The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-08 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of a
great deal of public business.
HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE CITt
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The Loan MAYOR stated to the Court t.i
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received her Majesty's most gracious an ft e'
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Mr. Woodthorpe, the Clerk of the Court, read the
Queen's answer, which was received with loud
cheering.

Upon the motion of Mr. Joiner DIXON, seconded by
Mr. JUP/', her Majesty's answer was ordered to be
entered on the journals of the Court.
The RECORDER read the letter of Sir J. Graham
to the Lord Mayor, announcing her Majesty's warm
approbation of the manner of her reception in the City
of London on the occasion of her visit upon the open-
ing of the Royal Exchange, and of the whole of the
proceedings adopted.
The letter, which was addressed " Sir. William
Magnay, Baronet, Lord Mayor of London," was read
most emphatically by the Learned Recorder, and
loudly applauded.
Sir PETER LAURIE and Mr. JCPP seconded the
motion that this letter be entered on the journals of
the Court.

Upon the motion of Mr. Deputy HICKS, the report
of the proceedings of the 18th of August, 1831, was
read. That report related to the opening of London-
bridge, and the honour conferred upon the Lord
Mayor of that p-riod. The Deputy said that he was
induced to call for the reading of the document in
consequence of the similarity of these two occasions.
Sir PETER LAURIE stated that there was a differ-
ence between the two occasions. In the former in-
stance the communication thatithe Baronetcy had been
conferred was announced by the Secretary of State,
but in the case of Sir William Magnay the Queen
herself had thought proper, with her own lips, to con-
fer the dignity; and he (Sir Peter Laurie) had heard
the expression fall from her Majesty's lips, and the
citizens of London felt grateful for the honour.
Mr. HEPPEL wished to know when the report of
the Royal Exchange and Gresham Committee, stating
the amount of the expense incurred, would be pro-
duced ?

Mr. ANDERTON was anxious to learn when the
building itself would be opened for the mercantile
community ?

Mr. JOIN DIXON said there were some defects in
the tesselated pavement, which would be very soon
remedied, and as soon as that objection was removed
(as we understood Mr. Dixon), the area would be
opened. The great rooms above stairs would not be
completed before Christmas.

THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL-NEW SCHOLARSHIP.

Mr. HALE, the Chairman of the City of London
School Committee, brought up the following report,
which was received with the warmest applause :
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Commons of the City of London, in Common
Council assembled.

" We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, of
your Committee for managing the affairs of the City
of London School, do certify, that in the month of
December last we received from Francis Hobler,
Esq., of Bucklersbury, whose father was for many
years a valuable and highly-respected officer of this
Corporation, a communication offering for our accept-
ance a set of steel dies, which he had caused to be cut
and engraved, for the purpose of striking a medal
commemorating the name of the late Colonel Mark
Beaufoy, F.R.S., and formerly a Member of Parlia-
ment (who was also a man eminent for his attain-
ments as a mathematician, and for his researches in
many important departments of practical science),
with a proposal that a medal to be struck from such
dies, and to he called The Beaufoy Medal,' should
be annually offered in coippetition amongst the pupils
of the school, as a premium for proficiency in mathe-
matical knowledge ; and such offer of Mr. Hobler,
which was also accompanied by a present to the
library of the school of a splendid volume, containing
part of the scientific investigations of Col. Beaufoy,
was accepted by us with becoming acknowledgments
for the kind consideration and regard then exhibited
by him towards the school.

" On the occasion of the first presentation of the
Beaufoy Medal,' which took place at the annual dis-
tribution of prizes, presided over by the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor on the 26th day of July last,
your Committee had the extreme gratification of be-
ing informed, by a public announcement then made
by Mr. Hobler, that Henry Benjamin Hanbury
Beaufoy, Esq., of South Lambeth, s3n of the late
Colonel Beaufoy, in testimony of his gratification at
the respect shown to the memory of his father, and
from a desire to promote the object proposed by the
before-mentioned medal, and to encourage the
study of mathematical science, with a view to the
practical application thereof to the use and service of
mankind, had authorised him to signify his intention
of investing in the public funds, in the names of cer-
tain trustees, a sum of money, sufficient to produce,
as dividends, the yearly sum of 50/., to be applied to
the perpetual support of a scholarship, to be called
the Beaufoy Scholarship,' to be established in con-
nexion with the City of London School, and to be
enjoyed by pupils proceeding thence to the Univer-
sity of Cambridge.

