The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-08
Court OF General Sessions.

Before Jud &c Beebe and Aldermen Boyce and Ball
obtaining the attendance Of aldermen to day, the Dis
trict Attorney had no buiiness ready.
The calendar for the ensuing term presents cases
OF these there are previously indicted for various
Offences H. and awaiting the action Of the Grand Jury
berry in the frs. degree d riot a q gerry 10;
burglary; II; grand larceny 20; obianing goods by
The number Of Grand Jurors who answered to their
name. not being .uicent to form quorum, those in
attendance were discharged until this morning, (rues
esy at II o'clock as were also the petit jurors and the
Court adjourned,
Before Judge Beebe and Aldermen Barr aud Boyce
JAN 6-1he Judges annual Reritr and address 10 The
Grand Jwy-The following gentlemen, viz Luther
Carter Esq (fuIemap) Parel 5. Brown. Samuel Dick,
Henry Nc addcn Wilmot Oakley. Hiram Purdy James
H. Perkins Oliver H. r. Townst nd Abuer Taylor, Moses
b. Taylor ste;hen Van wyck, Jr. John Williamson Jas
Aidrich John Hutchings Joseth W. Ioyt 3radIsh john
son, stephen Palmer Charles Snthson Robert B. Trem.
per. and Robert Waterhouse-hav.pg been the
Grand jury, Judge BE, be addressed them. They had
now he said entered upon the threshold OF year
ard IL well conervators Of public order aud peace
ministers Of justice ard as component parts Of the
government under which they lived lin order to gather
wisdcm from the past) to give biief retrospective
glance upon the past and in doing they would not
copfrc Themselves to the city and state in which they
lived Tut in taking wider range and travelling our
country think Themselves not travelling out Of
tie legitimate sphere Of their dute. aud their interests
Having gle need at few Of the prominent matters bsar
ing upon the welfare and public events Of the country at
rge particularly the queed efforts Of the secessioniss
and muny and the state of Had they detect
ed aud punished crime among them they ought to have
done hni bad they by reiorpatoy acts made such adj
towards the prevention OF crime as Il was the
duty every well ordered community TO do For what
they ad not done there many legiti nate
Our city seaport with constantly changing popu
laton ard receiving in its bosom many OF the most
nsi d, ned criminals Of the Old World He alluded,
the like occasion last time to the prevalence within che
las year OF the crime Of murder and assaults with intent
to kill attributable 10 the habit Of carrying deadly
wsapt ard congratulated them its dimnu.ion the
present calendar only presenting cases. whereas they
had. a former occasion. eleven result which
he constrained to believe, had been brought about
which public ocers had felt themselves bound to
cute sBd the severity with which the Court had felt
touLd 10 Iunish such offences The learned Judge then
read from the paper In which they published ths
NV fohK HERsLD the criminal statistics OF the past
year prepared by their very Able and courteous clerks
Observing that Of the s3} indictments 45S had Teen dis
posed q vt General Sessions This owing TO large
humber being assault and battery, and sent TO the
secial Sessions, and consequently not found In
that return or the whle number found only % had
been acquitted and the smallness OF thi, number gave
10 the mind OF the Court the strong OF the
and circumspection which al been exercised by
Gfafd Jufits In this connection he woul1 impress
upn them the necessity ofexcercsng much and cir
cumtpectien One tact he could not but glance at. Not
wh;ardng the great preronderauce Of native popula
ton in the city. large majority OF criminal, brought
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