The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 18io

ELECTIDN OF LORD MAYOR.
(YESTERDAY.)

The following was the result at the close of the day's
proceedings :
AT THREE O'CLOCK.
Alderman Harmer ..... 1,147
Alderman Pirie 1,261
Alderman Johnson
113

Majority for Pirie -
Majority for Johnson lO2
The announcement was received with cheers by the
friends of Pirie and Johnson, which were speedily
drowned by the bursts of execration from the body of
the hall.

Mr. Alderman HARMER then stood forward to ad-
dress the Hall, and was received with loud cheers. He
was not discouraged at the slight majority which ap-
peared against him on the day's poll, and be trusted
they would not be so either.—(Loud cheers.) Indeed,
considering the means which had been resorted to
by his opponents, he thought the prospect anything
but discouraging.—(Loud cheers.) His opponents had
concocted a document in secret, had not dared to lay
it before the public, until they had carried it round pri-
vately, and procured the signatures of persons who had
signed it and decided before they were aware of what
they were about.—(Cries of " Shame, shame and
groans." Mr. Meek here stepped forward, and denied
the Alderman's assertion.)
Mr. Alderman HARMER—I can prove it.—(Loud
cheers.)
Mr. MEEK—Name, name.
Mr. Alderman HARMER would at once give the
name. The document bad been taken about privately
on Saturday, by Mr. Baldwin, of the Standard. In-
duced by bis representations, Mr. Maule had signed it,
and had since, on ascertaining the true state of the
case, struck out his name.—(Loud cheers.) Many of
those who had, by these pretences, been induced
to sign it had been since dragged up to the poll to vote
against him. They had told him so.—(Loud cries of
" Shame, shame.") His opponents had made a grand
push that day, and the result of all their exertions was
the ♦ery trifling majority which appeared. He had
been told that if he dared to show his face on the
hustings he would be driven from them with execration
—yet here he was—(Loud cheering)—and at the end of
the poll:he did not doubt to see his name at the
head of it.—(lmmense cheering, and cries of " You
shall, you shall.")
Mr. HEALY then stood forward to address the Hall
on behalf of Aldermen Johnson and Pirie, but the
hooting, hissing, yelling, and cries of " Off, off," were
so incessant, that although we were standing close
to the hustings, we could not catch a word of what he
said. He soon withdrew, and shortly after the meet-
ing dispersed.

It is rather remarkable in this contest, in which every
thing like political feeling is expressly disclaimed by the
opponents of Mr. Alderman Harmer, that the persons
actively engaged in superintending the polling on behalf
of Messrs. Johnson and Pirie, in returning thanks to
their supporters, should be tht cads of the Conservative
Club, the wholesale servers of notices of objection
against the Liberal electors—men whose place of abode
for the last fortnight might with propriety be described
as the witness-box in the Revising Barristers' Court.

Another important fact has just been discovered.
The person who was set to watch the signatures to the
celebrated " declaration" was on the hustings yesterday,
and was seen to communicate to a bye-stander (doubt-
less one of the opposition Committee) the circumstance
of whether the party hail signed or not. The num•
ber to which the words, "He has signed," were ap•
plied, ran from 850 to 900—consequently there cannot
be more than about 230 or 250 of the " Declarators
" unpolled, and there is no second declaration to resort
to when the first is exhausted.

SFIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)

,
It is worthy of remark that, amidst the almost un-
precedented number of letters which have appeared
in the public journals on this extraordinary publi-
cation, not one attempt has been made—with the
exception of the correction of an immaterial
word—to contravene the statements of Captain
Reynolds as to the treatment he received from
his commanding officer, nor to justify or extenuate
that treatment. Lord Cardigan has been arraigned
at the bar of public opinion—accused, in the face
of the united service, of conduct which, it would
seem, could only have been perpetrated by a com-
pound of the bully and the martinet ; and, as if to
mark the odium which officers of every rank have
formed of that conduct, not one has ventured to enter
the Hats of public controversy in his defence. With
an unanimity unexampled in the history of public
questions, public sympathy has been exclusively
directed towards the party who has brought the
Noble Lord before the public : no one has ventured
to interpose and endeavour to turn aside the tide of
repreacb, which has continued to- florr vettr-ttnabeted
force since the triend of Captain Reynolds laid
the narrative of his wrongs before the public.
The course taken by Lord Hill appears to have ex-
cited an astonishment as universal as the reprobation
which has fallen on Lord Cardigan. Captain Reynolds
in applying for a court-martial, after having been placed
under arrest by order of his commanding officer, only
exercised the right which the constitution confers on
every Englishman, to claim an investigation before a
competent tribunal, of any charge which has been pre-
ferred against him, and especially when the charge has
been accompanied by the implication of personal or
professional character, yet more so if accompanied, as
in his case, by the deprivation of personal liberty.
Lord Hill's reason for refusing to grant Captain Rey
nolds's application for a full investigation, was as ex-
traordinary as the refusal itself ; and will lead to-no
very favourable inference as to the terms on which the
entire officers of the 11th Hussars are found in relation
to their commanding officer.
(From the Courier.)
_ . . . . ..

