The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-07-26 00:00:00

DERBY COUNTY SESSIONS.

The General Quarter Session of the Peace for this County,
held at Chesterfield last week, was remediable is not fur-
nishing a single appeal respecting the settlement of pau-
pers, a circumstance which we understand has out occurred
fur many years, There was, however, an unusual ■umber of
indictments preferred for felonies, misdemeanors, and
breaches of the peace ; and the attention of tbe Court was
therefore mach more profitably oecepied in determining
these cases, which have an immediate reference to the ►ap-
piness and comfo.t of society, than in settling litigated
points connected merely with the remnovds of t►e puor.--
Several of the cases which came before the Commit related to
the obstruction of constables in the execution of their ditty,
avid to the redistaact of legal process. These eases, as they
deserved, received the rierioes attention or the Court, mod
drew from the Learned Chairman, the Hon. Mr. .luatite
Balgay, several apprepriats sad very fumble remarks.—
le one of them eases, namely, The King again' Samuel
Copal, William Elliott, and George Holmes, for an asmault
and rescue, the Counsel for the Ihrendsate attempted to set
up a techeical objection to the indiMmeot, but the objection
Was most satisfactorily led, and the ends of justice
accomplished.
In the cam of The King against James Wilmt, fur an
assault upon the constable of Kirk Langley, the Beach see.
teaced the Defendant to six months imprisonment In the
House of Correction at Ashborne, and ordered tbnt be Sod,
at the expiration of that period, two sufficient sureties to be
bound for hie keeping the peace and being of good behaviour
fur the apace of two years longer, and that he be further im-
prisoned smttl 'eels sureties be ',rued.
Tire Learned Cearlutiem observed, that unless the
oaken of the law wore properly supported in the
faithful discharge of their duly, all order and subordloatiost
is society would be at an end, and that it was incurimbeist os
the Court, wader the peculiar eitcumataacee of Ibis case, to
ene,ke a proper example of the Prisons.
Ttitre Cu another case of seine interest, !bleb nude et

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• lletilirrs 'number of young des *win On
of Belpre and Horsley, having been at
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! Me Sunday the 11th of June, to *imam, out of
Idle curiosity, what they eall a dipping, vis.—a religious ce-
remony of the Baptists, they stopped on their refers home at
a public-house at Hopping Hill, where they obtained
Wan liquor. They were soon afterwards joined by
other young men, who were In a forward state of inioxica.
lion, and who orced their way into the poblie house isi
opposition to the exertions of the landlord, who endeavoured.
to prevent them. Quarrels and tumult immediately coined,
tad the house very soon became a place of complete uproar
ted confusion i they turned out to fight, and we understand
no fewer than eight earn were stripped and lighting is the
town street, at the same instant, one amongst another indis-
criminately. This disorderly conduct, 04/ particularly dis-
graceful on a Sunday evening, necessarily attrartsd the at-
testion of Mr. Pym, the constable of Belper, who lost no
time in obtaining the necessary legal pro/medial,. The
offenders were accordingly tried at the present Sessions, were
severally found guilty, and were sesteseed lo three months
imprisonment each ; two of Shell in the House of Correction
at Ashborne, and three of them at the House of Correction
at Chesterfield. The highly-respected Magistrate who then
presided in the Chair, Joshua Jebb, Eeq, in passing pen-
tame, particularly adverted to the Hose when the offence was
committed, and begged that if the Prteoners should consider
the sentence which he sad his ouly colleague Gl' the Bench,
Gilbert Crompton, Esq. were about to pass span them, as
eeeeeee they would recollect that the offence of which they
had been found guilty was materially aggravated by the com-
mission of it taking place two a Sandal. He stated that the
motives with which this prooeention bad been issiitoted
were no pure, so divested of all personal feeling, either of
interest or malignity, and the object of it wse on praise-
worthy, that the Beucb felt themselves called ups in a
peculiar manner to make a proper example for the 6weit of
others, and particularly so, as they Ow Prisoners) resided
in • past of the county where be understood that examp:es
of this kind were much wanted. He said the peace officer
of the pariah had done his duty, the Jury theirs, and that it
remained with the Bench to fulfil thole ditty ;Amite, and
that the Bench hoped by their doing so faithfully, they
should not only be contributing to the preservation of good
order and decency in society, but be consulting the interests
of reticle!' likewise.