The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-25 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORKS.

The weekly meeting of the board was held yester-
day. Mr. J. Tk(WAIT'S in the chair.
The hoard proceeded to the election of district sur-
veyors far Bethnal•green, St. James's, Westminster, and
Artery • sad Norm Hargrave Stevens, Robert Kerr, and
Hanes Field, out of a numerous list of candidates, were
oisolorl to MI those Aloft in the order stated.

THE GAB ACT.
The ammiaid before the board several opinions of the
Attorney-Geoersh the Solicitor•bieseral, and Mr. Grey,
on a ewe submitted to them from this board, as to whether
the Gee Act of lest scsaMo traushaTed the powers hitherto
exercised by the City of Loudon in respect to the appoint-
ment of inspectors and the testing of meters to this hoard,
which opiuions were somewhat at variance with each other.
After some discossices, the whole question was refurred to
the Gas Committee.

800111111 nownomre OF TIM TBMIZSI.
In answer to a uneaten from Mr. Deputy HAMMON
The COMA/lAN SOW that he had had a Ion; iutorvirsiwitk
the First earimissiouer of Works in reference to the eft-
bankmeot of the south side of the Thames, and had dis-
cussed with him the rime points which he had laid before
the commissioners, and the Fins Commissioner promised
that be would mod him a draft of the ball that would be
submitted to parliament to effect that object within four-
teen thys. The fourteen days would expire ou Monday next,
and as soon ae he got the draft, if be should deem it neon-
sary, he would aunimon a committee of the board to take
it into consideration.

.'fume routine business was disposed of, and the baud
adjourned.

POST-OFFICE BAVINCHI-DA NEN.— A' list of about
three hundred places hes beau published at which Par-
odic. Savings.banka will be opened in Ireland on Monday,
the 3rd of February.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE EXHIBITION BUILDING!.
—A fatal op/arrows took place yesterday in the art tran-
sept of the Exhibition Badding. John Shaw, 40 years of
age, residing at 40, Robert-street, Chelsea, in Pawing along
the lofty scaffolding, by soar as yet unexplained means
fell off and pitched head foremost to the bottom, a fearful
distance, with great violence. sod evidently expired instan-
taneously from the terrible shuck sustained to the system.
He was, however, removed immediately in a Gab to St.
Geporgies Hospital, where prompt but fruitier attention
was paid to the unfortunate luau by 11r. W. J. raga, one
of the resider' surgeons.
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SECOND COURT.
&Wisp at Nisi Prins at OuildbalL—(Before Mr. Justice
Blackburn sad • Common Jury.)
LEE V. ROADS.—AOCIDIST.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, • pocketbook
maker in Clerkeuwell, mullet the defendant, • cab proprie-
tor, to recover compensation in damages for injnries sus-
tained through the alleged negligence of the defendant's
servant.

Mr. Serjeant Peteredorff and Mr. Beasley were counsel
for the plaintiff ; Mr. Robinson for the defendant.
It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff that on the
2nd of June last, about 10 o'clock at night, be was walking
with a friend of his iu the Horneepreed, when they were
hailed by a cabman, who offered to take them home for
• certain pries. The plaintiff eat on the box with the
driver, and his friend went inside. Upon taming into the
Seven Sisters road • collision moaned between the cab and
one of the defendant's, when the plaintiff was thrown off,
and hie arm was broken in two places. He was taken to
the hospital, where he remained a patient for the space of
six months. He had not been able to attend to his busuieas
since, which previous to the accident returned him 31. 10s.
per week.
The defence was that the defendant let the cabs and
hones by the day, and therefore he was not liable; and the
driver, upon being called, allepd that the widest was
ammiosed by the driver of the cab on which the plaintiff
(who it was alleged was drunk) was sitting.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

K VIGS r. TOWW.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, •fishmonger, at
Waadsworth, against the defeudaat, • timber-merchant, for
an accident.

Mr. Beijeant Parry and Mr. Gates win counsel for the
plaintiff ; Mr. G. Denman, Q.C., and Mr. Willoughby for
the defendant.

It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff that on
the 28th of October last he was driving in the WandsworUt•
road, when the defendant's brougham, which was driven
by a boy, ran against the plaintiff's cart, turned it over,
and oft he shaft. and springs.
The defence was that the accident was occasioned by no
negligence of the defendant's driver, but through the negli-
gence of the plaintiff.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.