The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY VVENING,. FEIR, JAY is, 1847.

THE WAR IN KAFIRLAND.
(From the Small. African Commercial Advertiser of Dec. 19.)
In last Gazette some official notices bring the authentic
history of the Kafir war down to the beginning of the pre-
sent month. These, as well as many unofficial communica-
tions, induce the hope that his Excellency may have it now
fairly in his power, and also in his intention, to subdue and
secure Kafirland, without suffering any material check,
though innumerable details involved in the new arrange-
ments may give an appearance of dilatoriness to his pro-
ceedings. It is not his design to make a solitude, and call it
peace. He will not be satisfied with the submission of the
Kafir chiefs. The work before him is more comprehensive.
His purpose is to establish in the new territory a numerous
population, under laws and with institutions consistent with
justice and freedom, restrained as well as protected by a
well-distributed military force. This is not like a battle,
the business of a day, nor even like a campaign, the work
of a season or a year, to be accomplished with a stroke by
superior strength or activity; it is more like a plantation
of trees, where nature has the chief part to perform, the
labour of man being confined to planting and guarding.
And nature requires time—her own time. The chief merit
of a governor in his Excellency's present employment is to
lay a good foundation ; to be satisfied with nothing that is
temporary in its nature, and to avoid being led astray by
appearances of immediate perfection.
A private letter states that the chief Macomo, now at
Blockdrift, has become insane. Like his father Gaika, this
man was endowed with great natural abilities, but as in the
case of his father, he has fallen a victim to intemperance.
Ploughing and sowing have commenced on the border,
though the gun beside the ploughman, and the powder horn
and shot bag girt round his body, show how little secure
the borderer feels after the storm of war.
(From the Frontier Times.)
From Colonel Somerset's camp we have news up to yes-
terday, on which day Umhala arrived with some of his fol-
lowers. Of the object of his visit we are not informed. A
convoy of mule and horse waggons with supplies reached
town, with a number of loose mules for frontier service.
Cape mail arrived this afternoon. We have information from
Upper Kafir Drift to the 23th inst. We learn that Field
Captain 11. Bowker has had many night patroles out lately.
Two parties of Kafirs had been seen at a distance, and also
keo spoor orfs
akrraifivrasthaldhbeeeonldseewnatunst.oerfinthgethpoesctolhonayd
the e spoor of three other parties, all returning to Kafirland.
sincebeetl
built up, and all the men had been comfortably hutted.
We are sorry, but not surprised, to learn that Sir A.
Stockenstrom has resigned his appointment of Commandant
General of the Burgher Forces. The Brilliant arrived at
Port Elizabeth on Thursday last, having on board for Go-
vernment 49,0001. and stores.

to Mr. Bernal, Mr. Ferrand, Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. S. Craw-
ford, Sir George Strickland, Lord George Jientinck, and
Lord Ebrington, for their able advocacy of the Ten Hours'
Bill.
The thanks of the delegates were also given to the 195
Members who voted for the second reading of the Bill, and
to Mr. Labouchere and Sir Robert Peel, who, although op-
posed to the measure, resisted the base and factious efforts of
Mr. Escott and Mr. Bright, to prevent a division by moving
the adjournment of the House on the unparliamentary ground
that certain Members of Parliament had not spoken.
Thanks wsre then voted to the chairman, and the dele-
gates separated.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

A Court was held on Tuesday, for the dispatch of
business.

Alderman WILSON presented a petition from an in-
hahitant of his ward of Castle Baynard, who had been
elected at the Wardmote, in 1845, to servo on the In-
quest. It appeared that he afterwards declined to serve,
was proscribed by his brethren of the Inquest for having
refused to perform his duty, and the Court had given
an order for his prosecution, and a true Bill had been
found against him by the grand jury. He had afterwards
appealed to the inhabitants in Wardmote assembled,
stating his willingness to serve in future, and hoping
that his neighbours would authorise the Aldermen to
support the petition in the Court. The petitioner (Mr.
Budd) having pleaded guilty, and expressed his willing-
ness to serve, the Alderman moved that the City Solici-
tor be directed to stay proceedings.
ALDERNIN—Yes, upon the petitioner agreeing to
pay all the expenses incurred to the present tune.
Sir Jaanzs Duals seconded the motion.

