The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-21 00:00:00

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a court was held far the despot& of /*b-
ile balms.

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TKOLATI TOUT OF IMO XlllO OP SAIDINIL.
Upcs the :notion of Mr. T. Parser, the address of the
corporstion to the Ling of Sardinia, sad the saner of his
Majesty thereto Were ordered to be uttered apes the missies
of the wart.

THI COMMON IMITZANS.
A somewhat lengtheeed disessaiet took place upon a
report of the officers sod clerks' committee, recossmendicy
that ea the resipatlon of the Common Serjeant be should
be 'dowel • retiring pension of 1,0001. par mem, The
Recorder had reesived • comossication ham tit Cowmen
&dim% which woe a formal redgnation of his Idles, bat
be seemed unwillitg to hand it to the Lord Mayor used the
gsestion of the blamed seejeasee retina( allows°. was
settled. Mr. H. L. Taper asked the Recorder whether, if
the court did sot agree to the report he would
put fa the resigtaties or net. It was decided, however,
on a division, that w Moormider seed net sweet this qua*
Mea. Mr. H. L. dies eneesdso es mishtintent that
the Comm fleifemie bit Whitt epee to stele kilt office
before the court toles Ices emildllestlela the sublets of his
Iretiring ellowasso. The assestbnint was eseetdmi by Mr.
Darkly, sod further supported TV MAUL Rosa fed OM&
lam. Aldersose FaMrether an Miro, We Meseta Lott,
Rake. Dade, do. stymied the origisal mootstion, Mich,
on a divisiom wes serried by 69agaimet 38. The reptytwes
*ft areod
The Baca:der, immedidisly after ilis court slopted the
report of the awnings,. handed to the Lord' Mayor es
nehrsation of ibe Cameos Serjosatorbith maenad, Mid
ordered to be entered ea the journal, of the court
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Mr. Tows' (the chairmen at the mal, sort, and tutor
committee) brought up, sad moved ibe- sitios of, • re- I
port teem the sisembers of the simmittawOr whom bad been
referred mists pedalos' on the subject of the Mho and
washttemes it emoblet.equaro. Teo ropertststed UM the
smart ought set to his so favounblo sr opportunity of
oemrasestag a geed work at • savelstate *Mb, asPM'
seated left offer y the prim, geogristom of tho bias
sad wesbilonses toted
imes Of Mile to di. corporatist
for 11,600 L Their wilful met bed Wes !TAIL, sod M
receipts befog at present insuillblent to mat the retreat
expenses, the sontsidee would bw compelled N elese the
establishment If it were. not takes by the 1110Wrigalien•
Is the disenesiot that followed, the adepts of the report
was theesetoi by Meseta Towel, Abraham, T. M. Try, sad'
others,whe mined that the establisamost of bathe and wash—
home wool* Is • great boos to the poor of the City sad
its suburbs, that the establishment is question was ulna- I
Missed, dratted for their eonmiensi, sad that at present !
the poor bad to wash at* dry their Maim baths room it
whit they to sad slept. Three or km sulk inditstioss
wets wanted. wad it was disgraceful teethe eseporalist that
they bad tot bees Mg 11.11 established. The adegtion of
the most was opposed by Messrs. Atherton, Coo, and Do
Jersey, en the rested Ms the corporatism had at purest
very heavy sod Important mils spot them ; that the iota.
taboo would minim, tit expenditure of ease fkoool.,
besides the parohese to pat it late at eilcient
oonditios ; that this sues have to be borrowed ; aad
that is the preset' state of the money market it ;would be
very impolite to go foto the mosey market for fends where.
with to mediate a bankrupt Stadia' meets, situated
beyond the limits of tits City.
Several other gentlenies addressed the mart, when the
attention of the Lord Mayer was directed to the fait that
only one adonis& was it attesdasee, spot whish the
roesediar abruptly terminated, without Imlay arrived at
any declaim.

MANCHESTER FREE MODEL SCHOOL FOR
SECULAR INSTRUCTION.

