§ MR. WILLIAM JONES (Carnarvon, Arfon)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Lord Chancellor has concluded his proposed Inquiry and come to any, and if so what, decision in regard to Mr. James Shenton, a Justice of the Peace for the county of Chester and a member of the Hyde Town Council, who was fined the maximum penalty that could be imposed, namely, £3 and £2 costs, by the Hyde Borough Magistrates on Wednesday the 7th of July, for an assault committed upon Mr. A. P. Whitehead, also a member of the Hyde Town Council, at a meeting of the Council on the 16th of June?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYThe Lord Chancellor informs me that Mr. Shenton resigned his office as a magistrate last week.