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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

NOTIM OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF THE DAY WHICH
NOW STAND ON THE ORDER BOOK FOR THE PRE-
SENT WEEK.

Monday, April 2.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
I. Bribery at Elections—Adjourned Debate.
2. Postage Duties Bill—Committee.
a passengers Regulation Bill—Second reading.
4. Cori) Duties Bill—Second reading.
5. Distresses (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of-Report.
Ways and Means—Committee.
7. East India Half Pay Bill—Report.
9. inAt‘epers Bill—Report.
9. Suroy.....Conimittee.

-
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
I. Mr. Curtpip..TO fiX the place of Election of Knights of the
&hire for the County of Sussex at Lewes.
2. Mr Xclerman Thompson—Bill to amend Act 3 Geo. 4, relat-
. ing to the sale of Plead in London and the Bills of Mortality.
3. Sir acage Clerk—To add Mr. Robert Adam Dundas to the
Committee on the Edinburgh Bridewell Bill, and the Leith
polite Bill; and Mr. Abetcromby to the Committee on the
Edinisonek Improvement Bill.
Tuesday, April S.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Sir Jqhn Awport—To bring under view of the House the
statetf the law for rebuilding anti' repairing Churches in
Irelisut •
2. mr.,Anneprigrimotid—Bil) to Ltd prosecution of
praltaoArßh'nkrupts in
3. Sir John Newport-170 refer the Irish Estimates to a Select

t. Mr. Hinne--Select Committee to inquire into the state of the
Fleet and other Prisons for the confinement of Debtors; and
the operation of the Laws of 'Arrest • and Imprisonment for

Debt.
5. Mr. Kennedy-13in to regulate Parochial Settlements in Scot.

land.
6. Mr. Fowell Buxton—Copies or Extracts of all Coinmunica.
tions relative to the amelioration of the condition of the
Slaves.

ORDF.RS OF TIFF DAY.

1. East Retford Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at half
after three.
2. Names of Members absent to be set aside.
3. Defaulters absent at the Ballot (22th March) to attend.
Wednesday, April 4.
_ _ NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

Mr. Leader Moberly—Resolutions respecting the application
of Corporate funds to election purposes.
2. Mr. Ilobhouse—Petition from 'the Dhectors and Members of
the County Fire Office, complaining -of the Fourteenth Re.
port of the Revenue Commissioners on the Stamp Office.
Thursday, April 5.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

1. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Bill to amend the Slave Trade Como-
lidatiou Act.
2.' Colonel Davies,—Select Committee to take into consideration
themode of taking the Poll at Elections for Members to
serve in Parliament for Cities and Boroughs.
3. Mr. Spring Rice—The Government of Ireland.

ORDERS OF THE DAY. '
L Fowey Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at three.
2. Wells Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at half after
three.
3. Defaulters absent at the Ballots (27th and 29th March) to
attend.

Friday, April C.
•
ORDER OF THE .DAY.
Writ of Right Rill—Further consideration of Report.
NOTICE OF MOTION. •
Mr. Macqueen—Law of Settlement.

NOTICE GIVEN 'ON FRIDAY.
Tuesday, May 22.
Sir Henry Parnell—Renewal of the Bank of England Charter.

LENT ASSIZES.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, MARci: 30.
CROWN SIDE.
SHOOTING UT A GANKICIIIIPER.

Francis Lodge was indicted for wilfully, maliciously,
a*d unlawfully &hooting at William Peace, with intent to
do biiii,bodily harm: .
BIIdUGIIA.M said, that the prisoner was Isn assistant
gamekeeper, iu the employment of Mr. Beaumont, of Whit-
ley-hall, and the ptosecutor, William Peace, was a labour-
ing man who resided iu the same neighbourhood.
_ _

