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by the Terdict of a.T , and neglect of duty° for six months
-except in case of i less."
:" That no person should be elected an Alderman unless he
possessed a qualification—such qualification to be 20,0001.--
and the person elected to be excused, or to vacate his seat, on
perceiving that he is not worth 25,000/.
" That the Recorder, and the clerks of the Cord Mayor
and the Court of Aldermen, be elected by the Court of
Mayor and Aldermen.
" That the Court of Mayor and Aldermen be empowered
to defray the expenses incurred for the police, and the fur-
therance of the ends of justice.
"That the boundaries of the several wards be continued
without alteration."
Sir PETER LAURIE concluded by proponieg the first reso-
lution.
Alderman Tuostes Woon readily seconded a resolution
which he had himself originated. The idea sif rendering Ma-
gistrates dependent upon popular opinion was obj(ctionsble
in the highest degree.
Alderman HARMER declared that he would vote against the
resolutions if he were to stand alone, as al the arguments
he had heard favoured, instead of oeposing the periodical
system.
Alderman FAREBROTHER believed that Parliament was so
constituted as tb maintain the rights and privileges of the
Crown, and that if the Court of Common Council expressed
their opinion as to the necessity of periodical election of Al-
dermen, their resolutions and petitions on the subject would
be treated by the Legislature as so much waste paper.
Sir MATTHEW Wools said, that though he could not refuse,
as returning officer, to put the resolutions alluded to by Sir
Peter Laurie at the wardmote, it did not follow that he con-
curred in them.—( Hear.) The resolutions proposed by Sir
Peter Laurie were unquestionably proper. It was quite im-
possible that the annual election of Aldermen could for a
moment be thought of. —( Hear.) What he supposed would
be tried, would he to get the Aldermen triennialy elected.
He apprehended that the Government might be urged to the
adoption of a stipendiary magistracy, if a spirit of conciliation
or union were not imbibed by the different breeches of the
corporation. Now, would the City of London wish for that
ele nee ? He thought not. He did not think that Ministers
were inclined to introduce what would not be relished by the
Corporatibn, but they were certainly teased upon the subject.
He did not think that it was their wish that the election
should be eiiher annual or trienniel, but it would certainly be
becoming in the Corporation to express themselves candidly
and intelligibly on th subject. '
The first resolution was then agreed to,' the only hand held
up against it being that of Alderman Harmer, who stated that
he was determined to oppose every one of the resolutions.
Sir PETER LAURIE, at the suggestion of Alderman Brown,
withdrew the second resolution, and afterwards the third and
fourth, as unnecessary. The fifth, which related to the altera-
tion of the boundaries, was agreed to by a majority of 4.
The Court then adjourned.

MONEY MARKET.

TuEsDAY EVENING.—By the advices from Hamburgh the
price of gold is 434 per mark, which, at the English Mint
price of 3/. 17s. 105 d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 13 95, and the exchange at 11.amburgh on Lon-
don at short being 13. 10, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent.
lower at Hamburgh than in London.
The premium on gold at Paris is 85 per mile, which, at the
English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 105 d. the ounce for standard
gold, gives an exchange of 25. 365, and the exchange at
Paris on London at short being 25. 525, it follows that gold is
0. 64 per cent. lower at Paris than in London.
The price of sovereigns at New York is 5.054-, which esta-
blishes a par of exchange in paper of 113.74 per cent., and the
course of exchange on London being 1104 per cent , it fol-
lows that the exchange is 3.49 per cent. against England.
It appears by the New 1 ork Papers that a Bill has been
introduced into the House of Representatives by Mr. Evans,
of Maine, on the important subject of the north-eastern boun-
dary. This Bill authorizes and requires the President to
send the topographical corps of engineers upon the disputed
territory; to appoint one commissioner and geometer, and all
necessary assistants, to accompany them ; to have the line run
at once as defined by the treaty of Paris of 1783 to have
marks and monuments erected to point out the boundary line ;
to have maps prepared, exact returns made out, and every
particular published in relation to the disputed territory.
When this is done, the Bill authorizes and requires the
President of the United States to see that the laws of his
government are established and enforced upon the tract of
country thus defined as belonging to the United States.
This measure is understood to be conceived in a perfectly
friendly spirit towards England; not as deciding in any re-
spect the question of boundary, but as assuming a boundary
for a temporary purpose, under cover of which order may be
preserved upon the frontier, and something like a cantroul
imposed upon the turbulent spirits who inhabit that tract of
country.
A private letter from New-York, which adverts to the new
form of currency by checks, which has recently got into use,
ascribes it to the difficulty of providing for small payments
.
so long as the banks decline paying in specie by any other
mode, and also to that curtailment of the issues which all the
banks in New-York are resorting to, as a preparation for the
resumption of cash payments. It is a singular fact that New-
York, where so much banking business is daily carried on,
does not, we believe, possess the advantage of a ‘•cle..ring
house," such as is used by the London bookers, and where, by
a very simple process, the account of each diy is settled by a
payment of the balances due from one bank to the other, by
which an incredibly small sum is made to wind up the whole.
This forms an admirable check also among banks of issue
against any excess by any of them.
There has been to-day a greater disposition on the part of
the public to sell, and a larger supply of mosey-stock has a;)-
pe,red on the Consol-market. This arses probab:y from the
discontinuance of the purchases in progress tor some time past
on account of the Scotch banks, or of the saving-banks,
and which the jobbers had made arrangemen s for supply-
ing. Times.

