The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL FEBRUARY SESSIONS.

These sessions commenced yesterday, before filbert
Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The calendar was
rather heavy for the short time that has transpired since
the last sating of the Court, there being the names of 100
prisoners for felony, and 15 for misdemeanour. it
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stated that of the whole number 6 can read and write well)
66 can read and write imperfectly ; and 43 can neither
read nor write. The following gentlemen were swore
in as the

GRAND JURY.
Edward Gibbon, Netherfield-road, merchant, (Foreman.)
George Armstrong. Abercromby-square, ditto.
Gaven Brackenridge, Bedford-street South. ditto.
James Crossfield. jun., Temple-place, wholesale grocer.
Samuel Dutton, Edge-lane, merchant.
William Dalgliesh. Dingle View, Toxteth, ditto.
W. F. Foster, South Hill Grove, ditto, broker.
Mathew Gregson, Aigburth-road, merchant.
Thomas D. Headlam, Wavertree, insurance broker.
Timothy Bristowe Hughes, Sea Bank, Liscard, ditto.
William Henry Higgins, Hope-street, iron merchant.
Timothy Jevons, Park Hill-road, ditto
Thomas Critchlow Molyneux, Knotty Ash, chain cable

manufacturer.
William Mather, Finch House, West Derby, read and copper
merchant.
Thomas Todd, Abercrombie-square, broker.
Simon Lee Trotman, Park-road, merchant.
Thomas Simpson, Mount Vernon.street, gent:email.
James Stitt, Islington iron merchant.
Alex. Shand, Elm Cottage, Ullet-lane, Toxteth, merchant.
George Winstanley, Walton, wine merchant.

The usual proclamation having been read,
The RECORDER charged the Grand Jury. He said
that although seven weeks had scarcely elapsed since the
last sessions, within that short space of time no- fewer
than one hundred prisoners had been committed for fe-
lony, and fifteen for misdemeanours. The most numeral
cases of the graver kind were for shoplifting, of vrbieh
there were fifteen. Several of these were of parties who
had taken goods that were temptingly placed at or near tr,
the doors of the premises. It had been customary for,,
the court not to allow the expenses of prosecution. am'
to this practice he should abide. He thought that in such
instances it would be well for the local authorities to en.-
force the penalty of 40s. imposed by the local act on par'
ties thus exposing their wares. The next cases worthy of
more particular notice were those of stealing from the
person. No fewer than. eleven abandoned women'
awaited their trials for this kind of offence. Here again
'the parties who had lost their property had shown a great
want of prudence and discretion, which too often hap-
pened in the intercourse of men with such characters•
There was one serious case of an attempt to commit
highway robbery ; and he regretted to say, there some
other cases of a like nature, in. which the parties had not
been apprehended and brought to . punishment. B
should certainly deal with severity with such offenders,
whenever the case was brought home to them. At the
last sessions, an individual found guilty of the offence was
transported for ten years, although it was the first time he
had been brought before the court. With this exception,
there was no very serious case requiring comment from
him, or on which they would probably find any difficulty
in deco' n-

„Acting. He should, however, remark that-these were
four instances of thieves being brought to justice through
the agency of pawnbrokers. This was highly satisfac-
tory, and creditable to the latter. He hoped the example
thus set would be followed, and that the whole of that
chin would co-operate, for none had more in their power.
Amongst those who had thus acted in a praiseworthy
manner were Mr. Mc. Pherson, Mt.. Gillaird, Mr. Moss,
and another pawnbroker, whose name he had not yet as-
certained. The example they bad shown was well worthy
of imitation. He thought the grand jury would not find
anything of a legal kind with which they might be at a
loss. Their province was merely that of a preliminary
character, and did not involve a trial of the accused.
They should weigh well the evidence, and if it appeared
conclusive, send the parties for trial; if otherwise, and
the probability was that no conviction would result, it
would be their duty to check all further unnecessary en-
quiry by throwing out the bills.

The trials tben-commenced, but during the day were
not of general interest.

LEAGUE MEETING-LAST NIGHT,

A' meeting of the Anti-Monoooly Association was held
last night in the Mechanics' Hall, Lord Nelson-street,
to petition parliament for the total and immediate repeal
of the corn-laws. Wm. Brown, Esq., was in the chair.
The mectingitself, however, was a poor affair, consisting
chiefly of working men drummed up for the Occasion ;
and the• prevailing sentiment of every one present ap-
peared to be, that in the measures of Sir Robert Peel
they had obtained more than had ever be•n expected by
reasonable men. The expressions- of all the speakers
conveyed gratitude to Sir Robert, and fulsome adulation
for his efforts in the carrying out of their own free-trade
notions,—mingled, however, with seine little contemPt
for his truekiing subserviency, and triumph over the fact
of his being compelled to come into the recognition of
their views.

