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In a Court of Aldermen, held on Tuesday, Alderman Wilson, on behalf of the Committee of Privileges, presented the draft of resolutions which they had been directed to prepare, thanking the President of the French Republic, the Prefect of the Seine, &e. for their hospitality to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c., in Paris. The draft WES adopted unanimously.

Also on the motion of Alderman Wilson, the following motion was agreed to unanimously. It embodies the assent of the Court of Aldermen to the main features of the Corporation Reform Bill lately projected and approved of in the Common Council ; and indicates the intention of the Corporation to effect a self-reform without asking any assistance from the Imperial Legislature. "The Court of Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Common Council assembled, having agreed to the following resolution, That every person who shall occupy premises in the city of London for a period of a year and a day, and shall pay scot and bear lot, shall be a freeman and citizen, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges, and be subject to all the duties thereof,' that it be referred to the Privileges Committee to consider and determine upon the expediency, or otherwise, of directing the beadles of the several wards, in making out the roll of voters for St. Thomas's Day next, to insert therein the names of all persona qualified in conformity with the above resolution."

The dismantling of the Crystal Palace proceeds on the British -MC.—

with such rapidity that five thousand exhibitors are said to have cleared out their wares. The foreigners are not so expeditious, the endeavour to effect sales making them tardy.

A suggestion made by Professors Ansted and Solly, for the formation of a Commercial Museum for Imparts and Exports, has been adopted by the Executive Committee ; and the selecting and arranging of specimens is actually in progress. Among the instances of handsomely liberal co- operation towards this object, is that of the free gift by lidessrs. Lawson and Son of Edinburgh, of their collection of Scottish agricultural produce, which cost some 2000/. to gather and arrange. It is announced that a considerable portion of the surplus" will be devoted to the formation of a fund for maintaining this Museum.

An award has been made by Mr. Peacock, Q.C., the umpire between two of the Metropolitan Cemeteries and the Board of Health in the matter of the compensation due to the companies for the Brompton Ceme- tery and the Nunhead Cemetery. For the Brompton Cemetery, 168,762/. was claimed, 42,8361. was offered, and 72,921/. was awarded. For the Nunhead Cemetery, 99,349/. was claimed, 39,871/. was offered, and 42,1531. was awarded.

A meeting of nearly a hundred attornies practising in London, with the addition of more than one barrister, was held in the Freemasons Tavern on Monday, to consider the question, announced by advertise- ment, of "the bar and attornies." The meeting seems to have consisted of those attornies who practise chiefly in the County Courts. Mr. Clarke, of Bedford Row, presided ; and explained the ciroumstances which have called for the meeting.

When the County Courts Act was about being passed, there were many large firma in the profession who said, "Oh, it won't affect us; we do not issue twenty writs under 20/. in a year." But some of those large firms, who at that time kept ten or twenty clerks, do not now keep more than two or three, and in some cases only one. They had been charged by no less a

person than the present Attorney-General with having comtined e to oust the bar from the County Courts. Now he need not appeal to them whether that charge was not made without the slightest foundation. There was nothing in the shape of organization to injure in the slightest way the practice of the barristers in the County Courts. After that statement of the Attorney-General, who' like others, had risen to a high position by the aid of the attornies, and then turned round upon them with vituperation, it became the attornies to show the bar that they had no such unfriendly feeling. But in extending their hand of friendship, if he might so term it, to the bar' let them make one condition—that they, with them meet the times. The bar- raters must come down, as the attornies had t:eea obliged to come down. He should be sorry to see the 91st section of the 9th and 10th Victoria—that no barrister shall receive instructions except through the medium of an at- torney—repealed, as, if it were, there would be a system of touting and of competition which would be alike painful and degrading to all parties concerned. In order to avoid that, it would be well to come to some arrangement with the bar, which must not injure the public; and it was that which they were met to discuss. He and his brethren had no desire for monopoly ; they would prefer "an arrangement." A ttornies had always had the right to appear in the inferior courts, in which the actions were for not more than 201.; and that right had never been interfered with. Now if it could be arranged that in all cases under 20/. it should be considered infra dig. for barristers to appear, and that they should be employed incases above 201.—(Cries of "1Vó, eel") that was his suggestion : the great majority of cases are under 201.; the Meeting must consider for themselves. There was another more formidable objection to a barrister being employed in the County Courts,—that the suitor would have to fee both attorney and barrister. But, if the bar would meet theist, that objection might be overruled. On the Northern Circuit they have agreed to take a brief for a guinea. There are motions in the superior courts were only half-a-guinea is paid, and many of the younger barristers make a very good sum of money by those motions. Now, at present in the County Courts their fee is a guinea, and if they win the cause, whatever the Court allowed beside. If the bar would arrange to divide the guinea with them, he thought both parties would be benefited. At present, in cases where the &Meanies get 158. from the court, or a guinea from the Client, their time is taken up for the whole day. If they refused such a ease, their client would go to some one else ; and if he did, he might take all his other practice away, and they would lose their ootinekion and business. But, suppose they gave the case to an advocate-attorney, their clients might very probably be pleased with him, and would give him more work, and they would actually be handing over their business to him. Now, would it not be better to have an advocate-barrister who would take half the fee, and would engage not to interfere with their clients ? He believed that promise would always be religiously 'kept. Another objection is this—They have a new class of judges : many of them are very indifferent, and others good ; but he complained of their amount of power. He had seen their power exercised. He remembered a ease where a man put on his hat before he got outside the door of the County Court, and the judge called him back for in- sulting the court, and gave him into custody until the rising of the court! In a case when he was going to prove a set-off, the judge told him he would not go into it ; and, on his pressing the matter, told him, if he argued it, he would exercise his power, and that he must bring Across-action ! He, know. lug what those powers were, was obliged to stop. Now, his opinion was, that the judge would not have dared to do this to a member of the bar. Their own judges in the superior courts had trembled before the independence of the bar ; and he thought that the Judges of the County Courts, if addressed by a gentleman in horse-hair, of as much learning, and perhaps greater ex- perience than themselves, would pay much more respect to their opinion than to a mere attorney. He himself was, in fact, an advocate-attoniey, and he knew what they had to contend with in taking a case into court. He knew that if an attorney wished to get his living in that court, he must keep in with the judge. In a case of his own he offended one of the judges, and he did not get another fee for a month. He thought their own experience would tell them that the judges exercised an amount of power over the at- torney which they would not dare to exercise over the bar. Did they not think it would be their interest to form a bond of union with the barristers, who, in advancing their own interest, would be advancing that of the at- tonnes in those courts whose authority was becoming so extensive ?

