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THE SUN] LO DON, WEDNESO,UfT EVENING, -JUNE 4, 1862.

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COURT OF ALDERMEN.

Yesterday, at a meeting of the Aldermen of the
city of London, held at Guildhall, Alderman Pinnis
presiding, their attention was called by Mr. Wood-
thorpe, the town clerk, to an official communication
addressed to him by the Commissioners of Sewers
relative to the storing of American petroleum in
premises No. 8, St. Mary-Axe. It enclosed an ex-
tract from a recent report of Dr. Letheby, the
medical officer of health, stating that, complaints
having been made to him on the subject, he had
visited the house and found the ground floor used
in storing petroleum. Some of the American oils,
he added, were exceedingly inflammable, and
would take fire on exposure to flame at a consider-
able distance from the vessels containing them;
and, seeing how carelessly the oils were treated,
not merely in the storage of them in places where
they were likely to take fire, but also in their com-
mercial management, he was of opinion that some
regulations should be agreed upon in respect of
them, These, he stated, were necessary as well for
the public heal! h as for the public safety. Already
regulations were in operation as to the storage of
other inflammable commodities, such as gunpowder,
phosphorus matches, and methylated spirit. The
Commissioners of Seweis stated that they had
deemed it their duty to bring the subject under the
consideration of the magistrates of the city, with
whom they were advised the power lay to issue
such orders, and take such measures as they might
think fit for the public safety with respect to the
dangerous material in question. Alderman Cope-
land, M.P., observing upon the grave importance of
the circumstances disclosed by the Commissioners,
moved that the communication be referred for con-
sideration to the General Purposes Committee, and
that in the summons convening them the subject be
distinctly indicated, in order to secure as full a
meeting as possible. Alderman Lawrence sub-
mitted that, having regard to the highly combus-
tible nature of this material and to its storage in a
populous part of the city, the Court should at once
proceed to frame regulations with respect to it, see-
ing that before the committee could meet, or while
they were deliberating on the subject, an accident
might posssibly take place. Alderman Wilson
questioned whether the magistrates had any power
to regulate the storage of this particular material,
though they might do so in the case of gunpowder.
Eventually, on the suggestion of Alderman Challis,
the motion was modified, to the effect that the
committee forthwith take such steps in the matter
as might appear advisable in the opinion of the
corporation, and in that shape it passed. Con-
formably to a request by the Executive Committee
of the National Association for the Promotio'n of
Social Science, the Court then, on the motion of
Alderman Copeland, unanimously placed their
chamber at Guildhall at the disposal of Lord
Brougham and the Council of the Association
during its forthcoming election. The Court next
proceeded to consider the petition of Mr.
Joseph Gwyer Lovell, a merchant at Bristol,
complaining of the conduct of Mr. Wm. Frederick
Stanton, a broker in the city. The complaint
turned upon an alleged contract made in the begin-
ning of December last for the sale to the petitioner
of 50 tons of tallow, at the price of £2,564 odd. In
this transaction Mr. Stanton had acted as broker,
and the petitioner alleged substantially that he
(Mr. Stanton) had substituted the names of Thomp-
son, Benner, and Co. for those of Colchester and
Co., as the vendors of the tallow, and had, in con-
travention of the terms of his bond as a broker, not
kept a book disclosing the names of his principals
in the transaction and the terms of the contract. To
these allegations Mr. Stanton replied in effect that
he had named no other venders in the matter than
Thompson, Bonner, and Co.,and that the petitioner
called on him and inspected his book containing an
entry of the sale and did not question the contract
until a loss had arisen upon it. He added, he be-
lieved the petitioner's object now was to force him

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Mr. M. Gore proposed the first resolution, to the
effect that the conduct of those who had risked their
own lives in the rescue of others w as deserving the
approbation of the meeting. Sir W. Fraser seconded
the resolution, and in doing so remarked how small
a proportion of the inhabitants on our coasts were
able to swim. He thought that measures should be
taken to force people to learn; in many eases the
lives of swimmers were imperilled by their at-
tempting to rescue those who were unable to do so.
The resolution was carried. The Chairman regretted
that there were only two persons present to receive
the rewards which had been granted by the society
during the past year; the others, however, would
be forwarded to their respective owners. He then
presented the silver medallions to Mr. H. O'Dono-
van and to Mr. Ramsay, who both returned
thanks. The other cases were W. Williams, Cap-
tain Heneage, Lieutenant Oxford S. Cameron, and
Mr. M'Farlane, of her Majesty's ship Isis. Mr.
T. E. Baker then proposed a vote of thanks
to the chairman, and observed that, although this
was called the Royal Humane Society, it received
no grant from Government, but was supported en-
tirely by voluntary contributions. Sir W. Stirling
seconded the resolution, which was carried, and the
proceedings terminated.

