The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-30 00:00:00

CI)URT COM.llcr.ii COUNC IL.

On Thursday a Court was held for the di.patah of public busi-
ness.

TOLLS AND STALLAGE. AND THE ENLARGE-
MENT OF NEWGA LE MARKET.

A loeg discussion took place on the important question
respectinz tolls aril stallage and the enlargement of New-..
gate-market, as recommended by the Market Committee,
but, as the report was referred back to the Committee with
additional instructions, we abstain from giving an account
of the proceedings until the Committee shall have again re-
ported on the matters. It is only necessary to mention that
Mr. W. Jones, the Chairman of the Committee, informed the
Court, in calling their attention to the report, that the limit of
the amount which might be required to enlarge the market was
60,000/., and that the following amendment was earrittdt—
" That it be referred back to the Committee, with instructions
to report the present area of Newgate-market, the space pro-
posed to be added, the sum estimated to be expended, and the
plan of the building intended to be erected."
Alderman and Sheriff SIDNEY presented a petition from
the Committee for Building and Endowing a Church for the
Seamen of the Port of Lon: on, for a grant of money to carry
that object into effect. He called the attention of the Court
to the claims of the seamen upon the community, and stated
that the fl. sting chapel long used by them was in a state of
deem, and required much repair, and that the erection of a
church in the neighbourhood of Sr. Katharine Docks, for their
benefit, would be in every respect highly advisable.
Deputy I ORNEY seeonded the motion to refer this petition
o the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, and said that he
t.ad apportunittes while a member of the Navigation Committee,
of ohierving th t the fl acing chapel and two nth. r floating
institutions on the Thames constituted serious obstructions to
the navigation
Mr. /trine :TON was of opinion that the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests nukht to render such an application un-
necessary grant of the necess:Ty site, as the seamen,
although their services could not be disputed, were a severe
burden upon the public.
Deliwy COR.NEY informed the Court that the Commis-
eioners of Woods and Forests had .ffered to sell ground for
1,2001., which was worth upwards of 2,0001., for the proposed
chapel.—( Hear, hear.)
Some surprise was expressed that the lusting chapels, which
had been bit+ a few years ago much preferred as places better
adapted to the taste of the seamen, were now yielding in popu-
larity to the ordinary chapels frequented by the mixed public.
he petition was referred to the Committee.
PROTECTION OF LIFE FROM FIRE.

Mr. D. W. WIRE presented a petition from the Royal
Society for th.. Protection o, Life from Fire, " for the pro
vidirg of fire-evaFes within the City of London." It stated.
that the ptan upon which the fire•escattes a ere con,tructed
hat' proved more ffficacious then any hitherto acted upon
or suggested, and that, withla the last ear, the bvt-s of ten of
urt ellow creaturvs had been saved by the use of the machines
f the Society. He submitted that it would be a difficult
mater to add anything to the powerful a•gument contained
in the petition, and moved, without more comment. that it
should be referred to the Police Committee, in which he well
knew it would meet with the most attentive con•ideration.

Mr. LOTT raid that some years ago he had submitted to the
Court a proposition on the subject, whieh, if it had been
adopted, would in all probability have counteracted several
calamities of a mast awful description. He had, after great
pains, succeeded in getting the subjeet before the Police
Committee, in which 50 models had been examined. He
was desirous to know why the three machines, which were
constructed upon one of those plans, and whieh were de-
posited in the Guildhall, to be used by the police, were not.
now in operation ? He knew that upon one occasion of a
fire, a poficeman, when asked about the escapes, said he
knew very well where they were, but that did not signify,
as they were not in his beat.—( Hear, hear.) He wished to
know whether the neglect of the machines arose from any
disagreement anywhere. At all events, he was satisfied that
the interference of some more influential member of the Cor-
poration than himself would have been productive of the good
which he had exerted himself in vain to accomplish.
Alderman WOOD said Mr. Lott was much mistaken if he

