The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-10 00:00:00

'LONDON, r U ESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 18b7.

THE CITY CORPORATION REFORM.

The knowing is a copy of the ieport of the Committee
of the Court of Common Council, upon which it is pro-
posed to found-a bill to be offered to the Government:—
"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 to whom on the 25th day of Sept. last it was
referred to consider and report our opinion forthwith as to
the alterations and provisions which should be made, and
generally what should be done for the better ragulation of
the corporation -of London, and the management of its
affairs, stating what can be effected by the powers of this
Court, and what would require Parliamentary aid, do
certify that we have proceeded. therein, and after due de-
liberation have agreed upon certain points to be submitted
to the consideration of
,this honourable Court, in a^oord-.
anee with the terms of the reference, and the same are as
follow : .
"1. That it is expedient that the number of wards
should be reduced to 20. As our rec-ommendation to
reduce the number of wards cannot be carried out without
the assistance of the Legislature, we abstain from indica:
ing the precise form in which it, should be done, but con.
eider that it woald be desirable to make as little alteration

as possible to the present boundaries, so as to make the
wards more equal in the number Of occupiers and amount
of rateable property.
"2. That the Parliamentary franchise should be the
municipal franchise.
"3. That the number of Common Councilmen should
be 150.
"4. That the quorum of the Court should be 30.
"5; That the manner of proceeding, if the same person
is elected in more than one ward, should be prescribed.
"6. That the term of office of Common Councilman
should be one year.
" 7. That the Lord Mayor should be elected by the mem-
bers of the livery companies, together with the municipal
electors, froth the aldermen who have served the office of
sheriff. •
" 8. That the sheriffs should be elected by the same con-
stituency as the Lord Mayor.
"9. That the Lord Mayor and aldermen should be
magistrates, as at present, and have the administration of
justice in the justice-rooms, and continue to be commis-
sioners of the Central Criminal Court. •
"10. They would have the control of all the prisons,
and the appointment of all the prison officers.
" 11. They would have the same duties in respect of the
police as either by law or custom they now have.'
" 12. They would have the appointment of the Recorder
and such other of the officers as they now appoint.
" 13. The aldermen to assemble at a Court of Aldermen
for magisterial purposes and for the management of the
charities and other trusts now in their charge.
" H. That this committee are of opinion there should
not be any alderman without a ward constituency, but
that such arrangement should not affect the alderman at
present holding office.

"15. That the a'dermen present to the Court of Come.
mon Council quarterly estimates of their probable capon.-
diture for each next ensuing quarter, as also quarterly ac.
counts of the sums actually paid for magisterial expenses
in each last preceding quarter.
" 16. The aldermen representing wards to sit with the
Court of Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council,
the Lord Mayor presiding, but the Lord Mayor not to have
the power of breaking up the Court, and in the absence of
the Lord Mayor the Court to appoint a member to preside.
"17. The aldermen not to have the power of breaking
up the Court, except as forming part of one general
quorum.

"18. The Lord Mayor and aldermen not to have the
right of exercising a veto on the election of Lord Mayor,
one only being elected by the constituency and chosen from
among the aldermen, the constituency consisting of the
livery companies and the municipal electors.
" 19. The Lord Mayor and aldermen not to have the
privilege of going up to the Throne as a separate court,
but only as forming part of the Court of Lord Mayor,
Aldermen;•and Common Council.
" 20. The Lord Mayor and aldermen not to have the
power of trying the validity of any election of Common
Councilman.

"21. The Lord Mayor and alderman" not to exercise a
veto on the election of a now alderman by, a war.l..
"22. The aldermen to be removable on an application
signed by a majority of the electors of the respective wards;
the matter to be decided by two-thirds of the Court of
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons in common ootincil
assembled.
"23. The Lord Mayor and aldermen not to have the
licensing of brokers, which in future is to be by the Court
of Common Council.
" 24. That three auditors be elected annually by the
Court of Common Council.
"25. That the election of auditors should be on the or-
dinary principle of election to offices by the Court of Com-
mon Council.

