The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL APRIL SESSIONS.

These sessions opened yesterday, at the Crown Court,
before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The ca-
lendar contained the names of 110 prisoners charged with
felony, and 21 charged with misdemeanour. It appeared
by the list, that of these 49 could read and write imper-
fectly ; 10 could read and write well ; 22 could read imper-
fectly ; and 50 could neither read nor write ; so that none
of them could read and write superiorly.
The names of the Grand Jury being called over; the
same being duly sworn in, and the usual proclamation
against vice being read, the clerk read the list as follows,
constituting the Grand Jury :

John Barnes Brancker, broker, Exchange Alley North, foreman;
Michael Bousfield, cotton broker, Rumford-street.
William Bates, merchant, North John-street.
Fdward Cox, broker, Chapel-street.
Christopher James Corbally, merchant, Fenwick-stroet.
John Irving Currie, merchant, North John-street.
Samuel Dutton, merchant, Water-street.
William Rathbone Duncan, merchant, Catharine-street.
James Dalglish, merchant, Harrington-street.
Daniel Jones Fynney, corn merchant, Fenwick-street.
William Charles Fosbury, merchant, Tithebarn-street.
Thomas Brittain Forwood, merchant, Mathew-street.
Thomas Forsyth, stock and share broker, Exchange-Ml.l(lLnp.
John Hare, corn merchant, George Dock-gates.
Samuel Kearsley, cotton broker, Exchange-street East.
George Kendall, merchant, 6, Old Church-street.
William Jeffery Lockett, merchant Islington.
John Rigley Macrae, cotton broker, Tithebarn-street.
Thomas Dune Moore, merchant, Duke-street.
William Thompson Mann, broker, Dale-street.
James Mulleneux, rectifier, Dale-street.

The RECORDER, in addressing the Grand Jury. said
that there Was not much to call for particular remark in
the cases that would be submitted to their consideration.
There was, however, one case in the calendar (No. 26,)
which would require their attention. It was one in which
a party was charged with having corruptly and feloniously
received from another party certain money or reward, on
pretence of helping another to the possession of a watch,
which the prisoner had before feloniously stolen. Perhaps
the government had been more successful in putting
down negotiations or frauds of this kind, than of any
kind of analogous offence. If a person received a sum of
money to assist in recovering a watch or other article he
was undoubtedly guilty of felony. The learned gentleman
explained the charge in another shape, as a guidance to
the jury. There was another case of a party stealing a
Large sum of money from a public-house, he having gone
in on pretence of obtaining change for a piece of gold,
and thereby being enabled to seize and run off with the
coin produced, in offering the change. The cases gene-
rally were, however, very simple, and they would find no
difficulty with them. Many bad characters—thanks to
the vigilance of the magistrates and the police—bad been
removed from the country, and others were by preventive
measures kept in check. The cases at the present ses-
sions were, in fact, more in number than in amount of
delinquency ; and the number itself was not so great as
within the same period in 1846. This was a gratifying
fact, as it showed that, notwithstanding the severity and
pressure of the times, the people generally were well dis-
posed. The severity to which he alluded had been in-
creased by the political commotions on the continent of
Europe, and it would be much aggravated; if popular
disorder should break out in this country. It was a mat-
ter of congratulation to the well disposed of the town,
that the preservation of the public peace was not so much
owing to the preventive measures taken against any corn_motion, as to the good and loyal disposition of the
inhabitants. He might venture to say that throughout
England there was no body of persons better disposed
than the people of Liverpool, and lie hoped they would
wisely continue in the same state of feeling and attach-
ment to the laws, and the same disposition to preserve
the peace which they had hitherto evinced. Let it be
borne in mind that though the law sanctioned
large assemblages of the people for purposes of amuse-
ment or recreation, all great assemblages calculated to
excite alarm or terror were always decided by unlawful ; and
the magistrates were bound to put them down. If the
people had grievances to be redressed, their complaints
should be made peaceably and constitutionally. He did
not apprehend any disturbance in Liverpool, but it was
neccessary that the town should be on its guard. He felt
sure that the authorities here held that opinion, and he
confidently trusted they would meet with the support of
the general body of the people.
This address (of which we have given but the outlines,)
•was listened to with respectful attention in the crowded
court, and, at its conclusion, the Grand Jury retired to
their duties. Several true bills were in a short time re-
turned, and the trials proceeded.

PROPERTY.-Mr. White, who has so long and credit-
ably conducted the business of an estate agent in Great
Homer-street, has removed to Clayton-square. The
great amount of property he has ever at eommand always
reders his establishment one of the most desirable for
honse about to invest.