The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-07 00:00:00

E CUTLERS OF THE METROPOLIS.

Yesterday, at the Mansion-House, a number of master and
ourneymen cutlers of London preferred a charge, at the in.
tance of the whole London trade, against a cutler named Park,
who resides on Fish.street-hill, for having violated the 59th
Cleo. 111., cap. 7, sec. 5, by exposing to sale knives made in
the country at 2tl miles distance from London, with the town
mark affixed.

Mr. II u MIMES, who conducted the prosecution, stated
that the intbrmation was laid for the protection of the public as
well as of the London trade against an imposition now exten.
sively practised by country manufacturers of cutlery, to the
great prejudice of the metropolitan trade. In London much
higher wages were paid to the workmen than in the country,
and better materials were used ; consequently their work was
greatly superior both in material and tinish, and had established
a name, to protect which the above-mentioned act was passed,
by which it was enacted, that if any person should sell, or
expose for sale, knives or other cutlery made at any place with.
in 20 miles of London, with the mark " London' upon them,
he should be liable to a penalty of 10!. for each offence, and
the forfeiture of all the goods found on the premises impreased
in such a manner. The tawn had been of late so overstocked
with the vile manufactures of Birmingham and Sheffield, under
the respectable title of " London," with instruments, which,
like Peter Finder's razors, were made to sell, but not to cut,

that it was found necessary to proceed rigorously and expo.
ditiously, to chew the country cutlers the consequence of pur.
suing a course, of their legal responsibility for which they did.
not seem to be aware.
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The defendant's Solicitor said he could not deny that the
knives (and very bad ones they were) were of country nuir.u•
facture; but he tendered the evidence of the defendant to prove,
that they were in his possession without his knowledge, that
there was an act of the tendency described, and argued that the
defendant's oath to that enet would be quite sufficient to ex-
culpate him.
The Loan MAYOR said, that such a construction of the
words of the Act was a total misconstruction. The Act cer_
tainly would exonerate the defendant-, if he could prove that the
cutlery was in his possession, so marked, before the Act was in
operation ; but the conviction must take place, if all he could
prove was, that he did not know what every body was supposed
to know—the existence of an Act of Parliament. The Act re..
quired that the defendant should also give evidence against the
party from whom he purchased the cutlery.
It was admitted on the part of the defendant, that he had not
only not objected to the wont " London" being marked upon
the cutlery, but bad consented to have his own name added,
and that he had very lately purchased the article. It was,
however, most solemnly declared that he knew nothing of the
Act.

----The London cutlers said, they had done all in their power to
make the law known to the country dealers, but their con-
temptible work was to be seen every where notwithstanding.
The Lon.n MAYOR said, it was certainly hard upon a man
to be presumed to know all the laws ander which he lived. lie
then regretted that there was no penalty affixed by this or any
other Act to the practice of attaching to goods the names of
those who were not the manufacturers.
Mr. Park then pleaded guilty, but declared his utter igno-
rance of having committed any legal offence.
Mr. HUMPHRIES said, the prosecutors were satisfied that
Mr. Park, who was young in the business, had offended igno-
rantly ; and as the object of the cutlers was not the penalty, but
to inform the whole country trade, they would be satisfied with
inflicted.
The lightest penalty the act
The Lout) Maion, with whom sat Sir K. C. GLYN. ac-
cordingly convicted Mr. Park in the mitigated penalty of AL.
and condemned the goods. The act gives one third of the ye.•
natty to the poor of the parish wbere the offence is committed,
and the two-thirds to the informer. The prosecutors only 're-
tained that part of the penalty which is directed to be given to
the poor. They returned to Mr. Park the goods and the re-
mainder of the penalty.

Our

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DURIIAM TOWN.

IIACE4 BY GENTLrMLN'S ITMISES HIDDEN DV AI4,O4TIWRS.
The first was n match between Darion'a half Arabian
grey mae, Lady Anne, and Air. liniley'a grey mare, Snow-
Drop, which was won by the former in `was an ex-
cellent race.

The next were heats, carrying 11 stone, between
Mr. Allies's ch. h. Millechup - - . - I 2 2
Mr. Bayley's hr. m. Mrs. Sprigging . - 21 1
Mr. Leigh's ch. h. Jeremy - . - bolted.
The next were Sweepstakes, between
Mr. Prit.chartl's ch. tn. Fenella
Mr. Smith's b. h. Blue Beard

• I fell, dis
2 1 (1

Mr. Ilayley's by m. Mrs. Spriggins - dis
Mr. Leigh's ch. h. Jeremy . bolted.
There was afterwards a Pony race, which Mr. Pritchard's
Drown won by distancing the field,

MIL rtt Aat:itxlTity'M ATC ig itatbrAted
north country pedestrian, and decidedly the best- in England
at one hundred miles and upwards, started from linightsbrult,V.
at twelve o'clock on Wednesday night, to go on foot to the sixty
miles stone on the Winchester road, and return in twenty.eight
hours, for a trifling sum, his object being merely to see whet
can be done. Ile went to Staines (17 miles) in two hours and
alien', where he refreshed, and proceeded on to Ottiptliot, where,
he arrived (27 miles) at four o'clock. lie Milted et Hartley-
row half an hour, and arrived at Mapertlerwell.batch (.14
soon after seven o'clock. lie halted an hour at,afriond's house,
near l'opharn.larte, and reached the sixty mile-atone at
hal
past twelve o'clock on Thursday, and returned bank to his
' friend's house, and refreshed and dined of a leg of mutton.
After waiting an hour. and having fifty.two mile, to perform in
thirteen hours, he reached I y.ro
lartlew, (37 miles), at half.past
six o'clock, and left lit seven. Ili* next bah was at Shrubs-MU,
where he supped, and left himself more than live hours to do
the last twenty-three miles in. fle reached Hounslow, tilt
miles), at half -past one o'clock, and won the, match in ten
minutes within titne, but not without muelt fae in the latter
part of the journey. lie was aemnpartied bane bOTIVIti
only.

