The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1853

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The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Print:'
Albert on Saturday morning at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, left town at twenty-five n.inutes before 2
o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, for Osborne, Isle of Wight.
The Royal suite coexisted of the Viscouots as Jocelyn, the
Hon. Flora Macdonald, Colonel the Hoe. C. B. Phipps,
Sir James Clark, Colonel Bouverie, Lieut.-Colonel F. H.
Seymour, end the Master of the Household. The Queen
and Prince were conducted to their carriage by the Duke
of Norfolk, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Duke of Wel-
lington, the Marquis of Ahercorn, Lord Camp, Viscount
Torrineton, Colonel the lion. C. Grey, Licut..Colonel the
Hon. It. B,yle, and Colonel Wylde.
A detachment of Lancers escorted her Majesty from
Buckingham Palace to the new station at Vauxhall of the
London and South Western Railway. Her Majesty and
the Prince left by a special train for Gosport.
The Princess Royal sad l'rincess Alice remain at Buck-
ingham Palate, having been both cuff. ring under an attack
of measles for the last three days. Their royal lighnesses
are passing favourably through the disease. Lieut.-Colonel
the Hon. R. Boyle remains at Buckingham Palace in at-
tendance on the Princesses.
OSBORNE, SUNDAY.
The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Prince of Wa:es. nt•
ten led by the Lull's and Gentlemen in Waiting, arrived: it
Osborne, yesterday afternoon, at twenty minutes bs fors .is
o'clock. The Royal party crossed over from Ossport in the
Fairy, commanded by Lord Adolphus Fitzclari nee.
Tn. Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria
Dawson and Sir George Courcr, honoured then tj al Italian
Opf ra with her presence on Saturday evening.
The Dueiess of Kent attended divine service, yesterday
morning, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley•etreet.
A deputation of the Directors and others in.ere.ted in the
E:ectrie Gas Company had an interview with the Right
lion. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley on Satur-
day at the Board of Trade, for the Napo", of esplainirg
the objects of that company and suppor ing their applica-
tion for a charter. The deputation consisteu of Mr. Blab).
Wagon, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Travers, Mr. Shepard, Pro-
fessor Holum, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Vernon Heath.
A deputation from Brighton, consisting of Sir Adolphus
Dalrymple, Bart., Mr. James Cordy, Dr. King, Mr. Richard
Palter, and Mr. I: overtop, had an interview with Eta:
Granville (Lord President) at the Couneil-office on Friday.
The deputation were accompanied by the members of the
borough, Lard Alfred Hersey and Admiral Sir George
Pcchell.
The Earl of Aberdeen had a dinner party on Saturday at
Argyll-house.
Despatches were scot on Saturday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of the West India Islands and the
Governor of Gibraltar.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers
present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Rus
sell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount
Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of
Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
James Graham, and Sir William Molesworth. The
Council sat three hours.

THE NEW CAB LAW.

On Saturday the appeals to this new statute were
very numerous, most of them arising from the delay which
takes place in the publicatiort of the books of fares.
At the City police committee George Downes, a cab-
driver, number of badge 11,77t3, was charged before
Mr. Alderman Salomons with an offence under the new
cab act.
Mr. Alexander Ridgway, a notary of the Royal Exchange
said he got into the defendant's cab that morning at the I
cab stand adjoining George IV. statue, on the north side of I
Trafalgar square, and told him to drive to the Royal Ex-
change. On arriving there be tendered him Is., the
amount of the fare, which was refused, the defendant
I &Mending Is. 6.1. lie told hint the fare was what he had
offered, and called upon him to produce his "table of
fares." He replied he had not any, or any tickets of his
, number—u provided by the recent act. Whereupon he
directed him to drive to the nearest police station, which he
I (lid, and there finding that the demand was an overcharge,
I he gave him into the custody of the police.
Mr. Martin, the clerk, said by the table of fares the dis.
mine was a little over the mile, and therefore the Is. was
ample. By the old rate of fares it would be nn more than
that amount. He had subjected himself to two fines—for
the 6.1. overcharge, and for riot producing a ticket of his
number when so called upon. The act enacts that they
were to provide every fare with a ticket without bring asked.
The defendant said he thought at the time the far• was

