LICENSING SYSTEM.—The Magistrates of Chichester having thought fit, lately, to
refuse a licence to a publican named Seymour, and their refusal haviug been confirmed by the General Se,:sions for the western division of Sussex, a meeting was held at Chichester last week for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the abolition of the present licensing system. Many able and temperate speeches were delivered ' • and a petition was signed by a great majority of the meeting. The General Quarter Sessions for the West Riding of Ynrkshire were held at Sheffield by adjournment from Leeds on Wednesday the 2St1i of October. Lord
Wharecliffe, in his charge to the Grand Jury, expatiated on the late combinatione at Barnsley. Ile said that. the law allowed workmen to raise wages by all fair means, bet would not allow one set of workmen to interfere with another set, who might choose to accept of low wages.
The first case was an appeal by some weavers, who had been convicted of attempts to intimidate, against the decision of two Magistrates of the West Riding ; in which that decision was confirmed, and the sentence of imprisonment upon the appellants carried into effect. The next was the trial of the Barnsley rioters. A verdict of guilty was found against five of the prisoners, and of acquittal for two. One of the five was condemned to imprisonment and hard labour for a month ; the other four for three months.
At the Manchester Sessions this week, three constables were tried far felony. They had, in the execution of their duty, occasion to seize seine property, which they subsequently refused to surrender to the owners. They were found guilty. One was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Lancaster Castle ; the other two, to one year's imprisonment in the same place. At the Salford Sessions, on Friday week, Jonas Lancashire, William Boden, and William Eastwood, were tried for stealing from the Waggon and Horses, in
Manchester, the sum of 140 sovereigns, the property, of the landlord of that house. After weighing some strongly conflicting evidence, the prisoners were found guilty. Lancashire was sentenced to be transported for life, and Roden and Eastwood for seven years each.
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