The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-10 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.

did so. The other formalities having been gone
through, the Recorder invited the Judges to the
Iluqa,t in the Guildhall this evenhg.
The Lord Mayor, the late Lord Mayor, the
Recorder, and the officers of the City then withdrew ;
and passing through the Courts, the Lord Mayor,
through the Recorder, invited the Judges to the
banquet. _

QUER'N'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY,
(Sittings in DIECY,L)
IIOrSEFIELD V. CURTIS.

ARRIVAL OF THE LORD MAYOR
AT WESTMINSTER.

This was an action tried at the last assiz3s at Croydon
} befbre Mr. Sergeant I)Jviling-, to recover compensation
in damages for breaking and entering the dwelling. house
of the plaintiff, for assaulting him, and giving him into
custody on en unfounded charge of felony. The de-
fendant pleaded not guilty and justification.
It appeared that the plaintiff, who is a clfrgyman,
rented a furnished house of the defendant at Norwood.
This tenancy expired on March 20, in the present year.
On March 31, at four o'clock in the morning, the house a as
broken open by several bricklayers, armed with hatchets
and mallets, iu the employment of the defendant. They
demanded admission entry, and on the inmates refusing
they made their way through the windows, which they
broke, and assaulted the plaintiff, who appeared at one
of the windows, and carried his children out of the
house and left them in the Norwood-road. The de-
fendant accused the plaintiff of stealing a silver spoon,
and gave him into custody, but the charge was not
maintained. The verdict was for the plaintiff,
damages, one farthing.
Mr. E. JAMES now moved for a new trial, on the
ground of misdirection on the part of the Learned Ser-
geant who tried the cause, and on account of the recep-
tion of improper evidence. The misdirection committed
is the fact that the judge told th 3 jury that the def,ndant
was justified in breaking into the house, holding that
the pica of the defendant, that the plaintiff was not in
lawful possession of the house at the time, his tenancy
having expired, to be a good one. He contended that
the case ought to have been left to the jury, and cited
several cases in support of his arguments.
The COURT acceded to the suggestion.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
On the arrival of the civic barges at Westminster-
bridge, the Lord Mayor and the other City function-
miss disembarked, and having formed into proces-
sion, proceeded at once, through Westminster Hall,
to the Court of Exchequer. A great number of
persons had collected on the bridge to witness the
debarkation, and Palace-yard and the Hall were also
crowded with spectators. The Court itself was filled
in every part, amid amongst the auditory were several
of the fair sex.
At a quarter to two o'cicck the Lord Mayor and
Sir James Duke, Bart., the late Lord Mayor, entered
the court, accompanied by the Learned Recorder,
Mr. Alderman Salotnons Mr. Alderman Challis,
Under-Sheriffs Wire and Millard, Mr. Secondary Put-
ter, Mr. Charles Pearson), M.P., the City Solicitor ; the
Lord Chamberlain, Mr. Hughes Hughes ; Mr. Prit-
chard, the Ilieh Bailiff of Southwark, and several of the
members of the Common Conncil. The civic party then
took a standing position on the bench reserved for
Queen's Counsel. At this moment the Learnd Judges,
the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron
Alderson, and Mr. Baron Rolfe took their seats upon
the bench, each wearing a black cap, a cir-
cumstance which elicited an irrepressible burst
of laughter from the members of the bar
and the crowd in court, in which ebulli-
tion of mirth their Lordships could not refrain
from joining. A great number of well-dressed ladies
occupied the jury box and every available space on
the bench beside the Learned Judges.
Tne Learned RECORDER then addressed the Court
as follows : —My Lord Chief Baron, I have the honour
to present to your Lordships and this Court the
Right Honourable Thomas Farncomb, elected by the
citizens of London to fill the office of Lord Mayor
for the ensuing year. The gracious approval
of her Majesty the Queen has ratified the
choice of the citizens. The Lord Mayor,
a native of Sussex, is a descendant of the
ancient family of Farncomb, several members of
which have been for many generations large proprie-
tors of land, and extensively engaged in agriculture
in that county. In evidence of the antiquity
of this family, originally situated in the
vicinity of Hastings, and- to which his Lordship's
recent elevation in our ancient city attaches an
interest, the curious observer will find registered in
the inquisitions of the county, that so early as the 17th
year of the reign' of Edward IV., a chantry, called
" the Farncomb Chantry," which was liberally en-
dowed with land and other means, was founded by Me-
lina, a widow of theFarncomb family, in the Church of
St. Thomas, Winchilsea. The father occupied the
station of a landowner, and was extensively engaged
in the cultivation of the soil, but observing
a superior aptitude for business in Thomas
Farncomb, his third son, he determined to
qualify him by education for a mercantile life, and
caused him to be placed in situations of trust and
management in several commercial firms in the
borough. The progress of Mr. Farncomb was rapid.
He became the proprietor of one of the largest wharfs
on the Surrey side of the river, which he has occupied
for a period of forty years, carrying on the business
of a wharfinger in that locality with eminent success.
With this extensive concern he has associated the
pursuits of a merchant and a shipowner, and of a
hanker also, first at Hastings, and afterwards in
London, being one of the earliest promoters and a con-
tinuingAirector of the London and Westminster Bank,
the first joint-stock bank established in this city.
Having acquired considerable property in land, both
in Sussex and Surrey, he became, and has remained,
en active magistrate for those counties for very
