The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-01 00:00:00

AUGUST 1. COMMOW NALL. Monday, July 26. ELECTION OF A SHERIFF, &c. A Common Hall was held. this day, for the Election of a iheriti to serve wall Mr. Parkins, already elected, for •the ensiling year. At one o'cl. ek, his Lordship. accompanied by several Aldermen and the usual City Officers, appear. J upon the Hustings, amidst strong marks of diaupproliation. The purpose for ...Idyll the Meeting was called having been stated by Mr. Wooiltliorre, the 'Town Clerk, in the absence of the Recorder, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen retired. Alderman IVaitliman then eame'forward,and expressed a hope, although his name was among those who had been ,put in nomination for the office of Shot iff, that lie might not be chosen It %until he impossible for him to do his duty as their representative iu Pailiament, and act as •Sheriff at the saow time, with either satisfaction to him self or Itenrilt to them.— (Applan.e.) Mr. Altlernhto Itothwell mad. it similar appeal to the intlolgettee of the Livrty—as Jid Mr. Pavel!, vn the rat of Mr. Key, likewise on the list, on the groom! of his private attai.s requiring his sole attention. Mr. Key was oilling to serve, however, on any future occasion. - . ....-.- The Town thstit'llten teed over the names ed . the per sous, upon one of whom the choice of the Livery %VOA to fell. Thrsr were, Aldermen Wairthinsn, A Ideruien Huth-' well, Henry Merlin, Est,. and W C. Key., Esq. The sense of the :sleeting WWI Mot tekeu as In the•elne tion of Aldermen IVeithrosii, ho: rot • sistgle laud was held np ; his appeal, there lose, wasp tceessfu!. Upon Aldermen Rah well being proposd, Mr. H atteisipie..l to 'None iurae•rd to address la s e 'Livacy. 1 his was resisted by Mr. Wnodthorpe, who said he should not interrupt the pruessedings. Tta tinsel'sr riddles tug the Liver) bad gene by; add if .he did nut relire,the Marshals should be called to enforce Oyler. Mr. llunt.-1 drlllll.l3t, 84 a right, in 4IP Heir a Rood deal of altereattna followed, to w hich Mr. Runt appealed to the Sheriffs. in-the there were alter nate erie-- nl " hear hint," and Mmes. Mr. HUnt.--i wish to otklrem. the Livery to the que‘t inn o f the election of Attlertnan Ruth well, :Lod I again &main! avu Liveryman, toL•e Iteur.) After some further attempt to reakt Mr. Hunt's ethortv, hr .prevaited, and the SlteriM admitted that he was entitled to Le hrarri. Mr. hunt said, I am about to address van, and Instate t o yommy 1 1 1 , 1 000 of hat sort of a man you ought to elect for yout-Cherilf„and what sort of man you ought 11411 W fleet 'lt is rice duty to elect such a 1)1311 as Alderman Cotlisell. Yon have heard whit he has said on the pri sent occasion, and no doubt you will allow him the same sort of indiii:yore hich you grunted to the worthy Alderman alt I was put up before him. If this andMipation be correct, then you a ill have to look further. You oa,;h: to On t a man aho nil. nut be wavering to this or that party, hut who will conseieo. *Musty d.liiirge his duty to nis fellow eitisers and , the Livery of Loudon.—( Hear, and cries of" Such in )neraelf.'") A roan who will not be the tool of a corrupt sad venal ad ministration. You will nut elect u east who will, for tor sake of grattf)ing his own vanity. by An attempt-to obtain some empty title, rut the ritilt-cf, setting this great city in dames ! (Hear, madmen.) You will not elect a man who %sill sot take the advice of Ids Fellow 4ldt reams Mr. Hunt, after having ridiculed the " t readfnl Plot" in the City, evpatinted upon the conduct of the Lord Mayor, without :semen to care touch viliether.his Lordship was pleased or MA. _ . _ _ Ahiennnn Rathwell rims then chosen Sber:lT, and the Lord Mayor returned to the tivoings, from ah n rhihr and the Aldermen had rented, and ant— the Town Clerk had stated upon whom the election had fallen, ordered that the Hall should he dissolved. _ hi r. Stepbers abahiaanotnentstepped forward and offeceil to the Lord Mayor n paper, expressive of the thanks of the Livery to A Motown Wood and Wnithmen. His Lordship roft:-ed to take it, and agam •poke to the proper oticer to put a psriod to the nett in;. The officer did 14, he had been ordered, amd 'the Loll Mayor attended by all the Aldermen, except Alderman Waitliman, stud offices of his himise...hold Yet iicd. Ilk Lordship Ww hooted h. There aso then re general cry for Alderman Waithinaiszto take the Chair, vacated by the Lord ;Slay or. The worst y Alderman vvelit up to the chair, took ufi . hi.g.,.n , fad set in the choir as a l.lVef,1111:111. Mr. Whithman, a hit sag loudly npplrmaital. said, that if be had known that it was the wish of the Laser) assembled upon a Lite occasion tlart he should take the ohmic after the dissolution of the owe, he a-erg:may-should have clone so. He should rather decline it in either accnsinn, but having h vit called upon by the Livery he had in alternatise.