SCOTTISH PATRIOTIC SOCIETY
FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE
LABOURING CLASSES.
EDINBURGH, FEE. 16.—Yesterday afternoon a meeting
was held in the Music-hall, for the purpose of formally esta-
blishing this society, which was provisionally instituted in
September last. On the motion of Dr. Huie, David Milne,
Esq., :of Milne Graden, took the chair, and having briefly
stated the object of the meeting, he pointed out various
needful improvements in the condition of the labouring
classes of Scotland, such as the improvement of their cot-
tages and gardens, the abandonment of the bothy and
bondager systems, and observed that a society like the one
they had met to establish might, by promoting these and
similar improvements, effect much good.
Dr. MmacExzies in moving a resolution, affirming that in
ordinary seasons great distress existed among the labouring
classes in parts of Scotland, and that a society like the En-
glish one for improving the condition of the labouring classes
was here greatly needed, proceeded to give a very interesting
account of the English Society, which[enjoys the patronage
of the Queen and Prince Albert, and is supported by a vast
number of the nobility. Drawing the distinction that
exists between the labouring classes in England and in Scot-
land, he observed that what had been productive
of so much benefit to the poor and to the community
in England, was equally applicable, and would be equally
beneficial in Scotland. Here, as in the south, there were
labourers and mechanics who might be greatly benefited by
having as much garden ground as they could properly culti-
vate, but, in addition to these, there are the crofters and
fishing classes here, which, under their present circumstances,
are continually exposed to destitution. Dr. Mackenzie ob-
served that these classes exist; that it is impossible to sweep
them away, for if removed from estates they flock into vil-
lage., and towns, and there become generally pauperised and
demoralised members of the community. He then generally
described the wretchedly inefficient cultivation pursued by
the crofters, and the unskilful practices of the fishing classes ;
he maintained, however, that the abuse of the croft or small
holding was no valid argument against small holdings pro-
perly cultivated. Having the responsible duty of superin-
tending vast numbers of people on the west coast, belonging
to the croft and fishing classes, he had felt it his duty to in-
quire whether they could be made to support themselves, and
into the means of effecting this. Unfortunately, although.
many proprietors had made isolated
P although excev't attempts to improve
their peo le
them, these',..,._b. inoperative, and there was no
society such as the one they were now met to establish, pro-
vided with practical plans and suggestion; he had, there-
fore,u‘ctioce had been given
to search after the materials for the improvement
he was desirous of effecting. Far this purpose he visited
about five years ago the estates of the Earl of Gosford
and of Colonel Close, in Ireland. The people on their estates
a few years before very closely resembled the depressed and
spiritless portion of the Highland community, but. Me,
Blacker, an eminent agriculturist and philanthropist had suc-
ceeded in raising the destitute small tenantry on the estates
under his charge to a position of great comfort; and he had
effected this chiefly by employing agricultural overseers to
enforce the most advantageous methods of cultivation among
the small tenantry. He (Dr. Mackenzie) had also inspected
the rural improvements effected by the late Mrs. Gilbert on
her estate at Eastbourne, in Sussex. Time prevented his
entering into minutiae, but he was surprised and delighted to
find that Mrs. Gilbert'a 400 small tenants, not only were
able to pay punctually higher rents, but that on poor south-
down land, they raised far heavier and more productive crops
than the neighbouring large farmers. He did not wish to
make invidious contrasts, but he was convinced, from long
study and experience, that there was no physical necessity
for small tenancies being so unproductive as they are under
existing mismanagement. Dr. Mackenzie then detailed the
little difficulties he had encountered in commencing at Gairloch
similar improvements to those effected by Mr. Blacker; but
under the direction of agricultural inspectors, the cotters had
not only drained their new crofts, upon each of which im-
proved cottages had been erected, but they had effected
more work than was anticipated or appointed them, and
although the potato failure had come . upon them
before they were in a position to derive adequate
benefits from improvements in their husbandry,
yet they had better prospects before them than
they otherwise would have had, and he had no doubt
i
that if these improvements had been three years in advance,
the poor people would have been independent of the potato
failure, because it would only form a portion, instead of the
major part, of their rural produce. Dr. Mackenzie then ad-
verted to the success which had attended the fishing crews
he had prevailed upon last autumn to pursue under improve-
ments the cod and ling fishing. These crews were as desti-
tute as their neighbours of potatoes, but their resources from
fishing enabled them to purchase meal without difficulty. It
was, he observed, by thus developing the resources of the
people and country that destitution is to be avoided, and as
this was most efficiently to be done through the medium of
an efficient society, such as he trusted the present one would
prove, he begged to move the adoption of the resolution he
had read.
E. R.

