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

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laid aside, I feel very glad

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We have made it our boast
ye have not had a military

ssisting to take the prisoner Cairns of the preceding for long in this country mat, wu lifs•c
case into custody, the prisoner came out of a court armed police, but only civil officers ; and so, in performing the
with a hammer, and swearing he would not allow any one duties of the police in London, it has been found possible
to be apprehended there, or any property to be taken, he to do so effectually without carrying sticks, without
made a blow at the prosecutor with the hammer. Prose- showing any emblem or any appearance of harshness, or
tutor grappled with the prisoner, and succeeded in wrest- intention to resort to force. It is very desirable, if that
ing the hammer from him, but not until he had received could be avoided, that it should; but I think it shows an
several blows and had his coat torn. The prisoner offered excellent feeling on the part of the watch committee and
no defence, except saying that he was drunk. He was head constable that they have, after the example of the
ordered to pay a fine of 405., or in default to be impri- metropolis, laid aside here the practice of carrying the
it
soned one month.

stic , which might be regarded by some as offensive. and
I trust that they will find that this community may be
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managed without carrying the stick in the manner it
LIVERPOOL BOROUGH SESSIONS. used to be. The learned Recorder then concluded by
4. pointing out the specific duty which the grand jury had
Tur General Quarter Sossions of the Peace for this
to perform, and by the usual offer of assistance from the
Borough commenced yesterday, in the Sessions House, court, should any difficulty arise.
Chapel-street, before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the Recor- The grand jury then retired, and shortly after returning
der. As it had originally been announced that the sessions with several true bills, the trials were proceeded with.
would be held in St. George's Hall, the court was opened Catherine Jackson—Stealing a shawl, the property of
William Davis; guilty. Sentence deferred.
there pro forma, and then adjourned to the Sessions
Mary Gibson—Stealing one pair of gloves and twelve
House. The calendar was lighter than usual, there being
watch guards, the property of William Smith ; guilty ;
in all 59 prisoners, of whom 48 were charged with felony,
and 11 with misdemeanour. Of these, 22 could neither four years' penal servitude.
Mary Ann Taffe—Stealing the sum of 19 sovereigns and
read nor write ; nine could read only ; 24 could read and
write imperfectly; 3 could read and write well ; and only one half-sovereign, of the monies of Thomas Murphy, from
1 was set down as having received a superior education. his person ; acquitted.
The court was opened with the usual formalities, and the John Sutton and Samuel Williams—Stealing five sacks
proclamation against vice and immorality having been of meal, the property of Andrew Brown and others ; guilty.
read, the following gentlemen were sworn on Sentence deferred.
Sarah Brown—Stealing 50 yards of calico print, the
VIIE GRAND JURY. property of Samuel Broadhurst Ingham ; guilty ; nine
Edward Tertius Kearsley, merchant, Shaw-street,Foreman calendar months' hard labour.
Wm. Henry Armitage, merchant, Fenwick-street. Agnes Cain—Stealing the sum of £l3, of the monies of
Robert Lewin Bolton, merchant, Brunswick-street. Thomas Ready; guilty. Sentence deferred.
Wm. Currie, wine merchant, Great George's square. John Harrington alias M`Namara or O'Brien—Stealing
nenree Lissant Cox, iron merchant, Brunswick-street. ~,,,, .‘,-,,,f ana nne vest the nronertv of David Thomas ;

Thomas C,int, merchant, Sweeting-street.
Christopher James Corbally, merchant, Chapel-street.
Robert Christie, jun., broker, Oldhall•street.
Henry'Cox, broker, Oldhall-street.
George Comer, broker, Tithebarn-street.
Peter Bourne Drinkwater, sharebroker. Exchange-st. West.
Alexander Mutter Dawson, merchant, Rumford-place.
William Dyer, shipowner, Hanover-street.
Thomas Philip Danson, broker, Exchange-alley North.