wally twenty years. In 1840 he was elected one
of the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, and in the
following year he was chosen an alderman of the ward
Bassisshaw, over which he still presides. He has
reaped the reward of assiduity, ability, and ingenuity
in his commercial career. He has won the esteem of
his friends and fellow-citizens by his blameless and
amiable deportmeat in public and private life. He
is familiar with the duties of a magistrate ;
and in cases of emergency his character and bearing
will command the cordial co operation of the members
of the Court of Aldermen, and of the great body of
the citizens who have contributed to place him in the
exalted station of chief magistrate. He enters, indeed,
on his arduous duties in the evening of life, not insen-
sible of the difficulties attaching to the high trust
committed to his charge, but steadily keeping in view
the bright example of many loyal citizens, and of his
eminent predecessor. I feel well assured he will
not be found wanting at the post of honour
or in the path of duty. The late Lord
Mayor is also in attendance: on your Lord-
ships. His year of office is at an end and
all its duties are fulfilled. Happy and successful in
whatever he has undertaken from the com-
mencement to the close of his brilliant career,
the aim and object of his official life have
been the honour, the interest, and the prosperity
of London ; and he has achieved a suitable reward in
becoming one of the representatives in Parliament of
the first city in the empire. He has dispensed
with becoming splendour the ancient hospitality
of the Mansion-house ; he has assembled under
its roof distinguished members of every pro-
fession and of every class, of literature and of
science; he was the foremost to encourage by his
example the liberal support of the charitable insti-
tutions of the country—he earnestly employed
the means at his disposal to remove the causes of
disease, and to check the ravages of plague. ToWards
the conclusion of his mayoralty he saw the comple-
tion of a great work so near his heart—the foundation
of the fortunes of many, as it is of his own—the Coal
Exchange. He has received under the dome of that
new edifice, as the guests of the Corporation of
London, the Royal Consort of her Majesty, Prince
Albert, the Royal Children, the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal ; and in token of her Majesty's
high approbation, and in memory of that auspicious
event her Majesty has been graciously pleased to
confer the dignity of Baronet on Sir James Duke, the
late Lord Mayor.
The LORD CHIEF BARON—My Lord Mayor, I beg
to congratulate you on having attained that honour
upon which the learned and eloquent. Recorder has
expatiated in his address to the Court. You appear
here as the first magistrate of the greatest
city in the empire. You appear here, among
other purposes, to claim certain rights which
belong to that great city of which you are the
chief magistrate, and the ceremony which takes place
on this occasion is not to be considered as a mere idle
pageant, for in rea:ity it is to claim on your part, and
on the part of the first city of this empire, and of the
whole world, those privileges which have existed from
time immemorial—a claim which shows you have
long possessed those immunities which attach to the
great city of London, exhibiting in itself a model of
the free institutions which prevail throughout the em-
pire, showing how loyalty and liberality may be entirely
united, and how the freest institutions are those
under which commerce will flourish, the social arts be
brought forth to public view and encouraged, charity
be everywhere observed, manifestations of hospitality
prevail, and all those arts which belong to the highest
civilized condition of man flourish in the highest degree.
I rejoice to hear the high account given by the
Learned Recorder of your past life and services, and
doubt not, during your mayoralty, you will continue
to deserve the good opinion of your fellow-citizens,
by pursuing the same career of useful merit, a cha-
racter to which you have so well-founded a claim. In
considering the course you may have to observe it is
difficult not to reflect at once upon the high example
which has recently been before you, and of the
possibility of attaining so:much excellence as has been
exhibited in the case of the late Lord
Mayor; but of this I am quite sure,
that at the close of your year of office
you will be presented by your Learned Recorder as
having earned that approbation which is the highest
reward the citizens of London can confer upon you,
and a citizen can possibly expect. To you, the late
Lord Mayor, I beg to offer my congratulations that you
return, having undoubtedly eminently discharged all
your important duties, into comparatively private life.
You have indeed illustrated your year of office by the
display of everything that could belong to a patriotic
citizen and upright magistrate—the man ever
ready to obey every :call that could be made upon
him in every situation in which he might stand
towards his fellow citizens. I am happy to congratu-
late you that. remembering how you have fostered
every valuable institution—how you have discharged
every public duty—bow you have met every call
upon you, whether upon your public conduct
or private resources—l congratulate you that your
felio w-citizens have, during your mayoralty, conferred
upon you the highest honour they have at their dis-
posal, and have elected you one of their representa-
tives in Parliament, and also that her Majesty has, at
the close of your career, conferred upon you the highest
dignity which has ever been conferred upon a person
in your situation, meriting the approbation of the
Sovereign. I feel assured that, in returningpuibnitioc
comparative privacy, the discharge of those
duties that remain to you will occupy the whole of
your attention, and that you will continue to deserve
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The procession then returned to the City in the
same order as in its coining.

