The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-17 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURT&

MANSION-HOUSE.
Gorr AA, joarneman baker, wu charged with having
violently aesulted his roaster and a policeman who inter
bred to prevent the fellow from containing most dangerous
misehief.

The defendant, it appeared, went to his muter, Mr.
Milian, of Bishopegate-without, in a state of intozaatios,
and iatimatad that he wu going to quit his service, but
that he could net do so without giving Mr. Wilson • punch
or two is the tau. He was as good ss his word, sad police-
man Whale (650), who was oohed in to remove him, upon
gMag between master and man received a most &mutate
kick from the latter, and wee soon after placid under the
ear* of • sargeon, who stated that he must not for
IMO tints be allowed to perform the dutin of his °Mu, on
account of the injury indicted. The defendant was, after a
furious straggle, secured, with the assistance of another
policeman, and lodged in the station-bona, whys he was
recognised as a prisoner upon former sad more serious occa-
sions.

He was eenteeced by the Lord Mayor to Holloway Gaol
for a period of two mouths for the two assaults.
The City Solicitor having been mut for by the Lord Mayor
at the Mansion-house upon the subject of the condition of
the river Thames, of which his lordship is conservator,
The lord Mayor said that the matter in which be re-
quested the maistanos of the City Solicitor was of paramount
importance. His (the Lord Mayor's) attention bad been',
celled to the present stets of the ' Themes, and if bp
bad say power to the matter it was his determination to
take vigorous steps to abate the evil. He therefore called
upon the City Solicitor and the other principal °Moen of
the sorporation to suspend for a time aU other matters of
pablie badness, in order to the prosecution of a full and
im-
mediate inquiry es to the cause of the polluted state of the
river, and the meet effectual and expedition, mesas of
abating the nuisance. His lordship was understood most
partieularly to allude to a statement that the proprietors of
the Brest Canal had thrown the filthy mud and refuse of
that easel into the Thames. .

The City Solicitor said the Lord Mayor', oilcan would
immediately set upon his lordship's direetkaa, and if ale
proprietors of the Brent Canal had thrown the mad and
refits Into the Thames, and the present genditioa of the
river was at all attributable to that ease, preesediap
should be Intinedietely taken to repress the evil and h
the offenders. Calms the *aiding acts weft satfisaß le
meet such a ease by prompt retirees, parliament duriag
the premat session might bring in a short bill to
remedy the defect. He,. however, feared the fetid
state of the river most be attributed to more extensive
and pursuant causes than the clearing of the canal.
The river was now the legalised sewer for a popula-
tion of above two millions. For centuries, while the me-
tropolis was cot one half its prevent size, and up to the year
1847, a system of cesspool drainage was in use throughout
the metropolis, and the inhabitants were positively
=braifrom connecting them with the sewers
se
d their outran into the Thames, bat by
mama nets of parliament, for sanitary reasons, cesspool
d had been prohibited, and the inhabitants were
compelled by law to their house refuse, by mesas of
the ewes Me the Theses. At the time these note were
pawed, perilememe had it in contemplation to enforce the
emetrusties eterpliag sewers to convey the house
drainage of bell skive of tie river into the Thames seal-
dully low dews ae preset the tide from bringing back any
parties a Übe pelhiell water. The proper order of pre-
med*" has his. isurlle4-41te iatereeptieg sewers were
ant ems,* ummemetd, while for the last three of four
yearelhiplibiliea et the Thames water had been increasing.
It is emommited that the City Solicitor will speedily make •
report spew the sagest, which hes, especially within the
poet week, become use of very remarkable interest with all
dames.

Mr. Grenwood, overseer of Clarkeswell, wham name
occurred prominently in our police report of Saturday last,
writte rowan' the imputed Waal of relief to the girl
Jordan. Be sap—" The tuts of the ass are as follows :
I Implored to be at the polios emit au halals ear
'Basing et Wednesday, the Ildt inee. Warm Jordan
brought late the mart the ma instrats (Mr. Tyrwhitt) embed
rateraties to the ass, andl likened him that I would
raher her appliance should he abaft to him. When he had
heard her statement I was Moat to reply, but the magis-
trate, with that warmth of temper which he so freqeently
displays, would scarcely listen. However, I told him that
I Gould pave that she was not destitute, or without the
means el a lodging on the previous sight. Attar a little
more temper, the eels was arranged by admen te stand
ova Wall four o'clock that afternoon, whoa I again
attended with the gentleman mentioned In your report,
and also a number of-witnesses, fully prepared to prove all
and even more than I had stated. lir. Bonbon t' en read
a clause in the set of Parliament, showing that the magic
trate had as power to interfere, and whim he found him-
self devoid of power then his only excuse for breaking his
own appoistment was ' the late hoar, a heavy day's b-
asee, Me, dte.,' and again pat the ease off to the following
day. I, Str, am an overseer, a parish dicer unpaid ;
the aeglarate, a public (Mar paid. My time is
valuable le me ia my businese ; his time Wimp
to tho pais and se I had uo an
from aim
that too the mlMwtig day. from some Malone awn er
ether, he modi net spit break Me oppahatmat with the
peji.b et sus, I did set Maud the earl. Is anshoion,
anew She a say that I am as deternebed as the ma-
&Mee Met all the poor shall haa *dee, but I sonsot
comiodee that napesters, prostitutes. sad Mime. are to n-
ada the eats lama of SWIMS be. the pow salsa of
the paint es tbe Med. berm, sad deserrieg peer."'
Mr. Grosenrued aides thet he nodertook to report the
magistrate's Mesnalsos Se the based of guardians, se that
Mr. Bonitos Worsted the asagiaste that they had ban so
reported.

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