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the Act of 1895, hold a, local enquiry; but, instead of that, they decided against him. Although he must frankly confess that the Council did intend to proceed under ■the Public Health Act, and did hope Mr. Leyens would attempt to remedy the nuisance, a further report by Dr. Kidd on January 4 left them no alternative but to take the present proceedings for a Closing Order.
Evidence was given by a number of witnesses on both sides, and the merits of the case were laid before the Court at length, the proceedings extending over live hours.
The Chairman, in announcing the decision of the Bench, said no doubt when Dr. Kidd (medical officer) reported about the cottages, the houses were in an insanitary state, but now they appeared to be in a fair condition, and probably would be so as long as ashes were used frequently. The Bench dismissed the case, and made no order as to !costs.
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42in., with certificate from the Academy of San Ferdinando, at Madrid, 190 guineas.
On the 23rd and 24th ult., at their salerooms, 67 and 68, Cheapside, E.C., Messrs. Protheroe and Morris disposed of an interesting collection of pictures by modern masters. Among the more important were:—Teend King, R.I., Down by the River, 39 ,guineas ; T. Sidney Cooper, R.A., Cattle on the Banks of a brook, 42 guineas; Yeend King, R.I., Farm by the River, 30 guineas; Fred Morgan, R.I., Happy Days, 55 guineas ; Fredk. Goodall, R. A., Roadside Well, 65 guineas ; T. Sidney Cooper, R.A., Group of Cows in Canterbury Meadows, 34¿ guineas; Yeend King, R.I., Through the Woods, 42 guineas ; Yeend King, R.I., Fair as the Flowers, 66 guineas.; Yeend King, R.I., Next-door Neighbours, 50 guineas; W. E. Frost, R.A., L’Allegro, 50 guineas ; T. Sidney Cooper, R.A., A Kentish Sheep Farm, 140 guineas; T. Sidney Cooper, R.A., Cattle on the Banks of the Stour, 100 guineas ; and, by the same artist, Evening Glow, 60 guineas. I The water-colour drawings included : —T. Sidney Cooper, R.A., Cattle on the Banks of a Brook, 50 guineas ; and the following by T. B. ! Hardy, R.B.A., A Fishing Fleet, Venice, 25 guineas ; A Wet Day, 70 guineas ; Venice, from the Lagoon, 34 guineas ; Fishing Boats coining into Calais Harbour, £30 ; and Wreck on the French Coast, £45.
ALLEGED DEFECTIVE DRAINAGE AT BROMSGROVE.
Commission.-In the case put by Messrs. “G. J. and S I do not think commission can be cl limed, as there never appears to have been a definite contract of sale.— Barrister.	[717]
Distress.—I am in some■ doubt as to the question put by “ Distraint” owing to the ambiguity of the clause quoted. On the whole, however, I think that a distress for the three quarter’s rent would be justifiable under the circumstances mentioned. “Distraint" will be aware that one ought to be careful with such a tenant as he describes.—Barrister.	[718]
SALES OF
LICENSED PROPERTIES
AT
Masons’ Hall, London, E.C.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28.
FLEURET, SONS and ADAMS, 23, Southampton-row. Poplar, Cotall-street, Prince of Wales, P.R. of £65 p.a. for 44 years, and reversion for 4 years..........................£1,250
FORTHCOMING SALES AT
MASONS’ HALL, LONDON, E.O.
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, at One o’clock.
JAMES and SIDNEY MOTION, 58 Moorgate-street. North Pole Tavern, St. Quintin’s park, Wormwood Scrubbs, F.L.
J. J. 0R9ILL, MARKS and ORGXLL, 21, Hart-street. Railway Guard, Olapham Junction, F.L.
Br׳!!wn8 wood-park Tavern, Green-lanes, South Hornsey, F.L,
Lord Clyde, Auckland-atieet, Vauxhall, L.
BARKER, CATHIE and FINCH, 13, Hart-street.
Golden Cross Hotel, Charing-cross, L.
Cock and Bottle, 94, Cannon-street, L.
J. and W. JOHNSON and CO3 ״, Hackney-road.
Old King’s Bead, 173, Blaekfriars-road, L. Greyhound, Old Ford-road, L.
MR. OALLIER, 105, Great Russell-street.
Canterbury Arms, Sumner-road, West Croydon, L. APRIL 18.
FLEURET, SONS and ADAMS, 23, Southampton-row Prince of Wales, Caroline-street, Camden Town, F.L. Pakenham, Knightsbridge, L.
RICHARD SMTTH and CO., 83, Queen-street.
Lancaster, Notting-bill, L.
APRIL 26.
BELTON and SONS, 12, Hatton-garden.
Goat and Compasses, Euston-rord, L.
