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London, England, 1820-11-17 00:00:00

-*mow to the entre% nr, to Lorroir oat of Iltdir expreo-
Nora, wwitglig with their heads.
The Magistrate ordered the lady to pay a hoe of 209.

n•rros GARDI3I.

A raw of crest importance to the drivers of hackney.
teaches and otiose carriages Caine on yesterday, upon agree-
temot, after reveal adjoorioneuta, between the ',meet of the
Jimmies-eyed Mambo' from Kentish Town to Highgate-arch-
way, mot the public, the jnier .3f one hackney-coach named
tVisarles Scott being the nomitial Defendant.
The case wets whether a coach drawn by two horses *Mould
he tohject to a fresh payment of toll on return, after baying
paid once before on 11w sane day at the name gale.
Os the part of the Drimodasit it was contended, that he
tomtits; paid the toll at one of the gates on the said road, and
a tick.( given hum, it cleared the other gate on the zone
treat, end also freed the same carriage sod horses on their
return, as otherwise the ticket could be of no service
whatever.
Us the part of the lessees it was contended, that the Art
or Parliameul which controlled this path. Mar road and
s 3 est, was a local Aet in itself, and could not have reference
is. any other Act whatever; and by that Act it was direct-
ed, that every persona paving with a marls drawn by Iwo
homes., akotild pay a toll of sixpence, and that ou the pro.
riocioo of a tie ket, no toll 'Woad be demanded or takes
train the same coac► and hooves at any other eats on that
road, and therefore it was obvious that the ticket did net
• 3,se a fresh passing at the same gale at whirls the
ticket was in the lirst instance issued, on its return; besides
that, there was nu provisionary clause in that particular
Act► as was the case in ul.l Turnpike Arts, That the toll
brims paid once in a day should clear all the gates on that
particular trust ion the production of a tick. t), from twelve
4.`telock on one night to twelve o'clock on the ..receding
right, which Amass specified what should be deemed the
simitatioa of a day, which was out the ease here ; and
'Waller, that this was a new Act, fur the purpose of malitte
a met road, to which the pohlte received every benefit,
bring the 'caeca and hest way to t►e Archway-road,
instead of going round by Highgate, the rase Wowing arisen
from the Defendant 'cranium to pay the 101 l on his retorn.
The Magistrates, atter hearing and investigating the met•
ire minutely, declared, that according to the Art of Perlis.
meat the lessees were entitled to their toll on every one
paseiste through the said gate from which the ticket was
issued, as it only cleared all the gates en inc. way of peak.
ing, Mot not on retorts, and convicted the Defendant in the
mitigated penalty of ten shillings and costs.

lAX'!ON 1110 U 4F.

Wednesday an inhabitant of St. Aodrew'a, Illackfrenes, ap.
peered before the Lord Mayor, to answer a camplat Ist against
tuns tor rtfosivig in pay the peraon's tithes. lie owed,
that the Rev. Isaac Saunders refused to christen his child, on
t►e ground that he should take cold from the damp state of
the christening pew. and out having had what he termed a
legal notice." It appeared from the statement of she
hn►band that the lady (who had just recovered from her
roolinement), had beer kept 'mitotic in this damp and cold
pew for upwards of ore ►our, and then was obliged to have
buy child elseistestd in another parish.
The Lo►d Mayor Paid hr could not este► into the ease, and
the comptainaut must pay the tithe, or carry the case into
the Ecclesiastical Court.

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