The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1853,
THE CORPORATION OF LONDON

DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTON .RELA-
TIVE TO CHURCH-RATED. •

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all Do., No. 2. ........
all Do., New 6 p. a. St..
all Eastern Union, Scrip
Guar. 6 per cent....
all Do. £lO Deben. Sh...
100 EastLancash. 6 p.cts
all East & West York
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all Edinb.Prth.&Dundee
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100 Glasgow & S.Weetern
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100 Do. con. & red. 4 p.c
100 Do. do. 4 per cent
100 Do. irredeem. 4p. c
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all Australian Cordillera
all Australian Freehold.
all Ave Maria .............
all Baden (Gd.Dachy of)
all Blmnaryon Iron and

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all British Austrin. Gold
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all Copper Min. of Eng.l
all Do. Pref. 7i p. cent.
all English and Austin.
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all Great Polgooth
all Lake Bathurst
all Liberty
all Linares..
all Loud. &Californ. Gold
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all New Granada
all New Linares Mining
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all Pontgiband Silve]
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all Quartz Rock
all Rhymney Iron
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all New South Wales ....
all Oriental Bank Co..
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20 7 Irish Beetroot Sugar
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PHARMACY IN PARIS.—A report from the Minister
of Public Institution recommends the suppression of
the chair of me(lical chemistry, left vacant by the death
of M. Orfila, and the substitution for it of a chair of
pharmacy, as being of more general utility. An Im-
perial decree approves of the recommendation of the
report, creates the chair of pharmacy so proposed, and
appoints tothe new chair thus established Dr. Soubeiran,
professor at the superior School of Pharmacy of Paris.
APPROACHING STRIKE IN GLASGOW.--We regret to
learn that there is every prospect of a strike taking
place in this town and neighbourhood amongst the ope-
rative cotton-spinners, in consequence of an intended
reduction by a few of the employers upon a scale of
prices lately agreed to by the associated masters of
Scotland. In e -inflection with this matter, we learn
that the whole of the master spinners of Scotland are
willing to abide by the " scale,' with the exception of
00Tent—alasgow Scitueracq rot.

On Friday, last a deputation waited on Lord Palmer-
ston, at the Home-office, to present to his lordship the
following memorial from the committee of deputies of
the several congregations of Protestant Dissenters of
the three denominations, Presbyterians, Independents,
and Baptists, within twelve miles of London, appointed
to protect their rights. The deputation consisted of Mr.
Alderman and Sheriff Wire, Apsley Pellatt, M.P., De-
puty Pewtress, Samuel Morley, J. R. Mills, Eben.
Clarke, Mr. Bevan, R. H. Terrell, and Hall Terrell,
the secretary to the Protestant Dissenting Deputies.
It is right to state that, though the memorial. was
handed to Lord Palmerston, it is addressed to Lord
Aberdeen, to whom the noble Home Secretary will pre-
sent it :

It is understood that the Royal Commissioners
will, after Christmas, proceed to the examination of
witnesses favourable to the existing system, and de-
sirous of rebutting evidence previously given. It
may therefore be worth while, at the present stage
of the inquiry, to give some extracts from the Re-
port of the Municipal Commissioners, printed. in
1837, and bearing the signatures, " John Black
burne, Francis Paigrave, D. Jardine, T. F. Ellis,
jun., and J. E. Drinkwater Bethune."
The subject of its first division is, " The relation
of the City to the metropolis," and after some intro-
ductory statements the Commissioners proceed as
follows :

