The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-16 00:00:00

POLICE.-YE:STERDAY.

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GUILDHALL —AN UN ORATEreL Itart•RN.—Mi. G, A.
Young, a surveyor in Eagle-sireet, Red Lion-square, at-
tended to answer the complaint of Mr. Woodthorpe, the
survey.r of the eastern district of the City of London, for
neglecting to pay to him 21. 2s. as his costs and expenses
pursuant to an award of the official referees of metropolitan
buildings.—Mr. Young said 11- refused to pay this sum as
ewes to the district sure( yor on the principle that those woo
endeavoured to nerve the public ought not to be mulcted for
their pains. In passing accidentally by America square he
ohs. std the hoar-e, No. If. to I.e in a e,ndition daeeeroue
to the public, and he gave notice to the district surveyor of
the fact. The surveyor thought the building safe, but he
(defendant) still thought otherwise, and brought the matter
under the notice of the official referees, having no personal
intenst in the matter at ell, and interfering solely for
the safety of the public. He might see a huri.lred
unsafe buildings in the costae of a year, but he
could not be expected to give warning to the dis-
trict surveyor if he were each time to pay a couple
of guineas for his trouble.—Mr. Woedthorpe said the case
did-
not stand exactly as his friend had represented. Mr.
Young would not have been asked to pay anything it he hod
not appealed against hie decision. The surveyor for the
owner of the house concurred with him that the building
was safe, and so did the official referees, who were also pur-
veyors, and as thus tour surveyors were of one opinion the
magistrates would believe Mr. Young was niong, and
troubled them all unnecessarily. He had had vie ht at-
tendance s on the subject, and this might occur eve ry day,
if it were not checked by ordering the payment of coats.
He banded in the award, Lem which it appeared that
Mr. Young had alleged that the building was in
a dangerous condition, particularly as to the outer
walla thereof, which were considerably out of the
felpendieutar, the walls toward. America-square over-
hanging towards tire• public way to the extent of thirteen
inches. Mr. Woodthorpe hot previously certified that the
building wassecure, and the passengers M no way enelengered,
but the official referees on receiving Mr. Young's atpeal
visited the premises, and they decided that the house was
not in a ruinous or dangerous condition, and that it was not
necetsary to shore up. repair, or pull down the walls. And
they awarded that Mr. Young should pay two guineas tor
their expenses, and two guineas to the City surveyor.—The
magistrates, alter referring to the statute, said their duty
was only ministerial to enfl•ree payment of the award with-
out entering into its fairness or expediency. The fees must be
paid.—Mr. Ald. Musgrove said the New Building Act was
fiUed with openings for vexatious interference and enormous
charges. and he hoped Mr. Young would suggest how it
might be amended. He had been a great sufferer by it,
almost to the extent of the loss of a freehold house.—Mr.
Woodthorpe gave his fee- to the poor box.
WORSHIP STREET .—PlatneeTAL CRUELTY.—/f-. H.
Warren, and his wife, were finally examined. The case
was first brought under the notice of the magistrate by a
young woman named Mary Anne Block, daughter to the
proprietress of an info, t school at Iloxton, under whose care
the child bad been plan d during the day, and who had been
, induced, from the numerous contustcris she had observed on
its face and person, to speak to the female prisoner on the
subject.—Mr. H. Green, assistant to Dr. Young, (legated to
haring examined the child's person, which presented a mass
of severe bruises, extending over the whole surface of the
back. The child was also suffering uneler general ill-
Llllll and debility, produced by the cruel treatment
to which it had been subjected. At the former
examination the male prisoner aonitted that he had
been in the hsfvit of beating the child with a piece of knotted
! cord, which he k-ept suspended over the mantelpiece in hi.,
room, where it %As subsequently found by Holland, the
warrant-otficer, who now produced it in court, and the
medical witness expressed Ms opinion that such an instru-
ment was calculated to zbccasion the injuries ht had de-

wribed.—Mr. Arnold said that he was very glad to be re.
lieved from the necessity of offering any commute upon the
conduct they had pursued. as he should send the case before
ft jury, and require them hnth to fled substantial hail for
it appearance at the sessions.—The prit.ners were com-
mitted in default.
LAMBETH.—J. Williams and G. Smith, who had been
charged on Monday with emitting to sack the shop of Mr.
Creasy, a boot and shoe maker in Seuthampton.stn et, were
again placed at the bar, and reognised by several *itemise*
se having taken part with the mob in other reliberiee; and a
part of the property found upon them was identified by other
w itnesses than Mr. Creasy. They were remanded to
Tuesday next, to be brought up with the others.
11.41.01tTANT TO PAWNPROILEM.—Messrs. Burgess, Grey,
Burlton, and Wharton, pawnbrokers in the Camberwell and
Walworth roads, again appeared before Mr. Elliott, in re-
ference to a quantity of plate and other valuable property
belonging to Mr. Jones, a gentleman residing in Peckham,
and which had been delivered up to the eflieeis on their
going to the shops of the different parties with a search war-
rant to look for it. On the 4th of the last month
Mrs. Stratton, the housekeeper of Mr. Jones, absconded
from her situation, and, in a kw days after, her master re•
ceived a packet by post containing upwards of thirty dupli-
cate s for plate, house linen, Ricci., wearing apparel, and
other property belonging to him, and which were fIRWIIId at
the shops of the above tradesmen. Mr. Jones gave infer
motion of the robbery to the police, and every effort had
been made to secure his housekeeper, hut in vain, and he
then made application to have the property rector il to him.
Sommen.es were granted to the pawnlerokers to produce the
property. but they, under the advice of Mr. Humphreys,
refused to do ao, and upon this search warrants were granted.
A daughter of Mrs. Stratton was sworn to by the shoponan
of Mr. Burgess so having pledged a portion of the property,
and she was remanded till yesterday, when a seemed witnees
was brought to identify her as having accompanied her mo-
ther to pledee mime Myer spoons, but this witness declared
her not to he the same person —Mr. Elliott did not consider
the evidenre given against the young woman sufficient to
seed her fir trial, and therefore ;dismissed her. Ho also or-
dered the whole of the property, which was worth upward.:
of 1601, and which was pledged for upwards of 301., to be
delivered up to Mr. Jones, and this ass done.