The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-14 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

At the Court of Common Council held yesterday,
in reply to a question from Mr. Cox, Mr. Keldey, the
chairmen of the Committee of the Guildhall Improve-
ments, informed the court that the whole of the
works would, he had no doubt, be completed before Lord
Mayor's day, and the cost of all would be
within the amount at which they were estimated.
Mr. J. Richardson gave notice of the following motion, to
be taken into consideration at the next court That it
be referred to the Polite Committee, with a view to the
repeal of the rule now in force which compels a police-
constable to leave his home and go into the infirmary upon
the slightest indisposition, thus depriving him of the
assistance and society of his wife and family, against his
will, and which regulation, if enforced, will tend to depre-
ciate the character of the City police force." In pursuance
of a communication from the Bishop of London requesting
the corporation to nominate two persons, lay members of
the church of England, to be members of a commission
about to be issued by his lordship, under the provisions of
thnAat of Parliament of the 23rd and 24th Victoria, cap.
142, to inquire into and report upon the expediency of
proposed union of the benefices of the perpetual curacy of
Allhallows Staining and the rectory of St Katherine Cole-
man, the court proceeded to carry out the request of his
lordship, and Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Gibbons and Mr.
Deputy Burnett were unanimously elected to fill theme
of commissioners on the part of the corporation.
Rudkin, the chairman of the Markets Committee, brought
np a report, which recommended the construction of addi-
tional bullock lairs at the Metropolitan Cattle-market, at
the estimated expense of 6,000 i., and the report also con-
tained a recommendation that the allowance to the com-
mittee en sesennt el their expenses should be increased to
300 i. The motion for its adoptiongave riseto a considerable
discussion, but ultimately the report was agreed to. and
referred back to be carried into effect. The court next
proceeded to the election of a rector for the parish of St.
Peter-upon-Cornhill. There were originally eight candi-
dates, namely, the Rev. Francis Claud, of Hertford
Bridge, Hants ; the Rev. Thomas Grose, curate of the
pariah of St. Peter-upon-Cornhill ; the Rev. J. D. Mid-
dleton, of Upper Chelsea ; the Rev. 0. Sharp, diocesan
home missionary for the district of St Peter's, Clerken-
well ; the Rev. Mr. Streeter, of Plumstead ; the Rev.
John Tegg, of St. John's, Bethnal-green ; the Rev. Charles
Taylor, morning reader at St. Paul's ; and the Rev.
Rickard Whittington, evening lecturer at St. Peter's,
Cornhill. Two of these gentlemen, Mr. Tagg and Mr.
Sharp, withdrew from the contest, and upon the motion of
Deputy Snelling the number of the remaining candidates
was reduced by show of hands to two. The result of the
show of hands wee that the final eontest was between
Mr. Grose and Mr. Whittington, and in the result
the election wan declared to have fallen upon Mr. Grose.
Mr. H. A. Isaacs gave notice of a motion for the next
court that it should be an instruction to the Markets Com-
mittee that in all applications for lodgings at the new
buildings at the Metropolitan Cattle Market preference
ehould be given to those persons who bad been removed
from their dwellings by the works of the Holborn valley
improvement. Petitions were presented by the committee
of the Albert Orphan Asylum, and the United Horticul-
tural Society, for the use of the Guildhall, for an exhi-
bition, in the bitter case of fruit and flowers, and in the
former for a fancy fair, in the week following the 9th of
November, the proceeds to be devoted in aid of the funds
of the two institutions. The applications were granted
subject to the City Lands Committee making such arrange-
ments in the matter as they should deem expedient. Mr.
J. F. Bontems, the chairman of the special Gas Committee,
brought up a report in reference to the subject, but it
appeared to be the almost unanimous feeling of the court
that the subject was one of too much importance to be
discussed at that late period of the sitting. Alderman
Begley moved that the report be printed and the dis-
cussion adjourned, and the Lord Mayor kindly consented
t 3 appoint a special court to discuss the matter. The court
then adjourned.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO A WELSH RECUR-
SION TRAIN.

GLANDWYFACH, NORTH WALE, WIDNIVIDAY.
The inquiry into the cause of the death of the
six persons killed on the Carnarvonahire Railway last
Thursday was resumed this morning before the coroner,
Mr. Hughes.
The jury returned the following verdict :—" We find
that the death of tho six persons whose bodies we have
viewed was caused by an accident on the Carnarvonahire
Railway, near the Brynkir Station, on Thursday, the 6th
Mat., such accident being 'caused by the points having
been opened, and a stone placed between the points and
the stock rail, thereby keeping the points slightly open,
but by whom the point was opened and the stone so
placed we have no evidence to show. We also find that
due caution and vigilance were exercised byall the officials
connected with the railway in order to avoid the accident."
Mr. Breese, the solicitor for the Carnarvonshire Com-
pany, then announced the intention of the directors of
publishing a notice on the following morning offering a re-
ward of 1001. to any person who would furnish such evi-
dence as would lead to the conviction of the person or per-
sons who placed the stone between the points in the man-
ner described in the verdict of the jury.

