The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-27 00:00:00

THE WEATHER TABLE.

Rain intclitgence.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—YEsTERDAY.
11&10112 ma. CONIELANI,NIII arwLLilt7l.

IN RE Wi47:Tlllooh.

IRE ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET CASES.

This case was reamed, by adjournment, fr m last week.
Mr. J.lt.. Clarke, of Neathmrne•park•villav, Ilarrow7rOid,
one of the directors of the company, was examined. Ile
deposed that the mein objei ef the company was to pro-
cure the removal of Smithfield market to their new market.
The !slugs was essential to the market, and formed part et
it ...ben the 0.:1, ctoes took poss2ssion. The supplies o! Lay
were compulsory to keep up the hirsute ; one could not
exist without the other. It never entered the heads of Sl.r
directors to sell hay separately. It would not have been sold
to patties who did not use the Wrap. The company was
largely in debt—altogi (her 33,0901. TOOtO were uo aNreti.
Ile was ph tintaf in a suit to recover 36,00"../. from the Per.
kiss family. Should the suit be prosecuted all would he
paid. Tl,c Shropshire flanking Cdlnpany, who were cre-
ditors on a 101 l of Mr. Pooley'e for 7,0001., had threatened
proceedings against two of the directors.
. . _ .

(4.—Dot y.,4 nut, ut the time the Shropshire Bank
threatened p.irceedinus in bankruptcy, warn the I.ersuus in
the t mploy or the company not to say anything about the
ear of hay, as it would make you liable to the bankrupt
laws ?

A.—My reply is that I cannot swear I did not, but I
behave I uid uot. I have uo recodection of so doing
TlKre was a arm deal of talk about it, bat I don't 6: hero
it was dimmed at the bum!. Tiler:: was some talk as t.•
whether we could not be made baukrupts. The question
was started by the solicitor.
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The witneei put in the fallowing acemint, which he dee-
eriheit as the halance•ehcet or the cowpony from the 2.iih
March, 1830, to the let January, 1333 :

Receipts. —To subscription capital, 37,0211.; loons,
07,021/. 31.44.; lairape of cattle, 1,0411. 12s. 44. • fodder-
inu of cattle, 1,0251. 10a. 64. ; rents of houses and lands,
1,8231. 8•. 54.; sand, gr.seel, &c., 277/. Os.; total,
138,2171. Os. 74.

Biebarsestents. —By furniture, implements,
2101. Os. 111; latter t, ili.cuant, &c., on mortgeges and
loans, 13,4311. 16e. 2d ; purcbaur of estate, 105,0001. ; rent
of offices, , and nom, 2971. 16s. 3d. ; law charges,
4,8701. lls 5d.; repairs and imprevildents, 1,1721. Gs. 41. ;
*Merles, engineers, surveyors' charges, sad men'. wages,
2,694/. 4.1. 6 1.; sdvertising, printing, coals, &c.,
1,7681. Os. ; balance, 8,73'2/. 15s. 71 ; total,
138,217!. Os. 7d.
The balance of 8,7321. is thus accounted for : Monger,
3,0001., taken as cash, and now in the hands of the Cases
Bank of Lcndon, as security, by the realisation of which $
its extent the liabilities of the din eters will be reduced
3,0)01.; claim of 5,7301. on Meters. Laurie and Attree, of
which 1,5901. will be credited and carried to incidental
charges, wbenevir they render an cceount of the manner
in which 150 ten pound shares have been distributed among
the members of the premier wii:h purpose they were placed
in their hands, when each number will then appear a
shareholder.
Mr. Lawrance then addressed the court in support of the
adjudication. Mr. Wisthr,-Aik had deposed that she or, fit
ea the hay sold formed a considerable item in the Wools-
*as OF the directors. Mr. Clarke said it had never entered
kW their contemplation ; but this was immaterial, as the
undoubted fact that a profit was made was enough to
establish a trading. In support of thin view, ho cited a
number of cases. On b,holf of Mr. Charles Barker, the
petitioning creditor, ho indignantly repudiated the allega-
tion that the bankruptcy was a collusive one.
Mr. Cooke, in reply, relied on she principle that where
the primary ul ject of any pursuit is not a trading subject
to the bankrupt laws, the subsidiary or incidental acts, to
mike that primary object available, will not constitute such
a trading as will render the person available to the bank-
runt law.
The

