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measure, and moved that it was not expedient that the
land, assessed, and income tax should be collected by offi-
cers of the Inland Revenue.
The motion was seconded by Mr PACKS and supported
by Mr HUNT, the latter gentleman protesting against throw-
ing upon the commissioners of taxes the odious task of de-
ciding whether the bill should be put in opere.tion in their
several districts or not.
After some further discussion,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
if the bill were not agreeable to the views of the community
and its representatives in Parliament it ought not to pass ;
but the system it proposed was in operation in Scotland,
where it worked economically and to the general satisfac-
tion. Constant complaints were now made of the exist-
ing system, the incivility, officiousness, defalcations, and
irregularities of collectors ; but over these officers the
Executive Government had no control whatever, inasmuch
as they were appointed by iindependent parties, to whom
alone recourse for a remedy could be had. The right hon.
gentleman then explained that the reason for omitting the
metropolis from the provisions of the bill was that there
were no stamp distributors employed there, the conse-
quence of which would be that, as it was meant to com-
bine the duties of collectors of taxes with those of stamp
distributors, the appointment of a new and expensive staff
of officers for this special purpose would become necessary.
With regard to the objection founded on the permissive
character of the bill, he considered that the permissive
principle was absolutely essential, and that no ether was
likely to receive the assent of the house. Birmingham,
Liverpool, and other large communities, had petitioned in
favour of the measure, and he thought that those dis•
tricts which desired to avail themselves of it should be
allowed to do so, whilst those with which it was unpo-
pular might be at liberty to decline. That was the only
question at issue.:
Mr HENLEY said it was difficult to separate the assess-
ment and collection. The former was a very burdensome
duty, and would be continued by the local assessors; the
collection, too, should therefore be local. Not seeing that
the bill would work well, or do any good, he should vote
for the motion of Sir H. Willoughby.
Lord J. MANNERS also supported the motion.
On a division the motion was negatived by 137 to 103,
and the house went into committee on the bill; and the bill
passed through committee, after considerable discussion on
the clauses.
WRITS REGISTRATION (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The debate on the Writs Registration (Scotland) Bill,
adjourned from the 30th ult., was resumed, and conducted
with much animation by the Scotch members, who were
all but unanimous in opposing this measure.
Sir J. FERGUSSON moved, as an amendment, that
the bill be read a second time that day three months; and
the proposal was seconded by Mr Baxter.
The LORD ADVOCATE defended the bill, which, he
said, proposed to carry out the recommendations of the
procurators of Glasgow in the first instance ; but in the
absence of a more general support he was bound to defer to
the opinions which had been so strongly expressed against
the measure, and reluctantly consented to the discharge of
the order.

DEN:

GERMANY,

(From the Times' Special Correspondent lately at the
Amish Headquarters.)

