The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-03 00:00:00

NEW LONDON BRIDGE.

ACCOUNT OF SUMS CLAIMED AND ACCEPTED
WITIIOCT THE INTERVENTION OF A JURY,
UNDER THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE ACT.
The following correct statement of all the com-
promises made by the Committee at Guildhall,
furnishes in almost every instance a direct con-
trast to those cases which were submitted to
juries. There are some particulars of rather a
curious nature connected with some of the claims.
From a comparison of the verdicts of juries in
the cases which were published a sliort time ago,
with the terms offered and accepted, there is
every reason to believe that the Committee may
be chargeable with a reprehensible degree of
liberality. It will be seen, that between the
Committee affd the claimants there is in some of
the cases a perfect unanimity, and that in others'
the difference is such d 8 to appear to arise from
an error of judgment upon one side or the other,
and not from a mistake of conscience.
SOUTHWARK.
Claim. Accepted.
Freehold £11,400 £ 9,560
Leasehold and good-wi11... 2,697 1.500
Freehold 945 9OO
Leasehold 2,795 2,095
Leasehold and good-wi11... 3,676 1,676
Leasehold 2BO .. 280
Leasehold and good-will .... 2;200 5OO
Freehold 6,099 4,530
Leasehold and good-wi11.... 2,540 1,086
Freehold
Free1t01d......... ............. 150 lOO
Leasehold l5O 5O
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Leasehold 295 295
Freehold 5,390 5,000
Freehold 2,174 2,172
Leasehold '7oo 640
Leasehold 2OO 2OO
Leasehold 270 235
Freehold.., 1,698 1,698
Freehold.
Freehold. 400... 315
At will -. 704 5O
Leasehold and good-wi11.... 1,500 l,OBB
Ditto, ditto 1,797 l,OOO
At will 425 l3O
Ditto. • 361 5O
FreehuhL . 2,373 • 2,000

£59,257 £44,432
LONDON.

Freeh01d........ X3,750 X 3,150
Leasehold 4,36=3 4,000
Leasehold and good-will 7,139 4,111
Freehold 2;300 1,647
Ditto...—. ................ ... 2,100 l,BOO
Leasehold and good-wi11.... 3,630 1,500

£23,281 £16,208
ITI -441 e of the above-mentioned cases (that
on which the claimant modestly asked for 704/.
and accepted 501.) the Committee said they
could net afford to give quite a 14th part of
the demand. " Oh, gentlemen !" said the
claimant, " I shall consent to take the money."
The sum of 60/. Was handed - over to him,
and he departed most grateful for the favour
which it was afterwards found was quite unex-
pected. In another case, a man of much dis-
cernment actually took, after the passing of the
Act, premises which he knew must be removed.
He placed his brother in business there, and
made the conscientious demand of 4,0001., but
was obliged to be satisfied with 5001. The
Committee were not aware of this manoeuvre, or
the slightest claim would have been resisted.
In fact, the must unworthy means have been re-
sorted to for the purpose of getting hold of the
available funds of the Corporation, under the
impression upon which greater authorities have
acted, that public plunder is no plunder.
One claimant, a tradesman in a very exten-
sive line in the Borough, demanded 3,0001.,
and made a great fuss before a Jury about the
difficulty, the impossibility of procuring premises
adapted to his trade. It happened, however,
that he had taken premises within view of the
Court in which the case was heard, but in order

to blind all who suspected that he was supplied,
he caused a board to be put over the shop-door,
on which it was stated that the linen-drapery
business would be commenced there next day.
To the astonishment of those who supposed that
they were to have a linen-draper for a neigh-
bour, they found the aforesaid claimant open-
ing with an exhibition of very different sorts of
goods.

In addition to the above, upwards of 20 cases,
amounting to 78,0001., have been settled, where
no specific sums were claimed, but the valua-

tious were referred at once to a surveyor on
each side, or the amounts settled by other ami-
cable means.

The accounts of the disputed and undisputed
claims, and of the verdicts of Juries, as con-
trasted with the amount of the demands, have,
we understand, been submitted to the Duke of
Wellington, who has, it is believed, determined
to witness the next appeal. to a Jury where the
disparity between the claim and the judgment of
the Committee is striking. It is extraordinary
that in most of the cases where claimants have
made exorbitant demands as to good-will, they
have been fortunate enough to secure much
more eligible situations than those which they
have been, as it were, compelled to abandon. A
pawnbroker, it is said, has nearly made his for-
tune by removing his glop.

ODESS4,I, JUNE 10.—The Russians set at
liberty by the Sultan, who have been brought hither
by a Sardinian and an Austrian ship, are four superior
office's, two ensigns, and 106 privates. Nobody here
knows the Sultan's reasons for setting them at liberty.
As far as we can learn one of his favourites visited, in the
beginning of May, the Russian prisoners of war who arc
in the Prince's Island, and told them that the Sultan in-
tended to restore them all to liberty. Soon afterwards
the same person returned, selected the abovementioned in-
dividuals. and told them they were to go on board vessels
ready to convey them to Odessa ; at the same true he in-
formed those who were left behind that they tou would
soon have. their liberty. On their ileparture nit questions
were put to the prisoners, nor were any promises whatever
required of them.