What doca the frovectus, or the

deed of settlement, say about the lairage
Mr. Laurance—The srospectua, not a word. In the deed
of settlement, among the objects of the company, the fol.
14 sing is steted : " and to provide stores and warehouses
for the reception and warrhonAng of far&ug-stock sad
agricultural implements."
The Commissioner—Very well ; that would include the
lairage.
Mr. Cooke referred to the case of cowkeepers who wen
not, until recently, to nomine, liable to the bankrupt laws;
it being held that the sale of inqk was only an act
subsidiary to their main 4ccupation. It wits evident that
this adjudication was solely for the benefit of the bankrupt,
and as such could not be upheld. Ile subto;tted that the
adjudication ought to be annulled with costs.
Ills Honour said that upon the first and most important
point, the trading, he should Oka time to consider his
judgment. With regard to the rest, he confessed he had so
strong an imuression, that he could at once deliver judg-
ment. However, he would consider the first point.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.-YESTERDAY.
SISSIES MI. MI MI CNIIMIWILL AND MR. JVITWZ VELLUMS.

William Mason. 39. who pleaded Runty to two indict-
ments charging him with uttering forged Bank of England
notes, was sentenced to be transported for 20 years.

POST•OPFICS 10/11111Y.

Gerge Clement, 27, was indicted for stealing a letter eon
taming a half sovereign, the propirty of the Postmaster
General. _ _

The prisoner, it appeared, was a Poet-office letter-carrier,
and on the 15th October he was engaged at the Charing-
cress branch office in sorting the letters for delivery. While
so engaged he was seen to secrete a letter in his handker-
chief, and he placed the two in his pocket. He was imme-
diately taken into custody, with the letter in his possession.
The jury Lund the prisoner Guilty.
GtOrgl Thompson, 36, another letter-carrier, was indicted
for a misdemeginour, in unlawfully detaining and delaying
the deliver) of a number of letters, which had come into
his possession while in the service of the Post-office.
This defendant, it appeared, was a letter-carrier in the
Pimlico district, and it would seem that in consequence of
some occurrence tak;ng place, which created suspicion in
the mind of the Post-office authorities, the defendant was
taken into custody, and upon his being searched no less
than sixty-sit letters were found on his person, the whole
of which, it appeared, should have been delivered in due
course several days before. The defendant accounted for
the letters being in his possession by saying that it was
through haziness that the letters were not delivered.
Mr. O'Brien, who appeared on behalf of the defendant,
endeavoured to show that the story teld by the prisoner
might be true, and that there was an absence of proof that
the letters had been wilfully kept back.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of unlawfully de-
taining the letters, but without any intentions of stealing
them.
Judgment in both cases was postponed.

NEW COURT.—Y EsTEBDAL
WM, TSUI 12031D116
THE CASE OF THE PSEUDO-SURGEON.

Henry Seat alias Battulion, who wss convicted on Mon-
day of an indecent assault upon a yoong woman named
Brown, who had applied to him for advice, was brought up
for judgment.
Mr. Parry, on behalf of the prosecution, said he had to
call to the notice of the court the fact that the prisoner
was a complete impostor. The advertisements put forward
by him were a false pretence, as he styled himself Dr.
Hamilton, of the Royal College of Surgeons, whereas he
was not a surgeon, neither was that his name.
Mr. Ballantine said that prisoner had passed through the
hospital as a student in 1847.
Four ladies and two gentlemen of the highest respecta-
bility gave the prisoner a good character for morality end
irreproachability of character.
In cross-examination they all admitted that they did not
know he was an advertising surgeon.
The prisoner said that the reason he practised under the
name of Hamilton was because Dr. Hamilton was formerly
his partner, and the firm was known by that name. He
had studied medicine, and had walked the hospitals, but
had not sufficiently completed his studies to Entitle him to
him dipllms.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that, although
the circumstances of the case surrounded it with difficult
and made it one of an aggravated character, and although
the story told by the witnesses was an extraordinary one, he
was bound to say a jury could not have come to any other
conclusion than they did. It was a most gross and serious
matter, as a woman when she placed herself in the hands
of a medical man under such circumstances was in a mea-
sure defenceless. It was of the utmost importance that
(email( s, who were compelled to seek advice and expose
maladies under which they laboured, should not be in any
way deterred from so doing by the knowledge that their
position would be abused and taken advantage of. lie
should not deal harshly with him because he was not •
regular practitioner, neither because he was an advertising
doctor, but for the reasons he had stated.
Ile then sentenced him to twelve months' imprisonment
with hard labour.

