The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS.

The intermediate sessions of the peace for the borough of
Liverpool commenced yesterday, before JAMES CLARKE,
Esq., Recorder. The calendar contained the names of 70
prisoners charged with felony, and of 14 misdemeanments ;
total, 84. Of these only 6 were able to read and write well;
28 could read and write imperfectly ; 21 could read imper-
fectly ; and the large proportion of 29 had never been taught
either.

The following gentlemen were sworn the grand jury :
George Beal Brown, Esq., merchant, foreman;
Michael Bonsfield, merchant, Rumford-street ;
Major Dawson, gentleman, Huskisson-street ;
John Grantham, ironfounder, Everton-road;
James Nathan Holmes, manufacturing-chemist, Paul-
street ;
Charles Macmurdo, broker, Great George-street;
William Maxwell, wine-merchant, Union-street;
Daniel Neilson, merchant, Bedford-street;
William Nixon, rectifier, Vernon street
John Neal, merchant, Dingle-lane ;
Thomas Rodick, merchant, Hanover-street ;
Thomas Ripley, merchant, Duke-street;
John Kevan Sutton, mordant-manufacturer, Great
Mersey-street ;

Robert Taylor Woodward, merchant, James's-street.
The RECORDER, in his charge to the grand jury, said he
was very happy to inform them, at the outset, that their la-
bours at the present sessions would not be very severely felt
by them. Indeed, they ought not to be, because the interval
of time between the last and the present sessions had been
very short ; but, at the same time, he regretted to say that
the number of prisoners was Considerable. lie had gone
over the depositions in the several 'cases-, they appeared to
be of a very easy and simple nature,-therefore, he expected
they would arrive at would not tale up much - time.
He was happy to communicate to them that the new
law was now in operation which compelled public-
houses to be closed at twelve o'clock on Saturday night ;
this part of it commenced yesterday, and he had
been told by Mr. Whitty, and by a most respectable in-
habitant of the town who had watched its operation, that
those disgraceful spectacles of drunkenness which had pre-
sented themselves on Saturday night and an early hour on
Sunday morning, had all disappeared. This was very de-
lightful information, and he trusted that it would contiuue
equally satisfactory. The quarters from whence he had re-
ceived it would be the last to deceive him ; and from their
accounts he had no reason to expect but that the operation
of the act would prove most useful. If the moral condition
of the people could be improved, there would be every chance
of the diminution of crime. Liverpool had distinguished
itself upon a late occasion; it had not lent itself to those
frightful scenes of violence and disaffection which had
brought and would bring severe punishment upon many
parties who had done their utmost to overthrow the law. Ile
trusted that the example which Liverpool had set in this re-
spect would have its proper influence over all other parts of
the kingdom. The learned Recorder then dismissed the
grand jury to their labours.
The t.ials commenced immediately afterwards, but nothing
of interest occurred during the day. The sessions are ex-
pected to close in the course of to-morrow, (Wednesday.)

WIGAN.-MONDAY NIGHT. NIGHT.

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STATE OF THE TOWN..--It. is greatly rumoured about
Wigan that a determination has been come to by the opera-
tives of continuing at work a week or two longer, and at the
expiration to give the required notice to their employers, and
turn out again in a body. Should this be the arrangement,
due caution ought to be observed by the authorities to pre-
vent the inhabitants being suddenly thrown into consterna-
tion by the movement. All, however, still remains quiet at
present, and the mills continue to work full time. There
was a much a better market on Friday and Saturday last
than the week preceding, and higher prices were maintained,
and great change is observable by the shopkeepers since em-
ployment was resumed at the mills.
GENERAL LICENSING DAY.—A special general meeting
of the magistrates was held in the Town-hall this day, for
the purpose of renewing the licenses for the public-houses
within the borough. Only one application for a new license
was made—viz., for a house belonging to Mr. Leighton
Baldwin, opposite the railway station. The magistrates,
however, seemed to be of an unanimous opinion that, from
the number of public-houses and innsslready in close proxi-
mity with the railway station, none other was required, and
the application was consequently refused.
GAS INSPECTORS.—A meeting of the Town Council as
gas inspectors was held in the Council-chamber this day at
noon, but no business of importance was transacted. A new
light has been constructed for the large pillar in the Market-
place, the reflection of which is a very material improvement
upon the old construction.
THE REGISTRATION.—As a proof of the depression which
has existed in Wigan during the past year, a considerable
number of municipal voters have been excluded fromtheirprivilege as voters in the present burvss lists, in Conse-
quence of their inability to pay the poor s rates. In some of
the wards the number of persons struck out is important,
and it behoves the conservative party to rouse themselves
from their supine state ere the day of reckoning shall arrive,
and prove to their boasting
andpponents that they are eve
during which our should-be-liberal local
g enough yet to
ready to stand a contest, quite strong
maintain the ascendant position which they have gained in
have. one b.y one emerged from the council-
the few late Yearn'
of their impudent actions, and
•Sealed their own condemnation
having eroxo-gm°,vassrlunnwrs'e
by burdening the town,
instead of annihilating all taxes,,,
emphatically declared he won' as one of. their clique
d do wheo returned for Queen-
a..CAPTURE OF A CHARTIST LEADR E.--IDering
tshtreeCseuittatWiinursdCHAßTlSTof the borough magistrates, at the town-hall, on
Saturday, a man in the crowd
witnesses in the course of his
examination,calleoutlidnldyueitonognielbnof
notthe
shouldt o answer
b e brought
roQuugelsitti°nb-efore them, when, lo I and
The magistrates directed that he
behold t
the fellow proved
to be one of the leaders who took
part in the late disturbances, and who was
generallY ternot
ployed to read the correspondence which passed between the
general body at Manchester and the Wigan portion. fie
was also recognised as having previously behaved in
in an improper manner. The chief constable, Mr. Latham,
informed the bench that the name of the man was court.
Gerard,
and it is quite probable he' will be comnsitted, as there is
little doubt of his being identified, from the fact of his
having only one arm. His conduct when brought before the
magistrates was very indecorous, and his answers to the ques-
tions put to him were pert and insulting. He was -remanded
to Wednesday.

_
If you cannot be happy in one way, be happy in another;
and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from phi-
losophy ; for health and good humour are nearly the whole
affair. Many run about after felicity, like an absent man
hunting for his hat, while it is on his head orint the lbislan
distri-
bution We find the following in the Univers :
~ A
bution of the prizes in the Seminary of Prades, in the East
ernPvrences, and at which M. Arago was present,
.he being-
in leis addressl to the
at that time in that part of the country, the Abbe Fines, the
director of the establishment, having,
is.oesaed,salNiNdlesnaidit,
pupils and visitors, observed that science
has not revelation for its guide. M
—• Arago
4, I am quite of your oprnion, and request your permission
to illustrate it by an example. One
secretary of the Academy of Science,of my predecessors as
a good deal in society. M. D. Megan. went
One dayti a lady of his acquaintance
told him that she had been to
sini, the professor of le Observatory, and M, Cas-
hrough his telescope, she astronomy, having invited her to look
, _ had\ seen with great distinctnessf
Staturn and his ring.ile ‘ 'hat is this ring ?' asked the lady o
M. de M6ran.
not astronomer replied that he did not
know- ' That was All,' continued the lady ; ' afterwards
I saw Jupiter with two largo belts or zones, one to the
south, the other to the north. What are these belts ?' 'I,
do not know ,'egain said Al. de Wrath 'Of what use, then!'
said the lady,
,to answer what is
being an Academician, since you are unable
iis this—it
Is
—it nsk f' ' The use, madame,' said M. de
Merall, ,
enables me to reply I do not know.' "