Star.
London, England, 1827-05-14 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

A Buss to mate further Recioss.vtova for prevetning corrupt PILAC.
toms at Elections of Mammas to serve in Erasure:in, and for
Dtnnanento the Karen' of such. FAACTIONS ;
Whereas it is expedient io make further regulations
for preventing corrupt practices at elections of mem-
bers to serve in Parliament, and for diminishing the ex-
pense of such Elections; be it therefore enacted by the
King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, sad
the Commons. in this present Parliament assembled.
and by the authority of the same, that from and after
the day of if any person shall, either during
any election of a Member or Members to serve in Par-
liament for any County, City. Borough, Cinque Port,
or other places in England or Wales, or for the town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, or within calendar months
previous to such election, or within days after it shall
have been completed, be employed for or on the behalf
of any candidate or candidate,, or of any person or per-
sons acting on his or their behalf at such election, as
counsel, agent, attorney, poll-clerk, flagman, musician,
messenger, or in any other incapacity, for the'purposes
of such election, and shall at any time, either before,
during, or after such election, accept or take from any
such candidate or candidates, or from any person what-
soever acting on this or their behalf, for or in consi-
deration of, or with reference to such employment, any
sum or sums of money, retaining fee, office, place, or
employment, or any promise or security for any sum or
sums of money, retaining tee, office, place, or employ-
ment, such person shall be deemed incapable of voting
at such election, and his vote, if given, shall be utterly
void and of none effect.

Saturday afternoon an Inquest was held at White.
chapel Workhouse, befote Mr. Unarm, the Coroner, on
the body of the infant, William Henry Sheen, who was,
murdered by its father.
The body was placed in a shell. The head was completely se-
vered, and the marks ot the murderer's fingers were on the face,
where be had held it whilst he cut off the head. The first witness
was Sarah Pomeroy. of I, Caroline-court, Lambethetreet. She
said that she kept the house where the unfortunate affair happened.
On Thursday evening, about haN•past seven te'clock, she was sitting
in her own apartment, when the mother of the moldered Infant
came to her and said, " Mrs. Pomeroy, come and see what my
Bill has done; come up stairs, for he has cut the child's head off, and
it's lying on t►e table!" I went up stairs immediately, and the
mother followed me, and when I entered the room I saw the head
of the child lying on a table, with the face looking towards the door.
I was so alrrmed that I hurried out of the room as speedily as pos-
sible, and procured the assistance of Dalton, an officer; I again
Went up staits, with the officer—the mother followed, and drew the
attention of the persons in the room to the marks on the side of the
child', bead, where the father had struck it with his knuckles, on
&today morning. Before I same down I saw the body of the child
lying on the bed, with a blue hedge/en on ; I did not hear Sheen
come down stairs after the murder.
Ebenezer Dalton, the officer, said, that In consequence of the
alarm raised by the last witness, he went up into the room where
the murder had been cenimitted, and found the head on the table,
and the body on the bed, covered over with a counterpane. He
made a search then and since, but found no instrument with which
t►e act had been perpetrated. Witness, however, is satisfied it was
dote with a razor. The mother of the child said, that Bill, meaning
her husband, had cut the child's head off. . • .

FEES IN BANKRUPTCY.
An account of the Receipt and Appropriation of
Fees in Bankruptcy, which has been 'minted by order
Of the Howe of Commons, will put an end to much of
the uncertainty which has prevailed with respect to the
emoluments which the Lord Chancellor has derived
from them. The lArge3t share of these fees falls to
Lord Thurlow, as 4, Patentee for the execution of the
Laws and Statutes concerning Bankrupts.' The ave.
rage receipts of his Lordship from the year 1811 to,
1826 inclusive, amount to 7,1651. annually. The two
most productive years during this period were 1816,
when the net sum received by him was 10,7651. and
the year 1826, when it was 13,2681. The sources and
appropriation of this part of the tees \vill be better un-
derstood by the following details for the year 1826:

G ROSS RIC RIM%
For 3,:.0.5 Commissions
375 Supersetleas -
61 Renewed Commissions
5 Writs of Procedendo
59 Resealed Commissions

I TION.

£15,976 0 10
660 2 6
147 7 10
9 1 9
13 0 0

To the Hanaper, fur 1,960 Com-
nthious at Public &al 81,22.5 0 0
Ditto for I,34sCommissions at
Private Seal
Ditto for 219 Supersedeas at
Public Seal
Ditto for 156 Supersedeas at
Private Seal
Ditto for 49 renewed Commis-

1,003 13 0

10 19' 0

27 6 0

aims at Public Seal -
Ditto for 12 renewed Commis.

15 6 3

shins at Private Seal -
Ditto fur's Writs of Procetlendo

5 5 0

at Private Seal
The Lord Chancellor's Purse-
bearer for Docket Fees
for 3,305 Commissions
Ditto for 375 Supersedeas -
Ditto for 61 renewed Commis-
sions -
Ditto for 3 Writs of Proeedendo
Office Atypenses, Stationery, atc.

