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London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

MESSRS. MOODY AND NEWBOLD,

THE BARROW HALL ESTATE, DERBYSHIRE.
° BE SOLD BY AUCTION, by Messrs.
T3iVrooor and NEWBOLD, at the ROYAL HOTEL, in Derby,
41ter410',0kr, the 18th day of NOVEMBER, 1853, at two o'clock in the
The _ LOT I.
'ION BARROW HALL,

iiipat
3tOlern and substantially built
ttisthed at Barrow-upon-Trent, in the County of Derby, and cola-
spacious and well-lighted entrance-hall, dining-room 24 ft.
toot,' 17 ft. 5 in., drawing-room 32 ft. by 23 ft., small drawing-
11l ft. 4 in. by 14 ft. 8 in., breakfast-room 22 ft. 6 in. by 16 ft.,
kbpip2 ft. high; library, eight best ant seven other bed-rooms, with
l'111;,,* Weer, stables, coach-houses, and other outbuildings ; large
t'llo`,‘..*ll,4rdens' greenhouses and vinery ; a lodge and large cottage
/°cll4`e to the entrance, and two cottagers' houses, all of which, as
4AI " the mansion-house, are in complete repair. The house,
Cre'gronnds, gardens, and grass land occupied with the house,
.4.-1412 t 22 acres.
'O. two well-built Ram HOUSES, with all requ'site outbuildings,
repa'r, and Two Hundred and Ninety-five Acres, or
lusts. of the richest Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, all in
and bounded on one side by the river Trent, by which it
401,411 y irrigated, and on the other sides by the estates of Sir
114rpur Crewe, Bart., and Mr. Des Vceux.
Lox 2.
Altz, .410troent on SINEW Moon, containing Thirteen Acres Ind
1%4 rereltes, occupied by good tenants, as garden allotments, as d
ku tied by the estates of Sir John Harpur Crewe, Bart., and Mr.
Barrow.
khuTo yv is six miles fromerby, eiht from Burtonon-Tren t,
Ivlth,"ur from the Willington Stationg on the Midland- Rupailway,
Gehl /I reach of two packs of hounds, and there is good shooting aid
Darticniars, apply at the offices of Messrs. J. and F. Barber'
bt1t,:4..? Derby; and to the Tenants to view the several Farms
eo,sluro„,"'evv the Hall only, ermission of Mrs. Arkwright, at her
—"once dthe r ductson of a note from Mr. J. and F.
finer. , onp

-i-LE UNIVERSALLY APPROVED ATTIRE
%a Taking into account the infinite diversity of tastes. pursuits,
u
Ilde:ations, and stations is society, the establishment which pro-
hat), r tbic universally approved attire must possess very extraordi-
Thees, nrces.
les gigantic arrangements made by E. MOSES and SON for the
newest season are equal to every demand, and the vast stock of the
will ~.,"naterials associated with the most talented workmanship
Tiluontinue the celebrity so long enjoyed by E. MOSES and SON.
81)oYrting Dress manufactured by E. MOSES and ON is
Zall approved for Fashion, Comfort, and Economy.
for
1,4::"- Witer Clothing and Overcoats are universally approved
is 111 'Weltyn, style, and general superiority.
htrie Youths' and Children's attire made by E. MOSES and SON
he eiTersally approved, for it is the neatest, most substantial, and
.rt„ eanest.
kr h„',."hcial Costumes made by E. MOSES and SON are approved
'en uniformity agreeable to prevailing regulations, inimitable
1.1;" and economical charges
NN /fats Caps, and Hosiery Goods offered by E. MOSES and
n are the most highly finished articles which can be procured.
tluv'e Boots and Shoes manufactured by E. MOSES and SON are
14"3411,' admitted to be superior to and far cheaper than any ob-
elsowht re.
Itiqc Clothing and. Outfits for the Colonies prepsred by E. MOSES
que?",ol,l. are approved by all Shippers and Emigrants, in conse-
eslaie of their being perfectly suited to the present wants of the
kent't; and are infinitely cheaper than at any other establish-
P
Illforar Lilts of Outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen, and ship-sailing
CA4ion, may be had on application or post free.
14ibu lON.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
Laiso;„„Tainst Imposition, having learned that the untradesman-lik e
the " Being connected with heir Establishment," or " It's
(ibvlo,;"` concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
TUsons, they beg to state that they have
'C'aSTEXtottr WITH ANT OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
II 0 tulon rJity Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83,
p_s, and 46, Aldgate. opposite the Church, all communicating.
'undo. Vrest-end Branch, 500,507, 505, New Oxford-street, 1, 2
t and 3, ltart.street, all communicating.
radford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street.
lihefileld Branch, 35, Far.tato.
Colonial Branch, 11, lbou ne, Australia.
Eilloterchant Ailo. Clothiers, Flatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and
esehPjfi,`‘,la_ters. and General Oatfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
"ttrANI —Should any article not give satisfaction, it willbo
*itivs-nged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned
hesltatoa. All gds are marked in plain figures, the lowest
I,etrom which no abatement• can be made.
Fl,ltttil_ Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. , t
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MEETING OF MANUFACTURERS AT PRESTON.—At a
general meeting of the Masters' Association, held at
the Bull Hotel, Preston, yesterday, (Friday,) it was re-
solved—" That whereas an advance of wages was offered
to the operatives of Preston and the neighbourhood on
the 19th day of August last, which offer was dic-
tated more by a desire to preserve the harmony and
general good feeling that then prevailed in the town,
than by anything in the state of trade warranting
such advance ; and whereas the same has not been
generally accepted by the operatives, through the in-
terference of the same mischievous and irresponsible
parties who have been the cause of all the dis-
tress brought upon the town ; and whereas the
prospects of the trade have materially altered for the
worse : it is, therefore, the unanimous opinion of this
meeting that whenever the time shall arrive for the re-
opening of the mills, the rate of wages shall be the same
as was paid on or before the Ist of March last, subject,
however, to such alterations as may be recommended
by the committee in particular cases. That this meet-
ing, on its rising, do adjourn to Thursday, the Ist of
December next ;but that the committee be requested
to call a meeting at an earlier period if they are of
opinion that it would be conducive to the settlement of
the question on the basis of the foregoing resolution ;
provided also that they are satisfied that the general
hod y of operatives are prepared to emancipate themselves
from the dictation of parties who have an interest in
prolonging the unfortunate dispute between the em-
ployers and the employed."
OMER PACHA.—The Vienna Lloyd publishes some in-
teresting personal particulars respecting the Turkish
Generalissimo. Omer Pacha, the writer says, is very
much beloved by the soldiers, although he conforms very
little to Mahometan customs—among other things,
openly drinking wine at table. He has no harem, but
one wife, an Austrian lady from Transylvania. He is a
perfect gentleman, a noble horseman, and an indefatig-
able soldier.

