The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-23 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court was held to consider the Report of
the Revenue Committee " on the expenses of the office er
Mayoralty, and for settling the amount to be allowed in
future to the Lord Mayor for the time Leine ;" the subject
had undergone discussion in the Coatt of Aldermen on
Wednesday, when that Court negatived the proposition to
!slake alterations in the existing arrangements. The discus-
son naturally excited some curiosity.
ALLEGED FEVER IN CRIPPLEGATE.
Mr. STEVENS said that a feeling of alarm having been
raised by a report which had been made a few days ego be-
fore the Lord Mayor, stating that a pestilential fever raged
in the ward of Cripplegate, ho considered it to be his duty
to ask the Deputy of the ward what foundation there was
ur such report ? He did not see that the inquest jury had
made any presentment to the Court of Aldermen on the
subject on Wednesday, although his Lordship bad expressed
a desire that such course should be pursued if the jury
considered it to be necessary.
The LORD Mayon. said that a very alarming account
had been given to him by an inhabitant of the ward of
the fever which was said to rage there, and he certainly did
expect that a presentment would have been made to the,
Court of Aldermen on the subject. He had also seen the
surgeon, who confirmed the report that there was fever in
the neighbourhood, proceeding, in that gentleman's opi-
nion, from the filthy condition in which part of it was
kep.t He had, however, heard nothing of the matter
since it had been very properly noticed in the newspapers.
Deputy ALDERMAN (of Cripplegate-ward) assured the
Court that the statement made at the Mansion-house was
a gross exaggeration of the facts.—(Hear, hear.) It was
the intention of the foreman of the jury to wait upon the
Lord Mayor upon the subject.
THE MAYORALTY EXPENSES.
The LORD MAYOR informed the Court that the Court
of Aldermen bad agreed to a resolution to the effect that
it would be inconvenient to adopt the alterations suggested
in the report of the Committee on the expenses of the
mayoralty.
Mr. FLETIIER rose to move the following resolutions
affecting the Mayoralty :
" 1. That the several items of income and allowance to
the mayoralty should, with the exception of 1001. in lieu
of furniture, and 501. towards the prisoners in the city
gaols, cease and determine from and after the expiration
of the present mayoralty, and that an annual amount be
paid out of the chamber to the Lord Mayor for the time
being, for the purpose of providing for the reasonable ex-
penditure of the mayoralty, to be in full of all fees, ancient
rights, claims, dues, and emoluments whotsoever, and be
plyable quarterly in equal amounts ; and that a bill be
forthwith prepared and brought in to repeal so much of the
existing acts of this courts, by which specific payments are
made to the lord mayors in lieu of the offices and places
therein respectively stated. And that such of the dues
and charges now receivable by the Lord Mayor as may be
deemed proper to be continued be paid into the chamber,
and carried to the credit of this city's cash.
" 2. That it be referred to Committee to
consider of and prepare rules and regulations with respect
to the entertainments at the several sessions of the Central
Criminal Court, as to the invitations thereto, and the
due regulation and restriction of the subordinate officers,
servants, and others now claiming a right to be pro-
vided for, and dining daily at those sessions, in order
that while every proper arrangement is made for the
accommodation of the Judges, Magistrates, and other
official characters, strict measures may be adopted to
prevent all unnecessary charges and expenditure arising
from the great increase which has of late years taken
place in the number of other parties dining, or claiming
to dine, at those sessions ; such rules and regulations, after
receiving the approval of this Court, to be recommended
to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for the time being to be
carried into effect.
" 3. That the whole expense of the entertainment at the
Guildhall on Lord Mayor's Day be paid out of the Cham-
ber. That the management of the same should be con-
fided to a Committee of this Court, to be appointed yearly
for that purpose ; and that the expenditure for such enter-
tainment should not exceed the suns of 2,1501., including
therein all expenses which have been hitherto paid under
the direction of the Committee for General Purposes, or

otherwise.
" 4. That it be a respectful but earnest recommendation
of this Court to all future Chief Magistrates, that the pro-
cessions on Lord Mayor's Day should consist of a suitable
escort, divested of all appendages which have become obso-
lete, and which do not excite respect for the dignity of the
office, but incur expense without an equivalent.
5. That the annual sum of 6,5001. be allowed to all
future Lord Mayors for the charges and expenditure of the
Mayoralty, payable quarterly, clear of all deductions, and
in full of all fees, allowances, dues, claims, and ancient
rights and emoluments whatsoever. And that in addition
the sum of 1001. per annum be continued to be allowed in
lieu of furniture, upon the certificate of the Committee for
general purposes that the purposes for which such sum was
originally granted have been fully complied with ; and the
Chamberlain be directed also to pay the sum of 501. to-
wards the benefit of the prisoners in the city prisons, upon
receiving a certificate from the Lord Mayor for the time
being that such amount has been actually expended for
that purpose."
He regretted that the Court of Aldermen had come to
the sweei.ing resolution which the Lord Mayor had just
repeated, upon propositions to some of which no rational
objection could, he thought, be taken. It appeared to him
that all would see the propriety of substituting a round
annual sum paid from the City lands to support the dignity
of the Mayoralty in the place of the mass of obsolce fees
which formed part of the funds from which the Chief
Magistrate's allowance was defrayed. To the first reso-
lution which had been submitted he could not anticipate
the least objection in the Court, and he should put that by
itself.
Under-Sheriff Wiar seconded the resolution, as calcu-
lated to confer a great benefit upon trade by preventing
anything like a harassing. collection.
Deputy COkNEY should move in the words used by the
Court of Aldermen, that it was inconvenient to adopt the
alterations.
Mr. KING seconded the amendment.
After a few observations from Mr. Stevens, Mr. R. L.
Jones, Mr. Alderman Wilson, Mr. Pritchard, Mr. Obbard,
and Mr. Fletcher, the amendment of Deputy Corney was
adopted by a large majority.
The whole of the resolutions of the Committee are thus
negatived.