Mr. Poole opposed any arrangement which should tend to perpetuate the distinction between attornies and barristers.

He had .practised in Hobart Town, where the profession is all one ; all are attonnea, banisters, and proctors. The Judges made an order to sepa- rate them: the consequence was increased expense to the suitors, and general dissatisfaction ; and the Legislature passed a law for a return to the former system.

Mr. Harrison agreed with Mr. Poole.

The same system which obtains in Australia has long existed in Canada; and if he saw things aright, we are progressing to that system. If the reform of the law is to go on, the two professions must be amalgamated. Mr. Sanders, barrister, closed a short speech with the declaration to the attornies, that if they become barristers, the barrister niust execute re- prisals, and "be an attorney "—" and there's an end of the matter." The meeting adopted the following resolution- " That a requisition to the Council of the Law Institution and the Mana- ging Committee of the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association be drawn up and signed by the members of the profession, requesting them to take the necessary steps for promoting a proper understanding between the two branches of the profession on the subjeet of County Court advocacy ; and for that purpose, should they deem it advisable, to call a general meeting of the profession at large on the subjeet, at an early day."

A banking institute, for encouraging the mtitual instruction of its members in literary and professional studies, was originated at the London Tavern on Wednesday, by a meeting over which Mr. W. G. Prescott presided, and at which Mr. J. W. Gilbert took a prominent part in the proceedings,

The curiosity to ascertain what the " Bloomer " costume really is, and to hear what can be said in its favour, has produced a plentiful supply of "lecturers" upon the subject,-1 :dies who hold forth in its praise and defence, exhibiting themselves and the dress at the same time. "A very pretty" lecturer has been haranguing the public every evening this week in different quarters of the town.

A number of omnibus-proprietors have formed themselves into an as- sociation for running vehicles on new routes at low fares : among the re- gulations is one by which any associate may put omnibuses on a route until there are twenty, when a new route must be chalked out for fresh enterprises. It is proposed to run from Bays Water to Tottenham Court Road for 2d., and thence to the Bank for 2d. It was stated at the meet- ing that the cost for running an omnibus sixty miles a day is 2/. 9d.

A Mr. Hearnden has started a line of omnibuses at unprecedentedly low charges--from Tottenham Court Road, through Oxford Street, to the Edgeware Road, at Id. each passenger. Both these schemes seem to have originated in the fact that some hundreds of omnibuses are lying idle, since the close of the Great Exhibition.

There is a project of a cab company, to be started on a principle di- rectly opposite to the present one of extortion and imposition : the fares to be 4d. a mile, the drivers to wear liveries, and to be bound by strict regulations.

Some hundreds of carpenters, bricklayers, and labourers, employed at the great works at the King's Cross terminus, " struck " on Friday last, because the contractors refused to allow an hour and a half to them on Saturday afternoons : but in a few days an amicable arrangement was made, and the men returned to work. The success of the workmen here, encouraged those employed at the new City of London Hospital at Vic- toria Park, and they "struck" on similar grounds.

Repeated investigations have taken place at Marlborough Street Police Office respecting an extraordinary charge of embezzlement brought against Thomas Robert Mellish, manager, and James Douglas, clerk, to the Patent Silvering Glass Company in Berner's Street. They were finally examined on Tues- day. It is alleged that the company has been defrauded of 30001. Witnesses showed how this was done. Mellish hired and paid the workmen ; more wee 6840 to the company than was really paid to the workpeople • and tradesmen's bills were altered, so that much larger sums were charged were paid. Douglas admitted that he altered the figures in the bills. The fraud was discovered by a person who chanced to see a larger amount en- tered in a book than he had received. Both the accused were committed for trial, but Mellish was admitted to bail.

