The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-07 00:00:00

TILE CITY POLICE rOMMIgSIONERSHIP.

Mr. WIRE, after a speech in which he spoke in the highest
terms of the merits and claims of the City Commissioner of
Police, moved that it be referred to the Police Committee
to consider the duties and services of that officer, and to re-
port their opinions as to the propriety of augmenting his pre-
sent salary.
lie was supported by several members.
Mr. DE JERSEY contended that the Commissioner's present
salary was sufficiently adapted to his services, and moved
the previous question.
Several members supported the latter view of the subject,
and the amendment was ultimately carried.
CENTRAL, CITY TERMINUS.
Mr. WIRE appeared with a petition, with an immense
number of signatures attached, and said, that as everybody
knew to what it alluded, he should simply move that it be
referred to the Improvement Committee. The number of
the petitioners and their respectability were of the highest
kind.

This mention of the petition, which Mr. Wire did not de-
scribe in more words than we have used,
the display of much excitement.was the signal for
After a smart discussion,

The LORD MAYOR said the Court can decide whether the
presence of the petitioners may or may not be dispensed with.
On the question being put the presence of the petitioners
was dispensed with by a large majority.
The petition, which was as follows, was then read :
" TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR, !ALDERMEN, AND
COMMONS, IN COMMON COUNCIL ASSEMBLED.
" The petition of the undersigned Merchants, Bankers,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers, and others, engaged
in or connected with Trade and Commerce in the
City of London,
" Showeth,—That we have heard it is proposed to con-
struct a great trunk line from Battle-bridge to Farringdon-
street, for the use of such of the Northern, North-Eastern, and
North-Western Railroad Companies as shall be desirous of
availing thomselves of it, upon payment of such fair remu-
neration to the Company constructing the same as may be
agreed between them.
" We have heard that the Company promoting this great
undertaking are desirous of purchasing from the Corporation
of London, at its fair value, the site of Farringdon-market,
which we are informed is so little needed for the purposes
of a market, that the receipts from every source have not
since its erection defrayed the costs of management and
repair.
" We understand that the Company propose to take the
site of the market andotheradejhaztfeprro:.heirethy,
the
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.et.hidetphuer-f
pur-
pose of establishing spacious and convenient stations for the
accommodation of passengers
the street, its central situation, arid the number of its outlets
to all parts of the rnotropolis, appear, in the;udgment of your
petitioners, to render it eminently well suited.
" We have further heard that the promoters of the plan pro-
pose that the site of Field-lane, Saffron-hill, West-street,
Sharp's-alley-, and other 'wretched localities to the north of
Holborn-hill and Snow- hill on each side of the extended rail-
road, shall be used for the erection of temporary depots for
merchandises and goods coming by railway from the manu-
facturing districts, and that goods and cattle arriving by rail
*hall be passed to their destination from those spots, without
in any manner crowding the stations, or incommoding the
passengers proceeding to or from the:terminus in Farringdon-
street.
-' Re believe that a project of this nature will largely con-
tribute to the public convenience and accommodation, and
will be productive of great advantage to the trading interests
of the City of London.
" We do therefore most respectfully request that you will
give to the promoters of Ws undertaking the requisite fa-
eilitiee far establishing the terminus for passenger traffic in
Farringdon-street.
Mr. Witt moved that the petition be referred to the Im-
provements After another discussion,
was
referred to
to took
Committee.
in which Mr. Williams, Mr. De
Jersey, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. W. Jones, Mr. Obbard, Mr. Lott,
Hart,
,Itt.h 're amy lootri ,0 3n
wr.
aIsI
put,all 3ir.
and
the Norri
i p andpetition
n
Sir. Lawrence
Committee upon a show of hands greatly in favour of the pro-
position of Mr. Wire,

GRAND I3ALL AT GUILDHALL.
Mr. Deputy Throws moved, that the nee of the Guildhall
on some day after the 9th of November be granted for a ball
for the benefit of the ward schools of the City.
The motion was unanimously
agreed to.
RAILWAY sinEcTons, sfiAREHOLDEns, &a.
Mr. Lorr rose to move the following :—" That no mem-
ber of this Court who is a shareholder in, or director of, or
solicitor, engineer, or architect, to any railway company,
speculation, or undertaking, shall be eligible to sit or vote
of this Court
upon any committee, or to vote in this Court, whilst any
matter affectin or concerning such railway shall be under
the consideration
of any of its committees.''
He with great
such 0. rnzitiot, but he trusted the Court would have the
r, regret forted It necessary to bring forward
good sense to maintain its purity, and he did not see how
that could be done without th
eadoption of the motion he
took the liberty to make.
Mr. L. TaThon seconded the motion,
Alderman SIDMIT hoped the Court would reject such a
motion, as a reflection upon its integrity and an offenee to
its understanding, They might as well think of stopping
the course of the Thames as stop those great tributaries to
the Thames—the railroads. And if all who were in some
way or other totineoM.d Itith fell'Oldg Were
from that to be excluded
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from the poe'er to Vote, there would be no such thing as a
railway at all.—(Hear, hear.)
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vort
Alderman WILSON entertained quite a different opinion
wtehreestitedan n
cifiaesiltwioansys
affecting just expressed by Alderman Sidney, and said it
would be most creditable in the Court to adopt the measure
proposed by Mr. Lott, if it could be legally adopted. lie
hoped, at all events, that all the gentlemen who were in •
(Hear, hear.) would
Mr. R. L. JONES said the motion cast a stigma upon the
Court. He called upon the members to look to the conduct
of the Directors of the Bank in discussing its own charter in
the House of Commons. Was it for a moment insinuated
that they were not to vote on the questions most interesting
to ? them
. And was it in other cases objected that persons, i
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