THE EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE IN
SHOREDITCH.

Yesterday Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for
Middlesex, resumed, at the London Hospital, the
adjourned inquest respecting the circumstances
attending the death of Hannah Smith, who unfor-
tunately loSt her life at the explosion which oc-
curred in Church-street, Shoreditch, on Wednesday
evening last. Some particulars of the occurrence
and a report of the former inquest have already ap-
peared in this journal.
Mr. Sergeant Ba.llantine, instructed by Mr. Pugh,
appeared for the Commercial Gas Company ; Mr.
Karslake, Q C., for Messrs. Brassey, the contractors
for the sewer ; Mr. Padmore, for the husband of
the deceased ; Mr. Moss, for several of the persons
injured; and Mr. Fry, from the Commissioners of
the Board of Works.
The jury, and also the coroner, in the first in-
stance, viewed the body, and also the sewer.
The Coroner said that his colleague (Mr. Wakley)
whilst in Madeira was upset out of a boat and took
cold, was seized with coughing, and by the exertion
he ruptured a blood-vessel, and on the 15th became
insensible from haemorrhage, and he died on the

16th. Previously to his becoming insensible he
wrote several letters to his family, and drew up
certain legal documents. Owing to his decease, he
would not be able to go as fully into the case as he
intended, as it was necessary that he should take
two cases that afternoon in the western division of
the county. He should therefore sit only during
the morning, and then adjourn the inquiry until
Monday next.

Geo. W. Wright, a bellows maker, of Church-
street, Bethnal-green, said on Wednesday evening
last my attention was called by a Mrs. Manning to
the pavement, when I saw the pavement sinking,
and in the course of a few minutes the explosion
took place. The kerb and pavement were slanting

towards the cutting, whilst men were employed in
removing the weight from the arch of the pavement.
By the Coroner—He should say that the weight
of the stones piled upon the pavement had caused
it to slant into the cutting. There were banks, and
one or two of them kept up the water-mains. After

the explosion the banks gave way. It would appear,
to any reasonable being that the banks gave way
before the explosion, bnt he was not certain. There
was confusion before the explosion by men shifting
the engines. He had apprehended danger before,
owing to the men placing such heavy weights of
stones upon the pavement. He had spoken to one
of the gangers, whose name he thought was Lund,
upon the danger of placing so many stones on the
footpath ; but he only laughed at him, and said it
was not his place to go and ask his neighbours
where he should place the stones. He told him that
his house was a heavy one, and he thought the men
were not using proper precautions to protect it. The
man then said if the house was waxed together it
would fall, but if it was well built it would stand.

to bear a loss which he himself had wilfully incurred.
Mr. Charles Pollock, barrister, was heard for the
petitioner, and a mass of correspondence was read
on the subject. The petitioner was called as a wit-
ness, and stated that in an interview he had with
Mr. Stanton, in January, the latter mentioned
Messrs. Colehester and Co. as the sellers, giving
afterwards at another interview, in February, the
names of Thompson and Bonner for the first time.
In March he saw the defendant at his office, after
waiting there for five hours, and asked to see his
contract-book. The defendant on that occasion
produced some loose papers anti a small memoran-
dum book (produced) containing an entry of the
transaction. At this stage of the proceedings the
court was cleared on the motion of Alderman Chal-