"2,3. That no person being in holy orders, or being the
regular minister of any Dissenting congregation, shall bo
elected, or be Lord Mayor, or an alderman, common coun-
cilman, or auditor of the city, and no person shell be
elected or be such Lord Mayor, alderman, common
councilman, or auditor, unless he be on the list of voters
for some ward in .the city, and be seised or pos-
sessed of real or personal estate, or both, to
the amount of 1,0001., or be rated to the police rate of the
city upon the annual value of not less than 301., and no
person shall be elected to be such Lord Mayor, alderman,
common councilman, or auditor during such time as he
hold any office or place of profit (other than that of Lord
Mayor or Sheriff) in the gift or disposal of the corporation,
or during such time as he or his partner has directly or in-
directly any share or interest in any contract or employ-
ment by, with, or on behalf of the corporation ; bat that
no person being a shareholder of any joint-stock company
shall be disqualified from being Lord Mayer or an alder-
man, common councilman, or auditor, as aforesaid, by
reason of any contract with or employment of such com-
pany by or on behalf of the corporation ; but no such Lord
Mayor, alderman, or common councilman shall, as a mem-
ber of the Common Council, vote upon any question in
which such company is interested, or vote or take part in
the discussion of any matter in which he has, directly or in-
directly, by himself or his partner, any pecuniary interest.
" 27. Any alderman or common councilman, and any
person qualfied to be an alderman or common councilman,
shall be capable of being elected to a sheriff.
" 28. That the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, aldermen, common
councilmen, and auditors should not act until they have
made a declaration of acceptance of office and, where qua-
lified by estate, of such qualification.
"29. That every person duly qualified who is elected to
the office of Lord Mayor, sheriff, alderman, common coun-
cilman, or auditor of and for the city, shall accept such
office, or shall pay to the corporation each fine, not exceed-
ing, in the case of Lord Mayor or sheriff, 1501., a,nd in
other cases 501., as the Common Council by a bylaw to be
made by them shall direct.
".30. That the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and common
councilmen be disqualified in cases of bankruptcy, insol-
vency, &c. (in the terms of the present act).
"3L That penalties should be imposed on persons act-
ing who are disqualified.

32. That thera should be penalties on ward clerks and
town-clerk for neglect to comply with tho provisions of the
act.

" 33. That the accounts of the corporation of receipts
and disbursements should be kept, audited, and published.
" 31. That all officers (except Lord Mayors and sheriffs
and those appointed by the Court of Aldermen) should be
elected by the Court of Common Council.
" 33. That all powers and duties of the Court of Alder-
men shall, except as otherwise provided, be vested in the
Court of Common Council.

36. That all exclusive rights of trading in the city be
dished.
' 37. That all street tolls be abolished.
38. That the jurisdiction of mayor and aldermen of
city as justices for Southwark be abolished.
39. That the coronet for the city cease to act for South-
rk.

" 40. That the office of High Bailiff of South wark be
abolished when the present possessor shall cease to hold
such office.
" 41. That upon there ceasing to be a High Bailiff for
the borough of Southwark a returning officer be appointed
by the sheriff, and a high bailiff be appointed for the
Southwark County Court.
" 42. That the Hustings Court be abolished, and the
Mayor's Court have the jurisdiction of the abolished court.
" 43. That the records of the Court of Hastings bo
placed in the custody of the town-clerk.
" 41. That the jurisdiction of the Sheriff's Court be abo-
lished, except as to proceedings under the City Small
Debts Act, 15th of Viotoria, chap. 67.
"45. That the Recorder be the sole judge of the Lord
Mayor's Court, but that the Common-Sergeant may act in
certain cases.
"4•i. That no commission of error should issue.
" 47. That there be an appeal from the Lord Mayor's
Court to the superior courts at Westminster.
" 48. That such appeal should be in the form of a case.
"49. That power be given to the judges of the superior
courts to regulate the proceedings on appeals.
" 50. Tbat provision be made as to Sunday, Good Fri-
day, and Christmas-day, And fast and thanksgiving days.
" There are several other subjects, including the censor-
parley and metage, upon which your committee would have
felt it incumbent upon them to offer suggestions, but they
have abstained from so doing, the Court having referred
such subjects to other committees of the corporation.
" In further pursuance of the terms of the reference, by
our directions the officers have advised your committee as
to how much of the proposed alterations could be carried
out by the corporation itself, and how much would require
legislative interference. That your committee have received
a report from the officers, which is hereunto annexed for the
information of the Court.
" Since your committee originally agreed upon a draught
of suggestions which they propose making to this hen.
Court, and before their report was presented, they had laid
before them a resolution agreed to at a meetinc, of the
members of the corporation, the purport of which° was to
request your committee to take into their consideration
certain propositions which had been prepared by the alder-
men
infor bringing the entire corporation into harmonious
and consequent course of action upon the question
of its future better management.
"Your committee, deeming it to be of the highest im-
portance that no effortrer should remain untried, and no want
cf v incte d e too opportunity settle u
ntiht
ye
th vexedus a
afforded
questions
awhicharrive
have to obstructed progress and improvement, gladly
themselvesavail e
of h
disposition
ing at a proper understanding between the two Courts.
It is with much satisfaction that your committee are en-
abled to state the result has proved most beneficial. Mu-
tual concessions, made in the spirit of a desire for the *general
advantage, have enabled your committee to submit a series
of propositions, which have been so
the concurrence both of the Court of Aldermenfied
a an s to
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its efforts for the
public advantage.
" Your committee, therefore, now beg respectfully to
draw the serious attention of the Court to the suggestions

