Summer Assizes.
-, i oi. r me county or I:ssex commenced at this place yesterday, the Hon.A Mr. Baron GRARAI presiding in theLrown G ourt. a'nd the Hon. AIr. Jastice RuktoruG1 in the Civil s',T learned Judges opened the commissior, attended divine sern and commenced the business of the assizes this morning. The calendar is remarkably heavy, there being sot less than 84 prisoners for trial; but the offences, with a few exceptions, are not of a serious nausre. There are 12 charged with horse-stealing. Af ter the grand jury were swornm; Mr. Baron GRAHAIr briefly ad. dressed them, and congratulated them that though the present calen- dar was numerous, it was not stained with many crimes of a deep and atrocious dye. After remarking one or two cases of slight im- portance, he call ed the attention of the Grand Jury to at. indictment 'or setting fire to a barn, in which women and children were made the agents of some nefarious persons not yet discovered. He was sorrv to ogserve there was a systemnatic combination of malignant and dangerous persons for the destruction of pTopeTty eXistirg in the county. This observation was not nmeant to induce the gentlemen of the Grand Jury to act with a severitv beyond the evidence to be laid before them, but for the parpose of directing the vigilance of the magistrates to those malignaut, and he might say foolish, associations, by which the good order of socitty and the propery of the country was eatiangered. None of the criminal causes tried this day were of any public in- terest. On the civil side 18 causes-are entered for trial, two of which are marked as special juies& This Court was occupied to-day in common jury causes ot no importance. SUMMER ASsIZEs. I CRELAISFORD, TUESDAY. AuGUrT -