The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

BOW-STREET.

Fvntona Datviso.J/17 Vauser, a cab-driver, was
charged with furious driving, and with cruelty to his horse.
Last evening the prisoner was driving a " Hansom" cab
along the Strand at a most furious speed. There was a lady
inside the cab, and she appeared terribly alarmed at the
horse oscillating from one side of the road to the other.
Although the animal was proceeding at his utmost
speed, the defendant continued to whip it violently lie
struck several vehicles, and, when opposite Somerset-house,
he nearly ran upon an omnibus.
Mr. Hall commented strongly upon the conduct of cab-
drivers driving in such a furious manner along crowded
thoroughfare., and endangering the lives of the public. lie
had power to suspend their license and to send them to
prison without any fine. He thought this was one of the
worst cases, and he sentenced the prisoner to be committed
for the full term of two months with hard labour.

11.....1F..-1:141-16;:eharge with a similar offence, and was
committed for 15 days, without the alternative of paying a
fine.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

Yesterday forenoon a special court of the Metro-
politan Commissioners of Sewers was held at the office of
the commission for the purpose of receiving the engineer's
estimate for the works proposed in his report for the drain-
age of the districts north of the Thames. The com-
missioners present were the Lord Mayor, who resided,
Viscount Ebrington, M.P.' Sir Henry lle la Beebe, Alder-
man Lawrence, Mr. 11. L. Taylor, Capt. Dawson, Mr.
Hardwieke Mr. Henry Lewis, &e.
Mr. WOoLRYCII, the secretary, read the report of the
engineer, in reference to the estimates, from which it ap-
peared that there were 39 miles of main level and low level
sewers to be formed, the former extending from the Grand
Junction-road, Uxbridge-road, to a pumping station on the
cast side of the river Lea, and the latter extending from the
Grosvenor Canal in the Fulham and Hammersmith district,
to the same point in the river Lea, where the sewage of the
the lower would be pumped into the higher level, and
from thence carried to a point near Barking creek, a dis-
tance of four miles. In the course of these sewers, 15 miles
would have to be tunnelled. The estimated cost, including
branch sewers, three engines of 600 horse power each, would
be about 966,1621.

ISr H. 3iE.3.ii3ECHE moved the adoption of the report,
which was unanimously adopted.
The LORD MAYOR remarked that it must be gratify-
ing to themselves, as also to the .public, to see th. 4 they
were all so unanimous in carrying out the great object they
had in view..
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The court broke up, when an adjourned court was held,
Viscount Enittmorox, M.l'., in the chair, to order the
execution of carious works, which were resolved upon,
amounting to about 1,5001.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST, AND DIS-

MISSAL OF, A MEDICAL

Yesterday, at the weekly meeting of the directors
and guardians of the poor of St. Marylebonc, held in the
hoard-room of the workhouse, New-road, Mr. Tunnels in
the chair, the board were engaged fur a long period in in-'
vestigating a charge of alleged gross neglect on the part of
Mr. Macreight, one of the out-door visiting surgeons. The
charge arose out of an inquest held before Mr. Wakley,
I M.P., the coroner, on the body of a female named Young,
' who lodged with a friend in Newnham-street. held on this
day week, and the facts were as follows:—The deceased
I woman was taken ill on Wednesday, the 12th ult., and a
medical order having been obtained, Dr. Maereight attended
and prescribed for her. lle saw her again on the Friday,
but refused to give an order for her admission into the
house. She became much worse on the Saturday morning,
and, in addition to the deceased's woman landlady, the Rev.
Mr. Hansard, curate of St. Mary's, his scripture reader,
and ultimately, on Saturday evening, Mr. Barker, a surgeon
in the Edgware-road, sent to the workhouse, stating the
dangerous state in which the deceased was. saving her
removal to the infirmary was imperative. Mr. Barker sent
a note addressed to the medical officer, declaring that the
deceased's was a pressing illness, but no attention whatever
was paid to it, and deceased died the same evening. The
whole of the above-mentioned persons were examined by
the board in the presence of Dr. Macrcight, as was also Dr.
Hall Davis, who made a post nwrtem examination of the
body, and who proved that the death was from fatty dege-
neration of the heart.

Mr. Macreight, on being called on for his defence, stated
that after he saw the woman on the Friday he did not'
think her so bad, and he referred the case for admission to
the overseer, but he made out an order for admission on
the Sunday (after the woman was dead). He admitted
that, as a medical officer, Le had full power and discretion
in his own hands as to the admission of a patient into the
infirmary, without the order of the relieving officer. He
also admitted that he was with a Mr. Gilham, another out-
door surgeon, in the workhouse until after twelve o'clock on
the Saturday night, when the note of Mr. Barker came, and
the other application were made ; but he could not say if he
was engaged in visiting any other patients that induced him
not to go and see the deceased woman.
After some discussion the dismissal was carried.

