The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-27 00:00:00

GUILDHALL-(SATURDAY).

Mr. Alderman WrisoN attended to hear a counter-state-
ment to a complaint made before him last week, by Messrs.
Lewis and Lowe, newspaper advertisement agents, relative to
the vexatious detention for a week of a cheque for 2001.,
drawn in favour of Messrs. Lewis, and as to Mr. Lewis being
refused permission to see the directors when he applied for
the balance of his account. Mr. Hill, the deputy-chairman
of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company,
said his attention had been called to the report of the appli-
cation on Tuesday, but as Mr. Miller, their solicitor, was out
of town, he refrained from moving until he returned. He
had given Mr. Lewis notice of his intention to appear this
day, and he had strong ground to complain that Mr. Lewis
had made a statement calculated to prejudice Mr. Miller,
without notice. When the account for advertising was
brought to him by the solicitor, he asked if he intended to
present it at the next board, and if the bill was correct. The
solicitor replied it was not. The charges were exorbitant,
and he heard that Messrs. Lewis and Lowe had charged other
parties 50 and 100 per cent. beyond the amount actually paid
to the newspapers ; and in this case there were charges from
15 to 25 per cent. beyond the proper amount. This was
ascertained by applying to some of the country papers. Mr.
Hill, upon this, required that the account should be ex-
amined with the vouchers, and, up to this time, Mr. Lewis
had declined: to produce the vouchers. Sir James Duke,
the Chairman of the Company, said the agents had at all events
expended a considerable sum, and he proposed that a check
should be drawn for 2001., the amount of the bill being 6271.
Mr. Lewis had notice:of this, but neglected to call fora week.
Mr. Lewis had stated the cheque was obtained by Mr. Miller, but
this was untrue. It remained in the possession of the applicant
(Mr. Hill), and it was Mr. Lewis's own fault that he did not
have it. The Company was ready to pay what was justly
due, but it was the duty of the Directors to see that the
money of the shareholders was not improperly expended.
With respect to what passed at the last meeting, when a
policeman was sent for to remove Mr. Lewis, nothing could
be more quiet and circumspect than the behaviour of
_Mr.
Miller towards Mr. Lewis, and there was nothing to justify
a complaint to a magistrate.
Mr. Alderm an WILSON had no doubt the newspapers that
noticed the matter before would do so again. The fairness of
the charges must be discussed in a civil court.
Messrs. Lowe and Lewis came in -just as Mr. Hill had
finished his statement, and Mr. Lewis stated, in explanation,
that Mr. Hill was mistaken as to tickets being givenfbr sums
paid for each advertisement. No such vouchers could be
produced. The newspapers had a scale for charging such
advertisements, which might be seen at his office, and the
truth of which might be tested by inquiry at the offices of
the respective newspapers. His bill was a fair one, and he
should enforce payment of it. The parties then withdrew.

MORWINSTOW.—GuAxo.—Mr. Baker, yeoman,
Morwinstow, has at present a field of cabbages, part of which
he manured with farm-yard dung, and the other with guano,
which was procured from a rock near Marshuul Mouth, on
which sea-gulls have for ages built their nests. A quantity
of guano has accumulated there, which enabled Mr. B. to try
the following experiment on his cabbage plants when set.
He devoted to every plant a pound of guano, which was
spread around the root of the plant mixed with earth. In
the adjoining part of his field he placed farm-yard dung at
the ratio of fifty loads per acre; the cabbages manured with
the latter weighed from 151bs. to 201b5., while those manured
with the guano weighed from 281bs. to 301bs. He has thus
saved 20 per cent. in carriage of manure, and realised 20 more
in the produce from guano.— West Briton.
EXTREMELY HIGH TIDE.—The tide of Tuesday
morning, at Ipswich, was one of the highest known in the
river Orwell. It rose with much impettfosity, and reached
an altitude of 19 feet 7 inches, being 2 feet 6 inches higher
than its usual height, and 6 inches more than the great tide
of January last. The tide of Tuesday broke through the
bank upon the marshes, the lower bank at the end of the
wet dock, and through several other embankments down
the river. We understand that a vessel, name unknown, is
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high and dry at Pin Mill, so high, indeed, as t is feared no
ordinary flow will reach her. A few sheep have perished and
a bullock.—Suffolk Chronicle.
FIRE AT BARROW.—On Sunday morning, between
nine and ten o'clock, a barleystack belonging to Mr. John
Place, of Barrow Hill Farm, standing in the fields, with a
peastack only near it, was discovered to be on fire. The
Suffolk and Norfolk engires being fetched from Bury, with
the active assistance of all present, extinguished the flames,
and the peastack was preserved, though within fifteen feet
of the other, but the barley, the produce of about seven
acres, was nearly all consumed. Major Griffith attended in
the course of the day to inquire into the origin of the fire.—
Suffolk Chronicle.