Alderman CorELAND hoped the court would not en-
tertain the motion. He thought it was rather too bad
that the gentleman should allow proceedings to go on till
the bill was found, and then that he should present the
petition. It was well known that it was very difficult,
on St. Thomas's day, to compel gentlemen to serve on
the inquest, and he hoped the cause would be allowed to
go on till the Court of Queen's Bench should give its
judgment. It would be time enough then to entertain a
petition on the subject.
Several voices here called for the petitioner.
Alderman WILSON moved the gentleman's attendance
be dispensed with. Ile had been all day in attendance at
the last court, when he (Alderman Wilson) was bound
up in the snow at Brighton, and then that petition had
not been presented.
A long discussion took place, which ended in the
withdrawal of the petition till the next court, when the
petitioner will be obliged to appear.

DILL FOR ALTERING THE FRANCHISE.

Alderman HUMMER"! said, that inconsequence of his
absence from the Court on the last day of meeting, Al-
derman Copeland had asked a question relative to the
appointment of the Committee to amend the Act of
George 1., relative to the election of aldermen and com-
mon•councilmen. He regretted to find that no satin•
factory answer bad been given to that question, al-
though the Court had unanimously agreed to appoint
the Committee, and he wished to know whether it was
the intention of the Court to carry the motion into
effect.

The LORD MAYOR (Ss we understood his Lordship)
aid, if the Aldermen pleased, he could call a Commit-
tee himself.
A !dormer' RutrannTavre hnned that Alderman Hum-
phery had some idea of the. makaauro ho was about so
propose. For his part he could form no opinion at all
of the meaning of his worthy friend, and the alteration
of an Act of Parliament on such a subject was a matter
not to be trifled with.—(.Hear, hear.)
Alderman lIIPSPIIERI—You will find every thing
ready to be acted upon when you are in Committee. t
am ready to go through the whole question, and to go to
Parliament with it, and produce it there at once.
Sir P. LAURIE—I tell you, you are trying to legislate
for the Court of Common Council, and you are not jus-
tified in doing any thing of the kind.
Alderman Moos was anxious to know whether there
was any truth in the statement in some of the news-
papers with respect to the refusal to allow the Remem-
brancer to take his seat in the House of Commons.—
(Laughter.)

Alderman HVMPREAT—There is not a syllable of
truth in it. The Remembrancer has no seat appro-
priated to him, but he is allowed to enter into the body
of the House under the gallery, as an officer of the city
of London. As for that statement, it is all fudge.
Adjourned.
COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

CORPORATION RZFORM.
A Court was held on Tuesday. The summons stated
that the Court would be special, for the election of
various city officers, and on no ether business. A great
number of members attended, and the proceedings ex-
cited an extraordinary degree of interest. A Committee
of the whole Court, upon the proceedings of the Corpo-
ration, at which the reply to the Lord Mayor's state-
ment, explaining his reasons for refusing to put the third
reading of the Qualification Bill was read by the City
Solicitor, was previously held, and every one expected
a regular blow up, on the presentation of that do-

current.
Mr. Joint Dixort, the moment the Lord Mayor took
the chair, expressed regret that the feeling of some of
the Members had manifested itself in so objectionable a
manner at the last meeting of the Court.
The Loan MAYOR said he fult much gratified at the
expression of regret at treatment which he was con-
scious ho had not merited.
After the minutes of the last Court were read,
Mr. Wins rose to move that the minute of a former
Court, on the subject of the proceedings oa the Qualifi-
cation Bill be amended by recording the fact that a
notice given in open Court by Mr. Wood, a member of
the Court, in the following words was handed in and
published by him to the Court
" Notice of motion tbr the nest Court by Mr. Wood.
" I hat the Bill to declare the qualification of freemen
of London to be elected members of the Court of Corr'
MOll Council be read a third time.

