The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-28 00:00:00

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ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN.

as Thursday the Ward ut Farringdon Within met
to elect an Alderman, in the rams of Thomas Smith,
Esq. deceased.
r. Tones, of Cheapside, after having done justice to
the merits of John Crowder, E.q. nominated that gen-
tleman.
My. JENNINGS seconded the nomination.
No other candidate being proposed,
The LORD MAYOR put the question, and declared'
that Nlr. Crowder was unanimously elected Alderman.
Alderman CROWDER in returning thanks, WAS com-
pletely overpowered by his feelings. lie hail, he Said,
given up an extensive business, and intended to retire
within the bosom of his family ; but the powerful
ebullition of the feeling of the Ward had influenced hies.
to chauge his purpose. Ile declared that all his faculties
should be tletem,il to the service of the Ward, whose
will and opinion should ever dictate to him in the wholk
course of his superintendaoce.—(Cheers.) •
'NIT. PEARSALL moved the drank' of the meeting to
the Lord M lynr.
The LORD MAYOR anticipated a long and distin-
;Emitted career to the new Alderman, and in speaking of •
the civic chair, observed, that politics had nothing to die
with the performance of its duties. The meeting then
dispersed.

RAM) COMMUNICATION.—It is the practice with .
the Admiralty to hold certain communications with.
the out-ports daily, at one• o'clock, by telegraphic
despatch. The following is an instance of the
wonderful celerity with which these communicar
tuns are made :—Certain instructions, relative to
the rvgulatien of th: time keepers, were on Tuesday
last, communicated from the Admiralty Office, Lon-
don, to the Telegraph, Portsmouth, and an answer
received to them in one. minute. It is scarcely pus.
Bible to imagine a system more perfect than this sys-
tem of communication must be.
A speculator of some note in the Foreign Stork •
Market has suddenly absconded, leaving the pay-
meut of his differences to those brokers through
whom his business was transacted. The name of
this individual is M. Bertodano, toed as his known
connJxion. with an eminent mercantile house gaffe
him almost unlimitc . credit, the extent to which
his disappearance has involved those who trusted
him, is said to be truly disastroui. h• was on Sa-
turday that he absconded, though the circumstance
was not general!), known till Tuesday. Efforts
were made to trace his route, but as he had taken
the precaution to order the chaise himself, which
drove t:ff from an hotel in Bridge-street, after wait-
ing only a few seconds at the door, they were s holly
ineffectual. [lc is -appnaed to have carried off pro- •
petty with him to the amount of near 10.0001.
Extract or a letter from Memel, dated the sth of
April.—" The ice was set in motion yesterilay,.aOtt
it' the present wind and weather continue, we may
expect an entire tree navigation iffeiglit or ten days.
The Granite, Young, of Aberdeen, was off the Mr
this afternoon, but cannot get in owing to the heavy
floating ice and strong current. The master says
he has experienced much bad weather un his pas.

ALARMING FIRE 'AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE
On Thursday night about halbpast eleven o'clock, a fire
broke out at the house of Mr. Pirko., grocer, Kingslasid-
road, near Union-street, and before the watchman suc-
ceeded in waking the family, the Names had gaits,d a
considerable height. • Mrs. Parker with her infant hel
at her breael, and her Sister, providentially escaped at thu
back part of the house. Mr Parker got through a lia2k•
window, but his brother, a y h, about 19 years of HMV
coulkt not descend the stairs in consequence of the flames
having burst forth with great fury almost instantly after
the ocher nay tof the tamily had di scenite I glum. His
' situation becatotanost desperate; finding he could nut -
descend the. stairs, .he rushed forwards towards a back
1 room on the Grat floor; and had only time to raise the
sash, and leap imo the yard, before the whole buildiute
was in 'tattles,. and in the fall the injury he sustaintil
was inemisiderable. Had a delay of three minutes taken
place, tile whole family would have 'welt destroyed. By
two o'clock on Friday morning the building was a heap
of mins.
ESSI:S. BOW.A RD AND GI litig.-0.1 Thursday last
the adjourned 'methyl, of the Col 1111 l iasinners ..1 Bank-
ritpts its this important case took place at the New
Bullitiog, Guildhall, when the extensive accounts of the
flan were filially invertig led, and a commissitm of Iwo
years and eight ttttttt the standing was bioia;lit to its 1011,4
protracted close. All the Commisssioaers bore testi-
mony to the correct coiduct of the aviignves and Ate
bankrupts. The necessary and usual papers were then
Signed by the batik roma and convniissioners, and !hits
terminated an investigation into au estate that has ex-
cited the most considerable interest aitiona all clams
throughout the country that hasoxiateal for many yea's.
MATCH FROM LONDON TO BATH AND LACK,—Mr.
Jacques, the pedestrian, on to accomplish the
abuse task, last week, in 72 hours, for WO aov• siens,
but time beat him by nearly ig miles. A Mr. Holds-
worth started °it the same kind of match on Tuesday,
for 200 sovereigns. Ile reached Mai lb.irongli Forest at
ten at night OH the first day (72 MI6). Alter al j no.
two hours, he proceeded on his 11, relll4ll,Jll labour, an I
touched the lUGih mile stone in 34 Moos. lie art.:sell
at II illigerforil on his return, keeping liine nearly two
hours in his favour. He had the la -t utiles its tle
from 11 are Hatch in tight hours, and he won the march
with much difficulty., and lie Ilad iwelie annuli:l,lo
spare. Time hacked at 6to 4.
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