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London, England, 1841-10-21 00:00:00

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" 14th of James 1.. IGl6.—Ordered, that Sir Fran-
cis Bacon, Knight, Attorney-General, and one of the
Privy Council, should have given to him out of the
Chamber, as a gratuity from them 100 double sovereigns.
" Ordered, that the Chamberlain should be allowed
34/. for 30 loaves of fine sugar, given to divers hon,
persons well known to the Court, for new year's gifts.
" 15ta of James 1., 1617.—Ordered that three
dozen of double gilt trenchers, of the value of 1001.,
with the bore' eograven on the side of them, should be
given to the Right Hon. Sir Francis Bacon, Lord
Keeper of the Great seal.
Oidered that two dozen of white plate trenchers,
of the value of 501. or 601. should be given to Sir
Henry Yelverton, Attorney-General, with his crest en-
graved upon them.
" Ist of Charles 1., 1625.—Ordered, the Chamber-
lain to pay to Thomas Harvest, a sergeant carver, 20/.
as a gift for attending the Lord Mayor during the
plague, and 51. to be distributed to the poor in each
comp'er for their better relief.
" 21 of Charles 1., 1626.—Ordered the Chamber-
lain to pay to Alice Gouldesbury, Si. as their gift,
having received information of her conversion from
Popery.

" Ordered, the Chamberlain to pay John do Luna,
a Spanish minister, preaching every Sunday at Mer-
cer's Chapel, .51. on his petition ; and granted on the
petition of Alfonso Ball, for his service in song and
music, voluntarily performed amongst the City waiters
at the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs on festival days, the
benefit of the nomination of a freeman by redemption.

" 16th of Charles 1., 1640.—Ordered the Cham-
berlain to pay a soldier wounded in the King's ser-
vice at Dumbarton, 20s.
" 1651.—Ordered the Chamberlain to pay Mr.
Burroughs, the City Founder, 201., as their gift for
quenching fires in the City.

"1654.—Ordered, a pound of candles to be sup-
plied every evening to the guard at the Exchange, at
the charge of the Chamber.

" 1657.—Ordered, the Chamberlain to pay to one
of the keepers of the New Park, 191. 15s. 1011., his
disbursement in defending an indictment touching the
death of a person killed unlawfully attempting to
steal deal out of the park.

" 15th of Charles 11., 1663.—Ordered, the Cham-
berlain to provide 5001. in gold, to be presented to the
Lord Chancellor as a loving remembrance from them
for his many favours about the City's charter, lately
renewed, and other great affairs and coneernments of
the City.
.4 Also, to pay to Sir William Wyld, Knight and
B rrt., Recorder, 2001., in gold, as a loving remem-
brance for his care ned pains about renewing the
Charter ; and 1001. to Mr. Avery, as their gift for
his pains and travail in that matter."
The Report of the Committee to which the above
extracts are appended states, to the following effect :
"That the Town Clerk made search from the year 1310
to the year 1663. That they also received accounts
from the Chamberlain's office of the amount of pensions
gra.qed by the Court of Aldermen, from which it ap-
p2ared that a large increase had of late taken place in
the amount of pensions and allowance., and that the
sum now payable was 2,489/. That the Committee
find, after examination of the records and documents,
that the Court of Aldermen had from the earliest
period exercised the power of granting pensions and
allowances, and of directing payments to be made out
of the Clt)'s cash for such purposes as they have
thought fit, without the sanction of the Court of Com-
mon Council, and that they had continued to exercise
this power to the present time. It was, however, to
be remarked that in the early period of the proceedings
of this Corporafon the Mayor and Aldermen were
considered as the executive body, exercising po.xers
which the Common Council were not called upon to
perform, their meetings being few, so much so that' an
ordinance was passed, in the 7th year of Richard II ,
for a Common Courted to be held once in every quar-
ter of a year, to treat and counsel upon the business of
the City, 18 courts only appearing to have been held
during the six years. previously to the passing of the

