The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-21 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday
in the Council-chamber at the Guildhall. The Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor presided. The Remembrancer
reported to the court that the act for dis-marketing
Newgate-market, and removing the shambles and
all other buildings connected with it, and authoo
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upon their present site, had received the royal
assent, and was now the law of the land. Mr.
Webster, the chairman of the General Purposes
Committee, brought up a report upon the subject
of the propriety of continuing to employ the short-
hand-writers to take notes and print the proceedings
at the Central Criminal Court, which was referred
to them for consideration at a former court. The
report recommended that the practice should be con-
tinued. Mr. Harris, who had originally brought
the subject forward, said that his views were
still unaltered upon the subject, and that it ap-
peared to him that they were spending £9OO a year
for what was, practically, not of the least value
whatever, as the reports were never read, and were
only used as waste paper. He should, therefore,
move as an amendment to the reception of the re-
port that notice should be given that the services
of the shorthand-writers at the Central criminal
Court would not be required after the present year.
After some discussion the court divided upon the
motion when their appeared—For the amendment,
42 ; against it, 41. Upon the amendment being
put as a substantive motion, Mr. Besley moved all
amendment that the subject should be referred
back to the committee, to consider whether some
other and more economical arrangement might not
be made to have the notes of the proceedings taken.
This amendment was, however, lost by a majority
of four, and the original amendment, that notice
should be given that the services of the shorthand-
writers would be dispensed with at the end of the
present year was declared to be carried. Upon the
motion of Mr. Lawley, the chairman of the Coal,
Corn, and Finance Committee, the court sanctioned
a grant of £25 to the Plough-court ragged schools,
Fetter-lane, and one of £5O to the London Dis-
pensary.

RAILWAY COSIMITTEES.

Yesterday in the committee of the House of Cote'
mons on the metropolitan railways, the bill of the
Metropolitan Railway Company to make improve-
ments in their communication with the Goat
Northern Railway and the metropolitan meat mar-
ket at Smithfield, to authorise the purchase of
additional lands, and make arrangements with the
Great Northern and Great Western Railways Be i
the corporation of London, to raise an additions
£300,000 and to borrow £lOO,OOO for the purpose,
was passed, subject to the consideration of clauses
submitted by Mr. Welaby and Mr. Cooper, on be'
half of the authorities of St. Pancras, giving cote'
pensation, in consequence of the diversion of trafffe
along the Euston-road, arising from the construc-
tion of the railway, the amount thereof to be
ascertained and submitted to an arbitrator, who
shall decide the proportion to be paid by the com-
pany, such proportion in no case to exceed one- s
third of the whole expenses. Evidence is also to
be adduced on the subject of proposed compensation
to the shopkeepers along the route, relative to the
amount of injury done to their businesses by the
works during the last six months. The bill of the
North London Railway Company for the widenins
of their line at an estimated cost by Mr. Martin,
their engineer, of £lOO,OOO was passed. Mr. He
Scott, Q.C., and Sir W. Alexander summed up ti"
case of the competing lines of the Newcastle, Del:
went, and Weardale and North-Eastern Railwar'
and the committee will decide them to-daP
Further evidence was adduced in the committee,
on the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway, and Nort
Somerset Railway committees. The Lords' coin
mittee passed the bill of the London and North'
Western Company's Liverpool lines, subject to the
settlement by clauses to be considered to-day Pci
their intended railway bridge over the Mersey, 1113,_
the payment of pontage tolls. The case of ts°
Oswestry and Newton Railway was finally closed'
but the committee postponed their decision until
to-day.