The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-18 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL,

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday in the
Council Chamber, Guildhall. Sir J. Musgrove presided as
locum tenens for the Lord Mayor, ani there was a full at-
tendance of members of the court, this being the first held
since the vacation.

The TOWN-CLERK read communications that he had re-
ceived from the secretaries to the Whitechapel Refuge for
Homeless Boys, and the City of London Truss Society,
thanking the corporation for their grants of £5O to the for-
mer, and £lOO to the latter useful society.
The communications were ordered to be entsred upon the
journals of the court.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IN THE METROPOLITAN CATTLE-

MARKET.

Mr. NORRIS, M.P., said that as a good deal of interest
had been created in the mind of the public by the reports
that had appeared in the newspapers of proceedings at dif•
ferent police-courts, in which drovers had been convicted of
the most brutal ill treatment of cattle entrusted to their
charge at the new cattle-market, he wished to put a ques-
tion to the chairman of the markets improvement committee
upon the subject. It had been stated that the corporation
were, to some extent, to blame in the matter, as they granted
fresh licenses to persons who had been convicted of cruplty,
and he wished to know whether there was any foundation
for this statement, and whether the committee had taken
any steps to prevent such acts of cruelty from being com-
mitted in future.

Mr, H. L. TAYLOR, the chairman of the markets im-
provement committee, said he was very glad the question
had been asked, as it gave him an opportunity of correct-
ing a good deal of misapprehension that had been created
upon the subject by the reports that had been alluded to.
He could assure the Court that the committee were
most anxious to prevent cruelty from being exercised to
the animals in the market, and they co-operated with the
officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Ani-
mals, with that view, and also employed two sergeants and
12 additional policemen to attend the market on the market •
days for the purpose of carrying out those regulations.
(Hear, hear.) Witb regard to the charge made against the
committee of having granted fresh licenses to drovers who
had been convicted of cruelty,
ho could say that this had
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never been done, except in two or three cases, and in one of
them the party was clearly proved to have been wrongfully
convicted, and in the others the offence was of a trivial
character, and the license was renewed upon the application
of the man's own master. He would add that the committee
had most anxiously consid,red the subject, and were
determined to do all in their power to prevent cruelty being
practised upon the animals brought to the market over
which they had control. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. NORRIS and several other members of the court
expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with the explana-
tion that had been given, and the matter then dropped.

THE RAISING OF HOLBORN VALLEY.
Deputy FRY brought up a report from the improvement
committee in reference to the raising of the Holborn
valley, with a view to remedy the inconveniences of the
present steep ascent at that spot.
The report was read, and after alluding to the various
Acts of Parliament th it had been passed giving powers to
the corporation to raise money for the purpose of eff.cting
important improvements in the City of London, concluded
by recommending that the committee should be authorised
by the court to advert,se for designs, plans, and estimates
for raising Holborn valley, and to offer premiums of £250
and £l5O respectively for the two most approved designs,
this being one of the most important improvements required
for the benefit of the public and the requirements of com-
merce.

moDueopnu.ty FRY made a few observations in support of the

Some members wished to know whether there was to be
any understanding with regard to the description of im-
provement tt at was intended to be effected, and whether it
included the idea of a viaduct ?
Mr. li. L. TAYLOR said that the object the committee had
in view was clearly to olstain the best plan. (Hear, hear.)
He had no doubt that, if the suggestion of the committee
was ngreed to by the court, the highest talent in the country
would be attracted to the subject, and they would have an
opportunity of selecting a plan that would effect the object
in view in a satisfactory manner. (Hear, hear.)
The report was then un-nimously agreed to.
The following motions by Mr. ANDER:W:I were adopted :
"That all notices of motions to be discussed by the Court
of Common Council,ncil, not given in open court, but to the
town-clerk, shall be entered upon the summons for the next
ensuing court, or the court shall be informed that such
notices have been received."
"That all addresses, remonstrances, and petitions, from
the 13th of March, 1778,
to the present time, which have
been presented to the Throne from 'his court and the livery,
in common hall assembled, with the answers thereto, be
printed, and a copy presented to each member of the court.',