Common Council.
The Times, 1824-06-18T00:00:00

A Common Council was`y--t.,y 1hl at. Galidhli, for the dispoa of various citybusines. . LORD XXAOX OF DUPLIX. The Lo1Da MAxot stated, that whentheLord Myor of DublIn tndthe deputation from thc Corporation of that city were in town,. he,paid. them, as he vas sure every other person in his situstion wouldhavedone, alltthe attentiostin hispower. 'He-bad sineethen. received a Ictter communicating a vote of thanks to -him upon the subject. As the'complimtnt was.to himelf' personally, be should not have presumed to biing it before.the Court, hsad.be not bee 3n- for.ned by Sir Edward- Stanley that it was the wishl of the Corpora.- Lion of Dublin that he should do io: be, therefore, felt he should be guiilty of disrespect towards that body, if he did not order it-t be laid before the .Court. It. was then real bv the Clerk anti ordered, upon the motion of Alderman LUCAS, to be entere3 on the journals. BIBLE SOCIETY. Alderman Kay presented a petition from the City of london t Auxilary Bible Society, praying for pecaniary aid; and moved that it be referred to the committee for general purposer. Deputy RoUTH opposed the motion. This Society made -a sismilar application te the Court threeyears ago, and received 100L: if they were successful in the present attempt, the Court would be receiving fresh applications from them every year in future, He therefore, as an amentdment, moved the previous question. M1r. S. Drxow secondsed the amendment. If they granted this application, they would bave a Ihat dred mere from other institu. tions, and their funds would thus be soon exhausted. Mir. PAJTTExs was averse to the too widecirculation of the Bible, since it subjected those into whose hands it fell, should ther be t;mpted to question any part of it, to be draged into a court ofius. tice, and to undergo a severeipnalty. Mr. JONEs oppposed the motCon: the spplications of this kind would become so numerous, and the committee were so generous, that the Corporation would soon be impoverished. M1r. Jupp thought when the Court were voting 2001. and S001. to other societies, 1001. was not enough for this; neitfier, if they meant to close their funds aganstap licatiosof this nature, ought they to commence their refusl with the present. Alderman LUCAs thought the Court might very reasonably re. fase this application, as coming so close unon the heels ofthe former. Alderman BrnowNE icaid, the question at present was, not whe. ther the Court would give any thing, but whether they would refer the consideratioh of it to the commictee. lyr. OLDHAN would never refuse to refer a petition of this kind to a committee, so long as these institutions were the glory of the me. M JAMES was aurprised to hear the necessity of preserving the Corporation funds urgedin reply to anapplication of this nature, whilst they were freely expen.ded in summer excursions, and other' simi lar amusements. Thequestion was then put. The LORD MUAYon declared the showof hands to be in favour of the previous question; but unwn a divition, the numbers were,-for the previous question, 45; for the motion, 47; which was therefore carried by a majorityof2. OLD BAILEY NEW COURT. Mfr. CAWT}IORNE, after reiating the circumstaneces (which have been already stated to the public) resnecting the dispossession of tht Comnmitteq of City Lands. by the o'cers of the Lord Mayor, of thc gal.ery in the New Court, brought up the report of the Committee uponthat subject. It set forth the great saving that the second Courtwould erfect to the Lord Mavor, by which his Lordship would be enabled to pay his senrants additional wages, and dispense with the practice of taking fees for admission to the Ctourt. Mr. Cawbhorne moved that theCourt agree with the Committee in their report; and that it be referred backto them, to consider the beat means of abo- lishing that practice, A long discussion ensued upon this subject, in the course of' which it seemed to be admitted on all hands, that none but those persons named in the commission had a right to interfete wi-h the internal regulations of the Court; and tbatalthough the practice of taking money for admis ,ion to seats in the gallery had 'the til'iet of excludi:sg improper pereons, yet it was one which ought to be abo. lished, it that could be done witlout inconvenience. It was ultimately agreed that it be referred back to the Committee, with directions to confer with a conmittee of the Board of Aldermen (if they have no oDjection), as to the practicability of adopting some expedient for discontinuing the practice of taking fees for admis- sion into tile court at the Old Bailey. De uty RotrTr, at the suggestionof Mr. Alderman Wood, con. sentea to withdraw his mnotien for increasing- MUr. Sergeant Arabin's salary to 5Id. a year ; and that this subject be similarly referred with the foregoii g. com Jfom COUNCIL.