1 6 3

550 10 0
37 10 0

5 1 0

0 3 0
071 1$ 0

£16,805 12 11

3,636 if 6

Coacnisa—Have you any reason to believe that she was acces-
sary to the murder?
➢alton—l think not; the facts were communicated to the Ma-
gistrates ; and ➢avis, an officer, was sent after Sheen, with instruc-
tions to pursue hint into Wales, where it is supposed be is gone.
In answer to some qtrestions pat by the Jury, Dalton said that
he thought the child was placed on the table, and then murdered.
There was a considerable quantity of blood on the table, and also
on the Boor.

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Letitia Sheen, the mother of the child, was next examined—She
Is a young woman, about 26 years of age, and seemed greatly af-
flicted. She said that on Thursday last, iti the early part of the
day, her husband and herself were very comfortable together, and
had no words; about two o'clock in the afternoon she went out to
visit her mother, and took the child with her, and returned about
live o'clock ; she then went to a public-house, where her husband
*as playing at skittles with some other men; he left his coin.
panions, and came home with her; the child was with her ; he sat
with her in the apartment till about eight o'clock, and then he said
he wished to have some tea; she went oat to procure some, and
left him and the child on the bed; she was out about a quarter sal
an hour, and on her return saw the child's head lying on the table ;
her husband was not in the room ; she was greatly alarmed, hastened
down stairs,and informed the people in the house, and the officers,
of the circumstance; she told the officers to gu to her husband's
mother, in White's-yard, Itusemary•lane, as he might be the' ; she
has nut seen her husband from the time .hr left him in the room.
Coacnten—Have you any doubt that he committed the murder?
Witness—l have no doubt tit.x he committed the murder; he
had always been kind to the child.
You bad no concern in the murder, or ever consented to it ?

THE MURDER IN

Nrt sum received by the Patentee - 13,569 19 5
The average amount of fees received in the office of
the Lord Chancell ,r's Secretary of Bankrupts is from
1811 to 1826, 7,7861. of which 5,62'21. is paid to the
Lord Chancellor, 1,8891. to the Secretary, and 2,2741.
to the Deputy Secretary and Clerks. The sum thus
payaide to the Lord Chancellor is, with other fees re-
ceived in the House of Lords, &e. subject to the pay-
ment, by his Lordship, of 2.5001. a year, to the account
of the Vice Chancellor.
The average amount of the annoal payments to the'
Lord Chancellor, out of the fees received by his Lord-
ship's purse-beater, is between 5001. and 60 1. a year.
01 the residue of these fees, which altogether average
about 1,8001. a year, nearly 4001. is paid to the Chaff
Wax, 3001. to the Sealer, and--2001. to the Gentleman
Chamber.

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Witness--Never.
William Sheen, the father of the murderer, was then called.—
Ile was in tears the whole time he was under examination. Ile
said, that on Thursday evening, about eight o'clock, his son came to
his house, in Whites-yard, Rosemary-lane; his coat and hat were
off; I asked him If he had been fightutg; he said he had, with two
or three Irishmen,in a skittle.ground, and had struck one of them
in the shoulder with his knife ; I walked down with him to St.
,Katherine's, and I said I would endeavour to settle the affair; he
made no confession to me of having murdered the child. We went
together to the residence of a Mr. Pugh,a cowkeeper, in Carnaby.
market, to whom he told the sante story of having fought with the
Irishmen; I left bins in Oxford-sues:, and he said he was going to
Barnet, and should remain there until could settle with the Irish.
man, and he directed me to give bins a pound if that would satisfy
him; my.son had no coat or hat ou when he came to ow, but he
borrowed one of Mr. Pugh.
John Partridge, one of the Parish Beadles said, that the coat was
found in the apartment where the murder was committed, and
which was supposed to belong to Sheen; it was stained with blood
on the left sleeve and front. When the murderer went away, be
had an a brown coat, corded trousers a red-plush waistcoat, and
silk hat. Dalton said, that he had often seen Sheen in the coat

The total average anr.ual amount of the emoluments
of the office of Chancellor (including the fees received
in the House of Lords) has been for the twelve years
since ire payment of 2,5001. a year to the account of
tLe Vice Chancellor, and the allowance of fees (for-
merly accounted for to the Great Seal) fur payment of
the Deputy Se..retai y and Clerks in the Bankrupt.
Office, 14,6761.

CURE FOR THIS STING OF WASPS —lt has been found
by experience, that the best remedy fur the sting of wasps and bees
is to apply to the part affected common culinary salt, moistened
with a little water ; and even in a ctse where a person has acci-
dentally swallowed a wasp in a draught of any kind of liquor, and
been stung by it in the pipe, the alai ntiug symptoms that ensue may
be almost immediately relieved by swallowing repeated doses of
water saturated with salt.