MELA.NCHOLY SUICIDE OP A LADY.—Yesterday
an inquiry was taken by Mr. W. Carter, at the Duchess of
Kent, Bland-street, Great Dover-road, as to the death of
Mrs. Jeannette Bramby, aged 41, widow of Mr. Bramby,
chemist, of Woolwich, who destroyed herself as follows :
Miss Jane Gibson, daughter of the deceased by a former
husband, stated, that they resided at 13 Bland-street. On
her mother's marriage with Mr. Bramby four years ago, she
had considerable property, but it had been squandered away
by him, and he died about six months since. From that time
her mother had been disposing of her furniture fur their sup-
port, and muck dreaded that they should come to poverty.
On Tuesday night, as she was going to bed, she said she
would take a pill, and went to a small chest of drawers for
the box. The drawer contained three phials of essential oil
of almonds (prussic acid), which had been given to her to
flavour custards, and witness observed she had got one of
them towards her mouth. She instantly seized it and threw
it into the grate us well as one of the others. Iler mother
seated herself, and it was evident she had taken some, for
she became insensible, and Mr. Adolphus, a surgeon, was
sent for, but she died soon after, from the effects of the
poison. In answer to the coroner, Miss Gibson said she did
not think her mother, when she first went to the drawer,
had any intention of taking the poison, but seeing the phial
her fear of poverty raised a sudden impulse which induced,
the act. The jury and coroner observed, that it was a most
heart-resoling case, and a verdict of " temporary insanity"
was returned.

SIR JOHN Toms, of Liverpool, (lately a most
extensive merchant in the African trade,) died at his place
of residence, near Liverpool, on Thursday night, aged RS.
BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JeNC-
rwn
ltan.way.—The proprietors of this undertaking
met at Birkenhead yesterday, when the directors' report,
which was of a satisfactory nature, was adopted. At the
suggestion of the directors, a committee of shareholders was
appointed to consider the course to be pursued under the
railway antagonism of the district, and the propriety of
revi,ing the agreement with the London and North-
Western.

NEWPORT, ATIERGAVENNY AND lIEREFORD.—YeI,
terdny the ninth ordinary meeting of the proprietors of this
railway was advertised to be held at the Trafalgar Hotel,
Spring-gardens; but a legal quorum of proprietors not
being present, no business was transacted. The
cash account showed that the sum of 1,0181. 7s. Bd.
had been received during the half-year, making the total
receipts amount to 100,1121. 4s. 4d. The expenditure had
been, during the hal flear, 9181. 131. 44., t0ta199,8691. Os. 10d.,
leaving a balance in hand of 273/. 3s. 6d. The arrears were,
on the first call, 6,8701. 10s., first instalment of the second
call 6,6531., second instalment ditto 7,0161., total 20,5391. 10s.
The tram roads revenue account showed a balance from the
last account of 1,0321. Is. 7d., receipts since 1,0901. 14s. 51d.,
,total 2,1221. 16s. Old ; which was thus disposed of—ex-
pended 485/. .ss. 6d., cash transferred to the credit of the
eompnoy 7181. os., cash in hand and outstanding accounts
9211. as.
EXETER AND CREDITON.— A meeting of the
shareholders in this company was held yesterday, at the
London Tavern, for the purpose of electing three directors
and one auditor, and for other business. Mr. Chaplin in
the chair. A with factory report was carried unanimously.
—Mr. Duller and Mr. }Award Woolmer were elected new
directors, and the Ilon. Francis Scott and Mr. Townsend
were re-elected. Thanks were voted to the chairman and
board, who serve gratuitously, and the meeting adjourned.
LEEDS AND THIR.SK RAILWAY.—The half-yearly
general meeting of the shareholders in this company was
held at Leeds on Thursday, 11. L. Marshall, Esq., one of
the directors, in the chair. There was a very full attend-
ance of shareholders. At the close of the regular and ordi-
nary business the meeting was made special, to consider the
I provisions of a bill the company have before parliament for
altering the name from the Leeds and Thirsk to the Leeds
land Northern Railway Company, and for other purposes.
I The report was adopted.
THE MAGDEBURG BRIDGE—The Prussian mili-
tary engineer' have jtud completed a very important work—
the great bridge across the Elbe. It is 1,5 100 feet in length,
I and, as it is constructed across a port of the river which is
I very deep and rapid, it has required the use of piles of a novel
kind. There have been employed in this work three cons-
panics of pioneers of 200 men each, 270 horses, and VJ pon-
toons. The troops employed have been taken from the
garrisons of Berlin and Magdeburg, and the works executed
under the direction of a Prussian general.