THE BANQUET AT GUILDHALL.
This grand entertainment, which closes the festivi-
ties on the installation of the chief magistrate, was
given with the accustoms(' splendour. The Lord
Mayor's table occupied the eastern end of the great
ball, and the wall behind his Lordship's chair was
adorned with the superb plume, a miniature of which
hung over the seat prepared for the Prince of Walks
at the Coal Exchange. At the opposite extremity of
the hall, where the renowned giants Gog and Magog
look down upon the assemblies of the citizens, a large
glass star, brilliantly illuminated, threw a sparkling
light upon some 900 ladies and gentlemen gathered in
this magnificent apartment to greet the new chief
magistrate. The walls were profusely decorated with
flags, and the immense chandeliers of richly stained
glass added to the beauty of the scene.
The company began to assemble between five and
six o'clock, and shortly before seven the Lord Mayor
proceeded to his table, accompanied by Ambassadors
and Ministers of State, and judges and officials of va-
rious degrees, in glittering costumes, and amidst the
welcome of the company. Her Majesty's Ministers
were extremely well received. The Lady Mayoress
was conducted to her seat by Lord J. Russell. At the
Lord Mayor's table there were—The late Lord
islayor, his Excellency the French Ambassador,
Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Salisbury (Lord-
Lieutenant of the county), the Marquis of Clanri-
carde, the Earl of Cardigan, Earl Grey, Viscount
Palmerston, M.P., Lord Ashley, M.P., Lord Henry
Gordon, Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P.' Lord Robert
Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Radstock, Lord Howden,
Lord Campbell, the Brazilian Minister, the Dutch
Minister, the Mexican Minister, the Peruvian Mi-
nister, the American Minister, the Lord Chief Baron,
Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Baron Platt, Mr. Justice
Cresswell, Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Justice Williams,
Mr. Justice Talfourd, the Hon. Colonel Hood, the
lion. William Cowper, the Hon. Sir Edward Cust,
the Hon. Peter J. Locke King, the lion. Arthur
Kinnaird, Sir William Clay, Bart., M.P., Aldermen
Sir John Key, Bart., Sir Peter Laurie, Farebrother,
Copeland, Wilson, Humphery, Sir IVilliam Magnay,
Bart., Gibbs, Sir George Carroll, Hooper, and Sid-
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Mayor's table :-10 tureens of turtle, 10 bottles of
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sherbet, 6 dishes of fish, 30 entrees, 1 boiled turkey
and oysters, 2 roast pullets, '2 dishes of fowls, 6 dishes
of Captain White's curries, 2 dishes of capons, 2
French pies, 2 pigeon pies, 2 hams ornamented, 2
tongues, 1 quarter of house lamb, 1 stewed rump
of beef, 1 sirloin of beef, 6 dishes of asparagus, 2
di-hes of mashed and other potatoes, 3 dishes of shell
fish, 1 dish of prawns, 8 jellies, 3 blsnemanges, 2
dishes of tarts, creamed, 2 dishes of orange and other
tourtes, 2 dishes of almond pastry, 4 Chantilly baskets,
2 dishes of mince pies, 4 salads.
Removes-3 roast turkeys, 1 leveret, 3 pheasants,
2 geese, 2 dishes of partridges, 1 dish of wild fowl, 2
peafowls.
Dessert-6 pineapples, 12 dishes of grapes, 10 ice
creams, 2 dishes of apples, 4 dishes of pears, 2 orna-
mented Savoy cakes, 3 plates of walnuts, 4 plates of
dried fruit and preserves, 3 plates of preserved ginger,
2 plates of rout cakes and chips, 3 plates of brandy
cherries.
The general bill of fare comprised-250 tureens
of real turtle, containing 5 pints each ; 200 bottles
of sherbet, 6 dishes of fish, 30 entrées, 4 boiled tur-
keys and oysters, 60 roast pullets, 60 dishes of
fowls, 46 dishes of capons, 6 dishes of Captain
White's Selim's true India curries ; 50 French pies,
60 pigeon pies, 53 hams ornamented, 43 tongues, 2
quartrs of house lamb, 2 barons of beef, 3 rounds of
beef, 2 stewed rumps of beef, 13 sirloins, rumps, and
ribs of beef, 6 dishes of asparagus, 60 ditto of mashed
and other potatoes, 44 dishes of shell fish, 4 dishes of
prawns, 140 jellies, 50 blancmanges, 40 dishes of tarts,
creamed ; 40 dishes of almond pastry, 30 dishes of
orange and other tourtes, 20 Chantilly baskets, 60
dishes of mince pies, and 56 salads.
The Removes-80 roast turkeys, 6 leverets 80
pheasants, 24 geese, 40 dishes of partridges, 15 dishes
of wild fowl, 2 peafowls.
Dessert—loo pineapples, from 21b. to 31b. each,
200 dishes of hothouse grapes, 250 ice creams, 50
dishes of apples, 100 ditto ofpears, 60 ornamental Savoy
cakes, 75 plates of walnuts, 80 plates of dried fruit and
preserves, 50 plates of preserved ginger, 60 plates of
rout cakes and chips, and 46 plates of brandy cherries.
Grace was said before dinner by the Rev. C.
Marshall, the Lord Mayor's chaplain.
After dinner the loving cup was sent round, and
the " Non nobis, Domine," was chanted by Mr.
Jolley, Mr. Lawler, Miss Henderson, and a large
party of vocalists stationed in one of the galleries.
The LORD Masvost then proposed " the health of the
Queen," which was drunk with great applause.
The National Anthem was very effectively per,
formed.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.

