CRIMINAL SITTINGS. Monday, 7th October. (Before His Honor Mr Justice Johnston.) His Honor took bis seat on the bench at ten o'clock. GRAND JURY. The following gentlemen were sworn as the Grand Jury :—J. Bridges, Esq (foreman), Ed ward Toomath, J. H.Wallaco, A. S. Kowden, E. W. Mills, John Martin, D. M'lntyre, Thomas Paul. F. C. Kreeffc, Lipman Levy, T. Kebbell, N. Marchant, W. A. Fitzherberc, T. Buchanan, C. J. Toxward, J. E. Nathan, W. H. Levin, T. M'Kenzie, E. Beeves, R Port, Peter Laing, Win. Holmes, R. J. Duncan. The jury having been sworn, His Honor delivered the following CHARGE. His HONOR—Mr Foreman and gentleman of the Grand Jury, I daresay you are all very well aware that the institution which you represent on this occasion is at present, in a certain sense, on its trial, a proposal having been made to the Legislature to abolish it henceforth. I have already had an opportunity elsewhere, in addition to ad dressing you here, to record my opinion on the proposal, which is that it would bo extremely undesirable at present to abolish the grand jury system. Whatever the Legislature may in it 3 wisdom think the best course, I may point out to you and to the public the fact that however desirable it might be, under some circumstances, to relieve gen tlemen in your position from the trouble and responsibility of performing your duties as grand jurymen, at all events it would seem very undesirable that the institu tion should be abolished before a proper system of public prosecution has been estab lished. The establishment of that system will, in my opinion, necessitate an amount of expen diture and the employment of a number of competent persons, which probably the colony is not at present prepared to meet. For these as well as for many other reasons which I have on former occasions adverted to, I confess, as far as I am advised, that I am still of opinion it would be very much to be regretted if at the present, or for some time to come, the institu tion should be got rid of. 