Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-08-15 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT'S PRIVILEGE.  In the London Bankruptcy Coart,on Friday,before Mr. Justice Williams, an application recently made to the learned judge for the committal of Mr. F. Wootton Isaacson, M.P., for contempt of court, was heard. A sequestration order had been made against the estate of Walter Armstrong, of Weensland, Hawick, and London, and the Trustee of the estate being desirous of examining-, Mr. Isaacson, obtained leave to hold a private sitting, making the London Court auxiliary to the Scotch Court for the purpose. Mr. Isaacson, however, raised various objections to the order, and pleadel privilege as a member of Parliament. The matter was accordingly reported by Mr. Registrar Giffard to the learned judge.—His lordship stated that Mr. Isaacson was duly served with a summons to be examined in certain bankruptcy proceedings. He attended upon the summons, and by his attendance waived any formal objection to the procedure. The objections which Mr. Isaacson raised to the jurisdiction were of a technical character, and woold be overruled by the court. His lordship, however, understood that Mr. Isaacson had made an 'affidavit, in which be expressed his willingness to be examined in the event of his objections being oretruled by the court. That being so, the question which remained was whether Mr. Isaacson could successfully plead privilege as a member of Parliament in bar to an order for his committal. The question had arisen in a case decided by Lord Brougham, and the objection appeared to be well founded. Was the application made in order to punish Mr. Isaacson, or was it anything more than an attachment for the purpose of enforcing the order of the court ? He thought that a committal if ordered was in the nature rather of a civil than a punitive process. As a result, however, of the examination of the authorities, it was clear that the order for cohmittal which had been applitd for against Mr. Isaacson— be being a member of Parliament—could not be made. The motion would, therefore, be refused , with costs.  A curious ending to a trial for murder is reported from Cahors, Gambetta's birthplace. A landowner, named Piganiol, had had a difficulty with his lather-in-law about the payment:of his wife's dot. Ile had not wedded empty-handed, having accumulated a sum of £3OO in gold, which he had, out of boastfulness, handed to the father-in-law, one kialime. The old man not only kept the money, but refused to hand over his daughter's dowry. This led to unpleasantness and high words, in the course of which Piganiol took up a pickaxe and drove it through his father-in-law's skull. The jury seemed to applve of this summary mode of settllng family k sas tilt).- acquitted Piganiol b'hortiy oeruiLAO o'clock on 6unctay night an omni. bus rroceeding down Quay-street, Manchester, came into collision with a tramcar coming up towards Deansgate. A passenger who was sitting next to the driver of the omnibus was thrown to the ground between the two vehicles. He was unconsoiOUS when taken up by the police, and died on the way to the Royal Infirmary. His name is William Henry Clegg, 27 years of age.