The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-19 00:00:00

OUILDHALL.

♦ btt•ltr VAVTIOK ro OMIXL[I.

Geoorge 17., hcn the driver of cah 2,038, was summoned
before Alderman Caution, for demanding and taking
more than his legal fare.
Mr. Solomon 1.117.1011.., atobacco manufacturer, engaged
the defendant to drive him from Cambridge-heath-mad to
Ludgate-hill Railway Station, and tendered in payment
Is. tid., which was the legal fare. The cabman was very
insolent and abusive and demand.sl 24 , but since the
wuntrions had been taken out had called upon him and
confessed that he was wrong.
Alderman Causton asked Mr. Lazarus a liy he had not
taken out a summons against the defendant for abusive
language.
Mr. Lazarus said that he only took out the one sum-
mons because he had pledged his word to the cab-inspector
to du it, otherwise he would have let it pass, and not
taken the trouble he had in the matter.

Alderman Causton said he was determined, whenever
a cabman clime before him for abusive language, to send
him to pri‘on without the option Of a f".t. V:.
present case he should not be doing his duty if he did not
tine him the full penalty. He then fined him 40e. penalty
and costs. In addition to returning the overcharge, or in
default one month's imprisonment.
Mr. Lazarus appealed to Alderman Causton to mitigate
the penalty on account of the defendant's wife and three
children, but
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The Magistrate said he would not mitigate it one
farthing. for he wished it to be a lesson to the defendant
and others. He felt personally obliged to Mr. Ltharus
for the good he had done in bringing the defendant before
the court.

The tine wag ultimately paid, Mr. Lazarus haring lent
the man 1/. to make up the money.

Bow-sTEr.r.
A QUEER CHARACTER.

Johd Courtnry and "Muir! costermongers, were
charged with being drunk, and wilfully breaking a square
of glass in the door of complainant's cab, and also with
assaulting him.
Frederick Nicholson, cab-driver, deposed that the pri-
soners, who were both drunk, hired his cab at London-
bridge, and ut the end of the journey refused to pay the
fare, Is. 6d., and for time-waiting Is.; and assaulted
witness and broke the cab window. Witness then said
he would take Its. and consider all settled.

Mr. Flowers—Do you wish to ask this witness any
q cstion s
Courtney—What's the good of it? He'll deny them all.
(To witness.) What do you mean by asking toy mother
outside the court to give you a sovereign to square it
Witness—l never saw your mother.
Courtney (to gaoler)—Oh ! here, bring my mother in.
Mr. Flowers—Wait till we have heard the constable's
e,,idence.

Police-constable Chapman, E 142, said that if the cab-
man had driven to Church-lane, fit. Odes's, he would pro-
bay have lost his life.
The trisoner Courtney—What do you mean by losing
his lifer Did you ever know a cabman who has lost his
life. You are a nice sort of fellow you are. I wonder
how long you've been in the force.
The gaoler—Behave yourself.
Courtney—What do you mean by behaving myself.
You're very clever, I dare sag. If you don't mind, ni
write to the Timrs about you.
The cabman, not being able to give any specified sum
for his loss of time, Mr. 'Flowers fined the prisoners each
3s. 3d. as their share of the fare and damage, and fined
the prisoner Courteney 10s. in addition for the assault.

CLERICENWELL.

SELZt/EIS OF DX EARED 71971.

The :anitary inspector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, op-
plied to Mr. Cooke for an order to condemn a quantity of
putrid fish which he had seized in Leather-lane from
Charles Pritchard and Moss Cohen. In the first place
he had seized three boxes and one pad of plaice and
one trunk of haddocks, and in the second place one trunk
of uncured haddocks, and one pad of plaice. It was all
putrid, and quite unfit for consumption, and it was the
worst lot of fish he had seen this season.
Mr. Cooke made an order for the immediate destruction
of the Erb.

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sorraweint.
NEGLECTING TO BUNT A CORPSE.
Dr. Bateson. the medical officer of health fot St.
George'•, Southwark, attended before the magistrate, ac-
companied by Mr. Smith, one of the sanitary inspectors,
to obtain an order for the removal of the corpse of a girl
to the appointed mortuary of the parish, the parents re-
fusing to bury it.
Dr. Daimon said that on Tuesday his attention was
called to a small house in Oakley lace, Upper Grange-road,
Old Kent-road, where he found- the corpse of a girl lying
in a room inhabited by a family of poor people. The
girl died on Sunday fortnight, and ever since had been
lying in the same room where the family lived and slept.
There were only two rooms in the house, and the other
room was tenanted by a family whose lives were all en-
dangered by the corpse being kept in the house. He,
therefore, asked his worship for an order to remove the
corpse to the parish mortuary.
The magistrate asked if he censidered the keeping of
the corpse in the house was injurious to the health of the
inmates Y .

Dr:llAfton replied in the affirmative.
The magistrate made the order accordingly, and after
considerable difficulty the corpse was removed.
It was said that the reason the parents kept the corpse
so lung was to get up a raffle to pay the expense of we
firaeral and wake.

KING'S-CROSS MARKET.

to na EMW 61, ITS IxPlass.

Sig,—ln your paper of this day you report the
case of a salesman In the above market who was exposing
unsound meat for We. Will you kindly permit us to
state that the sanitary inspector was instructed by us to
examine the meat offered for sale, and it was at our urgent
request that the offending salesman was detected and ex-
We had previously issued • notice to the effect
rhatiny stall-keeper detected offering unsound meat for
Mk, or using false weights, would be expelled the market,
and that course has been adopted in the case of the stall-
holder whose offence is reported in your paper.—We
are. de., TIER PROPRIETORS.
X ine 4-cro- Market, August le, 1866.

Ttts YoroltAl. OUTRAGE.—The pai4oner 0' Hal-
lump has been committed for trial for the part he took in
the Youghal outrage.

BOMBAY (HE VV1I) MAIL.-GIURALTAB, AUGUST
lA.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Pets, with the above mails, left at 10 p.m. yesterday for
Southampton, where she may be expected on the 22nd
inst. Experienced strong head winds.
INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.-MESSLNA, AUGUST
18.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Bangalore passed Messina at 5.15 p.m. to-day, ea route
for Marseilles.

MAvrit.—(TitiB DAYl.)—The saint-
ing contest for the captaincy of the East London &riming
Club and au elegant silver cup took place this morning at
the large lake in Victoria-park. The distance was 900
yards. W. Morrie, IL Comley, and W. Bell
were the only members that entered the race,
Meant. Appleby and Johnson acting as ntferees,
W. Smith, swimming master, being starter. On the
signal being given Comlcy led off, followed by Bell and
Morris, but the latter was soon out-distances, and the
contest laid between the former. For 800 yards Comley
maintained the advaynatm when Bell gradually bore up,
and in the last 60 him, and won by several
lengths. The time was la minutes.
SHOCKING ACC !DENT AT THE ROCHDALE RAIL-
WAY STM7olll.—Yestertlay evening, while a porter named
Henry Gill was crossing the line from the Manchester
side of the Rochdale station, with a basket -of
fowls on his shoulders, which had arrived from
the agricultural show, he was knocked down by
tho buffer of a carriage which was being backed along
the line, and run over. His left leg was cut off below the
knee, and the flesh torn from the boatman high as the hip.
The poor fellow, at the time, appeared to be trying to get
to the other side before a Manchester train arrived, which
was approaching, and his attention was thus directed
from the train backing in the opposite direction. He was
removed to the Manchester Infirmary.