The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-23 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, MON_DAY MORNING. FEBRU.A.Ri 23, 1840.

' made in a company, either one of the promoters or the
registered solicitor to the company attended.
Mr. George Smith stated that he had been solicitor to
Mr. Davy, the prrtjector of the Trunk Union Railway,
who died in November. The alterations in the register
had been done by witness or his clerk.
Cros-examined—The Trunk Union Railway Company
was commenced and was intended to be proceeded with,
but was merged in the Grand Junction, &c. They were
essentially the same company.
Here a question arose as to whether the document
produced was such a one as could be considered a bond
fide register.
Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, said that the difficulty
which presented itself was simply this : that the Act of
Parliament authorised a solicitor, who was duly regis-
tered as such, to take all the necessary steps required
by the statute, instead of the promoter : but in this case
the solicitor had taken upon himself the alteration in
the style of the company without having complied with
the provisions of the Act by being himself first regis
tered as the solicitor.

Mr. Duncan said he would waive any advantages
which might accrue to his client upon that point, feel-
ing
confident that he could stand upon the merits of
the case,

_ •
Mr, Goodman—lf that be waived, then surely the de-
fendant has complied with the Act of Parliament, for
he produces a certificate of registration, by the name of
the Trunk Union Railway, and a certificate that a proper
return has been made of the name, business, and de-
tcription of the promoter; al►o proof that the name of
that company has been altered to the Grand Junction,
Great Western, and South-Western Railway Company,
that such alteration has been duly registered, and that
the two companies are evidently the same.
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHFR said that he could not
at all see that any act had been committed, or omitted,
by the defendant, from which any improper motive
could be inferred.

The Loaf MAYOR stated that the Act of Parliament
was in itself replete with difficulties, and the wordirg of
the section upon which the summons had been issued
was so incomprehensible, that he thought it better that
the case should stand over for a week, when he would be
prepared to give the decision.
The case lasted till late in the evening.
CR 0 YD ON.

On Saturday Mr. Edward Bzlson, an inspector of the
P division of police, attended before Messrs. Adams,
Sutherland, Lucas, Barclay, and Simson, at the Town-
hall, Croydon, to answer a charge preferred against him
by a man named Weston, who was formerly a sergeant
in the same division, of having been drunk while in the
execution of his duty on the morning of Sunday, the
30th November, and also with tossing for brandy and
water in a public-house, and abusing the landlady.
An inquiry into the same subject has been for some
time in progress by the Commissioners of Police,
anonymous letters having been sent to them, in which
a variety of charges, of a very serious nature, were made
against the inspector, and they eventually sent the
whole matter before the magistrates ; one ground for
their doing so being that the evidence they had obtained
was so contradictory, and the witnesses prevaricated so
much, that they could make nothing of them, and, there-
fore, they wished the Bench to make a full inquiry.
Mr. R. Russell of Croydon, attended in support of the
charge, and Mr. Robinson, an attorney, appeared for the
defendant. Mr. Robinson, the superintendent of the
division, attended to watch the proceedings on behalf of
the Commissioners of Police. _ _

George Wesfon, the complainant, deposed, that in
November last he was a sergeant in the P division of
police, ender inspector Bilson, and on the night of the
29th of November, he was on duty with him, and
according to his directions he went to the Bricklayers'
Arius public-house, where the defendant said he would
come to him. After waiting there some time he went
to another public-house, called the New Inn, where he
found the inspector very drunk. They went away from
that house to the Bricklayers' Arms, the inspector being
at the time very drunk; and while they were standing at
the bar the inspector challenged two persons who were
standing there to toss for brandy and water, and he
did eventeally toss with them, and they had five or six
glasses of brandy and water, three of which the in-
spector lost. He also said that the landlady asked him
to pay two shillings for two of the glasses of liquor, and
he refused to pay her, and made use of very foul language
to her. This all took place at two o'clock on Sunday
morning ; and he said the inspector was so drunk at the
Bricklayers' Arms, that he could not stand or keep him-
self upright without leaning against the door-post ; and
he had very great difficulty in getting him home to the
station.

The witness underwent a very severe cross-examina-
tion from the inspector's attorney, and he admitted that
he made no complaint of this occurrence until more than
two months after he represented it to have taken place,
and that he at first refused to give any statement in
writing ; and it turned out, after a good deal of fencing
with the questions put to him, that he made no com-
plaint at all until he had been himself suspended, and
subsequently dismissed from the police, upon the report
of Inspector Bilson, for borrowing money from publicans
end from constables in his division. lie likewise ad-
mitted that he had been before broke and reduced to the
rank of a private constable for misconduct, and that
he had been charged with receiving money im-
properly, and that he was once, while engaged as
a constable, sentenced by Mr. Twyford to a
month's imprisonment in the House of Correc-
tion, for receiving money from the keeper of an im-
proper house, against whom he held a warrant ; but the
sentence was not carried out by reason of its being as-
certained that the complaint had not been made within
the period specified by the Police Act, and therefore he
was set at liberty, but dismissed from the police, and he
then commenced an action against Mr. Tvvyford, and
soon after this he was again re-instated as a police-con
stable, and appointed to the P division.
Mr. Robinson pressed the complainant to state
whether he was not re-appointed, after the occurrence
before Mr. Twyford, upon the condition that he should
abandon the action he had commenced against that gen
tietnan?—The complainant denied that he had any such
understanding, and said that Sir James Graham insti-
tuted an inquiry into the matter, and was so satisfied
with his character and conduct, that he ordered him to
be re-instated as a constable.