I.‘ We have now the satisfaction of reporting that,
in furtherance of this beneficent intention, Mr. Beau-
foy has since caused the sum of 1,717/. stock to be
purchased in the Three per Cent. Consolidated Bank
Annuities (which will yield a nett sum of 501. per
annum, clear of any deduction for income-tax), in the
names of the Right Hon. William Magnay, Lord
Mayor ; Anthony Brown, Esq , Chamberlain ; Mr.
Warren Starmea Hale, the Chairman of your Com-
mittee ; and Mr. Francis Hobler, as trustees for the
purpose above-mentioned; and a deed of declaration
of trusts, similar to the deed with respect to the esta-
blishment of the Times Scholarship, having been pre-
pared and settled under the advice of counsel, and
also perused and approved by the Comptroller of the
Chamber of the City, on behalf of tke Corporation,
we beg to recommend the same for adoption by
this Honourable Court, and that this City's
seal should be accordingly fixed thereto.
We feel assured that this Honourable Court,
as Governors of the City of London School,
will fully participate with us in the gratification
afforded by so distinguished an act of beneficence as
that which it has been our pleasing duty thus to
submit to their notice. The advantage which must
result to the school from the acquisition of so valuable
a gift, and the stimulus which it will perpetually
afford to the pupils for the study of practical, as well
as theoretical science, combine to render it one of
incalculable importance. A peculiar interest must
also ever attach to the endowment, from the manner
in which it has been bestowed ; springing as it does
from the spontaneous liberality of a gentleman who
has hitherto had not the slightest connexion with the
school, or with the Corporation, beyond that of being
a citizen of London ; in accomplishing an act of gene-
rosity rarely paralleled in an individual, and who has
manifested a spirit of genuine philanthropy towards
his fellow-citizens, which entitles him not only to
their grateful thanks, but also to their lasting
respect and regard. In order that the remem-
brance of so valuable a benefaction may be
effectually preserved, and its object be the
better promoted by being constantly kept in the
view of those for whose benefit it is designed, we
beg leave to recommend that a tablet, with a
suitable inscription, commemorative of the esta-
blishment of the 'Beaufoy Scholarship;' and also the
armorial bearings of Mr. Bes,ufoy and of Mr. Hobler
should be placed in a conspicuous part of the school,
at the expense of this City, in like manner with the
memorials already put up by the Directors of this
Honourable Court with respect to the Times Scho-
larship,' and other benefactors to the school."
Mr. HALE, in moving that the Court should re-
ceceive the report, gave a history of the magnificent
gift presented by Mr. Beaufoy, and spoke in terms of
high approbation of the conduct of Mr. Hobler upon
the occasion. He observed that a twofold benefit was
likely to arise from the circumstance. The public
might say amongst themselves, " Go thou and do
likewise ;" and the tablet would not only perpetuate
the memory of the benefit, but provide against any
future misappropriation.—(Cheers.)
Mr. R. TAYLOR, in seconding the motion, said that,
amidst all the censures of the Corporation, they had,
at any rate, to boast that, young as their school was,
it had several scholarships already established.—(Hear,
hear.) He considered that the recommendation of
the Committee was calculated to induce men of sta-
tion, fortune, and learning, to follow the example of
Mr. Beaufoy.
The motion was unanimously agreed to, and the
City seal was set to the deed of trust.
Upon the motion of Mr. HALE, seconded by Mr.
STEVENS, a vote of thanks was voted to Mr. Beaufoy
(for which see advertisement), and the thanks of the
Court were ordered to he ornamentally written and
presented to him, and to be advertised in the usual
papers.