The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-06 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Council I,vas held yesterday at Guild-
hqll. The Lord .2dayor presided.
POLICE STATIONS IN TIIE CITY.

Deputy LOTT, the deputy ch.)iruun of the police commit-
tee, brought up a report recommending the purchase of
some laud in Bishopsgate-street, the property of Christ's
Hospital, as a site for erecting a new police-station in place
of the present Bishopsgate and Seething-lane police-stations,
which have long been reported as unfit for such a purpose,
having regard to the health and comfort of the police offi-
cers, and the convenience of the public. The report also
recommended that the police sur4eon should, in future, be
entirely under the Control' orrhie police commissioner, Col,
Frazer.

Mr. H. L. TAYLOR expressed his opinion that this Court
ought not to divest itself of any powers that belonged to it
without consideration, and he suggested that this portion
of tho report should be re•considered, and that the whole
report should be printed.
Deputy LOTT consented to this, but the purchase of the
land was agreed to.

THE MAYOR'S COURT.
Deputy JONES broughtup a report from the Law, Parlia-
mentary, and City Courts Committee, which recommended
that a sum of £6,022 standing to the credit of the Mayor's
Court Fund, should bo carried to the account of thi City's
cash, and that the salary of Mr. Brandon, the registrar of
the court, be increased from £7OO to £l,OOO a year. Ho
referred to the large increase which had taken place in the
business of the Lord Mayor's Court, and the additional
labour that had in consequence been thrown upon the re-
gistrar, and also to the fact of such a large sum having
accrued as a profit to the Corporation, owing to the increase
in the number of suitors, and he moved that the report be
agreed to.

Mr. H. L. TAYLOR urged the Court not to forget that
the surplus alluded to was obtained from the fees paid by
the public, and he said that it appeared to him that the
Corporation ought not to lay itself open to the charge of
making a profit by the administration of justice. (Hear.)
He fully admitted the able manner in which the duties of
the registrar were performed, but he could not help think-
ing that it would be better to reduce the fees that were
charged to the suitors, than to make the amount so ob-
tained a ground for increasing the salaries of the officers of
the court. He should, therefore, move as an amendment
that the salary of the registrar be increased to £l,OOO per
annum by the payment of £lOO additional per annum from
the present time.

Deputy SCAMELL said he could not allow it to go fortlito
the world that the Corporation were making a profit by the
administration of justice, for it was not the case, The fact
was, that formerly the salaries of the officers of this court
were paid out of the Corporation funds, but at the sugges-
tion of the eminent judge who presided at the Lord Mayor's
Court a re-adjustment of the fees and expenses was made,
and at present he believed there was very little surplus.
The amendment was then negatived, and the original re-
port agreed to,

BENEVOLENCE.
Tho Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee brought up a
report which recommended a grant of 50 guineas to the
Great Northern Hospital, 50 guineas towards the erection
of is free chapel for the operatives of Deptford, 200 guineas
to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest,
100 guineas in aid of the fund for the relief of the widows
and orphans of Barking fishermen who lost their lives
during the terrible storm in December last, and 100 guineas
to the Thames Angling Preservation Society.
The committee, in reference to the last mentioned report,
alluded to the great exertions that were being made by the
society to increase the quantity of fish in the river Thames;
and it appeared by a report recently published that they
had placed 22,000 young trout in the river, as well as 7,000
salmon, 2,000 grayling, and 3,000 char, and that they had
reason to believe they would all live. They also expressed
a hope that when the new system of sewerage was more
fully developed the river Thames would once again be
peopled with fish to a large extent, thus affording a supply
of good and wholesome food, and at the same time of harm-
less recreation.

The report was unanimously agreed to.
The Court shortly afterwards adjourned.