Several aickens were last week missed from
a tine brood at Stoke St. Mary, near this town, and much
inquiry was made after them in vain. At length one was
discovered dead, and another almost pecked to pieces by
the beak of a magpie, which, hawk-like, had made a de-
scent upon the unfortunate brood from the neighbouring
fielde.w. Taunton Crturier.
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FASIIIONAELE INTELLIGENCE.

CHANGES.

The Earl: of Chesterfield, from the Royal Lodge, 'Windsor ;
the Earl and Countess of Onslow, at the St. George's Hotel, Albe-
marle-street, from their seat in Surrey ; Earl and Countess of
Lonsdale and family, for their seat, Cottesmore, Rutlandshire ;
Lord and Lady Brudenell, for Dublin ; Alexander Dawson, Esq.
M.P. from Downing_street, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Shedden, from Wimpole-stre:l, to th:•ir new residence, Tor
Abbey, Devonshire; Major and Mrs. Comae and family, from
I larley-street, to Leamington ; Mr. and Mrs. R. Williams, from
Albemarle.street, for their seat, Eaton Hall, Shrewsbury, Shrop-
shire; Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett, for Bath; Sir John Sebright, Bart.
and family, for their seat in Flertfordshire; H. Seymour, Esq.
and family, for their seat in Bedfordshire; Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Owen, from Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle-street, for
their seat in Shropshire; Lord Fincastle, from the Royal Hotel,
St. James's-street, for Scotland ; Captain Fitzclarence, from
ditto, for Portsmouth ; Sir Edward Stopford, Bait. from ditto,
for Portsmouth; Sir H. Fane, Bart. from ditto, for his seat in
Hampshire; Mr. and Mrs. Townwaret, from ditto, for Leam-
ington; Lord and Lady Rendlesham, at Long's Hotel, Clifford,
street, from Suffolk ; Major Hilton, at ditto, from Staffordshire;
Rev. Leigh Bennett, at ditto, from Staines; Mr. and Mrs.
Swynfen Jervis and family, from ditto, for Dunkirk ; Rev. J.
Charlton, from ditto, for Bristol; George and John Fitzherbert,
Esqrs. from ditto, for Stafford , Sir Richard Acton, tart. at the
St. George's Hotel, from his seat in Shropshire; Mr. and Mrs.•
Lycke, at Bryant's Hotel (late Warne's), Conduit-street, from
the Continent; Captain and Mv. Lewis, in Brook-street, from
Cheltenham.

ARRIVALS AT HOWE'S ROYAL HOTEL, MARGATE.
His Grace the Duke of Rutland, Hon. W. Howard, J. Irving,
Esq. M.P., Colonel Legh, Lord Glentworth, Captain Plunket,
Hon. J. Jocel3 n, Mr. Everard, Mr. Booth, Dr. Kershaw, Rev.
J. Gill, Mr. Jenkins, Baron de Haren, Mr. Van Siegel,
Reverend - Goddard, Mr and Mrs. Fitzpatrick, Mr. and
Mrs. Robinson and family, Mrs. Nodes and son, Colonel
and Mrs. Thompson and family, Rev. J. Baker, Mrs. Baker and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Siordet, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Major Gar-
rett, Captain Bettisworth, Mr. and Miss Dyer, Mr. and Miss
Fowler, Misses tleetson, Seymour, Forster, &c. Several of the
above were on their way to or from the Netherlands.

ARRIVALS AT WEYMOFTH.
Sir Charles Waller, Bart., Mr. C. Waller, Miss Bunn, Sir Or. ford and Lady Gordon on a visit to Lieutenant-General and Mrs.
Browne; Archdeacon and Mrs. Moysey, Major and Mrs. Read,
Mrs. General Pipon, Captain Church, R.N., Rev. Dr. and Mrs.
Radcliffe, Miss flathead, Mrs. and Miss Conway, Mr. and Miss
Hill, Miss Ford, Mrs. Chamberlanie, Mr. Wyld, Mrs. Hinton,
Captain and Mrs. Pettit, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, Miss Blundell,
Mr. and Mrs. Miser, Mr. Wilderharn, Mr. Lascelles, Mr. Sep.
ping, Mrs. Austen, Mr. and Mrs. Starke, Mr. Gray, the Rev.
Mr. Foote, Captain Dumer, Mr. and Mrs. Marsh, Rev. T. and
the Misses Marsh, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Symonds, Mrs. Blundell,
Mr. Mrs. and the Mrs. Walcott, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Waller
Long, ;the Misses Smith, Rev. E. Davies, Mr. and Mrs. K
Capper, Mr. Branstone Stan, Mr. Tufnel, Mr. and Miss Hussey,
Rev. T. and Mrs. Urquhart, Mr. and Mrs. Stawels, Mrs. and
Miss King, Mrs. Banger, Mrs. Westly, Mrs. Guy, Mrs. Bishop,
Mr. Grosvenor, Mr. Morrel, ere.