The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-03 00:00:00

BAIL COURT, JUNE 1.

IN RE THE TRUSTEES OF IVHITEHAVEN HARBOUR.

Mr. COLT➢IAN moved for a rule to show cause in
this case why a quo warranto, directed to Robert
Jefferson, of Whitehaven, should not be issued,
calling on him to proceed, according to the Act of
Parliament, to the election of certain persons as
trustees for the harbour of Whitehaven. The only
question in dispute was, what class of the inhabitants
had a right to vote, it being enacted that the parties
to be trustees should be elected by the majority of
the qualified inhabitants. He (Mr. Coltman) as-
sumed that all were qualified who paid harbour dues
on articles of merchandise imported or exported
or were owners of one sixth of a ship or vessel
trading to \Vhitehaven Harbour, or the master of
such ship or vessel. On the other side, it was con-
tended, that all persons carrying on any kind of
trade were entitled ,o vote ; and at the last election,
out of 1,060 persons who had voted, 600 were re-
tailers and shopkeepers. This, the Learned Gen-
tleman contended, was not contemplate 'l by the Act.
The COURT said, that it was material that the
usage for twenty or thirty years after the passing of
the Act should be known, as at that time it was
to be presumed that parties would be more
cognizant of the intention and meaning of the Act
than at present. The course of usage was nor
I kely to come out otherwise, in the course of the
in vest igAtion.

11r. COLTMAN said, that if persons considered
themselves entitled to vote, they would set forth
the ❑sa:e, if it were in limur of their own right
of voting,

The COURT was of opinion that, thopgh such
might the ease, it might still have been of advan-
t ,ge to his (Mr. C.'•) case, if the previous custom
hail been shown by hem. There was stifficTnt,
however, in the atli(Livit, to entitle the Court to
grant the rule.—Rule granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

I➢IITATION of FEA.—On S t orday the patentee
of the " thorn-leaf beverage," accompanied by a re-
spectable solicitor, waited upon the LORD MAYOR,
nt consequence, as they stated, of the publicist:on of
an article under the head of Mansiou-house, impu-
ting to tea dealers the offence of selling► sloe-leave-,
and other leaves of British growth, for tea, and call-
ing the leaves which were gathered at Norwood
abornirnible stuff.

The solic for for the thorn-leaf beverage stated
that a letter having appeared in the daily new -
papers, accusing the tea-dealers of passing off aloe-
leaves, &c , for tea, his client considered it to be his
eluty to come fo. ward on this occasion.
T:,e LORD MAYOR—Pray, why did he think the
letter and my observations applied to him ? Soli-
cizor—liecause he has such au es'ablishmeht as was
desc ibed in the letter at Camberwell. He has, in
fact, taken out a parent for making a wholesome
beverage for the poorer classes.
The patentee of the who:esome thorn-leaf beve-
rage said that he was most anxious to remove the
stigma from the respectable tea-dealers, of making
a spurious tea. The letter was a heavy stigma
upon them
The LORD MAYOR—You need not be alarmed
on the subject. Mr. 1--" e k, arid several of the other
great tea-dealers, have been here to return me
thanks for giving publicity to such a filthy and pre-
judicial species of imposition But how is this ap-
plicable to you ? Itive you employed those boys
to gather leaves, and to bring them to you secre ly
at a coo keeper's shed ?

The pa,eiitee—No ; but we use the thorn leaves;
and 1 have the opinion of Mr. Hume, the chymist,
that the stuff is wholesome. It is made for the
lower ord.- rs, and calculated to meet their pockets.
The LORD MAYOR said it must suit their pockas
much better than their stomachs, and asked how
the ptventee happened to know that none of the tea-
dealers used it ?

The Patentee—l know it very well; we sell it
to Done hut those who deal in the heve, age. —(Great
laughter.) Your Lordship will find that it is a whole-
som, beverage.

The LORD MAYOR— Indeed I shall never try it;
I shall never drink the solution of sloe leaves for
my breikfast, you may depend upon it. How has
it, I wonder, escaped the Excise ?
The patentee sold the Excise had examined it,
and de!ermined that it was not an imitation of tea.

The LORD MAYOR—I happen to know a little of
the world, and I must say, that what has occurred
In-re to-day convinces me that the adulteration of
tea takes pl ire to ten times the extent the public
su.pect. The low tea dealers mix up this abomi-
nable trash with black tea, and pass it off upon the
public; but I trust that the public will exercise a
proper degree of csution as to whom they deal with.
Toe patentee then took his departure.
BOW- STREET.

SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS —Two miserable look-
ing fellows, named James Parr and Freeman Hales,
were brought to this office in custody of Dame!
Byrne, a policeman of the C division, charged with
selling a seditious publication, intending to bring
his Majesty's Government into contempt. The
publication in question was sold for the price of one
halfpenny, and was a miserable parody upon part of
the Litany, in which every rule both of grammar
and orthography was violated, and which was evi-
dently a composition of some wretched ignoramus
of the G. lib-street fraternity. It assumed that the
Wigs, as it was priu ed, had been guil,y of the
most tremendus oppression towards the peeple, and
in the responses called upon King William the
Fourth to deliver us.

ti Ir. MINSHULL rhoitght it was one of those pub-
lica ions which we!e calculated to excite prejudice
again st the G iveitiment, taw! called upon the pri-
soners to enter in their own recognizatices in 201.,
and to find two sureties in 10/ e ch.
QUEEN-SQUARE.

INFORMATIONS —The attentio,i of the Magis-
trates ,%as some time engrossed in disposing of
various informations brought forward by Byers.
John Parker. the dr ver of one of the Pa'ney
c,airties, was fined in the miiigate,l penal y of 255.
and costs, for cat rying more passenger"; than allowed
by la.v. H s lictose ,xtewicd o thc number car-
ried ; but the construction of the sea s of his coach
was not in accord ,rice ,%ith the Act, which ex-
p es.ly -rates that they shall he at least five teet in
lengtri, tI a c"-itin number of persons are carried.
John Hollis, of Battles, Surrey, was summoned
for nett !raving his name properly pivoted on his
errt. It was proved to have rtstil.ed from accident,
and the defennant was only called upon to pay he
t,sts of 'h.- i“l,rtnation.

William Earle, „1 P.rtiand Town, wa. fined 10..
C.,srs, fin !lot having his name pain(vd On his
cart in a straiaht

Samuel lons, of Princes-street, Lambeth, next ap-
pea ed to ans, er the complaint of having his name
written in chalk upon his col.

'Fr MAGISTRATE decid,d that ti'e name onglit to
1.. written 111 panit,i-ind fined the defendant 10, and
cots.

John Haskell, the proprietor of the halkney car-
riage 1,360, w,,s convicted in a sitmlar penalty, for
having his inside number turned upside down.
Several other cases met with the like fate ; and
Byer-, elated by his success, ordered a substantial
ihnoer for himself and witnesses, several of s horn
appeared to have been titer strangers to such a thing
for a lengthened period. They weleltned the joyous
deelaralion of their master with tears in their eyes
and watery mouths.

ST DUNSTAN'S CHURCH, FLEET-STREET.
L ist night, while the minister of the church was
preaching to the assembled congregation, the chandelier
by which solely the church is illuminated went on', and
c nsequently left the pl.ce in utter darkness. A delay of
a few minutes was occasioned, as the Res. Gentleman,
preaching from notes, could not continue his sermon. At
last candles were brought and the discourse concluded.
Upon inquiry, we ascertained that the cause of the inter-
ruption was thcasiuned by the than turning off thegas too
quickly.