At a recent sitting of the Bromsgrove Petty Sessions, Mr. Philip Levens, auctioneer and estate agent, of High-street, was summoned by the Bromsgrove Urban District Council, as owner of certain premises at Bewell Head, Sidemoor, in the occupation of George War-man, which was alleged to be in such a state as to be injurious and dangerous to health, and unfit for human habitation ; and also in respect 1 to similar alleged nuisances in houses at Bewell Head, occupied by Thomas Harrison and James Penny. The proceedings were taken under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, and the Council asked for an order closing the premises.
Mr. G. W. Hobson appeared for the Council, and Mr. Levens was represented by Mr. Harington (instructed by Messrs. J. and F. Holyoake).
Mr. Hobson opened the case at considerable length. He said that there was an objectionable state of things arising from the nuisance could not be gainsaid. The Council had not used force to make Mr. Levens remedy it in any particular way, and they would have been quite content had he put a w.c. or an earth-closet away from the house, and even at that last hour he hoped the learned counsel would see his way to give an assurance that the nuisance would be abated. There was absolutely no feeling of antagonism towards Mr. Levens—the proceedings had been taken reluctantly, and all that they wanted was that people should not be compelled to live in houses which, according to his instructions, were unfit for human habitation. Nothing would have been simpler than for Mr. Levens to have erected earth or water closets, at a reasonable distance from the houses. There was ample fall for the connection, and it did seem singular that after the Council had obliged Mr. Levens by falling in with a suggestion foi deepening the sewer, that in December, 1898, he wrote complaining to the Local Government Board that the sewer was not deep enongli for him to drain into it. That the Council were not in default was shown by the fact that the Board did not, as they were empowered under
Morris, printed on vellum, £50; “ The Golden Legend,” woodcuts designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones, £7	15s.; “Biblia Innocentium,”
£10 10s. ; Shakespeare’s poems, £8 8s. ; Tennyson’s “Maud,” etc., polished crimson levant morocco, £12; Rossetti’s “Ballads and Narrative Poems,” and “ Sonnets and Lyrical Poems,” £18 ; Swinburne’s “ Atalanta in Calydon,” £9 15s. ; Morris’s “ The Wood beyond the World,” printed on vellum, £26; Shelley’s poetical works, 3 vols., £17 10s. ; Herrick’s Poems, etc., printed on vellum, £26 ; Coleridge’s Poems, etc., printed on vellum, £16 16s. ; Morris’s “ The Earthly Paradise,” 8 vols., £17 15s. ; and “ The Works of Chaucer,” £45. The sporting books included “ Apperley’s Life of a Sportsman,” by Nimrod, with coloured plates by Aiken, £17; and “ The Analysis of the Hunting Field,” illustrated by Aiken, £7 10s.
Pictures.
The valuable collection of pictures by old masters of the late Mr. H. F. Broadwood, of Lyne Capel, Surrey ; pictures from the collection of Sir Richard Westmacott, R.A., and others, the property of Lord Leigh, were dis posed of at Christie’s on Saturday, the 25th ult. The Broadwood property included 58 lots, and the most interesting picture of all originally formed the lid of a spinet, and is the work of either Fragonard or N. Lancret, representing an historical fête champêtre at Versailles, when Louis XV. and Madame Carnage danced on the terrace, 27in. by 40jin., 2,450 guineas; Q. Brekelenkam, “ The Afternoon Nap,” interior of a room, with an old woman seated asleep in front of a fireplace, on panel, 16in. by 12iin., 370 guineas ; Le Due, “ Regret for the Violoncello Player,” on panel, 15jin. by 12^in., 390 guineas ; A. Jssébrigen, portrait of Princess Mary, daughter of Charles I., signed and dated 1688, 180 guineas ; K. de Moor, portrait of James Fitzjames, Duke of Berwick, son of James II., on panel, 9in. by ô^in., 100 guineas ; J. van Ravenstein, portrait of a lady, dated 1634, 40in. by 30in., exhibited at the Grafton Gallery in 1894, 600 guineas ; Solomon Ruysdael, Scheveningen, view looking along the shore with the sea on the left, 41in. by 62in., 880 guineas ; M. Taunay, strolling players at a fair, with figures and animals, on panel, 12in. by 15in., 200 guineas; Sir A. Vandyck, portrait of the Countess of Manchester, 50in. by 57in., 260 guineas ; a work by an unknown artist of the French school, “Le Déjeuner dans le Forêt,” 23in. by 19in., 600 guineas; F. Boucher, portraits of a young girl, a boy by her side playing on a pipe, signed and dated, 1766, oval, 21in. by 17in., 1,050 guineas; School of Lancret, “ The