The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-31 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday, a Court was held for the dispatch ea
business.
THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO PRINCE ALBERT.
The LORD MAYOR informed the Court that he had
had the honour of an interview with Prince Albert, and
that he expected in a few days to receive intimation of
the day on which his Royal Highness would do the
Corporation the honour to come to that hall to receive
the freedom of the city.—(Cheers.)
Mr. WELLS asked whether Prince Albert would take
up his freedom in that Court ?
The LORD MAYOR replied in the affirmative.
Mr. WELLS hoped that the visit would be followed
by something.—(A laugh.) The member was supposed
to allude to a Mans:on-house banquet, which it was
evident, from the manner in which the face of the Court
brightened up, would not be at all unwelcome.
SPIRITUAL ADVANCEMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
Sir PETER LAURIE presented a petition from the
Rev. Dr. Lang, Principal of the Australian College,
New South Wales, praying f)r the assistance of the
Corporation in promoting the intellectual, moral, and
spiritual advancement of the colony of New South
Wales. The petitioner stated that he had prosecuted the
object for upwards of seventeen years, and expended a
large property of his own in the attempt ; that during
that period the colony had risen from a mere gaol to
the yank of one of the most flourishing colonies of the
empire, the British capons to it for the past
Year having amounted in value to 1,173,4401., implying
for a population of 110,000 a consumption of 10/. a
bead ; that the benefits derived by Great Britain from
that branch of produce was almost exclusively appro-
priatni by the City of London, and that during the
last fifty years 110,000 convicts had been sent: out
froin Great Britain and Ireland to the penal colonies
in vessels almost exclusively belonging to the port of
London. The petition, after enumerating several other

advantapos which the City, in the opinion of the peti•

tioner, obtained from the colony, concludes thus :
" Your petitioner, therefore, humbly begs, that in con-
sideriltion of the great commercial advantages which
the City of London has already derived, and will doubt-
less lentg_ continue to derive, from the colony of New
South Wales, and in consideration also of the great
moral wad other advantages it has enjoyed for the last
fifty years and upward!, in having that colony as an
outlet for its criminal population, and in consideration,
moreover, of the enormous public burdens entailed on
the free inhabitants of Nair South Wales by the crimi-
nals sent out to them, as well from the City as from
the empire generally, your Hon. Court will be pleased
to grant such a sum as may be deemed expedient for
the completion of the Australian College in New South
Walesohat the founders may thereby be enabled to

afford the requisite means of general education, for the
training up of well-qualified instructors of youth, minis-
ters of religion, and missionaries to the heathen, as well
for the moral renovation of the heterogeneous popula-
tion of that colony, as for the advancement of Christian
knowledge in the isle adjacent."
The Rev. Dr. LANG having addressed the Court at
considerable length,
Sir PETER LAURIE moved that the petition be re-
ferred to the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee.

Mr. WELLS opposed the reference. He objected to
emigration altogether, and here was an application for
support to a college which, if it ought to be supported,
should be supported by the Government. He
should, therefore, move as an amendment that the peti-
tion be laid on the table. •
Mr. ANDEaTON seconded the motion.
The amendment was then carried by a large m ijority.

THE SMOKE NUISANCE IN THE CITY.

Mr. ANDERTO N gave notice that it would be referred
to a Committee to inquire into the annoyances and nui-
sances to which the inhabitants of the City are subjected
from the smoke of manufactories and steam engines,
and also from steam boats on the river Thames, and the
best means of obviating the same.—(Hear, hear.)
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