The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-23 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER

whet was the value of this charge. Br hop. friend mast I
have been aware that the committee were ordered to pro-
yule themselves with court dresses, and if be did sot knew
what the extreme of this wan, he could tell him that it
cost the twenty members of the acerairee I.ooof. to eery
oat this order of the court, and ho upheld the credit sod
dignity of their position. This being so, be would ask the
court whether it was not really • monstrous thing
to make • grave charge against the committee because they
had taken thirty or forty shillings' worth of such miserable
articles as bad been referred to. The neat complaint he
had to answer was with regard to 2001. having been paid
for lumbers mad dinners. and to no larger sum being
allowed to other committer for their services during an
entire year. Had the court, however, any idea of what the
committee had to do? They had actually met seventeen
t.mes ; they were always engaged from an early hour in the
morning aril 40r5 in the erring ; and apse some occa-
sions they had sat so late as 12 o'clock at night ; and under
these cireurnataries would the court resider that this

charge iog
was anyth more than reasooale fbe
hon. member had also talked about the cooduct of
the committee being " cute" to air George Grey ; but he
would only observe that if than were any cute at all in the
tom his friend had provided them, and not may the nuts
hot the mockers, and be would add that when they were
cracked he believed they would be found as •111 pty u the
charges he had made against the committee. He had also
referred to the " handle " the Mstropolitsa Board of Works
would make of the traneactioo and said that they would
make it a pound for Gayle( thati persoos who anted in the
manner the committee were alleged to have done were pot
flt to be entrusted with the carry's. out of greet public
improvements ; but in reply to this, he (Kr. Trumpet)
would say in conclusion, that they did not an for
the Metropolitan Board of Works, but would appeal
to the public, and refer to their bridges, the streets they
had already opened up, the gaols they had built. and the
markets they had erected. He thmght, also, that notwith-
standing the unfounded charges that had been made by the
hon. member, the corporation might point to the enterteie.
matt given on the Bth June as one that would for all time
redound to the honour and credit of the corporation of the
City of London. (Hear, hear.)
At the conclusion of the speech of the boo. gentleman
there was a burst of loud and continued cheering.
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Ur. Deputy Du JIM!r roes sad awaited that it would
be better at that late hour of the day, and ea there woe a
good deal of other business to be done, that if these was to
be any debate, it should be adjourned.

Mr. TsuecoTr said he was not aware whether there wu
to be say discussion or not. His only duty was to uk the
court to ►eceive the report sod sires to it, and the court
would take any muse it thought proper.
Mr. Rows then moved that the report be printed, and a
copy sent to every member of the court, and that its fur-
ther consideration be adioorued, which Ives speed tc, and
the subject then dropped.

THE IRISH SOCIETY.

Deputy RATH BONZ moved that the Lord Mayor be
appointed governor of the Irish Society is the room of the
late Alderman Humpbury.
Alderman Dam seconded the motion, which was carried
unanimously.
The Loin MAYOR briefly thanked the court for the honour
it had cosfarred upon him by appointing him to this im-
portant oaks, and he said he received it u an additional
wool of the mtisfaction they felt at the manner in which
he had performed the duties that had devolved upon him.
(Hear, hear.) He mid be could assure them that he took a
very great interest in the prosperity of the ancient Irish
colony of the corporation, and in the impatent post to
which they had elected him he would do all in his power to
develop the resources of their Irish property, and to en.
brae the interests of the oorporatioa. (Cheers.)
The court adjourned, after a protracted sitting.

23,

IlLabi Intelligence.
SHERIFFS' COURT.—Oer. 22.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BiatebelL)
PIM LARATIOS OF OUTLAWRY.
Mr. Hemp, the °Moor, appeared with his monthly list of
proclamations, being the lint county court of the olden
time of the new sheriffs, Messrs. Nissen end Cave. The
list contained on the present occasion only four muses, and
they ware called for the fifth and last time. Very few
cases attain to outlawry, in consequence of arrangements
made between the parties owing to the publicity given to
the proceedings. The following names were proclaimed with
the nasal ceremony :
James Hall, at the suit of Thomas Langston and another;
Ceeil Hence" at the suit of Timm SWI:e7 Rees; Charles
Robert Huxley, otherwise Charles Rodney Huxley, at the
suit of Joseph Harrison ; and Richard Adlington, other-
wise Robert Addington, at the suit of John William and
Joseph Crook.
No surrender was made, and the next °panty court was
appointed for the 19th November, after the performance of
the greed ceremony with which te ancient county court
was closed.