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London, England, 1828-06-16 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1828,

FREEHOLD ESTATE.

Steam Corn Mill and Residence, Tooley7street, Borough,

and Two Annuities of 60/. and 24/.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. C. WETHERBY,
At the Mart, on Mot:DAY June 16, 1828, at Twelve, in
Three Lots, before the Commissioners, on a Commission

against 'William Nokes, of Southend, miller, a bankrupt,
AFREEHOLD STEAM CORN MILL
of EIGHT-HORSE POWER, situate in Weavers-
lane, Tooley-street, with residence and appropriate out-
buildings, let on agreement for a Lease for Seven years, at
701. per annum. An annuity of 601. on a Life of 2S
years, and a ditto of 241. on a Life of 42 years.
The premises may be viewed by leave of the tenant,
where particulars may be had ; also of Messrs. Collier,
Marchant, Birch, and Steel, solicitors, 9, Carey-street,
Lincoln's Inn-fields ; of Mr. Eicke, solicitor, 37, Old
Broad-street; at the Mart ; and of Mr. C. Wetherby,
Auctioneer and Land Surveyor, 5, Angel-court, Throg-
inortem-street.

MEETING of the LICENSED VICTUALLERS

TO PROSECUTE INFORMERS.

A Meeting of the Trade took place at the Britan-
nia Licensed House, Berwick-street, Oxford-street,
on Friday evening, for the purpose of forming a
Branch Committee at the West End, to join with
the Committee already formed at the East End, to
follow up the proceedings against the Informers.
Mr. WOODFORD, of the Vernon Arms, Penton-
vine, was called to the Chair.

The CHAIRMAN shortly stated the object of the
Meeting, and alluded to Mr. Broderick's opinion
relative to informers, the substance of which has al-
ready appeared. He also said, that the Committee
bad been most successful in their applications to their
brother Victuallers, for means to carry on the in-
tended prosecutions, and that proceedings were now
going on against three of the most notorious of the
informers, which would be carried into the King's
Bench.

Mr. MITCHELL, a Licensed, Victualler, residing in
the neighbourhood of Golden-square, said, that as
far as his humble exertions could assist them they
might command them.
Mr. C--- wished to ask the Chairman if the
expenses attendant upon every case were to be de-
frayed from the general fund ?
The CHAIRMAN—Most certainly.

Mr. C in continuation, said he made the in-
quiry for the purpose of having information afforded
to others on the subject, because he, in fact, knew
such to be the intention of the General Committee.
He wished information to be spread abroad as to
this point—because he found, on the part of many,
a great disinclination to come forward to the Solicitor,
and make their grievances known ; and he feared
that the ground of that disinclination was the idea
that they would be liable to additional expences if
they did so. It was necessary that every one who
had a case should bring it forward to the Committee,
which would be submitted by them to the Solicitor.
Mr. KEMP was of @pinion, that even if they did
not get any more cases, they had enough to ex-
tinguish the informers.

A Licensed Victualler said that the informers had
become so alarmed at their proceedings, that he
knew of an instance where they had offered the
money back to prevent a very strong case indeed
from being known. The Licensed Victualler, how-
ever, to whom the offer was made rejected it with
scorn, and had promised him (the speaker) to lay
the whole of the matter before the Solicitor, in or-
der that proceedings might be founded thereon. He
regretted that many persons, whom he knew to have
strong cases, declined coming forward. Nay, more,
were at that moment paying I/. P. quarter to the in-
formers, in order that they might be open an hour
longer than him.—(Hear. hear.)
A Voice—l would turn informer myself to con-
vict such persons,
The CHAIRMAN said that, as far as money went,
he fOuni his brother publicans act in the most lgand-
some manner—but further he could not speak of
them. They objected to all kind of trouble, and
particularly hung back when asked to assist the
Committee with matter against the informers.
Mr. MITCHELL was of opinion that the cause from
whence sprung this disinclination of the Licensed
Victuallers must be from theirnot understanding the
matter thoroughly. They would be fools indeed
who would not take advantage of such an opportu-
nity of crushing their inveterate foe.
Mr. C— conceived enough had been said in
the way of explanation and comment—the next thing
was to form a Committee.

