6 DECEMBER 1828, Page 4

SURREY SESSIONS.—At the opening of these sessions, on Monday, the

Chairman, Mr. Hedger, adverted to the Judges, at the last assizes, having feli- citated the Grand Juries on the decrease of crime. He could not agree with them on this point ; for, according to his observation, crime had increased in a threefold proportion. There had been 319 prisoners brought to trial at these Quarter Sessions within the last four months, and above 1,500 were tried within twelve months in the County of Surrey alone, many of them for very serious offences, besides those arraigned at the Assizes. He could not there- fore say that crime had decreased in this county.