The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-26 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held at

The Lord Mayor took the Chair at 12 o'clock.
HER MAJESTY'S ANSWER TO THE CITY

ADDRESS.

The RECORDER having read the Answer of her Ma-
jesty to the Address presented to her by the Corporation
on Thursday last,
Mr. GALLOWAY rose and said that the usual course
on such occasions was to move that the Answer of her
Majesty be entered on the' journals of the Court,
but in doing so on the present occasion he trusted
the Court would in some way express its regret
that such an Answer should have been
given to an address from the Citizens of London, on a
sulsject so deeply affecting their rights and privileges.
—(Hear, hear.) The citizens of London had been
foremost among the steady supporters of her Majesty's
Ministers, and ought to have been treated by them in a
very diiierent manner than they had been on the late
occasion. The answer to the Address was not that of
her Majesty but of her Majesty's Ministers ; and it
was evident from the manner in which her Majesty
uttered them, that the words did not come from her
heart.—(blear.) He was sure that those Ministers
were net consdering the security of the Administration
when they framed that answer.—(Hear.) He trusted
the members of that Court would never forget the un-
courteous answer that had been given to one of the
best addresses it bad ever presented to the Throne. He
regretted that Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell
should have acted so injudiciously as they had done—
their conduct had made a deep and lasting impression
on the minds of the Citizens, and would not easily be
forgotten. He concluded by moving—That the Answer
to the Address be entered on the Journals of the
Court.
Mr. OBBAILD seconded the motion.

Alderman BROWNE said he hoped that some addition
would be made to the motion.—(Hear.) Some ex-
presion of the regret of the Court that her Majesty
had been advised to give such an answer ; an answer
that was ill adapted to the Address itself, and which in
addition to avoiding all courtesy of expression, equally
Avoided all the important topics contained in it.—
(Hear.) Ile hoped that in recording that answer on
their Journals, they would also record the feeling that
such an answer had excited among them, so that both
might be handed down to posterity together. He
trusted that the present lords of misrule would
soon be removed from her Majesty's Councils.—
(Loud cheers.) They had disappointed the ex-
pectations of their friends, and equally realised the
worst anticipations of their opponents.—(Hear). All
psrties ware now agreed that the country was no longer
safe, while under the dominion of such men. Many
persons formerly blamed his late Majesty for the un-
ceremonious manner in which he once dismissed them
from his councils, but after what had recently taken
place, people might, perhaps, think that he did so,
because they proposed to him some measures so inimi-
cal to the interests of his people, that his honest heart
at once revolted at them, and with that energy
that was peculiar to him, he indignantly dis-
reissed them from his service. (Hear, hear.)
The worthy Alderman concluded by moving, as an
amendment, the following addition to the resolution :
" 'cleat this Court cannot but express their extreme re-
gret that her Majesty should have been advised by her
Ministers to return an answer to the Address of this
Court, so deficient in the usual courtesy hitherto ob-
served on like occasions, and without in any manner nos
tiehig the important topics contained in the Address."
Mr. GADSDEN, in seconding the motion, said the
language put in her Majesty's mouth by her Ministers
was that of a pert and flippant girl.—(" Order, order.")
He did not mean that her Majesty's conduct was that
of a pert and flippant girl, but that her Ministers, by
the answer they had advised her to give to the Address,
wished to make her appear so in the eyes of the Citizens.
Sir PeTER LAURIE said the New Police Bill brought
forward by Ministers was a more tyrannical measure
than anything that had been proposed by the Tories.
Mr. E. WILSON did not think the Corporation was
best consulting its dignity by calling the Ministers hard
n antes.

Mf. PRITCHARD was disposed to treat Ministers
with courtesy, but trusted the Court would not hesi-
t..te in pronouncing its opinion of their conduct.