After some other proceedings had been go"
through, a Committee was nominated. It was also
agreed, for the furtherance of the object of the Meet-
ing, that another Meeting should be held next Friday
afternoon, at Mr. Mitchell's house.

Thanks being voted to the Chairman, the Meet-
ing separated.

ROYAL INSTITUTION.--On Friday, May
30th, one of the most numerous meetings of the season
took place ; the Duke of SOMERSET, the President, was
in the Chair. At the usual hour Mr. Cunns commenced
an animated and highly interesting Lecture on the Phy-
siology of the Edr in man and animals, which was re-
ceived throughout with marks of approbation. Mr. Cue.-
TIS illustrated his subject by specimens of the natural ear,
costly models in gold and silver, and also by drawings.
In the library of the Institution, the lecturer exhibiteed
many novel and ingenious contrivances for assisting bearing,
amongst them several artificial ears and improved hearing
trumpets ; the newly invented auriscope excited much
attention.

WISE LAWS :
AND WISE ADMINISTRATOR'S OP THEM.
(A SICETtIi FROM REAL Lirr-E.)

(From blic News. )
Scene : A Country Justice Room.

DRAMATIS PERSON,E : A Country Squire ; his Clerk
(a Lawyer's Deputy) ; Constables, Overseers, &c. &c.
CLERK—Now, Constable, shut the door; and we'll have
in only one party at a time; no LISTENERS, who only
come to pick holes in our coats; no King's Bench men.
CONSTABLE—That's right, Sir; I know who to let in
now ; mayhap you'd take Swipes's case first, the Radical
Brewer,* as they call him.
CLERK—WaII, let's have him. (After a long scuffle at
the door, which is besieged like the entrance to a playhouse
gallery, for a priority of admission on some favourite's
night, the Constable receives his fee from a jolly landlord's
hand, as lie pulls him forward in the train of a Swipe.
dealer, Lawyer, Exciseman, &C.)
JUSTICE---(HiS Worship is seen poring over a vol. of
Burtx ; he raises his head, as the fat and portly landlord
of the " Red Lion " takes his place opposite to him.)
jusTicE—Well, Stout, is it you who arc the plaintiff?
CLERK—No, Sir ; ke cannot have any thing to do with
it ; lie only came to hear it. The Exciseman, after a
good deal of trouble, has consented to the laying of an in-
formation against Mr. Swipes for selling ale that is " con-
sumed on. his premises" contrary to the Statute in that case
made and provided.
LawvEa—There is no Statute in that case made and
provided ; it is a clause in a certain act, compelling Retail
Brewers to the selling of such ale only as is drank off their
premises. _ _ _

CLERK-The clause says no such thing; for that would
render it a penal offence; for a man not to drink the ale
after it was bought, whether it was good or bad.
JUSTICE—Does the act say the ale must be good ?
CLERK—No, Sir, the act says nothing about it, either
good or bad ; if it did, we must have been appointed Judges
of the different taps M dispute.
JUSTICE—It is a pity that it was not so ; some taps are
not fit for pigs ; and a clause, empowering Justices the
judges of ale, would have benefitted the Revenue. (The
Informer is then called, who deposes to being the purchaser
of some ale, which he partly drank with one foot on the
door sill of the Brewer in question.)
LAWYER-The question, your Worship, for your de-
cision is, where a man's premises begin and end. I main-
tain that the door is on the premises ; and if the informer
or any part of him be on the door, he is, ergo on the
premises.

CLERK—We are not obliged to have Lawyers here,
your Worship : you may order him out, if you like.
JUSTICE—Egad I like the fun ; let's hear all tkat can he
said.

Curitic—Then I do not concur in the Law of Mr. Six-
and-eight. I maintain that if the centre of gravity in a
man is off the premises, all is right.
LawyEa—Why the centre of gravity is just the very
thing which no man, Lawyer or otherwise, has ever been
able to discover.