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dary.: dary. We arpetutnhaabtleintofadeitscoitveirs,anayndeiricivasmlsotnancbe •u ti;
sehpxrd. It is evident that any reasoning fgouneSied so
assumption that questions
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all discussions on the corporate system, owing to the great
i from being made.
" We hardly anticipate that it will be suggested, for the
purpose of removing the appearance of singularity, that the
other quarters of the town should be formed into inde en -
dent -
dent and isolated communities, if, indeed, the multifarious
relations to which their proximity compels them would per-
mit them to be isolated and independent. This plan would
as it seems to us in getting rid of an anomaly, tend to mul-
tiply and perpetuate an evil.
If we consider the several parts of the whole metropolis
merely with regard to their population and extent, the
city of Westminster is a most important quarter of the
town. The circumstance that it is also the seat of Govern-
ment and the place where Parliament usually meets, gives
a new and distinctive character to it with reference to some
of the foregoing circumstances,
" By the Corporation Reform Act the principal power
over the details of local government has been intrusted, in
a great number of the principal towns of Great Britain, to
bodies chosen by the inhabitants, reserving for the central
government those means of communication and of general
superintendence which are necessary to secure uniformity
of action throughout Great Britain, and to maintain those
local municipalities in a state of duo subordination to the
supreme authority. A new and very important question,
as it appears to us, must necessarily arise in a town which
is the seat of the Legislature and supreme executive power
of the State, with respect to the proper division of muni-
cipal authority vetween the officers of Government and a
municipal body which might be established in the metro-
polis for the same, or for some of the same, purposes as
elsewhere. We do not take upon ourselves to give any
opinion upon this question, conceiving that it will be suffi-
cient thus to indicate it.
" In one particular, and that a most important and prac-
tical one, the opinion of Parliament has been already de-
clared by the establishment of a metropolitan police, under
the orders of commissioners appointed by, and immediately
dependent upon, the executive Government. We scarcely
anticipate that any argument can be brought forward to
show that this system can be partially right. We can see
no middle course for the establishment of an efficient police
throughout the metropolis, between placing the whole
under a metropolitan municipality, and entrusting the
whole to commissioners, or other officers under the imme-
diate control of Government.
` Other topics suggest similar conclusions, as the paving,
sewage and lighting of the streets, which, as it seems to us,
can never be so economically and efficiently performed in
one town as when superintended by an undivid ed, authority,
and the only real point for consideration is, how far these
duties for the whole metropolis could be placed in the
hands of a metropolitan municipality, or how far they
should be entrusted to the officers of the Governmentb-
With respect to sewage, indeed, there is an obvious a
surdity iu placing the City, and any large district which
drains into it from a higher level, under different superin-
tendence.
"The navigation of the river Thames, to, which the
empire owes so much of its greatness, raises another most
important question. In the first place, the inhabitants
of every quarter of the town might reasonably require
that the privileges of ownership and conservancy, as they
are called, should not continue to bo confined to one
district, to which they were granted, when it, in
fact, constituted the whole metropolis • but, further,
it is plain that the proper management of the port and
river is not a matter which concerns solely th.: inhabi-
tants of the metropolis. The inhabitants of other parts
of the kingdom have a right to ask whether these func-
tions the due performance of which is of vital importance
to all, are properly within the province of any legal mu-
nicipality, however extended, and why they should not be
under the direct control of the general executive Govern-
ment of the country."
With regard to " corporate limits," they observe