COPENHAGEN, June 6.
Copenhagen 'tied yesterday her own Grundslovfest,
or Constitution-day, and a very happy town it was
made by it, from early morning till 2 o'clock after
midnight. It is no exaggeration to say that not
one soul was left in the city. The day seemed to
be made to order, the brightest and most joyous
that could be had in any climate. Spring is in full
tide at last, even in Denmark, and alt the trees,
with the exception of the sleepy oak, are out in full
blossom. It was a sin and a shame to be indoors,
and we went out with the crowd, happy to follow
wherever anybody might lead.
I shall waste no ink in the description of the drive
to the Deer park (Dyr-have), past the pleasure
grounds of Charlotten Lund, the watering-place
of lilampenborg, the Hotel Bollevue, and other
spots mentioned on a former occasion. I beg to
carry the reader at once into the very middle of the
park, close to the Royal Slot pavilion, or hunting
box of the Hermitage, also already described, where,
in the afternoon, between 3 and 4 o'clock, the vast
assemblage of citizens, who have Been hitherto ea_ ly
people, scattered about, reclining under the trees,
and consuming their lunch or dinner, are now coin-
ing together from every quarter of the vast forest
ground. A throng of about 20,000 persons are
pressing upon each other on tiptoe within a compass
of two or three square miles round the Palace, creep-
ing under, vaulting over, breaking through the long
line of carriages, private or public, that were packed
together as they are at Epsom, round the Royal
Lodge, a building which, notwithstanding the
different use to which it is put, bears in its shape
no little resemblance to one of the great English
race stands.
Just about 4 o'clock a wave-like commotion
seemed to stir the surface of that dense multitude cheers rent the air, a lively strain of martial music
rose above the din of voices, and presently a string
of modest Court carriages, drawn by a single span
of horses each, drove up to the doors of the Lodge.
A gentleman and lady in mourning attire alighted
from the first carriage, a young lady and a boy six
years old from the second, a number of gentlemen
from the following ones. The former couple stopped
on the threshold, and acknowledged by bows the
applause of the shouting masses. They then went
in and were lost to view for a few minutes. What
occurred within the walls of the pavilion, we, the
outsiders, of course, could only guess. A deputation
from the corporations of the :eapital and of the
adjoining townships made, we were led to suppose,
their salaam to their Sovereign, who, no doubt,
answered in " terse and appropriate language."
In the meanwhile, those of us who bad ears and
voices joined in the execution of a song—" Til
Kongen"—writien and compoecd for the ec-
casion. As the last note; were swelling in the
air the central window was thrown open, and
the subject of those few lines and his Queen ap-
peared on the balcony. The cheers rose to their
highest pitch, the Royal couple expressed their
thanks by benignant inclinaticcs of their heads.
The tumult was then hushed up, and heal the
midst of the awful silence a clear ringing voice—the
King's voice—was heard, tech word as distirctly
audible to every man as to every one the throh of
his own heart thrilled with breathless emotion. The
King's words were few. He gave utterance to his
gratitude for the affection so loudly testified by his
subjects, and begged them to join him in his "bless-
ing on Denmark." (4 Gud berate Danmark.") The
short speech ended with another bow, upon which
the Rayed personages instantly withdrew. Cheers
were then given for the Queen, who once more came
out and hawed her thanks. A new song struck up
" For Dannzark !" but was interrupted by the ap-
pearance of a young fair head just peeping out
above the stone balustrade of the balcony. There
was a shout for Prince Waldemar, whose head in-
stantly ducked wader, terrified by its own rashness.
The boy was, however, brought back by his fond
parents, and made to do ebisance, to the intense
delight of the bystanders, There were more songs
for " Constitution," for " Army and Navy,' and
for "Norden," i.e., for the great Scandinavian
Fatherland. A rush to the marble stairs leading to
the Palace then ensued, and from the midst of the
thronged multitude the Royal party made their way
hick to their carrl'ages, and were aeon out of sight,
on their way to the Castle of Thrnstui ff, his Majesty'e
chosen coun'ry residence for this summer, a it w
miles off. 'there was not cue eoldier on duly on the
ground or at the Pale ce dour:, ; rof one policeman ;
the people knew how to make room for their beloved
Monarch, and needed no marshalling, no let or hied-

The amendment was then withdrawn,, and the order
discharged accordingly.
CHURCH BUILDING AND NEW PARISHES
ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.
On the order for the second reading of this bill,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated that the measure
had been prepared in accordance with a resolution of the
house in favour of a consolidation of the various acts re-
lating to these subjects, and in framing the bill his object
had been so to consolidate and simplify the law as not to
touch upon any controversial subject, more especially upon
Church rates, and in that view the committee to which the
bill was last year referred had also coincided. The measure
had been constructed in scrupulous good faith by the
Government, and he had hoped it would have been enter-
tained in the same spirit by the house. As, however, it
had been misinterpreted, and, if pressed, was likely to excite
a good deal of opposition, he deemed it more desirable to
move that the order be discharged.
Mr. HUNT regretted that the Government should have
yielded to the pressure that had been brought to bear upon
them by a small section of their own supporters, who en-
tertained extreme views on ecclesiastical questions, The
concession was alike weak, unworthy, and dishonourable.
Mr. H. SEYMOUR regretted that this attempt at legis-
lation had turned out a failure, and inquired what was to
be the future course of the Government respecting it. He
suggested that next session, if the present Attorney.
General were then in office, the hon. and learned gentle.
man should introduce a simple consolidation bill.
Lord J. MANNERS gave all credit to the Attorney-
General for the efforts he had made to settle the matter;
but the conclusion to which he came was that it was im-
possible to conciliate the political dissenter on any subject
that was connected with the Church. If the Government
really desired to legislate usefully upon the question they
must proceed to do so upon the broad and bold basis of con-
solidation, in defiance of the Liberation Society. He hoped
it was reserved for happier times and a united Cabinet to
carry out the great work of Church Building Acts consoli-
dation.

