The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-08 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL,

Yesterday Ivas held a Court of Common Cowl'
cil of the City of London, summoned specially for the purport
of considering the propr,iety of petitioning the Le, islatu '"
an alteration of the Corn Laws. The Loan MAiOll °6
Chair.

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The. Minutes of the Court having been read, Aldertno.
BROWN presented a petition from the Secretary of the Coln,
mittee for relieving the distress caused by last winter's Inon't
tions in Hanover, praying for assistance.—The petition Was °'
tiered to be referred to the Committee for General Purposes.

EQUITABLE LOAN COMPANY.
A Report was brought up froM the Committee for Gene hT
Purposes, relative to the proceedings of a Committee of the
Louse of Commons on the above Bill.
The Report complained of the conduct of the goose of Con,4''
mons Committee, in refusing to hear Alderman Wattburna,
agent for the Corporation of London, against the general rneri
of the Bill, and complained of the partiality of the Coeuroll,
eleven of whose members were interested in support of the
tie
Mr. FAVELL Moved that the Report, with extracts from t
Minutes, be printed.
Mr. S. Dixon reprehended the conduct of the.Cornmltte6s:
because they did not patiently hear Alderman Waithman ,fl
the Bill. he seconded the motion. he
Mr. FAVELL said that he hoped henceforward to 60° t ,
Gentleman who seconded the motion in the rank of
mentary Reformers.
Mr. S. DIXON- said that he would act henceforward as lje
had done hitherto, that was according to his conscience. , it
Alderman WArrit MAN said that from the part he acto;iti:
might be expected that he Would nut be now silent- ftiei
worthy Alderman then went into a statement of the (lax'', t'of
that he had tO encounter in discharging his duty, as agor'ftes
the Corporation against the Equitable Loan Bill. ° so
blamed Committees of the Common Council, hut anything -of
unfair, so partial and unjust as. the conduct of the H°'C
Commons' Committee he never witnessed. What could„use
expected from a Committee so constituted es that of the r. "r:
of Commons on this Bill, when more than half the Illeiv;"e,
had a direct interest? Such was the personal interest of P°o-ti
Members in trading Bills, that the great body of inerchaio,
and traders affected by the proposed Bill should look to the 0.
dependence of the hereditary legislators of the country for,P to
tection. The representatives of the people nOw looked only
their own interest. It was to the honour and indep.endence,ol
the House of Lords that the people had to look for an imp y,
consideration of those Bills. With respect to these Con11)?-"
lie desired to be understood as not hostile to such public ,;9_rsie
panics as were instituted for public purposes requiring.,l"'„'A
capital. But when a set of men formed themselves
Company from a love of gain to interfere with individuals,7,o
had sufficient capital for their business, he disliked such strc
and interested views. These Companies consisted for the rt" 01
part of the same persons. He could find more thantwentY
the same names in each out of fifty of those Companies. sr,
The Report, with extracts from the evidence, was the.
dered to be printed.

CORN. LAWS.
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The Requisition, pursuant to which the Court was -
atoned, having been read, A eirg
Mr. F.1.-.ELL thought no apology necessary for introled,
this important question to the notice of the Court. IT
it would have been a dereliction of their duty to their =s'
citizens if they had not come forwa'rtl in protection 01,,,a,
interests of the traders and artisans from an excessive re.';"
neration of the agriculturists to the prejudice of the re:d
their fellow-subjects. -The flba. Member then refer' 011
Smith's Wealth of Nations, in advocating a liberal polic):,ceeP
regard to the importation Of grain, and to the
ings of the corporate body, the-public at large, and Sir r'-oroui
Burdett as their organ 'in Parliament ten years since, !Z.! 05;
of the great national importance of the question.
tem of bonding was but a palliative, and the ClAtill en r
body was now groaning under it; it was also obvioUl rh-it;
sures tending to depress the home market must be o,g,ind„
advantageous to the agriculturists themselves. So gren`
notorious indeed were the evils resulting from the existif fife PV
Laws, that the object which at the present time engage" fidi
tendon of the Court, disinterested as -were its members of'
subject, would doubtless elicit a wise and politic resolutitlte
body advocating the essential interests of a population yil°/'
wards of a million and a half within the circuit of a fear tiO
He thought it unnecessary to detain the - Court longero'i t),e
therefore concluded by moving a Resolution declaratorf rev'
expediency of a revision of the present Corn Laws,•ahitiesol,°;
tion to the two Houses of Parliament, founded on such
oixty
tion, and praying the removal of' the existing restrictions
importationeputy ROUTH of foreign grain. as°te;
3lr. D seconded the motion with great Pl eof
Alderman THomPsoN was convinced of the wistioni ~pet';
course proposed to be pursued, and although it mignt, init
,
fore appear unnecessary for him to urge any argunle,i!„,`ort,l;
favour until those against it had been submitted to the
could not refrain front availing himself of the earliest It 5
tunity of expressing his opinion of the necessity of ao,,etriioP!l
vision of the Corn-Laws by the House of Commons.
that every town and district of Great Britain would r
Parliament to a similar effect. oily ft
Alderman 'WoOD expressed his conviction of the hec"-upPe
the proposed measure, and lie should be most happy to 5000;
the Petition of the Court in his seat in the House of C4°,oiroiti
Mr. OLDUAM congratulated the Court on the on
which
nW prevailed on this important subct. ite,l
Alderman
.WAITHMAN, Mr. SLAje
DE, and 0p05,,
roar), sopported, and Mr. Dixos, at some length,. ;Id'.
the motion ; which, however, was carried, with the sung
sentient voice of the latter gentleman. to
a!
A petition was ordered to. be drawn up conforma.ie fori
Resolution, and to be presented to both Houses of Pallr Coo
Some ordinary business was then transacted, and the
broke up.

BIRTH.
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On the sth inst., at Harperley-patk, Durham, the
G. H. Wilkinson, Esq., of a son.

DIED. s%°.°
On Friday last, the Ist inst., in his 70th year, "t Jo'
Robert Collings, Esq.', Fate of slin *ton
At Chilcompton, Sotnerset, Bontlla;eldest, datigr''t,
seph Robert Bowen, Esq. c.
Or. the 4th inst., at Hackney. Mr. James IYYsq_,‘"
Mary— Axe, wine-merchant, in the 35th vear of his 3g::* (10''
On Tuesday afternoon, Amelia Isabella, the younger;tll3. ,146
ter of Henry Farnell, Esq., of Isleivoith, aged 18 c 4"
On Sunday last, Mr. Benjamin Browne,
sor
Warwickshire.
On Thursday, the 7th it:4., in Great Surrey-stree,i-,
the wife of Mr. R. S. Cox, of St. Paul's Church-Y3 is
At Fulham, on Monday last; the infant son of ,
yell, Rua( Nav
i nsy: h.nt.../17
On the 4t.11 t., at Hadham Palace, Herts, ft°"'
Esq., in the 75th year of his age.
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