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If manners were a legitimate subject of criminal charge, he thought that there were those who had en• acted low life below stairs who might be amenable. But he declared he was not one of thsoe who cert. inured royal persons for sometimes condescending to forget they were Kings and Queens, and remem bering that they were men and women. Mr. P. Mooite said, as tits represeiitative of a populous city, he attended with pie:noire all meet ings where they assembled to delt yet their opt- WWII sits psi bite affairs. Numerous as were the meetings which 1w had lately attended, lie regretted that those meetings had flit been still more flume. rout, NMI that they had not commenced ear Iter._- lie wished they had began thirty sears ago, at the first rise of the green bags, for at 111 at pe-toti, in the House of Cott - memo, ahettever mosey ass waaied the green bag was referred to a Committee, who returned it ois the table, with a re!onr t that the money insist be paid. Sluice then they Lad fluteus Corpus Suspenston. :Manchester Ma.- 'acre, and Civil List Green flags out of num ber, lie regretted that its add:e...log them after his note. Friend, the Member for Westminster, whose able and eloquent address hail embraced every topic, lie was only able to glean some miles. which he sc.ircely hoped would either pr. fit or amuse them. He eulogised, in the %serenest teems, tile talents and principles of their worthy Chair man, who. he predicted, would never dears t the cause of the people so long as they renosiord true t o him.—/Loud applause./—His lion. Friend had said, the question of her Majesty was changed within the last ten days ; but he thought it had changed within the last three days, and the ques tion stow was, nut the guilt 01 the Ministers, of that there was little doubt, but the extent of that gni It. Load cheering./—The consequences of their misconduct were not confined to England— all Europe partook of them ; wherever the fiddle.. pence of their pnweedings had gone, there the 414. grace of this country was proclaimed. Ile hid I ag num its his place in the House of Commons, o p en ly declared that it was a base conspiracy against her Mejesty, and that the Minket. were at the bottom of the peueeeding. The experience of the lost t. w drys had completely coofirrard his spineless. To support now the infamous proc ee d ings which had been instituted, they had not offered tree sierdow of a proof. What hail been doer? First cruse the Message from the King, sod then was floe first enemies, of the green bag. That war re ferred to a Select Committee of the Linde, at the head of which. shame to our religion! stood the Head of our Clisistiau Church, who, if he had door his duty, we should hare heard no snore of the proceeding. Ile ought to have gone to his Ma jest! in his closet, and told hiss that the Church would not atauctson it. But no—the proceedings Ku on till it comer before the Home of Lords in the shape or .s Bill, of the most singular nature, of the most docordaset views—embracieg for their protection our ecclesiastical esiablisliment. the dig. misty of the country, and the morals of the people. Hon. Geesilennies then proceeded to comment its a strain of Isurnoious ineettsee against the whole course of the proceedings, and censured in terms of great severity the conduct of the Attoruey-Geoeral for his manner of opening the case. in which he was sit justified by the nature and quality of the eve deuce. even if that evideuce had remained ousheken. At she meetings which hail been held at Hackney, Marty-le- Boise, Paddington, and other plates, he led declared Its sentiments on the nature of the proceeding instituted; hefted predicted the charges would turfs out false and groundless, and now see the proof.. All the perjury and bribery was now laid open, and all blows up. He remembered once tieing en cureversation with • learned Bra 11l ill sit the East. who. after laying him some compliments on his skill iu his language, gave him as a friendly caution from an old man to a young one, through out Ins life so beware of words. He compared them to the elephant's tooth, which. when once out or 116 month. could never be got in Apia. So those charges of perjury and bribery were before the world—they were nut of the mouth, and never could be 101 its agsies. He praised the conduct which the Nubs. prim had adopted on the present question, aid declared his opinion that her Majeety's cause bid beets more benefited by its oedemas than by any other cause whatever; and he scrupled uo t to repeat an opinion which he lied before decloreil, %lest if it were