'William Peace examined.---I live at Lepton. On the
night of the 11th of November I went out with George
Haigh; Thomas' Haigh,- Thome* Stringer, John Lee, and
two other ner,oits to kill eawe. Thornav f4rinp:ir carried
a gun, and that was the only gun that we had with. us.
We•went to the Whitley:Judi estate.' We'• agreed befi)re
we set out that if the keepers attacked uS we would run
away. , In about half an ,hour after we got there, we
heard a dog . hark, and immediately we were surpris-
ed by the 'watchers. They slipped two dogs at us,
part of them encouraged the dogs, and part cried out
" Shoot them, shoot them." I ran amongst the bushes,
with my companions, and then got into the bridle road.
We ran along the road for about 200 yards. ' I was the
hindmost man. - A dog kept leaping up against me, and I
put my hand back in order to turn the dog off. Whilst
doing so, I saw the prisoner Praneis Lodge about four yards
distant from me. He had 8 gnu, which he fired at me, and
wounded me in the back part ofthe right thigh. It was a melon-
light night. I had frequently seen Lodge before, and knew
him very well. After I was shot, I ran about 20 yards, and
then fell. • As I was falling, one of the companions of the
prisoner, John Hardy, came up, and struck me with a stick
over the eye. Lodge came up, and said, " Stringer, we have
thee now." He thought that I was Stringer. None of my
companions were at that time with me. They had got a-
°hh 1 rae bring
avmde. )s thenothing} lOean uet . o
swordtfi c; o the-awni wanted
kdt
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to a place called the dog-kennel. A surgeon hepeersaddseadid:om"eUthoinnige aublOulta(ctttaintigd
then came
but
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and examined my
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Cross-examined
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never
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William a O RN—.Our r guni
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s.
only fired once. I never doubted that Lodge was the man
Stringer's gun was never fired after we saw the keepers.
He did not shoot at the dogs. I saw George Armitage
there. On my oath I never said to him that it was Wil-
liam Hallas who shot me. I know Thomas Richards,
the cow-keeper at Whitley. I swear that I never said
to Hellas, in Richards' presence--." Hallas, go for a
doctor, and take the pistol thou shot at me with, and see
if thou cannot shoot some one else." I carried no hedge-
stake on the night of the 11th of November, nor did any '
of our party.
Six other witnesses were examined. They consisted of
persons who had been out with the prosecutor on the night
in
first witness. .andln they
detaileds_eiami nattihoe facts a
n they
ties relatedciale dthbaty the
they
had never heard the prosecutor say that it was William
Hallas who shot him. They also swore that none of their
party carried sticks or bludgeons.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, stated,
that on the night in question, he hail been employed in
preserving the game on the Whitley-Hall estate, and that
hearing a gull go off in the Dog-kennel Shrog, lie had•gone
there with the other assistant-keepers to discover who fired
pointeds
employed
njpo,lio: 1,, lidTiyale,.ei yttith.ro watch with the prisoner on the night of the
ea tired had
ht
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gunsstafoundkae.
t ttiliieeiu, prisonerand t 1
landthe
p prisoner his companionser
to his forehead to show the marks which the shot had left
there. His gun, he said, had gone off in. consequence of
one of the prisoner's companions knocking it • out of his
William Hallas examined.—l live at Lepton. I was
11. th of November ; there were the prisoner, John Hardy,
James Eilam, George Armitage, and me, of our party.
The head
keeper and his son were with ts for hbout two
hours, and then left us. When we were at the field gate'
we heard the report of a gun. The field gate is about a
quarter
went there ; when we got to the wood, we heard foot-
steps and another report of a . gun. When we got into
the wood we sawthe prosecutor and his companions ;
Francis Lodge and George Armitage went to the ,right ;"
I went of a mile from Dog Kennel Shrog.. We all
mere to the left. Lodge said to us—_o. stand,,
lads, like men," and, as soon as he said se, a shot
was flied by the other party. I stepped up to John
Lee and George Haigh ; and I was going to 'seize Lee,
when Haigh struck at me, and knocked me doWn with a
stake. They then rushed about 20 yards forward, and
fired another. gun. They then fan about 200 yards more.
Whilst they were running, they kept saying, "Let's stand,"
and at last George Haigh said, " D-:-.' a it, lads, let's fight."
Upon that they all turned round ; Haigh had a stake in.his
hand, and struck with it at Lodge, the prisoner ; Lodge
held up his gun to keep off the stake, and the gun was
knocked out of his hands. I heard'a gun go off at that mo-
ment ; I took up the hedge stake; and have it here ; they
then ran again about 100 yards,
and then Peace sat down,
and Said he was shot; when the rest bad got away, 'Nve
turned to Peace, and he said to us, " D—n you, tither
take me with you, or leave ine,•anil let any partners fetch
me ;" we first went to the keepcf, and on our return
Peace was carried by Lodge and. Hardy to,the dog-kennel.
Whilst there,
he said to me; ",D...„74 thee, Bill, :thou hest
shot. me with a pistol," and he told Ine, to fetch a, doctor,
and to charge my pistol and shoot aomehody el:4; I saw
two Vim with the ether part, - rave luttl a dich which.
, , • : •4

was taken from his hand by the gamekeeper ; he and two
others were disguised by a skin of some sort being put over
their heads.

Cross-examined.—l never said that Lodge was the man
who shot Peace. I never told Lockwood the constable so.

