The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-20 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

a soap
COURT OF EXCHEQUER—SATuRDA •
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord Abiuger andla.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERA MA TISDALE AND
LJ:.ry.)a Special
palr'tholiseowta,saagnaiionsftortmhLottidoenienadt
atabetai,nwsthaoncaereof
manufacturers in:Liverpool, for the condemnation of de-
partment,
of soap, seized by the local officers, upon tbegrounluan.
it was forfeited to the Crown in consequence of abr that
the excise regulations. each of
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (with whom were Mr. jicaN i 4
and 11r. WILDE) conducted the case for the Crown '—
Mr. KENN and Mr. CROMPTON for the defendant. ; and
uilaegrelnin the customary
The case occupied the court the whole day. T
-he facts I
seared to be as follow Toe defendants carry on trade a-ri).
extensivetl)e elci excise ANOTHER.
Chrry-street, Liverpool, as soap-boilers and soap-dealers. i
One the 4th of October in the last year, the excise officer
question filled
the ceived a notice requiring his attendance at the "cleanse"re-
tt,l,i,eeauya.rsitxityfra‘o% celseatitlteseodffi"cefrro
boiler No. 7. He accordingly went, and during the morn' 1
WHY, and quitted the premises, haying previously seen that
all the other boilers were locked up. On the following at
tmookthtelieb;
ing the officer, accompanied by the supervisor, morn
went round
the room, and whilst in the act oat aking the guage of one f
the frames, discovered that the joining frame, which 13:d
Dot been filled in the presence of the former, contained 1,i0,,;(1
soap in a hot state. This discovery induced a further search
ultimately it was found that nine frames, containing
11,8191 b weight of soap, had been filled without the c
sance of the excise officer. Upon this quantity the cogni-
sance
amounted to £77 11. 3d. The quantity of soap containuty
in the 26 frames, and on which the regular entry an
chared
to the duty bad been made, was 34,7611b5, yielding a dutyge
of £22S 2s. 51d.
On the part of the defendants two witnesses were caned
who stated that they had carried the buckets from the boiler'
and filled the various frames, and amongst others into which
they had poured the soap in the presence of the officer or h;`.`
assistant were these nine in question. The managing man :i.
the departn3ent, however, said that although he had been in
e room during the "cleanse," he bad not known that
more than 2t3 frames bad been tilled, and that he bad not dis-
covered the fact until nearly ten o'clock at night, some hours
after the officer had left. During the process of the "cleanse"
he had added the '` runnings" to the 26 frames of soap, a
proceeding w
•which is always adopted in the course of that pro-
cess in the presence of the officer, and then had accompanied
that functionary to each frame, and had assisted him in taking
the guage. At nigh when he discovered the other nine
frames, he also put '• runnings;' into them, but in this case
instead of hot water •
he was compelled to use cold with the
lees• lie was very much confused on finding a greater num-
ber of frames had been filled than the officer was aware of,
but he denied he had known anything about the circumstance
until ten o'clock at night.
From the effect of the testimony of. the_ excise officer, who
of course deposed in support of the information, the suppn,.
s would appear to be that between his visits a quantit
had been taken out ----Y
onionfth soap, in its liquid state, . of some or
all of the 26 frames, and put into theh naidne. frames; that the
difference in quantity was made up y dinhonal infusion of
t b
water. This conception was borne ou y the result, for he
stated that when he had taken the gauge of
whilst
26 frames the
soap was of a firm and hard quality, _ when it was
eventually cut it proved not to be of that character, an end
which would be produced by an abstraction of the
deerbettr ma.
terial, and the substitution of water in the place of t un.
titv so taken away.
On the conclusion of the reply. of the Attorney-General
the jury intimated to the learned judge that they would not
trouble his lordship to sum up tltecse, as they were perfectly
satisfied. They then fo verdict for the Crown, thereby
forfeited to the Crown.
condemning the soap as ~
(Prom the Morning Herald.)
