The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-27 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

'Yesteritty the Loan MAYOR held a Court of Aldermen for
the dispatch of public business.
The Chamberlain reported the surplus of the Orphan's Fund
for the last Quarter, and the Court directed him to take the
requisite measuretfor the discharge of the sum of 20,6001. of
the debt, agreeably to the provisions of the Act of Parliament.
Mr. Gilman, lately elected Bridgemaster, was admitted and
sworn into that office.
The Inquest of Coleman-street Ward made a presentment
against a person for using false scales and weights, and the
Court directed the City Solicitor to proceed against him forth.
with.
A very considerable number of ruinous houses, buildings,
and prethises, in Cripplegate Ward Without, were presented
by the Inquest, and the Solicitor directed to put the Act of
Parliament into effect.
The Solicitor reported his proceedings under former present-
ments of ruinous premises In the Wards of Cheap and Farring-
don-without, and such as had not been repaired were ordered to
be taken down forthwith.
The Court directed the usual orders to the Watermen's Com-
pany, and the precepts to the several Companies in relation to
their attendance on Lord Mayor's day next to be issued.
The orders against throwing squibs and fire-works on thelsth
November and Lord Mayor's day were directed to be issued.
Commissioners of the Court of Requests for the month of
December next were appointed.
A boy of St. Margaret's, 'Westminster, was admitted into
Emanuel Hospital on the increased foundation there.
The Loan .51AY011 wished to call the attention of the Court
to a matter which he conceived affected the privileges of the
city. He had imagined that the proceedings of the 31agistrates
of Middlesex in the case of Mr. Fauntleroy hid been in con.
sequence of sonic offence committed in Middlesex ; but to hid
surprise, he found by the commitment, a copy of which lie
held in is hand, and which he should request the town-clerk
to read, that the commitment was for an offence in the city of
London, and his case stood in the calendar to be tried by a
London Jury. How far they had a right he would not say,
but certainly it was contrary to courtesy. He had no recollec-
tion of any cue since he had been in the Magistracy where
such an occurrence had taken place.; and he believed the
City Magistrates invariably sent all persons charged with of-
fences in Middlesex to the Magistrates there and in a recent
case, a robbery of great extent—he meant Earl Cowper's,—nl-
though the whole was detected in the city, and through the vi-
gilance of their own officers, he had sent the prisoners to the
magistrates at Hertford 'for investigation. The Court would
naturally feel, that, occupied as he constantly was, it would be
highly .desirable for him to be relieved from trouble ; but he
conceived that the magistrates of the city ought not to shrink
from any trouble where the privileges of the city were concern-
ed. He therefore felt it his duty to state the circumstance, and
to leave it to the Court to act as they thought proper.—The com-
mitment was then read—(for which see THE SUN of /friday.)
Sir JAIIES SHAW said that he (lid not know how fur the
Middlesex Magistrates had the right, but it appeared to him
that it was highly improper, and that in courtesy it ought to
have been sent to the City Magistrates. As the individual
was about being tried, he thought it would he better not to
come to any immediate conclusion, but he should move that it
be referred to a Committee of Privileges.
Mr. Alderman Woon thought it highly improper: it had
formerly been attempted, and remonstrated against. At least,
as a matter of courtesy they ought to have sent the case to the
City ; the City Magistrates always did so with respect to the,and if in little petty cases they did so, lie really thought it
worthy the consideration of the Court.
Sir J. PERRINO concurred; and after some further con-
sideration, it was agreed to confer with the Magistrate on therota,
and Recorder and Common Serjeant, at the ensuing Sessions.

ABSENCE.

ANECDOTE OF BACON, TUE SCULPTOR.
The ludicrous story about Sir JOSUUA allY•
MOLDS, and the unfortunate waistcoat of his
friend ArrLuy, related in TUX SUN of the 15th
inst., will find a counterpart in the following anec-
dote of another Artist and another waistcoat :—.
Bacon was remarkably neat in his dress, and, according to
the costume of the old school, wore, in fine weather a pow-
dered wig, ruffles, silver buckles, white silk stockings, &e.,
and walked with his golden headed cane. Thus attired, he one
day called at St. Paul's, shortly after having erected the statue
of the benevolent Howard, and before the boarding which en-
closed the statue was removed. One of Ids suns was employed
at this time in finishing the statue. After remaining here a
short time, he complained of feeling somewhat cold ; on which
the son proposed, as no one could overlook them, that he
should put on, as a kind of temporary spencer, an old, torn,
green, shag waistcoat, with a red stuff' back, which had been
left thereby one of the workmen. He said it was " a good
thought, and accordingly buttoned the waistcoat over his
handsome new coat. Shortly afterwards he was missing, but
returned in about an hour, stating that he had been to call on u
Gentleman in Doctor's Commons, and had sat chatting with his
wife and daughters, who he had never seen before ; that he
found them to he exceedingly pleasant women, th tugh perhaps
a little too much dispo,.eit to laugh anti titter about he knew
not what. " Sir," said his son, "I am afraid I can explain
their mysterious behaviour—surely you have not kept on that
waistcoat all this time ? " But as sure as lam a living man,
I have;" said he, laughing heartily, " and I can now account
not only for the strange behaviour of the Ladies, but for all the
jokes that have been cracked about me as I walked along the
street, some persons hooting, others crying ' let hint alone, he
does it for a wager, &c. all which, from being quite uncon-
scious of my appearance,l thought was levelled at some other
quis that might be fidlowing near me : and 1 now recollect that
whenever I looked around to discover the object of their plea.
sentry, the people laughed, and the more so, as, by the mere
force of sympathy, I laughed also, although I could not ima-
gine what- it all meant."