The persons who had been employed with the prisoner
on the night in question, were then examined, and they
confirmed in all respects the testimony of last witness.—
They all swore positively that they had heard the prose-
cutor say, at the, dog-kennel, that Hellas had shot him with
a pistol.
Oa cross-examination, the witnesses severally more that
they had never said to Lockwood, the constable, that Lodge
had shot the prosecutor.
Joseph Lockwood was then called by the. counsel for the
prosecution, and swore that he had apprehended the
prisoner, and the four witnesses, and that each had said that
LOdge was the man who had shot Peace.
Mr. Baron HULLOCK summed up the case. , That gross
perjury had been committed by the witnesses on one Side or
the other was evident, and it was for the Jury to con-
sider to which side it ought to be imputed, If they be-
lieved the witness for the prosecution, and believed that
the prisoner bad fired at the prosecutor in the manner stated,
then.the ert of. the ptisoner, if death .144:ctisved„,1 would
liitit-.4lMinatetto murder, and" it -fitiiiifa keWeir duty to
find him guilty on the present charge. But, if on the other
hand, they believed the story of the witnesses for the defence,
and thought that the prisoner had not discharged his gun
until he had been fired at by the opposite party, or if they
believed that the gun had gone off by accident, occasion-
ed by its being struck out of the prisoner's hands, then if
death had ensued, the prisoner would not have been guilty
of murder, and he must be acquitted of the charge now
brought against him.
The Jury after a few minutes' deliberation, returned a
verdict of Guilty. Sentence of death recorded.
Most of the witnesses for the prosecution were indicted
at the last Wakefield session, and found guilty of being on
the Whitley estate, armed with intent to kill game, on the
night when that transaction ocetured. On that trial the
prisoner and the other keepers were witnesses for the pro-
secution.

Harriet Arnatage was charged with child-stealing.
The prisoner is abopt thirty years of age, and a married wo-
man, but has not resided with her husband latterly. It
was intimated, in the statement of the' Counsel for the pro-
secution, that her' motives in taking the child were different
from those which often actuate persons who are charged
with similar offences. It is believed, although it did not
appear in evidence, that she wished to make use of the baby
for the purpose of affiliating it upon a person in Sheffield,
with whom she had some acquaintance.
Mary 111‘Leod, a poor blind woman, was led into the
box with the child iu her arms. She said she was the wife
of George lIPLeod. They resided at Sheffield for the last
two years. She was in the habit of going out to get her
living. She stood near the market on the 9th January.
A woman came to her, and said it was a cold day for the
child, and offered to warm it; witness let her have it; she
did not,hear of it again until the following Tuesday, when
her child was brought; she instantly knew hitn by the cry.
Mary Swendell, the wife of a bookbinder at Sheffield,
saw the last witness on the 9th of January, in the market
of that town, with a child upon her knee. The prisoner
was talking to the blind woman. Witness had known the
name and pet son of the prisoner for ten years ; she is
naarried Woman.

Benjamin Duffin, a shopkeeper at Sheffield, knows Mary
M‘Leod very well. He saw the prisoner talking to the
blind woman on the 9th January—she gave her some broth.
Mr. Jackson, a surgeon at Sheffield, was sent for to at-
tend, the prisoner. She had a male infant on her knee
when he saw her ; it was about three weeks old then (the
1441 i January ;) she said she had been confined on the pre-
ceding Tuesday, and that child was her's; he can state po-
sitively that the child was not her's.
George M‘Lcod, the father of the child, swore it was
his chi 154,4,114,, featliceta. stuck -to breast-Oss ..Inte'
doubt but it was the child which was stolen from his wife
which he. stOr with the prisoner. . .

Margaret Wallace nursed the blind-wornan'a child, and
she is sure the child which was found and brought back
was the child of Mary M'Leod. She saw the child in the
possession of the prisoner. Witness had dressed the child
the morning it was stolen ; it was pretty well dressed.
The .chief constable of Sheffield called upon the pri-
soner respecting 'the child. The prisoner said the child
was her own, and that she Was delivered of it on the Toni
-
day before. •

The prisoner, when called upon for her defence, mad,
two or three ineffectual attempts to give her own account
of the, circumstance. She laboured under a great depres-
sion of spirits, and after some delay, stated that when she
first saw the child. in the blind woman's arms, she took'
compassion upon it, as well as upon the mother, to wham
she gave a little broth, and took the baby for the purpose
of warming it ; and when she had taken it home, she
found his little knees and feet stripped of the, skin by the
ebb], arid she thoUght she might as well support it. She
declared that at the `time of taking the child she had no
idea of depriving'the father and mother of it; and if she
had money enough to
give the parents, she sever would be
prosecute.l. She.said she had no friends, nor money suffi-
cient to retain Counsel; and she hoped, as she had no bad
intention towards the child, his Lordship would have com-
passion on her.
During his Lordship's charge to the Jury she continued
crying, and when the Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty,"
she could with difficulty support herself against the bar.
John Hodson, committed under a charge of highway
robbery, when brought to the bar, pleaded guilty, alleging
`as his reason his inability to employ Counsel, his money
being taken from him by the constable who apprehended
him. •

Mr. Baron HULLOCK said it was very wrong to deprive
the man of his money; he should, at least, have sufficient
left him for the purposes of his defence.
SATURDAY, MARCH Si. •
WILSON V. SMITH.

