The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

GRAND JURY

Rd. Rathbone, merchant, South Castle-street, (foreman,)
George Batty, broker, Exchange-buildings,
Thomas Browne, broker, Netherfield-road South,
Thomas Buddicomb Blackburn, cotton broker, Great

Mersey-street,
Samuel Bright, merchant, North John-street,
Nicholas Crooke, merchant, Brunswick-street,
Duncan Gibb. merchant, Strand-street,
Edward Humble, broker, Blackburn-terrace.
Robert M'Andrew, fruit merchant, North John-street,
Thomas Crichlow Molyneus, iron merchant, New Quay,
Walter Fergus M`Gregor, ironfounder, St. George's-hill,
James Powell, merchant, Grove-street,
George Ramsden, gentleman, Canning-street,
John Rowlinson, broker, High Park-street,
Mark Rimmer, merchant, Soho-street,
Hugh James Sanderson, merchant, Brunswick-street,
John Smith, wine merchant, Hanover. street,
William Whitehouse, broker, Exchange-buildings,
Chomley Woodward, wine merchant, School-lane.
Matthew Jee, broker, of Chorley-street, was called,
but did not answer.

After her Majesty's Proclamation against vice and
immorality had been read,
The RECORDER addressed the Grand Jury as follows:
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,—The bills which are likely
to come before you on this occasion are in number about
seventy. The duty which you are called on to perform
has a very close resemblance to that of the magistrate
who, in the first instance, investigates the preliminary
charge. The bills will specify the precise nature of the
offences which have been committed, and you will have to
direct your inquiries with a view to ascertain whether the
offences have been committed, and whether the party
accused is the offender. When reasonable evidence is
wanting to make out these points, it will be your duty to
dispose of the case at once by throwing out the bill; but
if this evidence does exist, it will be your duty to put the
case in a course of further inquiry by finding the bill.
You will recollect it is no part of your duty to form a
final opinion on the facts, or to investigate the evidence
with that scrupulous minuteness which would become a
jury in this court before they pronounced a verdict. You
will find, gentlemen, the evidence in almost all the cases
is short, and involving no question at all which calls for
any comment from me. I would, however, remark, that
the slightest possible removal of an article when intended
to steal is sufficient to complete the offence of larceny.
This I mention with reference to two cases in which, ac-
cording to the depositions, parties were surprised in the
act, and left their intended plunder behind. In the one
case a watch was removed from a nail on which it was
suspended ; and in another instance some copper nails
had been removed from a bucket, and put in a hag. If
you should be of opinion that the articles had been re-
moved by the persons accused with intent to steal them,
then, notwithstanding the slight nature of the removal, it
is quite sufficient, in the eye of the law, to render these
parties amenable to justice. Gentlemen, the offence of
picking pockets, especially as committed by women, has
become so prevalent, that it will be necessary, when the
case is clearly substantiated in evidence, to make a severe
example. With this exception, the cases in the calendar
are of an ordinary character, and I think you cannot in-
vestigate them without seeing that much is due to the
activity and vigilance of the police in apprehending and
detecting offenders, and rendering assistance to parties
who apply to them after they have been plundered cf their
property.

. The jury then retired to their duties : shortly afterwards
some bills were found, and the trials were proceeded with.
The calendar contains a list of 82 prisoners ; 77 being
charged with felony, and 5 with misdemeanours. Of
these, 19 could neither read nor write, 36 could read and
write in an imperfect manner, 25 could read imperfectly,
and only two could read and write well.
The cases tried throughout the day presented few fea-
tures of interest, being for the most part, where the pri-
soners pleaded not guilty, nearly similar in evidence to
what had already transpired in the preliminary examina-
tions in the Police-court. The following is a list of the
prisoners tried up to yesterday evening, together with
their respective sentences, which were severally passed by
the Recorder in a manner at once appropriate and feel-
ing _ . .

-Elizabeth Morris, aged 18, charged with stealing a
watch in September—four months' imprisonment and
hard labour, the last three weeks J °Mat y.

Mary Evans, 29, stealing print—six weeks.
Robert Howell, 18, stealing a purse and money—three
months.

Margaret West, 18, stealing a pocket-book with bank
notes—six months.

Charles Finlay, 19, stealing HoHands gin, &c.—three
weeks.

Thomas Erskine, 19, stealing wearing apparel—two
months, and to be once whipped.
Margaret Jones, 17, stealing money from the person—
six months.

Mary Ann Roach, 22, same offence and prosecutor—
two months.

Catherine Martin, 24, and Elizabeth Ross, 42, the
principal aggressors in the last robbery—ten years' trans-
portation.

