The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-15 00:00:00

CITY BROCZRS.

The following gentlemen were sworn to the office of a
broker for the city of London : Mr. Charles Morgan Dutton,
Mr. John Henry Moses, and Mr. Edward Tiernan. Mr.
Joseph Tacker was discharged from the office of a broker
upon his own application.

LORD MAYOR'S DAT.
The next business before the court was to make an order
for the issuing of the usual precept' to the ward beadles and
others, for Lord Mayor's Day.
Alderman WILSON said he should not oppose the Inning
of those precepts, but it appeared to him that in their
present form they were nothing but nonsense, and quite
unsuited to the present enlightened times, and that the
terms of them should be altered. The attention
of the court was then called to the form
of the precept sent to the ward beadles, which was read,
and caused a good deal of amusement. It recited that, by
the provisions of an set of parliament passed in the reign
of William the Third, they were on Lord Mayor's Day to go
diligently from house to house, in their several war, and
take care that no squibs or serpents, or crackers, or other
fireworks were made, and that they should not permit say
such to be discharged in the streets. They were also enjoined
to request the inhabitants to decorate their houses and bal-
conies with flags and banners, and likewise to take care that
the scavengers kept the streets through which the procession
passed clean and in good order. He said that at the pre-
sent clay all these things were perfectly unnecessary, and, in
fact, the precepts were neither more nor less than nonsense,
calculated only to produce laughter and ridicule. He should
therefore move that before the precepts were issued they
should be referred to a committee to alter the form in which
they were worded, and render them more in accordance with
the feelings of the present times.
The motion was agreed to.
STORING Or PETROLEUM.

The General Purposes Committee brought up a report in
reference to an application that had been made by Mr.
George Hawkins for a license for storing benzole, the pro-
duct of petroleum,

The report that the committee had conferred with
the law officers of the corporation upon the subject, and
they hod resolved upon granting a license for six months
only.

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Soule private business was subsequently discussed with
closed doors, and the court thee adjourned.

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.

The Commissioners of Sewers held their weekly
meeting yesterday, in the Sewers Court-room, Gtuldhall,
Mr. Dr miser presiding.
Dr. ABlitH %NI moved that it should be referred to the
General Purposes Committee to inquire into the conditions
of the contracts of the present year with the ms companies.
Mr. C. Yorn. seconded the motion, which was carried
without any discus/floe.
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Dr. LEIHEBT, the medical officer, reported on the state of
183 houses which had been inspected during the weok, and
be submitted a list of 56 places for sanitary improvement,
and likewise a list of placed requiring further proceedings on
account of orders already issued not having been complied
with.

He alio reported that the markets and slaughter-houses
bad been duly inspected during the week, and that the
officers had seized 5.4001 be. of meat and 282 head of game
and poultry as unlit for human food. It consisted of 10
sheep, 5 pigs, 21 quarters of beef, and numerous joints.
2,741165. were diseased and the rest was putrid.
Forty-one deaths and 61 births had been registeredduring
the week. The number of deaths was below the "siege
(53) of the correiponding week of the hat seven years ; 23,
or more than half the deaths, were among children of less
than five years of age, and only 6 among old persons of 60
and upwards. The principal causes of death were as fol-
lows :—Phthisis. 5 ; mesenteric disease, 3 ; pneumonia, 2 ;
bronchitis, 3 ; continued fever, 4 ; scarlet fever, 6 ; measles,
2; diphtheria, 2 ; and infantile diarrhom, 3; making together
8 deaths from tubercular diseases, 3 from inflammatory
discerns of the lungs, and 14 from diseases of the zymotic
clam