The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-10 00:00:00

A mu, FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL ADMINISTRATION

OF JUSTICE IN THE OFFICE OF A JUSTICE OF THE

PEACE IN THE SEVERAL POLICE OFFICES ESTA

...
BUSHED IN THE METROPOLIS, AND FOR THE MORE
EFFECTUAL PREVENTION OF DEPREDATIONS ON

THE -RIVER THAMES AND ITS VICINITY, FOR

THREE YEARS.

The following is an abstract of a very important
Bill, just brought into Parliament by the Under
Secretary of State, " for the more effectual Admi-
nistration of Justice in the office of Justice of the
Peace in the several Police Offices in the -Metropo-
lis, and for the more, effectual prevention of depre-
dation on the River Thames and its vicinity."
The first clause enacts, that the several Police-
offices now established in the Metropolis shall be
continued,
The second clause enacts, that one or more of the
Magistrates shall diligently attend at each of the
said Police-offices every day (Sundays, Christmas-
day, Sze. excepted), from ten in the morning until
eight in the evening, and that two of the Magistrates
shall attend together from twelve until three in the
Afternoon.

The third clause enacts, that his Majesty in
Council may alter the situation of the offices, or dis-
continue any of them, or reduce the number of Ma-
gistrates, or alter the attendance and hours of at-
tendance, as may seem proper.
The fourth clause enacts, that the present receiver
for the Police-offices shall be continued in office, his
duties being to receive all fees and penalties, to ap-
ply them in discharge of the salaries and expenses
at the Police-offices, and to make contracts for pur-
chasing, hiring, or furnishing proper places wherein
the Police-offices shall be held, according to the di-
rections of the Secretary of State. His salary 4001.
per annum.
The fifth clause enacts, that a sufficient number
of Gt and able men shall be retained at the Police-
offices as constables.

The sixth clause enacts, that the Magistrates at
the Thames Police-office shall appoint Thames Po-
lice Surveyors, subject to the approbation of the
Secretary of State.
The seventh clause enacts, that officers and patrols
of Bow-street office, within ten miles of the metro-
polis, may act as constables.
The eighth enacts, that Police Magistrates may
swear in street-keepers to act as special constables.
The ninth enacts, that each of the Justices are to
be paid 8001. a year out of the Consolidated Fund,
from which further sums shall be taken as may be
necessary, for the expenses of the clerks, constables,
Bow-street patrol, provided that the said charges
do not exceed the annual sum of sixty-five thousand

pounds.
The tenth clause enacts, that no Justice or his
clerk shall take fees but at the Metropolitan Police-
offices, on pain of forfeiting 1001., provided that this
shall not apply to fees at Quarter Sessions, or meet-
ing: of Justices for licensing alehouses.
The 11th enacts, that a table of fees, which may
be demanded under the 26th Geo. 11. c. 14, shall
be hung up in a conspicuous part of each Police-
otEce.—The 12th enacts, that all fees taken shall
be duly entered in a book.
The 13th enacts, that all such fees shall be paid
over to the receiver. The 14th enacts, that if fees
are not accounted for the receiver may sue for the
same. The 15th and 16th relate to the accounts of
the receiver.

The 17th enacts, that no justice of a police-office
shall be capable of sitting in Parliament; that no
justice, receiver, or constable shall vote for the
election of a member for the metropolitan county
or districts, or interfere with an elector in disposing
of his vote, under pain of forfeiting 1001.—The
18th enacts, that acts directed to be done by a jus-
tice, where an offence is committed, may be done
by a magistrate in the next police-office, and that
justices of the Tower Liberty may act at certain
offices.

