The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-12 00:00:00

GAMING.

The Inquest of Aldgate Ward presented against a
pmbling•house, kept at No. .5, Heneage-lane, and were
.round over to prosoeute their presentment.

INCREASE OF BAD CHARACTERS IN BRIDGE WARD.
The Inquest of Bridge complained of several annoy-
amces. They presented that the wholesale dealers still
persevered in refu,ing to take out their freedoms, and
thus threw an almost intolerable weight upon those
who were free, and who performed all the duties con-
tingent. They presented the coach and cab stand, in
King William-street, and another street, as an obstruc-
tion to the public and the neighbourhood, aggravated
by the horrible language of the drivers and others seek-
ing employment there, and they requested that
the police should be directed to take any per-
sons so offending into custody, to be dsalt with
by the Magistracy. They also presented that the
wharfs between the Adelaide Hotel and Billingsgate,
at which the steam-vessels received and poured forth
multitudes, were the means of blocking up, particularly
in the summer months, that part of the ward, so that
the police were prevented from acting. They begged
to recommend an orderly and judicious arrangement as
to the transit of carriages to and from the steameis, and
a prevention of the assemblages of idle boys and men
reputed thieves there, a nuisance not only permitted
but encouraged by the Magistrates, in consequence of
their releasing without punishment or reprimand many
persons of that description brought before them by the
police, Thereby the police were deterred from taking up
others, who were thus encouraged to laugh at and set
at defiance the officers and inhabitants who endeavoured
to remove them.

The Loan MAYOR said that the presentment should
receive the most attentive consideratio of the Court.

PROTESTS AGAINST THE RETURN OF MR. COUSINS,

FOR COLEMAN-STREET WARD.

The Inquest of Coleman-street Ward presented that
Mr. Cousins, one. of the gentlemen declared to be re-
turned a member of the Court of Common Council
was not, qualified as an inhabitant.
Mr. Coast and Mr. Taylor handed in a protest
against the return of Mr. Cousins, and a claim that
Mr. Bracher should be sworn in.

Another protest, signed by Mr. Const and Mr.
Pledger, and a third protest, signed by Mr. Strachan
to the same effect, tvere also presented.
It was decided that the protests should be returned,
and the protesters instructed to. hand them to the Al-
derman of the Ward, to act upon them.
FALSE WEIGHTS, OLD CLOTHES FAIR NUISANCE, &C.
The lequest of the Ward of Portsoken presented
against some traders who bad used false weights and
measures ; and against the thousands who assembled
in Cutler-street, in a sort of fair, to the total obstruc-
tion and injury of many shopkeepers, and greatly to
the prejudice of the warehouses of the St. •Catherine
Dock Company in that district, The presentment
added, that complaints had, been repeatedly made, but
no measures had been adopted by the Court to ob-
tain redress for the injured.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether the false weights
and measures had been seized?

The INQUEST replied that they were in the posses-
sion of the Ward. They earnestly requested attention
to the presentment,

The LORD MAYOR-It should be laid before the
next Court of Aldermen.

The RECORDER—Yes, and it will be put in the in-
dictment if the evil be considered to be of sufficient
magnitude.

THE OBSTRUCTION AT THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.

The inquest of the Ward of Cornhill presented that a
large board, which had been placed at the Royal Ex-
change, completely blocked up the pathway, and that
this passage ,vas most dangerous to the pubic and the
people residing in the vicinity ; and they requested that
a safe and commodious footpath should be forthwith
made.

TRADERS NOT TAKIS UP THEIR FREEDOM.

The Inquest of Basishaw presented that some of the
inhabitants had not taken up their freedom. Four of
their number had been presented for the last twelve
years. The Foreman considered that a presentment,
under such circumstances, was a mere matter of form.
It was disagreeable to the gentlemen of the Inquest to
make any return of the kind, and he wished to know
whether it was imperative upon them to make any in
future.

Sir P. LAURIE said that the Inquest was bound to
make the return, and the Court, he hoped, would soon
have a remedy for the evil.
The FOREMAN—We feel it to be disagreeable to be
called on to take an oath as to a matter which is to be
of no effect.

Alderman Gisas—lt is your duty to make the
return.
Sir G. CARROLL—Is it not the duty of the Cham•
heriain to see after these things ?
The CITY SOLICITOR—Yes, under an order of the
Court to the attorney of the Lord Mayor's Court.
The LOUD MAYOR (to the Inquest)—The Court
will take the subject into consideration.
The FOREMAN of the Inquest—We hope, my Lord,
that twelve years more will not elapse before something
conclusive is done.—(A laugh.)