"COMMON COUNCIL.
" Thursday, March 8, 1849.
" Report of Consolidated Committee to the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City
of London, in Common Council assembled.
" We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, of your con-
solidated committee, to whom, on the 22d day of May,
1846, it was referred to confer with her Majesty's Govern-
ment and others upon such of the matters specially referred
to the several committees as we may deem expedient, and
to report thereon from time to time, do certify that, pend-
ing the progress of the negotiations had on the references
to us with various departments of the Government, and
also in the proceedings in Parliament during the last two
sessions, it has appeared to your committee that the mo-
tiveS, and objects of the corporation have frequently been
much misunderstood, to the great hindrance of your com-
mittee, and the embarrassment of the concerns entrusted
to them, impeding materially the arrangements they were
proposing with the Government and the Crown ; and that
those inconveniences have, in a great degree, arisen from
the imperfect publication of the reports of the proceedings
of the corporation, by which means want of confidence
was engendered, and misconception encouraged.
" That the proceedings of most other corporate bodies,
of public meetings and public transactions, are more fully
reported and published than those of this corporation.
Your committee therefore feel it incumbent upon
them to report to this court those practical evils which
their experience as committeemen and chairmen of the
several committees has enabled them to point out, and to
suggest, as the most efficient remedy for such evils, that
provision should be made for more certain reports of the
proceedings of the corporation and its courts, and a more
systematic and periodical publication of them.
"Your committee recommend that it should be referred
to them to make temporary arrangements for these pur-
poses, and to report to this honourable court the provisions,
if any, which they may think fit to suggest for permanent
adoption.
_ _ _

"All which we submit to the judgment of this honour-
able court. Dated this 23d day of February, 1849."
[Here followthe names of 21 members of the consolidated
committee, as signing the report.]

At the foot of this document it is stated that " a motion
having been made, and the question put, that the court do
agree with the committee in the aforesaid report, it is
resolved in the affirmative that the report be referred back
to the committee to carry the same into execution." I
believe that my statement went farther, to this effect—
that the Court of Common Council sanctioned the alloca-
tion of 1,0001. a year to that purpose in 1849, and that it
continued so to do up to this time, making the total sum
4,0001. which they had so expended.
The Chairman—That is the statement which you made
when you were last before the commission.
Mr. Acland—And I was correct in my statement thus
far. No such vote appears on the minutes of the proceed-
ings of the Court of Common Council—perhaps I should
say no such vote was come to as a formal vote; but I as-
sert deliberately—and what I assert I shall be prepared to
prove—that it was well understood by the consolidated
committee that the court sanctioned them in expending
not more than 1,0004 a year for that purpose.
The Chairman—What do you mean by the statement
that it was well understood that they were to spend a sum
not exceeding 1,0001., unless some formal vote were come
to empowering them to do so?
Mr. Acland—l mean that the proceedings of the corpo-
ration of the city of London are—l think the only word I
can use is—tricksy ; that there is very much of that un-
derstanding as regards the appropriation of funds for what
some would call politic, but what I call sinister, purposes
—purposes not to be recognised in public court where the
press is.

