The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-23 00:00:00

HATTON- GARDEN.
Yesterday Mr. Edward Nettlefold, the resident surgeon
of St. John's Hospital, Hatton-garden, was summoned'he-
fore Messrs. LAING and BENNETT, the magistrates, by the
parish officers of the Lower Liberty of Saffron-hill, to show
cause why he refused to pay 6!. 55., the amount of two
quarters' poor rates, claimed as being due from the above
institution. The case excited considerable interest, and .
the office was crowded to excess by medical gentlemen and
others who felt interested in the result of the investigation.
It appears that St. John's Hospital has been recently
eqtablished at a house in Hatton-garden, immediately oppo-
site this office, and the defendant resider the ,lower. part
of the premises, having his name and stated in
the parlour windows and on a brass Oa' tne effeet-
door, viz., " Nettlefold, Surgeon. and Ac •euenettr." . The
house was rated by the parish-Officers in sue srie way as
others ; but on the collector applying for the poor-rate pay-
ment was refused, in consequence of which the present pro-
ceedings were instituted. After along argument, •
Mr. LAING said that, under. the; circumstances of the
case, he should recommend that the fdoft,ndant consider
himself this sum in arrear, and appeal to the Sessions
against the next rate, and abide by the decision of the
Sessions, and if the decision was in favour of the parish, to
pay the whole ; and, on the contrary, to be free from pay-
ment.
Mr. BENNETT conceived that in a case of such consider-
able importance to the charitable institutions of the country,
it was better not to form an opinion to the prejudice of one
party or the other, but to leave it for the Sessions to decide
upon it.
The parish officers and other parties consented to this
arrangement, and quitted the office.
Mr. Staples, the resident apothecary of St. John's
British Hospital, Cross-street, Hatton-garden, was sum-
moned for having refused to pay the poor rate.
This case, like the former, after some discussion, was re-
cured to the Magistrates at the Sessions.

MARY LED ONE.
Yesterday John Haverfield and Ir. Stevens were placed
at the bar, charged with vending unstamped newspapers
called the Weekly Police Gazette, the Twopenny Dispatch,
&c., and with assaulting Josiah Dean, an officer of the Com-
missioners of Stamps ; and Mr. William King, proprietor of
the Archery Coffee-house, Bath-place, New-road, was also
charged with aiding and assisting them therein.
Police constables S 79 and S 67 proved taking the pri-
soners Ilaverfield and Stevens into custody, and finding a
quantity of unstamped papers on each, as also to the violent
conduct of the mob.
Mr. King, in reply, said that the complainant Dean
rushed into the house, in doing which, ho broke a window,
and on seating himself in one of tlse boxes upset a coffee-
pot and sugar-basin, which were consequently demolished.
Seeing a number of persons outside, who threatened to
pull down the shop front unless the man was put out, wit-
ness turned him into the street.

Mr. It AwLiNsoN—You are discharged, Sir.
Mr. KING—And I shall apply to the Stamp Office for
the amount of damage their officer has done.
The prisoner Haverfield was then committed for six
weeks, and Stevens (it being his first offence) to seven days
imprisonment in the House of Correction.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

CRAVEN MEETING.
Sweepstakes of 100 sows. each.
230 even between the Darioletta and Bee-in-a-Bonnet colts, not
p.p., the latter receiving 31b.