The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-01 00:00:00

- EVENING EDITION. VIONEY MARK ET and CITY NEWS. a bold front, and resist to the death unjustly usurped autho rity. In what way shall we characterise such language as this, or the conduct of the man who could be capable of using it? It immeasurably exceeds in indecency — atrocity would, pbrhaps , be the fitter vrord—expres sions, so far as our knowledge extends, ever before em ployed in speaking of a reigning So verei g n of Talk of the Chartist leaders! Why, there is not one among them that ever, when speaking of royalty, pol luted his lips, or outraged the ears of his audience, rr by e epithets half so foul. Feargus O'Connor, Bronte O'Brien, or even Julian. Ha rne y himself, would be ashamed to speak of the Sovereign in such unbecom ing language. If the charge s whic h this Tory fanatic brings against her Majesty were just, she would be liable, by the Constitution of the country, to a pu nishment we shall not name. To charge her with " think ing.- that it the monarchy only lasts her time it will be enough," is to accuse her of treason to the Con stitution, and of a violation of the solemn oath she took at her Coronation to support :the monarchy to the best of her ability. We are not advocates for State prosecutions ; but w . here, let us ask, is the use of an Attorney-General, if the Sovereign is thus not only to beg rossly slandered in general terms with im punity, but to be disinctly and specifically charged with the highest crime which, in her capacity of Queen, it were possible for her to commit? It would be frightful to contemplate the probable consequences of such lan guage, were the accusations preferred against her Ma jesty by this infuriated Tory believed by any consider. able portion of the commubity to be founded in truth. Her people's affections would not only in such a case, become utterly estranged from her, but disloyalty would be regarded as a virtue of the first magnitude. Nor does the enormity of the thing rest even here. Her Majesty's personal safety is involved in the matter. Let no one startle at the statement ; we make it advisedly. if this Mr. Bredshaw believes in the truth of his own charges against the Queen, he necessarily—if he be a logical reasoner—mwt be of opinion that to take away the life of the Queen would be one of the most meritorious actions which could be performed. We do not mean to say that he ought, according to his principles, to conceive that this ought to be done by a private hand ; he might think that it should only be done by the Legislature of the land, as in the case of previous Sovereigns. But then what security has he that every other person will reason in the same manner? The natural tendency of his language, when he represents the Queen as " think ing it enough if the monarchy lasts her time," is un doubtedly, when read by persons of weak minds and strong monarchical views, of a nature to make all re flecting persons feel uneasy respecting the personal safety of the Queen. With such a furious Tory zealot as Mr. Bradshaw, it were vain to use a word in the way of argument or remonstrance. Such intemperate and outrageous characters as he can only be effectively dealt with by the strong arm of the law. But what shall we say of those persons—said to be one hundred and fifty in number—several of them reverend gentle men, and all of them moving in a respectable sphere of society—who wore present on the occasion, and who not only gave no intimations of disapprobation or dissent, but actually greeted him throughout his address with the most deafening applause. These persons, by their "„loud cheers," their " long-continued applause," their " renewed cheering," and their " tremendous bursts of applause," as the apostle of ultra-Toryism gave utterance to each successive sentence, have given their sanction to the mass of sedition of which he delivered himself. And yet these are persons who, until within the last year or two, have had the cool effrontery to pretend, that they and their party were the only loyal individuals in the land. How great the change has been of late, in this respect, come over the spirit of the Tories' dream ! Mr. Bradshaw's violent tirade against her Majesty will not be without its uses to the nation. Who, after the reception which that ourageous effusion met with from his audience, can for a moment doubt, that were cir cumstances ever to place the Queen in the power of the Tories, they would be prepared to resort to any expe dient, no matter how insulting or tyrannical, which they might deem necessary to enable them to retain her in their grasp? With a Tory Government, her Majesty would be in a worse condition than the humblest of her subjects : she would be as much a prisoner in her own palace as if actually shut up in the Tower for some real or alleged state offence. (From the Morning Herald.) Having freely spoken our opinion on what appears to us the too nice and modified resistance of the National Society Committee to the imperious demands of school inspection advanced by the Committee of Privy Coun cil, we shall now briefly consider the substantial merits, or rather demerits, of the case. The Committee of Council on Education, be it remembered, was ap poiuted on the 10th of April of the present year, and the first order relating to this demand of Privy Council inspection was dated June 3. Now, it was prior to this order, and without the most remote expectation that it would ever tiers been issued, that nearly all the national schools whose applications are at present before the Council, were either begun or contracted for. Yet they wish to compel them, by this ex post facto regulation, either implicitly to submit to their man date, or to forego their portion of the grant. So little could these schools have anticipated this sud den demand of a Privy Council inspection, that they must have been commenced or contracted for, under the conviction that the inspection would have remained altogether in the hands of the National Society. On the 4th September, 1838, a letter from the Treasury was addressed by Mr. Baring to the Committee of the National and British School Societies, expressly pro posing that the sum of 500/. should be respectively granted to both these Societies for their inspection by officers of their own appointment. And then it was the British School Committee reported, " that a system of inspection, conducted on the principle proposed by the Government, would not be satisfactory to the country ;" whereas the National Society was ready, at once, to comply with the Government proposal. We ask any man to say, whether it can be right or equitable to punish these schools for refusing to submit to an inspection, of which they could not have originally conceived the remotest ex pectation ? Such is the law, such the equity,which English Protestants may henceforth expect from a Popish Privy Council. They act on the well-known principles of the High Court of Commission and of the Star Chamber ; and we should not be surprised if, in the plentitude of their power, they were to recall and alter the charter of the National Society, or to refuse to issue any further Royal letters for the:support of its schools. They may find abundance of precedents for similar proceedings in the times of our Second James. Nay, such is the auda city with which they already count on the triumph of their projects, that they treat the schools of the Church of England as if they were actually outlawed and ba nished from the Constitution. So surprised, astonished, and intoxicated are these Papists with their triumph ova, our Protestant Peers and Prelates, that they are now acting as if we were living in the indicative of Po pery, and in the preterpluperfcet of Protestanism. To argue logically, or to supplicate pathetically before such a tribunal, were as hopeless as for a heretic to demonstrate his orthodoxy before the Popish Inquisition, or to look for a tear in answer to his groans and convulsions. It is nothing short of the public indignation of the whole kingdom which can drive these men from their seats, or which can bring the monarchy to an anchor. They have prevailed on her Majesty to sanction a Committee of Council which is altogether foreign to our Constitution—a Committee which tramples on the Church and the Bishops, and which disdains to regulate its proceedings either by law or equity—which is so arbitrary and mutable, that it demands implicit obedience to every one of its changes. If gentleness of manner—if the strongest argument, couched in the utmost civility, could prevail with such men, then the Committee of the National Society might hope to influence this Committee of Council. But the fable of the " Wolf and the Lamb" forbids us to indulge in any such childish expectations. They may yield to fear and necessity—to a strong demonstration of public indignation, but they will never yield to the force of reason, or to the tenderness and terrors of conscience. The case is clear as dates and facts can render it— that this Privy Council Committee is now threatening to cut off the schools of the National Society from all participation in the Parliamentary grant, by a regulation which was made long after the expenses of their bu'id ings were incurred, and of which they could not have anticipated the remotest probability. Yet the flagrancy of this injustice will only add to the certainty and delight of their punishment