The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-26 00:00:00

MANSION-HM.3Bls.

The Lord Mayor, with Mr. Alderman Lawrence, were
engaged yesterday for several hours at an early sitting in
hearing evidence and investigating several cease of claim■
for compensation to be made to yearly and other tenants ('.3
altogether having been summoned) whale premises were
required by the North London Railway Company, for the
purposes of their branch railway from Kingsland to Liver-
pool-street, City, the occupiers after notice from the °out.
pany having failed to agree upon the amount to be paid
to them. The lands Clauses Act, 1845, under which justices
determine the amount of compensation to any person
having no greater intermit therein than as tenant for
a year, or from year to year, providing by section 121 that
such tenant shall be entitled to compensation for the
value of his unespirel term or interest in the premises, ►nd
for any just allowance which ought to be made to him
by an incoming tenant, and for any loss or injury he may
sustain. .

"idr.Paitte (of the firm of Paine and Leytoc, 47, Gresham-
house) represented the company ; and Mr. Oke acted as the
clerk to the magistrates.
The first case was that of Edward Turtle, shoemaker,
at Merritt's-buildings, a weekly tenant at 7s. per week.
He claimed 151., for rest, cost of removal, and lose of
'often. •
The company had offered 101., and the magistrates
awarded 101. and 11. ls. coats.

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The pelt case was that of Charles Gilbert Miscall, of
Peter.treet, tailor, a yearly tenant at ay. • year, whoa,
tea•boy Gould not be eeded until March, 1864. He claimed
150/.-1001. for a year's profit of buainees, 201. rent, 51.
expeuses, 101. fixtures., 15/. for loss of lod•ers. The
company bad offered 301., being a year and a half', root.
The magistrates awarded 75/. and costs.
The third case was Samuel Morgan, lodging-house-keeper,
Merritt's-buildisp, • yearly tenant at 161. lfis. a year, land-
lord paying rates. Re claimed 601. for fixture., loss of
lodgers, and cost of removal. The company had offered
18!. 18s. The magistrates fixed the amount at 30/. and
ousts. . . . .

Some other eases of weekly tetunits were beard end orders
made by consent, determining the mounte mach in the
same way.

SOUTH WARS.

A respectable lookiogmiddle-aged woman, who gave the
name of Jane Bell, residing at M, llorough-rosid, where she
keeps a email sweetstuff shop, attsiodedbMore his worship
for his advice and assistance under the following circum-
stances : She said that one of her daughten wee a dancer,
and a short time ago she received an eogagemeot from a
publican, who keeps a music hall at Burnley, io Lancashire.
The terms were very good, and her daughter proceeded
there. A few days ego, however, she received information
which welter oorisiderabie anxiety shoat her daughter,
and yesterday she received a letter from the secretary of a
temperance society, saying that the house was of a dime-
potable character, and that the owner decoyed
girls there from all parts, for the purpose of
prostitution. Many had been raised. but he
further said in his letter, that he had rescued her daughter
before her ruin had been effected, and that as soon as be
had the means he would teed her to her friends in London,
or give her up to any friend who would come to bar. Ap-
plicant was of course very thankful to the kind gentleman
for his saving her daughter, but being a vary poor woman
she hod not the means of ending for her. She therefore
begged some little assistance from the poor-box. She here
banded the gentleman's letter to his worship for his perusal.
The magistrate, on perusal of the letter, said that the
writer alluded to another London girl he had rescued from
this den of infamy and sent home.
Applicant said that was quite true. She bed called on
the girl's parents and seen them on the subject. The girl
told her that there were twenty girls there, and that the
man mot them out for prostitution.
The magistrate advanced her a sovereign from the poor.
hoe to defray the expanse of her daughter's journey to
Loudon.

THE CHANCERY VACATION. —The Chancery vacs-
tion will commence on the 30th instant and terminate on
the Bth April inclusive.
DEATH FROM SWALLOWING A MULLET. —The
Toulon journals relate the following strange story :—" A
warder of the begne here, named Durand, has just met with
his death in an extraordinary manner. Re was amusing
himself, while off duty, with fishing in the dock from a
narrow floating raft, when having caught a mullet and not
knowing where to place it to prevent it escaping into the
water, he conceived the idea of holding it between hie teeth
while he baited his book. The fish struggling in the couvul-
, does of death ended by slipping its head first into the mouth
of the man and then down his throat, completely filling up
the cavity. The man rushed out of the dock for medical
aid, but soon dropped dead from suffocation. The autopsy,
which took place on the folloaing day, showed that there
bad been no possibility of saving the man's life. The pod.
lion of the fish and the action of the 'luaus matter with
which the scales were covered, while facilitating the mullet's
entry into the gullet, bad rendered it. extraction imprecti-
cable without such ioj arias to the throat as would also have
caused death. The author of this involuntary homicide
measured about seven inches long and two broad."
TEWKESBURY AND MALVERN RAlLWAY.—Yester-
day the half•yearly general meeting of this company was
held at the aloes, 26, Parliament-street. The report dated
that the line was now advanced towards completion, and
that the iron work of the Severn and Avon bridges bad
nearly all been erected. The tunnel, also, had been com-
pleted, and the principal embankment closed. The station
at Malvern Wells was roofed in, and the others were in
program. There had been some delay in obtaining tallest
for the line, which would prevent the opening, as antici-
pated, by the 14 of Ma, but the line would be reedy foe
the summer traffic by done. The capital account to the
:flat of December, 1862. showed share capital issued,
206,940/. ; loans and debentures, 87,9501.—t0ta1. 294.9001.
Expenses of act, including law, engineering, and prelimiaary
expenses to May, 1860, 35,0001. ; amounts expended awe
in land compensation, lend parches., and law expiates,
19,5941.; in storks of construction, 214.2171.—t0hd, 282,8284
Balance, deposits at interest, 10,000/. ; cash at hanker's,
2,0711. The report was adopted.
MANCHESTER, SRIFIGELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAV.—The total expenses of this company's railways,
including rests, tolls, duty, Ac., from January 1 to
March 15, 1863, amounted to 65,2691., es againet 64,9631.
for the corresponding period of 1862. The proportion of
the South Jr.nction reoeipta acceumg to this company from
January 1 to March 15 amounted to 5,9311., as against
5,5761. for the oorrespordieg period al 1862 ; and the ex
pewee to 2,5911., as modest 2,61t1/.
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during the week imam March 21 we. ,—Medical, 1,009 ;
surgical. 566—total, 1,575 ; .1 which 531 were new eases.
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