The Sun. — 1827-04-02 (London, England)

THE KING V. JOHN HARRISON, UMW OF CHEUTZR.  The same verdict was taken on th• issues in this information as in the first.  The legal consequences of thefie verdicts will doubtless come under •the graveet consideration of the lawyers. The election of Mr. Harrison, as Mayor, in 1824, is by the verdict void. We apprehend that Mr. Harrison, therefore, had not the power to administer the oath of °face to the Mayor elected in 1696 (when a majority of the Aldermen were present), which Mayor being sworn coran& non judice, was incapable of legally holding the office or administering the oath to the present Mayor. If co, in what state is the Corporation of Chester?  WARWICK, MAICII Si. Francis Eburne the elder stood iadicteti for the wilful murder of hie own son, Francis Eburne the younger, by shooting him, at nyton-ou-Dansmore, on the 7th of Sept. last. The prisoner appeared to be between fty and sixty years of age, was dressed in black, awl eras a person of very respectable appearance. He was evidently greatly affected by his situation, and frequently shed tears. • He seemed to support himself with great difficulty. The Lord Chief Justice humanely ordered • him a chair. The prisoner was a farmer and miller. Ilia case had exeitedit most intense interest in the county. Mary lizard examined.—l was servant to the prisoner on the day Mr. Francis was killedl; I went to bed about nine o'clock ; I heard .the prisoner order his son to go out ; he would not go out; there was a scuffle; I afterwards went down stairs ; Francis, the deceased; was standing with his back to the copper ; the prisoner went out of the kitchen into the house : I tried to persuade the deceased to go,to bed ; he would' not ; prisontr emir back into the backkitchen with a gun, pointed it at the deceased, and he fell ; his mother was standing by ; after he had fired the gun the prisoner said, " take that, you rogue." He' then walked up and down ; Mr. Francis held out his hand to his father to shake hands with him ; prisoner said, " I will see you first!" When the surgeon came, prisoner helped to carry him up stairs ; prisoner said to the ilecease4l when he was on the bed, " see what that your mother, has brought you to!" Prisoner afterwards went down stairs into the pantry and cut himself some sup per, and told me to draw some bar • the next morni:,:g i asked the prisoner ttriet- theleintitit needs, and he said " No, no—let that and rogue wait upon tham-. wires!' (mentatuichis wife and hie son Francis.) Thomas Adcock—l Saw the deceased On his death-bed. I asked him how it happened. Ile said that he pasted his father on the road coming home, and that as he was vim, into the house, his father began to beat and Mime him ; and paper,hand eairc'dhireifsi:ngd wiped his that he struck his father twice, when his father took the gull, and shot him. Itappeired-from the erocs-examinatit.n of this Juan, ‘7llO was at the races with the deceased, that they, whiatdh dbieffi".• drinking a great deal together, and that the deceased, whet; with tears, he got home, was at least partially intoxicated. The prisoner was here called upon for his defetYce. He eyet!yticf from rooamdm whichy hi hiseei were .dpesheoraecimtk:titreaiteao g. written vk ge hti however, in so low and faltering Mt on his spectacles, tone, that the Chief tacks, and commenced the reading of his defence. He read, Court, to The defewnhicec he set paper to the officer of the tfoanrXtuhteciat'he, the prisoner, would gladly give his own life,'could he 'restore the life of his beloied eon, whom in a fit of,uneontroullable passion he destroyed. Several most respectable gentlemen, amongst whom was the High Sheriff, gave the. prisoner an excellent character. After the examination of the witnesses for the defence, the will of the prisoner was put in, from which it appeared that lie bad, for some time previous to the death. of Francis, 'appointed him his executor. The Loan Cursr Jusrtcs summed np ; and The Jury found a verdict of Guilty of Manslaughter.