The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-24 00:00:00

THE CITY PRISONS.

Mr. Sheriff CAVE brought up a report by which
it appeared there are at present in Newgate 96
prisoners, in the Debtors' Prison 104, and at Hol-
loway 373 prisoners.
OMNIBUSES IN THE CITY.

Alderman WILSON brought up a report from the
General Purposes Committee, which stated that
having been in communication with Col. Frazer,
the Commissioner of the City Police, and by his
recommendation, after fully considering the sub-
ject, the committee proposed to make considerable
alterations in the standings of omnibuses in Bishops-
gate-street, Gracechurch-street, and other crowded
thoroughfares in the city. Some of these standings
will be entirely done away with; and Alderman
Wilson moved that the proposed alterations should
be made public by advertisements in the newspapers
Alderman COPELAND, M.P., wished to know
whether the effect of agreeing to the report and to
the motion proposed by Alderman Wilson would
be, that the proposed change would be carried out
without any opportunity being afforded to those
who might feel themselves aggrieved to petition
this Court, or to make their objections:
Alderman WILSON said that the alterations
would not take effect until at least a month after
they were made public.
Alderman CARTER said that a good many of the
inhabitants of Bishopsgate-street considered the
omnibuses coming to that neighbourhood a great
convenience, and they objected to their being re-
moved, and a good imany persons had applied to
him upon the subject.
The motion was then agreed to, upon the under•
standing that ample opportunity would be afforded
to the inhabitants to make objections to the pro-
posed alterations.
The LORD MAYOR called the attention of the
Court to the subject of a legacy left by a Spanish
gentleman, Don Matteo Lopez, who died at Mar
seilles in September last, to be applied by the Lord
Mayor of the city of London to relieve persons who
had been sufferers by the want of faith of the
Spanish Government in not paying the English cre-
ditors who had advanced their money upon the
bonds and other securities of that kingdom.
It will be remembered that in the first instance a
communication was received from the United States
consul stating that Senor Lepez having died, by his
will left the sum of 1;3,681 in Spanish securities,
at present in the hands of Messrs, Lizardi and Co.,
in London, which he wished to be divided among
such persons as had advanced to the Spanish
Government. It seems that Messrs. Lizardi have
been applied to on the subject, and in a letter re-
ceived from these gentlemen in reply they state that
the deceased was formerly possessed of the sum he
referred to in Spanish Bonds, but they bad sold
them in Sept. 1856, and remitted the proceeds to
him. All that now remained of the property of
the deceased in their possession was some Spanish
Certificates of the nominal value of about £BOO, and
they left it to his lordship to apply the amount as
he should think fit.

The LORD MAYOR said that in consequence of
the statement that had already
appeared a great
number of applications had been made by perso ne
who considered themselves entitled to a share of the
money, and he therefore thought it right to state
publicly how the matter stood.
The subject was then referred to the General
Purposes Committee for them to do what they con-
sider right in the miater, after
which the Court
adjourned,