The National Register.
London, England, 1822-11-24 00:00:00

ELECTION OF A BP.IDGE MASTER.

On Tuesday last • moat mimerous meeting of the Livery
took place in Gnildhall, in consequence of • precept
issued by the Lord Mayor. for the Election sof a Bridges
Maater. In the loom of Nr.Ttiodey, deceased.
The Hall being opened by the Town C:ier, the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen proceeded to the Court of Alder-
men, and the Sheriffs proceeded to the Election.
Mr. FAVIELL proposed Mr. Norton, as a tit and proper
person to petrol ni the dillies of the situation. The inject
of the Livery, in filling the situation of Iliiiige-Masier,
was to set se mune respectable, hut decayed fellow-eitiam.
It was a pain to him to appear opposed to the other Cain-
who, lie understood, am it ail of them meritorious
individuals, ;mil he a islied from his sould that they could
all be supplied ander the Corporation; but as that eualil
nut be done, lie only had to select the must eligible, mid
give to that person his decided support. He knew Mr.
Norton to be • respectable end honourable man upwards
of forty years, and there a ere, independently of the former
prosperous, mid the preamit adverse condition of his life,
claims-which no doubt had weight with the Livery. lie
had been twice disappointed in his applications, one of
%%kith 1:all nearly succeeded when lie yielded to the call
tor Mr.Thirdey.—(This nomivation was most watinly re-
. ceived.)
Mr. Beeoas seconded the nomination ; in doing which
he elated, that lie 11441 known Mr. Norton upwards of 30
yenta, and had the highest respect for his character.
Mr. Carmvuun stated, that he stood forward to put in
nomination • person well known and greatly esteemed by
his fellow-citizt ns, Mr. Lewis Lewis.—(Bepeated cheers.)
—That honourable individual Lad once been in cii cum-
mances which 'seemed calculated to di:lV...lige the freaks
of Marine, but the circumstances of the times, which had
pioduced suck general distress, visited I • heavily. Hi,
cruse would speak 'nose to the hearts of those around him
Ulan language.
Mr. OLDHAM seconded the nomination of Mr. Lewis.
lie had in his early life been in the must Haim hag cir-
cumstances, having been the proprietor of the New Lou-
don 'lateen, and to his fostering hand many who were
now rnjoyitig the sweets of prosperity owed the means of
present enjoyment ; and tifteeti years of Isis life lie had
devoted to the service of that Corporation to which be
slow looked for assistance in the day of calamity. ((Irma
applause.)—Mr. Lewis was now fallen into decay, but
had paid every farthing lie owed. He must sink under
misfortunes, it the suwails of turning want into control
sad hitteruess into joy, were not supplied by those aruund
Lim.
The neat two candidates were Mr. Aubrey and Mr.
Shorter, two very respectable men, whose characters
were highly spoken of by the gentlemen who put them in
nomination.
Mr. fit ESNAR 0, another Candidate, then stood forward,
and said he begerd to withdraw his name.
The names having been put up, and the Town Clerk
having called upon the Livery to hold up their bands as
they favoured each Candidate, there appeared an immense
majority tot Mr. Lewis. Mr. Nortou also had a great
chew ; but the Sheriffs immediately declared that the
election had fallen upuu Mr. Lewis. A pull was thee de-
manded upon the part of the other Candidates, and com-
menced at half past two tet lock, each Candidate having
called upon his friends to use their utmost exertions.

DEPORTANT C A lITIOV TO INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

W. Donnet, an insolvent, who had been discharged
under the act in June last, came up on Wednesday to
be re-heart:, in obedi-nce to an order of the Court, which
had been obtained on an affidavitmade by the insolvents'
assignee, stating that since the insolvent's discharge be
(the assignee) had ascertained that the insolvent, who
Issas arrested in Dover, on his way to France, in the
niontit of January last, had a few days before his arrest
invested 301. in the public funds, in his own name, and
the name of Charles Dikzd, a young man in hisemploy-
mem, which reinained standing in their joint names till
the day after the insolvent's discharge, when it was
ttansferred. It appeared the insolvent's schedule did not
contain any mention of his having money in the funds.
The insolvent, who is a Frenchman, and has been
in London Gtr some years, as a fitter up of gas-light ap.
prams, stated on his examination, that the 501. invest.
ed in the funds, 11,1 the joint names of himself and
Mud, was the sole property of the latter, who was a
young man, at present about nineteen years of age, a
foreigner. who came into his employment about two
years ago, and ever since in his house, and received
wages at the rate of tss. a week. In the month of Sep.
windier last year they calculated the wages due to Dikz.f,
and it amounted to 501. 17s. which was then paid him;
and when the insolent was going to Paris, on business,
in January last, Diked asked him, before he went, to
go with 111111 to put his money in the funds, that it might
be safe. The day after he (the insolvent was discharged,
Dikzd asked him to go with him to sell but the stock,
and he coniplied with his request on both occasions—
but he positively denied that he had any interest in the
money, or that he received any part of it ; nothing more
than a share of a pot of beer that Dikzd gas e him, alter
they had sold the stock. •
Charles Dikzd was examined on the part of the in-
solvent, and told nearly the same story. On being ques-
tioned by the Court why he demanded payment of his
wages of the insolvent In September, when he was so
long without requiring any part of it, he answ. red that
he was in want of it: and being asked how lie had disposed
of it Imiti the time he received it to the month of Jatiu try
following, when lie placed it in the Minis, he said, he
kept it locked! tip in his box the whole lime.
l'he Court, in pronouncing judgment, said it was
tit erly impossible to gise credit to the story told by the
insolvent and his witness ; die judgment of the Court
therefore was, that the itindvent's discharge should be
revoked, and that he should be remanded for g months
(rum that day, fora concealment of his property.

A very lamer title account is given in the Irish
papers of the multitude of causes brought before
the Quart,n. Sessions in some of the Irish counties
—lt is stated es a fact, that out of sixteen hundred
civil bill processes at Nlacroont, in the county of
Coil, 1,300 should hate originated in tithes.