The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-18 00:00:00

STATIONS.

The LORD MAYOR received the following commu-
nication from the Chairman of the Committee acting
for the Fire Insurance Companies
" Chief Fire Engine Station, 68, Watling-street.
c, My Lord,—sy desire of the Committee acting for
the Fire Insurance Companies, who have recently formed
an Engine Establishment, I have the honour to transmit,
for the information of your Lordship, copies of the Gene-
ral Regulations adopted by the Committee, and also a
number of the addresses which have been circulated an-
nouncing the several Engine Stations.
" The Committee have made a point of communicating
with the officers acting under the Magistracy of the city of
London, with a view to obtain their co-operation, and
they trust they may have the advantage of your Lord-
ship's countenance in furtherance of the great object
they have in view, viz., to protect the lives and property
of the inhabitants of the metropolis.
" The Committee request your Lordship will be
pleased to direct the statements describing the several en-
gine stations to be forwarded to the authorities of the
several wards, in order that they may be more generally
known, and particularly that the city police may be di-
rected to give immediate notice of fire to the nearest
Engine Station.
" The Committee have the satisfaction of stating to
your Lordship, that they have the promise of every assist-
ance from the Metropolitan Police, in giving notice of
every fire within their district.
" The Committee would be happy to attend to any
suggestion your Lordship may be pleased to favour them
with, and, also, to receive your Lordship here at any time
you may approve to inspect the arrangements that have
been adopted.

"I have the honour to be, my Lord, yonr Lordship's
very obedient servant, " ISAAC SOLLY, Chairman."
Several of the Governors of the Fire Insurance
Offices waited afterwards, as a deputation, upon the
Lord Mayor, and stated that the Directors of the
Fire Offices, with a view to the better protection of
the property and lives of the inhabitants of the me-
tropolis and its vicinity—confident that so important
an object would be more effectually attained by the
employment of a permanent body of firemen, ready
at all hours to afford prompt attendance at fires, than
from occasional servants—have formed a fire engine
establishment, consisting of men in their permanent
employment, a great majority of whom have been
selected from the firemen hitherto in their service,
and who had relinquished all other occupations upon
being appointed to the establishment. Instead of
the men being under distinct offices, appointed by
each Company, and, therefore, not acting in concert
at fires, they were now embodied under the direc-
tion of a superintendent, with foremen and engi.
neers under him, and appointed to certain stations,
according to the accompanying list, where a portion
of them will be in constant attendance day and
night, prepared to give the most prompt assistance
on all occasions of fire.

The LORD MAYOR expressed the utmost gratifi-
cation at the establishment of an effectual system,
by which the most dreadful calamities would in all
probability be checked, or altogether averted. He
should take care the city police should co-operate
most actively, and, that no time might be lost, he
should give immediate directions. He was anti-
cipated in his intention by the Committee, as he had
determined, upon attaining the -Mayoralty, to make
some arrangements by which the public would be
more effectually benefited than they were by the
old plan.

The deputation stated that the following were
the stations at which there was constant attendance
day and night :
Ratcliffe, Prince's-square ; St. Mary Axe, Jeffries-
square; Finsbury, Wbitecross-street ; Cheapside, Watling-
street, No. 68 (double station); Blackfriars, Farringdon-
street ; Holborn, French Horn-yard ; Covent garden,
Bedfordbury ; Oxford.street, Wells street ; Golden-square,
King-street ; Portman-square, King-street, corner of
Baker-street ; Waterloo Bridge-road, opposite the Coburg
Theatre; Southwark Bridge-road, near Union-street;
Tooley-street, Morgan's-lane.
The following are the stations of the extra en-
gines :

Shadwell, Schoolhouse-lane; Westminster, Horseferry-
road; Rotherhithe, Broadway; floating engine, eft the
King's Stairs, Rotherhithe.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

G UILDHALL.

Yesterday Mr. Farr, an inhabitant of Fleet-street,
who had been summoned in a friendly way for the
purpose of obtaining a decision on the liability of
Liverymen to the payment of Is, per annum for
being placed on the list of 101. householders, came
before Sir C. MARSHALL to learn his determination
on the question. Mr. Edkins, the overseer, attended
on the part of the parish.
Mr. Wordsworth, one of the revising barristers,
on the part of Mr. Farr, begged to address a few
observations to the Magistrate. By the 32d section
of the Reform Act the liverymen retained their right
to vote. It was important to observe that this was
their previous right, and not one acquired by virtue
of this Act. Then comes the 44th section, which
directs the overseer to make out a list of all persons
" entitled by virtue of this Act" to vote in tespect
to property, which could not include the liverymen,
who derived their franchise otherwise; and also
another list, from which freemen (that is in London
the Livery) are also excluded. The overseers
were, in fact, to make a register of all non-free-
men, the list of freemen being made out by the
town-clerk, or in the city of London by the
clerks of the companies. The Act said every elec-
tor registered should pay Is.; but if the over-
seers put liverymen in their lists, they would
be called on to pay 2s. instead of Is. But
this could not have been intended, for the Is. which
was to be collected .vith the poor-rate could not be
so collected from liverymen residing at Tooting,
Mitcham, &c. No ; the arrangement of the Act
was; chat the whole of the expense of working it
should fall exclusively on the new constituencies.
The shilling was to be paid to reimburse the expense
of providing a list of the voters; but the complete
list of the livery was furnished by the respective
companies, and therefore the overseers were put to
no trouble or expense in that respect, for which they
could claim reimbursement.
Mr. Edkins, the overseer, observed, the parochial
authorities had no particular bias; they knew that
the sum was trifling, and that payment was resisted
from the common feeling that a man should not
submit to an illegal demand, however small. The
overseers, therefore, wished to have the legality of
the demand put beyond doubt.
The City Solicitor had considered the parts of
the statute to which the Learned Gentleman had
referred, and was decidedly of opinion that it was
imperative on the overseers to place liverymen as
well as others renting above 101. a-year on their
lists ; and it was imperative on the liverymen so put
on the list to pay the shilling.
Sir C. MARSHALL should be guided by the ad-
vice of his Learned Friend (the City Solicitor), arid,
indeed, he thought the liverymen gained an equiva•
lent for their shilling in the option to vote in dis-
tricts as householders.

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday,a young man, named Thonuts Kintber,
was brought in custody before Mr. MiNsfitiLL,
charged on tile police-sheet with having been acces-
sory a the death of a young woman, named Ann
Graves, who was drowned at three o'clock that
morning in the river, at Waterloo-bridge.
Mr.MINSIIULL proceeded to question the accused
who made the following statement in reply :—He