The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-08 00:00:00

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Court of Aldermen

A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday in the Alder-
men's chamber at Guildhall ; the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor presiding.
The preliminary business having been disposed of,

Mr. Alderman and Sheriff BESLEY informed the court
that the sheriffs had taken upon themselves to alter the day
of execution from Monday to Wednesday. . .

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY thought the sheriff ought to give
the reasons for the alteration.

Alderman and Sheriff BESLEY said the first suggestion had
come from the court itself. The first reason was that the
execution on a Monday must of necessity b 3 attended by
a great desecration of the Sabbath, and inconvenience as
regarded Newgate-market. Before making the alteration
the Rev. M. Gibbs, the minister of Christ-church, and the
ministers of St. Sepulchre's and St. Martin's had been con-
sulted and they had concurred with it.
Mr. Alderman COFELAND thought it would be better if
the execution tack place privately. The public would be
very much benefited by it. -Upon one occasion, when an
execution took place on Easter Monday, on the Tuesday
following he had more than 20 cases of picking pockets at
the very foot of the gallows taken before him. •
Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE thought there would be a most
decided and unanimous feeling against private executions.
In all cases where a large crowd was collected, let it be the
opening of a new church or a meeting, there was sure to be
a number of that class present who were engaged in re-
moving property from other people's pockets to their own.

Mr. Alderman PHILLIPS gave notice of the following mo-
tion in reference to the subject: "That it should be referred
to a committee of privileges to consider whether it would
be judicious to make application to the Secretary of State
with a view to ascertaining whether the time had not
arrived when executions, which so degraded the City, should
take place privately, and not publicly.
Mr. Alderman SmNEY gave notice of a similar motion,
viz., "Whether it was the opinion of the Court the Secre-
t:try of State should be memorialised to have the executions
removed from the precincts of the City."

THE BROKER OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
A further report was brought up from the General Pur-
poses Committee, submitting for adoption new rules, orders,
and regulations for the government of brokers of the city of
London, and asking for authority to prepare the necessary
bonds in conformity with such rules and regulations.
Mr. Alderman GIBBONS, in the absence of Mr. Alderman
Waterlow, moved the adoption of the report, and that it
should be referred back to the committee to take the neces-
sary steps for putting the proposed rules in force.
Mr. Alderman Pnruirs thought some of the rules require
considerable modification, and suggested one or two altera-
tions. In fact he objected to the whole of them, and was
of opinion that such a supervision as the brokers were sub-
jected to was against all the principles of free trade, and he
moved as an amendment that the report should go back for
reconsideration.

Mr. Alderman COPELAND seconded the amendment.
Mr. Alderman BESLEY thought the omission of the clause
which prevented a broker from buying or selling on his own
account goods in which he dealt, and the substituting of
one which only required him to act justly between party
and party, completely abrogated the whole character of a
broker.

Mr. Alderman LUSK said those whom it was proposed to
protect were the large merchants of the City, who did not
want protection. If it were to protect those who had their
mustard adulterated with flour, their coffee with chicory,
and their bread with plaster of Paris, he could very well
understand such a supervision.
Alderman Sir E. CARDEN supported the amendment.
He did not think it was a question of the protection of the
public at all, but that it was entirely a money question.
With regard to the class of brokers known as stockbrokers,
he believed there were not a more honourable body than
they were ; but there were certain individuals who were
not thought worthy or respectable enough to bo admitted
into the Stock Exchange, but who nevertheless, by means
of advertisements which might be seen in any of the papers,
succeeded in inducing persons to entrust them to transact
their business. It was by such persons that many of the
frauds were committed, and he thought if the court would
prevent persons from acting as stockbrokers unless they were
members of the Stock Exchange, which was free to all who
were worthy, some real good would be done.
The amendment, on being put, was lost, and Mr. Alder-
man Phillips then moved that a clause which provided
that none of the certificates which it was required should
be signed by six merchants should be signed by an alder-
man should be struck out.

This was also negatived, and the original motion was
agreed to, viz., the adoption of the report, which was re-
ferred back for execution.

We observe in the 1865 edition of " Debrett's
Peerage," that there are 24 Dukes, 34 Marquesses,
197 Earls, 57 Viscounts, and 215 Barons of the United
Kingdom ; 117 of whom are Baronets, 430 have been mar-
ried, the remaining 97 still being in a state of single bles-
sedness; 80 have obtained academical honours at Oxford,
whilst 50 have been receivers of the same from the sister
University ; only 9 peers are in Holy Orders, two of
whom are Bishops (isath and Wells, and Tuam, Killala, 1
and Aelionry) ; 743 of the younger sons of Peers have
obtained honours of various distinctions, have had
or still hold Government appointments, or, like 974 of
the daughters of Peers, are married. There are only 14
Peeresses in their own right. Last year there died four
Dukes (Athole, Newcastle, and the 2d and 3d Dukes of
—oullet, illtarci
uess(Bristol),-8 Earls (Aberdeen,
Morley, Cadogan, Stair, Carlsle, and
Clare,
rl Cleveland),-1
this last title becoming extinct),-1 Viscount (Sid-
mouth),-4 Barons (Ashburton, Manners, Rodney, and
Somerville),-1 Lord Bishop (Ely),—and 1 Peeress in her
own right (Ruthven).
The last mail brought to Bombay a Mr. Camp-
bell,•
the Punjab Railway. This gentleman has had
position on
in England, princi-
pally who proceeds in a few days to. Lahore to take up a
more than twenty years' experience
Great
Northern h will probably be turned to
Northern Railways, and which
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in connexion with the Great Western and Great
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