Mr. Alderman BROWNE said, that as some gentle-
men appeared to doubt the propriety of his amendment,
he would read the resolution of the Court of the 20th
December, 1820, in recording an answer of his Majesty
to an Address delivered to the Throne at that period :
" This Court cannot refrain from expressing their
grief that any Ministers should have dared to advise
such a i eply to their petition, which was an attempt to
screen themselves from that Parliamentary inquiry into
their conduct which was absolutely necessary to satisfy
the prayers of a much injured and oppressed people."
He thought the precedent the Court then established
ought to be followed on the present occasion.--(Loud
cries of 44 Hear, hear.")
Sir MATTHEW WOOD said that before the Court
cast such a sweeping censure on the Answer to the
Address, they ought to recollect the severe attack it
contained on her Majesty's Ministers. He did not
know the eontenrq of tins A dA”..-.7 ..en :4 iV (AO 1 Utill CU
the Queer-I-by the Recorder, not being present when it
was agreed to by the Court, but the moment he heard
it he expected what the Answer would be, and that the
Corporation would, to use a vulgar expression, get a
slap in the face.—(Murmurs.) He disapproved, as
much as any one, of the Police Bill, but the Corpo-
ration had themselves to blame for its having been brought
forward. The former Police Bill was an excellent
one, but because it placed the constables under the con-
troul of the Magistrates the Court opposed it, and it
was withdrawn. He told them all the time what the
consequences would be, and his prediction was now
verified. He strongly disapproved of the language that
had been made use of by Mr. Gadsden, and would tell
them that if such language were indulged in, they would
be deprived of the right of addressing the Throne at
el!.—( Loud murmurs.) Lord Melbourne did not even
know that such a Bill was before the House of Com-
mons until their Address Ras presented against it.—
(Oh, oh.) As to the answer to that Address, it was
no more than what he expected.—(oh, oh')
Some Members here expressed a hope that Mr. Al-
derman Browne would withdraw his amendment.
Mr. ANDERTON hoped he would persevere in it—
( Hear.) He cared not whether Whigs or Tories—my
Lo* d this, or my Lord that had advised such a measure:as
the Police Bill—the sooner such men, whoever they
were, were turned out of office the better.—(Hear.)
Mr. Alderman BROWNE said lie should persist in his
amendment, as he felt cominced that if the Police Bill
were passed into a law, a paid Magistracy would soon
be introduced into the City of London, and trial by
juty would be abolished. The present measure was
only the forerunner of others, by which the rights and
pritikges of the Citizens of London would be for ever
test Toyed.

Mr. GALLOWAY, in reply, said that with him the love
of truth was superior to the love of party. He there-
fore approved of the amendment, and trusted that the
Court would adodt it unanimously.
After a long discussion,
The RECORDER put the amendment, which was car-
tied by an immense majority, there being only five hands
held up against it.

Tire amendment was then declared carried, amid loud
and !ong-centinued cheers.

Tne Court then adjourned.

DISTURBANCES IN LANCASHIRE.---Several
of the London newspapers ban been amusing their readers
with sti,ries of disturLances in Lancashire, for which, we
Irrdly need say, there is not the slightest foundation.
They app,!,ar to have arisen from the movement cf two
troops of horse artillery from Woolwich—not, however, to
Lancashire, but to Weedon. There is no doubt that the
sv.te of this celghbouthool is such as to require the vigi-
lant attention of Government • but, of late every thing has
bccn perfectly quiat.—Manchester Guardian.

DR. PARR.—The Doctor was very fond of his
choir, and always encouraged them to sing a long hymn or
anthemn before the sermon, during which he used to steal
into the vestry and smoke his pipe. When they had done
the clerk informed him, and if the doctor had not finished,
he would say, " John, tel them to sing the two last verses
over again ; my people love,singing, and I love smokiag. "
Gardiner's Reminiscences.

DIVINITY HALL—PRIZE ESSAYS.----We un-
derstand that the Pitt Prize of 4C/. has been awarded to
Mr. Thomas B. Bell, for the best Essay on the Causes
which have impeded the Progress of the Reformation;
and that the Prize-Medal, value 20/., for the best Essay
on the subject of Cruelty to Animals, has been gained by
Mr. James Macaulay.—Scotsman.
INFURIATED OX—FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—
An ox that was being driven to be slaughtered at Newport
market, broke loose from its drivers on Saturday after-
noon last, and proceeded up Grafton-street, where it caught
upon its horns a child that was crossing the street, and
tossed it as high as the second floor windows. One of the
drivers that was pursuing the animal, rushed forward, and
with much address received the falling child quietly in his
arms. The child was very slightly injured. The ox then
dashed onwards towards Solio.square, oa entering which a
litle boy crossed it, whom it rather severely, but not se..
riously gored in the forehead. The animal then took the
west side of the square, and, as it was passing the Soho
Bazaar, it made a furious lounge at a dog that crossed its
path, and in doing so flung itself under an empty carriage
standing near the Bazaar. Before it could extricate itself
from under the vehicle, one of the butchers in pursuit
came up and adroitly inserting his knife in the spinal mar-
row, where it joins the brain, dispatched the animal in-
stantaneously.
The size of the bones of the Mastodon recently
fouled near Bucyrus, in Crawford county, Ohio, show it to
have been of extraordinary dimensions. The upper jaw
weigh laolbs , the under 77.—New York Paper.
INVESTMENT. OF MONEY BY A TTORNIES.
—At
87t
,Sashregivenwsburay li'i"iessizes, on Wednesday, a verdict, with
Newport,
attorney, car-
rying on businessg at named Stanley, car-
wport, for negligence in investing
a sum of money belonging to the plaintiff in an improper
security.