John. Brown, 22, Mark-street, Paul-street, Fins-
bury, said that he was at work for Mr. Brassey in
the cutting, and noticed the earth giving way at 12
o'clock in the day, in front of the house blown down.
The planks at the side did not go to the bottom of
the cutting. The men were there busy putting
boards up at the side of the cutting at that time.
The ground at the same time was curving. The
timber man and ganger were then busily employed
in the cutting, endeavouring to keep the ground up,
but the weight was too much, and it forced the
ground down. There was a clerk of the works, but
he did not mention to him what he had seen before
the explosion, as it was not his place. He told Mr.
Blunder, as he called him, but his name was Lund,
on Thursday morning, that the earth was settling
the previous day at 12 o'clock. He said "Don't
open your mouth too wide. I don't do so myself."
The day before the explosion took place the ground
was settling towards the cutting, and he assisted in
removing the engine. At the time of the explosion
the engines was working.
By a Juror—There wanted two or three frames
in the cutting when the fall took place, When he
mentioned what was the cause of the accident, he
was told to keep his peace or Mr. Brassey would
have to pay for it.

lis, and on the readmission of strangers Mr. Russell
Gurney, the Recorder, announced that the Court
was of opinion that no sufficient case had been made
out to render it necessary to take any further pro-
ceedings on the petition, which was dismissed.
Alderman Challis, Chairman of the Gaol Committee,
presented a report from that body recommending a
gratuity of £5O to Mr. Constable, chief warder of the
Debtors' Prison, and an increase of salary of £5O a
year, to be paid out of fees received at the prison.—
Agreed to. A report from Sheriffs Cockerell and
Twentyman was handed in, stating that the num-
ber of prisoners in the gaol of Newgate was 101, in
the Debtors' Prison, 93 ; and in the gaol at Hollo-
way, 352. Of the whole number 18 only were in
the infirmaries. 1

At this stage of the proceedings the inquiry was
adjourned.

AfFsTERrouS DISAPPEARANCE OF A
GENTLEMAN.

LORD DUNDREARY'S DERBY PROPHECY

(From _Punch.)