herein set forth, with their earnest recommendation that
the same should be adopted. • " All which we submit to the juJgment of this hon.
Court. •
" Dated this 3d day of Pobraary, 1857.
" J••VirOop: " 1): LAURIE; ,
".S. C. NORRIS "T. LOTT. .
" T. WEBBER. " J. It. CARR. -•
" J. IluptioN. " W. CHRISTIE.
" J.-EDMONDS. " L. HOUGHTON.
• REED `. R. BE
" B. BOWER. "-T. DARIN. -
'`J. MUSGROTE. _ T. PEWTRESS. -
" T. H. Flty. " T. ABRAHAMS.

"To THE WORSHIPFUL THE ' CORPORATION INQUIRY
" We, the undersigned, t0C03011572E
whom on the 27th day of
S iptember, it was referred ' to report to this committee
how much of the alterations proposed could be carried out
by the corporation itself, and how much would require
legislative Interference,' beg leave to certify that we aro of
opinion tnat the following resolutions can be carried out
by act of Common Council.'
"1. That the number of the Common Council awl the
number of the quorum may be reduced or increased, as
thought fit. .
-. The qualifications of Lerd Mayor, aldermen, com-
mon councilmen, and auditors. -
"3. The sheriffs' qualifications.
"5.i
"4.
FTihneesdefcolrarnaottioalcicetifpLtionrgdoMfilacye;or, aldermen, common
councilmen, and -auditors.
"6. Penalty on persons acting who are disqualified, and
on town-clerk.
"7. Accounts to bo kept and published.-
" 8. Officers to be elected by the Common Council, except
those included in the election acts.
" 9.` Veiling some of the powers of the Court of Alder-
men in the Common Council,.but not any judicial powers,
n,or the power of administering:oloh'.
" 10. The Lord Mayor and aldermen-to cease to act as
magistrates for Southwark ; coroner also ; and the Lord
Mayor not to appoint bailiff for Southwark.
" 11. Provision as to Suwlay, Good Friday, Christmas-
day, fast and thanksgiving days.
"But we are of opinion that the following proposals
cannot be carried out without the interposition of the
Legislature :
" 1. The division of the city into wards, so as to affect
the present boundaries of the wards.
" The act of the 12th and 13th of Victoria, cap. 94,
must be partly repealed before the Lord Mayor can be
elected by the municipal electors.
"3. The election of auditors under the 11th of George 1.,
cap. 18, can only-be altered by the Legislature.
"All which we submit to the judgment of this hon.
committee. Dated this 4th day of November, 1856..
" J. S. WORTLEY, Recorder.
" 11. A. AIEREWETHER, Town-clerk.
"R. GURNEY, Commoweergeant.
" F. BRAND, Controller.
" F. TYRRELL, Remembrancer.
" C. PEausoN, Solicitor."

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giatered letter, and substituted the one-which
way after-
wards found in the bill. He took the money: out and
threw away the, letter as he was going home to dinner.
He spent 3d. in coffee, ld. io sweetmeats, and,gate ld. to a
beggar in the street. The half-idverpigb,,a 0., and 2d:. in
copper was•-•foirn I upon• him, and 3e. conceded
father's bonee. _

Mr. Nacock, soliciitor to the Post-offiv, inquire.] of Mr.
Palmer if he did not, know it was against the regulations
of the Post-office to employ a child so young to assist in clear-
ing the box, acid if he had not baen cautioned to that effect
by an officer of the Post-office only three weeks back?
Mr. Palmer replied with much warmth that it was not
so, and that Mr. Peacock, by his- mode of putting the ques-
tionS, 'was giving an unfair colour to-the facto.
Mr. Peacock said it was improper to employ so young a
person to clear out the letter-box. He was-grieved to have
to prosecute a boy of 12 for such an offence, feeling that it
was impossible to expect a poor child of that age .to resiA
the temptation thrown in his way. He was much• to be
Tho piiioner, who declined saying anything, was com-
mitted for trial.

