The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-14 00:00:00

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OSBORNE, Juno 13.
'rho Queen and Prince walked early this
soralaß In Osborn* Park. The younger nesahers of the
Royal Family walked and rode as usual. Lord Reerden
arrived at Osti,rne )(Mayday afternoon, sad had the honnur
of joining the Royal dimmer party : kis lordship returned to
London tile forenoon. There was no other addition to the
Royal awn party.

Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council at Back-
lashes Pelage, on Wsdassday east, the 19th instant. Sum-
mosses were Isw•d yesterday to the Ministers and Officers of
State from the Privy CosaMl-olice.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, and Mr. Edmund
Mildew, honoured Mr. Henry Greville with her company
on Wednesday evening, at his residence In Queen.straot.
Lord John Russell left his residence, Pembroke
Lodge, Highspeed Park, at eleven o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, for the Kingston station, travelling by the London and
South Wastera Railway, Nereids to Osborne, Isle of Wight,
ea a visit to the Queen.

Count de Iteventlow, the Danish Minister, trans-
acted buainme yesterday at the Foreign•omce.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Perfect (solicitor),
and Mr. Hainan (toxineer), on behalf of the Bolton,
Blacken, Chiller,. and Wet York bite Railway Company ;
and Messrs. Gru:idy, C. W. Eborall, and It. Paring, from
the East Lancashire Railway Compiny, bad an interview
with the Commiesioaers of Railways yesterday, at their
office in the Board of Trade.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England bad
a general meeting yesterday.
Lord Montengle had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. His krdsnip had al•o
an interview with Berl Granville at the Board of Trade
yesterday.

Monsieur and Madams Thieve arrived yesterday at
Mivart'a Hotel, from Puis.

STATE BALLS.—The Lord Chamberlain (the Mar-
quis of Wsstmin•ter), by command of her Mej,s,y, haa
caused invitations to b. wised within tie last few days ter
stets balls (full drills) on the 26:h instant and 10th of next
month; and for coccerts (private drs.s) on the Ist and 15th
of the *laming month.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a court waa held fur the despatch of
business.

A letter from Alderman Salomens was read, offering to the
severance of the corporation a piloting which repel feted
the reception of Bei.rge 111. by the L,r,l Mayor and the'
attendant authorities, at Temple-bar, upon the ccca•ion of
his Majesty's visit to St. rani's in 1789. The present was
very readily aucepted, and the thanks of the court wen
given to the Alderman, and hie letter watt ordtred to be
entered upon the minutes of the court.
Mr. H. BROWN brought up the report of the offithre
and clerks' committee, r• 'peeling the rectory of B*. James,
Luke's plats. It reconuer.ded that the court steroid con-
firm the appointment of the Rev. William Marsl.all by the
Lord Meyer to the rectory, and that the presentation be
scaled with the City &eel. Th.• report was agreed to, and
the necessary forms wire accordingly gone through.

