The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-30 00:00:00

THE ELECTION.

Soon after the court assembled the Sheriffs appeared
at the table, and

Mr. Sheriff WIRE stated in the usual form that the
Common Hall had returned Alderman Sidney and Alder-
man Moon to the Court of Aldermen, with whom the
choice of one of the two aldermen to serve as chief magis-
trate lay.

The Aldermen then, according to the ancient custom,
"scratched" for the Lord Mayor, and unanimously fixed
upon Mr. Alderman Sidney, the next in rotation.
The TowN CLERK having put the question to Alder-
man Sidney "whether he was willing to accept the
office ?"

Alderman SIDNEY replied that he was ready to take
upon himself the duties of chief magistrate, to which
high office be had just had the honour of being elected.
He assured his brethren, who had manifested their
readiness to place such confidence in him, that ho would
make the most strenuous exertions to prove that they
were not mistaken in the opinion they had formed of his
motives and intentions, that he would endeavour to turn
to the best advantage the experience he had derived from
the example of his predecessors, and that he hoped at
the end of his year of office to receive the reward of his
labours in the approbation of his fellow-citizens. (Hear.)
The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs then pro-
ceeded to the Hall, for the purpose of terminating the
business of the election.
When the court resumed the aldermen transacted the
general business mentioned in the paper.
The court returned the Lord Mayor and Deputy
Obbard to supply vacancies in the office of commissioners
under the Income Tax Act, from a list of eight persons
nominated by the Court of Common Council.

DANGEROUS NUISANCE.
The LORD MAYOR elect (in the absence of Alderman
Salomons) presented a petition from the inhabitants of
the ward of Cordwainer, for the interference of the court
in the suppression of a dangerous nuisance in premises,
having thereon a considerable stock of lucifer and other
combustible matches, from which great danger is appre-
hended. Referred to a committee empowered to give
instructions to the City Solicitor, if necessary, to prose-
cute forthwith.

The thanks of the court were voted to the Rev. Dr.
Mortimer for his admirable sermon preached on that day
before•the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c., in the church of
St. Lawrence Jewry.
NUISANCE IN THE WARD OF CASTLE DATNARD.
A petition was presented from the inhabitants of the
parish of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, for the adoption
of legal proceedings against Messrs. White, Ponsford,
and Co., in respect to their steam corn mill at the foot
of St. Andrew's-hill.

Mr. GIBBONS, one of the petitioners, urged the neces-
sity of adopting immediate measures for the suppression
of what he assured the court was an intolerable nui-
sance. He wished at the same time not to be suspected
of any design to throw impediments in the way of con-
ducting the great establishment of the proprietors. The
fact was, that the carrying on of other trades in the
vicinity would, if the matter were not scrupulously in-
vestigated, with a view to the complete abatement of
the nuisance, be quite impossible.
The TOWN CLERK informed the court that the pro-
prietors of the corn mill had sent in a petition praying
that proceedings might not be adopted against them
' until they should be heard upon the question.
Alderman MIIGGERIDGE said the nuisance was a very
great one, and he considered that the most advisable
course the court could pursue would be to refer the
petition to a committee, whose investigations would no
doubt lead to a satisfactory result.
Alderman HOOPER thought the Smoke Consuming
Act, which had been obtained through the exertions of
Mr. Anderton, one of the present under-sheriffs, ought
effectually to do the business which the petitioners
wished the Court of Aldermen to undertake for them.
The act professed to adminster the remedy so much re-
quired and so loudly called for, and he hoped that it
would be carried out—that it would not be allowed to li
remain a dead letter. (Hear, hear.) He apprehended,
from what he constantly observed, that the act did not
appear to be carried into operation at all, for whichever
way he looked he saw clouds of smoke. (Hear, hear,
and a laugh.) He wished to hear the City Solicitor's
opinion upon the immediate subject under discussion.
The CITY SOLICITOR said that Alderman Wilson,
while alderman of the ward, had taken great trouble to
get the nuisance completely abated. The proprietors of
the mill were anxious to co-operate with the court in
that object, and were actively engaged in endeavouring
to accomplish it. He had had a quantity of the ashes
emitted from the chimney collected and examined,
and it was obvious that they were not, properly
speaking, ashes, but unconsumed particles of anthracite
coal, which, when exposed to the heat of the furnace,
crepitated, and were carried by the draught up the
chimney, and so dispersed over the neighbourhood.
The proprietors had used the anthracite coal, which
gave out no smoke like the bituminous coal. In conse-
quence of the well-founded complaints of the neighbours
Illessrs. White, Ponsford and Co. had given instructions
to have all their furnace re-arranged so as to enable
them to dispense altogether with the anthracite coal.
They had already three out of their five furnaces re-ad-
justed with revolving bars, which enabled their stokers
to feed the furnaces by means of a trapper, so that the
smoke traversing the flame in its passage up the chim-
ney was entirely consumed. It was represented that
when these alterations were completed the cause of corn-
plaint would be removed. By the direction of the Lord
Mayor and Alderman Wilson, he had applied to Dr.
Lyon Mayfair to nominate a competent scientific engi-
neer to advise on this and other cases of nuisance which
had been complained of. If the court would be pleased
to refer the complaint and the petition nom Messrs.
White, Ponsford, and Co., to the same committee to
which the petition from Cordwainer's Ward had been
referred,
,the whole of these questions might be taken
into consideration. (Hear, hear.)
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The suggestion of the City Solicitor was immediately
adopted by the court.—Adjourned.

