A foul case of partiality...
A foul case of partiality ancd tyranny is reported in the Irish papers to have occurred at Belfast. A constable, who eintered an outward-bound vessel to seize a runawvay appren- tice, was asked by the princtpal person on boardl to show hiis autlhority for the captiou, w1hich, as every subject of the United Kingdom knows, it was his bounden duty to exhibit. Instead of this, he answered by daminig tO-e in- quirer, and presenting a cocked pistol c!ose to his breast, with a threat of lodging the contencs of it in his body. For this daring conduct, the injured individual went to lodge examinations agaaist the ruffian, but the Police Magistrate long hiesitate(d to receive them, andt at last omitted to take any bail from the constable. At the sessions, the person who ha(d lodgged the conmplaint found, to his extreme asto- nislhmenit, that witlhout thje slightest notice or preparation, he hi:nself, anid a friendi wlho had been with him at tle -timne, were to be tried for an assault ona the assailant. This, however, was but a brief affair; for on the cross-in(lictment being tried, they were at once aequittedl, and the offinding eonstable foundl guilty. The M\agistrates-the imierciful Mlagistrttes-fitied this person- age the heavy Su' of Gdl., and gave him his discharge. 'I'ilis was not all: wlhen the successful prosecutor, on the advice of his law-agent, attendled the above-mentioneed po- lice Mlagistrate to make an affidavit, on whichl to ground a presecution oftlie constable forperjury, his Worship refuised the gentleman's examinations, and the matter is to be brought before the Court of King's Bench. Verily, the purification of the minor caurts of jsostice is no sinecure for the (Government which lhas undertaken it.