CLERKENWELL.—CHARGE OF , ASSALTLT.—A re-
spectably-dressed young woman, who gave the name of
Mary Ronach, and who stated that die resided at No. 12,
Glasshouse-street, Vauxhall, was chary(' with itsiaultipg
John Sutton, who was described as a surgeon, residing at
No. 10, Doswell-road, St. Dike's.
' Mr. Wakeling appeared for the procccution. -
St will be remembered that " Dr. Sutton" was brought
to this court on a warrant, and was remanded for a week,
on the charge of attempting to' extort money by paibliSh-
lug a certain. letter, which had been sent to him in his
medical capacity, by a Mr. HairisOn, b farmer, residing at
Sleaford, in Lincolnshire. On that occasion Dr. Sutton
stated that he resided at 15, Frederick-place, Goswell-
road, and waa.tlescribed in the newspaperi as "Dr. Sut-
ton, alias Dr. Sidney Hall, 'alias Dr.. fanning." The
matter having, beettsompromised, ciaArgc was with-
ttrawn; snft Dr: Halr-wrdteltiters from 10, Goswell-roicl,
St. Lnke'e, stating 'that he had no connection with Dr.
Sutton. Oa' the present occasion it will be seen that " Dr.
Sutton " gave the address that Dr. Hall wrote from, and
from which the latter said that he did. not even know the
former.
Mr. Wakeling said that in this case the defendant had
been 'nought to this court no less than three or four times
for assaults on his client. On the present occasion she
went to inquire after his child, which was dead.
Defendant made some remarks. '

lifr7iVaielingLivenhere she cannot keep her temper.
She struck him a very violent blow in the face, knocked
him down, and bit his fingers. All that he wantod was
that the defendant should fined raponsible bail to keep
the peace.
Ultimately the defendant was fined 108., and in default
of payment two days' imprisonment.-

MARLBOROI7GH-STREET.—CURIOUS DE ursioN.—
Wm. _Ferguson, an Irishman, was charged with annoying
Dr. Fergusson, of Park-street.
Dr.•Fergusson stated that he had been continually an-
noyed by the prisoner for the last sixteen years, although
the prisoner was a complete stranger to him. The prisoner
was in the habit of coming to his house, accosting him in
the street, and writing letters to him, ant judging from
the defendant's appearance and his acts, he bad no doubt
his mind was deranged, and that it only required a moment
of irritation to occur to render him a dangerous per4on.
The prisoner believed he was dogged by the police and the
Guards in purple and fine linen, and he was always apply-
ing to him to get him a wife. Lord Clare was persecuted
in the same way, and it would be sufficient evidence of the
man's mind to show a letter in which be had proposed
himself as a husband for Lord Clare's daughter.
The prisoner hoped Dr. Fergusson would take a different
view of his condition. He would faithfully promise, .if
released, never to annoy the doctor aga'n. His business
was with Lord Clare more particularly.
Dr. Fergusson said the prisoner knew no more of Lord
Clare_than of him. The prisoner was frrinerly my Irish
constabulary, but having quarrelled with his chief and
challenged him, he was dismissed. From that time he had
been a constant nuisance both to himself and to Lord Clare.
If a lady patient drove up to his house for advice the pri-
soner was sure to send him a letter begging him to use his
good offices to get him the lady for a wife.
Mr. Beadon asked if the prisoner ha I been in custody
fur a similar offence before?

Dr. Fergusson replied, repeatedly.
Mr. Beadon thought it would be unsafe to allow the pri-
soner to go at liberty, and therefore •directed him to bo
taken to the workhouse, where the state of his mind would
bo properly ascertained.