Lord Ashley has issued an address to the electors of
Dorsetshire, regigning his seat because he is " of opinioll
that it is no longer expedient to maintain protection.
He states that he will appear on the hustings at the nomi-
nation to ascertain by a show of bands the sentiments of
the constituency.

ODD FELLOWSIIIP.— Colonel Reid and Mr. Ralph
Neville, the two members for the borough of New Wind
sor, have both been elected members of the Odd Fellows
Lodge held in that town.

Sit T. Freemantle, Secretary for Irel,nd, will, on his
appointment as Chairman of the Commissioners of Cus-
toms, vacate his seat for Buckingham, in which he will be
succeeded by the Marquis of Cbandos.
Lord Farnham, in a letter to a Dublin paper, says,
that " he does not consider himself at liberty to state the
reasons which induced him to decline seconding the et
dress in answer to the speech from the throne, except
that they had reference solely to thequestion of corn."
RAILWAY NEGLIGENCE.—At the Ilford petty sessions,
on Saturday, Thomas Blackburne, an engine-driver, Wee
fined £5, for having left part of a luggage train on the
main line of the Eastern Counties Railway, whereby 5
collision was caused. A few days ago, John Barfield, se
engine-driver, was fixed £5-, at Darlington. He had charge
of the coal train on the Great North of England hoer
which was run into by the mail train.
The nomination for the West-Riding election will take
place to-morrow. George Lane Fox, Esq., has coale
forward to oppose Lord Morpeth ; and Mr. \Ferrand .
actively engaged in- support of the conservative interests'
tie deserves for his strenuous exertions some substantit
testimonial, and we hope all friends of the constitution
will help it forward. Had Mr. Fox presented himself
little earlier, his election would probably have been cart
vied easily, and even now it does not seem unlikely otla
that Mr. Ferrand's zeal and devotedness will be crow"
with success.

PORTRAIT OF MR. ASKEW.—We were extremely gra;
tified a few days since by the inspection of a well execute
a
likeness of Mr. Askew our able and long tried harbour
master, painted in oil' by Mr. Lovatt, of Duke-street'
Mr. Askew is represented seated in an arm-chair witbet'
scroll of paper in his left hand; and the artist has be
very successful in placing oil the canvas all the animatiol?!
intelligence, and good humour which beam so expressively
in the countenance of the original. When the freshoe!,
of the colouring has worn off the portrait will be improve
but it nevertheless reflects, as it is, much credit on t 4
artist. We believe Mr. Askew will be happy to abew
likeness to any of his friends at his office in the mato'
house.

AosT re
RALIA.--Files of Australian papers have beg°
„t
ceived to-day, extending through the mouths of Aug*
and part of September. The capture of Jackey Jack,
and other notorious bushrangers, had made quite a
tion at Hobart Town, where their ravages among the bed
side stations of the agriculturists and sheep farmers
bar
created much alarm. Business at Sydney and 11° si
Town was steady. The value of flour and, wheat
11l
rising at the latter place. A ship arrived at Sydney frbc'st
New Zealand, and reports among other intelligence Bel,
a chief named Noble, with his tribe, had joined the v_ei,l
tish, in consequence of which another tribe had deelill; of
in favour of Heki, who is now said to have nova°
3.000 fighting men under his command.
PROTECTION TO BRITISH INDUSTRY.—On ThUTS of
the Central Agricultural Society, under the presidenetio%
his Grace the Duke of Richmond, held a special InLee.ool
for the purpose of considering the ministerial ac1":416
and the following resolutions and recommendations Witt'
unanimously agreed to :—" That this society view,.,s,,bert
the utmost alarm the proposed measures of Sir Iwl 01
Peel for establishing free importation, and withdraiv.B
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protection from the productive classes." '- That tilortS
ciety feels convinced that the results of such inea:, to
would produce a revolution of such fearful extent 'we
involve not only the agricultural but the other p.roali 00-
classes of this country in certain ruin." "It le rectho
mended to the country and local protection societies- oil
they do immediately form committees, of not more eral
12 gentlemen, to wait upon the members in their seispil
districts, who were elected on protective princiPlZO
press them either to reject the proposal of Sir Plbey
Peel, or at once to resign their seats, and appelkttge
different constituencies for a sanction of the cull"'
their political opinions."

LIVERPOOL :
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1846.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED Of
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