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CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.)

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The October session of the above court was opened
to-day by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Russell
Gurney, Q.C., Mr. Alderman Salomons (Lord Mayor
elect), Mr. Alderman Farncomb, Mr. Sheriff Kennedy,
Mr. Under Sheriff Stone, &c., &c.

RAILWAYS.

The first edition of the calendar contains the names of
93 prisoners.

The Learned Commissioner, in charging the grand
jury, said that the duty devolved upon him on account
of his learned friend (the Recorder) being prevented by
a painful circumstance. He was happy, he said, to be
able to inform them that the number of prisoners was
not greater than usual, and this was probably to be at-
tributed to a recent alteration in the law, giving to the
police magistrates an extended jurisdiction. The effect
of this alteration would, undoubtedly, be to save a great
deal of expense to the country in criminal prosecutions ;
but, it appeared to him, that the system ought to be
closely watched in its working, for unless great care was
taken the effect of the new law would be to enable old
offenders to escape from the punishment they would re-
ceive as such if they were tried before a court and jury,
when the fact of their having been previously convicted,
and being known thieves, would be proved against
them. Although the calendar was not heavy in
point of numbers, he regretted to find that it
contained a great many serious charges, and
there were no less than five cases involving the destruc-
tion of human life. Some of these were cases of man-
slaughter, and one of murder ; but the facts in all the
cases, with one exception, were of a very simple cha-
racter, and the grand jury would not find any difficulty
in coming to the conclusion that all the cases were of a
nature to require further inquiry. The only case that
appeared to require any observation was one in which a
woman named Robson was eharged with the manslaughter
of her child, by neglecting to supply it with proper food
and nourishment. It appeared that the prisoner was a
married woman, and therefore the duty of maintaining
her children would in the first instance be thrown upon
the husband, and the only question the grand jury
would have to consider was whether the prisoner had
means supplied to her by her husband, and whether she
neglected properly to supply those means, and if these
facts were made out to their satisfaction, it would be
their duty to find the bill against her.
The grand jury then retired.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

MANSION-HOUSE.

AVIAIILT.—CharIes Roberts was charged before the
Lord Mayor with being drunk and fighting and assault-
ing the police.

Police-constable 496 deposed that last night about 9
o'clock he saw the prisoner in St. Swithin-lane fighting
with another man. Both were stripped. On going up
to them the prisoner said, " What do I care for the po-
liceman," and squared up to him. Witness laid hold of
him, on which the prisoner struck him a violent blow on
the chest. A. struggle took place between witness, the
prisoner, the man he was fighting, and the prisoner's
father to rescue the prisoner, and it was with difficulty
he apprehended him. The others then ran off.
Prisoner said he was in liquor at the time, and was
not aware he struck the policeman. He was fighting
with his brother.

The Lord Mayor said he could not permit drunken
persons to knock about the policemen with impunity,
and fined the prisoner 205., or in default 10 days' im-
prisonment.