The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-03 00:00:00

WESTERN CIRCUIT.7TAmToN, AraiL 1.

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The assizes were opened here today with a calendar (cow
sidered small) of 76 cues and 9 causes. Some of the crimi-
nal cues are serious, the category of °Senors including
anudir, monalemehter, arson, highway rubbery, forgery,
burglary, housebreaking. riot, act. In his charge to the
grand jury, Ur. Justice Ede, in alludit g to the arson eaves,
oosirved that in one of the cues the hope and object of the
priomer in committing the offence w. .s to obtain the inflic-
tion of the Domed highest penal punishment which the law
showed. Those who were cooversant with the adminis•
nation of the law were (amider with such cues, at.d it
became a Inlittt I' of th^ gravest considerstion if they found
the highest penal infliction allowed by law sought as a boon,
and desired as a premium fur such a grave crime as that of
anon. It was the dictates of sound humanity that the path
of guilt should be made the path of misery, and unless some
alteration were made in the course of penal iefliction, the
very rennet of that wou'd be the neat looked forward to.

NORTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Clienza, APRIL 1

The judgm of twin, having arrived here on &turd.),
evoking, the cotamiveion for the treaty and city of Cheeter
we. opened in the Shirt-hall, and the dart adjourned until
to-day. Thu morning Mr. Juat.en Censeweil took ha seat
in to. Nut Pam Court, and Mr. Janice William. in the
Crown Court. _

The calendar, numerically speaking, Is the largest which
bas been known here for many years, and the cares pr sent
almest every description of offence known to the criminal
law, though not one which is I kelt to terminate in the for-
' hulas ot the lite of the offender. There ere 112 prisoners for
Os* of the cues of perjury is likely to be m-s
important, as it is connected with tie jurisdiction of the new
county courts. Several of the burglary cases peeress features
of anima atrocity. One sr two recent cases will tend to
show that even at this day there exist gangs of passim
prowling about the country, having murder for their oily
object.
The trials to-day in the Crown Court before Mr. Justice
Williams were pnneipally Mint cases, and devoid of public
interest.
f -i Pairs Cosier.—Barons Mu. Jeer= Caesswau.
The business entered for this apart le about au avenge
quantity, the entry Wog twelve estate, about ball of which
ere special juries. Several, however, which are entered
are likely to occupy cenelderable time, though one connected
'with use Birkenleeed, Lancashire. and Cheshire Junction
Railway CAripeny, In which S.r Fitzroy Kelly was specially
retained, war withdrawn fa the course of the day, the pariii s
having come to terse. Only two can were tried to-day,
bat they pose-ned no feature of public interest,

DiicTtn BLOCKelee..—At the monthly Meetinz of
the conacil of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, which
took place on Moeda,, a communication (of which the fol-
lowing is a copy) from Lord Palmerston, in reply to the me-
morial of the Chamber on the apprehended renewal of the
Danish blockade, was reed :—" To Thome' B. Horeford,
Esq., President, Chamber of Commere• —Foreign-Once,
Marsh 26, 1850.—Sir,—I am directed by Viscount Palmer-
ston to acknowledge the receipt of your lever of the 22nd
lust , enclosing a memorial from the Liverpool Chemist'. of
Commerce, praying th t her Majesty's government will
not relax their endeavours to bring the differences at pre-
sat subsisting between Prussia and Denmark to a
satisfeetosy conclution ; and I am to inform you in reply
that Vrelont Pelmenton is quite aware of the great in.
conv.nieoce which the present unsettled and %scene's
state of the questions pending between DareearM and -e-
-nemy occasions to the commerce of this country; and
Viscount Palmerston an allure you that no efforts keys
been, or will be, wanting on the part of hiss Majesty's sia
moment, in their capacity as mediator, to bring these
questions to a final sad satisfactory adjustmeat. Bat.
although her Majesty's government are acting as mediators
le these matters, they are not Invested by the contending
parties with any seMorite to aroitrate, and, therefore, the
power which her Majesty's government possesses to direct
and determine the course of these negotiations is necessarily
of a very limited kind. Viscount Palmerston knows, how-
ever, that strong representations of the now nature as that
which ha has received from you have been addressed by
merchants In the north of Oeremany to the government of
Preemie; and there oaa be no doubt that tech represeatatioaa
from :hese quarters, if they continuo to be reseed, es they
probably will be, must exert a !nerd ininesse tbe pending
argotiattone.-1 am, sir, your most eissiMm6 bumble servant,
(biped) 11Dossaray."