Northern Times. — 1859-05-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY. AN ITALIAN  Yesterday, at the Police Court, before Mr. Mansfield, au. Italian, named Charles Arred, was brought up by detective officers Laycock and Patrick on a charge of having com— mitted a murderous assault on a Russian mate named Edward Penzelius. It appeared that on Saturday night the injured man was goin along. Park-lane; in company with. two females. The prisoner went up to him and asked him where he was going. The man said he did not want to have any conversation witli him,_ when the prisoner drew a  dagger and stabbed the Russian in no less th-an seven places. But for a pocket-book that the injured man had in his left side pocket, the dagger would have entered his heart. It cut right through the clothes, book, &c , entering the chest, and, as well as the other stabs, inflicted a dangerous wound. The man was taken to a hoase,in Rotham.street, where he at present lies in a state of great danger so much so, thathe cannot be removed. The police were informed'Of the fact, and went in search of the-prisoner, but found he had sailed in a vessel called the Delhi, for Gibraltar. Layeock then communicated with the Russian consul, and that gentleman directed him to 'get a steam-tug and follow the ship. Having procured the- boat Reliance, the officers proceeded after the Delhi, and' Overtook her beyond Great Olrinshead, where they boarded her and'arrested the prisoner, whom they of course brought back.. These were the facts, as stated before Mr. Mansfield, and the prisoner was re— manded in order to see how the injured-man's wounds will progress. It was subsequently stated that the man can hardly recover.  LIVERPOOL BOIi.OTJGII SESSIONS  The Quarter Sessions for the borough of Liverpool were opened yesterday morning, in the Ckown Court, StGeorge's Hall, before Gilbert Henderson, Esq,, Recorder. The calendar contains the names of 94 prisoners for trial. Of these one only was of superior education, two could read and write well, forty-six could read, and write imper— fectly, twenty could read only,. and. twenty-two could: neither read nor write.  The following gentlemen were sworn as a  GItA.N D • d 1J RY  John Tomlinson, merchant, 14, Brunswick-street, foreman,. Thomas Alexander Bentley, metal broker, 14, York Build— ings, Sweeting-street. •  -JOhn Bolingbrooke Cooper, broker, 7, Rumford-street. John Leigh Clare, broker, 11, Exchange-buildings. Francis Pentland Colley, merchant, 6, Old-churchyard: William Hughes Daunt,.merchant, 3, Cook-street. Launcelot Dixon, merchant, 5, India Buildings. Wm. Rathbone,Thincan, merchant, 26, Exchange-court Peter Garrett, shipbuilder, &c., 11, Dundee-street. Alfred Graham,. gentleman, 12,.Rumford-place. Edward Jones, gentleman, 1, Falkner.sqnare. P. Vance, broker, 9, Exchange-alley, Exchange-street, Wm. H. Waddington, broker, 1, Chapel-street.  John Schofield, h oker, 2, ExCha'nge-tiuilding  Geo. Schofield, merchant, 2, Eichange-alley,north. Alfred Thornley, merchant, 12, Rumford-place. After the usual proclamation against vice, immorality,  was read,  The learned Recorder delivered his charge, and, said,: Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,—"foirhave on this occasion to deal with a calendar which contains the names of 71' persons charged with felony, and 23 charged with misdemeanours ; and it is probable- that a few subsequent commitments will raise the number to 11)5; Now this number has accumulated in the course of six weeks, and large as- it may appear, it is a manifest improvement on the average of• last year, during which 1,266 persons wero sent for trial at the sessions, being at the rate of 105 every calendar month. lam informed by the governor of the gaol that the number of prisoners- in custody last night was 968, whereas during the whole of last year thenumber in custody never fell lower than 984. Therefore though there is much to deplore, there is nothing to alarm, in the present state of the calendar or of the gaol. In a vast community like this, demands upon those whof like yourselves, assist in the administration of justice, must necessarily be made. There is one case of embezzlement, and some.others, which may occupy a considerable time investigation, but the character of the offences generally is light. The stringent course pursued by the magistrates during the last eighteen months has probably broken, up many dangerous combinations--housebreakers, plunderers, and other most mischievous offenders. At present, stealing from the person is probably the- most promment offence in the calendar. There are a good many cases of violence— several against the police. But on looking through the whole of the depositions, L find no case which will involve any difficulty, or require any special diroetion to you. in the discharge of your duty. rna ro,nirodis, wt petty' soon jury was sworn, The 'Grand Jfdy business'to their on afitre pro, ceeded with.