The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-31 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Mir 30.
THE EDINBURGH WATER COMPANY V. WAUGH.

This was an appeal against the decision of the Court of
Session, by which the Court had declared the appellants
liable to furnish for ever a supply of water to the work-
house of Edinburgh. For about eighty years before 1819
the charity workhouse under a speeial grant from the Magis-
trates and Council of the town of Edinburgh enjoyed a gra-
tuitous supply of water from the reservoir and cisterns be-
longing to the town. In 1819 the Edinburgh Water Com-
pany obtained by contract a transfer of the whole of the
town's reservoirs and cisterns, under the condition of con-
tinuing all the supplies previously made under the au-
thority of the Magistrates and Council. The Company
for some years supplied the workhouse gratuitously, but
in 1832 claimed to exercise the discretionary right of dis-
continuing the supply. The point raised in the argument
before the Court of Session depended on the question whe-
ther the Company possessed a right, at its discretion, to
give or to refuse the supply of water, or was bound at all
events, and for ever, to furnish it. The Court of Session
had decreed that the Town-council had made a permanent
grant of a supply of water, and against that decree the
present appeal was brought. The case was argued some
short time since, and time was taken to consider the
judgment.
Lord BROUGHAM now delivered the judgment.—Judg-
ment of the Court below reversed, without costs.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAT 30.
THE ICING V. THE CORPORATION OF HERTFORD.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL applied, on behalf of a Mr.
Thomas, for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should
not issue, commanding the defendants to admit the applicant
to take his seat as a member of the Town Council of the
borough of Hertford. It would be in the recollection of
their Lordships that he (the Attorney-General) had some
time since obtained a rule for a quo warranto to be directed
to a Mr. Lawrence calling on him to show by what autho-
rity he claimed to exercise the office of Town Councillor.
That rule had been made absolute, and judgment of ouster
had been given against Mr. Lawrence, he having withdrawn
all opposition to the rule. The name of Mr. Thomas was
the next on the list to that of Mr. Lawrence. He had been
duly elected to the office, and Mr. Lawrence having been
declared unqualified to hold his seat Mr. Thomas was en-
titled to admission in the council. He had applied to be ad-
mitted, and his application had been refused, and this ap-
plication, therefore, became necessary.
The COURT granted the rule.

THE ENGLISH IN FRANCE.—The following offi-
cial return of the number of resident English in this country,
as presented by Monsieur le Prefet de Police at Paris to his
Excellency the Minister of the Interior, up to the Ist instant,
is rather interesting, as it is one third more than this time last
year, viz. :—Paris, 24,000 to 25,000; Versailles, St. Cloud,
St. Germain, &c. &c., 3,000 ; Havre de Grace, Caen, &c.,
4,000; Dieppe, Rouen, and environs, 3,000; Tours, Orleans,
Fountainbleau, &c., 2,000 ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, Bayonne,
Barresses, Pau, Montpellier, Marseilles, Toulon, Hieres, Aix,
Avignon, and Lyons, 6,000 ; St. Quenten, Cambrai, Valen-
ciennes, Douai, and Lille, 1,000 ; St. Omer, Mont Cassel,
&c., 1,500 to 1,800 • Dunkerque, Bergues, Bourbourg, &c.,
1,000 to 1,200 ; Calais, Basse Ville, St. Pierre, Coulogne,
and Guines, 5,000 to 6,000 ; and in Boulogne and its environs
there are from 6,000 to 7,000 actual residents, exclusive of the
thousands who only pass through it, or remain but for a short
time. Admitting that each person spends on an average five
francs per diem, the annual sum expended in this country by
the domiciled English alone would be, 109,500,000 francs,
which, at the exchange of 25 frans, amounts to about 4,380,0001.
sterling.

Yesterday evening an inquest was held at the St.
Andrew's work-house, Little Gray's Inn-lane, on the body of
William Redrupt, aged 20, late porter at the True Sun even-
ing newspaper office, who was stabbed with a table knife by a
lad named John Shugra, alias Mansfield. The Jury returned
a verdict of " Manslaughter against John Mansfield," and the
Coroner issued his warrant for his committal to Newete, and
bound the witnesses over to prosecute,

Several private tills &I the table were advanced a stage.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then tot + his seat on the
Woolsack.
Mr. ToOkt, and other Members of the House of Com-
mons, then brought up the London Necropolis and National
Cemetgry Bill, the London and Greenwich Railway Amend-
ments 13111, and several other private Bills ; also a request
that their Lordships would communicate the Report of the
Committee of their House, appointed to consider the expe-
diencyof substituting declarations for oaths in certain cases.

The Duke of WELLINGTON then presented several
petitions in favour of Church-rates.
Lost SEFTON presented petitions from persons resid-
ing in Lancaster against the Birkenhead and Chester Rail-
way Bill.
The Duke of RUTL AND presented a petition from the
guardians of a union in Leicester, praying that a Bill should be
passed, providing that all manufacturing and commercial pro-
perty should be rated, and the owners, not the occupiers of
land, should be obliged to pay the rates. The Noble Lord
also presented a petition from the inhabitant rate-payers of
the county of Leicester against the mode of levying, receiv-
ing, and disbursing county rates as at present. He felt
himself bound to present the petition, although he did not
concur in the prayer of it.
...Lord BROUGHAM said that although the Noble Duke
did not concur with the petitioners, yet the matter was well
Vollthy attention ; and he regretted that a measure had
been lately rejected in the other Houv which would have
given to the rate-payers power over the mode of levying
and expending the rates.