The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-03 00:00:00

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Council waa held yesterday
at Guildhall, ander the presidency of the Lord Mayor.

11l GUILDHALL DIPSOVIMIENT.
The overt 'proceeded to take into aseeideration a report of
the Guildhall Improvement Committee, having reference to
the works that have been for a loo` tame going tie is the
interior of the Guildhall, with a view to its restorstion to
its original 000ditiou as nearly am may be. This report has
been printed, and it recommended cortein additional works
to be performed in connexion with the proposed alterations,
at an experts* not exceeding 9,3304 ,• and also that it should
be referred to the Coal, Core, and Finance Committee to
=this mum sod an additional amount of 5,9004 that
lady beim incurred for works agreed to be executed,
and which were not included I. the origin•l estimate of the
cost off wove/Mug the ball.
Mr. JOHN KILDAT, the chairman of theiGuildhall Improve.
meat Committee, in =visa that the report be agreed to,
adverted at some length to the mottoes in eouniezion with
the subject, and said that, although cell a portion of the
works bad yet bees completed. he believed that the ire.
provements that had been effected had given complete
satisfactioa. At find there appeared to bays boon gorse
doubts as to the propriety of the down for the DOW roof,
but all three doubts were removed upon its completion, sad
he wee jvatilled I. saying that since of the moot eminent
architects and men of mimes, while they saw it completed,
had expreemel an opinion that it was • complete swam,
and that, when all the other improvements were carried
out, the Goßdhell would be sewed only to Westminster,
and would be second to no other hall of the like
character in this country. (Hear, hear.) Ile believed that
they bad gone is the right direction, and that in
the result it would be said by the world at Lege
that the corporation of London we perfectly competent to
undertake a great work of this description, and to carry
it out surosedally. The boo. member then referred to
some details of the proposed alteratious, and expremed hie
opinion that the opening of the windows la the hall was
one of the grandest efforts for its restoration, and that
when they ware illuminated, as it was proposed they should
be, the effect could hardly be guessed at. lie then said that
one of the alterations that was proposed to be carried out
wee to lower the statues and monuments so se to being
them nearer to the eye, which would give a much bettor
effect ; and by a proposed alteration in the pavement of the
ball, an opportunity would be afforded for warming the
build.' by mesas of hot sir pipes.
Mr. Smarr said he should be glad if Mr. Kolday would
inform him what was the total amount that was intended
to be expended on the improvements in the CadltrU
Mr. KILDAT said be believed the original slim voted by
the court was 18,0004, and 5.9001. was afterwards voted.
Hr. J. Sraotrxis asked it the 15,0004, sow 'eked for,
was in oddities to those soma ?
Mr. KILDAT said that it was.

Mr: FlRlATioquiie;lwirAlrei the chairman wee in a posi-
tion to my in round numbers what these improvement'
were likely to =et from beginning to end? (A laugh.)
Mr. KALoor mid he really WU hardly able tt 11111•111. the
question. (Laughter.) All he could do wee to assure the
court that no ezponse should be incurred for this object
without their seotitton.

PE ill P 8 mid that the original method* for
them improvements was about 24,0001., this teeing Dearly
6,0004. in sum of the first amount. and now they were
biked for 15,C )01. mom. He expressed his opinion that a
great deal of this mosey had been expeoded Is making alte-
rations that were. sot at all marketed with the original
character of the hall, inasnanch as the matters to which be
referred wan not in existence until nearly two moieties
alter the Guildhall was erected. He comOsioad of the
lavish expeaditun of money by the oommittd, on what, in
his *piston, were very doubtful matters of restoration, and
said that it they were to continue is the same mune, he
mild not see where it wee to end.

the committee wee agreed
to by • majority of 40, the numbers being—
For the emotion
Aiaiert it 2B
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A 'miter is which the sorposedow was interested wa•
Thee dismused with closed doors, mad alter the public ware
readmitted, some of the other balsas upon the paper was
disposed of, and the emut adjouresd.

We (Gardeners' Chronicle) understand that the
metropolis is to be provided with another veterinary college,
to be established at Chelsea.