A sense of what was due to justice and " fair play"
has hitherto prevented us from commenting on the un-
seemly disputes that have arisen between the Earl of
Cardigan and those officers under his command ; we
were, moreover, aware that the cause of one was under
investigation before the proper tribunal, and that the
other had been finally disposed of by the authorities
at the Horse-guards. It is painful to every well-
regulated mind to witness disunion and recrimination,
from whatever cause, where harmony and mutual
re-
spect should prevail ; and no less painful is it to oh-
! serve the eagerness manifested in certain quarters to
anticipate, if not prejudice, the decision of the tribunal
to which the case has been referred by continual
and well-aimed attacks on one of the parties in this
" untoward " affair. The impartiality of the tri-
bunal has even been brought into question, and sus-
picions of its being unfairly constituted have been thrown
out. Now against all these attacks and insinuations, we
must enter our solemn protest, as being calculated to in-
flict greater injustice on ttie Noble Earl, against whom
they are so pointedly directed, than that which either
of the gentlemen implicated complains to have suffered
at his hands. As we would be ready to express our cen-
sure of any unfairness on the part of Lord Cardigan to-
' wards his subordinates, so we must condemn the incessant
and unjustifiable attacks made on his character pending
' the trial, and consequently before the public were in pos-
session of all the facts of the case. Nothing should be
more carefully guarded against than the prejudice likely
' to arise from " ex parte" statements. A trifling omis-
sion may considerably qualify, if not change altogether
the complexion of a case. It is co ,trary to all the
principles of fair dealing, for their love of which Eng-
lishmen are justly distinguished, to form a judgment,
much less to pronounce one, before both parties have
been fully heard ; and where etiquette and duty, as
in the case of Lord Cardigan, combine to impose
silence, and prevent one party from being heard,
it is nothing short of rank injustice to draw infe-
rences unfavourable to the party who labours under
the disadvantage—a charge to which we fear more
than one of our Contemporaries have laid themselves
open, by an indiscriminate admission into their columns
of communications tending to lower the Earl of Cardi-
gan in public estimation. Nor has Lord Hill fared
much better ; for he has been assailed with every de-
scription of calumny. Weakness, partiality, and a
slavish regard for rank have been imputed to him ;
motives even of corruption have been darkly insinuated
against him, and all on the strength of the one-sided
statement contained in the letters published by the
friends of Capt iin Reynolds. If the high and unsullied
character of the Noble Commander-in-Chief be not
sufficient to shield him against such imputations, who is
there that can consider himself safe, however spotless his
character or upright his conduct may be ?
(From the Standard.)
The Constitutionnel, in discussing the probability of
a Russian fleet quitting the Baltic for the Mediterra-
nean, asks why the Russian fleet in the Black Sea
should not be allowed to pass the Bosphorus and the
Dardanelles. There is no such thing as pleasing
a French journalist. Overlooking the great jealousy
which has hitherto existed of the approximation
of a Russian fleet to Constantinople, the Con-
stitutionnel declares that if the Russians enter
the Mediterranean, a fresh cause will have arisen
why France should increase her vigilance, and hold
herself ready for all " eventualities." If, however,
a Russian fleet does enter the Mediterranean, France
stands indebted for it wholly and solely to her
loud and angry breg,gadocia, and her recent enor-
mous but idle preparations. France arms herself
cap-a-pie, and assumes, with loud and frantic gesticu-
lations of anger, a posture of defiance to her neigh-
bours, and then pretends to feel aggrieved that they
should make any arrangement calculated to render her
noisy and vaunting insolence as useless as it is con
temptible. But her journalists have shifted the pretext
for her menaces so many times that there seems now
hut little real ground of apprehension. A letter horn
Malta is the CIIIIIMCICd contiraid our bullet that the

recent proposals of the Viceroy bad no other aim than
to gain time. His object is to stave off any substantial
act of coercion on the part of the Allied Powers until
the arrival of the bad weather. The British Admiral,
however, proposes, if cot restrained by contradictory
orders from home, to settle the question finally in the
course of the ensuing month.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday, for the
purpose of receiving the return of the Sheriffs relative
to the Mayoralty, and the transaction of other busi-
ness. With the former the demand of the poll inter-
fered ; and while the Livery were engaged, the Court
proceeded to the consideration of Reports, &c.

SUNDAY TRADING ON THE THAMES.
The LORD MAYOR presented to the Court the fol-
lowing letter, which his Lordship said he had received
from the Bishop of London :
" Fulham, 18th August, 1840.

