The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-29 00:00:00

TALLOW.

A very inactive demand has been experienced for P. Y. C.
on the epot, Ind prices are quite 3d per cwt. lower than on
Monday last. For forward delivery next to nothing is doing.
Town tallow, the supply of which is good, is in moderate
request, at 49s 6d to 50s 3d net cash.

HOUSE rOF LORDS.--(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers
present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and
Lord Campbell.

THE PROPRIETORS OF THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW
RAILWAY V. THE MAGISTRATES AND TOWN cOUNCIL

OF LINLITHGOW.

The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed
this morning, and occupied their Lordships the whole
day. The following. are the short facts of the case upon
which the appeal is founded :—The town of Linlithgow
enjoyed under several charters, confirmed by Acts of
Parliament, the right to take tolls on goods and car-
' riages passing through the town. The town also enjoyed
the right to take tolls on Linlithgow bridge. In the
year 1638, an Act of Parliament, Ist and 2d. Vict. c. 58,
was passed for making a railway, between Edinburgh and
Glasgow, to be called the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail•
way, which railway was to pass through Linlithgow, and
to cross the River Avon between West Bridge and its
mouth, by means of a viaduct or bridge above Linlith-
gow-bridge. By the 237th section of the Railway Act, it
was enacted that " nothing in this Act should extend to
take away a bridge, or diminish any rights, privileges,
jurisdictions, or powers which at present belong to and are
enjoyed, or which are claimed in virtue of Acts of Par-
liament, royal charters, immemorial usage, or otherwise,
by the magistrates and town council of the burgh, or by
the magistrate, or by any of them, to demand, take, re-
ceive, or levy customs upon any cattle, carriages, goods,
or any other thing whatsoever, paising, led, drawn, or
carried over the water of Avon, Torphican Mill, or at
any other part of the said waters of Avon, by any ford
or bridge, or by
.any viaduct or other bridge that may.
be built or erected across the water of the Avon by the
company." The railway was opened in the mouth of
February, 1842. The provost, baffles, and council of
the burgh claimed toll on goods carried through the
town by the railway, and also certain bridge tolls in re-
spect of goods carried over the Viaduct, as if such via-
duct must be treated as the old town bridge for the pur-
pose of these tolls. The directors of the railway com-
pany insisted that no tolls were payable for the mere
transit through the town of goods carried upon the rail-
way, nor for goods carried over the viaduct, which could
not in any way whatever be treated as a town bridge.
On both points the Lord Ordinary, Lord Wood, decided
in favour of the magistrates of Linlithgow, and sup-
ported their claim of tolls. His interlocutor was sup-
ported by the Court of Session, and from their decision
the present appeal was brought.
Mr. Bethel!, on behalf of the appellants, was heard
on a previous day ; and Mr. Hope, on the same side,
occupied their Lordships the whole morning,

THIS DAY.)
VICE-CHANC_ERY.—(
(Before the VICE- UHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
His Honour the Vice Chaucellor of England was oc•
copied the whole morning with motions and came peti-
tions of no general interest.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(TIIIS DAY.)
Richard Alexander, Henry Gladstone, Giorge Smith,
and Thomas Collier, four young boys, were charged with
attempting to pick packets in Berwick-street, on Satur-
day night.
Police-constable Willa said he was in plain clothes on
the alert in Berwick-street:: b'ecause of repeated, rob-
beries having been reported 'from that neighbourhood
lately, and he saw the four prisoners attempt the pockets
of different persons, and nearly succeed in their purpose
on a lady who had just come -out of a shop near St.
Luke's Chapel.
The father of one of the prisoners, seemingly an
honest, hard-working man, stated tharhis boy was ap-
prenticed to a tradesman, in whose emp!oy he had been
most attentive and regular, and he could not but be sur-
prised at the charge.
Mr. BINGHAM said his experience for the last three
years et Worship-street, was consistent with all that
being true ; for he found young men well situated for
trades and every necessary, who spent their evenings on
the strc.et. picking pt cketti. He therefore, remanded the
prisfjler.,icr turtnvr
EXTRA PAY TO PcmcEmEN.—One of the constables•
on this district having applied to have his expenses at !