The Paris correspondent of the Journal de
°Melte writing at the 28th says As Prince Napoleon
was going up the stairs of the Tuileriss to see the Empress,
M. Rouher came down. The Prins could not refrain from
stopping to complain, with a certain amount of warmth, of
the reception accorded by the minister to his speech, which
bad only reproduced, be said, the policy of ' Napoleon the
Great.' Monseigneur,' replied M. Rooher, 'if Napoleon
the Greet were still living, instead of being at the Tuileries
you would be at Vincennes.'
RAILWAY BILLS BEFORE rAzukiumi.—Yester-
day in the committee of the House of Commons the Mae-
, Master, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Extensioo,
ko.), in group 10, was still proceeding. In group 9, presided
over by Mr. Roger., the case of the Great Northern and
' West Yorkshire Railways Amalgamation was pending.
Other bills were also advanced a stage.
Gansr NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The remaining
bills affecting this company being still before the Commons,
the adjourned Wharroliffe meeting was yesterday further
adjourned until the 13th inst.
THE DUBLIN LOTTERY.—A young man named
Lamm, son of a working silversmith of Oxford is the
whiner in the Dublin lottery of the ex-Lady Mayoreas's
Mate chariot, horses, and harness, Yalu 400 guineas.
ADMIRALTY, Jnua 2.—Arrourratewra.—Liente-
neat A. T. DesteW, to the DIE4IIIIII, for service in tender.
Sub-Liratepaot J. H. Hodgson, to the Rattlesnake.
Sotrrnsurrox JUNE 2.—The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steamship Tasmanian, Captain Sawyer, sailed hence
• this afternoon, with the malls for the British and Foreign
West Indies, Mexico, the Pacific, Wifornia, Control
America, la. She took out 111 passengers, a general
cargo, English jewellery, value 3,7561. ; French aro, 4561. ;
I jewellery. value 9.488/.
The steam ship Venetia, Captain Heppell, be-
; longing to the London, Italian, ad Adriatic Steam Navi-
gation Company, has ade an extraordinarily repel passage
I of only 8 days 18 hours from the Downs to Geneva, and
I from Lisbon to this port she only cesupted 4 days 6 hours.
About five times as much rain fell in Southamp-
tea on Thursday night and Friday morning as there did
daring the whole of last month.
The American papers record the death of Old
Hannibal, a travelling show elephant. He was 11 feet 8
I inehas high, weighed 15,0001b5., and was 66 years old.
He consumed 3001 a. of hay, 3 bushels of cats, and 46
gallons of water daily. For 36 years ha travelled 3,000
miles sissy year.
TRAFFIC Itacztrvs. —The traffic receipts of
railways in the United Kingdom amounted, for the week
ending the 27th of May, or. 11,916 miles, to 661,5701., and
for the corresponding week of last year. oa 11,591 miles,
to 610.5101., showing an increase of 355 miles' and of
' 21,0601. The gross receipts on the following 14 railways
emanated in the aggregate, on 8,407 miles, to
535.26131., and for the corresponding week of 1864, on
18.153 miles, to 521,2531., showing an increase of
254 miles, and an increase of 14,0351. The increase
on the Caledonian amounted to 1,2591. ; on the Great
Eastern to 2,2541. ; on the Great Northern to 2,7641.; on the
Great Southern sod Wester!' to 0661. ; on the Great
Western to 6401.; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to
7211. ; on the London and North Western to 4.0341. ;
oo the Manchester, Sheffield, and Linooloshire to 2.1261.;
on the Midland to 7,5181. ; on the North British to 2,2191.;
and on the North Eastern to 5,2821,—t0ta1, 90,4874 Bat
I from this must be dedneted 7,0661., the decrease on the
London and Brighton ; 8,2101. on the London and South
Western ; and 1871. on the South Eastern—together,ls,4s2l.:
leaving the increase, as above, 14,0.351. The goods and
, mineral trafdo on those lines amounted to 2e1,0431.,
sad for the oormispoodiog week of 1864 to 259,3821., show-
ing au isereass of 31.6011. The ruslpla for pssssegsrs,
paresis, he., amounted to 244,2431., apart 261,4584. • w-
tag • decrease of 17,2151. The traffic receipts on 63
Miser lines soloonted, on 3,539 miles, to 126,2821., and for
the estrespoodieg week of last year, on 3,436 Mike* to
I 119,2571., showing as isereses of 101 miles and of 7,0251.
In the receipts. The total reenlist* of the put week
show a diereses of 1,2131. as umparid with Wee of the
sesesdiag week ending the 20th el May.