The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-16 00:00:00

The New City Traffic Regulation Act.

A statement has just been put forth, under the authority
of a committee of the Court of Aldermen, as to the pro-
ceedings taken on the part of the Corporation for carrying
out the provisions of the City of London Traffic Regulation
Act of last year. This document embodies a correspondence
which has passed between Sir G. Grey, the Home Secre-
tary, and the Corporation on the subject, and from which it
appears that Sir George, with the Attorney and Solicitor-
General on the one hand, and the Court of Aldermen with
the law officers of the Corporation on the other, are directly
at variance in many respects as to the powers conferred by
the new act upon the Court of Aldermen to regulate the
traffic. For the present the result of this difference seems
to be, in the opinion of the Recorder of London, the Com-
mon Sergeant, and the rest of the law officers, " to render
nugatory what has been considered one of the most impor-
tant provisions of the act," and the Court of Aldermen,
they add, have no course open to them but to confine the
by-laws which they had submitted for the sanction of the
Home Secretary to those approved by the law officers of the
Crown. These are only three in number of 17. The first
prescribes the route to be followed by passenger carriages
going from St Paul's-churchyard tctthe further side of Lon-
don-bridge and returning—viz., by Cannon-street; the
second provides that no vehicle shall be driven through the
streets between 9 in the morning and 6 in the evening laden
to a greater height than 10ft, measuring from the ground, or
to a greater width than 7ft; and the third prohibits driving
of carts and waggons with logs of wood, metal, scaffolding
poles, masts, and the like, exceeding 25ft in length or Bft
Sin in:breadth, within the same hours. By the by-laws,
which have been rejected by Sir G. Grey, the conducting
of any kind of locomotive propelled by steam between 6 in
the ',morning and 10 at night, except a steam fire-engine
actually going to or returning from a fire, was to be strictly
prohibited. No coals, beer, wine, or other liquid in casks,
conveyed in carts, waggons, or vans were to be allowed to
be delivered in 24 of the principal streets of the city, which
were named, between 9in the morning and 5 in the even-
ing. The sale of vegetables, fruit, fish, or other articles car-
ried upon any truck or vehicle was prohibited betwen 9 in
the morning and 6 in the evening in the same streets, and
on London and Elaokfriars bridges. Every waggon and
van was to be placed with its side parallel with the foot
pavement when being loaded or unloaded, or stopped for
any other purpose. Upwards of 70 principal places were in-
dicated at which in the whole 88 shoeblacks might ply their
calling, and the Commissioner of the city police was em-
powered, for the public convenience, to alter or increase the
standings or the number of shoeblacks so that the number
of standing places did not exeeed 160,.and the number of
shoeblacks, 300 in the whole. These were the principal re-
gulations ; but there were others prohibiting the obstruc-
tion of streets and footways by persons with various enu-
merated articles for sale, or by goods or merchandise during
removal, so as to hinder or incommode a free passage. A
power is conferred by the act which the Alderman have not,
as yet, exercised, namely, to regulate the mode of distin-
guishing hackney cabs when empty and when actually ply-
'lag for hire. Of all their functions this is the most clearly
idefined, and it was intended to meet one of the most patent
and vexatious obstructions of the legitimate traffic in all the
chief thoroughfares—namely, the loitering in them of
empty cabs on the look-out for
,customers, instead of re-
pairing
to the nearest cabstand.
The code of by-laws which we have epitomised was pre-
pared by the Committee of Aldermen, in conjunction
with the Commissioner of Police, the City Solicitor, and
the clerks to the magistrates at the Mansion-house
and Guildhall justice-rooms. It was afterwards approved by
the Court of Aldermen, and, having been published in ee-
-1
cordance with the statute, Was forwarded to Sir Geo. Grey
for his sanction on 4th December last, together with certain
suggestions for its modification, so as to meet the wishes
and requirements of the wine and spirit trade and the build-
ing trade, in respect to parts of the regulations which were
likely to press seriously upon them. The Home Secretary
replied, on 22d December, that no power appeared to be
given by the act to him to alter the by-laws made under its
authority, and that his province was only to approve them.
He enclosed two complaints which had been addressed to
him on the part of persons whose trading operations it was
alleged would be prejudicially affected by the proposed re-
gulations. One was a letter from Mr Alderman Salomons,
calling his attention to the entire prohibition of the sale of
fruit from barrows and trucks in the City between the hours
of 9in the morning and 6in the evening. This, wrote the
alderman, "is closing the city as a thoroughfare to an in-
dustrious, and, indeed, a useful class, who retail a cheap and
wholesome luxury to the working classes of the mV.reocptionli, to
metropolis.
the he other was from a brewery firm at Ratcliff, objecting
h
a clause apparently, to them, so sweeping astoprjoheibuiste in
delivery of a cask of beer for private use at any
certain streets, referred to by name, between
09faarde.
aldermen,
den
5
p.m. The reply on the part of the committee
under date of Jan. 21, was that the clause in question was
never intended to apply to the delivery of beer by retail, and
that, alter due consideration, they did not see any reason to
alter the regulation cited by Alderman Salomons. On Jan
29th, referring to the regulations which, with some modifi-
cations, had been submitted to him for his opinion by the
civic authorities preparatory to their being published, the
Home Secretary wrote thus :
it The first question which presents itself to Sir
George Grey is, whether they are strictly within the
power of making by-laws which is given to the Court of
the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London by the third
section of the act of 1863, and are confined to the special

