The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-28 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.
Yesterday a court was held for the dispatch of business.
TUE PRIVILEGES OF TAE TWO COURTS.
Alderman WILSON sold the Court was aware that
copies of the report of the committee of the Court of
Common Council, and the draft cf a Bill in reference
to certain standing orders of the Court of Mayor, Alder-
men, and Commons in Common Council assembled, had
been transmitted to its members. The report stated that
it was referred to prepare a Bill to insure the due obser-
vance of the standing orders with respect to the Court
of Aldermen drawing upon the Chamber for the pay-
ment of pensions and otherwise, and certified that the
solicitor had laid before them the* draft of such Bill,
which was approved of by the Court of Common Coun-
cil. The Bill went to prevent the Chamberlain from
paying any sum above 1001. drawn by the Court of Alder-
men without the previous consent of the Court of Com-
mon Council. Its clauses stated that, after the passing
of the Act, it would not be lawful for any court, or any
individual, or any committee, to undertake any extra-
ordinary work which may incur expense, &c., until the
expense shall have been first submitted to the Coal, Corn,
and Finance Committee; that no court, individual, or
committee, shall disburse any sum exceeding 1001. out of
the Chamber of London until the Court of Common Coun-
cil shall have been first consulted and their assent given;
and that the Chamberlain shall not pay any warrant for
any sum exceeding 1001. without such consent. He did not
believe that such a Bill would be at all agreed to by the
Court of Common Council, for it was illegal, and in
direct opposition to a report agreed to some time ago,
which certified that the Court of Aldermen had been
always in the habit of drawing large sums of money for
the disbursement of certain expenses necessarily in-
curred.—(Hear, hear.) Now, if the Chamberlain re-
fused to pay the amount of contracts entered into by the
Court of Aldermen, the law-suits which must inevitably
arise would inflict a most exorbitant expense upon the
City. What, too, would be the result of refusing to dis-
charge the expenses incurred by the trials at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court—expenses invariably ordered by
the Court of Aldermen to be defrayed by the Chamber-
lain ? The inconvenience and embarrassment which
would attend any hesitation upon the subject would be
felt grievously by the public.—(Hear.) In proposing a
resolution upon the subject, he did not by any means
wish it to be thought that he meant the least slight or
disrespect to the other Court. His object was to secure
both Courts from the chance of disagreement in conse-
quence of mistake or misapprehension, such as had
occurred upon a former occasion.—(Hear, hear.) Alder-
man Wilson then moved the following resolution:—
" That this Court having considered the draft of the
Bill, entitled ' A Bill for giving effect to certain Stand-
ing Orders of the Court of Mayor, Alderman, and
Commons, in Common Council assembled,' accompany-
ing a report of the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee,
presented to the Court of Common Council on the 15th
day of July, and ordered to be printed and a copy sent
to every member,—resolved, that it does appear to this
Court, that the said Bill is an unlawful Bill, and if
passed into a law would most injuriously interfere with
the rights and privileges of this Court."

Alderman H. HUGHES seconded the resolution, as
giving an intimation to the other Court that such a
course as that recommended was fraught with evil, ille-
gal, and calculated to produce inconveniences of every
kind.—(Hear, hear.) It was monstrous to suppose that
magistrates should have no control beyond the extent of
1001. in matters on which they could alone exercise au-
thority, without the interference of other parties, and
it was with regret he saw that any body of his fellow-
citizens assumed, or pretended to assume, that they
could act on occasions of the kind. He was wholly at a
loss to suppose how such a thing could have entered into
the imagination of anybody. He believed that the step
proposed by Alderman Wilson would put an end to such
an erroneous estimate of the power of those who had no
sort of right to interfere. At all events, the Court of
Alderman would show, if the measure were persevered
in, that they would not give the slightest degree of
sanction to it.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir P. LAURIE was of opinion that it would have been
much more dignified in those who objected to the report
and the Bill to have attended the Court of Common
Council, and to have there stated their objections. They
had all a right to sit in the Court of Common Council,
and if they did not think proper to join in the discussions
there, of w hat value or use were their seats?—(Hear.) He
sincerely wished that his brethren, instead of uttering
their condemnation in their own Court, had taken the
trouble to answer the arguments in favour of the report
in the Court in which that Bill originated. For his part,
he would, on the day appointed for the first reading of
the Bill, attend in his place and deliver his opinion with-
out disguise or circumlocution.
Alderman H. HUGHES said, the Court of Aldermen
was the proper arena of the Aldermen, who were sworn
to the proper performance of their duties; and surely
the protection of their privileges was one of those duties.
Alderman Wnsow said, he would have gladly attended
if he had known the day appointed for the consideration
of the report. He should most certainly attend if the
Bill should be brought up to be read, and state his
objections to it.
Alderman CHALLIS approved of the manner in which
Alderman Wilson had brought forward the subject, and
said that if such a tone wero generally adopted in the
allusions to the acts of the other Court there would be
but very inconsiderable divisions between the branches
of the Corporation. He thought the observations of Sir
P. Laurie were out of place. It surely was the duty of
the Court to notice within its own precincts the attacks
made or meditated against its own privileges.—(Hear.)
The RECORDER (having been called upon) said there
was no doubt as to the illegality of the clauses to which
Alderman Wilson had alluded.—(Hear, hear.) There
was a standing order of the Court of Common Council
that, in all cases relating to City affairs, where it might
be necessary to take the opinion of counsel, the Re-
corder and Common Sergeant should be advised with.
Now, there could be no question as to the necessity of
taking the opinion of counsel previously to the adoption
of such a Bill, and he and the Common Sergeant would,
if they had been consulted, have declared that the words
were entirely illegal, and that anybody yielding obe-
dience to the directions contained in them would be