" The memorial humbly showeth, that while the re,
ligion of the State was Roman Catholic, tithes were ap-
plied to the maintenance of the poor, and of the ecclesi-
astical fabrics and worship, as well as of the clergy.
That since the Reformation the tithes have been dis-
charged from the burden of relieving the poor, and nearly
the whole of the present ecclesiastical revenue has been
appropriated to the use of the clergy.
"That in the report in 1835 of the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners for England and Wales it is admitted that the
net annual income of the property possessed by the
Anglican Church, exclusive of fees received by the
clergy, is three.and-a-half millions sterling ; and it has
been largely augmented since on the renewal of old
leases. A very small assessment on his income would
be sufficient for maintaining the fabrics and worship of
the churches.
" That in Ireland, by the 3rd and 4th Wm. IV. cap.
37, Parliament enacted a yearly assessment on the
annual value of ecclesiastical property, in order to pro-
vide a fund in lien of church rates, which were by that
Act abolished.
"That by various acts for building. and repairing
churches in England and Wales, both geaeral and local,
the imposition of pew rents has been authorised, as well
for maintaining the clergyman as for meeting the cur-
rent expenses of repairs and worship, which acts form
precedents for general adoption. If, however, church
rates should not be enforced by law, there need be no
apprehension that either of the objects now obtained by
them would be neglected; when the wealth of the mem-
bers of the Anglican Church is considered, and also the
readiness with which they have contributed to the erec-
tion of numerous new churches, and the efforts made in
parishes where church rates have been refused by vestries,
as was proved before the Select Committee of the House
of Commons on church rates in 1851..
" That from the returns of the leegristrar-General as
to Dissenting places of worship, it appears. ' that there
were in England and Wales, in 1851, 20,400 places of
worship then existing, of which number 17,000 were
stated to be separate buildings.' These separate build-
ings, at an average cost of 400/. each, have involved an
expenditure of nearly 7,000,000/. sterling, and at the
low average of 80/. each, demand an expenditure of
1,136,0001. annually ; and the imposition of any tax on
Dissenters contributing so largely to augment the
means of public religious instruction, having for its ob-
ject to pr4de for the repair of fabrics appropriated to
the sole use of the Established Church, and for the
maintenance of her worship, cannot but be felt as a
great grievance, and a palpable injustice.
"That the sense of injury is not confined to re-
ligionists who do not belong to the Established Church,
but is extensively shared by its own members ; especially
by those who-frequent district churches, for which a se-
parate rate is made, in addition to that for the Mother
Church, and also of those who attend new churches, which
are wholly supported by the congregations who worship
there, without any aid from a rate. This fact has been estab-
lished by evidence before the Select Committee on Church
rates, and is stated in the first report of the Commissioners
for the Subdivision of Parishes (1849), which is as follows :
It has urgently been represented to us that the law
in its present state inflicts a very serious hardship on the
owners of property in distinct and separate parishes and
district parishes, by compelling them, for twenty years,
not only to provide for the expenses f their own church,
but to contribute towards repairing the mother church.
In the case of a chapelry district, cut off from a dis-
tinct and separate or district parish, the grievance is
still greater ; for although the inhabitants, during that
period of time pay a double rate, viz., to the mother
church, and to the distinct and separate or district parish
church, they have generally to provide for the repairs of
their own chapel also by voluntary contributions; thus
virtually incurring the burden of a third rate.' The case
of dissidents from the Established Church can hardly be
stated more forcibly than in this quotation as to its own
members.
" That by evidence before the select committee on
church rates (1851), it was proved that in many parishes,
both extensive and populous, church rates have ceased
to be made and collected, in consequence of the deter-
mined opposition of the inhabitants, and that any mode
for providing either wholly or partly for the expenses