if the public and the Parliament do not powerfully interfere for their rescue. The mi nutes and orders of the Privy Council resemble neither the proceedings of the Courts of Common Law nor of those of Chancery. They bask in the meridian of pre rogative, and delight in the "sic volo, sic jubeo," of the Court. That Whigs, Radicals, and papists, should have conspired to bring our national education under this arbitrary and irresposible sway l forms only another evidence that our English liberties were not advanced by the Reform Bill, or that whatever . was gained by political reform has been lost by what is most absurdly named Catholic emancipation. (THURSDAY EVENING.) POST. —The settlement of the Account has not Dossed off so well as usual, There were, we under stand, two or three cases of default, arising out of the recent gambling transactions in the Spanish and other dangerous interests with which the market is encum bered. There was, however, only one name declared by the Committee—that of Mr. R. T. Twiss. Pro bably a hope is entertained that the difficuties of the other insolvents may, in some way or other, be cleared up, or compromised, and that the extreme penalty of the house may be remitted. Of the receipts granted by her Majesty's Superin tendent of the China trade (Captain Elliott), in ex change for the opium given up to him by the British merchants, for the purpose of being surrendered to the authorities at Canton, several have been remit ted to London on speculation. We do not hear, however, that there is any sale for them, so that the experiment will most likely turn out a very losing one. The price paid for these receipts in India was at the rate of 180 rupees per chest. The policy pursued by Captain Elliot seems to have been singularly rash and injudicious with regard to this unfortunate opium que.tion, and it may be reasonably doubted whether, in the appointment of that gentleman to the important post he now occupies. even a worse selection was not made by her Majesty's Government than in the case of Lord Napier So jealous as England is upon the subject of her revenue laws, it ill b e comes her to be attempting to force upon C hina tin article the impor tation of which has been prohibited in that country by the most explicit and solem n edicts —an article withal which is regarded by the G overnment of Pekin as a deadly poison. When it is considered what difficulties are made at the London Custom -house about the pass (ing of a second pair of kid g loves, or a second bottle of eau de Cologne, which a passenger on board o f a Calais steamer may chance to have in his port manteau, the idea o f the views of the Chinese Su perintendent being supported by Lord Palmerston seems quite preposterous. The effect of Captain Elliot's foolish measures, the purpose of which was to suspend Chinese products, has been that of 'throwing a most profitable business into the hands of the American houses, who seem to be fully prepared to take advan tage of his folly. That Captain Elliot should have been supported by some few of the resident British merchants was but natural, because the parties are no other than those who have been foremost in the ntro duction of the contraband article into the Chinese mar kets. The accounts from Lancashire unfortunately confirm the anticipations we ventured to express some short time since, as to the position of the banking and manufactur ing interests in that part of the kingdom. There seems, at length, to be an end to that confidence between man and man which has been so long maintained by the banking power of Liverpool and Manchester. Some failures are announced as having occurred at the latter place, and it is to be feared that the system of false credit which has been so extensively pursued must be fore long, produce consequences still more disastrous. TIMES.—The Funds remain with scarcely any va. nation in prices, and the market is almost entirely in. active. During the course of the settlement of the account to-day in the foreign house the failure of a dealer was reported, but, although a long established member, his differences were not of any great amount, as they are stated not to exceed 2,500/. The uneasiness of money was exemplified in the lower rates of continuation at which Stocks were carried over. At the last settle ment i per cent. was the current rate on Spanish and other securities of the same description, whilst to-day the rates have not exceeded i, and may be stated gene rally to have varied only between 1-16 and i. It has not been a heavy account, as, excepting perhaps in Portuguese at one moment, there has been little ten dency to speculations of any magnitude during its pro gress. It may probably be attributed to this state of inaction or neglect that a decided fall of prices in the more speculative Stocks may be noted. The imputation against Colonel Campbell, mentioned in the letters from Alexandria received yesterday, that he had declined the offer of the Pacha of Egypt of a steamer to convey the Indian despatches to Malta, is wholly denied by his friends and connexions in the city, who affirm that the arrangement for conveying the de spatches from Alexandria to Malta in the Pacha's steamer was made by Colonel Campbell, and that he also engaged the services of Mr. Waghorn to take care of the despatches during the passage. It is but justice to Colonel Campbell to make this denial as public as the original imputation ; but if it is true, as stated in the Alexandria letters, that the despatches from India arrived there on the oth inst., two days after the de parture of the regular Mediterranean packet, and were not sent on to Malta till the 13th, it remains to be ex plained with whom the fault rests of so extraordinary a delay. SUN.—The private letters from Canton, delivered this morning, state . that an opinion prevailed there among many of the merchants that Captain Elliott had exceeded his powers in guaranteeing payment for all the opium that have been delivered up to the Chinese authorities. Though credit is given to the British Superintendent for the best intentions some distrust existed that the Idorne Government would not approve all that he had done in this respect. We hear that the Batavier (due yesterday) has just arrived from Rotterdam. The papers by her will be delivered, it is expected, to-morrow. The China and East India traders are in a feverish state this afternoon, in consequence of the late news from Canton and Calcutta. Teas are advancing—ln digo is heavy. The Con-o 1 Market left off rather briskly this af ternoon, money being more easy than was expected on the settlement of the Foreign Account. The news from India still has a favourable effect upon the prices of Stock. India Stock left off this afternoon at 248 i. Consols for Money were firm at 90i, and for Account at 901 j. The Stocks Market will be closed to-morrow by order of the Committee, as is usual on the Ist of November. The meeting in the Bank-parlour passed off this afternoon without any fresh notice being issued respect-. ing the rate of interest ; this increased confidence in the City : Bank Stock fell, however, from 181 to lBoi. The failure in the Foreign Market of Mr. Twiss, for about 1,5001. or 1,8001., had but little influence on prices. The Markets were heavy, especially for Dutch Stock, which fell to 51i for the Two-and-a-Half per Cents., and to 99} for the Five per Cents. Spanish fell to 28i, but closed at 29. Portu g uese Five per Cents. were depressed to 331 34, and Three per Cents. to 2.2 i 23. All the other Foreign Stocks were 1 lower this'afternoon than they were in the morning. The Share Market is on the fall. Birmingham and Gloucester Shares have receded to 26i disc., the Lon don and Birmingham to 50 prem., Greenwich to 7 disc., and the New to 3 disc. British North American Bank Shares are at 2i disc. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. (From the Morning Advertiser.) A person who confesses to the proprietorship of the name of Bradshaw, has, it appears, been " exhibiting" at a Conservative guzzle, which came off the other day at Canterbury. We are aware that in ordinary cases considerable allowances must be made for speeches which are delivered, or rather attempted to be delivered, after the parties "performing" on the occasion have done ample justice—which the Tories invariably do—to the good things which "mine host" of the head inn has pur veyed for their grosser natures ; but that is an extenuation which cannot be urged on behalf of the person who figured so prominently at the Canterbury feed, he having been a mong the earliest to play the orator among the various Demostheneses who electrified the happy audience in the course of the evening. The fact, we believe, is undoubted, that Mr. Bradshaw was perfectly sober when be delivered his oration : whether he was perfectly sane is another question. We must, however, assume that he was. It has been our lot at different times, in the course of our connection with the newspaper press of the metro- PO l l5, to hear and to peruse a variety (f most furious attacks b ot h on t h e C onst it u ti o n and the Sovereign of t 4 ; but these have severally been mere mild .ness TeLf, compared w ith the language employed by Mr. Bradshaw when assailing our youthful Queen in his Canterbury ofthe c o o ration. A more perfect . master of abuse, rsest and most vulgar kind, it has never been our fortune a terrn to encounter. He seems to have . liad