thought the Committee held the plan In low estimation, be-
cause it was the result of his suggestion ; no such idea
ever occurred to them. In tact, there were several difficulties
in the case. Of all the plans of fire escapes. there was but
one of practical utility, and that was the canvass bag es-
cape, one of which description of machines had been sent
to almost every station-house in the city. But there was no
established body appointed to apply tl em in cases of emer-
gency or to keep them in a state of preparation. 't would
be mii.t desirable that they should be in the hands, and
under the control of the police, but the Commissioner could
not apply the public money under the Act of Parliament,
to such a purpo e. Now, those .ho petitioned the Court that
&I were an established Society, wi.h regularly-appointed
officers, who were Wwar; on the Wert, and the Court would
act wisely in rendering 'them the aid they required for so im-
portant a purpose.—( Hear, hear. )
Mr. R. TAYLOR could not very clearly see how the Court
were justified in placing implicit reharice upon the conduct of
the voluntary soder!, which had thus petitioned the Court.
They designa ed themselves a Royal Society, but he could not
see what reliance wa, to be pliced upon their stability. He was
c.nvineeit that the care and management .bould be in ;he hands
of the Foice alone, or a box!y onstituied as the police
wi•re.—t Hear. hear.)

petitio” war then r,fe•rel o the C rnmittee
'O%IPLETION OF THE IM ROVEMENTS OF HOL-
wN HILL AND FARItINGDO,—STREET.

Mr. R L. JONES brought up the report of the London-
bri ge Ai pr aches Committee, to whom it wa4 referred to
examine the allegation in the petition of the inh,bitants
of the north tide of the ward of Farringdon Without. fur

the completion of :he improvements at Farringdon New-
street and Holborn-hridee, with instructions to rrp:vt their
opinion upon the expediency of carrying out these • roposed
improvements. It stated that the o.mtnittee had viewed
the new hoe of street and the projecting hous-s on the
north side . of Hoilevn-bridge, and directed the Clerk of the
Works to report hi, optrinn as to :he summed value of those
houses, and also to report the probable amount of the cost of
the improvement, deducting the value of the surplus
grentui; that they had subsequently received reports from
the Clerk of the Works, from which it appeared that ex-
clusive of law charges, the probable cost of completing the
line of improvement at Holborn-bridge, after deducting the
value of the surplus ground, would amount to 14,5001.
That the Committee, having duly considered all the cir-
cumstances are of opinen. that it WAS dew:lbl,-, for tiie
City to complete the line A* improvement at Holborn-
bridge by purchasing stel setting back the .aid houses. pro-
vided suitable means and powers could be obtained for tha:
purpose; and they were further of opinion thst an oppor-
tunity would at the same time be affor.led for effecting an
additional improvement of Holborn-hill. The Genmittee.
therefore, felt it their duty to draw the particular attention
of the Court to the propriety of takine measures to
carry out these objects ; and they recommended the same
accordingly. That they had caused the vaults to be con-
structed on each side of Farrir.grton-street, and had already
let eleven of the lots of ground in that street for building leases,
and were taking measures that they trusted would ensure future
lettings; so that the whole of the in ;movement, so far as the
City was concerned, might be completed without dela , and
they were the more strengthened in that opinion in cowequence
of the measures in progress for carrying on the new line of
street in the county of Middlesex.
Mr. JONES. in commenting upon the report. spoke of the
necessity which existed for much more extensive improvements
in the City of London, and manifested the strongest disposition
to proportion the changes in several of the populous streets to
the large means possessed by the Corporation and their in-
creasing prosperity.
The report was agreed to, and, after some discussion upon a
subject which was suddenly dropped by the announcement that
there were not members enough present to constitute a Court,
the Lord Mayor declared the Court adjourned.

