The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-22 00:00:00

CORDWAINERS.

At this ward Alderman Salomon, presided. The
wardrnote was nunterowdy attended.
'Wren. Deputy Lett, k S A., Mr. 11. L. Taylor, Mr. W.
Crouch.r, Mr. Richard Tress, Mr. Chatrey, and Mr. W.
Joyce, the late representatives, were tutaaimotwly re-
elected.
The several otemben returned thanks.

CRIPPLEGATE WITHOUT.
Mr. Alderman Cum.Lts, M.P., presided at the
Wertlmote held yesterday fur the election of eight members
to represent this ward in the Court of Common Council.
There was no opposition. Seven of the former members
offered themselves fur reodection, and were unanimously
chosen ; their names are Mr. George Meadway, Deputy ;
Mr. John Johnson, Mr. Raptness Read, Mr. William King,
Mr. Leong' Cuthbert, Mr. John Sewell, and Mr. Jobs
Dairies. Mr. Wawa having declined to eerie again,
Mr. Robert Spencer was elected in his place.
The several candidates baring returned thanks for thole
'moon, in doing which each of them declared himself is
favour of Corporation Reform,
An elector remarked that he thought there was seam
seated of duty chargeable to that body in the Corporatiee
who were contested with the management of the sewer'.
le luny parts of the ward there was no sewerage, and the
wiespools, which were monetarily their substitutes eel&
nosed great injury to the health of the inhabitame.
Mr. Deputy MIADWAT said that the City Cunumbeins
of Sewers, and he believed the Metropolitan Cvnunississ
she, were doing all that was is their power to improve lbw
&Usage and the sanitary mead= of the niertgemelie jpreee
rally ; but it should be remenkdmi that while lisle miss
3,0110 miles of ..wen necessaryee emmiste the desienge of
laden and its suburbs, only Molise if most existed.
Until a complete modem of eirebseme nor sompisted, sod
that it was obvious mast be s week et time, there must be
cesspools, and the seisms seleleg from them must in •
greater or lase deism sindnes.
Mr. Kure (Onus Oseedbies) observed that there
were 800 leiglartkeseee Is die ward let oat to prior
families, sad is smy many deem biasses there was no inter-
nal accommosiatMo. If the leadismised time would do their
auty in providing that amminarneklies which was necessary
foe the health of their tease% and making their houses fit
for human befogs to live in, seek *odd be done in the
way of improving the semiesty ensdition of the ward. Un-
fortunately, all the lemillemie Mod for was their rent, and
m they generally {lenient of emss sad received the rent
Waugh en agent, the emermislienals Mehl est get at them.
It might be said they wiskt se le She teoeute, but it would
be hard to go to time MS pee* and take their geode he
not whitens/aft the Yam, sad lambing that provides
which it was the duty of their landlord to make, and whisk
they themselves could sot.
As Et.ec-roa mid he could not admit that the fault wee
altogether with the landlords. He thought it mart be
chargeable to the commissioners, or somebody else fa the
corporation.
Mr. Deputy WISADRAT—TO use extent, it may, per.
haps, net with the eeninneninnen or the deputies. 'bet fa
mat he remembered tiny onset be at all places at once.
Mr. haze(ll (as eleetee) thought, however, if they
would honestly pat their shoulders to the wheel, they
might do much good. (Hear, hear) It was all very well
for them to say that the fault was with the landlords but
it was the business of the corporation to see that 'their
Radioed. did their duty, and if, as the law stood, duty
weld not compel them to do it, application should be made
to parliament for a more stringent law. The present state
of the ward was disgraceful, and the eMinia arising from
the sewers through the gullies was so great that persons
who were the Watt astionatical could not bear it, and were
competed, on going to and returning from church an the
Sunday, tocrosa and enema the streets in order to avoid
the gullies. He hoped such of the gentlemen who were
now returned to represent the ward as might hereafter be
upon the Sewers Committee would endeavour to make
same regulation whereby the stench from the gullies, which
now escaped into the , might be earned by pipes
above the houses, where it could do no harm. (A laugh.)
The unease would he nothing as compared with that of
deodurising the whole of the merge, which hod
been talked about. They had heard a pleat dad
about corporation reform, and each of the gentlemen
who hal been that day elected had said that he was Is
favour of corporation reform, but they had not all stated
that they would like to see it carried out. (" Oh, oh.")
They bad not heard a word about their desire to put ea
end ti the eating and drinking which was now carried
on to such an extent in the corporation, and about which'
evidence had been given elsewhere. It would seem that
this was the great object which gentlemen had in view
when they offered themselves as candidates for corporate
duties, fur they found that those committees and those
duties which afforded the largest amount of good eating
and drinking were always most sought after and the best
attended. (Cries of " Order.") It appeared by the evidence
to which ho had alluded, that 4,0001. a year of the corpo-
rate funds were spent in this way. (Cries of " Order" and
"chair.")
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS said his friend (Mr. Breeee) had
been misinformed as to the facts; but even if it were not
so, this war not the proper time to discus the subject. It
should be recollected that the evidence only on one side
bad yet been taken by the commissioners. They had not
heard the answer which the corporation was prepared to
give. When the corporation commission was first ap-
pointed Mr. Cornwall Lewis wrote to him (the alderman),
asking whether the course proposed of taking all the
evidence against the corporation would be objected to;
and although he felt that some prejudice might arise in the
public mind from a number of ex pane statements being
made public and remaining for a considerable period unan-
swered, yet it was thought upon the whole advisable that
the whole case against the Corporation should be laid before
the commissioners beton they were called upon to answer
any of the evidence. Of the reckless statements which had
been made in the course of that evidence they were aware.
In one lotuses • gentleman stated that 8,000/. had been
expended for a particular purpose, whereas it turned out
that the actual amount was only 5001 Such was the way
to which the evidence against the Corporation had been got
up. Then with regard to the attendance of the members
et the Common Council on the different committees. It
had been suggested that each member should for the future
naive a guinea for each attendance, in the same way as the
directors and managers were paid in public companies for
their attendance at board meetings. HeL bad in his
possession a paper showing the number of attend-
aces given by the several members of the Common
Council on committee humane, and be found that all
they received—that was the total sum expended for cons-
Minn dinners—did not amount to 6d. an hour to each
Member who attended. (Hear, hear.) And when the
salve of a commercial man's time was °moldered, and how
easy it was for any man of any station in the City to have
his mune placed upon the direction of public companies (he'
himself had at least forty opportunities of this kind) where
he would get from one to four guineas for an hour's attend-
sage, they could well understand why persons who were
described as merchants were reluctant to take *Mee in the
corpora'ion. (Hear, hen.) Its had himself entered the
corporation as a reformer, end he was still • reformer,
anions as he had ever been to abolish every abuse that
aniseed. But what he feared was, that the exaggerated
elellements which had been made before the oommasionen
(especially by one person, who had gene to the commission
without much character, and had come away with as little)
might tent rather to perpetuate than remove abuses. One
great source of evil at present was the narrowness of the
constituency, and that he was desirous of seeing remedied.
(Hem) It had been endeavoured to be shown that the
elected meeistrates were lees *Menai than those
nominated by the crown, and one gentlenian,
himself a magistrate, had mimed to the small
number of pinata committed by the City magistrates, an
compared with the number committed by himself, but the
efficiency of the magistrate was best shown by the number
of coueictione, and it appeared that while of the committals
by the gentleman referred to, only 60 per cent. resulted in
convistoina, of the committals by the City magistrates only
10 pet cent. resulted in acquittaG. lie was desirous of re-
leasing the corporation, but not of destroying it, and he
advised his fellow-citimnis to pause ere they consented to
give out of their own hands the right of thong their own
work. (Hear, hem.
The usual formal Lein's* was then transacted, and a
vote of thanks baring been passed in favour of the worthy
alderman who presided, the court broke up.