hitherto included in church rates, by an appropriation of
the public income of the United Kingdom, will be the
imposition of a fresh tax on such districts, and of a tax
upon Scotland and Ireland, for the exclusive benefit of
the amply-endowed Established Church of England.
"That by a return obtained by Sir R. H. Inglis,
M.P., and published by the House of Commons on 12th
May, 1852, which sets forth the number of church-rates
required, made, or refused from Easter 1833 to Easter
1851, in each city and Parliamentary borough in England
and Wales, which includes 1,020 parishes and extra-pa-
rochial places, and also sets forth their respective popu-
lations, it appears that, after excluding from such return
the 11 extra-parochial districts therein, and the 28
' parishes which have estates for the support of the
churches therein, and the six parishes which have local
acts for keeping their churches in repair, the population
of the cities and boroughs which are included in the re-
turn, amounts to 6,365,351, out of which 2,845,954 pay
church-rates, and 3,519,387 refuse to pay them, thus
making a majority of 673,433 non-rate payers.
"That after passing through the ordeal of five legal
tribunals, ecclesiastical and civil, after a grievous delay
of ten years, at a heavy expense to the parties (which
circumstances are by no means creditable to the admi-
nistration of justice in England), the judgment of the
House of Lords in Gosling v. Vesey, has established the
great constitutional and important fact that the doubts
were unfounded which had been suggested by high legal au-
thorities as to the full discretion belonging to themajority of
a parochial vestry in making or refusing a church-rate.
In consequence of this legal decision, attempts to obtain
church-rates have been defeated in parishes which had
previously submitted to them, and, in all probability,
church-rates will soon cease to be made in populous
...'.... parishes. This expectation is still further justified by
-- the fact which your memorialists believed has been
ascertained by the late census, that the members of the
Church of England who are attendants on divine wor-
ship on the Lord's-day, are only about equal in number
to the attendants in places of worship appropriated to
other religionists. Under these circumstances the pro-
ceedings of vestries called for the purpose of making
church-rates will be productive of and discord
among parishioners, and of injury to the Established
Church, the prevalence of which painful disputes has
been proved, and deplored by many witnesses before the
Select Committee on Church-rates (1851). In small pa-
rishes, and where Dissenters are in humble circum-
stances and few in number, church-rates may be conti-
nued ; though no objection to any tax can be more valid
than that it is levied only in a few localities, and on the
poorer classes, who derive no benefit therefrom.
" That the pledge given by members of her Majesty'e
s
Government, in the last session of Parliament, for th
introduction of legislative measures, whereby suits in
testamentary and matrimonial cases shall be removed
from the Ecclesiastical Courts, appears to have pro-
ceeded upon the general admission of the incompnt
e-
tency and expensiveness and non-adaptation to prese
circumstances of such courts, and of the want of public
confidence in them. These objections apply with aggra-
vated force to their special cognisance of church-rate
questions, the judges and pleaders being necessarily mem-
bers of the Anglican Church, with an unmistakeable
bias in its favour. The proposed removal of the chief
business of these courts to other tribunals, obviously
imposes the necessity of some alteration as to church-
rates also ; which is the only other matter in which they
have jurisdiction over the laity. Any change of juris-
diction involves great practical difficulties, and will ex-
cite strenuous opposition from various quarters.
" Under these circumstances your memorialists be-
lieve that the abolition of churchrates cannot long be
delayed by Parliament ; and for the sake of maintaining
internal and social tranquillity, and especially of quiet-
in.. feuds, which are, of all, the most bitter—
religious,th'ey urgently hope that her Majesty's Government will
see the propriety of adopting this necessary measure,
accompanied, if they judge fit, by aby provisions for
meeting the expenses hitherto defrayed by church-rates.
which shall be acceptable to members of the Established
Church, and shall not infringe on the rights of other
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"S. M. PETO, Chairman

