The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

F.ent'.......'"----—ig, Mr. Weer non, Mr. Hardwicke, Mr.
vi,,ell•4la, Hr. Hickson, Mr. Oliver, and Mr. Pestle were again
"' —l' ' resentatives of this Ward.
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" sr —Mr
wOLIXAN-STRZ . . Aid. Hunter presided at this
de. Mr. Deputy Allen, T. H.
vej, Mr. J. Davis, Mir. It. Johnson, Mr. G. Bracker, Mr.
Iriihmips, and Mr. J. Perkins were re-elected. The changes
.r, ring on the " one topic " in this wardmote with very
anderable euergy by some of the above gentlemen, and a
!volution declaring the conduct of the Court of Aldermen an
ivvion on the pnvilegee of the citizens, and recommending
Rs
'periodical election of that body was pot forward, but after-
;ices withdrawn. Mr. Ald. Hunter received a compliment-
ley vote of thanks before te meeting broke u.
roficivreteetts.—Mr. Alhderman Wood, whop was suffering
ego severe inclispoeition, presided here. Mr. Deputy Mud-
ge% Mr. Croucher, Mr. Joyce,. Mr. Lott, Mr. Joliffe, and
Mr. Taylor, the outgoing members, were proposed for re-
;co, There was a new candidate, in the person of
Sr. Joseph, on whose behalf a poll was demanded. The
sg.eaciiing dispute between the " civic houses" was debated
en in this wardmote with much spirit.
Coseutte.--Alderman Sir .1. Pirie presided at this ward- '
glee, which was held in the vrerv-room of St. Mich rep's,
Conibill. Mr. Deputy Harrison, 'Mr. J. Carter, 'ale It.
Randall, Mr. J. Waterlow, Mr. U. Dewar, and Mr. J.
Bunter were re-elected.
C useaII'PLEATE WITIIIN.—Of the gentlemen returned-
lest year im were proposed again for the year
!tuning. 'There are two new efindidatee, viz., Mr. Dewar,
on. (liberal), and Mr. 8.. L. Wilson (conservative). The
wardmote was held at the school room in Philip-lane, and
was presided over by Mr. Alderman Challis.—The Alder-
gm basing called for a show of hands on behalf of the
several caudidates, declared the numbers to be as follaws :
B. smith, Fag., 48 ; Mr. Hoole, 46: Mr. W. Brawn, 40;
Mr. F. Bennoch, 40: Mr. W. Brass, 39; Mr. W. t.aah, 36;
Mr. Dellar, janr , 36; Mr. Lart, 3.5 ; Mr. R. L. Wilson,
23. A poll was demanded by Mr. Wilson, which was ap-
hoed to be taken to day, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
ZBrown, in returning thanks, said the Court of
Aldermen, it appeared, had mode up their minds to
vipose every Liberal measure the Court of Common
Council might suggest.—Alderman Challis: That is not the
ease,—Mr. Brown: But it is so. They oppose the first bill
for reforming the corporation to a man. (No.) It is true.
Sir P. Laurie is the only honest Alderman among them all.
(A laugh.) That bill, however, I do not attach much
consequence to, for it does not go far enough fur me ;
but the bill they fear is the one in the back-
ground which is to prevent the aldernem slipping their hands
into the city funds without the consent of the citizens,
through their representatives. The course the committee,
appointed 1,7 the Common Council to consider this matter,
recommended, was, that no othi r business should be suffered
to proceed in the court until the bill in question had been
Housethird time ; and then that they shnuld go to the
of Cominone. After a few sentenres from Mr. Lart,
Mr. Ald. Challis said that FO far from the Court of Aldermen
being opposed to all reform, they were ready to meet the
Court of Common Council, and go to Parliament
for an entire and complete reform of the whole.
(Hear, hear.) They had no intention In the
present dispute but to uphold their rights as they existed,
and they acre quite as anxious to support the rights of
the Common Council as their own. No doubt there were
many thins in the corporation which required to be
changed; but as to the charge of the al ternien putting the
corporation money into their poekete, it was a perfect joke.