M. Baudrimont, a Parisian chemist, is said to have
just discovered a process for extracting a considerable quan-
tity of indigo from the polygonunz tinclorizn, which plant
grows in abundance in France.
0n Wednesday a court-martial was held on board
her Majesty's ship Royal Adelaide. The prisoner, Mr.
Anthony Lyons, gunner of her Majesty's packet brig De-
light, was charged with mutinous conduct and disobedience
of orders on the 11th instant. The sentence of the Court
was, that in its opinion the charges had been in part proved
atainst the prisoner,lMr. Anthony Lyons, and cloth ad-
judge him to be dismissed her Majesty's service.—Ply-
mouth Journal.

THE CABINET AND MR. O'CONNELL.—The
Tories are constantly declaiming about the " unholy part-
nership," " the base coalition," " the Irish-nn-English con-
spiracy," and so forth, existing between the Great Agitator
and bhe Melbourne Administration. On the other hand,
some of their ultra allies assert that the present Government
has shown itself in direct opposition to Mr. O'Connell's
measures. Hear what Mr. Crawford says in the letter, just
published by him. Addressing Mr. O'Connell, he says—
" Again, Sir, you point out four classes of measures, com-
prehending a variety of minor heads, which justice to Ire-
land principally demands ; and to the attainment of which,
duty to her requires every possible exertion of her Repre-
sentatives.' You have before directed, that the Queen's
Government should be supported by all possible means.' I
have already proved, most incontestably, that the Queen's
Government have hitherto been directly and positively op-
posed to the general principle contained in your proposi-
tions, giving only a qualified support to Corporation Re-
form. How can these measures and the Queen's Govern-
ment be both supported, at the same time, by every possible
means, and every possible exertion ? The two possibilities
seem to me at direct variance." The opinion here professed
by Mr. Crawford may act as a sedative upon the nerves
of those old women who think we are going too Brand too
quickly.- They can take Mr. Crawford's word for the fact,
that we are proceeding to the political goal by very safe and
lazy stages.
On Saturday last, Mr. Thomas Heap, oE Cossing-
ton, gave a supper to his workmen on concluding his har-
vest. Among the joyous party was a young man, named
William Greasley (about thirty years of age), who, unfor-
tunately, drank ton freely, Mr. Heap having furnished
them with as much ale and spirits as they pleased to drink.
About eleven o'clock, his companions observed that he could
scarcely keep his seat, and two or three of them conveyed
him to Mr. Heap's barn, where they laid him on some
straw, taking care to raise his head by placing a batten
under it. On some of the party going into the barn about
an hour afterwards, he appeared to be a deep sleep, and,
after raising his head still higher, ant loosening his necker-
chief, they left him for the night. About five o'clock the
following morning, George Hatton (one of Mr. Heap's la-
bourers) unloCked the barn, when he was horror-struck on
finding poor Greasley quite dead, lying in the position in
which he was left at midnight. An inquest was held be-
fore Mr. Gregory Vie following day, when Mr. Hodges, of
Syston, stated that the deceased had died from an attack
of apoplexy, induced by excessive drinking. Verdict—Died
, Ipm excessive drlnkipg.-4eientor

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SErT. 21.

THE STANDARD AND Mn. O'CormiLL.--Mr. O'Con-
nell has addressed the fo:lowing letter to the Editor of the
Freeman's Journal :
" DARRYNANE ALBEY, 17TII SEP!' , 1837.
_

" Sir,—l read with some surprise, in your paper of Thur-
day last, the 14th inst., the following paragraph :—"'Ti.
true Meath is not in Ulster, and 'tis true Mr. O'C'onnell
admitted there were forty-three Ribbon lodges in Meath."
You must have believed that I made such an admission,
else I am sure you would not have published the above
sentence. I therefore beg of you to inform me upon what
authority you believe it. For my part, if I knew the fact
that there were that number, or any given number, of Rib-
bon lodges in Meath, I would have denounced them in de-
tail, as I have when the Ribbon system existed iu various
places denounced it as far as I could ; and, indeed, often
successfully denounced it, especially in Meath—but such
denunciation could not be called an "admission." An ad-
mission means the avowal of something one would wish to
conceal. Now, I was always anxious to expose to the de-
testation of all honest persons, and to the vengeance of the
law, the absurd and criminal system of the Ribbonmen, and
I am convinced that no man living ever did so much to
extinguish that system as I have done.
" But where did you find the forty-three lodges ? Until I
saw your paper of Thursday last, I had no notion that any
faithworthy person had attributed to me the having men-
tioned forty-three Ribbon lodges in Meath ! ! Until then,
I had imagined it-was one of the multitudinous inventions
of the very worthless, though sanguinary wretch, who, in
the Standard newspaper, writes lies six days in the week, for
the amusement of the Tory bigots of England—and good
enough for them the lies are ; all I desire is, that they should
have no other amusement.

