The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-17 00:00:00

in g to the provisions of the act of the late King, which entitle
all friendly societies, dulyregistered, enrolled, and approved bk
the Magistrates at the quarter sessions of the district, in the
case of die bankruptcy of any holder of their funds, to re-
cover the full amount of the debt out of the assets of the estate.
The plaintiff was at the commencement of the case nonsuited,
upon an informality in the =deo( showing the election of some
of the officers of the society.

CROWN SIDE.
After the Court had been opened with the usual ceremony.
Mr. Justice HOLROYD, at half-past 12 o'clock, charged the
Grand Jury. He said, that upon examining the state of their
calendar, and perusing the depositions of the several cases in-
tended for their preliminary consideration, he was happy to
have the opportunity of congratulating them on the compara-
tively small number of prisoners committed for trial, consider-
ing the extensive and populous nature of their district. Even
out of this diminished number, it was likely some of the cases
would not be brought under their consideration ; and of those
that would, there was an equal probability many would not
call for extended investigation. There were two or three, how-
ever, upon which it was his duty to make some observations
to them, although from their experience at Assizes it was per-
haps unnecessary. He felt the highest satisfaction in believing
that the good and orderly disposition of the inhabitants of so
great a county—that conduct which disposed them to order and
an obedience to the laws, was in a great degree attributable
to the vigilant care of the Magistrates, whose exertions and at-
tention he could well appreciate, not only in securing the due
punishment of offenders, but also in the more pleasing and no
less essential effort to give full effect to those laws in existence
which had for their object the prevention of crime. One of the
cases to which he had just referred was a charge of burglary,
where no property was stolen from the premises: now, the law
with reference to such a case was this—if the premises were en-
tered in the night time with a felonious intent, the removal of
any property from one part of the house to another, or out of a
drawer or box, would constitute larceny, so as to establish the
offence complete. There was also a case of horse-stealing in
which it might perhaps appear that the animal was not carried
away from the owner Without his consent, but was rather volun•
tardy intrusted to the person charged with the theft. If that
should appear, and that the horse was lent for a particular
purpose, and that the party so getting it at the same time had
prepared to depart from such a purpose, and to run away with
the property he had so frandulently acquired, then, in law,
such an act would constitute a larceny, and amount to the
offence of horse-stealing. But if the fraudulent intent
should not appear to have existed when the horse was
first obtained, then it would not be the crime of larceny, in
which there must be a constructive taking : if afterwards,
it would not amount to' the offence of felony, unless the act
was determined upon after the time had expired for which
the horse was lent, which would involve a nice question of
law. There were also for investigation some cases of Komi.
ride, in which it might be doubtful, whether the• crime
amounted to murdefor manslaughter, but the safer course for
the Grand Jury would be in such cases to find the bill, and
leave the precise nature of the crime to be defined in the ulterior
stage of trial. In one of the cases which would be submitted to
them, it might be a matter of doubt whethei the act of the pri-
soner was the cause of the death of the deceased; if, from the
evidence of the surgeon, they should not be certain that it had
caused his death, it would be unnecessary to find a bill; but
if from his testimony, coupled with other evidence, it should
appear to have accelerated death, though there might be other
predisposing causes' they ought to put the prisoner upin his
trial. These were the only observations with which he shoold
now trouble them.
There were only two cases tried in the course'of the day, and
they were entirely devoid of interest.