The wardinete, after the formal business of appointing the
Various ward officers, proceeded to the poll. The numbers
• at the close of the pulling to-day were :—Smith, deputy, 17 ;
Bennoch. 17 ; Hoole, 17; Brown, 17 ; Brass, 15 ; Cash, 15 ;
Dewar, 16; Lart, 15; Wilson (Conservative), 5.
Down. TE.—J. Johnson. Eel., the alderman, pre‘ided, and
the officers of the past year were elected for the year ensuing,
including the following common councilmen :—Meseta.
Brown, Prior, White, COUS:OP, Kehbell, and Harker.
Thanks were unanimously- awarded to the worthy alderman
for the dignity, hospitality, sound judgment, &e., he had dis-
played during the ni riod he filled the office of Lord Mayor.
Feenteenox WITHIN.—The wardmote for the above
populous division of the city was fixed for 12 o'clock,
to be holden in the hall of Christ Church School,
but in consequence of the illness of Mr. Alderman Kelly,
the Lord Mayor was applied to, when he fixed half-past 4
o'clock, hut who did net arrive until nearly 6 o'clock.—A
show of hands was then taken, when the Lord Mayor de-
clared that the contest rested with Messrs. Phillips, Blake,
and Steel ; on which the friends of the two former gentle-
men demanded a poll —The Lord Mayor : Do you demand
a poll, Mr. Stecl.—Mr. Steel: No; he hint no idea of de
mending a poll ; but as he had been proposed, his name
must stand. His lordship had no power to remove it.—The
poll, about 7 o'clock, was then opened pro forma, and the
further proseedinge were adjourned until this clay.
FARRINGOON WITTIOUT.—The burgesses of this ward
met in wardmote at 11 o'clock, in the New Court, Old
Bailey. Sir James Duke, Alderman of the Ward, pre-
sided. The usual formalities having been disposed of, Sir
James proceeded to read the names of the following gentle-
men, candidates for the office of Common Councilmen :
Messrs. Edmund Hodgson, H. J. Lias, Michael Prendergast,
James Andcrton, N. T. Isherwood, R Ohbaril (deputy),
Henry Burn, Samuel S. Edkins, J. T. Bedford (deputy), J.
M. Barnard, Dr. Lynch, T. Turner, It. Williams, It. Taylor,
J. Buckmaeter, W. Harding, Wm. Carpenter, and (.I.
Walter.—Sir James Duke declared the show of hands to be
in favour of the sixteen gentlemen whose names stand first,
with the exception of Messrs. Turner and Hodgson.—A poll
was demanded on behalf of these gentlemen, end the pro-
ceedings were. adjourned until 12 o'clock this day.
LANOUOVON.—In this ward there is a contest. It returns
8. Those marked * are new candidates. Dixon, 15 ;
Unwin, 14; *Sure, 6 ; *Miller, 9 ; Shaw, 8; Ilowayd, 12;
Snelling, 12; •Ende, 8; Frodsham, 12; Gibson, 8. Mr.
Cannon resigned.
LINIE-STREET.—VCICITOSO Farebrother took the chair
in the Ward Schools, St. Mary-axe. A letter was read from
Deputy Mitchell, announcing his resignation. The worthy
aldermen, and several inhabitann, bore testimony to the
faithful manner in which Mr. Mitchell performed his duties.
The following gentlemen were then elected to servo as
common-cauncilir.en for the year ensuing: Daniel Cork,
Thomas Bridge Simpson, Thomas Symons, and William
Pounce; the two last are new members in the room of
Deputy Mitchell and Mr. Cosser, resigned.
Poarsoxes.—The wardmote for the choice of officers for
this ward wes held, at twelve o'chick, by Mr. Alderman
Moon, at the Three Nuns Inn, Aldgate lligh-street. The
officers for local purposes having been appointed, and the
accounts agreed to, Messrs. Wright, Christie, Parker, Jut-
sum, Hayward, Dant:rd, Killby, Thomson, and G. Vile,
were put in nomination, as candidates for the office of
Deputy in the Court of Common Council ; and upon a show
of hands the election was declared to have fallen upon the
eight first-named gentlemen, who are the present repre-
sentatives of the ward. A peal was demanded on the part of
Mr. VVe, and three o'clock appointed for taking it.—
At four o'clock the names stood as follows on the poll :
Wright, 26; Christie, 25; Parker, 26; Jutsum, 26; Hay-
weld, 25; Danford, 19; Killby, 27; Thomson, 22; Vile,
19.—The polling to-day will befrom 3to 5, and to-morrow
front 2 till 4 o'clock.
