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'ti.)I..TRT OF COMMON COUN4_,4L.
A Court was held on Thursday, after the discussion
in The Court of Aldermen, for the dispatch of business.
Mr. ANDERTON 'gave notice of a motion that it be
referred to the General Purposes Committee, to con-
ider and report to the Court the expediency and
the means of reducing the names of persons put
up in Common Hall, to be elected as Sheriff of
London and Sheriff of Middlesex; and also of a motion
that a return be made of the persons (not being Al-
dermen) who were put up to' be elected Sheriffs on
Midsummer day last, with the dates when they were
first put up.
EMBANKMENT OP THE THAMES.
Mr. Lorr asked the Chairman of the Navigation
Committee whether that part of the Report which
related- to the embankment of the Thames had been
taken into consideration ? He stated, for the informa-
tioy of the Committee, that Sir Frederick Trench had
given notice that he would move in Parliament, next
session, for a Select Committee on the subject of the
Thames embankment, in order to show that the work
'tight be done without making a demand on the public
purse, in such a manner as to improve the navigation
and beautify the banks of the river, and to promote
the health of the inhabitants of the metropolis. Mr.
Walker, the engineer, in his Report, as adopted by
the, Corninittee, was of opinion that a splendid commu-
nication might be formed, from Chelsea, or higher up,
along the river into the heart of the City, a commu-
nication which 'had excited much interest out of doors.
An answer was promised to this question at the
next Court.
PROJECTED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CITY.—ST. PAUL'S.
It will be recollected, that about six years ago, in-
structions were given by the Court to the City Lands
' Cornmittee not to take steps for letting any further
ground at the west end of Cheapside, till the further
der of the Court, as it was expected, and with very
hreason, that the Government would join with
City in throwing open a considerable space
between the Post-office and St. Paul's Cathedral, so
,as t° exhibit the magnificent Cathedral to great ad-
an tage. Murmurs have, particularly of late, been
heard amongst the inhabitants of that district, in con-
sequence of the delay, and
vMr. KING gave notice of a motion, which was
ieght on yesterday, to rescind the' resolutions, in
r that the space might be filled up. He repre
sented that a great deal of inconvenience resulted from
the interference of the. Court to prevent the building of
thhouses Upon the slot, and he said he felt convinced
at the present Government, to whose judgment the
citizens might look with some degree of confidence,
Would not sanction an alteration which could pro-
duce no real advantage to any portion of the public.
It was, he thought, rather extraordinary that Mr.
It. L. Jones, whose voice was so effective in carry-
ing measures of positive utility, should advocate the
alteratiOn to yhich.he adverted, and at the same time
refuse to exercise his powerful influence in prevailing
Upon the , Court to. widen Watling••street and other
Places Oflireat traffic, which were so narrow as
coconstantly t 9 endanger life and limb. Why was not
txhrgat.c,rioet:' t. widened, and why was not some-
g 4Pne'te improve the approaches from Coleman-
street to the' Guildhall ?—(Hear, hear.) He could
tt
hacv;ponete.tfur such conduct as had been adopted
to the project for throwing open St.
js any other way than by setting it down as
ob. •
Mr. K. L. Jesus said that Sir Matthew Wood,
ho
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to by Mr. King, was as remote from
jobbing as any man that ever existed.
those who were opposed to that most active and
aw man in public life, were ready to admit that fact.
(Cheers.) He regretted to see any symptom of a
ttiPaltry spirit in any of the corporation, when an im-
p_ease public improvement was in contemplation.
„tin' what purpose should the large funds of the
vorporation be expended, if not with the view of ac-
e°inplishing splendid improvements ?—(Hear, hear.)
to
Illtdra
th
ig
eY miserably refused to embellish the City with
1
ity
adapted their means, the Court mht
n e Penct upon it that their extensive funds would be
l),Pr,OPritited to that object by other hands.—(Hear.)
G' nag good reason for believing that her Majesty's
"ernmeat would join with the City in effecting an
With which every one must look forward to
''th hope whose taste was not entirely brutalized.—
in ms,
0114b.i.er..) He looked with confidence to the Court,
the belief that they would do themselves the high
onour of negativino• such a motion.
t ANDERTON requested to know within what
'me the contemplated improvement might take place ?
141:• IL L. JONES rePlied—Within two years.