(prom the Manchester Beariwir.)
On Wednesday evening a meeting of the parents
of the children atteading tole school was held in the
Friends' Schoolhouse, Jackson's row, Demegrate, for the
pupas of hearing as address from the missies., Kr.Tesepter,
with the view of pasties out to thee the MOM of the school
sad the mode in whisk they may best Essig bim la his efforts
efinsete their childree. be school, width has now bees
lessabiag over a year in operation, is open to the children
et sa Obristiaa duomiastions, the silkiest ewe being taken
net is dm slightest degree to interfere with the religious
baste they profess, white the system of Metraelion permed
is sea as to inculcate cm their minds those tentlasseeml
priasiples of morality which are the cosmos property of all
seats of Obviation& TN intellectual oduessMn given is
of • somperstively high order, sad ominously practical, the
elder shiest being to impart sect Laureation as will prove
meet sesta* to persons is that Glom of
lifeli that the *Molars
belong to. The seheed is supplied with e little museum,
sontaining geological specimens arranged wording to the
different formations, 'metals, metallic ores. cotton is its vo•
floss stages of essaufeeters. seeds, ttc.; sad ranged on the
walls are auserous diagrams, intended to illutrate the les-
MI. As • proof of the high Marmite, of the school, pa-
rents fregeeetly apply to have their Milieu that are at
other schools admitted tato this, offoriag to pay for their
iestruetise ; bat the sommittee, much against their wish,
are obliged to pekoe these applications, the oldest being to
provide 'daub= for those who are unable to poy tor it.
There are ea the books of the school the names of 360 boys,
all belonging to the poorest class of the population ; and
among this umbel are the children of spiecopslians, dia-
meters, and Baum eatkolies. Of these 360 there
are generally 330 protest. The wheel is supported at an
manual cost of about 6001. a yeas, voluatsrily matributed
by penult of all denemiesdou, and the ides of starting
it orirlaated priatdpally smug the memben of the National
labile School Asseektion. Its founders may tongratelat•
themselves on thie progress of their experimeet, it having
bus is the blithest ogre* saftessfeL They have thus'
shown that a free secular ednostioo, combining moral, but
sot sestalim, isstruction, will prove not merely aoseptable
to the messes, but will be availed of by thee, in many
mess, M prefernes to that 'shuttles whisk is commonly
salted " religious."
The ausedmnee of parents was anteerous, the greeter
umber esonsistieg of the isotherm of the children. Their
appestats., wee seat sad cleanly, and throughout the pro.
seeding, they paid the most marked attendee to the different

addresies.
Mr. Hostas M. lintsthie explained the motives which
had Wooed the cossoleg of the meeting, and said he had
Sahel a marked improvement is the activity and ability
Oils children, and is other ways which headed to their
benefit and edvanesseat in life.
Mr. TRUISM,, the master, is en address of some length,
ll•srasratsa the onion breaches of intreetios, and the
gleams is which they were conveyed ; many sahjeets eo
WWI Ufa/Wide& is given befog entirely emitted fa the
thilseity of public schools. Borne information was gives to
ibe on the laws which genre trade sad commene
sad social and political enemy were taught to each so
nisei es would stable them to passe • general knowledge
of the ethatitudoe and relation of society. lie impressed
Mss the skids of the parents the setneity of regular
enteildliallo as the part of chair children. Besides the scabs
adoesliss gives, their sates were celtivated and reflood ;
they wen taught to be truthful, to be hied to each
Misr, regretful to their teachers, obedient to their
penmen, diligent I. business, pease .1 and economical. The
eldldres were taught to writs out, from memory, the in-
street's' received on these subjects. Other suitable advice
was gins to parents.
The CSAISIIAN said the eshool had been founded by
eisions 'atlases eassectod with the Natiosal Public
Slated Anesiatios, with • view of Desna forth their prin-
ciples sad redwing them to precut". The Dealt showed
that the arguments sometimes employed, &tamely, that
loglisk people did set value that whisk now gives gra-
ndiosely, au perfectly astounded.
The Rev. Dr. Besse, as one who bad bees onasetell
with the school from its origin, and having bad considerable
esperlesse la necking himself, spoke of the excellent cha-
ncier of the edustios gives, which was eves superior to
that aequked is ems of the @spondee schools earroendieg
Moseheeter. Bs theoght more of the manner in which the
ingliondes mashes than of the subjects that were taught.
The mole slisplied was to elicit from the pupil the desired
mews by s missed questions. He hoped, as *gumboot had
stroised to its peseent big k position, that penniary aid
would sot be withholds' which wee essential for the
sesdasposs of the beneficial stint which the inetitatios
tires sioniag. The sanest elpethe was alias 6001., Ind
Is be this wield he fully set by lacreased sub.
serietithe.
Mr. B. W. Baum Send • vote of thanks to the
unser for the adding gives by his to the parents, end
sailed attention to the st that the instructive gins had
so ornando with the ithoday 'shoat seedusted In thetas'
roost, se the prinigies of their nisei were entirely sten.
with. He acknowledged, with thanks, the seethe of
sebeeriptithe from the Tailors' desociation, the Jelessie
Asseisties sad several cotton-spinaieg mills, sad salsa
spin Mks bodies of weakens to de likewise.
Dr. Jose WATTS INP3SSed She smith. He said be had
been st essiderable pain is eeleitisg • unitabis San, mid
Ho
posed as eulogies es Mr. Templses mods ad toisking.
ion aa airiest of the origin sad perste el the Method
Pulite School ArelerAtlOSi and petaled osit the eb)esse
it
had to view. odg
The Hoy. Dr. M.Hanaow, is sepipertleir umellea,
to had boss muck istereeted is the oohed. ere hoe eaziese
to use the mess al aseteest *glossies lessettesei tato this
streetgy. Is biped the asheeriptiese would be adequate le
esst eel oily the presort abed. bat she to have
Ihr the i3=ief females to wises
domed@ eetepatiess as well af edseadow. '
The nes of thanks wasp sad afterwards eeverel
the mew% both mete female, thanked the einereste
of the said Ise.the gy
reet adveateges eaderted .15

