The Press.
London, England, 1855-12-08 00:00:00

Rittropolitan anb Vrobiudal.

A DEPUTATION OF MEDICAL MEN waited on Sir
Benjamin Hall on Monday for the purpose of learn-
ing what were the intentions of Sir B. Hall when he
framed the clause respecting the appointment of
medical practitioners, and to inquire whether he felt
he could with propriety offer some suggestions to
the local authorities as to the best mode of securing
their fulfilment. Sir Benjamin Hall, in reply to the
deputation, stated that he should not consider him-
self justified in offering any suggestions to the local
authorities upon the appointment of medical officers,
a 4 the act was framed entirely upon the principle of
local self-government. He desired the appointment
of men of high position, but he could not suggest
that any special course should be purvueti by the
local boards.

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THE ELECTIONS FOR THE METROPOLITAN BOARD
or WORKS take place on Wednesday next, when the
various vestries will proceed to return their members.
The city of London will return three, and the highest
number to a single parish is two. Several magis-
trates are candidates. It is not necessary that a
vestryman should be elected.
A GENERAL SHORT-TIME MOVEMENT AT OLDHAM
commences on Monday next. Some thirty firms,
producing an aggregate of about 120,0001 b. of yarn
weekly, have signed a declaration to work from
breakfast-time till dark for one month, and many
other firms who decline to sign say that they will
join the movement should it become general.
THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMMITTEE OF
INVESTIGATION have lately issued their report upon
the affairs of the company. The committee in this
most voluminous document state that the late ac-
counts of the company are imperfect and delusive, that
no norrect balance had ever been struck in the stores
department since Mr. Waddington was chairman,
that goods untouched have been sold for old stores,
and that on occasions when these transactions were
taiing place the company were buying fresh goods at
frail ten to forty per cent. above the highest market
prtes. Illegal additions are represented to have
ban made to the capital account of 69,6061. which
beonged to the Norfolk Company, while preferential
cottracts are' asserted to have been entered into with
inavidual firms to carry coals, cattle, &c., at a post-
Cu loss to the shareholders, and also to the damage
of•egular traders, who were thus shut out from lair
corpetition. An immense mass of evidence accom-
paies the report, which reveals the whole system
pusued in the management of the last five years.
'HE MISSING CLERGYMAN who left his bride on the
mrning of the intended marriage, has, we believe,
ben heard of in America, where, acting under the
imulse of an unaccountable illusion, he had gone,
in intends to remain.
:'HE ELECTION OF A NEW ALDERMAN for the Bread.
stet Ward, in room of the late Alderman Lawrence,
tees place this day. The contest rests between Mr.
Iwrence and Mr. Nicoll, who has promised (should
I succeed) to bestow the patronage he may possess
i respect of the office upon the citizens of the Ward,
ad to become a resident therein.
THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE-SHOW will lake
ilace next week, at the Agricultural Implement
Bazaar, Baker-street, on the 11th,12th, 13th, and 14th
of the month. In addition to the five gold and
thirty eight silver medals, the amount of money.
prizes this year awarded by the club will amount to
6701., while the number of entries and the names of
the contributors indicate that the show will alto.
gether exhibit more than an average excellence in
the quality as well as breed of animals.
THE REFORMATORY SCHOOL MOVEMENT has at
length been taken up by the Roman Catholics of
London and of the central districts. A large house
adjoining the '1 raining College at Brook - green,
Hammersmith, has been taken by Lord Edward
Howard, the Rev. Dr. Manning, and other private
individuals, and is now being adapted to the recep-
tion of some twen y four inmates, who of course will
be mostly poor L .sh Roman Ca holes. The ma-
nagement of this Reformatory Sc 00l will be in the
hands of the "Brothers of Chalky," who direct all
these institutions in Belgium, four of whose members,
including one English brother, have recently arrived
in England for this especial purpose. Another insti-
tution of a similar kind is about to be established in
connection with the monastery of Mount St. Bernard,
which was ft u ded in 1840 by the late Lord Shrews-
bury, in Chi r wool Forest, Leicestershire. One of
the fathers I f use abbey sill have the immediate
superintend, nee of the institution, which is to be
mmenced I, medi itely at the Abb. y Grange, dis-
tant about tiall a wile trim the preseut monastery.
TENDERS FOR THE CAPE MAIL SERVICE have DOI
yet been accepted by the Government. It is believed

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