The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-15 00:00:00

COUNTY POLICE.

The following letter refers to the cruel treatment of
Mr. Mackay, beer-seller, Stoke-upon-Trent, of which an
account appeared in The Sun on the 9th. This version
of the story does not mend the matter much. The Ma-
gistrates and police in that quarter must be a singular race.
Even their apologist admits that the prison was so bad,
that prisoners were chained to a ring like wild bulls kept
for baiting :-
7 0 THE EDITOR OI :7 ItE SUN.
Sin--You have inserted Mackay's statement, and I
am rather surprised that the correspondence did not em-
brace the proofs which were adduced before the Bench,
and thereby show what verbose detail had been em-
ployed: parturiunt monies et nascitur mus. They were
only, that Stonier had improperly detained Mackay,
longer than was necessary, as every day a police-court is
open ; and that the cell was so insecure that chaining
was in a manner indispensable, while the accommodation
was also unsuitable; and that Stonier had assaulted
Wantling for resisting search of premises without
a proper warrant. Had cruelty or scoundrelism attached
to the cases, the bench, T. B. Rose, P. B. Broude, and
J. Harvey, would immediately have discharged—not
fined and suspended—Stonier. There was great pertina-
city in the manner of bringing forward the case, and
much of what was merely adapted to degrade the police
force in the opinion of a deficiently educated population.
As the name of your correspondent does not appear, I
ought to be excused also ; but having been present, and
having taken very copious notes of the whole, Ivan vouch
for what I state in contradiction.—Yours,
Tunstall. SIMEON SHAW.

THE SEWERS.
TO THE EDITOR 01 THE SUN.

London, Nov. 11, 184

SlR—Considerable doubt exists as to the power of the
Commissioners of Sewers acting under the authority of
the statute 23 Henry VIII., c. 5, and several subsequent
statutes, to make new sewers. I therefore conceive that
you will render an important service to the public by
giving publicity to the • following truly constitutional
opinion given by the present Lord Chief Justice of the
Court of Queen's Bench and Sir William Horne, in an-
swer to a case submitted to them by the Commissioners
of Sewers for Westminster, and printed in the Appendix
to the Report of the Select Committee of the House of
Commons (p. 12), dated August 8, 1834.
Your obedient servant, A RATEPAYER.
QUESTION.
You are requested to advise whether the power given
to the Commissioners by the Act 2 William and Mary,
sec. 2, e. 8, and confirmed by the 47 Geo. 111., " To order
and direct the making of any new vaults, sewers, drains,
and watercourses, in all or any of the streets, lanes, and
public ways," is an authority to them to give orders and
directions for the building of sewers in those streets,
lanes, or public ways, where they have been omitted ?
And, if so, to whom the order and direction for the
building of such sewers should be addressed, and if not
attended to, how it should be enforced ?
If you should be of opinion that the Commissioners
are not authorised to call upon the owners of houses to
build sewers in those streets, where they have been omit-
ted, can the Commissioners give orders and directions
for their being built by their own workmen, and in that
case you are requested to advise how such sewers are to
be paid for ?
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OPINION.
We are of opinion that no inference can be strong enough
to authorize the levy of a tax upon his Majesty's subjects,
and that the power of directing works to be done will not
warrant the Commissioners to raise money for the pur-
pose of doing them. We also think that their general
powers do not extend to making new sewers.DE
NMAN.

iii'Ar. HORNE.

Lincoln's-Inn, Jan, 27, 1832.

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MARCHIONESSt taken kieent intended preservinge
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LSE POTATO CROP.--TheLtmenck Chronicle
says that this year's potata.crop will, beyond expectation,
render fully an average produce throughout the south of
Ireland. The favourable weather of the past fortnight
has worked miracles for the farmer, and restored what I
was considered lost.
SEED TIME.—The fine and more than season-
able weather of the month of November, so far as it has
advanced, has already done much to compensate the
farmers for the extreme humidity of the month of Octo- •
ber, and is enabling them to commit the winter wheat:
seed to the ground in good condition. The late potato.
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crop, both in England and Ireland, has been gathered itu
better condition than was expected, though the highs
price shows that the yield of this useful root is below an:
average of years in quantity ; and in many parts of thch,
country the quality is much complained of. Great carte
(rJp of the next year may suffer as well as the produce..
of the present season.- —Leeds Mercury.
beshoTultndhaEt
—We take this opportunity of informing our readers
that the noble family of the Marchioness are natives of
" .Astia in Piedmont," and have no relationship wit] a'
the family Solari, of the "Reviera dc Genova,' men ,
tioned in the affair of the Exchequer bills. The stock.t-
, broker now alluded to, some time since was the ex-
hibitor I of a painting of the travels of Queen Carotin©
in the Holy Land.—British Queen. -' ' i