The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-23 00:00:00

LANNT REPORT,'

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 21.

My. SCARLET moved for an information in the
nature of a quo warranto,•to be'd'rected to Mr. S.
Bridges, calling on him to shew by what right he
had usarped the office 'of Mayor of the Borough of
Colchester. That Borough is regulated by two
Charters ; One };ranted in the beginning of the pre--
sent reign, and the other. in that' of one of the
Charle's. ,The Burgesses choose two persons and-
return them to the-Mayor ;lila .":.Idermen, who se-
lect one of the two to fill the ofilee of Mayor for
the following year. By the charters, alt persons
who were common brewers, dr who received any
reward or allowance tram another were prohibited
from voting in any of the acts of the COrnoration.
At the last election for Mayor there were three
candidates, Mr. SMith, Mr. Sparling, and Mr.
Bridges ; -and on a-shew of bands, the- nomina-
tion fell on Mr. Smith and Mr. Sparling ; but a
'poll biting demanded by Mr. Bridges, and having
gone on for some time, the, Mayor asked.Mr.'Spar-
ling whether he had -qualified himself for the
office by taking tbe sacrament within the last
year. Being answered in the negative, he -then
informed the Burgesses that the votes of ail those
who had polled for Mr. Sparling must be thrown
away without giving theat an opportunity to set
up' and poll for ally other persons than the candi-
dates before nathecL At the close of the poll, the
Mayor, haying declared' Mr. Snarling ineligible,
returned Mr. Smith and Mr. 'Bridges,' though Mr.
Spading had a considerable majority over the lat-
ter, and the election fell on Mr. Bridges. There
was also anocher objection to Air. Bridge's elec-
tion,--one of the aldermen who
,bad voted for bitit
was a common brewer,- and another received a sa-
lary from the distributor stamps.—Rule to shew

cause- granteii

EDINBURGH, Nov. 17.

The Court of Session met on Thursday last-for
the despatch of business: All the Judges were in
Court, except Lords Craig, Armadale, and Ito-
ber4on. The outer-house has undergone some
material alteration. The old window at the south
end has been removed, and an enlarged Venetian
window substituted in its place, which throws great
additional light on this elegant hall. A niche has
been formed behind the Lord Ordinary's chair, at
the north end of the outer-house, which, we tm-

derstand., is -intended " for a statue of 'the late
Lord Melville. The statutes-of Presidents 'orbes
and Blair (when the latter is' finished) arc to he
placed in the nich►s, behind the chairs of the Lords
President of each division. -

Tuesd4,-- the Synod of _Lothian and Tweeddart...
met ih the High Church here, when a sermon was
preached :before them by the Reverend Mr. Pyper,
Minister of Pe:ncaitiand, Moderator of last Synod.
After Divine .ScrVice, the Ministers'adifourned to
the aisle, when- they made choice of the Re-
verend Walter F. Ireland, one of the Ministers
df North Leith, to be Moderator for the ensuing
half year. - •

The meeting of the Clergy of the county of
Leicester, convened by the Rev. the Archdeacon,
took place pn Wednesday, for the purpose of pe—
titioning Parliament against the Catholic claims.
The attendance was numerous. The business of
the meeting was opened by the Archdeacon, and
a Petition to both houses 'of ParliaMent unani-

ntously agreed upon, expressive of their opinion
that further concessions could not be granted to

the Catholics, consistently win the security of
the spiritual and temporal establishments in these
.realn►s : that to the House of Commons to be
presented by the Members for the County—that
to the House of Lords, by the Bishop of the Dio-
cese.—There w%tre no speeches of any importance,
though many were expected. Several Petition►s
were framed, and one even engrossed;-rand be-
tween the several candidates some entertainment
was expected ; but the Archdeacon unexpectedly
produced the sketch of a Petition, which was
-very much admired, as being mild, yet mahly—
moderate, yet conclusive,--and the rest were never
inquired after or further thought of.

THE BULL-RUNNING.--It will be !gratifying to
many " town-born" readers of our Paper, who
are at prekteut removed from the scenes of their
boyish days, to hear that the Bull-running day
here, last Saturday, yielded extraordinary sport,
and that the bull was the best that has been sup-
plied for this carnival these many years. He stood
nobly on the defensive until late in the afternoon,
and would suffer no indignities with impunity.—
At one time, tvhilst in a,paddock in Scotgate, t>vo
of his tormentors happening to disagree, stripped
for a pugilistic encounter, and were dividim4,' the
attention of the mob at some little distance, when
the indignant bull ran furiously amongst the as-
sembly, selected one of:the combatants', threw
him into the air, and then received him on his de-'
scent at full length on his back, to the extreme
admiration of the fugitive crowd. _Numbers of
persons were tossed in the course of the day; and
and a boy .of Scot ate, namnci `tars, was dange-
rously gored.—On account of the sport aftbrded,
the bull was given up in the evening to the butch-
ers, by whom he Was found, and not slaughtered
and divided by the mob, as of late years.,--To such
of our " unknowing" readers as may (rather na-
oturally) turn up their hands and eyes at this re-
cital, it will be necessary to say; that the butch-
ers of Stamford hold, for their mutual use a valu

able piece of meadow land, on the condition Of.
ii;uling a bull yearly on the 13th of November, to
be run or baited by. the inhabitants. The prac-
tice is. extremely ancient here, and the.day
is ob-
served by the suspension of all ". other business,"
as the bull ranges up and down the whole town.—
Attempts have been made to prevent this extraor-
dinary interruption of order, bat unsuccessfully ; •
ancLit is now connived -at, as one of thaseevils
that increases from an effort to smother it and
as not being likely to infect other towns by ex-
ample l Persons.,of re,pectability follow the hull •
at Stamford, who would be affronted with the im-
putation of doing any thing else on a parity with
such a.proceeding. Such is the influence of early
habit I—(Lincoln, Sfc:- Mercury.)

Am; Ottbl:shed by WILLIAM ARNIIGER SCRIPPS, -
r the Paper, Letters for the Editor, &e. (post pzt 1),