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MINUTES OF EVIDENCE

... THE MARQUIS O F CHIANDOS IN THE | CHAIR. The Rev. REoBRT WRlnHT called in, and examined. (Concluded from p. 314, No. 5.) DT you think it would be possible to enforce it ? . No, 1(do not think it would, etcebpt there were a police-officer sta- tioned in the house all day .:Do you think any police-officer could prevent another person in another name having a house opposite, and there in- viling ...

ARREST FOR DEBT

... THE, following is a. corresponience which I have found amongst mv Father's papers. and which had been reserved by himself foir making use of in the HoVse- of Commons. As I cannot make use- of it there, and feeling fully authorised to. do so by the nature of the subject, and- even called upon to do so by the import- ance of this subject, I insert it, quite confident that the readers of tke Re- ...

POOR-LAW BILL

... (Front ite Momning Chronicle, 9. April, 1834 . TEI vestry of St. Marybonne was specially summoned on Saturday to take into consideration the bill broight in by Lord AuvHOKp founded upon the Poor- |ILaw Commissioners' Report. The board was most numerously attended, there being at one time nearly 100 mem- -bers present. A resolution, Cfondemnna- 'ort of the principle zamd details of the bill, ...

INQUEST ON CULLY

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. RoEsucix said hehad to present a petition tlo the House of much public importance. It was from the jurors who sat on the coroner's inquest on the body of Robert Cully, the policeman, who was killed in Calthorpe-street. The bon. Memrnber then read the petition at length. He then said the object of the observations he had to make was di- rectly to charge his Majesty's ...

AMUSING TRIAL!

... (From the AMorning Ckronicle of the loc of February, 1832.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Fza. 9. [Sittings at Nisi Prins, before the Lord Chief Baron LYNDHURST and a Special Jnry.] HUNT v. LAWsONi.-Mr. Hunt, immediately after the Lord Chief Baron had taken his seat, rose and addressed the court nearly as follows:- My Lord and Gentlemen of the Jury,-In appearing before you here this day, I feel it may ...

POLICE WORK IN THE COUNTRY

... IT appears that some policemen, or persons connected with the London po- lice have been sent to Stow-on-tlhe-Wold, in Gloucestershire, in consequence of a murder committed there some time ago. On the 25. of Moarch the following me. morial was presented to the Secretary of State, from the people of Stow. The affair of the murder was brought to a conclusion; but the policemen remain there and ...

POOR-LAW COMMISSION

... I I flAYE just published, price TmEEs- PzxCe, T{rip RIGHTS OF I-HE POOR; being an exposition of the proceedings, and of some of the falsehoods of the roving poor-law commissioners; that is to say, those who have been sent about the country to pick up information and to make reports. This is not much expense i and every Political Union in the country, in Scotland as well as in England, ought to ...

POLICE SPIES

... POLICE SPIES i 1E Ar that PoPAY isdis the police; but the th end herm A great deal done! befoxm. .tltipub ctttbE satis; Ile . ty am~ Jo-mo ntlow ~Triday), to e' 14'pToon ppon ite subject in thle Hbiu oe Co! m i'mps. 'The Hlose s6et- d' tonsists nv of ,ulre tihan sixvI sqVeqty,,, or eighty Members present; a' the'rore, to niaie a statema nt suoh as,,oiht to he mate upon theM gct5, would pio lv ...

SCOTTISH JAILS, POLICE, &c

... (From the GasjoW Chronicd, 18.IDee,18a3.) Tu& following letter on this subject fromn the Lord Advocate to Mr. Cameron, Dinlgwall, was read at a general meet- ing of the county of Ross, on the 20. ultirmo Edinburgh, Oct., 1633. SIR,-I had last night the honour of receiving your letter of the 26., with the minutes there referred to. The resolution to which you par- ticular-ly call my ...

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 29

... COURT OF KING'S BENCH, M~s 29. -. CULLEY,'TEE POLICEMN4. The Solicitor-General said he was in- structed to apply for a writ of-certiorari to remove into this court the inquisition' :taken by one of the coroners for Mid;; diesex on a view of the body of Robert' Culley, the police-constable, who- was killed at the late meeting in Colbath- fields. The Iobject was to quash -the i>- quisition. 'the ...

POOR LAW INQUEST

... ON Thursday, the IIth instant, an inquest was held at the workhouse of St. Pancras, London, on the body of an aged woman, who died there, and the verdict was,- Died by the Visita- tion of God, hut we find that her death was greatly accelerated by her being removed from HI eston to the Parish of St. Pancras in pursuance of the general ordersfrom the Poor Lay) Commissioners, which orders we ...