BANDON IRON COMPANY V. LAWRENCE.
The arguments in this case, which were partly heard
on Wednesday last, were resumed again to-day by Mr.
Needham, on the part of the plaintiffs. The action was
brought to recover certain calls due from the defendant
as a }hart holder in the company, which had been
incorporated under the Joint Stock Act, by virtue
of a certificate of complete registration. The pleas
in substance were, that the deed of settlement at the
time it was presented to the registrar of joint-stock
companies, to obtain the incorporation of the company,
ws ; defective in certain particulars, mentioned in sche-
dule A of the Act. These pleas were demurred to, and
the case, therefore, came before the Court on demurrer,
the plaintiffs contending that when a limited authority
was created by Act of Parliament such as that given to the
registrar to hear and to adjudicate upon acase,the decision
come to within the limits of such authority could not be
reviewed. Powers were given to the registrar to examine
the deed of settlement before ho registered the com-
pany, in order to see that it was fit for incorporation,
and having given a certificate as required under the Act,
it was contended, even supposing his judgment to be in-
correct, that his decision upon the point was final, and
that th. company must be held to be fully incorporated.
The COURT thought the pleas were bad, and that the
matter set forth in them did not prevent the company
acting as a corporation with the usual powers of suing
and being sued. The judgment of the Court ought
therefore to be for the plaintiffs.
Judgment accordingly for the plaintiffs.

BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
NUISANCES REMOVAL ACT.
Sir JoUN BAILEY was instructed to move for a rule to
show cause why a mandamus should not issue directed
to the mayor and magistrates of Kingston-upon-Hull,
requiring them to issue a distress warrant for the pur-
pose of levy ing five different penalties, of which William
Jackson had been convicted under the Nuisances Re-
moval Act of 1848. It appeared by his affidavit that the
justices refused to act on the ground that the conviction
was illegal. The conviction took place under the 16th
section of the 11th and 12th Victoria, chap. 123, called
the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act,
which provided that whoever should obstruct any person
acting under the authority of the Act, or willfully
violate any directions in regulations issued by the Board
of Hezlth should liable in every case to a penalty of
5/. It further enacted that every person not
performing what he was ordered by the magis-
trates acting in execution of the Act should be
liable to a further penalty of 5/. The affidavit
upon which he moved was made by Mr. Chapman, who
stated that he was: clerk and attorney to the Skullcoats
Poor-law Union ; and that acting in that capacity, on
the 28th of last July he obtained a conviction under the
Act against one William Jackson, a pig-dealer, in the
full penalty of 51, and costs, amounting to IL 15s. 6d.
Mr. Chapman went on to state that he obtained four
other convictions against the same party, but when he
applied for a distress warrant, Mr. Lee, one of the ma-
gistrates sitting on the bench, got up in his place and
said the pretuises belonged to him; and thereupon the
magistrates refused the application. Their clerk, how-
ever, had since told the deponent that they thought the
best mode of settling the question was by applying to thy
Court of Queen's Bench for a mandamus, and hence the
present application.
Mr. Justice PATTESON granted a rule to show cause.
Rule nisi accordingly.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
A LUCKY FELLOW.—A respectably-attired young
man, named Feathustone, was charged with being drunk
and incapable.
Jago, an active constable of the F division, stated that
while on duty last night in Southampton-street, he
found the defendant in a shocking state of intoxication,
and perceiving that he was quite incapable of taking
care of himself, he thought it best to take him to the
station-house. There, of course, he was searched, when
a purse containing 12 sovereigns and some silver, a
valuable gold watch and chain, and a silver watch and
chain, were found upon him.
Mr. HENRY asked him if he had any explanation to
give of the matter? The prisoner replied that he was a
respectable man, from the country, and was stopping at
the Craven Hotel, in Covent-garden. The money and
silver watch were his own, but the gold watch and chain
belonged to a friend with whom he had been making
merry, and who had entrusted them to him to take care of.
Mr. HENRY directed Jago to go to the Craven Hotel
with the prisoner, to ascertain if what he stated was true.
Jago did so accordingly, and on his return he informed
the magistrate that the prisoner was well known at the
Craven Hotel to be highly-respectably connected; he
was in the habit of staying there whenever he came to
town, and bad been stopping there for some days past.
Mr. HENRY was glad to hear that it was so, and told
Jago to hand over the silver watch and money to the
gentleman, but directed the gold watch to be detained
until his friend appeared to claim it. For being drunk
he should fine hins
The prisoner thanked the constable for the care he
had taken of him, and, having paid the fine, he was dis-
charged.