Alter some remarks from Mr F. POWELL and Mr R.
MILLS, the order was discharged.
In committee on Greek Loan (Consolidated Fund), a re-
solution was agreed to, on the motion or the CHANCEL.
LOR of the EXCHEQUER, authorising the Queen to
relinquish in favour of the King of the Hellenes, during
h's reign, the sum of £-1,000 a year, and to that extent to
release the Greek Treasury from the obligation of the
arrangement concluded at Athens in June, 1869, in refe-
rence t) the Greek Loan. Leave was then given to bring
in a bill.

The Railway Construction Facilities Bill was recom-
mitted, but very little progress was made when the house
resumed,
On the order for the second reading of the Street Music
Bill,

ranee.

The wfi'ele scene was simple in the extreme, yet
81117-6eieeitly impressive. There is something to me
elspeakebly touching in the sight of that young,
modest, affectionate, royal couple, who have come
to the throne at an epoch of so much trial and peril
for the Danish monarchy, and who take as little of
the pomp and pageantry of their new station upon
themselves as if they sighed for the quiet domestic
bliss on which the cares of a tempest-tossed State
have so rudely trespassed. The King preserves in
the midst of his newly accrued greatness all the easy
grace, the courteous simplicity which belong to a
thoroughbred private gentleman. It would be waste
of breath to say that the Queen is every Leh a lady.
There is in both their flue handsome countenances
an expression of anxious care, a touch of sadness,
conveying very plain hints of the share both of
them take in the sorrows and fears by which the
country is distracted, and making irresistible appeal
to the sympathies of all beholders. The King has
made immense strides towards the best grounded
popularity a Sovereign should aspire to win among
his people, a popularity grounded in firm faith in
the uprightness of his in entions, and on the ac-
knowledgment of his sterling public and private
virtues. There is nut an instance of a familiar face
among the old acqueintance of the Royal pair in
private life whose presence is forgotten, or twee not
expressly solicited; no instance of a stranger with
any pretensions to gentle manners who is not wel-
comed in this unassuming household, English
visitors, especially, easily find themselves at home
in a Court bound to their own reigning house by
such near ties, and where their own language is as
readily spoken as at Marlborough House.
When the King had left the grounds, a set of
patriotic gentlemen stepped upon a platform. and
delivered set speeches, of which the songs above
alluded to supplied the themes. I did not wait to
hear the last of them, you may be sure, for greater
attraction was exercised upon me by the people's
lair, which was held in another part of the park,
where there were whirligigs, swinging boats, shoot-
ing matches, trials of strength, end a variety of
other open air exercises of which these good Danish
citizens seem to be inordinately fond. After EMU ter-
ing from booth to booth, I drove back to town, and
proceeded to Fredericksburg, a park or vast garden,
where the same pleasures, and those of eating and
drinking, were carried on on a very large scale, and
where the great treat was to be—please the ever•
lasting summer day of this high latitude ever
to come to a close—a magnificent display of fire.
works. From Fredericksburg we went to Tivoli,
a better sort of Cremorne, a very paradise in the
estimation of these worthy Copenhageners. If a
stranger happened to feel or to look particularly
dull during the winter months, the citizens, jealous
of the good fame of their " merry" town, used to
5(13', " Wait till Tivoli opens, and you will no longer
complain that time hangs heavily upon you in the
Danish capital." Well, Tivoli opened, and it was
Cremorne and Vauxhall all over, with music, wine,
and beer, dancing on the green, mentagnes Russes,
balloons, and fireworks. Only
n tEo
vtei rrye
btood-
yi
go
or reos vet
oo fTsivvho ai
it,
at hn edy t det
el ipgrhe
the people here do
sincleonttcohe-adopa7;he respectable scares away the disrepu-
table. The great delight at Tivoli s wof
this day was a
put to shame the never-
waning d 011 lam 9wohch
noti know whether there was
ho
a larger crowd at Dyrhave, or at Fredericksburg,
or at the Tivoli gardens. My impression is that
people multiplied themselves and managed to be at
the three places at the same time. Of the behaviour
of all that mass of people it would be superfluous to
speak. Three English gentlemen were with me
from beginning to end, and we all agreed that the

Mr liANKEy moved as an amendment that the bill be
read a second time on that day three months. He con•
sidered that street music was a mere question of demand
and supply, and such legislation as this was, in his opinion,
of a most paltry description.
Some discussion of an amusing eharnier ensued, in the
course of which the bill was supported by Sir G. Grey, Mr
Hunt, and Sir R. Peel, and opposed by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer.
Mr BUTT moved the adjournment of the debate, but the
motion was negatived by 56 to 19, and the bill was read a
second time.
The remaining business on the paper was also disposed
of, and the house adjourned.

