OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.—These sessions commenced on Thursday. The number of
prisoners to be tried for London and Middlesex was two hundred and seventy-four. The principal case tried on Thursday was a charge against J. B. Walker, a half-pay officer, for having inflicted four wounds upon a young woman with a sword, with intent to kill her. The crime was proved ; but it was also proved that the prisoner was subject to fits of insanity, that he had once attempted to cut his throat, and that he had for some time been confined in a mad-house. The jury found that he was insane when he committed the crime; and the Court ordered that he should be taken care of, under the act of Parliament.
Several uninteresting cases of theft were tried. In the case ofJohnWoollett, convicted of having robbed his employer, the Court passed sentence of trans- portation for fourteen years. The trials yesterday were also without interest.
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