THE MAIL PACKETS.--SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESD,N.Y. :
—The Calcutta steamship, commanded by Captain
John Goodall, and belonging to the General Screw Com-
pany, left this afternoon for the Cape of Good Hope,
Mauritius, Ceylon, and Madras, touching at Cape de
Verds and Ascension, calling en route at Plymouth for
the mails. She takes a large and valuable cargo of gene-
ral merchandise, and 40,6701. specie, as follows :-
28,200/., gold, Mauritius ; 5,4701., silver, Madras ;
7,0001., gold, Ceylon. As a proof of the facilities that
Southampton offers as a port for loading and departure
for steamers, this ship's lea ling may be quoted. All her
cargo for seven different ports, under the able superin-
tenkence of Mr. H. J. Smith, was shipped in little more
than twelve hours ; and the despatches relating thereto,
consisting of some two or three hundred sets of bills of
lading, were completed and in the hands of the mer-
chants by noon, giving only 50 hours from the time of
commencing to the time of finishing the loading of cargo
(independent of some 150 tons of stores) and making up
the accounts of a steamer of 1,800 tons register. She
will have from 80 to 90 first-class cabin passengers,
amongst whom are the Bishops of Natal and Cape Town
and their suites. _ _

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AMERICA AND THE SULTAN.—A letter from Berlin
says :—" A piece of curious news is circulated hert, hs
authentic, but the truth of which it is impossible to as-
certain at Berlin. Namik Paella has not succeeded at
Paris in negociating a loan. This was to be expected.
But what could not be foreseen is that the United States
of America have (so it is said) offered a very considerable
sum to the Porte, on the condition that some small
island in the Archipelago shall be ceded to thena.".