every violent fingers' ends, when ern , ever y in indecent epithet, at his Sovereign. It the Conservative work of traducing his is impossible to do justice to his rhetoric by i t n n ; is s i ectiot . is which can be made from it ; : An d yet its to resist the temptation to cull a f ew of i choicest flowers .. : . - 46 Brought up under the auspices of the C d itizen King of the Belgians, the serf of France, , pf an etohpel g e7 u n i o d ,fi e a ci rc b hy y his influence, the Queen thinks that i lasts her time, it is enough ; but the Eng land will never consent that . the Crown shall ° be e graded and debased for the i nglorious ease of any create d being, nor that the personal wishes and caprices of the Sovereign shall direct the conduct of th e Executive. Again, " The people of this country will not be trampled upon by Pe p e or Sovereign, still less will they endure that a petty German ” Prince shall h o ld the fair realm of England i n fee farm. After describ ing the Queen's Ministers as the most profligate set of men in Christendom, and loading the Roman Catholics with every opprobrious epithet which his polluted mind could suggest, this bright ornament of the Conservative party resumes his vituperation of her Majesty herself; in the following terms :—" Her 'Majesty is Queen only of afaction, and is as much a partizan as the Lord Chancello r him'eif." Mr. Bradshaw next proceeds to represent her Majesty as a voluntary party to a contem plated destruction of the Church and State, and winds up that part of his address by declaring with all the bluster of a Bobadil, th a t t h e Co ns ervatives will not quail at the impending danger ; but that they will present to verify in our West India Colonies the practical work ings of the system of free negro labour ; and latterly it is satisfactory to observe, the French Colonists themselves, the parties most directly concerned, have been applying themselves to the same sources of information. Antigua papers, recently received, announce the arrival there of Monsieur Ciceron, a planter, and one of the most in fluential Members of the Colonial Council of the island of Guadeloupe, with the special object of examining the progress of the new system ; so that it may be in ferred that the Colonists are wisely preparing for an event which it is felt cannot much longer be postponed, and in the consequences of which the value of property, and their own prospects for the future, are so deeply involved. This anticipation has doubtless been hastened by the disastrous condition to which sugar cultivation has been reduced by the active competition, until lately, of untaxed beet root sugar in France, and the still comparatively favoured terms by which, fiscally, that branch of national industry is en couraged. In the progress of the fierce contentions to which rival claims have given rise, the Colonies could not fail to perceive how much their cause was prejudiced in the public mind by the odious distinction always forced into the foreground of discussion, that slave pro duction, however legalised so far as by human laws it could be or had been, was, by the innate immorality and repugnancy of its character, less entitled to demand protection and excite sympathy in behalf of dependent interests, than free cultivation. (From the Globe.) The letters published in the Times of yesterday, from the Secretary of the National Society to the Secretary of the Committee of Council, display what is the nature of the controversy which it is now the intention of the Tory party to carry on. The Bishop of Exeterhimsclf, in a letter addressed to a clergyman, published in Woolmer's Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, and copied in the Times of Tues day, advances the following principles, as the tactics which, in his opinion, ought to be adopted by the Tory party : " It appears to me, in the first place, that the Govern ment has a right to expect that it should receive an accurate report of the efficiency or inefficiency of every school to the erection of which it has contributed. Se condly, I think that this report ought to be full, not limited to the machinery and mode of teach ing adopted in, the school, but extending to the matter of instruction—above all, to the matter of religious instruction ; for, without such a report, I know not how it cut be known whether, and in what degree, the school attains the object for which it has been esta blished." The Right Rev. Prelate then proceeds to state the objections to which he conceives the system of inspection proposed by the Committee of Council to be liable ; but in the former part of his letter he informs us, as is confirmed by the correspondence published in the Times of Wednesday, that " the National Society adhere to their judgment, that schools in connection with it ought not to be subject to the inspection of any officer not appointed by the National Society, or by the Bishops in their several dioceses, though the Committee was willing that the inspectors of schools which may have been built or supported with aid from Government should be submitted for approval to the Committee of Council." In these words the Bishop has extracted the pith of the long letter of the Secretary of the National Society published in the Times of Wednesday. The position assumed is, that the inspec tion of the National Schools shall be conducted by in spectors deriving their authority from the Church, instead of from the State, which latter was the intention of Parliament. Before we call the atten tion of our readers to the important principle involved in this position, we may remark by the way that the National Society has not assumed the dangerous po sition of standing between the Clergy and Committee of Council to interdict their acceptance of the Parliamen tary grant ; but simply expounds the pretensions of the Society to an inspection differently constituted from that brought under the attention of Parliament in the last Session. We think we may presume that the Na tional Society could not have committed a more sui cidal act than in the denial of such concurrence between the Clergy and the Committee of Council ; and we are confident that the great majority of the appli cants will gratefully accept the money offered by the Committee of Council, on the terms prescribed in their Lordships' regulations. But the principle to which we desire to draw the attention of our readers, as that which we conceive the Tory party will assume, is, that the Parliamentary aid is to be liberally and con stantly administered for the erection of national schools throughout the country. either without any further in spection than a mere audit of a building account, and an examination of the building erected—by which is meant the total exclusion of all examination of the management of the school for the purpose of reporting to Parliament ; or, that if the National Society, with the able Prelate whose opinions we have quoted, admit the propriety of an inspection of the internal economy and discipline of the schools aided by public grants, that inspection shall be conducted by persons owing their authority solely to an ecclesiastical appointment—or in other words, that though Parliament distributes the funds to the national schools, on the enjoyment of which the right to inspection is tounded, Parliament ought not to employ, for the purpose of obtaining reports of the efficiency of the schools, inspectors appointed by her Majesty in Council. To expose the unreasonableness of this pretension, we shall devote a portion of our co lumns at the earliest convenient period. (From the Standard.) We yesterday copied from Fraser's Magazine a table of the English registrations, as far as they have been completed, and are known, to which we hope our readers have given attention. This table is in the highest degree satisfactory, even if taken as fur nishing per se an adequate test of the advance of Conservative principles, but a moment's reflection will lead to the conviction that it, falls greatly short of such a test. In every calculation of the kind the former votes of electors must be assumed as determining the party to which they are to be assigned, but every one's experience will tell him that this assumption is falla cious. In many constituencies, and more especially in the larger constituencies, hundreds vote carelessly and inconsiderately, and hundreds do not vote at all. We may cite as an example of the latter fact the last Finsbury election, at which not one-half of the constituency appeared at the poll. To surrender these careless or negligent electors as irrevocably committed to the Whig-Radicals, is a manifest in justice to our own cause. We are, before making such a surrender, first to inquire whether no general change has taken place in the public mind, of force to cause the hitherto careless to think, and the hitherto negligent to act. The inquiry cannot occupy any length of time : on every side we see the unequivocal testimonies to such a change. We see these testimonies in the regis tration tables—we see them in the divisions of the House of Commons—in the honest and manly decla rations of one Member of Parliament after another, who avow with Sir. Ralph Howard that they can no longer accompany the Whig-Radical Ministers in the march to a Popish revolution—and, above all, we see it in the results of all the later elections. We say of all, for the fact is as clearly proved by the final state of the