ordinance. That it appeared on reference to the pro.
ceedings of the Common Council of the 11th of Fe-
bruary, 1675, it was fully agreed that for the future, as
often as there shall be occasion for the disbursing any
considerable sums of money, out of the Chamber, that
Court shall be first consulted thereon, and their assent
had thereunto.' That such resolution forms a standing
order of the Court of Common Council, and would, if
duly acted upon, be productive of highly beneficial re-
sults. The Committee concluded with drawing the
attention of the Court to the following resolution,
agreed to by them on the 29th of March, 1838 :
viz., ' That the Court of Mayor and Aldermen should
be continued as a separate Court, and although for the
future the whole of the City cash should be under the
control, and expended by the authority of the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons in Common Council
assembled, yet the said Court of Mayor and Aldermen
should have a power and control over the City's cash
for all purposes connected with the administration of
justice, police, gaols, and the usual expenses of the con-
servancy of the river Thames.' "
The Report, which was ordered to be printed, and
was signed by the following Members, will be taken into
consideration, it is expected, before the termination of
the present mayoralty.

" JAMES ANDERTON.
" SAMUEL WELLS.
" W. STEVENS.
" JAMES POWELL.
" JAMES I)AVIES.
" W. KNOTT.
" JAMES HOOLE."

THE RED INDIANS AND THE

BUFFALO.

There are several varieties of the wolf species in this
country, the most formidable and most numerous of
which are white, often sneaking about in gangs or
families of fifty or sixty in number, appearing in
distance, on the green prairies, like nothing but a
flock of sheep. Many of these animals grow to a
very great size, being, I should think, quite a match
for the largest Newfoundland dog. At present,
whilst the buffaloes are so abundant, and.these fero-
cious animals are glutted with the buffaloes' flesh,
they are harmless, and everywhere sneak away from
man's presence ; which I scarcely think will be the
case after the buffaloes are all gone, and they are
left, as they must be, with scarcely anything to eat.
They always are seen following about in the vicinity
of herds of buffaloes, and stand ready to pick the bones
of those that the hunters leave on the ground, or to
overtake and devour those that are wounded, which Ell
an easy prey to them. While the herd of buffaloes
are together, they seem to have little dtead of tie
wolf, and allow them to come in close company with
them. The Indian, then, has taken advantage of this
fact, and often places himself under the skin of this
animal, and crawls for a half a mile or more on his
hands and knees, until he approaches within a few rods
of the unsuspecting group, and easily shoots down the
fattest of the throng."
" During the season of the year whilst the calves are
young, the male seems to stroll about by the side of the
dam, as if for the purpose of proteqting the young, at
which time it is exceedingly hazardous to attack
them, as they are sure to turn upon their pur-
suers. The buffalo calf during the first six months
is red, and has so much the appearance of a red calf
in cultivated fields, that it could easily be mangled
and mistaken amongst them. In the fail, when it
change; its hair, it takes a brown coat for the winter,
which it always retains. In pursuing a 1 irge herd of
buffaloes at the season when their calves are but a
few weeks old, I have often been exceedingly amused
with the curious manoeuvres of these shy little things.
Amidst the thundering confusion of a throng of
several hundreds or several thousands of these ani-
mal=, there will be many of the calves that lose sight
of their darns ; and being left behind by the throng,
and the swift passing hunters, they endeavour to se-
crete themselves, when they are exceedingly put to it
on a level prairie, where nought can be sees but the
short grass of six or eight inches in "height, save an oc-
casional bunch of wild sage, a few inches higher, to which
the poor affrighted things will run, and dropping
on their knees, will push their noses under it, and
into the grass, where they will stand for hours,
with their eyes shut, imagining themselves securely
hid, whilst they are. standing up quite straight upon
their hind feet and can easily be seen at several miles
distance. It is a familiar amusement for us accus-
tomed to these scenes, to retreat back over the ground
where we have just escorted the herd, and approach
these little trembling things, which stubbornly main-
tain' their position, with their noses pushed under the
grass, and their eyes strained upon us, as we dismount
from our horses and are passing around them. From
this fixed • position they are sure not to move, until
hands are laid upon them, and then, after a desperate
struggle, for a moment, the little tieing is conquered,
and makes
.no further resistance. I have often, in
concurrence with a known custom of the country,
held my hands over the eyes of the calf, and breathed
a few strong breaths into its nostrils ; ester which
I have, with my hunting companions, rode several
miles into our encampment, with the little prisoner
busily following the heels of my horse the whole way,
as closely and as affectionately as its instinct would
attach it to the company of the dam ! This is one of
the most extraordinary things that I have met with in
the habits of this wild country; and, although I had often
heard of-it, and felt unable exactly to believe it, lam
now willing to bear testimony to the fact, from the nume-
rous instances which I have witnessed since I came into
the country. During the time that I resided at this
post, in the spring of the year, on my way up the river,
I assisted (in numerous hunts of the buffalo, with
the Fur Company's men), in bringing, in the above
manner, several of those little prisoners, which
sometimes followed for five or six miles close to our
horses' heels, and even into. the Fur Company's Fort,
and into the stable were our horses were led."

