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THE CHINA MAIL
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAR. 19, 1870.
SUPREME COURT.--- CRIMINAL SESSIONS.ne
Saturday, March 19, (Before the Hon. Caner JosSTICE SMALE) The business of the Sessions concluded to-day, with the exception of giving set- tences reserved. Before closing the Court, his Lordship observed -The business of these Criminal Sessions has so far closed as that I am now able to discharge the Jury. I must congratulate them on the great de- crease of crime in the Colony. Sonte time since each Calendar was on an average very large. Life and property were insecure. Robbery with violence on land, Piracies on the sea, were frequent; they are now more rare. Something is due to the firmness, and good sense of Juries; but more is due to the energy of the Executive, of which, constituted as this Colony is, the Governor is the life and soul.
The Calendar for this month of eight cases only, though it covers double the usual time in ponsequence of the vacation in February, is remarkable for absence of robberies with violence except in one case, and it is mainly made up of those offences which arise from the crimes and quarrels incident to the class of which the mass of lower orders here is composed. As I claim no merits for having brought about this state of things, it the more becomes me to make these observations at a time which I trust is not inopportune.
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