Star. — 1827-05-14 (London, England)

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 members to serve in Parliament, and for diminishing the expense 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 Parliament 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 persons 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 whatsoever acting on this or their behalf, for or in consideration 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 employment, 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 severed, 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 possible, 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. . • .