The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. Lewis Isaacs appeared
before the Lord Mayor upon a complaint made by the
Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London.
Mr. Tyrrell, the solicitor, and Mr. Daw, the clerk to
the commissioners, attended for the prosecution.
The summons was in the following words :—" For
that you, on the 23d of September last, being the
owner of a common lodging-house, situate and being No.
5, Fireball-court, Houndsditch, within the City of Lon-
don, after a certain note, bearing the 22d day of Sept,
last, and stating that a certificate, under the hand of
John Simon, Esq., medical officer of health of the said
City, had been laid before the said commissioners, that
the said house was unfit for the reception of lodgers by
reason of its filthy and unwholesome condition, had
been duly given to you by the said commissioners, did,
contrary to the provisions of the City of London Sewers
Act, 1851, accommodate and receive lodgers in the said
house, and have heretofore refused and neglected to
give the information in writing set forth and required in
and by the said notice, for the purpose of having the
said house registered, in a book kept by the said com-
missioners in pursuance of the said act, whereby you
have become liable for such offence to a penalty not
exceeding five pounds, and the like penalty for each day
after the first upon which any such offence should be
continued."
The defendant pleaded not guilty, and in answer to
Mr. Tyrrell said—" I admit the ownership of the house
and the receipt of the notice."
Mr. Tyrrell—Why do you not comply with what is
required of you ?
Defendant—l never kept a common lodging-house,
and sooner than keep houses under that denomination
I would close the houses in the court of which I am the
proprietor. I intimated so much to the commissioners
of sewers, and I at the same stated that I had used
every endeavour to get the tenants of the houses in
Fireball-court all out, but I have found an insurmount-
able difficulty from the nature of the property and the
circumstances of the inhabitants.

The Lord Mayor—As a magistrate I have but one
course to pursue. I have nothing to do with the nature
of the property or the circumstances of the tenants.
The act of Parliament requires that I should enforce
the strict observance of its provisions for the protection
of the public health. There is now no alternative.
Defendant—My lord, I have nearly got out the
whole of the tenants, and I am now doing all in my
power to accomplish the object completely. I have
employed the police to assist me to induce the rest to
go, but I am not aware that I have any other than the
ordinary power which other landlords possess of getting
rid of them after the regular legal notice.
The Lord Mayor—You say you have not the power
to get rid of these tenants. Now, you must come under
the Common Lodging Houses Act for the purpose of
getting rid of them, and the fact of your not having
done so subjects you to conviction in every case, and I
shall be obliged to convict you in every instance, and
there are several cases.

Defendant—l can show to your lordship how inde-
fatigable have been my exertions to get rid of the
nuisances complained of. (Here Mr. Isaacs mentioned
the numbers of several of the houses which he had suc-
ceeded by menaces in clearing of the inhabitants, and of
others the tenants of which had positively promised to
quit the premises in a few days in order to give him the
opportunity of efficiently removing the existing abomin-
ations.) Mrs. Casey who inhabits No. 5, in Fireball-
court, says that she will go every day, but I cannot get
her away. There is in one of the houses a woman who
declares that she will go in five days, and that if I com-
pel her to leave the house sooner she will be actually in
the streets. I could not put her into that condition.
One of Mr. Tyrrell's clerks came round with me to the
neighbourhood, and saw that I have been doing all that
I could do. I have caused the water-closets to be
thoroughly cleansed, and everything that could be done
by a man so circumstanced to be done.
Mr. Tyrrell—lf, Mr. Isaacs, you were registered you
could get at once out of the difficulty, in which you are
placed by the fact of non-compliance. We believe that
you are willing to give the commissioners all the assist-
ance you cap, with the exception of that which can be
afforded by that specific remedy. A death has occurred
in Fireball-court since you have had notice of the pro-
ceedings of the commissioners. The condition of the
place is, we have it from unquestionable authority,
likely to affect the health of the community. You ob-
ject to the process of registering these houses, and an
extensive mortality may take place.
Defendant—There is no cholera. There is no fever
in Fireball-court. A child has died there it is true,
but the cause of that death was the incapability of the
mother to give the necessary nourishment to her off-
spring
; and the deceased lay in the house for several
days, in consequence of the difficulty of procuring a
certificate.

The Lord Mayor—There is no use in multiplying
excuses. Nothing in cases of this kind will do but
conviction and penalty. Here is an act which gives
you the power to remedy the evil, of which such heavy
complaint has been made. You are not disposed to
come under that act, and for every violation I am re-
solved to inflict the penalty upon every one convicted
before me. I give you credit for good intentions, but
I do not' consider that you have done all that you are
bound to do.

A gentleman who appeared to be interested in the
defendant's property, said there were some conditions
annexed to the act of registering premises as common
lodging-houses, to which it would be extremely hard to
subscribe. The obligation to look to the bedclothes
and to other peculiar matters connected with the
tenancy would be productive of such a series of annoy-
ances that Mr. Isaacs would rather give up the pre-
mises altogether than be subjected to them.
The Lord Mayor—As I said before, I have but one
course to pursue. The medical officer of health certifies
that the houses in Fireball-court are wholly unfit for
human habitation, and that fresh diseases are likely to
be generated by their continuance as the residences of
human beings.