"My dear Lord,—l have the honour to transmit to
your Lordship a memorial, signed by the Clergy of all
the parishes which lie upon the river Thames, between
London and Staines, praying your Lordship and the
Court of Aldermen to take into your serious considera-
tion the evils which result from the great interruption
occasioned to the due observance of the Lord's day,
and consequently to the ministerial duties of the
Clergy, by the present state of the navigation of the
of the river. 1 beg to state that I entirely con-
cur with the Clergy, in the wish which their memo-
rial expresses, and to recommend it to the attention of
your Lordship and the Court of Aldermen.
" I have the honour to be, my dear Lord, your
Lordship's most obedient faithful servant,
" C. J. LONDON,
" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor," &c.
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Court of
Aldermen, and Council assembled.

" We, the undersigned Clergymen, whose parishes are
on the banks and in the immediate vicinity of the river
Thames, below Staines and the metropolis, and within
the jurisdiction of the City of London, impressed with
the obligation which lies upon us as ministers of the
Gospel to promote amongst all classes of our parishioners
the due observance of the Sabbath, beg earnestly to re-
present to your Honourable Court the serious interrup-
tion which we meet with in the discharge of our duty
from the great nuisance of Sunday navigation. The men
and horses employed to tow the barges up and down
the river, and the persons in charge of the various locks
are kept occupied, with little intermission, from morning
till night, and thus the men are deprived of rest, and pre-
cluded from attending Divine Worship, while at the
same time the constant passage of themselves and their
horses along the banks of the river has the effect of at-
tracting the attention of other inhabitants of our
several parishes, from their religious duties, and of dis-
turbing the sacred repose of the Lord's Day.
" Deploring the painful consequences resulting from
this state of things, and feeling thankful for the import-
ant benefit which has accrued from the suppression of
Sunday fishing in the river during the past year, we

are encouraged to hope that your Honourable Court
will take these distressing circumstances into your se-
rious consideration, and devise such means to remedy
the evil of which we complain as your wisdom and
sense of Christian duty may suggest.
" We have the honour to be your obedient and faith-
ful servants."

(The signatures of 53 Clergymen were appended to
this memorial.)
The LORD Mayor stated, that havinr, referred the
memorial to the water-bailiff, he received the following
report from that officer on the subject :
" My Lord,—ln reference to the memorial which has
been forwarded to you by the Lord Bishop of London,
from numerous Clergymen, whose parishes are on the
banks, and in the immediate vicinity, of the river
Thames and the metropolis, I beg to remind your Lord-
ship that the Corporation of London receive the tolls
merely as trustees on behalf of numerous landholders,
to whom a debt of 150,0001. is owing. The trade of
the river is exposed at this time peculiarly to competi-
tion by railroads and otherwise. The object sought by
the memorial, namely, the prevention of Sunday trading
on the river would, I fear, only divert the trade into
new channels, to the serious injury of the bondholders,
without diminishing the actual amount of Sunday trail•
ing, unless the Legislature deems it expedient also to
put a stop to all carrying on that day.
" I am, my Lord,
" Your; Lordship's faithful servant,
" NATL. SAUNDERS.

" Mansion House, Sept. 8,1840."
Alderman COPELAND said that it would be extremely
desirable to accomplish, if possible, the object of the
memorialists. He did not know why it should be con-
sidered impracticable. In the country, the trading by
canals was stopped during divine service, by the regu-
lations for keeping the several locks closed, and he
thought some means might be adopted to check or limit
the practice on the Thames, in accordance with the
views of such a body as had so strongly and unanimous-
ly expressed their feelings as to the necessity of prevent-
ing the desecration.
Alderman BROWN also thought that the subject was

worthy of the most attentive consideration of the Court.
Alderman LUCAS apprehended that the Court could
not interfere. Any check given to the transit of barges
in the river might he attended with very great inconve-
nience and loss. In consequence of the shoals and other
impediments to the navigation of the river the barges
were frequently obliged to make in their course for par-
ticular places, in which they could safely and properly
title should ,o in HU al w ststa-aa to al-

low them to proceed on their way. Before the Court
could determine to prevent barges from taking advantage
of the tide they must be prepared to say whether they
were prepared to make good the losses to which the
owners might be subjected by the inevitable delays.
Alderman THOMAS WOOD said that the evil was not
to be remedied by partial legislation. A general Bid
ought to be brought into Parliament for the suppros-
sion of Sunday trading, but it would not be equitabie
to do that which would injuriously affect the bond-
holders, and operate to the profit of others.
Alderman HUMPHERY was decidedly of opinion that
the Court could not interpose their au! hority in such a
matter. It the locks of the Thames were stopped
during the hours of divine service, the disputes between
the bargemen for precedence would be found to amount
to a much more intolerable desecration of the Sabbath
than the interruptions complained of.
Upon the motion of Alderman FAREEROTHER, a re-
spectful lettei was then ordered to be transmitted to
the Bishop of London, stating that ho Never desirable
such a regulation as that suggested might be, the Court
had not the power to comply with the request of the
memorialists