The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-29 00:00:00

L 2,371,877 13 I

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Faid-up capital Loudon
stock 1:440,000 0 0
Local stuck 21,197 10 0
471,197 10 0
Circulation
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rent accounts, &c
Fund for doubtful debts

Insurance fund
Itescrve fund

£2,371,871 13 1
A long discussion took place in respect to the manage-
ment in Irchoul, in which several expn s.ion. were nude in
favour of Mr. John O'Connell's present: at the Dublin
board, but after a reply by the chair:ll.in, the subject was
allowed to drop.
Mr. JOIIN O'CONNELL, M.P., said that the pay was
not an object, for be could get greater pay by attcuding
the London board; he wished to ho entirely guided by the
opinion of the meeting.
The report having been adopted nnanimou•ly, and the
directors who retired re-elected, as well as the three Dublin
directors, Messrs. Dunne, Guinness, and 11aughton, the
meeting separated.

ST. PANCRA4 VESTRY MKETINO ON IISE CAJNciOLI-
DATION OP TILE PAVINO 110ARDS.—Yesterday [herr Was, an
unwmally lam! attendance in the Te!try. room,
C.undrn Town, to receive a communication from the conk.

=nee :appointed to carry out the consolidation of the 17
' paving hoards, and to inect the borough members on the
subject thereof—Mr. Pearce, churchwarden, was in the
chair. The report of the committee on the consolidation
question was read, which, after stating the progress which
the bill had made in the committee of the House of Com-
mons, expressed the cons nittee's surprise and regret that
the directors had refused to sanction the payment of 3001.
to the parliamentary agent, in accordance with the recom-
mendation to that effect by the committee appointed by the
vestry for the purpose of olitaining the bill for the consoli-
dation of the paving boards, and called upon the vestry
to protect them in the performance of their duties.
—Mr. 13rettingliam moved un addition to the report de-
claring that the vestry did not feel authorised to acquiesce
in the first resolution of the committee of the House of
Commons spoil the Saint Pancras l'aving Bill, and must
insist upon the right of the ratepayers on the Southampton
district to have a permissive clause introduced into the bill,
giving the ratepayers of the district power to come under
the new act.—Mr. Cooper seconded the resolution. Ho be-
lieved that the sense of the ratepayers in the Southatnptun
estate had not been fairly taken on the subject of the con-
solidation of the paving boards—he felt assured that the
g. neral feelings of the ratepayers was that the paving
should be conducted by one in-teal of by seventeeu boards.
Ile bad no doubt that eventually the Southampton estate,
when they saw the good and economical management of
th •• St. Pancras board, would be most anxious to be in-
claded in the same management, and he should like them
to have the power of being included in the same board
without incurring the expense of a new local act. Ile (Mr.
Cooper) regretted that the hen. members fur the borough
had voted for the Southampton estate being& separate board,
The resolution was then put and carried.—Lord 1./udley
Stuart said ho was anxious to ;correct an error into which
Mr. Cooper had fallen. Members of a committee of the
House of Commons, by a new rule introduced only this
year, were not allowed to vote; the local members were
permitted to attend committees, and to give advice or infer-
oration. Ile (Lord 1). Stuart) and his hon. colleague had
nut omitted to draw the attention, of the committee to the
important tact that it was the Irish of the ratepayers that
there should be but one paving board, and that this was I
the substance of a resolution come to almost unanimously
ate very large meeting of the rate-payers. Ile believed
that the parish would be far better off with two boards in-
stead of 18.—Sir B. Hall said it would be his duty to re-
port to the committee what transpired at the present meet-
ing. He perfectly agreed that a clause should be inserted
in the bill, giving the Southampton board privilege of be-
nefiting by the consolidation.
ORAY'S-INN, MAT 2El.—At a pension of the Ho-
nourable Society of Grity'einn, holden this day, Edward
raul.ratte, Leg., was called to the degree of barrister-at-