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tion of the Corporation of the City of London. The preamble was
declared to be proved, and the Bill was read a third time on the
17th April.
The Board appointed a Special Committee to watch the Bill
and arrange for public meetings to be held in support thereof. A
public meeting was held at Shoreditch Town Hall, on the 2nd May,
C. T. Ritchie, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, at which Resolutions
were passed in favor of the Bill and praying the Corporation not to
continue their opposition in the House of Lords. On the 8th May,
a public meeting was held at the Bow and Bromley Institute, James
Bryce, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, at which similar Resolutions were
passed. Petitions were drawn up in accordance with the Resolutions
and presented by Mr. Ritchie, accompanied by a large and influential
Deputation, to the Court of Common Council. The Motion to
continue the opposition was carried in the Court by a majority of
one, but a Resolution to ask compensation for loss of Tolls at
Billingsgate in the event of the Bill being passed, was lost by a
large majority.
The Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords on
May 2nd, and referred to a Select Committee, who sat on the
15th, 16th, 19th, and 20th June, when the Chairman stated that
the preamble of the Bill was proved, but that if the Corporation
wished to bring forward a clause giving the Corporation compulsory
power of purchase of the new Market the Committee
would be willing to consider it.
In the result two clauses were inserted in the Bill—one giving
full compensation to the Corporation for all loss and injury which
they might sustain by reason of the establishment and continuance
of the Market at Shadwell, and the other giving power
to the Corporation within six months after the passing of the
Act, upon payment of the taxed costs incurred by the Promoters
in obtaining the same, to have transferred to them all the powers
of the Act. The Bill was read a third time and passed on
June 29 th.