The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-20 00:00:00

HAMMERSMITH.

THE LATE EXTENSIVE SEIZURES FOR CHURCH-RATES
AT NOTTING -HILL.— IMPORTANT CONVICTION.— Satur-
day been appointed for the hearing of a summons
against Mr. Laing Johnstone, a broker, living in Church -
lane, Hammersmith, for having in a bill of costs deli-
vered to :Joseph Cook, hair-dresser, High-street. Not-
ting•hill, charged other and greater costa than by law
allowed, for making a seizure for arrears of church-
rates, the court was from its opening crowded in
every part.

• Mr. -Per', the barrister, attended to support the sum-
mons, and Mr. Kent, a solicitor, appeared on the part of
the defendant, who pleaded not guilty.
' Mr. Parry said the summons had peen taken out
under the provisions of the statute of the 57th of George
111., cap. 93, by the second section of which it was en-
acted that no broker. seizing for rent should charge any
other or greater costs or charges than are set down in
the schedule of that Act, or making any other charge
whatever for any Act, matter, or thing mentioned in
the said schedule and not really done. The Learned
Counsel stated the facts of the case, and'conteaded 'that
the sixth section of the Act, which provided that the
bill of costs given in by a broker should be signed by
the broker himself, for the want of which the worthy
magistrate (Mr. Beadon) dismissed a previous case, did
not apply to the present case, inasmuch as the bill
handed by.the defendant to his client bore on the back
of it the words From Mr. Johnstone," which, he icon.
ten led, was equivalent to a signature.
The fact of the seizure of the complainant's goods
and of their sale having been established, evidence was
given of the account furnished by the defendant to the
complainant.
After hearing a legal argument in reference to the
effect of the last-mentioned miter, Mr. Beadon, in giv-
ing his decision, observed that the defendant was sum-
moned for taking other and greater costs and charges
than those mentioned in the schedule of the Act. In
the defendant's account rendered to the complainant
Cook he found a charge of 2s. 6d. for warehouse-room,
but there was no such charge allowed by the schedule, and
he must therefore adjudge the defendant, under the 2d
section of the Act, to forfeit to the complainant 7s. 6d,
being treble the amount of the charge improperly taken,
with the costs.

The money was immediately paid.
There are about twenty other caws depending on the
above decision.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 18.—The duties on grain and flour
are without any change this week. There was a limited
attendance of millers and dealers at our market yester-
day morning. The demand for wheat and flour was very
dull, and the prices of both were barely equal to those
paid on Tuesday. A parcel of Western Canal flour has
changed hands at 264 per barrel in bond. Oats and oat-.
meal maintained late rates. Barley, beans, and peas
were each unchanged in value. Thera was a steady de-
mand for India❑ corn, and fully Tuesday's prices were
obtained. To-day there is scarcely anything passing in
the trade, and the prices of most articles have a down-
ward tendency. _ .

s. d. s. d

Wheat, per 761 b :
Engll3h, white .. 8 3. to 8 6

s. d. s. d.
•• 4 6 to 4 9
00— 0 0

Do. rid.. .. 7 6 8 0
Irish, new .. • • 6 0— 7 3
Do., old • • • • 7 6—7 10
Dantsic.. .• • • 8 4 - 8 9
Do., good mixed 8 0 8 4
Lowerlialtic,whit 8 0— 8 6
Do. red. 7 9 8 3
American . •• 7 6 8 6
Canadian • • :. 7 6 8 6
Spanish, red and .;
white.. .. 0 0— 0 0
Tuscan and Bar-
letta, red .. .. 7 0 - 7 4
Marlanopoll .. 7 2 —•7 6
Odessa, Polish • . 7 7 -- 7 8
Do., hard.. .. 6 0— 6 6
Egyptian .. 5 0— 5 6
Oats, per 451 b :
English and Scotch 3 6 3 9
Welsh .. •• .. 2 9-- 3 0 ,
Irish, new 2 9 3 0
Do., old • .. 3 4 3 G
Barley, English, pr
imperial quarter 36 0 - 38 0
Irish, Scotch, and
Manx,per6olb.. 4 9 5 0

MANCHESTER, Nov. 18.,
been apparent in the fl )ur ti
and in the little business wh
necessary to submit to reduce
wise met a slow sale, but v
value. At Liverpool mid 11