The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HO USE OF LORDS, April 19.
Their Lordships sat to-day in the nos- House for the
first time to hear appeals. The Peers pr,:i;ent were the
Lord Cr.aLiceilor, Lord ilrutighani, Lord Carapbc:ll, and
the 13;shop of Hereford.
THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY COMPANY V.
THE PEOYOST AND TOWN C:JUNCIL OF LINLITHGOW.
Mr. BEV:CELL replied at considerable length today
in this case, the argumaits in which were part heard
prior to the Easter recess.
Tneir Lordships postponed giving judgment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
The City Solicitor attended yesterday for the purpose
of answering a complaint made on Saturday to his Lord-
' ship by Mr. Farey, the proprietor of the Black Boy and
' Camel public-house, in Leadenhall-mark et, with regard
to some proceedings which it had been found necessary
to adopt. As he was not present at the time the state-
ment was made, he should take the report which appeared
in the newspapers as containing the matter and manner
of the complaint.
The LORD MAYOR intimated that the Solicitor was
correctly informed through the channel of the press.
The City Solicitor said, that, upon reading the account
of what had taken place at the Mansion-house, he called
at Mr. Farey's house for the purpose of requesting the
proprietor to meet him at the Justice room, as he was
always desirous of speaking in the presence of any per-
son who considered himself aggrieved. It did not,
however, suit Mr. Farey to attend, and the explanation
of the affair must, therefore, be made in his absence.
The statement in the newspapers, as he presumed it
issued from Mr. Farey's mouth, was a series of misre-
presentations. Mr. Farey had represented that there
was no mode of drainage upon his premises, and that
everything which ought to pass into the common sewer
passed into a cesspool immediately under his house, and
occasioned a most obnoxious nuisance. Now, Mr. Farey
must blame either his landlord or himself for permitting
such annoyance to exist. The Corporation had built most
capacious common sewers all through the city, and if
individuals did not cause drains to be made from their
premises into these receptacles, they must put up with
the inconveniences necessarily arising from the neglect. '
In that respect Mr. Farey must come in for his share of
the consequences of the omission. Probably if the Cor-
poration possessed the power of compelling the landlords
of houses to drain into the sewers, Mr. Farey would
have been silent upon that subject. As for the com-
plaint that the City Solicitor had caused the door of the
Black Boy and Camel, leading into the market, to be
shut up, that proceeding had not been resorted to with-
out very strong reasons for its adoption. Complaints
had been made, as the Lord Mayor had intimated in his
observations to Mr. Farey, that robberies were fre-
quently committed in the neighbourhood, and according
to the evidence of the ward beadle, a thief, who had stolen
a goose in Lt,adenhall-market, had easily escaped pur-
suit by running through Mr. Farey's house. Now, it
was not difficult to understand that a means of commu-
nication such as Mr. Farey's house with its two doors
presented might be applied to the purposes of ingenious
persons in a way not iikdy to be profitable to the trades-
men in the market. It had been insinuated that the
Corporation were infu•'nced against the proprietor o
the Black Boy and Camel by the fear of the con•
sequences likely to arisJ to a house of their own
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'rum an act of justice. The house to which Mr.
Farey alluded was a tea and coffee-shop in the mar-
Ica, and a pump was kept clot.e to it at the back of Mr.
Farey'_hJuse, to which pump several (&-males were in the
habit of going for water, and it was considered amongst
other objections that it would not be altogether proper
to have the back entrance to a public house opening
upon such an engine of public convenience. Now, Mr.
Farey had had due notice to block up the door of coin-
munication which he had opened without the permission
of the magistrates. He had declined to do ao, and the
Corporation had done it for him.—(A laugh.) The
official referees who had been applied to on the subject
had decided against him, and, in truth, the only com-
plaint he could fairly Make was, that he had not been
treated with all the justice which the law awarded to
persons similarly situated, for the Act of Parliament
said, that if; upon being called upon to shut up a prohi-
bited door, a defendant did not, within a certain time,
comply with the order, the business should be done for
him, and he should be made answerable for the expenses.
It was not his practice, in cases in which a compulsory
course was considered necessary, to charge the expenses
incurred, but certainly the conduct of Mr. Farey was
calculated to make one regret that he had been included
in the exemption.
The LORD MAYOR said, he was convinced when Mr.
Farey was stating to him what had taken place that a
complete refutation would be given to all the assevera-
tions. He knew that the Commissioners of Sewers were
a most indefatigable Board, and he plainly saw that Mr.
Farey would not take advantage of the opportunity of
draining into the common sewer.
The City Solicitor said, Mr. Farey complained vio-
lently of being poisoned by the cesspool, and intimated
that he wanted to open the door into the market to get
rid of the nuisance. That was a mere pretence. There
aßwnaudst, ahi
if he
hionebdjpoelweetaoswveeis
to the place in which the door had been,
hmight
the
commandmake t windowhato of
the
market.la t. e
It was absurd to sayhtehat there did not exist the greatest
facilities for getting rid ofctohmatmbdaiwhich Mr. Farey said
alreadyoners of Sewers had
he was offended. The
within a very narrow compass
and
48 miles of
ifto people
sewers at the expense of about 300,00
would not go to the expense of making drainn
municate with these sowers, why they musts takenntnhle.
consequences. If Mr. Farey were to be permitted -
open a door into the market, what between otum•bus
cads in the front of his house and market cads
at the
back of his house, the neighbourhood would be in a very
agreeable condition.
The Loan MAYoR—I certainly am of opinion, Mr;
i
Solicitor, that the course you have pursued n shutting
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up the door by quiet compulsion was most judicious,
and I think that if you should have, upon any emer-
gency, something of the kind to do, it might be advisable
to charge the defendant with the expenses.—(A laugh.)

