The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-30 00:00:00

WESTMINST '" SESSIONS, FRIDAY.f FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

There was an unr,q,,- full attendance of magistrates this
morning, it having ...ten arranged that the election of a Chair-
In should take piece, in the room of Francis Const, Esq.,
r many years filled that situation, but who has lately
_ .ed. ~wo o'clock Mr. Ballantine directed the Clerk
toe P4' • Mr. Gylby) to read Mr. Const's letter of re-
• • • Gylby then read the following letter:—
" Piccadilly, Dec. 28, 1837.
:r—The Sessions having arrived at which the
`Jr a Chairman must take place, I had contemplated
same opportunity of thanking the gentlemen on the
41CLI for the repeated instances of partiality I had undergone
tit] being placed in the Chair, and at the same time to resign
any further appointment, but on adverting to various circum-
stances to which my memory led me, I am bound to confess I
3 ield to certain feelings which would render a personal attend-
ance (to say the least of it) uncomfortable. I have therefore
availed myself of my friend Mr. Ballantine's kindness, who
undertakes the business of the Sessions, and I must request of
you, Sir, to make my thanks ecceptab e to the magistrates
for my many years' enjoyment of the office of Chairman, and
Lispeetfully to decline any further appointments, and assuring
them that this last duty is felt by me beyond any former act,
whilst it at the same time proves the propriety of my resigna-
tion. Were I, while taking leave, to omit mentioning my
obligations to the gentlemen of the bar, whose personal atten-
tions have been properly estimated, and to whom I return my
thanks, I should be ungrateful, and with much regret, there-
fury, I take my leave, and am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" FRANCIS CONST.
" S. P. Gylby, Esq., Clerk of the Peace."
Mr. PRENDERGAST here rose, and passed a high eulokrium
on their late Chairman in the names of the gentlemen of the
bar generally, whom he knew were fully sensible of the great
k ndness which Mr. Coast had invariably shown towards them.
—( Hear. hear.)

Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE then moved the following resolu-
tion—" That this Court receives with great regret the resig-
nation of their late Chairman, Francis Const, Esq., and return
him their most sincere acknowledgments for the able and im-
partial manner in which he fulfilled the duties of that office for
so many years past."
The resolution having been carried,
Mr. Truc bad the honour to propose Mr. Sergeant Adams
to fill the vacant situation of Chairman of that Court.
Sir CHARLES FOIUHLS seconded the nomination.
Mr. WittTE then proposed Mr. Sergeant Andrews, and

Mr. AMTOTT seconded the proposition.
A short time before the time fixed for the closing of the
ballot (four o'clock),

Mr. AMYOTT, on the part of Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS, was
aathorised to withdraw his name as a candidate.
Soon after four o'clock the scrutineers came into Court.
At length a motion was made by Mr. GRAHAM, that Mr. Ser-
geant ADAMS be elected the Chairman of the Westminster
Sessions.

It was put and carried unanimously.
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS was then introduced, when
Mr. BALLANTINE felt great pleasure in informing him tha
he had been, by the unanimons vote of the magistaates present
elected Chairman of the Westminster Sessions.

There being no other business before it, the Court adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOU USE.

A man named Ben Johnson, who had been stud-groom to
a gentleman of fortune, was brought. before the Loan MAYOR
by John Forrester, the officer, udon a warrant charging him
with having stolen three ho: sea belonging to his master. The
prisoner was remanded.
Two boys, named MCormac and 'lcahn; were charged
with having stolen as much lead as they could carry from
premixes occupied by the workmen of Mr. Chadwick, the
builder.

APCormac, who is only thirteen years old, said, " Please
you, my Lord, we didn't sack the lead. I'll tell )ou how it
was. This boy and me were going along the street nest. a
gateway, and I spies a man wo: was a looking about to see
Low the land lay ; so I knowcd he was a'ter no good, and I
says 'stop a bit.' So I looks at him a minute, and he tried to
sit over a summit, to hide from us wut he had ; and I looks at
him again, and then he see'd that I knowed how the land lay,
c.c.4 ho says to us, You won't tcll nobody will you.' No,'
says we, ' we don't want to tell nobody ; bat I kept looking
at him, and then says be, You may have this bit ;' and so
we took a bit a-piece—and that's how we got it."
The LORD MAYOU-1 shall send you both to Bridewell for
two months ; for if I discharge you you will begin to thieve
the moment you get out.
M'Cormac—No, we won't, my Lord; we never means to
do anything but what': right again. It's no good to be going
a .out ;digging.
The other boy said that as the min givLd 'em the Ftutf it
could not be said that they prigged it ; but he supposed if they
bought it, it would be all the same, and as that was the case,
it was no use to be honest.
They were then committed to Bridewell.

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 29.

Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guard's—Lieut. G. D. Scott, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Dames, who retires; Cornet M. Pipon,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Scott ; B. Newland, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Pipon, Dec. 29.
2d Regimant of Dragoons—Brevet Col. J. R. Ward, from the
half-pay Unattaehed, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice A. W. M. Lord
Sandys, who exchanges, Dec. 29; Major C. Wyndham to be Lieut.-
Col., by purchase, vice Ward, who retires ; Captain J. F. S. Clarke
to be Major, by purchase, vice Wyndham ; Lieut. R. Miller, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Clarke ; Cornet G. A. F. Lord Glen-
lyon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Miller ; M. Milbank,
Gent., to be Cornet, In purchase, vice Lord Glenlyon, Dec. 30.
sth Regiment of Foot—Brevet Major D. E. Johnson to be
Major, 13' purchase, vice Lord C. Wellesley, promoted ; Lieutenant
P. M. N. Guy to be Captain, by purchase, vice Johnson ; second
Lieut. T. Eyre to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vise Guy ; H.
P. Baker, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Eyre,
Dec. 29.

9th Foot—R. Harthill, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Griffin, deceased, Dec. 2.9.

15th Foot—H. Franklin, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, ♦ice
Bain, promoted in the 34th Regiment of Foot, Dec. 29.
29th Foot—Lieut. H. M. Cuninghame, from the 94th Regiment
of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Kelly, who exchanges, Dec. 29.
34th Foot—Assistant Surgeon W. Bain„M.D., from the 15th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Griffin, appointed to the 65th Foot,
Dec. 29.

35th Foot—T. Teulon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, rice
Bahiock, who retires, Dec. 29.

37th Foot—A. B. A. Bowers, Gent, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Hamilton, whose appointment has not taken place;
Sergeant-Major R. Hamilton to be Quartermaster, vice Hayes,
deceased; T. D'Arcey, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Neill, promoted in the 56th Foot, Dec. 29.

38t1 Foot—Captain J. Campbell to be Major, by purchase, vice
Hopper, who retires ; Lieut. \V. L. O'Halloran to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Campbell • Ensign T. Anderson to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice O'Halloran ; W. H. Hopper, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Anderson, Dec. 29.
52d Foet—Quartermaster-Sergeant Clune, to be Quarter-
master, vice J. Morgan, who retires upon half-pay, Dec. 29.
56th Foot—Ensign H. D. Crofton to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Lacy, appointed Adjutant ; F. G. T. Deshon,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Crofton ; Lieut. R. W. Lacy to be
Adjutant, vice Walmeslcy, promoted ; Assistant-Surgeon M.
Neill, from the 37th Regiment of Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Daw-
son, promoted, Dec. 29. _ _

641 h Foot.—Lieut. E. Mandeville to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Wright, deceased, Oct. 22 ; Lieut. J. A. King-
dom to be Captain, without purchase, vice Dillon, deceased, Nov.
29 ; Ensign E. J. Case to be Lieutenant, 'vice andeville, Oct.
22 ; Ensign A. B. Parker to be Lieutenant, vice Kingdom, Nov.
29 ; Ensign J. S. Kirwan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Coxe, whosepromotion, by purchase, has not taken place, Dec. 29 ;
Ensign J. D. Smyth to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Parker.
whose promotion by purchase has not taken place, Dec. 30 ; J. Dil-
lon, Geet., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Kirwan, Dec. 29;
H. Downes, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Smyth,
Dec. 30.

67th Foot—Capt. E. E. Hill, from the half-pay Unattached, to
be Captain, vice I. Elton, who exchanges, Dec. 29; Lieut. C. C.
Davie to be Captain, by purchase. vice Hill, who retires, Dec. 30;
Ensign J. Porter to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parker,
who retires, Dec. 29 ; Ensign C. B. Hague to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Davie, Dec. 30 ; C. Coape, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Porter, Dee. 29 ; W. R. Adair, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Hague, Dec. 30.
79th Foot—Lieut. J. S. hmyth to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Macdonald, who retires ; Ensign W. Monro to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Smyth ; F. Milbank, Gent. to be Ensign, by
purchase„-vice Monro, Dec. 29.
13.5 th Foot—Surgeon G. Griffin, from the 34th Regiment of
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice G. Home, who retires upon half-pay,
Dec. 29.

94th Foot—Lieut. E. 11. M. Kelly, from the 29th Regiment
of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cuninghaine, who exchanges
Dec. Zo.

Royal Malta Fencible Regiment—Major Marquis Guiseppe do
Piro to be Lieutenant-Colonel, with local and temporary rank in
the Army, Dec. 29.

UNATTACHED.

Major Lord C. Wellesley, from the sth Regiment of Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase ; Lieut. C. F. Sweeny, from the
25th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 29.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
Surgeon W. Dawson, M.D., from the 56th Regiment of Foot,
to be Surgeon to the Forces, vice Stewart, deceased, Dec. 29.