At the request of the defendant Saunderson (70) was
called and examined by him with the object of proving
that the owner of the houses had been active in his
exertions to clear the court. He said that he had
heard Mr. Isaacs impress upon the inhabitants the
fact that he was compelled by the magistrates and the
commissioners to make a complete clearance, and that
he had urged them by the strongest arguments to go ;
that some had consented to depart, and had performed
their promises, while others were refractory and would
not stir.

The Lord Mayor—ln what condition did you find the
houses when you visited them ?
Saunderson—The water-closets were improved as to
cleanliness, but the cellars were in a very bad state. I
belive that it will be necessary to get rid of the people
in the court before the place can be perfectly cleansed.
Defendant—l wish your Lordship to put a few ques-
tions to Mrs. Buckley, who is the tenant of one of the
houses (No. 5, as our reporter understood Mr. Isaacs),
for the purpose of seeing what sort of people I have to
deal with.

Mrs. Buckley was accordingly called.
The Lord Mayor—Well, Mrs. Buckley, why don't
you leave your premises, in order to give Mr. Isaacs an
opportunity of cleansing them ?
Mrs. Buckley—My premises cleaned ! Why, my
Lord, they are as clean as possible. (Laughter.) My
water-closet and cellar, and all about the place, can't be
cleaner than they are. (Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor—l shall send an officer to compel
you to leave them.
Mrs. Buckley—l'll leave the house as soon as I can
suit myself.
The Lord Mayor—Can you go away to-day ?
Mrs. Buckley—To-day ! Oh, dear, no, my lord. If
I leave the house, I must go the workhouse. lam very
clean. I have a nice clean cellar, and everything is
clean about the place.
The defendant—The excuse is they can't get a place,
and it is impossible to prevail upon some of them to stir.
There is Mrs. Casey another of the tenants. There is
not a window in the house that is not stuffed with a
piece of old blanket, or a rag of some kind or other.
Mrs. Casey—My place is quite clean and nice, I
assure you, my lord. (Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor—Have you got a husband ?
Mrs. Casey—Yes, my lord.
The Lord Mayor—Tell him that I shall send an officer
to the court to-morrow, and if I find him there, he shall
be brought before me to answer for the offence of stay-
ing there. This summons shall stand over for a week,
and if this filthy court be not completely cleared before
that time extreme proceedings .shall be adopted. In
every case in which the certificate of the medical officer
of health is not immediately attended to there shall not
be the slightest attention paid to excuses or apologies.
Let this be considered to be a peremptory notice to the
inhabitants of all the dirty abodes in London.
The defendant said he was grateful for the powerful
assistance of his lordship, and that if he found there was
any Other impediment to his efforts to remove the cause
the Common he
would at once register his houses under
The Lord
Lodging-house Act.
4,ord Mayor—All the cases stand over for a week,
and I expect that all cause of complaint in Fireball-
court,other p
and the laces marked out as intolerable
nuisances by the
diately removed.medi cal officer of health will be imme-

CLERKENWELL. ----
—Henry Keleboe, a cab-driver,
was charged by Mr. Philip Polak with having taken
more than his legal far,.
On Saturday last complainant hired
cab from the stand in Go, Ired the defendant's
well-street,
drive to the terminus of the Greateet, Clerkenwell, to
King's-cross. On slighting he Northern Railway,
ls., and asked him for 6d.,
on
whichl:andd the defendant
box, saying ls. was his fare, and he he
jumped on the
The defendant said the distance drosve off,
and ls. was his legal fare. He gayewath over a mile,
ticket. e gentleman a
Mr Tyrwhitt said he would give them the choice -
of
deposit
having the ground measured, and each should
58. for the purpose.
The ground having been measured was found to be
six yards under the mile.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that as the cab-drivers were very
forward in pinching a fare for an inch over a mile, he
would punish for exacting more than was due. The
defendant had thought to impose on the complainant,
but for once had met with a
seeing he was a foreigner,
most deserved disappointment, for he would have to
pay all the costs and return the extra 6d., or be impri-
soned three weeks ; and further, his license would be
suspended for 10 days.

MARYLEBONE.—Richard Hicks, a tall man of
military appearance, and who has passed himself off as
Captain Hicks, was placed at the bar for further exami-
nation, charged with having defrauded numerous trades-
men of goods and cash, by giving them cheques upon
the Bank of Ireland, and which were, he alleged

$ The receipts include the traffic on the Orlean
cans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines,

and Central, Or-

EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.—Notwithstanding the
approach of winter, and the consequent certainty of
emigrants reaching their destination at a most incle-
ment season of the year, immense numbers of the Irish
peasantry continue to leave their native land. The
trains of the Midland, Great Western, and Great
Southern Railways are crowded every day with
intending emigrants, and the quays of Dublin
present a scene of hurry, bustle, and confusion which
is rarely to be witnessed. The present emigration,
however, is not confined to the west and south • large
bodies of the peasantry are removing from the Midland
and Northern Counties, of which the emigrant vessels
leaving Liverpool contain abundant proof. During the
present, or rather late, harvest, the farmers found some
difficulty in obtaining labourers at a greatly advanced
rate of wages, but, if the present mania continues till
next autumn, farming operations in Ireland will be con-
ducted by a totally different class of men, and at a rate
of wages very much in advance even of the present.
RAILWAY TO TUAM.—At the meeting of the Board of
the Midland Directors held on Thursday last, Mr.
Hemans was directed to proceed forthwith with the
Parliamentary survey of the intended railway line from
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