The “Public Indicator” erected in Sloane Square by permission of the board in May, 1860, was removed in the fallowing March, in consequence of the failure of the proprietors to light it at night, and to provide the promised clock. It is retained in the custody of the vestry, under a clause in the agreement, as a lien for the expenses of its removal and making good the paving. Plans, books of reference, and parliamentary notices of the “London, Buckinghamshire, and West Midland Railway” (whose intended terminus was in the Pavilion grounds), and of “The London Tramway and Dispatch Company,” were deposited with the Vestry, but both of their bills were unsuccessful. Mr. Train also made an application to the vestry for permission to lay down his tramways in Sloane Street and the King’s Road, but its consideration has been adjourned _sine die._ On the twenty-ninth of January, 1861, Mr. Finch laid before the Board a copy of a “Bill to Transfer the Seats in Parliament forfeited by the Borough of St. Albans to the proposed Borough of Chelsea and Kensington,” which Viscount Enfield, M.P. for Middlesex had given notice of his intention to introduce in the House of Commons. Immediately the Government {25} brought in their “Bill for the Appropriation of the Seats Vacated by the Disfranchisement of the Boroughs of Sudbury and Saint Albans,” which contained the following clause: “The parishes of Chelsea and Kensington in the county of Middlesex shall, for the purposes of this act, together form a borough, to be called the borough of Chelsea, and such borough shall, from and after the said first day of November, 1861, return one member to serve in parliament.” An influential deputation from both parishes, accompanied by the two county members, had an interview with Lord Palmerston on the fifth of March, on the subject of the bill, and laid before his lordship various statistical information (see appendix No. 29). But on a division in the House of Commons on the tenth of June, the clause was rejected by a majority of two hundred and seventy-five to one hundred and seventy-two. Mr. Tite thus reported the circumstance to the board:— 42, Lowndes Square, Tuesday Morning, 1 o’clock.