The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-08-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE JURISDICTION OF JUSTICES' ACT.--The following summary of the act will explain its design and illustrate its importance :—" That, after the passing of this act, neither the justices of the peace acting in and for any county, riding, division, or liberty, nor the recorder of any borough shall, at any session of the peace or at any adjournment thereof, try any person or persons for any treason, murder, or capital felony, which, when committed by a person not previously convicted of felony, is punishable by transportaion beyond the seas for life, or for any of the following offences ; (that is to say)-1. Misprison for treason.-2. Offences against the Queen's title, prerogative, person, or government, or against either Houses of Parliament.-3d. Offences subject to the penalties of prtemunire.-4. Blasphemy, and offences against religion.-5. Administering and taking unlawful oaths.-6. Perjury and subornation of perjury.-7. Making or suborning any other person to make a false oath, affirmation, or declaration, punishable as perjury, or as a misdemeanour.8. Forgery.-9. Unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to crops of corn, grain, or pulse, or to any part of a wood, coppice, or plantation of trees, or to any heath, gorse, furze, or fern.-10. Bigamy, or offences against the laws relating to marriage.-11. Abduction of women and girls.-12. Endeavouring to conceal the birth of a child.-13. Offences against any provision of the laws relating to bankrupts and insolvents. —l4. Composing, printing, or publishing blasphemous, seditious, or defamatory libels.-15. Bribery.-16. Unlawful combinations and conspiracies, except conspiracies and combinations to commit any offence which such justice or recorder respectively have or has jurisdiction to try when committed by one person.-17. Stealing or fraudulently taking, or injuring or destroying, records and documents belonging to any court of law or equity, or relating to any proceeding theirin.—Stealing or fraudulently destroying or concealing wills or testamentary papers, or any document or written instrument being or containing evidence of title or any real estate or any interest iu lands, tenements, or hereditaments. The league having propounded that an increase of exported manufactures from this country is a symptom of bad trade at home, it must of course be taken as a melancholy fact that the exports of cotton yarn in the first six months of the present year have greatly exceeded those of the corresponding portion of last year. From Burn's " Commercial Glance."  a work published periodically at Manchester, we find that in the first six months of 1841 the cotton yarn exported amounted to 43,959,8621b5. and in the same period of 1812, the exports were 57,726,9061b5., showing an increase of 13,767,0441b5. upon the former amount, or about 30 per cent. Upon fourteen different classes of cotton goods exported, the comparison is reversed, not however so as to show a very serious decrease. The aggregate export of these goods, in the first six months of 1841, was 355,567,527 yards; and in six months of 1842, 350,141,569 yards : decrease 5,425,958 yards, being less than 1 per cent. Altogether these facts would leave us to infer a favourable degree of steadiness in these baanches of our foreign trade ; but the leaguers will doubtless have ingenuity enough to draw disagreeable conclusions both from the increase and decrease stated above.