The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-21 00:00:00

COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday about 120 members of the Common Coun-
cil assembled in the Council Chamber, for the purpose
of receiving the suggestions of the sub-committee ap-
pointed by them to consider the most advisable mode of
proceeding on the next Common Council day, with re-
spect to the Bill, the third reading of which, at the last
Court, the Lord Mayor refused to put.
It appeared, Mr. Aahurst said, desirable to the sub-
committee, and they recommended accordingly, that at
the next Court a committee of privileges should be
moved for, before they proceeded to call upon the Lord
Mayor to put the uestion of the third reading of the
Common Council Qualifications Bill, in order that the
objection that they were not a legally constituted body
might not be started against them, &c. It also appeared
to them to be advisable to assert their right to have
the question put the moment after the committees were
appointed.

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Mr. R. L. JONES supposed the case of the departure
of the Aldermen, which was a very possible contin-
gency, upon the motion for the appointment of the Com-
mittees of Privileges, and asked what ,in such a case,
would the Court do ? He stigw sted whether it would
not be preferable to have the committees appointed in
the first instance, and then to move for the appointment
of the Committee of Privileges. If the Aldermen then
chose to depart, the Court would be convinced they went
away for the purpose of avoiding the question, and they
could determine upon a mode of settling the difference.
The time was exceedingly eventful, and he thought it
necessary to caution the Court not to plunge itself into
a vortex in which great danger might be apprehended.
Mr. ASHURST said he no more than stated the recom-
mendation of the subcommittee. There was no resolu-
tion proposed. Every member would, when the time
arrived, act for himself.
Mr. R. L. JONES asked whether the sub-committee
had taken into consideration the fact that the notice of
the third readine, of the Qualification Bill was not upon
the paper of the business of the next Court ?
Mr. ASHURST answered in the affirmative, but ab-
stained from discussing the subject, a course which
seemed to be approved by the meeting.
Mr. HARRISON said he thought it necessary to state
that it was his intention to move upon a subject in which
he believed he had the sympathy of all the members
before the third reading of the Qualification Bill should
be put. He meant the distressed condition of the Irish,
to contribute to the relief; of which as soon as possible,
he should move that the sum of 2,0004 be voted. He
intimated so much to the members, in order that it
might not be supposed that he meant to throw any diffi-
culty in the way of the Qualification question.
Mr. R. L. JONES put the case that the Lord Mayor
should refuse to put the question. He wished to know
in what condition the Court would be in that event?

No distinct answer was given to the question.
Mr. DE JERSEY believed that the motion for the ap-
pointment of a committee of privileges, would be an
interruption to the proceedings which hie Court had
com tuenced.

Mr. KING said the reading of the minutes of the last
Court, would be the first part of the business of the next.
Those minutes were to his knowledge improperly re-
corded, and would prejudice the queslion if permitted to
pass. If, therefore, they found that there was existing
inaccuracy, it would be advisable to move a committee of
privileges upon that matter.
The CHAIRMAN said that he had been merely in-
structed to state the recommendations of the sub-
committee, and having fulfilled his instructions, and
advised that the meeting should make no resolution, but
proceed with unanimity to the attainment of theirobject,
he considered the business of the committee at an end.
Mr. Ashurst then vacated the chair.

BREWING AND DISTILLING
FROM SUGAR.
The following most important petition was presented
to the House of Commons last night from the bankers
and merchants of London, more influentially signed than
any similar document w hich ever proceeded from that
important body. The presentation of this petition was
most appropriately and judiciously entrusted to Mr.
Charles P. Villiers, as a mark of the confidence which
the commercial world has acquired in the Hon. Member's
support of a liberal and enlightened commercial policy...-.
TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS
OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT
ASSEMBLED.
The Humble Petition of the Undersigned Merchants,
Bankers, Brewers, Distillers, and other Traders of the
City of London,
Sheweth,—That inasmuch as your Honourable House
has repeatedly declared, more particulary at the' passing
of the Canada Corn Bill and the late opening of our
markets to the sugar of foreign plantations, that her
Majesty's subjects in the Colonies ought to be placed
on a footing of equality with the subjects of the United
Kingdom, particularly with regard to commercial and
industrial privileges, including more especially the fair
and free disposal of the produce of their soil and la-
bour, and

