The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSlONS.—Yurean.►r.

The sittings of the C.-art for the October Adjourned
Quarter Session were resumed this morning, by adjourn-
ment from ClerkeuweU, at the Guildhall, Westminster,
before Mr. Serj,ant Adams, Assistant-Judge, Mr. Witham,
Mr. Greham, and Mr. Baylis. There are for trial 47
prisoners charged with felony, and 7 who are charged with
misdemeanour.
The Assistant-Judge, addressing the grand jury, said be-
fore he proceeded to allude to the business of the day he
wished to make a few further observations on the state of
the vont a eubjoct which h.,: I.!truttd taMe attention,
which was a circumstance not to be wondered at. Since
the last session certain alterations had been made, with the
object of removing the defects complained of. Could the
gentlemen in the jury box hear what he was saying? (They
answered in the *Mr:native.) He was glad of that, for it
was orsential that the jury should hear what be said ; whe-
ther or not they attended to it afterwards was another
matter—they must hear. (Ile then asked a person fitting
in the coun.els' box if he could hear him. The 'mower was
perfectly well.") He was exceedingly glad to bear that
too, for loud complaints were made at the last session of the
defective hearing. The jury must bear both judge, counsel,
and witnessn, they ought to hear each other, and in order
that something might be done he had, without calling toge-
ther the committee, taken upon himself the responsibility of
ordering the required alterations, and be was glad to find
that at least some of the inconveniences had been removed.
The court, however, was entirely without warming appa-
ratus. Ile had been under the impression that the hot air
pipes had been laid down,) or could be, with little
trouble, but he found that this part of the arrangements had
been utterly neglected—the pipes being entirely removed,
and it would cost as much as 100 J. to replace them. This
was too serious a matter for hi= to interfere in, and he was
afraid they most go on for some time as at present, though
he hoped they would not be very much annoyed with the
cold. Ile had written to the architect respecting this, but
had not as yet received any answer from him. The read
jury might have observed In the papers the account of the
consequences of the cold in the cella below ground. The
prisoner could not bear it; and to remedy that he had
ordered two large stoves to be placed there. IL: hoped all
inconveniences would be removed in the end. With re-
femme to the grand jury, and the duty they wen empan-
nett( d to discharge, he thought they would agree with him
that they were an twine body. All the cane
they bad to investigate bed been previously in-
quired into, by persons whose whole lives oilmen had
been spent in nth investigations ; they had no
means of information at their command, they could not tell
when witnesses were imposing on them. At the lad ses-
sion at that c curt tho grand jury ignored oneteoth of the
bills laid before them; and in three of the cases, the counsel
who was instructed for the defence said afterwards that he
could not understand why or how the bills had been thrown
out, for he himself hod not the slightest hope of getting his
clients off ; the eases being clearly made out in the depose-
ties@ Ile had heard that zinc* the same counsel (Mr.
Sleigh) had written a pamphlet on the subject of grand
juries, showing their uselesmese, and every one must in
that such a tribunal was really and truly of no utility at all.
Ile then gave them the usual directions, and sent them to
their room.