The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-09 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

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A special court of Common Council was holden
yesterday at Guildhall for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration a report presented at the last court by Mr. S. H.
Waterlow, the chairman of the Library and law Clerks'
Committee, having reference to the vacant office of City
solicitor.
The Hight Hon. the LORD MAYOR presided. His lord-
ship on entering the court was loudly cheered.
It will be remembered that io their report the commit-
tee recommended that the salary ef the City solicitor should
in future be fixed at 1,250 f. a year, that the whole of his
time be devoted to the duties of his office, and that 5001.
per annum be allowed for clerks and the expenses of his
office. Another question submitted fOr the consideration
of the committee mu, whether it would be advisable to
amalgamate the office of City. solicitor with any other office
appertaining to the corporation, and they reported that
they did not consider it advisable to recommend any such
amalgamation at prompt.
Mr. & IL W./AMOR briefly moved that the report
should be agreed to, and he said that after the most careful •
consideration the committee bad come to the coecluaion that
1.2 W/. per annum was a roasonstie and proper salary for •
the Mike of City solicitor, and he trusted that the court •
would now agree to the report.
Mr. Nouns, M expressed his opinion that there were
wand serious objections to the report, one of which wee
that the salary recommended woe not sufficient to procure
the services of an eminent man, such as ought to fill the
high position of solicitor to the corporation of London..
He also believed that one portico of the report, which was
to the effect that the surplus fees received by the solicitor
should be returned to the corporatioe, could not be legally
carried out. For these and other reasons he should move
that the report be referred hack for farther consideration.
Mr. KRLDAT, the chairman of the City Lands Committee,
supported the amendment, and said that the late solicitor's
es. was 2,0001. a year, and be had not heard any reason
given why it should be reduced, end he expressed him-
self satisfied that no man who was of eminence in bis pro-
fession would accept the appointment at the proposed
salary. (Bear, hear.)
After some further discussion, the question was put, and
the amendment was declared to be lost. A division was
demanded, when there appeared
For the amendment
Against it

Majority against the amendment
Mr. Rows then proposed that the amount of the salary
should be 1,5001. per annum instead of 1,2101. : but the
standing orders of the court precluding him from doing so
without notice, he gave one to the effect stated for the next
court.
Deputy HARRISON then asked his lordship to appoint •
day for the election.
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR suggested Thursday, the 18th inst.,
which be said would be the week before 84. Thomas.
day. IA laugh.)
The LORI) MAYOR said be had no objection to in the day
named, and the court thee adjourned.

ALDERSturrr INsiEtialtlf. —The readers of the Wag
Surrey Times will remember correspondence conceruing •
proposal to form • committee or • rub. committee, or to do
something to meet the case of penitent females in the Alder.
shun Infirmary. The proposal caught the attention of Mr.
Briscoe, N.Y., who volunteered at once to aid in the prose-
cution of so good an object. A few gentlemen, members
chiefly of the infirmary committee, met to consider what
might beet be done, and passed • resolution calling on that
committee to approve the effort, sod to advise hos, it might
be so carried out as to secure perfect harmony of action.
But it seems that the infirmary committee is not very user.
getic. The managers, if there be any, meet at stun,. when
the most energetic members can seldom be present. Month
after month some of the quiet residue come to the plane
of meeting, but thought, or affected to think, themselves
incompetent to act. They did not act. Perhaps
they did not even deliberate. For such an effort
they were not prepared. The gentlemeo who professed
themselves ready to do • good work were not noticed.
Their communication was not answered. Inaction, how-
ever, has its adventures. When there arc not men enough
to act, and in this case when the gentlemen were so slow,
it was well that some of the gentler sex perceived this •
urgency of the case, and hastened to succour their neglected
sisters. The agitation of the subject roused attention.
Some humane and pious ladies in camp, not heeding can-
mitteus, and certainly Dot addicted to circumlocution, did
the thing that was to be done. One of them, at her own
cost, has taken a house at Ash, where any poor girl who is
willing to forsake her evil way is welcome to • temporary t
refuge, and is thence transferred to her home, or otherwise ,
disposed of as may appear most advisable. This ladylem-
mission for the publication of her 0/11170 has not been
and therefore the namo is not just now prisitwi, ywk. •
it will be indelibly wntten on the heart of Irony &reformed •
outcast, and, better than all, her witness is in heaven, and
her record is cm high.— Writ Surrey Times.
THE TOLL-UATE QUESTION IN LAMBETH. —Last
seeming a meeting of the ratepayers of St. Mary, Lambeth,
was held at Wilcocke's Assembly-roome, Westminster-road,
Lambeth. for the purpose of ooesiderieg the proposition to
abolish the toll-gates on the Surrey sad Sussex roads, sad
place the expense of keeping them in repair upon the rate-
payers. The meeting wee • crowded one. Mr. G. Hill wee
called to the chair. A resolution to the effect that the •
meeting, considering that those only who used the roads
ought to pay for them, were of opinion that the road arras
ought to be retained, and calling upon the Limbo*
to use their influence iu that direction, was carried =
mously, and was ordered to be signed by the elainsaa sad
sent to the Lambeth vestry.

ORMAL PALAOIL ONZ SHILLDIO DAY.—
MONDAY, DECP-111till B. Aslatinkes as mamma 368 j
ditto by mason ticket', 667 ; total, 1,035.