duced positive evil ; yet it mist be considered as a very
undesirable characteristic of the present state of things.
would, perhaps, disappear if the corporation of London
were no longer confined to its present limited district,
which now comprehends scarcely any but the commercial
part of the Metropolis."
" Corporate officers " are divided into nine
classes.
1. Those possessing legislative power
Mayor 1 Mayor). ......... . ........... 2
Aldermen (including the Common Councilmen... 240
I
Total, 267. The total is now (1853) only 233,
the number of common councilmen having been
reduced from 240 to 206.
2. Those connected with courts of law :
Sheriffs
Recorder
Common Sergeant
Town Clerk
Judges of Sheriffs' Courts riffs' Courts •
(2) .... . ....
Secondaries
Under Sheriffs of Middle- Clerk Sitters
sex ........................ 2 Clerks of Papers
City 501icit0r.............. 1 Clerk of Court of Re-
City ............ 1 • quests
1 Assistants to ditto
Clerk of the Peace ......
Coroner ..................... 1 Sergeants at Mace
Steward of Southwark.. 1 Sheriffs' Yeomen
Bailiff of Southwark .... 1 Beadles of Court of Re-
Pleaders 4 quests

Total, 91.
3. Those acting in matters of police :
Justice of Bridge-yard.. 1 Upper Marshal
Clerk to Lord Mayon.— 1 Under Mar5ha1.........
Assistant to ditto 1 Marshalmen ...............
Clerk to Sitting Magi- Marshalmen of South-
strates at Guildhall 1 wark (2) .... ...........
Assistant to ditto 1 Aleconners.... ........
Clerk to Sitting Magi- Policemen .........
strate at Southwark 1
Total 19, exclusive of
4. Those employed in
Newgate' Keeper 1
Ordinary 1
„ Surgeon 1
House of Correction
Keeper....
House of Correction
Chaplain
House of Correction
Surgeon
Total, 12.
5. Those to whom the care of public works or
buildings is assigned :
Commissionersof Sewers 88 District Surveyors
Clerk of City Works 1 Surveyor of Port of Lon-
Clerk of Works of Dridge don
H0u5e..................... 1 Harbour Masters
Clerk ofßiverWorks and Clerk to ditto
Principal Collector of Superintendent of Moor-
Tolls ...... r ................ 1 ing Chains
Total, 102.
6. Those engaged in the management of the Car-
poration property :
Chamberlain
Comptroller
Clerk of Chamber
Assistant ditto....
Bridgemasteis
Clerk Comptroller of the
Bridge-house
Total, 13.
7. Those superintending tolls and markets and
the metages entrusted to the corporation :
Officers of the Six Mar- Fruit Shifters
kets ' Salt Meter
Clerk and Collector of Salt Shifter
Coal Duties
Clerk and Registrar of Deputy Gauger 1
Coal Market ........ 1 Principal Collector of
Beadles of ditto 2 Tolls ; see Clerk of
Collector of Coal Duties Works of River
at Grove-park 1 Assistant Collector of
Corn Meters in Trust lO Tolls and Navigation
Deputy ditto (unlimited) 152 Bargemaster 1
Clerk to ditto in Trust 1 Lock Keepers
Clerk at Brookes's-wharf 1 Collector of Toll on Wine
Clerk at Ware River.... 1 at Custom House 1
CornShifterbelowbridge 1 Clerk in the Cocket
Corn Shifter at Queen- Office 1
hithe 1 Collector of Water Bail-
Fruit Meters 4 age 1
Total, 211.
8. The household of the Lord Mayor, the mem-
bers of which, however, now perform functions fall-
ing under some of the other heads :
Sword Bearer 1 Common Hunt's Young
Common Crier, or Ser- Man
geant-at- Arms 1 Common Crier's Young
Water Bailiff 1 Man
Sergeant Carver 1 Water Bailiff's First
Sergeants of the Clam- Young Man
3 Sword Bearer's Young
ber
Sergeant of the Channel 1 Man
Yeomen of the Waterside 3 Water Bailiff's Second
Under Water Bailiff 1 Young Man..
Yeomen of the Channel 1 ,
Total, 18.
9. A miscellaneous clas
occasions of ceremony, at
ings, &c.
Warders of London
Bridge
Officers of Blackfrmrs do —l\
Barge Master
Assistants to Water
Bailiff 5
Keeper of Guildhall 1
Assistants to Keeper of
Guildhall
Keeper of Greenyard 1
Keeper of Monument.... 1
Keeper of Bauhill-fields
Burying-ground 1
Total, 39.
Details as to the duties and salaries of all these
officers are given • but, owing to subsequent
changes, it would be useless to reprint them. It
is fair to call attention to the following para-
graph :
" It is a common practice with the Common Council,
when offices of any importance become vacant, to refer to
a committee the business of examining into the duties of
the office, and reporting whether they should be changed,
whether the office itself should be abolished or consolidated
with any other, whether the salary should be altered, and
questions of a similar kind, The reports which have re-
sulted from these inquiries furnish most valuable accounts
of all relating to the office ; and many most, important re-
forms have been effected from time to time with a very
scrupulous regard to existing interests. We believe that
the history of no other corporation furnishes such honour-
able testimonials of the vigilance, good sense, and justice
of its legislative body."
With regard to salaries in general, the Commis-
sioners observe that " they are undoubtedly framed
on a very liberal scale ; but they are of opininion
that the question of their amount is one which
may safely be left to a civic legislature, fairly
chosen."