GUILDHALL:
Yesterday Sir Peter Laurie attended to learn what
progress the drivers and guards of the late Parcel Post
Company had made in recovering their deposits and
wages from the directors. He presumed some compro •
mise had taken place, as he did not see the same parties
before him now as on the former occasion. He made a
suggestion that, as the directors offered one week's
wages and the men claimed six weeks', the point should
be given up on obtaining the proper amount of four
weeks. He asked Mr. Humphreys if he had seen the
deposit-note on which the claim was founded?
Mr. Humphreys said he had, and proceeded to read

one—

" Your testimonials having been submitted to the
board of directors, and you having deposited £— as
security for your integrity, you are elected to this
establishment. The deposit of £— is returnable to you
any day you leave the company's office.
"J. T. GOUGH, Secretary."
Sir PETER said, this mode of raising the wind wz.s
most disreputable to any concern, and especially to a
company which professed to raise a capital of 30,0001.
A guard stated, that at a grand dinner given at the
Bridge-house Hotel (which was not yet paid f ,r) the
directors bragged a great deal of th,-ir means, and of
having paid the tailor and other preliminary expenses.
He would not have ventured to deposit a farthing but
for these glowing accounts, and the assurance that his
101. would not be used by the company, but would rest
at the bankers', and that interest would be allowed
upon it.
"I was told the same !" shouted a man in the crowd.
" And so was I !" cried a third.
Mr. Humphreys read over the list of directors, and
asked which of them was present at that dinner?
Mr. W. Andrews, of Cadogan-plrce, was stated to be,
in the chair, and he was supported by Messrs. Parry,
Ashley, Hill, Hawker, Owen, and Ancram.
A guard said, the catching deposits was not the only
means of raising money adopted. The company sold
stamps, to be affixed like Post-office labels to the parcels,
and got the persons who received parcels for the com-
pany to purchase a stock of them, which now were of
no value, and which the company were in no hurry to
take back.
A person in the crowd said he had 51. worth of these
stamps.
It was stated, in answer to a question, that one or
other of the directors was always with the secretary
when he received the deposits from the guards and
drivers.

Mr. Humphreys thanked the Alderman for his atten-
tion to the claims of these poor men, and the parties
withdrew.
The room was crammed with drivers, guards, clerks,
porters, and keepers of receiving houses.
MARLBORO UGH- S TI?EE7'.
Edward Larkin and John Dower, two lads, were
charged with having attempted a robbery in the house
of Mr. Edward Simpson, licensed victualler, 231, Ox-
ford-street.
Thomas Agness said, he was in Oxford-street last
Saturday afternoon, when he saw the two prisoners to-
gether, one of whom carried a long stick, the end of
which was daubed with tar. He watched the movements
of the prisoners, and followed them into Mr. Simpson's
house, and heard them call for some beer. They were
served and they were left alone in front of the bar. One
of the prisoners then got upon a bench, and with his
stick attempted to reach a sovereign which was placed on
a shelf within the bar; but, in his efforts to fix it to the
stick, by means of the adhesive substance at the end, the
sovereign was knocked off the shelf, and the noise thus
made attracted the attention of the landlady in the bar
parlour, who came out to see what was the matter. Wit-
ness immediately acquainted her with what had taken
place, and on looking on the floor the sovereign was
found with a portion of tar adhering to it, and there was
also some tar on the shelf from which it had been dis-
placed. While the stick holder was busied in his attempt
to get the money his companion held him up, and gave
him all the assistance in his power.
Mrs. Simpson corroborated the testimony of the last
witness as far as related to the attempts of the prisoners
to get the sovereign.
The prisoners were fully committed.