The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-17 00:00:00

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Council was holden yeater-
day at twelve o'clock. The Eight Hon. the Lord Mayor
presided. The following members of tbe Court of Aldermen
wesisalso present :—Alderman Wilmot), Alderman Challis
Alderman Sir F. G. lime, Alderman Sir J. Duke, Alder-
man Sidney, Alderman Meehi, Alderman Aline, Alderman
Basis, Alderman flelineons, Alderman W. Lawrence, Alder-
niaa Dials, Alderman and Sheriff J. C. Lawrence, and
Alderman Waterlow ; and there was a full attendance of
commoners, es it was anticipated that there would be a dis-
cumioe in reference to the proposed amalgamation of the
metropolitan with the City police.
After Nome matins business bad been disposed of,
The Cur Soucrroa reported that Sir G. Grey had ghee
&Mice of his intention to bring forward uo the 21st of April,
in the Home of Commons, a bill, the object of which was
to amalgamate the City with the metropolitan police forces.
Alderman Firma, the chairman of the Polies Committee,
said it appeared to him that it would be a osieenieet course,
after the statement that bed just been made by the City
Solicitor, if the court were at once to proceed to take into
anaideratiou the initiortant quaetions involved in a report
that would be submitted to the court from the Folios Com-
mittee as to the amelgamatiue of the City sad the metropo-
litan police forma, sad be proposed that this report steats
be at once read and taken into consideration. (Hear.,
The report wes read, and a proposition, that the salary of
the commissioner should be I,oollr. a year, wee agreed to.
The court then proceeded to dooms the remaining por-
tion of the report, recommending that the recency of Chief
Commissioner of the City of Loudon Police should be at
once filled up, without reference to the communication that
had been received from Sir G. Grey.
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Several members addresed the court, sod there ap-
aat* be an universal feeling prevailing is favour of
motion, which was eventually carried b 1 acclamation
sad amid load cheers. It was also resolved that next
Thursday should be the last day for receiviss applications
from candidates for the vacant office. The court shortly
aftiersnucls adjoarsed.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIZTY OP LONDON. —At the
ntoothly tweral meeting MW yesterday at the society's
home in equate, Um Right Hoe. Sir George Clerk,
Bert, F.H.8., is the chair, lard Haag Soott, Les' uternat-
Colossi William Lewis Greet, Captain G. C. P. Durant,
awl Mama, A. H. Baring, M.P., P. Taylor, A. Sanders,
J. K. Rianie.M. Dreliwood, 8, K Honied, and W. H.
ilamell was sleeted fellows, and Dr. A. E. Brehm a uor-
respooding member of the society. Viscount Hamilton,
W. Lord Dunkallin, M.P., Lord Norma Lied George
Lemma, M.P. Sir Charles Taylor, Bart, Lim-
telent-Colomi P. Crawley, Captain Janu. A Stewart, and
Mamma. W. B. Smith. Arthur Kekewich, Henry H. Womb-
Wißism Hoerr Cops, Alfred Baies, J. N. Browne.
H. Pritchard, K. W. S. Mackenzie, F. W. flarnstede, and
H. Harwood Harwood, were proposed as autdidates for the
fslbwdip
We are reqtiented to state that Mr. Lilliarapp
has hese appointed furrier to the Prism Gad sot to the
PfinelOl, of Walt., as minotoried yesterday.
Tax QVZLN's 110USEHOLD.—If in any family in
the pure bread would lie expected to be honed, It Is is
that of her Most Orem... ti.p.,ty quern Victoria, sad •• asd
the Queen's private baler pi 0110110,1 Bonner' Daidng Powder
5 tenet excellent and useful itiveuliou." The same it:dynast
hes by thouunds of families been pronounced upon this lewder,
which Is now extensively tb.ed throughout the length and breadth
of the land,—iAtivertiarnient I

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HAYMARKET.
THIS Emma), SHE STOOPS TO CoNQUER. Messrs. Howe,
Gordon. Chippendale, and &Hirst° .e Mesdames Angel and
WiIkIaa—BUCKSTONE AT HOY/. And BORROWING A
HUSBAND. Messrs. Howe and Compton : Miss Marla HarrM.

PRINCWIBI.

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Miss A. Sedirwiek sad MW Henderson. • KILLING TIMK. Mr.
eerie Yining and Mir Amy Sedgwiek —And BILAUTIYUL
BALD= Muses Oliver, Howard, Hudspeth, and Murray.

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HOPI. AND eHAAITY. with Prete:mew BPECTIAL
ILLI7BION.—JWNIZ DiANA Mr. and H,..8. Lane.
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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17.