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, Dna. 20.—ATTOIRTILRIT8.—Captain/
H. Lyster (1846), to the Arrogant, 46, mew steam frigate,
of &Whores power, et Portsmouth, and 11. It Yelverton
(1843), C. 8., sommiesieued to the Brunswick, 80, screw
steam ship, of 400 helm pewee, at Pembroke.
Commander B. Marsden (1862), to the Devastation, 6,
peddle-wheel stew sloop, of 400 hone power, North Ame-
rica and West India statism
Paymasters W. B. Puree
__(1846), to the Victory, 101,
flag ship, at Portsmouth ; J. W. Maddock (1841), to the
Fisgard, 42, at Woolwich ; W. W (1843), to the
Waterloo, 120, flag ship, at Sheerness; and W. P. O'Brien
(1844), to the Impregnable, 104, flag ship, et Devunport.

'-----DUBLIN, Tun SADLY.
This morning, at 11 dslock, the Roscommon regi-
ment of Militia, 600 stronesiemenstandsd by Colonel French,
proceeded by railway to war, sled mabeakad on board
the Magus. wrot& for Al "ahem
I Thu %keying emits as walla order, Ite Malts sad the
Crimea trout the Llmesisk distallat, sit :—Premt Limerick :
oth Regkairal, 3 subalterns, 2 sergsants, 1 dreamer, and
96 rank watt Ma. 17th **gimme: 4 eubstterns, 2 sergeants.
1 drutemtresed 36 nub sad file. 39th Regiment : 1 cap.
tale, 4 subalterns, 1 sergeant, and 83 rank and Ile. 89th
Regiment: 40 'shelters', 1 argent, 64 rink and file.
Priem Bin-41iit Regiment : 1 eaptche, 4 subeltsras, 1 sec.
seam, and Mlinath and film. 67th Belmont : 4 subalterns,
1 serpseat, sat MI rash add file. 6Wd Regiment: 2 sob-
albino, 1 sergewiltyand 31 reek and film Total : 2 captains,
26 subelterns. 91lergeants. 2' drummers,. Ind 404 rink and
file. MIN cams under cedars to rimmed with these
~drafts w: 9th Reg.:Llentessnts Agnew and Richards;
Alusign Chadwick. 17th Reg.: Lietesuants Grant and
)Barkley;: Eneimar Mayne and Pacemil. 39th Regt. :
40.
' ItapoJa Comm; Eire as Gni., Moore, /ego, and Arch-
dale. 89th Brett.: mama Hobbs, lisowarips, mad
libeidawell. 21st e : Majhr Balder*: Lieutenants
SherwoodBltephens, 0' nail, +ad Crouse*. 67th Regt. :
ns noisy,
Resig Sewell, sad Moughton. 63rd Beg.:
Ensigns Shwas said Girths.

heari.raya a ooatemporatg, that tho Admiralty
have at last dtisermlned to abolish t ievidione distinctions
esistiepia th►uiforms of whet 'maudlin the civil branches
of the asivy, end that os• sad after the lst of January
neat greet imperemmenes are to he made in the• position of
those ahem
1. All ahem of relator-mak areas take rank and pro-
sedans* with malt other wording to t►e date of their
impactive cossosissions.
2. The enifosasof oaken of relative nak is to be 'salmi-
' lsted, sod all distinctions removed.
3. Aadetaarpaymeetere sad clerks are to be paid as tol-
-1 bee. viz.:.