Inasmuch as the present dearth of every species of
food in Great Britain and Ireland, and most other coun-
tries of Europe, renders all legitimate efforts for pre-
venting needless or premature consumption of the
existing scanty stocks of grain, a paramount duty of
humanity and policy, and
Inasmuch as the present high and still advancing prices
of barley and malt, threaten a partial if not total suspen-
sion of brewing and distilling, as well as a material
defalcation in the public revenue derived from those
sources.
We, your humble Petitioners, for these reason, pray
that your Honourable House will immediately be pleased
to rescind the penalties to which Public Brewers and
Distillers are at present liable for using Sugar and Mo-
lasses, and allow henceforth the free and unrestricted
use :of those commodities : whereby your Honourable
House will greatly encourage and benefit the Colonists,
and concede to them the right, as British subjects,
to di-pose of their produce in a more enlarged and
better market ; cause a considerable saring in the con-
sumption of Barley and other Grain : secure to your Pe-
titioners, and her Majesty's subjects generally, the con-
tinued enjoyment of their usual beverage at a cheap rate;
protect, and probably augment, the public revenue, and
extend the shipping and commerce of the British empire.
And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray
N. M. Rothechild's Sons Thomson, Hankey and Co.
Magniac, Jardine, and Co. Fletcher, Alexander and Co.
Heath, Furse, and Co. llibbert and Co.
Forbes, Forbes, and Co. P. and C. Van Notten and Co.
Fterleriek Huth and Co. Davidsons and Co.
Thomson, I3onar, and Co. Finlay, Hodgson and Co.
Sir J. W. Lubbock and Co. Boddington and Co.
Barclay Brothers and Co. John Henry Deffell and Co.
Reid, Irving and Co. Bosanquet and Co.
Cockerel], Larpent and Co. Anthony Gihbs and Sons
John Thomas, Son and Lefevre Archibald Hastie
Palmer, Maekillop, Dent and Samuel Dobree and Sons
Co. Trueman and Cook
Morris, Prevost and Co. James Pattison and Sons
John Henry Schroder and Co. Arbuthnot and Latham
Gregson and Co. A. Colville
A. A.Gower,Nephews and Co. Gledstanes and Co.
De Lisle,Janvrin and De Lisle John Hubbard and Co.
Crawford, Colvin and Co. Cavan Brothers
Scott, Bell and Co. It. and R. Thornton and West
11. D. and J.Blyth and Greene.
And nume,

-ous others.

NAVAL IN'rELLIGUNCE.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2:).—The Hyacinth, 18, Commander
Scott, was paid off in this ha-bour to-day.
The Aihel troop--hip, Master Commander Pearne, em-
barked a company of Royal Artillery last evening for Malta,
and was towed to Spithead to-dav by the Rocket.
WOOLWICH, JAN. 20.—The Dragon steam-frigate, under
the command of Captain Ramsey, with the officers andi crew
of the Terrible steam-frig:te, left Deptford on Saturday last
for Ireland, with a cargo of meal and other provisions for the
famishing inhabitants.
The Terrible steam-vessel was brought up to Woolwich on.
Saturday afternoon from Sheerness, and will be taken into
dock here to have her bottom examined.

The Amphion steam-frigate, Captain Williams, has had
two powerful anchors prepared for her—one of the common
kind, of 57 cwt.; and ~ne rf Portci's patent, of 52 cwt. The
anchors have. beet; tested, aud are now ready to be put on
board.

The Wildfire steam-vessel, Second-master George Brock-
man commanding, went up the river yesterday from Sheer-
ness to Deptford.
The Ondine steam-vessel is in the harbour at Woolwich,
having been offered for sale to serve as a packet for Govern-
ment service.
Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C. 8., late commander of the
Samarang surveying-vessel, visited Woolwich Dockyard on
Monday.
It is contemplated to appoint an additional comptroller of
the steam machinery of the Royal Navy, and Captain Ellice
will aid as the practical engineer in this department. Mr.
Lloyd, chief engineer at Woolwich Dockyard, is named for
the appointment of the steam machinery branch, with offices
at the Admiralty. Mr. Rigby is appointed second-assistant
to the chief engineer at Woolwich Dockyard, the increase of
the works requiring the addition;fa second-assistant - -
department. to all

PROVISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES.--The
St. Patrick from New York, Stephen Baldwin from New
Orleans, and Anglo-Saxon from Alexandria, which were re-
ported at the Custom-house, Liverpool, on the 19th instant,
bring 5,735 barrels 2,000 quarters wheat, 2,450
bushels and 3,120 yael,s Indian corn, 100 barrels Indian corn
meal, 166 barrels heat!, 100 casks rice, and 1,510 packages
cheese.

The Cormier de Lyons states, on the authority of
a correspondent who left Odessa on the 12th ult., that there
were at that port 3,000,000 of hectolitres of corn, and 200
vessels taking in theiyading, most of them Greek, Austrian,
and English, and only four French. There were besides, he
says, 2,500,000 hectolitres of corn ready for exportation iu
the different ports of the Sea of Azoff.
We hear the Ministers of Austria, Russia, and
Prussia did not attend the opening of Parliament with the
rest of the corps diplonzatique, in consequence of the formal
protest contained in her Majesty's Speech against the recent
I annexation of Cracow. No doubt this step was taken by
I their Excellencies as a mark of deference and respect to an
opinion so forcibly entertained and expressed by the Sove-
reign and Parliament of this country, with reference to the
violation of the treaty of Vienna by their respective Courts.
—Times.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO GUERICSEY.—The subscrip-
tion for the memorial which it is proposed to erect in Guern-
sey, in celebration of her Majesty's late visit to that island,
is already announced to exceed the sum of 1,2601. A sub-
scription has also been set on foot among the inhabitants for
the relief of the distress in Ireland, in furtherance of which
benevolent object nearly 6001. has been contributed.

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