The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-07 00:00:00

CeITT OF ALDERMEN.

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Yesterday a court wag held for the despatch Of
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p busiest's.
- NI.I6*NTID tofu:guru ON LOCO MAYOR'S DAT.
Tee Lome M•10h eold he wished the court to be pat in
ice of some correspondence epos the subject of
.r"Zednpolieemea.
Lee Tows CLia• then read the following cone-
„palace • Nov. 29, 1853.
o Lewd Palmerston prevents his compliments to the Lord
lore and begs leave to enclose him the copy • con-
t Of mooted po
licemen riding at a naked
used', which L .rd Paimer-ton finds on inquiry does not
infer to the otheen of the Metropolitan Police Force.
~Tee light Him. the Lord Mayor, &e., etc."
ft Nov. 10, 18.53.
oi lip Lord,-Vnerilling to trouble a Secretary of State
~t, a loss letter, way a private individual be permitted to
as vest that the spectacle of mounted policemen riding at a
wetly ;Ole crowd (ouch as aslemble at the Lord Mayor's
'how') with waives, is not a sight consonant to the
wimp of Eashalunca at the present day.—With great
stip. ct. Le • " Onenirriut.
„Ter Bight HOO. Lord Viseount Palmerston,
Secretary of S'...4tC Hume Department."
" Haase Dec. 2, 1853.
'•11 The Lord .10, presents WI complinaestv to Lord
Newtown, and begs to enelase the yin' does.
meet In reply to his Isrdsbip's note of thier&of Novem-
ber Maitre to the mounted pol.ce force ersapiejed in the pre-
cool...a on Lord Moor's Day ; and the Lord Mayor trusts
tpe mihneion given wilt bo sate,factogy (ohm lordship.
"TIN Ittght lien. Lord Palmerston, Seer!tory
of State for the Home Department.
"City Police °Mee, Nov. 30, 1833.
Su,—ln reference to the anuaynaons letter addressed
to Lord l'alenemton, complaining of mounted policemen
flame at a merely ;ill.: crowd with naked cabers on Lord
mare% Day teat, I beg leave to report that a party of
wanted men or t'..a tons were employed on that day to
aid in clearing the aey through the streets en the line of
woo of the proce.-i.in a position. bath from
my own of:nervation, toi well as from the sassusels of many
respectable inbebitant, who had an opportnialty of seeing
what took place. to c. otradiet the assertion that there was
any mho; at s er.0.1 with naked sabres. Ms suet violence
ws. exhibited by the men, or at all nemosoary. On the
verify, though the atm.' was in ray Passe very deem,
ma people fell back at the dirt Stun the polies fa aam
ready and good humoured manner. Ihe lor So seats
that, when a proton on is in motion, it is sosessisry bore,
and is every other f We, that the polite fassiag the escort
&dew* with tbt it truncheons drawn, if cm foot, or swords,
amounted. 1 may add that all the mounted men are old
pesky soldiers, tele ctoi from our own knowledge of their
individual good temper and conduct as constables.
I have the honour to he, Sir, your very obedient
servant, "CHAS. O. Hof:wooer, Superintendent.
" D. W. Harvey, Eaq., Censmisitiener of the
City of London Polie,."
Alderman WILSON said he spprehended that the noble
lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department was
ratialed with the answer of the Lord Mayor, and there-
fore it was not necessary that any farther noticee should be
taken of the anonymous letter signed " Obeerver"—•
letter which, from the style in which it was written he
could not help considering a hoax. He (Alderman Wilson)
on last Lord Mayor's-day walked with the poke from
Guildhall to where the chief magistrate and his friends took
water, and he net e.nly never saw a larger crowd, but
saw so great a man, of human beings so well behaved or ap-
parently so happy, and enjoying themselves so much. He
undertook to say, ft: in his own personal observation, that
there was no occasion whitest' for any mounted policemen
to ride st the crowd on that day. (Hear, bear.)
Alderman EA RIOROTH as said if there had been any real
foundation for the charge which had been made, the writer
of the letter would have appended his name to it. He
though' the court were very much indebted to Lord Pal-
merston for having rent the communication, although an
anonymous one, to the Lord Mays, as the head of the
corporation. (Hear, hear.)
ACCOUNTS OF TUE COISPORATION.

The Loan Maroc—The has just handed up
to me the book containing entries of payments to be made
for my 'ignitor., two Aldermen having etareined thelsame.
These entries consist of 42 items amounting to about L3oftl.
I thak these sums abouid not he disposed of in so summary
• mower, but that the court should know of what they
consist sod to what they relate. I must confess my asto-
nishment and exert:Jingly great regret at finding an entry
of 3481. to Mr. Morlsnd, engineer, for fitting up a treadmill in
the New Prison, which was built for a special purpose, and
in order to put an end to the barbarous custom of tread-
wheel punishment. I know nothing of such an item as this
having passed the court, end if it has done so I ezesedingly
regret it. Ii lam to sign items of this nature, I would
rather do so when they have been sanctioned and approved
by the court.
Alderman Winn—Your lordship is perfectly aware of
the practice of the court and of the committee. The bills
go before the committee, and when approved are vouched
by the signatures of two Aldermen. It is usual in a ease
where twe of your bretheren have aliened an account testi-
fying that it has been vouched to them, that your lordship
should officially put your signature to it.
The Loam Macon said he was very much obliged to his
friend Alderman Wire for giving his a lecture on the
duties of the Lord Mayor, but he had made up his mind
during the period he held that distinguished office to do
nothing as a matter of course.
Alderman Wit.sote remarked that the arrangements
made b'y the court for a thorough eupervision of ezpen-
dinare by its committee had been settled after much delibe-
ration. lie had not the slightest objection to ell the items
being read aloud end discussed, but if the court were to
audit the bills according to the plan pursued by the ones-
=Mee they might sit all day, and then not satisfactorily
perform their work. His own sigeature was attached to'
the bills now alluded to, the greeter portion of them being
for worts which had been certified for by Mr. Banning and
other officials of the court ; to point of feet, all the bills
relating to what bed been done at the new prison had been
audited by the clerk of the works, and certified by his to
be motet. (Heer, hear.) The treadmill, as now re-erected,
was of great service in pumping water.
Aidersaaa Wins having disavowed the intention lecturing
the thief 'magistrate,
The Loan MAYOR said that be disputed the authority of
any committee to spend 35111. without the auction of the
mart.
Hereupon • discussion ensued, and finally
Aldermen Winn moved that the bills, as allowed by tke
two aldermen in the bill book, be paid.
Sir R. W. CARDIN wooded the meths, which wu pat
sad carried uaanintously.

CITY COLIC' TORCIL

Urea the peemstation of the report of one of the OM-
mimes reeseensonding as increase is the pay of this tea,
(se P. Lev= said ha easaidered the pass knee of the
City amply p.M Ow their services, which were set by any
seam er se whew a character u those perfeemed by tbe
metropolitan trues. He moved that the mat be muted,
Whee there appeared only 12 mirmbees present.
Thirteen members !Jiang required to essetitote a mart,
e buinees of the day was sedileely tenalmeted. The
aeml=minetaieed several subjoins, mbleat Wes remain
m
—awes them a Widen Aeries ealseeednat
lOW a Welter.