Emigration of' 1863,
----0-- ---
The report of the Emigration Commissioners, just issued, shows that the great emigration which began with the
Irish famine of 1817, but declined rapidly at the commence,
meat of the Russian ma: in 1854, when a demand for re-
cruits arose, and revived again early in 1857, until the In-
dian mutiny caused another demand for the army, never
since attained any large proportions until 1863. In that
year 223,758 emigrants left the United Kingdom, 27 per
cent, of them English, 7 per cent. Scotch, 52 per cent. Irish,
4 per cent. rJreigners, and 10 per cent. not distinguished,
146,813 of them went to the United States, 53,054 to Aus-
tralia 9-4,,a New Zealand, 18,033 to British North America,
On t'Aie question whether Irish emigration has been feeding
the Federal army the Commissioners remark that the Irish
emigration of last year fell far short of that of the years
immediately following the famine, and amounted to only 2
per cent, of the population of Ireland ; that of the Irish
emigration to the United States the proportion which con sisted of single men was almost precisely the same in 1863
as in 1860, the year before the war began, and that in the
firstb three months of the present year the proportion has
areeen,lesa than in the first quarter of 1860. Boys above 12
pro _co
in fa '''.led as single men in emigration returns, and a large
P r'42,11 of the remainder emigrated as sons or brothers
milies
.
' the Commissioners think that there would not
be more than 26,000 out of whom the Federal army would
have a chance of obtaining recruits and that it is not
to be assumed that even a
majority of these took ser-
vice. The largeness of the emigration from Ireland is
i and the liberality of preceding
I attributed to distress
emigrants almost . provided the
escape from it, for it was know thatemiltotrree thexanlieLsle2,oeofo wasthe
f twheasse
remitted in 1363 by settlers in North America to their
friends in the United Kingdom, 46 per cent. of the emi-
grants who went to the Lia.ited States took passage in
British steamers. The establishment 0
has effected a great and advantageous change in the carriage
oonfleymoigiroanpetsr,
eaenndt.thine
smteoarmtaslhitiypsinanldBo63.26
in
sailing
ships.
vset re ya ms
ml ialil le—r 8
Unhappily, however, the year saw some very melancholy
casualties at sea. The Anglo-Saxon was wrecked off the
coast of Newfoundland, and 237 lives lost ; the Lord Raglan
sailed from Liverpool for Melbourne in February, 186; with
289 passengers and 65 crew, and has not since been heard
of—it is supposed she was burnt. Of the emigrants to
Australia and Now Zealand 41,354 went out on their own
resources, and 11,700 obtained passage certincates or war,
rants through their friends in the colonies, or were otherwise
assisted out of the public funds. The increase in the num-
ber of passenger warrants is a satisfactory feature of the
emigration, and will probably furnish a sufficient supply of
male labourers, but the demand for female domestic ser-
vants continues as great as ever. The Commissioners sent
last year 4,131 single women to Australia, but the position
of respectable women servants in this country is so favour-
able that it is impossible to procure the number the Austra-
lian colonies would wish to receive. New Zealand voted
and sent to the Commissioners £lO,OOO to be expended in
itasisting emigration thither from the manufacturing dis-
tricts, and the Board sent out accordingly 643 passengers.
The colonial demand is for men accustomed to outdoor
labour. Of the general statistics of emigration it may
suffice to mention that in the eight years 1847-1854,
1,321,725 of the Irish emigrated to Ame
the great extent of its labour market, rica, attracted by

GARIBALDI.—..A.n addreEs from the pfople of
thanking the English nation for the reception
gliavireeaili'
t:Gencral Garibaldi, has been sent to the Speaker
of the House c,f Cotnenons, With a request that he would
make known the gratitude felt by the penple of Palettno.

THE Sul% LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 10 1864.

Danes are more entitled to the appellation of
" angels" than even those Angle progenitors of
theirs on whose hire-legged children an old Pope
perpetrated that memorable pun.
The Danes were not allowed to keep holy their
Constitution-day is some other places as they did
in Copenhagen. At Aalborg, Randert, and other
towns in Jutland, be Prussians would not allow the
national flag to be used by the citizens, and these
could not or would not celebrate their anniversary
without their wonted show of colours. To be sure,
their Dannebrog—their dear old banner—fallen
from Heaven ! we had a good display of Red and
White both here in town and at Dyrhave and every-
where ; and not oily of Danish standards, but of
Swedish, French, Italian, and English—of all
European flags, only not Prussian, Austrian, or
German.