The Chairman—Your statement was that the sum of
4,0001. has been expended during the last four years, in
sums paid to the various newspapers of this metropolis.
What proof are you able to give us of such payments
having been made ?
Mr. Acland—l have endeavoured to correct my state-
ment as to the positive sum of 1,0001. being thus spent.
That the consolidated committee was warranted in going
to an expense not exceeding 1,0001., I re-assert. As to
whether,they spent the whole of that sum, I am justified
in assuming that they did. They have never published an
account showing how much of it they have spent, and yet
they yearly publish accounts purporting to be accounts of
their receipts and expenditure.
The Chairman—Was there any vote on the subject of
authorising that expenditure ?
Mr. Acland—The committee were to make such tempo-
rary arrangements as they should see fit, but if they made
any permanent arrangements, they were to report to the
court.

Sir John Patteson—lf I understand you, there is no
further trace of the court putting at the disposal of the
committee any sum ?
Mr. Acland—There is not ; but there is a subcommittee
of the consolidated committee, and the sub-committee has
always dealt with the vote as if it were a vote of 1,0001.—
in figures and calculations, they have always treated it
as a sum placed entirely at their disposal for such a
purpose.

The Chairman—How do you know that ?

Mr. Acland—l do know it.

The Chairman—But how ?

Mr. Acland—l only hesitate upon the question to con-
sider how far without a breach of confidence I can say that
I know it. But I see they have purchased newspapers,
300 at a time, according to their own admission, and that
continuously. They have in their financial report an entry
of 1,00001. under this heading :—" To Mr. Temple, hall-
keeper [avowedly the person who has dealt with the trans-
action of the newspapers], on account of disbursements
of his office, consisting of the expense of assistance,
watchmen, gazettes, newspapers, advertisements, candles,
firewood, and various other petty expenses, in relation to
the Guildhall, and the courts and offices connected there-
with, 1,0001." This was in the year 1852, and it was stated
at page 43 of their financial report, whilst in that same re-
port there appears an entry of 1001. to the same individual
on account of advertising the letting of the City property ;
and it will be remembered that advertising formed one of
the items of the 1,0001. entry. There is also at page 56 of
the same report this entry : -" To Joseph Temple on ac-
count of sundry disbursements and expenses connected
with his office, 1501." There is no separate entry for the
candles, unless it be in the sundry disbursements, nor is
there any separate entry for firewood. In the year 1851
there is the same entry of 1,000/. under the same conglo-
merated statement of items, including candles, &c. In
the year 1849 there was the same entry ; and in 1853 there
was the same item, only it amounted to 1,2001. instead of
1,0001. Now the purchase of the papers is admitted, and
there is no account of the purchase of them, except in that
item of 1,0001. There is no account in any of those years
of the expenditure of 1501., or any other sum, for news-
papers, except a similar entry of 1,0001. in the lump each
year to the hall-keeper.
The Chairman—l see, in the report of the proceedings of
the Common Council yesterday, in the public papers, a
statement of Mr. Wood on .this subject, in which he says
that the moneys spent in buying copies of those news-
papers which have most fully reported the proceedings of
the 'Common Council have not exceeded 1501. a year.
Have you any reason to doubt the accuracy of that state-
ment ?

Mr. Acland— None ; but I have every reason to doubt
its accuracy in another sense. It is not denied that any
other sum was spent on the press ; and the amount given
for the purchase of newspapers I cannot know until they
please to publish an account. They publish no other ac-
count except the item of 1,0001. in the lump, and without
any details.

The Chairman—But can you prove that payments to the
newspapers of 1,0001. have been made, besides the 1501.
spent in the purchase of the papers which reported the
proceedings most fully.
Mr. Acland—No, I cannot ; but the committee has
always dealt with the vote as if they were at liberty to
spend a sum not exceeding 1,0001. in this way. The con- ,
solidated committee once contemplated the publication of
a corporate newspaper with the balance of 1,0001. They
thought, also, of dealing with a sum of 9001. voted for the
publication of the Old Bailey reports in the establishment
of a newspaper of their own.
The Chairman—Confining ourselves to what has actually
been done, aro you prepared to say that more has been
dote than is avowed by the officer connected with this ex-
penditure, viz., that, 1501. has been spent during the last
four years in purchasing copies of the papers most fully re-
porting the corporation proceedings?
Mr. Acland---It is difficult to get to know what a secret
committee does; but it is not difficult to prove how they
have treated this transaction—that they have not had the
manliness to put it upon the face of their proceedings.
They admit that they spent 1501. thus. Has it, then, ap-
peared
Chairman—Your
inanyof
chargeftheiraccounta
The now is that they do not

