The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-06 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ARCHES' COURT, Oct. 5.

BROOKS V. CBESSWELL.-THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE

PROMOTED.

Dr. BURNABY sat for the Learned Judge, to dispose
of an application for relaxing the suspension upon the
Rev. H. Cresswell, vicar of Creech St. Michael, So-
merset. The rev. gentleman had been proceeded
against in March, 1846, and for certain immoralities
was suspended from office and emolument for the term
of eighteen months, a certificate of good behaviour
being required at the end of that time.
Dr. ROBERTSON made application for the relaxation.
The PRocroa for the promoter in the suit objected
that the costs had not been paid, the promoter having
died in the meantime, as several ineffectual attempts
had been made to serve the rev. gentleman with the
monition.

Dr. BURNABY said he should take time to consider
the case.

PREROGATIVE COURT, Oct. 5.
No case of interest came on to-day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIOA-HOUSE.

Mrs. Harriet Vernon, the wife of a licensed vic-
tualler, in Northumberland-alley, Fenchurch-street,
was summoned by Mr. Harvard, City inspector of the
weights and measures, for having refused to give him
access to the bar of her house.
Turner, Mr. Harvard's assistant, stated that Mr.
Harvard, seeing some measures in the bar, desired to
examine them, and to be let into the bar for that pur-
pose. The defendant said she would hand the mea-
sures up to him, but she would not allow him to go
inside, and she persisted in refusing to admit him,
thus presenting a complete impediment to the per-
formance of the inspector's duty.
Mr. Harvard said he had found it necessary to go
into .the bars of a great number of the trade, as they
were in the habit of hiding the small measures they
used under the counter. He here produced several
small measures, which were, he said, a third smaller
than the standard, and had been found hidden in the
bars of other houses.
Mrs. Vernon said she did not consider that the in-
spector had any right to enter the bar, which she
thought ought to be kept strictly private, on account,
not of the short measures, but the property contained
in it She submitted that it was quite enough if she
handed to him all the measures he wished to examine.
The LORD MAYOR read the clause of the Act,
which inflicts a penalty not exceeding .51. upon any
person who offers an impediment to the inspector's
performance of his duty. It was evident to him that
the defendant had acted in ignorance of the law; and
therefore, to induce her to keep so salutary a statute
alive in her mind, he should inflict upon her the very
much reduced fine of 10s. and costs. His Lordship
hoped that all the licensed victuallers of the City of
London would profit by that example.
AIIAtiLBOIIOUGH-SIREET.

DECISION UNDER THE PAWNBROKERS' ACT.—
Edwin Howell, agent, was brought up for final exa-
mination, charged with having pawned a large quan-
tity of stays intrusted to him to dispose of by a Ger-
man manufacturer named Vlies.
The case stood over for the magistrate's decision on
this point. The prisoner, it appeared, had been en-
gaged by Mr. V lies in the capacity of agent for the
disposal of the stays. Being in want of money, Mr.
Vlies applied to the prisoner for 201. The prisoner
deposited upwards of 200 pairs of the stays with a
pawnbroker as security for the loan of 201., on condi-
tion that the stays should be forfeited if the money
was not repaid by a specified time. This pawning
took place without the consent or knowledge of Mr
Vlies. The money was not repaid in time, and the
consequence was that the stays became forfeited, and
the pawnbroker disposed of them to various shops.
The transaction having come to the knowledge of
Mr. Vlies, the prisoner was ultimately given into
custody on a charge of having illegally pawned the
property.
After the professional gentlemen for and against
the a ccused had argued the question at considerable
length,
Mr. HARDWICK decided that the case did not come
within the meaning of the Act, inasmuch as the ac-
cused had not converted the money obtained by the
pawning of the stays to his own use, but had given
the sum to the proprietor of the stays
The accused was accordingly discharged.
AFFILTATION.—John Booth, of Wellington Stone
Wharf, Regent Wharf, was summonel by Ann
M`Donald, for refusing to maintain her illegitimate
child.
The mother of the child, a hard-featured char-
woman, apparently fifty years of age, said the de-
fendant was the father of her infant; he had given
her 21. towards its support.
The defendant did not attempt to deny the charge.
Mr. HARDWICK ordered him to pay 2s. 6d. a week.
The defendant's wife, a well- dressed, lady-like
woman, wished to know whether she could not send
the money to the complainant, instead of allowing the
complainant to call on her husband for it?

The husband, who looked rather sheepish at his
position, promised to arrange everything satisfactorily
outside of the court.

PAUPER IMPOSITIONS.—Ann Flynn was charged
with having defrauded the parish authorities of St.
James's, by means of fraudulent representations.
The prisoner had applied for relief to the parish
officers, for herself and two children. The parish
messenger was sent, and was shown two children,
which the prisoner said were her children. She re-
ceived relief accordingly, but Mr. Dore, the relieving
overseer, having received intimation that the prisoner
had borrowed one of the children for the purpose of
imposing on the parish, caused her to be taken into
custody.
The case having been clearly proved,
Mr. HARDWICK committed her for 14 days to hard
labour.

Mr. Dore said he had no doubt that this example
would have a satisfactory effect, for he had good
reason to believe that the offence was by no means of
rare occurrence.