The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-22 00:00:00

THE CITY WAEDMOTES.

Yesterday being St. Thomas's-day, in accordance
with a custom coeval with the corporation itself, the
freemen-occupiers throughout the city of London were pub.
tidy convened in their respective wards, 2.5 in number, for
the election of representatives to the Court of Common
Council during the ensuing year. The Lord Mayor presided
at three of the wardmotes—namely, Langbourn, of which
he is the alderman ; St. Michael's, Coruhill ; and Candle.
wick, where the office of alderman, consequent on the death
of Sir George Carroll, is at present vacant. In the greater
number of the wards the members who sat in the Court of
Common Council during the put year wore yesterday re.
elected, and it is only in a few that efforts are being
made to introduce new representatives, the wards of Cheap,
Farringdon Within, Fainngdon Without, Bassishaw, tang.
bourn, Lime-street, and Viotry being among the num.
bar. In all those cases recourse was, as usual, bad to •
poll, which will begin and end to-day. In the ward of
Cheap, which returns six members, Mr. Bennett, of Cheep.
side, is the only new candidate ; m Bassishaw, returning
four, Mr. Deputy Britten retires, after twenty-two years'
service in the corporation, and the new candidates are Mr.
Augustus Bradbury and Mr. T. Oldie ; in Farringion
Without, which returns sixteen, Mr. Harvey was elected
in the place of Mr. Surridge, resigned, and a contest
lies between Mr. W. Payee and Mr. Yeller ; in Far-
Thiene Within, which returns fourteen, Mr. Milliard
is the only one new candidate ; in Isuigbourn, send•
iog eight, Mr. hiedwin was nominated as a can.
delete and a poll demanded on behalf of Mr. Crosley,
who sat Let year ; iu Lime-street, returning four, W.
G. H. Wheatley aspires to be one of the number; and in
Viiitry, sending sin, Messrs Field, Bennett, and Swan
are fresh candidates. The wards of Alderegate.
Aldgate, Billingsgate, Bridge, Bread-street, Candlewick,
Castle Elaynard, Coleman-street, Cordwainer, Coruhill,
Cripplegate Within and Without, Dougate, Portookm,
and Queenhithe, in each and every case returned without
opposition the members who respectively represented
them in the oouucil during the last year. This
much it will audios to my, for it would be tedious to
give the names returned in each. When the returns are
complete, the total number of "Commoners," as they ar•
called, sent to the Court of Common Council will be 112, in
oddities to %aldermen. At the wardmote of Candlewick,
over which the Lord Mayor presided, a resolution was tins-
nimously passed, on the motion of Mr. Jeremiah Evans, and
seconded by Deputy Dakin, recording their deep sense of
the services rendered to the ward by the late Alderman Sir
George Carroll during twenty-one yeani, and of his high
character, commercial experience, and kindly disposition.
adding that he would be long remembered by them as an
upright magistrate, and • high-minded gentleman.

Tai MURDER OF A FRINCH JCDOZ.—The
Journal de la Haute-Sadne publishes the following deem.
meets " A murder was committed on the night of the sth
December in one of the carriages of the Eastern Railway,
ou the peewee of M. Poussot, President of the Imperial
Court of Paris The murderer carried off the following
articles : 1. A black end white travelliag rug, of English
manufacture ; 2. A leather travelling bag, containing some
books on gardening, a work of Dubreuil, and a knife
with buck-born handle ; 3. A gold watch, No.
2,63 ft, by Saurian Rue de la Pale ; 4. A gold chain hay-
iog a key attached, Pet with a ruby, engraved with the
letter ; 5. A ports-mounaie, in black morocco, with a
steel clasp. The undersigned requests all officers of justice
to wont any person Laving such articles in his peaseasten.
Paris, 6th Dec., 1860. Cordoeu, Procureur-ImperiaL"
The same journal gives the following description of the
murderer :—" Murderer of M. Puinsot —Charles Jud, 27
years of age, 5 feet 7 inches in height, brown hair, high
forehead, long and thin face a ear above the left eyebrow,
some of his teeth broken ; beard reddish brown, and, if
wore, not more than of ten days' growth. He has some-
times gone by the name of Jud, and at others of Montalti
and Matricou. A warrant has been issued fur his arrest.
The undersigned requests all officers of justice to endeavour
to arrest Lim—Paris, 10th Dec., Cordoeu, Procateur.
HONESTY SINGULARLY REWAHDED.--Rumour has
supplied us with the following rare morsel of gossip for this
season of jubilation :--Not long since the visitors' book at •
large hotel within • hundred miles of the Admiralty Pier
received the ma of "a fine old English gentleman, ” upon
whose head the snow of seventy winters had left but little
trace of its pathway. Being an early riser. he the other
day left his couch shortly after dawn, to stir abroad to sip
the morning air, and unwittingly dropped his !surge while
descending the staircase that led from his chamber. Reach:
ing but a short distauce from the hotel before he dis-
covered his loss, be hastily retraced his steps, and, on enter-
ing the Louse, inquired of the first person he encountered
(a chambermaid just emerging from her teens) relative
to the truant property. The inquiry elicited in
reply that the femme de ehonthre had herself
just found the puns, anti was then on her way
to deliver it to the proprietor of the hotel, in accordance
with the rules of the establishment. A transfer of the
purse to the hands of its owner followed ; mat a cur-
say glance satisfying him that the contents were intact,
he informed the finder that he would not forget her,
end then retired. Disappointed, and having bet little
hope that the promise would be fulfilled, the domestic
soon communicated what had transpired to Kindn of
her fellow-servants ; while the gentleman in another
direction was devising how the most satisfactorily to
all eoneurned he could reward the (pretty, of come)
chambermaid. A. few minutes sufficed far the deli.
titration ; amid while the finder of the puree was in the
ant of commenting rather harshly on the absence of prompt
generosity in its owner, the ringing of a boll summoned her
to an interview with the veritable gentleman hiniscif.
Doubtless with the rapidity of thought her niisel sauw.ll
the composition of here wersinthe, and fancy added sots
lows-oeemed article of dress through the houoty of the
=but, to her astonishment, he offered her his hand
tuns, which she aecepted, and on Thursday Lit
obtained, as the reward of her honesty, a husbainl.— ben let
Chronicle,

