The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-15 00:00:00

LORD MAYOR'S COURT.

Before the Recorder and s special pry.
COMPENSATION.—This court wu occupied the whole day
in hearing a case, Davidson v. the Corporation of the City
of London, wherein the plaintiff claimed compensation to
the extent of 4,5001. for certain premises oc. upied by him on
lease, from the governors of Bridewell Hospital. Sir F.
T
, Mr. Locke, Mr. Rundell, and Mr. Atherstone
wetifc7rrthe plaintiff, sod Sir F. Kelly and Mr. Laurie were
for the City. The *lament is Mr. G. H. Davidson, printer
and publisher, in Oreat Edwattletreet and Tudor-street,
City, and the premises in question were required by the City
for the construction of a street from Tudor street through
Water-street to Whitefriars. After a seven hours' hearing,
the parties took a verdict by consent for 3,0001., the corpora-
tion having refused to award 1,8001. at the opening of the
ere. The other mom stool over.

THE CHAPTER HOUSE, ST. PAUL'S.
RIOIIT or PILINIENTATION TO Tall VICAILiGE or CAM-
PLBOATI.—/Imo ingtoeinta in this case, reported in our Inc.
=dm et
waswlth resumed,
theos jolshotrPSoftepLhmlen.
and Yr. melee Patteson as anestors. The
right tation was &freed by the Rev. J. H. Knapp,
Nsaalieaa of St. Paul* nuke an ordinance or statute
paned by ties dean and chapter in 1295 ; and the object of
the pot mending is to set aside the meat presentation
et Arehdeseon Hale, as having been made by the dean and
R.
in contravention of that statute.
D.C.L., in reply to the arguments urged
at the lest sitting, observed that the dean and chapter had
preented the archdeacon in defiance of caveat, which had
bona entered In their own court as well as in the Cons/story
Ceara—Justine Patteson : How could the bishop prevent
the promenades T—Dr. R. Pbillimore said that where the
law pre a centrolling power to a visitor, it enabled him
by sesimismisal eenenre, admonition, or by some
ether mews, is fakes, obedience to his cc:remands; and it
woe to be pros .sad that the dean end chapter would attend
totes adeesmitima, or to the bishop's decision, should it be
=ser the peessalatien which had been made. By the
elfin, the dean and chapter had deprived them-
selves stiles pnlnaargein question, and they would not be
persitbd metes ,or to alter the ordinance, except with
the smastien er the visitor. At the conclusion of the reply,
His Loeb)* said, that by the advice of his two learned
111611.101f1, be wish tthe a day er two to consider his judg•
mitt, and wowed thee inform the partite interested of the
conelasion he had eons to.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD OOURT.—Behn Boris Aiiirsoo.
&az or CADZIIIIII.I.—M dllll elWas of the 01111111, Mr.
Clarkson make sa4eation kir the mad promos to here
agars* retela amid la a bat found by the grad
=rho were with a milearemoor in -karma es-
traftleked the sale sod perches, of eedeteldps,
orrery to the statute. The Gorr grated the &wheelies.
The =WM of the parties were not armitiosed.
Diner "Swain."—John Derry, 96, htrarronier, was
behead for stealing a letttircontaining two/Aare mil akar
esetwitiee, the property of the PoraoateripmeraL—Oa the
2ad of April, Moms Tar, Wahl. eel Oe., of Chehteherhh,
Hear, emokeed in a borer, addramed to Masers. Rows,
Wks, and Croke bis la lamberiLeamet, the neer
meesdos, Mbar ategnshilandde value. Both
Asa notes were areal is tir perserea et the prisoner,
who was employed et the General Peet-ollee,orie of these
haring been given by him to a pawnbroker ha Whitaehapal,
in payment for a ring and a broach, and the other foe two
chances in a Derby sweep, or lottery, at a publie-house in the