bottles ;
bread, 40,000. ; white bread, 1,4001 b. ; wine, 350 bottles ;
fine cigars, 3,300; common cigars, 100,000; tobacco,
4,0001 b. ; sugar, 100 lb. ; oats, 325 barrels ; 16,5001 b. of
hay, and 19,901 b. of straw. That is the bill of fare
which must every day be provided gratis for the uninvited
guests."

Wonderful trenchermen must be these 18.000 eating
men—not fighting men—of General Wrangel. Each of
them, according to the above bill of fare, gets through
nearly 411bs. of meat per diem; nearly one-third of a
bottle of brandy, smokes 7 or 8 cigars, besides nearly a
quarter of a pound of tobacco ! We should fancy that
they are getting rather too puffy and short-winded to
fight; and should pity their suffering on a forced march.
General Wrangel, if they continue to feed at this rate,
ought to get in readiness a supply of hand-carts or bar-
rows for their removal, when they are required for
active (!) service. We should be sorry if the Danes were
to fall upon them some day when in the torpid state after
dinner.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.—Yesterday, Mr. B. Isaacson,
being unopposed, passed his last examination.
SUDDEN DEATH IN THE STREET.—Shortly after eight
o'clock yesterday morning, an old man, named John
Woods, while passing along Dale-street with two friends,
sundenly fell down dead. The body was taken to So. 4
court, Newsham-street,, and Mr. Cripps, of Dale-street,
was called in, but animation could not he restored.
BODY FOUND IN THE OUTWARD CHANNEL.—An in-
quest was yesterday held before Mr. Curry on view of the
body of a man, naked and unknown, found by some boat-
men floating in the water near the north-west light-ship.
lie was about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches in height, and df light
complexion.—Verdict to the effect that the deceased was
unknown and was found drowned.

THE LATE LANCASTER ELECTION.—The parliamentary
committee (consisting of Lprd Courtenay, Mr. Ewart,
Lord Adair, Mr. Pinny, and, the Hon. 0. Duncombe)
appointed to try the allegations of the petition against
Mr. Armstrong's election for Lancaster, sat last week,
and adjourned on Friday until yesterday. Of the majo-
rity of 17 votes by which Mr. Armstrong was returned,
13 have already been struck off, principally on the ground
that the voters had received parish relief.
SUPPOSED ABDUCTION OF A YOUNG FEMALE.--Yes-
terday, at the Police-court, a poorly-dad man, named
Robert Lamb, and a young woman named Mary Bebbing-
ton, were placed at the bar of the Police-court, under the
following circumstances ;—Mr. Rowbottom, who keeps a
public-house, (the " Mountain Dew," in Richmond-
street), said, that on Saturday evening his little daughter,
who is only between 14 and 15 years old, made an excuse
to go out to meet her mother at the market and return
with her, to which ho assented. She did not make her
appearance as expected, and as she had not gone to her
mother, her parents became naturally very anxious about
her whereabouts. On going up stairs they found
that the girl had put on her best clothes, with the
exception of her bonnet. In one of the rooms there
was a safe for money, &c., and as the key could
not be found, the father broke the padlock, and, on
opening the box, found that £4O, in two £2O notes, had
been abstracted. Up to yesterday afternoon the girl was
still missing ; and the only friend or relation whom she
visited in Liverpool was an aunt in Great Howard-street.
On inquiry it was found she had not been there. She had,
however, been seen in the street with the male prisoner,
who it was stated kept a house of ill fame. The female
lodged in his house, as she said, but he himself called her
his housekeeper, and his house is also in Great Howard-
street. On the father inquiring of the man if he knew
anything about his daughter, he said, " Has she not an
aunt in Manchester ?" The father said she had, and
prisoner then rejoined, " Then she must have gone there."
Inquiry in Manchester was, however, equally fruitless, as
she had not been at her aunt's there. It further appeared
that the missing girl had called at the male prisoner's
house, and had sent the female prisoner to her father's
for her bonnet, which she took to her. Some
circumstances relating to a correspondence between the
male prisoner and some parties in Ireland excited suspi-
cions of foul play, and the father gave both the prisoners
into custody, as having been accessory to his daughter's
leaving her home.—Mr. Rushton gave orders for the male
prisoner's house to be searched for any letters or papers
that might throw a light upon the affair. He also di-
rected that every assistance should be given to Mr. Row-
bottom in his search for his child, and remanded both
prisoners generally, or without naming a day oil which
they should again be brought up.