A LIVERPOOL BANQUET.—The Mayor of Liverpool,
Mr. S. Holme, will entertain the Earl of Derby and a
distinguished party at a grand (private) banquet, in the
Town-hall, Liverpool, on Wednesday next.
EXPECTED VISIT OF MR. GLADSTONE TO MANCHES-
TER.—The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Chancellor of
the Exchequer, is expected on a visit about the 10th
proximo, to Manchester, and will be the guest of Mr.
J. C. Harter. The visit is to be, it is said of a private
character.
EDINBURGH.—MUNICIPAL HONOURS.—A t a meeting
of the Town-council of Edinburgh on Tuesday, it was
resolved to offer the freedom of the city to the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
"in testimony of their respect for his high character as
a statesman, and for his eminent services in administer-
ing the financial affairs of the nation." The Lord
Provost (Mr. Maclaren), in introducing the motion, ad-
verted to Mr. Gladstone's budget, which 31 of the
Council had on a vote approved, only one dissenting,
and that on a point of detail. Such a testimony to the
merits of his budget rendered it, he considered, the more
incumbent on them to pay Mr. Gladstone the only com-
pliment they had it in their power to bestow, namely,
conferring on him the freedom, of the city. He be-
lieved there never was an Administration in this
country which combined so many men of great ad-
DISFRANCHISEMENT OF FIVE THOUSAND ELECTORS. ministrative talent as the present Cabinet, and there
—Yesterday Mr. John Fraser M'Queen, the barrister was not one of them on whom he would not, on
appointed to revise the list of voters for the borough of a fitting occasion, cordially confer the same honour.
Marylebone, opened his court at the Court-house, Mary- But Mr. Gladstone, he thought, stood out pre-emi-
lebone-lane, for the purpose of revising the lists for the nently as the man of the whole Cabinet who had ren-
parishes of Marylebone and Paddington. The only re- dered to his country the greatest services during the last
markable circumstance in connexion with the revision is session of Parliament. The motion was unanimously
the fact, that in the parish of Marylebone there are adopted, but several councillors suggested that the name
nearly 3,000 who were on last year's register disquali- of Lord Palmerston should be associated with Mr. Glad-
fied for non-payment of assessed taxes on or before the stone in the honour. The Lord Provost refused to en-
20th July. In the parish of St. Pancras there are up- tertain the proposal, on a point of form, as the noble
wards of 2,000 disqualified from a similar cause, and in Lord's name had not been proposed in committee. The
the parish of Paddington several hundreds, making in Lord Provost likewise remarked that this would be to
the aggregate just 5,000 persons disfranchised from that lessen the compliment intended for Mr. Gladstone, who
cause. It is understood that in future some determined had done deeds incomparably superior to what had been
steps will he used by the local authorities to make the done by Lord Palmerston, or any other member of the
electors acquainted with the necessity of paying their Government ; for what was wanted was good deeds
assessed taxes on or before the 20th July. The court rather than beautiful orations. Considerable dissatis-
will sit to-day at St. Pancras to revise the lists for that faction was expressed at the Lord Provost's decision and
parish, his remarks depreciatory of Lord Palmerston ; and the
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—SUPPOSED MURDER.—Infor- result of the proceedings of the Council is, that a large
mation was communicated to the police of the following body of the councillors and citizens are resolved to take
extraordinary and mysterious circumstance :—At about steps to invite Lord Palmerston to a public demonstra-
four o'clock p.m. of Tuesday last, Joseph Hunt, of Ros- tion, but in what form is not yet decided.
lyn-street, Hampstead, on passing through a field, found THE EASTERN QUESTION.—In addition to the gather-
a man apparently dead. He immediatly gave informa- ings about to take place in London and at Leicester, it
tion to Sergeant Hedges, No. 24 S, who hastened to the is stated that public meetings to discuss the Eastern
spot, and discovered the remains of a respectably-dressed question are about to be called in Manchester and
man, who apparently had been dead several hours. On Wolverhampton.
examining his person a wound was found on his left RUMOURED ELEVATION TO THE PEERAGE.—It has
