The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-22 00:00:00

NEW POLICE ACT.

The following are clauses of this:Act, which received
the Royal assent on Saturday :
XL VII. No licensed victualler, or other person, shall
open his house, within the metropolitan police district
(: 5 miles in a straight line from Charing-cross), for the
sale of wines, spirits, beer, or other fermented or dis-
tilled liquors, on Sundays, Christmas-days, and Good
Fridays, before the hour of one o'clock in the after-
noon, except for refreshment for travellers."
Another clause enacts, that " every person licensed
to deal in exciseable liquors, within the said district,
who shall knowingly supply any sort of distilled ex-
ciseable liquor to any boy or girl apparently under the
age of 16 years, to be drunk upon the premises, shall be
liable to a penalty not more than 20s. ; and upon con-
viction of a second offence shall be liable to a penalty
not more than 40s. ; and upon conviction of a third
offence shall be liable to a penalty not more than 51."
LIV. That every person shall be liable to a penalty,
not more than 405., who, within the limits of the me-
tropolitan police district, shall, in any thoroughfare or
public place, commit any of the following offences,
(that is to say) :
I. Every person who shall, to the annoyance of the
inhabitants or passengers, expose for show or sale (ex-
cept in a market lawfully appointed for that purpose),
or feed or fodder, any horse or other animal, or show
any caravan containing any animal, or any other show
or public entertainment, or shoe, bleed, or farry, any
horse or animal (except in cases of accident), or clean,
dress, exercise, train, or break any horse or animal, or
clehn, make, or repair any part of any cart or carriage,
except in cases of accident, where repair on the spot is
necessary.

2. Every person who shall turn loose any horse or
cattle, or suffer to be at large any unmuzzled ferocious
dog, or set on or urge any dog or other animal to attack,
worry, or put in fear any person, horse, or other animal.
3. Every person who, by negligence or ill usage in
driving cattle, shall cause any mischief to be done by
such cattle, or who shall in anywise misbehave himself
in the driving, care, or management of such cattle, and
also every person not being hired or employed to drive
such cattle who shall wantonly and unlawfully pelt,
drive, or hunt any such cattle.
4. Every person having the care of anycart or carriage
who shall ride on any part thereof, on the shafts, or on
any horse or other animal drawing the same, without
having and holding the reins, or who shall be at such
a distance from such cart or carriage as not to have
the complete control over every horse or other animal
drawing the same.

5. Every person who shall ride or drive furiously, or
so as to endanger the life or limb of any person, or to
the common danger of the passengers in any thorough-
fare.

6. Every person who shall cause any cart, public
carriage, sledge, truck, or barrow, with or without
horses, to stand longer than may be necessary for load-
ing or unloading, or for taking up or setting down pas-
sengers, except hackney carriages standing for hire in
any place not forbidden by law, or who by means of any
cart, carriage, sledge, truck, or barrow, or any horse or
other animal, shall wilfully interrupt any public crossing,
or wilfully cause any obstruction in any thoroughfare.
7. Every person who shall lead or ride any horse or
other animal, or draw or drive any cart or carriage,
sledge, truck, or barrow, upon any footway or curbstone,
or fasten any horse or other animal, so that it can
stand across or upon any footway.
8. Every person who shall roll or carry any cask,
tub, hoop, or wheel, or any ladder, plank, pole, show-
board, or placard, upon any footway, except for the
purpose of loading or unloading any cart or carriage,
or of crossing the footway.

9. Every person who, after being made acquainted
with the regulations or directions which the Commis-
sioners of Police shall have made for regulating the
route of horses, carts, carriages, and persons during the
time of Divine service, and for preventing obstructions
during public processions, and on other occasions here-
inbefore specified, shall wilfully disregard or not con-
form himself thereunto.

10. Every person who without the consent of the
owner or occupier, shall affix any posting-bill or other
paper against or upon any building, wall, fence, or pale,
or write upon, soil, deface, or mark any such building,
wall, fence, or pale with chalk or paint, or in any other
way whatsoever, or wilfully break, destroy, or damage
any part of any such building, wall, fence, or pale, or
any fixture or appendage thereunto, or any tree, shrub,
or seat, in any public walk, park, or garden.
11. Every common prostitute or nightwalker loiter-
ing or being in any thoroughfare or public place, for the
purpose of prostitution or solicitation, to the annoyance
of the inhabitants or passengers.
u. Every person who shall sell or distribute, or offer
for sale or distribution, or exhibit to public view any
profane, ineeaent, or obscene book, paper, print, drawing,
painting, or representation, or sing any profane, indecent,
or obscene song or ballad, or write or draw any indecent
or obscene word, figure, or representation, or use any
profane, indecent, or obscene language to the annoyance
of the inhabitants or passengers.
13. Every person who shall use any threatening, abu-
sive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to pro-
•lrdke a breach of the peace, or whereby a breach of the
peace may be ocec,sinne.l.
14. Every person, except the guards and postmen
belonging to her Majesty's Post Office in the perform-