poll at Manchester, as by the triumph at Cam bridge. From this it is obvious, that we shall err if we de spair of any c onstituency—except in the reserved pocket boroughs of the Whigs—merely because the Whig-Radi cal majority was formidable at the late general election. The magazine of " enormous lies," by which such ma jorities were obtained, is, we trust, exhausted ; at all events, the false coinage 'is exposed, and its authors are known and app reciated. Conviction of the truth has reached and converted many who were amongst our most strenuous opponents : and surely such conviction must have equal power to determine the doubtful and to arouse the indolent. When, there fore, we find it demonstrated, as we do in the table published by Fraser, that independently of these effects upon what we may call the old Reform constituency, a general election must give to the Conservatives an efficient working majority of 150 in a new House of Commons, we must be satisfied of the firm ground upon which the hopes of the Conservates rest. A young fop, who had just begun to shave nor a beard, stepped into a barber's shop, and after a grand swagger desired to be shaved. The barber went. through the usual movements, and the young sprig jumped up with a flourish, exclaiming, " Maw Mine teLow, vs hat's your charge ?" " Oh, no charge," was the reply. "No charge ! how's that ?" " Why, we are always thankful when we get soft calf-skin to whet our razors on."—American Paper. The bobbin net machine exporters were ex tremely busy during the last week, both in sending away the hest workmen and the best machines. Several or ders are in town for machine insides for France, though scarcely any machines have been building in Nottingham since 1836, except those for Burton's new steam factory at Mapperley. The number of bobbin net machines since that year has decreased nearly one-half in Eng land. A branch establishment of the jingler stocking frames are now making new frames in Ostend ; this description of stocking frames was invented in London, by Mr. Holland, the fleecy patentee, in 1836 ; his --40--. frame now stands in the room of the Society of Arts, in PROM THE EVENING PArER3 OF YESTERDAY, the Adelphi, Strand. —Nottingham Journal. (From the Courier.) SINGULAR FUNERAL.—On Wednesday after- The s tate o f ou r West India colonies under their noon, at three o'clock, the following singular funeral took present circumstances of transitio n from slave to free place at the church of St. Paul, Covent-garden. Mr. n C ovent labour, renders the plans under d iscussion in France Cambray, a vender of fruit for many years i for effecti ng th e same object particularly interesting at garden Market, and who resided in Hart-street, Long this ti me ; to t h e propr i e t o rs of West India esta tes acre, expired last week. By his industry he accumu espich has beengenerallyaccomplish t o a ll classes in this country,' lated a large fortune, and was of eccentric habits. He which possessed a favourite horse, which, in his wil l, he re theg great work of Slave Emanci pation. It is w i t h t hi s quested to follow him to the grave. The funeral pro cvession quitted Hart-street in the following order ; noticevlew that we t a k e th e opportunity of bringing before the iz. of o ur rea d ers the progress of opinion in France re- , porters, state plumes, a he a rse drawn by four lative to thi s question, and the legislative measures which are now in contemplation. The Commission, of which the horses, containing the body, followed by three mourning c ex el a e m br in at e ed the D g e ut T i eoectqiuneavlilllietsiscoaches, containing the relatives and friends of the de -1 d by his two porters, one • , with new bridle and saddle, at bearings,the h a e n a d d t , c:appointedarrange the to ceased,e the deceased's horse oneach side. The mourn basis of a settled legislation ha processionpassed round a recently made a Report, ful procCovent-garden Market to from which it may be inferred the that the Government the church where body was deposited in a vault. come to the fixed determination of • have deceased grapp l in c, w ith this The was highly respected by all who knew perplexing difficulty. For some time • p as t th is result has him. T here was an immense number of spectators been prepared for by the preliminary delegation of agents ' present to witness the novel procession. ..... THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SOVEMBER 1, 1839. C MIDDLESE X O URT OF RE QUESTS. A " Boor " man AND A " LUMP" master.—A journey man cabinet-maker summoned his employer for 1/. ss. for work done under the following circumstances : Journeyman—(addressing the Court) —About six weeks ago I went " promiscuously" into the shop of the defendant, and asked if he wanted a hand. He said yes, and asked me what work I was used to. I told him 1 carcase work (heavy or large work), and he said he could let me get up a "cabinet." " So far you are correct," said the defendant. " Wherein is it that you differ ?" inquired the Learned Judge. W " hy, Sir," said the plaintiff, " I'm a book man." " And I," quickly observed the defendant, "am a lump master." Upon this bookish and lumpish question it was that the parties joined issue. The plaintiff swore most positively, that when he promiscuously engaged to get up the " cabinet," he told the defendant he was a book man, or, in other words, that he beionged to the Cabinet-makers' Society, and would not " go to work" otherwise than in the usual literary manner, viz., unless he was paid according to the sums laid down in the book of prices acknowledged by the above•named body. The defendant as positively swore that no such proposition was ever made, and that if it had been he could not possibly have agreed to it, and for these very obvious reasons—there were two de scriptions of c abinet-making men and master, viz., the book men and masters, and the lump men and masters, the former looking upon the latter as no better than " niggers," and treating them as if their souls aspired no higher, and their abilities were equal to nothing more than deal tables and kitchen dressers. " Though, for my parr," said the lump master," I can in my conscience say that one is not a bit worse than the other. We lumpers can make as good a sophy, and turn out a bit of cabinet and wardrobe work, or polish off a rosewood article, as well as the best of the book masters." " But in a bit of solid work," said the journeyman book-unionist, " such as turning out a dozen Windsors, you ain't no use to us." The defendant went on to state that these " Wind sor" men and masters charged according to the society's book of prices, and the other in the lump, that is, that that the men agreed to do a certain job for a certain sum. With respect to his knowing that the plaintiff was a society's man, the thing was preposterous. The " books" and the " lumps" were the antipodes of each other. The former were for carrying on matters in a new way, upon a principle of equity which any given dozen of bookmen and masters would interpret exactly 12 different ways. These persons, who professed to be guided by the principle of mutual protection, and by the book, could never come to any agreement as to the particular department or head under which the work done was to be classed. One person would contend that the Corinthian carving of the pillars of a bureau bedstead, or the twisted chiselling of a "fancy cabinet," ought to come under five or six par tieular items in the book, and each of the remaining 11 of the dozen ivould declare that they ought to be classed under five or six other particular items ; so that, in fact, none of them knew what to call, or how to class their own work ; and the best of the thing was, that the more they deliberated the more they 'differed. Such were these new bookish cabinet workers. Now, the limper: did things in the old way ; they took a lump of stuff (piece of wood), and master and man agreed that so much ought to be paid for it. The sum total was mentioned at once. The Jury gave a verdict of 19s. 9d., the plaintiff to pay costs, as the 19s. 9d. had been tendered. He was also ready to show that his design. could be completed for 150,0001. Also referred to the Committee. REFORM OF THE CORPORATION. Mr. WHEELER moved that the Bill for diminishing the number o f re p resen t a tives sent from Bridge Wards ' to that Court be read a second time. Mr. PONDER was much against such partial legisla tion, and felt it his duty to move as an ;intendment, " That it is inexpedient to proceed in the equalization of the members of this Court throughout the different Wards by any other than a general measure, which shall affect the whole city." Mr. Low seconded the amendment. Mr. LAWRENCE was anxious to see a reform, and an assimilation of the members allotted to each Ward, but he could not agree to any such partial legislation as was contemplated by the Bill before the Court. There was certainly much injustice done by the members for small Wards being put upon every Committee, but he suggested 'chat that abuse might be altered beneficially by putting two small wards, or wards sending few mem bers to the Court, into one list. He could not support the Bill in its present shape. Mr. WILLIAMS said if the Court were to agree to the motion, and take away any members from the Bridge Ward, who was to say where they were to stop in such innovations. If he supported the motion before the Court he would hold himself bound to vote for every similar motion that was brought forward.