The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-27 00:00:00

CITY POLICE COMMITTEE.

Robert Stewart, drovsr 76, Val mossoned for driving
more than 20 boasts in one dr.ve, typatrary to the rules for
regulating the driving of Gott.. through 'be City.
Sergeant Height said the defendant had about 60 or 60
beasts in one drove about two o'clock on IMaiday last,
driving them down Forringdon-street and enrols Fleet-
street. In conogisence of a serious accident that happened
there some time ego they tad been obliged to plate four
policemen there for the safety of the public, and their orders
were strictiy to enforce the regulations.
Sergeant White said that sines the market bad been re-
moved to Isliegtoa there were no rules or regulations to
gamma the drovers. They were not bound to be licensed
nor wear their number until they came within the precincts
of the City, and they then put their number ow. Tbe
regular drover. complained bitterly of this want of order, as
anybody now mould drive, and the metropolitan magistrates
would not interfere to prevent it.
The defendant said he bed been a drover for 40 jests,
gad sines the removal of Smithfield-market it bad not him
26a. a week for intro labour in order to comply with the
regulations of the market. lie would, however, avoid the
City for the future.
Sir John Musgrove hoped he would, and suggested that
he should in Inters take cattle through Whitehell over
Westminster-bridge. Ile was of opinion that beasts should
not be driven through the streets after nine o'clock in the
morning or before six o'cl..ek in the evening.
The defendant woe Sued 6a. and e'er, which he paid.
MAI4I3ION-HOUSE.

The Lord Mayor haring directed that the General 0081-
hos Compacy should be communicated with on the subject
of the loom,* of the omnibus fare on Sunday evenings
atter eight &dock, Mr. Mscoaroara, the manager, waited
open his lordship on flatorday.
The Lord Mayor—la the ease of the gentleman who sp.
peeved here to answer the complaint of one of the conduc-
tors of your company that be bad refuted to pay double
fano alter eight o'clock on Sunday eveniog, I might have
digollseed the chugs altogether, a ao notice had been given
of the additional pries of the aeonnesodation. I, however,
thought the most prudent course woula be to make a com
promise by calling upon the passenger to pay the
increased fare, and by rijerting the conductor's appli-
imbibe for his ospentas. Now it strikes me that if
• grist company have the power of arbitrarily •regulating
the prices of conveyance, the public hays • right to
Impost that whoa any change is intended the plainest no-
tice should be given. The additional fare shoal° be marked
outside as welt as inside the door in characters not to
be 'Mist 'ken. It is my decided eviction thet in eases where
the change of fen is net:ooospicuously designated the ma-
gistrate is bound to dismiss the matter a cmplaint, and I
hope that such course will be adopted.
Mr. Macommara said the regulations by which the new
mailmen were to bir abducted, world act at rest the ob-
jobb* made by his lordship, as well as every other question
of amplaint. Already the suggostib made from the bench
bad bora acted upon by the issue of an order to the ger
babel the establishment, bat it wag accessary to observe,
inbuilt* to the company, that the omnibuses on the hoe
d mid II which the late ease referred had long been mo-
tivated um the principle of en tocreesed charge on the
ikeilay evelaings, and that the company had nothing to do
with originating it. Mr. Mummers was proceeding to
de eribe the great improvement' contemplated, which, be
mid, would afford a cheaper and much more complete accom
modatioo than at present basted, when
The Lord Mayor interrupted him—l have nothing to say
span that sorltet The comply will I know ociesult
its own laterset in consulting the interest of the public.
I say as • megistrato that you an bound, in
Wizen and justice, to give erotica of en increase of
fare. Yes may charge half-a-crown instead of 6d.
or 3d., but you most let us all know it, and thou we can act
abordisgly. Those who Ilse. not plenty of m nay are, as
meal, the persona upon whom the 'centime moat heavily
falls, and it is cruel to subject the p tor to an expense which
they have no tight to expect, and which they would not
bear if they were not kept in ignorance of the arbitrary
regulation. There is a strong argument be @gains t the pre-
soot system in the fast that ibis secret way of dealing la biro-
laud to lead to altercations dangerous to the peace, and it is
therefore particularly ineligibles up in the magistracy to
take public notice of so inconvenient and injurious • pros-
ties in a crowded metropolis.
/dr. Macnamara—l wish, my lord, that the act of paella-
meat compelled se to put the fares outside.
Thol.ord Mayor—They ought to be outside as well as in-
aids. The public ought not to be east jetted to deception or
imposition. I shall take the liberty to suggest at.teber im-
provement to you. I took • ride some nights ago in an
Minoilms, end nib a miserable light as was stuck in it I
Wirer beheld. It looked like the glimmer of • wet:b-
light.
Mr. Macsamars—l hob the satisfaction to assure your
btealp that all the defects which have existed will be
illitingbly remedied when we have all the omnibuses ender
eat mlottol. We aro trogaged in seeking the necessary
iMprovemeots and facilitating the Vomit to all parts of the
bums by the skill of our regulations. lam much obliged
Ibrenelordship for having seat to the oonspany, and hope
it gal be stated to the pubis that the baba* of the fare was
ime *soot of the wormy, bat that they found that such
wee the practice, sad merely continued it until they should
have the opportunity 01 making the essential disuses they
intend in the system.
The Lord Mayor—l have so doubt that Justice will he done
to you. 'MOT •

