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IMPROI.E.NENTS IN TDB CITY OF LONDON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.
. a friend to useful improvements. I beg to offer
thanks to Mr. Peter Jeffery for his truly admirable
•se far a new street, from the new London Bridge to Corn-
II so dearly pointed out in his letter which appeared in
Ice rapt rof die 19th instant. I have carefully examined
ibc line and his plan, and am fully convinced that, if the
reboil he proposes for forming the new streets be adopted,
the ascent from the new bridge to Cornhill will not be
rester than it is from Mansion House-street to Leaden-
11&11.incet. 1 therefore hope that the killing men in the
till will support Mr. Jeffery in this laudable undertaking,
0 l beh.ve he c mld not have been more happy in choosing
his time for bringing his plan before the public than he
his in selecting his line; and it appears to me so very
stigible, that the Lord Mayor might be solicited.to convene
'coating at the Mansion-house on the subject.
am, Sir, your obedient servant,
uones.street. Sept. 22.1tt96. W. T.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

PARISI, OP ST. LEONARD, SDOREDITCH.

On Thursday evening a public Vestry Meeting of this parish
was held, to take into consideration the measures most proper to bit
adopted for the purpose of remedying the evils at present said to
exist in an unequal assessment of the pariah rates.
'lite immediate causes which led t i the present meeting were ex-
plained to be the following :
Some time ago a considerable reduction was made in the rents of
the houses in Aske Terrace, Haman. and the inhabitants thought
it but reasonable that a proportionate reduction should be n,sde in
their rates, and they accordingly applied for that purpose to the
" Poor Rate Board," by whom the asseasinent was made. The
Board, however, resisted their application, on the ground that they
Itad nothing to du with the amount of rell'ai—the actual value of
the ptoperty being the standard by which the assessment wad
made. The applicants, upon this refusat of their application by
the Board, presented a rcqui. 'on to the eburchwardens, desiring
that the vestry might be culled together in order to take the matter
into consideration, and the present Meeting was convened fur that

purpose.
1 he Chair was taken by 91r. W.\reTELL, one of the Church-
wardens' who briefly addressed the Meeting on the object for which
they had assembled.
Mr. LEONARD then rose for the purpose of stating the nature of
the alleged grievances, and submitting some resolutioes on the sub-
ject. Ile thought they must all ogree with him, that the inequality
at present existing in their retes was such Is called for an immediate
revision. They were empowered by the Act of Parliament to as-
SCRS for the full value, but they all knew the unequal manner in
which they were distributed. It was fourteen years since the last
survey was Made, which could not row be made a %tandem, the
changes in the value of property were so great. All lie at present
wished was a revision, that the rates might be more equally distri-
buted. Ile concluded by moving, " That it is the opinion of this
Vestry, that a considerable inequality exists in the parish rates,
and that it is desirable to adopt some means of equuliaing the
same."
Ale. Sstrru, of floxton, seconded the motion.
Mr. few mete admitted thote considerable inequality did exist,
but it wan an evil still occurring, and which it would be difficult to
remedy. Ile hoped the mover would select some of the most pro-
minent cases in which the inequality existed, so that the vestry
might see from the books that the objeetion was well founded. A
re-survey of the parish would cost them
.1,4111/., which was equal
to a rate of 3d., and would render the remedy proposed by Mr.
leonard worse than the disease. The Inequality wits not peculiar
to their parish, for every parislt in the kingdom was subject more
or less to the same grievance. Several parishes within his own
knowledge were rack-rented, while others were not rated at
one-fourth of the rent they paid. In Norwich, for instance,
houses worth one hundred pounds a-year were rated at only
2111.; and that was the plan of rental throughout that city. It
became a question of considerable importance to the inhabitants
whether or not thy ought to be rated for the situations they pos-
sessed. If a house situated In High-street. Shoreditch, consisting
of six rooms, and with a frontage of I 3 feet, was rated the same as
such a 'muse in tin obscure sitaation, the injustice of such a pro-
ceeding would be manifest. But, on the other hand, suppose a
person living for yeses in • house, and establishing • business
there, and afterwards disposing of it, with the business, to a person
who, on coming in, paid • considerable sum, was it to be supposed
that the latter should be rated for the sum he paid ? that would
also be unjust. Neither, in his view of the case, was the present
system of farming houses consistent with the interests of the parish,
or the benefit of society. By their ',mai Act it is provided, that
where houses are Ill!. a year or less, the landlord or owners were to
farm the same at not more than two-thirds, nor less than half the
rental ; but here the surveyors first of all lie the amount
of rate, and when the landlords apply to farm them, they
are generally let to about half the rental. The consequence to
the parish has of late years been remarkably injurious. It
, was manifest to every observer that considerable portions
, of ground had been taken by speculating builders, who had
found it their interest to build houses for letting. Thus for 5001. a
person

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, SKr!. 22.