guilty ; six years' penal servitude.
Mary Williams and Maria Kehoe—Stealing one purse;
nne half-crown. two half-sovereigns, and four shillings,

of the monies and propert3
Martha Rogers his wife. Williams
months' hard labour ; Kehoe
Richard Thomas—Stealing
of Joseph Hendrick, fro

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Joseph Hubback, corn merchant, Fenrrick-street.
Henry Jump, corn merchant, Drury-lane.
Win. Kilgour, merchant, Richmond-terrace.
Richard Johnson Lockett, merchant, King-street
James Hardy Macrae, broker, Hackins-bey:

Edward Musgrove, brOteer, Hargreave's-bii
Charles Robertson, merchant, Rumford,place
The RECORDER then proceeded to deliver his charge.
He said—Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, I have been
detained by the indispensable duty of opening this court
in St. George's Hari. I must express my regret at meet-
ing you in this court, because I consider it a most unfit
place, if due regard be had to the health and comfort of
those whose duties call them to the Quarter Sessions.
Gentlemen, you will learn from the calendar that 59 per-
sons have beets sent for trial in the course of 07 days. I am
aware that there are also upwards of 400 persons in prison
under summary convictions ; but having looked to 'the
nature of 'those commitments—many of them for non-
payment .of penalties and other trifling offences—l am
satisfied that the town is at present in a satisfactory state
as to. Male. lam informedthat there has lately been a
marked increase of crime in London, and therefore I
think that the state of things in Liverpool reflects much
credit on the exertions df the magistracy, and of-those
under them who have the duty to enforce the laws against
dritne. In saying this, lam not forgetful that 'there are
many other causes besides those agencies which combine
to produce the present state of things. For example,
there was a time when this town was infestedby offenders
recently arrived from Ireland, but I see reason to hope

;that the improvement of that country, and'the fact that
.poverty is less prese,..ng there, extends its beneficial influ-
ence upon ourselves. I find one case, indeed, in the
:calendar, in which two boys, recently from a workhouse in
Ireland, 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-16 or 20 cases occasionally in the calendar
of offences committed by persons just come 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 cempass—no diminution ought to induce us to
cease to investigate the cause of crime. In looking to the
present -calendar, you will find that out of -fifty-nine
persons for 'trial, twenty-five are women, about

five-twelfths—an enormous proportion, I venture to say,
having carefully examined at Portsmouth, Bristol, and
other towns the returns with regard to this point. This
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,Avith a view to check it, and I believe the magis-
trates etc alive to that necessity. Possibly the legislature

may find it necessary to strengthen their -hands. -I
recol-
lect being much interested in reading a book showing
how much had been done in Paris by the powers from
tin Le to-time confided and exercised by the Prefect with
reg:ard to Trostitution in that city ; and whatever the
state of things may be, undoubtedly a very great im-

provement lv-as effected under -the stringent measures
effqcted ,by the Prefect of Police. Cdon't mean to say
the ft any •exactly similar course would be likely to be
ach mted in-Ibis country, but still I think it may be neces-
sar y in. a ...place like Liverpool to strengthen the hands of
the', map:istrates not only for the ,beaefit of society, but of

om we find so large a pro-
In point of amount the
) come before yea is a charge of steal-

irate class from

of 'crime here to arise

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cases in which dwelfing-honses have been broker

