The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-18 00:00:00

LA W INTELLIGENC&

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jeri. 17.
THE QUEEN V. POLHILL, M.P., AND ONSLOW.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was instructed,' on behalf of Mr. Durant'
one.of the members of the Committee of Drury lane Theatre, to apply
• for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be
granted against Mr. Polhill, one of the Members for the borough of
Bedford, for sending a challenge, provoking. Mr. Durant to a breach
of the peace, and against Mr. Onslow, who held a commission in the
Fusileer Guards for carrying the challenge.—The Court granted the ru'e.

BAIL COURT, JAN. 16.
(Before Mr. Justice PArrE-soN.)

If
EWARDS TO FIREMEN.--Sir PRI:DE[2MR POLLOCK applied to the
Court for a rule calling upon Henry 'Winchester, Esq., one of the Ma.
gistrates of the county of Middlesex; to show cause why a mandamus
should not issue commanding him to issue warrants of distress to enforce
payment of certain sums of money that had been awarded to th• fire-
men who brought the first engines to the fire that broke out some
months ago in the house of a Mr. llarris in the Strand. The
ground on which payment of the money had been refused
was, that the parties claiming the reward had applied to a
magistrate in the first instance, instead of making their ap.
plication to the churchwardens to apportion the amount to be paid, and
afterwards applying to the magistrate to issue his order for the pay.
meat of it.

The Court granted a rule to show cause.
CRIMINAL INFORMATION—LIBEL.
The ATTORNSY-GENERIL applied to the Court for a rule calling upon
•the Proprietors of the Hampshire Advertiser to show sauce why a cri.
minal information should not be filed against them for publishing a libel
upon the Town Council of the borough of Chichester. If the libel of which
his clients complained was merely an article of general censure or abuse
they would not have applied for the interference of the Court ; but as it
contained specific charges of corruption against theM, which, If true,
woukl ,subject them to severe punishment, they felt bound to apply to
the Court. The libel represented that the Town Council had been
guilty of gross misconduct with reference to the letting of some market
tolls, in not taking the most advantageous offer, but, instead, of accepting
that of a favoured political partizan, and were thereby guilty of gross •
corruption. The libel appeared in the Hampshire Advertiser of the
30th ofDeeember, and was as follows :—" The sapient Town Coun.
cif of Chichester, in defiance of justice and public opinion,
have grossly misapplied the funds at their disposal. Their
partial distribution of the little patronage they have, are matters
of every day occurrence, and have been repeatedly exposed in this
Journal. We now call the attention of the burgesses to the proceed.
togs at the last meeting of the Town Council, held for the purpose
-of letting the market tolls. The tender of Mr. Farr, whom, we have
no doubt, is a very respectable man, was accepted in preference to other
and more advantageous offers. Perhaps Mr. Farr was the most stable
and secure man, but even that plea will not hold good, since the
sureties are responsible, and not the parties making the offer. The
sureties of Mr. Coombe, who offered the largest sum, are very
respectable men, and we were at first at a very great loss to
discover why the disadvantageous offer of Mr. Farr was accepted, but
we have since made some inquiries on the subject, and we find, first—
that the name of Mr. Farr appears on the poll-book as having voted at
the last election for John Abel Smith; secondly—that Mr. Farr has a
son Who is clerk to the Clerk of the Magistrates ; and thirdly—he has a
sister who is housekeeper to the Magistrates. The present Town-Coun-
cil were elected by the beer given by John Abel Smith, the Whig Mem-
ber for the City. We draw no inference from these facts ; we leave that
to those who suffer by them." Now he (the Attorney-General)
would admit that if there were any truth in the above statements, the
inference to be drawn from them was inevitable, but they were not
true; the fact was, that the Town Council advertised for tenders for
the Market tolls, but not saying that they would be•let to the highest
bidder. Mr Combes was certainly the highest bidder, he having offered
200/., but as he had been twice insolvent, his tender was declined. The
offer was accepted certainly, but not to favour a political partizan. On
the contrary, it was with the unanimous consent of the whole Town
Council, consisting of men of all political parties, and also of the
Aldermen, some of whom certainly voted for Mr. John Abel
Smith at the last election, but a majority of them did not.. The affl.
davits, after setting forth the above facts, denied that Mr. J. A. Smith
interfered at all in the election of the Town Council, and the state-
ments relative to the connection of Mr. Fare's relatives with the
magistrates.

Mi. Justice PArrEsom—You have stated sufficient—take a rule to
show cause.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET, JAN. 17.
William Lloyd, alias Rodney, was chargedbi Sergeant Power, of the
F division, with frequenting the Haymarket for the purpose of cora.
mitting a felony. Mr. Mahon attended for the prisoner.
The constable stated that about a quarter-past six yesterday evening
he happened to pass the Haymarket Theatre in plain clothes, when many
persons were waiting for the doors to be opened, and among them the
prisoner. Having had him in custody on a former occasion for picking
pockets, and for which he was sent to hard labour for three months, he
kept his eye upon him, and imtantly saw him press closely against seve-
ral persons ; but on looking round he perceived witness looking over his
shoulder, and he then withdrew himself from the crowd. On being
taken into custody he asked what he was taken for, and when he was
told, he said he hoped witness would make it as light as he could, for the
sake of his family. Ott searching him at the station-hotise there was
found upon him 21. 14s. 4d.
Sir F. Floe would remand the prisoner till to-morrow, in 'order to -
have the record of the former conviction produced, and then he should
be sent to the House of Correction, to await 'the judgment of the Court
at the Quarter Sessions as an incorrigible rogue.


•
ROYAL EXCHANGE FlRE.—Nearly the whole of
the books and papers which were placed for safety in the •
common iron safes at the Royal Exchange were -entirely de-
sroyed by the late fire. The contents of many of .them when
when opened this day were still on fire, and in others nothing ,fs.o:
remained but a mass of cinders and ashes..(. Had .the docu-.
meats thtts destroyed been placed in Chubb's patent fire-proof r4ru,
safes, they would have been preserved, as the following certi-
ficate of the severe test which thi.?.se safes have undergone fully
p: eves :
" Saw Mills, Grosvenor-basin, Pimlico, Jan. 25,- 1835.
We certify that thes3 papers were enclosed in. Chubb's
patent fire-proof box, and exposed in the furnace of a steam-
engine of twenty-two horse power, by which the box became , -
red hot in three minutes, and remained in the furnace in that
state fora considerable time, and were taken out in our pre-
sence perfectly uninjured.
" R. R. ARNZ.
" E. W. LOWER.

" R. GOODMAN, Engineer."
This box and its contents may be seen at the inventor and
patentee's, Chalks Chubb's, 57, St. Paul's Church-yard.
A large assortment of the patent fire-proof safes, chests,
and boxes for securing deeds, books, papers, jewels, plate,
&e., on sale and made to order, all fitted with the detector
locks ; and they also are made of sufficient strength to .pre-
vent their being injured by the falling of beams, brick-work,
or walls.
.57, St. Paul's Church-yard, Jan. 12, 1838.
.HAPPINESS.--The health of the body forms an es-
sential concomitant to the enjoyment of happiness, and we
should be misanthropes indeed if we did not otter every facility
to the important information how a release from pain may be
accomplished, the insidious g&rrns of. disease eradicated, the
system purified and improved, and a healthful vigour .imparted. •
to the mental- And physical power; ; • bye have vritnessect
FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH produce these cheering results, •
and hasten to perform a public duty by recommending theist to> • •
the notice of invalids.
A Ballot meeting is about to be held at Ludiovir
—the first attempt, we believe, at Ballot agitation in Shrop-
shire,