The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-11 00:00:00

IRREMOVABLE POOR.

Mr. VILLIER9 noveifoi7tlie appointment of a select
committee on the operation of the act 9 and 10 Vic., c. 66,
and the acts 10and 11 Vic., c. 110, and 11 and 12 Vie.,
c. 110.—Agreed to.
The house then adjourned at a quarter to 1 o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE.

SUPPLY OF GAS TO THE METROPOLIS.
This committee met again yesterday, Mr. T. S.
&moult in the chair.

Dr. Challio7, medical officer for Bermondsey, was called,
and examined by Mr. Denison. He said there had been
complaints of the high price of gas in his district since
1849. The Surrey Consumers' Company was then esta-
blished. At that time the price was 6s. and when the
Surrey Consumers' Company was established the price was
reduced to 4s. The OM Consumers' Mutual Association
was formed in 1857, and they bed interviews with the gas
companies respecting the complaints of the consumers as
to the insufficiency of the illuminating power, and the
arbitrary cutting off the gas for the moat trivial reasons,
which had formed the subject of complaint at various
public meetings. Four shillings was the price of
the gas previous to the " districting," but after that it
was raised to 4. 61 One of the complaints also was that
a man warn obliged to pay 301. even if he consumed only
1,000 feet of gas a year ; and one side of the street was
supplied by one company the other side by another com-
pany, and the consumer had to pay both, and the consumer
had also to pay in advance in the great majority of in-
stances, especially with regard to small traders and new
tenant,. The consequence of cutting off the el was very
serious as regarded inconvenience, and ruinous as to a
man's credit. Witness considered it would be very oath-
fact.ry if there ware inspectors of meters appointed, who
should be equally independent of the gas *Dammam and of
the consumers.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AT EZIOATI.-011
Wednesday morning, about 12 o'clock, the inhabitants of
the town of Reigate were alarmed by a loud report, which
at drat was believed to be the shock of an earthquake,
but it was soon ascertained that it arose from a very
large sand cave, belong to the premises of the Bed
Cross Inn, having fallen in. Over this cave there
were erected several cottages, and it was soon suer-
tained that no lens than dye of these cottages, or
at least portions of them, including all the staircases, hail
fallen in with the cave. Of course, the utmost consterna-
tion prevailed, as it was a long time before it was ascer-
tained that none of the inhabitants of the cottages, twenty-
three in number, had gone down with the debris. The
escape was perfectly miraculous the bedsteads in four of
the cottages were actually Partly hanging over the
immense chum, and on one of them a poor
woman was lying very ill, her medical attendant,
Dr. Steele, having just left her. The poor creature
was taken out of the front window, as may he irnagited,
more doad than alive from fright. The inhabitants of the
adjoining cottages very soon cleared out, and they certainly
had • must providential escape ; for if the accident had
happened at sight, at a time when all the intoates were at
home, many lives would in all probability have been semi.
&el. It also happened, fortunately, that those who were
at home were in the frost pert of the premises ; in fact the
miraculous tempos may be imagined from the fact that no
less than ten cottages appear to be now, IR it were, halting
by • mere thread. The only lives that were lost were t
of two hounds that wero in the garden, and they are buried
in the ruins. The inhabitants of the town have very kindly
got up • subscription in aid of the pour people who have
had their furniture destroyed by this extraordinary accident.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers
China and Behar left Southampton yesterday for Bombay,
to be placed on the mail stations in the Eastern seas. Them
steamers will increase the ixopauy's Eastern fleet to thirty-
nine ships.
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COURT OF QUERN'S BENCH.-MAT 10.

Bittiop in Banco after Tcem.—(Bidare the Lord Chid
hunk., Mr. Justice Crampon, and Mr. Justice HIM)

►OTTS O. TIM PORT OF CARLIRLIC DOCK AND EALLWAY

COXPANT.
This was an action by Mary Anne Potts, administratrix
of her deceased husband, Thomas Potts, who whilst in the
service of the company, and being mimed in assisting to
push a railway truck loaded with iron rails over a tom-
table, constructed for the purposes of defendante railway,
met his death through the turntable giving way, in conse-
quence, as was alleged by the plaintiff, of its being con-
structed of faulty materials aof nandicient strength to
bear such a load, and wherebii some of the rails which were
in the waggon fell upon the deosaasd
At the trial which took place Ware Mr. Justice Hill at
the summer assizes last year, at Carlisle, the plaintiff was
nonsuited ; but in Michaelmas Term a rule was obtained to
set aside the verdict for the defendants, and enter it instead
for the plaintiff for the sum of 200(., or in the alternative
for a new trial on the ground that there was sufficient evi-
dence to warrant a verdict for the plaintiff.
Mr. Temple, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Hernplay for the defendant,
The cue having been argued, the rule was ordered to be
discharged, but with an expression of opinion from their
lordships that they hoped the company would not look for
costs.