The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-05 00:00:00

HATTON.GARDEN.

John Teesdale, landlord of the Grapes, public-house,
Albemarle-street, Clerkenwell, appeared to a sum-
mons to answer the complaint of Sergeant Stanner, of
G division, for having kept his house open for the sale
of liquors beyond the hour prescribed by law.
The evidence went to prove that at half-past twelve
o'clock, on Sunday morning last, the officers entered the
defendant's parlour, and found a few respectable per-
sons sitting down, finishing their pipes of tobacco and
what they had been served with, and when the police
entered the defendant ordered his customers out.

The prisoner admitted that there were persons in
the parlour at the time, but they were merely talking
over some business, and had nothing before them but
the remains of what they called for before the hour of
12 o'clock. He had suggested the necessity of their
leaving before the police entered, and they were about
to depart. He assured the Bench that they were
highly respectable tradesmen, and he appealed to the
officers as to whether his house was not as respectably
conducted as any in the neighbourhood.
Waddington and other officers bore testimony as to
the regular conduct of the house, which was visited by
respectable tradesmen, &c.
The defendant was informed that he bad no right to
keep his house open after 12 o'clock, and he was con-
victed in the penalty of 30s. and costs, which he reluc-
tantly paid. At the outside of the Court several
licensed victuallers questioned the right of being inter-
fered with for keeping open after 12 o'clock, if they
closed at one ; and expressed their determination to
have the opinion of Counsel as to whether it was Sun-
day morning before one o'clock, as the Act of Parlia-
ment specified that the house should not be kept open
on Sundays before the hour of one in the afternoon, &c.

MRS. TROLLOPE'S MICHAEL ARMSTRONG
—We are glad to find that Mr. Colburn has come to
the determination of publishing forthwith a complete edi-
tion of this most interesting work without waiting for
its termination in the ordinary course of monthly num-
bers, which will continue to appear as usual. The com-
plete edition will form three volumes of the post Bvo.
size, adapted for libraries, and will contain all the illus-
trations by Hervieu, Buss, Onwhyn, &c. The price of
the three volumes will be 255. bound.

DUNFERMLINE.—In consequence of the late
alarming news from America respecting the state o f
the money market there, and the want of confidence
throughout the commercial classes of the States, a con-
siderable dampness and depression has been thrown on
a particular branch of the table linen trade of Dunferm-
line. This branch of the trade consists of what is called
whitey-browns and coloured damasks, partly linen and
cotton, for day table covers, bed quilts, window hang.
ings, bed curtains, &c. About twenty-eight years
ago, this kind of damask was begun here. The
first consists of the first-rate patterns usually woven
on the finest table linen, transferred to cloths
of the coarsest yarn, and of a narrow breadth, suited to
country use and the under classes of society. The warp
of this fabric is bleached, and the well is of the natu-
ral colour ; hence the cloth is called whitey brown.
The coloured damasks are of all colours in the weft ;
and the patterns of figures are displayed most distinctl y
to the eye, and are truly picturesque. These two kinds
of cloth, from a small beginning, have from year to year
increased rapidly in popular favour, so that a very great
proportion of the looms here weave nothing else. Now,
these kinds of goods were, for by far the greater part,
sent to America, and by merchants, hawkers, and other-
wise, distributed all over the American States. But
the panic has taken place, a want of confidence hesr:
be-en-
sued, and our manufacturers are alarmed, n
ginning to pay off their operatives in these branches oief
the trade. This will be severely felt here during the
winter.—Scotsman. RAILWAY.
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spaculations of tha kind promise to be mote remunera-
tive to the enterprising promoters.—Railway
IMPORTANT TO BAKERS. —On Friday
Richard Sharman, baker, of Exeter, was brought before
the Magistrates of that town, charged with having sent
out bread for sale which proved to be of light weight,
and for further sending out such bread without sending
beam and scales to weigh it, which the 7th section of
the Act of Parliament imperatively requires, under a
penalty of .5/. for neglecting to do so. The case was
fully made out ; but the Magistrates, taking into con-
sideration that it was his first offence, mitigated the
penalty to 505., to be paid in a fortnight. One-half of
the penalty goes to the informer, and the other to the
county rate.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF SHIPPING.
—Yesterday morning the Pool presented a very ani-
mated appearance, by the arrival and departure of ark
immense quantity of merchantmen that had been de-
tained in the river on account of the dense fogs.