The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

ELECTION OF MR. SALOMONS

AS ALDERMAN.

CORDWAINERS' WARD.—Yesterday afternoon a
wardmote was held in the vestry of the church of St.
Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, for the election of an alder-
man for the ward of Cord vvainers', in the room of
Mr. Thomas Wood, resigned. The Lord Mayor
presided, attended by Mr. Charles Pearson, Al-Pe
City Solicitor in waiting, as assessor for the occasion.
There were present Mr. Alderman Sidney, Mr. H.
L. Jones, Mr. David Wire, and' several other well-
known City faces. Deputy' Muddell and the Com-
mon Councilmen of the ward wire also in their
places. The Baron Lionel de R thschild.
M.P., was
expected to attend, and, indeed, during one part of
the proceedings was sent for, but business was un-
derstood to prevent him making his appearance. the
precept having been read, and the usual formalities
gone through,
Mr. WesimaN nominated Mr. David Salomons as
.1 fit and proper person to fill the office of Alderman
of the ward. There was, he said, only one objection
ever urged to Mr. Salomons, and that objection was
his difference of faith. But in these days differences
of faith must merge in geLeral questions of fitness,
and if a man's talents and integrity qualified him for
a post, they ought to consider it a privilege to elect
him without considering the differences of faith.
The gentleman he proposed had been tried in various
public stations, and found to be an active, benevolent,
talented, and liberal-minded man. He had, although
a Jew, given an endowment for a scholarship of the
value of 501. a year to the City of London School.—
(Hear, hear.) He had been sheriff of this city and
of another county. He was magistrate of two
counties, and had proved himself valuable on the
bench in both. The loss they had sustained in the
business habits of Mr. Alderman Wood could not be
better snpplied than by Mr. Salomons, and he begged
accordingly to propose him for election.
Mr. LOTT, a solicitor in the ward, seconded the
nomination. Before the question was put,
Mr. AUGER, an inhabitant,
.rose to call attention to
an article which had appeared in a public journal re-
lative to the constituency of this ward. The matter
was of some consequence, and he believed there had
been a mistake. He believed the constituency con-
sisted of 320, nearly double the number mentioned.
An INHABITANT, whose name we could not learn,
said Mr. Ainger laboured under a mistake. He hap-
pened to know that, though there were 320 house-
holders or more, there were only 125 individually
entitled to exercise the franchise. The existing
arrangements, as had been justly said, were matters
of great abuse. He himself had opened a tavern in
the ward, and within a fortnight after he had opened
it he was called upon to take up his civic freedom,
although within a door or two of him were rich mer-
chants doing thousands of pounds' worth of business a
day, who were never required to do anything of the
sort. He felt the present system to be a wrong one,
and a persecution upon the small dealer.
Mr. CLARK, an inhabitant, said that with regard to
the nomination before them, he must oppose Mr.
Salomons on religious grounds ; he was a Christian,
and he did not think his interests ought to be com,
mitted to a Jew.

The LORD MAYOR called for the show of hands,
which was taken and exhibited-49 for Mr. David
Salomons and three against him. His Lordship
thereupon declared Mr. Salomons to be duly elected.
Alderman SALOMONS then came forward to return
thanks. After expressing his deep sense of the high
honour conferred upon him, he said that on the one
point that had been urged against him he wished to
he unreserved and explicit. It was his hope and be-
lief that his conduct as a magistrate of this great city
would carry conviction to the minds of all that the
duties of a public officer might be discharged faith-
fully and ably without regard to religious differences.
On matters of religion, he, for his part, felt that he
was accountable to his God; on matters of duty he
was accountable to those who honoured him with
their confidence. It was his boast to act on this

principle, that there;vs;;;;-o -religious liberty without
civil freedom ; and that the converse held good, that
there was no civil freedom without religious liberty.
With respect to what had been said about the con-
stituency, he believed it to be true that there were
but 125 qualified voters in the ward; but of these he
had promises from 80, and if there had been 250,
qualified voters, he felt assured that he should have
had the support of the 200.—(Hear, hear.) He
concluded by returning them his most heartfelt
thanks.

Mr. CARLISLE, an old and respectable inhabitant,
proposed a rote of thanks to their late Alderman,
Mr. Thomas Wood, for the great anxiety he had
always displayed to promote the interests of the
ward. The motion was seconded and- carried unani-
mously, one gentleman expressing great regret that
the Court of Alderman had done Mr. Wood the
great wrong of refusing to elect him to the civic
chair.

