The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-02 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Arbroath and Forfar •• • •• •
Bristol and Birmingham . • • • • • • • • • • • •
Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dublin and Drogheda • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dundee and Arbroath . • ...... • • • • • • •
Durham and Sunderland . ....
Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • • • •• • • • •
Eastern Counties and North Eastern•.
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • •
Glasgow and Greenock • • • • • ....
Grand Junction • ........ ........

Gravesend and Rochester.. ••
Great North of England • • •• • • • • •• ••
Great Western . •• •• ••
Hull and Selby ..

Liverpool and Manchester •• •• •••• ••
London and Birmingham . •••• •• •• •
London and Blackwall ..
London and Brighton.....
London and Croydon .•••••• •• •• ••••
London and Greenwich. •••• •• •• •• ••
London and South. Western. •• •• •• ••
Manchester, Itolton, and Bury ..
Manchester and Birmingham•• •• •• ••
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc••
Midland Counties. •• .. ... • •• •• ••
Newcastle and Darlington •• •••• •• ••
Newcastle and Carlisle .. •• •• •• ••
Newcastle and North Shields.. •.•• -
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Cerbeil, and Orleans•• .••• •
Paris and Rouen. •• •• •• •••• •••••• ••
Preston and Wyre•• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••••
:-;heillei.d and Manchester...........
South. Eastern
Fair Vale •• •• • ••

Ulster • • ....
f artnouth and Norwich • • • • • • • • • • •
York and North Mlilland ..

Last
week.

178
3,738
612
1,002
1,042

33'3
2,834
5,068
1,884
1,102
10,003

5,217

e 26
4,861
1,061

149
2,227
431

1,214

2(12
2,534
4,724
1,454

890
8,115

228
2,623

1,370
16,831
1,115
4,819
18,193
915
3,531
604
1,942
8,058

3,476
5,031
8,802

669
1,563
823
1,306
5,710
5,874
307
577

871
534
233
1,664

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Wednesday a Court was held for the dispatch of a great deal
of public business.
THE LORD MAYOR AND CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
The following resolutions of a Court held in Christ's Hos-
pital on Tuesday, the 2(!th May, were handed into the Court
mad read by the clerk. They relate to the visit of her Ma-

jesty to the In,titution :
"Resolved,—That this Court having received official notice of
the re.olutions of the Court of Aldermen of the 11th March
. .

last, and of the Court of Common Council of the 3d of Apri
la,t, consider themselves called upon to record the non-admix.

sion of the claims made by such resolutions.
" That this Court do not recognise the Lord Mayor as
head of this Hospital. That they do not admit that his Lordship is
entitled to preside here whenever he shall so think fit, or that
the precedence taken by the President and Treasurer on the
occuion referred to in the said resolutions was an invasion
_ _

of any right or privilege of the Lord Mayor.
" That this Court is anxious, on all occasions, to pay due re-
spect to the Chief Magistrate of the City of London, and they
recognise as an act in full accordance with this feeling the
marked distinction made in favour of the Lord Mayor, on the
ocea-ion of the late visit of her Must Gracious Majesty to this
Hospital, in inviting his Lordship to introduce more visitors
into the Hall than either the President, Treasurer, or
other Governor was authorised to bring—a distinction -.Lot of
right, but purely gratuitous and complimentary.—( A:Laugh.)
" That this Court is fully satisfied that the welfare and
efficient management of this Hospital, and the preservation of
peace and good-till depend on a strict adherence to the pro-
visions of the Act. of Parliament of 22d G eorge 111., c. 77, and
the agreement thereby confirmed, and under this conviction
this Court is desirous of recording:, on the present occasion their
express denial of any right or authority whatever in the Cor.
poration of the City of London, or in any branch of that Cor-
poration, whether the Lard Mayor, or the Court of Aldermen,
or the Court of Common Council, to interfere in the govern-
ment of this Hospital to any farther extent, or in any other
measure than is pre.,ided or recognised by that Act and agree-
ment.

" That this Court regrets, that an event so auspicious as the
gracious appearance, for the first time since the foundation of
this Hospital, of the Sovereign of the Kin;zdom within its walls,
should have been made the occasion of an attempt to revive
disputes, considered to be happily terminated more than sixty
years ago by Legislative authority.
That as the Court of Aldermen and the Court of Common