put to Inns whether lie wooed lose the Trial by Jury or the Liberty of the Press. bighty Us he prized Ilse former, he should, witliotit Isesseiewo. abandon it rather than the press should lose its freedom. lie rerouted the indelicacy and disregard to decorum which some of the questions pat in the House of Lords evinced. What foreseen. pie. he mid. could he more insulting to her Ma jest than the question put to Lseutenaist How. scam. of how lie knew that her Alajesty's legs were swelled ? Look at what it inferred-..that Lieu tenant Howatun hash seen her Majesty's legs. Ile said he had not ; and only knew by her Majes ty's informing hint of the fact. He (Mr. Moon ) lied beets • great deal on board a 'hip. and knew how difficult a thing it was for the most de. licate lady to avoid that sort of exposure. lie had also slept under en awning with eight or ten pretty women, whose characters were of the Oh poem purity and delicacy. He had also seen bathing in the Ganges great slumbers of both sex.s, without the slightest idea of indecorum being att.iched to the exhibition. He was sorry to see that the Soho -he ft LONDON, FRIDAY, °cross* go, 1020. The greater part of yesterday was wasted in the Noose of Lords by most unprofitable debates respecting the restrictions which ought to be Un posed upon the Counsel for the Quaint in their exposure of the conspiracy against their Ilinstrious Client. The King's Counsel display • eery suspi. violas irritability upon this part of the inquiry, and they exhaust their ingenuity in devising every means which the quibbles and techuicalities of vulgar practice cso afford, to impede the progress of their opponents. The discussions which have occupied the House of Lords for many hours seen to have arisen altogether from a 'misconception of the object proposed by the Queen's Counsel. The %visor*, filtoet (printed yesterday by mistake Msiuccut) undoubtedly could not, in an ordinary proceed- Mg. be suffered to state in evidence what ZANGA raid that he hod been told by Colonel BROWN, but as the House of Lords had decided that proof might be offered to shew the existence of • conspiracy against the Quests, mid that by this conspiracy the evnlence against her MAJESTY had been framed and matured, their Lordships ought to leave it to the discretion of the Counsel at the bar whether they will first proceed to prove t h e existence of the con spiracy, or postpone this breach of the case until they shall have previously linked the stets of parti cular agents with the actual prosecutors in the pre sent procetdiog. Her situation is one of unusual difficulty and danger ; she is opposed by essetuies at once powerful and inveterate. Her Counsel ore therefore entitled to a more than ordi nary degree of indulgence on the port of her Noble and Learned Judges. The Counsel pledge themselves to bring forward evidence to flies, that persons active in the employoursit of the Milan Commissioners had offered bribes to various individuals to bear testimony against the Quality, sod hod even supplied them with the particular statement. which it should be their part to make. To one it was suggested that he should depose to having seen BERGAINI salute the Pin,- cess—to soother, that he should allege his having seen the. walking familiarly—to a third, that lie had witnessed fieedoess the most indecent. Sorely Wands circumstosices of subornation can be proved, respecting persona who w ere p o p u l ar l y recognise d in Italy as agents for the Milan Comini.sioners, they roust throw a suspicion over the it-stimuli? , of many of the witnesses against the QUEEN. and in an agent of the Milan Commission, coming out of Colonel Butown's 'tense, at Milan, with his hand Poll of double Napoleons. This witness was not croft-examined by the Counsel for the Bill. Another witness, DONISICIIItio SALvanotti, a professor of literature, was put to the bar, but his evidence was interruped almost in its commencement by an ob jection offe►ed by the AM:MIRY-GENERAL to a question ►elating to a conversation which the witness had with SAcCilt. A long discussion arose on this, and three questions were submitted to the Judges, who ►equested time to consider them. The House in consequence adjourned until this morning. A Flanders Mail arrived last night with Papers from Brussels to the 17th instant. His MAJESTY opened the Session of the Stites Gene►al on the 11th instant, in petsoi4 with a speech from the throne, in which lie announces the prospect of permanent peace, and mentions an arrangement which he has made with Great Britain for the benefit of the commerce of the Dutch colonies of Demerara, Essequibo, and Wavier