Star.
London, England, 1823-09-10 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Mr. Capper, from the Alien Office, appeared yesterday before
the Magistrates, and stated, that Mr. Salomon Victor Jacques, the
person-mentioned in our Paper of yesterday, as having been
arrested and proceeded against under the Alien Act, for neglect-
ing to register his place of abode, having been required to give
sureties for preserving the peace towards all his Majesty's subjects,
. and being prepared with bail for that purpose, he (Mr. Capper)
would not press for his conviction under the Alien Act. The
proceeding under the Act in question was therefore quashed.

M A RLBOROUG H-ST REIM.
g paorowes, an alien. was charged with threatenhig the life
of Mr. pollard, a gentleman raiding in Hanover-street, Mean-
est-square. Mr. P. stated. that the prisoner lately became ac-
=ted and carried on a clandestine correspondence with his
er ; but having at length summoned up resolndon to ask
mekon to coutioge lib addresses. he (BIG 19 bed considered;

Is tight to ascertain wit; be was, bad wiaat were his circuni-
stances; and the result of his inquiries had been such, that be
found it his duty to break d[. the connexion. The more effec-
tually to do so, be sent his daughter into the country, and the
prisoner bad since that time paraded about the door, and he
understood carried pistols to shoot him. Mr. P. then called a
young man who lodged with the prisoner, who deposed, that
when Jacques came home on Sunday night, be said be bad nearly
done mischief, and (pulling a loaded pistol from his pocket) said
if he had seen Mr. Pollard, and be had spoken to hint, he would
have shot Mr. P. and then killed himself. The prisoner said, in
his defence, that the young Lady encouraged his addresses, and
denied that he bad any murderous intention. Ordered to find
bail, himself in £lOO, and two sureties in £5O each.

MANSION-HOUSE.
The driver of the Salisbury van, which puts up at the Ele-
phant Inn, Fore-street, appeared to a summons, charging him"
with having neglected to deliver a parcel within six hours after
its arrivaL A number of van and math proprietors attended.
A solicitor attended for the defence, and admitted the fact that
the parcel, which consisted of Sib, had not been delivered within
the period to which stage-coaches are limited ; but he hoped to
be able to prove that the law allowed the defendant a blitudeof
twenty-four hours, and that vans were neither more nor less
than public stage-waggons. It had been stated in the public
prints that vans paid mile duty, and were considered by the Le-
gislature as stage-coaches. This was not the fact. They paid no
mile duty, bad no numbers on them, were treated on the road
as waggons, and paid waggon toll. They were not to be called
coaches because they went on springs, for some of Messrs. Pick-
fords waggons had gone on springs for nearly half a century.
A bench of Somersetshire Magistrates had obliged one of the
vans to pay the ?oil of narrow wheeled waggons. In another
instance, a van was refused the use of more than four horse's,
and stage-coaches were allowed the use of five. Some vans
carried passengers, but they were not brought within the law
which obliged stage-coaches carrying passengers to carry lug-1
gage only to a certain height outside. One of them had been
treated as a waggon, and brought within the operation of the Act
of Charles ll.by a conviction for travelling on a Sunday. Re-
liance was placed on their names as "fly" vans, and their speed,
as calculated to bring them within the meaning of the Act as
carriages ; but the name of " fly" bad been given for a long
time to waggons and other vehicles, which, in point of speed,
did anything but fly. There were fly boats and fly barges.....-II
Then as to the commodities and goods they carried, they could
not be distinguished from waggons by carrying those of a lighter
description. It could be proved that the goods carried in the i
vans were full as heavy and cumbersome as those carried inil
waggons. Vans often carried as much as three or four tons 0f 1
luggage, which it would be impossible for the proprietor to get
delivered within six hours after the arrival, particularly in win-
ter time. On this ground, the question was one of the greatest
importance to the proprietors • and on the several grounds that
the vehicles had been considered and treated as common wag-
gons, and not as stage-coaches, he submitted that the proprie-
tors were only bound to deliver the goods within twenty-four
hours after the arrival.
A couch proprietor, on being qnestioned as to the nature of
the goods carried by the vans, admitted that goods as heavy
were carried in stage-coaches.
Alderman Verraat es said he was ready to admit, that those
vans were not stage-coached; but he could not be prevailed upon
to think that they were stage-waggons. The words of the Act
were, " any public coach or carriage, other than a common
stage-waggon,' comprehending every kind of vehicle but the
stage-waggon. The vans were a new species of vehicle, not con-
templated by the Legislature, as they were not in use at the
time the Act was passed, but clearly coming within its provi-
sions as a public carriage other than a common stigemaggon.
1 Parcels containing perishable goods, which required immediate
delivery, were conveyed by these vans, and he therefore thought
the con.truction of the Act required that he should convict the
dcfendar.t.—The defendant was then convicted. ,
The prosecutor (Mr. Bridger) said, his object was to have the
' case decided, in order that the l'ublic might know in future
1 within what time they had a right to have their goods delivered.
The penalty was merely monitial.
4 Alderman VY.NABLILS said,. he considered that it was for the
Interest of the proprietors of sans, that they should be brought
within the operation of this Act. indeed, they were become of
sufficient importance to require the bringing in of a distinct Bill
for their regulation. There was one most objectionable thing
with respect to them, the amazing and dangerous height to which
goods were heaped upon them; but that complaint, he believed,
world be soon remedied.