--..•••••••••••••••MMUNA

Water-street
-*"-------Ti— „, Saturday last,
REBECCA AND BEA DAVOITZILS.—viI
chaeintoelltsoatthSeVdaetteerr-mina.
meeting of the magistrates was latoelbdeattaGkeunilidtlimall, to take into
consideration what steps ought consequence of
the failure of the constables to execute the warrant of distress
against two persons of the names of Harris and Thomas,
Gate,nign itnhiTsatloowgn. f.orlrelefutisiina
tion of calling out the pensioners in the town and neighbour-
hood, twenty-eight in number, to accompy the civil force,
ggitsutrPaateYst
twelve in number, to execute the warrant of distress, and for
that purpose they, left the town about three o'clock in the
morning, and proceeded to Tolog, where a levy was
made on
the goods of Harris, about half-past five in the morning, which
without any molestation
were carried away ,—Thotnas having'
paid the tine on Saturday evening previous, as his .w.,.-
fi ement and he did not wish ire
was near her con n , his any dire
was house. A
turbance to take place about fter the levy was
made, and the force had proceeded about a quarter of a mile
on their return to Carmarthen with the goods, Thomas of
Tolog, the person who had paid his fine on Saturday, over
took them, and foreseeing the danger the whole force would-
be in if they persisted in retaining possession of the goods,
pledged his word that the fine and costs should be paid, and
the goods were returned to him• Immediately afterwards
they were surrounded be a mob of those reckless marauders,
about 00 in number, Itis of whom were armed with firearms,
and completely overpowered ; they were rigidly searched, and
compelled to tire their pistols in the air, and then deliver
them u to Becca and her family, who were all disguised •
p in
various
-dresses. The mob then desired the force to fall into
a line, and Becea inspected them, to see if D. Rees, consta
ble, and Thomas Evans, Poliee-officer, were with them and-
when she was satisfied they were not, she said had ;
they been
there their lives would certainly be taken away. They were
then ordered to march on their way to T
. rawsmawr the pro-
perty of Captain Davies, of Green•ball, near this '
town, who
was the county magistrate who endorsed the distress'
war-
rants issued by time town magistrates ;
andwhen they arrived
there they commanded the constables to break down the wall
surrounding the house, which they did in order to save their
lives from being destroyed, whic • h Mecca
threatened to
de-
prive them of if they did not at o I •
When this act of destruction had
been
been completed.
with her request.
n
pletoed,
heir they shoo,
k
hands with the pensioners, told them to
t th homes
nd they would not be molested ; they g
orew not so polite
a
to the constables, towards whom they aianifested considerable .
animosity. We have been told that the pensioners were
not armed; had they been, the result would likely have been
very different. Time arms taken from the constables were
returned by Becca before she parted the with them. '
A meeting of the Rebeccaites, or farn3ers, of the hundred
of Elva, took place on Wednesday night at Treleach, Talog.•
Blaenycod, amd Conwil, when it was proposed and unani-
mously adopted to demand from the trustees of the Newcastle
Trust a debtor and creditor account of the said trust for the
last 18 years, and if found fair and correct, and the money
received from the tolls fairly and honestly laid out on the
roads, then the gate at Water-street is not to be disturbed ;
but if unsatisfactory to them, then the gate is to be imme-;
diately demolished. All male inhabitants, being householders'
of the hunded, are to meet at eleven o'clock on Monday
next, at the Plough and Harrow, Newchurch parish—to
march in procession to Caermarthen—to insult the mayor
and magistrates, and to destroy the gate on their return.
Rich and poor are compelled to attend, and in case of illness
a substitute must be found ; all owners of horsei are to ride.
Any persons absent without a sufficient excuse, or nitrosubs
to have their houses and barns destroyed by fire and
be disguised in their dresses or persons on sir,
,7 account.
Two farmers (rem
andseach parish went yesterday to Newcastle
Mr. Lloyd Hall ; and the best part of the Rebeccait by
their various nmeetings, seemed disposed to be guided be at
s
advice. It was proposed at the various places of meetinghtin-
pull down and destroy the workhouse; that question --
however, adjourned to their next meeting. The bias was.
minds of all present seemed to be to raze it to th las on the
the month of August. To the time of our go' e ground in
have not beard the result of the interview between
mg to Press we
gates and Mr. 11A11,-.•CarOlartheh Journal
- ell Salt day,