and also states that the Porte has recognised the ancient rights of the Dutch to the navigation of the Black Ser. For this latter advantage he acknowledges himself partly indebted to the influence and interference of his royal rela tive the Emperor of Russia. We have received Paris Papers of Saturday, Sundae, and Monday lot. It would seem that the King of SARDIIII/1 has ventured upon playing off a little Royal indignation at the recent event. is Naples, fur he has actually recalled his Ambassador. The poor man indeed can only be considered as a puppet in the hands of Austria ; but the event thews the determined hostility of the great despotism to depreas every semblance of popular freedom in places subject to its influence. The deputies to the Parliament of Naples assem bled on the 22d of last month, in a Provisional Junta, con. formably to the dispositions of the constitution, previous to the more solemn meeting of she Legislative Body. A Military Commission, charged with the trial of the galley slaves who had attempted to break out of prison at Civita Vecchia, has condemned 30 to death, and 14 to bard labour for life. An official notice, dated Palermo, September 11, apprises the public, that to avoid the effusion of blued, an armistice had been effected with the Neapolitan army, under General FLORIESTAN Pir•a; and that a Neapolitan fleet was to eater the harbour of Palermo. The cilisens are advised to continue tranquil, which must contribute to the happy result of the neguciatioas. The Freucls five per Cents. are 74f. 75 c.-8411k Acting, 1,36 ts f. Madrid Papers of the 511, of October have arrived at oar office. They are occupied principally by the discussions in the Cortes upon various subjects. The Committee of Trade in their Report, presented to the Curses on the Ist of this month, recommend the abslition of the exclusive privileges granted to the Philippine Company. This suggestion was opposed, un the ground that these privileges had been ori ginally granted as an indemnity to the Company for the dangers and difficulties they ',countered. The result of the debate is nut mentioned. The 'spews, of the military esta blishment of Spain was Axed oil the 3d at 330,245,425 real.. The framing of a new die fur the coin of the realm was discussed. The Committee of Fine Arts had suggested that on the face of the coin should he placed the Elmo's bust adorned with a civic crown, and on the the two worlds with the books of the constitution, serving as a pedestal to the throne, and instead of the fleece, the insignia of the Order of St. Ferdinand. The legend to be " Ferdinandos pater palria hispaniareins Hex." Several Members thought the legend should be in Castilian, and M. Ol.tl►R added that the pillars should not be top. pressed,as the cuin was known and more esteemed for them in Turkey and in Asia, the mosey which had them was two to three per cent. above othe► pieces of coin which hail them not. M. MORICNO GUERRA, wished to have the legend " Fernando I .porlagiatio de Dios y por la Constitution," and omitting the expression of father of the country, which the Ktno himself would probably reject as ailnlatoty, as the Emp►ror of RUSSIA bad Ilene iu 1814. It was re solved to refer the opinion of the Committee bark again fur further consideration. From the 20th 1(1 the 24th, there had died in Cadiz of the yellow fryer 13 persona, cured 40, new cases ; number of patients un the 20th, 92; ou the 24th, 111. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER vi.ited the KING yesterday. Ye...today Viscount CASTLER EAGH h a d an au dimes of his MAJESTY at hia Pillart 111 I'rll-Invll, A grad speculator in money in the City is pre paring to send a SUM of 400,0001. in sovereigns to Ireland. This plan ha• already produced a rise in the exchange between the two countries. A letter from Gibraltar, dated September 29, says, " A considerable alarm oas merited lasi night in the camp of the 64th regiment, on the i►tbmus of the garrium, by the sad. den appearance of a Spanish force of 6,000 men, as it is said, at Slurbella. large quail ss t ies of *mmnoiliou acre sent tont to the regiment, and it was wilder arms all night. We cannot learn any further particulars." The Aclic, and Liffey frigates, which sailed from Purls. mouth 16th tilt with sealed orders, at that time supposed for Lisbou, passed Gibraltar on the 27th for the Mediterraseau. The following Addresses will be presented to her MAJESTY figs Weditesdsy next : Hisatinedon, City; Carpenters of the Metropolis; Glees. !dowers of the Metrepulte • Bakers of the Metropolis • VIIIIILee `: . 