The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-25 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

NOILTHEILN CIRCCIT.T-LlTraroot, Aro. 23.

and Pates.
Me. Jousting took his seat at nine &clock.
BOLTON Will DIALS oriiß RAILWAY Code ANY C. TAYLOR
(OPECIAL IVRY). —LETIVITIoN OE A RAILWAY MoDEL.
This wen a enceital jury cause, the action being brought
lry tht• above name-d rognplitly against the elsfeadant, Mr.
Taylor, of Mors ton Hall, near Whalley, for the detention
of a model which haul lawn peepers $1 in the year Iff46,
who it tint company was engaged in ohlaining its act of par-
ham. nt.
f wt. of the cse so re hrit fly tht s. : In the year I.IG
the pre ant pinatas wen- eugaged in a parliamentary con-
test with thr rival edam*, as , the Fleetwood, l'r .ton,
and West fluting Coupes, the (inhere Junction, and the
• rioted. Manch. star, awl New ton Junction Com•
pen s. liorh of thr the. t• latter buts enema..hid
same or 1... a upon the estate and grounds of the de-
fendant, Mr. T tar, of Moreton Hall, the ornamental
portetin.4 whirh sh seethed as f acetalingly
and upon whi.-h the intrusion of a railway would vont-
pl. t • vat the estate ss. a gentleman's residents.. On the
idle r hand, the line proposed by the plaintiffs, and the bill
fur a inch tat•uttielly parsed, avoided Mr. Taylor's grottud,,
and therefore unlided his summon, and hi. strenuous op-
pootem to the other three lines. In order to convey to
the ',Oben. ahoy committee a letter idea of the nature of
the satin-wiling hot • than could he gir-u by map-, plans,
and the Urines. • tplauatinus of counsel, it Wtts happily
stigtostell by Mr. Diann Itobitimii, who hld limn uelinc
te. mining for Mr. Taylor, but stileequently for the pro-
siest, r. of thin line, that it modal of Monlon•liall and all
the -uraranding grounds should he made ; and this being
nuts ml In, Mr. nintolf, en artist of Keswick, was em-
ployed to pr pare it, which he necurtlay.dy siel in a most
',detractor, manner, mud his charge for which amounted
to 3AI/ta1k...0. By tilt r.Onbiutil in...v.4 Mr. Taylor and
00 pr,ist plaintiff., then the promoter. of the Holton and
11l o :Omni line. the nth. r hems, were thrown out, and
tie ulw.vr Inn: was sanctioned by parliaimiit, upon
who h the sap n- • which Mr. Taylor had incurred
as re trilniontmol by the Contrail,. but he retained
tin ~,..,is I, and sides quently Mal it altered and der-Indust,
and • ten in-01 other art- or eolitiole.e ...Int Mtn', nor age it
regal spe stiontil until some time in the present year, when
I on art between Mr. Taylor and the
holion and Islackhurn Company, the Nerretary, 31r. Gunn,
was ostlers tl to demand the motel, and this being rellotal,
the pns-ut totem was brought to recur'-Y it, or the statue
tin of.
The caw• occupied the court nearly Ida hour., and the
two points kit for the decision of the jury Were these—
first, whether Taylor hat arted upon maw understand-
ing as an au- at for the eonijany in his oppreition hp the
thin. is filial st ; Or, smandly, whether the armlet was
Mink for 41. lendant hile acting in an iutlefx-inlent manner,
ail gli ler an s Xpert4loll 0( indemnity in the event uf
th•• line being suer mild.
'I tie jury. after about an hour'. alomiec frnrc court, found
fur the plaititif, and valued the model at HAM.

Mr. Gurney said he could not well make the order. It
was a great injustice to psrt.es. lu this case he would con-
sent to take one Lail.

