Carlisle, Wednesday, Augu...
The Times, 1824-08-28T00:00:00

tie JoU("es arrive4 111 ;(arittSle vesterdaY 1tiernooy1 about four o'clock, and imrntediately opened his AMajests s Commission of Oyer and Terininer for the countrof Cu.liberiand, in the differen: County Courts. This morning they heard divine service at the cathedral, -slid afterwards proceeded to the courts, and transacted the bt sinesr of the assizes. 11r. JusticC BAYLEY pre.itled in the cri;ninad, and Mr. Baron HU LLOC7, in the civil court. CRtIMCINAL SIDE. The caleriklur is considered heavy for this countv. It contains five charges of pilvately stealing fronm the person, two of highway robbery, one of obtaining money under false pectences%one of bar- 0arY, one of manslaughlter, oiic of sheep-stealing, one cf assault. one of bigaimv, and twL for u:terimiz forged notes on the Whitehaven Bank, knotwing them to be forgeries. After 11 r. Justice BaYt .EY had taken his seat in this court, the (Grand Jury was sworn in, the usual formalities having been pre- ViOlily gone througih. The iollowiiig were thc names of the gentle. nen who . e-ved -- nd n i* .ilr. Jttstice BLiEY then plorCeAld to ddliVicis thelti. It was al wiys Vwith great sattsfaction that lih witnessed, as hc had hereto. ftre wivitncred in that counr.t v the fll11 attcudanee Of gentleinei, qua- lifitl to serve oil rhc grand jury. It appeared to hini that there 'Acre no cases in the calendlar rjesentingrany difFi.ulty, an.i not tnay re- quirimtg any obbervations oni his part. T'ierc was one individual, gainstt -Wltiii two charges were presented-the one a chiarge of bi- gaity, and t.kue other a chargc ot obtaining itianey under false pre. tences. On the latter charge they nittus have some evidence that the pretence was f:alse; andl on the foriiter, sone person -who was present At the secotid marriagc, or whlo witneesed its eclebration ; because the copy of the register, ott which the parties hIad hitherte actetd, was not stiuficientt. It was their duxty as grand :urors, to seC that ihc troilt of evilence was peifect ; becr.itse it it were ntperfect, thc .bill ought to iL throwtn out, in order to give the party ani cipqortuttily of presenting anotlier when his evitience waiS iitore s;tLictorv. There was oHe case ol .mi intlividual against whom the chiefevitlence appeared to be the poisession of ;ie siolenl property silort iv after the theft was commnittud. To autliorizc theit 6r diig a bill in tdit case, thcv tttust consider whether the individual was so ncar thc house at thelitie, as to jutstify a belicf t,;at lie was present wheri the theft was coroomitted. trhlere was ai.other uase, in wbich a servant litM. taken a watch otit of the shop in which his master was in tic habit of making them. They would consider whether thlc evidetice oflired in that case t'cnded to establislt niore ttan a suspicion against the party accused. Before they separated, he would request thern, to inspert the state oi the present gaol, and also of thiat wvlich was then building. Ile had had great s,tiashction in observirg that part of it wlhich wvas begun, and he lioped thatsoinic,f the unseen good that resulted fronm an improved state of prison discipline would be produceXd bhi the reguilations they introduce,l into it. They wvere most likely a;vare, that by an uat of Parliamuent passed in the last session, it wa. in the power of Magis- trates to give orders that prisoners utider sgetcnce of trans- portation shiould! be employet in lprison before they were trans.. ported; and lie had no doubt btit that thev would take care that every thing was done by them that could 'meet thic intentions of Parliament in that case. He was Sorry tzr observe, by tht return of the gaoler, that the act of Parliament had not as yet beet earrei&dI into execution in their prison. It w-as desirable, however, t - should be put in foree, not only with regard to persons sentescett to transportation, but tdse with regard to persons who wcre senteticed to inprisonmlent for their offetnces. He woui'I tak;e an tin%lance, in wilicli thev would simmediately see the mischief thitt was tlone to the prisoner and the public, by keeping him in idleness. lie would put case-and, indeed, their calendar contaiied such a case- vhere a lat] was committed to prison for a wonth. for d.e aerting his i.aster. If wivilst in prison lie ntis pernmitted to -emain in perfect idleness, was hie likelv to do good when ic went out, or to be contamninated by' the tissociat:on of a taol ? If lie were properly worked during liis confinemrent, he miglt ie ready to miake sonic atonettient to his master, and issight even eave prison a better iian than when he ertered it. If they would urn their attention to the enmployment of prisoners, he was ceetaihn lint good would arise from anv suggestions they muight be inceined o inake. N'ith these rcmarks lie shou'd lcave them to the dis. harge bf thieir functions as GrandJufors. There were no casms of any i,nterest txled in eithe cuxt 'lutiOg he remainder of the day. CARLISLE *ElEDAY, AtCUsT 25.