The Court is expected toe remain at the Escu-
rial till December.
The King, moved by the' tears and supplica- Cituacn-Y.titos were introduced by Cu'rn
lions of Madame Erro, has granted her the liberty 'MILT, Archbishop of Canterbury, front what he
sa kv at Rome, A. n. 742 ; but they were not uni.
of the Ex-Mittister, her husband, but be:is not to
. go nut of the walls of Valladolid. versal till long after, and many legends were in-
vented to show the sanctity of burial in themf
. The last letters from Gibraltar announce the
tier were all of them at first inclosed. The In
—departure from that port of all the Spanish Rev°.
stitutes of Lycurgus mention burial of the dead
lutionists, who had taken refuge there. Some'
outside the temples. The elevation of tents and
are gone to Tangier; some to England; and, the
greater number to the United States.
, ' bowers, and festivals held in them, was a substi-
-
•tution, according to Huntingdon, by Gregory,
for the 'heathen sacrifices of '
' ( From the 4ournal Des Debaf., of Sunday.) .
to be killed for etittg.°l7Yeen,htu:airiloctfl personsiaatad
TitTESTE, OCT.: 10.—Captain Vukasiovich
singing psalms. for
ar-
rived here to-dayfrom'the Gulf of Smyrna, and has brought let. , were
7 tarsi() Sept. 28. 'The Captain Paella had formed a junction with walking round them at night,
the dead, and notwithstanding, of fear of going
the Egyptian fleet, and then tomtnenced a series of trifling en-
, gagements, of which the first began near Stanchlo, and con-
through them at night, an apprehension derived
Nutted to Samos. The issue WU almost always favourable to the
tireeks, and the Musselmans are struck with terror. The Ca. from the heathens believing that departed spirits
pubn-tlefr was blown up, and some of the Egyptian transports came out of the tombs, and wandered about the
lied to Boudroun, while the Captain Pacha, after the' loss of
several vessels of war, took refuge in hlltylene,.pursued by the place where the body lay. Indeed there is rea.
. Greeks under the orders of Miaulis and Canaria. 'rite loss of , son to think that the living desired burials in
the Turks bag been very considerable. A letter from Samos of
church-
yards that ghosts might be confined to
the fltith of September says, the Admiral's Ship blew up on the ,
.• 21st between Patinos anti Samos, but this news is not true, such spots. Another superstition, supposed I)rui-
'llenCELowA, OcT. 13.—(Private Correrpoudence.)—Au. dice! is that the ghost of the person last interred
theistic Letters front Madrid annnunce that the project of' a ) )
round the church-yard till another is
• fresh amnesty is now before the Council, and that h will be wanders
• more ample and extensive than that of the Ist of May. buried, who then takes his place. We hear also
It is reported here that tieneral Maringone is to be restored of dancing and singing in them; of fighting
without foundation. in
to the Government of Catalonia; but we.belleve this to be
them at fairthues, of persons passing through them
Sortie towns of our province are ruined by the contributions.. praying for •the dead,; 'of high roads running
In Meya die Authorities have seized, in payment,.the move- through them, and of peeitences performed in
able* of many families, and have lodged th6n in ' the town-
house. Bat the evening of the seizure the people rose, and re. them. The custom of .laying flat stones occurs in
took the moveables, amid cries of ,4 Death to the Municipal Cicero. A form of benediction was Provided for
Sudy"— it was necessary to send an armed force, to Meya, to
• eat4iblish order.
consecrating church-yards, by erecting a cross in
.
Vire are behind the other civilised nations of Europe. Three , the centre, and four in the corners ; some churches
persons having been wounded in a tumult in the taan of Mum, ' had more than one in the church-yard. The
justice has commenced by levying a fine on the surgeon, who
bad prper. graves are turned round to the south for the benefit
to lend the aid of his art to these unfortunate
- sons -before the arrival of the municipal officers. of Paters and Ares from the passengers .; and a
part left unconsecrated, called Burial' without the
.;:Letters front Cadiz to the end of September announce that,
-,at the moment of writing, the French squadron before Cadiz
'Royal French set. vrocession, for.the reception of excommunicant.s,
taut/ =silted of e. brig awl schooner of the