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y very sensible that
these are 'the most dangerous offences which come within
the c ognizance of this court, and require . corresponding
severity to check them. I have again to remark -that
picking pockets is a prevalent offence in this town. In
my opinion-it is a more serious offence than is commonly
supposed. The consequences are often serious. It is true
-the victim fsequently loses only a pocket handkerchief, or
-a few shillings, but cases do occur in-which the losses are
very serious. Even in the present calendar, yon
rain find • one ease, •No. 48, in which even upwards
of two hundred and sixty pounds is taken from an
`individual; and another, No. 3, in which £B4 was stolen
from the man's -pocket. There are several other cases
cases have oecurited in which the savings of a life are, gone
-in a moment, in this way. A man going to ~a bank to
deposit the produce of property for which he had laboured
-for -years was plundered out of it in thisivay ; the sailor,
who had been long toiling, and bad been paid a large
amount of wages; isplundered in crossing a bridge. Not
only is the nature of the offence-vary-dangerous and mis-
chievous, but the characters who commit it ease commonly
irreclaimable by ordinary finprilonment. It is too fre-
quently the crime that is adopted by idle_persons, by
those- who, if they had the opportunity, won't work ; and
therefore it is.no Me, when a person gets -the habit of
procuring money in an 'easy way, without
,labour,—it is
no use 'to send him to prison time 'after time for a few
months. No do that is only to prolong his mischievous
career. it, is •necessary that some effectual means should
he taken 'not only to put a atop to it, but to put the party
under a course of severe discipline and training, when he
may become disposed to work. Where I find a pickpocket
with soft hands, I generally-send him' for a term of penal
servitude; where I find= offence by a man or boy.whose
hands are hardened by honest toil, I may pass a more
lenient sentence. ,But I do think. the offence, which is
prevalent in this town, is more serious' than is commonly
supposed. In the two cases in which £260 and eB4. were
,stolen, fortunately police-officers were at hand, and the
Tiarties were secured .;•but in this point of detecting pocket-
/ :eking the police of this town arefortunate in havinc, the
assistance of a volunter,—a fenng butcher from St. John's
Market, , who has added to . his lanreis at these sessions by
detecting two more delinquents. 'I wish that the spirit of
assisting in bringing .offenders -to punishment which he
shows was universal in all parts of this town. Gentlemen,
there -are 'no less than six cases to come before you
in which knives have been used and parties injured.
That so many are here, ,shows a determination on
the part of the magistrates to deal with these cases so
as to revive that' horror and odium with which the
laws of tills country view such an offence, and to which
the people of this country used to be so averse. The
offenders appear to be women and sailors.; but whatever
the offenders -be, depend upon it, if any case is proved be-
fore me, it shall carry with it a severe lesson. Ism sorry
-to see cases which seem to have arisen from a desire to
prevent strangers, or persons not working in the same
line of business es before, from earning their bread
honestly in this town. lam glad to recollect that I have
seldom had such cases before me. One case I remember,
in which a shipwright was charged with an offence of this
nature. He was defended by counsel specially retained,
and every exertion made, but he was convicted, And pro-
perly punished, for I would not allow the case suggested
to pass over with a pecuniary penalty. I thought it right
that huprisonment, and nothing else, should mark our
sense of offences of this nature. I therefore• hold that
such cases are bad, and though individuals may be guilty
of them I feel confident that the great body of men in
any trade are too intelligent to suppose that they should
succeed in any such tvranny as these cases show. I
should think that the silipwrights in particular were too
well disposed to show any example to anybody in violating
the laws of their country. In one case, to such an extent,
however, was the offender excited, fiat be actually pitched
a man down into the hold of a vessel head foremost, in
which he was working. At the risk of his life that was
done, and the offender thought that he had killed the
man, and fled. He gave himself up afterwards, and was
thankful, properly thankful, to learn that his victim yet
lived. After suffering, his life was spared, but I believe
that one of his senses was entirely injured, or permanently
and seriously impaired. This man says he did it
through drink, an excuse too often made, but to which
this court can never yield; because, if drink were allowed
to privilege crime, there would be no safety for the sober
part of the community against the drunkard. That
drink, however, is a fertile source of crime, not only this
case, but ninny others in the calendar show. Of course
this is an old story. We know that drink is the besetting
vice of this country, but we have seen a great improve-
ment in regard to drinking and swearing in the higher
classes of the community, and I am disposed to hope we
may see the same improvement extend throughout all
classes. It is, however, a subject of deep consideration,
that the legislature frequently has been, and is now, en-
gaged upon. It is probable—it is possible we may see
some change in the licensing system, though no doubt
other influences must be looked to chiefly to check this
offence ; and as the time is now at hand when the magis-
trates here will be called upon to perform that disagree-
able duty cast upon them, I can but once more express
my opinion that, in the present state of the law, a sparing
exercise of their power of granting licenses, a discrimina-
tion also, and careful surveillance of those to whom
licenses have been granted, are the methods by which the
evil may be rendered less formidable. There is one case,
gentlemen, iu which an assault is charged upon a Police-
officer. The parties engaged in it are said to have been
encouraging one another, saying, " Clive it him, he has no'
stick." Gentlemen, if the officers have been deprived,
in some part of their duty, of their sticks, I shall
take care that parties presuming upon that shall be
most severely punished by this court. This court
will make up any deficiency the want of the stick may
create; no advautas ihal In talon Of A here, and