liable to an indictment.—(Hear, hear.) If the Chamber.
lain refused to pay an order of the magistrates for the
various expenses of the Central Criminal Court, that
officer would certainly be indictable. The resolution
proposed by Alderman Wilson was the most respectful
mode of intimating to the other Court the opinion en-
tertained by the Court of Aldermen of the clauses of
the Bill, which every one who knew anything at all of
the Corporation of London must know were illegal.
Sir P. LAURlE—Suppose the people had greater con-
fidence in other lawyers than in their own, and, unlike
the Medes and Persians, had an idea of the fallibility of
their own authorities ; were they obliged to ask advice
of which they thought but little ?
The RECORDER—It does not appear that any
.lawyer
has been consulted in this matter at all. There is not a
man in Westminster-hall who knows anything at all of
the City that would not at once admit the illegality of
the clauses.
The resolution was then agreed to.
NEWGATE MARKET NUISANCE.

Mr. MORGAN, the foreman of the inquest of Farring-
don Within ward, appeared with a presentment of a
most intolerable nuisance, arising from the slaughter of
cattle in Warwick-lane, Newgate-street. The document
argued powerfully in favour of sanitary reform. It was
signed by a great number of the inhabitants of the
neighbourhood, and stated that the jury had been con-
stautly presenting the abomination since the year 1844;
that the animals were frequently. stowed away in a
cellar, where 20, 30, and 40 remained together in the
most sultry weather; that the blood and filth in the
cellar reached the knees of those who visited it, and that
increase instead of diminution took place daily in it,
notwithstanding all that had been said and written upon
the subject.
The members of the Court were unanimous in ex-
pressing the opinion that the nuisance should be in-
stantly abated, and the matter was referred to the
Alderman of the ward to be carried into execution, with
the assistance of the City Solicitor.—Adjourned.

HER MAJETYS THEATRE.—Th
Fortescue and
last evening occupied by the Countesse_Dowager by Lady
party; that of her Majesty the_Qu Quemoy ~
The Queen's box was
d Mr. Stewart
Wharncliffe, Mr. Erskine, 1
the Duke of Wellington, t
Wortley Mackenzie and party-.riiseTehLeroeuiswiveraepporleeosnen, t--his
Rose Somerset,
Mademoiselle
Marquis of Donegal, the Baron
Marquis of Huntley, the
Excellency the Duke de Bo;l:er,.the Duke of Leeds, the
Baron Nicolay, the Count
Earl of Munster, the Viscountess
and Baroness de Niheeum
Canonut7ddl'elißssaßrkces,
and the Hon. Miss Irvine, the Prince
Dungannon,
Baron de Krudener, the Count de Bevel,
Troubetakoi,.
Oigar de Lechner, the a
Count Demitri Apraxin, M. C. de Roudriaffsky, Lady
Georgians Codrington, Lord Ward, Lady Willoughby
D'Eresby, Lady Tyrr whit, Lady Lawley, the Count de
Berne, M. Cotta, Captain Soloozon, Sir George Womb-
well, Sir Thomas Gage, the Hon. Mrs. Gage, Major
Gage, Mr. Erskine, Mr. Lloyd, General the Hon. A. P
Upton, Colonel Nleyrick, and Major Buckley.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.-011
Tuesday evening, among the visitors present were, the
Duke and Duchess de Palmella and the Marquis de
Souza, Prince and Princess Tchernicheff and the Count
Kadrouffsky, Prince Louis Napoleon, Count and
Countess de Jarnac, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland,
the Duchess Dowager of Bedford, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Westminster, the Marquis of Westmeath, the
Miss
Mar-
quis
Glengall, the
Young, the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clenmdentina
Villiers, Countess Paulett, the Countess of
e
Earl of Car-
Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Munster, th
Viscountess Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount
sand_
Count Ange do Guer-
digan, the Earl of Lichfield, Earl Bruce, Earl Compton,
Castle-
reagh, Count Louis de Nol
onntgeDupplill, Viscount Ossul-
countess Newport,
rp Viscount
Viscount Chelsea and the
nezac, Count de Bathe, V illocentess Glentworth, Vis-
ston, Viscount Temple
town,
Cadogan,
Lord' Id Lady Fitzroy Somerset and
Lady Augusta Baring, Lord Vivian,
and Lady Sondes,
the Misses Somerset, Lord and Lady Carrington, Lord
Augusta P It Lady Sffild
Lady Blanche Somerset, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lady
Lord Forester, Lady ow e t, u e ,
Bruce,krand;stLord William Graham, Baron do Guer-
neser, Hon. V. L. Bathurst, Hon. Miss Foley, Hon. F.
Byng, llon. Mr. Upton, Hon. A. Ramsay, Sir John H.
Lowther, M.P., General Sir Andrew F. Barnard, Major-
General Campbell, Sir William de Bathe, Sir Charles
Kent, Sir Alexander and Lady Spearman, Sir Jasper
and Lady Atkinson, Sir Charles Marshall, Lady Scott
and Mr. Claude E. Scott, Sir Henry Webb, Mr. C. P.
Leslie, M.P., Mr. Charles Hindley, M.P., Sir John
Strachan, Sir Michael Shaw Stuart, Mr. E. Davis Pro-.
theroe, M.P.

DEATH OF TUE HON. AND REV. G. SPENCER.--We
regret to learn that accounts have been received of Mr.
Spencer's death, from fever, caught in the discharge of
his duties as a priest. The deceased was brother to the
present as well as to the late Earl Spencer and was in his
forty•eighth year.