breast, supposed to have been caused by a pistol-shot. been rumoured in Inverness that Sir James Matheson,
On searching for the pistol it, was nowhere to be found, of the Lewis, M.P. for the counties of Ross and Cro-
but about five yards from the spot he found a brown marty, is to be raised to the peerage by the title of Lord
paper parcel, containing several bullets, percussion-caps, Stornoway, and is to be succeeded in the representation
and gunpowder. The sergeant procured assistance, and of the said counties by the burgh member—Mr. Mathe-
removed the body to the workhouse. Upon inquiry, the son, of Ardross—who, it is said, is to be created a baro-
officer traced him to be Charles Monkton, tailor, of No. net. It is further reported that in the event of these
31, Henry-street, Pentonville ; that he left his home on changes taking place the Master of Lovat will step into
Monday morning last to receive the amount of a hill due the Inverness district of burghs.—Edinbuegh, Witness.
to him. He was then in good health and spirits, and DINNER TO Mn. DUFFY, M.P.—On Tuesday a din-
promised to return home in the evening of the same day. ner was given to Mr. Duffy, M.P., in a room adjoining
We regret to say that he has left a wife (who is far ad- the New Ross Hotel. The Freeman's Journal, which
vanced in pregnancy) and four helpless children in the, contains a lengthened report of the proceedings, states
greatest distress. The police are pursuing the most dili- that this was "the first of the proposed series of ban-
gent inquiries into the mysterious affair. quets to the independent Irish party," notwithstanding
SUSPECTED MURDER AT WESTMINSTER.—Yesterday which the only Irish representative present, except Mr.
morning, between one and two o'clock, considerable sen- Duffy, was Mr. Kennedy, M.P. for Louth county.
sation was created in the neighbourhood of Westminster These two gentlemen were the principal speakers on the
in consequence of a blind man being found lying on the occasion.
pavement bleeding profusely and insensible. About a FLIGHT OF A NUN.—Great sensation has been caused
quarter past one o'clock, as police-constable No. 262 B in Galicia, in Spain, by the flight of a nun from a con.
was going his round, he discovered the man lying on the vent at Compostella. A nun in the Carmelite convent
pavement bleeding from the head profusely, and insensi- of that place let herself down a few nights ago from her
ble. He instantly raised an alarm, when it was ascer- cell, by means of towels and napkins sewed together,
tamed that the unfortunate man lodged at the house of and formed into a cord. The descent must have been
Mrs. Effeunin, 3, Old Pye-street, Westminster, and his attended with danger, though the nun took the precau-
name was Daniels, a blind man, 33 year. of age : rumours tion of tying knots at intervals in her cord. The moment
were in circulation that ho had been thrown out of a the escape was known a search was made after her both
window. He was conveyed to the Westminster Hospi- by the police and the gendarmerie, but no trace of her
tal, but from the severe injuries he had received he shortly could be discovered, and it is supposed that she sue-
expired. ceeded in reaching Corunna and in embarking on board
DEFICIENCY OF COIN IN SYDNEY.— The inconvenience a foreign vessel. She is only 22 years of age, belongs
arising from the scarcity of copper coin, and of small to one of the most distinguished families of Galicia, and
silver money, has given rise among tradespeople to a is remarkable for beauty and talents.
somewhat novel system of currency. Pieces of paper I An Englishman inquired of a Kerry peasant how Ire-
called I 0 U's are substituted by a great many shop- land happened to have so many mountains, to which
keepers for pennies and fourpenny pieces, and, instead of , the Kerry boy replied thus :—" You see, Ireland being
lawful money, are given to their customers as change. the finest country in the world, in course was the last
The facility of counterfeiting these pieces of paper has j country Nature made ; and when Ireland was finished
led to a great deal of forgery.—Australian and New Zea- I Nature had a dale o' stuff to spare, so she left it there,
land Gazette. 1 and that makes the mountains,"

UNITED ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v. TWENTY-
TWO OF EIAMPSHIRE.

This interesting match was resumed and brought to
its conclusion on Day's Ground, at Portsmouth. The
United Eleven won by 16 runs, the following being the
ultimate score :—The United Eleven-Ist innings, 70 ;
2d innings, 42. Hampshire--Ist innings, 62 ; 2d innings,
34.