le. Gd. As to the ticket, ho denied the plaintiff's assertion,
that he refused to produce it ; he had it with him ; it was
the same as the one he had then with him (producien a
small slip of card from his pocket, with the number of the
cah written on one side in ink).
Mr. Alderman Salomons assured the defendant it was use-
less f„,- him to fight against the laws which the legislature
had thought proper to pass for the better regulation of the
public cabs; and to evade it would bring upon him and
others, whom he was sorry to see doing all they could to op
pose its working, miNery and contempt. Ile was confident
that the act would eventually render the cab proprietors
benefits which they lit le expected.
The defendant said it was very well, but he was sure the
sixpenny mile business would not last.
Mr. Alderman Salomons said the ticket he had produced
was not an authorised ticket ; they were legibly printed,
and not written in iuk. lie asked where he got it from.
The defendant said his master gave it him when he left
with the cab.
Mr. Alderman Salomon, said, then he ought to be sum-
moned for issuing illegal tickets. He was amenable to a!
penalty of 40s. In the case before him, it was quite clear
that the demand made on the complainant was Gd. snore
than the legal fare, and he therefore inflicted on the defend I
ant a fine of 205., or 14 days' imprisonment.
The flue was paid.
At Bow-street, Henry Brett, the driver of a Hansom
cab, No. 2,741, was summoned before Mr. Henry for de-
manding more than his fare, and for using insulting lan-
euage to Mr. John Fitzgerald, of the Oxford University.
The complainant was in town on Monday morning last,
and engaged the defendant to drive him from Conduit-
-treet, Regent-street, to the end of Tottenham-court•road.
As the distarce was considerately within the mile, com-
plainant offered him 6,1., but the defendant refused to have
less than a shilling, asked Mr. Fitzgerald if he called him-
self a gentleman, and pointing to bim in a jeering manner,
so that the bystanders might see him, said, " 1 will make
you a present of the Gd.," and drove slowly off, without
taking any fare at all.—The defendant said he was no
scholar, and there. we did not know that the new act had
come into operation. lie did not use any abusive language
to the gent, as ke know'd of. Ile certainly did laugh at
him when he offered a sixpence (and he couldn't help
laughing at that), and ho also said he would make him a
present of it.—Mr. Henry said he did not believe there was
cabman in London, scholar or no scholar, who was not
fully aware of the day when the new law came into force ;
besides which, he would have been only entitled to Sd.
under the old law. For this offence he must pay a fine of
'2l. and the costs, or a month's imprisonment; and for his
insulting language and behaviour to the complainant in
the public street, he (Mr. Henry) ordered him to be com-
mitted to prison for three weeks.
At Westminster police office a cabman applied for a sum-
mons against Colonel Sibthorp. He said that he drove the
colonel from the United Service Club to the House of Com-
mons and back twice, and thea conveyed him to his resi-
dence in Chester-street. He had been detained by the
colonel six hours, and on setting him down demanded his
fare by time, which the colonel refused to pay. Mr.
Broderip observed that it was at the option of the person
hiring to be driven by either time or distance, and inquired I
whether any agreement had been made at the time of the I
hiring. The cabman said there was not, but he understood
he might charge by either time or distance. Mr. Deo!! erip
told him he was mistaken in the law as it now stood. The
fare, in the event of there being no special agreement en-
tered
into, must be first taken by the distance absolutely
performed, and then the stoppages added at the rate of six-'
pence for every quarter of an hour. Applicant had better
therefore turn the matter over in his mind, and determine
whether he would tabs a summons. Applicant left the
court for that purpose.
Mr. 'William Milne Newton, barrister-atlaw, also brought
a cab question of distance before Mr. Broderip. The gen-
tleman said he was driven from Daviewstreet, Berkeley-
square, to 19, Lowndes-equare, when the driver refused to
take Gel. as his fare.—Chartes Cos, the driver, said it was
above a mile. The gentleman was confident it was not.
Both accordingly deposited as. for the measurement, and the
wheel being passed over the ground, it was found that the
distance was more than three furlongs above the mile. The
cabman's ss. was returned to him, the gentleman's went for
the coat of measurement, besides which he had to pay the
driver's costs and extra fare.
At the Lambeth Court George Smallwood, a cab driver,
badge 760, appeared before the Hon. G. C. Norton, on a
summons charging him with having unlawfully demanded
and received Gd. more than his legal fare.—Mr. Edward
Morns Wilkins, the complainant, stated that on Monday
evening last he hired the defendant to drive him to Cam-
berwell-gate, and on getting out of the cab at the latter place
tendered him Is. This the defendant refused, saying in rather
an insolent tone, that that amount would not do for him, and
that his fare was Is. Gd., and that amount he would have.
Witneu told the defendant at the time that Is. was his legal
fare, but, as he insisted on an additional 6d. he considered
it to be the beet course to pay it to him, and take out a sum-
mons. Mr. Wilkins added, that being frequently in the habit
of riding the same distance, he was anxious to take his Wor-
ship's opinion as to what the legal fare really was. The de,
fendant admitted that the distance was only two miles, and
Mr. Norton observed that, upon his own admission, he had
charged eel. more than his legal fare, and he must, there.
fore, return Mr. Watkins that amount, and pay, besides, a
penalty of Ss. 61. The defendant paid the money and was
discharged.
At the Southwark Pollee Court, George Rowe, a cab-
driver, was brought before Mr. Combo on a warrant,
charged with driving a hackney cab in the public streets
without a proper and sufficient license.
Mr. Combe toldhim he must have been aware that he was
violating the law, and, as a caution to others of his frater-
nity, he should fine him 405,, and, in default of payment,
commit him to the House of Correction for one month.
Mr. Edward Martin, a tradesman, residing in St
George's-road, Southwark, was summoned by a cabman for
refusing to pay him his legal fare, and was ordered by Mr.
Combs, upon investigation of the case, to pay the fare, and
- 4s. 61. costs, the cabman tieing right as to distance.
as a

