The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-06 00:00:00

LA TV INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)

IN RE GOWER.

This bankrupt was described as a stationer, of Bull's
Head, Newgato-street, and to-day was appointed for his
examination.
From the preliminary statement of Mr. March, of Basing-
hall-street, it appeared that the debts though comparatively
small in amount the assets are very inconsiderable.
Mr. Pook appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Anderson
for the bankrupt.
A medical certificate was put in, by which it appeared
that the bankrupt was suffering under such severe illness
that he had not been able to give his assistance in making
out the account.

An adjournment was granted till the 12th Dec.

CITY POLICE COMMITTEE.

(Before Alderman Carter.)
'LORE ONINIBU6 NURSING-LONDON GENERAL V.

(SALOON.

A conductor, who worn badge No. 816, and was on an om-
nibus numbered 7,163, belonging to the London General
Omnibus Company, and running from the Bank to the
Royal Oak, was summoned for loitering on the 27th
of Oct. last in the Poultry.
The officer 411 stated that he was on duty in the Poultry
on the day in question, and found the defendant following
closely a Saloon omnibus, and the Saloon omnibus stopping
to take up a passenger, defendant stopped also. On every
occasion of the Saloon stopping, defendant stopped. The
Saloon was going to the Royal Oak.
Mr. T. Beard, on the part of defendant, said he had
never been summoned before, and he was not following the
Saloon 'bus. The alderman knew that the 'buses and cabs
were obliged to keep in the rank along Cheapside and th
Poultry, and it was so on the day in question.
Officer—Defendant had room to draw out of the ranks
wituout inconveniencing the other traffic.
Alderman—Oh! This is a case of nursing.

Mr. Beard—lndeed, it is not I There is only one omnibus.
Alderman—What is nursing ?

Mr. Beard—One before and one behind.
Alderman—l think one nurse would prove as effective as
two. It is very clear.to me that nursing was going on here,
and I shall fine defendant 10s. and costs.
Mr. Beard—l can assure you, sir, there was no nursing.
Alderman—l think there was.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

A VERY Susricious AFFAlR.—Charles Taylor, an
elderly man, was charged with hating in his possession a
silver watch, supposed to be stolen.
William Thomas, 17 A, said that while on duty in
Wardour-street the previous evening, he saw the prisoner
and another man turn into Oxford-street. Suspecting
them, he followed them into Berwick-street, where he saw
the prisoner go into a pawnbroker's shop, the other man
waiting outside till he saw him (Thomas), when he ran off.
He waited outside the shop till prisoner came out, when he
followed him to Compton-street, where he stopped him, and
asked what he had pledged in Berwick-street. He said he
had pledged nothing. He then told him he was an officer,
and showed him his warrant card, and said he must take
him to the station-house. He then said it was a watch he had
and on his putting some questions, prisoner said he should
answer no more questions. He (Thomas) then asked him
if he did not haveit of the other man, mentioning his name,
as he knew him, and he said he did, and on his asking to
see it he refused ; he therefore took him into custody, and
took the watch from him after some resistance, and he
believed it to have boon stolen. On searching him he found
a duplicate of another watch, and at his lodgings the dupli-
cate relating to a watch, and the works of another. A
watchmaker had told him that morning that the works had
recently been transferred from another case.
Mr. Inspector Webb said the outer case of the watch
found on him was marked "J. D. H.," the inside one
"J. D.," and the works bore the name of "R. Melville,
448, 40, King-street, London."
The prisoner said he was a watchmaker by trade, and he
had no idea the other man was a suspected person. He
had asked him to raise money on it, and he went in for
that purpose, but was not offered enough, and on coming
out and looking up and down the man was gone. He
would admit he did resist a little at first. Ho had been
locked up for 20 hours. He had been in the trade 30 years,
and had never been locked up in his life, or been in a
police-court.
An officer said he had long been suspected.
Mr. Bingham said his conduct had been so indiscreet
that he could not complain of being in custody for 20 hours,
and he must not complain if he remanded him for a week,
or if he refused to take bail.
Prisoner—What's your object ?

Mr. Bingham—That you may have no communication
with the men.
The prisoner was then remanded.

THAMES.

A DILAPIDATED PUBLIC HOUSE.--Mr. John Moncar,
the landlord and occupier of the dilapidated remains of the
George the Fourth public -house, in Royal Mint-street,
Rosemary-lane, appeared before Mr. Yardley to show cause
why ho should not be compelled to pull down the house.
Inspector Price, of the A division of police, said the
George the Fourth had been a dangerous structure, and
the interior of it was for some time the hot-bed of fever and
cholera from the great number of Irish families huddled
together in the various rooms. The Common Lodging-
houses' Act had corrected that evil, but one as great still re-
raainedi. The appearance of the old house was for some time
most alarming. It had been for several years in a most
ruinous and dilapidated condition. On the 20th of
August last Mr. Selfe made an order upon the
owner to take down the brick wall of the
front, which had bulged outwards, and was very de-
fective. The owner was also ordered to remove the defec-
tive girders—in fact, the order, which was a most proper
one, amounted to a condemnation of the whole building.
Since that order was made the house had been partially
demolished, the roof taken off, and the whole of the front
of the house removed to the 'econd floor. The whole of
the interior of the house was exposed, and business was
carried on below in the bar. There was a hoarding round
the exterior of the house, and an opening in
the hoarding
for the admission of customers.
Mr. Yardley was surprised that such a dilapidated
building had been licensed.
Inspector Price said that the magistrates of the Tower
Division did not know the dangerous and dilapidatedc,ondi-
tion of the house when they licensed it, and it would not be
licensed again. The remains of the building wore now
, " struttered" up, and he considered it was in a very dan-
gerous state, and ought to be removed. It was a nuisance
and eyesore to the locality.
The defendant said he paid £llB to a brewer in St. John-
street, Clerkenwell, to go into the house. He wanted to
remain in the house as long as ho could, and obtain some
compensation for the money he had parted with. The
brewers would do nothing, as they had parted with their
interest.

Mr. Hayes, assistant surveyor to the Police Commission-
ers, said the house was in a dangerous condition, but there
was no immediate danger of its falling.
Mr. Yardley said it was a serious thing to order a man's
house to be pulled down, and granted a delay of one month,
when the whole of the building must be removed.
Inspector Price said he was alarmed for the safety of the
public. If one of the struts gave way, the ruin—for it was
nothing else—would fall, and sometimes the lower part of
the house was full of people.
Mr. Yardley said he acted on the professional evidence of
the surveyor, and ordered that the ruin should be removed
in 28 days.
The order was then made out.