The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-04 00:00:00

CIVIL CONTINGENCIES.'

This morning has beea limed an abstract of
the soma expended under the head of Civil Cootingen
elm, is the jean 1863, 1864, and 1866, a detailed sm
count of the expenditure is the you 1856, mid
au estimate of the einnot requited for 1858. The es-
peaddure defrayed from the grant in 1864 was 73,1181., and
M 1866, 83,8911., sliming aa increase last year of 10,7731.
Teem is an Menem of 3,1801. in the item of " expenses of
estsitsialac and convoying persons of distinetioa, ambassa-
dors, simmers, &e.," of 2,6851. Ia "aeries' public sir-
viers," end 4,488/. I. ditto for Inked.
The 'mown 'bat will probably be required to defray
expenses to be inserted under the head of Civil Contin-
gencies In 1858 is estimated at 100,0001., being an Masse*
of 18,1091. over the sum expended in 1856.

COURT OF COMMON COONClL.—Yestorday, at a
Coen of Cantesoa Conseil* the bill brought late parliament
by the Home Secretary foe the better regulation of the
Corp meth* of London wee referred to a committee of the
whole mart, with direction' to report thence forthwith. A
dimusioa this mined es emotion by Mr. Anderton, that
a dominates of the court wait lama her Majesty's wilaisten
to solicit their support is othalaing a repeal of the oath et
abjuration taken by pumas appointed to public °Noes,
sad that a copy et the retitle* of the court to
the Homes of Lords sad Comatose for the repeal of
the said oath be treassitted to all the corpora
Does, moonier their surpert to the same. The amino
was earriel by a large majority. Mr. H. 1.. Taylor, chair.
mu of the markets isthrovesseat committee, brought up
reports for authority to raise 20,0001. to couplet* the
market, and for trawiferring the management of tee market
to the markets committee. The reports were ordered to
be printed, aad eirealated mmegst the members. It was
refund to the coal sad own committee to report epos the
met oteenostios of property sad lumen to I. the City of
Lowden darter the lam three yeere. The Wootton of the
Judge of the Sheriffs' Court la the meta of Mr. °army
ended is the appointateut of Mr. Prendergast by 98 votes
to TT. The other candidates were Mr. Hyland sad Sir W.
Riddell, Bart—Adjourned
LITERARY INTELLIGINWIL—Mosenr. Hurst and
Blacken, summon to Mr. Conners, aaaaaa co as Meth-
coning the following aew works :—Memoirs of the Court of
the Regency, from edgiest fuellydoemseate, by the Doke
of Bnekieeltant and Cheador, K.O. No.. in 2 vols., with
portraits ; Rasters Hospitals sad Beglish Nurses, the
Narrative of Twelve Months' Baperionm in the Hoepitalls
et Hoehn sad Scutari, by a Lady Voluateer, in 2 vole.,with
illemerations ; A Summer M Northern Nerve, including
Sketches in Sweden, Nor way, Finland, the Alsad Isles,
Cloth and, ac., by Selina Busbery, in 2 ern ; Lake figarei,
' or, Beplorations and Discoveries dories Four Years in the
Wiles of Soute.Wemera Africa, by Charles John Andenan,
is 1 vol., with upwsrds of 60 illustrating ; Travels la
Penis, the Commis. Georgia, the., in 8 vole. ; A New
Story. entitled •• John Balite., Ossilsmae," by the Author
of w The Bead of the Psmily," to 3 vols. ; and also New
Novels by Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Trodper. Miss Jewsbary, the
Author of " B.Yis Wyedbara, Sir Edward Belabor,
Captain Cormier, the.
CITY or LONDON SCHOOLB.—Yestordav an extra-
"winery meeting of the friends and supporters of the above
reboots was held M the Lowden Tavern. John Cones,
Bee., of the ladle House. ;unaided, supported by the Von r-
attle Archdesina Hale, mad several other clergymen. From
the addresses of the venoms speakers, it append that the
seinen, eight in another, gave education to about 1,000
childrea, who Gould sot gala admiedos into the ward sad
pareehlel schools. They had been established forty years,
and were mime well supplant. Latterly, however, nen-
ehaata and ethos who used to reside at their places of ha-
Wane in the City had begun to reside la the minute, where-
by the subseriptiom to the schools had fallen from 1,3001. to
ON. • year. It was arranged that • clergyman sad some
laymen should IMMO the City for support, end the atom-
tory said that belted already received • subscription list of
about 2001. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the

pressulisp.
Ten PROPOSED MRTROPOLITAN MEAT-MSREET,
Testudity a &potation of the @seaweed Wiesen of New-
yaw-market waited, by appotatment, opus the Right Hoa.
Wm. Cowper, M.P., Pmeidest of the Board of Health, the
Son. Mr. Massey. M.P., sad Mr. Broad, M.P., the aim-
selaslonen appointed to report upon the sits of a nostrum-
Mau meat-market, at the °Sus of the board of health.
Tee &poultice eassisked of Mr. Venable', Mr. Butler, Mr.
Buser, Kr. Thomas Taylor, Mr. Finals, Mr. King, aid
Mr. Potter, olt *suasive lust 11011Meel is Newsom
market. The depststios read • memorial outing forth that
from the tserresed futlities famished by railways and
stminbeste for brining killed meat to market from all puts
of tee must's, the demised for killed meat was greeter is
properties Owls for live seines; that this trade had knouts
concentrated is Nougat. market cm scomat of its tumoral
situation, that dukes would not go to a market at Comm
bages-Seide, or is the suburbs, sad that the site of Zenith
field was meet eligible for a groat astral 'market, suitab:e
to the Iseressisg r-quireseato of the trade. Toe amnia
wss supported by Mr. Vesablu, Mr. Thomas Taylor, Kr.
Rosser, sad Mr. Potter. Mr. Cowper hulas lambed the
derma's for the isforatitios May bad afforded, the ia-
torview teenswated.
Tab ELoeoiNt= OF MODS CliCOLabit.--Tbo
Glasgow Dail, Mail quotes the following a• tho sewage-
meet of • rota circular, ironed 110111 Nark-lame, as Mosel :
The weather Is segaidowe. The Tower gees bays
be.. d forth the happy sews of gloriosa peace, sad, thanks
be M God, the busy-lesudwil labourer may agile go forth
to repredsotim labour. We bad sharp hest &gals Ibis
monist, bat sold is Marsh is se detriment, so beg as it be
dry, sad • more deity Muse hes melees bees brew& We
hear so wellientesded aomplairtti of the young 11b
their leas mesons rests must 114•411 stunk deep dowa,mat
Iwill retaking stsewen by sad-by, will, It is to be hoped,
presses the fuser • noble predate."