Well, now, I don't know how to begin with my
prophecy, and I almost wish that Mr. Punch hadn't.
asked me to do it for him, I mean that I don't
wish I had asked him to let me. For I never made'
a prophecy before, you know, except after it had:
happened, the event I mean, and that isn't exactly
a prophecy, which means the foretelling of events
that never happen. I think that Dr. Cumming'
might have done it, only you see that reverend
doesn't attend races, and so he could not be supposed
to be up in the horses, for you can't have
races without horses, you know, except races of
ginger, and it would be ridiculous to prophecy
about ginger, you must see that, quite ridiculous,
and you might burn your mouth like the man in
the South eating the road to Norwich—no, ho
couldn't eat a road, could he ?—that's not right.
Stop, doesn't Shakspeare—great creature, Shak-
speare—say something about seeming in running to
devour the way ? Couldn't devour whey, you know,
curds you might, though, but you can't F rophecy
about curds, except so far as saying they are very
nasty. What was I saying P—Oh, yes, ginger:and
curds and prophecies. Well, only one horse can
win, that is quite certain, and ho must be the win-
ner, unless he comes in after another; then he'll
be second, or more than that—second-hand in fact
—a second-hand horse. You wouldn't like that,
would you ? Stop, though, all horses must be
second-hand, unless you grow them yourselves.
Grow them—is that right ?—do horses grow ?
Of course they do, some are taller than others,
and some of them must be shorter, it's ridiculous
to say horses don't grow like trees. Certainly
they do, and blow like trees also—will anybody tell
me a horse don't blow ? I dare say that Miss Todd
blew—at least her horse—she only blew up, when
Lord Knox was had up before Essex—stop, that's
not right. Essex is a county and has calves;
this was a coachman, he hadn't calves, footmen
have calves though, which they stick—at least,
they stick'em on behind. But Epsom is not
in Essex, quite the reverse, Epsom is in the
Downs, where the British fleet was moored
when black-eyed Susan came on board. I like
black eyes;you know—not such as you get fighting
of course, but a lady's black eyes, though very few
ladies have black eyes, I've remarked that, and a
man that would strike a lady deserves to be hanged
—but I don't mean that sort of eyes. All in the
downs—though—how can that be ? ships can't be
moored on dry land; but you'll say Epsom isn't
always dry. Anyhow, a ship can't sail there, ridi-
culous, Epsom salts are not the salt sea, you must
see that. But about the horses, where's the list?
List, as Hamlet says to the Ghost, because a ghost
on the stage walks in list slippers, very proper. Ace
of Clubs—that's a queer name for a horse—horses
don't go to clubs—asses do though, I believe. He's
to prepare the way for a Whitewall crack. What's
the good of preparing for a crack in a white wall ;
better stop it up, eh—stop, yes, quite proper ; then
when the crack comes you won't jump. Well, he
won't win, unless he's thrown down on the table,
and you can't throw a horse on a table, though you
can a pony. Next is a long ward. Argo—dessay
it's a mistake forcargo, these papers are so ignorant
—stop, Argonaut. Nought means nothing, and
that's his chances. To be sure Wells rides him, if
he don't ride something else, and Wells are deep
you know. Wells P Ah ! when he's in the saddle
he's Sadler's Wells, eh ? I'll send that to Punch.
Stop, I can't do that because I am at Epsom, and
Sadler's Wells is at Islington, ridiculous. Well,
here's Brighton; I don't mean the place, Parklane
super mare, you know, but the horse. I think he
has done all ho knows has Brighton, and it's very
pleasant to go down and dine at the Bedford, and
the asparagus is monstrous good—not monstrous
asparagus, I don't like that ; it should be small and
green like an amethyst—no, amethysts are not
green ; my aunt wears one and she isn't green
neither—quite the reverse. I suppose I mean
an emerald ; but emeralds are not like asparagus
—you must see that. Cat—cat--yes, Caterer,
that's the comparative of cat, caterer, or
more cat ; very good name, easily said—
sounds like " flatterer ;" but I shan't flatter this
cat—this comparative cat—a horse a com-
parative eat ! Comparisons are odious; so are cats
to some people, not me, I like them, when they
don't scratch. I don't think Caterer will scratch—
horses don't scratch, you know—l think he won't
be scratched, but I don't think he'll be the first to
scratch against the winning post. Clarissa colt, she
must be a daughter of Mr. Colt, who revolved pis-
tols in his mind. What would be the good of that,
and what use is a pistol at a race, unless it's a pre-
destinarian race, and you want to startle the men—
at least not startle 'em, or they would'nt run well,
of course, but Clarissa—what a pretty name, rhymes
to Harlowe—no, it don't neither, what made me
think of that ? Well, she won't win—stop, it
isn't a she, but a colt. Bat they are all colts; it's
quite ridiculous calling one by a she-Christian name,
it's bigamy. No, it isn't quite that; but she won't
win, whether her father fires a pistol or not. Cel-
larius, that's a good name ; there used to be a polka
called the Mazurka polka—what's that got to do
with it ? Now what put polking in my head ? We
don't come to Epsom to polk, do we ? When I was
at school I learned a Latin word—l don't mean only
one, heaps, millions, but ono which I think was
cellarius, and meant " very fast," and if this is a very
fast horse the name is good, which comes of having
a gentleman's education. Everybody should know
Latin, then we should all be gentlemen. Stop, I
