The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-18 00:00:00

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TSB ROYAL Enilinol.-13ir —Fearing that an ob.
eirestiss made by Vio*Cheacolio; Killen ruce, is the
MOM of the judgment delivered yeaser, in the Mee of
"Ni Soya Hiatus= Pringle Albert v. Strome," may have
a kiebnity (however unintentional oa the part of his
Homer) to Toy seriously affect say ettuester, unless es,
oast, permit sae to beg you will do use the favour le
dirt We letter at year very earliest umvesieses. end I
stall feel mey ready obliged by year aseedieg to my
The View Cheacellor, with referesem te 61 espies emiyl7l
agsbegas Wag printed, sad the typo * leleg after's,
Indus up. made the loilowneg raw* : "That he should
also have primed 61 wise, sad (sly 61 copies, and
tam %yokes op the type !this last tut not being represented
as haven taken plus after the eat, or after any reason
wrangle), does seem to me a ambulates of circumstances
that so man could hear stated without surprise " It would
thee In•pear that the type was broken up as coos so the 51
swiss tad been printed off ; but this was not so. As soon so
I and Mr. Judge seentained that the contemplate:.
exhibitive was distasteful to the feelings of her
Majesty end Prince Albert, we immedietely
resolved to abandon the proposed arrangement, and it was
then that 1 gave orders to have the type of the catalogs*
broken up Trusting you will do me the favour to give is-
union to this 'intonation, the tenth of which I am in • po-
sition to prove to the very letter,—l am, dtc., WM. areasoa,
21, Paternoster-row, Jan. 17.
Tug GAB QUESTIO2I.-Bv,—la your gaper of to-
day appears a report of the proceedisp of a meeting of the
lahabstants ease ward of frarringdse Without's& the gm
question, at which Kr. Lowe is mead 111 amnia :
At Croedem, a place with a rather IBMs/ numberel himblisees,
the charge fee every thousand cubit Mt of ens sememt ap dispaile
street tamps wee has. Cst foe evert their led; ice list mamma Is
shops sad private dwellings, Ss. • • • • . o Theme
coessuned at the disunion scathe or Be treat Wean Rau% esell
a sheet itotance down the line hole Mat stalls% lint la. VW per
thousand cubic feet, and out of test area wee dednd by the mar
lestexer, who bed tarred to upply the (try of bastes at Is. Ild..ff
es wee propowed the pipes were laid down by the umminkinere a
sewers."
My object in adilreming you is simply to slate that either
Mr. Lowe or your reporter is in error, as I have never made
the offer I am thus represented to have made, having sever
taken the subject into 'vivo coesideratioe, much less ex-
pressed an opinion upon it. I think the quotation of the
charges for gas at Croydon is also an error; at least, I
am sure they were sot what Mr. Lowe quoted when I re-
signed my aloe of consulting engineer to the
Croydon Oss Coattail is November last. Having
borne a prominent part is advocating cheap gas,
I shall not, I trust, en thus correcting an error,
be inspected of hostility to a movement having for its object
the legitimate reduction of an exorbitant charge on that
which has not only become in large cities an article of the
tint necessity to the higher and middle classes, but whielt
his also soiree . as influence on the comforts, health, and
morals of the poor. Though lam far from saying that the
just rights of property should not always be respected, still
'II flank it behoves us to ascertain that the claims made by
the few be net extrarsgsnt, and do not interfere with
the welfare of the many, and 1(11 can be satiefec.orily shown
that gas ma be made and supplied (with a fair profit nn the
nevesary outlay) at a lone, price than the present eotelpiniee
are able to furnish It at, we shall be driven to the conclusion
either that deo economy in its snannfecture is not observed
by them, or that they have interest to pay on capital waste-
fully expended, and mach larger than is necessary for the
purpose, sad in either etre claim to a continuance of their
monopoly ought not to be supported.—JOHN Cox, Wisest-
farturse of gas at the Crest Western Railway Company's
works at Swindon, Jan. 13.
COWSTT (AMATO itiaTlClL—Sir,—ln your paper
of Friday there is a letter written by Mr. Hibon, relativo to
certain promeoisgs I was under the necessity of taking
sgeinst like for a debt incurred by his meets, and which he
Mein s•igas eased as imposition, and pleaded that my case
was carried through by piirjury and fraud. I feel it • duty to
my own character to request your insertion of my defence.
Daring the proceedings he swore the coals and fuel were
sever on his premises, and in his Liter he states that his
servants swore they were never burnt. I clearly and saes-
hotorily proved the delivery by my servants of the
goods upon his premli s. I proved, by the evidence
of the party whom Mr. Hibon himself engaged to
make up and keep up Mae. that for two months seven fires
per day were oustantly kept up. It is true that hi.
brother-in-law's wile, whom in his letter to lou he calls his
servant, called epos me and paid me the first account, and
denied I would send so more until further orders, which
request was strictly obeyed until fresh orders came through
the foreman of the works, whe had the keys and charge of
the premises, and was looked upon, and (as the judge's de
eioion proved) was a duly itriteked person. Mr. Hibon
should know that the ere was postponed at his own in-
stance . ho dared me to produce the foreman, or in default
claimed a normal. I postponed the case, and the law of
coen'y courts compels all plaintiffs to pay the expenses et
proceedings previously to the proceedings taking place ; and
upon the verdict being gives in the plaintiff hi favour, de-
fendast has to refund ihe sot of such proceedings. He
surely cannot cavil at his own deeds.—Juare TAOO, Coal
Merchant, and Waterman to the Queens—East Meuhey,
Jan. 14.
