The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-04 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of
public business.

SMITHFIELD MARKET.

A petition, signed by eight or nine hundred gra-
ziers' butchers, and traders transacting business in
Smithfield Market, was presented to the Court by
Mr. Deputy Hicks, in favour of retaining the market
in its present locality.

THE SHERIFFS' COURT.

Mr. H. L. TAYLOR (the chairman of the Officers
and Clerks Committee) brought up a report recom-
mending that various alterations and improvements in
the premises (late the Court of Requests) for the
Sheriff's Court should be made, at an expense esti-
mated by Mr. Bunning, the City architect, at 2,4601.
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR stated that the present size of
the court was by no means adapted to the increase of
business which had taken place since the conversion
of the Court of Requests into a tribunal of greater
importance and utility.
Alderman LAWRENCE condemned the appropriation
of money which had been wrung in fines from the
pockets of persons too poor to pay their debts to such
a purpose. Already a sum amounting to 3,0001. had
been accumulated, as the Court House Fund, from
that source. The question which the Court were
bound to entertain was rather that of reducing the
expense of those who happened to come under the
operation of the law. All, in his opinion, that was
required, was to keep the present building in repair.
The report was then agreed to by a very large
majority.

A discussion arose upon a motion by Mr. T.

WHITE, that it be refe'rred to the Com-mittee for
General Purposes to consider and report to the Court
the best means of testifying the admiration and tho
deep sense entertained by the citizens of London of
the disinterested and heroic conduct of Lieutenant
Molesvvorth, R.N , of her Majesty's ship Wellesley, in
saving the lives of his fellow passengers on board the
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship the Forth,
on the 14th day of January last.
Mr. White's argument was principally founded
upon a letter signed by all the passengers in testimony
of the extraordinary exertions of Lieutenant Moles-
worth. It was contended by several members that
any peculiar notice taken by the Court of conduct
which, after all, might not have exceeded in daring or
skill the duty of a gallant seaman, would operate as a
censure upon the captain and the rest of the crew,
and Mr. White was advised to withdraw his motion.

HP, however, persevered in taking the sense of the
Court, and the previous question having been moved
as an amendment, was carried by a considerable

majority.

THE IRISH ESTATES COMMITTEE.

Upon the motion, which was carried, that the
name of a member should be placed on the Irish
Estates Committee,

Mr. R. TAYLOR, said he had observed a paragraph
in some of the papers to the effect that the committee
had abandoned the suggested plan relative to the pur-
chase of Irish estates. He believed the statement had
first appeared iu an Irish paper. It had, however,
been industriously circulated by those journals which
were notoriously opposed to Sir Robert Peel, and he
took that opportunity to state that there was no foun-
dation whatever for the report, and that the com-
mittee were only waiting for information, upon
receiving which they would immediately proceed to
the consideration of the subject.

THE SMITHFIELD MARKET QUESTION.

