The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Tur: CITY or LoNnoN v.
SCALES.-This case, the consideration of which occupied
two days, exsited a great deal of interest, as it involves a
right long undisputed. The facts are briefly as follows:
This defendant is a :nost extensive carcass butcher in
Aldgate High-street,- and he had, according to practice
long established, removed the pavement under the pent-
house before his shop, for the purpose of putting down
new pavement. The Commissioners of Sewers, upon the
part of the city of London, claimed the right to pave the
spot as public property, and laid an information against
Mr. Scales. The penalties recoverable upon proof of a
violation of Taylor's Act, in this instance, by Mr. Scales,
amounted to I,OSO/.
The City Solicitor produced witnesses to prove that the
ground under the pent-houses along the line of Aldgate
High-street had been paved by the Commissioners of Sewers
at the public expence.
Two surveyors, employed by the city, proved, one of
them that he had put down two stones under the pent-
houses, at the expellee of the city, a few years ago, and
the other that he had made-some trifling repairs occasion-
ally there.
The defendant contended that the ground in question
was not publio property within the meaning of the Act.
It was private property, and possessed every description of
right to which private property was entitled, as much as a
shop or counting-house. He had occupied the ground at
all seasons and under all circumstances, and it had been
used and enjoyed in like manner for the last seventy years.
The City Solicitor persevered in saying that the ground
was public property.
The defendant said the object was to make the pent-
houses liable to whatever charges the Commissioners might
think fit to impose ; but in the Act of Parliament those
pent-houses were excepted from the fate of other places of
a similar description.

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Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Brown proved having applied to
the Commissioners to repair part of their pavements, and
were answered that the ground was private property, and
Mr. Boot proved having resided in the house occupied by
Mr. Scales for 60 years, during which he always used the
pent-house and pavement as his private property.
A City Surveyor stated that he had refused to pave or re-
pair the ground under the pent houses, as he always consi-
dered it private property.
One of the defendant's title deeds was produced, denot-
ing the measure of the ground under the pent-houses. The
defendant accused the Commissioners of having made a
most unwarrantable attack upon his property; but he knew
to what to attribute such an invasion of the rights of indi-
viduals. Some of the members of the Common Council
felt a❑ interest in proceeding, because all the butchers, to
a man, voted plumpers for him on last St. Thomas's day,
and thus became black sheep in the eyes of the other can-
didates.—(A laugh.)—But he cautioned them to beware of
the next election.
The City Solicitor positively denied the correctness of
this charge.
The LORD MAYOK said, thlt the question was one of such
importance to his fellow citizens that he would submit it to
the Quarter Sessions, by fining the defendant Si. for re-
moving one foot of pavement, and 51. fur doing so without
having first had the leave of the Commissioners. He by
all means advised an appeal. He had known the pent-
houses upwards of 50 years, and it appeared to him that
the pavement and erections were attached to the houses;
and, judging as a casual observer, he considered them pri-
vate property.
The defendant then gave notice of appeal.

GUILDUALL—The time of Sir PETER LAURIE was
much occupied last week in listening to the complaint of
an elderly spinster, named Jackson, against an eminent so—
licitor practising in the Court of Chancery, who, having
been employed by her brother (since deceased) to assert his
title to the estates of the late Duchess of Norfolk, had

