The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-27 00:00:00

These sessions, the first of the present Mayoralty,
commenced to-day before the new Lord Mayor (Sir
James Duke), the Recorder, Mr. Alderman Gibbs, Mr.
Alderman Lawrence, Mr. Alderman Hunter, the She-
riffs, Sic. From the calendar it appears that there are
213 prisoners for trial, and before the termination of the
session, which, it is expected, will last more than the
present week, the probability is the number of prisoners
will be increased by 40 or 50. Of the 213 prisoners for
trial in the calendar there are 31 from.Londoe, 124 from
Middlesex, 8 from Essex, 15 from Kent, and 35 from
Surrey.
The grand jury having been empanelled and sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to
them. He commenced by observing that it would
not be necessary for him in charging the grand
jury to trOuble theta with many remarks
upon the state of the present calendar or the
cases comprehended in it. his attention had been called
to several of the depositions and charges contained in
the calendar, and generally speaking, it appeared to him
that the grand jury would find no difficulty in appl)ing
the evidence to the charges, as they involved more mat-
ters of fact than niceties in point of law. It was right,
however, that he should put the grand jury in poss. salon
of the substance of the charges contained in the calendar,
the nature of those charges, and the duties the grand
jury were called upon to discharge. The principal fea-
ture of the calendar was the large number of
charges of larceny it contained. There were no
less than 71 charges of simple larceny, 14 cases
of larceny in the dwelling house, 20 cases of
larceny from the person, and 32 case, of larceny
committed by servants. The total number of charges
under the head of larceny, he was sorry to say,
was no less than 137. There were 3 charges of
bigamy, and only 2 cases, he was happy to observe,
of cutting and wounding with intent to do grievous
bodily harm. At the last session it became his duty to
remark upon the great number of charges of that de-
scription contained in the calendar, and it 9% as perhaps
too soon after the last session to draw any conclusion
with respect to the diminution of this heinous offence,
but he could not but hope that the proper application of
severe sentences bad been the cause, in a great measure,
of lessening the number of those offences. The last
calendar presented many various cases of this descrip-
tion, but he was happy to say the present one only pre-
sented two. There were five charges in the calendar of
forgery and uttering forged instruments, and twenty
charges of uttering counterfeit coin, four charges of
receiving stolen property well knowing the property to
be stolen, and ten charges of robbery; yet, notwith-
standing this, although many of the charges were of an
extremely grave nature, he could not but think the
general aspect of the calendar was less serious
than those that had preceded it, and he
trusted that they might indulge the hope that the timely
and proper application of punishment had operated in
causing so desirable an object. With respect to the
cases of bigamy, it was necessary that the grand jury
should give their particular attention to the proof of the
first marriage, a violation of the contract of which the
party was charged, and also the ceremony gone through
upon the second. The Learned Judge, after describing
at some length the difference in the crime of larceny, and
the evidence necessary to establish it, remitted the grand
jury to the discharge of their duties.
The Court then proceeded to swear in the petty jury.

MARLBRO' STREET—(THIS DAY.)
John Masters, a journeyman watchmaker, was brought
before Mr. Biugham, charged with having illegally
pledged several watch movements and cases, the pro-
perty of Mr. George Greenwood, watchmaker and jewel-
ler, No. 12, Hanway-street.
It appeared from the evidence gone into that in the
month of April last the prosecutor kept a shop in Re
gent street. At the latter end of that month the pri-
soner applied to the prosecutor for work, and he (pri-
soner) was taken and placed at a bench in the shop to do
some repairs to various watches under the express con-
ditions that no portion of the work entrusted to him should
be taken off the premises. Someahort time afterwards the
prosecutor gave the prisoner the movements of a watch
to repair, and as he was longer than was necessary about
the job, he (prosecutor) questioned the prisoner as to
the cause of the delay. The prisoner said he had given
it to a friend to do, and he would go and fetch it. The
prisoner then left the house and never returned again.
The prosecutor subsequently received a letter from the
prisoner, inclosing tour duplicates referring to the watch
movement and other parts of watches which the prisoner
had to repair. Witness heard no more of the prisoner
till he heard that he had been taken into custody.
Mr. Williams, solicitor, of Hisnway-street, who at-
tended for the prosecution, said there were a number of
other cases against the prisoner, but he was not at pre-
sent prepared to go into them. Be, therefore, begged to
have the prisoner remanded.
The prisoner was then remanded to Thursday next.

Da. Tuusinum..—We understand that this gentle.
man, who bas been so successful in the treatment of the
deaf and dumb, and the blind, intends leaving Leeds for
London at the close of next work, and that he will not
He has desired us to make this
return to this place.
announcement in order that individuals in humble cir-
cumstances, and residing at a distance, may not have the
trouble and expense of coming here to consult him after
the time just named. We have been greatly interested
by a letter from a respectable party, whose own child was
regainingetit; through Dr. Turnbull's treat.
m
states that he has visited one of the
the his
writer hear ing
psrtici whose name was mentioned some time since in
our columns as having acquired a considerable measure
of hearing for the first time in our presence. He says
that she can hear so well as to follow a person reading
aloud a chapter from the Bible, imitating with consider.
able correctness the various sounds in quick succession.
—Leeds Mercury.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF W. J. JOHNSTONE
EsQ., BEDFORD.—On Thursday, as Mr. Johnstone, of
firstodf satleoi,
rby Mr. Dudley, andro through,
was'
in
Bedford, merchant, was hunting near Newport Pagnel,
his horse rushed at a fence and threw its rider, but, as
he mounted again immediately, no one expected he was
hurt. On his return home in the evening, when at the
th itkilils edtho on utghhet, spot. so
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top of the hill on the Bedford side of Brougham bridge,
d winear fell
sy broughtir nni
fromh i shtio Bedford
his
horse,
his gig. An inquest was held on the of Ashwood
body the next day,
when it was ascertained that death was caused by apo-
pl..xy arising from an effusion of blood on the brain..
Verdict accordingly.—Oxford Herald.