THca6DAT, OCTOBER 27, 1853.
The state of the weather at each of the following places
at time o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are
twanged in order of latitude.
BOPTHAMPION—E.; Strong Brim; Partially Cloudy.
Foutrevoni-8.; gentle Breese; Clouding.
TUNBIODOE-8.; Gentle Breese ; Partially Cloudy.
Ozzarrwtcu—S.E. ; Gentle Breese; Partially Cloudy.
tersoon-8. • Gentle Breese ; Partially Cloudy.
sysimnon—S. ; Fresh Breese ; Partially Cloudy.
CAmenitnin—fl. • Gentle Breeze Cloodleas.
The returns from the following places did not reach this
°flee in time fur publication yesterday ; they, therefore,
indicate the state of the weather on Tuesday morning at
nine o'clock.
Linen:cc—S.W. ; Calm; Overcast.
HoLvarikh—fl.W. ; Gentle Breeze ; Rain.
L111.30:1011•11—S. i Gentle Breeze; Overcast.
LANCASTILS—S.; Calm; Partial Cloudy.
Danunovon—S.S.W. ; Gentle beam; Overcast.
SNAP—N.B.; Calm : Partially Cloudy.
FARKINGDON—E.S.E. ; Light Breeze ; Cloudy.

INTERFERENCE OP A PERSON IN HIGH STATION.
In the course of the day the Recorder told the grand
jury that some one of high station had sent a letter through
the clerk, addressed to their foreman, and containing gime
private information. The letter had very properly been
put into his bands, and he had perused it. Ho wished it
publicly to be known that no ono bad a right to interfere
with the functions of the grand jury. They were to be
guided by the evidence before them, and nothing else. He
did not mention that to cost any imputation upon them,
but for their protection.
The cues tried during the flay were of en unimportant
character.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-YESTERDAY.
156,1111 MR. SWUM", ADAMS, AesirrANT MO .

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Gez.rgc Irainion, a respectable lookiag mac, and Sarah,
his wile, were indicted for an assault committed on James
Oraysoa, a solicitor, on the 29th of September last.

VALVE OF LONDON DusT.—The contract for the
privilege of collecting the ashen from the parish of Maryle-
bone was signed on Monday, and the first portion of the
money paid in advance. It was let in three parts, and for
lone year only, to the undermentioned coutractors :—Ban-
Junin Abbot, for fit. Mary's Rectory and All Soak, 3,64014
I. Tama, Chriatchwch, 1,5001. ; G. Tilley, Trinity, 5111.;
total, 5,6511.

The prosecutor said—l am a solicitor, and on Thursday,
the 29th of September. 1 was attending a cave in the White-
chapel Couaty Court, in which I had been iwitructed. That
was the case of 4• Smith v. Fisher." Whil,t I was there I
was called upon to give evidence in another case, in which
the prisoner was the defendant. It was the sue of
" Richards w. Wilkinson." After I had given my
evidence, I went into the lobby of the court,
and whist speaking to a Kr. Stanford and two other gentle-

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1853.