Mr. Arland—The Court of Hustings I believe to be an ob-
solete court. The form of opening it is gone through it is
true, but no actual business is done in it. The Sheriffs'
CoUrt is very different from what it once was. When the
County Courts Act was introduced, the city of London op-
posed, and successfully opposed, the inclusion of the City
within its provisions.. Afterwards, however, public
opinion became so strong, that the, corporation was com-
pelled to apply for the extension of the county-court sys-
tem to the City. That change has been effected, and the
results have been most beneficial. The officers and clerks'
committee have the management of • this' court, and they
have a surplus of 1,0001. They have tedomthended large
reductions in the scale of fees of that court, and it is be-
lieved that, even after these immense reductions, there
will still be a surplus. The Lord Mayor's Court is a
court against which there are many complaints with
reference to foreign attachments. Foreigners complain
that the procedure of this court islYrannical and oppres
sive. . I think the judges of these courts should be chosen
by the Crown. I now come to the criminal courts ; and
first, as a preliminary, I take the magisterial courts. The
aldermen are generally unlearned in the, law, and de-
pendent upon their clerks for legal direction. Their com-
mercial pursuits disqualify them for the exercise of j adicial
functions. I should recommend that the magistrates of
the City should be barristers of ' sufficient standing ; and
all magistrates, in my opinion, ought t9l be appointed
under the responsibility of the Govern*nt, and not by
those between whom they have to administer justice. I
think the judicial and magisterial offices of the City
should be appointed by the Crown and paid by the corpo-
ration. The Recorder of the City is appointed by the
Court of Aldermen. Ido not think the administration of
justice has suffered in consequence of this mote of appoint-
ing the Recorder. Great credit is due to the Court of
Aldermen for having selected for the office of Recorder a
gentleman so talented, and of such high character, as Mr.
Stuart Wortley, whom they elected without solicitation,
although he was opposed to them in politics. At the same
time, I should prefer that the Recorder should be chosen
by the Crown, because I am opposed to making the city
of London an exception to the system which prevails
in the rest of the country. The name of alderman
would always boa term of ridicule in the city of London. I
don't, however, object to the name of alderman in Liver-
pool or Manchester. With regard to the Central Criminal
Court, three distinct courts sit at the same time at the Old
Bailey, and in the second and third courts the aldermen
sit on the bench. I do not know whether the aldermen
sit in the first court, at which the judges of the land pre-
side. I do not think that the aldermen ought to sit on the
bench when their own commitments have t 134. be tried. The
system of letting out the galleries of theJs courts to the
public during the trials is highly objectionable, and very
high fees, amounting in cases where great criminals are
tried for their lives, sometimes to 11., are charged for
places, in the same manner as if the court were a theatre,
and a market is thus made of the prurient curiosity of the
puilolic. The Lord Mayor and the sheriffs profit by these
fees, which first go into the pocket of the door keeper, but
he has to pay a rent for the right to charge the public for
seats. I know that the present Recorder is strongly opposed
to this system of letting out the seats. The corporation by
its officers makes out the jury panels, and members of the
Common Council often attend the courts in Guildhall to
be selected for the special juries, and receive a guinea per
day each for their services. The witness then gave evidence
on the matter of the privileged companies of the City, and
stated it as his opinion that their restrictions operated in-
juriously on trade and employment. The present division
of the wards cannot be maintained, and I think it would
be better that there should be no ward divition at all, as
they encourage party feelings. and local jealousies and pre-
judices. Charities are sometimes left to particular wards,
and sometimes to particular parishes, and ''' eat inconve-
nience arises in dispensing- these charities,' m the limits
of the parishes and the wards not being con rminous.
The Chairman—We will pass now to the tion of the
fass
police.
Mr. Acland—l think the City police j • ce is well
managed. The Chief Commissioner of Pollee is appointed
by the corporation, but they do not much interfere with
his management. At the same time I consider the control
and direction of the police of the metropolis ought to be in
the hands of the Government. The City police ought to
be merged in the general system of metropolitan police ;
and the whole ought to be homogeneous in its components.
The city of London requires a greater number in propor-
tion to, its magnitude than the rest of the metropolis, be-
cause there are a large number of warehouses in the City
which are left without anybody to watch them but the
police during the greater portion of the 24 hours of the
day. I now come to the port of London, and its trade.
It is of the highest importance, in my opinion, to the com-
mercial interests of the port that the corporation should
not remain the conservators of the Thames. The ancient
charters enable the corporation to impose so many vexa-
tious restrictions and charges upon imports, that it is
highly desirable that those charters should be abrogated,
and the commerce of the port set free. The sum of
9,5001. charged for metage on corn imported (to which I
alluded the other day) is nothing like the amount of duty
annually exacted. The accounts of the corporation on
this subject are utterly incomprehensible, and there are
many imposts exacted by fruit meters, and a-host of innu-
merable vampires who fatten upon the commerce of the
port, which are in no way exhibited in the accounts. With
respect to the privileged brokers of the City, the effect of
the corporation licensing provision brokers and stock
brokers, is to give a fictitious position to a man who gives
no sufficient security to the public against his malpractices.
With respect to the several markets of the City, some
are the private property of the corporation, and others
are not. Those markets which really belong to them
yield them a legitimate revenue ; but I submit that under
the Act 9 and 10 Vic., c. 346, the object of which.
is to repeal and alter the several acts relating to Billings-
gate-market, the corporation have no power to levy
any tolls except upon carts and ships bringing fish into
that market. Nevertheless, the corporation illegally
exacts 201. each from the 60 licensed fishmongers of Bil-
lingsgate.

The Chairman—Has the question never been tried in a
court of law ?

Mr. Acland— No body of private individuals would go to
law with the corporation of London. In appearing here
as a volunteer witness, I boll the cat, and take the bull by
the horns. It would be worse to oppose them in a court of
law.

Mr. Cornewall Lewis—The trading privileges in the
city of London are very numerous and very various, are
they not?
Mr. Acland—They are.
Mr. C, Lewis—Do you know of any one of those privi-
leges which you think it would be desirable to retain ?
Mr. Acland—Not one. An exclusive trade privilege is
always an injustice, and benefits the few to the injury of
the many.