Till METILOPOLITAN INTERMENT/ PILL
Mr. J. LOW, the chairman of the parliamentary com-
mittee, brought up the report of ell the proceedings of the
enmmittee upon the reference respectirg the Metropolitan
Interments Bill. He wished, before the report was read, to
make • few observations ni on a que tion which he cznei-
dered deeply affected the interests of the public, a feeling in
which he was anxious 'he public should believe the corpora-
tion strongly participated. He lest it to be his duty to
es; rem the strong feeling entertained upon the subject of
interment, as proposed by the government in the bill
at present before parliament, a measure which he should
net hesitate to declare containel details of the most obnox-
ious character, and of which they were 1 surd to exprso
their most unequiv ral diseporobatit n. (Hear, hear.) To
the principle of the bill the committee offered no objection.
Oa the contrary, it hal lug been their opir ion that ince',
laurel bunois should be tot illy diocontinu. d. But is the
Metropolitan Bill there were clauses of to theidtdir un-
English and mt-chievous a character, that it wee necessary
to mention them with peculiar condemnation. There were
two disuses in particular to which he should draw the at-
tention of the court. The first was that which ref, end to
the remunerati an of the clergy for the leas they weuld ins
tale by extramural int. resents. That clause had co doubt
sprung from the object of strengthening the hands of the
government by the sanction of the church authorities, whose
approval might he co• sulered necessary to the pausing of
the bill. (Hear.) But what was the proposition: It was
teat the clergyman who held any church property in way
burial ground which was ordered to be clewed shou d re-
ceive comp:mutton in perpetuity of Gs. 21. for every corpse
dying within his parish awl buried in the contemplated
public cemetery. Now, that sum was much greater than
was given in many of the perishes in the city, in some of
which the fee war, in fact, limited to 25., and in others to
le. ed. (Hear, hear.) Upon what pretext the clergy were
to be compensated to that extent he could not He
admitted that they were entitled to compensation for the
injury to which they would V subjected; but he, for one,
should certainly oblett in the strongest manner to the idea
of compensating in perpetuity. (Loud cries of "Hear,
hear.") There was another objectionaVe clause to
which it was necessary to call the attention of th
court. The bill would give power to the B and of Heal h
to purchase lands, to appoint officers, and to perform other
duties which at present devolved upon the corporati .n, and
for the purpose of being enabled to carry out such important
objects, that bald', were to be authorised to tax the ushabi-
tants without giving to such inhabitants any chums of c an-
trol or voice in the question of the taxation of themselves
under the peculiar circumstances of the case. (Hear.) It could
not be poesible for the corporation, to submit to so obnoxious
and prejudice! a 'yeti in, and the committee had come to the
determination to advise the court to petition both houses of
parliament.
Mr. WOODTHORP, the clerk of the court, then read the
report. It stated as follows :—" That your committee,
haling considered the subject, agreed to certain proposi-
tions as forming the heads of the proposed bill for the City
of Lordon, and they appointed a deputation to wait upon
the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey on the subject; and the Ite-
membrancer having obtained an appointment for a con-
tezence with that minister, the same took place acconl-
--stly on the lath of May, et which were present J. Low,
Esq., the chairman of your committee, and Edward Hurl-
' sou, Esq., deputy, John Wood, Esq , and William H. L.
Taylor, accompanied by John Masterman, Esq , and Sra
James Duke, Bart , two of the representative. of the City of
London in parliament, and attended by the Remembrancer.
when the deputation requested that the City 0 Lowion
might be exempted from the operation of the Metropolitan
Interments Bill, the corporation undertaking to ictroduce a
separate bill for the City of London, in conformi y with the
proposition agreed to by your committee; when Sir G. Grey
expressed himself disinclined to exem_ot the City of London
from the Metropolitan Interments Bill, but et ated that ha
would consider the draft et a bill for the City
of London, if sent to him by the corporation. That
your committee acc rdiegly directed the Remembrance,
to prepare the draft of a bill to make provision for the in-
terment of persons dying within the city of London and the
lib. thereof, and the same having been duly considered
and approved by your committee, they directed a copy there-
of to be transmitted by the Remembrance? to Sir G. G. ey,
and a further conference to be requested with him on the
subject; that a copy of the bill was accordingly sent to Sir
G. Grey, but, although repeated applications were made by
the Remembrancer and the city members, no appointment
could be obtained for the purpose before the Gth lust., when
the conference took place, at which were present J. Low,
Esq., accompanied by J. Masterinan, Esq., and attended bee
the Remembrancer, but Sir 0. Grey did not hold out the
least encouragement (or excludiug the city of London
from the operation of the Metropolitan Interments
Bill, and stated that even should that be conceded,
the session of parliament was too far advanced to admit of
the probability of a separate bill being passed for the City
of London. That your committee being desirous that the
whole subject should be brought under the notice ot this
hon. court, directed a copy of the proposed VII relating to
interments within the City of London, to be sent to every
member of the court. That, finding an early appointment
could not be obtained(rem Sir G. Grey, the Rem. mbeanco r
requested the presence of the city members on the Metro-
politan Interments Bill going into committee of the whole
House of Commons, when an ineffectual opposition was
made to delay the further preemie of the bill, by moving
that it should be referred to a select committee of the House
of Commons. That notwithstanding the opposition of the me-
tropolitan and other members, the Metropolitan Interments
bill has passed the committee of the whole House of Com
mons, with the exception of • few clauses, which will pre-
bably be agreed to on Friday next. That under these cir.

cumstances your committee do not eoniider there is any rea•
'enable prospect that parliament will in the present seg•ion
pass a separate bill for the City of London. That your coin
mimes, however, are of opinion that many of the provisions
of the bill ars most objectionable, and will interfere with
the just rights and liberties of the inhabitants of the City
of London, and other places within the jurisdiction ut the
bill, and they therefore recommend your honourable court
to present petitions to both houses of parliament (if neces-
sary) against the bill, and that your committee should he
empowered to continue in every way to oppose the progress
of the bill. That the Remembrancer, having under our
direction prepared drafts of petitions to both house of
parliament against the said bill, we have approved the sold
drafts of petitions, and submit the same to this honour-
able court."

