The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

Mr. Jonathan Emmett, end Mr. John Hamby, vestrymen
of Saint George the Martyr, Smeihwerk, attended before
the Hon. G. C. Norton, to immecute a wan named Black-
well. _ .

itarpeared that on Thursday, arise under the authority
of the Neiman' Mama! Mt, they proeseded to • house at.-
j Anted the Overge public-house, in the Waterloc-road, to
view • ru,sicce which they bed been inf smart 'Mated
there. 7 hey reached toe top part of the how. without
much obstruction, end there &mac. red a nu nice f
the most abouticlable de:c iptioo. In feet, the whole
house was in so filthy • state as to be unfit
for bums habitation. At the top was a fishy
twit to which the sates, slops, and filth cf the in-
mates were Denied. This accumulation was is itoelt sufli-

Melt to irate disease, end required to be men to ✓in say
Idea of its abomination. When murales; downstairs ttey
were beget by the Mantes, who an fled them with all sorts
of abuse. In feet, their situat on Meuse one of considera-
ble danger. Amnr get those by ',hum they were 'availed
was a forious.looking Irishman, three parts drunk, mid his
wife, whom state of sobriety tem very little better, who
oarapied as apartment on the e• e door. The seen
placed himself on the stairs I. such a position as pre-
vented their pvsieg him, and though they remoastraten
with him, told him who they were, mid the °Nest of their
Bete, be resisted their proven. continued to abase them, sad
deliberately sets large toad fierce bulldog en Mr. Emmett
The gun then ettseked Mr. Hereby, sod was assisted by his
wife. The of j, et of his •111.1 f• aseatlects et peered to he 'o
Sewer form Mr. Bea•by into the room, in the centre of
whisk appeased to ho en open trap or LW. Awash toe
seed, doubting, to drop hint through it; bat Mr.
Heciaby burg a stress mon, was ena►led to ditappoiot
them, and alassatoly made his way oat of the house. Me.
Emmett, la the interim, bad his work to do, for the deg
Wog set on hint at coos made a rush towards his leg; for
tuastely for him, he wag fortified with a stout pair ens b °is,
and he succeeded in giving the brute a kick actier the j ,w
which toned him right over. The animal, however, soon
returned to the Merge, and (or eight or tea times he sue
ceeded in kickirg bal. about the tame spot sad turbans him
over, sad, to his delight, tits brute became meowed and el-
haa• tad es to shalt away.
Mr. Stab, emoted the magistrate that he p•aition was
one of peril, bet that of Mr. Emmett he considered is be
mush worse. As far as he bed so opportunity of witnessing
it, he never saw meshing more eatesordiosiy than this way
in which he teenaged to kick end throw over his "mop
smailent.

Mr. Emmett—l had not meek strength to spare, your
worship, for I don't think I was ever mote exhausted is
any rdort, end never ceravnly 441 I witans saythiog with
greeter delight then the eahaustioa of this furious dug and
his walking away Wont me
The name of the defendant Ma-Imeg wee called, hot he
did not appear; end Lockrar, the officer, having capped
to 'envies the summons on hies personally ant while in-
toxicated, and also o his harmer a narrow ascetic, tram th.
attack rf the ball dog while doing sr,
Mr. Norton at ones granted a wariest la his eppet-
banshee.

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The magistrate requested th, sekaowletgment of tht
uceipt of the lint halms of two 104 twee fog the poor-boa
hoot " A. C."

BOILER EXPLOSION IN BETHNAL GREEN.

Yesterday morning, ab...ut mn o'clock, conbiderablr
eenttercation wee rce.siened in the neighh3arhood of
Clab-row, Slater-strett, and Church- tree', Spite in
emisequeuce of a bud rsprrt u of a piece of ordnance, van
the sudden falling down of numerous building., wit oh it
was coos morrtatned arose fr m the harit•eg of b r
of a steam-eogine on the pm:Mtn of Meters. Cathrrall's raw
mills in Cluo raw. The boiler, which is what re h r•n. d
low presure, was about thirty feet I ng, and on IrtrA ny
it took an ob:ique direction, torah g itself ti ro .g
several walls belonging to alo sing penis... er-
tirely destroying a cowshed and .tabling in the tyre of
priming in Bitter-street, sad also pooing through e
private boast in the sue street, kooeking out the rottre
front of the house, and at l•egtb posting Cowl wart s i
the seller, burying limit into the earth to so great a of Fite
that seemly more thin four cc Bra feet from the aortae,
were visible. net satire length traversed by the ezp!odel
missile was about 70 ft et At the time of the explotion
number of workmen wire on the I remisre, several of wh.ua
were severely toddled and injured, and one man Po eeriou Ia
that it was found rummy to remove him to the London
Hospital. Messengers were mot to the ♦tr,oas brigtde
engine surgeon, and shortly after the Sr glees from Jar "'s-
erious at d Whiter, s•-e ret arrived at the ep it. hut OP,
wire not c shed it to viatica, the tire having born intot di-
ately subdued. The derange dyne to Merpe.
and the sartounding preterites is very eater am.

713 Wail P,

The house in Slave street eat, red and pin!, destroyed
by toe boiler was tenanted by a person named Wright. A*
the time or the accident Francis Wright, • young man, w.s
in one of the room. writing a letter a sister in the couotri
The moths nod four children were in a loner room
Francis Wright was a s mach injured fr.m acu'da ard eot •
townie that he had is be taken to St. B arta, 1 taiew's Hot-
pita], and on inquiry made last night it was sated that be
was la a very dangerocs condition. The mother and
children wiped serious harm.
A little girl named El,aa Trey allion, eyed 3 years, wee
ser.oosly injured while sitting at breakfast with tier moth, r,
at Nu. 2, Baconatrest, at the rear of the Saw miii-.
was rem,ved to the L neon Rospi al, and is progrcasi. g
favourably.
Last aiming Superintendent Steel of the H diviai,n
visited the ruins in company with& government officer, wh,
m.de era iospectitn of the bailer. The daptructue a' p•r-
-i arty aid amount to several thousand pintoes, and mans
poor persons resident round the setae of the ezph silo will
he grant sulkier& thr•ugh the taro° made in their de e,..
loge. The twilit., which bad been in use 'rural year,. w. s
made by a heeding Sim. It is remsrliable tbat, notwith
standing the fearful nature of the eap:oaion, no lives were
loot.