The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.

A court of Common Council was held yesterday
at Guildhall, at which the LOAD MAYOR (Aldermen Allen)
presided.

THE NEW DEAD MEAT MASS= AT /11/17217D. •
Mr. H. L. TATLOR, the chairman of the markets im-
provement committee, brought up a report from that tem-
mittee,whichembodied a report made by Mr. Horace Jones,
the City architect, having reference to tho progress of the
works at the proposed meat and poultry market, which is
in course of erection upon the site of the ancient mar-
ket at Smithfield. (This report detailed the pro-
ceedings that had taken place at the building during
yeer, and the result appeared to be of • very
character as to the of the
works.7rir. Taylor said he was sure t would be most
gratifying to the court to hear the report that was made by
the architect, and he believed he might state that within
twelvemonths of the present time the market would be in
full operation. (Hear, hear.) He could also inform the
court that applications had already been made for more
shops in the market than they had to dispose of, and before
the market was completed they should have a tenant foe
every shop that could be built. (Hear, bear.)
The report was then formally agreed to.
THE PROPOSED NEW CATTLE MARKET IN LONDON.

The LORD ILt/011 then said that the Remerabraneer
had &communication to make to the court which was of
considerable Importance, and which it was considered ad-
visable should be received with closed doors.

Strangers were accordingly requested to withdraw, and
the court sat in deliberation with closed doors for nearly
three home. It wee understood that the subject brought
before it was the negotiations that had taken place between
the officers of the corporation and the government in
reference to the bill proposed to be brought in by the
latter for the erection of a new market at the waterside
for the slaughtering of foreign cattle. The government in
the first instance expressed their intention to plane the
building of the new market under the control of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, but this corms met
with strenuous opposition at the hands of the
corporation, who regarded it in the light of an unfair
attack upon those ancient rights and privileges in reference
to the question of markets in the metropolis. Various
communications have taken place between the Markets
Committee and the Lords of the Privy Council upon the
subject, and it appears that the result is that the govern.
meat has consented to leave the erection of the new
market entirely in the hands of the corporation, which
very naturally feels somewhat elated at the triumph it
has thus achieved.
MR. NELvima's metal.
I When the court re-assembled, a petition was presented
from Mr. Alexander Melville, the artist, praying the
court to make him some compensation for the loss he had
sustained in reference to the picture painted by him and
his wife, representincter presentation of the freedom of
the City to his Boyal • hness the Prince of Wales.
Upon the motion of . SAUNDERS, and after a long
discussion. the court agreed to present Mr. Melville with
300 guineas.

THE PERNDSLE COLLIERT EXPLOSION.
Upon the motion of Deputy Joees, the court unani-
mously peed that the oorparation should subscribe the
rum of UM. in aid of the fund for the relief of the suf-
farm by the above calamity.

THE PROPOHED COUNTY RATE POE THE cm.

Mr. IL N. PHILIPPS presented a petition of inhabitants
and ratepayers of the City of London, agreed to at a
public meeting held at Salter'. Hotel, Holborn-bridge,
against the proposal to lery a county rate, and praying
that the court will procure, if necessary, such an altera-
tion in the law as shall effectually protect the citizens of
London from the imposition of such a rate.
The petition was referred to the Local Government and
Taxation Committee, and the court adjourned.

THE NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH NORTH
ANERICA.—With the year 1868 the new postal arrange-
ments recently entered into between the Post-office autho-
rities and the Cunard, Inman, and North German Lloyd's
Companies will opine into operation. All letters ad-
dressed to the United States, and specially directed to go
by any particular steamer, will, as at present, be sent by
swish steamer, and all letters baying no special direction
will, as at present, be sent by the first packet despatched
after they are postedorreceived,wliethersuch packet belong
to the Cunard Company, Inman Company, or the North
German Lloyd's. The articles of the Cunard contract
state that the subsidy is to be 80,0001. per annum (in
quarterly payments), dating from the Ist January, 1868.
The vessels are to leave Liverpool on Saturdays, and New
York on Wednesdays ; to call at Queenstown ; each
boat to be provided with • medical officer ; the
Paetmaater-General to be at liberty to alter the
times of departure, and to delay t►e departure for any
period not exceeding 24 hours ; nitro-glycerine and other
specially dangerous articles not to be conveyed ; a limited
number of officers and men in the army, navy, or civil
service to he accommodated ss peinengers on board if re-

quired by the Postmaster•Generil at -Zertain rates, which
are specified ; the contract not to be sublet ; boats to be
chartered or purchased by the Admiralty if seminary;
penalties varying from 1001. to 1001. to be paid for delays
or diversions not unavoidable ; and the contractors
to be bound in 23,0001. for the due performance of the
contract. The details of the Inman contract have not yet
been made public.
EXTRAORDINARY ERUPTION OP COAL. —The Leeds
Mercury's Hartlepool correspondent states that an extraor-
dinary eruption of coil has taken place on the beach
between West Hartlepool and Seaton Carew. These sands,
which are the resort of visitors during the bathing season,
were on Wednesday metamorphosed to a great extent into
a coil field. It will be remembered that last winter, imme-
diately following a north-east gale, the poor of the Hartle-
pools assembled on these sands on the occasion of the sea
disclosing an immense amount of treasure trove, which
had been buried for 40 years. At that time the "scene"
was something extraordinary. and many a hungry family
were nourished during the severe winter by the lucky
discovery of hundreds of Spanish dollars. The scene on
Wednesday was far more interesting, and the up-
heaving of such an amount of one of the most
im-
portant' necessities of life by the angry oceanl will be
productive of much more benefit and comfort to the poet
of the neighbourhood. It is computed that not lees than
1,000 tons of coal have been oast upon these sands. From
en early hour in the morning the beach has presented •
most animated appearance. Nearly every cart in the
town has been called into requisition to awry awe the
treasure, and on the banks adjoining the railway
have been raised, some of them containing from 10 to
tons of coal. The poorer inhabitants of the town turned
out with barrows, briskets. sacks, &a, and every
tion of receptacle which could be rendered availablelt
gather the cast-up treasures. Hundreds of children were
working as eagerly as their parents, and along. cortahi
roads a continuous stream of people was marching with
the product of their labour. It will be days before the
whole of the coal is gathered up.
COAL IN NOTTINGRAMBHIKIL—The proprietors of
the High Park Colliery, Messrs. Barber and Walker, East-
wood, Notts, have within the last week come upon the
bottom beam of coal. The shaft had been sunk to • depth
of 400 yards before the new seam was sunk. It is calcu-
lated that the seam extends over 10,000 acres of coal, and
this of a first-class quality. The prospect for men and
masters is therefore most cheering. Three hundred hones,
for workmen have been set out, and at no distant date
Foatwood, it is believed, will become quite • bury district
GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.—Shoe Monday the
direct train service of this system as between Lowestoft
and Norwich has been suspended in consequence of part
of the Lowestoft branch having been washed away by a
flood. The traffic to Lowestoft has been worked rid
Tivetahall, Bungay, and Beeeles' as from the last men-
tioned town another lire runs to Lowestoft. A large
number of men are at work upon the embankment which
has been washed away near Lowestoft, and the rails are
expected to be re-laid by the end of the week. The service
of trains was also temporarily suspended, as between
Yarmouth and Norwich, from the same cause, but the
damage sustained by the Yarmouth line was lass serious
and was soon made good.
CRYeTAL PALACR. ONI Einrunta DAT.—
THURSDAY, Dec. s.—Admissions on payment, 335 ; ditto
by sewn tickets, 1,185; total risiton, 1,521.