men on the dilatoriness of the court, and on other matters,
the prisoner, without my before seeing him, come up to me
and laid hold of my left ear, which he shook violently.
After he had done it he deliberately waked away. I ta-
loned him into Osborne•street fur the purpose of giving
him in charge of the police. When I got to the bottom of
the stets leading from the court the prisoner then raised his
fiat, gave me a blow under the ear, and knocked me down.
1 got up again immediately afterwards, and while deirist so
the female prisoner applied to me the butt end of her
umbrella. The prisoner, after be knocked me down, said,
" I will hale your life." He soon after knocked me down
a mcond tido., when he seized me by the aneles, lifted me
up, knocked my head against the pavement, acd driygoil
sae through the dirt in Osbarnmstreet, it being very muddy
ut the time, the female prisoner ail this time " p..ping " me
with the end other umhrella. I then gave them into eus-
b.dy, and they were taken before Mr. Hammill, who bound
thee* over to appear at this court.
Cross-examined by Mr. Mete,die—l ends no demonstra-
tion of vish•nce toward, the prisoner, except for the purpose
of defending myself, which I did in the best way I could.
never touched the prison( r, nor did I roll him in the mud,
nor wan he rolled iss the mud at Mi. Lit rtaitily he was net
in the mud to soy knowledgo. I saw a person named
Costello some time afterwards, and hay heard what ho
;aid, but it is false. I did not say "There's the villain,"
nor did I hold up my hand in Mrs. Wilkinson's face. I
said no such thing as that. I will positively swear that I
gave him nu provocation whatever, unless it e4B the evi-
deuce I gave in a cue in which he was ceuci reed. I only
gave evidence as to my writing in a lett.z I had written
offering terms on the pert of Mr. Wilkinson to the solicitor
on the other side. I was acting as attorney to Mr. Wilkin-
son up to March lest. I came this morning from White-
cross street prison, where I am in custody, and was brought
up by habeas. lam confined there under a judgment from
the Clerkeawell County Court. • I am in custody f'r con-
tempt for not paying a debt for 40 days. I hod 21 days
confinement tietore. In the Erst eue I had no .111111401711,
and in the other case I was attending this court. I will
give you the bill of particulars for which I was taken.
Mr. Metcalfe—l can save you the trouble. Was it not in
thus, terms ? Mr. Metcalfe then read as follows :—" Mr.
James Grayson, No. 46, Devonshire-street, Queen-squire,
solicitor, to Thomas Sully, No. '2. Crow-court, Moor-lone,
Fore•street, Cripplegate, City of London, whaleboue-cutter,

" August, 18a—raid to him by Messrs. Rogers and
Son, solicitors, Manchester-buildings, Westminster, on my
account, being a compromise of rn action brou tht by me
~gainst Mr. Chadwick, pavior and contractor, Wevt-
ininster, for having by the neglect of his smartp is leaving
large stones in Wiadsor-street, Bishoptgate, by which my
son, Joseph Charles Sully, lost his fright leg in 15.51, which
compromise was made by Mr. Grayson, withcut my know-
ledge and consent, and carefully conclaled by him for
several months, till I discovered it from Mr. Chadwick
himself £lO 0 0
" raid by me before he commenced this action 0 15 0

Credit £4O 15 0
Ileeeived on account £2o 0 0
Ditto 2 2 6
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
£24 3 0