" But why, and on what grounds, do you, an honest public
writer, attribute to me the statement, or admission, if you
please, of there beiag forty-three Ribbon lodges in Meath ?
As Junius says, I pause for a reply.
" I have the honour to be, your obedient servant, .

g, DANIEL O'CONNELL."

To this letter our Contemporary, the Freeman, appends
some explanatory observations, from which it appears that
the fabrication to which Mr. O'Connell alludes, originated
with the Standard; and that, in exposing the falsehood, a
misprint occurred in the Freeman, of " true" for " untrue,"
which gave occasion for the prompt disavowal of Mr.
O'Connell.

MR. SHARMAN CRAWFORD.—This gentleman has, it
seems, at length completed his series of letters to Mr.
O'Connell. Letter the sixth appears to-day in the Dublin
Evening Post, accompanied by a note of thanks to the
Editor of that Journal for his kind attention in publishing
all Mr. Crawford's letters. We have not inserted any of
the Crawfordsburn letters, nor shall we now deviate from
the course We felt justified in prescribing to ourselves, by
opening our columns to the last. But although we cannot
qualify ourselves for any such acknowledgment as that with
which the Post has been honoured, we willingly give room
to the sort of summary tacked to the tail of the letter. It
is in the following form :

" CONCLUSION.

" Sir,—My object, in the letters I have addressed to you,
has been to bring back the public mind to these great Con-
stitutional principles which I consider have been, for some
time past, wholly lost sight of.
" Sir—l now conclude this series of letters, not because
my subjects are exhausted, but because I am unwilling to
trespass farther on the patience either of the public or the
press ; at the same time, I do not promise that I shall cease
to watch and comment upon your public conduct, as cir-
cumstances may require ; because, Sir, I consider that you
are the medium through which the greatest good or the
greatest evil can be produced to oar common country.
" I know, Sir, that unworthy motives have been ascribed
to me by some portion of the press, for• my attacks on your
policy. Ido not answer these charges, because, although
a momentary assent may be given to them by any portion of
my countrymen, I have not a particle of doubt that an honest
course has nothing to fear ; and that their cooler judgment
(and, perhaps, even yours) will do me justice in the end.
" Sir, I have the honour to? subscribe myself—what I
trust I have been, and ever shall continue to be—your
faithful assistant in every good work in the service of your
country,

Ulster are proving themselves the most intolerant ant
audaciously tyrannical even of their party.
A very short time ago we had to record the attempt of a
congregation in relfast to put one of its elders on the "stool
of repenta ie," because he had presumed to vote accottling
to his principlcs ; and it is now our painful duty to point to a
correspondetsce in which a section of a congregation will be
found seeking to compel their minister to forego his. rights
as a man, and abandon his duty as a citizen. The Rev. P. s,
Henry had repeatedly voted for Mr. Dobbin. Mr. Curry
professed Mr. Dobbin's principles ; and the Presbyterian
Tories knew that Mr. Henry would vote for him also. So,
they got up a round-robin, and called on their minister to
abstain from voting altogether. With proper spirit, he
refused to bow to their insolent demand, and honestly dis-
charged his public trust. Inltantly the dictators threatened
to dsert him, and set up an opposition meeting-house.
They made a certain Doctor Joshua Vogan their spokes-
' Man, and this learned and tolerant person had the modesty
to require from Mr. Henry, as the only condition on which
he threatened rupture might be prevented, that he should
humbly express his contrition for the crime he had com-
mitted, and promise never again to exercise the distinguish-
ing privilege of a free citizen! Mr. Henry spurned the
monstrous proposition ; and the disaffected Tories have gone
off from him and established a congregation for themselves.
This, we suppose, is " liberty of conscience ;" thus is the
boasted " right of private judgment" respected by the True
Blue Presbyterians of Armagh. Mr. Henry has done himself
much credit throughout the affair. Ile has stood his
ground manfully, and asserted his rights with equal firm-
ness and- moderation. We regret, however, that he should
have referred to the receipt of any personal favour, as the
motive of his acts. Had he never been made agent for
the distribution of the Regions Donum—had Mr. Dobbin
never sought to make him so, he was bound to behave,
and, we believe, he would have behaved, just as he had
done. Upon the whole, however, his conduct does him
great honour. We take it for granted that the Govern-
ment will never think of bestowing the Regions Donum on
the new congregation. It is founded in intolerance, and
held together merely by hate of freedom. A premium
will not be put—at least by Lord Mulgrave—on the
worst species of sectarian bigotry, and the most unjustifi•
able interference with the free exercise of civil rights.—
Netvry Examiner.