— (Hear.) He thought it was the duty of the Court to oppose such innovations in the very outset. Sir P. LAURIE would certainly.vote for maintaining the present number of members for Bridge \s ard, unlesss corruption or abuse w ere proved against the ward or its representatives. He would have no objec tion to a change in the mode of nominating Committees, but he would decidedly oppose any alteration in a dimi nution of the number of members. He heard many rumours, and amongst them it was said they would have the Government amongst them —(Laughter.) No such things—the Government ha d had enough of the City of London during the last six months. If the Corpo ration let them alone he was sure they would not trouble the Corporation. No, no—they would not touch pitch.—(Loud laughter.) The ward of Bridge was a good ward, and he would support it with his humble vote. Lessen the number of representa tives and they would immediately introduce jobbing and corruption. Their great safeguard against both was in their numbers and the openness of their proceedings. He hoped the representatives of the Bridge Ward were in their places ; and would resist the proposition as one man. Mr. OBBARD said the worthy Alderman and Knight had discovered that Bridge Ward was a good one—so, no doubt was Aldersgate, and in fact all the other Wards—they were all honourable.—(Laughter.) A great • deal had: been said about the Ward of Bassishaw—it bad only two members more than its proper number, but the Bridge Ward had four times more than it should have.—(Hear, hear.) He was in favour of a general measure ; but when he could not get the larger he was content to take the smaller, for anything would he an improvement. He would vote for the motion—not as against any one of the members for Bridge Ward—for none were more respectable— his vote would be against the system. Deputy TYARS defended the Ward of Portsoken from some attack made upon it by Sir P. Laurie. 11- thought the member who brought forward the proposi tion was perfectly justified in so doing—he was defeated in the general measure by a majority of only one—he had a right therefore to attempt to carry it by piece meal. The Ward of Portsoken had as much property, and a greater number of inhabitants, than Bridge Ward, yet the former was represented by only nine members while the latter had fifteen. That was an inequality which ought not to exist. Sir C. MARSHALL (Alerman for Bridge Ward) was very glad to see so full an attendance in the Court, as he was sure that perfect justice would be dealt out to the Ward of Bridge. The representatives of that Ward merely said,—" make the measure a general one, and we will conform to it, but do not siugle us out for attack, unless you have, some charge to make against us. He trusted that upon that occa sion the Court would agree to the amendment. Mr. STEVENS said, according to the old charter, the Corporation consisted of the whole of the citizens of London. Suppose a meeting was held in the Hall, and a measure was proposed anal carried, it would be car ried by a majority of the citizens, but that was not the case in that Court, for the members for large and popu lous wards were outvoted by those who represented small wards. He considered the proposed measure an excellent one, it was a small reform certainly, but he accepted it in the hope of obtaining th e larger measure which he had no doubt would greatly benefit the city of London. Mr. JONES of Bishopsgate was a consistent Reformer, and had voted for the general measure, but he could not support such a partial one as that before the Court. Mr. ROGERS supported the amendment. The LORD MAYOR said upon the last Court day the Bill was referred to the Law Officers to prepare it for a second reading. Before proceeding further it would be better to hear their opinion read. The TOWN CLERK then read the opinion. It said the expediency of reducing the number of Members for one Ward without reference to any other Ward, was extremely doubtful, and any such re duction must be just, reasonable, and for the benefit of the City genecally —(Cheers.) Mr. WIRE suggested the propriety of referring the matter back either to a Committee, or the Law Offi cers.—(No, no.) It appeared they had not sufficient data before them upon which to form an opinion. The LORD MAYOR considered that there was an end to the whole question upon the opinion of the Law Officers, unless the Court were prepared to take the opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor Generals. Mr. WIRE—The Law Officers of the Coporation had not had the whole case before them, and therefore their opinion (mid not he considered perfect. The COMMON-SERGEANT —We bad no case what ever before us. A Bill was put before us, but, as it stood, they could not have passed it for a second read ing, because it was illegal. We knew nothing of the rateable property or of the population of Bridge Ward, nor of it as compared with any other Ward in the City. We had no data upon which to found any averment. Mr. Ashurst, Mr. Pritchard, and several other mem bers' spoke all at once, amidst much confusion, which rendered it impossible for us to hear their sentiments. Mr. PEWTRESS was firmly of opinion that the Court could not legally effect what they were now trying to accomplish—they could not legally pass the present Bill. The LORD MAYOR was glad to perceive that there was a determination among the members of the Court to go to a division on the present question, because lie was satisfied if' the Court had the power there were sufficient averments in the preamble of the present Bill to call upon the Court to pass it.—(Hear.) In his opinion the Court could not do better than pass the present measure, leaving those who disputed its legality to carry it to tne proper tribunal for deciding that point.—( Hear.) Mr. DAVIDSON rose amid loud cries of " Question." He called upon the Court not to pass the present Bill, as by doing so they would be placing themselves in a labyrinth from which it would be most difficult to extri cate themselves. Mr. WHEELER having replied, A show of hands was taken, which was declared by the Lord Mayor to be in favour of the amendment. A division was then called for, and having taken place, the amendment was pronounced to be carried by a ma jority of 6. THE OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY POLICE. Tile Court then proceeded to the election of a Com missioner of the City Police, when Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey was elected to the office unanimously. THE OFFICE OF CITY SOLICITOR. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 100 soy. each, h ft, for foals of 1837 ; colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies Bst 41b. T. Y. C. (4 -Subs. ) Mr. Greville's c Proteus by Cetus (sat) 1 Lord Exeter's f by Sultan ............ 2. 6 to 1 on Proteus, who won by a length. Subscription Plate of 501. ( Handicap), for three-yr-olds Tina upwards. D.I. Lord Jersey's Jeannina, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Robinson) 1 Mr. Shelley's the Drama, 3 yrs 6st ..... 2 Lord Exeter's Adrian, 5 yt s ist 3 Lord Lichfield's c Feather, by Actaeon.. ...... Duke of Rutland's Revoke, 3 yrs 7st ........................ 5 Duke of Portland's St. Peray, 4 yrs, 7st 91b... .................. Betting-2 to 1 asst Feather, sto 1 agst Joannina, sto 1 agst St. Peray, sto 1 Revoke, sto I agst the Drama, and 6to 1 agst Adrian. Won by half a length. Sweepstakes of 50 soy. each, h ft ; for two-yr-old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b. Ab. M. (19 Subs. ) Lord G. Bentinck's ch Capote (W. Day) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's gr c Grey Milton ............... . ........... 2 Mr. Wadeson's cby Buzzard .... 3 Mr. Grevill's ch c Preteus 4 Betting-5 to lon Grey Milton and Capote, and 6to 1 agst Proteus. Sweepstakes of 13 sous eacit ; for two-year olds, 7st ; and three, Bst 121 Is ; fillies allowed 21b. T. Y. C, The winner to be sold for SOL, &c Six Subs. Mr. J. Bogers's Miss Hawk, 3 yrs. (Rogers) 1 2 Mr. Pettit's Miss Romer, 2 yr 5..... ......... . Lord Lynedoch's Re:amosa, 2 yrs .............................. •Lord 3 The following also started, but were not placed Lichfield's Sister to Hector, 2 yrs ; Lord Exet er s f b y Sultan, out of Palais Royal, 2 yrs ; and Mr. Rayner' s Miss Betsey, : yrs. Betting-5 to 4 agst Retamosa (taken), 3to 1 agst Miss Hawk, and 4to 1 agst Sister to Heetor. Won by three parts of a length. (FURTHER PARTICULARS OF WEDNESDAY'S RACES.) T.Y.C. Plate.—Maid of Ipswich, Muleteer, and Remnant laid together in front of the c )rds, where Camelino joined com pany ; a few strides up he left them, and won easy by a length; Remnant was well up, Stamboul fifth, and Mist beaten e re ff• Some false starts, and a great loss of time, arose from the s" tiveness of tamboul. The winner was claimed. A. F. Plate.—Antler and Roscius made the running to the bushes, where Quo Minus took it up, followed by . t Ether, th e two being fairly singled out; half-way up the cords .iSther challenged, and after a fine race won by half a length. The wea•her COD inues fine, but the wind is still in a cold quarter, and strong enough to make a long stay on the heath far from agreeable. Latest betting : NURSERY STAKES-FRIDAY. 2 to 1 agst Garry-Owen—taken 9 to '2 agst Assassin—taken 5 to 1 agst Nicholas—taken 5 to 1 agst Little Wonder 12 to 1 agst Constantia colt 13 to 2 agst Miss Romer and Ten-pound Note THE DERRY. 