CRIPPLEGATE WITHIN.
At the wardmote of this ward held yesterday
(Mr. Alderman CMALLIO presiding) the following gentle-
men were nontinat.d fur Common Councilmen by the pre-
c.aets, and unanimously elected by the wardmote —Mr.
IT Hoot., Mr. B. E. Brown, Mr. D. Dewar, Mi. ft.
Thwarter, Hr. H. Lloyd, Hr. J. Parker, and Mr. B. Spils-
bury. Ihe last alined gentleman was elected to supply
the vacuity crest. ..I by the resignation of Mr. Benntich.
The saltiest men and other ward offiesirs for the ensuing
Cut were then cleat d, and the waromote broke up, after
vote of thanes to the presiding alderman.

FA RRINGDON WITHIN.
In this ward Alderman Kelly presided; and the
fol.uwiag diadem's were elected, yrs., Dspety Ennieten,De-

platy Holt, Mown. Virtu*, M'Laueblem, Blake, B.S. Phillip,
Morris, Young, M'Ortitor, C. Phillips, Nicholson, Heaps,
W. S. Wheeler, and Kelday. Mr. Deputy Bagleton said
it would be the desire u well u the duty of himself and
his colleagues to advocate the wishes of the ward in all
municipal matters. This would be particularly the case
with respect to the widening of their thoroughfares rendered
so imperatively necessary by the great increase of traffic.
Such a step would greatly facilitate their business tunne-
-1 tions, would do much to improve the sanitary csadition of
the city, and would be the means of bringing within it more
of that class of peruse whom they desired to see in the
city. (Hear bear.) Mr. Eagleton concluded by thanking
the ward on behalf of his colleagues for the honour it had
done them. A number of complimentary votes having been
passed, the wudiaote adjourned.