Arran two years' well-won repose Mr. GLAD-
mows resumes his march as a financial conqueror
and liberator. Yesterday there was an eager
and anxious crowd of representatives of all sorts
of vexed commodities and injured interests,
victims of anomalies, members of deputations,
minor Income Tax payers in general, waiting in
Palace-yard for what revelations the evening was to
bring. For some time mat the public mind bad re-
solved that the Income Tax was to be reduced to
7d., and that the " war duties " on tea and sugar
should be taken off. No disclosure of official nerds
was needed to anticipate measures of relief which
had already been publicly assented to in prin-
ciple by the CHANCELLOR of the EICHEQUIE7 and
only adjourned to a more convenient oppor-
tunity. So, too, that genteel impostor, Chicory,
has been expecting to be pounced upon as soon as it
met that searching eye which nothing escapes, from
a carrier's cart jogging at the rate of four miles an
hour to the " dropped" spirit license of the pub-
lican who abounds in beer. There were en-
thusiasts in the Strangers' Gallery, no doubt,
who had bet on the " double event "—the reduc•
Lion of the income Tax and of the Tea and Sugar
Duties, though of late it has been difficult to in-
dulge any cheerful expectations in the face of
troubles at home and abroad. Last year, as Mr.
GLADSTONE reminded the House in the opening of
his statement, so gloomy was the prospect in Lan-
cashire that his Budget was of the most
guarded and reserved character, founded on the
principle of total abstinence from all intoxicating
cordials and stimulants. It was nothing more
than a good old humdrum honest endeavour to
make two ends meet. The financiers of the
Opposition jeered this unaccustomed sobriety as
the confession of a tippler preaching temperance,
and reproached Mr. GT....zeros' as if he were a
Prodigal feeding on husks. And now, though the
pressure on the resources of the country has be-
come more and more severe, the richest
county in England shrunk to pauperism,
the great stream of industry dried up at its
source, this incorrigible Prodigal reappears rich
and confident, and to-day all Income-tax-paying
and tea-drinking England will be killing the fatted
calf in honour of his Budget.
That a Financial Statement by Mr. Gianerrosx
is the finest Parliamentary performance to be
witnessed in any Legislature in Europe, if
not unequalled in Parliamentary history,
is a fact of universal acceptation. List even-
ing, in a speech of precisely three hours by the
clock, without a break, he was exhaustive, ela-
borate, and minute as a German archaeologist,
full of figures as an accountant, and yet as
discursive, as elevated, as large in utterance and
in thought as the born orator who is conscious of
speaking, and the statesman who is proud of mak-
ing, national history. No doubt there is something
of the elephantine power that rends an oak or
picks up a pin in this marvellous versatility. No
dou'bt the choice and copious diction is sometimes
luxuriant to excess, and even redundant in its
force and fulness. In some of its details it
may seem almost fantastically laborious and mi-
croscopic, but in its enunciation of great principles
of policy, in its study of the causes and
conditions of national prosperity, in its
sympathy with all wants, and claims, and
sufferings, and in its ardent aspirations
towards a better future for the multitude of
his fellow-countrymen, Mr. GLADIETONHE oratory
is not only a rare intellectual effort; it is a good
work of an honest man. As food for thought, and
as a minis of instruction, a financial statement of
this kind pareases a permanent value.

Mr. GLIDSTONE desires the country to regard his
present Budget as the fulfilment of a solemn
undertaking to reduce the burdens of the country,
and relax the " tension" of the national finances.
Since the beginning of the Russian war, our expen-
diture bas increased at a rate of more than eighteen
per cent. The Caswermoa of the Excazat•ra bene •
volently attributes much of this "optional" expen-
diture—dependent on public feeling at home,
on the policy of foreign states, on the prevailing
appetite for expenditure, which grows by expendi-
ture, and which seizes the public, the departments,
and responsible Ministers themselves—to the trans-
formations or reconstructions required by the
advance of science in the naval and rn litary ser-
vices. It is not perhaps Mr. GLAMITONI'II bUlinellll
to inquire too closely into this convenient fiction of
the War Department. But it is notorious that a
Government over the water, not remarkable for
military parsimony, has managed its transforms-
tions and reconstructions far more efficiently and
at half the oast. Have not jobs and blunders, and
follies, called "fixed forts," swallowed millions of
English money, without replacing a wooden fleet,
or procuring a serviceable gun I
Thanks, however, to our financial and
commercial policy, even the accumulated dis-
tresses of Lancashire and Ireland have not
been sufficient to create a deficit in the Treasury.
Laid year there was but the shadow of a surplus;
this year the revenue shows an increase of
805,0001, and the estimated revenue of the open-
ing financial year shows a surplus of 3,741,0001.
So that in most adverse and trying times the