OLD ct)ur. T.
[Before Mr. Sergeant A HARI N and a Middleiea .Ittty.l
Bettie the business of the day was entered upon, thirty mink
and thirteen female prisoners were brought into the dock, and dfaii
charged by prod:motion, the Grand Jury not having bound tsar
bills against them.
iloatings was indicted for stealing, on the 1.3 d of August, .
in the dwelling-house of Thomas Moss, twenty-Mar poi
and a Bank note of the indite of ICI., the property efJohn =411:
another account charged her with slealieg 114)1ttleig110•11111116 •
same house, alating them to be the property of Ellen
Dolway
Brionr.nrcie appeared for the prosecution. and stilttikAst
cue to the Jury. A 31:o. Dalway lived as a lodger witb
Moss, upon whom the prig net was in the habit of attending. Milli
Dalway died, and the prisoner was sent for, and sat up *Ph tbd
corpse, when it was sunpoed she took away the property io gum:
firm, which belonged to the deceased. Mr. Storey was the mei-
tor of the late 3lrs. Dalway.
Mr. Stoll"' deposed that lie was one of the ezeeuton t west to
the house of Mr. Moss to take an inventory of the property which
belonged to deceased. In consequence of somethins that had
passed, witness sent for Pri-oner, and then asked her if shit knew
the object of hi. having sent for her; she said no, unless it was in
consequence of tonic paper biasing been taken from under the hod.
Witness told her that was nut the object, but it was in Aspect of
some money having been taken away, and asked her if eh" bad not
I been so informed on that morning; prisoner dehii d it; witness
then sent for Mrs. Moss, who stated that she had informed the pri-
soner Of the object, who at that time admitted it. It was on Mon-
day, the !ISM of August. that this transpired,
Mrs. E. Hiilynrd lived for many years with deceased at Kositing-
ton. During Mrs. I).'s lifeume, witness had the care Of bet
1 clothes and property. Mrs. I). always kept her money in a cella-
rct doring tht the day-time, and invariably gave aea witness at
night to put under the bed. On the day Mrs. 1). died, there were
i
, Lace parcels of money in the cellaret, which winless saw there 011
I the following mornieg. Prisoner carte to the house about an how,
before the de dh, antiremained tin Monday, bating had the we el'
the corpse and room during that dine. The money was placed by
witr.ess In tie rooni where the corpse was on the Friday or Sstur-
day. No one had admittance there except the prisoner and bee

