The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-16 00:00:00

QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.)

( Sittings in Banco.)
THE QUEEN V. THE JUSTICES OF WILTSHIRE.
Sir F. PoLLocx appeared to show cause why the rule for
a certiorari to bring up the order of certain Justices of
Wiltsb;rc should not be made absolute. The proceedings
originated in a rule which had been made upon the pa-
rish of Bradford, which had been appealed from. The
sessions quashed the rate,and directed that th costs of the ap-
pellants, amounting to 871 Gs., and the costs of the Church-
wardens, amounting to 1031., in defending the appeal should
be paid. When the accounts came before the auditor he
had refused to allow them. The parish officers then en-
deavoured to pass the accounts before t .vo justices, who did
pass them, and that decision was appealed from to the
Justices at Quarter Sessions, who made an order quashing
the decision of the two Justices. The Learned Counsel
teas proceeding to state his objections to the rule at some
length, when

The Court said they must make the rule for the cer-
tiorari absolute ; and when the return was made they
would then hear the Learned Counsel's objections.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
THE QUEEN V. GREGORY.

In this case Mr. Miller had obtained a rule to show
cause why the defendant in this case, who is at present in
Northampton gaol, charged with shooting at Thomas
Greenwood. should not bo admitted to bail. It appeared
from the -affidavits in tho case, that the prisoner is a sub-
stantial farmer and publican, living at Broukhton. in
Northamptonshire. On the night when the alleged oc-
currence took place, the prisoner had come from a fair in
a state of intoxication, and had on coming to his stable
met with his son-in-law, named Keyston, with whom he
had a quarrel and a scuffle ; the prisoner after-
wards went into the house, and Greenwood, the wounded
man passing near the window kept calling out " Master,
master," in order, as be stated, that Gregory might know
it was him and not Keyston ; he had not proceeded above
ten yards before he received a charge of small shot in his
back, and he stated in his affidavit that he had no doubt
the gun was discharged from the bar window. The Magis-
trates had committed him to take his trial at the Quarter
Sessions, but as in the committment the words "with in-
tent to murder" were made use 0f,.. the Court.of Quarter
Sessions held that they had no jurisdiction, and remanded
him to the next assizes ; under these circumstances the
application was made to the Court to admit the defendant
to bail.

Air. WADDINOTON showed cause against the rule, and
contended that this was an attempt to set aside the solemn
decision of the Court of Quarter Sessions, and that the evi-
dence was such that the prisoner ought not to be admitted
to bail.
Mr. MILLER argued in support of the rule that the
Quarter Session had refused to interfere, under a mistaken
notion that they had no jurisdiction, and contended that
the evidence, so far from showing that Gregory was the
party who had discharged the gun, went to prove that it
was some other person, and rendered it doubtful if the gun
was discharged from the window at all. The Learned Coun-
sel contended that as the Earl of Cardigan had been admit-
ted to bail in a case of much less doubt, so this defendant
ought to be liberated on giving good bail.
Mr. Justice PATTESON, in giving judgment, commented
strongly upon the conduct of the committing Magistrates
in admitting Gregory's wife as a witness against him, and
aid he thought there was sufficient doubt in the case to
authorise him in admitting the man to bail, himself in 1001 ,
and four sureties in 25/. each.

Mr. WADDINGTON--:II;;; sensible man had been pre-
sent, to have put one or two questions to Keysten and
Greenwood, the matter would have been put at rest.
Mr. Justice PATTESON—Very probably.—Rule absolute.

EXCHEQUER COURT--THIS DAY

(Sittings in Banco.)
The Ccurt was occupied the whole of the morning with
oases in the Special Paper, the arguments in which were
purely technical, and of no public interest.

seven and eight o'clock on Sunday night
an application
A CHILD LOCKED IN A CHU
was made at the Kenaington poe station, by a Mr.
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Dunford, printer, of Notting-hill, reapectin fh•
about seven years of age; who had been sent to Kensington I Church about three o'clock in the afternoon, and had not
then returned ; and being an intelligent child it was
,
feared that either some accident had happened to~him,
him, or
that he had fallen asleeand p during the afternoon service, and
had been locked in; as the Church stands back from
the street about 30 or 40 yards, there was little probability
of his making himself heard at that distance when he
awoke. The father on applyin_
6 to the sexton for the
keys was directed to the beadle and pew-opener, neither
of
whom were at home, and after leaving a message de-
ing that the Church might be searched that night, he
went away to make inquiries in another direction. Some
time after this some boys, who were passing down Church-
street,had their attention attracted to a noise which ap-
peared to them to come from one of the vaults under the
Church : on listening they again heard the voice, and a
knocking at the Church door,
s havingA mob immediately col-
lected, more courage than the
ted over the railings of the churchyard, while
the son of the pew-opener ran for the keys of the Church.
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On inquiring who was inside, an answer was returned
from underneath the eastern doorway, " I am a little boy
my name's Charles William Dun-
apparent signs of fear, he sad " When he
of the assembled
finding himself in total darkness he groped his
the pew along the aisle to the west door, up
way from
to undo hhe climbed
each ; he then was about throwing his prayer-
he tried the vestry, then the windows, which were too
this
glass, thinking the noise would call the
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at any
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prayer-
book
of the police, but he was afraid he should be
• hed for it, so he desisted; and recollecting having
punis
heard a bell-ringer say that a little door leading from
(t)hnecechurchyard to the bells was usually left open, he tried
grout his way to the belfry, but it was so dark that be
to
was
obii
god to return to the cast door, where he laid him-
seii down on the ground, and was calling out through the
Crack underneath the door, when he was fortunately heard
who were passing at a distance through the
by the boys
Surely some person should examine every pew
Woke
1131sedt);rough the
street."
before locking up the Church, or a child of weaker nerves
might be so alarmed at waking up and finding himself in
adark Church, that he would fall into fits, and expire
without
any possibility of assistance.—(From a Corres-
pondent,)