(according to complainant's statement) entered into a con.
spiracy with the Clergyman of a village in Berkshire, to
furnish a false copy of a tombstone inscription, and thereby
defeat her brother's claim. Sir PRTEA LAURIE, on the
strength of her representation, sent fur the solicitor on
Friday last, requesting him to come in and answer it ; but
the solicitor being from home, his principal clerk came back
with the officer, to state what he knew about it. On
Saturday the solicitor did attend ; and seemed wry indig-
nant at the charge of conspiracy. Ile admitted that he
went down into the country to seek for evidence in support
of the claim, and that he saw the tombstone inscription in
question, a copy of which was afterwards furnished, to him
by the resident Clergyman ; which copy he verily believed
to be correct ; but whether it was, or not, was of little
consequence, as the Court of Chancery had decided the
case in favour of several other claimants upon much more
conclusive evidence.—The case was dismissed.
THE KING V. MARK ANTONY AND ANOTHER.--TWO
persons, who had given their names Mark Antony and
Emilius Lepidus, were placed at the bar together, char-
ged with having, disturbed the King's peace—Mark An-
tony by an ascending ejectment of his supper against a
shop-door in Cheapside ; and Emilius Lepidus by an un-
provoked battery upon the head of one Alfred Coley, a
watchman of the ward of Cheap.
It appeared by the evidence of the said Alfred Coley and
others, that, in the.dead of the night between Friday and
Saturday last, as the said Alfred Coley was on duty in
Cheapside, he heard a strange rushing and spattering sound,
intermixed with grunts and groans ; and, looking about
him to ascertain what might be the cause thereof, he saw
Mark' Antony, with his legs set wide apart, and his fore-
head leaning against a shop aloor, apparently under the
operation of ipecaeuhana, or some other distressing stomachic
projectile. Whereupon he, the said Alfred Coley, went
to him and told hint that he bad chosen a very unfit place
for much a purpose ; to which, Mark Antony replied,
" Oh ! let me alone—let me alone—l'm very, very sick_
Oh ! oh !—confound the sherry !--oh !"—by which reply
the said Alfred Coley understood that Mark Antony was
drunk. He therefore set about rendering him such help
as is customary in such cases; and, whilst so doing, the
other prisoner, .Emilius Lepidus, came running to the
spot, and began cuffing the ears of the said Alfred to the
tune Hallo'. you Charley what l
. are you going to
do with my friend ?" By this conduct the said Alfred
perceived that Etnilius Lepidus was as drunk as Mark
Antony—though not 90 sick ; and therefore Ire called his
brethren of the watch together, .and took them both to
the Compter.
In their defence before the Aldermen, they had nothing
to say, except that they had been supping out, and as the.
Alderman held that to be no defence at all, Mark Antony
was fined live shillings for having been drunk, and .Emilius
Lepidus was ordered to find bail for having assaulted the
watchman ; by which process we gathered that Mark
Antony was no other than Bob Nugent, a lawyer's clerk,
and that Emilius Lepidus was neither more nor less than
Jonathan Thompson, a buttermonger's apprentice. .
Sangster, a watchman of St. Sepulchre's parish,
was next charged with having wantonly
re-
spectableon
woman named Clark, as she was pagingpagingSkinner-street, on Friday evening, and the otfeme being
fully proved, he was locked up for bail. ..a. M
ARYLEBONE-OFFICE.--OnSaturday, John
Morgan, a canal boatman, and Henry, his son, were
charged with stealing a quantity of oats and a horse cloth,
belonging to Mr. Edw. Kelly, a whartinget• at Paddington.
They were fully committed.
Thomas Bolton, a Paddington coachman, WilS charged
with neglecting to have a person at the heads of his horses
when he left his box to set down passengers, as required
by law.
About 10 o'clock at night, on the 18th ino. Mary
Collins, a servant belonging to Edward Goldsio A, Esq.
was thrown down as she got off the defendant's stii_e at the

top cf Harley-street, New Road, and her clothes NO
torn and her arm bruised by-the hind-wheel.
For this injury the defendant refused to make COO'
pensation.
Mr. RAWLINSON fined him 40s.
The coachman afterwards satisfied the coniisiainant, apd
the fine was remitted. •
BOW-STREET.—On Saturday Charlotte Dunn, 11.,
young woman of colour, who was on Friday discharged.;
the Westminster Sessions, to which she had been commit'
for making a disturbance at Messrs. Cox and Greenwood
came again to this Office, and said she was still convince"
that Sir John Gore's brother, who was killed at Bergey
op-Zoom, was the gentleman who brought htr over frog'
America, and had left her a legacy. 1
Mr. HALLS asked her what sort of a person this Colonel
Arthur Gore was, who brought her to England ? Clot'
lotte replied, that he was a tall handsome-man, above o'
feet high, and was an Irishman.
Mr. HALI.S-Why, that very gentleman is now a 1
and well ; I saw him a few days ago.
Charlotte—l will never be convinced of it. Sir Jo°
Gore told me his brother was the man.
Sir R. BIRNIF—Sir John Gore's brother never was iP
America in his life, and it is of no use to apply to him
further—all letters will be stopped, and as you are so pc#'
tive, go about your business. I wish you good morni4'
Charlotte then strutted out of the office, vowing that.'s,
would not be crone by any body.
HATTON-GARDEN.---On Saturday, a woman natoe3
Davis, about forty years of age, was charged with assault'
lag her husband.
The complainant stated that whilst sitting in his apOl;
meat, in Whiskin-street, Spa-fields, looking over sou'.
papers, his wife came behind him and struck- him with
poker on the right side of the head, which brought him it'
the ground. " When I came to myself," said the 60;
plainaut, " I said to her, my good wench, here is the othei
side, serve that in, the. same way ; and I believe she WO,
have done so, if she had not seen the blood trickling de
my face."
The MAcisTaaTE, however, ordered the defendant °
find bail for her appearance at the Sessions.