16 to 1 agst Wardan—taken 18 to i agst Launcelot—taken 18 to 1 agst Nluley Ishmael 20 to 1 agst St. Andrew 25 to 1 agst Brother to Euclid 30 to 1 agst Lucetta colt—taken 33 to 1 agst Bokhara 15 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken THE OAKS. 10 to 3 agst Crucifix 11 to 1 agst Lallah Rookh 12 to 1 agst Currency The following matches have been made : FRIDAY. Trojana, 7st 41b. First half of Ab. M. 50, h ft. G. Lord Lichfield's Sister to Hector, Bst 71b, agst 111 r. Greville', Lord Lichfield's Sister to Hector, Bst 71b, Bentinck's Sal Volatile, 7st. First half of Ab. M. I°l3 ' h SATURDAY. Bentin • cies Mr. Graydon's Roscius, Bst 71b., agst Lord G. Capote, 7st 21b. T. Y. C. 100, h ft. sold f..-- Previous to the races the following racing stock was Chincilla, by Camel, 200 guineas; Young Maniac (C ° . 11 ,,, i1- : 60 pine— sionee's dam), 130 guineas; Flora, by Partisan, colt foal, by Clearwell, out of I.iska, 67 guineas; Ala cie r c ), agst Lord ft. Sister to Neva, 25 guineas ; and Sister to Confusionee (a . 16 guineas. . _ GRAND ROWING MATCH ON THE R MERSEY. THE THAMES AGAINST THE CLYDE. the This event, which has excited so much interest among .. admirers of aquatic sports, came off on Wednesday. It was al a nounced by advertisements that several of the steamboats vrot, leave Liverpool for the Rock Ferry as early as nine eons, c ote; A.m., and it was supposed in consequence that the would take place on the Cheshire side of the river. A g rt to concourse of persons availed themselves of the steam-boats I cross the river ; but as the tide would not serve for the Math, taking place on the Cheshire side, it was determined th ~ trial should be made along the piers opposite. At tviei‘r o'clock the promenade of the Prince's Pier was crowded--i v deed, there were as many spectators as witnessed the first fie parture of the Liverpool steamer for New York. The betti'ag, both at Liverpool and Manchester, upon this highly A ; i f fi ni $ 1; esting contest, has been very extensive, hut it is --,g e to tell s , hich of the competitors were favourites. ' - circumstance of the Clyde watermen having been success ful in all their matches induced a feeling boatmenr fa' your ; but the known skill of the London also challenged the odds. Charles Campbell, the champion of of the Thames, as previously announced, was entrusted vi. the selection of the Thames watermen, and in addition to him self, Phelps of Fulham, Pocock ('Lambeth), Campbell, were named as the rowers. W. Caropbell was Bunt, about about pointed coxswain. Mr. Thyne's gig, built by Han ._ . 2 She is 0. four years since, was fixed upon for the match. been in feet long, and weighs 139 lbs. The Clyde crew had _ active training, and looked well at starting. Three brothers! and George named Barr, were selected to row , but subsequently one cii; Tw o withdrawn, and a boatman named Fr as e r substituted. , i' ' / boats had been built for the purpose , one wei g hin g 224 p The and the s econd 237 lbs. The latter boat was chosen• oars pulled with were such as are used on the Thames. The g, bet was for 1001. a side, and each crew provided its OWP iv' without any restrictions as. to length,palling tons, &C. an imate d The river during the morning presented a very appearance, a very considerable number of steamers fide'arr oars, with but and small boats were crowded with spectators. At nutes to one o'clock the boats of the competitors were backed.)_.e.. to the lin? of polite Queen's Dock, and by a given sigt.tl the paration was made for starting. In order to distinguishi.% different boats the one from the Land of Cakes was painted eu and the other yellow. the Lon - About one o'clock the firing . of a gun announced the co ca ' About of the trial of speed. Both started fairly: t „.. don boat having the very trifling advantage of nearing a nds a•' verpool shore. To the distance of some 300 or 400 y . D; advantage was gained, but subsequently the skill of the Lon l . al ro wers was perceptible. The Scotch men still pulled rnanfan' and gained a temporary advant4re, but it was quite e vident tua the superior strength of the metropolitans would gain the pril e a The London rowers, when opposite the Prince's Pier, b,a‘, gained more than seven boats' lengths, and after rounding t" ' boat moored according to the regulations, came in more than t< quarter of a mile in advance ofthe Scotch boat. ............-=,....11 .IVER THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN AIARKETS Wheat , Barley. l eats. Mr. Charles Pearson was elected to the office of City Solicitor by a major►ty of 28—the numbers being for Mr. Pearson 129, for Mr. Saunders 101. The Aldermen who voted for Mr. Pearson were— Humphrey, White, Copeland, Lawson, Harmer, Sir John Key, and Pirie, who was his chairman. The Aldermen who voted for Mr. Saunders were — John Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Sir Peter Laurie, Gibb-, and Magnay, who was his chairman. Mr. PEARSON, in returning thanks, declared that he had so many votes of members of all parties, he w as d t .... termined never to use the word party again.—(A laugh.) Mr. SAUNDERS, in returning thanks for the sup port he had met, said he felt confident that if he had commenced his canvass as soon as his able competitor had taken the field, he would have been at that mo►ne„t in the situation which his friend Mr. Pearson had just succeeded in obtaining.—(Cheer s. ) Mr. Pearson was then i ntroduced to the Court as City Solicitor, and toMs his seat at the table. COMPTROLLER OF BRIDGE -HOUSE ESTATES. Mr. Brand was unanimously chosen Comptre -- the Bridge-house Estates —Adjourned. ea .. s . Dr. Haviland, Regius Professor of Physic in Cambridge, has resigned the office of physician to Ad denbrooke's Hospital. His successor is Dr. Paget, of Caius College. Prince Louis Napoleon has taken the spacious mansion of the Earl of Ripon, in Carlton-gardens, over looking the gardens of her Majesty the Queen Dowa ger, at Marlborough House. The Prince, who intends to fix his residence in this country, is about to give up Lord Cardigan's mansion, the term for which he had taken it having nearly expired. AUCIITERARDER CASE.—The Presbytery of Auchterarder have just appointed the Rev. Peter Mor rison, from Newcasle, to supply the vacancy there, in the face of a unanimous protest, both by the Session and Congregation. The Session and Congregation, we are creditably informed, offered to pay the interim minister if they were allowed to elect him, but the Pres bytery, who have the sole power at present, would not listen to this proposal, and hence the Session and Con , gregation, to show their abhorrence of such inconsistent conduct, have protested a gainst the appointment. — Scottish Pilot. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. The Court sat on Wednesday to hear appeal cases. HAMPTON COURT PALACE--EDWARD LEIGH PEMBER, TON, ESQ., ON BEHALF OF THE INHABITANTS OF HAMPTON COURT PALACE, V. THE POOR RATE OP HAMPTON. This case, which has stood for hearing for severa months past, was postponed to the next Court day. LORD DENMAN AND THE OTHER JUDGES V. THE POOR RATE OF THE LIBERTY or THE ROLLS. In this case Mr. BODKIN appeared for the respon dents, and Mr. CLARKSoN for the appellants. Mr. BODKIN said this was an appeal by the fifteen Judges of the superior Courts at Westminster, against the rating of their chambers in Rolls-garden to the Poor-rate. There was, he believed, no qnest on that Sergeants' Inn, in which the chambers of the Learned Judges were situate, was extra parochial, and therefore not liable to the ordinary parisdrates, although, as the Court was aware, there been a considerable struggle as to that point. There was no doubt that the premises in question were built on property that formed part of the liber ty of the Rolls, or that all the buildings within that liberty were liable to the Poor-rate, provided they were occupied in the manner that would render them so liable. The Chairman (interrupting the Learned Counsel) said the Learned Judges were all of them members of Sergeants' Inn. Indeed every Judge must be a ser geant before he could be promoted to the Bench. The sergeants were all entitled to chambers as members of that Inn, and they were beneficially occupied by them, with liberty to let them if they thought proper. The whole of Sergeants' Inn had been rated in the mass un der the 3d an 4th of William IV., in pursuance of an arrangement the parties concerned had entered into, and the Judges were assessed to their quota. After some conversation between the Counsel on both sides it was arranged that the appeal should be allowed, subject to the production of the leases in question. After all the appeal cases had been disposed of, John Newman, who was convicted last sessions of obtaining 401. under false pretences from Mr. Hutchin. son, th;barrister, relative to the sale of a horse, was placed at the bar to receive the judgment of the Court, when The CHAIRMAN said that, after the verdict had been given, a question was raised as to the legality of the pri soner's conviction, upon which he had since taken the opinion of the Learned Judges, and they agreed with him that the evidence adduced did not sustain the alle gation in the indictment, which averred that the prisoner had obtained the 40/. from the prosecutor, when the fact was that the money was given to his confederate, Clarke. Under these circumstances, the Court or dered that the prisoner be fined one shilling and dis :barged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE HATT ON-GARDEN. SUNDAY TRADING. —Yesterday, Martha Marriott, a poor widow woman living in King-street, Islington, was charged with selling a penny cigar at ten minutes before six o'clock on Sunday evening last. The defendant pleaded guilty of so offending, and urged, in extenuation, that she was not aware that there was any law which rendered her liable to punishment for so doing.