The Chairman—ls there any other point to -which you
desire to call the attention of the commissioners ?

Mr. Acland—l wish to make a statement with regard to
the elections at Common Hall. I alluded at the last sitting
of the commissioners to the contest which took place in
1846, between Alderman Carroll and Alderman Thomas
Wood, when great corruption prevailed. The greater pro-
portion of the bribery on that occasion took place on the
side of Alderman Wood. I hold now in my hand a list of
the names of persons who received bribes in Alderman
Wood's interest. These persons should have been all
liverymen ; and, assuming that they were so, I have
ascertained the names of those who were still on the
livery-list of the parliamentary register. I have drawn
up this document for this reason, that if it should be the
desire of the commissioners to receive further evidence
of the extent of the corruption which is practised at
these elections, you will have the names (together with the
companies to which the parties belong) of hundreds of
liverymen who, on the occasion I have stated, received
bribes and polled on the days specified on the list. I also
hold in my baud evidence with reference to the election of
Alderman Brown, in 1844, to the office of chamberlain.
Bribery is usual on all these occasions ; but I happen to
have in my possession the originals of the receipts of some
eleven or twelve of the parties who were actively engaged
at Alderman Brown's election ; and as seven out of these
eleven persons are still in existence, the commissioners
have it in their power to call upon them to give evidence
before this inquiry.
The Chairman—Do you mean that these are persons who
received sums of money for their votes ?
Mr. Acland—They received bribes in the shape of at-
tendance money, at the rate of 10s, per day.
Mr. Cornewall Lewis—They were a kind of sub-agents,
were they not?
Mr. Acland—They were " sub-sub-agents'? rather. The
system is one of notorious and extensive bribery; and if the
commissioners have any doubt as to how the liverymen
elect the corporate officers, I say here are the means of
tasting the matter by original documents. Mr. Acland

We have always kept aloof from newspaper
quarrels. The squabbles of journalists have no
interest for the public, and reflect no credit on the
character of the Press ; and we prefer occupying
our columns with matter of more importance and
value than attacks on other newspapers or lauda-
tion of ourselves. But when a journal of standing
and influence thinks proper to make an ostenta-
tious assertion of its own purity the vehicle of
wholesale and indiscriminate insinuations against
the integrity of its contemporaries it is due to
ourseltes and to our readers that we should
specifically repel and disprove the imputation.
Yesterday Morning, the journal to which we refer
thought it necessary to offer a formal denial of all
participation in the venality with which the Lon-
don Press has been accused by a witness under ex-
amination before the Corporation Commissioners.
For our own part, we considered that the accusation
was sufficiently refuted by its absurdity and extra-
vagance, and we did not deem it requisite to
assure the public that we were guiltless of
having bartered our honesty for civic largesses.
We do not, indeed, blame our contemporary for
regarding the charge in a different light, and for
supposing that his readers would be better satisfied
with a solemn, protest than with simple silence ;
but he might at least have abstained from putting
the matter in such a shape as to compel others to
follow his example. Not content with repudiating
the accusation, he demands further inquiry, and
asks " which of the London journals have received
the bribes of the London Corporation in return for
praise and support ?" After this public challenge,
from a quarter where it might. be presumed that
the character of the Press would not be wantonly
aspersed, we can scarcely refuse the very simple
task of self-expurgation.
We beg, therefore, to state that on application to
the City Hall-keeper—the functionary who is said
to have been the medium of the alleged corrupt
transactions—we have . obtained a return of the
number of occasions on which purchases of copies
of the different morning papers were made by him,
under the directions of the Consolidated Commit-
tee, during the year for which a return was ordered
by the Common Council on Thursday last—viz.,
from July, 1852, to July, 1853. And what is the
result ? We find that while, during that period,
our indignant contemporary was four times ho-
noured with the custom of the Corporation—we
are very sure, without the slightest injury to the
public virtue of which he so superfluously boasts—
we have not on any single occasion had the good
fortune to receive their patronage. Our publisher's
books, so far as we are concerned, tell the same
tale—on no occasion, from July, 1852, to the pre- I
sent time, has the Hall-keeper favoured this jour-
nal with his orders. The City Newsman assures
us further that, neither in 1852 nor in 1853, was a
copy of this journal bought for the Corporation ;
and we ourselves have no knowledge that any
copies were ever purchased. When we add that
the object of the purchases which the Hall-keeper
was instructed to make was merely to obtain copies
of journals containing, not laudation of the Cor-
poration, but full reports of Corporation proceed-
ings, it will be seen that even this simple statement
of facts is needless for our vindication.

