EXTRACTS.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 28, 15 February 1844, Page 4

EXTRACTS.

■ ioii>« trial h t-* tiiketi place befoi i the .v Tri'mii'il of Pont,oi*< The garde phatapVtjre of Presles, haaiui olisen iml lun person* dressed us sports Men carrying guns t>n apiece of'groum ■Which was i silli lucerne, went U| to them ami ii»manded a »ii»ht of their poll d uttkes ( inunfl certificates), at ihesame time inlouiiin- tin in (hat Miey were edfaimuting i trespass by i _ on grouhd on M inch there was Sli'l a Ciop. One of the y produced his poit daiinc< I nil Use iilit-r. iii h fa It**i in _i •'blc and with downcast head, udmiued in t b'ing provided w nil ihedocutuc ul in qui «. ■ iiiion, however, observed to t , rlifii a'» was QC - n w iih I, ~, Was Ills uite, who had dressed herself in man's attiielo uccompiiv her husband in tho recreation of Bhontjsg; of which she was very fund, adding that when he had applied to Ihe 1 ire of Poli in Pat is loi a port d'armts for Inn m l, l.e inqnireil it onu was also net for ' his wite, .trill Was MfnfMed that it was not. The gardechampetre, nut satisfii d ■with this explanati'Mi, announced lo the lady thai her fowling piece wus'conhscated, hut wiihoiit seizing it, and having tak« n their a<l<ln», l.tnl his complaint be- I fore the fogd autlioiities. The husband of ( the fair sportswoman, who is an advocate ' ot the Court Roy ale oi Pa is, was present at the bar of the Tribunal of I'ontoise, to take his trial, as was ilea Ins wife, in the habiliments of her sex. Sho defended herself with great skill and elocution, observ- ( ingthat it was not wtih a view to economise the paltry sum ol I of. that she had refrained from taking a port darings, but ' under the conviction that a wonvin.who | accorapanieil hi r hushand in Insrecrta t tlons, CdllM not Ii tHi \ In c.p'iil upon lo furnish heiseit with such a document ; and adding, thai she ihouiiln it v»iy that win l *! women aeredenfed i|k joy men! o r civic ami political tinhis, tiny should also he mterdii led of those wtt'\ .they inherited from \ ature, ainl whi h they were a< competent to exercise as men. 1 h« Ad Vocal 'ln Koi, in hts add to thf Ti ihu n.il, siul the law declared thatiiny peisou found spoiling musL pocure a iogtfl p' ■tmission, and that t lion-was no exouiption on the ground ol s x, I called ioi an PuforcVffleiit of the taw, Ob' aarving that atiinewh.-n ceitain Ii males Wen: so anxious to adopt viri'e habils, n would be danjierous lo cr ate in then la vour an exception which the hee,;s'aturt had never sought U> csiahlish. The Tribunal acquitted the male ilelemlant on the Charge Or but found the lady guilty oi shooting without beh)g provided wilh a port d'armtl. She wait sentened ioi, tin* ol '201.. and the conhscattou <d hei gun, with liberty, however, to ledt'cm it l on payment of 3Of. 1 /