" It is truly a melancholy contemplation for the tra-
veller in tnis country, to anticipate the period, which is
not far distant, when the last of these noble animals, at
the hands of red and white men, will fall victims to their
cruel and improvident rapacity ; leaving these beautiful
green fields, a vast and idle waste, unstocked and un-
peopled for ages to come, until the bones of the one, and
the traditions of the other will have vanished, and left
scarce an intelligible trace behind. That the reader
should not think me visionary in these contemplations, or
romancing in making such assertions, I will hand him
the following item of the extravagances which ate
practised in these regions, and rapidly leading to the
results which I have named. . . . Only a few days be-
fore I arrived, (when an immense herd of buffaloes had
showed themselves on the opposite side of the river,
almost blackening the plains for a great distance,)
a party of five or six hundred Sioux Indians on
horseback, forded the river about midday, and spend-
ing a few hours amongst them, re-crossed the river at
sun-down and came into the fort with fourtean hundred
fresh] buffalo tongues, which were thrown clown in a
mass, and for which they required but a few gallons of
whiskey, which was soon demolished, indulging them in
a little, and harmless carouse."

" This strip of the country, which extends from
the province of Mexico to lake Winnepeg on the
North, is almost one entire plain of grass, which is,
and ever must be, useless to cultivating man. It is
here, and here chiefly, that the buffaloes dwell ; and
with, and hovering about them, live and flourish the
tribes of Indians whom God made for the enjayment
of that fair land and its luxuries. It is a melancholy
contemplation for one who has travelled as I have,
through these realms, and seen this noble animal in
all its pride and glory, to contemplate it so rapidly
wasting from the world, drawinc, the irresistible con•
elusion too, which one must do, that its species is
soon to be extinguished, and with it the peace and
happiness (if not the actual existence) of the tribes
of Indians, who are joint tenants with them, in the
occupancy of these vast and idle plains.
scenes might easily have been preserved, and stil
could be cherished on the great plains of the West,
without detriment to the country or its borders ; for
the tracts of country on which the buffaloes have
assembled, are uniformly sterile, and of no available
use to cultivating man. It is on these plains, which
are stacked with buffaloes, that the finest specimens
of the Indian race are to be seen. It is here that
the savage is decorated in the richest costume. It is
here, and here only, that his wants are all satisfied,
and even the luxuries of life are afforded him in :limn-
bance. And here also is be the proud and honour-
able man (before he has bad teachers or laws), above
the imported want?, which beget meanness and vice ;
stimulated by ideas of honour and virtue, in which
the God of Nature has certainly not curtailed him.
There are, by fair calculation, more than 300,000 In-
dians, who are now subsisted on the flesh of the buffa-
loes, and by those animals supplied with all the luxuries
of life which they desire as they know of none others.—
Ca tlin's America.

MERTLIYR.—In consequence of what tran-
spired on the inquest here on the bodies of those unfor-
tunate persons who were killed at the late melancholy ac.
cident at Penydarran, it has been suggested that one
school at least should be attached to each of the iron-
works, to teach mechanics, the principles Of the engines,
boilers, &c.. to the workmen engaged in those ingenious,
but often perilous departments. It i 5 truly astonishing
how well the workmen discharge their duties,.when it is
considered how few the advantages they obtain to learn.
the principles of engineering, &c. Since classes have been
Ebrmed for the benefit of engineers on railroads, Alto
should not those employed on the ironworks have equal
advantages ? We know that some of the. iron-toasters are
very anxious to disseminate useful knowledge 'tunOng the
men; and we can pledge our honour thatiet
olbViCertel ittsl
we
their interest to have specific classes fur th
have just alluded to. In most of the. work there are old
agent; fully competent to act as teachers, an
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that
the dyers .are hunting him down with blood-hounds.
They calculate a few, that, in the event of catching hint,
they will only have to souse him in a cistern to tinge
the watern brilliant_ amber. The squatter has hitherto
made himself scarce.