Railway and Public Companies in Parlia.
ment.

Yesterday the case for the parties opposing the
proposed extension of the Metropolitan Railway to
Trinity-square and Towerehill having terminated
in Lord Stanley's committee, Mr. Denison and Mr.
Kerslake opened the case for the promoters of the
East London Railway,the committee deferring their
decision on the Metropolitan Company's projeet
until they shall have fully gone into that of the East
London, which is proposed to be incorporated with
a capital of £2,015,000 in shares and £670,000 by
loan. The company propose to reticulate the East
end with railways, some thirteen in number, uniting
the localities of the district with the leading metro-
politan railways. The first line will
.run from a
junction with the Great Eastern Railway at Tap-
e
passing over the eastern end
of t r
the t,
w Bethnal-green,
e g
ad and the western end of the
Tap-
street,
the
a-
preei
rn o,
Commercial-road East, to Severnestreet,St.George's-
in-the-East, thence under the London and Blackwell
Railway and a pea of the London Docks, through
the Thames Tannut, *lOll6 tne west side of the Uralic!
Surrey Timber Docks, to the New-cross station of the
London and ,Brighton Railway, with a connecting
branch. A second section of railways will connect
the first with the Great Eastern at Bethnal-green,
with the Deptford branch of the Brighton, where it
passes under the London and Greenwich, and with
the South Eastern Railway. A third section will
form a junction with the that at Severn-street,
across and under Whitechapel High street,
and
thence by the east side of Houndeditch to a junc-
tion with the Finsbury Ea-tension cf the Metropo-
litan Railway at Little Moorfielda and the remaining
sections in their turn connecting with the others
will run from the east aide of Mocrgate-street ; to
the North London Railway, City Branch, near
Son-street, end to the Liverpool-street Terminus,
Whiteehapel, and London and North Western
depots at Haydon-equere. In edditioe, the com-
pany seek power to purchase the Thamea Tun-
nel, to appropriate it to the purposes cf their red.?,
way and to discontirtue its 11.53 for other purpe2es,
and the promoters propose by the bill to pro
vide morning and evening trains for the conveyance
of the labouring classes through the tunnel at a
penny for each passenger. The Board of Trade,
in reporting en this latter object, state that having
regard to the interest which the Government have
in the Thames Tunnel in respect of the large sums
of public money advanced to the Thames Tunnel
Company, and remaining unpaid, it Seems to be
proper that arrangements for the purchase of the
Thames Tunnel by the East London and the rail.
way companies, parties to the bill should be ap-
proved by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.
The representative of the Grand Surrey Dock Com-
pany was examined relative to layiug the rails on
the quays of the company by Mr. Round v. Mr.
Haly and Mr. Slight, secretary of the Brighton
Company, by Mr. ktod:vell, and others, relative to
the merits of the:measure, and the interest that com-
pany p:oposcd to take in it. The bill to enable the
Lynn and Sutton Railway to provide, side by side
with the bridge over the river Nene, a separate
public roadway along the railway, was passed in
that committee. The bills for the Brecon and
Merthyr Tycfil Junction (No. 2) and Rhymney
Railway and Cardiff to Caerphilly were further
considered and settled, subject to the insertion of
some qualifying clauses, what is termed the Pur-
chase Bill, being thrown out. The case for the
North Stafordstira new lines was forwarded a stage
is the 9!.mp.,, of further evidence as to traffic, and
the detailed provisions rt,quired in connexion with
the East Gloucestershire and Borton,,on-the-Water
and Lancashire District Rva,soccupied those
committees all day. Mr. Massey passed the South
E-istzrn (No. 4) Bill, Dublin and B:lllinglass, and
Weltrnausworth, Amersham, oat; Chesham. A
committee of the Lords, consisting of Lord Mont-
eagle (chairman), Lord Clinton, Lord I'oltimore,
Lord Talbot de Malahide, and Lord Houghton,
met, and, after hearing counsel and evidence,
approved. the bill of the ;London, Brighton, and
South Coast for their proposed 01180 Valley
line, and then took the bill for the Sewage It7l-
- t of Edinburgh and Leith, Mr Stephen-
son being examined by Mr Locke. In Lord Redes-
dale's committee the Southampton and Netley, East
India, Hamilton and Strathaven, Scottish North
Eastern Bills ; Bonbon' Valley, North British
(Abbey Holme and Legate branch), and Liverpool
and London Fire, E Art Egitiont's Estates and Chit.
indents Disabilities Bills were considered and passed,