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splendid telescoj

feet hig

commanding view of the whole

in a three-story building in Spear-street,
different portions of which were occupie(
Daniel and Platt, packing-case manufacturers and joiners,
and Mr. John Smethurst, silver and gold thread manufac-
turer. The total damage will amount to about £2,000.
HIGH-LEVEL RAILWAY.-11r. Grantham exhibited a
model of his proposed high-level railway before the Dock
Committee, on Thursday. Mr. James Holme proposed
not to erect the high-level railway on the margin of the
and then to

out on Friday
1 -by n
Messsrsr:

dock quays, but to build warehouses there,
place the highlevel railway on the outside or eastern side
of the warehouses, which would possess the double advan-
tage of enabling the goods from the shipping to be
promptly taken into the warehouses, and conveyed again
whenever necessary by rail to any point in a longitudinal
direction along the docks which the owners might desire.
POSTAGE TO AmEnics.—The following notice has been
—" The packet communication between Halifax,
Scotia, and Bermuda which has hitherto been main-
tained once a fortnight during the summer, and once a
month during the winter season, will in future take place
only once a month throughout the year. " Mails for Ber-
muda will continue to be forwarded to Halifax once a fort-
night, as heretofore, by the British mail-packets leaving
Liverpool for Halifax and Boston ; but the branch packet
for Bermuda will only be dispatched from Halifax on the
arrival at that port of each alternate packet from Liverpool,
the next dispatch being fitted to the arrival of the packet
appointed to leave Liverpool on the 22d instant-7
ME. RELAMLEY MOORE AT MA.LDOZT.—Our townsman,
Mr. Alderman J. Bromley Moore, having been invited by
a large and influential body of the electors of Maldon, to
become a candidate for the representation of that borough,
he has complied with the invitation, and has issued an
address to the electors. That document embraces a dela-.
ration of his views on the leading points of present political
discussion. He declares himself attached to the interests
of the National Church and conscientiously opposed to,
Popish aggression, while he freely admits, indeed contends,

spread of education, and will support any measure having
for its object the promotion of religious and intellectual

itructior

He aeel:

entry require

areful revision, with a

7,, and ti

t heavy addition to the malt-tax, to
be both' impolitic and 'unjust. His views of commercial
policy are such as lead him to desire the regulation of our
intercourse with foreign nations as far as possible and

practicable, by a well-considered system of mutual inter-
change of commodities, as he is satisfied nothing solid or
lasting can result from that which is not mutually benefi-
cial. He declares himself an unflinching supporter of
economy, so far as that can be made consistent with the
dignity of the Crown. and an efficient maintenance of the
national honour and 'defence. From the talent and energy
which Mr. Bramley-Moore is known to possess, and the
readiness and ease with which he conveys his views to any
auditory, he is eminently qualified to be a good and useful
representative, and one whose presence in the House
would be found serviceable in all cases where a practical
knowledge of commercial business is required.

