The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-05 00:00:00

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THE TOUTING NUISANCE AT GRAVESEND.—On
Monday morning Inspector Oxley, Sergeant Penman,
and three of the borough police at Gravesend, were
brought before the bench of county magistrates sitting
at Rochester on bench warrants, and entered into regog-
nisances to attend at the next sessions and assizes for
the county to answer bills of indictment preferred
against them by Samuel Rowe, a touter for the Star
Steam packet Company, for assaults in consequence of
the officers having apprehended Rowe for touting. Rowe
has been convicted of touting before the Gravesend ma-
gistrates some forty times, and the nuisance continuesto
as great extent as ever, almost every Monday Rowe being
apprehended and taken before the magistrates on five
or six informations, charging him with pursuing his call-
ing on the Sabbath. The presiding magistrates at
Gravesend are almost all connected with the Diamond
Steam-boat Company, and the numerous convictions
Rowe has sustained are attributed by the opposite party
to their being interested pecuniarily in the matter. Some
extraordinary scenes occur on these occasions, those
magistrates belonging to the Star Company charging
those who belong to the Diamond Company with par-
tiality, and protesting against their adjudicating in the
matter, saying that it ought to be taken before the county
bench at Rochester; but this the other party object to,
saying that two of the county justices are directors of the
Star Company, and therefore interested; parties. In the
meantime, the touting goes on—conviction is piled upon
conviction, against every one of which it is understood to
be the intention of the Star Company to appeal, and
there does not seem to be any likely termination to the
affair except by an arrangement among the rival cone-
panies.—Morning Post.
TRANSFER OF PROPERTY.-011 the 6th of last
month an Act was passed to simplify the transfer of
property ; it comes into operation on the Ist January
next. This Act will be useful in several respects, but it
ought not only to have simplified the transfer, but re-
quired the long yarn spun by lawyers in making deeds
to be considerably shortened. Lord Campbell had a
Bill for this purpose, but he was met with interested op-
position.
The intelligence of the decision which was yester-
day come to by the House of Lords in the case of
O'Connell and others v. the Queen (in error), will reach
Dublin by the ordinary channels of communication this
evening, but in all probability at too late an hour for
general publication through the evening journals. In
order, however, that so favourable an opportunity might
not be lost of producing an immediate effect upon the
Repealers of the city, and a corresponding amount of
excitement, a number of flags and placards were dis-
patched by last night's mail for immediate public distri-
bution on the arrival thereof, in and about the metro-
polis, announcing, in very conspicume type, that the
" House of Lords had reversed the judgment of the
Court below ;" that " justice had triumphed over law ;"
and that "O'Connell was free." The several agents for
the traversers also left London last night to congratulate
their clients upon a decision which was, even to them, in
a great degree unexpected, but which, fortunately for the
peace and good order of the City of Dublin, must be
some time lcnewn before it can be carried into effect, as
a communication stating the remission of the judgment
must first be made by the Clerk of the Parliament to
the Queen's Bench in Ireland, giving rise to subsequent
proceedings in that Court next term, unless the pri-
soners in the mean time cause themselves to be brought
before the Lord Chancellor by habeas corpus, and show
cause why they should be no longer detained in custody.
—Times.

Mr. ilawes, M.P., accompanied by Mr. Wire, and
Messrs. Walter, Okey, Ireland, and Hobble, a depu-
tation from the Licensed Victuallers of London and
the country, had an interview with Sir James Gra •
ham yesterday, at the Home-office.