The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-19 00:00:00

have you anything farther to say ? Mr. Chamber-
layne—Why, Sir, only this much—
" Little rogues must yield to Fate,
That greater ones may cheat the State.'''
(Roars of laughter)—upon which Mr. Chambor-
layne immediately left the Court.
The insolvent having sworn to his schedule, was
declared entitled to the benefit of the Act.
No assignee was appointed.
The Court was excessively crowded during the
whole of the day.

This we believe was the couplet placarded about the
streets at the time Mr. Whitbread impeached Lord Melville.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

On Monday, after the routine of business at the'
Justice-room was concluded, a Mr. Chalmers, who
was said to be a disciple of Mr. Carlile's, applied to
Alderman WINCHESTER, who occupied the Lord
asesremtoblperethpeareett:izernes_
of London
forsntii permission to
rdin otition to the King, for the extension of mercy to
the persons under sentence of death and transporta-
tion for illegal acts in the country, as stated under
the head of offences tried by Special Commission.
Alderman WINCHESTER said that the Lord Mayor
was not at the Mansion-house, to answer for himself,
but he (Alderman Winchester) would by no means
sanction the assembling of bodies of people in Smi!b-
field for political or other purposes. There was, in
the first place, no occasion for meeting on the sub-
ject, as the Government had determined upon the
most lenient course; and, in the next place, it would
be an obstruction to business to congregate people
in Smithfield, and might cause a violation of the
peace.

The applicant retired, evidently dissatisfied, and it
was intimated to his Lordship in the course of the
evening that a meeting would be held, notwithstand-
ing the dissent of the authorities.
His Lordship then ordered the following interdict
to be placarded through the City :
" KEY, Mayor.
"Mansion-house, Jan. 17.
" Whereas notice bath been given that a public meeting
of the mechanics of London will bs held in Smithfield on
Tuesday, January :8, at twelve precisely, to petition his
Majesty to extend his gracious merry towards the men
who are under sentence of death and transportation, by
the Special Commissions;
" And whereas some persons made application at the
Mansion-house this day for permission to hold such meet-
ings, who were informed that such a meeting could not
be permitted ;
" And whereas such an assemblage of persons in Smith-
field-market might tend to create riot, disorder, and
breaches of the peace ; the Lord Mayor cloth hereby give
notice that such meeting will not be permitted to be
holden. " By order of the Lord Mayor,
" FRANCIS HOBLER."
Yesterday the city officers appointed by the
Lord Mayor to attend ia the neighbosrhood of
Smithfield, informed his Lordship, that notwith-
standing the prohibition, persons were assembling
in Smithfield, evidently for the purpose of holding
a meeting.
. _

His Lordship immediately directed dint the prin-
cipal superintendant of the police should go to
Smithfield, and in a circulating manner assure the
assembly that the Lord Mayor %holly disapproved
of the meeting for the purposes of discussion in such
a place, and begged that they would disperse.
His Lordship was soon afterwards informed that
his plan of preveetion was effectual, for within a
very short time after the caution had been given,
the crowd (which at its greatest number could not
have exceeded 200 people) walked away.
The petition, which was intended to have been
moved for the adop•ion of the meeting, was handed
to the Lord Mayor by one of the officers. It was
printed, and, it was said composed, by a Mr.
Hetherington, who attends the Rotunda meetings.
" Borne down by the oppression of multiplied
taxes, depr;ved of the due reward of our industry by
capricious and fraudulent charges in the public cur-
rency, tortured by the unsatiable rapacity of hosts
of lawyers and abused complications of law, impo-
verished, beggared, and starved amidst the ostenta-
tious splendour of the oligarchy, who seem to consi-
der your people as mere constituents for their grati-
fication, your Majesty's subjects were in many parts
of your dominions so goaded and so oppressed, as
to be drawn into open insurrection."
His Lordship was also informed that the gentle-
men who constituted the assembly placed a parcel of
papers up against the pens, adjourning the meeting
to the Rotunda.