The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-13 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DECEMBER SESSIONS

The Sessions of the Peace for the Borough of Liverp
commenced, in the Court-house, yesterday, before JAM
CLARKF,, Esq., Recorder. The calendar contains the nail-
of 63 prisoners charged with felony, and 16 with misdemea
total 79. Of these 5 can read and write well ;
imperfectly; 12 can read imperfectly; and 18 have nel
been taught either. The court having been opened with t
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GEORGE PARSONS, Esq., mercl

letnen were sworn

Sefton•street, fo:

Robert Wainwright Ashley, merchant, Wat.
Joseph Brice, corn-merchant, Bedford -s ;
Samuel Beckwith, hide-broker, Tower-garden;
nirkett, warehouse-owner, Chorley-street
Bedford-street South;
"..m-street

Francis Boult,-coal-agent, C
John Bent, brewer, Johnson-
Robert Crosby, merchant, /.
Robinson Duckworth, merchant,
John Goulding jun., corn-merchan.
Charles Groves, merchant, India-bu.
Abraham Gartside, wool-broker, North John-
Peter Hope, grocer, Whitecliapel ; •
Herbert Clayton Langton, share-broker, Elm
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Thomas Mather, corn-merchant, Drury-.
William Oxley, merchant, Rumford-place
Edward Langsdale, timber-merchant, P'
Charles Mozley, banker, Mount-pleasant.
The CLERIC of the PEACE read the Queen's proclamat
against vice, profaneness, and immorality ; after which,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to
Grand Jury. He said he was happy, at
them, that their labours at the present Session,
very heavy. He had gone over the depositions,
happy to say that none of the cases appeared to be invol
they were short and clear; and, therefore, they would I
no difficulty in forming a correct conclusion upon all
were to come before them. In looking over the depositia
he was sorry to observe several cases o robbery by confide
tial servants, who had, unfortunately, availed themselves
the confidence reposed in them to plunder their employe
to a considerable extent. He need not say that this was
description of crime over which no police could have contrc
because they were not crimes of violence, but crimes wh'
took place clandestinely and secretly ; they were k"
none but the party himself. Now these cap
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correct punishments. He had observed, also, t
seemed to be generally chosen by wicked men for
of breaking into and robbing counting-house., uw..,
houses, and shops. This was a description of property m
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exposed to plunder on that day. There were a great numbs
of shops in Liverpool detached from the dwelling-houses c
the owners, and there was no one upon the premises to pre
vent them being entered upon the Sabbath day. The thieve
got a knowledge of this fact, and, either late on Saturda
night or during Sunday, they contrived to plunder the
places. The same observation applied to counting-house
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before them with reference to such offences. Counting-hou
were also deserted upon the Sunday ; no one was left the
therefore, the parties could not possibly have
tunity than when nobody was there for breaLua 1111 LU MCI
Wicked men knew this, and they availed themselves of the
wicked knowledge as much as they could. They ende
voured to plunder, as much as they could, the counting-hoes
of the merchants of this town when they were thus left. I
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county had been appointed to examine into and report upon
that subject. He had had the honour of being chosen a
member of that committee, but he confessed he felt consi-
derable difficulty in coming to a conclusion. A noble lord
(Lord Western) had written a sensible pamphlet upon the
necessity of holding a winter commission, and of having
more frequent gaol deliveries. His lordship, however, was
speaking of aasizes ; but unquestionably, if the jurisdiction
of magistrates were to remain so much curtailed as it was at
the present time, for they could not now try many offences
at sessions as they formerly could, you must, in ti

proportion as their jurisdiction was curtai,
try the power, in some way or other, to t
which
the magistrates could no longer try,
the criminal calendar %vhich the magistrates
gate at sessions, they could not now; therefore, the countr,
had a right to call for more frequent gaol deliveries. Lord
Western made one observation, in which he almost agreed
with his Lordship, that, however efficacious gaols might be
in point of discipline, they were not to be considered as
schools for education. That kind of idea, indeed, seemed to
be growing among the people, that if you educated the cri-
minals in gaols you turned them out reformed characters.
Now, he could not agree to that. The prisoners certainly
got a good education in the gaols ; in Lancaster Castle, which
he sometimes visited, their progress was surprising. Read-
ing and writing were often acquired there by men who went
in ignorant of both, so that, at the end of their imprison-
ment, they had been turned out very fair readers and writers
indeed. The education given there was undoubtedly good ;
and he did not agree with Lord Western that the school-
masters ought to be removed from our gaols because the'
could not accomplish all that was desired, for he thought tb
did good. Nevertheless, they could not accomp'
which after all was the great thing : although they mi,
communicate a great deal of knowledge, they could not
generate the character. The character was still a bad or
although the prisoner might have acquired a goo,
knowledge, Education in gaols was good as far as it u,
but the education the country wanted was education given
without the gaol—to prevent parties being committed
to gaol. Unless we could give this kind of education,
we were doing very little indeed to reform the mor-'
of the lower classes. It was undoubtedly of the

