The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-24 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Conneil was hold at the
Guildhall yesterday, the Loan MAYOB presiding. Mr.
Richardson asked the Lord Mayor whether there wee any
truth in the statement that had been going the round of
the daily papers, that his lordship had declined to take the
chair at the annual distribution of prizes at the City of
London School. The Lord Mayor, in isply to thehon.
member, natal that an t had been made be-
tween Mr. Alderman Hale himself, that the alderman
should do duty for him at the City of London Schools. U
the court desired td know the circumstances he should be
happy to state them. At a later league the subject was
again referred to by Mr. Deputy Heed. The Lord Mayor
said, as this matter had been mentioned, he tho tit
right to state to the court the whole '
of the case. About three months ago he dined at the ,
house of a clergyman where there were several dignitaries
of the church present, and one of them told him that the
master of the City of London School, the Rev. Mr.
Abbott, had recently preached a sermon at Westmineter
Abbey, the whole tenor of which was mania in ite the,-
meter, and likely to set the against the rich. ant likatt
it was altogether in his opinion a very improLamitlddress.
Upon that be (the Lord yor) felt it his du to write
to the chairman of the City of London School
requesting to know whether Mr. Abbott would be
enough to allow him to read the mureseript of him mimosa.
To that letter he bad received no answer, and under these
circumetances he felt it to be his duty to detains to reside
at the distribution of the prism at the school. Mr. Alder-
man Hale, chairman of the City of London School Com-
mittee, said he had received the letter referred to by. the
Lord Mayor, and had laid it before Mr. Abbott, who
told him that the Lord Mayor had no right to sit in
judgment upon him, and that it was a matter for the
Bishop of London. After some discussion, the Lad
Mayor, on being pressed as to whether he intended to be
present at the distribution of the puss, a! reseed his
readiness to swept the imitation, aadto take Sheehan, on
the occasion. Some further remarks having been made,
the matter dropped. A report was brought ep from the
City Lands Committee recommending that a bust of the
late Lord Brougham be placed in a prominent position in
the Guildhall. The coat of the hod would, it was said,
not exceed 2601. The report was unanimously agreed to.
The City Lands Committee brought up • report recom-
mending that the reference upon the letter from Mr. '
Charles Oppenheim, in relation to the erection of • status)
of the late Prince Consort, should be discharged. The
report was carried hy a show of hands. The re-
port of the Markets C=mittee, in reference to the re-
moval of Billingsgate Market, wiui the next subject of
discussion, and it was ultimately referred back for recon-
sideration, and the taking of further evidence. Nume-
rous petitions on the subject were presented. After the
transaction of some other business of no public interest
the court adjourned.

AN OLD-FASHIONED WELSH CIISTON.—What is
described as being "an old-fashioned Welsh custom"
has just been revived with much success at the little
village of Waenfawr, North Wales. A man named
Williams, who had become separated from his wife, mar-
ried again, and with his second wife took up his residuum ,
in Wasnimm, at the house of her sister. This circum- -
stance greatly shocked the neighbours, and after perse-
cuting the woman fora long time in the hope of tdcl:t
rid of her they, a few evenings ago, got a
freshly Mired, and assembling in force before thsi
house where she .lodged, demanded that she
should be given up to them, so that they might
" carry her about the roads.', lira Roberts, her sister,
went to the window and besought them to leave in pesos,
but they declared that they would stay there for a week if
necessary, and that if Mrs. Williams did set shortly come
out they would pull the house down. After a little fur-
ther parley they began to carry out the latter portico of
their threat, and when they bad bard open the lock of
the door, and broken several of the windows, Mr.
Roberts, who was lying in bed, dangentrosly ill, said his
sister-in-law must go out.. as gave herself up accord-
ingly, and was placed upon the ladder in an upright poi.
lion, with her legs apart and thrust between two of
the spaces between the Townie. The ladder was
then hoisted upon the shoulders of two men, and from ,
10 o'clock till midnight, when they brought her
half dead, thewoman was " esavied about deradii" gee
bearers being relieved by others of the crowd as they
became tired. A policeman witnessed the
toilettes; the proemsion for two miles, but hePmi dared not
Interfere. He, however, took down the names of tenni=
and two women whom he recognised is the crowd, 'and on
being brought up before the magistrates
_they were eon.
Hof annul and fined 20s. Nish, inoluding eons. A
solicitor on behalf of the &deaden% and
in "on of the offence, that it wee 'relasit Ida ,
feskloned way among nelgtibours which been prevp-
Int in Weiss in foamier yesze."
NOW, AItraTITIZATRI AND Ctotare.—A
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midable rival to ht. Leotard has just made hie aped.
&nee at this theatre, in the parson of a M. Oncs, whose
kits on the Mapes* are exesedmily clever and greeds!,
and are warmly applauded by the audielsoe. The Addict
jugglers stM °cabana their tricks, and the pert= .
dogs are as sagacious and fanny ss when we bit
thus. Altimether a very agreeable emsding may be sped
at this little house. ,
Theism:ix:am OP You:arm= Coure.—Best
thiamin.
Yorkshire was startled yesterday morning the an-
nouncement that the hilted Yorkshire "Iden-
tiers (Bridlington) were disbanded tae.
This result excited general recd, a. the
=wee one of the finest 111 the Monts=
in 1869, numbered 112 men, and Icti.
times distinguished Itself, and for the Ant complaint 4
ziotkitz which arosedistros4 aw=mbenelan ay
y.
Is sanumidly a lardy. • '
A to this effect Ime been reosiose trim • :
Mr John Pakington OIMMIEt the inf=tgatan
Waded. The disobedience thm se
°cosmic' on WhM.lfeed, who Mak cesemmeam. '
Lieutenant-Colonel B. B. Mearmtb, was about.ferns •
family 'Motion, and a brigade review was held at ilain.
under command of Major Earewast Jobsiecni,
The ' linstoa corps was affronted bemuse on
the railway station a Junior ono Ohs York) was
is boat, a poetics wmd, lie the ad and ablest ems,
tbey (ilks Ifeidliagton) thooghtlhey bed ar:Ter=iy.
xiaoc=refesed to mush to the
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