Eq., having seconded it, in an ap-

propriate speech, the motion was carried nem. con.
The Rev. D. T. K. DRUMMOND adverted to what he bad
himself witnessed
s of destitution among the peasantry, and
cordially moved—" That, finding that numerous landed pro-
prietors and other benevolent persons in September last, pro-
jected and provisionally established such a society as that so
urgently required, under the appellation of the Scottish
Patriotic Society for improving the condition of thelabouring
classes,' the meeting approves of and confirms the same."
Dr. Wan moved a resolution, defining the objects of the
society to be the improvement of cotter husbandry, the
diffusion of agricultural education, the improvement of cot-
tages and gardening, and of the dwellings of the labouring
classes generally ; together with kindred means for inducing
provident habits among the people.
Professor JoiinsTon, in an able speech, dwelt upon the
importance of sowing the germs of future agricultural im-
provements in the minds of the rising generation, and con-
cluded by seconding the resolution.
A highly influential general committee was then ap-
pointed, after which a vote of thanks to the chairman having
been proposed by Professor Gregory, and seconded by
D. Davidson, Esq., of Strath, the meeting separated.

" JOHN WOOD.

" 11th February, 1847.
" And the Lord Mayor declined to receive the satae."
After a good deal of discussion, of by no means a
conciliatory character, in which several members parti-
cipated, the above amendment was adopted, in prefer-
ence to one moved by Alderman Thompson, containing
what appeared to us to be a distinction without a dif-
ference.

............
Mr. Low (the Chairman of the Committee of Privi-
leges of the whole Court) then rose, and said he begged
respectfully to state that the Committee of Privileges
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had almost unanimously agreed to adopt the paper
which he held in his hand, in answer to the statement
made by his Lordship at the last Court, and he bogged
that it might be read.
The LORD MAYOR--It is not in the paper of business,
and I cannot permit it to be read. There has been no
order given of it.
Mr. ANDERTON—Then I shall more that the Court do
now adjourn.
Mr. JONES—My Lord, you are bound to have the
In justice to the Court, two hundred mem-
bers of which have in Committee agreed to it, you ought
to hear it. You thought fit at the last Court to state
your opinion, and this is an answer to that paper you
then read.
The LORD MAvoa—When the business for which
the Court was summoned, the election of officers, shall
have been finished, 'I shall have the paper road. I
thought we parted at the last Court on the understand-
ing that the officers should be elected at the following,
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be proceeded with which did not appear on the paper
of business.