niece.
By Mr. A' LEY—Dfd not knOw of her mem knowledge that
money was in tile parcels.
By NIG flaw:murex—Prisoner left thehouse on Monday morn-
ing. about an hour after the mtney was missed.
Susan Rust was servant to Mrs. Matthews of Kensington I
knows the prisoner at the bar; she lived about ten minutes walk hoes
Mrs. Metthews's house ; %fitness formerly lived two years as sera
vent to promer ; on the 19th of August prisoner came to witness,
gave her a parcel, and desired her to take care of it tor her; this
was between seven end eight o'clock in the rooming witness pot
the packet into her box, and afterwards delivered it to Ellis, a Bow.
strew officer.
Elbe. in coneequence of the information received, went to the
hoes!, of Mrs. Matthews, on Tuesday, the 20th of August, and
got a parcel from last witness, which contained twenty-)our sove-
reigns and a 10/. nete. , Afterwards saw the oriatmer ; inquired of
her if she had any means of getting her livelihood but as a corms i
she hesitated to reply, and witness told her who he was, and that
where she had been staying, some money was missing. She said
she had some property on mortgage; she ustudly receiver
money from her brother, but had nut for come time. She des
Med a dozen times over having placed any in the hand: of any body
for safe custody,or otherwise. 1Y stness then showed her the parcel
as received front Rest, whirb ihe dcknowledged having deldirated
to her.
A clerk from the banking-house of Praed and Co. pale, on the
lid% of July, three 101. i Gies to the cheque of a Mr. Alexander.
Mr. Hunt, a clerk to MI. Alexander, a solicitor, received the
notes from last witness, anti paid them to his master.
Mr. Alexander mid the notes to his nephew, to deliver evst
to Mrs. D.
Mr. Brissette &Renal over 40'. to "Int. D. on or befbre the 12 Ix
of July, included in wl ich wan the 101. note the prisoner wad
charged with having stol, n. The one was producol.
At the close cf the ease for the prosecution. Mr. ALLEY tub-
mined that no Charge bad been ma to out against the prisoner,be.
cause it was necessary for probate of tl:e will to have been aken
out, to have legally authenticated (es he suit) the executor to have
acted, which lied not yet been taken out, and because possession
ought to have been taken berme the offence was committed, which
had not been done In this er se.
Mr. Sergeant Attains wits cf a different opinion, but as that
Judges were in the adjoining ruin he would submit Mr. Alley's
argument to them, and take their opii.ion upon it, confessing that
his impression was against Mr. Aller's tiroptisittene. Mr. Sergeant
Arablu then left the Court, and in a tew minutes returned, stating'
that the Learned Judges were decidedly of opinion that it was raret
necessary that probate should bar taken out to enable an executor to
maint.in an indictment, and that the present indictment was in all
respects well framed.
The prisoner was then called on for her defence. She made
noire, but produced an immense number of highly respemble per.
sots who gave her a most excellent character for honesty, &c. The
prisoner was evidently a person who had seen better days, tad was
about tt.e urge of 45.
Mr. Se. rant AItAISIN summed up. If the Jury entartained
the least doubt of the prisoner's guilt, they would have to gite het
the benefit of the most excellent character she had received.
The Jury imniediurely found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly
recoinmeedid her to mercy.
Mr. Storey cordially joined in this recommendation.
The Learned JUDGE said it should unqueslionably be attended
to io the proper quarter.
[Before Justices LITTLEDALE and CrasELEE.]
111011 WAY ROBBERY.
James Greco was indicted for assaulting Elizabeth Lee, on the
Sid of August, on the King's highway, and stealing from her 7s. ed.
iniseetr, and a plied containing some wearing apparel.
•Eizaheth Neahtat, remembered walking, on the evening of the day
kegu.rstion, near Devonshire-street, Mile-end New Town, with a
FA:I under her arm, containing some shins and shifts. Titswie
soner came up to her, stared her in the face, and polled the titl
from her anti ran off. She called out Stop thief," and the pri-
soner was afterwards apprehended and taken to the watch-house ;
saw the parcel °Ford at the watch -house ; it contained the pro-
perly in questii n, which was that of her husband. The prisoner
snatched the parcel from witness.
John 11 'e-d. with anoihr,r, apprehended the pelsotur on the
morninf o' he WI o' Ant ust ; prisoner had no parcel or bundle,
but 0.1 y a key in hi. p cket ; witness saw the prisoner throw the
but die away from hint when he was 111,011 t to be taken into custody.
Rohett Habb..r,f raw vie pris mer throw the.bundie away, which
he p c'eed up and carried to the watch-house.
The bundle cent .ining the articles wt.a produced, and identified
to he the proptry of the prosecatrix's husband.
Mr. Justice L I TI.EDALE doubted whether sufficient forte
was us.d constitute the capital offence. A snatch did not amount
to it.
Guilty of stealing from the person, and Not Guilty of the capital
offence.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.]
Cenrge Thomson was indicted for stealin4, on aist August, 2Olbs
of coffee, the property of Janice Turoley and AIM
It appeared in evidence that the prisoner wart' eyed by the
prosecutors to watch eix casks of coffee in the Jane Now, -on slaw
night of the 3lst August. Iletwcen twelve and one o'clock, Me.
Thomson, a custom-house Mliccr, who was in the brig Allies,
which lay within three yards of the barge, heard the running of
coffee in the barge. and seeing the prisoner sanding beside one of
the casks, he went on board, and observed two small bap of coree
lying betide one of than.
Verdict—Guilty.
Unbrrt King and John Robinson stood indicted far assaultiog
Lewis 31yertion on the King's highway, and robbing him of thre e
half crowns, his property, on the 14th of July last.

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