FRXMI PORK FROM ANIIIRICA. -Th. Niagara,
from Bosom, brought this ties.', as part of her serge, ewe
hundred mosses of fresh pork from America. They were
preserved in lee sad were is fresh and euellent condition.
On Thursday they were sold in Liverpool by auction, end
brought trom 32a. 6d. to 335. Id. per 120Iba This is the
first importation of the kind from the Staten.
But; EAT, YEATERDAr. ALLZORD ARROX.—He. 1
lore Mr. W. Pays*, at the Old Sward and Buckler, Ben
moadserstireet, into the cause al a fire which broke out on
Moakley morales kart is the house of Mr. Wm Snaked, in
the above .teat—T. Tate, police•constable, said that on
Monday morning Let, at about half-past two o'clock, se be
was on duty in Busiondsey•street, he discovered the house,
Ns. 16, to be on are. Knowing that there were from 30 to
40 persons. children awl all, living in the house, be entered
it by a side &or, which was always kept rpm for the accont•
Incitation of the lodging, and having sprung his rattle, and
knocked loudly, succeeded In awakening all who lived in the
upper port of the house. They came out, and made their
e cape in their night deems'. He heard that the landlord
and his brother slept in the parlour, and had not bees seen
to escape. He knocked at the door, but having no reply, he
bunt it open. The parlour was full of smoke, but
no one was in the room. The fire was at this time
burning in the shop, la &boat two minutes alter
he * had knocked et the perkier door he sew
Mr. J. Scollard, the brother of the landlord, come
frees the beck door out of the yard, with his
trowiers, waistcoat, end stockings on, and his coat hanging
over his arm. He did sot appear to be acuseerned about the
tire •. he went away, and offered so assistant*. There were
both smoke sad Ike in the shop, prinsipally at the back, in
the wainscot by the staircase. The fire wee soon extinguished.
The occupier of the house was Mr. W. Scollard, and the first
time he taw him was at about 4 o'clock, after the ire was
out. At 3 o'clock witness, accompanied by Mr. Hamilton,
engineer, went into the eellar under the shop, gaining minus-
Mon through a trap door leading from the back yard. He
there saw some wcod, like the staves of butter tube, piled up
round a post, which supported the floor of the shop lessee&
stay above. There were two similar piles in other parts of
the collar, and straw scattered about, but no part was much
aright The lire was sour quenched by the engines. As J.
Seellud was geisg out of the house through the yard he
was searched, and a policy of insurance was knurl on him.
J. Se Aka did not make his appearance until a quarter of an
hoar after witness had raised the dares.—Elisalieth Hore
said that at 10 o'clock the envious night she perceived smoke
coming into her room from the shop underneath, and
spoke to Mr. &Aka about it, but he said it was only from
some wood with which he was lighting the tire.-3. Baldwin,
of the fire brigade, gave evidence as to the appearance of the
cellar, and said that both fires were separate. There was no
connexion between the fire in the shop and that in the cellar.
—W. Wilkinson, fireman, said he arrived at the fire at a
quarter put three o'clock. There were a number of casks
underneath the stairs, and which were partially burnt.
When they had extinguished the tire in the shop, and found
that smoke issued through the boards from the cotter, they
went below, and found what had already been described.—
R. Henderson, fireman, corroborated the previous evidence,
end added that the shop, which was insured for 3201., con-
tained very little stock. Indeed, had he net been told by
Mr. Stallard that be was a cheeaemonger and egg merchant,
he should have returned him es a dueler in empty barrels.
All the stock wither found in the shop was three eggs and
s Mum abutter, about an inch deep, on the end of • cask.—
M. IL Wilson, rierk to the General Insurance Company,
said that W. Scollard, the occupier of the hones, was
insured in the office for 3201, and since the fire
had made a clam for 1751 of which 1251. was
forbettor. Of course, knowing what they did, the
company would not pay the claim—J. Bissell, a lodger in
the house, said that immediately the alarm was raised, he
went down stairs, and into the parlour occupied by the land-
lord and his brother, to awaken them, but neither were
*here. In five minutes afterwards he saw them both in the
yard. The jury returned a verdict that " The house was
wilfully set on fire by William and John Soaked." The
verdict having been returned, the &WOW asked Kr. Omer
ton, the actuary of the office, what step the company in-
tended to take in the matter.—Mr. Ouhtos : I am not
aware that the office will do anything. This inquiry is for
the safety of the public. Insurance eompanies do not like
?mutation, but in this cue Ima make no promise.—The
Coroner ( with some warmth): I knew what that means,—
:hat nothing will be done, and that these MSS will be allowed
to escape as in previous cases. If I take the troatie to hold
thew investigations, sorely you might amist is puniatiag the
auilty parties—Mr. Omikton : We do not like to prosecute,
but if an action is rnonOt ageing u for the reeovary of the
many, we shell resist, sad Peeve what we know.— The Co-
ironer: Yes, that's it. As /wag as you have not to pay the
money you don't care. I axe sure that by holding these in-
vestigations I have saved the insurance offices thousands of
ivends, and I think it, I will not my disgraceful, but highly
reprehensible, that lam not sedated. There is no public
prosecutor, and nukes the office doss its duty these men moat
esespe.—The inquiry_ then clued, the two men spinet wheat
the verdict was hued being left at liberty.