The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-05 00:00:00

Amalgamation of the City with the ME
politan Police Force.

PUBLIC MEETING (THIS DAY).
A very large public meeting was held this afternoo
the Guildhall, for tho purpose of affording the citize
London an opportunity of expressing their disapprd
of a Bill introduced into Parliament by Sir G. Gres'
Home Secretary, for Amalgamating the City with the
tropolitan Police Force. Nearly every member 0I
Corporation was present.

The LORD MAYOR presided, and expressed a hope
the meeting would succeed in preventing the passing
bill which was an invasion of the privileges of the CI
London.

The following are the resolutions to be proposed, Iv
will doubtless be agreed to unanimously.
" That the citizens of London obtained from the E
reigns of this realm the right of electing their own rel
trates, and of keeping watch and ward within the Cit
right which they have ever exercised for the benefit of
people and the proteclion of their liberties; that tiv
for the Amalgamation of the City of London Police 1
the Metropolitan Police is an invasion of this right, an
subversive of the English Constitution, or principle of 1
self-government which has fostered the love of freedot
this country, has drawn closer the ties which connect
people with Crown and Parliament, and under which
City and the nation at large have so long prospered."
" That the police force of this City is as efficient, if
superior, to any force in these realms for the protectio
life and property and the detection of crime,
for the regulation of the immense traffic wl
throng the streets of this city, and that it is unwise
inexpedient to interfere with its management and COu
so long as its duties continue to be efficiently performed'
" That this meeting calls upon the representatives
this city, and also upon the representatives of the citig
in the corporation, to offer, by every means in their pow
the moat determined opposition to the passing of the bill
the amalgamation of the City with the Metropolitan Peli
and that a petition from this meeting, embodying the P
sent resolution, be presented to the House of Commell°
one of the City representatives."

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The utmost excitement prevailed throughout the hall'

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings in Banco, before Lo.d Chief Justice and JOU'
Crompton. Blackburn, and Mellor.)
COLONEL DICKSON AND THE EARL WILTON.
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., moved for a rule calling upon
plaintiff to show cause why certain interrogations disallow
by Mr. Justice Wightman in chambers should not be
lowed.
The Court granted a rule to show cause.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Sittings in Banco, before the Lord Chief Baron, and Bar 6
Martin, Bramwell, and Wilde.)
MECHER V. ELIAS.
The plaintiff and the defendant are both Germans, 01
the action was brought by the plaintiff to recover detest
for false imprisonment. At the trial, which took I°ll'4
at Guildhall before Mr. Baron Bramwell, the jiit
returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £25 damages'
appeared that the plaintiff had been engaged to marl 14
daughter of the defendant, from whom he received '-
thalers for the purpose of purchasing goods and setting °
business at Breslau. Ihe plaintiff alleged that he had P,lll
chased some goods at Leipsic and in Switzerland 71
Hamburg, and afterwards came to London.
then wrote to his sister, stating that after he
purchased good sat Hamburg, partly from cash 11-0
party by bill, he found that he had been robbee,..
his pocket-book containing the principal portion of
money, and that he made his way to England with ss:
watches and the few dollars he had in his pocket. The
fondant disbelieving his story, and that he had fraudnieu
appropriated the money, gave the plaintiff into custody', u,
on the case being heard before the magistrate he was (lit
charged.
Mr. George Denman had obtained a rule to set aside ,
eyt
verdict, or to reduce the damages, on the ground that ,
plaintiff at the trial had not given a true version of 74i
affair, and that he had falsely represented the position
formerly held in the Prussian army.
Mr. Sergeant Parry now showed cause against the 111:
on an affidavit of the plaintiff, reiterating his evidence
at the trial, and contended that the verdict ought not to
disturbed.

Mr. Denman having replied,
The Court suggested that the damages should be redficeticist
to £lO, to save the expense of a second trial, as there Pi
be a verdict for the plaintiff.
Mr. Sergeant Parry at once assented to the propositi.t,
Rule for new trial discharged, the plaintiff under
to reduce the damages to £4O.