The following are the notices of motions relative to
Smithfield Market, to be discussed at the Special
Cuurt, together with the contents of the petitions of
the graziers and butchers :
By Mr. Deputy Hicks—That it be referred to a
committee to consider and report on the best means
of giving further accommodation for cattle in Smith-
field Market, provided it should appear to the com-
mittee to be necessary or desirable.
By Mr. R. G. Pead—That it be referred to the
General Purposes Committee to consider and report
whether any (and if any, what) breach was made in
the privileges of the corporation, and whether any
(and if any, what) damage or injury has been done in
this court, by certain of its members giving evidence
before Parliamentary Committees in 1847, and in the
present year, on the subject of Smithfield Market,
strict reference being made to the fact that Mr.
Deputy Hick, one of the members so giving evidence,
was for many years chairman of the Markets Com-
mittee, and that another witness, Mr. George Pead,
is chairman of the said committee for the present
year.
By William Henry Lowman Taylor—That it be
referred to a committee to inquire and report to this
Court the area of the several market places within the
city, namely, Smithfield, •N ewgate, and Leadenhall
markets; and that the committee do likewise inquire
and report whether, in their opinion, any addition of
space, or other increased accommodation, is required
in either of these markets, together with an estimate
of the expense of making such additions or alterations ;
and that the committee do further inquire and report
whether it is expedient to make application to Parlia-
ment to raise the whole, or any portion, of the funds
that may be required for the purpose, either by in-
crease of toll or otherwise, for the requisite powers to
effect these objects.
The subject of Smithfield will thus be completely
opened on the special day. The discussion will pro-
bably last two days.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
MONMOUTH RACES.—TUESDAY.
The Hack Stakes of 3 soya. each and 15 added, for three
yrs old, Bst 41b,;; four, 9st .61b; :five, 109 t; ,six and
aged, lOst 41b; winners extra, &c. Heats, twice
round and a distance. (7 Subs.)
Mr. Southey's Streamer, 4 yrs (Wakefield) 2 0 1 1
Mr. Kirby's Rosa, aged 3 1 2 2
Mr. Powell's Gwenuy, 4 yrs 1 0 3 3
Mr. Russell's Madge Grey, 5 yrs 0 3 dr
Mr. Gorden's br g, by the Cardinal, out of
Mantrap's dam, 6 yrs 0 2 dr
Mr. Holman's Vixen, 6 yrs
The Monmouthshire Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and
3ft only if declared,,with 401. added. Thrice round.
(23 Subs, 13 of whom declared )
Mr. Isaac Day's Mignon, 5 yrs, Est 131 b (Wakefield) 1
Mr. Davis's Chorister, 4 yrs, 7st 31b 2
Mr. R. Humphries' Carbuncle, 3 yrs, sst 101 b 3
The following also started, but were not placed:—
Mr. Johns' New Forest Deer, aged, 9,t—Mr. Steven-
son's Old English Gentleman, 3 yrs, Est lib—Captain.
Steward na Landscer, 3 yrs. sst 31b—aad Mr. Howlett's
Luminous, 5 yrs, 7st 81b.
The Wye Stakes of 5 sm. each, and 20 added. Heats,
twice round. (5 Subs.)
Mr. G. Drew's Kennett, 3 yrs 0 0 1 2 1
Mr. rower's Mr. Toots, 3 yrs 0 3 4 1 2
Mr. Brewer's Bravissimo, 6 yrs
Mr. Stephenson's Old English Gentle-
man, 3 yrs 0 0 2 3 dr
Mr. Webb's Peggy Meldrum, 6 yrs 0 2 dr
WEDNESDAY.
The Chippenham Stakes of 10 save. each, 5 ft, and only
3if declared. Heats, twice round and a dis. (1?
Subs., 6 of whom declared.)
Mr. Davis's Chorister, 7st 5113 ...(W. Butler) 0 1 1
Mr. I. Day's Mignon, 5 yrs, Est 131 b
Mr. Johns' New Forest Deer, aged, 9st
Mr. Griffith? Hagley, 4 yrs, 7st 71b. •
The Hendre Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. and 20 added.
Heats, one mile and a half. (7 Subs.)
Mr. Southby's Streamer, 4 yrs, lOst
Mr. Wilkin's Ima, aged, lOst 91b
Mr. Hinton's Lahore, 4 yrs, lOst .
Mr. Webb's Vulture, aged, lOst 91b 3 0 0
Mr. Le Brewer's Bravissimo, 6 yrs, lOst 91b 1 die.

THE Csuncia IN CIIINA.—The Bishop of Victoria
has, through his agents, Messrs. Phillips, Shaw, and
Lowther, arranged for the passage of himself and suite
to his diocese in China in the ship Sir George Pollock,
and will leave this country about the end of the present
month.

CHEAP Sairs.—The new Swedish brig Duo, which
we mentioned as having arrived here some weeks since
to be fitted out at this port, sailed again on Friday last
for the Cape of Good Hope. We understand she laid
out nearly 1,000/. here, in having her wood sheathing
taken off, in being recaulked all over, and resheathed
with the wood, and Muntz's patent metal over it. She
was also supplied with a new rudder, with metal pintles
and braces, anchors, chain cables, an iron winch___ and
pumps, several sails, hawser, blocks, ship chandleyy,
&c., of British manufacture.
That
a
newg
f rWhat
ein
will
vesselth of
e
2o o
say to this?
after being built and rigged abroad,
tonswell
fitted
des
out,h here and spends nearly 51. per ton in being
when we have been told that foreigners can both build
and equip vessels themselves for this very sum.-11p-
AND
Journal.
NORTH EAST LONDON BENEvoLENTIINsTITU-
.E—sAci.,mEeIti,nsg., of this charity was held on Monday
last, of a highly satisfactory nature; Henry F. Richard-
son,l" occupied the chair. The chairman
expressed a hope that decayed manufacturers, trades-
men, artizans, and mechanics, and their widows, would
forthwith apply for letters of recommendation. It was
then finally arranged that the second festival should be
holden in May, and the meeting adjourned.
WATER FOR THE DIRTRoPoLis.—In answer to a
correspondent, who says he does not see how an outcry
for water is to aid in obtaining a good supply of it, the
editor of the Builder says—" He may depend on it that
without an outcry it will never be procured. The outcry
must be for sufficient water, pure water, and cheap
water; and when this is to be had, and the vital im-
portance of it is brought to the minds of all, landlords
will feel made, or be made to afford it, to those not
sufficiently strong to claim it for themselves. Can the
existing water companies comply with the requirement?
That they do not is certain. If they cannot, or will not,
those who will undertake to do so should he supported
on all hands. A continuous and abundant supply of
pure water is imperatively demanded."
MR. BALLiNGALL.—It gives us pleasure to notice
that Mr. Ballingall's writings, in the Anti ship-wreck
and Emigration Cause, are receiving much publicity
from the home journals. On locking over the Dublix
ll'eeAly Register, of the 30th December (a journal of ex-
tensive circulation), we find a re-publication of a letter
of Mr. Ballingall's, originally printed in the P. P. Herald,
from which paper it is duly acknowledged.—M. eikurne
Morning Herald, May 17, 1149.