The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-12 00:00:00

MINCHESTER.-(LAST NIGHT.)

(FROM A COBRESPONDENT. )
THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF
MANCHESTER.
This newly legalized body has, it is well known, no public
property, and, of course, no splendid hall, or buildings of any
kind, where it can assemble to transact either public or pri-
vate business. There is, however, a splendid Town Hall,
which property is vested by Act of Parliament in 240 Com-
missioners of Police, in which magnificent building there are
suites of rooms now completely unoccupied, and which would
admirably serve all the present purposes of the Corporation.
To obtain the use of such rooms, application was made, in the
first instance, to the boroughreeve and constables ; for their
consent to which application a polite but positive refusal was
returned. A second and third application was made to the
same parties, but with a like result. As a last resource, a
special meeting of the Commissioners of Police was called for
Thursday last, and the requisition signed by 77 persons (Com-
missioners). On this, however, not much reliance was placed,
as it was well known that anti-corporators formed a majority
of the Commissioners. Still, an effort was determined upon.
The meeting consisted of 194 Commissioners—a larger num.
ber than ever met on any previous occasion, being four-fifths
of the whole number. On a division, after a warm discussion,
the noes were 102, the ayes 92. Thus did the Tory anti.
corporators triumph. It is, however, some consolation to the
defeated Liberals to know, that this defeat—if defeat it can be
called—was owing to six torch-light Commissioners support-
ing the rabid Conservatives—for rabid they are—on this
question. Had they voted, as a section of Liberals, with the
minority, the real Reformers would have gained their point
by a majority of two. The ccnsequence will be, that a persist-
ance in such conduct will compel the Corporation to expend
many thousand pounds in the erection of a suitable building
and offices; and thus will the inhabitants of Manchester be
taxed most unnecessarily, for no other object than that of
enabling the Tories to show that they can command a majo-
rity of the Commissioners of Police. To be sure, it will give
the Conservatives abundant opportunities, when a rate is de-
manded, to lavish their spleen on the so called extravagance of
the Corporation, &c. &c.

(FROM ANOTHER CORRF.St)NDENT.)
Great as has been the damage done by the late storm, that
part of it which is connected with the cotton-mills and other
manufactories is likely to produce great suffering among the
working people employed at many establishments. It will
arise thus. Where a factory chimney has been blown dowr,
and there are upwards of forty in the district so destroyed,
such mills cannot be worked again until a new chimney is
built, and which now-a-days has become no trifling affair,
whether as it regards the time it will take to erect others, or
the cost of them. The late disaster will clearly show that
they cannot be too substantially built; and this essential qua-
lity in such erections forbids any unnecessary haste on the part
of the workmen employed. Besides, too, the inclement
weather just now is particularly inauspicious, as not a step can
be taken during the continuance of the frost. As to the cost
of a chimney, some people think little of expending 5001., or
even 1,000/ ,on such an appendage. It is probable that
12,000 or 15,000 hands will, in consequence of this visitation,
be thrown out of employment for many weeks to come. It is
likely, however, in a few cases, that temporary chimneys may
be erected.