The 19th enacts, that at all fairs held within ten
miles of Temple-bar, all business and amusements
of all kinds shall cease at the hour of eleven in the
evening, and not recommence earlier then the hour
of six in the morning; and if any house, shop,
room, tent, waggon, &c., within three hundred
yards of the fair, shall open within the hours pro-
hibited, it shall be lawful-for any constable to take
into custody the master or mistress or manager of
such place, and convey them before the magistrares,
rho may inflict any sum not exceeding five pounds ;
any person refusing to depart from any such house,
shop,&c., on being bidden by the constable, to for-
feit a sum not exceeding forty shillings. If there
shall appear to any two justices, within their re-
spective jurisdictions, reason to believe that any fair,
usually held within the distance aforesaid, has been
held without charter, prescription, or other lawful
authority, or that any fair lawfully held within
the same distance has been usually held for
a longer period than is warranted by charter,
prescription, or other lawful authority, it shall
be competent to them to summon the owner of the
ground upon which such fair is usually held, to
appear before them and show his right to hold such
fair; and if the owner shall fail in showing sufficient
cause for holding the fair, the justices shall declare
in writing such fair to be unlawful; and if, after
public notices to that effect shall have been posted
in conspicuous parts of public places, any attempt
shalt be made to hold such fair, any justice of the
peace may remove every booth or tent upon the
ground for the purpose of holding the fair; and any
constable may take into custody all persons en,
gaged in fixing booths, &c. Every person convicted
of such offences to forfeit 101., and in default of pay-
ment to be liable to three months' imprisonment.
The owner of the ground, on entering into A recog-
snizatice of 2001., may have the question of right to
titi,a to fair tried in the King's Bench.
The 20th clause enacts, that no coffee-shop or
room shall be kept open after eleven at night during
any part of the year, or open before the hour of
four in the morning, between Lady-day and Michael-
mas, or before six in the morning, between Michael-
mas and Lady-day. Penalty for infringing this re-
gulation, both on the owner and persons found in
the place, not to exceed 101.; one moiety to the in-
former, provided that this clause shall not apply to
any.house licensed for the sale of wines and spiri-
tuous liquors, and that no such conviction shall ex-
empt the owner from any penalty to which he may
be liable for keeping a disorderly house.
The 21st clause enacts, that a constable may ap-
prehend any person blowing a horn or other noisy
instrument in the streets,for the purpose of hawking
or selling any article, and a Magistrate may fine him
a sum not exceeding 40s.
The 22d enacts, that any driver who shall ride
amen the shafts of his waggon or carriage of any
kind,. or who shall by negligence cause any damage
to any person, horse or carriage, or who shall not be
in attendance on his horses, or shall wilfully obstruct
the street, shah; forfeit for every such offence a sum
not exceeding 405., and shall also pay to the person
aggrieved a sum not exceeding 51., as shall appear to
the Magistrate to be a reasonable satisfaction.
The 23d enacts, that any person hunting or
baiting a bullock shall forfeit, on the first offence, a
sum not exceeding 40s. nor less than 205.; and on
every future conviction a sum not exceeding 5i., nor
less than 50s. ; in default of payment, to be impri-
soned for any time not exceeding two months for the
first offence, nor five months for every future con-
viction.

The 24th relates to the form of conviction
The 25th enacts, that constables may apprehend
.ehend
any suspected person, or reputed thief, in any public
place, and convey him before a Magistrate, who
may commit him as a rogue and vagabond.
The 26th and 27th relate to the forms of con-
viction,
The 28th enacts that powers, privileges, obliga-
tions, and duties imposed upon the Magistrates, clerks,
and constables, of Bow-street office, shall continue in
case of the removal of the office from the said street
to any other street or place.
The 29th imposes a penalty not exceeding 301.,

upon any person convicted of damaging the Thames
Police boats.

The 30th enacts, that Thames Police surveyors,
having just cause to suspect felony, may enter on
board of vessels, and take up suspected persons.
The 31st and 32d enable the surveyors to seize
unlawful quantities of gunpowder on board of ves-
sels, and to stop boats or carriages having stolen
property in them.
The 33d enables constables to search houses
where stolen goods are suspected to be, on a war-
rant from a Magistrate.
The 34th enacts that persons found in possession
of property unlawfully obtained, shall be judged to
be guilty of a misdemeanor.
The 35th enacts that any person who frames a
false kill of parcels to prevent goods from being
seized on suspicion of having been stolen, or made
to serve as evidence of any felony, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor.
The 36th enacts that any person who breaks or
injures parcels with the intent that the contents may
be spilled or dropped, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.

The 37th enacts that if any person, for the pur-
pose of preventing the seizure of any articles stolen
from the cargo of any vessel shall wilfully drop them
into the river, or make away with them, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

The 38th enacts that for offences declared mis-
demeanors, and for which no penalty is appointed,
offenders shall forfeit a sum not exceeding
5/., or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two
months. Articles seized by virtue of this Act io be
advertised, if the person found in possession of them
be convicted.

The 39 h and 40th relate to technical proceedings.
The 41st declares that in cases of misdemeanors,
under 2 Geo. 111., c. 28, where forfeited boats have
hitherto been ordered to be burnt, the Magistrates
may order the boats to be restored, or to be pub-
licly sold, and the proceeds to be given to the re-
ceiver.

The 42d enacts that masters of vessels between
Westminster-bridge and Blackwall, having on board
guns loaded with ball, or discharging guns, before
sun-rising or after sun setting, or heating tar and
other combustible matter on board of vessels, shall
forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.
The 43d enacts that disputes about wages for
labour done on the river, &c. (except by Trinity
ballastmen), shall be settled by the Magistrates at
the Thames Police-office, provided the sum in ques-
tion does not exceed five pounds.
The remaining clauses enact that this Act is not
to affect the rights of the city of London, of the
Dean or High Steward of Westminster, or of the
Trinity-house ; and that it is to continue in opera-
tion for three years after the passing thereof.

ECCLESIASTICALEXTORTION-BURIAL

GROUND CONSECRATION.

(From the Leeds Times)

We have received a long letter un the subject of the
consecration of the additional burying grounds at Tad-
caster and Barnsley, which contains details of ecclesias-
tical extortion on that occasion, which, we think, demand
general attention, and will give additional proof of the
necessity of a radical Church Reform.

To the churchwardens of Tadcaster was sent the fol
lowing letter :

(COPY.)
Gentlemen,--I scud you enclosed the charges on the copse.
oration of the additional churchyard at Tadeaster.
" I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
"JOSEPH BUCKLE.