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purposes defined by that section. Sir G. Grey regrets to say
that he feels great doubts upon this point, He deems it un-
necessary to refer to all the instances in which, as ft appears'
to him, it may be contended that the Court has exceeded the
power intrusted to it by the act. He will refer, for the sake
of example, to a few instances only, By-law No. 2 prohibits
during certain hours any vehicle drawn by more than four
horses in the streets—that is, in all streets without any
restriction or limitation. By by-law No, 6 the delivery of
coals, beer, wine, or other liquid in casks is prohibited dur-
ing certain hours in certain streets. By by-law No. 12 the
sale of a variety of at tides carried upon vehicles is forbiddea
in certain streets. By by-law No. 15 the Court not only ap-
poins standings for shoeblacks, but delegates its authority its
that respect in future to the Commissioner of City police.
Sir G. Grey cannot find that any express or implied power
is conferred by the late act which authorises these regula-
tions, and he therefore requests to be informed whether the
by-laws have been submitted to the legal advisers of the
Corporation of London, and, if so, whether they are of
opinion that all the by-laws are in conformity with the act,
and can be enforced by the penalties therein provided."
Upon the receipt of this letter the Recorder and the Com-
mon-Sergeant were consulted with special reference to the
objections urged by the Secretary of State, and they gave
it as their 'opinion that the draught regulations, with the
exception of the proviso to the 15th, relating to the power
given to the Police Commissioner with respect to shoeblacks,
which should be expunged, were within the power conferred
upon the Corporation by the act,

The Attorney and Solicitor General, to whom the pro-
posed by-laws have since been submitted by the Rome Secre-
tary for their opinion, express their regret that they cannot
agree with the opinion given by the Recorder and Common-
Sergeant. They go on to say, "Of the by-laws in question
the Ist, 4th, sth, 16th, and part of the 15th, down to' the
proviso, are clearly conformable to the act, and may be
enforced by the penalties therein provided ; but the rest of
the by-laws, however proper and expedient such regulations
may be in themselves, seem to us to be beyond the scope of
the authority given by the Act, and therefore not liable to
be enforced by its penalties," In support of this view the
law officers of the Crown 'proceed to give reasons. The
opinion of the Recorder and Common-Sergeant has since
been fortified by those of Mr Brand, the Controller of the
Corporation—Mr Corrie, the Remembrancer—and Mr
Nelson, the City Solicitor. There the matter rests for the
present, the Court of Aldermen contenting themselves with
giving effect to the three by-laws out of the 17 cited above.

Inspection of the Civil Service Rifles by the
Prince of Wales.

The inspection of the 21st Middlesex (Civil Set.
vice) Rifles, which, in consequence of the presence
of its honorary colonel, the Prince of Wales, will
be registered as the annual official inspection of this
excellently-drilled corps, took place last evening in
the quadrangle of Somerset House, before a large
and distinguished assemblage. Every preparation.
to do honour to the auspicious event was made. The
quadrangle was tastefully hung with a varied series
of Admiralty signals, interspersed with union jacks
and standards ; on either side were ranged tempo-
rary seats for the accommodation of visitors admitted
by tickets, while on the west side of the square a
raised dais, decorated with bunting and covered
with a delicately white awning, over which floated
the Prince of Wales' standard, was erected for the
reception of the Prince and Princess. Soon after
three o'clock a body of the A Division, under the
direction of Superintendent Durkin, assisted by
Inspector Denning, were stationed at the entrance
gates and in the enclosure.
Half-past five was the appointed time for the
arrival of his royal highness, but long before that
hour every seat was occupied, the fair sex being the
most numerous. At four o'clock the various com-
panies assembled in the quadrangle, to the number
of 400 rank and file. •

