The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-18 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

KINGSTON, Oct. 17.
The court was occupied to-day in renewing the lice❑ces
for music and dancing.
Mr. Knapp applied for a renewal of the licence for
the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, to Robert Fowle.r.
The Chairman said he believed that this license had
been granted 1!:st year under certain conditions, namely,
that there should be no bal marques, that the doors
should be shut at 12 o'clock, and that there should be no
fireworks after 11 o'clock at night.

Mr. Knapp said that the licence had certainly been
granted upon these conditions, and they had been most
strictly adhered to by Mr. Fowler. He was now, how-
ever, instructed to ask the court to relax the conditions
so far as related to having bal masques in the gardens.
This description of amusement was permitted in various
other places, and be was instructed to state that in con-
sequence of the interdiction of the bal masques at Vaux-
hall the establishment had really been a losing concern.
Even if the Court would allow Mr. Fowler to have only
two or three entertainments of this description during
the season he would be content ; but unless this privi-
lege were conceded, he was fearful that there would be
no prospect of success in future.

The Oha,rman said that these hal masques were stated
to have been a source of great annoyance and inconveni-
ence to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, and he did
not see that there was any ground for the Court to alter
its decision. The licence would, therefore, only be re-
newed on the former terms.

The whole of the other licences were renewed without
any opposition.

THE BOILER EXPLOSION O.N THE TYNE.

NEWCASTLII-ON-TZNE, Tuesday Night.—The coroner's
inquest upon the seven persons killed by a boiler explo-
sion at Messrs. Losh, Wilson, and Bell's iron works, at
Walker, was resumed to-day. The engineman, one of
the stokers, and the foreman of the men who repair the
boilers were examined at considerable length. Mr. M.
Dunn, the Government inspector of mines, assisted the
coroner in taking the examination. As one witness's
evidence was pretty much a repetition of the other, it.
will not be needful to give the examination at full length.
The boiler, with others, was cleaned on tho day pre.
ceding the explosion, and the steam was got up in four
of them at six o'clock on Monday morning. The engine-
driver, a young lad of the name of Harle, 19 yea! s of
age, said that he examined the index on the boiler 4 times
before half-past 10 o'clock on Monday morning, and found
it had an ample supply of water ; he looked at the index
at 6 o'clock, 7, hall-past 8. and a quarter of an hour
before the explosion took place. The boilers had each
stopinter-
fered with
flap' which was self-acting, and could not be
from the outside. Those flaps were intended
to prevent the boilers priming one into the other ; but if
they got wrong that consequence might ensue. Thera
is a sedimentary deposit left by the Tyne water used in
the boilers, but the witnesses thought that the explosion
could not have been caused by any such deposit. as the
boiler had been cleaned out the previous day. The fore-
man of the boiler smiths had examined the boiler since
appearance, which left no doubt in his mind
its explosion, and he said that the plates had a red,
had become overheated, which overheat-
in g was the cause of the explosion. He said that it
could not have arisen through the pressure of the steam
on the plates.
The inquest was adjourned. The other persons seri-
ously injared by the explosion are recovering.

METEOPOLITA.N...SEIVERS COMMISSION.

Yesterd Y an adjourned court of the Metropolitan
A
Commission of Sewers was held at the Court-house, No.
1, Greek-street, Soho, to hear summonses for non-pay-
ment of expenses incurred in works of private improve-
ment, and for not executing works. Richard Jebb,
Esq., in the chair.
NEW DRAINS AND THE RIGHT TO OLD ONES.

Mr. N. Pearson was summoned for having a foul and
offensive drain to two houses owned by him, being Nos.
ant from the back of th which drain, it
houses under
aa2pnlPoetaahnd eerrd2,h2o; singsgate-street, Holborn,use in King-street, and caused a great nuis-
ance to the inhabitants.i
t of the summons ; and Mr. Creasy, the
sub-engineer, gave evidence of the existence of the nuis-
ance, which could only be remedied by making a new
drain from the houses into the sewer in front.
Mr. Pearson said when the houses were built, three
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support attendei for Mr. Johnston, the complain.
ant, r
or four years ago, there was no sewer in front into which
he could drain ;
he maintained and having then drained through the
ntained his right to continue to drain
old drain,
through it.
The learned Chairman said it was not for them to
determine his right to the old drain ; they could only
look to the circumstance that a nuisance existed, and
they were bound to see, it done away with. The Court
would, therefore, make an order requiring a new drain
to be put down to the sewer in front, and they might
exercise their right of filling up the old drain when .the
new one was completed.
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