oolicemen.

he City prisons :
Debtors' Prison Keeper 1
Debtors' Prison Chaplain 4
Debtors' Prison Surgeon 1
Borough Com pter Keeper
Borough Compter Chap- 1
lain
Borough Compter Sur-

geou

1
. 4
1

1 \
Assistant Comptroller of
1 the Bridge-house
1 Auditors of Chamberlain
1 and Bridgemasters'
2 Accounts
Senior City Labourer ...
1

that—
" A few small districts are locally within the corporate
boundary, without participation in all the liabilities and
privileges of the rest of the municipal territory ; and that
no good reason appears to exist for continuing this incon-
sistency."
On the mode of admission to the corporate body,
they make the following important observations :—.--
" The method by which persons become free appears to
us highly objectionable. The corporation possesses a very
slight—indeed, hardly more than a nominal—control over
the companies ; and these latter, whatever may be, or may
have been, their importance or value as independent cor-
porate bodies (which we shall consider in another part of
this report), possess no one feature from which we can dis-
cover any advantage in compelling the freemen to belong
to them. This part of the system, is, in fact, no more than
a troublesome and capricious method of taxing the inhabi-
tants of London for the emolument of the companies.
" Still further, supposing the instrumentality of the com-
panies were discontinued, we see no advantage, but much
unnecessary complication, in continuing the present cri-
teria of admissibility. Birth and apprenticeship have been
supposed to raise a presumption of a permanent interest in
the city; but inhabitancy for a definite period furnishes
evidence much more simple and direct, and much less
liable to fallacy. As to the acquisition of the freedom by
purchase, it is practically a tax upon the retail traders of
the City, who are compelled to take up their freedom ;
and whatever advantage may be attributed to such a tax,
as a test of the competence of the party contributing, or a
,compensation for the convenience of a residence within the
City—these, admitting them to be advantages, might
surely be btained by a much less circuitous and more
equitable process, and upon a system more analogous
to that which now prevails in other English corporate
towns.
" The possession of the rights of freemen by non-resi-
dents appears to us to be at variance with the true prin-
ciples of municipal constitutions.
" The privilege which the freemen enjoy of sharing in
certain elections we shall discuss under other heads. We
look upon the privilege from the impressment as scarcely
warranted by the principle of the exemption on which it is
founded, and we know no reason why such a privilege
should belong solely to the inhabitants of one town of
your Majesty's dominions. • With respect to their other
privileges, it appears to us that the objections made to
them rest,' with little exception, ultimately on the
distinction existing between the freemen and other house-
holders."
They then proceed to comment on the govern-
ing bodies of the City, and the following ex-
tract shows the conclusions at which the,
_
arrived : ADELAIDE.—The
" The Court of Aldermen still offers an instance of that he advices from Adelaide, South Aus
union of magisterial, judicial, and legislative authority tralia, by the Victoria steamship, describe a very satis•
which Parliament has recently condemned and dissolved in
factory state of affairs in that colony. The bill for
other corporations. An additional inconvenience is found
in London from the separate existence of the Court of creating. the new legislative system was passing through
Aldermen as a municipal court, the exclusive character of its last stages, and would result in the establishment of
which appears to excite jealousy, whilst at the same tight PP
upper house of 12. members, nominated by the Crown
by the constitution of th soy, whatever advantages might to be call ed the Legislative Conneil, and a lower one of
be obtained from it as aond legislative chamber are not 36 members, to be called the Elective Assembly, to be
secured or aimed at. An unlimited command over the chosen for three years. The Ministers are to be allowed
funds of the City is held by two independent bodies, the to hold office no longer than they can command 'neje-
Court of Aldermen and the Court of Common Council. rities in both houses, and the lower house are to have
The members of the former though elected in the first the power of altering the nominee practice as regards the
instance by a popular constituency, hold their office for upper one, and to require it to be made elective, if after
life ; a circumstance not desirable when the party elected
a period of nine years, such a measure shall be deaenmeexd.
is to have the power of unlimited expenditure of the in-
desirable. The revenue estimates for the year 1854 had
come of the municipal body to which the electors belong. resented, and showed a total of 304,836/.,
In practice, however', the Court of Aldermen generally been p
limit the exercise of their power over the funds of the cor- traordinary increase since 1852, when the receipts were
potation to objects connected with their functions as 102,3251. The suce2eososfuml
inleasvifgraotmionitosf tsheealmiuorurtahy
had
magistrates rather than as corporators. Captain Cadell, in his small steamer the Lady Augusta
'and was regarded as
" The power, which the same court possesses, of trying for a distance of 1
the validity of certain elections, appears to us to be one of just been effected,
which the advantage is very questionable. Still stronger portant event that could have happened the
most
it'll-
objections seem to us to exist against a privilege, whichs_for the future
developmentof the •
province The
this court possesses, of rejecting, without any reason as-• . clip of wool would
signed, any person chosen for alderman by the ,electors, X .
e ebeed that of all former years, and the season was
fter three such rejections, of nominating an alder- very favourable for washing, which was just commen-
and, aman to the vacancy. cing. The market for imported goods, although over-
" Avery important question, as to the Common Coun- stocked in many instances, was not on the whole in an
