The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-24 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a meeting of the Common Council was
he.d at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor presiding. Uu
the motion of Mr. Truscott, Chairman of the City
Lands Committee, a conveyance was sealed to the
London and North-Western Railway Company, in
consideration of £25,400, of freehold premises in
Broad-street-buildings, Rose and Crown Court, ane
Liverpool-street, under the powers and privileges
of the North London Railway (city branch) Act of
1861. On the motion of Mr. Lawley, it was re.
solved, on the termination of the present year, to
transfer the management of the Metropolitan Cattle-
market from the Markets Improvement Committee
to the Markets Committee. Alderman W aterloe
presented a pe!ition of Mr. Francis Giles, civil en-
gineer, tor the assent of the corporation to a rail.
way projected by him. For the purpose of relieving
the pressure and of providing an expeditious means
of transit between the city and the west-end, he had
projected a railway from Walbrook behind the
Mansion-house to the Regent circus, running under
Newgate-market, across Farringdon-street, under
Chancery-lane, Lincoln'-inteleids, and Covent-
garden, and near Trafalgar-square, capable of ex-
tension towards the east to the Festchurch-street
station of the Blackwell Railway, and towards the
west to the Marble Arch, Hyde-park. He proposes
to construct the railway with four lines, in order to
insure ample capacity, and the power so to divide the
trains as to combine safety with the despatch of eight
or ten trains each way every hour of the working
day. He had so arranged the levels of the proposed
railway as to avoid all the new main sewers, to deal
with other sewers without injury to the drainage,
and to render it unnecessary to alter the level of
any street except Farringdon-street. The terminal
stations of the proposed railway at Watbrook and
at the Circus, Oxford-street, and the intermediate
stations at Chancery-lane and at a point near Tra-
talgar-square for Piccadilly and Charing-cross,
would be in open cuttings, at depths averaging 25
feet from the surface. Alderman Waterlow moved
that the memorial be referred to the Improvements
Committee for consideration and report, with an
instruction to confer with the Commissioners of
Sewers on the subject. The motion was agreed to.
On the motion of Deputy Scamell, Mr. J. E.
Saunders was elected to represent the Common
Council at the Metropolitan Board of Works, in
the place of Deputy Harrison, resigned. A report
was presented from the Library Committee stating
that the consistory of the ancient Dutch Church in
Austinfriars, through Mr. Vining, had offered to
present the library attached to the church, and con-
sisting of about 2,000 volumes, many of them of
the rarest description, and of great interest, to the
corporation on certain conditions. The Court, on
the recommendation of the committee, accepted the
offer, and, on the motion of Mr. Charles Reed,
passed an unanimous resolution recording their
grateful sense of the munificent gift. Deputy Lott
availed himself of the opportunity to appeal to the
Court to exercise any influence they might possess
to prevent, if posOole, the demolition of the ancient
nave of the church in Austinfriars, one of the most
interesting specimens of ecclesiastical architecture
in the city of London. On the motion of Mr.
Rowe, chairman of the Coal, Corn, and Finance
Committee, a grant of £lO5 was made to the
Asylum for Fatherless Children at Reedham, near
Croydon ; one of £lOO to the City of London Truss
Society ; and another of £5O to the Plumtree-court
Ragged Schools, Shoe-lane.

"DEVOUT ASPIRATION" OF " FUN."—THE LAST
JOB IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXHIBITION.—Tho job of
pulling it down.—[We hope it may be.—ED. of Fun]
Locomotives were first dawned in the reign of Charles IL ;
constant improvements have made them perfection. The
same means have now so perfected Herring's magnetic
brushes and combs that they rebtore the colour to grey hair,
and cure neuralgia and nervous headache with all but un-
erring certainty. N.B. Counterfeits are being made.
Meeof 32, Basinghall-street, Loadon,

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 23.
Earl De Grey and Ripon arrived at Osborne
yesterday, and had an audience of her Majesty.
The Queen drove out in the afternoon, attended
by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce.
The Prince and Princess pf Wales, Princess
Helena, and Princess Louise also drove out.