Balance £l6 12 0"
Grayson continued—Those are the particulars, but they
are not true. True or not the County Court adjudicated
upon it. I was the attorney for Mr. Sully, and was em-
ployed by him to obtain damages for the loss of his sou's
leg, which was broken through the negligence of Mr.
Chadwick's servants. I received 40/. from Mr. Chadwick,
but I have my costa to deduct from it. I received that sum
ea Mr. Sully 's attorney. The judge in the County Court
would not receive my bill of costs, as it is required in
County Courts that five days' notice shall be given of any
set off, whereas I had given but three days' notice, and
that was the reason why my bill of costa was not received.
Mr. Sully had not given me credit for a sum of 105., f‘r
which I have his receipt. The judge of the County Court
did say, Mr.urayson, this is abed cue, and I shall give you
all the punishment that the law allows," when I was sen-
tenced to imprisoament for 40 dam but that was without
hearing any evidence. Mr. Sully would not settle with me
because the prisoner is finding him with money to prose-
cute me. I came to London from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
I did not leave Newcastle in a hurry, and it was
no secret. I was not advertised in the newspapers to my
knowledge. I cannot tell whether it was in consequence of
an advertisement that I was arrested and taken to White-
cross-street I'rison. I was arrested for • debt of 401.,
neither more nor less. Before I left Newcastle I obtained
an execution against • gentleman of the name of Smith for
3201. I left Newcastle in about two or three :ninths after
this execution was obtained. The execution was levied for
3501, which was paid into the sheriff's hands, and after-
wards it came back to me. I paid my debts with it as far
as it would go. I left Newcastle three or four days after
receiving the 3601. Mr. Smith contended that he had nut
been served with an execution, but my father-in-law put in
an affidavit of its service ; and when he appeared "a the
Judges' Chambers, I beat him, and he had about 20/. to pay
for costs. I know a person of the name of Seaton. I was
ti este* for him, and I sold property belonging to him to
the amount of 2101. I paid 1001. of that on a mortgage on
the property. 1 know a person of the name of Evans, of
the Ivy Hotel, at Hampton Court. I obtained 10/. from
him, as I told him that I could lend him 2,0001. I was not
obliged to return it. It was my own bill of costa. Evans
asked me for it. I was never horsewhipped at New-
castle in my life. I had • fracas there, but the
person in it truck me. That person is dead and
gone. His name was Teesdale. He came to Newcastle to
horsewhip me, but instead of that I turned the tables, and
horsewhipped him. He came to me in consequence of
being misinformed, but afterwards he gave me a very
ample apology. He was afraid that he had damaged my
reputation, as you (addressing Mr. Metcalfe) are awmpting
to do now. I have not tried unsuccessfully to get into the
Law Society. I received two articled clerks, and assigned
them both. From one I received 501., which lam paying
back by instalments. In 184.5 I was articled at Newcastle
to Mr. Ralph Waters, the brother of the tow a clerk.
Before that I was with my uncle in Liverpool. I did not
leave that place in a hurry. When I came away my uncle
gave me 1201. It was never said by any ono that I bad
embezzled that sum. I have been in Merthyr Tydail. I
went there once or twice in two or three months,
as I had business there u a solicitor. That
was in 1850. I was carrying on the business
of a solicitor in Merthyr Tydvil and London at the same
time, but I have given up the Merthyr Tydvil branch be-
tween two and three years. I know a person of the name
of Orchard, but I never shared profits with him. I did
not hear Lord Campbell say on the trial of Orchard that
I was as bad as either Orchard or Cox. I was not near
the court at the time of the trial, and know nothing at all
about it. I know Mr. Knowles, the counsel, and have
given him as attorney several briefs. I have paid him all
the fees for them except in one ease. Ido net know that
Mr. Knowles has made an application to the Law Society
respecting a debt of 161. due to him, and in other cases, as
regarded Mr. Serjeant Matthews, Mr. Aspinall, Mr. Char-
neck, and others. I was not employed in a municipal elec-
tion at Newcastle, but I took the part of a person named
Preston, so far as getting a few votes fur him. I was not
discharged by Mr. Preston for taking a bribe for altering
the polling papers. Nothing of the kind oc
caned, and such a charge is a pure fiction.
I have bad no conversation with a person of the
name of Pilgrim. I never told him that I would do all in
my power to ruin Mr. Wilkinson, and that if I could not
do it by fair means I would do so by foul. I would do no-
thing of the kind. I never said I could always get plenty
of persons in London to swear anything. I did not say any-
thing to Mr. Wilkinson about a widow for whom I was
concerned having a legacy left to her. I never said to him
that I would do something to do her out of the legacy that
had been left to her. It was not because he would not as-
sent to my propoeitien about this legacy that in spite I weut
and gave evidence against hint in the County Court. While
I was concerned as attorney for Mr. Wilkinson, I did not
advise him not to pay a shilling. I saw a little blood
on Mr. Wilkinson.' face, and I believe his wife caused it by
her umbrella.

Four other witnesses who had not preCously appeared be-
fore the magistrate were examined, who spoke to the assault
having been committed by the male prisoner, but on minor
points there was some discrepancy in their evidence.
Whilst one of them, named Hart, was under examination,
Grayson, who was standing behind his counsel, was ob
served by several of the jury to be indicating signs to the
witness as if to prompt him in the answers he should give
to the questions put to him. The foreman of the jury made
a complaint of the unfairness of such a proceeding, and the
jury in waiting said they had observed the same thing going
on. Grayson then went and sat in another part of the
court.

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Mr. Metcalfe, then in a long address, went through the
evidence, and concluded by calling on the jury to reject the
evidence of the prosecutor altogether, as that of a person
utterly unworthy of belief.
The Assistant• Judge haying summed up,
The Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.
There was a demonstration of satisfaction at the result,
which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the
court. _ _ _ _

Grayson then came forward and asked to be allowed his
costs, bat the
Assistant-Judge said as the witnesses examined bad not
been before the magistrate, ha had no power to allow them.

SURREY SESSIONS.-YESTERDIT.
WORST, PURLS, 1111 CI, AND A DM= OT I/•OISTLTI
EODItERY ST A SERVANT.

Michael Callaghan, 29, was indicted for stealing a bag
containing 301bs. weight of hops, the property of hie mas-
ter,Wilham Cosier, hop-factor, Three Crown-square, South-
wark. _

The prisoner had been about six months in the employ of
the prosecutor u porter, and on the evening of the 17th
inst. he was seen by Mr. ltamsdale, a wholesale fruiterer in
the Borough-market, to be loitering near the prosecutor's
warehouses in Rochester•street. Soon after, a bag contain-
ing hops was lowered from the top floor of the warehouse,
which the prisoner seized hold of, and ran away with. Mr.
Amulet., thinking that all was not right, followed him,
and asked him about the property he was carrying, when
he replied that it was all right, and that it was given to
him by "Old Jack." He then called a police constable,
and gave him into custody.
Guilty, and sentenced to 6 months' hard labour inga>ada•
worth lime of Correction.

