The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

LIVERPO OL OCTOBER SESSIONS•

The October sessions of the peace for the borough of
Liverpool commenced in the Crown Court at the Sessions-
house, shortly after ten o'clock yesterday morning, before
GILBERT HENDERSON, Esq., Recorder. The calendar
contained the names of 116 prisoners for trials on charges,
of felony, and seven for misdemeanours, making a total 0'
123. Of these only eight are retur ed as being able to
rani and write well, 41 can read and write imperfect'', 31
ran read imperfectly, while the very large proportion of
43 have never been taught either.
The following gentlemen were sworn the Grand Jury :--
Robert Crosbie, Esq., of North John-street, merchant;
William Anthony, ofHope-street, timber-merchant;

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Joseph Brice, of Bedford-street, corn-merchant;
Samuel Beckwith, of Tower-garden, hide broker ;
James Brebner, of Water-street, merchant;
Robinson Dockworch, of Canning-street, merchant;
Abraham Gartside, of North John-street, woo.
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broker;
Edward Jones, of-Exchange-buildings, merchant;
William Logan, of Bath-street, anchorsmith ;
Edward Langdale, of Shaw-street, timher-merchant:
John Woolfall Mulleueux, of Brougham-terrace, rec
tifier ;
William Maxwell, of Union-court, wine-merchant;
Thomas Mather, of Drury-lane, corn-merchant;
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John Mather, of Mount-pleasant, merchant ;

John Pemberton, of Fen Wick-street, merchant;
William Rotherham, of Exchange-street East, merchant;
John Daniel, of Thornley, Hope-street, merchant; '
Joseph Ridgway, of South Chapel-street, cotton-

broker ;
Robert Taylor Woodward, of Irwell-street, merchant;
Isaac Worthington, of Percy-street, cotton-broker.
Jury
The Learned Riscoarisa, in delivering his charge t,
Grand Jury, spoke as follows :—Gentlemen of the Grand Jar 43
—lt appears from the depositions before me that there are
prisoners to take their trials at this Court. It is sarisfacto2l,,
however, to observe that large as that, number is, A is less tt-t
the number of committals in the corresponding period of 14:,
year, which amounted to 136. In disposing of these cases, gt.
tlemen, it must be our duty so to enforce the law as most elf,e;,
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natty to restrain and prevent the future commisoion of n
It is a reproach to the administration of justice when 0"n„0.
go unpunished : it is a still deeper reproach to confound tam
cence cence with guilt. Under these sentiments. gentlemen. Y",„e;
have to institute a preliminary investigation into every
you will call for the witnesses before you : you will bear
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evidence : you v ill weigh it and judge whether It is such;
in the absence of defence, ought to warrant a conviction of d
individual accused. Where you find it is of a satisfactory anus
conclusive nature, it will be your duly to find the 'bat
wher,, in any case, the evidence is not of that descriptioa•.,',l,
does not bring home the charge to the party accused, it scl"th-e
your duty to stop at once all proceedings by throwing
bill. Gentlemen, the eases are in g m
eneral of a slight and ordt
nary character, and do not seem to require fro me any
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marks for the guidance of gentlemen of such intelligence
have now the honour of addressing. There are some offence"
however, the frequent recurrence of which Seem to call for e%'
emplary punishment. I allude more particularly to the offence"
of stealing from shops and stealing from the person, which yOa
will find constitute a large porion of the cases in the calendar'
I will take this opportunity of correcting a tnisapprdhellsil
which, from applications made to me, I know to prevail. tha
when a sentence of transpot tation is accompanied by n recoln;
mendation to the Penetentiary, it is supp,sed that the coriv!c:
will not be sent out of this country. That, gentlemen, is aln
take. It is seldom, now, that a sentence of transportation,rs
not carried into effect by the sending of the party out of wed
country. When the recommendation to a Penttentiary la actto
upon, the Pentitentiary is only the potted to a penal cravat' ;1,
party must look forward to pass a long period, it not his Wo'
life, in toil and in labour in a distant country It is, therefol
gentlemen, always a sentence fearful to undergo, and wll!c.ri
always calls for great deliberation in imposing it I rne,'W
this because many parties eta under the impression that it re
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not always carried into effect by sending the convict out of t'
country. Gentlemen, I shall not trouble you with any
observations, or detain you from thoge duties which I am airs
will occupy you some time.
The Grand Jury then retired to their room ';and short/9
afterwards the trials commenced. The cases during the
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entire day were of minor interest, and all of them bare
been previously noticed in this paper. turth!rd