The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-11 00:00:00

CHESTER SPECIAL COMMISSION.

CHESTER, Friday.
This morning Lord Abinger took his seat in the Crown
Court, Mr. Baron Alderson in the Nisi Prius Court, and
Mr. Justice Cresswell in the Grand Jury Room.
CROWN COURT.

(Before Lord AairGER.)
The trial of William Moorhouse and others was this
morning continued; James Wild, who had yesterday tra-
versed, being also placed on his trial along with the others,
at his own request, the jury being re-sworn.
The following witnesses whre then examined :
Giles Chadwick proved the handwriting of Robert Wild,
in a letter written by him from Manchester, giving an ac-
count of the delegate meeting there.
James Buckley, a labourer, deposed to attending a meeting
on Mottram Moor, on Sunday the 7th of August; at which
Moorhouse was chairman •, an.] the defendant, Wild, took
part in the proceedings. The witness then deposed to the
proceedings of the mob at different places during the follow-
ing days; that they had held meetings, at which they resolved
not to go to work until the charter was the law of the land ;
and, from these meetings, had gone in procession from Ashton
to other towns in the neighbourhood, stopping ail the works
and turning out the hands. They determined not to go to
work until they obtained the charter as the law of the land;
and when one person attempted to make the question one of
wages, he was ordered to be pushed out of the cart.
The Judge.—That's the deliberation of these assemblies ;
they meet for discussion, and knock down all who oppose
them.

Samuel Garside, constable, of Hollinsworth, was then
called, and deposed to seeing several of the defendants at
meetings held in Ashton -and the neighbourhood, from the
7th of August, and for several suceeedin,g. days.
Several other witnesses were called, who deposed to the
state of the manufacturin,, districts during the recent out-
break, and to the part the prisoners had taken in the dis-
turbances.

Mr. YARDLEY addressed the jury at great length for the
prisoners, who were found guilty of a conspiracy only.

ATTACK AT MR. SHEPLEY'S MILL, AT GLOSSOP.
Thomas Winterbotlom, Oliver Fry, John Smith, Hugh
Winterbottom, and James Kinder, were indicted for a riotous
attack on the mill of Samuel Shepley, at Brookfield, near
Glossop, and with beginning to demolish it.
The particulars of this attack were detailed in the exami-
nation of the three first-named prisoners in our paper of the
16th ult.

There was not sufficient evidence against H. Winterbottom
and Kinder; they were acquitted, and the others found
guilty of riot only.
Sir F. POLLOCK appealed to the bench on behalf of the
prisoners, who- had been wounded in the affray, and trusted
the bench would be as lenient as was consistent with the
ends of justice.
The court then adjourned.

. NISI PRIUS COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
The Learned JUDGE disposed of a number of cases in this
court, all arising out of the recent outbreaks—namely, for
attending unlawful meetings, for riots, and for conspiracy in
preventing persons from following their lawful occupations—
but none of them were of public interest or importance.
CROWN COURT.—SATURDAY.
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
CONSPIRACY.
James Thorpe, Samuel Ferns, George Taylor, William
Wylde, and James Hague, were charged, with unlawfully
conspiring together to prevent her Majesty's liege subjects
from pursuing their lawful employment. Ferns and George
Taylor pleaded guilty.
From the evidence adduced in behalf of the prosecution,
it appeared that the defendants were members of a committee
which sat regularly at Ashton-under-Lyne, and propounded
laws and regulations respecting the mode in which the
working people should conduct themselves during the recent
turn-out.

The prisoners were all found guilty.
ATTACK ON THE STOCKPORT WORKHOUSE.

James Derbyshire was then charged with an attack on the
Stockport 'Workhouse, the particulars of this outrage will be
found detailed in the report of a case tried before Mr. Jus-
tice Cresswell, where the whole of the facts were developed.
The prisoner was found guilty, and a previous conviction
having been proved, he was sentenced to be transported for
life.