UNION HALL—On Saturday, James Smith, a
pectrible tradesman, was charged with an attempt to+ste!
a child, named Maria Snell. In his defence, he alleg',j 1
that the child was ill-treated by some of its companionli
that he questioned it about its parents ; and that he
it along the street, as he believed, towards home, as 0
as he understood the directions given him by the intar_l,j
bay'
that neighbours gave him an excellent character, aod,::,
that he had himself a family. It being Obvious that
interference was intended in kindness, he was dismissed
A tailor residing in Newington, upwards of sixty yid
of age, of a most forbidding aspect, low in stature, st'it
the father of a family, was brought before the Magistis,o
upon an order of affiliation. The mother of the ell;
is under fourteen years of age, and was servant to the (ir
fendant.
The Magistrate expressed the strongest indignation he
the defendant's conduct ; and, as he refused to give bail,
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was sent to the House of Correction at Guildthrd.

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Government are said to be in treaty for
purchase of the Guildhall, Westminster, with the vier/ °
converting it into a place of security for the Public f:
cords, now enclosed within the wooden receptacle in Wet/
minster Hall.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CANAL.—The
of this canal which originally cost 1131., but subsequestu
fell to, and remained for some years, at 10/. per share, Iffoi
now in demand, at more than 60/. each. A dividend
(11
2/. per share has just been declared, being, we understaeo
the first which has been made since the completion of
canal more than thirty years ago. There were asset'
dsufficient
retsoe
riNirea kaebtahl
ae
ate] dividend iidnenhda
141 ,
fo but
meetit ‘‘'9
dheaenidnendeeaxrlpy
contingent expenses that may arise.—Leicester Jourrfrs,
We conversed with a gentleman the other .(Di
who very lately went to London via the City of
burgh steam-packet. The passengers on board exceedeu
hundred, and as fully three-fourths of the Whole had see',`
ed snug births.in the cabin, at the rate of 51. per he,ad,,
freight of live stock, to say nothing of goods, could :OA,
under 500/. sterling. Among the company Were a o'gvo
known M.P., a Rev. Doctor from the " north couistLie'
and a W. S. from the Scottish metropolis; and when Suet'
day arrived, the Legislator politely told the Doctor i
the voice of psalms and the voice of prayer might
as appropriately from the face of the sleep as eser tloi
rose from the solid land. His Reverence, howar::
stated in excuse, that he had no manuscript serre',i
along with him ; that his memory was not what it 1!.1
been, and that he was rather afraid of extemporiSl
before an audience nearly as numerous, and probably se',
deal more learned, than could be collected in the majoP"
of country parishes. But the other was not to be dri
from his purpose. By inquiring among the passengers,l°
lighted on a copy of Dr. DODDRIDGE'S sermons, and t)01
proposed that the Minister should preach froth a 'pri,Pted
book in place of a written paper of his own. To thisL.,
posal there could be no objection, end iuunediately IP;
dinner was converted for the first time into a church-o;f',
bell, and the cabin crowded with a respectable and attenti`..,
band of worshippers. As a number of these were hatr,i,
of England, the Clerk to the Signet agreed to officioA.,
parish-clerk, and read very distinctly the prayers ofec
day. Dr. 0. succeeded, and after a very Slliti ,t
discourse, closed with an impressive extempore Int'
—thus mixing for the edification of all, the EPivro
pal and Presbyterian forms of worship. The scene, fr°i
its novelty, was deeply impressive ; and while the WO
whistled, and the waves lashed the vessel's side, the attilv,
tion of all was so deeply rivetted, that they resembled itaj
Covenanters of old, whom the sword of persecution ',
derned into some mountain cleugh, and whose devotiosie
were not the less sincere, that they arose from a tempera
sot made with hands. At table the company, 11410.'11.1;y
in excellent spirits, publicly thanked the M.P. for
judicious suggestion, in regard to spending the "I'".0,
day ; and now that steam-packets have become so cv
mon, anti carry such unusual numbers of passenge°,l„
trust a similar practice will be followed whenever a Pa.lo
bath intervenes between leaving one port and arrivingbe,
another. With a view to this, every Clergyman Svb° r
cam's a voyageur should carry with him one or more 04
mons, that he may press even the elements into t'
service of his Maker, and speak from the heart 0, tbs
heart, when the dangers inseparable from the great
er
make even the most callous and indifferent rnin(V.e s
culiarly susceptible of religious impressions.—Du r'
Courier.

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