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

17:::.entis Ann Case, the owner of a home in Win!.
sor-street, appeared before the Lotd Mayor is, a summas.s
obtained against Ler et Ile instance of the City COLIMA. to
of Sewers, for having neglected to comply with the regula-
tions of the Commissioners framed under the act of parlia-
ment relating to common lodgiag homes.
Mr. Dories from the office of Mr. T. Tyrrell, solicitor
to the commission, attended in supp. rt of the complaint, and
Mr. Ashley appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not
' Mr. Davies stated that the two charges against the
defendant were first, that the house was not properly sup-
plied with water; and, secondly, that it contained but one
convenience for the use of sixty lodgers, the act of parlia-
ment requiring a separate water closet fur every twenty
persons.
Mr. Ashley said that the defendant was not only desirous of
complying with the provisioneof the not, but had very re-
cently laid out a sum of 3001. upon the house in ques-
tion, which was at the present moment in a
most comfortable and cleanly state. She was still willing to
enter into an undertaking to make any further reasonable
iiamovements that might be suggested. With regard to
the first rule of the commissioners, which required the
house to be supplied with 24 gallons of water daily, she was
perfectly willing to take the specified quantity, and the only
question was, v..kethsr it should be supplied by cis:era (as
required by the rules of the commission) or by butt. Site
had one cistern alrerdy erected capable of holding a hun-
dred gallons, and two butts one hundred and twenty gal-
lons each, malting together 340 gallons, which quantity was
available fo• daily use.
TLe Lord Mayor suggested that evidence had better
b.-
adduced for the purpose of chewing in what respect each
of the rules of the commission bad been violated, in order
that an answer to the complaint might then be trade. As
the case stood at present, it was to be smut:led that the
house was in proper condition as regarded its water supp:y,
but the complainants charged the contrary.

Davies—We are agreed, my lord, as to the endea-
vour to supply the water, but the regulation of the coin-
miss:on is that it shall be supplied by a ciotern and not by
hut•. There is, further, a regulation of the dicer ltivtr
Company, who will not supply unless a cistern be used ;
and us both the regulations are insisted on by the medical
officer, Ido not see bow they con b., cot over. It is a
simple question of present expense. Ni. doubt cisterns are
more elm:wive Owl butts; but if butts were uaid the
commiuionsra could at any time cause them to be removed,
wider too Sanitary Act.
The Lord Mayor—Does Mr. Ashley's proposition meet
the views of the commissioners?
Mr. Davies—lt does not.

The Lord Mayor—That proposition seems seasonal:oe.
Mr. Ashley says his client has expended ;1001. upon thi
premises, and haying parted with this large sum of mow. y
she is anxious to retain the water-butts on the score of
economy. I see no reason why tiro next commission should
not prefer water-butts to cisterns.
Mr. Davies—The commissioners, acting upon tLe report
and advice of the medical officer, require cisterns.
Mr. Ashay—Then the directions of the cummiosioni re
shall be attended to.

It was then agreed between the parties that cisterns
should be fitted to this and to other houses of the defendant.
according to a plan to be decided on by the icspectors of
the commission and the workmen on the premises.
Mr. Davies—With respect to the second head of complaint,
the privy supplies two houses, in one of which there arc
sixty persons, forty more-than the act of parliament allows.
The act also requires a separate convenience of this de-
scription for every house.
The Lord Mayor—ls it possible that there are sixty
people in the defendant's house ?
Mr. Ashley—Such is the fact my lord, but it contains
sixteen very large high airy rooms, which are exceeding!}
neat, clean, and comfortable. I have seen them myself this
morning.
The Lord Mayor—l think the Commissioners of Sewers,
if they have authority to compel persons to make altera-
tions of this nature, should frame some plen upon which to
work. If a plan were brought forward now wo should
hear Mr. Ashley's objections to it.
It was then agreed, as in the lest me, that the inspectors
should put themselves in communication with the defend-
ant's workmen for the purpose of making the required
alterations.