t once of their duty,other noisy instrument, for the purpose of calling per-
sons together, or of announcing any show or entertain-
ment, who shall blow any horn or use any
or for the purpose of hawking,
distri-
buting, or collecting any article whatsoever, or of
obtaining money or alms.
15. Every person who shall wantonly discharge any
fire-arm, or throw or discharge any stone or other mis-
sile, to the damage or danger of any person, or make
any bonfire, or throw or set fire to any firework.
16. Every person who shall wilfully and wani:arily
iliAurb any inhabitant by pulling or ringing any door-
bell, or knocking at any door without lawul excuse, or
who shall wilfully and unlawfully extinguish the light of
any lamp.
17. Every person who shall fly any kite, or play at
any game, to the annoyance of the inhabitants or pas-
sengers, or who shall make or use any slide upon ice or
snow in any street or other thoroughfare, to the common
danger of the passengers.
And it shall be lawful for any constable belonging to
the Metropolitan Force to take into custody, without
warrant, any person who shall commit any such offence
within view of any such constable.
LV. That no person other than persons acting in
obedience to lawful authority shall discharge any cannon
or other fire-arm of greater calibre than a common fow-
ling-piece within 300 yards of a dwelling-house within
the said district to the annoyance of any inhabitant
thereof, and every person who after being warned of
the annoyance by any inhabitant shall discharge any
such fire-arm shall be liable to a penalty not more
than .5/.

LVI. That after the lst day of January next every
person who within the metropolitan police district shall
use any dog for the purpose of drawing or helping to
draw any cart, carriage, truck, or barrow, shall be
liable to a penalty of not more than 40s. for the first
offence, and not more than 3/. for the second or any
following offence.

LVII. That it shall be lawful for any householder
within the metropolitan police district, personally, or by
his servant, or by any police constable, to require any
street musician to depart from the neighbourhood of the
house of such householder on account of the illness of
any inmate of such house, or for other reasonable cause,
and every person who shall sound or play upon any
musical instrument in any thoroughfare near any house
after being so required to depart, shall be liable to a
penalty of not more than 40s.
LVIII. That every person who shall be found drunk
in any street or public thoroughfare within the said dis-
trict, and who while drunk shall be guilty of any riotous
or indecent behaviour, and also every person who shall
be guilty of any violent or indecent behaviour in any po-
lice station-house, shall be liable to a penalty of not
more than 40s. for every such offence, or may be com-
mitted, it the magistrate before whom he shall be con-
victed shall think fit, instead of inflicting on him any
pecuniary penalty, to the House of Correction for any
time not more than seven days. _

LX. That every person who, in any street or public
place within the limits of the metropolitan police dis-
tricts, shall be guilty of any of the following offences,
shall be liable to a penalty of not more than 40s. for
every such offence—that is to say,
1. Every person who in any thoroughfare shall burn,
dress, or cleanse any cork, or hoop, cleanse, fire, wash.
or scald any cask or tub, or hew, saw, bore, or cut any
timber or stone, or slack, sift, or screen any lime.
2. Every person who shall throw or lay in any
thoroughfare any coals, stones, slates, shells, lime,
bricks, timber, iron, or other materials (except building
materials, or rubbish thereby occasioned, which shall be
placed or enclosed so as to prevent any mischief hap-
pening to passengers).
3. Every person who in any thoroughfare shall beat
or shake any carpet, rug, or mat (except door-mats be-
fore the hour of eight in the morning) or throw or lay
any dirt, litter, or ashes, or any carrion, fish, offal, or
rubbish, or throw or cause any such thing to fall into
any sewer, pipe, or drain, or into any well, stream, or
watercourse, pond, or reservoir for water, or cause any
offensive matter to run from any manufactory, brewery,
slaughter-house, butcher's-shop, or dunghill, into any
thoroughfare, or any uncovered place, whether or not
surrounded by a rail or fence ; but it shall not be deemed
an offence to lay sand or other materials i❑ any tho-
roughfares in time of frost to prevent accidents, or litter
or other materials to prevent the freezing of water pipes,
or in case of sickness to prevent noise, if the party lay-
ing any such things shall cause them to be removed as
soon as the occasion for them shall cease.

4. Every person who shall empty, or begin to empty,
any privy between the hours of six in the morning and
twelve at night, or remove along any thoroughfare any
night soil, soap lees, ammoniacal liquor, or other such
offensive matter, between the hours of six in the morn-
ing or eight in the evening, or who shall at any time
use for any such purpose any cart or carriage not hav-
ing a proper covering, or who shall wilfully or carelessly
slop or spill any such offensive matter in the removal
thereof, or who shall not carefully sweep and clean every
place in which any such offensive matter shall have been
placed, slopped, or spilled ; and in default of the apprehen-
sion of the actual offender, the owner of the cart or
carriage employed for any such purpose shall be deemed
to be the offender : provided always, that this enact-
ment shall not be construed to prevent the Commis-
sioners of any sewers within the metropolitan police
district, or any person acting in their service or by their
direction, from emptying or removing along any tho-
roughfare at any time the contents of any sewer which
they are authorised to cleanse or empty.
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a sufficient wall or fence, or who shall keep any swine
in or near any street, or in any dwelling, so as to be a
common nuisance.

