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Some questions were then put to Mt Scott, to verify the
report.
Mr. PEansos was summoned to attel id the Committee,
and stated that he should oppose the rece, ')!:ion of the pre-
sent. report. The whole report ought Ito n tve been printed,
and in the hands of the members of the fount, long ago.
The: (Committee were appointed o n the 17th o. r October,
and they never met till the 3d of Sanaa 1835.
The y afterwards adjourned on the .23(1 of Septet, ber, and
held no further meeting till the 16th of February. This
extra.ordinary active Committee slept for several mom:bs at
a time ; and while awake, they had but sixteen meetingk*---L-
-(A laugh.) They referred those proceedings to a Srt:,-
Con lmittee, and he took his stand against their repo' t.
,The re was no report from the Sub... Committee. But this-s•
repo rt. was to be made good by an examination of Mr.
Scott, as if by such means the neglect of the Committee
-was to go Scott free.—(A lat6th.) The -very suspicious
haste with which they were about to proceed, -when an ex-
amination was soon to be taken in another place, showed
that there was more meant than met the eye.--(A. laugh.)
Mr. Pearson then proceeded to make objections to the de-
tails in the report, and asked—was the. Court to be n.sade a
laughing stock of ? The Committee ought to go back to
the national sehools.--(Laughter.) It would be the great-
est kindness to the Committee to send back their report.-
(Continued laughter.) He was like an old father to them..
—( Peals of laughter.) .HeVskecl the other day, was one
of their accounts that he sa4tr to be given in ?—it amounted
to 168,155/. ; and he asked Scott, did he mean to say
that was an actual statement of n lonics received or expended
by the Corporation ? Mr. Scott replied, " No, but lam
told to do it."--,—(A laugh.) This-. was a new edition of
Scott on arithmetic, with variations. by Williams.----(ltoars
of laughter,)
Mr. W, PRITCHARD implored the Court to listen, not to,
any attempts to amuse and had them away from the subject
under discussion, by a similar display of political adroitness,.
but to a plain ,statement of ilacts, and to some few, yet ob-
vious, inferences resulting from these facts, `as the most
suitable answer to be given by the Committee to the
groundless. and he would therefore add, unwarrantable
censure, attempted to be passed upon them by the amend-
ment proposed.—(Hear, and mur,'nurs of impatience.) The
Committee were directed, by the o rder of reference, to do
three things—first, to inquire into the duties, salaries, and
emoluments of the various officers of the Corporation :
secondly, into the corporate revenue and expenditure ; and
thirdly, to report what reductions they thought necessary in
the various heads of expenditure, with a special reference
to report at once as so the expense of the mayoralty. They
had already satisfied the lat ter reference, and their report
had been printed by direction of the Court.—( Hear.) That
inquiry had necessarily led th ern to finish the remaining
branch of revenue and expenditti•re, comprehending, as the
latter did, the salaries and emolut.aents of the officers. They
had then only to report upon the d `sties of the officers, and,
their opinion of the reductions requ'ired, and these two mat-
ters, as being well calculated to ills istrate each other, they
had reserved for their third report, stating, as their present
report did, that they were prepared to proceed with a
imnrediately, and that. they had only omitted it as a second
part of their present report, because the time occupied by
the one had left them no time for the other.—(Hear.) But
the worthy Under-Sheriff objected to the Committee's ar-
rangement of their business, .and called upon them to finish
the whole of their labours at once, or not to present to the
Court what they had at so much- labour completed. Why?
Because he knew well enough that, if they were so to act,
the report would not be in time to be of any service at :I'.
( Hear, hear.) He had said that the report-was neither re-
levant nor sufficient, and he had attemptt'd, in support of that:
position, to point out two or three discreilancies, like single
bricks exhibited as specimens of the whole building; but they
had miserably broken down under him. On this point he (Ms.
Pritchard) would oppose to the ingenious evo:utions of the,
Under-Sheriff, to sustain his position, the valuable and
unanswerable testimony of their corporate officers, Mr.
Scott and Mr. Frith, so deservedly, eulogised this day.
They, or the officers who had made returns to the Com-
mittee, had authenticated by their signatures as well as by
their oral testimony, this day given, every document pre-
seated by the Committee, comprehended, as they were
under the three several heads
.of, first, an account of the
landed estates and other revenue of the corporation, in its:
corporate capacity, and the expenditure thereof ; secondly,
an account of the evies of taxes and other impositions made
by the corporation, under the authority of Parliament, and
their appropriation ; and thirdly, an account of the funds
under the management of the corporation, as trustees, such
as the London-bridge and Gresham funds, and their ap-
propriation. The Court was /cot called upon to express
any opinion upon these documents, but merely to print,
and send a copy to each member, before any such opinion
was called for—a course which was the every day practice
the Court, but which was on this occasion to be re-
fused ; and instead of it a vote of censure was to be passed'.
upon the committee by the proposed amendment, drawn:
up as it had been by the Under-Sheriff, though not moved'.
by him, with all the particularity of a bill of indictment,
the result of a special retainer for his eminent legal ser-
vices, and charging the committee with all sorts of sins
both of omission and commission, all of which were solemnly
negatived by the uncontradicted and uncontradictable evi-
dence of Mr. Scott, and the other officers of the Corpora-
ration acquainted with the facts—(hear, hear)—and by
that committee's report, which, so far from showing that
they had omitted or refused to do the duty that had been
assigned to them, manifested that they had completed int
the best manner two-thirds of it, and were abont to- pro-
ceed immediately with the other third.—(Hear, hear.)
The Court divided, when there appeared for the amend-
ment, 65 ; against it, 29 ; majority, 36.
The amendment was finally adopted after three motions
of adjournment, and the Court adjourne,l.