The LORD Mazon gave " the health of the Queen
Dowager," which was received with great respect.
The health of " Prince Albert, Albert Prince of
Wales, and the other branches of the Royal Family"
followed, and was very cordially drunk.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed " The Navy and
Army," a toast which was drunk with great applause.
Admiral Lord RADSTOCK briefly returned thanks
on behalf of the navy; bale from his position, was
very imperfectly heard at the principal table.
Lord HOWDEN acknowledged the toast, on behalf
of the army. In no time in the history of the world
had there ever been an epoch in which the armies
of nations had been placed in so difficult—he
would not do them the injustice to say so em•
barrassing—a position. The waves of popular in-
sanity beat against thern.—(Hear.) Ile believed
that the very existence of a neighbouring nation, as
a civilized country, depended upon the fidelity of its
army; but he was sure, that if unfortunately the day
of trial should come, that fidelity would not waver.—
(Cheers.) Let the God of Armies be thanked that
the trials with which the continent had been visited
had been spared to this nation—(Hear, hear)—whose
army, scattered over the face of the earth, had duties
so multifarious, such great sacrifices imposed upon it,
and from its continuous absence abroad such demands
upon its health, upon its temper, upon its happiness,
upon all the affections and sympathies inseparable
from the human heart—but an army ever distinguished
for its loyalty and faith.—(Cheers )
" Prosperity to the city of London and the trade
thereof" was the next toast, and was duly honoured.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed in very compli•
mentary terms the " health of the late Lord Mayor,'
who had given such satisfaction during his mayoralty.
The toast was drunk with much applause,
The late LORD MAYOR said—My Lords, ladies,
and gentlemen, I rise with feelings of sincere grati-
tude to express my humble thanks for the kind man-
ner in which you have received this toast. It would
ill become me to detain this distinguised company
with any reference to myself, but I hope I may be
allowed to express my grateful sense of the kind
manner in which my fellow•citizens and the public
have appreciated my desire to gather round me, in the
high office which I have had the honour to hold, the
distinguised men of all parties in the state, and to give
my countenance to men of literature and science, as
well as a cordial welcome to all classes of my fellow-
citizens—(Cheers) —and if I have performed those
duties, and not left other important duties unfulfilled,
I hope I shall meet with your approbation. —(Loud
cheers.) I am especially gratified that I have the
happiness of delivering over the city of London to
my successor in a state of health for which we cannot
be too grateful.—(Cheers.) I congratulate my ex-
cellent friend that he has commenced his mayoralty
so auspiciously, and I assure him that no one will
more cordially rejoice than myself in its successful
progress.—(Much applause.)
The LORD MAYOR next proposed the health of " the
French Ambassador, and the Foreign Ministers."
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
Ills Excellency the French Ambassador (M.
DROUYN DR L'Huys), who returned thanks in capital
English, said—My Lord Mayor, ladies, end gentle-
men, it is with the truest satisfaction, but not without
anxiety, that I find myself called upon to express in a
(to me) foreign language the friendly feelings enter-
tained by the body of which I am a member towards
this city, whose noble welcome anti whose splendid
hospitality we are most happy to receive in the name
of our respective countries.—(Loud cheers.) I be-
lieve I may be considered as giving utterance to our
unanimous opinion when I say that on this and on
another recent occasion we have admired the scene
presented to us by this vast metropolis. We have
witnessed the countless multitudes of its population
exhibiting the genuine features and leading points of
the English character—instinctive moderation coupled
with the pride of strength, the respect of order com-
bined with the love ofliberty.—(Vociferous cheering.)
Well may the British empire boast of its material
power; but still there is a more effective grandeur in
those high qualities which enable a nation to tower
above all the storms of conflicting elements', to steer
its way through political tempests, and to keep a
steafast eye upon the beacon of peace and civilisation.
—(Renewed cheers.) Long may England and
Prance join in such a glorious and profitable pursuit.
—Mere there was an enthusiastic burst of cheering,

ELIZA COOK.

THE LATE FIRE AT THE WHITECHAPEL BATHS
AND WASH-HOUSEs.—The Honourable the .bits: IEIOI3
Company have contributed 100 guineas in aid of the
funds of the Committee for Promoting tha Establish-
ment of Baths and Wat,h-houses for the Labourium
Classes, towards the completion of the model establish.
meat, Goulston-square, Whitechapel, which building,
unfortunately, was greatly damaged by fire on the night
of the 29th ultimo.

