Old Judge Moore, in a recent charge to the Grand
Jury of Tip- perary, spoke in terms of strong disapprobation of the practice common among Irish Magistrates, of committing persons accused of man- slaughter, and even trivial assaults to be tried on charges of" murder thereby giving a false impression as to the state of the country. No fewer than eighty persons were to be tried for" murder" at the Tip- perary Assizes; though no human being could believe that any thing like eighty murders had been committed. Judge Moore bore testi- mony to the greatly-improved character of the county; and observed, that he never heard now of the fierce faction fights which were common a few years ago. Mr. Justice Crampton, in addressing the Grand Jury of Sligo on Thursday week, said the calendar was one, for that county, unexampled both in point of the number and quality of the crimes. If it were any thing like a faithful picture of the state of the country, awful indeed must be the condition of the district ; for be saw epon its pages a catae logue of crimes marked by violence and blood ; but, cis tia.iy, a class of cases in former times utterly unknown, he thought, in t hat county. 'The particular cases to which he alluded were those which exhibited the commission of melicions injuries, from the highest of all crimes, murder and attempt at welder, down to the malicious destruction of property.
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