His Honour said .-—Gentlemen of the Grand Jury : The calendar is fortunately light, and the offences charged are not of a serious cha. racter. You will, I apprehend, have little difficulty with the cases that oome before you. You are doubtless aware that to con stitute the offence of l&roeny it ig neces sary that there should have been a re moval of the goods alleged to be stolen. The least removal, however, of the thing taken from where it was before, with intent to steal it, is a sufficient removal to constitute the offence, and you would be justified in finding a trua bill on very slight evidenoe of removal. I call your attention to thw, because there are twj cases— one of stealing money from a till, and another of stealing goods on board a vessel in harbour— in both of which a doubt mi^ht arise in your minds as to whether the evidence of removal is sufficient. If true bills should be found in these cases, and it should appear on the trial that the removal was insufficient to consti tute the offence charged, it would still be open to the Jury to convict of an attempt to commit the offence ; whereas, if the bills were thrown out this could not happen, and the ends of jus tice might be defeated. There is a case of arson, where the accused is charged with setting fire to a dweiling-house. A hut, if inhabited is included in the term dwelling-house and the goodness or badness of the title of the occupants is quite beside the ques tion. The other cases do not require any comment. You will, I think, agree with me m hoping that ere long steps may be taken to secure a suitable building for the purposes of this Court. It is surely not unreasanable to expect that in the first city in the Colony the structure consecrated to the administra tion of justice should be weather-proof, e!e. cent, and commodious. Gentlemen, if you will retire to your room, the bills will be laid before you. The Grand Jury then retired. 