§ SIR JOHN BRUNNER (Cheshire, Northwich)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been directed to the ease of 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 General Purposes Committee of the Council on the 16th of June; and whether it is his intention to call the attention of the Lord Chancellor to the conduct of Mr. Shenton on this occasion?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYThe Lord Chancellor has informed me that he is already making inquiry into this matter.