Mr.stan, ANDERTON said, that under such circum-
fill ‘-•ea, he should consider it extremely imprudent to
s hear.)
rejoiced that the subject had been
Fe°uOtthWard by Mr. King, as the discussion was
l'el.Y to ha,".e the good effect of bringi it before
the London Bridge Committee and the Government
otlvoi.thhaovuet much delay. It would be very advantageous
e,„„wyement completed, but he was of
t 4.9i-sciven years more of delay ought to
00 prey... • ittetgiy:
Mr. rate.
was like to mc,1•91!. seriously asked whether the Court
mend its character for wisdom by agree-
ing to Mr. motion ? 'Would it not look as if
the Corporation wanted to build a few large houses in
order to have the opportunity of pulling them down
as soon' as. the Government saw the propriety of
throwing open St. Paul's.--... laugh.) He admitted,
at the same time, that he wa3 in a sort of dilemma as
to the period at which the improvement was likly to
take place, for Mr. King and Mr. Jones whoe both
BllPPOrted the present Government, ands were, no
doubt, in the confidence of the Administration, very
much clashed with each other in their opinions of the
views of its members on the question.--(Laughter.)
t, Alderman WILSON said the Court ought to show
te Government that they had no wish 'to waste
t money by adopting an alteration which could be at-
tended With no utility. If Mr. King's motion was
tcarried the the intentions of Government Mild, in all
_obability, be speedily developed. The Corporation
liv°Jn_o doubt plenty of money for improvements, but
.el.or such as that of widening still more a place
04',!1 was already much too wide, and that for no
Cr. purpose than obtaining a better view of a small
e_irtiOn. of the Cathedral.—(Hear, hear.) If the
iaar,t meant to improve the neighbourhood of St.
l‘ls, let them begin at the south side.
inr„ tr. 'IV.
the
ridiculed the notion of build-
Or4llou the space, which would after all produce no
e th an 60/. a year ground-rent.
HOOLE insisted that it would be no improve-
"4eir_sit at all to throw open St. Paul's.
„,,u_.ePiltY WESTWOOD said that the empty space was
Csitive- nuisance, and the parish suffered from
Obliged to pay rates, which ought to be paid
ain_hpe up%nts of houses which might have long
been built on it.
41aJu ng's motion was thennegatived by a large
ritY, and the Court adjourned.neg

D
t3O POSTAGE ON LETTERS BE TWEEN FRANCE AND
We
~,L41`11:).---The public will learn with pleasure that
last"ere perfectly correct in announcing on Monday
4r. :that,an employe of the French Post-office had
alltilvied in London to treat with our Post-office
orities for the reduction of the postage duties on
tiZtai.from France to England, and vice versa, and
lio"lere is at length reason to hope for the realiza-
ret of wisely conceived ameliorations so ably
°,ll;rnended three or four years since in the work
'l-111ed on the subject by M. Pirou, Deputy Post-
'-er-General of France. We feel warranted thence
rit pating the satisfactory conclusion of a nego-
ialtla calculated at once to draw closer the friendly
of the two countries, and to facilitate
inso—`4l'Y correspondence, 'by reducing the enor-
Oil 'charge at present imposed upon it ; for it is
)311-4', tit't_ice to those who direct the affairs of the
rost-office to state, that all the propositions
nsri;"4t desirable: change originated with them. Let
ye,. °Pe that their French contemporaries will perse-
Ve la the line of-liberality and good sense that they
hi4v.e entered upon, and that all the grounds of com-
Vthitherto advanced against them will disappear.
willo ialteration of the postage duties, the necessity
siotine, c.ome obvious, when it shall be known that the
Pror.go, mg of letters into England and• France reci-
po„.`"a"Yla carried to an almost incredible extent. The
thel'e on a letter from Dover to London is only ld.;
(so duty on a letter from Calais to Paris 10 sous
lettilletning less than 5(1.) ; while the charge on a
;04,,e. from Paris to London (or from London to
ties ls. Bd. (or 40 sons). The French authori-
-14, 4,re, however, it appears, now converts to the
a,e`ie'Pla that reduced duties diminish smuggling, and
eciaoubrfletet in their desire for at least a trial of it.
all need be entertained that their advances
Times, be met in the best spirit on this side the water.—
eaThursday, at the Woolwich Police Court, during a
7:e in which a number of visitors were examined
(14' and con., and hard swearing was the order of the
thri' some one who was rather nervous about taking
I'osome
Testament oath," walked off with the
disur:o(l,tself, and the loss was nut discovered in time to
thei Ner the purloiner till the people around declaring
th r, Willingness to take their oaths they did not take
Vook.
heck. NEAR. MALLow.—On Tuesday night last,
ce4e..?n 10 and 12 o'clock, a party of persons pro-
near the orchard of im O'Brien, Rockforrest,
dri; 4-tallow, for the purpose of stealing fruit, being
ei;tc,e
,11 from the premises a few nights previous. On
ah,f;ll:§ the orchard, the owner, O'Brien, resisted them,
head "eY murdered him brutally, having fractured his
With stones. The persons of the locality are
t rat leg every exertion to render amenable the perpe-
sus sais. and four persons are already in custody on
bP'cion.---Cork Examiner.
e'ltrry CouNcu..—Her Majesty will hold a Privy
Apnea at Windsor Castle, either to-morrow or on
for °llday, when a proclamation will be agreed upon
further proroguing Parliament from Thursday,
`4le Gth of October, to a future day.