. The men having been put through a preliminary
. drill by .Major I\lill, assisted by Captain and Adju-
tant Lombard,- Lieutenant-Colonel Viscount Bnry,
M.P., took command, and rehearsed the men in the
Movements through which they subsequently passed
before his royal highness, leaving them formed in
wings in readiness to give the royal salute, &o.
During the interval that elapsed between this and
the arrival of the Prince and Princess, Viscountess
Bury, accompanied by the Countess of Albemarle,
Lady Suffield, Mre. Loyd Lindsay, Lady William
Compton, Miss Compton, and Lady Augusta Keppel,
took their seats on the dais behind the chairs of
state. There were also present, amongst other dis-
tinguished personages, the Earl of Albemarle, Lord
Suffield, Lieutenant-Colonel Loyd Lindsay, &c.

A little before 6 o'clock distant cheers announced
the approach of the Prince and Princess, and im.
mediately afterwards the royal carriage drove
through the lines of volunteers to the dais. Upon
alighting their royal highnesses were received with a
royal salute, the men presenting arms and the band
striking up the first bars of the National Anthem.
The Princess was received by Ladv:Bury and ushered
to her seat, while the Prince, upon ascending the
dais, graciously acknowledged the general greeting
accorded him by all present. The Prince, who wore
the undress uniform of a general officer, was attended
by Gen. Knollys and Col. Keppel. The Princess
was attired in mourning, and attended by Lady
Carmarthen. The Prince, accompanied by Lord
Bury and followed by Gen. Knollys and Col. Kep-
pel, walked down the lines and inspected the men;
he then returned and took up his position on the
dais, and the manoeuvres, directed by Lord Bury,
were commenced. At their conclusion, the Prince
stepped into the centre and said, " Gentlemen, I
need hardly tell you the great pleasure I feel at
being present at this inspection, and the satisfac-
tion I have experienced in witnessing your
manoeuvres. Under the able tuition of Col. Lord
Bury, you have had great opportunities of become
ing efficient in your drill. It occurs to me from the
great steadiness you have acquired, that you must
have paid great attention to drill. I had this square
formed so that I might present you with my chal-
lenge cup, and I have great pleasure in doing so.,The Prince then handed the challenge cup to Lord
Bury, and a cup to the winner, Mr. Burroughs, of
the Whitehall Company.

Three cheers were then given for the Prince,
three for Denmark, and the Prince and Princess
drove away amidst the cheers of all present.

THREATENED OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON.
—On Monday morning last, when the body of convicts at
Dartmoor were marched out of their prison to their labour
on the Moor, it became apparent that a mutinous combina-
tion had been formed amongst them, and that a serious
outbreak had been planned. On being told to break off for
Work, not a man moved to fall out of the ranks, and the
order was answered with a defiant murmur and a dogged
refusal to perform any work at all. A ringleader met
every persuasion or order of the warders with the most
dreadful imprecations and threats. But every available
precaution had been taken. The armed civil guard, which
had been augmented and posted within hail, was called in,
and the ringleaders and most prominent malcontents were
at once marched back to prison, where they were locked in
separate cells to await the punishment which will be
awarded by Captain Gambier, the visiting director. The
cause of the mutiny was the application of the new reduced
scale of diet. For some months past the governors of con.
vict prisons have had orders to adopt the reduced scale of
diet, which was approved by the commission of doctors
under the authority of the Secretary of State. Up to
Sunday last these orders had not been adopted in Dartmoor
prison, and the old scale provided by the late Sir Joshua
Jebb was adhered to. On that morning, however, it was
eeawrlasy informationt()bemade.
becameuthoeaffipcpelliaanarlesgnt, and some 'well
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serious o n v imc t
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were therefore taken to prevent it.

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ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
Covent-garden.
Time will, both in this wcek and in next week, be five
opera nights, viz., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,
and haturday

Extra Night.
Mesdames Lagrua, Tati, and Battu ; Signori Graziani,
Tagltalic°, and Mario.
THIS EVENING (Thursday), June 16, will Sc performed
Verdi's opera, UN BA LLo IN MASCHE RA. Amelia, Mdlle.
Emilia inrua Mdlie. Giuseppini Tad.% Oscar,
Mdile. Marie Battu ; Renato. Signor Graziani ; Armando,
i2nor Tagliafico; Angri, Signor Capponi ; Silvano, Signor
Fallar ; Il tiludice, Signor Rossi , and 11 Duca, signor Mario.
Conductor, Mr. Costa.
The incidental Divertissement will be supported by Mlle.
Slivoni and M. Desplaces.
Commence at half past Eight.

Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre ,ta Is, 10a. 6d., 75., ar,d ss. ;
smphitheatre."2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had
at th, box-offic under the portico 01 the tnea:re, whiat is
4,pen from ten to five, and ac the principal musicsellrrs' and

THEATRE ROYAL HAY ARKET.-
Sofe Lecaee and Manager, Mr, 13nel:stone.
THIS EVENING, THE BA LANCE OF COMFORT.
Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel.
After which, DAVID GARRICK. Mcssrs. Sothern,
Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, ‘l'eathersby, &C. ;
Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam.
Followed by (for the 4th time) LORD DUNDREARY
M ARMED AND DONE 10R.
To concincla with AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. Mr. Wm.
Farren and Miss M. Harris.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
Last Nine sights of Hamlet, and Last Week bat One of the

Season.
Mr. FECHTER will perform HAMLE f THIS EVENING
ahursday). Claudius, Mr. Emery ; Polonius, Mr. John
Brougham ; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan ; Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden-
; Horatio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger, Mr. H.
Widdicomb • Osric, Mr. to. Charles ; Messrs. W. .M`lntyre,
F. Morton, 'Rayniend, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall-
bank, Collett ; Opheiia, Hiss Kate Terry ; Actress, ktiss 31
lieurade ; sad Gertrude, Miss Elsworthy.
The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin.
Notice.—The doors open at half past 7, and Hamlet com-
•
isences at 3.
Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lesec and Manager, Mr. Geo.
I'ffl3 EVENING will be performed a new and original
Drama, by R. Slows, Esq., entitled LIGIIT AND SHADOW..
Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. May, J. Nelson, ; Miss
Stafford and J 1193 Carolne Cars;m.
Alter which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis
and Fabien del Franchi, Mr. Vining; Chateau Renaud, Mr.
er Lacy.

N- F, \V THEATRE-P.O YAL, AD ELPIII.---•
Pronriotor and itranavr, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, TEE DEAD HEART: Robert Landry
this origival character). Mr. Benjamin Webster, ,uppo ted by
Messrs. A. titling, J. L. Toole, T. Stuart, eau' Bedford,
It llington; Miss W oolgar (Mrs. Allred Mellon), Miss Kelly,
tze.

TO ocl4clude with TIIE AREA BELLE : Ntessrs. J. L. Too:e,
P. Bedford, ic. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Airs. IL Lewis.

Commence at 7.

.110YAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the
Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new
Comtdy, by Din Boneicault ,Esq., every Evening.

Re• engagement of those ce ebraced and popular artistes, Mr.

an t Mrs. Charles IlathCw-s.

Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular
of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr.
Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Took, Mr. Clarke, Mr. P•iul
Bedford, Mr. F. a °Wilson, Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews,
Miss 11, rbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. aimms, Miss
A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss
Wentworta, and Mrs. Stirling.

EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE
%VE)DING. Miss Herbert.

At a quarter before S, an entirely new and oricnnal Comely,
in 5 acts, by Dion Boni:Maul:, entitled THE FOX CHACE.
Vharacters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthew.,
Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash Ey, Mr. W. Chain er-
laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank afitthews, and Miss
Henrietta Simms (her first appear;i.ce here).
At 10, by parricular desire, CO:A., AS A CUCUMBER.
Mr. Charles Mathews.

To conclude with HAKE ITANDS : M. J. Clarke; Mies
Fanny Josephs. . _

Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, DEAF AS A POST. Mr. Thorne.
Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. Miss Ada
SwanborouOt.
After whl:h, MAZOTIRKA. '.Messrs. Honey, James,
Fenton, Turner, 5/o. ; Misses Marie Wilton, Simpson, &c.
To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE IIES CUE. Mr.
T. Thorne.

Commence at 7.

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The Weather—Sun Office, June 16, 1864.

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THERMONETEE.
This day at Two o'clock 62
Barometer-29.77.
; moderate breeze, and fine.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tura DAN.—Morning, ICh. 58m.—Afternoon, 11h. 30m.
ro-twaßow.-Morning,, 11h. 57m.—Afternoon, h. m.

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