THE SUN LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 10. 1849

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in the midst of which his Excellency resumed his seat.)
The LORD MATE gave " Lead Jehn llu!tell and
her Majesty's Ministers."—(Cheers.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose, in the name of his col-
leagues and himself, to thanlr,the Lord Mayor andthat
distinguished company for the honour which had juit
been conferred upon them. It would be, as it always
had been, their endeavour to show themselves worthy
of the confidence of their country, by meeting with
vigour every difficulty in which they might be placed,
and combatting it at least with resolution and honest
intentions, if not with superior ability.—(Hrar,
hear.) lie felt happy that it was his lot to serve his
country during a period of profound peace; and he
trusted that tha expres:dons of friendship and sympa-
thy they had just heard from the Ambassador of
the ;French Republic would prove an augury of
the prolonged continuance of that peace.—(Loud
cheering.) They had also the honour of hav-
ing present that evening the Minister of the
United States, and he should only further say, in the
words of the toastmaster, that he pledged him and
the other Foreign Ministers, in " a loving cup and a
hearty welcome."—(Loud cheers.) It was but right
that the force and energy of the young Republic
should, in the cause of peace and of civilisation,
work side by side with the solidity and vigour of
the ancient monarchy.—(Loud cheering.) With
respect to domestic affairs, they had undergone afflic-
tions, but he trusted that even from those afflictions
they would derive all the advantages with which
Almighty Providence tempered great calamities.—
(Hear, hear.) He was happy to say that in many
respects the prospects of the country were improving;
and what with a growing revenue and other favour-
able circumstances, he trusted that many of the diffi-
culties they had to surmount would prove only of a
temporary nature, and that the new mayoralty would,
before its termination, see a wide spread and general
prosperity.—(Cheers.) They might be assured that,
not only as a Minister, but as having the honour of
representing that great city in Parliament, he felt
deepand lasting gratitude for the manner in which they
had been pleased to receive him.--(Cheers.) Before
resuming his seat, the Noble Lord proposed " The
health of the Lord Mayor," which was drank with
loud plaudits.
The LORD MAYOR briefly returned thanks, and
gave " The Marquis of Salisbury and the House of
Lords."
The Marquis of SALISBURY acknowledged the
compliment.
The next toast was " The Chief Baron and her
Majesty's Judges."
The CMIEP BARON returned thanks.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed, "Lord Palmers-
on and the House of Commons."—(Loud cheers.)
Lord PanszsßSTON, in acknowledging the toast,
said he thanked the company, in his own name and
in that of one of the noblest assemblies in the world,
for the honour which had just been conferred upon
them. He could assure them that much as he valued
the good opinion of every class of his fellow-country-
men, there was none which he snore highly esteemed
than that of the citizens of this great metropolis. It
must, indeed, be a proud satisfaction to the Members
of the House of Commons to know that they had the
respect and confidence of the great commercial com-
munities of their country.—(Hear, hear.) They
were proud to know that commerce had not in this
country, as in others, had the effect of lowering and
degrading the minds of men with the grovelling,
spirit of gain ; but, on the contrary, that it had reno-
vated the character of the nation—(Loud cheers)—
and that our commercial men were foremost in manly
enterprise, high minded patriotism, and splendid
genenisity.—(Cheering.) It was this spirit which
had always marked the conduct of the city of Lon-
don, which had made its citizens, whenever danger
approached, equal to the occasion and the emergency,
and which had earned for it the approbation, not only
of their own country, but of the whole civilised
world.—(Cheers.) In conclusion, the Noble Viscount
again thanked the Lord Mayor and the company for
the honour they had conferred upon the great as-
sembly of which he was a member.
Lord PALMERSTON, soon after, again rose, and in
highly complimentary terms gave " The health of
the Lady Mayoress," for which the LORD MAYOR
returned thanks.

The LORD MAYOR then proposed " The Attorney
General and the Bar of England."
The ATTORNEY. GENERAL returned thanks.
The LORD MAYOR next gave "The Representa-
tivos of the City of London in the House of Com-
mons."

Mr. MASTERMAN acknowledged the compliment.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposed " The Health of Mr.
Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence, and Mr. Sheriff
Nicoll."—(Cheers.)
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff LAWRENCE returned
thanks.

The LORD MAYOR gave " The Health of Alderman
Sir John Key and the Magistrates of the City of
London."

Sir Joux KEY returned thanks.
The company then retired to the Council-chamber
and other apartments, where coffee was served, and
where a dance closed the festivities.

The banquet was supplied by Messrs. Younghus-
band, of Gerard's-hall Tavern, Basing-lane. There
were some complaints made now and then with regard
to the arrangements, but it must, doubtless, be difficult
to meet immediately and at every point the demands
of so vast a company.
Mr. Harker made an efficient toastmaster.

STANZAS TO AN OLD FRIEND.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
Old Ocean, once again, thou must hear thy lover's
strain
Come mingling with the music of thy deep and fitful

surge; -
And my heart could gaily swell, like a merry "marriage-
bell,"
But thy mighty voice subdues it to a low and whis-
pered dirge.
Oh, 'tie thus I ever stand beside thee, dreaming of the
hand
That " holds thee in its hollow," as I look upon thy
breast;
But the thought that makes me dumb, as thy headlong
billows come,
Is a mystery that links me to the Infinite and Blest.
Old Ocean, could I choose, not for sceptres would I lose
The holy spirit-charm that e'er abideth in thy waves;
Not the fairy dream that tells of amber rocks and t osy
shells,
And dolphin sprites, and mermaid fays, that play in
coral caves.
I woo'd thee long and well ere a worldly shadow fell
Upon this heart, whose lot hash been to feel and know
too much;
As I bent before thy shrine, the strings that were divine
Poured melody of prayer to God upon thy sacred touch.
Dark stormy have troubled thee, and care has come to me,
Yet here we are together with affection tried and true;
The same glad flush of red upon my cheek is spread.
And thy unchanging bosom is as bounding and as blue.
Oh, I'll set an emblem up on Devotion's nectar cup,
But it shall not be that ever soft and gentle bird the
dove;
The wbite gull with its shriek, and its billow-kissing beak,
Shall be my type of constancy, of purity and love.
Old Ocean, thou hast yet all the beauty that was set
About thee, when I made thee first my worshipped
altar-place;
The pearls upon thy brow are as thick and gleaming now,
As when they dashed in dripping light upon my baby j
face.