TENDusTsucrivg AociDENT ON THE SOUTH DEVON
RAILWAY.—A down goods train became disabled about
three o'clock this (Thursday) morning, between Plympton
and Hemerdon. A spare engine from Plymouth was sent
to fetch down the train and did so, leaving the disabled
engine to follow slowly. On arriving at the Plympton
station the engine was overtaken by the down mail-train,
which ran into it. The engine of the mail-train and one
carriage were thrown off the line, but the pas-
*enrol s were not seriously hurt. The driver
and stoker of the disabled engine (Brutus), seeing
the collision to be inevitable, jumped off, and it appears
that they forgot to shut off the steam, or that, if they
did so, the concussion turned it on again. The engine
(Brutus) came on, unattended, at a rapid race, until it
arrived at the ascent, when the pace slackened. On
passing the points at Lairs the signalman perceived the
state of the Can, and telegraphed into Plymouth that an
empty engine, without driver, had passed. The persons on
duty at Plymouth had thus timely warning, for a few
minutes afterwards the engine (Brutus) dashed into the
station, carrying away the fixed buffers, and burying itself
in the cloak-room, where it still remains. The woodwork
of the room is shattered, and the wall facing the street
torn down ; but beyond damage to the room and the
luggage no injury appears to have been done. Another
engine was sent to fetch the mail train, and arrived wifely
with it about 7.30 a.m.—Western Monung New.
DEATH OF LORD PONSONRY. —Lord Ponsonby,
Baron Ponsonby, of Imokilly, in the peerage of the United
Kingdom, died at Plymouth on Monday. He was on a
visit to the port in his magnificent yawl yacht, the Lnfra,
235 tons register, Pearce, master, on board of which his
lordship died as she lay moored in the inner basin of the
Great Western Docks. The deceased nobleman, William
Brabason Ponsonby, was the fourth baron. He was born
on August 18, 1807, and succeeded his cousin, William,
the third baron, to the title in 186 L He was formerly an
officer in the British army, but had retired from the ser-
vice several years ago. For some years past he had been
more or lea an invalid, suffering from disease of the kid-
neys, which ultimately terminated in the affection of the
kidneys known to the medical profession as Bright's dis-
ease, from which he died. During the past summer, in
order if possible to recruit his health, his lordship
took a long cruise in the Litre in the Meditem-
nean, and on his return was somewhat better. The
Lulre took part in the recent ocean race from Ryde to
Plymouth, and was present at the Plymouth Regatta of
this year, in the sports of which bis lordship took a lively
interest. Subsequently she viaited some other of the
western regatta, and then returned and moored in Ply-
mouth Sound, lying inside Drake's Island. On the sth
instant, his lordship's illness increasing, Mr. Whipple,
surgeon, of Plymouth, was called in, but Lord Ponsonby
was then in a sinking state, and continued rapidly to get
worse. On Friday last, on account of the rough weather,
it was found desirable to move the Lufra into the Great
Western Docks, and she was towed into the floating basin
by a steam tug. His lordship was attended during his last
few days by Sir Henry Edwards, an intimate friend, who
had been cruising with him. Lord Ponsonby was never
married, nor has he any brothers livipg, the peerage, 1
therdore, becomes extinct. His lordship hae, however,
a sister living, at present residing on the continent. The
body of the deceased nobleman was enclosed in a leaden
and an eater coffin, and the Lufra left Plymouth with it
yesterday morning for Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, in
the churchyard of which place a sister of Lord Ponsonby
is interred.— Western Morning New.
EXPORTATION or CATTLE FROM BILFANT.—
During the pest week, 1,846 head of cattle were exported
from Barest, and certified by Mr. WDermott, V. 8.,
evernment portal inspector, as being 'in sound condition.
They were to Streamer. Liverpool, Glasgow,
Morecambe, aliratrddrosean. 18 head of cattle, the pro-
perty of Mr. Clem, Castle Market, were shipped en Bator-
day for the fat stock market auto LiverpooL They were in
firet-elass condition, and equa any fat stock seat from
Belfast this season. Another lot, of 8 fat stock, belonging
to Mr. Joseph Coulter,Belfast, were shipped for Ardrceeken
en Saturday, and were also in prima
emeditko.—Northera