BRITISII ASSOCIATION.—ARRANGE3IENTS FOR THE
MEETING IN LIVERPOOL.—It has been arranged that the
general committee will meet in St. George's-hall on Wed-
nesday, the 20th September, at one o'clock afternoon, for
the election of the different councillOrs. On the same day,
at five o'clock, the Mayor intends to give a dinner-party
in the Town-hall ; and, at eight o'clock in the evening,the
members will assemble in the Philharmonic-hall to hear
the president's address. On the following day the pro-
ceedings of the different sections will commence in St.
George's-hall, and in the evening a eonrersazione will
take place. On Friday evening a lecture will be de-
livered by Professor Owen, in the Philharmonic-hall,
the subject being anthropomorphous apes. On Satur-.
day evening the Mayor purposes giving a soiree in the•
blown-hall. On Monday evening another lecture will
be delivered in the Philharmonic-ball, by Colonel Sabine,
on terrestrial magnetism. On Tuesday night a conrersa-
zione will take place in St. George's-hall, when the closing
address will be delivered. On Wednesday the president's

dinner will take place. This, it is expected, will be the
most brilliant feature of the meeting. The banquet, if the
arrangements can be completed for the purpose, will, we
understand, take place in the great assembly-room at St.
George's-hall. Should this not be practicable, it will be

the'" Faussett Collection "Swill be displayedaud described
by Mr. Wright, the celebrated archaeologist. This will
close the proceedings of the association. Arrangements.
were also made for excursions by the members both by
land and water. Each day one of Mr. M`lver's ste,am--
tenders will be at the Landing-stage for the accommodsk.
tion of members of the association and their friends who
desire to cruise upon the river ; and facilities will be
afforded by the railway companies for the easy and econo-
mical conveyance of members and ladies and gentlemen
attending the meeting of the association. The arrange-
ments in this departMent will include the conveyance of
any member of the association from Liverpool, for single
fare, to and from any point on any railway having termini
in Liverpool or
.13irlicillnan.; for the term of a fortnight,
including the week of the sitting of then oChltion.

HORTICULTURE.

IN cases where Verbenas, Calceolarias, and other bedding'
plants are afflicted with the green fly, they should be
syringed with tobacco water and soap suds. Rose bushes
should also be kept free from insects and dead flowers,
and budding should now be as soon as possible brought to
a close. Carnations and Piccotees should now be layered,
and full advantage taken of the fine weather. ; Tomatoes
should be attended to by keeping the shoots thin.
Eschalots should be piffled as soon as t 1 tops begin to
decay, and herbs in flower should be cut and dried for
winter use. Finish planting celery, and earth up former
plantings. Early cabbage may now be sown. Weeds
should be carefully kept down, and free growing shoots
of fruit trees should be pruned.

Loan LANGFORD died on Wednesday, after a very
short illness, at Castletown, in the county of' Kildare, the
seat of his brother-in-law, Mr. T. Conolly, M.P. for Done-
gal. The deceased,, who was in the prime of life, having
been born in the year 1824, was the third Baron Langford,
and was but a few years since married to Miss Conolly,
who was drowned while bathing in October last. Four
children survive, the eldest and heir to the. estates being
but six years old.

M.-GENERAL MARCUS BERESFORD is to command the
division of the Bengal army, vacated by the•appointment
of Lieut.-General'Anson to the Madias conimand.
Sat GEORGE GREY, K.C.8., Governor of New Zealand;
is appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief over her
Majesty's settlements at the Cape of Good Hope.
A CABINET ColaNem was held on Wednesday at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street, which sat four hours and
a half.

A MARRIAGE was celebrated on Tuesday last, at St.
James's Church, Piccadilly, London, between .Mr. King,
grandson of Viscount Lorton, of Rockingham, county of
Roscommon, and the Hon. Augusta Chichester, sister of
Lord Templemore_, of Dunbrody-park, county of Wexford.
THE EARL OF DERBY has joined the Countess of Derby
and family at Tunbridge Wells, and this week they will
be amongst the guests of the Duke and Duchess of Rich.
mond at Goodwood.

THE Hox. AUGUSTUS MORETON' expired a few days
since, at the advanced age of 76. He was a member of the
noble house of Ducie, and the representative of an old
Gloucestershire family.

