The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-06 00:00:00

THE COURT OF ALDERMEN AND MR. SCALES.

Alderman Wool) rose to submit a motion upon a subject
to which the Court had been long accustomed—that of the
trials which had taken place with regard to Mr. Michael
Scales and the inhabitants of the Ward of Portsoken..
The result of these trials, so far as they had been decide,l,
was in favour of the Court of Aldermen. The matter
had been carried on for several years. Mr. Scales had
been elected three times by the Portsoken constitnency,
and with an increased majority each time. 'three
elections proved beyond a doubt that he was ti,,e determined
choice of the inhabitants. Alderman Witod cone'iuded by
moving the following resolution :

That although this Court is of opinion that the decisions
which have heretofore been given. in the varibus proceedings
instituted in respect to the el.e.c,:ion of an Alderman for the
ward of Portsoken, by Mr. 111;.chael Scales, would be con-
firmed by the Lords, if the: 'writ of error now pending were
carried to a hearing, ir,asmuch as the immediate termina-
tion of legal proceed:airs would put an end to the dissensions
which have unhapoiv existed in that ward for some years past,
this Court, with 11 'view to attain so desirable an object, do
consent to fe''..oo•Ar enforcing the payment of the costs incurred
by the C 144, provided the said appeal be voluntarily withdrawn,
and th^, respective parties concerned do allow judgment to be
enfor the defendant, in the case of The King v.
jr.;tnenlod up
n,, and for the defendants in the case of Scales v. Sir
John Key and others.' "

Alderman HAJUSER rose to second the motion.
Alderman Brown, Alderman Venables, Sir Peter Laurie,
the Lord Mayor, Alderman Farebrotber, Alderman Seim-
ley, Alderman White, and Sir Chapman Marshall, 'raving
spoken,
Alderman WOOD withdrew his motion, in the hope of an
amicable termination of the contest.

A porpoise, measuring in length 8 ft. 6 in., in
girth 4 ft. 8 in., and weighing 3 cwt., was cauglit in the weirs
below Singleton in our bay, on Monday last; it was exhibited
during the day, and afterwards purchased by the Philosophical
Institution for preservation.—Cambrian.
QUICK VOYAGE.—The Mountaineer steam
packet
left Swansea at mid-day on Thursday se'nnight for Li-
verpool and returned on Monday evening, during which time
she called at Milford to land and take in passengers and goods
in going and coming back, as well as discharged and loaded
at Liverpool.• occupying a period of not less than 21 hours ;
thus performing a voyage of about 600 miles in three clear
days. This route affords to passengers a delightful view of
the coast of Wales, and the Straits of Menai with its beautiful
and stupendous bridge.—Cambrian.

HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday morning,
a middle aged and respecto;ole farmer named William Lett,
of Clone, went out to his field, to catch an old wicked en-
tire horse, which was at the time cross-fettered ; the animal
allowed Mr. Nett to put on a winker, when he seized the
wretched man by the arm ; who in expectation of getting freed
from the monster-grasp, endeavoured to seize him by the
tongue, which the brute seeming to anticipate, fell upon poor
Lett, and began eating his thigh across—no assistance had thu
unfortunate man near him but two dogs, and faithful in time
of need, attacked the horse, and worried him so as to c0tr4)..1
him to relinquish his hold, by which their master got fre ed
from the monster, and as well as he could crawled to, the
ditch and cried for help ; the nearest doctor was bi- arght,
who severed the hangling limb; but distressing to say, the
poor fellow had been so much injured, that he died Ir. great
agony late that night or early on Tuesday morning. He has
left a wife and five or six children to deplore 'his awful
death.— Wexford Independent.
EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MARITINUR SERVICE.
—On Monday a meeting of the officers of the above service
who are excluded from the scale of com?er,sation awarded
under the provisions of the India Bill, took pace at the South
Carolina coffee-house, Birehin-lane, for tI.K: purpose of receiv-
ing a report of the committee, and to cen6der the best means
to be adopted for obtaining compenski; on for the losses they
have sustained by the abolition of this East India Company's
commercial monopoly. Captain James Barber took the chair,
and said though he had anticipaterl a different result on the
ballot at the East India House 'Anon the question of granting
them compensation, their obje(.t now would be to get out, if
possible, of the difficulty in Which they were placed. He
then read the eight report of the committee, and said he felt
confident the excluded officers would not abandon their claim
to compensation, especiall.j. when they knew that there were
many Members of the House of Commons who would support
them. After some co..aversation the report was adopted, and
resolutions passed to the effect that no efforts should be
spared to obtain -•..istice for the excluded officers. That;
subscriptions be entered into for that purpose, that the com-
mittee be entitled to the confidence of the general b0413,',
&c. Thanks were returned to the Chairman, and the meeting
adjourned.
An especial Grand Lodge of the Freemasons of
England has been convened, for the purpose of conside-eing an
address to the Duke of Sussex, in terms of congratulation, on
the success of the operation which has recently been per-
formed on his Royal Highness, and which has been the cause
of great satisfaction to all classes of persons throughout the
kingdom.
In the course of the excavations for re-building
Thomond-bridge a six-and-thirty pound ball w dug up this
week. doubtless fired during the siege, and doubtless with
soreki effect, as there is a large fissure or chasm in the ball.
Some days since a curious ink-bottle was found in the same
locality, with some peculiar marks attached thereto, indicating
its haying been used at the signing of the treaty, after the
second siege of Limerick by King William's army.—Limerick
C'hronicle.

Two persons of the commune of Allemagne, in
Calvados, were lately bitten by the same mad dog. One of
them had his wound cauterised with aqua fortis, and has not
since experienced any inconvenience ; the other placed him-
self in the hands of an empiric, who muttered over him some
cabalistic words, and made him drink a quantity of a liquid.
said to possess miraculous powers, but the poor man died after
suffering the most horrible paroxysms.—Galignani.
FA TAI, ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Sunday
morning, a few minutes after ten o'clock, a young man named.
Aldred, the nephew of one of the partners in the firm of
Lainson and Aldred, linen drapers, in Rotherhithe, was
drowned off East-lane stairs, Bermondsey, by the tremendous
swell raised by two steam-vessels going down the river, the
City of London, a Ramsgate steamer, and the Water Lily.,
a Greenwich boat. It appears that Mr. Aldred and a frieu:i,
and a boy about eight years of age, had hired a boat of licracy
and Archer, the boat-builders, in Lambeth, and were rr.,wing-
down the river, when the two young men stopped to yjpeak to
an acquaintance on board the City of Londonderry, a Dublin
steam-ship, lying at anchor off East-lane. CP...serving; the
steamers coming down at a most rapid rate, they laid to-
alongside a barge until they passed, and directly after they
had gone by the deceased got up in the boat to shove her off
from the barge, and while doing so a wave, raised by the velo-
city of the steamers, filled the boat, and the deceased, fearing
she was about to sink, made an attempt to cling to the top of
the barge, from which he fell and sunk between the barge,
and the boat. A number of boats were near the spot, but the
river was in such a state of commotion that no one could get
near him for some time, and he was drowned. One gentle-
man, in a boat rowed by a waterman, nearly caught bold of
his head as he was sinking. Drags were immediately pro-
cured and thrown into the water, bw., it was upwards of half:
hour before the body was four.a. The boat was towed up
to the causeway, with the v-ater in her, and Mr. Aldred's
friend and the boy narinwiy escaped drowning. Tho ;valor
actually washed over. a large galley, containing a river off,cer,
named Lewis, P.".,c1 two others, who were wet through. Tb.rou
out the ivh:ole day, from the frequency and rapidity with which g-
the stl.!amers passed up and down the river, it presented the.
appearance of a rough sea, and few had the courage to venture
upon it in boats or skiffs, thus deprivingthactomppoerltlioinng of the
public who cannot avail themselves of steam accommodatioi,
of proceeding up and down the Pool, and
to remain on shore.