MARYLEBONE.—DISTRESSING CAS PI . —Mr. Brough-
ton handed to our reporter a communication made to him
by a poor w'dow named Allsopp, whose five eoulha 1 been
killed in battle while fighting in the service of their Queen
and country.- The letter received by the worthy magis-
trate rau thus : -

"9, Brown-street, Bryanston-square.
" Worthy Sir,—Having experienced. your goodness to
me through Mr. Franklin, your chief officer at the court,
induces me to entreat your benevolence once again. The
weather is much against my affliction (appliCant is suffer-
ing from a severe and perhaps incurableinternal complaint).
Coals are very dear, and my reduced circumstances make
me very poor indeed, not being able to do anything to ob-
tain a living. Most worthy Sir, lam afflicted by the high
hand of God, whose purposes .are known only to himself.
Would that the Lord would call me from a world of sor-
row and sin ;, indeed I hr.ve no wish to live. I did pray
to see my poor sons return from the Orin-lea; blrt they are
wafted into Peace, where all sorrows and troubles hive an
end. I have no more sons for England or the Queen. I
had throe at Cahn', in the Indies; they are dead; so are
two who were in the Crimea. I have lost all ! lam now
a poor destitute widow, the grand-daughter of a general,
and the daughter of a captain, all slain for England's
glory._ My husband was an officer, but be had to sell his
commission to'pay his debts, which deprived him of a pea-
sion at his death. Since the death of my husband, and
the loss of my poor children, I never received a shil-
ling from Government. Worthy sir, that is the thanks
I received for bringing up five beautiful young men to bo
slain. Indeed, Mr. Broughton, I received more relief at
your hands than I have received of any, unless what little
the workhouse allows me to pay for my lodgings. When
the Duke of Wellington was alive he always gave me a
little help, and so did Lord Fitzroy. I have bsen compelled
to part with everything I had to obtain a little living,
and am glad to get a coal or bread ticket, which is difficult
to obtain. I hope, worthy sir, you will consider me, and
God will bless you. " F. ALLSOPP.
" To his Worship the Sitting Magistrate."

Accompanying the above was a note from Col. Phipps,
in reply to an application made by the widow to H.P. IL
Prince Albert : -

" Windsor Castle, March 26, 1856.
"Lieut.-Colonel Phipps has received the commands of
his Royal Highness Prince Albert to inform Mrs. Allsopp
that the very numerous and pressing applications for pecu-
niary assistance must prevent compliance with her request.
The enclosure contained in Mrs. Allsopp!s letter is herewith
returned.

The poor widow was, by direction of the magistrate, as-
sisted to the amount of 75., which Wai given to her to Mr.
Franklin, the usher, on Saturday last, the day following
that upon which her sad complaint by letter was received
and made.

Mr. Broughton considered that till case was one of a
most distressing •kind, and he hoped that the bereaved
mother of tho sons who had sacrificed their lives in war
would ultimately, upon further inquiry in the prop or quar-
ter, be placed beyond the reaoh of want.

SOUTHWARK'—A HARD CASE.—Two young women,
of respectable appearance, who were described as ballet-
girls at one of the principal theatres of the metropolis,
were charged with uttering a counterfeit half-sovereign
to a linendraper in Newington-causeway.
It appeared from the evidence that on Tuesday evening
the prisoners went into prosecutor's shop, and selected a
silk dress. In payment they handed to the shopman what
appeared to be a half-sovereign. The shopman went to
the cashier, who examined it, and being soft, and of a
whitish appearance, he placed it in a detector, when it
bent like lead. The prisoners were at once detained, and
given into the custody of s police constable, for uttering a
counterfeit half-sovereign. It was shown that the young
women were respectable, and not known as common utterers
of base coin ' • consequently the magistrate, with Lis usual
discernment, discharged them on their own recoinisances
to appeaz this day. After the young women had left the
court on Wednesday, Mr. Edwin, the chief clerk, ex-
amined the half-sovereign carefully, and had his suspicion
that it was a genuine coin. He sent it to a goldsmith's in
the vicinity of the court, where it was tested, and found
to be genuine. The cause of its being so soft was in the
coining, and the whiteness was no doubt the result of a
chemical powder used by actors and others engaged at
theatres ; and there was not the least doubt at all that the
young girls, when they uttered it, believed it to be genuine.
As soon as the linendraper ascertained that ho had made
an error in mistaking the genuineness of the coin he com-
municated with the young women, and after apologising
for locking them up like felons, presented them with a
sovereign, which they took.

DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA RAILWAY COHPANY.—We
aro informed that it is the intention of the directors of
this company to recommend to the proprietors at their
ensuing half-yearly meeting a dividend of 4i per cent.
per annum, for the half-year ending 31st December,
1856.. _ _

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