We must further state, that not only have we
failed to obtain the patronage of the Corpora-
tion of London, but we have never even thought
of securing their favours. We have never
sought to please them by any other means
than those which we employ for securing
the approval of the rest of our countrymen. We
have invariably dealt with our municipality, and
with any question in which it might be concerned,
as we have with every other public body and ques-
tion—with an exclusive reference to public rights
and interests. If this journal has found favour
with any of the functionaries of the City, the fact
only proves that there are men east of Temple-bar
—as there are many to the west of that respectable
monument—who do not value praise except when
it is merited, and who can submit to castigation
when they are conscious that it is not undeserved.
Such are the only readers for whom we write—the
only public we care to please. The world has had
ample means within the last few years of testing the
truth of this assertion ; and whatever be its ?milts
and failings, a journal which has never hesitated to
oppose and resist even public opinion, when that
opinion was unsupported by justice and common
sense, will not be lightly suspected of dishonestly at-
tuning its sentiments in harmony with the wishes
and aims of an insignificant section of the commu-
nity. Traders in politics may undoubtedly ima-
gine that a different course is better calculated to
fill their coffers ; but the only commercial success
which is valuable to honourable minds is that
which is the final and tangible proof of the realisa-
tion of loftier aspirations.
But, after all, it is a small thing to be able to re-
pudiate the charge of vulgar pecuniary bribery.
Many other sinister influences may operate upon
the mind of a journalist, which, if not as gross as
that which tempts the 'longshore-man or the pot-
walloper, are no less base and contemptible in their
nature, and equally effectual in their working. We
are assured that the conductors of the daily press
are as incapable as any judge or Minister of State of
sullying their profession, or of bringing infamy upon
themselves, by the acceptance of a bribe. But it
is with shame and regret that we are compelled to
doubt whether they are all invariably proof against
other allurements. Some men who are deaf to
the vulgar whisper of avarice are not, we fear,
always equally insensible to the suggestions of a
despicable " flunkeyism." They may not accept
gold, but they may condescend to degrade them-
selves and their proft4sion by fawning upon the
great, courting their siles, flattering their follies,
or, perhaps, even pandering to their vices—all for
the sake of an entrée to this mansion, an invitation
to that dinner, or a card for some ball or political
reunion. There are persons whose honesty may scorn
a pile of sovereigns, but whose independence cannot
stand the shock of titled patronage, and who
yield their enraptured souls to the first passing
civility of rank. For our own part, we hold
that a journalist cannot too scrupulously obey
the apostle's mandate, "0 wo no man any-
thing." The higher duties of our profession
are, we believe, incompatible with the habit of
dangling attendance on Ministers, or dunning
them for favours. The journalist who respects
himself and his work will make it a point of honour
not to partake in any hospitalities, nor join in any
festivities, to which he would not have been in-
vited and welcomed irrespectively of ins public
avocations ; for, even were there no better reason
for declining such attentions, he will shrink from
the fate which infallibly overtakes the toad-eating
litterateur—the suavest courtesy to his face, and
the bitterest ridicule behind his back. From
City hospitalities, in particular, we have invariably
stood aloof. We have never tasted the civic
turtle with which our contemporary is so
much disgusted. It has never been our lot
even to darken the doors of the Mansion-
house, or the Guildhall, or any of the Companies'
Halls, for we should have been ashamed to attack
in the morning the hosts who had entertained us
over-night.

In a word—we say it not in vanity, but with
honourable self-respect—no journal in existence
owes less to what are called " great men" than
the Morning Chronicle. We owe no favour to
either Ministers or Mayors. We recognise no obli-
gation except that of unswerving fidelity to public
rights and interests ; and every writer who honours
our columns with his contributions can conscien-
tiously testify that his only instruction, upon all
occasions, is to study the question before him
without passion or prejudice, and to support un-
compromisingly the view which ho finds to be
right. We claim freedom and independence for
with
ourselves, and we concede to all who labour _
us the rights which we assert on our own
Such are our ideas of journalism. behalf.

(Prom bite Tunes.)
Mr. J. Wood has ingeniously contrived to com-
plete Mr. Acland's case against the Corporation
for him. It appears that Mr. Acland is in much
the same kind of difficulty as an advocate might be
who should desire to bring home a case of bribery