THE WATERFORD, WEXFORD,
WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN RAILWAY.
A meeting of the shareholders in this company, adjourned
from the 21st of December last, was held yesterday. at the
offices, 449, West Strand; Lord Courtown in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN requested the secretary to put the seal of
the company to the registry.
Mr. PERRY wished to make some observations previous to
that being done.
The CHAIRMAN—Nothing can be done before the seal is
put to the registry.
Mr. PERRY begged to explain his reasons for objecting.
The CHAIRMAN here intimated that the seal had been put
to the registry.
Mr. PERRY protested against the act., which he said ought
to have been done by the shareholders.
The CHAIRMAN—There is no motion before the meeting.
Mr. PERRY—Yes : I have protested against the act which
has been done : we have not seen it affixed to the registry.
Has it been done? Has any gentleman seen the seal
the re-
ut to
it iz the room? I ask whether it has been put to th
gistry in the room?
The SECRETARY—Yes, I delivered the seal for the purpose.
Mr. DicxsoN here declared he had not seen the seal used
in that room, and he was as tall as any one.—Here some
three other gentlemen got up, and were engaged in address-
ing different parts of the room at the same moment—at the
conclusion,
Dr. GRAY and Mr. PERRY rose together, and protested at
the same time against the act which had been done.
After much delay and confusion, the CHAIR.MAS called on
Mr. GroßoE, who moved the re-appointment of the former
directors.
Mr. CODD seconded the resolution.
Mr. PERRY in moving an amendment reminded the meet-
ing that he had been appointed, with Mr. Boyce, at the
meeting held on the 21st December last, to investigate, 22ne
the part of the shareholders, the affairs of the compstlY. bk
and complained of unnecessary delays which
the secretary.
detailed, at great length the course he hadhai(olursnueeedn,
thrown in his way by the directors and
him in Dublin by the secretary, offering the
purchase hose who
17,500 scrip shares at 12s. 6d. a share, from t
At length, on the Bth of February, an agreementwassenetf
move
were unable to meet their calls; the inuchastehe 18t
to be paid on delivery of the scrip .on
a resolutions
of February, on condition that
effect of these resolutions was to pass the directors'
the directors at 1,0001.
port, to fix the allowance to
should be passed at the meeting of thecert 17th1nd. iencsrtn.reTrhee.
r t ry at 1,000/ ,
a year, the salary to the
accepted by Mr. Boyce, and the n . and to appoint the auditors nasmecede.egae'tTiahti
He charged the directors with not pressing the Great
isonw aended.
to lease the company's line, and with coming to no similar
References were made
and Kingstown, who
Western and the South Wales Companies to an agreement
Western
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tothedoDusob:lin
by the speaker to severalo re
1 e them from all responsi-
from sharebrokers, offering to re e
asthis upon th
taorms recoefivedthbey sco
bility in the line, and he charged
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et directors of
the company. e follow-
ing should be the
Esmond •
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Lord Courtovrn, Sir
T.Wyse B. Osborne, uncannon,
Lord Bossrnore, Messnrs. Latou'ehe, R.
ecdircireuci
B.
Colonel Acton,
Messrs. S. Parr},. J. P. Smith, C. Coates,
and Dr. Gray.
J. Boyce, J.
the amendment
Dr. GRAY seconded in a long and decla-
matory severaleech.
other gentlemen had spoken,
After
Mr. D. W. HAIIVST recommended the purchasing in of
the shares proposed, that the
company might recover itself,
and rebutted, with hiss eloirence, the charges which had
been thrown outs gait the_directors.
Mr. HATER, .P., ontenofetahe directors, assured the meet-
ing that the Great Weste .Gm an or the South Wale
Company had never any. intention to lease the line.s
How could they when_ ft was 130 tniles from their
own, separated by St. :George's Channel? But they had
offered this company help, and had guaranteed one
of their shares. As for himself he was a large sharciehuoalter
in this company and had kept all is shares thr der
out, and he had got many of his endsfri tooughe
shares : what advantage then could he have in pedi tak-
line ? 'That was the first Irish company he had ng the
lie was sorry to be compelled to say it would be entered.
for gentlemen at the moment they were endeavouringthe last,
English capital into Ireland received nothing but blame to
pass ame and
vituperation in return. _
Many others followed with observations on cufferent sub-
jects, and, at the close of four hours,
The Cii.ainmsw put the motion and the amendment to the
meeting, and declared the former to be carried.
Mr. PERRY demanded a poll.
Messrs. Slade and Harvey were appointed
scrutineers of
the votes.
The CHAIRMAN then announced that the
remain open till eight o'clock that evening, and polling would
the poll would be declared tc-morrow ('Thursday),the result of
o'clock, at the adjourned meeting. at twelve
The meeting was then adjourned till
twelve o'clock to-
morrow.

Mr. WIRE was anxious to say a few words, that it
might not go abroad that your Lordship's speech could
not be answered.—(Hear, hear.) There were imputa-
tions in that speech upon the members of this Court,
for which there was not the slightest foundation. It
must not bo allowed to be stated that we wish to co-
erce our officers. There is not the least truth in that
accusation.—(Loud cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR said that such language was un-
worthy any member of the Court, find he was surprised
to hear it from the lips of Mr. Wire.
Mr. ASLIURST—Every word Mr. Wire has uttered is
true.

