IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
... HOUSE OF LORDS— Monday. PETTY LARCENIES. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in reply to Lord BROUGHAM, said that tho trial by grand jury of a boy for stealing a turnip or apple, with its attendant pomp aud ceremony, was an absurdity. Government were about introducing a bill having a twofold object. The first, that very small cases might be the subject of trial by the justices before whom the cases were ...