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111110URSUANT to .an Order; of the- Iligh Court
• of Chancery, _Made. id the matter of the estate of JOHN,
TITE, •late of No.'9, -Honiesdale, Lewisham, in the county of Kent,
deceased, audits a cause." Norris against Goodman." The creditors
of the saidjohtl Tite (who died in or about the month of June, 1553),
are by thet.'Solicitors, on or ham the 4th day of March, 1854, to
come in and prove their debts at the Chambers of Vice-Chancellor
Sir Richard Torii! Kindersley, No. 15, 01d-square, Lincoln's-inn, in
the county of Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be pereMP-
torily excluded Irons the benefit of the said Order.
Wednesday, the Bth day of March, 1854, at .12 o'clock at noon, at
the said Chambers; 15 al,pointed for hearing and adjudicating upon
the claims.. • . .
Dated this Ist day of February, 1854.
CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.'
WALTKRS and SON, 35, Basinghall-street.

CITY 010 LONDON COMMISSIOX.

The royal commission- sat again yesterday, at No. 32,
Abingdon-street, to resume its inquiry. Commissioners
present—The Right Hon. Henry Labouchero (chairman),
Sir J. Patteson, and Mr. Cornewall Lewis.
_

Mr. Jones, solicitor, who gave evidence at the last sit-
ting, presented himself for further examination. He stated •
that-he had served on the consolidated committee and. the
navigation committee, and he could add his testimony to
that of previous witnesses, to the effect that the chairmen
of committees were always chosen from those members
who were most qualified by knowledge and previous ex-
perience to conduct the business entrusted to them. He
gave the most unqualified denial to the assertion that the
convivial tastes of members influenced them in appointing
their chairman. The working of the committees he con-
sidered-was most satisfactory. The committee meetings
were very numerous in the course of the year, but the din-
ners which had been so much tcomplained of only took
place after the monthly meetings. There was nothing in
the dinners that was, objectionable, and the charge that the
committees were more addicted to guzzling than to attend-
ing to business was unjust, and 'only a bugbear got up to
Anise the public mind. against the corporation.. He dis-
tinctly repudiated the statem4nts .;of Mr. Ambrose Moore
on-'this subject, and denied. that the dinners of the corn;
mittees, which, he said, were of a very simple character,
were indispensable to secure a proper attendance at the
meetings The members attended because it was a mat-
ter of duty with them, and not from any unworthy or sel-
fish motive. The corporation had effected immense im-
provements in the streets of the metropolis, and a person
who had seen the City 30 years ago would hardly know it
to be the same place now-a-days.
Mr. H. L. Taylor was next examined. He said he was
chairman of the markets improvement committee, to
which was entrusted the execution of the new metropol-
tan cattle market at Copenhagen-fields. He had. been a
member of the corporation for about ten years, and had
taken an active part in its affairs generally. In 1813 it
was referred to the committee of which he was chairman
to inquire into the state of the markets within the City,
viz., Smithfield, Newgate, and Leadenhall markets, with
the view of ascertaining whether any addition ought to be
Made to' their space, or any' increased. accommodation
afforded. The committee was also directed to inquire
whether it was expedient to apply to Parliament for
powers-to raise the funds necessary for effecting any such
alterations by any increase or modification of the tolls
levied in the markets. In pursuance of this reference, the
committee originated a plan for the enlargement of Smith-
field-tharket, which was a rival scheme to that proposed
by the Government for the entire removal of that market.
An influential portion of the press opposed the view taken
by,the corporatism on this subject, and the committee felt
it to be their duty as trustees for the citizens whose mar-
ket, held by charter, was sought to be taken away from
them to do .whet they believed to be for the benefit
of the public at large. The steps taken by the cor-
poration necessarily involved a certain amount of expense,
but they.had incurred no more than was fully justified by
the object they had in view. The plan of the corporation
was -sanctioned by 7,000 electors of the City, who signed a
memorial to:Lord John Russell in favour of the retention
of the central cattle market at Smithfield, with the im-
provements proposed in it by the corporation, and the Daily
News, the Morning Herald, the Morning Advertiser, and
the 41forning Post, each published articles, in his
judgment, more sound, more to the purpose, and more
convincing than those which appeared in the other por-
tions of the press in favour of the Government scheme.
Witness then said he wished. to allude to a part of Mr.
Beunoch's evidence. in connection with this subject. Mr.
Bennoch stated that he believed the corporation had sent
paragraphs to the newspapers in favour of Smithfield-mar-
ket, accompanied by money to induce the editors to insert
them, but that' he (Mr. Bennoch) could not himself pro-
duce proof of such an assertion, as he was not a member
of the committee. Now he (Mr. Taylor) wished to give
that statement the flattest contradiction. Such a proposi-
tion as Mr. Bennoch referred to had never entered intothe

towatds-the expenses of the prosecution, and the corpora-
tion voted him 501. for that purpose. • The second applica-
tion was for a portion of the estreats, and it was not made
until after the money had been set over by the Crown, and
distributed among the parties who were entitled to it.
The corporation always deals very liberally with persons
having an equitable claim upon it ; but if it had complied
with 'Mr. Gray's second application; the money must have
come-oot of the pocket of-the sheriff or the under-sheriff.
The witness then stated, in reference to, a charge that had
'Wen made against him that he had adjudicated in a case
in which his partner was engaged prdfessionally to prose-
cute; that he hail not so adjudicated, but had merely re-
manded the prisoner, who was committed by Mr. Alder-
man"Wllson. Neither was it true that his partner had
been engaged in the prosecution. [This portion of the
worthy alderman's evidence was confirmed in the course of
the day by Mr. Goodman, chief clerk of the Mansion
House Police Court.]
The inquiry was adjourned till Wednesday next.

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.

MR. LAYARD, M.P., VIE ASSYRIAN TRAVELLER.
Yesterday a court was held for the purpose of presenting
.the freedom of the City to Mr. Austen Henry Layard,
D.C.L., M.P., agreeably to the resolution of the 3d of last
March. _ _ _

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