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Clerks .
Assistant psymastem ...... 110 t 10 8
Ditto, above three 139,1$ 4 „
Ditto, above seemoyears lB4 $ 0 „
Ditwi, in shares ell moonnts 194, ID 4 „
4. Ships' stemteret are to be appointed by warrant, and
paid the lame as gown, boatswains, asiempenteds.
b. Five yeamoseose masters' mid amistiant paymasters'
fell. pay serviee to mount towards the haWpay of semen
and paymasters esspeatively, and the haMpey to be increased
and graduated by length of service sewn
On. huodred and twenty flea aster rifles have
arrived at Bronson Derricks for the use of the Sappers
and Miners. They carry 1,000 yards, and have a short
sword attacked is the barrel, malting a very formidable
'Napoli.

6 0

TEE POISONING CASE AT BURDON.
Dr. I:teakwood, "as one (he says) of the four
panne flak whom the verdict of the jury has left the
public Woolen en object of suspicion." has indited a letter
is defence of the medical attendaan in the above we.
They did an, he esys, keep their suspicions locked up in
their own breasts. 6' So soon as they felt that arsenal
poisoning might he the cause of this anomalous disorder,
they decided to coommenicate their apprehensions, not to
• magistrate, who could not have acted on anything so
doubtful as their suspicions; not to Mr. Wooler, who,
though respected and beloved by his friends, they believed
not to be resented and beloved by his neighbours, who, un-
ions. ately, they also believed to be the only one near the
person of the sufferer who could be supposed able so to
administer the poison as to produce • train of symptoms
very nearly resembling those of idiopathic disorder; nor,
lastly, to lin. Woolsr's relations, for to them they had no
mesas of aeon.. They decided to communicate their sus-
picions, with • minute end accurate detail of ell the symp-
toms ea which they were founded, to one whom 1 may
rtitirsaitted to designate the father of modern fo-
medicine cis., Dr. Christine." The latter
wrote la reply, that " the morel evidence must be
very strong, or that meek nest be detected in remains of
food, vomited matter, or in the excretions, before it, would
be prudent to now your suspicions of slow arsenical poison-
ins." Under seek ciseuesstasees, Dr. Halewood main-
tans that he could not with propriety have communicated
his suspicions to young Mr. Breekuell, "a young man in
his papillose." Been after the dailies bad occurred, Dr.
Christian said be should examine the secretion, before
giving an opinion, and after that symptom the medical lan
were mealtime for the result of Dr. Christine's analysis of
the grin. The lady's days were numbered, and it would
have been inhumanity to have ealightean her. But though
prudence did dictate reserve, Mr. Woofer was not without
intimation calculated to excite the attention of • man of
his nutcases. " When we spoke of his wits's dinner we
said that while the nature of the mischief was plain the
nun of nob sinews irritation was • mutter on which we
conleesed ourselves in the dark ; and this I said in all sin-
cerity before the 19th of Jose, when the first shade of na-
pkin crossed my view ; aid subsequeatly to that date, on
• remission of the urgent symptoms, Mr. Wooler saying,
Then, you do thigh there's • chases ? ' I replied Yes; I
think if the stomach has fair play there may be a chance.'
Yon will ask use what be said to that. He made no reply."
The Mancgenee Onissedion says:
" A paragraph is going the fond of the papers to the effect
that Mc Berjeant Wilkins had 200 guinea*, Mr.
Overfed 100 plans, and Mr. Laurie 60 guises.,
for defendiag Mr. Wooler, who was charged last
week at the Dothan winter melees, and whose trial
was amply reportal la the Geordies • but this sus
is a very smell portion of the Goan that will fall upon
the defendant. His defence will cost him not less than
2.000 gnaw, if not more. The briefs furnished to counsel
were mut vobunietoui ; and the whole of the evidence
given before the magistrates was taken question and answer
by a shorthand writer, end afterwards written out, classi-
fied, and printed in large books, at a very great sepses..
Mr. Wooler will also have to pey Professor Taylor for
the analysis of the heart and other parts of the
deosesed mat up to him, and the medicines, as
it was done at the request of his solicitor, though the
Treasury afterwards seat Professor Taylor dime to give
evidence. Mr. Woolee's solicitor tied also the assistance
of two eminent medical men from Newcastle-on-Tyne ;
there were • e•nsiderable number of consultations, Bco., and
anyone that has been concerned In law knows bow consult-
fag fees and "refreshers" unman up. Mr. WOOlff returned
to his house the day after the trial, bat he was hooted
hissed at Darlington when recognised at the railway sta-
tic's. The popular pavjadics or whereinr it may be that
exists against him has not abated since the trial, and no
doubt be will best eaosalt his own comfort by leaving the
•sigbbourhood. The remark made by Mr. Duce 'Martin
la his sammieg up at the trial, that be could imagine some
person ether than the prisoner as lively to have poisoned the
deceased lady, has only added perplexity to this eztraordi-
eery ease, and implicated other members of the household
is nspicioa. Thew ease seems surrounded with doubt,
difficulty, and honor, and Mr. Solent Wilkins appeals to
have exercised a wander discretion than the judge, by
remarking that be sought not to grease anyone, but to
show that the primmer was the last an that ought to have
been charged with the crime."

