§ MR. FRANCIS STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been celled to the circumstances under which the Magistrates at Bungay Petty Sessions, on the 20th of June, sentenced Ambrose Sutton, a member of the Salvation Army, to pay a fine of 10s. and 10s, 6d. costs, or in default to go to prison for 14 days, for putting his hand on the bridle of a horse to prevent the driver from running into a small crowd of Salvationists assembled in the market-place; whether it is the fact that the Bench refused to state a case for appeal, and also declined to grant a summons against the driver; and whether he has taken, or will take, any steps with regard to the matter?
§ MR. MATTHEWSI have received from the Clerk to the Justices a Report on this case, which gives a totally different statement of the facts from that which is suggested in the hon. Member's question. The Justices could not grant a case, because the point involved was one of fact and not of law. The defendant has, however, given notice of appeal, and, pending that appeal, I express no opinion upon the matter.