Mr. Deputy HARRISON said he considered it neosuory
that the corporation should prepare a bill for the City, and
he wu glad that, in introduciug the report, Mr. Low bred
stated some of the reasons which the committee had for ad-
s rising the wart to pitition against the Metropolitan Int, r-
ants Bill. He assured the court that he had
reason to know there were some of the promoters of rise
Metropolitan Bill who were not to be trusted, who
were unscrupulous persons. He (Mr. Harrison) pro-
ceeded to contend &gaud the principle of dispossessing
the ratepayers of the power they had been exercising
so beneecially, and said that although the bill was goinst
through the House of Commons with great rapidity, there
was another house through which it would not par, at all
events with such majorities. (Hear, hear.) lie also con-
tended against the proposal of compensation in perpetuity as
absurd and preposterous, and called upon the mart to be
unanimous in their appeal to parliament.
Mr. NORRIS did not consider that the conduct of the gx.
Tensaw had been candidly represented upon this occasion.
b. tosweleed it to be We duty of the court not W oppose

the measure ; the °enlist would eertainZatirvi be doubtful.
The corporation would be defeated and d also.
Alderman SIDNEY reiterated the opin cies which he had
already erpreseed in parliament upon the subject.
Mr. ELLIOTT proposed as au amendment the following:
—" That this court receive the proposed government scheme
for the abolition of oat of town itstersaenta with great
approbation, and desire that no local interests or prejudices
should interefere to prevent the passing of the proposed bill."
There appeared to be no seconder to Mr. Elliott's amend-
ment, area the original motion was put and carried. The
petitions were then read and adopted.

BIII7fHPIELD YAIXIIT.

Mr. H. L TAYLOR, the ehairman of the markets com-
mittee, brought up the following report:—" We, whose
names are hereunto subscribed of your muketa improvement
committee, to whom by an order of this honourable court of
the 20th of December last it was referred to carry into exe-
cution our report then presented fur further powers than
appeared to be confided to us by former ',amuses, de cer-
tify, in addition to our former report, that in punuanos of
such reference of the 20th of December last, we directed a
statement to be prepared to be laid before the

csommissioners so is to represent to them the
objects and opinions of the corporation, more par-
ticsla•)y with respect to the specific questions of
inquiry submitted to your committee by the com-
missioners. Your committee also directed several plane
to he prepared by the architect for the alteration, enlarge-
ment, and improvement of Smithfield and Newgate markets.
That we carefully considered such plans, and finally 'elated
the one which appeared to us to meet all the requirements
of the case, and directed that a description of the same
should be embodied in the statement, to be a•oompanied by
a plan and model, subject, however, to the express under-
standing referred to in our report of the 20th of
December last, that no plan suggested by either
the commissimen, your ramifies, or the deputation,Mas
t be considered as bin4ing upon the corporation without
their distinct approval having been obtained. The statement
r.aving been prepared, was considered and agreed upon, and
I forwarded to the commiseioners, accompanied, as above
stated, by plan and model, and your committee have caused
to be hereunto annexed a copy of the statement and plan
for the information of the court.

"The commi•sioners having made their reports, which
have been laid on the table of the House of Commous, and
ordered to be printed, copies of them have bt-en procured by
your committee, but so recently that time has not been
afforded fiir dun consideration of them, and your committee
purposely abstain from makinir, at present, any observations
upon them, but should your honourable court be pleased to
fer these reports to your committee, we will immediately
take the same into consideration, and r..port thereon "
Upon the motion of Mr. H. L. TAYLOIL, the report was or-
dered to be printed and circulated, and the consideration of
it was adjourned to a future day.

TUB SMOKE NUISANCII.
Mr. ANDEaI ON intormed the tour: that in the large
bats.'!" or Messrs. Truman and Hanbury, and in ',vend
otht r establishments, where the inv.nti,ns of practical ales
had heeit tested, the result was so gra,ifting that where at
one time the poor of the neighbourhood were h. If smo
thered by the derma volumes o. smoke tr. m the furnace flues
at the presint time not so much was to be seen as would soil
a lady's handkerchief.—AdJoarned.