The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

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liourned

House.

Edward Tertins Kearsley,
Wm. Henry Are'
Robert Lewin 80.
Wm. Carrie, wine
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Gem-ge Lissart Cox

tare, merchant, Fenwick-street.
.on, merchant, Bruuswick-street.
merchant, Great George's square

iant, Brnnswick•street,

Christopher Jayne
Robert Christie, j
Henry Cox, tiro
Geo

mere iant, Chapel-street
,ker, Oldhall-street.
Ili-street.

Tithebarn-street.
sharebroker. Exchange-st. West
hunt, Rumford-place.
reet.

Comer. broker,
- - .
Peter 13qurne Drinkwat
Alexander Mutter Daw
William Dyer, shipowner, H
Thom

is Pfiiti
Duttor

r, Excha
reet.

ge-alley North

Dan. Jones Fyrill
Joseph liubb7,ck

bant, Fen

c'orn merchant, fenwick-street
a merchant, Drury-lane.

Jump, coi

the inctis:
e's Hall.

Luse I consider it n. most unfit

te, if due regard
we whose du

had to the healt

and coinfor

'es call them to the Quarter Ses

Gentlemen, you w

m the calendar that 59

Is of 400 persons

but having

it of penalties

and oth

er trifling offences
sent in a satisfaeta

ne. lam informed that there has lately Leen
a in London, and t

,erefore I

the magist

and of t

in which

Joys, recen

persons.
_for trial, twenty-fiy

are women,
ifths7an enormous proportion, I ventu

3ther towns th,

returns

lect being

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had been (

time to time confide

pro forma, and then _ .„ the Sessions
The calendar was lighter than usual, there being
dl 59 prisoners, of whom 48 were charged with felon-
and 11 with misdemeanour. Of these, 22 could
read nor write ; nine could read only ; _
write imperfectly; 3 could read and write well; au,
1 was set down as having received a superior education
The court was opened with the usual formalities, and the
c•;PP and immorality having been

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,uld read and

Thant, Shaw-street, Foreman

Richard John-son Lockett, merchant, King-street.
James Hardy Macrae, broker, Packins-hey.
Edward Musgrove, broker, Hargreave's-buildings.
Charles Robertson, merchant, Rumford-place.
The RECOJIDER then proceeded to deliver his charge.
I—Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, I have been
"----nsable duty of opening this court
I must express my regret at meet-

Tedit on the exertions c
mder them who have the duty to enforce the laws against
saying this, I am not forgetful that

there are

_ one present state of things. For example,
there was a time when this town was infested by offenders
recently arrived from Ireland, but I see reason to hope

that the improvement of that country, and the fact that
poverty is less pressing there, extends its beneficial influ-
ence upon ourselves. I find one case, indeed, in the

Inland, broke a pane of glass in order to get out the coin
from a shop window; but this is one case, whereas I used
formerly to find 15 or 20 cases occasionally in the calendar
of offences committed by persons justcome from Ireland.
Gentlemen, no diminution of crime ought to induce us to
relax our exertions to check it, and confine it to a still
narrower compass—no diminution ought to induce us to
ceaselo investigate the cause of crime. In looking to the
present calendar, you will find that out of fifty-nine

ith regard to this point
fact is clear evidence of the degraded state of a large por-
tion Of the sex in Liverpool,—a state equally wretched to
them and mischievous to the community. It may well
justify stringent measures being adopted, and every pos-
sible pains taken by the magistracy to enforce the exist-
ing law, with a view to check it, and I believe the magis-
trates are alive to that necessity. Possibly the legislature
my find it necessary to strengthen their hands. I recol-
luch interested in reading a book showing