Alderman SALOMONS then proposed, and Mr. De-
puty MUDDELL Seconded, a vote of thanks to the
Lord Mayor; and a vote of thanks having also been
passed amid acclamation to Mr. J. J. Millard, who
had very ably performed the office of ward clerk for
the day, the wardmote was dissolved by proclamation.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLECHASE (ACCEPT OR NOT).
8 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's The Switcher—taken
8 to 1 agst Captain Little's Chandler—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Bretherton's Glaucus gelding
10 to 1 agst Mr. Moseley's Jerry
10 to 1 agst Mr. 13evill's Latitat
10 to 1 agst Mr. Moseley's Richard the First
10 to 1 agst Mr, Brettel's The Curate
15 to 1 agf4 Lord Strathmore's St. Leger—taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. Tilbury's Chronometer
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Surplice—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Rosslyn.
CHE.
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. PedST
leyE'sß CCP
Cossack
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Joe o'Sot
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Drink*ld's Mathematician
1,000 to 15 agst Major Pitt's Clarendon
1,000 to 15 agst Capt. Pettat's Newcourt
1,000 to 15 agst Capt. Kennedy's Sir Tatton Sykes
All the above bets were afterwards offered.
The betting was chiefly on the Steeplechase, for which
the two favourites, Richard the First, and St. Leger, were
backed with much spirit.

NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING IsIEET—
ING.—SATURDAY (CONCLUDED).
The Chippenham Stakes were won by Mr. Parkinson's
Smuggler Bill; Mr. Fyson's Fatima ran up.
his Cactus p pan Stakes were won by Mr. Miller's Cineraria;
up.
The Exning Stakes were won by Mr. Arabin's Agri-
cola; Mr. Inskip's Pickwick ran up.
The Bottisham Stakes were won by Mr. Inskip's
Isabel; Lord Stradbroke
The Cleveley Stakes were won by Mr. Villebois's
Dreadnought;
Mr. Bachelor's Moss Rose ran up.
ed Stakes were won by Mr. Miller's Fire-
office; Dobede's Daisy ran up.
The
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RUSSIA..—SENTENCES ON TIM Pousli CONSPIEA•
TORS.—The tribunal of Berlin
has
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judgment on the Poles, connected with th
beheaded ase lateinsur-
rection, when eight were condemned to
of imprisonment
principals, and three, also as princi 1
Pa.s, to loss of title,
confiscation of property, and twenty-fi,,e years' impri-
sonment in a fortress. Among the accomplices thirty-
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fortress,
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others to lesser punishments.
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAT.—A corre-
spondent, whose letter is dated Friday, bays
:....u
Mat-
ters seem progressing from bad to worse on this railway.
I left Glasgow last night at ten by the mail train, aid.
arrived in safety at the Mound ; but whilst proceeding
from thence to the North-bridge station, the train came
in contact wirh something or other with a terrific crash.
The passengers in the same compartment with
myself
were a lady and two gentlemen. The lady had her
back severely bruised ; one gentleman had his head and
face severely cut ; and the other and myself
exP .
rienced a severe shock and stroke on the shins e
Scotsman. .
ROYAL MILITARY' ACADEMY.—Forty gentlemen
cadets, at present in the practical class, studying at the
Royal Arsenal, are to be examined as to their profi-
ciency on the 16th of this month, and on passing__
will be
appointed to commissions in the Royal Artillery and
Royal Engineers, and 31 young gentlemen have passed
their preparatory examination, and been found qualified
to he admitted as gentlemen- 'cadets, and will join at the
Royal Military Academy in January next, on its re-
opening after the Christmas vacation. The names of
the latter are as follow :—J. M. C. Drake, G. F. Tor-
riano, G. Phillips, C. E. Harvey, C. N. Martin, G. J.
Shakerley, W. Carey, H. R. Martin, F. G. Ravenhill, T.
Clubley, R. 11. Newbolt, W. N. Eden, A. Waishern, J.
Hanwell, E. P. Gordon, S. T. Brown, T. W. Blakiston,
G. S. Harward, W. F. Moore, J. M. C. Vivart, F. H. J.
Day, T. K. Adams, H. Thornhill, C. C. Boycott, H. w.
G. Leonard, T. L. Stil, F. S. Maude, Lord F. G. L.
Gower, T. J. Dehane, A. T. 11. Stevens, F. Temple.
THE SEE OF HEREFORD.—We have authority for
stating unequivocally that Dr. Hampden has been ap-
pointed the successor to the respccted Dr. Musgrave in
this diocese. We make this statement in consequence
of rumours to the effect that the appointment had not
been finally made by the Government. Whatever may
be our individual predilections, we most unreservedly
acknowledge that the Government, in this appointment,
appears to us to have selected an eminent divine, a pro-
found scholar, and a most exemplary clergyman.—
Hereford Times.