The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-30 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCISE.

Before Admiral the Percy ; T. ISur4an, Beg.; and Chas.
Mom,
REMOVING SPIRITS WITKOPE CNN/IN.—George Knight,
an auctioneer, was charged with dealing in and removing
spirits without license.—Mr.W. Harris, brewer, of the Hamp.
stead-road, Mated, that on the 4th of May last he attended a
sale in St. Martin's-lane, Westminster, at which the defend-
ant officiated as auctioneer. He purchased several lots of
cumin, no u, and maraschino, which were represented as
foreign goods, and believed to be so by the purchasers. The
liqueurs, a day or two after the sale, were sent to his resi-
dence, but be refused to take them in, and his reason for
doing so was, that he accidentally went into an auction-room
in the City, where pictures were offering, and seeing the
same parties bidding for them who had been the foremost in
running up the price of the liqueurs, he bad his suspicions
that all was not right, and refused to take In the goods.—Mr.
Lee, manager of the Trevor Arms, Knightsbridge, had also
attended a sale by the defendant at the Auction Mart,
and became the purchaser of various cordials known by
the names of " parfait amour," " maraschino," ,
which had been made up to Imitate the foreign articles.
Witness went to fetch his' perelseese from Crosby-
hall,-Bishopsgate-etreet, but vesised se pewit with them.
Subsequently had transeetiowe "whit delhoulat at Savage-
gardens for some wines that Mr. Harris WA reheal to clear.
lie took them away in a cart without peek, bat with the
knowledge of defendant. He bed the animist et bows but a
short time when Meg ware salmi by the ado eMser for
want of a permit. WMases wait to defrearet isspesdna it,
when he said that the stock was permitted le lives and that
it was all right.—Mr. Cleo. Ballard proved eerily 148 bete
tles of cordials for want of a permit.—Mr. Hall deposed they
were British cordials.—Mr. Richd. Dance, MIIIMMVieor, stated
that he waited upon defendant about the ens, and he said
he sold the geode under the latereasioe that they were going
into private consumption. He bad thaw hem Mr. Louis
}trued, spirit-dealer, of York-restl, Lembefiu—Thia was the
ease for the prosecution, when the dassadeet aid be would
first call the mien fur whom be sold the artielee.—Louis
Eynard, spirit-manufacturer, of No. 5 York-terrace, York-
road. Lambeth. said ho employed the defendant to sell the
goods for him. They were sold bysample at auetion, and when
the orders were sent home they were drawn from his stock.
The goods were always sent out accompanied by permits.—
Upon his attention being drawn to one of the labels on a
bottle, which ran thus : Parfait Amour, De Rogier et Com.
Disulateurs, Bordeaux," the witness laughed, and said the
people might see the name, bat the rest was MI nonsease.
—The defendant addressed the court, and contended that by
the act 9 Vic., cap. 15, see. 6, as an auctioneer he was not
required to take out an excise license to sell exciseable arti-
cles. It was a very momentous question, and was the first
case since the passing of the act, and if he had been doing
wrong every auctioneer in London had been doing the same.
—The court, in eivir.g judgment, said that the defendant, by
scudiag oat small quantities without permits, bad rendered
himself a dealer, and violated the law, and the court would
mark their sense of his so doing by inflicting a fine of 51.,
and he aught to know that if the sold spirits for other per-
sons he must draw the permit in the name of those for whom
they are intended.

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THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1847.