QUEENHITIIE.—The meeting in this ward took p
i lace
before Alderman Hooper, n the church of St. Michael,
Thames-str,et, when the following gentlemen were returned
—viz.; Messrs. Sykes, J. Aeocks, J. Curtis, Tyler, and
Rathbone.
Towen.—The Lord Mayor presided, in the absence of
Mr. Alderman Lucas (who is indisposed). The ward
officers of the past year were reelected:—'Messrs. Finnis,
Briggs, Seleon, Redhead, Young, Aitchison, Turnbull, and
Capel.—A unanimous vote, approving the conduct of the
Common Council, in respect to the existing dispute, was
passed.—A report to the following effect, on the improve-
ment of Tower Ward, was presented by the committee, ap-
pointed in September last, for the purpose of considering the
propriety of widening and otherwise improving Tower-
street. The Duke of Wellington had, in a letter,
aiproved the plan of the inhabitants. A memorial to
• the Common Council had been referred to the Improvement
Committee, recommending the widening of Tower-street, but
a plan for a new street was stated by Mr. R. L. Jones to
be before the commissioners of metropolitan improvements.
The report concluded by recommending the " ward plan."
Some discussion arose as to the ward clerk, who, it was
alleged by Mr. Hall, had not acted with good faith towards
the ward in taking steps to recommend a new street. Mr.
Tite (the architect) explained that having been applied
to by Mr. Shcarman, the ward clerk, ho certainly was
of opinion that an entirely new street would be more ad-
vantageous than widening the old one. (Cties of " Yes, yes,"
and " No, no.") He thought widening the old street would
cost 150,0001., while a new street could be built for 50,0001.
( Mr. Tite concluded by expressing a hope that the recommen-
dations of the Duke of VVellington would be speedily carried
into effect. Mr. Shearman expWned, and alter a considerable
discussion the court broke up.
VINTRY —The wardmote in this ward was held at the
School-house, Brick-hill-lane, Thames-street, before Sir
William Magnates, Bare, when the following members were
returned, viz. :—.4r. John King, Mr. W. Dunsford White,
Mr. T. Sprague, Mr. T. Marsden, Mr. Sand Lepard, and •
Mr. John Welsh, in the room of Henry James Rites

resigned.
WitnaooK. —ln this ward, held before Alderman
Gibbs, at the School-house, Walhrotis, tha whole of the
old members were returned.—Mr. Travers moved a resolu-
tion to the effect, that in the opinion of that wardmote, the
right of the Lord Mayor to refuse to put a motion, may be
prejudical to the interests of the Citizens of London, and the
rights of free discussion, and in the opinion of the wardmote,
an application should be made to the legislature, to render
the Court of Aldermen amenable to public opinio.—Ald.
Gibbs We are amenable topublic opinion nown.—Alter
some discussion, the resolution was carried with a slight altera-
tion, in effect "that application should be made to the
Legislature to decide the question." A vote of thanks having
been a•sariled the Aldermen and Cummon Council, the
meeting"sepatated.

CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE COMPANY.
A meetir.g of this company was held yesterday
at its offices in Villiers-street, Strand, to take into con-
sideration the announcement M the London Gazette of 4th
ultimo, of an intended application to parlament for power to
erect a fre, bridge across the Thames, from or near White-
hall-place to the opposite shore of the Thames.
W. Ilawi.s, Esq., deputy-chairman of the company, pre-
sided. lie said that the directors of the company, after
having examined the plans of the project in qu, vtion, had
waited upon Lord Morpeth, as head of the Woods and
}c7Tste department, and explained to him the ruinous
elleets which would fall upon the company, if parlia
were to sanction the erection of a new bridge in such imme-
diate contiAuity to the bridge which had so recently been
coustructei under the sanction of parliament—a bridge -whose
utility to the public had been amply demonstrated by the
amount of traffic which passed over it. Lord Morpeth, who
was exceedingly courteous in his msnner of saying what
little he did say, gave nu direct answer as to whether the