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A convict In the Pentoatille Model Prison, who gave
the name of Thomas Dennis, was charged with stabbing
Edward Beano, a warder in the above prison, with latent
to murder him.
Edward Beans, one of the warden in the prison, who
appeared with Mears is a die?. deposed as follows : —I am
an oedema% and trade warder in Qs Pentonville Prison.
The prisoner is under eondannut there. Lie was under
my charge sin months all but three Caya. I saw hies, on the
9th of last month, is eonversation with other prisonen
while they wen is their walks. To @peek to the other
priecnen is °pointy to the ruler and regulations t I the
prison. I complained to the governor about it, it being my
duty to do so. The primate war aware of the roles, they
being read over to all is cotfieement ones a month. I re-
ported him on the snoraiog of the 10th, arid be went bati.re
the governor, when he was told that he would be punished.
I conducted him back to his cell. and about 12 o'clock 1
beard his bell ring. I went to hn, and saw him sitting
on his stool in the centre of his cell, and be complained to
me that the sole be held in his hand wee act by a treat deal
large enough for the boot he was employed on. I told him
I would get him another, cad lilt far that purpose, and on
my return I gave him another. As I was bevel the call,
my back Deis, towards the prisoner, I felt a blow of my
shoulder, which I thought bad been done with a hammer.
I earned round sad said, '' 1 shall report you for this to-
morrow morning to the governor," and then turnout and
called for assistance. At this time I felt treat pain, and,
upon another of the warden arriv;sig, I 101 d him what
had incurred, and upon my turning round he toth a sharp-
poisted knife from my shoulder, anal then the blood flowed
et pnialy. I eon account ice the prisoner bevies a knife by
my having given him on. to serape the bottom of the shoes
clean ; bat when I gave it to him it had no Ir.ndle, and was
as thick at one end ma at the other. Sines I gays it to him
it :as bees sharpened at the point, acd has bed a handle
put to li. It wee not necessary in his business that it humid
be sharpened as it is. I have been under the doctor ever
since, and am very bee now.
Thomas Hunt, a warder, sail—When the prisoner was
in the refractory ward I said to him, " This is a bad joh cf
boors, Beans is very ice, and lem sure he will die." The
prisoner, for • moment, took no notice, and then said.
" a good job too; I hope the will die."
Mr. Charles Lawrence said—l MI surgeon to the prison.
On the moraine of the 10th 1 was celled to see the com-
plainant and twin him bleeding ITJIM a wound in the back.
The wound us. about two inches and a half from the spine
jest above the blade bone, on the lett side. The wound
itself was shoat half an inch long with clean edges from the
dircetims of above downwards and upwards, to fact just
each a wound es would he given by a dagger or a knife of
the description used by the prisoner. Fri m the symptoms
that followed I have very little doubt but that the knife
entered the onity of the chest and touched the longs. The
complainant has been under medical treatment ever since.
Toe prisoner, when called upon for his defence, in the
the most impudent mariner, said—l Zoe% we, I shall say
nothiag now to you.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner to the Central Cri-
minal Court for trial.