1 • , r • • Parkin+) called upon the Court le pause before they came to the resolution of depriviag the Sheaf - of hi+ emoluments. Ile said that Sheriff Padua* ' had executed the chairs of the office with alacrity and iist.grity,aad that he had devoted his whole time. to them. Ile might perhaps have come heir the office with some preconceptions, or might have hP trayed seine eccentricity of Inct, but they wile' not such a• to warrant the severe step now !mooned. He would W. 1,11 thr Court how they attached the fines paid by the King to his Officer, shit had per formed the duties for them. Such a step esig'it open the door to an investigation which might nut turn out to the advantage of the Court. Alderman " ITMMAIf do ubted thr right of the Common Council to intercelit the ennoluniesits of tae Sheriff. They might confer upon I that re ward of their thanks at the close of his S iriesaltt , if he executed the duties of the other wooer! ) , and if otherwise, their censure, but in or, and it might teach them to be careful in future NS to whom they chose to serve the office. The wor thy Alderman then entered Into an eliiim-rstioo of the expenses which the Sheri% were at of Invit ing certain members of the Corporation, and which, lie said, the Sheriff were not obligated to pay. From hence •rote the difficulty of getting 34.),* oiie to serve the office, bait such as bad partitular purposes to serve, excepting that it was some tool who could only distinguish himself by struttin g about in the gold chain and the robe of office. He had remarked, that a person of merit. ark) executed the duties of the office with ability, generally went ell, of itie office with discredit ; whilst • f e ll o w wh.• was perhaps as ignorant as a horse went out with ectit, provided he mainottord what was called the splendour of the office. He concluded by pro posing, as an amendment, that the Report should lie on the table. Mr. OLDII•M concurred with the 01311er/46mi* for the loot speaker, bet gra. of opinion that the ~ource of the eesl lay in the m..de of election, and to the dig►aceful conduct of some attorneys, in liuntie i c out mrn in serve 'lie office, in order to obtain the appointment of Unrler-Sheriff. After some further discussion, the amendment was pm, and negatived by a large itiajoiity. The origins' Resolution, that the Report should be agreed to, tear 1 / 1 011 carried. Mr. J•Stral moved a vole of ceitatire on Mr. Sheriff Parkins—//'or which see Adcertisement its front of oar Pape►.) Mr. CLaitutt seconded the motion; which was put, and carried by a considerable majority. Several Petitions for lease, were p►eaenaed: and referred. Tine Comasitiee for G►neral Porposes prewntrd a [terror', recommending the temporary removal of she Coors tat Re. questa from Guildhall to Staining-lane, from and after the 24th instant, which wan agreed to. The thank• of the Court were thee entail to the Lord Manor's Chaplsi■ for biz tensors preached at St. Paul's on the first Sunday in Trialiy Tenn. LAW COURTS IN WRSTWINSTRWHALL. It will be recollected that in consequence of the prepura lions for the King's Coronation, the Courts of Chancery and King's Bench in Westminster Hall w►re irCITIOVeII i 4/ make coons for t►at ceremony, and that a Bill was subsequently introduced to Parliament, to rumble the Judges of the Cowl of King's Reuel) to hold sittings in other places than that of thew Great Chamber in Westminster Hall." It is however now asce►tained that althongh sittings at Mei Prises may be held elsewhere, the actual looniness of the Term mull be traneseted in a chamber within t he Hall, its colis.quelsce of which a new Court must be erected. Orders for that purpose have hero issued, and that it shall be begun immediately, that it may be in readiness to re ceive the Judge■ on the nth of next month, that being the day ou which Term commence,. A letter from Doter, dated October 18 (Wednesday ` , say., " The ['lupe-dorms weather of late has prevented the paa•age vessels sailing and arriving to and from the Continent, by which a great number of passengers had collected on both sides for erobas Italian, until this morning the weather be coming moderate, we were enabled to ship otf about many remaining for to-morrow. This evening Ave VI earls arrived from Calais well freighted with passengers, mails and dispatches, &c. several Noblemen, messengers, and courier-, were among the party detained us both sides" Sir David Raird, Cnmmander.in•Cbief of the Forces, ar ►ived in Cork yesterday se'nnight, and tat au early boor neat day proceeded to the Caml►field, in (pont tf the Bar racks, where the Army is Gacrioon were reviewed. The ireopq ins the field consisted of the Scots Greys