The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-06 00:00:00

investigation into the :merits of the question. llts was
anxious that the Corporation should be relieved from the
odium which bad been cast upon them for maintaining
crEat it was their duty to maintain.—(M tar, hear.) If
Parliament would remove the market, Parliament would
be responsible.
Mr. 13LArc.F. was opposed to the ram:trolls doctrine
that would prevent a man who Ind conscientiously de-
elarA his opinions in one place, from repeating them in
another.

Mr. T. U. HALL felt deeply on the sxbjeet, for it
deeply interested the constituency for whose benefit
Smithfield-market was kept up. Inquiry would show
that the evils which worn inevitably attached to a market
were more endurable i❑ Smithfield than they would be
in any other place, and it would effectually remove the
stigma under which the corporation suffered at the pre
sent moment.

The LORD MAYOR observed upon the irregularity of
raising a discussion upon his communication to the Court,
and the matter dropped.
Mr. R. TAYLOR moved that the report of the Secon-
daries and City Court Committee, so tar as relates to the
fees and emoluments of the Deputy Registrar, and for
fixing the emoluments of the office at 300/. per annum,
be taken into consideration.

The report was, after some discussion, agreed to.
ELECTION ACT.

Upon the motion of Mr. PRIOR, the report of the
Freedom Committee, for authority to extend the provi-
sions of the Bill for amending the Election Act to elec-
tions in Common Hall, was brought up.
The Bill, it will be recollected, underwent discussion
in the Court of Aldermen a short time ago, when several
amendments were made, emongst which was one to limit
the elections in Common Hall according to the rule of
election of members to serve in Parliament. One of the
clauses then adopted, provided that the police-rate must
be paid six months before the election, in order to qualify
a person to vote.

The Court agreed to all the amendments adopted by
the Court of Aldermen, with the exception of that which
referred to the payment of the police-rate.
Mr. Deputy OBBARD brought up the report on the
proceeding of the House of Commons in respect of the
Henley Waterworks and Navigation Bill, and as to the
effect that Bill was, if carried into a law, calculated to
have upon the navigation of the Thames. The report
certified that the Committee had referred the Bill to a
sub-Committee, who had since reported that the object
was to make a navigable cut for the transit of goods
from the Henley Reach to the River Thames, on the
Grand Junction Canal, near West Drayton, for altering
such canal, and the Paddington Canal, and for construct-
ing reservoirs between Paddington and Primrose-hill,
and for better supplying with water the inhabitants
of certain parts of the metropolis ; and it was con-
sidered necessary to have the opinion of an emineut en-
gineer upon the probable effects of the proposed scheme,
it carried out, upon the navigation of the Thames. That
Mr. Walker was requested to take a survey, and had
proceeded to do so. That the second reading of the
Bill had been postponed for six months, and was there-
fore lost for the present year, but it was the opinion of
the committee that it was of the utmost importance that
Mr. Walker should complete his survey in the event of
any future application to Parliament ost the subject.
'rho report was, after a few observations, agreed to.