The murmur of thy notes, around the fishers' boats,
Tells just the same strange ditty that it sung to me of
yore;
The pertures of thy breath, and thy wild and weedy
wreath,
Are flung as fresh as ever on thy pebble-covered shore
And years shall come and go, and thou shalt ebb and
flow
As broad, as deep, as fetterless, as mighty and as
pure ;
Thy waves will still be seen in rich snow-crested sheen,
Ages shall die, but thou and thy proud beauty will
endure.
But she who loves then so, let few years come and go,
And where will be this thinking brow and warm and
grasping hand?
" Gone, gone," I hear thee say, " forgotten, passed
away;
And now toil on for Fame, and write thy name upon
my sand."
Lowestoft, September, 1849.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS'
SCHOOLS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
think that on the day of General Thanks-
giving for the cessation of claulera in this country it
is the especial duty of the class to which I belong,
"commercial travellers," to express our gratitude to
Almighty God for our safe deliverance from that
dire pestilence, exposed as we have been in every
county to its influence, and I think the best way we
can do so is by relieving the children left fatherless
by its ravages, many of whom are now candidates
for admission into this school. Let us then make a
general subscription, throughout the kingdom, to the
funds of the Commercial Travellers' School at the
dinner table on that day in every commercial room,
and transmit the amount of each room's subscription
to the secretary, to form a " Cholora Thanksgiving
Fund." We shall thus greatly extend the means of that
institution, and receive in return the " thanks of the
fatherless and widow in their affliction." If you will
kindly suggest this in the columns of your paper you
will greatly oblige
AN OLD COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.

A NOVEL PROPOSITION IN
AERONAUTrCS.
(FROM A COREEn'ONDLNT.)
Mr. Gypson, the aeronaut, delivered a lecture on
the above interesting subject at the. Asserab!y
Rooms, Bedford, on Tuesday evening last. The
lecture was undertaken by Mr. Gypson at the
express solicitation of a number of distin-
guished families of Bedford and its vicinity,
among whom are no less than six gentlemen
who have ascended with the above celebrated aeronaut
on different occasions. The discourse of the night
was of an entirely historical character, on the origin,
progress, and supposed stationary and permanent
conditionality of the science of aerostation. Mr. G.,
in the most eloquent and elaborate style, proceeded to
observe that aerostation, originally derived from the
Greek language, according to the learned Abraham
Rees, D.D., P.R.S., signifies "I weigh." The science
of weights, in its primaryand proper sense, denotes
the science of weights suspended in the air, but in the
modern application of the term it signifies the art of
navigation through the air, both in the principles and
practice of it. Allusion was then made to the first
rarefied air balloon of Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier
thus :—An organized body, in a state of ignition,
decomposes air, and furnishes chalky (craieux),
mephitic, and inflammable gases. The state of ig-
nition facilitates the union of the electric fluid with
this body of vapour. The heat arising from combus-
tion is concentrated so as by itself to dilate
the heaviest of the gases, and make it spe-
cifically lighter than common air--therefore the
balloon rises. It afterwards falls to the earth,
because the heat is dissipated, the vapours are con-
centrated, and lose a part of their electricity. Mr.
Gypson then entered into a very minute and scientific
detail of the introduction of the first inflammable air
balloons in this country, and the generation of
pure hydrogen gas for the purpose of obtaining the
necessary ascending power. The rationale of the
process, the lecturer observed, seems to be this :
The metals have a strong affinity for oxygen, but not
equally so for hydrogen ; they are not of themselves
sufficiently powerful to effect an union with the
oxygen and a detachment of the hydrogen, but, by the
aid of the acid, they can accomplish it, and the acid
afterwards unites with the new compound, or oxide,
forming a salt called a sulphate. Hence the hydrogen
is derived from the water. Another method of ob-
taining hydrogen was then referred to, by sending
steam over red hot iron shavings in a gun-barrel.
In this case, the learned gentleman stated, the iron
unites with the oxygen, and the hydrogen is liberated
in the gaseous form. Then came the comprehensive
and startling "proposition" alluded to in the heading
of this report ; it was this :—Mr. Gypson contended
that all the balloons of the present day were mere
toys to accomplish any great end ; his own machine,
that was second to none in capacity except the
Nassau balloon, and even that, giant and monster
as it is called, was clearly demonstrated to ba
but a fourth the size necessary for the
aeronaut's scientific purposes and experiments—
not a vain, visionary, theoretical course of experiments
to try the why and wherefore of any unknown prob-
lem, but a direct setting about of the work, just in
the way that the Admiralty orders the construction of
a 120-gun ship, with the perfect :conviction that a
vessel of 30 guns cannot supply its place. Mr.
Gypson urged and argued the actual necessity for a
machine of such immense dimensions: thus, in ten
out of eighteen ascents made by him this season, he had
purposely reached very unusual elevations, there in-
variably an absence of uncontrollable currents was
found to exist,
.so much so that the mere working of
a very small machinery caused an agitation from
which the isolated globe (to which the aeronaut and
his machinery was suspended) quickly recedes away,
and that in any direction at the will of the aeronaut,
by the mere shifting of the apparatus to his mind.
Now a balloon of 340, or 360 thousand cubic feet
capacity, would enable an aeronaut to avail himself
of steam-power; and here, observed Mr. Gypson, let
not the hearer be startled, having in a great number
of night ascents taken up from forty to sixty lbs.
weight of fireworks, and that with perfect safety—
steam is to be generated, and a working power
obtained with the same ease and safety, certainly not
with an ordinarily constructed car, but with a com-
modious gallery of sufficient lengtb, in which the
steam engine could be removed to a distance from
the balloon. With such a machine and apparatus
aerostation might march with rapid strifes to
perfection, or at least to an utility hitherto
conceived to he impossible ; and the once much
talked-of journey from New York to Europe across
the Atlantic as a thing easily to be accomplished, and
some, said the intrepid lecturer (who discoursed like
a philosopher), would ask what could or would be the
utily of that ? " Why, that I reply would be a
means to an end." All aeronauts of the least practi-
cal experience must affirm that at considerable alti-
tudes there are very rare exceptions to a perfect calm,
and at altitudes still higher, what few exceptions there
are cease to exist. With such an aerostatic vehicle
as the above an aeronaut's disposable weight would
be truly immense. The possession of capacity realises
power, and power is the mainspring of disposable
weight; disposable weight is the Archimedean lever to
move the silken globe to the unheard-of ends of the
earth, at least to those ends of the earth where
the balloon, or its real utility, is unknown. Mr.
Gypson then entered into a luminous and de--
tailed account of various aerial voyages in the early
days of aerostation, and particularly eulogised the
father of English aeronauts, Mr. Sadler. He stated
that he was free to admit that it was at high altitudes
where progress was to be made, where a given course
or route must be pursued, and the aeronaut, with his
compass and chart, working his way in undisturbed
serenity in the heavenly altitudes of 12 or 15 thousand
feet, would not, in effecting his landing, find himself
much inconvenienced if a breeze near the earth carried
him 30 or even 50 miles from his former course,
when above the existence of various currents of air.
Mr. Gypson then concluded amidst the reiterated and
unbounded applause of a crowded audience.