cavalry, the IStli or Royal Irish niticistry, and the Veteran Battalion. When the Review bad cloqed, the COOmander.ia•Cbief waist off to Ballissiceollig, to inspect the Ordnance there. The I uspectioe was as minute as we have ever witnessed. A General Older has been issued for clothiug the tires-tire part of the Yeuntaury Corps to Ireland. De Wednesday se'euieht W. WRIION BECIMR, EIN M.P.; Mrs. Simms'', Miss O'N at the Rev NtotoLas Uattauts, and suite. arrived st Cook, and departed us ThorAlay aborts. in for the west of that county. la conseqitence of the promotion of the Rev. Mr. STRY Intl to the Deauvry of Rochester, the valuable Lectureship of St. Margaret's, Westminster, has become vacant. Three candidates have already offered t►emselves for the ■ituatiou. Mr. BOOTH has entered into an eng tgentesot at the Plymouth Theatre for five night, previous tv his appearance at Drury-laue. The burlesque ballet of " Opposition, or tie Rival Dancing Masters," ',Lyme at the ArlelpP I Theatre, is one of those fortunate and unexpeeted Adt which sometimes, though seldom, occur iu the theatrical world. We auderatand, when it was first brought not, it 'rya intended merrly as a uovelty for a night ur two; bait from the very great soccer* it met with on its first r4-perscii • tattoo, and its still i ang attractiuti, it is now 'apposed it will run the whole of the - f r - ---r— - •••••• ••==.. it win nos the whole of the season. • ... , f tor. General had followed iis the footsteps of his the eye of cot iiiii ou sense and justice s u c h p roo f s of Cioliermooth ; Cuber, and other parishes adjacent t o made, the Shrievalty of Mr. Piro kins had te n ni- Pune BONBAST.—The Morsiiessr, speaking. or rather rhapsodizing upon the birth of toe v. u•- Yrovil, , ...‘ , l l 'e s s t t . J 1 . 1c . ; , w tt s 'i p c p k i s . ; g C . iroisey; Parish or Barony, noted, and . the Chamberlain !wing rec eived no lissome' B.other, the Attorney-General, whose foul or ori.o t not in hr refused, even though they be op- N.B . communication f rom t h at C ourt. had pistil to Mr. te .. is linen be seemed anxious to get clraii.—(Load posed by won legal subtlety, or th e stti e t tecliiii- 1 . '1 1.e QuEKN's delend i ers I b tave repeatedly offered Sheriff Parkins such emoluments as he was in ii • ssoultriON. sill, "In the midst of the Li:gut:to 1,. -.1 . . . . i't extremity of Ffillfler. religious brass, red the b,,,,,:.• • i louglaer.)—lle apologised for having detained them I so long, aud concluded by piopooilog the results- colones of ordinary ► practice. I todeed if the eta- proof that a conspirecy hits eel) most actively em- habit of paying to alfStirrig .. The hue s and amerc e . time. re Iloilo, siiieri were put by the Chaim:sou and carried desire adduced upon this moat important branch of PI"Yell egiulist her r aid that the witnesses for the /otitis which were paid intuthe Exchequer, nod loom tigit,ti prosecution have been procured . by bribery. The thence to the Cliemherlain, he was of opinion ought sealed at once that the loupe, or rather tfe • _AA of Frenchmen, had not been vain."—We kw- unaiiitoutedy. The Flom G e ntl e man sa t down the IfIVrI•IIK411011 be watched with such Peer,. have refused to go into this proof, but their in future, instead of being paid in the usual almoner here that the voirds " religious brass," dn.!" bronze of war," may be interpreted to bigtaity• church-bells amid !unit cheerings from all parts of the assembly. , evrrit .. , , y ash MUM of necessity he its nature t hat refusing to hear it is ao reason why it should be to the Sheri ff s, to be handed over to the Cur ration . mad pieces et casino's. Mr. THORNHILL then read the Addreas, which the inquiry canuot be pursued, and the pernii:Ooo withheld from the world. We would suggest to to be paid by them to the Sheriffs as they thriugi ; WirAmiiiioer SPVltUffit commenced eater's be. i was also carried without a diseeutnig voice. Ile , ot espn bing the acts of the Milan Cuniiiiiss'On will her AIAJESTYN 14tIVI , MIA, that the viitiies.er el Id them dr...claim: of it. Mr. Outon then cited riu. then moved the thanks of the meeting to the Chair. fore Mr. CONST, the Cloorstuati, and a full klen‘h become a mile llullitY• if the HO! , 01 . the agetito timkr ,iii,i„,„,, t „ a ll t h ose facts which the Douse memos crises iii the reigns of Edward I. of Edward o_f •n M ir 'sgltat4te'. NO case of any publa: tote/ ti t 01,111, which was carried with the loudest accle- of Lord s refuse to listen to, and that the evidence 111.,. anal Edward IV., where the Sheriffs had lien ealoa d h e uoroldril without the previous examiea. mations. should in that shape be laid before the public. It punished by fine end tuiprisonitient for their this. " on. i Mr. Ilootioust returned thanks, and the meet. two of these agents themselves, by what course can as of the very !u g l ie st importance to her MAJESTY'S behaviour, lie concluded by moving, that the l DARING ROBBERY.