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Yesterday, at a meeting
Aldermen of London, held at Gulch;
Mayor presiding, a complaint was bySlr.
William Fisk, of St. Alban's, against Mr. Charles
Bennett, a sworn broker in the City, having offices
at 2, Copthall Chambers, in reference to a stock-
broking transaction. The complainant, Mr. Fisk,
said that Mr. Frederick Bennett had for some time
acted as clerk to Mr. Charles Bennett, his father ;
that on Sept. 6 last the complainant wished to buy
fifteen £2O shares in the Sevenoaks, Maidstone, and
Tunbridge Railway, then quoted as at par, and on
that day he went to the office of Mr. Charles Ben-
nett, where he saw his son Frederick, the father
not being then in attendance. lle explained the
business to the son, and resolved to buy the railway
shares, with which view lie had to sell some New
£3 per Cent. Atinuitie3, which he possessed. Later
in the day he went with the son to the Bank of
England, and sold out £350 New £3 per Cent. An-
nuities, which realised £309 odd, and that stun he
handed over to the son to pay for the railway shares.
The son gave him the customary bought note signed
on behalf of his father, and handed the complainant
the balance, £6 3s. 9d„ promising to send him the
share certificate in a few days, but that he had never
done, notwithstanding many applications that he
would fulfil his engagement. The secretary of the
railway company had written to the complainant, in
answer to a letter from him, that his name did not
appear on the books of the company as a share-
holder. On 6th January the complainant received
a letter from Mr. Frederick Bennett, the son, to
the effect that, on balancing his accounts at the end
of the year, he was somewhat deficient, and was
compelled to beg his indulgence for a short time,
while he was arranging his affairs. The writer en-
closed a promissory note for the amount due from
him, which note the complainant returned, declining
to accept it. Under these circumstances the com-
plainant prayed that the Court of Aldermen would
be pleased to put in force the bonds of Mr. Charles
Bennett, the broker in question, or to take such
other steps as to them should seem meet. It may
be stated that every sworn broker in the City gives
security to the Court of Aldermen, himself in
£l,OOO and two sureties in £250 each, for the due
and just execution of his office. The Court exercises
a very stringent supervision over brokers in the
public interest, with a view to prevent collusion and
fraud, insisting particularly, with that view, that a
broker shall on all occasions act only between party
and party, and in no case as a principal. This is
understood to have been the only instance within
the last three years in which the Court has been
asked to exercise its penal jurisdiction. The answer
of Mr. Charles Bennett in this case, made by a
letter, was in effect that he had retired from busi-
ness about eight years ago in favour of his son,
that he himself was seventy-eight years of age,
and resided in the country, a considerable dis-
tance from London, and that, though he knew no-
thing of the transaction in question, he would have
been willing to make restitution to the party ag-
grieved if it had been in his power. Ms son Frede-
rick did not appedr in court to make any explana-
tion. Eventually the Court referred the matter for
consideration to a committee of their body. A re-
port was presented by Mr. Alderman Stone, chair-
man of the general purposes committee, to whom, on
the 26th of January, it was referred to consider a
communication from the Chamberlain of London,
relative to the sale of freedoms of the City. The
committee stated that they had been attended by
the Chamberlain, whom they had heard upon the
subject, and, after due consideration, they were of
opinion, and recommended, that the sale of free-
doms should be no longer continued, and that the
charge of £25 upon the admission to the freedom of
" foreigners," that is persons neither living nor trad-
ing within the City, should cease. The report was
agreed to, and the Court adjourned.

PRICE.- 4.1.
STAMPED 51

The Improved Metropolitan Railway.

On Saturday Messrs. John Noble and Co., engi-
neers, of 10, Bridge-street, Westminster, exhibited
at the Westminster Palace Hotel a model of the
improved Metropolitan Tramway, to be submitted
to Parliament during the present session. The
model represented a cross section of the tramway
and two of the rails, which are made of malleable
iron, but in practice Bessemer steel will be used.
The cross-tie is fastened to the sleepers by a trenail
of iron, but can be done by wood or any other
suitable fastening. The company have obtained a
patent for their roof or crescent rail ; and a plate,
as shown in the model, is inserted into the upper
surface of the sleeper beneath each joint of the rail,
in order to make each joint more rigid and durable,
and screws fastening the rail to the sleeper below.
The model also represented, between the rails, on
which the carriages are to run, woodwork, imitative
of the ordinary paving-stones, cubes, or macada-
mised materials used for streets or road-making,
which are laid so as to be level with the top of the
rail. After the model was fully investigated by
the company, Mr. Noble more elaborately de-
scribed its merits. The rail is laid below
the level, and is such a mere slit or chink
in the roadway, that in crossing " the most
tender vehicle cannot experience any shock,"
amounting to no more than such a rent as is com-
mon between paving stones—amounting, in short,
to a smooth, shallow groove, in which the wheels of
tramway carriages will run noiselessly, and with "a
very small amount of friction." It was explained
that the use of longitudinal sleepers allows of the
adoption of a very thin rail, the upper surface of
which is convex, or crescent-shaped, the wheel tyres
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respect to legal decisions, he showed that the inves-
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present was unanimously in favour of the proposi-
tion of Messrs. Noble and Co.

THE SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS IN SPAN;.--The
public lands sold in Spain during the month of January
produced ono-half more than the upset prices. Tho number
of lots sold was 2,124, and the total proceeds amounted to
X 398,000.

ATTEMPTED MURDER.--.A. determined attempt to
murder was made yesterday afternoon in the immediate
vicinity of Finsbury. Between three and four o'clock some
persons passing along Eldon-street observed a man in
working dress stab a man much younger than himself. The
wounded man staggered, and exclaimed, " Send for a doc-
tor ; I am dying." A medical man was immediately in
attendance, and finding three wounds, one very dangerous,
about the lower region of the throat or neck, he dressed
them, and had the sufferer removed to St. Bartholomew's
hospital. A person who had witnessed the occurrence fol-
lowed lowed the assailant until ho met a police-constable, to
whom he mentioned what bad happened. The Ina_u!nr
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said ho was on his way to the stationhouse to giviorobni Sij
into
up, was then taken back to Eldon-stroet, and tgo
b firm of
custody by Mr. Henry Golding, attached
k en formerly in
Finsbury. He was recognised as a 0
w itr necessary to dis-
charge employ, but one they bad foundtbiLs
Messrs. Sadgrove and Co., upholsterers,
continually
charge in consequence of dissipated he .was
sent as a fixer of
com-
plained of by customers to whom be
likewise identified as one
furniture. The wounded man be
respected. At the
of the salesmen of the firm,
nitsci:tante as Adam Exell, 54
sta-
tion-house the prisoner
g3Na-nonther of Messrs. Sadgrove's
years of age. Observingstanding near, he said, " I meant
salesmen named hansomit'sbeen brewing a long time." lie was
it for you as well ;
ble-knife was found in his pocket.
perfectly sober. Ata
that Exell has been for some time on the
It would seem
some person in the employ of Messrs. Sad-
watch to waylay moftoSeuth-street,
character for
sobriety. No particular spite is known to have been en-
tertained by him against his present victim. John Fos, the
wounded man, has a wife and young family living at Cam
den-town. Ile is very dangerously wounded.
grove, who a few weeks. since refused him a