AGAINST THE RECEPTION OF THE REPORT.
ALDERMEN.—Lainson and Harmer.
COMMONERS.

Corney Filby Toplis Drew Wood
Collingwood Pearson Rawlins Flower
Heywood Cope Bennett Dawson
Bedford Pilcher Lorkin Hossack
llarmes Hall BlacLett Goss
Davies Kipling Haines Culverwell
Figgins Cuthbert Dixon Jackson
Tickner Hoppe Price Atkinson
Ganthony Verinder Stubbing Penning
Savage ' Anderton Frisby Day
M•Dowall Fletcher Marriott Jupp
Powell Burn Fisher Old
Robins Blarchant Davies Rutter
Alderman Peacock Prier Rolls
Croucher Gibbs Newton ' Baker

FOR THE RECEPTION OF THE REPORT.
ALDERMEN.—None.

COMMONERS

Williams Hoard Negus Sclson
Pritchard G. Pritchard Robinson Gibson
H. Hall W. Lawrence Tyars A. Saul
D. Wire Baylis Patten Davis
Johnson Heppell Evans , Benyon
Galloway French R. Lawrence Sykes
Lott Riottram E. Wilson

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

The annual general meeting of the proprietors of the
University of London took place yesterday ; H. Warbur-
ton, Esq., M. P., in the chair.
In their report to the proprietors, the Council expressed
regret that they had not to announce the completion of the
plan of the Government for the establishment of a Metro-
politan University ; but they stated their persuasion that
the delay had been occasioned merely by the desire of Mi-
nisters to arrange the details with the care necessary for the
fonnding of an institution of such great national importance,
and that they should soon have to convene an extraordinary
meeting of the proprietors on the subject. They congratu-
lated the proprietors on the continually increasing prosperity
of the University, and on the circumstance that, for the
first time since the formation of the establishrr ent, the re-
ceipts (for the session of 1834-5) were more than sufficient
to cover the expenses both ordinary and extraordinary.
A still more favourable report, it was stated, was to be
expected for the current year, as the increase in the num-
ber of students and amount of fees received, was very con-
siderable. The gross amount of fees last year up to the
corresponding period was 9,913!., it. is this year 10,630—
notwithstanding the postponement to the summer of the
botanical class, a numerous and important one.
Mr. TooKE, M.P., read extracts from a letter received
i by him from Lord Brougham, suggesting for consideration
several modes of employing the second donation of 1,000!.
from an unknown friend of the institution, by whom it was
referred to his Lordship to decide on the manner of appro-
priating the gift.
The announcement of the improved state of his Lordship's
health, and of his continued interest in the welfare of the
institution, was received with very hearty cheering.
Mr. W ARBURTON said that he had LIO doubt that the
charter establishing a Metropolitan University would be
completed within a very short period. It was within his
own knowledge that many of the appointments to the
Board of Examiners had been made, and he believed even
that a Chancellor bad been fixed on.
The new Members of Council elected were : Dr. Lush-
ington, M.P., J. T. Leader, Esq., M.P., Daniel Gaskell,
Esq., M.P., and J. L. Prevost, Esq. ; and William Alcrs
Hankey, Esq., was chosen auditor.

MILITARY FLOGGING.— Monday a Jury was
summoned
at Woolwich to inquireinto the circumstances
which led to the death of a private intrine, named William
Saundrey, whose sudden decease, in the prime of life, was
reported to have been occasioned by his having received 100
lashes on the Bth instant, in compliance with the sentence of
a Court-martial. The visiting military surgeon in his deposi-
tion having stated that nothing but a post mortem examination
could decide the cause of death, the inquiry was postponed for
the purpose of such examination until the morrow (this day.)