The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-08 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court was held for the purpose of resuming
the cor.•sideration of the new Bill for appointing and regu-
lating the Day Police and Nightly Watch, within the City
and Liberties.

THE NEW CITY POLICE BILL.

The Court proceeded to discuss the various clauses of the
new Bill for the Regulation of the Police of the City.
Mr. ANDERTON expressed great surprise at finding that
although it was well known to the Law Officers of the Court,
thr.t a subject of so much importance to the citizens of Lon-
Lit was appointed to undergo discussion, not one of them was
in attendance It was pretty generally understood that when
certain Law Officers of the Corporation applied for increase of
salary, one of the arguments used to support their claim was
their attendance upon the Court of Common Council.—( Hear. )
The Court had attended to their application, but it appeared
to him that the moment they achieved what they wanted
they forgot the obligation ; and they were absent upon the
present occasion when their advice and assistance might be of
consequence to the Court. He should take care upon some
future occasion to take notice of their absence.

After some discussion upon a few of the clauses, the Bill
was read a third time and passed by a large majority.
The general opinion was that the Bill would prove most
effective in its operation, but there were some in the Court
who thought that some of its clauses were in contravention of
the 10th of George the Second, and that the rate could not
be legally levied on the inhabitants for the payment of the
united force constituted by it.

THE LORD MAYOR'S ADDRESS TO THE COURT.
The LORD MAYOR, upon the passing of the Bill, rose and
addressed the members upon retiring from the Mayoralty. It
was the last time he should, he said, have the honour, as Lord
Mayor, of addressing himself to the members of the Court of
Common Council, and he begged to assure the Court that he
felt highly honoured and obliged by the manner in which they
had supported him during the year.._.( Hear.) His Lordship
then congratulated himself upon closing the Mayoralty witty
the passing of a Bill which he considered likely to render a
lasting benefit to his fellow-citizens.

Mr: GALLOWAY hoped that the Lord Mayor's example as
Chief Magistrate would be closely followed by his successors.
He had never known a Lord Mayor who had acted more im-
partially, honourably, or energetically, or one who bad upon
all occasions manifested a more kind and obliging disposi.
tion.—( Cheers.)
The Court then adjourned.

Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, a young
woman named Holt, the daughter of a carpenter residing in
Bloomfield-street, Hackney-road, was lifting a glue-pot from
the fire, when her apron became ignited, and before assistance
could be procured she was shockingly burned. She was
taken to the London Hospital, but is not expected to recover.
Yesterday morning, between seven and eight o'clock,
Mr. James Hemmings, of Gloucester-street, Red Lion-square,
bricklayer, while standing on a scaffold erected to the first
story of a house under repair in Charles-street, Gray's Inn-
r-Jad, slipped off, owing to the wetness of the planking, and
fell into the area. He sustained a violent concussion of the
brain and broke his left arm.

AN APOLOGY FOR A MISTAKE.--We are in-
formed that an apology was posted on the gates of Emel
Castle addressed to Mr. Johnson Stoney, stating that he was
not the person intended to be shot, and hoping he would over-
look the little accident he had met with. —Nenagh Guardian.
A few days ago a ploughman, whilst labouring in a
field near Cateau Cambresis, discovered an iron chest buried
under the surface, and filled with gold and silver coins. The
chest is said to have been so heavy as to require seven men
to lift it !

Yesterday afternoon a journeyman carpenter, named
Mortal, residing in Kent-street, Southwark, fell down in his
room while in a state of intoxication. His cries for help
brought several persons to his assistance, when it was thought
his right thumb was broken off. The wretched man was in-
stantly conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, and, on examina-
tim, one of his ribs on the right side was found to be broken,
and that he had sustained a compound dislocation of the thumb,
the first joint of which was turned backwards. It is the first
case of the kind ever admitted into the hospital, and it is ex-
pected the injuries will produce lock-jaw.
An inquest was held yesterday in Cary-street, Lin-
coln's-inn, on the body of a carman, named Reeve, who fell
down dead in the Strand on Sunday night. A man who was
with deceased at the time said a stranger had knocked deceased
down and then walked away. A surgeon, however, could find
no mark of violence on his person, and attributed his death to
apoplexy. Verdict accordingly. Neither deceased nor his
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ANTI-TITHE MEETING.---The Waterford Chro-
nicle reports the proceedings of one of the most numerous
meetings ever convened in Ireland, to petition Parliament:
against the Tithe system, It was held on Thursday in the open
air on the Green of Carrick-on-Suir, and is said to have been
attended by 30,`,,00 persons. The Chronicle affirms that with.
very few exceptions, every man of rank, station, and substance.
in 4.1,,e neighbourhood was there, adding that " a combination
of all classes and parties is made to resist to death the measuro
of limitless inquity of last Session."