Council have severally thought proper to cause official notice
to be given to the Hospital of the resolutions passed by them, it
is ordered, that official notice be given to the Court of Alder-
men and the Court of Common Council, of the resolutions
now come to by this Court, with reference to the same.
" GEORGE TROLLOPE, Clerk "
Mr. LOTT immediately rose as Chairman of the Royal Hos-
pitals Committee, to move that the resolutions which so com-
pletely threw down the gauntlet of defence to the Corporation,
should be sent 'to the Committee to be examined and reported
npon.—( He-,r, hear. ) He looked upon the proceedings of the
body from which they had issued as a most unwarrantable re-
sistance to the rights and privileges of the Corporation, as parties
to the endowment of the Institution, and he trusted that the
Court would see the propriety of adopting his motion, in order
that the most searching inquiry might be made, and the ques-
tion of the elaims which had been thus repudiated might be
perfectly determined.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. Wine, in seconding the motion, described the conduct
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brought before the Court to be decided upon.- --(Hear. )
Alderman H. HUGHES deprecated any o:iscussion until the
resolutions should he reported upon, a•-.,d observed that he ap-
prehended a great deal might be said upon both sides.
Sir PETER LAURIE wished to know whether Mr. Lott
meant to include all the royal t.ospitals in his motion?
Mr. Lorr said he intende''.., his motion to be a comprehensive
one, and to include the royal hospital of which Sir Peter
Laurie was the President, as well as the others.—( A laugh.)
Sir PETER LAURI-A-Why?
Mr. TiLsosr—le, order to mark the contrast. At Bride-
well and Bfehlem Hospitals the right of the Lord Mayor is
never questione?.....4 Hear, hear.)
Mr. WIRE rApiessed a wish that on so important a subject
there should 're a conference between the two Courts.
Mr. J. TAXON rose to deny that the Governors of Christ's
Hospital (,ntertained a thought of casting a slight upon the
Corpora'.ion of London by agreeing to the resolutions, which
were only meant to convey an adequate expression of their
opinion of the strength of their own claims.—(Hear, hear.)
It appeared, from the records of the Institution, that down to
the year 1556 no Lord Mayor had ever appeared amongst
them ; that 1080 meetings of the Governors had taken place, at
not one of which there was no instance oft he presence of a Lord
Mayor ; and that in fact upon no occasion had a Lord Mayor at
all presided, except when the President. was prevented from
taking his chair by illness, and then the thanks t f the Court
were voted to his Lordship, a ceremony never adopted towards
the established chairman.
Alderman and Sheriff Stntiwy declared the question was one
of very serious importance as connected with the privileges of
the citizens of London. If the Governors disputed the privi-
leges of the Corporation on the point in question, they might
follow up their denial of the claim of the chief magistrate to
precedence in other matters, and deny the right of presentation
amongst the rest.—(Hear, hear, and cries of No, no.) He
could not see the fo ice of Mr. Dixon's line of argument, for
the negligence of some Lord Mayors did not command the
inference that -Al were excluded from the privilege to which
they were by virtue of their station entitled, and that a period
was put the existence of their chartered rights.—( Hear,
hear.) It was true that a dispute had arisen in 1778 on the
questie,n, but the Act which subsequently passed did not affect
the e;taim of the Lord Mayor to take the chair when such was
his pleasure. In the records of Betblem and Bridewell Hospi-
t.,ls the claim was duly recognised, and the Corporation were
bound in every other instance to assist and maintain their an-
thority.—( Hear, hear. )
Mr. LOTT said that he should be able to prove before the
Committee, by the authority of an ancient ordinance attached
to an Act of Parliament, that the President was the head of
the Hospital next to the lord Mayor.—(Hear, hear.) He
could cite other authorities in confirmation of the precedence
of the Lord Mayor, and he trusted he could satisfactorily
prove that Christ's Hospital, while it was endowed by the Cor-
roration of London, got into the hands of a body of almoners,
from whom it ought, as soon as possible, to be recovered.
The motion of Mr. Lott, as far as regarded Christ's Hospital,
was then agreed to.
RENEWAL OF THE COAL ACT.

Mr. HARRISON (the Ct.airman of the Coal, Corn, and
Finance Committee) brought up a voluminous report, of which
the following is an abstract.
The report, after stating the reasons for the postponement of the
question last occasioned by the pressure of Parliamentary busi-
ness, proceeds—" On the Ist of May the Select Committee held
a conference with Sir George Clerk, at which were present Sir
George Clerk, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and J.
G. S. Lefevre, Esq., one of the Secretaries ; Mr. E. Harrison,
Mr. T. Pewtress, Mr. R. L. Jones, and Mr. F. Farras, at-
tended by the Remembrancer ; when, after much discussion.
Sir George Clerk proposed to continue the Coal Act
until the sth of July, 1862, when the present charges
upon the improvement-fund will expire, and stated
that be was anxious (if possible) that some arrange-
ment should be made by which the market duty of ld. per
ton on coal, cinders, or culm, should cease at the end of the
present year, and requested that he might be fnr-
ni.hed with an account of the present state of the market fund,
showing
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committee finding from an account laid before them that the
of . per ton on coal, cinder,
_ and culm, it 26,5001., and that,
estimatingdi the expense' of the ground proposed to be added to
the coal market ; the expense of rebuilding the market ; the