against the " sitting Member." The counsel may
know perfectly well that it has rained 51. notes in
a borough which, in its normal condition, was
usually free from any such refreshing visitation.
Voters in their evening walks have had little
packets containing precisely two sovereigns slipped
into their hands, and they have continued their
walks, and ultimately voted on the right side. Lia-
bilities have not been enforced, arrears of taxes
have been paid up by some benevolent genius,
and nobody. wondered 4t such a result, for was it
not elec-tion time ? Everybody is fully aware of
the existence of ' bribery ; but, of course, there
must be some difficulty in proving that which the
guilty parties are at most pains to conceal. But
some way or other murder will out. The air which
floats over rotten boroughs and rotten corporations
is pregnant with revelation. In the case of Par-
liamentary elections there are two points chiefly
worthy of wonder—first, that every member is
not unseated ; and, secondly, that any member
is ever unseated. In other words, corruption is
general—the difficulty of proving it dnormous.
So, with the London Corporation in the present
instance, it is astounding that the very stones in
the Poultry and King-street do not rise up
in witness against them ; on the other hand,
so completely have they had all the sources of
evidence under their own control, that it is still
more marvellous that Aldermen and angels are
not taken as synonymous expressions. But we
have no kind of doubt that before the inquiry by
the. Commission is concluded, by hook or by crook
every point of their management and corruption
will be brought to light, and that not through chan-
nels to which one might naturally have looked, but
in unforeseen ways. In the case at present before
us, who would ever hate supposed that a zealous
Common Councilman, in the plenitude of his civic
energy, should have jumped up in his place and
made the requisite admissions, when there was
some little difficulty in bringing the case home to
the principals ? Mr. Wood tells us that the prac-
tice is to order 300 copies of the newspaper con-
taining the longest report of the proceedings of
the civic court. The purchase is made under the
authority of a report from the Consolidated Com-
mittee, which had been received by the Court, and
acted upon by the instrumentality of the Hall-
keeper. The Town-elerk, on Thursday last, de-
clined furnishing our reporter with a copy of this
document. We are bound to say that the refusal
was made with all circumstances of courtesy ; but
still the document was kept back. Here it is—at
least, the most important part of it—as handed in
by `Mr. Acland yesterday to the City Corporation
Commission :
" We, whose names are hereunto subscribed of your
Consolidated CoNnittee to whom, on the 22d day of
May, 1846, it was referred to confer with her Majesty's
Government and others upon such of the matters speci-
ally referred to the several committees, as we may deem
expedient, and to report thereon from time to time, do
certify that, pending the progress of the negotiations
had on the references to us with various departments of
the Government, and also in the proceedings in Parlia-
ment during the last two sessions, it has appeared to
your committee that the motive and objects of the Cor-
poration have frequently been much misunderstood, to
the great hindrance of your committee and the embar-
rassment of the concerns intrusted to them, impeding
materially the arrangements they were proposing with
the Government and the Crown ; and that these incon-
veniences have in a great degree arisen from the imper-
fect publication of te reports of the proceedings of the
Corporation, by which means want of confidence was
engendered and misconception encouraged. That the
proceedings of most other corporate bodies, of public
meetings and public transactions, are more fully reported
and published than those of this Corporation."
We believe we are not in error when we assume
the document from which the above extract is taken
to be identical with the one which was refused on
Thursday by the Town-clerk on the application of
our reporter.
Now, mark this paper, the motives on which its
authors profess to proceed, and the remedy they
suggest for the evils pointed out. They tell the
world that there is want of confidence and miscon-
ception between the public and the Government
on the one hand, and the Corporation of London
on the other. They complain that the objects of
the Corporation have been misunderstood. They
attribute these inconveniences !Ito the imperfect
publication, to the garbling and mutilation, of the
reports of their proceedings. Under these circum-
stances it was that the report of the Consolidated
Committee was received and adopted. It was re-
ferred back to the committee to carry it into exe-
cution, and the system devised was that the hall-
keeper should be directed to purchase 300 copies
of the journal which reported the civic courts at
greatest length. It .certainly would have been
rather a bold measure to place on record in plain.
English such a resolution as this :—" As the Cor-
poration of London have suffered and are suffering
much in public opinion from the attacks of the
press, let some officer of the courts be directed to
buy three hundred copies of any newspaper which
may give the Corporation a good word. But the
civic courts do not leave us altogether without a
key by the help of which we may translate the offi-
cial language of the report into our simpler verna-
cular. Mr. J. Wood is Chairman of the Consoli-
dated Committee, and he was called upon on
Thursday to speak to the point of the corruption
exercised by the Corporation with regard to
the newspapers. He appears to have twisted
about for some time in the hands of his exa-
miners, but at length he made the important
admission which we gave yesterday, and which
we will here repeat, without apology, as the
most valuable bit of evidence which has as yet ap-
peared upon the subject. " The impression upon
many members' minds at the time," said Mr.
Wood, " was that perhaps there should be sonic
communication of a permanent character by which
justice should be done to the conduct and character
of gentlemen composing this Court." The scheme
hit upon was to desire the hall-keeper to buy 300
copies of the newspaper which contained " the
longest, the most voluminous" account of the pro-
ceedings of the civic courts.
Meanwhile Mr. Acland has asked the Commis-
sion for a short delay, in order to complete the
proof of his. statements. He perSists in saying that
the Court sanctioned the expenditure of as Ilia.
as 1,0001. a-year for the purpose of corrupting the
Press? but he does not say they spent the whole
sum in that way. He hesitates in mentioning the
sources from which he has derived his information,
lest he should unawares be guilty of breach of con-
fidence. He asks for time to consider his position.
He shows an entry for 1,0001. in favour of the
officer who had to deal with the newspapers. This
entry included other items besides newspapers, but
then the other items are charged again elsewhere in
other forms. Now, it is not for us to anticipate or
to say how far Mr. Acland will be able to make out
his case against the Corporation ; but this much is
clear, that he is very confident in his assertions,
and they are made with regard to a subjectupon
which every person connected with the press must
feel the deepest interest for the credit of his pro-
fession. The only point at issue between Mr.
Wood and Mr. Acland would appear to be one
of degree.

