The Press. — 1856-01-12 (London, England)

ptttopatitan.  THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS met for the despatch of busine-.s on Monday, at Burlingtonhouse. The secretary having read the report of the chairman, detailing the steps he had taken to carry out the resolutfOris adopted by the board at the last meeting, recothmended that the officers of the late Sewers Commissice; should be continued In their  34  respective employments; that committees for finance, for conference with district boards, f r appeals, for the preparation of a code of by-laws, and for the establishment of a committee under the Metropolitan Bindings Act should be appointed, and that for the effectual despatch of business the chairman should have the power to take the necessary steps for disposing of such matters, reporting the same to the board at the next meeting. With the exception of the appointment of the committees these recommeidations were at once adopted, and the reports of the engineer in-chief and other officers were read. Toe salary of the secretary was then fixed at 8001. a year, an.i after a brief discussion upon the device for the office seal, and the future temporary place of meeting, the board adjourned till Monday next.  Taa bAGAL EXAMINATION of members of the Inns of Court, desirous of studentships, or honours, or of b fing called to the bar, commenced on Tuesday, at the Benchers' Reading room, Lincoln's-inn. Con • stitution law and legal history, with equity, formed the first day's subject; common law and the law of real property, the second; and jurisprudence and civil law, the third. We have in a previous number indicated the various authorities with which every candidate will be expected to be acquainted. The result of the examination cannot be known for several days. At every call to the bar those students who have passed a public examination, and either obtained a studentsliip or certificate of honour, will take rank in seniority over all other students who are called on the same day ; and no student will be eligible to be called to the bar who shall not have attended, during one whole year, the lectures of two or the readers, or have satisfactorily passed a public examination.  THE COMMENCEMENT OF CHANCERY TERM occurred on Tuesday, when a new order, compelling the date and reference to the letter or number by which the cause is distinguished to be written on the first page of every decree used in court came into force. T.ie clerks of records or writs are also, in entering such decrees or document, to make note of the date a td reference, and to add a further reference with respect to the register's book, in which such decree shall have been entered.  AT THE COURT OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS, on Tuesday, Dr. Letheby stated that City churchyards, including that of St. Andrew's, Holborn, were now definitively closed to be re-opened no more. In the course of conversation the City engineer stated, that the boarding around the Peel statue would be cleared away and the work completed in the course of three weeks. A NEW STEAM HAMMER has been invented by Mr. Naylor, the Superintendent of the Norwich Locomotive Department of the Eastern Counties Railway. The peculiarity of this invention is, that by a certain regulation in the application of steam, the hammer, at its greatest velocity of 200 blows a minute, can be so managed as to strike alternate light and heavy blows. Mr. Naylor has patented the principle of this hammer, as applicable to a riveting machine for boiler-making and iron shipbuilding, as well as for iron making, smith's forging, stamping ore, and, indeed, fur all purposes requiring the process of hammering. It can be worked r.y elastic gas, corn pressed air, steam, or vacuum. THE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S QUARTERLY RETURN OF DEATHS shows 13,480 as occurring in London. The births for the week amount to 1,062, against 1,217 deaths, a number both above and below the average of past years. THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY held their annual meeting on Wednesday, at their offices in Trafalgarsqoare, Out of 198 persons immersed within reach of the officers of the society, 180 had been success fully treated, although 25 were suicides. THE CITY IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONERS are now actively progressing with the new street which is to continue the line of Farringdon-street to Coppicerow, and which will connect Clerkenwell and Islington in a direct line with the City. The Fleet sewer is finished, and men are now employed in the construction of cellars for the houses. There is no doubt that in a very short time the thoroughfare will be completed. Dn. CUMMING delivered his first lecture of two on the Concordat at Freemason's hall on Thursday evening. The rev. doctor upon this occasion confined himself to a definition of the provisions of the Concordat, and an examination of the privileges it restored to the Romish Church. In the second lecture the rev. gentleman announced that he should reply to the arguments of Cardinal Wiseman and Mc. Bowyer.  THE EARL OF ELLESMERE at the late meeting, of the Geographical Society spoke with marked feeling of the services and fame of the gallant Sir John Franklin. "So long," concluded the noble earl, "as the name of Flanklin shall he bright in the annals of British heroism, will the unweaned devotion and energy of his wisdom be remembered and honoured." THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMERS held a meeting on Thursday at Southwark. Mr. Morley addressed the meeting at some length, observing " that the day 

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