Charles Hilton, 18, embezzling money from his master
—one month.

Patrick Little, 16, stealing a watch (an old offender)—
seven years' transportation.
Thomas Leghburn, 15, stealing two jackets (an old
offender)—seven years' transportation.
John Leigh, 40, stealing six skins of leather—six
months.

James Wilson, 22, stealing clothes—six months.
John Kinlay, 56, stealing joiners' tools—three months.
Shortly before five, the court adjourned to a quarter to
ten o'clock this day.

We have been informed that the Rev. Hugh M`Neile
has received £2O for the Church Pastoral Aid Society—
" a thank-offering from two members of St. Jude's con-
gregation, for merciful protection in imminent peril at sea
on the 17th October."

NEW WATER WoRKS•—Mr. Simpson, the eminent
engineer of the Westminster works, having been appoint-
ed engineer to our New Water Works, by the Highway
Board, arrived in Liverpool yesterday week, and imme-
diately commenced operations.

TegrimoNraL.—The Rev. B. A. Marshall, of St.
Marks Church, was last week presented with a suit of
Robes, and a handsomely-bound Baxter's Comprehensive
Bible, with the following inscription, " This copy of the
Sacred Scriptures was presented with a full suit of Ca-
nonicals to the Rev. B. A. Marshall by a number of
ladies of his congregation, at the close of the fifth year of
his ministrations among them, as a token of their sincere
regard for him as a faithful Minister, an affectionate Pas-
tor, and a kind Friend. Liverpool. Oct. 18th, 1843.
" Preach the word.' 2. Timothy, iv. 2."
ALLEGED STEALING OF AN ANCHOR:AND CHAINS.
—At the Police court, yesterday, John Daney, a respect-
ably dressed young man, was charged with having carried
off an anchor and two chains, from the yard of a Mr.
Wilson, on Saturday. The prisoner said he had bought
them from Mr. Cumming, who had the sale of them.
Mr. Cumming admitted that he had been bargaining with
him, and it eventually appeared on cross-examination by
Mr. Rushton that some agreement had been made about
the purchase. Mr. Rushton said there had been a pur-
chase and sale, and discharged the prisoner.
THEFT BY A SERVANT.—Yesterday, at the Police-
conrt, a female named Elizabeth Glover, in the service of
a Mrs. Gordon, was charged with stealing a gold ring and
other small articles, the property of her mistress. Some
suspicion had arisen, and she was apprehended on Sun-
day morning, when the gold ring was found on her person.
The prisoner, who appeared to be much distressed, said
she picked it out of the ashes when she swept out the
nursery ; that she had next day found four sovereigns on
the carpet, which she had given to her mistress-, and had
given her back all but the ring. She was committed for
trial. _ _

FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. BEAN.—The remains of
Mr. Bean arrived in town on Monday last, per railway,
and were interred on Wednesday, in the Necropolis, Low-
hill. The hearse was followed by six mourning coaches,
and the private carriage of Robert Ellison Harvey, Esq.
In addition to the large body of Mr. Bean's more imme-
diate connexion and friends, and who were present at the
funeral, there was a numerous attendance of highly re-
spectable gentlemen, of all parties, on the funeral ground,
many of whom gave unequivocal tokens of the respect in
which they held the deceased. The service was performed
by the Rev. Dr. Raffles.
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—On Friday night last the
first of a series of lectures on the beautiful and sublime
science of astronomy was delivered, at this institution, by
one of the first and most popular lecturers of the day,
Mr. Wallis. The second lecture will be delivered this
evening. The course consists of eight lectures. A large
beautiful orrery and numerous transparencies, including a
map of the moon, and mechanical apparatus, will be in-
troduced for the purpose of rendering the lecture additio-
nally interesting. The lovers of science, and all who
possess a taste for the sublime and beautiful, will avail
themselves of the opportunity of witnessing this highly
interesting and attractive course.
FALL OF MR. PLATT'S ROSIN WORKS.—On Friday
evening, a little before six o'clock, part of the new rosin
works erected by Mr. Platt, in Greenland-street, on the
ruins of the late fire. came down suddenly with a tre-
mendous crash. As there were from a dozen to fifteen
men employed on the premises, great alarm was excited
for their safety, but fortunately two only were seriously
injured, one of whom expired at two o'clock on the fol-
lowing morning. It appears that the top of the building
consisted of a reservoir, filled with water, and that this
became too heavy for the walls. The wall on the west
side gave way, and unfortunately fell on the two men at
work outside. They were both instantly removed to the
Southern Hospital. The reservoir did not exactly come
down, but stooped on one side sufficiently to flood, the
, place and extinguish all the fires.