The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-28 00:00:00

SEWERS COURT.

Yesterday a Special Meeting of the Court of Sewers was
held at the office of the Commissioners, Greek-street, Seho,
for the purpose of considering the following letter from the
Solicitors to the Board, and giving such directions as should
be thought necessary thereon :
" 16, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury-square,
" Sir,—Agreeably to the direction 3,01f8t Chairman, we
attended on Saturday last, at Chelsea Hospital, to meet Mr.
Bicknell, the Solicitor of the Hcspital, and the Collector of the
Commissioners, that the warrant of distress might be executed.
" It was found that Mr. Hall did not reside on any part of the
premises rated, and that he had no goods on such premises ;
and the Collector made a distress in the chapel, wards, and
hall, by levying, on a table in the wards, a pensioner's seat in
the Chapel, and a dining-table in the Hall, all which Air.
Bicknell stated were the property of the Commissioners of the
Hospital.
"The Collector, Mr. Wrather, has called and left with us a
writ served on him,
at the suit of Mr. Neave, Secretary of the
Commissioners of the Hospital, for the trespass in seizing the
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Mr. AnEY moved that the solicitors to the Commissioners
be instructed to defend the action brought by the Hospital
against Mr. Wraxall, and to apply to the solicitor s for the
plaintiffs to waive all technical objections, so that the question
motion.
Mr. Of the liability of the Hospital should be the more readily de-
termined.
Captain
was meant by technical
objections? It was important that the letter of Alessrs. Smith
seconded
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be known. The Jury were led by the Commissioners to find that
Mr. Hall was liable ; a person who was not rated, and the goods of
persons not named in the warrant were seized. He considered
the proceedings of the Commissioners, whose acts these were,
exceedingly irregular. If they were illegal, the costs should
be borne by those Commissioners themselves, and not by the
public. He wished to ask the solicitor if he knew of any pre-
cedent for seizing the goods of one person under a warrant
issued against another.

Mr. 'A.DEY Oj.el the question.
Mr. LESLIE s baidi;( he was satisfied with the refusal of an an-
swer, as it showed that the gentlemen who had acted in this
matter were afraid to have the legality of their conduct in.
quired into.
The question was then put, and the Resolution was carried
by a majority of eight to two—the dissentients being Mr. Les,
lie and Mr. Fuller. •
After the disposal of some routine business the Court ad-
ourned. - -

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forehead, and its mouth
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okleet-he-w;ea,iterLyeaned a fine looking lamb, which had only
and nose very much resembling a pug-mastiff's. It wat
alive when found, and in all other respects perfect. Is
was brought to Kendal on the same day, and, we believe,
now graces the shelves of the Natural. History and Scien-
tific Society, for the inspection of the curious in such mat-
ters.—Kendal Mercury.
The Cologne 'Gazette confirms the account of
the affair of Count Demidoff's marriage having izten ex-
plained to the satisfaction of the Emperor Nicholas, and
says that his imirrial Majesty has given the Count leave
to Pair,