EAST SUFFOLK RAILWAT.—A meeting o f the
shareholders in this company was held on Tuesday, at the
Angel Inn. lisleswortb ; the Earl of fitradbroke in the
shalt. The object of the meeting was to &median the
meant of share capital subeeribed for, and to determine
whether the works between Beeswoith and Wo dbridge
should be pet:seeded with. Sir 8. K. Peto and several other
gentlemen addreesed the meeting, and it appeared front
their statements that shares to the amount of 100,00 W. had
been taken up in the district, and that the project had met
with very general sapport. After explanations on several
matters of detail, the chairman put the question whether
the eonstruction of the lin* should be proceeded with ; and
the meeting gave a unanimous decision in the affirmative.
The athetaary arrangements for the purchase of laid, sto.,
were ordered to be vigorously proseented, and the mowed-
lop dosed with a oordial vote of thanks to the noble
okeithaeu.
BURIAL BOARDS AND DIMENTZIN.—The following
letter, my. the Seaweed Herald, has been received by the
Chairman of the Carmarthen Burial Board :—.• Whitehall,
Nev. 110,1856. Blr,-1 am directed by Secretary Sir George
Grey to ackeowledge the rethipt of your letter of the 23rd
last., and to inform you, is teply to your enquiry, that a cam
having been submitted to the law offieen of the Crown,
they have stated that they wet lied an! words in the Act
of Parliament which give either to the burial board or to
say woes, ezetenly et by Implication, power to settle th •
fess to be paid to dissecting ministers or other persons
officiating is the thwtonsecrated part of burial ;trounce pro-
vided leader the Denial Act —I am, sir, your obedient men.
Mt, 8. llenies—Set. Dr. Lloyd, Puede, Cazanuthen."