The•outcry which has been raised against a certain
lady of rank, on the pretence of her being the author ess of that
much-canvassed work, The Diary of the Times of George I V.,
must be considered by every candid mind as alike ungenerous
and unjust. In literature, as in every other matter; it is a cus-
tom, founded on justice, to require that proof should precede
condemnation; whereas, in the ease of the lady alluded to,

rumour has been substituted for reality—and the weakest sur-
mises, strengthened by bold assertion, have taken the place of
evidence and truth. If the work be,• as alleged, the produc-

tion of a lady who hasbeen directly attached to the establish-
ment of the late Queen Caroline, it should at least be remem-

bercd that more ladies than one were thus engaged. The dis-
guise and mystery which have been assumed by the real writer
have the effect of rendering mistake only the more easy, so that
the very marks and signs which have been indicated as seeming
to fix the authorship on the individual lady in question may
have been, after all, but so many feints, purposely adopted to
mislead conjecture and baffle discovery.- The secret is, per-
haps, one of those which it is for time aline to devehape.—
John Bull.

MISS MARTINEAU'S PERSONAL NARRATIVE.
—We arc requested to state that Miss Martineau's new work,
" Retrospect of Western Travel," is now ready; also, " Tho
Adventures of a Creole,': by D. L. Joseph, gsq,, cf Trini-

. .
dad. The new edition of Mr Bulwer's " Ernest MaWavers,"
and Mr. Lodge's " Peerage for 1835," to be ha'i of the book-
seller!, at the libraries, or of the publishers, Messrs. Satin-

ders and Otley, Conduit-street, who have ncurly ready " Mis-
representation ; or, Scenes in Real Life, by a Lady," in
3 vols.

THE CITIES OF THE EAST.—We are requested
to state that the Lew work, entitled " Damascus and Palmyra ;
a Juurney to the East," by Charles G. Addison, Esq , of the
Inner Temple, in two volumes, Bvo., with numero,,s plates,
is published this day, by Mr. Bentley, Now Burlington-street,
Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty : and may be obtained
of all booksellers. Agents :—for Scotland, Nles,rs. Bell and
Bradfute, Edinburgh; for Ireland, Mr. J. Cumming, Dublin.
STEAM NAVIGATION ON TIIE PACIFIC.—Much
important information on this interesting subject will be af-
forded, we understand, in the Hon. Campbell Scarlett's N.lr-
rative of his " Travels in South America and the Pacific,"
which is to be published immediately. Mr. Scarlett has had
unexampled opportunities of procuring correct particulars re-
specting this desirable object, and has obtained the co-opera.
tion of Mr. Wheelwright, whose plans and statements will,
doubtless, form a valuable portion of the work.
WALKING ON THE THAMES.—A singular feat
was performed on Saturday last. A young man named Sow-
erby succeeded in walking upon the frozen surface of old
father Thames from Windsor to Chelsea-liridge, a distance,
allowing for the various windings, of about thirty miles. The
task was undertaken for a bet by no means commensurate with
the labour, which was much increased by the very slippery
state of the ice, owing to a temporary thativ.

Baron Von Vaerst, the proprietor and editor oc the
Breslau Gazette, has succeeded in reaching the theatre of
war in Spain. The Baron is a man of much general in-
formation, and of considerable military experience, having
made the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 as an officer in ttle
Prussian Guard. He will, therefore, be able to furnish the
public with much valuable information on the real state of
affairs in Spain.
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Monday afternoon, about four ct'clock, the follow-
ing distressing accident occurred in Shadwell, which has
caused a great sensation among that class of persons to which
the unhappy sufferer belongs. A y.rung bargeman named
William Warburton, who had but lately entered into the holy
state of matrimony, the honeymoon of which had not even
elapsed, came home in a state of beastly intoxication. His
loving spouse, whO had been impatiently watching the hours
as they passed (Warburton having been out the whole of the
previous night on " the spree"), endeavoured to get him to
bed, but the bargeman, inexorable to her entreaties, took his
pipe, seated himself in a chair before a blazing fire, and in a
short time fell asleep. His wife again attempted to arouse the
snorer, but in vain ; and having business to do above stairs,
left her husband to his dreams. In about three-quarters of
an hour she was alarmed by hearing a heavy fall, followed by
a deep groan, and immediately descending, perceived her
husband lying on the hearthstone with his head across the
fender, attempting in vain to unfasten his neckcloth, xhich as
well as his jacket was in a complete blare. The affrighted
wife immediately by her screams aroused r neighbours, and
with their assistance prevented Warburton from being burnt
noon the spot. lie I.as, however, been so severely injured,
that his life has been despaired of. It is to be hoped that
s ane beneficial effect may arise from this accident among his
thunken companions.
A new mine is about to be commenced in the parish
of Roche, by St. Austell, near the Bedmin road to Truro, to
be called The Victoria. 7 Vef rich S'O7C3 of tin have
born obtained on the spot, which was at one time a tin stream.
till be the first mine of that name in Cornwall,— Western
Times.