Its question.
hlf. Pugh, the person alluded to, and his wife, said, that on
Thursday evening, when Sheen and his son came to their house to
borrow some money, the sun said he bad stabbed an IriahniJ n, and
(throwing down a knite). said he had done with that, and b.gged
them for GOD% sake to bum it. the knife was here produced.—
it was a clasp knife, tattier blunt, but pointed, and apparently of
sufficient strength to sever the head from the body.] The witnesses
said their was no blood on it when Sheen threw it down; they
lent him 10s.
Letitia Sheen said she had seen the knife in question in her hus-
band's possession.
This being the whole of the evidence, the Coroner briefly rimmed
up, and the Jury instantly returned a verdict of Wilful Murder
against William Sheen, the father of the child.
A Lop reward is offered for the apprehension of Sheen, and
Officers have been dispatched in all directions after hint, but their
efforts have hitherto been unsuccessful.

MEETINGS or CREDITORS a BASING HALSTREET,
TO-MOSKOM. Y. M.

J. Jackson, Poultry, glass-cutter

J. Tiigwell, St. Julin:;treet-road, victualler . .
J. Paterson, Brett's-buildings, Camberwell, dealer
W. Hole, Edgware-road, wax-chandler .
C. Leonard, Warreiewntews, Fitzroy square, dealer in iron
' A. 'Hyenall, Turnmill street. Clerkeuwell, victualler .
G. Heill, Compton-street, Clerkeuwell, baker .
W. S. Rumba'', Upper Park-place, LN,rset-square, coacb.sn.
....

M. Howitt, High Holborn, ironmonger
T. Charlesworth, Patriot.square,Urthaal-green, tea.dealer
. .

W. H. Bray. Brighton, Sussex, draper
M. Cale, Sackville.strcrt, Piccadilly, tailor
A. C. Marsh, Great Scotland-yard, navy agent
E. Hobson, Shoreditch,linendraper

DIVIDENDS.
A. Jameson' Grren.street, 8.-thnal-green, builder
G. Jay and Co. Burlington-gardens, artificial florists
J. Robertson, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, jeweller
J. C. Fuchs, Fombury.aquare, merchant
F. J. Burnett, St. Alary-bill, ahip.bruker

A.aod M. Drown, Hull, straw hat-manufacturers
D. Stalker and Co. Leadenball-strert, slopsellers
W. Dodd, Liverpool, paper-hanging-manutaoturer

At the last Ass;zt4 held at Versailles, a female resid-
ing in the neighbourhood, was convicted of a petty theft. " Mari-
anne," began the Judge, in passing sentence," ytu have been found
guilty of stealing to the value of twenty sous." " Very good," in-
terrupted the young lady, putting her hand with infinite nanchalance
into her pocket, " here is a thirty-sous piece ; be so obliging as to
favour me with the change."
Saturday se'nniglit Mr. DAVID TACT, an eminent
surgeon in Paisley, was found lying dead in his shop behind the
counter. lie had gone into the shop in good health about ball-
past ten on the preceding evening, and from the position he wrs
found in, it was supposed he had laid himself down, as there was
no appearance of his having had any struggle. Mr. Tarr was about
forty years of age.
About three o'clock of the afternoon of Friday, a
most fri4htful scene was witnessed in Tichbourne-street,
l'iccadilly. A young female was observed on the out- HEDDOMADARY.
aide of a Aindow, on the attic story of a house in Tich- T. S DAY
.ntihfac eeflou risked A.D.
D. 507—Purple goats.
bourne street, cleaning it, when suddenly her feet slip- b„rduesins—tobt.low , lowers regularly open at sun-rise, and
p 4 .rom off the window-stone, and she must inevitab!y close up at night.
have been dashed to pieces on the pavement below, had To-woanow—The present Xing of the Netherlands commenced
rnB .
not ha hands providentially come in contact with the
hisWeig
before eight.
1 srs—Sun rises 12 miautes past four; sets It MIMS.
frame of the window to which, having grasped it
firmly, she clung. literally suspended for at least two Tuveenar—Moan enters last quarter at eleven at night; rises 27
minutes, that peliod of time having elapsed before any !SWUM'S past twelve at night,
assistance could be rendered her. It is impouible to FIUDAY—There is an old proverb—
" A cold May and a windy
describe the sensation of horror which seized those who Makes a full barn and a findy."
witnessed the appalling spectacle, every second expect- Another—" A hot May makes a fat Church-yard."
ling that the poor girl's strength would fail her, and that SATURDAY—SC. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, K 2 ; a
she would drop into the street. It would be equally clever goldsmith ; who, while making a chalice, it is related, was
annoyed by the Devil, whereupon suddenlyds!ir.d Mai
difficult to describe the joy that was Manifested when tny the o with a pair of iron tongs,S"
burningata3 `el.4 hips,
- girl was rescued (somber perilous situation. yelling, till the night was far spent—Anna Boleyn executed, 15a.

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the poor