The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-18 00:00:00

Tilt HOLIIOIZX VALLEY TXPROTTIMfT.

Mr. Deputy Fair said it would be in the recollection of
the court that at their lad sitting Mr. Bedford thought it
consistent with hie duty to make a statement to the effect
that in consequence of the works that were being carried
out by the Improvement Committee, and the mode in
which that committee, of which he (Mr. Fry) WILIS chair-
man, conducted its business, dozens of persons bad been
reined, and that several of them were in workhouses and
several in lunatic asylums. That statement gave him
excessive pain, and on consulting with the committee
it was thought desirable to communicate with Mr.
Bedford, to get the names of the 'mesons to whom
be referred, so that if the committee bad made any mis-
take, and had been unjust, they might retrace their steps,
and do what was necessary to rectify their error. A com-
munication was accordingly made to Mr. Bedford, and he
had sent the following reply. It was addressed to the
town clerk, who had written to him by direction of the
committee have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 14th inet., and I have to
state in replythat any statement made by me in the Courtof
Common Council I am prepared to repeat and justify in the
Court of Common Council when required to do so." Behalf
now to ask the court to support him in asking Mr. Bed-
ford to furnish the COMMItteO and the court with the
names of the ;servals who had been ruined. and some of
whom were In workhouses and lunatic asylums,
The committee had been most earnest and desirous that
the claims of parties who had no legal claim for compen-
sation, but had a kind of moral.cluim. should he investi-
gated, and that bad been done to a very considerable
extent. No ease of that kind bad been presented to the
committee that had not fereieed a considerable amount of
consideration, and the committee had paid a large sum of
menr yto parties who had no real legal claim, but whom
it was, not proper for a public hotly to put to the expense
and annoyance of removal without giving them some
re:juital. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BEL1'0111) said the circumstances of the case wore

—TclSmplaint was made by his ward that the Hol-
born-valley works were unnecessarily delayed. and the
petitioners who complained of the delay came before the
court and submitted themselves to que,tions. The chair-
man of the Improvement Committee (Deputy Fry) then
made a statement. admitting that there bad been delay,
but attributing it entirely to the extortionate demands
muds on them for compensation. In his (Mr. Bedford',)
reply, he raid there was another side to the question. If
they had on the one band gentlemen who made extor-
ticnate claims, they Won the idler hand people who suf.
fared very much by the delay that took place in the large
works gouston in his neighbourhood. Redid not find fault
with any committee: he spoke of what must naturally
take place under circumitances that had occurred. Thirteen
years ago Smithfield-market was removed. During the
whole of that time many of his poor neighbours had
lingered on in the hope that they would be able to stand
out till the new market was made. It was these people
he had in his mind when he made the statement at the
last court. He said advisedly that during the course of
there thirteen years dozens of people had been ruined by
waiting for what was to come, -and some of these people
were in the workhouse and lunatic asylum ; and be gave
them his authority—one of the guardians of the work-
house in which the people now were. All his argument
tended to one point. He said, " Hasten on the work,"
arid nothing more. Was that statement satisfactory to
the chairman of the Improvement Committee,'
Mr. Deputy Far said it was not. He had asked him to
furnish the names of those persona who bad been ruined
in consequence of the works connected with the Holborn.
valley Improvement. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Bitoroan replied that he had never said a word re-
specting the Holborn-valley Improvement. (Oh, oh.) He
bad said that a great amount of distress was caused by
the great works carried on in his neighbourhood. As to
giving the names and addresses of men who were dead, it
was an unfair thing to ask. (Laughter.)
On the motion of Mr. Alderman tixxonems, a petition
from residents of Greenwich and Deptford, praying that
the Deptford-creek bridges may be included in the bill
about to be introduced into parliament for freeing from
toll certain bridges on Upper Thames and the River Lea,
were referred to the Corn, Coal, sad Finance Committee.
The court then proceeded to the consideration of busi-
ness withclosed doom, sad strangers were not re-ad-
mitted.

ZoommeAL tiocirry.—At the monthly genenil
meeting held yesterday at the Society's house in Hanover-
titmare, Viecouut Walden, President, in the chair, Lieut.-
Colonel R. It. Gipps, Captain C. J. Bourke, Lieut.C.
H. blar-hall, Mem- itay, Mrs. Baillie, and Messrs. C. H.
Gurney, A. F. Ortlepp, J. Eters', C. N. Du Vernet, Harry
Emanuel, (f. E. Le Pearse, K. F. Magor, 1).
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Aber-
crombie, Charles (told, J. Ladley, O. Bishop, It. Field.
W. D. Child, A. F. Low, W. H. Do Bodes, and F. 11.
Rickards, were elected fellows, and Mr. Geoffrey Neville,
his Excellency W. C. F. Robinson, Governor and Com-
miuler-in-clnef of the Falkland Islands, Mr. W. E. Crow-
ther, of Hobart Town, and Captain Thomas Hutton, of
Mumooree, India, corresponding members of the society.
Candidates for the fellowship were proposed, and ordered
to be balloted for at the neat monthly meeting.
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