—She was fined ss. and costs. Edward Mitchell, tobacconist, of Albion-place, Pen tonvillc, was fined in the like sum for a similar offence. John Partington, confectioner, of Islington, was ac cused of selling a penny bun at half-past nine o'clock on last Sunday morning, and fined ss. and costs. There were two other informations under the same A.ct of Parliament, one of which was withdrawn, and the other dismissed through informality. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 30.—The Pique,36, Capt. Boxer, is daily looked for at Spithead, from Quebec, with Sir John Colborne. The Inconstant, 36, Capt. Print, is also ordered home from Halifax, to be paid off and re commissioned. The Persian, a new 16-gun brig, is ordered to be conveyed to Sheerness, for immediate commission. She is now at Plymouth. The Hercules, 72, Capt. Barnard, has returned from the Lisbon station, and proceeded to Sheerness to be paid off. The officers report that she is to be re-com missioned for the Mediterranean. She left the Tagus on the 9th inst., when the Donegal, 78, flag-ship, and Blenheim, 72, , were lying there, and daily expecting the Revenge, 78, from Plymouth. K The Apollo troop-ship, Mr. arley, master, is on her way to Cork,: to embark the 7thFusiiers for Gibraltar. She will tly nee go to the several West India islands, with detachments of the 81st and 82d Regiments. The troopship Athol, Mr. Bellamy, master, was at Cork on the 22d instant, under orders for Gibraltar. The Rat tlesnake troop-ship, Mr. Brodie, master, sailed from the Downs on the 24th instant, for the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and Ceylon, with the 90th and 95th Regi ments on board. The Sapphire troop-ship, Mr. G. Nembhard, master, pro tempore, although only commissioned here a few days, is nearly ready for service. She is under orders for Gibraltar, to conve y to that garrison the Ist Regi ment of infantry. The Rodney, 92, Captain Hyde Parker, and Tala vera, 72, Captain Mends, are s hortly expected from the Mediterranean to be paid off. The Lords of the Admiralty have it in contemplation to appoint Mates of the Navy to the situation of Chief officers in the Coast. Guard Service, with the daily pay of 95., and the chance of seizures. There is at present a great scarcity of Mates in sea-going ships, for instance in the Revenge, 78, fitted out here ; and the present re gulation will increase the difficulty. The corvette Scout, 18, Commander Craigie, has proceeded to the River to be paid off, from the West African station, having been four years in commission. She brings no news. Her pla ce on the station is to be supplied by the Lily, 18, no w on her wa y out. When she left the Cape of Good Hope (25th August), Rear- Admiral Elliott, was there, all well , with his flag flying in the Melville, 78. AT SPITHEAD—NO ship of war. IN HARBOUR—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, yacht ; Sapphire, Pantaloon, and Messenger steamer.—Brighton Gazelle. It is said that Lord Tavistock will stand for Cam bridgeshire on the Liberal interest, in conjunction with Mr. G. Townley, cihenever there is a general election. COURT OF - Yesterday a Court was held for the election of a Commissioner of the City Police, a City Solicitor, and a Comptroller of the Bridge-house estates. The greatest excitement prevailed during the day on account of the contest for the office of City Solicitor ; Mr. C. Pear son and Mr. Thomas Saunders , two gentlemen who poness great influence in the corporation, being the can didates for that office. The Court was crowded from an earl, hour, and the Guildhall was the scene of extra ordinary bustle during the day. It must be admitted, however, that never was a contest carried on with more kindly feeling. THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE DESIGNS. Mr. ELMES rose and presented the following memo rial from Mr. Donaldson, one of the architects who sent n designs to the Committee : To the Right Hon. the 'Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, " The memorial of Thomas Leverton Donaldson, of Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square, architect, " Showeth,—That your memorialist is the author of No. 50, the first of the three designs for the New Royal Exchange, which, according to the report of Sir Robert Smirke and Messrs. Hardwicke and Gavitt, the three architects to whom the drawings were referred, is stated by them to be the best class of designs," possessing, for magnificence and beauty, great claims as works of art, exhibiting very great talent,' and distinguished by grand architectural features.' " That, notwithstanding the pre-eminent position in which your memorialistis thus placed he is deprived of his high advantage, and the premiums have been adjudged to other designs, which the referees acknowledge do not possess equal merits in point of design, upon the sole ground that the cost of the best class of designs would vastly exceed the sum of 150,0001. " That the three architects did not call upon the au thors of those designs to substantiate the amount of their estimates, which is contrary to the implied mutual contract contained in the instructions to competitors, in which is the following eleventh clause, viz., That if reasonable doubts should arise in the minds of the Com mittee as to the practicability of carrying into execution the successful design for the amount of the estimated expenses of the building, the Committee shall be at li berty to call upon the party to give sufficient and satis factory proof of the accuracy of the calculations, and to withhold the provision and reject the designs, unless such proof be furnished. " Your memorialist, therefore, prays, that he may be allowed to produce proof before the joint Committee for managing the Gresham Estates, that his design is in strict conformity with their printed instructions, and can be executed for the sum of 150,0001." The LORD MAYOR inquired if the petitioner had anything to add. Mr. DONALDSON then came to the bar and said, it was not his intention to call in question the conduct of the Committee of the Gresham Estate, or to offer any thing against the character of the three architects who had just made their report. But he thought it due to his own character and that of the other candidates, to make a few remarks upon their report. It was stated that the details of all the designs were imperfect, and consequently impracticable ; and it was also said of the three plans selected, that they would exceed the proposed estimate. Now, that was admitted by the three arcnitects themselves to be matter of very com plicated calculation, which they had acknowledged they had not made, The estimates for the new Houses of Lords and Commons, where there was a difference of fifteen per cent., was a proof that architects could not always be strictly correct in their cal culations, and he would verify his estimate by evidence before the Committee. He believed the gentleman who had sent in the plans for the new Exchange were actuated by as nice a sense of honour as those of any other profession. Independently of the profit accruing from such an undertaking there was a feeling of honour that a plan worthy of the wealth, extent, and importance of the first city in the world, should be adopted.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that that feeling would actuate the Committee and the Corporation of London, and that the suggestions in his petition should be taken into consideration.—(Hear.) Mr. BURTON complained of the conduct of the Gresham Committee, and observed that the Corpora tion had acted very injudiciously in placing all the con trol with respect to the building of the new Exchange in the hands of a Committee. He thought it useless to refer Mr. Donaldson's petition to the Gresham Estate Committee, for he could get no justice from him. —( Hear, hear.) The LORD MAYOR fully agreed in the observations of the last speaker.— (Hear.) He understood there was another petition on the same subject to be presented to the Court. It appeared to him that the whole of the proceedings of the Committee with respect to the plans for the new Royal Exchange, were conducted with too much privacy and secresy. In fact he had been refused admittance himself to view the designs. Mr. JONES, the Chairman of the Gresham Estate Committee, defended the conduct of that body at some length, but the noise in the body of the Court pre vented our catching his observations. Mr. R. TAYLOR also defended the Committee, among which, he said, were some of the most respect able gentlemen of the City of London. With respect to the observation of Mr. Burton, that the petitioner would not get justice from the Committee, be thought that remark a most unjust and uncalled for one.