The National Register.
London, England, 1822-02-03 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIA.

On Thursday last a Court of Common Council was
held for the purpose (amongst other important matters)
of taking into consideration the report of the Committee
appointed •to enquire into the conduct of Alderman
Waithman, during the affray between the Life Guards
and the populace, on the vfith of August, at Knights-
bridge, and to examine witnesses touching the whole of
that transaction.

On the_ proposition that several officers of the city
should be elected for the year ensuina, some observations
were made igloo the question of electing Mr. Wontner,
the Upper 11ar3hal.
Several Members bore testimony to the merits of Mr.
Mr. Wontner, and expressed their conviction that he
would be fully competent to fulfil the duties of the
office.

Alderman WOOD certainly thought that Mr. Wont.
ner was a mast active, intelligent, and meritorious officer,
and that he ought to be raised to a higher situation when
any such presented itself; but the unfortunate accident
with which lie had met tendered it impossible for him
to perform the arduous duties of his present situation
It should be considered that the police establishment of
the city was an immense expence, and that the duties
which the marshal hail to perform were of a nature that
required the most active exertion.
After a few words from Alderman BROWN, who de-
clared that Mr. %Vomiter would he perfectly competent
to all the duties of the situation, the worthy Upper Mar-
shal was re-elected onatilloOnsly.
DISTURBANCES AT KNIGHTBBRIDGEME.FAVELL,
in rism- to move that the report of the commuter ap-
pointed to enquire into the conduct of the late Sheriff,
Alderman NVaithman, at Knightsbridg., during the dis-
turbances there on the 26th of August last, be received,
declared, that the highest thanks were due to the (7fim-
mittee for the luminous report they had made upon the
subject. He observed; that the coincidence of the testi-
' molly of the different wins' sses examined was surprising,
and went fully to prove that the cenduct of those who
had directed the military to supersede the civil authority
was culpable in the extreme, and that the interposition
of Aldennan Waithman was as much called for as it
was humane, discreet, and intrepid. (Hear, hear.) The
wonky gentleman concluded by moving that "the report
be approved by the Court."—(Cheers.)
Mr. lEct.tca seconded the motion. He said the evi-
dence of the gentlemen of the press, who were most
respectable and unprejudieed,and most liberally educated,
gave proof of the propriety of the Sheriff's conduct.
r. J u Pe considered the conduct of Alderman %Veldt-
man, upon the occasion referred to, es most deserving of
the warmest praise. He could not say who were the
aggressors t.pon the occasion, to which all looked back
with regret; but it would be useless and absurd to deny
that Alderman %Vaithtnan hail acted with temperance
and humanity : that the thanks of the Court, and of the
Country, were due to him, and that it was owing to his
admirable conduct that the consequences were not worse.
(Carers.) _ . _

The motion was-carried unanimodsly.
Mr. FAVELL then rose to more a resolution, that an
address be presented to Parliament, expressive of the
regret (tithe Court at.what had occurred at Knightsbridge,
and of their hope that ettrptiry should be instituted into
the eiretunstatices, &e.
Mr. F.LLICE seconded the reFolot:on.

The Petition to the House OfCinnutotts vizs then read
and agreed on, and orileird to he presented by the
Sheriffs and Itemembrancer in the usual form, and the
Court requested the City Members to support the same.

The following method of preserving milk at sea,
during the longest voyage, and in the warmest cli-
mate, equally sweet as when it was first drawn from
the cow, may not be unacceptable to the generality
of our readers:—Provide a quantity of pint or quart
bottles (new ones are perhaps the best) ; they must
be perfectly sweet and clean, and likewise very dry
before they were made use of. Instead of drawing
the milk from the cow into the pail as usual, it is to
he milked into the bottles; as coon as any of them
are filled suilieiently, they should be immediately
well corked with the very best corks, in order to
keep out the external air, and &stetted tight with
packthread, or wire, as the corks in bottles which
contain cider generally are. Then on the bottom
of an iron or copper boiler spread a little straw ; on
that Jay a row of the bottles filled with milk, with
some straw betwixt each, to prevent them from
lac:M.lg, and so on alternately until the boiler has
sufficient quantity in; then fill it up with cold
‘vater ; heat the water gradually until it begins to
boil, and as soon as that is perceivable draw the fire;
the betties must remain undisturbed in the boiler
until they are quite cold ; then take them out, and
afterwards puck them in hampers, either with straw
or sawdust, and stew them in the cooless part of
the ship. The perpetual motion of the sea in time
improves milk, equally as much us it does Madeira
wine

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