Sul Tittoruntrs ihnDuLPit, BART., died on-the 15th
instant, at Birbnry-hall, Warwickshire; aged 70. The
estates are situate in the county of Warwick, of which
the deceased was a deputy-lieutenant. The title was
created in 1664.

A MARRIAGE has been arranged to take place between
the Earl Spencer, lord steward of the household, and Miss
Seymour, daughter of the late Sir Horace Seymour, for-
merly of the Life Guards, and step-daughter to Lady
Clinton.

LORD HARRY VANE, M.P., brother to the Duke of
Cleveland, is about to be united to Lady Dalmeny, widow
of the late Lord Dalmeny, eldest son of the Earl of Rose-
berry, by whom she has four children.
Leuzicu OF ANOTUER GUNBOAT.—The third of the
screw despatch gun-vessels, the Beagle, was launched from
the establishment of Mare and Co., Blackwall, on Thurs-
day. She is of the same tonnage, dimensions, horse=power,
and armament as the Wrangler and Arrow, viz., 470 tons'
160 horse-power.

Mr. T. S. DIINCOMBE AND LORD CHESTERPIELD.—In
1839, Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe was indebted to
the Earl of Chesterfield in the sum of £89,000, secured on
mortgage; and in the November of that year Lord Ches-
terfield agreed to take £2,500 down and £38,000 in March
following, in full payment. The £38,000 was not paid in
the time specified, and another deed was executed in June
reciting that a marriage-contract had been entered into
between Mr. Duncombe and Mrs. Slingsby, under which
Mrs.Slingsby covenanted to paythe interest on the£3B,ooo,
and Lord Chesterfield, in consideration of £420 downs
agreed to extend the time of payment of the £38,000 to
June in 1841, stipulating that if the sum were then paid
he would forego the whole debt. But neither that sum
nor the interest was paid; the projected marriage was
broken off; and Lord Chesterfield had sued Mrs. Slingsby
for £10,600 interest. The case was brought before the
Rolls Court, on summons from chambers, last Saturday;
and the question submitted was, whether Lord Chester-
field was entitled to the whole of the £69,000, or only to
the £38,000, and whether Mrs. Slingsby was entitled to
be second encumbrancer after payment of the £38,000, or
the £69,000. The Master of the Rolls decided that time
was the sole consideration in the contract; and that, there-
fore, the payment not having been made within the time,
Lord Chesterfield was entitled to the whole amount; and
that Mrs. Slingsby was entitled as second encumbrancer
after the £69,000 was satisfied.
MRS. STOWE AND HER ENGLISH PORTRAITS.—The
general topic of remark on meeting me seems to he, that
I am not so bad-looking as they were afraid I was ; and I
do assure you that when I have seen the things thatu are
put up in the shop windows here with my namebounndd.
them, I have been in wondering admiration at tf
for sucha g
museum.,
ilnesskeloevpiingng-kuipndsnueschs oaf
wmayrniEnhgeliat:th and Scottisho'regofrinen. friends,
should think that the sphinx in the London
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going to make a
might have sat for most of them..
and they will be
is a great variety of them,
collection of these portraits to
showed where the road
which .
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miiiae2rAnca%hitnaeliswtssl'a, Pelurdtbycontinually
cheapness of ,
in search of investments. The
the country
passing over west of Ireland,
of England, the land-seekers are flock.
Western Star says .—" Not only from the more agricul-
tural of Scotland, but even front the central and
ing in surprising
numbers. During the last six months
countiesltlOnUrajlediTritric
Galway and the neighbouring counties,
nine one even to estimate the numbers who
s that of Strongbow, is still as complete; and 4
sThiotahwvNeve7relelsidtoktlelauemadtion steals onward. The invasion, though tot\. i
the lapse of seven centuries has rather increased than
lessened the desire on the part of the Not and SUM to
obtain the pobeessim a land in Irelauci."
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