Mr. Coles Child, coal-merchant, Mr. Mowatt, secretary to the Great Northern Railway, and Wright, a carman, have been fined at Guildhall for delivering three tons of coal in a waggon the weighing apparatus of which Was deficient ; the four 56 lbs. weights were together about 3f lbs. short. The coals were supplied by the Great Northern Railway. Mr. Child stated, that if the weights were deficient he was not aware of it : a Mr. Williatts had contracted to supply proper weighing-machines and weights to the rail- way, and he would have to make good any penalties inflicted. It appeared probable that the "adjusting lead' of the weights had been stolen though Mr. Child ascribed the loss of weight to "Wear and tear." Alderman Wil- son said, the defendants ought to have seen that the weight were in proper order before the waggon went out. Mr. Child promised that he would take care such a thing should not occur again : be mentioned that there was such a demand for the cheap Yorkshire coal brought to London by rail, that he haff orders for more than the pits could supply for the next six weeks. Alder- man Wilson said he was not at all surprised to hear it. The Silkstone coals were the coals he brought into public notice in the year 1839, when he was Lord Mayor ; they were then known as "Lard Mayor's coals," and only failed because the demand was a thousand times greater than the sup- ply. During the year he was in the Mansionhouse he paid but 22s, per ton for these coals, while the public were paying the enormous price of 32s. and 388. for Lord Londonderry's. That tioblernan addressed a letter to him, en- deavouring to show that no Wallsend coal could be brought into the market, to pay the owner, at less than 33s. per ton. Yet he had since that had his Lordship's coals delivered at his house in St. Paul's Churchyard at 22s. per ton. He believed the Yorkshire (Silkstone) coals equal to any Newcastle coals that come to the market ; but he would caution those who wished to buy them, to make sure they were "Silkstotie," or it would be just what it was in 1839. He took credit to himself in having broken up the combina- tion first amongst the coal-factors and next between the pit-owners, and hence the reduction in the price of coals.

An imposture by a young female, who hat endeavoured to bring odium on the Roman Catholic penitentiary Asylum of the Good Shepherd, at Hammer- smith, has been exposed before the Hammersmith Magistrate, Mr. Paynter. Bose Adams went to Mr. Jones, the relieving-officer of the Fulham Union, and stated that she lied just escaped from forced confinement in the Ham- mersmith Asylum ; that she had been lured from Liverpool by a priest, on pretence of the offer of a situation in London, and been put in the Asylum ; where they had cut her hair close, and endeavoured to force her to take the veil. The case was last week brought before the Magistrate, and he granted a summons for assault against the nun who was said to have cut Rose's hair. Two ladies attended, and contradicted flatly all the girl's statements. She was violently excited when contradicted ; mid oft a subsequent private exa- mination, it was determined by the Magistrate that he would have inquiries made about her at Liverpool. The inquiries were made officially, and wit- nesses attended on Wednesday. The whole of the girl's statements were then shown to be false. The Magistrate suggested an indictment for per- jury; but the Chaplain of the Asylum interceded for her, urging that the ex- posure and her own conscience would sufficiently punish her. Mr. Paynter, in justice to the ladies who conduct the establishment, held firmly to his opinion that the girl should be crimnally prosecuted ; he committed her on the charge of perjury, and remanded her for a week. Rose Adams does not seem to have always been perfectly sane ; she had a nickname, "Cracked Rose," which indicates her weakness of intellect.

Mr. William Scadden, a master bricklayer, has killed a man by a pas- sionate blow. Thomas John Taylor, a man who had worked for Scadden, accosted him in Type Street, Chiswell Street; a quarrel arose; and Scadden, from rage at something the man persisted in saying to him, struck him a violent blow under the ear. Taylor fell upon the pavement senseless, and when he was conveyed to a neighbouring surgeon s he was dead. Subse- quently Scadden surrendered himself to the Police. A Coroner's Jury have given a verdict of "Manslaughter."

A woman at Chelsea has narrowly escaped being placed in her coffin alive. Mrs. Benham had been under treatment for an internal disease for some time ; she fell into a state of torpor on Saturday last ; and through the three succeeding days she remained without signs of life—all thought her dead. On Tuesday afternoon a coffin arrived; but at that critical point signs of animation returned, and now the patient is gradually recovering.

A cotton-dressing machine which gained a prize in the Exhibition was accidentally destroyed on Saturday afternoon. It had been sold to a foreign manufacturer' and was to be conveyed in one of Chaplin and Home's carts to Woolwich for shipment ; in descending North NI cllington Street to the Strand, the horses stumbled, the cart turned over, and the machine, which was not fastened to the cart, was dashed upon the pavement.