The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-23 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlE,—Some time since the Board of Customs were
memorialised on the subject of delay in the trans-

mission of duty warrants from the Long-room to the
docks. Although the term " transmission of duty
warrants to the docks" was used, the fact was, the
delay took place in the Long-room before ' the
warrants were dispatched to the docks. The memo-
rial was transmitted to the proper authorities for in-
quiry, but the result has never appeared to the
public, for the evil remains unabated ; so that, in
order to insure the saving of your servant's time, and
that of your horse, should you cart your own goods
from the docks, you are necessitated to pay your
duty at least one day, that is to say, twenty-four
hours, before you send for your goods. But this is
not the only evil. As most of us act by example,
in many instances the Dock Companies, and officers
stationed there, require a day's notice, in conformity
with the example set them at the Long-room, and so
the evil spreads itself through every department.
I remain, Sir, yours, obediently,
A MERCHANT'S CLERK.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY EYENING.--It is stated that
her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by some portion of the infant Royal
Family, will visit Claremont for a day or two previously
to proceeding to London, for the purpose of opening
the Now Royal Exchange. Saturday next is the day
spoken of for the departure of the Court from Windsor
fur Claremont-house. Should the arrangements which
are at present in contemplation be carried into effect, her
Majesty and suite will leave Claremont on Monday
morning for Buckingham Palace, proceeding thence to
the City in the royal dress carriages, and returning to
Windsor Castle in the evening to dinner. Since the de-
parture of the King of the French, a great number of
persons of distinction, who had been favoured with
tickets from the Lord Chamberlain, have inspected the
suite of state rooms at the Castle, which had been left
in precisely the same state, with all their magnificent
embellishments, in which they were during their occupa
tion by the Queen's illustrious guest, his Majesty Louis
Philippe. Workmen have been employed since yester-
day morning in removing some portions of the gorgeous
furniture, and making the necessary arrangements for
their being re-opened to the public at the earliest period.
THE IRON HOOP AND OTHER STREET NUISANCES.
—The following clause•of the New Metropolitan Police
Act, passed under the auspices of the Melbourne
Ministry in the summer of the year 1839, has been re-
ferred to lately by several of our correspondents ; so
that we are induced to give it at length, for the informa-
tion of those who may be disposed to seek a legal remedy
for the dangerous nuisance of iron hoops in the roads
and on the foot-pavements of the metropolis. By the
54th section, " every person who shall roll or carry any
cask, tub, hoop, or wheel, or any plank, ladder, pole,
show-board, or placard, upon any footway, except for
the purpose of loading or unloading any cart or carriage,
or of crossing the footway," is liable to a penalty of 405.,
and any police-constable is empowered and autberised to
take into custody, without warrant, any person who shall
commit the above offences within view of any such con-
stable. And uow, by the way, that winter is drawing
near, and pedestrians are likely to be constantly
annoyed by having to wade through filth and slush,
which ought to be cleared away, it may be well to re-
mind householders, shopkeepers, and others, that by the
60th section of the same Act (2d and 3d Victoria, cap.
47) " every occupier of a house or other tenement in any
town within the limits of the metropolitan police dis-
trict, who shall not keep sufficiently swept and cleansed
all footways and watercourses adjoining to the premises
occupied by him," is liable to the same penalty of 40s.
for every such offence. The present worthy Chief
Magistrate, on entering upon his mayoralty a year ago,
expressed his determination to see the above provision
carried into effect, as well as several others enacted by
the Police Act for the prevention of public nuisances
generally. It is naturally impossible to conjecture what
course may be adopted by his successor at the Mansion-
house, but nobody, whose business or avocations daily
and hourly compel him to tramp the streets of our
crowded city, can be unaware of the abominable neglect
of householders and shopkeepers to comply with the
terms of the Act, by keeping the pavement fronting.
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