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pressing necessity that the education of the love,._
of the people should be carefully attended to; and o,
this subject an admirable discourse had been published by the
Lord Bishop of Ripon. It was the discourse annexed to the
annual report of the Society for the Propagation of Christian
Knowledge; and it contained some of the very best observa-
tions on this subject which he had ever read. His lordship
said the country must look after the education of the
people in time, or the consequences would be fearful;
and he (the Recorder) hoped the subject would be
looked into, to see what could be done. And now that
happily the country was in a state of peace, he hoped
the legislature and the government would take this im-
portant subject into their most serious consideration, and
do what they possibly could to reform the morals of the
people, by extending the blessings of education. He had
taken up a newspaper on Saturday, in which it was stated
that in Liverpool there were at this moment 20,000 children
who knew nothing of the Bible—who knew nothing whatever
of the blessings of a religious education. How could we deal
with such a mass of people, and how could we correct crime
if such a mass of ignorance was allowed to prevail? There-
fore, he said, if education was to be of any service, it must
be education given not in gaols, but out of gaols, to prevent
them being committed there. The learned recorder then
dismissed the grand jury to their labours.
The traverse jury were then called over, and Mr. William
Brabazon Jones, draper, of 47, Dale-street, not answering
to his name, was fined 40s. for non-attendance, with an in-
timation that the fine would be repeated each time he did not
answer on being called.
The trials commenced shortly afterwards, but nor
interest occurred during the day.

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HERVIO NANO.—Hervio Nano was received last night at
the Theatre Royal with great applause : his performances
excited the utmost astonishment. He is really a surprising
and remarkable person.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday. as a person named
Robert Collinson was standing near a hatchway, in the fifth
story of the factory in Vauxhall-road, his foot slipped, and
he was precipitated to the ground floor, receiving so much
injury in the back that he expired on Friday.

INTERESTING MUSICAL EVENT.—In the concerts given
by Thalberg last week in Dublin. there appeared the remark-
able spectacle of a young lady of seventeen taking part with
the great maestro in the performance of his magnificent com-
positions. This young amateur being a resident of Liverpool,
we are much pleased to be enabled to quote from the Dublin
Evening Packet the following account of her debut in that
city We now come to the most agreeable part of our
task, the notice of Miss Christiana Weller, who on this occa-
sion made her appearance, and was, by the universal voice of
the entire auditory, pronounced a pianiste of rare excellence
and still rarer promise. Young she is—in the very spring
of youth and, without flattery we may add, of beauty ; en-
dowed, too, with talent of the highest order—unaffected,
graceful, and lovely—it is no wonder that her reputation has
already become established. Miss Weller's style is essen-
tially pure ; her fingering rapid, distinct, and sufficiently
powerful to conquer the most difficult passages ; and her
execution clear, finished, and brilliant. Performing contem-
poraneously with the great master Thalberg, and on the
same instrument, was a bold attempt, and intimated con-
sciousness of abilities that would not suffer even by compa-
rison with the Leviathan.' Never was such a formidable
difficulty so completely overcome; and the enthusiastic
plaudits that rewarded her splendid fantasia, testified how
fully she shared the triumphs of the evening. On the pre-
vious day, at the Rotunda, Miss Weller and Thalberg played
his grand duet for two piano-fortes, from Norma, before a
crowded room. It was a matchless performance, and cre-
ated such enthusiasm that the audience rose en masse, and
would not be pacified until the duet was repeated. Thalberg
has already pronounced Miss Weller one of the best piano-
forte players he has ever met with • and when so high a tri-
bute is paid to a lady only numbering seventeen summers,
what may we not expect from her after years ? "

A short time ago the Duke of 'Wellington narrowly escaped
choking. He was dining of a partridge, one of the small
bones of which stuck in his throat. Ordinary means having
failed to remove the bone, it was only by the use of an instru-
ment that, after much pain and great danger, his medical at-
tendant succeeded in pushing it into his grace's stomach.
The two actions brought by Messrs. Acraman and Co., of
Bristol, against the London and County Bank, for a consi-
derable sum of money in respect of securities deposited with
that bank by Messrs. Coils, Thompson and Co., and which
were specially appointed to be tried in the Court of Ex-
chequer on Tuesday next, have been withdrawn by the
plaintiffs.