Mr. LAWRENCE said it was quite evident that the
Lord Mayor was acting under the influence of the
Recorder in distrusting the Court.—(H•' ar hear.) It
was said that by the course in which the Court was
pro-
ceeding, its existence was endangered. Who endangered
red
the Court ? The Lord Mayor.—(Hear, hear.) The
Court would, for the sake of its own character, adhere
to its determination to protect itself and if any mischief
should result from the non-election of the officers, upon
his Lordship's head would be the onus. If his Lordship
perilled the Corporation, he did it upon the advice of
those who were about him (alluding to the Recorder and
three or four Aldermen).—(Cheers).
The LORD MAYOR called to the Town Clerk to pro-
ceed with the business on the paper.
Mr. PEWTRECS could not suppose it possible that
when a paper was prescribed by the chairman of the
committee of the whole Court, the Lord Mayor could
think of refusing to allow it to be read.
The LORD MAYOR said the gentlemen who were con-
stantly rising were quite out of order, and interrupted
the business for which the Court had been convened.
Mr. JONES—It is the Lord Mayor that is out of order,
in objecting to allow the paper to be read. My Lord,
you are out of order.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and
" No, no.")
The LORD MAYOR.—WiII you, or will you not, go on
with the election of officers? —(Loud shouts of" No, no.")
Alderman WILSON-4 came here an hour and a half
ago to elect the officers, and I em not to be kept here all
day. All sorts of illegal and absurd things are taking
place.
Mr. AssunsT—There (pointing to the Recorder) is
the cause of the whole confusion.
The LORD MAYOR—I am myself the cause, for I em
doing what is right, and nothing shall deter me from
continuing in that course.—(Hear, hear, and loud disap-
probation.)
I Mr. ANDERTON—SureIy the least your Lordship can
do is to let the paper be read. There is no notice of it
business, for it is an answer to your
on the paper of
Lordship's statement, got up at the earliest possible op-
portunity.. If your Lordship think proper to persist, I
shall persist in my mown for the adjournment of the
Court.
The REC6RDER—That motion not i with
our oath as a member of this court. cons
—(Loudstent disap-
probation.)
Mr. ANDERTON—That is an imputation of direct per-
jury.—(sear, hear.)
Mr. wißr—The Recorder has imputed perjury to a
member of the court. It is an insult to every member.
I move that the Recorder be removed from the court.—
(Great confusion.)
The RECORDER rose with the members' pocket-book,
in his hand, evidently for the purpose of reading the
oath.
bin Low—Dry Lord, se chairrasu of the Whole court

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TUX ROUDERT AT iIIESSRS. STRACUAY AND
PAUL'fi.—We are requested to state that the absolute loss in
this robbery was not 10,0001., but 7,505/., and that consider-
able hopes are entertained that as 6,5001. are in five notes of
1,000/., two 5001., 300/., and 2001, the thieves will not be
enabled to circulate these large notes. they being all stopped
at the Bank, and due notice sent to all parts of the kingdom.
DIPLOMACY.—The old proverb of " He lies like
truth," has been altered for the use of rising diplomatists
intoo He lies like thtizot."...punch,

I inform your Lordship, that we are quite prepared to I
proceed to the election of the officers, but, as a matter
of privilege, our first duty is to have this paper read.
The LORD MAYOR—That paper can be read after the
election of the officers.
Mr. J. H. HALL said he wished the Court would post-
pone, of its own accord, the reading of the paper until
after the election of the officers.—(Rear, hear.) lie
accordingly moved that Mr. Low, the chairman, be re-
quested to postpone the presentation of the paper.
Mr. HARTLEY seconded the motion.
The LORD MAYOR—No, ne, I shall put that question.
Several members here said that the Recorder, who
from time to time communicated with the Lord Mayor,
was prompting his Lordship to persevere in his opposi-
tion to the Court.

The RECORDER —I am in my office performing the
duties of it.

Alderman WasoN denied that there was any precedent
for the course just suggested.

Mr. LAWRENCE expressed strong indignation at the
power assumed by the Lord Mayor. It had he said been
intimated that if the Court thought they were justified
in pointing out a certain line of conduct, from which the
Lord Mayor could not deviate according to law, they
ought to move for a mandamus. It was ♦ery easy and
agreeable to suggest a cause which would probably occupy
four or fire years before a decision could be arrived at.
He was prepared to adopt the folio wing course, if the
Lord Mayor refused to call upon the Town-Clerk to put
the motion, and if that officer refused to call upon the
City solicitor to perform that duty.—(Hear, hear, and
No, nn.) With that view he should wish that these offi-
cers should be sworn in.