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Tan poMeinlisit NeWtaileilig---7algiisirti
polite. Board otWerite mem ,wall for Adore
4tler
slifolsese of thai body, The members ao pre-,
codeete to guide them. si?4, the Maga, which
they won, elected and met is' ;Angularly deficient in
realm dirsetions regarding the forms according to
which their business is to be traumatal. As an in-
states* of its smissioos we need only mastics that no
official person is appointed in it to receive the returns
of the elections at the various vestries sod unities rs-
repeated. There was consequently no means of
smortsining the validity of the claims of the gentle-
men elected to take their seats at the Bosrd. In the
same way no inarractioos wen given as to the
mode to which they were to proceed to the elect=
of their Chairman. They had not only to proceed
immediately to business, bat to extemporise a set of
fosse for the purpose. Tb admirably businesslike
sensor in which they got over all them ditgoulties,
is a satisfactory proof of the practical talent of the
members of the Board, and of the bosom, earnest
desire that animates them to diseharge for the publk
basalt the duties. that have bean devolved opal
them. The spectacle mimosa] at Burlington Boom
en Wednesday was that of Beglish good sense giviog
1 form to a chaos.
The first difficulty was to determine what watt
required to constitute a candidate for the office a
• Chairman. The object aimed at was to onion
the utmost latitude of oboes, tied jet sari
the Board from the ansoysoes of having its that
wasted with frivolous applications. Major LTOZ
1
expatiated with a good deal of felicitous humour of
the persecution the members of the Board might la
eabjected to by the °incoming of numerous appli
emits. He maiatainsd that there ware thousands a
gentlemen—barriaters with small practice, and other
—ready to jump at a salary of 1,6001, a year; an,
drew a ludicrous picture of "the multitude of visitor
i I at every gentleman's door, and the quantity of letter
• that would come with the postman's knock, and th
less of every member'; time in receiving the genth
men and their friends who would call to solicit hi
i vote and interest, to say nothing digs servant's tim
taken up in opening the door to them." Ultimately i
was resolved that every person who may =poem
; himself as a candidate shrill be received in that clap
city; but that no vote shall be taken on the claims I
any candidate unless he car. find a mover sad *ce=de
1 i among the members of the Board.
The discussion which ensued regarding the qual
filiation. to be kept io view in the abates of a Chair
man, was eminently satisfactory. The remarks mad
11 i by Mr. Deputy Kutarsow, in support of his propom
that the Chairman should be required to devote h
whole time to the duties of the office, warrant an e
peetation that great benefit will be derived from ti
experience which the City npreeentatices bring I
the discharge of their task. " Having been mm
occupied," Mr. HARRISON said, " with vitriol
improvements in the City of Loodoo, be coal
Mate that for a very long time those rionneeted wit
I t the execution of the works had been obliged
have meetings of four or five hours every Monde
I and that the Chairman of the Committee had h
1 constant work in looking after things, and attend
' 1 to the interests of the Corporation, without which et
tinual cars he was certain that the expense of tilt
improvements would have been thousands of pool
more than what they actually did east; sad
believed that the ditties of the Chairman of I
Metropolitan Board would be at least quite
=emus as those which he had described." Ms'
LYON remarked, with great good sense, that " th
was se ssousity Ist the Chairman's being an engine
1 lint le must be a gentleman who possessed
power of presiding over the discussions and trent
lag the business of a pubic body like the Boat
Mr. DAVIS observed, with equal truth, t
" the office required nothing more than a mar
ordinarily straw mind, quick perception, and g
hostages habits, who could direct the MLitt dep
I meats of the Board, and who would keep him
i ii aloof from the purposes of any party or of any pi
War interest." The general saint with which d
I and similar remarks wen received and acted s
warrants the belief that the choice of a Chair
t may safely be left to the unbiased dominion of
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Board.
I There was something rather amusing in the
• spiecoperi fashion is which Sir JOHN Suit
I endeavoured to insinuate his hopes and wishes
the post of Chairman might be conferred on bin
: 1 He delicately suggested that the Metropo
Board of Works ought to hays a mouthpiece in
,
1 ; litunotat, in the same manner as !hellos* Depart
aid the Colonial-office. We cannot for a ma
suppose that the 1,5001. a year attached to the
et Chairman has any weight with bit Jonx. D
less his object is to rooks himself a quasi-Minim
ithe House of Commons, baying but slender prom
of ever rising to be a Minister in reality.
, Dirranoaa quietly clapped an extinguisher c
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Jomm's bitterish by remarking that the Mstrop
Members ought to undertake the Parliam.
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business of the Metropolitan Board of Works.truth is that the less the Board has te do with
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Bement the better. The elective Metropolitan 1
el Works was called into existence, in the first ph
relieve the moral Legislature of a great deal ca
mama merely losal interest; and, is the snood
to relieve the inhabitants el Landes from the
Ihreses of a Legislature composed for the moo
el persons who have no interest in or knewlst
I 1 their local coseeras, in the management of them
was. The business of the general Legialatas
prescribe the limits within which the Iced
mntatives of Loudon shall act, to lay down g
.• tales for the conduct of hominess, and th
t leave the inhabitants of the metropolis ps
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free to =bad their own affair, within their 1
i; jurisdiction. It is of the utmost consequence th
1 Bement and the Metropolitan Bootle/ Works
as much as possible, abstain from ii
tag with sash other. If a Member of Parliamo
be Chairman of the Board there will be e
danger of the influence sad patronage of hisi
. • being turned to account to strengthen his in
or to render himself acceptable to the powers
, \ To keep Loadoe oat of the heads of the Bare
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between the Board and Parlismeat. Our
cations may rest @inured that the fingers
1 1 Bursaueracy are itching to lay themselves
I Baird of Works and its patronage. U mot,
1 fors the estastatiema parade with which fir Bs
1 Harz %ekes sad receives deputations from
medical eliqnss sad ostorirollt seder tr Pis el
Wit) of lecturing the Board of Health is&
M the maim is vide it iambi cast is SIMI
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