"Fork, 26th March, 1829."
Fees on consecration of the additional Burial-ground at
Tadcaster.
IS2B, s. d.
Drawing and engrossing the petition to the Arch-
bishop to consecrate 1 5 0
Drawing and engrossing the sentence of consecration 2 2 0
Drawing the Act 0 13 6
Registering the above instruments and the deed at _ _ _

length, and parchment 2 2 0
The Chancellor's fee 5 0 0
The principal Register's fee 5 0 0
The Secretary's fee 5 0 0
The Deputy Register's attendance and expenses 3 15 6
The A pparitor's fee 1 1 0
Fee on obtaining the seal
Carriage 0 5 0

£27 5 0
20th June, 1829, Received, W. H.
The following is a similar document of charges recently
made on another parish in the West Riding :
(COPY )
Fees on consecration of the additional ground added to the two
churchyards at Barnsley. _

£. s. d.
Drawing and engrossing the petition to the Archbishop
to con,ecrate 1 5 0
Drawing and engrossing the sentence of consecration
and stamp duty '2 9 0
Act to lead the consecration
Registering all the above instruments and the deed at
length
The Chancellor's fee 5 0 0

'he principal Register's fee
Seery.

The . _...refary's fee 5 0 0
The Deputy Register's attendance and expenses
The Apparltor's attendance
Fee on obtaining the seal
Postages, &c.

£26 13 6

The chancellor and registrar is the same individual,
namely, Mr. Vernon, the Archbishop's son, and of course
he pockets the two fees of Si. each. Mr. Buckle is also
private secretary to the Archbishop and accompanied him
in his carriage from Bishoptborp to Tadcaster, a distance
of only ten miles, for which a separate charge is made of
31. 15s. 6J., besides his fee of 51. and IL Is. for the seal,
and indeed it is believed that nearly the whole of the fees are
pocketed by these gentlemen.
Our corieepondent thence presents us with the follow-
ing narrative, which we give in his own words, and which
we are confident will amuse our readers :

" These consecration jobs remind me of a circumstance
which occurred some years ago, not twenty miles from
Rochdale. The populaton of a village consisting gene-
rally of poor people had increased so much, that an en-
largement of the church hurial ground was found neces-
sary, and, with some difficulty, the requisite funds were
raised for purchasing and fencing a small piece of ground,
which was added to the churchyard. But when this
was done, another difficulty occurred. The clergyman
informed his parishioners that before he could inter a
corpse, the new ground must be consecrated—they said he
must then send for the Bishop to do the job; but they
were struck with consternation, when informed that the
expense would be more than four times the amount
which they bad already expended, and they declared it
could never be raised. The whole business therefore ap-
peared to be at a stand, until the sexton, who had more wit
than the whole parish put together, inquired how deep the
consecration reached, but this the sapient clerk could not
say, The sexton therefore proposed to wheel such a
number of harrows full of the real consecrated earth as
was sufficient to cover the unhallowed ground completely
over, and then he remarked that the little leaven would
leaven the whole lump.— This economical plan was ap-
proved of by the whole parish, and was carried by accla-
matinn. The good clergyman not liking to fly in the face
of his parishioners, and-perhaps not being quite orthodox
in his opinions respecting the virtues of consecration,
complied with the wishes of his people, and interred such
of his flock in the new ground as were cut down by the
ruthless tyrant, and they slept with their fathers without
the leas,t, indication that the sod under which they were
deposited was les; hahowed than the old part over which
the hocus pocus of consecration had been canonically per-
formed.—but unfortunately this bnciness reached at last
the Bishop's ears, who knew much letter than the
" unwashed artificers" of his diocese what was necessary

to be done, in order that the departed should rest in peace.
He therefore called the rev. clerk and the churchwardens
before him, and shaking the terrors of the ecclesiastical law
over them, made them glad to compromise and submit to
incur the expense of having the job rightly done—but still
the good people out of whose pockets the cash had to come
suspected that if it had not been for the fees, the right
reverend ►arson would not have troubled them, but would
have let the dead take their chance."

Military officers in the King's service on the
India establishment feel much inconvenience at not being
allowed to draw their pay in England or Ireland, where
several olficera have families.

THE QUARTE/q..Y DIVIDENDS.—The divi-
dends which became due on the 4th of the present month,
on the several portions of the public debp, which have
been closed for some weeks past, commenced payment at
the Bank yesterday.. The attendance of persons to receive
their interest was not eo numerous as on many former
occasions, The transfer-books of nie several stocks in
which disidepds are now due, and which hive hen shut
for about a month, wjll re-open for public transfers op
the forthcoming days--viz., Reduced Three per Cents.
yo
u Cents.
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and the Reduced Three and a Half per Pents, on the 24411
instant ; the po
Three and a Half' on the 22d instant ; the
ts, of 1818, on the 18th instant ;
Long Annuities, oti titi;
*0,4 instant; Bank Stuck, on the
16th instant, &e.