—Ott Wedues lay night last. tug dispersed. the Queen's Counsel hope to proce e d ? They 12411.• irallse that the plans ridproceedings o f B aron R e p or t s h ou ld l ie agree d tr.. las Lietttemint IN' t L LIANIS , o f H ampstead, was walk- Notwithstanding the great crowd, and the con. e n i g ie. t , lir tr, Stran d rti he ie wasbetween an t ‘ h e e ke N d ew by a Church gabg at , td t. veiled. The Address is to be presented to her tile, and whose very acts of bostilioy one proposed l i nt, iii the rea-aniab!e exercise of their disc re ti on , OtspraDa, Colonel BR O WN, Mr. POWELL. VIL- Mr. F. N. Wii.t.i•sts sec led the motion. He t u g slung tined space, the greatest order and regularity pre . ) Majesty by Mr. flobhouse. Mr. Moore, arid such put to the bar oitioesses who are know n to be hos- SIARCATI, and their inferior uvula, should be laid trusted that th e y s h ou ld never h ave such another is , w open. Iler MAJESTY h as c o urted in q uiry, but her Sheriff as Sheriff Pa r k ins , an d h ope d t h at t h e thieves, wh o got hunt on the groo m ' an d brat hitt,. nameless enemies and their agents hide th.iiiselves Court, by sgreeing to the Report, would depriv e lii a shocking manlier, and robbed him ef his . to he made the subjects of mono:oder pools. and their deeds i n th e s h a d e s of da r k ness , and it is him of the motley causing trom the G reta w ax watch, &c. H e was afterwards found unable to of the parishioners us choose to accompany it.. Due I notice will lie given of the day on which it will be M ioir was ~g „ in limit to the hit yr , ‘ „ ents3 , , the ditty of her d e f en d ers an d friends to drag them Officer more. and was morn - cif to his residence, when ct.tivenietit for her Majesty to receive it. and stated that lie auw Zreoe, who was known us forth to high.. MI. PULLEN (the l a t e Under-Sheriff to Mr. ' fir now lies in a serious ereelitiou. ' • .... -• • , . - -.. ~ -...•--,.... - .7" . ":" -- - . 7. ~. , • • j..•-• . • .. . . • • . . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, OCTOBER 11. IN Majesty opened this morning the Semon of the States' General in person by a speech from the throne. The following are the passages relating to Foreign Powers:— " Our foreign relations (notion, to be maintained with ►eciprocal good will, and I have the satisfaction of being able to assure yon, that I continue to hope that peace, which is so necessary to us, will be preserved. " By malleable aegociatio•s with the British. G9vernment, I have anceeeded in making an arrangement, modifying the first article of the Convention, which regulates the com merce of land-owners and mortgagees, subjects of the king dom of the Netherlands, in the colonies of Demerara, Essequibo, soil Berhire. By this arrangement, sanctioned by my high ally the King of Great Britain, the liberty of star:gating with the la mentioned in the first Article, is prolonged for a period of five years. " The exert of my Minister at Constantinople, seconded by the Ministers of my august ally the Emperor of Russia, has succeeded in inducing the Ottoman Porte to recognise •ur ancient rights to the navigation of the Black Sea." hits Majesty then drew a favourable picture of the iuternal state of the kingdom. VIENNA, OCTOBER 3. The Diplomatic Agents accredited to our Court have received instructions not to leave this capital. The Au:trims Observer rays, that according to authentic intelligence from Turkey, the rebellion of Ali niche iv wholly suppressed, after having left all his provinces, by defeat or by desertion, among his troops. He resolved to give battle to the Turkish army four miles from Jannania, but with ouch ill success that his capital fell into the hands of the enemy, he retiring with 400 men, as has been already reported, into the citadel.