BISHOPRIC OF ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR.*—The union of
the two sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, which will take place
unless that portion of the act 6 and 7 William IV. relating to
the subject is repealed, meets with strenuous opposition. A
highly respectable and numerous meeting was held last Tues-
day at Carnarvon, when petitions to parliament were agreed
to, in which, after pointing out the increased necessity for
episcopal superintendence, the petitioners say—" The bi-
shoprics of St. Asaph and Bangor have been, from very an-
cient times, endowed with funds solemnly dedicated to the
maintenance of the church in North Wales, and they cannot
feei it consistent with the interests of religion or with the
demands of justice, or even with the report of the ecclesias-
tical commissioners, to unite these sees in order to divert a
portion of these funds to the endowment of a bishopric in a
district unconnected with Wales, and one of the wealthiest
in the empire."

THE CHARGES AGAINST ALDERMAN WOOD OF LONDON.
—The committee of aldermen met again on Saturday, to
pursue the inquiry into the charges against Mr. Alderman
Thomas Wood. A letter was read from the alderman de-
dining to comply with the resolution that he should furnish
the charges against himself as well as the answers. He was
ready to meet any tangible charae instantly, and to produce
all the affidavits, papers, and books relating to the Talacre
Mine. One passage implying that the Court of Aldermen
had refused to elect him mayor on account of those charges,
the chairman warmly denied that any one had made any
charge, or that Mr. Alderman Wood had a right to ask the
reason of any man's vote. As no alderman would assume
the post of accuser, and Mr. Alderman Wood refused to ac-
cuse himself, the chairman proposed to apply to the Court of
Aldermen for fresh instructions. Sir Peter Laurie proposed
to accept the offer in the letter of the affidavits. Mr. Alder-
man Wood did not see how he could do this if there was no
charge. None were so closely looked after as solicitors.
Merchants and others could commit nefarious acts and in-
dulge in fraudulent speculations with impunity. Sir Peter
Laurie said, if he was Alderman Wood, he would not stand
for forms, but go at once into the matter, and sell the coat off
his back to trounce the traducers. lie moved that the papers
be received. This was, after some warm discussion, agreed
to, and the papers were ordered to be printed.

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to.tie logner than the partitions of the seats, This
was sufficient to heighten the apprehension and alarm of
those assembled, and a general rush took place. Many
parties left the church, but the churchwardens, the mayor,
and corporation present, instantly repaired from their own
seats to the spot, and a little water being promptly procured,
the fire was soon extinguished, and the service afterwards
proceeded without interruption. The fire was caused from a
sheet of plate iron that was nailed to the pew front getting
hot, and the heat being communicated directly to the wood-
work of the seats a fire was easily kindled. The stove in the
aisle was sadly too near the pew, unless a flag or course of
bricks were erected to prevent anything of the sort happening.
Had the fire taken place between the services, or previous to
the morning service commencing, it is more than probable
that the whole of the woodwork in the noble edifice would
soon have been destroyed ; as it is, however, the damagelis
trifling.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—THE RIVAL CORONERS.—An
inquest was held on Saturday afternoon last, at the house of
Mr. William Norris, the Woolpack, in Millgate, on view of
the body of a little boy named Henry Gaskell, who met with
his.death by his clothes taking fire, on Thursday last. From
the evidence adduced, it appeared that the child ran out,
about twelve o'clock on the day in question, surrounded by
flame ; a woman, named Ellen Hallam, saw it, and threw a
wet towel around it, and extinguished the flames as speedily
as possible ; but the poor sufferer lingered in great pain, from
the severe burns on its breast and neck, until Friday, when
death terminated its sufferings. The child was alone in the
house when the accident happened,—the parents being at
work in a colliery. The inquest was held by Mr. Grimshaw,
the newly elected coroner for the borough, who displayed an
ability adequate to the high office the duties of which he is
appointed to fulfil. The jury returned a verdict of Acciden-
tal Death. An inquest was also held on the same body this
afternoon, by Mr. Rogerson, at the house of Mr. AP Lachlan.

MEF.TING OF PARLIAMENT.-At the Privy Council held
by her Majesty at Windsor Castle on Saturday, a proclama-
tion was agreed upon for further proroguing of Parliament
from Tuesday next to Thursday, the 2d of February, then to
meet for Else despatch of business.