Seasons,” compositions of two figures in landscapes, 280 guineas ; J. B. Oudry, portrait of the artist, 31in. by 25in., 240 guineas; J. B. Pater, a wedding party, 38in. by 50in., 500 guineas ; and A. Watteau, “L’Accordée du Village,” 22-^-in. by 31in., 1,250 guineas. The Westacott property included only two noteworthy pictures, a work attributed to Rembrandt, the subject being Christ bound before the Flagellation, 44in. by 32in., 330 guineas ; and a triptych of the school of Van Eyck, representing the Adoration of the Magi, with St. James of Compostella and St. Hubert on the wings, lOgin. by 14in., 440 guineas. The pictures from various unindicated sources included a pair by George Morland, a farm wagon and team, with three figures, 1794, and a mountainous landscape, with peasant on horseback, sunset effect, 330 guineas ; C. Brooking, a calm, with man-of-war saluting, and fishing boats, 14j>in. by 22in., 135 guineas ; H. Memling, portrait of the artist, llin. by 8in., 105 guineas; Sir M. A. Shee, portrait of Mrs. Riddell, 30in. by 25in., 160 guineas ; and Murillo, the Immaculate Conception, 62in. by
is a shorter inscription, the translation of which reads as follows: “ A present from the weak slave Husain, son of Ahmed’-Abd al Mahdy, son of Yusef, to the Lord the Sultan al Muhsin : may he be confirmed to Victory.” The guard and pommel are of steel damascened with floral scrolls; the grip is covered by alternate strips of damascened steel and hard wood, inlaid with metal ornaments; the scabbard ornaments are of steel finely wrought, richly damascened with floral scrolls; the scabbard itself is of recent date. This remarkable weapon is in a perfect state of preservation, and was highly prized by its late owner, Rogers Bey, H.B.M.’s consul at Cairo.
A casket of valuable jewels, lace and old French fans, the property of the late Lady Martin (Miss Helen Faucit), was sold at Christie’s on the 23rd ult. A beautiful gold band bracelet, set with three large fine oblong emeralds, sold for £240; a brilliant Latin cross pendant, with a moonstone cameo head in centre, for £236 ; an open brilliant brooch, with fleur-de-lis on border, and rosette with a large brilliant in the centre, for £205; a large brilliant and sapphire brooch, with three trailing pendants, set with four large sapphires and five large and numerous smaller brilliants, for £390 ; and a pendant with an unusually fine peridot of hexagonal shape m gold border and set with six brilliants, for £280.
SALES OF THE WEEK.
Books.
Several interesting works ■were included in the three days’ sale o'f books, commenced at Messrs. Sotheby’s on the 23rd; ult. The following were the more important lots:—“The Book of the Thousand■ Nights and One Night,’׳ translated from the Arabic by John Payne, “ Tales from the Arabic,” and “Alaeddin,” by the same, for the Villon Society, 13 volumes, 1882-89, £16 ; L. Carroll, “ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” first edition, 1866, £8; C. Westmacott, “The English Spy,” 1825-26, a fine copy with 72 coloured plates by R. Cruik-shank, £17 10s. ; D. C. Thomson, “Life and Labours of H. K. Browne” (“Phiz”), 1884, extra illustrated with numerous additional plates and 23 original drawings by H. K. B., £12 ; a collection of 82 broadside ballads, in black-letter type, with curious woodcuts, and dating from the later ■half of the 17th century, and another collection of 175 broadside ballads of the same period, £41 ; “ A Chronological Detail of Events in which Oliver Cromwell was engaged from 1642 to ■his death, 1658,” 1810, on large paper, the whole inlaid and illustrated with 432 fine portraits and plates, £31. The following books ■from the Kelmscott Press: — A. C. Swinburne, “ Atalanta in Calydon,” 1894, £9 5s. ; P. B. Shelley, “Poetical Works,”
1895,	£20 5s. ; Geoffrey Chaucer, “Works,”
1896,	£57 ; and “ The Shephearde’s Calendar,” 1895, £8 10s. ; R. Kipling, “ Soldiers Three,” Allahabad, 1888, first edition, in illustrated wrapper, £6 5s.; G. Vertue, “Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of W. Hollar,” 1759, extensively illustrated, £7 5s. ; “ Engravings and Woodcuts by Old Masters,” 15th-19th centuries,” under the direction of Dr. E. Lipp-mann, eight parts, 1889-97, £19; and Sir E. Landseer, “Works,” both series, £11 5s. The two days’ sale realised £991 15s.
An interesting sale of books was held by Messrs. William Bush and Sons at their mart, Church-street, Sheffield, on the 24th ultimo. The Kelmscott Press publications included in the sale were the following : —“ The Story of tlie Glittering Plain,” by William Morris, £23 10s. ; “Poems by the Way,” by William
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