The Sun. — 1837-11-27 (London, England)

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)  OLD COURT.  The Sessions were opened to-day with the usual formalities by the Lord Mayor, Alderman Pirie, Sir C. Marshall, the Recorder, and the other civic authorities. The Commission having been read, and the Grand Jury sworn. The RECORDER said, that although a shorter period than usual had elapsed since the termination of the last Sessions, the calendar contained, up to Saturday, no less than 200 cases for trial. There was nothing, however, in these cases that required from him any lengthen td observations. Amongst the offences in the calendar there was a charge of murder; and five persons were charged with wounding maliciously. In three instances out of the five the weapon with which the wound was inflicted was a knife—a species of offence which, he regretted to say, was much on the increase. By the establishment of the Central Criminal Court a much greater extent was added to the jurisdiction of the City of London, and this accounted in some measure for the apparent increase. It could not be attributed to the recent alterations which had taken place in the Criminal Law of the country during the reign of his late Majesty, and which were' still further being ameliorated under the auspicious reign of her present Majesty, and he presumed it arose from the vigilance of the police, which was so efficiently constituted as to render it nearly impossible for offences of this nature to escape detection. In nearly all these cases the offence was not done in the commission of a robbery, but from a vindictive feeling. There was also a case of arson on the calendar which would require their mature consideration. From the depositions the house appeared to have been on fire twice on the same day, at least in one instance the furniture was on fire, and on the other the wainscot. Should the evidence show the firing of the wainscot to have been dono maliciously, it would be their duty to find a true bill. The other cases were of an ordinary description, and did not require that he should detain them by any further observation. The common jury panel was then called over.  Among those who Claimed exemption was %f John Richards, late Member for Knaresborough. Another person also excused himself on the ground that he was deaf. The RECORDER (possibly the old adage " none are so deaf as those who will not hear" occurred to his Lordship's mind) —asked him if he was very deaf ? A friend answered for him, he was so deaf that, being a tailor, he was forced to employ another man to take the measure for him.—( Laughter. ) The RECORDER seemed to think this sufficient evidence that his deafness was bona fide, and allowed the exemption. Jeltn Bell, Charles Hardy, David Dooley, Benjamin Evans, and Thomas Gratwich, were indicted for stealing 18 feet of lead, from the property of Robert Galloway, on the 23d October last, in the parish of Woolwich. It appearing from the statement of Mr. Adolphus (for the prosecution), that the prisoners had acted under a mistaken impression with regard to the property in the premises, which they claimed to be theirs by right of juncture, the Recorder directed them to be acquitted. Mr. Adolphus stated, that there existed a practice which had become common of late, amongst a class of low rascally attornies, of pretending .to give a title to premises and thus inducing persons in the situation of the prisoners to strip the houses of every thing valuable, and even to pull them down, in order to sell the materials. John Pullen was indicted for a misdemeanor, to which be pleaded Not Guilty. There being no evidence offered for the prosecution, the prisoner was acquitted.  SALFORD ELECTION PETlTlON.—Considering the proceedings which took place in Salford, immediately prior to and during the election—considering the public-houses opened by Mr. Garnett 's friends, and the crowds of drunken en and women rolling about the streets, and vociferating the name—certainly not of Mr. Brotherton, but of his opponent—coupled with that of the liquor which they had imbibed, and which we believe is now generally known throughout the borough as " Garnett's elixir ;"—considering these things, we say, the charge against Mr. Brotherton and his friends, of treating the voters, is rather extraordinary.—Mancheater Guardian. On Wednesday last a young man named Robert Young, a kt.ollian, belonging to llorikwearmoutb, Lll overboard from the Content steamer, in this port, amongst the machinery just as it was set in motion, and was instantly crushed to dcath,—Sunderland Herald.