—( Hear, hear.) He hoped the petition would be re ferred to the Committee, accompanied by such remarks and suggestions as the Court might think fit. It was of the utmost importance that a right decision should be come to on a question in which the honour and charac ter of the City was so deeply involved. He was satis fied the Committee would not hesitate to hear any evi dence that might be tendered to them, and as to the supposition that any particular candidate was favoured, the Committee utterly repudiated any idea of the kind. He should support the petition, and hoped it would receive the consideration it deserved. Mr. LAWRENCE highly approved of the system of public competition which had been adopted with regard to the building of the new Exchange ; and it appeared that up to a certain point no fault had been found with the proceedings of the Committee. The great mis take the Committee had made was in requiring the arc hitect, where any dou bt arose, to prove before the Committee that his plan would not exceed the sum of 150,000/.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Why then suppose that any practicable design could be prepared from them ?—(Hear, hear.) Again, the delay of pre paring a new plan, and of making estimates, would throw back their operations for six months longer. Un der all these circumstances, he trusted the petition would be referred to the Committee for its con sideration. After a few words from Mr. HALE, Mr. ASIIURST said the Committee had, as it appeared to him, been most unjustly censured. They were not judges themselves, and they had called in the assistance of three gentlemen who were competent to decide upon the merits of the various plans which were to be sub mitted to them. Suppose the Committee had acted upon their own respcansibilltv what would have been said of them.—( Hear, hear.) The Committee said to these three gentlemen—" You are to judge for us of the prac ticability, the advisability, and the durability of all these plans, while you are also to bear in mind that the est mate must not exceed 150,0001. All these points, therefore, were to be taken into consideration, not the cost alone, hut the eligibility and the durability. Now what had the three gentlemen so appointed done ? Each of them had separately made a selection, and it was then ascertained that all three had selected the very same designs.—( Hear, hear.) It appeared fur ther, that on examining them more minutely, it was found that none of them were practicable ; and they reported " under these rather embarrassing circum stances, they have endeavoured to meet the views of the Committee by selecting eight designs, rather as works of art, than as plans capable of being carried inte effect. Of these eight, five came within the estimates of 150 0001." It should be borne in mind, however, that there was something more than that condition required, which these plans did not possess, and it was rather hard that the Committee should bear the entire onus of the mat ter.—(Hear, hear.) After some further observations from Mr. Cope, Mr. Lawrence, and Sir Peter Laurie, The petition was referred to the Committee. Mr. HEPPELL said he had a similar petition to pre sent from Mr. Mocatta, the author of design No. 27. The subject had been so fully discussed, however, that he would not occupy more of their time than merely to state, that Mr. Mocatta was prepared to prove the prac ticability of his plan, as well as the fact of his estimate being rather within the specified sum. Before he pre sented the petition he would beg to ask the Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Jones, whether the three archi tects had undertaken to prepare a new design for the Royal Exchange. Mr. JONES said two of them had, the other having declined to act. Mr. HEPPELL—May I ask which of the gentlemen has declined to act ? Mr JONES—Sir R. Smirke. Mr. HEPPELL was very glad for the honour and cha racter of Sir R. Smirke that he had declined to interfere. Mr. JONES thought it very unfair to be throwing out insinuations against the two gentlemen who had under taken to prepare a plan at the request of the Committee. Mr. HEPPELL said if ever persons wished to injure the r eputation of their professional brethren, and were anxious to further their own pecuniary interests at the expense of others,, they could not have adopted a better course of proceedings to accomplish these objects.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He hoped the false step which the Committee had taken in the matter would he retraced, and thereby satisfy the minds of the public on this very important subject. Mr. MOCATTA then appeared at the bar in support of his petition, and observed that it was due to his cha racter to refute the statement in thehe report that his de sign was impracticable, and e ped he would be I allowed to prove by evidence that such was not the fact. COMMON COUNCIL EVENING 141,DITIOW. ,IGENCE. SPORT [N _._-~' N_~6/ a W .• • _ ---..— Per Quarter s. to s. s. a; s. to s. s. to a. Bath Blandtord —63 SI 42 44 24 30 i 46 50 Bridport ........- - 68 i - - - -I - . m . r hard ..w 60 80 40 . 48 22 24 48 56 Gloucester 72 75 43 48 30 34 41 43 Exe er Guildford .., - - 36 38 30 33 j 42 44 Newbury --- 59 80 32 50 21 32 42 52 Reading •-.....«. 55. 84 35 47 i 23 34 40 53 Salisbury Shtrborne l2 78 38 4 6 26 30 42 4.3 SheptonMallet 60 84 39 54 20 34 52 58 Uxbridge -- - - 37 4:4 23 32 - -- W.rirunstet -54 14 36 S 5 '27 36 50 58 Winchester {64 76 - - _ - ...- - I •-• ••"' Yeovil 163 78 36 49 `;4l 30 46 50 DEVIZES CORN MARKET. , d Per Sack. s 4. s. d Per Quarter. s• cl; to 36 l i, i irat Wheat......... 40 oto 42 0 Ws.- ............... 20 0 (3 " Second Third ... ;-0 0 31 u -lour (par bag)..... -t; Barley Barley 34 0 ito t Bread (per gall.)••• i " LEEDS CORN MARKET.- Oct. 22 -3 6 3 .: Wheat, N,rfolk and sitHitlk, 60lb. ....................... .6 4 3. t°4„ .1 York. and lAIICOIII, 601 b. 3.irley, Sorfolk and Sullblk ..... 444 to 455. -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ..................••••• • 40s. tv „. 3 3 5. 5 Grinding Beans ' JetsPotatoe 631b..... _ i o 26 ;: ti ,:,,, .=Mewling, F or. -d. to=4l . Eng. I4d. to 15 •• I , e , _ ~,,, . S " "ng ....................... 37 , to 36. ' el ,0 (10LE L" SHEFFIELD PLATED WINE C-- - •• tr , A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing 14, Cornhill, London (opposite the 13ank of England ),0111§/1- choice in their warerooms a Selection of PLAIN and tent ° MENTAL ICE PA ILS, to which they vk ish to direct at _ f. 109 . The price of the Plain Tub-pail (now much in se) it'. t he the pair ; the Classic Vase (very neat ), 10/. Ss. the pli.; tbe Cooler , . and Victoria Pattern, 151. the pair ; the Dresden C001e...1 r • Silvei:solli fo r pair, &c., all of whic- are strongly mounted with Sii, s 4.las have Silver Shields for Engraving the Crest or Coats l ei '', old A pamphlet is published, with;, dravviiigs of the n o plies' other articles of plate generally, which may be had en F lion, free of cost. A I N . LADIES' BEST GOLD CH - soo - The weight is given by comparison with the w eight ? ou nee s reigns, being more easily referred to than if stated f: to sill and dwts. The quality of the gold is warranted eign'' , that is worked into articles of this description. „ , te to 0 Price of the Cable Pattern, or Matted Ring r ar l3 7 ~ Same weight as 3 sovs. £4 4 0 Same weight as 6 o vs " IIS ''',, Ditto as 4 sovs. 55 0 Ditto as 7 so' . 99 v Ditto as 5 sovs. 66 0 Ditto as s Ws- _ t he The following patterns are One Guinea dearer t ha n f ,,,, above but cannot be made lighter than the weiS bt sovereigns. e The Cage pattern The Ring antl Bar pattern I sri THE NEW FLAT GOLD 'WATCHES. With well-finished horizontal move ment, in double The hi ppatterr: bottomed engine-turned case, jewelled, silver dial , nft ! warranted .................... _7, io Ditto, with gold dial . ................. • ..................... I n T. COX SAVORY'S, elid oe Watchmaker, Silversmith and Jeweller, 47, Corhill, I.' (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street).. room lr or N.8.-The Horizontal Construction is partieularii I mended for its superior accuracy. -------- BIRTHS iroupg' fro• M in On the 29th ult., at Stoke Newington, B • • of a daughter. Ca tail u• C O ic On the llth alt. , a t Florence, the lady of Lynch, of a son and heir. DIE li. She retained her faculties to the last period of her e d li , On the 17th ult., at Bilston, Mrs. Sarah Hand , .lea'. o At the , Greve, Brockhampton, near Brotnyar_bnnd, iv.i;e is Ve Qs ii now in his 99th year, to lament her loss. Th . . . 4 the st e of Benjamin Prince, aged 82, leaving her hu' ' , e rsp' sistance of a stick ; during the late hop-picking, h o e ; _i,,lit. e man never wore spectacles, and can walk well w itti vr e a u s the or in the yard in the morning, and the last to leave b t i' r , 4 0 the e h d all • oi At Glenarkled, Buchanan parish, Peter 11.1`Na , l .O e of 107. Glenarkled lies between Loch Lomeil ___,, e/ Ity of rho its and has been long diitinguished for the leie ,_ its inhabitants.. tel 0 On the 24th ult., at Yarmouth, Norfolk, Mary, late William Sander, Esq., of Yarmouth, aged Rea r. /ka' On the 26th ult., at Exeter, after a long illness, l a s g t e e d u c_ le°.‘,6: cror m iral Bond , ag ed 74. Chal u ' O n the 29th ult., at Walworth, Mr. Jain° aged 68. fl 0 f .2......._,......,,„........Arm53cr,..,....eaeer5am0z5t. 5. ~ VDT a, / i , 0 London: Printed and Published by WIRD° Y“ d , ill t''' No. 112 Strand, at The Sun Office, No 11'2, Str a° minty of Middlesex.-Frid4v, November I, It:2:;,000,10000,-, - , -.. __ ,0 27 "- , -_ -46 f' -- _ , .... I .... , I