6. Every occupier of a house or other tenement in
any town within the said district who shall not keep suf-
ficiently swept and cleansed all footways and water-
courses adjoining to the premises occupied by him ; and
if any tenement be empty or unoccupied, the owner
thereof shall be deemed the occupier with reference to
this enactment.

7. Every person who shall expose anything for sale in any
park or public garden, unless with the consent of the owner
or other person authorised to give such consent, or upon
or so as to hang over any carriage-way or foot-way, or
on the outside of any house or shop, or who shall set
up or continue any pole, blind, awning, line, or any
other projection from any window, parapet, or other
part of any house, shop, or other building, so as to cause
any annoyance or obstruction in any thoroughfare.
8. Every person who, to the danger of passengers in
any thoroughfare, shall leave open any vault or cellar, or
the eutrance from any thoroughfare to any cellar or room
under-ground, without a sufficient fence or handrail, or
leave defective the door, window, or any other covering
of any vault or cellar, or who shall not sufficiently fence
any area, pit, or sewer left open, in or adjoining to any
thoroughfare, or who shall leave such open area, pit, or
sewer without a sufficient light after sunset to warn and
prevent persons from falling thereinto.
LXI. That it shall be lawful for any constable be-
longing to the metropolitan force to destroy any
dog or other animal reasonably suspected to be in
a rabid state, or which has been bitten by any
dog or animal reasonably suspected to be in a rabid
state ; and the owner of any such dog or animal who
shall permit the same to go at large after having Inform!t-
tion or reasonable ground for believing it to be in a rabid
state, or to have been bitten by any dog or other animal
in a rabid state, shall be liable to a penalty of not more
than 51.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry
arc to leave Wynyard on Monday, for the Earl of Eglin-
ton's, to be present during the tournament. A select party
is assembled on visits to the Noble Marquis and Mar-
chioness.

One of the clauses in the New Police Ac re-
lative to trucks drawn by dogs, appears to be a very harsh
enactment. Because some unfeeling persons ride in their
trucks, and use their dogs ill, arc the innocent to be con-
founded with the guilty ? A vast number of individuals
gain their livelihood; by vending articles from trucks
drawn by dogs, which they treat with the greatest kind-
ness. If this clause is enforced, all the cats' and dogs'-
meat-men of the metropolis will rebel against it—they
will hold meetings in Kennington Common or Copen-
hagen Fields, and, supported, as they will be by their dogs,
the police will find them more formidable than the
Chartists.
THE CHARTISTS AT BEDLINGTON.— A
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wastack
Colliery,
nearmade on
Be l.d'rhdnayto
con-
nected with the Chartists in that neighbourhood, who fired
upon the agent of the colliery and his, assistants. A number
Fridayb morningy l men
severa upon the Bar-
of men were sent from the Iron NI orks to protect the col-
liery, but the villains made their escape. The parish of
lledlington is protected by a single policeman • and conse-
quently the Chartists carry on their proceedings with im-
punity, to the terror of the peaceable and well-disposed in-
habitants. A correspondent at Bedlington requests us to
copy the above from one of our contemporaries, and adds
the following in addition to that statement :_The state of
•ociety in this parish, and around it, is
,mist deplorable and
lisgraceful to any civilized country. Neither life nor pro-
p3rty is safe, except to those who have the means of defend.,
ing themselves. A residence amongst savages is preferable
to this.—Tyne Mercury.
A severe conflict took place at Ghent on the 12th
inst. between some scavengers, a father and four sons, and
the police. It appears that a piece of ground had been
granted to them by the municipality for the purpose of their
building on it, but, instead of doing so, they had used it
for storing the filth which they collected from the streets.
The grant was therefore taken away from them, and some
masons having been sent to commence a building ordered by
a new proprietor, to whom thegrant had been transferred, the
scavengers fell on them, and it was found necessary to call in
the gendarmerie. These also met with so determined a
resistance, that they were compelled to obtain a rein-
forcement of troops of the line. The scavengers having
barricaded their house to which they had retreated, three
of them got upon the roof, and tore off the bricks and tiles
of the adjoining chimnies, which they hurled at the in-
vaders. There being no other mode of compelling them
t surrender, the troops were ordered to load their mus-
e a and take aim at them ; on seeing which they had the
impudence to offer to capitulate, on condition of receiving
he honours of war! This demand not being acceded to,
Ih ey then capitulated conditionally, and were immediately
taken to prison,_ Paris Paper.