The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-03 00:00:00

COUJT OP ALDBINIII.

Yesterday a °oast was held for the despatch of
F+ ths business.
TER ILLDRILYANIC GOWN /OR TRII WARD Or CORA?.
The LORD Mavoit read the following letter :
" London, Feb. 27.
"My Lord Mayor,—l do myself the honour to request
that you will do me the favour to lay before the Court of
Aldermen this my respectful request, to be permitted to re-
sign °Mee se sideman of the ward of Cheap.
" I cannot retire from your court without grateful acknow-
ledgments of the kindness I have received from your lord-
ship, and every member of the court, and have the honour to
be—Your lordship's faithful servant,
" IL H. HINNIDT."

" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."
Alderman BIDNIT—I move that that letter of reeignethe
be accepted end entered upon the journals of the court.
We all participate, I am ewe, in the suffering
which"
pmeeedingehasbroughtup°nehal
our brethren and hi family. No one canon
viewed the ppessst life of Mr. Kennedy anterior
p of this tutfortnnete bank without
beingmpressed Vith feelings of great personal respect and
regard for him. (Hear, hear.) My friend (81r J. re
spect
is =Mom, as this is the first case that has when under the
statute, that we should do everything in strict legal order. I
believe we shall be acting perfectly in seder by at once in-
cepting this taw of resignation. It would be only an un-
gracious act of this court if we further perplexed and stung
this unfortunate man with any further promo:Hap of ours.
(Hear, hear.) He has fought the case mantully. We may
bu
all form one opinion with regard to his conduct, t I believe
he has shown an unfortunate determination to think well of
the proceedings of the directors of that bank, and ho has
shown certainly an unmistakeable want of knowledge in all
monetary and commercial matters. I move that the recipe-
tion be accepted.
Alderman Ross—l mond the motion of my friend Alder-
man Sidney. We are bound to accept the resignation as the
first movement we can make in the matter. I have great reason
myself, from my own personal knowledge, to speak in the
kindest manner possible of Mr. Kennedy. I served the office
of sheriff with him, and whatever his mistakes may have
been—errors of judgment-1 am bound to say that I never
met a man more punctilious in every matter of business he
had to Inflame than he was. Mr. Kennedy stayed when
others went away—its paid large sums of money when others
went away, and I am sure that if he could have retrieved
his wort by say sacrifice on hie part, he erunkl have dons
so.
_Maw, hear.)
Alderman H —I can testify as much se any
man to the &erecter of Mr. Kennedy, but we must be go-
veened by the act of parliament. The 12th and 13th Tie.,
cep. 94, sec. 9, says, that if any aldermen or common coun-
cilman "shall absent himself from his duly for more than
six months consecutively, unless prevented by illness or
other reasonable cause, or shall be convicted of frond or of any
crime, then, and in every or any such ogee, each person Om
&mama immediately become disqualified; sad shall cease to
hold the office of alderman or common oonactleniut" You
Cannot accept the resignation of a man who le not an
alderman.
Sir P. Levan—l hope the resignation will be
The Loan NATOR—ft had bettor he reined to 6c:frereetteartled
Recorder whether we can legally accept the resignation. •
The Rscoanza—The question put to me is whether you one
legally aompt this resignation. I certainly am of opinion
that you can. It is perfectly true that In the early part of
the clause it is provided that any person convicted of any
crime shall be disqualified from holding the office, and shall
front that time mess to hold the Mika, but then there is a
proviso that unites the office has been adjudged to be vacant
by the Court of Aldermen any act of hia shall be valid, not-
withstanding the previous part of the section. It I herefore
appears ving
to me that the Ain not ha been adjudged to be
vacant, his act of resignatlin was a legal act, and you can
properly proceed upon that aot.
Ihe motion " That the resignation be accepted," was at
and carried unanimously ; as also was the motion, " That
the Lord Mayor be requested to issue his precept fur the eke
don of an alderman for the ward of Cheap."