— ( Applause )-11e probably held opirions different from those of the persons who bad called him to the chair, but on such an rnemsion that was ,a flatter of fill illlppriaure. He ob jected to 'urge meetings, of eke people wider mach circum stances as thaw on a Inch that at Smithfield had beam held ; but It h at we , t h e people to go, wre•enteol All they were front assenthliueas a Common 14x11 to de c laretheirsenitiments. Ile begged to be .cons.deced merely as the .organ of the fleeting before lino. Mr. Stroh. a- then came forward. The Lord Mr ”i,r had not been, he said, ever elected by his teillow•citizeus, and was milking less than the tool of Attortionamtiou, w hose NiCa• aria. dare., ed to a Baronetcy, or some other adsass tags, with which the pudic had mobile,: to do. The meeting sea e.e havoc*. ofshlye contrast a hick the conduct of Aldermen M and Waitisuion presaliteal to that of the Utter ;11 l ate, a ho was throb!• forioidialle person in the e:se, of the peaceable iiihabsilllll/411)11 the VIA inst. from their tipple hensions of 0.-violent eof his ill-judged seal. Mr. Stephens then eensureddos Lordeaip for every particular act of his o a that day, and asked better every OW of his fellow citizens di d . not upon hearing of the conspiracy to " horn the City said fourth., the quiet people." ( Laughter and applause ) It was is warrider that the Livery were now in ilmi hall, and that rise!, w ere not at that " bourne fiom whence uo traveller return.."—(Laughter,)—'tie lordship vans bound to conic forward for the preservation of his ovi n a hararter, and lumina. his informant upon oath. It aria 1., hr hoped that the Chief Magistrate outdo wit hesitate upon a siihiect if such vital importonce to himself. Mr. S. concluded a it h snowing the thanks of the meeting to the above named A Written. Mr. Woolirr seconded the motion. .. • Mr. ravel!, afire having reprobated the conduct of the Lord Mayer to the Livrry, said he believed his Lot &hip must hove been the dope of some whose object it MII4 to defeat acfo:ga. tic thought the wretiug W au ausiae and THE NATIONAL REGISTER. litie one, but he declared that the conduct of it taus web at to remove all suspicion of bad mock e. The thanks of the onettiogotere thou given to Aldermen Wood and Waithniun. . _ Mr. Waithman raid, he had acted merely from a sense cf pnhlic duty. He was surprised at the weakness of the Lord Mayor. in believing so silly a story as that of a conspiracy to set tire and minder; and I litre was 'Another surprising thing, that his Lordship Worm Sl.) or 40 men to take an individual out of a crowd of 110$XKl. Way not this a strange way of secu ri nettle peace of ibe tit (Mr. W.) washed his hands out of WC* things, hut he had cot the polite and eletant air of the Lord Mayor, who a ns remarkable for hk mildness and humanity. Should not Isis Lordship have ' , tiered the hall itirtead of having refused it, in 'wrier to pre vent tbe City from heirg btown up? Mr. W. concluded a speech, a hic h wits much applauded, by expressing his sincere thanks to the 'fleeting. ♦OTL OF CIiN4IURE ON THE LOBO MAYO% Mr. Ward multi d that the c. inure flf the Meeting should be passed upon Ihe I,urd Ma% or, for hi: conduct on the Vlit instant, by w hich his Lord•hi;t forfeited all claims to the confidence and eLterta of bis fellow titian's. (Greet upphine.) Mr. Tattock s conded the 'notion. Mr. Hunt inossd an amendment, expressing the sense of the.ruceting upon bit Lordship's conduct ; and C 1.04 ilt•fl in much etrimgcr Insguagt than tae former resolution. (Loud A pplause,) Mr. Winder came forward, aid said hr agreed ;rt eerly word nyrtatned in the resolution, as 110 language ienuitl he too strong on snob a theme, and accordingly seconded the omendmFtK. Mr. Waitlimanithen stepped forward with the amendment and the original resulittions in his hand, and began to state reasons fur preferring the !aster, when Mr. Hunt chid, " Order, order, Mr. Chairman. The Chairman hasioi right to givetis opinion. It is his duty to put the question." Mr. Waithman was proceeding with his reasons, and nes again interrupted by 111 r. Hunt, oho insisted on his putting the questium . . 