Mr. Justice BAYLEr has been engaged the whole of the
day in trying a feigned issue raised in this case, to deter-
mine the validity or a will made by a person of the name
of Flint, in the year 1823. The case was tried last spring
assizes, and the particulars then detailed at length. On
that occasion the Jury found against the validity of the
ground that the testator
will, on the had been • insigne
when he made it. A new trial was granted on application
to the Court of King's Bench. The plaintiff's case was
gone through to-day, and Mr. Brougham addressed the
Jury for the defence. The further hearing of the case was
then adjourned to Monday.

floNrimsTatiGtEinOßbGyE
THE KING, AT THE RELATION Or RICHARD DUTTON,
SHREWSBURY, THURSDAY, Maacn 29.
office in the nature of a quo warrant°, relating to' the city
This was an"i:
of Chester, and was directed by
,the Court of King's Bench
thileAlltlßaisst°erN.of the Crown.-
.to be tried in the county of Salop, as the county next ad-
joining to Cheshire. The pleadings were opened by,sfr. JERVIS, Jun.
The information was of Hilary Terin, 1825, and stated
that Chester is an ancient city; that the Mayor and citizens
are a body corporate,' by the name of thOlayor and Citi-
zens of the city of Chester ; that the office of Mayor is a
public office, and that; George Harrison, upon the 22d of
October, sth Geo. IV. (1824), used and exercised,"with-'
ont legal warrant, royal grant or right, the office of Mayor,
which said office he bath usurped.

Plea.—That from time whereof the memory of man is
not to the contrary, there have been a mayor, two sheriffs,
24 aldermen, and a common council, and that the mayor,
sheriffs, and so many aldermen as choose to be present,
assembled in each year, for the election of a mayor, on
Friday next, after the feast of St. Denis; and since Octo-
ber 26, Geo. H., assembled on Friday next after the 20th
of, October, and nominated two aldermen, of which two,
the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen present chose one to be
mayor for the year ensuing ; and that on the 22d of Octo-
ber, 1824, the defendant was duly elected mayor, and was
sworn before his predecessor. The replication denied the
immemorial custom, or that the defendant was chosen
mayor according to it, and stated, that a small number,
and not the major part, of the aldermen were present when
the defendant was returned mayor, by means whereof the
assembly was not duly constituted ; and it also set feral a
...barter of 21
.Henry VII., granting, power to the citizens
to elect 24 aldermen, and 40 common councilmen, who
might elect out of themselves a mayor who should be his
escheator. To this the defendant demurred, and also by
his rejoinder averred that the citizens did not accept the,
charter. To this there was arejoinder in demurrer, and
17 issues, the issues the jury were to try.
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restine. We give the JudgCleinthinting up, aid the verdict 1
Mr. Baron Ifatetaax 'laid, •thitt— most laborious cause
1 has been admirably eccdeeted on both ludic. The material
ileum arc, whether Chester is a corporation by prescrip-
tion, consisting of that component parts stated by the de-
fendant; sad whether, the charter of.Hatay Yu. has been
accepted? For if the charter has been accepted, the de-
fendant's election is void, because a majority of aldermen
were not present. It is true that it is not known that
any mayor existed before Richard I. • but from the re-
moteness of the period, it is impossible to obtain clear
evidence on those points. It is very di stilt to say that
the acts done by the Corporation do not amount to a
complete acceptance of the Charter. The whole con-
stitution of the city •was altered by it ; they were formed
into a county; had new jurisdictions, even to the le-
vying of fines and suffering of recoveries ; the num-
ber of common council is reduced from forty-eight to
forty, and the sessions are held before the Mayor, Re-
corder and Aldermen. They also avail themselves of the
charter of Elizabeth, for under it, sheriffs and mayors have
been elected in the middle of the year. The resistance of
the corporation to the letter of King James, excusing
themselves from complying with it on account of their
oath to the charter, is a very strong point. Hie Lordship
was of opinion, that if the charter weee accepted in part
it was accepted in all, and he also thought that the cor-
poration had accepted it in regard to the election of mayors,
and applied themselves to it, to regulate those elections,
but mistakingly.
The Counsel far the defendant desired to have the ver-
dict taken in the form' of the issues. Some discussion
arose among the Counsel as to the form, after which Mr.
Baron Vaughan minutely mentioned the material issues.
I'h; Jury retired, but in less than ten minutes returned,
and their foreman delivered a verdict that the corporation
had accepted the charter in the point of the election of
mayors.
....His Loans's/re then asked them what verdict they found
on the issue, whether there had or had not been from
time whereof the,inemory of man runneth not to the con-
trary, a mayor, two sheriffs, and 24 aldermen within the
city ?
The Jury, after about five minutes' further deliberation,
found a verdict that there had been those officers front
before the time of legal memory.