The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-22 00:00:00

ENGLISH MUNICIPAL BILL.

The following is the substance of the Clauses proposed to be
introduced by the Attorney-General into the English Mu-
nicipal Bill on the third reading :
In the election of Aldermen every member of Council may
vote for all the Aldermen to be elected ; the mode of voting
is by delivering to the Mayor or Chairman a paper, containing
the name, residence, &c., of the persons voted for, signed by
the voter. In case of equality of votes, the Mayor or Chair-
man to have a casting vote, whether he may have been entitled
to vote in the first instance or not. Every election of Alder-
men, however made, befiTc the passing of this Act, to be valid.
Any person whose claim to be put on the burgess-roll shall
have been rejected, or name expunged, may apply to the Court
of King's Bench, before the end of the Term next following,
for a mandamus to the Mayor, to insert his name on the roll ;
and if upon inquiry the Court shall find the claim good, and
shall issue a mandamus to the Mayor to the effect priyed, the
Mayor shall enter the name, adding the words, " By order of
the Court of King's Bench," such person to be a burgess to
all intents and purposes—costs at .the discretion of the event.
Every person who at the passing of the original Act for re-
forming the Municipal Corporations was entitled to Le admitted
to the freedom of any borough named in the schedules of the
said Act, retains his title of admission, and is in all respects on
the same footing as if be had acquired it since the passing of
that Act.

The Council is empowered to defray out of the Borough
Fund all charges incurred in maintaining the peace or ensuring
public buildings against fire. And in general, all orders of
the Council for the payment of charges connected with the
interests of the borough, shall be valid, unless such orders shall
be disallowed by the next Court of Quarter Sessions of the
borough, to winch, according to certain forms and regulations
specified, any burgess may appeal against the orders of the
Council made in these latter cases.

JUNIUS AND L A CHL AN MACLEANE.

A gentleman has obligingly pointed out to us a passage in
Galt's Life of Mr. West, the distinguished painter, which sup-
plies another link in the chain of evidence, connecting Junius'
Letters with Lachlan Mac!cane. It will materially assist the
inquiry now in progress by Sir David Brewster, who was led
to adopt the opinion of Macleant: being Junius, from a series
of private letters written by that gentleman, which fell under
his notice, as formerly described by us, and when Sir David
was unconscious of Maeleane having ever been suspected to be
Junius. The passage is as follows:

An incident of a curious nature, has brought him (Mr.
\Vest) to be a party, in some degree, to the singular question
respecting the mysterious author of the celebrated letters of
Junius. On the morning that the first of these famous invec-
tives appeared, his friend Governor Hamilton happened to call,
and, inquiring the news, Mr. West informed him of that bold
and daring epistle ; ringing for his servant at the same time,
he desired the newspaper to be brought in. Hamilton read
it over with great attention, and when he had done, laid it on

his knees, in a manner that particularly attracted tho notice
of the painter, who was standing at his easel. This let:
ter,' said Hamilton, in a tone of vehement feeling, it by
that d d scoundrel Maeleane." What Macleane ?' in-
quired Mr. West. ' The surgeon of Otwav's regiment ; the
fellow who attacked me so virulently in the Philadelphia news-
paper, on account of the part I felt it my duty to take against
one of the officers. This letter is by him. I know these very
words; I may well remember them,' and he read over several
phrases and sentences which M'Lean had employe(' against
him. Mr. West then informed the Governor, that M'Lcan
was in this country, and that he was personally acquainted with
him. ' Ile came-over,' said Mr. West, with Colonel Barry,
by whom he was introduced to Lord Shelburne (afterwards
Marquis of Lansdowne), and is at present private secretary to
his Lordship.'