1 Isere was a general cry of " put the question," and while that was forward, Mr. Watt Moan accused Mr. Hunt of " roaring like a bull," upon which Mr. Rant id• " Why, Mr. Chairman, you yourwlf me roaring tile a bullock." Mr. Waiihman then found it necessary to give up nil idea of giving h 6 UiiiUlun , aud ,pat the iicrigiaW Minium() the Meeting. Mr flue! immediately taxed Mr. Waithinrsnw. - ith " " k ie,raid he, •' your duty, Mr. Chairman. to put the Amendineia List. Hu your duty like a MLII, nu shuf thug." Mr. Viaitliman said be should not be interrupted by-cla mour and Utilising. The Amendinint was then put and carried by all immense arajot • Mr. i•Orrphenathen moved the porticular Thanks of the Meeting to Air. Witithissan for li s conduct this day in 101,:ics CheWr its the absence of the lord Mastics Mr. Hunt stepped forward and seconded the motion. He had no party feeltug whatever, he said. . _ Mr. Wait hinan, in returiiii g thanks, said be should never again place himself in it situ:intim in 4k Inch hcahuuld be Wb• jeet to insult from the person u ho Ives mu sincere •in-second ing the motion of Thatiiks. —The Meeting then separated. The Berlin Gazelle of the .16th July says, " It appears from the seized papers:referred to in our last number, that Doctor Frederic Louis John, in spite of the clearest prohibitions, and his own most solemn promises. not only puufessed, in the gymnas- tic exercises, all kinds.of demagogical principles, but persevered in his attempts to alienate the youth un- der his tuition from the.existing Government, and to inculcate into their minds revolutionary and dan gerous principles ; for example, that in certair. cases it might be allowed to assinadnate an •Officer of Slate, and that a poniard was an ornament to any individual (two were found upon him). lie was in consequence arrested yesterday, and conveyed to a fortress. to be subjected to a severe examination." The ChesbireTuperti dilliz widely with respect to the atrocious ataatk made upon Mr. Birch, the con stable, at Stockport. Some accounts say, that he was attacked in the street, and another asserts, that a handkerchief was thrown into the air so; a signal for his assassination. We suppose that the Procla. motion is correct., which states that the outrage was committed in his dwelling-house. The party pa pers in the manufacturing districts are.so tinctured with prejudices, and so totally at variance in the detail of the transactions in the interior,• that it is difficult to come at the facts. A private letter from Manchester states, " tbat hundreds of persons are regvhtrly drilling on three sides of the town for the niost atrocious purposes." We confess we much doubt the truth of the latter statement. Rennet, the stealer of Mr. Hontley's child, is on bonni one of the liras at Sheerness, waiting a con veyance to New South Niles. Another of the bottles thrown overboard from the Isabdt'a, by Captain Ross, in his voyage last year to Baffin's-b;y, has been cast ashore on the northern part of the Irish coast. This is the second that has been found on that part of the United Kiodom. Another instance . of the fatal consequences of im proper driving has occurred. Friday evening one of the Paddington stages, endeavouring to overtake another which was on the wrong side of tike road, drove fariously against it, and, singt:'.ar to relate, not only overturned the coach, but also a brewer's dray, which was or. the other side of it. The coach I overturned was completely destroyed, and one of the horses belonging to it was killed on the spot. We are ?awry to add, that an outside passenger had an arm broken, and two others were severely bruised and wounded, and that the unfortunate drayinan .had lit Is and knee dreadfully thattered. 