The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-02 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning these Sessions commenced at the Sessions-
house, Cl-rkenwell, before B. Rorof, Esq. (Chairman),
and a Bench of Magistrates.
Ihe Grand Jury having been sworn, the Chairman
briefly addressed them on the nature of the duties they had
to perform.
After the Grand Jury had retired, Mr. M‘WILLIA3r
brought forward a motion, which he attempted to bring
forward on the county day, but could not then formally
proceed with it, owing to there not being a sufficient
number of Magistrates present. He said it was agreed on
all hands that the Jury lists returned to the Justices were
often estremey defective, in cons- quence of the neglect of
parish offi era to 'xamine them before they were sub-
mitted to the Justices, and the object of his motion was to
require the various parish officers to attend to that part of
the duty themselves, instead of leaving it to be performed
by inferior and in, flicient persons. He had prepared a
circular letter, and he moved that it he forwarded to the
overseers of each parish in the county.
Mr. HALSEWELL seconded the motion, which was
unanimously agreed to.

THE " MISTAKE " AGAIN.

Mr. PARKER said he was instructed to renew his
motion respecting a prisoner named James Wheatley,
who was tried in July, sentenced to fourteen years'
transportation, and was sent to the Hulks at Portsmouth.
Since then, the authorities at the Home Office had caused
the prisoner to he sent hick to London to be tried over
again, and, instead of sending him to the House of Cor-
rection, where he was confined before, he was sent to
Newgate, where this Court had no jurisdiction. He (Mr.
Parker) could nor, therefore, make his motion, and it was
a very hard case upon the prisoner.
CHAIRMAN--What is your motion ?
Mi. PARKER, said it was that the prisoner should be
discharged out of custody, as he intended to show by the
Act of Parliament he was entitled to be.

CHAIRMAN-We have no power over him.
Mr. PARKER knew that ; hut if the prisoner had been
sent to the. House of Correction, as he should have been,
th.-n this Court would have had the power. What he
now complained of was of the conduct of the authorities
at the Home Office. It was a great hardship upon the
prisoner.

CHAIRMAN—We have ❑o power; and this is not the
place to complain of the Home Office.

Mr PARK ER said it was protnistql in the House of
Commons that the man should be discharged ; and yet,
no sooner was Parliament over, than he was sent up to
London to be retried. When he (Mr. P.) informed the
Solicitor-General of it, that gentleman expressed great
surprise at it. It was most disgraceful on the part of the
Home Office.

The CHAIRMAN said that Court was not:the place to
make such accusations against the Home Office. He was
certainly surprised that the Mill had been removed into
another jurisdiction.
The conversation here terminated.

The calender contains a list of no less than 163 priso-
ners in the House of Correction on various charges of
misdemeanour and felony, of which ao less than 23 are
for riots, ant 36 for assaults.

Charles Hicks was indicted for robbing his master.
The prisoner had been fur six or seven weeks in the
service of the prosecutor, Mr. Thos. Reece, a tobacconist,
of 113, Shoreditch, and during that time lie missed so
much of his retail returns, that on the 17th of August be
challenged him with theft, which he denied. The pro-
secutor called in a policeman, and on searching him a
snuffbox was found, in addition to which, in his box
was another snuff box, and a quantity of cigars. One of
the boxes had the prosecutor's piivate marks upon it.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy on account of his previous good character.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced him to hard labour and
solitary c nfinement for one week.