The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-29 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

A court of Common Council waa held yesterday
at Guildhall ; the LORD MAYOR presiding.

THE PROPOSED DEAD MEAT MIZEITN AT RICITHFIELD.
Mr. Deputy ()BEARD said that, Karim understwd that
the Smithfield Markets, ha, Hill had palmed the select
committee of the House of Commons, he wished to ask the
chairman of the Markets Improvement Committee whether
he could inform the court as to the precise state in which
the bill stood at present
Mr. H. Low *N TAYLOR mid the committee bad con-
cluded their inquiry, and were about to report to the house,
but ho was sorry to say they had not adopted the bill in
its entirety. Five counsel had been employed in opposi-
tion, and they had made such an impression on the
committee that the rents which the corporation had
proposes! to charge of lid. per spare foot per week
had been reduced toone penny, while the proposed toll of
one farthing for every 14113 a. had been changed to one
farthing for every 211 he. The committee had also deemed
it necessary that there should be a road leading from the
locality of-Victoria-street to the market, and that the rail-
way should pass under that road, but it was not decided
that the alteration should he made by the corporation, and
perhaps an arrangement would be made with the railway
company for that purpose. The Markets Improvement
Committee would, however, meet on Saturday, and would
as soon as possible submit a report, which would give the
court an opportunity of considering the whole subject.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND said that, seeing the frightful
leases which the erection of new markets had entailed on
the corporation, he thought it necessary to ask whether
after the reduction made in their proposed rents and tolls,
the committee thought it would be worth while to perm-
VON with the bill! (Hear.)
Mr. TAYLOR said it would be premature to answer such •
question at present.
Mr. Deputy DAKIN remarked that fifty per cent. had
been struck off the rents and tolls, and as there was •
standing resolution of the court that no new market should
he undertaken which did not pmmise to be remunerative,
the matter might very safely be left in the hands of the
Markets Improvement Committee. (Hear, hear.)
The subject then dropped.
THE PROMISED PAUPER LONATIO ASYLUM.
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A recommendation from the Special Lunatic Asylum
Committee for the erection at Stone, near Dartford, of a
pauper lunatic asylum for the city of London, et an ex-
pense, exclusive of furniture, of 65,0001., which had been
the subject of repeated discussions, was again brought
under consideration. It had been last adjoured for the
purpose of obtaining the opinion of the law officers of the
corporation upon a doubtful point, namely, whether the
city unions could be compelled to send their " imbecile
and idiotic" paupers to the asylum ; and the committee
now reported that they had obtained that opinion in the
alternative.
Mr. Deputy DAM, chairman of the committee, having
moved that the report should be adopted, and referred
bark to the committee for execution,
Mr. Alderman Annie contended at 'erne length that the
plans and estimates of the committee were of an extrava-
gantly expensive character, and moved, as an amendment,
that the cat of the asylum should be limited to 50,000/.
Mr. L tWIET seconded the amendment.
After a prolonged discussion, the amendment was carried,
and the report wss referred heck to the committee, with
an instruction to prepare a plan the expense of carrying
which into execution should not exceed 50,000/.
After transacting some further business the court ad-
journed.

BERISTDA AND THE PRINCE or Wntna.—The
Renaud" papers state that the following address has beta
masted to the Governor, authorising him to invite tin
Prince of Wiles to visit those islands on the voyage out
or home :—" May it please your Excellency, -It having
been publicly made known that it is the intestine of his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wale*, in the course of the
approaching summer, to visit some of her Majesty's North.
American possessions, we her Majesty's most dutiful
and loyal subjects, the General Assembly of
Bermuda, pray that your Excellency will be
to' convey to his Royal Highness our
LaueZli e and earnest entreaty that his Royal Highness
would graciously condescend to visit this remote but ancient
portion of her Majesty's transatlantic dominions during the
copaampii,siad sojourn ~f his Royal Highness In this heed-
sphere. Although this colony Is of a very limited extent,
1 yet its ails, to the empire as 1111 important naval and
military outpost, the amenity of its climate, the attractions
of its scenery, its unbroken allegiance to her Majesty's
crown from abnost the earliest period of any British settle-
ment in America, together with its historical and poetical
associations, lest us humbly to hope that hie Royal High.
ness may be induced to afford the loyal inhabitants of
Bermuda the gratification of such a visit to Its shores."
It passed the Assembly on the Stith May, together with as
appropriation of one thousand pounds steeling to defray
the (misuses of the reception, should the invitation be
accepted.