( Prom the Morning Rerald.)
Two of our contemporaries, the Morning Post
and the Daily News, have thought it worth their
while to notice,to deny, the statement made
by a Mr. Adana, and
, in his evidence before the London
Corporation Commissioners, that, from 1849 down-
wards, a sum of 1,0001. per annum had been allotted
by the corporation for the purpose of rewarding or
influencing the press. It did not occur to us that
it would be in any way necessary for us to notice
this very foolish statement, seeing that our readers
would be well aware that the Morning Herald has
never been the advocate, or one of the advocates, of
the corporation, and could not, therefore, have
shared in any such reward or gratification.
It turns out, however, that the whole story is a
mere fiction. This was the most probable viewof the
case from the beginning. For who was this Mr.
Acland, the witness, that he should be especially
cognisant of any of the secrets of the corporation ?
He is not, nor ever has been, either alderman, or
common councilman, or servant of the corporation.
He has enjoyed no peculiar opportunities for be-
coming acquainted with the internal working of
that body. He is merely a gentleman who is read
f'oprayhim ilismel;anyd
to espouse any cause that will '
who comes forward now to earn
fame as " Secretary to the Corporation Re some
Reform So-
ciety." And his story about the " 1'"
threea 000/, -yeablra"ciks
merely the last imitation' of the
crows" which, in the progress of a story, grew out
of the "something as black as a
been originally stated. "OW" which. had
The facts of the case Were briefly detailed, in
i
open court, by some of the eadina
corporation, the very next members of the
Mo
Anderton, and L
wday t'iyi
w,„„ r. Wood, Mr.
in the Court of Comm° dm Taylor then stated,
1 Council, that there never
had been any thousand a year expended. What
had been done was t
"The committee c thus frankly
stated
came
to the conclusion to direct the
hall-keeper, Without areference to the name of the paper,
or its politics, or otherwise, to look at the newspapers

Such was the insignificant fact out of which this
fine story of " 1,000/. a year spent in bribing the
newspapers" was concocted.
The only really dirty part of the story, as might
be expected, is the use which the Times endeavours
to make of the original story. After giving, as it
could not help well doing, Mr. Wood's plain accoun
of the matter—namely, that the hall-keeper of the
corporation had orders to buy 300 copies of such
papers as might contain the best reports of the pro-
ceedings of the corporation, the limes goes on to
bluster as follows :
"Mr. Acland has not named the guilty parties, he
has not said who took the bribes ; but he has said who
did not take them. God forbid that we should, there-
fore, wish to extend the blame to the conductors of all
the other London journals. For their sakes, however,
as well as for our own, we challenge further inquiry into
this statement. It has been made without any seeking
of ours, but it cannot be allowed to rest here. Which ,
of the London journals have received the bribes of the
London corporation in return for praise and support ?"
Of course, as far as we are concerned, the Times ,
may have as much inquiry as it likes. As we have
given the London corporation neither " praise"
nor " support," we shall hardly be .suspected of
having been bribed to praise and support that body.
But the dirtiness of the insinuation of the Times
consists in this, that it puts into the witness's mouth
what he did not say, and passes over the utter con-
tradiction of what he did say, given by Mr. Wood, •
whose knowledge and veracity would outweighthree
scores of Aclands. "A thousand a-year," saYs Mr. •
Acland, " was set aside to influence the _news-
papers." "It is false," replies Mr. Wood, "that
any 1000/. a year was voted, or that any 1,0001. a
year was spent. Copies of such newspapers as gave
full reports of the corporation proceedings were
bought for actual use ; and in this way about 1501.
a year was spent." That Mr. Acland's statement
can stand, in the face of Mr. Wood's contradiction
is impossible. But what does Mr. Wood's state- •
menti amount (to, when taken as the substantive fact ? Does the Times mean the public to suppose, _
that the five morning papers of London, or any one
of them, could be " bribed," or biassed, by the
purchase of copies amounting in all to the trifling • =
sum of 1501. year.
We are sorry to have to give the Times another
hint—which is, however, forced from us by its out-
rageous self-laudation as to this corporation story.
We would say, then, that a censor, such as the
Times assumes to be, should, at least, be impartial.
The Times has pounced, with cat-like avidity on
this absurd fition of Mr. Acland's, imputing some
sort of subornation of the press to the London cor-
poration Awhile, at the very same moment, it was
deliberately shutting its eyes to a much greater
attempt of the same kind in a totally different
quarter.
On the 26th of October the case of Mr. West-
brook was heard in the Bankruptcy Court, and in
the hearing the history of a certain Islington Cattle
Market Company came to light. For obvious
reasons, we prefer to copy the report of the Daily ,
News, in which this paragraph appears :
"There is a claim of 5,7301. on Messrs. Laurie and
Attrce, of which 1,5001. will be credited and carried to
incidental charges, whenever they render an account of
the manner in which 150 ten pound (shares have been
distributed among the members of the press, for which
purpose they were placed in their hands."

This report, we repeat, we copy from the Daily
News ' • but the same fact was given in the report
of the. Morning Chronicle, and also in that of the
Morning lleraid.

`The Times of the same day (Oct. 27) gives a
report of the case, of equal length with the reports
given in the Daily News, or Chronicle, or _Herald.
But there is one remarkable difference: In the
Times' report not one syllable is found about the
" 150 shares appropriated to members of the press."
This is unfortunate ; for it certainly gives the
Times the appearance of not being impartial—of
having one rule for the corporation, and a different
and more lenient rule for other corrupters of public
virtue.