Mr. Galt adds—" Macicanc, owing to a great impediment in
his utterance, never made any figure in conversation ; and
passed with most people as a person of no particular attain-
ments. But when Lord Shelburne came into office, he was
appointed Under Secretary of State, and subsequently nomi-
nated to a Governorship in India ; a rapidity of promotion to
a man without family or Parliamentary interest, that can only
be explained by a profound conviction on the part of his patron,
of his superior talents, and perhaps, also, from a strong sense
of some peculitir obligation."
In the Morthly Magazine for July 1813, there is an ac-
count of a conversation between Sir Richard Phillipps and
the Marquis of Lansdowne (formerly Lord Shelburne) on
this subject. The Marquis said, " I knew Junius; and I
knew all about the writing and production of these letters; and
he promised that he would in the following summer write a
pamphlet about Junius, (the real author he said had never
been publicly named) • and he could do this as the grounds of
secrecy were then so iar removed by death, and changes of
circumstances, that it was unnecessary the author of Junius
should much longer be unknown." The Marquis died about a
week after this interview. If this statement can be relied
upon, it is very probable that the present Marquis of Lans-
downe (son of Macleane's patron) must know something of the
matter. If our contemporaries of the press in Philadelphia
preserve files of their papers, Sir David Brewster might also
procure a copy of the letter by Macicane, which was alludt d
to by Governor Hamilton in his conversation with Mr. West.
—lnverness Courier.

We believe it to be settled that Mr. Coltman, of the
Northern Circuit, is to succeed Mr. Justice Gaselec.

Admiral Otway, it is expected, will hoist his flag
this day at Sheerness, as Commander-in-Chief on that sta-
tion. Admiral Fleming and his lady leave with the re,gret of
the whole inhabitants, 'having from the number of balls and
other elegant entertainments given by them added a degree of
gaiety to the place never perhaps experienced there before.
A late investigation appears to furnish a contradic-
tion to the old proverb, that " cheating play never thrives.'
MR. BURK HISTORY OF THE LANDED
GENTia.—The public will hear with much satisfaction that a
cheaper re-publication, on smaller paper, is about to appear of
this important and truly national work. It will be comprised
is Sixteen Monthly Parts, at 4s. 6d. each, with all the armo-
rial bearings, &c. The First Number is to appear with the
Magazines on the Ist of March. Orders should, therefore, be
sent speedily to the Booksellers, to ensure its delivery on the
day of publication.
CAPTAIN ScoTT's EGYPT AND CANDIA.—
This work, which is comprised in two octavo volumes, will be
found highly interesting at the present, moment. It is written
in a light and agreeable manner, and is full of those amusing
sketches which enable the reader, as it were, to accompany
the author in all his roaming, while in the graver part of the
work, embracing the details of the military power and re-
sources of Egypt and Candia, with obserratioas important on the i God-
vernment, policy, and commerce, the most and
valuable information may be collected. The work is Illus.
trated with numerous plates, which are indispensable to con-
vey a just impression of persons or localities.—Bell's Life.
In the report of the meeting of the Scotch Reform
Martyrs, the gentleman who seconded Mr. Blair's motion for
a vote of thanks to the Town Council of Edinburgh, for
---anting a site on the Calton-hill, Edinburgh, for the Montt-.
ourni lu the Political Martyrs of 1793.
called Thqrna% 94, should have been
not S. ) Muir Moffat. Moffat is a
solicitor of Edittburp, Ile stated that " whether %N e consider
the charge, the eilidrnee, the mode of prosecution
unpre;L:aiced man must ()eclat,
adopted in these trials, every
^f our history, since
the whole to be unexampled in any periot,
that in which a James 11. presided on the throne, and a
Jeffreys on the bench. The monument would :!'rvo as A
beacon to Tory Judges,: and a warning to them that t4l laws
of the country were not to be violated with impunity."
Since the first discovery on Wednesday last of lido
man bones and medals by the labourers engaged In digging
for the foundation of a sewer, in Wardoutistreet, Soho•
square, the workmen have been particularly watchful whit,
excavating the ground. On Saturday they discovered a
quantity of Roman and Saxon coins, at a short distance front
the spot where the former discoveries were made, Some
bones of horses' heads %%ere also found, together with frog-
ments of spurs and swords. The depth at which the disco.
veries were made was about 25 feet.