said —lllr.Rdainson inquired whether after this the action
which had been commenced was not immediately aban-
doned?—The
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complainant replied that it was.
Aid he did not think they ought to go
such an inquiry as this. It appeared quite clear that
brought an action against Mr. Twyford, and that
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after he was re-appointed as constable, he abandoned
that action ; it was hardly necessary to inquire any fur-
ther into that matter.
In answer to further questions, the complainant ad-
mitted that he had been reported several times for mis-
conduct, and the only reason he gave for not having
made this charge before was, that ho did not wish to
hurt the inspector.
Some witnesses were then called with a view to corro-
borate the testimony of the complainant, but although
some of them spoke to the fact of the tossing taking
place, they contradicted each other in many material
particulars, some of them stating that the inspector was
quite drunk when he left the New Inn, and others that
he was perfectly sober. It likewise appeared that some
of the witnesses, when they were questioned by the
superintendent upon the subject, had positively declared
that the inspector did not toss or misconduct himself at
all on the night in question, and that they had
no complaint to make against him. It was also
shown that the reason why Mr. Bilson went
to the New Inn at all on this night was, that he was
sent for on account of a robbery having taken plaeo
there, and that he afterwards went to the Bricklayers'
Arms, to see if there were any lodgers of suspicious cha-
racter staying there.
Mr. Robinson, on behalf of the defendant, urged upon
the b 4 pelt that there was no foundation for the charge
against him, and that it had been trumped up by the
sergeant out of revenge at his having been the cause of
his dismissal.

The superintendent of the division was then examined,
and he deposed to the contradictory statements made by
the witnesses, and said that one of them declared to him,
calling God at the same time to witness what he said,
that no tossing or misconduct whatever took place on
the night in question. He also gave the defendant an
ex-ellent character for the period he had belonged to his
division.

Two sergeants, who were on duty at the police-sta-
tion on the ❑ight in question, which they remembered
particularly on account of the circumstance of the rob-
bery, one of the patrol, and a constable, who was on
duty at the time, were then examined, and they swore
that - Mr. Bilson was perfectly sober at the time in
question. _ _

After a short deliberation, Mr. ADAMS said the magis-
trates were unanimously of opinion that this charge
should be dismissed, and the reason for their conferring
together was not because they. entertained any doubt as
to the propriety of their decision, but whether they
ought not at the same time to give their opinion as to
the conduct of the persons who had come forward in
support of the charge. He must say, that after listen-
ing to the material contradictions and discrepancies
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likewise of opinion that, on the night in question, the
inspector was perfe-tly sober, and he would add,
from what the bench had seen of his conduct, that he
was a very zealous and excellent oaicer.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.---NEW REGULATION AS TO
NEWSPAP
frequently taken place in the delivery of newspapers in the
Ens.—ln consequence of the great delay which has
London district, an important notice has been issued by order
of the Postmaster-General. The delay has been occasioned
by several important towns and places adjacent being brought
within the limits of the London district, namely, Romford,
Kingston, Croydon,
Barnet, Waltham Cross, &c., &c.; but
newspapers being frequently put, in at the general depart-
ment, have hither to been transferred to the London district,
causing much delay. The order now issued is, that in the
evening sorting of letters, &c., for the country bags, all news-
papers directed for either of the above towns or places near,
shall be made up in bags for the night mail, instead of
being sent over to the London district. Persons sending
papers during the day should be careful which box they put
them into.
IMMEDIATE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE POOR.—On Set-
turolay evening, Mr. Russell, of the Board of Works, pro-
ceeded to Kilkee, in the county Clare, where the preessure on
the poor from the loss of the potato crop is considerable. lie
is armed with full powers to set up the peasantry to wink
on the public roads, and in every available manner.—
Saunders.
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WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FEE 20.—The arrivals
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'B'ee" prices,
of all grain are moderate this week. There is a good attendance of
bsotuotekia, and a very limited bminess is transacted in flee wheats.
nillers at to-day's market, but there is still a tlisinclination to enter
and common descriptions are positively
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each rather lower. • malt in demand, without alteration in value.
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