The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-04 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.

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Two men, named MattAeics and Crape, and a woman, named
Rohi awe, appeared before the Lord Mayor to answer a
complaint preferred against them by the polio, of having
deposited • quantity of fish offal in a lane leading to the
River Thames, in the neighbourhood of Billingsgate-rnsoitet.
This case stood over from a previous day, when it was
proved that in consequence of complaints that had been
made by the officers of the Customhouse and the pro-
prietors of Nicholson's Wharf, and other parties living in
the neighbourhood of Tharnmstreet, of the nuisance that
was created by parties depositing stinking fish iu the lane in
question, two police.oonstahles were set to watch, and they
detected the defendants in the act of placing a Quantity of
decomposed fish offal in a harrow in the lane in question.
The dWendants did not deny that they had committed
the act imputed to them, but said that they had brought
the offal from their own neighbotubiseds, Stepney and
Lir:rehouse, by the sanction of Mr. Day, the inspector of
fish appointed by tbe Fishmongers' Company. They also
said that he was in the habit of selling the fish offal fur
chemical and manuring purposes, and that a barge was
kept at the end of the lane In question in which the offal
was taken down the river with the tide. The defeedants
entirely disclaimed any intention of doing wrong, and said
they considered they were acting under the authority
of the inspector of the market. Sir R. Carden,
who MY the presiding magistrate at the time the
defendants were first brought up, said it was too
had for the City of London to be mas.te the receptacle for
filth of thia description brought from all parts of the metro-
polis, and he directed the matter to stand over until jester.
day. and that during the interval Mr. Day should be re-
quested to attend and give some explanation, and Mr.
Deming, the clerk of the market, an officer appointed by the
Corporation, was also requested to be present.
Mr. Day and his brother inspector, Mr. Botolph, and Mr.
Deering, were now present, and upon the nature of the
complaint being stated to them, Mr. Day denied ever
having given any authority to the defendants to place the
offal in the lane, but he said that when the vessel was
there he had no objection to the offal being placed is it at
ono& instead of giving any one permission to place the offal
at the spot meutiooed, lie had frequently complained of
it helot LlsoLte, and lied been insulted consequence.
Mr. • said be had Leen informed by other parties
that Mr. Day given authority for the offal to be brought
to this plain, and the consequence was that it was brought
there from all quarters, end was undoubtedly a great
nuisance. Mr. Day had a pecuniary interest in the matter,
as the more offal that was brought, of course the more he
received for it. _

Mr. Day repeated that he never gave any authority for
the offal to be brought there.
The Lord Mayor said that it could not be permitted for
such a nuisance to be created in the City of London, and if
the practice was continued he should certainly indict a
heavy penslty. On the present occasion, as the parties
seemed to have acted under some misapprehension, be
should not purdah them, but they must take cure nut to
offend in the like manner again.
The defendants promised not to repeat the °frame, and
they were thon discharged.
William (Jams, the late errand boy to Messrs. Schwanu,
Modern, and Co., merchants, of Greshamedreet, was
brought up for ncezaniination.
Mr. Van Bandon again appeared for the prosecution.
It will be remembered that the prisoner was entrusted
with money by his employer* to pay the postage of foreign
letters of great mercantile importance, and that lie detained
the letters and put the money in his pocket, thus occasion-
ing very great inconvenience and annoyance to the pro-
secuturs. No lea than 74 letters that had been thus dealt
' with were found in the posseesiou of the primer, and it
also appeared that bowleg stealing the postage money, he
bad embezzled other sums that had been given to him to pay
small accounts, and he was reminded in order to complete
the evidence.

It was now proved that 15e. had been given to the pri-
soner to pay au recount at Messrs. Welch and Mergetson's,
warelumessineu, iu Cheapeide, and se. to ley one at Messrs.
Crude), and Co.'s, in Cannoirstreet, and that he ewbeuled
both these sums.
Mr. Van Saudau, at the commencement of the proceedings,
said that be believed a respectable pereim was present who
was willing to take the proemer into him service, if the Lord
Mayor felt that lie meld, consistently with his duty, dis-
charge him, and the prosecutors were quite willing to leave
the matter iu the hand, of his lordship.
The Lord Mayor said it was
.quite out of the quesLon for
him to listen to such a suggestion. The offence of robbery
by servants was very prevalent, and it was of a very serious
nature, and he would do all in his power to put a stop to it.
The prisouer was then fully committed for trial.
A oung men, named Jam! Mutthears, was charged with
the foyllowing outrageous conduct.
It appeared from the evidence of a City policeman, named
Threadguld, that about 11 o'clock on Saturday night the
prisoner was in Aldgate very drunk, and sii•aultimc every-
one who came near him. He knocked down a 11114 U and a
woman, and when one of his own friends interfered he
knocked him down and kicked him, and he wee insensible
for several seconds. The constable tried to secure him, but
be made a newt violent resistance, and he called upon a
young Men mimed Christina* to assist him, and when he
tried to lay hold of the prisoner lie gave him a violent kick
as the forehead and injured him very severely.
The Lord Mayor sentenced the defendant to 21 days bard
labour • and said that Christmas had behaved very well,
and inured the cashier to pay him 10a.
Thirty.five shillings were received from S. S. Renard, of
Manchester, collected from a few commercial mon for the
poor blind traveller.
01/ I LIM ALL. _

A respectably dressed foreigner, who described himself as
• dealer in jewellery, applied to Alderman Copeland, on
Saturday last, fur a summons against Messrs. Amott Bro-
thers, of the Crystal Palace Shawl Company, in St. Paul's-
churchyard, formatting him a braes Albert chain as gold, and
charging U. lea. for lt, whereas the intrinsie value was
only 40.
Alderman Copeland examined the chain, and said—
Surely, no one could expect a gold chain of that weight
for a evince.
The applicant said it wan not necessary that all jewellery
shuukl be of the quality of guinea gold, and at the price he
paid fur the chain he complained o he had a right to as-
pect what is called 3111. gold, instead of which the key and
the swivel were gold, but the chain was nothing but Was,
but so beautifully made and well coloured that it would he
extras ely difficult for the most experienced person to de-
tect the deception. Thu weight of it INA only 13 dwta.,
and the utmost value, he had ascertained from other ma-
nsfacturera, was as.
Alderman Copeland asked if that wax the only article he
had bought at this shop ?
The applicant said he had bought many other things
which he hail sold again, and this chain among the uuruher ;
but it was returned upon his heads as soon as the gilding
bad worn off.
Alderman Copeland, on looking at the hivoi 3e of the chain,
said he was afraid he could do nothing to assist the appli-
cant, inasmuch as Mann. Amott had not described the
chain as gold in the receipted invoice produced.
The appliceut thew left the court, intimating that he
would follow the inagiatrate's advice, and seek his remedy
in the ouuuty wort.
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A rough-looking fsaLrw, desicribed u a Libourer, giving
the name of Wiliiami Kiley, and stating that he lodged ut rr
coffee-shop in Shoreditch, was charged with being concerned,
with three others not in custody, with stealing a tAble cover
[non a gentleman's house in De Beauvoir Town.
From the evidence, it appeared that the wife of the corn.
plainant left her house for • few minutes, the parlour
window at the time being dosed but not &stoned. She bad
only prooessled a short distance before she was informed
that emu boys had got out of her parlour wincl,w sad
had given the primmer • table cover. She pursued the ppetst-
sow, who threw the cover away, but he was appehssi d 5