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London, England, 1856-04-15 00:00:00

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BILL.

Meeting This Day.

A Common Hall of the Livery of the City of London
was held this morning at the Guildhall, to take into
consideration the provisions of Sir George Grey's bill,
recently introduced into Parliament, for reforming the
Corporation of the City of London. The meeting was
called for 12 o'clock, but, in accordance with civic want
of punctuality, the business did not commence until a
quarter past 1 o'clock. At that hour bat few persons
had assembled in the Hall, and the interest excited, con.
sidering the manner in which the City had been placarded
and the subject to be discussed, was considerably less
than might have been expected. The Lord Mayor pre-
sided, supported by the Sheriffs, Aldermen, and others
connected with the Corporation.

The LORD MAYOR, in opening the business of the
meeting, said he had convened it in consequence of a
numerously-signed requisition to that effect, to take the
sense of the Liverymen on this bill, which, in the words
of the requisition, "strikes at the root of their ancient
and valued privileges." His Lordship said he was no
patty to calling this meeting, but he must say that
whilst the proposed measure tended to widen the elec-
toral privileges of the Liverymen, it in other respects
would totally annihilate those rights which many of
them possessed.
Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE condemned the proposed bill
as one that would abrogate the rights and privileges
that the Livery had possessed for centuries. The day
on which this bill was introduced into the House of
Commons was very aptly named April fool's-day, and
he trusted this would prove au April fool's measure.
(Hear and laughter.) This measure had been introduced
in a speech that afforded no arguments on which to base
the necessity of change. Sir George Grey admitted,
on the occasion alluded to, that the funds of the
City had been administered in a proper manner, and that
the parties who had managed them had manifested zeal,
energy, industry, and fidelity, and for the possession and
discharge of those qualities the city of London was to
be deprived of those rights and privileges which they
had !so long enjoyed. The Livery had ever been
true to freedom, when many of its advocates had slunk
back discouraged by the obstacles that appeared to stand
in their way, and was it for that that they were to be
swept away ? (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman then
proceeded to remark on the statement that had been
put forth, that this was a moderate measure, but he
looked upon it as the moderation of the housebreaker,
who, after taking your plate and properky, considered
he had acted moderate in leaving you in posses-
sion of your lives. (Hear.) He (Mr. Lawrence) looked
upon this measure as one of the movements of the Go-
vernment to obtain centralisation—(hear, hear)—and be
deprived of their liberty of local action. It was by crush-
ing the Corporations of France that the march of des-
potism became easy, and the result they had all seen and
knew. (Hear.) Sir G. Grey by this bill was open to
the charge of deliberate falsehood; or a deficiency of
common understanding, and he left him to choose which
horn of the dilemma he would select. (Hear.) The
lion. gentleman, in a lengthened speech, contended that
the Corporation needed no reform, and that one of the
objects of the bill was to confiscate the funds
of the Corporation, which, if accomplished, would
entail a rate of from 2s. to 2s. 61. per pound
to discharge the expenses of their law courts and other
expenses. (Hear, hear.) He asked the Livery to unite
in adopting the petition that would be submitted
to them for the protection of their privileges, which
they ought to hand down to their children intact. If
this measure be universally resisted by the Livery the
Government would not dare to persist in it. (Hear.)
He moved the following resolution :—" That the bill
introduced into the Houle of Commons purporting to
be for the better regulation of the Corparati on, al-
though professing to abolish such customs and privileges
only as are injurious to trade, it ignores the whole body
of the L ivery and a destruction of its privileges an ex-
tinction of its municipal existence, and is other-
wise subve reive of the, ancient rights, properties, and
liberties of the Corporation and the Common Hall
deter mined to give the most strenuous opposition to the
passing of such a bill." (Cheers.)
Sir JOHN FINLEY in a short speech seconded the reso•
lotion.