UNTAXED BISCUITS FOR SAILORS.—The first advan-
tage under the act passed lest session (and which may fairly
be called Mr. Hutt's act), for allowing the grinding of corn
in bond for victuailing ships, was made here this week. A
quantity of corn was taken out of bond, to be manufactured
into biscuits, and will be replaced by an equal quantity of
corn.—Hill Advertiser.

CHEAP PORK.--When pigs is scarce, there's plenty o'ways
of filling the pork barrel for them Britishers. You know
there's young porpesses, seals, and slick dogs, as well as
bears and posssums, and there's plenty of bones o'them pigs
as died in murrain time to put along with urn . Them ere
pigs wa'rnt a no ase then—but now , we know better—we
sha'nt throw away nothing. But, man, it a'nt lawful to put
no young children in pickle.—American paper.
MunnEns.—Two ferrymen at Great Yarmouth, on Sa-
turday week, had a quarrel about some fish, and the one
gave the other a kick on the abdomen, from which the poor
fellow expired in about an hour. The other was appre-
hended, and has been committed for trial.—ln the same
town, on the following morning, a soldier went into a public.
house, and the landlord and he had some dispute, when the
latter was thrown violently down, and expired on Thursday.
The landlord has been taken into custody.

WILL OF THE LATE MR. JOHN REEVE.—Tbe will of the
late John Reeve, the well-known comedian, has recently
been proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of
Canterbury. The personal property of the deceased has been
sworn under the value of £l,OOO. The property is pretty
equally divided between his son and two daughters. Mr.
Sams, bookseller, of Pall-mall, who was killed by being
thrown from his carriage a short time since, was one of the
executors of the will.

A correspondent of the Morning Herald says that the
leading members of the late Scottish convocation have com-
menced addressing their congregations from the pulpit on
the approaching dissolution of the connection between church
and state, intimating their intention of leaving the church if
the grievances of which they complain be not speedily re-
moved by the legislature, and appealing to their several flocks
whether they would not follow them wben the crisis arrived.
Meetings are also held for devising as to the ways and
means to uphold the new secession church of Scotland.
YonK., MiiesrEn.—The restoration of this noble pile is
proceeding rapidly and satisfactorily. A new roof has been
put on the north transept, the old one being in a most dan-
gerous state. The transept walls had been bulged by the
pressure which the decayed roof improperly brought upon
them, but have been brought in about three inches. The
new roof is to be ventilated and lighted, for the better pre-
servation of the timbers; and will be covered first with Ky-
anised deal boarding, and then with copper sheeting. The
damage occasioned by the late fire is quickly disappearing
before the hands of the skilful renovators.—Leeds Mercury.
TREATMENT OF DISEASE FROM MINERAL POISONS.—
In the Medical Times of last week, there is a very useful
article on the treatment recommended in cases of poisoning;
the principal object, in pll the cases, is to excite vomiting,
and, at the same time, to neutralise the poison. The fol-
lowing simple rules may, in some cases, be found useful :
For arsenic—Emetics of sulphate of zinc, large draughts of
new milk, gruel, linseed tea. Antimony, tickle the throat
with a feather, large draughts of milk fluids. Bismuth, milk
and musillagenous fluids. Copper, large draughts of milk
and water, iron filings and water, whites of eggs in water.
Nitrate of silver, a tablespoonful of common salt in a pint of
water—a wine glass full every two minutes. Lead, lime,
vinegar, and other vegetable acids. Mercury, whites of eggs
mixed in water. Tin, draughts of milk copiously and warm
water. Zinc, the poi
sons of zinc seldom produce death by
their occasioning vomiting, which should be rendered easy
by draughts of warm water, or milk and albumen.
WOODEN RAILWAY BRIDGE.---A bridge has been con-
structed near Mottram, a few miles from Manchester, which
attracts much notice. It is composed entirely of Memel
timber, and consists of three arches, the span of the centre
one being 150 feet, and the two others 135 and 120 feet re-
spectively.. Each arch is composed of three ribs of laminated
planking, nineteen planks being placed on each other to the
thickness of five feet. The centre arch is the largest ever
built of timber, while that of London Bridge is the largest
in stone, being 152 feet • and the Great Western Railway
Bridge, at Maidenhead, is the largest in brick, 128 feet.
The height of this bridge' gives it a most colossal appearance.
From the bed of the river to the parapet it is 140 feet ; and
a large manufactory on the banks of the stream has the ap-
pearance, when viewed in contrast withits gigantic neigh-
bour, of a good-sized doll-house; also a bridge of 60 feet
span, just below, which is itself is a respectable piece of ar-
chitecture, now appears really insignificant.