The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-22 00:00:00

THE CIVIC ELECTIONS. •

THE WARDMOTES.

Civic oratory always finds full vent on St. Thomas's.
day, and yesterday proved no exception to the general
rule. The Corporation Commissiox, as will be seen from
the subjoined reports, was the principal topic on which
the eloquence of the citizens displayed itself ; sanitary
matters, and the other topics which are usually discussed,
being thrust into the background. In one or two cases
the impending fate of Temple-bar, was brought under
notice, but it did not appear to attract any very general
attention.
ALDERSGATE.

The election of tie inquestmen, beadles, &c., for the
ensuing year have been concluded, the folloiving *Com-
mon Councilmen were re-elected without opposition :
John Lorkin, E. Godson, J. T. ,Norris, J. Wood, H. de
Jersey. T. Woodward, R. J. dtem, and J. Ward.
The meeting was of a SOM hat exciting nature,
owing to a number of speechcs'being made on the sub-
jed of the Royal Commission. The following resolu-
tions and "order of a proposed new corporation " met
with pretty general approval, and contain in themselves
the substance of the observations made by the various
speakers :
" Proposed,—That this ward congratulate their fellow
citizens on the inquiry now in progress before the Royal
Commissioners into the uses and abuses of the corpora-
tion of the city of London, and have reason to hope that-
by the manner in which that inquiry is conducted such
information will be elicited, as will insure an efficient
measure of corporate reform."—Carried.
"That it is desirable that the city of London* should
take some public means of expressing their undiminished
attachment to municipal institutions as the best bul-
warks of constitutional monarchy, the preservers of self-
government, and the true barriers of feudality."—
Carried.

"That the great obstructions, so much and so properly
complained of, to the commerce of the port of London
in the obsol'ete enactments undeilotte of the late char=
ters are matters with which the corporation have no
connexion whatever ; they are chartered rights conferred
on a class, and the knowledge of their existence, and
their gallinm injustice, were patent to the Government,
and published in the Commons' report previous to the
passing of the general measure of municipal reform .in
1835."—Carried.

" ORDER OF A PROPOSED NEW CORPORATION.
"That it confer the franchise on all paying scot and
bearing let ; that the magistrates shall be elected by
their fellow-citizens ; that_ the- whole.of the elections in
Common-hall shall be by the citizens generally, and not,
as now, by the liverymen ; that the Court of Aldermen,
as a court, shall have no separate power over the city
purse ; that the right of calling on the livery companies.
to produce accounts and see to the due administration
of the funds intrusted to them shall lie in the Aldermen
and Court of Common Council ; that the old officers be
eligiblo for re-election.
The above was moved by Mr. BESLEY, seconded by
Mr. GREEN, and carried after a very general discussion
among the wardmote.
The meeting then dissolved.

ALDGATE.
Alderman Humphery presided.
members of the Common Council for this ward
foi:this. and the ensuing year are as follows :—Mr. James
Lake, deputy ; Mr. R. B. Whiteside, Mr. B. C. Buck-
nail, Mr. B. Osmond, Mr. B. Burnell, Mr. John Hud-
son, and Mr. Elger Stephenson. The two last-named
gentlemen were elected in the room of Messrs. Freeman
and• Fisher, who resigned.