don't want that, though ; who'd clean the boots ?
Boots must be cleaned, you know, but the Latins
didn't wear boots, which accounts for it. The Latin
Greas and painful excitement has been caused at horse won't win. Now here's a long one. I should
Wimbledon ever since Friday of last week, in con- like to sneeze before I try it, for I shall never be
sequence cf the sudden and inexplicable disappear- able to sneeze in the middle of that horse, like a
ance of Mr. Dodd, a well-known solicitor, of the Centaur. But it's no use, I can't—Caractacus. I've
firm of Tate and Dodd, 32, i3ucklersbury, London. read of him, and how he envied Napoleon a humble
This gentleman has for many years occupied a cot- cottage in Rome. Stop, was it Napoleon ? Yes, he
tage belonging to Mr. William Bradfield, on the
was King of Rome, that's quite right; but it was
common, near the National Schools. There he
resided in unusual privacy and retirement alone, ridiculous to envy a humble cottage, he might as
well have envied a humble bee. This horse—l can't
scarcely any person ever being permitted to cross
say him again—he has been doing something at
his threshold, although out of doors he was familiar
Bath, perhaps getting his head shaved, to make
with many, and possessed a genial flow of spirits,
and was fond of instructive conversation and the him run lighter, and he frightens some of them—l
am not frightened, a nobleman ought never to be
arts and sciences. For some time previous to the
frightened ; noblesse oblige, you know ; not that all
above-named day Mr. Dodd had been unwell, and
the nobility is obliging—quite the reverse ; my
his medical adviser, strongly in opposition to his
own wishes, enjoined a season of rest and medical uncle isn't, for ho won't let me come into his title,
regimen as being absolutely necessary. This was which is nepotism. This horse may win, if he can
—that lam nearly certain about. Now we come I
reluctantly acted upon, and returning health
evinced itself so much, that for some days preceding to The Marquis. What nonsense the Marquis, and
not saying of where—not Marquis of Ware, I don't
Friday he was enabled to take, with his attached
dog, short walks upon the common, which afforded mean that, but of someplace, and Ware would do as
well as anywhere. But perhaps a horse wouldn't
him great pleasure. On that day ho went out at
like to be a Marquis, I mean a Marquis mighn't like
about one o'clock, and as punctuality was one
to be a horse, and have his name in the mouths of all
characteristic in which he at all times prided him- the legs. Stop ;do legs have mouths ? I suppose so
self, his return IiSTS expected at three o'clock. That
—I have heard of gout in the gums, and that ac-
hour, however, arrived, and also four, still, how- I counts for it. Well, as The Marquis is a nobleman
, y
ever, he did not return ; when Mr. Bradfield's
—that is, a noble horse, he may have the blue ri-
,
family became alarmed, and immediate scareh was
know,
band which is the order of the garter, you
instituted. The only tidings gleaned, however,
and it is always given to the winner of the Derby
were, that he had -been seen conversing with some and Lord Derby is a Knight of the Garter, though
g, g
you
gipsies, encamped on a portion of the common, he never won, but the moral is the same. But a
during the afternoon. These were interrogated,
her
Duke's higher than a Marquis, though not hi
and at once admitted having seen him, and
than a marquee, or else he couldn't o inside ity
that he had conversed with one of the tribe, must see that, and here is Duke Rollo. Some sa
after which they saw him no more. Within Wells may ride him, but he can't ride him and
a few miuutes of this the gipsies in Cargo together_. unless he puts a leg on each. and-
lrind that.
than Anyhow
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on dukey niou is s moremar qu entitled
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and-
great haste struck their tents and pro- stands upright, and I don't think the Jockey Club
eipitately decamped in various directions. The would stand
search, thus commenced, has been continued to a u
blue riband
must agree to that, Now, then Zetland, he's a
up to the present moment without, we are sorry to
add, success. Every portion of the common has freemason, at least Lord Zetland is, so Zetland
y
been explored, and the woods adjoining searched.
must be a free and accepted horse, don't ou see?
Fancy a horse a mason—wouldn't mind being fired,
Detectives have been down to Scotland-yard, and
of the body if dead, eh ? That's good, monstrous good. Now for ano-
rewards of X5O have been offered -for the recovery
timer. Lord Glasgow's
e. What's Lord Glasgow's
of Mr. Dodd's whereabouts if living, but all are
unavailing- The whole matter e. ? He isn't a bishop, is he ? Ridiculous, bishops
don't kee racers. Dam—l don't mean that, you
up in mystery. That the gentleman could have
question, as know, but a mamma, a mother in fact, a parent as
strolled off the common unperceived is out of the
the
issaaratepfreerseinntfowrrnlaaptpieodn
tfoo foul play
else
it were. Dam by Orlando out of Brown Bess, also
another by Barbatus out of Brown Bess. Then that
the forthcomingother;rifle
alcr e competition.
luctantly co stand a pedigree, if I don't understand anything
compelled to
1 ich I do. Then
an uncle and a nephew are,
This is our fear, as Mr. Dodd had on his person a ' .
run against one another. That's mere nepotism.
gold watch and chain, worth 60 guineas, and up-
wards of £25 in gold and silver, besides other vain- And Stockwell is the father of one. That's a good
bles.—Sussex Express. father, but what the horse wants is a godfather.,