The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-20 00:00:00

CHICHESTER MARKET—Jan.

Beef
I Mutton 3lO 410 Pork 3 8 4 2
Supply of fat stock moderately good, and traderather dull.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of public
business.

THE REJECTION OF THE ARIAN CANDIDATE FOR THE
MATHEMATICAL MASTERSHIP OF THE CITY OF LONDON

SCHOOL.

Mr. HALE brought up the report of the committee of
the City of London School, detailing the proceedings with
reference to that great institution.

Mr. JOHNSON (of Bishopsgate) requested to be informed
by the Chairman whether it was true, as had been re-
ported, that the committee had refused, on religious grounds,
to elect a candidate for the situation of classical and mathe-
matical master of that school ?—(Loud cries of " Hear,
hear," and murmurs.)
Undersheriff WIRE hoped, for the sake of the institution,
that it would not go abroad that there existed a division
in the corporation with regard to the question of religious
qualification.

Several members here rose to object to any discussion
or question on the subject, and others as numerous unequi-
vocally expressed their conviction that the Chairman ought
to answer.

The LORD MAYOR at last rose and said, he believed the
question was out of order.
Mr. STACEY, although the Lord Mayor had decided
that the question was out of order, hoped that, as a
member of the committee, he was at liberty to say that
it was impossible for him to shut his eyes to the fact
that religious prejudices had operated in that committee
to the exclusion of a candidate whose qualifications were
of the very highest description.--(Loud cries of " Hear,"
from sevcral members, and "No" from others The
committee had, as was stated by Alderman Brown, per-
formed a certain act, but they had no right to make the
religious opinions of a candidate a criterion of eligibility,
much less had any member of their body a right to ca-
lumniate a candidate as an Atheist for the purpose of pre-
judicing that candidate in the opinion of others.—( Loud
murmurs, and cries of " Name, name.") He had no
hesitation in naming Alderman Humphery as the indivi-
dual who stated that Mr. Davison, the rejected candidate,
had been described to him as an Atheist by a prominent
member of the committee.

Here some conversation took place upon the subject of
celebrating the opening of the school with a dinner, and
the question of the rejected Arian again arose, and with
greater warmth on both sides.

Mr. R. TAYLOR said he perceived the matter was to end
in asking 3001. to pay the expense of.a dinner, and he also
perceived that a gentleman who hated the very name of
intolerance was to be invited to give a lecture at the com-
mencement, in an institution the first movement in which
was distinguished by an exhibition of the grossest intole-
rance.—(Loud cries of " Heor," and No, no," and great
confusion.)

The LORI) MAYOR—You may as well leave out the
woi d " intolerance."—(A laugh.)
Mr. R. TAYLOR sa'd the word was most disagreeable to
those who practised intolerance. He accused the majority
of the committee of that offence, and he accused one of
them of having uttered a rile and malignant falsehood, by
asserting that Mr. Davison was an Atheist, for the purpose
of prejudicing the election of that gentleman.—(Great con-
fusion and loud cries of " Hear, hear," and " No, no.")
They laughed with disgust at the intolerant feeling exhi-
b ted towardi Dr. Hampden and here the committee sur-
passed Oxford in the foulness and excess of illiberality with
which it assailed Mr. Davison.—(Great tumult.)
Alderman BROWN said—lf any member of the commit-
tee said that Mr. Davison was an Atheist for the purpose
of prejudicing the election, no word was strong enough as
a term of reproach to the person who uttered the calumny.
—(Cheers.) But if it could be proved that the candidate
lost the situation in consequence of such an imputation,
there was another place for redress.—(Hear, hear.) It
could not be afforded in that court. He had seen a paper
written by the unsuccessful candidate—he did not wish to
impugn the faith of any man—but having seen that docu-
ment he could not help saying that he believed the commit-
tee had acted an honest part, and deserved the thanks of
the community, and of every Christian parent.—(Hear,
hear, and loud murmurs.)
The Court adjourned after some other business.

There was some little anxiety evinced by the parties
engaged in the management of the treins on the Greenwich
Railway during the dense fog which was prevalent on Tues-
day, as to whether the carriages would be able to proceed
with their accustomed speed. Their fears were, however,
not of long duration, for on the experiment being tried, they
were found to run in the stipulated time, and with as much
safety as in the clearest day.