Mr. PRENDERGAST said the Court was actually trifling,
and called upon the members to proceed at once to the
election.

Mr. WIRE here reminded the Court of the Mayoralty
of 1835, and the conduct of the Court when the Lord
Mayor, that day, endevoured to ride, rough-shod, over
the members. In that Mayoralty the Court carried the
question of privilege unanimously, in the teeth of the
person who disgraced the chair.
The Town-Clerk rose, with the list of the names of the
officers in bis hand. _ _ .

- _
Mr. KING called upon the Town-Clerk to reflect whose
officer he was.—(Cries of disapprobation.)
The LORD MAYOR said that insinuation contained a

threat against an officer, through his pocket, for doing
his duty.
Mr. WIRE said the imputation was intolerable. It
was unjust, and without foundation, and possessed ad-
ditional offence, coming, as it had come, from the Pres,-
dent of the Court.

After having stood a siege of applications from many

HIS .14011DSIIIP declared, in the most positive terms,
that he would put no question, however modified, until
the officers were appointed. He then called upon the
Town Clerk to try the Court once more, and told the
Court not to blame him if any ill consequence resulted
from their refusal to proceed to the election.
Mr. R. TA-OAR—It is your Lordship and your legal
adviser, the Recorder, who are responsible. I have no
doubt f your Lordship's disposition to do what is right,
and just, and honourable, but, by the advice of the Re-
corder, you are placed in a most unenviable position.—
(Cries of " No, no," and " Hear, hear.") You do not,
my Lord Mayor, act upon your own judgment, and, un-
less you do that, you will not perform your duty to your
fellow-citizens.—(Loud cries of " Hear, bear," mingled

with disapprobation.)
Many members expressed their readiness to proceed
at once to the election, and appeared to be satisfied with
the Lord Mayor's assurance, that the reply to his state-
ment should be read immediately afterwards. The
great majority, however, considered that the principle
for which they bad all along contended, would be affected
if they yielded in the slightest degree to what they evi-
dently considered to be the usurped authority of the
chief magistrate.
The RECORDER again and again asked whether it was
the pleasure of the Court to proceed to the election.
Mr. WIRE—Yes, we are. Gentlemen, the Recorder
wishes to put us into a court of law. Do not prevent
him. Keep your places. We are ready and willing to
go to the election of the officers, but we wish to have
this paper read first.
Sir PETER LAI/am—The Lord Mayor would, if left
to himself, do all that is required.—(Hear, hear.)
The RECORDER—The Lord Mayor has called a Special
Court, and unless reason can be shown to the contrary,
the Court was bound to take the business in the order
of the day. You cannot disappoint in that matter on
which you are called together. You are not aware of
the consequences,whichimay arise from delay in swearing
the Judges of the Central Criminal Court, the Clerk of
the Peace, and other officers whose duties are of the
most serious importance.
Mr. R. L. JONES said, that at the same time that the
Recorder was advising the Lord Mayor against putting
a notice of motion upon the paper of business, the
Learned Gentleman knew perfectly well that in the
Commons House of Parliament, the Speaker durst not
refuse to comply with the desire of any member to that
effect.

The RECORDER—I answer that the Court of Common
Council, although a branch of the greatest corporation
in the world, still is not exactly the House of Commons
of the United Bingdom.—(Laughter below the bar.)
Mr. PRENDERGAST said it was the law of every delibe-
rative
body—of the Committee of Sewers, of the County
Courts, of the Bank of England, of the East India
House, that when a meeting was specially called to
transact special business, that business was settled before
any other was commenced. That was the law, in fact,
of every common club. The Court had a public duty
to perform, and it was bound manfully to assert its
rights, and submit them, if necessary, to be decided by
the law of the land.—(Laughter.) An alternative
which was, perhaps, more eligible than either single
combat or a general battle.—(Laughter.)
A MEMBER—Now, Mr. Recorder, candidly say
whether you would not, if you were Lord Mayor, put
the question ?
The RECORDER—No ; I should, if I were Lord
Mayor, tell the Recorder not to put the question.
Mr. PEACOCK said it would be in the power of the
Recorder to settle the matter by advising the Lord
Mayor to give up what., after all, was but a point of
form.