—/ Brussels Papers, October 17.) E 11i Er s E SS . COURT OP toituti;‘ , COUNCIL. Yesfierdey a Court of Common Council wee held for the consoderation of several important vasstions and the dispatch of gentrel business, which was ms merettooly attended. Mr. OLDHAM rose and raid, that he observed an officer of the Corporation, and a worthy Member of that Court, not in his proper place. Ile then moved_" That J. Wilhant., Esq. Sheriff sod COl/11110/1 COMICIIIII4II, shoold be permitted to take his seat on the bench of Aldermen." Mr. Huacomke .econde•l the motion. which was carried unanimously ; when Mr. IVlthattio, the new Sheriff, who had before been seated io the body of the Court was led to hit seat, oppo•tte to hi•collrsoue. Alderman ‘Vaitli man, on the bench of th.. Aldermen. The LORD MAYOR laid before the Court a letter from Alderman Thorp, Lord Mayor Elect. fying his intention of taking upon himself that office, which was read. THE PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY. The Loan MAYOR presented to the Court a copy of a note which load been transmitted to her Majesty through the City Itlarslials, with the Resolution of the Court upon accepting her Majesty's Portrait. His Lordship preseided the acknowledgment of her Majesty in answer to the note. Mr. rsvkLi winked to know whether the usual mode of communicating with Royalty wss through the medium of the City Marshal. ? The LORD MAYOR said, that it was the most respectful mode of communication upon such oc casions. Mr. FAYILI. thought that the usual mode of communication had h►therto been through the She riffs and the Remembrancer of the City, and not through the Marshals. It was moved. that her Mitfrsty's Answer in ic knowledgment should be entered in the Minutes a the Court. CALLING COMMON HALLS. The LORD MA TOR delivered to the Court • Requisition which had been pre.ented to himself, calling upon him to convene a Common Hall, for the purpo.e of examit.iog into the expenditure of various ►unlit of money from the funds of the Co►- puration. His Lordship gave in the opinions of the Attorney rind Solicitor-General; Sir John Silvestrr, the Recorder, Mr. Rolland, and Mr. Tyndall, whom he thought proper tit consult, and who were de cidedly against the calling of a Co iiiiii on Hall upon such *I soiqrYt. Mr. FAVELS, said, that the mode of proceeding adopted by the Lord Mayor wa• a most extraordi nary one. He would, however, reserve any further observations upon the subject until he had heard the papers read. Mr. Dixos thought that the papers belonged to the Lord Mayor alone, and hr was against a ll interference on the part of this Court with the rights or priviltges of soother body. After solar further chscussiots. the papers were wit hdrawn. Mr. Dtiorr gave notice of a motion. that the Committee of Improvements should give an ac count of the money expended upon the building of the nets Post Office. SEDITIOUS PLACARDS. Mr. FATIII.I. rose and gave notice of a motion to the following effect : That this Court feels deeply interested in the alarming discovery of certain incendiaries baying issued inflammatory placard., feuding to disturb the peace, and to bring reproach 1.1.00 honest Tel.. That they earnestly entreat the Lord Mayor and 11w Mmeistrates of this City to offer s reward for the apprehension of Franklin, and oilier persons who may appear guilty of such practices." Mr. FAVELI. also gave notice of a motion, that the Resolution passed in the Mayor4lty of Alder man Beckford, against the introduction of the sol diery into the City, should be uritten tap in some conspicuous part of the Common Hill. CONDUCT OF SHERIFF PARKINS. The Court then resumed the adjourned considers. Lion of the Report of the Committee appointed to lull e into the charges preferred against Mr. Sheriff Parkins, by the late Lord Mayor. Mr. Dios stated, that the Committee up. pointed for the cousidenstion of this subject had authorised the Town Clerk and the City Solicitor, to make researdws into the City Records, as to the power which the Lord Mayor for the time bring had over their Sheriff.. The documents which they had examined were extremely volumiuous, and they had given many precedents from them. The Committee had also comulted the Law Offi cers upon the subject, who had given it as their opi nion that the COTIIIOII Council had the right to re move the Sheriff., if they saw good reason fur so doing; but they added, that the increased importance of the office was such as to render the exercise of this power in the removal of such an officer a step nut to be recommended, unless on occasions of the must urgent necessity. The Committee had de. dared it to he their opinion that the charges of Alderinan Mirror against Sheriff Parkins had been fully confirmed, as hid also the right of Alder mars Rothwrll to the seniority. The Committee also were of opinion. that Sheriff Parkins had not maintained in a proper tn: 1111 l er the dignity of the office. The Report of the Committee con cluded by recommending that the paytn•mts of all the fees and foments of the Sk et itii, s h ou ld be suspended with regard to Sheriff Parkin'. Mr. Dixori coutinutd, that rinse she Report had been "f='~; t.