7'HE FUNDS. It is a remarkable fact, and well calculated to damp the ardour for speculation, that ever slum that much-dreaded measure, the diminution of the sink ing fund, has been in full operation, the Funds hays regularly improved. This improvement, in the short period of three weeks, already comaitutes a difference of 4 per cent.; and the speculators fur a fall, who at that time were selling with the greate t avidity for the August account, and whose measures appeared to be fully justified by the new feature the market was likely to assume, now find a balance against them, thus early in the account, at least to the extent above stated. As the stook market, Eke every other:, is regulated in its price by the demand, it is evident that purchases must recently have been made, on the pert of individuals, far more than suf ficient to cotintealatice those which the Commis sioners, before the prwent month, were accustomed to make. The late sales of stock, both for money and time, have far exceeded the true limit ; and its re-investment, which can no longer to delayed with prudence, is now attended with a loss to speculators. ' and un advance iu the Funds, greater perhaps then it should be, from the circumstance that the con tractors, and the party acting fur a rise, are perfect:) , aware of the situation of their opponents. Hence the market appears likely to rise above its proper level, and to lean to the contrary extreme to that in which it has lately been placed, and which wit probably, in its turn, prove no leas productive of disappointment and ruin than the other. The re placing of the stock, or the discovery of any other employment fax she capital prepared to meet the lean, will no sooner have taken place, than a severe re-action will be produced oa the Funds, which must then suffer a depreciation proportioned to the reed situation of the country, and to the altered value every species of property appears likely to as sume. The loss of the sinking fund cannot till then be truly estimated, and the want of its support will at no period be more strongly felt *tan when the Funds, front speculation or any external cause, are in a state of depression. At present many causes concur to indicate an advance ; more than half the loan has been paid up at the Bank ; the great holders of stock and Omnium abstain atlngether front selling : the public acquire confidence. and many even of the speculators for a fall are said to have closed their accounts, and come. round to the apposite party. The determination of thellank not to take in the Omnium, was made public at the Stock Exchange on Thursday, at one o'clock. Stock rose at the first receipt of the intimation, but afterwards declined considerably. When the market closed, Omnium was quoted at SI premium, and Consols for August at 70;. The firmness of the Bank, in adhei ins to the resolution which they announced at the negoti ation of the last loan, and on which they have hitherto acted, deserves the highest praise. The system ofconduct which they then laid down is still justiiable by the same motives which originally sug gteted it; and if it prudent then from the state of their affairs, as connected with the necessity of soon resuming cash payments, to refuse the desired aceommodation so the public, it would be exceedingly unwise, or at least extravagantly liberal, now to grant it to the contractors. By consenting to take in the Omnium before the ae.gotiations far the loan were completed, better terms might have been ob tained for the public ; by yielding, now, all the advantage would result to the holler of stock. The first determination afire Bank Directoes might justly have been atttibuted to a earicieas -gisposition iu the management of their &Care, or to a petty spleen at the measures of the Legislature, had they come round in two months atnthe solicitation of individu als to do that wlaicii they refused on the application of Government. They have wisely, therefore, gives no ground tic se& a charge, and thus afford us, in their firmness of purpose and consistency of proceed ing, a pledge that they an: pursuing steadily and inflexibly those steps which may lead In the restora tion of our currency, of which, in their judgment, their refetaal to embarrass themselves with the ma nagement of the loan n as one. THE GREAT THOTTISO MATCH FOR 300 Gt!i- NE A S.—The famous Lesteashire pony, the property of Captain Roberts, which was backed to do 100 miles in twelve hours, started on Thursday morning early on the Huntingdon mini, over a 23 miles' piece of ground, the match having been put di from Tues day, to settle a dispute in the articles. Two boys rode the pony, which is under 11 hands. The first io miles was tro.ted an hour and three quarters, and a halt of 5 minutes took place The next . 2.() miles was done in one hour and 41 minutes, at.d after baiting again, half the distance was pc-dunned 11 4 hours and minutes. Tl meat quarter of the whole dinuate was done in 2 hours and 27 mi. mac:, and the lait 25 miles in 2 hours and 5.2 mi nutes ; so that the =tell was won by. 2 minute-a.