MEMORIAL.-011 Muiiilay last
a meeting of the committee hr rumen a fund for the itieb•
mend Memorial was bold at the Ship Hotel, Brighton. TI
Lord-Lieutenant, the Earl of 'lathe- der, was voted to the
chair. After considerable diactission, it WWI agrecil that the
nieworisl should be a bronze statue, awl that it should Is
plink in the open air in Sussex. It WllOl shut resolved at 1,126
misting that the maximum amount of subscription shall us
W. each, and Out 3/.—Suasta Etiot.M.

Sit'AL AND MILITARY.

tnvictin, D.c. 21. Arroisnic%ri. As-
• • l'ayrnutar W. IL Gains, to the rearm°.
.....eit•Psysseter is cheep A. C. An:Mee-op, to the

CH.tTHA Y. Itrc. 21.
aria D. Blyth ha been appointed' instructor
...wry at admit:vision .f 1 M %riot. Light Infantry,
• •. !releass of Lieutenant C.•!..nel Conolly.
•:•i• re hare been weirs' at tLo• garrison direetiagrF
• ..; to be •liseoetioued for the 'thole of the East India
• ....cent-anise the three battalion. of infaxitryorith the
dubs ;'hb Kew amid. the strength of which is
. Whin its iequiry,l onui•lameot.

IERIEAL or THE CHANNEL SprAtmox. —The
Bond .tlbert. 121. Captain Henry Locos ; Cm.
101, Captain fAiwart S. Sotheby, C.B. • Dell,
Comma Beery Broadhead • Aboukir, 9;1,
:• 'take rune. ; and Emerald. 1), Captain Arthur
'Aids left Lisbon on the 10th mat. entered Ply•
• .th nomad oa Thursday. They were antler mama until
saws Maims was got up is other to arrive by the
• • ipredated. Floe weather was exprrieoced until Wed-
. ' enrol/ • whoa a heave Primal carried away the Ems-
I . lads yanl close off is the slim.. The Centuries, 80,
1
Hoary D. Rogan. C. 8., reet.int in the Tagus, main
, • arrival from Gibraltar of the St. *halt trAere, 101,
•,., • Thomas P. Thompeoo. which she supplies with prowl-
. ~, mid then jots. the Chianti equadrua at Plymouth.
rt:r ..-rews err all healthy.
DIvERINI:II4.‘ or )1% VA L Pace MONEY. —Tenter-
•;4:. fie gives sotace to theofters, ensmen, and mariltel
I t., all pinion interested thereto. that thedistributios
; , and Manage bounty of a slave barque, same
• a, captured on the 14th September, 11000 by haw
- is ship Conflict. will °plumate no Friday, 'the
.• •.t, in the prise hunch of the deparliamst of the Ars-
i.t.,nt.liearral of the Nan, Admusity, Boesarest-hosee.
:lowing are the sharee• due to as individuel is the
deems : -Irlai shark 12W. 4. 4d. ; eocommader,
.4 Ph,. M. ; third dada. req. 8a Id. ; fourth dud, 441.
. ; fifth claw SM. 11. 11d. ; sixth chem. ft. Is. 3d. •
•oth dam, 141. 17.. 6d. ; eight ekes, U. tle. Bd. ; idea
,o, 4/. 19. 241 ; teeth slunk 21. 9s. 6d. Notice it she
. t, am now toeing made froths Waned
atha tatreof the mooed. and tames bounty of the alive
4ttephee H. Towread, captured oe the 11th
.1.. 1,460, by her Majority • ship Archer ; of the gave
;antra, Lille Milk captured oa the 3th September, 1469,
r Miy-sty'v ship Archer ; of the sleve brisentith.
cepturel on the 21th S.litember, 1454, by her lie.
• .*. ship Amber. Du* notice will be gives of the date
,•••vvl fur the neumeamenent of distnlNstine is each ease,
.t the tome time. the &rootlet of ma iodividual's share
respective deems will he anaousoed.