27 OCTOBER 1832, Page 3

Five persons were tried at the Middlesex Sessions, on Saturday

last, for theft. The united value of the articles charged as stolen amounted to 5s. 73-d. Most of the prisoners had been in gaol for eighty days ! Two of the jurors, in acquitting two of the prisoners—a man for stealing a paving-stone, and a child under ten years of age for stealing some toys —declared that the articles, trifling as their value was, had been rated at twice as much as they were worth !

The Grand Jury of Middlesex made a very important presentment on the subject of the great and still increasing number of juvenile delin- quents. They recommend that such offenders, and minor offences generally, should be tried once a week, by the Magistrates of Police and a Jury einparmelled for that purpose.