The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-24 00:00:00

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

REFORM OF THE CORPORATION.

Sir PETER LAURIE gave notice of the following
motion, which, he said, it was his intention to bring
forward when the report from the Freedoms Com-
mittee upon the Corporation Reform Bill should be
introduced to the Court :—" That so much of the
proceedings of this Court upon the report of the
Freedoms Committee, as affects the important prin-,
ciple now possessed by the freedom householders of
this City, with reference to the choice of their own
magistrates, be rescinded. That so much as relates
to the periodical election of magistrates (a principle
hitherto unknown in the history of this City) be also
rescinded."

Upon the motion of Mr. Deputy HARRISON (the
chairman of the Freedoms Committee), instructions
were given to the committee to cause the Bill to be
printed, and copies to be circulated amongst the
members of the Corporation, previously to its intro-
duction to the Court.

THE RECTORY OF ST. JAMES, DUKE'S-PLACE.

The LORD MAYOR informed the Court that he bad
received a letter from the Rev. Charles Marshall, in-

timating the Reverend Gentleman's resignation of the
Donative Rectory of St. James, Duke's-place.
Mr. Marshall's resignation was accepted.
His LORDSHIP also stated that he had received a
letter from the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers,
calling upon the City to appoint four commissioners
to act upon that commission, in conformity with the
directions of the Act.
Upon the motion of Mr. Joam WOOD, it was de-
termined that the appointment of the four commis-
sioners should take place at the next Court.

EXPECTED ARRIVAL OF KOSSUTH.
Mr. GILPIN begged to be allowed to give some in-
formation to the Court upon a subject which he knew
was one of great interest to its members. He had
just received a letter from Southampton announcing
that the vessel which was conveying the illustrious
Kossuth to this country was in sight of that port.

ACCOUNTS OF THE CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.
Upon the motion of Mr. Deputy PEACOCK, the
three auditors of the accounts of the Commissioners
of Sewers were re-appointed for the performance of
the duties of the ensuing year.
Mr. FREEMAN (the chairman of the Coal, Corn,
and Finance Committee) brought up a report re-
commending that a grant of 1051. be made to the
Royal Female Philanthropic Society.
THE SHERIFFS' COURT.
Mr. TART brought up a report from the Officers
and Clerks Committee, of which he is chairman, re-
commending that the Court should authorise the com-
mittee to appoint a clerk accountant in the office of
the. Sheriffs' Court, in which it was stated there existed
much confusion, in consequence of the vast increase
of business, and the inadequate means which at pre-
sent are available for its due performance.
LODGING HOUSES FOR THE LABOURING POOR.
Mr. T. H. HALL (the chairman of the Improve-
ments Committee) brought, up the following report,
to which, on account of its great public importance,
'he requested the particular attention of the,Court :
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Commons in Common Council assembled. We whose
names are hereunto subscribed, your committee in rela-
tion to improvements within the City, do certify that
your Honourable Court having been pleased to refer to
your committee the consideration of the propriety of
erecting baths and wash-hou4es, and of lodging-houses
for the poorer classes of society, in connexion with the
improvements undertaken by the Corporation, we have
from time to time proceeded in the consideration of such
reference, and did, on the 13th of February last, report
to your Honourable Court that a favourable opportunity
existed of enabling the Corporation, if they could obtain
Parliamentary powers, out of their own funds arising
from certain invested surpluses of their Finsbury estates,
to purchase ground and erect suitable dwellings for the
labouring poor, in or near the line of the proposed new
street from the City's boundaries in West-street to Cop •
pice-row, Clerkenwell, and that we had directed Mr.
Eemembraneer to insert proper clauses in the Bill autho-
rising that improvement.
"That in pursuance of such instructions such clauses
have been inserted in the Bill which became an Act in

the last session of Parliament, enabling the corporation
to erect, either on the land compulsorily taken for the
purposes of the improvement, or in the vicinity thereof,
by agreement, such and so many improved dwelling and
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" That we have directed Mr. Architect to consider and
report to us his opinion as to the most desirable situa-
tion for commencing the erection of such dwellings, and
have had before us Mr. Scott, the principal clerk to Mr.
Chamberlain, who reported to us the amount of the fund
accumulated under the act of your Honourable Court of
May 29, 1845, which we find to amount to the sum of
42,4691. 3s. Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities, and we
are of opinion and recommend that the same fund be
applied by your committee in clearing such ground in
or near the said new street as to your committee shall
seem expedient, and in erecting the necessary buildings
thereon; and that the buildings, when so erected and
complete, be subject to the control and management, as
regards letting and collecting the rents, of your corn-
mntee for letting the City lands, who will accumulate as
heretofore the profits of the said accumulating fund from
time to time, when so directed by your Honourable
Court, and place at the disposal of 3 our Improvements
Committee the proceeds of such accumulating fund, in
order to the purchase of further land and buildings in
the manner which in the said act of Common Council is
more fully set forth.
(Signed) Thomas H. Hall, Thomas Sprague,
James Waterlow, P. J. Holt, E. Fisher,
J. M. Barnard, J. S. Bridge, T. Cooney, W.
Lister,Carr, J. R. H. Patten. J. Hook', S.
Read, T. Barkly, W. Christie, J. Evans, E.
Harrison."

After the report, which was received with cheers,
bad been introduced,
j!,4, *Ulf IPid that the Committee had felt