The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

Yesterday a Court was held, immediately before
the new Lord Mayor was sworn into office, for the
dispatch of the last remaining business of the
Mayoralty.

THE CONVICT MARY ANN MUNT.
Alderman MooN, as one of the visiting magistrates
of the gaol of Newgate, presented to the Court the
following communication, which he had received from
Sir G. Grey

"Whitehall, Nov. 6.
" Gentlemen,—With reference to the case of Mary
Ann Hunt, the convict under sentence of death in
the gaol of Newgate, in which case the Sheriffs, for
reasons reported to me, directed that the execution
of the sentence should be delayed, and afterwards, by
command of her Majesty, the capital sentence was
respited until further order should be given, I have
the honour to inform you, that, under the special cir-
cumstances which have occurred in this case, her Ma-
jesty has been pleased to command that that sentence
should not be carried into effect. I request that you
will communicate to the prisoner this information.
" The prisoner will be detained in Newgate until
after her expected confinement, when the commuted
punishment will be notified.—l am, gentlemen, your
most obedient servant, _

" G. GREY."

Alderman MOON said the Sheriffs had made the
communication to the convict as soon as possible after
it reached their hands.

The communication was ordered to be entered upon
the journals.

SUNDAY TRADING.

The following report was brought up and read
" In obedience to an order of this lion. Court, of
the Bth day of June last, to consider the report of the
Inspectors of 'Weights and Measures for the last
year, we, your Committee for General Purposes, do
certify that we proceeded therein, and directed the
inspectors to visit their districts upon some Sunday,
and report their observations as connected with Sun-
day trading ; and having subsequently received a re-
port from them thereon, we have annexed the same
to this our report ; and having procured copies of the
minutes of evidence taken before a Committee of the
House of Commons on the subject of Sunday trading,
which have also been presented to the several mow
hers of this Hon. Court, we considered the subject,
and are of opinion it is not expedient for the inspectors
to exercise the duties of their office upon Sundays
within this city."
Sir P. LAURIE said the committee had recom-
mended that the inspectors should not be directed to
inspect the weights and measures of tradespeople 00
Sundays, because to employ the inspectors in such e
manner would be sanctioning Sunday trading by the
authority of the Court of Aldermen. lie would tell the
poor, however, for their government, that the shop`
keepers who traded on Sunday were the grossest or
all the impostors with whom they could come ill
contact.
Alderman COPELAND owned that there were diffi'
culties to be contended with in the matter of Sunda,'
trading. He was not for preventing the poor fre?
getting nece:saries on Sunday morning, bui:oe
wished that the trading should cease at nine o'clocir•
The report was agreed to, and a report was pre'
sented to the Court, stating that Mr. Teague, the
principal clerk at the Guildhall Police-court, had re-
signed his situation. The resignation was accepted.
The Court then proceeded to discuss some matters
of no public interest with closed doors.