The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-14 00:00:00

LA W INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 13.
ALEXANDER V. NEWMAN.
The respondent in this case holds a tenement by right of
which ho claims a vote for the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The appAlapt objects that this tenement is but a part of a
larger eltate, which has been divided amongst thirty-six
prsens Rr the purpose of multiplying a vote. By several
statutes which Were cited on the part of the appellant, it is
enacted that if any tenement shall be split, or divided
amongst several persons for the purpose of multiplying a
vote, that the conveyance by which such splitting or division
is effected shall be null and void. It was urged that such
was the case in this instance, and that the Revising Bar-
rister was wrong in deciding that the respondent, Newman,
should be placed on the list of voters.
On the part of the respondent it was represented that the
Acts kn_question only referred to cases in which the splitting
was etil7cted by a fraudulent conveyance, i. e., one in which
the tenement is given over without any actual purchase of
the same by payment.
In this case ilso their Lordships took time to consider.
Their Lordships rose at half-past three o'clock.
The Court will sit to-morrow in Banco at Westminster,
and at Nisi Prins in London.
The hearing of the appeals will be resumed on Monday
next, the 17th.

COURT OF EXCISE. Nov. 13.
(Berore the Hon. CaptOn„PERCY, J. HARRISON, Esq., and

C. J. lIERRIE.s, Esq.)

Jelin Powell, keeper of a beer-shop, known by the sign of
the Cart and Horses, Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, was
charged with adulterating his beer with gentian, sugar, salts
of tartar, and various other ingredients unknown ; and also
with having adulterating articles in his possession. There
wore eight counts in the information varying the offence
Charged jgaint him.
Mr. Hughes, in officer of Excise, stated that
having received information, he proceeded with another
offleer to the house, and on seeing the defendant they told
him that' they were Excise officers, and had come to exa-
mine his beer. His son got a light, and with them pro-
ceeded to the cellar. Upon the head of a cask they found a
large stone bottle, which the defendant's son was about to
take away, but was prevented by his brother officer. They
examined its contents, and found it a solution of foots sugar,
sail of tartar, and gentian root. He then examined a pun-
chfon of beer that was on draught, which was very poor.
The son said that he mixed the beer with 4lbs. of sugar, six
gallons of water, and one quart of the colouring matter,
which was his usual practice. Examined a barrel of beer
that had been fined down the day before, and to this he was
told had been added 21bs. of sugar, four quarts of water, a
liAgc salt, and one pint of the colouring matter. Defendant
said he had been obliged to do so to give the beer a little
flavour. Witness took samples of the whole and brought
them ewer.
The defendant said he did not know anything whatever of
the nature of the preparation put into the beer by his son.
Was told by his son that he had been recommended by a
person to put it in. Had he been aware that he was doing
wrong, he was the last person in the world to have done so.
The COLILT, in giving judgment, inflicted a penalty of 251.,
and said that the defendant might petition the Board.

POLIC E INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-BOUSS.

Yesterday a Mr. Horne, who stated that he had been em-
ployed as a clerk to the Provisional Committees of two pro-
j-cted railroads, the principal managing Directors of which
ago gentlemen of unquestionable character, applied to the
Lord Mayor to be informed whether his Lordship could
render assistance in the endeavour to obtain from them the
amount of wages due to him for performing the very labo-
rious duties arising from the engagement he had formed with
them. The amount of wages due at the present moment by
one of the Provisional Committees was 41. 165., and he was
solicitbd to take half that sum, but he bad refused the offer.
The LORD MAYOR said that he could not interfere in such
a case, and that the applicant might state his case at the
Court of Requests, and perhaps the authorities there would
grant him a summons.
The applicant said he should appeal to the Court of Re-
quests.