The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-30 00:00:00

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T"' RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
Lome to the, 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
ban 155 poor, friendless, young females were rejected !rpm
t of FI.TN DS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away In five years.
the new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be rewired gratefully by the Secretary,
Ir. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen •atroot.Cbeapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince aWA LES, G
President—His Grace the Duke of BUGCLEUCH,
Th!a Hospital, founded in the year 18, the erst to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. ts whol;y de-
per.cleat for support on voluntary contributions and
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition tn this, the average number of attendance of the
lestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solloit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Browu,
Janson, and Co., Abchurch-lane; also by Messrs. Contts and
Co.; Drummond and Co. ; (Lyn and Co. ; Berries and Cu. ;
Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne,
and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Z 4 f tharas, Deacon, and Co. ; Nisbet
and Ce., Bernertl-strect and at the Ticaplial. irom.lo till 5.
STANFORD MITI", thoretary,

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court of :Common Council.

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Yesterday aspecial meeting of the CommonCoun-
lvtis convened at Guildhall, for the despatch of
.business ;. the Lord Mayor (Alderman Gabriel) oc-
enpyiug the chair.

Mr. H..l4owaraN TAYLOR, a member of the Court,
and also, of the Metropolitan Board of Works, in
.which latter body he represents the corporation of
the Cityfot London, laid on the table certain returns
which- Showed, he said, that the City of London
contributed as much as £13,000 a year and upwards
to the Metropolitan Board, in addition to. the main
drainage - rate, as compared with £5,550 which it
contributed during the first year of the existence of
that board. - The aggregate taxation, he said, of the
City toWards 'the works undertaken by the board,
was £30,000 a year in round numbers. On his ,1
motion the. papers in question were referred for con-
sideration_ to the local government and taxation
committee. He added, in reply to a question by
Mr. AlderraniXopeland, that although Mr. Furness,
the eontitiety; was in difficulties, and unable to
carry on hiLdontract for the Thames Embankment,
the contract had been taken in hand by a very cern-
petent-person, and he had no doubt would be carried
on with .energy.
Mr. J. F. BoarrEms,- the chairman of the special
committee, in regard to the supply of gas, presented
a report a proceedings under a reference of 28th of
September last, authorising the committee to con-
tinue their exertions to carry into practical '..effect
the success obtained by the corporation-foe:securing
_1010: en pply of good and chap gais-,:ancifer‘autlp4itz
to take such measures as may zppear advisable in
respect of the bill to amend the Metropolis Gas Act,
1860, of which notice had been given reporting
from time to time to the court. That bill, which
will be introduced by the Government, has for its
obk:eta, among others, to regulate and improve the
quality and illuminating power of the gas to be
supplied within the metropolis and adjacent districts,
the mode of pressure, and the price at which the
gas shall be supplied, and the terms and conditions
of the supply ; to regulate and improve the mode of
testing the illuminating power and quality of the
gas, and to provide for charging the attendant ex-
penses on the gas companies and local authorities ;
to regulate the voluntary and compulsory supply of
gas and meters, and the amount of payment and re-
covery of gas rents and meter rents ; to alter and
regulate the mode of keeping and rendering the ac-
counts of the gas companies, and to provide for the
inspection, analysis, audit, and publication of their
accounts ; to reduce and regulate the capital and
borrowing powers of the gas companies ; to limit
their profits, dividends, and rates of interest, and to
repeal the power to apply surplus profits in the aug-
mentation of previously declared dividends ; and to
regulate the property in, and the exclusion of, works
relating to gas pipes, meters, lamps, and other ap-
paratus for public lighting, and to compel the com-
panies to supply gas for public purposes by average
meter indication. The corporation committee were
of opinion that the Government bill would not carry
out the recommendations of the select committee of
the House of Commons, but give to the corporation
nearly, if not all, the powers which they had applied
for in their bill for the City, and that being so they
did not think it expedient to proceed further with
the corporation bill in the ensuing session, believing
that the Government measure, if it became law,
would secure to the inhabitants of the metropolis at
large all the advantages for which the corporation
had so strenuously laboured.
In moving the adoption of the report of the com-
mittee yesterday Mr. Bontems, chairman, stated
that it would have cost the corporation at the pre-
sent market price £1,400,000 to buy up the existing
gas companies in the City, whereas by expending
£500,000, they could have supplied the citizens
with gas at 3s. a thousand cubic feet, and of the
requisite purity and
that in the event
illuminating power.
an amendment Mr. DRESSER ROGERS moved to
the effect that the opposition bill for the supply of
gas to the City be continued, so,City
of the Government bill being lost the it of Lon-
don might have a locus standi before the House of
Commons for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain
cheaper and better gas for the citizens.
A long discussion ensued, and in the end, the
amendment having been withdrawn, the report of
and referred back to
the committee was adopted
them for execution.
adjourned.
The court then-

Th 3 Comm Preservation Society.
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The committee of this society held a meeting at
their offices, in Parliament-street, last evening, to
consider several cases in which commons and open
spaces near the metropolis have been enclosed. Mr.
Shaw Lefevre, M.P., was in the chair ; and among
those present were the Right Hon. W. Cowper,
111. P., Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., Admiral Hamilton,
the Rev. Leslie Stephen, Mr. Charles Pollock, Mr.
Jr. C. Parkinson, Mr. Lawrence, and Mr. Arthur
Lankester. Plumstead-common, Hampstead-heath'
Fpping Forest, Wimbledon-common, and Black-
heath, were all subjects of discussion, and were all
said to be either threatened with enclosure, or to
claim the local conservation provided for by Mr.
Cowper's measure of last Session.

At Plurnstead, a common known as Shoulder-of-
Mutton-green was enclosed by order of the autho-
rities of Queen's College, Oxford, acting as lords
of the manor. Here the inhabitants have pulled
the pailings down, and legal procedings are now
pending to determine the commoners' rights. At
Hampstead Sir T. 'Wilson is stated to, have built a
house on a portion of the heath, and to be meditat-
ing further innovation. Certain residents in the
locality applied to the Commons Preservation So-
ciety for assistance and advice, and a public meeting