DISCOVERY of H MAN REMAINS.
A discovery, which has created considerable interest and
excitement, took place at Birmingham on Tuesday. A
number of workmen, in the empl of Mr. P. Smith, the
town surveyor, were engaged in sinking what is termed
a dome well, at the Public-office, in Moor-street, when
about seven feet from the surface of the ground they met
with the remains of a large dog. This created no surprise,
but immediately beneath the excavators found their work im
peeled by appar ntly a large box, bu, which. upon examina-
tion, proved to be an oak eoffii. On its top was a porcelain
pipe, of curious, and evidently antique c•mstruction. anti an
engraved heart, with the initials " W S " The coffin, con•
sidering the number of years it is suppo ed to have been
in the ground, was in a state of excellent preseivatiot..
Curiosity, as a matt. r of eour,e, was exe ted to a•c, rtain it.
(-rodents, and, upon bog opened anti exammed, it was
found to contain the skeleton of a human being, through
which, as in past times in the case of r xecuted malefact Jr-
a stake had been driven. The ',mains were -übmitted to
the ex,mination of one .it the medical gentlemen connected
with th. Queen's .Cl egg arid H„-peal. and he pronounce,
the.. to he th sk to en of a none. abet' the age e.I sor 6.
The only polio pre• tr. d worthy of obse-vation was an iii-
rt,r,tion o the torefieot, f.: m wh eh it. would he i..ferreit
that lie deceased came to hi' death by violence. These are.
how• ver, very plausible rea-nos for com•rig to a different con-
clusion. L not at all improbable that the f, aeture of the
forehead was the result of the violence of the writ kpeople em-
ployed in the excava ion ; and if the man whose remains are
found was murdered, it does not appea• likely that his mur•
deters would have honoured his corpse wit!: an oak coffin,
decor ted with expensive insignias. Moor-street, in which the
remain= were found, is now simuate in the very cerore of
iiiimingharn; but two hundred years ago, vt which time
,he !atee, is is •u, posed the b sty twist have b,en in-
terred, it funned part of an ext.-nsive pails. belonging, as
sdme say, t the J timings family, and so sequently to the
ancestors of the oresent Earl Howe. His Lori:slop holds
exteosive property in the neighb urhood at the present time.
M-ridtn-street, Pa, k-street, Jennings-row, &c., constituted
a part of the original domain. The probability is that the
body found is the r• mains of some member of the family to
whom the esta• e forin--rly belong, d, and who, as is ft, quently
the ease, eve,, in modem tones, was bur ed within the
precincts of he family grounds. This view is confiranoi
by the fact that in Oxford-street, now standing upon a por-
tion of the came domain. a few weeks ago the workmen
employed by the to, n surveyor met with the skeleton of
a man ho had e‘idently been buried for a great number
of years, and between whose thighs was placed a large black
bottle containing a black fluid. Unfortunately, however,
the cupidity of an Irish excavator employed upon the work.
who expected to find something to drink, led him to break
the bottle, and its contents were never correctly ascertained.
It is needles to say that the di-covery of the remains of a
human b-ing in the immediate neighbourhood of di, public
prison has led to many vulgar and unfounded surmises. How
these notions are to be corrected it is difficult to say, but it is
to be presumed that the worthy borough Coroner, who, during
his tenure of office, has been most extraordinarily industrious
in the discharge of its duties, will find in popular clamour a
justification for sitting in judgment upon the discovered bones.

THE LATE ELECTION FOR SHERIFFS.-Mr.
Laurie who was on last Midsummer-day chosen, together with
Mr. Chaplin, to fill the office of sheriffs of London, and Sheriff
of Middlesex, is the nephew of Sir Peter Laurie, with whom
he WAS formerly in partnership in the extensive concern in
Oxford-street, and is possessed of a very large fortune. Mr.
Laurie lately purchased the Duke of Norfolk's mansion near
Hyde-park, and is the owner, in right of his wife, a lady of
considerable affluence whom he lately married, of the splendid
house called Ho'croft's, adjoining the Bishop of London's
Palace at Fulham. The new Sheriff, it is said, is a man of
extremely active mind, and is determined to perform the
duties of the office so as to gratify his fellow-citizens. Mr. D.
W. Wire i- to be his Under-Sheriff, the appointment of whom
his given the highest satisfaction to those benevolent indivi-
duals of both sexes, who are so alive in the csreer of reform of
uniortonate criminals.

;7,IIoCKING ACCILENT AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
--On Wednesday evening, immediately after the fall of the cut tain
at the close of the opera of The Enchantre.sr, and while Madame
Tuition was upon the stage, a quantity of the heavy machinery
immediately in her vicinity fell with a tremendous crash, knocking
down two of the scene-shifters of the names of Kirby and Hathaway.
They were immediately picked up, bleeding profusely, and in an ap-
parently lifeless kate. A medical gentleman, who was in the house,
promptly attended, and ordered them instantly to be conveyed to the
hospital. The injuries received by Hathaway were slight in coin-
pa:ison with those sustained by Kirby, of whom, we learn, it is feared
there is little hope of recovery. Net the slightest blame attaches to
any QUO 117 the theatre,