A WIFE STARVED TO DEATH BY lIER HT:SHAND.
—On Saturday Mr. Brent held an inquest at the Clerken-
well vr,rkhouse, on the body of Martha Garnett, aged 33,
a married woman, with two children, alleged to have died
from the effects of the refusal of her husband to provide
her with food, although he is a cabinetmaker in full em-
ployment. The evidence went to show that the accused,
who was pi esent before the jury, was in the habit of treat-
ing the deceased with the greatest amount of cruelty, key-
ing her and her children without food for days together,
although he was in the constant receipt of 340. and upwards
per wick. He bad been known to come home and cook a
steak for his own dinner, and sit down and eat the whole of
it before his wife and children, knowing, at the same time,
that they had had no feed. The deceased had frequently
asked her friends and neighbours for food, and had borrowed
a halfpenny even for a candle, as her husband was out nll
night nearly, as well a. day, and would allow her no ►ight.
She had obtained a medical order, a short time since, to
come into the workhouse, but, when she got a little better,
she begged her discharge, for fear of the neglect end ill-
treatment of her two children by her husband, with whom
they were left. On her going out, her treatment was just
the same, and sheer exhaustion, from want of nouriAnn at,
induced her again to seek an asylum in the workhouse,
where she died the day after her admission. Mr. Gill, the
parish surgeon, stated, in making a post mortem examine-
tion , that the immediate cause of death was consumption.
but he believed it to have been accelerated by starvation
and neglect. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter
ngainst Wiliam Garnett. the husband, and he was commit-
ted, on the coroner's warrant, to Newgate.
ON SATURDAY afternoon a tremendous hail-storm
passed over Biiminghans. The wind at the time was a
point to the west of south. Masser of ice fell more than as
inch is circumference.