CLERK-That's very true, but though we cannot prove
where the centre of gravity is, we can readily tell where it
is not. If you could balance a man, lengthways, on the
edge of a chair, to see at what points the legs would divide
preponderance with the head,—although that point might
be held to be the centre of gravity, still the difference of the
leverage at the one end, would give a false weight to a part
of the tnaterial of which it was composed. False scales
are made, which, when empty, give an equal balance ; but
in the weighing, the unequal ends of the beam, would give
a false quantity to the thing weighed.
JUSTICE—Now rot me if I can tell any more what all
this has to do with the selling of a pint of beer than my
dog can. Was the man in the house?
LAWYER—We : nor out of it.

JUSTICE-Well ! it's just such an in and out case as I
never heard before ; nor wish to hear again ; was the better
part of the man in the house ?
LAWYER—HIS wife, your Worship, was not there.

JUSTICE—There you go again ! We can never determine
"R.l it must go to the King's Bench ; and egad it will
puzzle them: if the Informer was neither in nor out, he
was neither here nor there. I must dismiss-

CLERK—Stop, your worship. Suppose the informer's
left leg was placed at ease on the door-way ; and he was
resting his body on the righaeg out of doors,—you would
then decide in favour of the right leg.
LAWYER—Then he would decide wrong, unless the
right leg bore all the weight of the body.
JUSTICE—CaII upon me to decide in favour of one of
a man's legs, to the prejudice of the other ! What will
you do next ? You say his right leg was on the door-way ?
LAwvER—No ! he had the right leg out of doors.
JusucE-IYhy then he'd the wrong leg in doors ; and
therefore you have decided against yourself.
LAWYER—We are not talking of " right and wrong ;"
but of right and left.
JUSTICE—WeII ! that's a good one ! You come here,
avowedly, to call upon me to decide between the Informer
and the persons informed against, which is right and which
is wrong; and now you have put the question to the right
about as the soldiers say, and left the matter more in the
dark than ever.

LAWYER-When the ale of a Retail Brewer is bought,
the person who consumes it must be off the Brewer's
premises.
JUSTICE—WeII, that is, lie must buy his drink and
be off.
LAWYER-NO ; at least only so far as not to be on the
Brewer's floor ; he must be beyond the eaves-drop.
JUSTICE_That is, before he takes one drop, he must
be beyond the reach of another.
LAWYER--Your worship is facetious; but thals off the
premises of the argument. I contend, for my client, that
the virtual presence of the Informer was manifest, in his
left leg, on the premises of the defendant at the consumma-
tion of the offence.

JUSTICE—I cannot follow you : its of no use. You
must prove, point blank, that the Informer was bodily
there, in contravention of the Law. Suppose the inter-
dicted article were snuff; instead of ale : in that case you
begin to consume the moment you enter the manufacturer's
shop ; the olfactory nerves arc at it in spite of you. I
take it that there must be a complete act to make out the
case; the offence must he finished as well as commenced.
LAWYER-Impossible, your worship ; for then the
man must drink all the ale, if it were twenty quarts, before
the act would be illegal; and that would be an infraction
of another Law. If such were the Law, then a man must
take all the goods off your premises, before he could be
tried for house-breaking.

JUSTICE-There must be a co►nplete stealing of wine-
.

thing.

Cawlritu—No : if there be proof of the felonious intent.
JessTics--But can you charge a man with the unlawful
intention or design of drinking ale? If so, then every
person who is athirst, in the vicinity of the house of a
Retail Brewer, contravenes the Statute.
CLERK—Egad, your worship, the Attorney-Gener a
could not argue it, better. You have completely floored the
Lawyer.

LAwm--Well, let his worship decide against the In-
former, and I'll try the floor of the King's Bench for
another turn.up
CLERK-That's what I told your worship : I would
never have had him in.

JUSTICE-Well, let's divide the matter ; and grant that
the Informer having one foot in is so far good on his in-
formation; and is entitled to half the penalty :—l'll hear
no further—that is my decision.

