Richmond Enquirer

PORTLAND, (Maine) May 9.—Yesterday the Circuit Court of the United States commenced its sessions for the first time in this judicial district; present the honorable judge Story and Judge Parris— The former delivered a long and very eloquent charge to the grand jury, in which after some introductory observations appropriate to the occasion, he summed up the principal duties of the jury, dwelt at considerable length upon the alarming increase of piracy in this country, and the necessity of vigilance and a prompt execution of the existing law, upon the subject; and then adverted to the slave trade and the horrors resulting from it, in an eloquent and feeling manner, which made a deep impression upon the jury as well as upon a numerous audience. He observed, that he had it from an indubitable authority that this illegal and barbarous traffic was yet pursued to great extent in this country, and that many citizens in N. England were still engaged in it.