SUSPECTED ATTEMPT OF POISONING A
FAMILY ON THE PENN-ROAD.
An occurrence, which might have been attended
with fatal consequences to several individuals, took
place on Saturday last at the residence of Mr. Pretty,
on the Penn road, near this town. It appears that
Mr. Pretty, who lately lived at Tettenhall wood, and
his two nephews and nieces, who reside with him,
had breakfasted together on Saturday morning, and
in the course of the forenoon the two young ladies
were attacked with vomiting and violent pain
in the stomach. Mr. Henry Pretty, who is
a solicitor at Bilston, was also seized in a
similar way on his road to that town. Mr. Pretty,
sen. after dining, came to Wolverhampton for
medical assistance, and was likewise taken very ill.
He forthwith returned home, and Mr. leowlte, a sur-
geon, who was immediately in attendance, rendered
every assistance to the sufferers, and remained in the
house a considerable portion of the night. From the
symptoms presented no doubt existed in the mind of
Mr. Fowke that his patients were labouring under the
effects of poison, and therefore an analysis of some new
bread, which had been used at breakfast and dinner,
and partaken of by those parties only who afterwards
became ill, was directed to be made. The bread was
accordingly analysed by Mr. Jullion, of this town, who
discovered the presence of a considerable quantity of
white arsenic. Suspicion immediately fell on Eliza
Msdely, a girl abut fifteen or sixteen years of age,
who had lived in the family a few months, and who
had only been discharged from her service on the
same day. On Sunday morning information of the
circumstance was given to Colonel Hogg, chief con-
stable of Wolverhampton, who, after considerable
search, found the girl at Compton, and imme-
dately apprehended her on the charge of having
attempted to poison the members of the family in
which she had lately lived. The girl denied the
charge, saying that she had done nothing to the harm or
flour, that it was the other servant who made the
last quantity of bread, and that she was up stairs at
the time, attending to her work in the bedrooms.
She also said that she would not put poison in food
on any account. The prisoner was then removed to the
police station in this town, and was brought before
the magistrates on Monday, when, on the applica-
tion of Mr. Pretty, solicitor, she was remanded until
this day (Wednesday), to afford time for the production
of evidence. We hear that a portion of the packet
of white arsenic, which had been purchased by Mr.
Pretty for the purpose of destroying mice, is supposed
to have been mixed by the girl with some berm,
which had been procured from a neighbour, and
which was afterwards used in making the new bread.
We may mention that Mr. F. Pretty had fortunately
not eaten any of the new bread, and thereby escaped.
The other members of the family were for some time
in ()Teat danger, but aro now, we are happy to state,
in a fair way of recovery.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.

CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE
CHEST.—Yesterday a meeting was held in the Boar,l-
room for the transaction of general business connr-cted
with the churn) ; If. E. Gurney, Etq., in tho chair.
From the report it appeared that the committee ex-
pected iihortly to complete the arrang, flients for taking
a space of groucd for the erection of the proposed
new hospital. Since the opening of the pzesent insti-
tution in June, 1848, neatly 4,700 individuals have
been treated for dise.kses of the heart and lungs. The
number of patients has progressively increased,
an average of 35 new casrs at present being received
each week, while the aggregate attendance varies from
430 to 500. J. R. Bennett, LT, M.D., and E. L.
Birkett, Esq., were elected physicians to the hos-
pital; the former in the place of the late Dr. Allen Wil-
liams, and the latter as a requisite eddition to the medi-
cal staff. Mr. John llilton having beau elected surgeon
in the room of Mr. Eriehsen (who was compelled re-
luctantly to resign), the munifierint donation of 100/. was
announced from the Earl of Onslow, after which the
meeting adjourned, with a vote of thanks to the worthy
chairman.