The LORD MAYOR having put the resolution,
Mr. BENNOCII came forward to address the Livery,
and was met with cheers and counter cheers. In the
course of his address the remarks made by the hon. gen-
tleman were di: tasteful to the meeting, and it was with
great difficulty he could obtain a hearing, and the Lord
Mayor had to interfere to request the Livery to hear
patiently what each speaker had to advance. The hon.
speaker proceeded to remark that the bill in question
Was not intended to destroy the Corporation, but was to
remedy certain defects in the Corporation, and make it
in harmony with the advanced spirit of the age. Instead
of striking at their privileges, it would extend them,
and rescue the character of that body as being a sham,
from the manner in which the affairs of the Corpora-
tion bad been conducted for the past 20 years. The
City of London contained a population of but 128,000
Lie revenue of the Corporation amounted to 400,000/.
per annum, a.:,cl the cost of administration of these funds
amounted to 114,0001. per annum, whilst Liverpool,
with a population of 376,000, and an annual income of
600,0001., administered that fund at an expense under
3,0001. It was those immediately connected with the
Corporation that desired to continue the present state
of things. The hon, gentleman was continually inter-
rupted in the course of his address, which he said
was a proof how much the Livery required reforma-
tion—not knowing how to act like Englishmen—fear-

ing to hear the real state of the working of the Om,
poration. He considered this measure too moderate,
it should have gone further and ilitimated how the large
funds of the corporation should in future be administered.
He looked upon the fact of the Lord Mayor beingelected
by 96 instead of the whole livery as a disgrace and a
shame, and that the election of the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs should be by the citizens of London and not by
the Aldermen and Common Council. Ile considered
the present corporation a concentrated essence of cor-
ruption requiring to be scattered and turned into a wide
expanded area of liberty. He concluded by proposing a
resolution to the effect that the present measure was a
wise and moderate one, and that this meeting would use
its influence to insure its becoming a law. (Uproar.)
Mr. BATESeAN seconded the amendment amidst great
uproar. He said he was inclined to imagine that the
conduct of the livery that day in refusing to hear both
sides of the question was affording an argument for the
abolition of the Common Hall, one of the provisions of
the present bill. The hon. gentleman at some length,
and amidst much interruption, supported the bill as one
likely to do away with that which had hitherto pre-
vented the free progress of the citizens, and that by
abolishing the tax on coal, throwing open the brokery
trade, &c , &e., London would become a freer City than
it had ever been.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY supported the amendment.
He said that 70 of the clauses of this bill might be
passed over as objectionable, but the remaining 16 clauses
were hateful, and such that no man understanding the
liberties of our common land could recognise or agree
with. Speaking of the magistracy of London, the hon.
gentleman said that they were more independent than
the stipendiary magistrates of the metropolis, who were
under the control of the Goverment, and were lectured
often by the Chief Commissioner of Police, who was in
frequent communication with the Home Secretary.
Tile hon. gentleman then entered into many of the ob-
jectionable details of the bill, and defended the present
system of administering the funds of the Corporation.
Neither property nor individuals were so lightly taxed in
any other part of the kingdom as in London. No doubt
the mananement of the funds of the Corporation might be
improved ; but he did not think that a sufficient cause
for the Government, unsolicited, to deal with 111,0001.
. of the Corporation fund..
The resolution was ultimately agreed to, as were the
following resolutions, and also a petition embodying the
sentiments of the livery present on the bill :—.
"That, by sweeping away the long established rights
of the Livery, and transferring the functions of that very
numerous body to a small number of persons, a
princi.
ple is obviously at variance with the true spirit of re-

form.
"That the Livery are fully alive to the desirableness of
reforming all abuses, anti would gladly lend their aid to
any scheme of reform really woriby of that designation ;
but they can only consider the present bill as one of in-
considerate changes, needlessly and injuriously inter-
fering with 1 ng established and valuable institutions ;
the right use of the powers of the Livery never having
been impeached, and it being indisputable that great
services have been rendered by them to the country.
"That this Common Hall approves of the proceeding
of the Committee of Liverymen, appointed at a meeting
at the Guildhall Coffee House, held on the 9th day of
April, and hereby requests the said Committee to con-
tinue to act on their behalf, and to add such member of
the Livery to their number as they may, from time to
time, deem advisable.
"That the petition now read be adopted and signed
by the Livery, and presented by Mr. Masterman to the
House of Commons, and that all the members of the
City be requested to support its prayer."
Thanks were voted to the Lord Mayor and the
Livery separated.

COMMENCEMENT OF EASTER TERM.— Easter term com-
menced to-day, and, as is usual on such occasions, the
judges breakfasted with the Lord Chancellor at his
lordship's residence in Upper Brook-street. The com-
rany consisted of nearly the whole of the judges, and
about thirty Queen's counsel. At a few minutes before
two the judges arrived at Westminster-hall and pro-
ceeeded to their re,pective courts. Nothing of import
ante took place in any of the courts up to the hour of
our going to press,.