GOSPORT PF.Tri SESSIONS—SATutmy.
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Captain Sir W. E. Parry, Superintedent f the Royal
Clavnec Victualling Yard, and Josenph Tionhorn, Esq.,
Storekeeper. Were summoned before the bench for a public
nuisance, arising from an accumulation at the above esta-
blishment (of which they were described in the complaint
a* the oeeupkre), of putrid and decayed meat. The cm-
plainant in the caw was Mr. Smith, in his capacity of one
of the guardians of the poor for the parish, and it was
taken out on the information of two inhabitant house-
holders, Pierer'. George Adams and Robert Hyslop, jun.,
under the Nuieances Remus als Act.
Neither of the defendants appeared to the summons,
nor were they it resented.
Mr. Oeuvre Adams deposed that he became acquainted
with the accumulations referred to, by information he had
received. In consequence, he requested Mr. Hyslop to ac-
company him to Clarence-yard. On arriving there they
saw Mr. l'inhorn, the storekeeper, and told him that they
had attended to inspect some putrid meat. lie took them
into a store on the water-side, in which there was a large
Tentative of eases of meat. There were perhaps 1,000 case's.
In going in the store, a very had and disagreeable smell
was detected. Witness mentioned that circumstance to
Mr Tinhorn, who replied that .he smelt would he much
worse if they did not use chloride of lime from day to day to
keep it under.
Mr. Smith (guardian) deposed to receiving notice of the
nuisance. Ile forwarded it to Mr. Blake, the visiting
guardian, who arranged for an examination of the meat in
question. Ile accordingly went to the Clarence-yard with
witness and two medical gentle men. They were received
by the pewter attendant of the yard, who took them to a
store in which was a late number of cases of preserved
meat. There was a very etraig smell in the store, and the
officers said that they wore obliged to take means to keen it
down to even that.
The Bench—Suppose we made an order for the removal
of the nuisance, Low would you set about executing it i
The whole of the COWS may not be had, but opening those
that have good meat in them would cause that meat to be.
come putrid unless it were consumed within 4S hours.
The witness was not prepared to say in what manner the
order could last he carried out.
I 'the Bench—lt is very strange that government allows
this nuisance to remain when the officer* of the yard admit
I its existence. No doubt there is some difficulty between
the government and the contractor who supplied the meat ;
hut, if so, why does not government take the steps that
may be called for in such a Case ?
Mr. Adams—A great quantity of preserved meat has been
di livered from the yard to shipe, and has been refused as
bed ; this has always been destroyed.
The bench, after some consideration, gave it as their de-
cision that us it would he injurious to the public health to
open all the canisters, and all must be opeueel to make the
examination i etivc, and as some might prove goad whilst
others proved had, these good cases being rendered unlit for
use by being opened, they felt called on to decline making
the order sought fur, but they expressed their opinion that
the nuisance ought to be removed by government without
the inhabitant* having to take emy steps in the. matter art all.
An official examination made by Ore. Rundle and Clarke
disclosed the following f est% .—On entering the store in
which the preserved meat is kept, the atmosphere was found
to be iamb greet, el with a very disagreeable Weer, which ire
the immediate proximity of the case,, was so powerful as to
produce a sense of isaintliese and to excite nausea. A piece
of wood that had been recently painted white, and exposed
to the fertiel atmoophi re, had bessinie of a dark brown co-
hair; and it was inferred Irons this that the gas pervading
the store was owin4 to the escape of sulphurotted hydrogen I
gas from animal niattere in a state or putra.t,c fer-
mentation. Ity chemical examination this inference was con-
firmed, and the source of the gas was traced to cases of
meat. Covers of these en's were lifted up by the pres-
sure of the gaseous m ester evolved from the decomposition
of their mutt nt.. When these ease's were opened, variable
I quantities of gas escaped of a similar character to that per-
railing the store, but more intense, sickening, and almost
insufferably noxious. From Seale of the cases at the point
or communication with the atmosphere there dripped a thin
black fetid hotel, found by microscopic and chemical ex-
amination to he the result of putrefying gelatine and fat.
In only one of the eases were the content, solid, and this
ease had Item by Evident perforated near the top, and the
surface of the me at eorresponiling with it was covered with
a greenish mould. Others of the castle contained mores or
le AS of a whitish coloured frothy instill fluid ; the gelatine in
them had herons' completely liquified, and the musses of
fat that hail resisted putrefaction were yellow, hard, and
brittle like wax. Several other carve were reduced to such
a state of putrescence that the nature of their content's was
scarcely recognisable ; six of these were taken at random
from the stock and forwarded to the museum at Hadar for
examination. These examinations detected in one canister
portions of lips, tongues, pancreas (sweetbread), niesentry
with diseased glands, as also intestines (gut), which inclu-
ded feculent matter. A portion of liver was also found in
the fluid debris of this elVe. lit another were found a por-
tion of mimeo., epiglottis, pancreas, and mesenteric glands.
The examined' of the other eases detected similar eon.
tents. The results arrived at ley these examinations Were,
that all the eases of preset ved tueat examined exhibited un-
equivnesel sissies of 1' coonseeition and decay ; that most of,
the casts evolved when pressed re greater or less quantity
of highly notions gas, sulphuretted hydrogen, and that all
of them emitted the odour ol it; that the fatty and gela-
throes parts of the contents were all of them purtially, and
sonic wholly liquiticel and decomposed: that the fat untie-
composed was usually hard, and almost as brittle as
wax : that the meat less eiMett el was in all the cases more or
lee dew:peal, in one ease partially, and in another wholly
sashimi to a semi-fluid putrid mass ; and that in two of the
ewes portions of iretenial ergans Were present which had
been absolutely diseased before cleat.
In the examination of these ewe, one of the labourers,
John Rayne., who seesi*ted in opening them, became ill,
and remained so during the night and a portion of the
seemed day.

THE POLICE COURTS.