LAWYER—I shall appeal to a superior Court.—[Exeunt
Lawyer, Informer, &c. &e., with a grinning crew of
Brewers, Topers, Landlords, &c.]
CLERK-Thank God we got rid of that party: now
your Worship, we have had prepared a lot of warrants,
summonses, &e. &c., they are all ready filled up ; and
want nothing but your Worship's name.
Jusma—Bless me, what a bundle ! why it would take
me two hours to inspect them all : you ate sure that they
are ell right.
CLLRIC-0 yes : I have filled them up mostly myself;
and the constable has done a few of them ; who is a pretty
knowing hand. [The Justice is seen signing papers.]
[Enter Mr. A. B. a personal friend of his Worship's.]

Jusricz (after a short conference)—.l am advised to
look three papers over, before I sign any more of them:
yeti may all retire ; and the Warrants, &c. shall be sent to

`" The general name, in populous districts, for " Li-
censed Retail Brewers ;" an epithet of contempt heehawed
on them by the Bonifacee.

WAKEFIELD, June 1).
The supply of Wheat fresh up here to-day is moderate,
and it has met dull sale at much the same prices as was
obtained last Friday; for stale and inferior descriptions
there has been little demand. There has been rather more
business doing in good Mealing Oats than for some time
back, and prices are fully supported. There is very little
Barley offering, and the weather being now fine and warm,
there has been very little demand to-day. Notwithstand-
ing there are numerous reports of the growing crop of
Beans having sustained much injury, there is but little de-
mand for Beam, and they are rather lower.
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, Red
White— s2s. to 575.
495. to 545.
525. to 55e.
495. to 525.
345. to —s.
30s. to 31s.
30s. to 31s.
3fis. to 40s.
375. to 41s.

New, Red
White
- Foreign, Red
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk
--- Lincolnshire
---- Yorkshire Wohl
Beane, Tick
- Small

tine ties.
fine (11s.
fine 58s.
fine 58s.
fine Ms.
tine 365.
fine 320.
line 32e.
fine 425.
fine 425.

Oats, Poland and Potato 225. to 265. fine 276.
Friczland and Small. l7s. to 236. tine 245.
Healing
Shelling frs. to 28.5. —s. to —s. per Load.
Malt 37s. 41s. tine 43.5. pc; Load.
Rapeseed 2ll. Os. 231. Os. 241. 10s. per Last.

WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET.--Junc
Unexpectedly there was a short supply of Sheep and
Lambs, which caused an advance of near a halfpenny per
pound on Mutton. Of Beasts, the supply was large, and
though the sellers struggled for some advance, yet we can-
not note any amendment in price.

SCOTCH MARKETS.
EDINBURGH CORN MARKET..—June Il

We had a middling supply of Wheat at this day's mar-
ket; sales rather flat, although the top price is higher.
Barley, Oats, Pease, and Beans, sold readily at list week's
prices.

Wheat.
First .62s Od
Second sls Od
Third

Barley. Oats.
38s Od 306 tkl
3fis Od 26s (Id
2Ss Od 18s tid

Pease.
346 fid
31s Od
26s Od

Beans.
34s (k 1
30s Od
26s di

PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C.
Beef, per lb. Os. sel. to Os.7d. Fresh Butter,lb.s.lld. to h. 0,1,
Mutton 0 44 0 7 Salt Ditt0.....,,... 0 9 0 0
Veal 0 3 0 8 Ditto, per ess 1.76 0 .0 0
Pork 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doe. 0 6 7 0
Lamb, per qr. 1 6 4 0 OatStraw(kp%) 8 0 9 0
Tallow, cwt.... 32 0 35 0 Wheat Ditto— 7 0 8 0
Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 9 Barley Ditto 7 0 0 0
Potatoes, Mb. 0 0 0 5 May, per 0 9 010
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET'.—June 10.

We had a middling supply
ket, which sold heavily at la,

of Oatmeal at this day's mar-
q week's prices.
Per Stone of 111 b. Imp.
[first Oatmeal £0 2 0
Second ditto
Barleymeal 0 1 8
Peasemeal
s.-2d, 155.-3 d, V4s.

Per Sack of 2801 b
First Oatmeal £l 17 0
Second ditto 1 1% 0
Itarleymeal 1 10 0
Peasemea' 1 6 0
Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 13