The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-08-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.  band : Thank you, my lord. (A laugh.) The prisoner was forthwith discharged. The court adjourned at 20 minutes to six o'clock.  SATURDAY,  Samuel Irish was convicted of cutting and stabbing Thomas Willet on the 27th of March at Manchester. He was sentenced to ten yesrs' transportation. James Lever was sentenced to ten years' transportation for burglariously entering the dwelling-house of George Balfour, at Great Bolton, on the 13th of May, and stealing one shirt, &c. _ _  Ralph Walker, a lad of stunted growth, about 14 years of age, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for burglariously entering the dwelling-house of Elizabeth Sorton, at Manchester, on the 3rd of May, and stealing therein. William Brown and William Doran were sentenced to four months' hard labour for a burglary in the dwellinghouse of John Beresford, in Jackson-street, Manchester. John Pearson, for a burglary at the dwelling-house of John Ashworth, at Bury, on the 28th of April, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour. Daniel Flaherty was acquitted of a charge of bigamy, in having married at Ashton-under-Lyne on the 13th May, 1847, Margaret Bryan, proof being wanting that the prisoner was really married to Catherine Ayres, his alleged former wife.  Richard Broadhead and John Loany, two youths, were found guilty of having assaulted and robbed John Kinniston on the 27th of May last, at Manchester. Loany, who bore a good character, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. Broadhead was ordered to be imprisoned for three months, and kept to hard labour. .Adolphe Schutz, who on the preceding day had pleaded guilty to having forged a warrant for the payment of £2,000, with intent to defraud Theodore Merche and others, was placed at the bar to receive judgment. Mr. Pollock, who conducted the case for the prosecution, expressed a wish that no more severe sentence should be passed than his Lordship thought was compatible with the ends of justice. The really guilty parties were now in custody at Vienna, and there existed no doubt that the prisoner had been merely an instrument in their hands. Mr. Fowler for the prisoner, in further extenuation, remarked on the youth of the prisoner, and on the fact that he had afforded every facility for the recovery of the money, nearly the whole of which had been returned. His Lordship, under these circumstances, after a warning address to the prisoner, sentenced him to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. John and Lee .Ashurst, two youths, who had been committed under a coroner's inquisition for manslaughter, were discharged, there being no evidence tendered on the part of the prosecution. William Riding, convicted of a burglary in the dwellinghouse of David Scott, and who had been previously convicted, was sentenced to ten years' transportation.  THE LATE MURDER AT KNOWSLEY  Mr. BURKE, in the case of John Dwerryhouse, charged with the murder of Ann Leyland, at Knowsley, (the horrible circumstances of which must be fresh in recollection,) made application to his lordship as to which of two courses his lordship would adopt. The prisoner, who, there was no doubt, was insane, had been removed to the county asylum. The course adopted had been to respite the recognisances and postpone the trial ; but the more regular course would be for the prisoner to be brought up upon a habeas corpus to ascertain whether he was in a fit condition to take his trial.  His LORDSHIP said he should adopt the latter course