The I:Won:mit—Then I should have only to say to
the Lord Mayor, " My advice to you is to give up this
point ; but I hope you will not take my advice.
Mr. BLAKE said the Lord Mayor had slandered the
Court, while they were demanding what was their un-
doubted right.
Mr. MARRSDTT thought the members were fighting
with a shadow, and proposed to them the magnanimous
act of being the first to retire from the contest.—(Loud
cries of " No, no.")
Mr. MARRIOTT then moved, and Mr. WILLIAMS se-
conded the motion that the Court proceed to the elec-
tion of the officers.

Mr. WIRH immediately rose to oppose the motion,
and began to read the paper containing the answer to
the statement of the Lord Mayor as part of his speech,
but

The LORD IikTOR, before many sentences had been
read, rose and, ordering the mace-bearer and the sword-
bearer to precede him, retired from the Court.
The gallery was filled during the discussion by per-
sons who seemed to be struck with astonishment at the
state of the proceeding&

TESTIMONY TO THE MEMORY
OF THOMAS CLARKSON.
Among the testimonials of grateful admiration which the
death of the venerable and beloved Thomas Clarkson has
called forth, none, perhaps, will be more valued than the
following, from the President of Haiti, General Riche :
" Port au Prince, Dec. 24, 1846.
" To the Members of the Committee of the British and Fo-
reign Anti-Slavery Society.
" Gentlemen,—The news of the death of Thomas Clarkson
has struck all the true friends of human liberty with con-
sternation. His Excellency the President of Haiti, who
echoes the sentiments of every Haitian, has commanded me
to write to you, to express the deep concern he feels at the
great loss which the cause of emancipation has just sustained
" There are, Gentlemen, some men whom Providence has
raised up for the especial purposes of carrying out his great
designs in reference to mankind. The mission of the vener-
able Thomas Clarkson was clearly pointed out to him; and
that devoted man performed his duty with all the fidelity and
teal of an apostle. Even in this world his perseverance and
his virtues found their reward ; and after a long series of la-
bours and trials, he was permitted to enjoy the sweet satis-
faction of seeing the slave-trade abolished, liberty proclaimed
throughout the whole length and breadth of the British em-
pire, and the spirit of emancipation struggling for the deli-
verance of the people yet afiiicted with the leprosy of sla-
very. He 'was allowed to anticipate the time when,
from one end of the earth to the other, all men shall aa
TRICE. He was allowed to die in peace, giving glory to his
Creator, who Lad designed him to be the means of so much
happiness and security to a class of men who, for so long a
period, had been devoted to the most degrading slavery.
" But if anything tan mitigate the sorrow felt at so great
a loss, it is the fact, that his Excellency the President feels,
in common with all Haitians, that the work of the venerable
Thomas Clarkson is ably carried on by the society over which
he presided, and in whose labours he toot a part more active
than his advanced age would have seemed to allow. All of
you, the Haitians, well know, are animated with the same
fervent zeal as the virtuous man whom we now regret. He
has often sided you with his counsels and his experience; he
has often talked to you of better times to come for the
African race. That the wishes of this holy apostle of eman-
cipation may be realised, we fervently hope. Both blacks
and whites, we all will work for the accomplishment of this
end, each one in his own circle; for the cause of liberty is
the cause of God. You will labour for the completion of
that noble temple which the venerable Thomas Clarkson de-
sired to raise to the honour of God, who had so often assisted
him in his painful exertions, by the destruction of slavery in
every country where it has raised its execrable head. In the
dwelling-place of the just made perfect, whence Thomas
Clarkson now contemplates your philanthropic effort, he will
take delight in remembering that he has left behind him dis-
ciples worthy of himself, and worthy to fulfil the mission that
he had undertaken in the spirit of love.
" His Excellency the President of Haiti has ordered me
further to express to you, Gentlemen, the high opinion he
entertains of you personally, and the interest that he takes
in your labours. His Excellency regards with an attentive
eye the progress of this great and noble question, and his
heart sincerely rejoices at each new triumph that the cause
to which you have so generously devoted yourselves, obtains."
(Signed by the Secretary of State for Justice, Public In-
struction, and Religion.)

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