cif, is, whether the aldermen ought to continue members unsatisfactory state. The Cleopatra steamer in the
of it,aor whether the whole of it should be periodically port, and was about to sail for E
two,
elected. It seems clear to us that the aldermen have be- England in a day or
via Cape Horn. .
come unpopular, as members of the Common Council, inShe would take 5,786 ounces of gold
for the South
consequence of their holding seats in the legislative body, Australian Banking C who were
also about ompany,
from which they cannot be (Unlaced. by the constituency.
Again, the performance of their other functions is watched last price of Burrs 13urra Mining Shares was 157, and
with a jealous and unkind feeling, which is, we. consider the rate of money on loans or mortgage was sto 10 per
mainly attributable to their position in the Common cent.
Council. The union of the two characters produces this THE PORT OF LONDON' test inconvenience
„The grea
embarrassment, that at present the legislative body con- continues atof landing
to be • experiencee from the
tains members upon whom the constituency has no check, consequent want
• Waiters in the London, g
.
and that, if the principle of re-election were made waiver-of
facilities
sal, there would be continual re-elections of magistrates loss
experienced by importer
whom
appears that every person
by a popular constituency, which would bo at least a vio- and annoyance. It
l has been pressed into the
lotion of a principle hitherto almost universally recognised it is possible to make availa
1 large numbers of inferior
in this country. landing duty, and that althoug i .
so t that
1 d the pressure is great
"The Lord Mayor possesses, as presiding officer of the officers .o.re thus ernineYe , five up the weighing of some
Common Council, a control over its proceedings, which is the Customs are obliged to vie
ip
t ' the bed
liable to be capriciously or arbitrarily exercised,at Ind to obtain tle accoun sin ..
or any goods altogether, .
ay a fruitful source for disputes
rate to the suspicion of being so exercised. In fact, it p• way they can. In this NV .
likely to be created, while in
pears that the COMMOII Council was, in its origin, nota- future fitigation seems . ~.
much a legislative body as an assembly of
which the
so and
thee present mode of doing business is fun
was to assist the Lord Mayor by counsel or otherwise, duty other respteoe
revenue, inasmuch •
as it is described as
that hence his power in this asatmbly is much and of dangert jug
h more than a mere scramble upon the part
that ordinarily exercised by the presidentof greater than being no
bTlandingin to their goods away. One
body. - getcalled
is frequently upon to do the work of two
" It is a very serious and difficultquestion waiter st be inefi-
d the result is, that this task mu k
whether the three, an
extensive power of internal legislationthe or 'performed and the business impeded. Lockers
possessed by Aantly
Common Council ought to be continued. The case is cer- --sent away to assist in the landing department, and
tainly altogether anomalous; we have, however,Do tea- are
bonde warehouses are therefore left unattended to,
the
son for believing that the power has been dishonestly or to b tAken out after payment
so that when goods are e . .
injudiciously exercised, exercised, so far as the interests of the col.-
f duty there is no one to see to their delivery.
us
are concerned. At an rate, this body appears to 0 of . . • asserted to prevail that is dis-
tiler a state things is
us to have legislated for the constitution of the corpora-
e creditablenot morel to the authorities, but to the port
tion more wisely than the Legislature of the countri- dil
ofLondon,
itself, and It will be instructive to watch, after
in the instance of the great organic alteration r 4 °
i thrtiesase,ea nt ttions that have been made, how long the
by the statute 11 George 1., c. 18. It is, neweorstrong an the repre!lel
bi
e permitted to continue. A memorial to
matter requiring much consideration whetliern.s system will
should beunderstood to be contemplated, will at
exception to the general law of COTT
"antioef 'the munici- the Treasury,
permitted to continue, upon a full revision least enable the m h t to obtain the reasons
erc an s
pal system of the country.the Common which a remedy is d anied.
of which N THE PRICE OF Cons.—lA tense-
" The number of 266 persons,
h too large, and more ANOTHER FALL L.
Council consists, appears to us xnuc
ioncy
and respectabi- quence of the timely arrival of upwards of 500 .ships
likely to be detrimental to thtrinefli
deliberation. Less than from the colliery districts of the north, with large car-
lity than to be favourable to c:
t number of the Common goes of coals into the port of London during the last
one-fourth part of the p 1.2
- resent
even all their present week, it has materially reduced the high prices which
Council could, perhaps, p
much efficacy, and with as lit- have prevailed for some
has weeks at the Royal Coal Ex-
multifarious duties wit
as on the present system. change, as they have fallen frein 6s. to 7s. per ton. The
tie fatigue to themselves,
iercill men do not ordinarily
retail
classes of conin , dealers yesterday throughout the metropolis
" Th7shighest i,
gement of the corporation. Many
du cod them from 3d. re-
take a share iu the inasuloa
tied for this ;• no one completely c,e to 4d. per cwt. Best Wallsend,
causes have be.ense_as srh
''' e fact unquestionably is, that a which were at 2s. to 2s. 2d. per cwt., may now be had
satisfactory iti.loit it
take he highest classes of those who might, at is. Bd. to ls. 10d.; second qualities, 18. 6d. to Is. 7d.
large P
Preleearseld, an important part in the corporation, Coke, which has been high as 9d,
if they
(.1 oPpuguance to doing so. It did not appear from any per bushel, is 6d. to
7d. Should the arrivals continue another fall is expected
fe-v-ideanrce given to the commissioners that this had pro- - next week.
•

; such as attendants on
;tendants at public build-

Housekeeper at Sessions
House, Old Bailey
Collector of Rents of
Tenants at Will
Collector of Broker's

Rents 1 '
City Labourers 2
Waits 2
\Trnmpeters.
City Tradesmen lO