The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS, April 19.
Their Lordships sat to-day in the new House for the
first time to hear appeals. The Peers present were the
Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and
the Bishop of Hereford.
THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY CO3IPANY
V.
THE PROVOST AND TOWN COUNCIL OP LINLITHGOW.
Mr. BETHELL replied at considerable length to-day
in this case, the arguments in which were part heard
prior to the Easter recess.
Their Lordships postponed giving judgment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIOIV-I-10 USE
The City Solicitor attended yesterday. for the purpose
of answering a complaint made on Saturday to his Lord-
ship by Mr. Farey, the proprietor of the Black Boy and
Camel public-house, in Leadenhall-market, with regard
to some proceedings which it had been found necessary
to adopt. As he was not present at the time the state-
ment was made, he should take the report which appeared
in the newspapers as containing the matter and manner
of the complaint.
The LORD MAYOR intimated that the Solicitor was
correctly informed through the channel of the press.
The City Solicitor said, that, upon reading the account
of what had taken place at the Mansion-house, he called
at Mr. Farey's house for the purpose of requesting the
proprietor to meet him at the Justice-room, as he was
always desirous of speaking in the presence of any per-
son who considered himself aggrieved. It did not,
however, suit Mr. Farey to attend, and the explanation
of the affair must, therefore, be made in his absence.
The statement in the newspapers, as he presumed it
issued from Mr. Farey's mouth, was a series of misre-
presentations. Mr. Farey had represented that there
was no mode of drainage upon his premises, and that
everything which ought to pass into the common sewer
passed into a cesspool immediately under his house, and
occasioned a most obnoxious nuisance. Now, Mr. Farey
must blame either his landlord or himself for permitting
such annoyance to exist. The Corporation had built most
capacious common sewers all through the city, and if
individuals did not cause drains to be made from their
premises into these receptacles, they must put up with
the inconveniences necessarily arising from the neglect.
In that respect Mr. Farey must come in for his share of
the consequences of the omission. Probably if the Cor-
poration possessed the power of compelling the landlords
of houses to drain into the sewers, Mr. Farey would
have been silent upon that subject. As for the com-
plaint that the City Solicitor had caused the door of the
Black Boy and Camel, leading into the market, to be
shut up, that proceeding had not been resorted to with-
out very strong reasons for its adoption. Complaints
had been made, as the Lord Mayor had intimated in his
observations to Mr. Farey, that robberies were fre-
quently committed in the neighbourhood, and according
to the evidence of the ward beadle, a thief, who had stolen
a goose in Leadenhall-market, had easily escaped pur.
suit by running through Mr. Farey's house. Now, it
was not difficult to understand that a means of commu-
nication such as Mr. Farey's house with its two doors
presented might be applied to the purposes of ingenious
persons in a way not likely to be profitable to the trades-
men in the market. It had been insinuated that the
Corporation were influenced against the proprietor of
the Black Boy and Camel by the fear of the con-
sequences likely to arise to a house of their own
from an act of justice. The house to which Mr.
Farey alluded was a tea and coffee-shop in the mar-
ket, and a pump was kept close to it at the back of Mr.
Farey's house, to which pump several females were in the
habit of going for water, and it was considered amongst
other objections that it would not be altogether proper
to have the back entrance to a public-house opening
upon such an engine of public convenience. Now, Mr.
Farey had had due notice to block up the door of com-
munication which he had opened without the permission
of the magistrates. Ile had declined to do so, and the
Corporation had done it for him.—(A laugh.) The
official referees who had been applied to on the subject
had decided against him, and, in truth, the only com-
plaint he could fairly make was, that he had not been
treated with all the justice which the law awarded to
persons similarly situated, for the Act of Parliament
said, that if, upon being called upon to shut up a prohi-
bited door, a defendant did not, within a certain time,
comply with the order, the business should be done for
him, and he should be made answerable for the expenses.
It was not his practice, in cases in which a compulsory
course was considered necessary, to charge the expenses
incurred, but certainly the conduct of Mr. Farey was
calculated to make one regret that he had been included
in the exemption.
The LORD Mayon. said, he was convinced when Mr.
Farey was stating to him what had taken place that a
complete refutation would be given to all the assevera-
tions. lie knew that the Commissioners of Sewers were
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Farey would not take advantage of the opportunity of
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municate with these sewers, why they must take the
consequences. If Mr. Farey were to be permitted to
open a door into the market, what between omnibus
cads in the front of his house and market cads at the
back of his house, the neighbourhood would be in a very
agreeable condition.

The LORD MAYOR—I certainly am of opinion, Mr.
Solicitor, that the course you have pursued in shutting