The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE'.

LIABILITY TO POOR-RATES.
MAwsroar-HonsE.—A question of considerable importance
to persons holding offices or detached apartments, as to poor-
rates, came on before the Lord Mayor. A person keeping a
shop in an alley in Birehin-lane was summoned by the Over-
seers of St. Michael's, Cornhill, to spew cause why he refused
to pay poor-rates.
The facts of the case were these :—The defendant, who is a
shoemaker, took a room with a door opening into an alley, and
occupied it as a shop, agreeing to pay a fixed rent, the landlord
engaging to be responsible tor taxes, poor-rates, or any other
charge whatever. The defendant didl not sleep in this room,
from which a glass door, that was kept closed, opened into the
room occupied by the landlord, who occupied the rest of the
house. The defendant merely kept this room as a shop, and
had no servant living in it, and no one to sleep there. The
Overseers of the poor, however, considered it as a distinct tene-
ment, and rated it accordingly, alleging that the door which
communicated with the rest of the house being kept closed,
made it a separate tenement ; that the defendant, by living
there, gained a settlement, as would any apprentice he might
choose, to take, or any servant he might hire ; and lastly, that
the agreement with the landlord was a mere evasion, or might
be so, on the part of the defendant to avoid the liability to serve
parish offices.
The Loan MAYOR considered the question as of great ime
I portance in the City. If the room were declared liable, there
was not au office, nor even an apartment in a coffee-house taken
by the week for business, or otherwise, that might not,be de-
clared a separate tenement rateable for poor-rates, nor an oe.
cupant that might not be called upon to serve parochial offices.
He did not see that it made any difference to the parish whether
a given sum were received as poor rates wholly from the land-
lord, or partly from him and partly from the person who held
the room, nor would it alter the question as to settlement whe•
they the latter were liable or not-

The Parish Officers said the question was of great impor-
tance, as it involved the question of the liability of all the occu•
pants of such places to serve" parish offices, and the greatest
abuses were to be apprehended from any admission that such
places were not liable.
The Loitn 31aY on consulted the City Solicitor upon the'
question. The latter declared it was a point of great nicety
and importance which had never yet been decided, and on.
which he entertained doubts.

The LORD Ala Yon, under those circumstances, refused to
grant a warrant of distress to the Parish Officers.
The Officers ex zessed their determination to get the ques-
tion settled by applying to the Court or King's Bench for a
Mandamus to compel his Lordship to issue the warrant.

IMPORTANT TO STAGE COACH PROPRIETORS.
Wonsuir.STßicEro—Several convictions have lately taken
place against the owners of stage coaches under the 25 Geo. 111.
c. 51, sec. 52, which requires the name of the place to and from
which the coach is going, to be marked or painted on the pannel
of the door.

Yesterday Mr. Sykes, the Solicitor to the Commissioners of
Stamps, appeared before SAM IT EI. TWYFORD, Esq. and pointed
out the illegality of any
.proceeding by informers to recover
the penalty under that section. It was an Act relating to duties,
and by the sth section of the same Statute, and by 44 Geo. 111.
cap. 93, sect. 10, and 55 Geo. 111. cap. 105, sect. 4, all matters
necessary to put the powers of those Acts in three were under
the management of the Commissioners; and it was unlawful to
prosecute the same except in the name of his Majesty's Attor-
ney. General, or of the Solicitor, or some other Officer of his
Majesty's Stamp Duties.
Mr. TwiTottn expressed his concurrence in the remarks of
Mr. Sykes. It appeared however extraordinary to him, that
when the late Act, 33 Geo. IV. c. 95, passed, directing plates,
&c. this section of the 25th Geo. 111., had not been repealed .;
besides it did not occur to him, when deciding, that it was ne-
cessary to look into all the Stamp-Acts, which were voluminous
enough to occupy the whole attention of a single individual.—
With respect to the convictions before him, they were of course
void, and ought not to be returned to the Sessions, and informers
ought to acquaint all parties against whom they had proceeded.
Mr. Sykes further intimated, that the Commissioners wished
no proceedings against Stage-coach owners, under the 25th or
Geo. III.? the necessity of which was superseded by the late
Act providing numbers, and in case any conviction had been
paid, it was probable that the King's part of the penalty would
be returned by a proper Application to the Treasury.

CORONER'S INQU EST.—An Inquisition was held
on Wednesday before T. STIRLING, Esq.*nt. tin.
Red Lion, Westbourne-green, on the body of
Jolts KING, formerly beadle, but, at the time
of his death, watch-house-keeper .of St. George's,
Hanover-square, who on Monday last, between
two and three in the afternoon, was found iu one
of the fields near the canal, suspended from an
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It was rumoured in Newry, on Thursday, that
a riot had taken place near Moy, in which one
man was killed and several wounded. The
Newry Paper gives it no credit.—(Dublin Morn-
ing Post.)

COAL-MARKET, JULY 4.
Ships at Market. Ships sold
42 Newcastle -
33 Sunderland
0 Scotch Coal

Price.
34s Od to 42s Od
34s Od to 43s tkt
--8 Od to —s Od

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, July 4.
A mstettlant
Ditto, at Sight
12 8
Rotterdam
12 i 1
Antwerp
Ham 12 10burgh sa 0 Qi 116
Altona
• . i Us.
Paris, 3 Day's sight
Us.
Ditto
liourdeatix, ditto
Frankforton the Nlitin
Madrid
Cadiz
!Whoa 36 Effective
Barcelona
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Gibraltar
Leghorn
Get I,a .. . 43i-Venice, Ital, Lie 2B 10
Malta 45 -Naples 39
Palermo
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Lisbon . 5l
Oporto
RioJetteiro
Doblitt .... 91 .. .. Cork 91 pet Cent.