FRE LONDON JOURNALS.

DA 1 Y

Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 7.

Tli E TIMES.]
We understand- that dispatches from Seville,
dated the Wth., have been received at the Spa-
nish Embassy, which bring positive assurances
that neither the new Ministers, nor the Cortes,
entertained the most distant idea of making any
concessions to the French, or to the Govern-
ment about to be established by them. Nothing
bad, in fact, occurred at that date to shake the
confidence in Spanish courage and perseverance.
It is supposed that "the arrival of thesedispatches
has determined the fixing the day for a meeting
of the friends of Spain, which bad been post-
poned in,consegnence 'of some artful misrepre-
sentations of the actual state of the contest.

The French loan, whick we mentioned a few
days since as in the contemplation of that Go-
vernment,' will, according to the latest letters
from Paris, be offered for negociation without
delay. Its amount is to be 23,000,000 francs of
rente, equivalent to about 17,000,0001. sterling.
Most of the eminent houses in Paris are preparing
to make offers for the contract : among the names
already mentioned, are those of Messrs. de
Rothschild and Co., Latitte, Delessert,
guer,llentsch, Mane and Co., and Laptthouze.
It remains still to be ascertained what degree
of support the measure will receive from the
monied interest in London. It is, indeed, stated,
that some of our most eminent merchants,
who have willingly supplied the wants of the
French Government on former occasion's, have
refused, in the most decided manner, to take
any shere in this transaction, on account of
the iniquitous purpose to which the money is to
be applied. The London house of Rothschild
will probably participate with that of Paris In
obtaining subscriptions for the new loan, and it
is said that Mr. A. Monteliore, the brother-in-
law of. Mr. N. M. Rothschild, will form a list at
the Stock Exchange; ani4 a similar proceeding,
we hear, is to he adopted by Messrs. Ricardo, in
conjunction with Mieville and Co. The tone
held by the French Finance Minister, while the
negociation is in limine, is extremely high. M.
do Villide expects, it is said, terms nearly as
favourable as could have been asked previous to
the invasion of Spain. We, who think differently
of the state of Spanish affairs, should conceive
any, such terms as most improvident. The ITIO.
ratify of the negociation is, we should think, not
even defended by the contractors themselves.—
(.lia.)

[MORNING HERALD.I
After two night's continued debating, a Com-
rnittee of Inquiry into the mysteries of the Chan-
cery Judicature has been refused by a majority
of the House of Commons. If the Committee
could by possibility create any alleviation of the
suffering to which no small portion of the com-
munity has been, and is subjected, and to which
the whole community is liable, this decision is
much to be lamented. It is a monstrous circuits-
stance, at first sight that from the dilatoriness of
-proceeding in this Court, between 0 and 40 mil-
lions are locked up from the use of the right
owners, and from the national industry. But
this is nothing to the poverty, degradation, and
suffering which it has inflicted upon individuals
and whole families. The delays of a Chancery
suit are become proverbial, and proverbs are
rarely without foundation. A Chancery suit is
absolutely become synonimous with torture. It
is well known that it is made an instrument
of oppression and extortion by the rich against
the poor. NV here the parties cannot mutually
agree in any matter of dispute under ne-
gotiation, the former threatens the latter with a
suit in Chancery, and thus extorts his own terms.
The great stalking-horse—the chevut de Wattle,
vf those )) ho defend the present dispatch of
business in Chancery, is the ability anti purity
with which justice is administered. Nothing is
more true; but it has little to do with the question.
—Promptitude is a quality not less essential to
British justice than impartiality, and is not less
carefully and expressly provided in the charter
of British freedom. It has. become a common
practice to extend the inviolability of the person
to the thing—from the Lord lligh Chancellor
down to the Master of the Crown-OlTice.—'
Another very weak and hollow answer to the
complaints of slowness, is to ask the complain-
ants would they have a Judge dash through
caases, without regarding the consequent errors,
and the authority of
.Lord Bacon is quoted,
where he compares this dispatch to " prediges-
tion." But Lord-Bacon did not, by this, intimate
that slow digestion, or none at all, was not equally
pernicious. Putting extremes in this way is one
of the anost feeble and disingenuous resources of
false reasoning. But the plain fact is, that in
order to relieve the suitors, and to make this tri-
bunal a protection not a nuisance—as it appears
to have been railed by a high authority, the
Chancellor jurisdiction, and with it, or course,
the profits, should be divided. In the course of
the debate allusions were made to the inclina-
tion to doubt which distinguishes the Learned
and Noble 1't,r,,00 who presides in this Court.
The acknowledged soutidness of his decrees,
the deep, and scrupulous, and fatiguing cen-
Aideratioo wide)) he bestows, Is bilked a most
valuable coin sensation :—moreover, there is no
remedy that we see capable of being ts -
plied. The, utmost, that could be obtained on
this point--and it would certainly he something
,gained---would be that he should keep within
hip own bosom, ids doubts of his own jurigments,
after lie has once given them, which would, it is
said, render apjwals less frequent. A decision
of the Chancellor respecting Merrily property
was adversely noticed by two Learned Gentle-
men. The case or cases on the same principle, are
familiar to the public—viz. the refusal of en
injunction to restrain the printing of Lord
Byron's Coin, and Mr. Lawrence's Lectures;
Bm. on the ground of their being immoral, and
therefore not susceptible of the rights of author-
ship or ownership, at common law.—Mr. Denman
quoted a decision ,its opposition to that of Lord ,