Court of Common Council,

I A Court of Common Council was held yesterday
in the Council Chamber, Guildhall—Sir Francis
Graham Moon presiding as locum tenens for the
Lord Mayor.
At the opening of the Court, upon the motion of
Mr Dquty Hawtree, which was seconded by Mr
Alderman Salomons, -11.1%, a vote of condolence was
passed, sympathising with the family of the Lord
Mayor in the recent loss sustained by them in the
death of his lordship's brother.
Mr CORRIE, the Remembrancer, reported to the
Court the introduction into Parliament of a bill for
facilitating the traffic by improving the communi-
cation across the River Thames.
Mr. WEBBER brought up a report from the
Bridge House Estates Committee upon the matter,
which stated that a bill had been recently intro-
duced into Parliament entitled " A Bill to facilitate
the traffic of the metropolis by
improving the com-
munications across the river Thames." They had
exa..Cnpri thA 1,;11 Mill mi.,' that it Prnrn" to
authorise the Metropolitan Board of Works to pur-
chase by agreement Southwark•bridge and certain
other bridges mentioned in the schedule of the bill,
and that any bridge SO purchased should be open
for public use free from toll, and that it should be
the duty of the Board to endeavour to purchase
Southwark and Waterloo•bridges before pur-

chasing the other bridges; and in the bill
was a clause directing that the Corporation
of London shall contribute out of the Bridge
House Estates a sum not less than £50,000 towards
the purchase of Southwark Bridge, and that when
purchased that bridge should be maintained by the
corporation of London out of the Bridge House
Estates Fund. The report stated that the introducs
tion into Parliameat without the authority or sanc-

tion of that court of a bill dealing with the Bridge
House Funds,
which are under the control and
management of the corporation, was a proceeding
3f so unprecedented and dangerous a character as
to render it in their opinion highly important that
it should be opposed, and they therefore recom-
mendad that a petition should be presented to the
House of Commons against the bill, and that they
should be authorised to prosecute the matter in
such a manner as they might deem fit. Ia moving
that the report be agreed to, M Webber said the
committer, seeing the nature of the bill, whie:a pro.
posed without the sanction of the court to meddle
with a fund under the control of the corporation,
and more especially that it was introduced by one of
the members of that Court without consulting them,
had thought it zig 4 to take the matter into cond..

deration and report upon it at once.
A warm dizcuEsion ensued. It appeared that the
name of Mr. Aldertan Salomons was on the back

of the bill as havint introduced it into the House of
C21111M0138, and sorry of the members condemned in

rather stroug terra the course which had been taken
by that alderman, by introducing into tha house,
without even givio the corporation the slightest in-

timation of his intention, a bill which they said
would interfere with their control over funds placei
in their trust far the public advantage. Alderman
Rose, Mr L. Taylor, 'Mr De Jersey, Mr F. W. Trus-
cott, and Mr Medwiu were among those who sup-
ported the recommendation of the committee that a
petition should be presented to the HOU3e CZ Com-
mons by the corporation in oppoF;tion to the bill.
Mr Depnty Harrison and Ivir Ueekci-ell though+,
however, that the Court should pauee lac'ore they
appeared to oppose a measure which Nyouidimprove
the condition of the City traffic, Deputy Harrison
suggesting that they should wait and see what was
done at the second reading of the bill.
The motion of Mr. Webber was, however, agreed
to, and a petition directed to be prepared in accord-'
ance with the terms of the report.
A petition signed by John Remington Mills, Esq.
M.P., Samuel Morley, Esq., and a large number of
other influential gentlemen, was presented by Mr
Deputy C. REED, praying that the Court would
take steps to secure the present condition of the Bun-
hill-fields burying ground, and to secure it for ever
against any possible perversion to other uses than
those for which it bad been for two centuries sacredly
appropriated. The piers stated that the spot
mentioned had beei set apart by the corporation of
London as a place el interment 200 years ago, and
for 190 years had been used for that purpose, unti
in the year 1852 it was closed by an order in Caution
They also stated that 120,000 corpses had been in,
terred there, which number included the remains o