The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-22 00:00:00

which has secured for him the esteem of Englishmen as
well as Spaniards. The meeting had tho countenanr.L.
of several gentlemen of consequence, such as General
Alexander, who exprcs3ed himself with much eloqtienc,7
aid deeil .n ; Sir Henry Pym, Colonel Cochrane, Capt.
Britten, and Messrs. Richard and Thomas Thornton, v. t:e
were else most effective. The ds.y's proceedings concluded
with she understanding that the Committee of Portuguese
bondholders should meet on Saturday next, for the pur-
poseof taking such measures as may appear to them best
calculated to extract from the Portuguese Government
terms of conversion of a less objectionable description,
the arrangement of that part of it which relates to the
arrears of interest, or unpaid coupons (not already turned
into Treasury bonds or dehemures), the bondholders
feeling tioat, when it is recollected the home creditor is,
and has all along, been punctually paid his dividends in
full, the proposition made to them is not only unjust, but
perfeeVy insulting.
The scheme promulgated by Senor Gamboa, for the
sale cf national properties, may be supposed to have been
made a tut ject of conversatien among the individuals as.
senibled at the above meeting ; it is, however, considered
too confused and unintelligible a mansr to enter upon with-
out explanation. It looks to some as if the boron creditor
L%:l, (tl;e,: more the ebj.:ct of the Minister's solicitude
reti,er than the foreign creditor, while to others the chief
pip.po€e it is intended to answer seems to be that Gl
pushing up the :Locks to as to admit of a little more ma-
neeevring.
Alvices have reached us from the country of a very
serious roleheey having been committed at the Manches-
ter P..)st- office'. Since the new system of pinny postage
came into play many errors of importance have occur-
red, hut we are not aware of any other case of such
magnitude as the one now alluded to. The bankers, who
have been the sufferers, are by no means in fault, the
usual precautions against fraud having been taken by
thsm ; neither can the blame be fairly cast upon the em-
ub,yes of the Post-office. They are 50 overburdened wt.l:
labour that much allowance ought to be made for them.
Upon this occasion a new clerk was placed at the win-
dow, sad being asked in the usual manner by a
yeutb, oho came there for the letters of the Bank of
M-ineliester, they were given out to him without
suspicion, and nothing irregular was discovered during the
day except the presentation by a young man at the bank-
ing-house of Nlesrs. \V. Jones Loyd and Co., at Manches-
ter, of a cruised check, -Alien they refused to pay. neglect-
ing, Is svasver, to detain the person. No further light has
y• t been V,rown upon the matter, but the absolute neces
ity mo,t now force itself upon the Post-office authorities
of devising some means or other of having letters of value
containing, as in the present instance, some thousand
pounds' worth of accered bills, distinguished from the
common circulars which are of no value at all. Fortu-
nately one packet containing cash notes was not delivered
in this case, owing to the accidental circumstance of its
having been too large to be admitted into the Post.
office box.

ELECTION OF COMNION COUN

CILMEN.

Yesterday being St. Thomas's Day, the annual elec-
tion of members to serve in the Court of Common
Council for the different City wards took place.
COLEMAN STREET WARD.
By the late municipal changes in the Corporation of
London, this ward receives an addition of two repre-
sentatives, and a great deal of interest has been excited
by the report of political exertions to return two of four
new candidates who yesterday made their appearance.
It appeared that until yesterday there were six new
candidates. The accession of Caner rvative voters,
created by the new population of Moorgate-street, and
other parts of the ward, in which splendid buildings hare
been recently erected, had put the friends of the old re-
presentatives on their mettle, and it did not appear that
any one of them bad extended his labours beyond the
exertion to secure his own position. The four new can-
didates, whose names we give in the order in which they
appeared, according to the decision of the Alderman
(Sir William Heygate), on the show of hands, were
Mr. Bracher, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Cousins, and Mr. Phil-
lips. Mr. Bracher and Mr. Phillips are said to be Ra-
dicals ; and Mr. Griffith and Mr. Cousins were recog-
nised in the assembly as Conservetive. The four gen•
tlemen are highly respected in the ward.
Mr. CARTER (the former Deputy of the ward (pro-
posed the six old members—Mr. Allan, Mr. Hunter,
Mr. Hale, Mr. Hall, Mr. Davies, and Mr. Johnson,
to disturb any one of whom the constituency seemed not
to have the slightest inclination.
Mr. ROBERTS seconded the nomination, which was
received in such a manner as showed that no change
was contemplated as regarded them.
Mr. CONST proposed Mr. Bracher, whose character
was, he said, well known. to the ward, all the offices of
which had been served by that gentleman perfectly to
the satisfaction of the constituency, and who would,
with integrity and ability, execute the duties of a Com-
mon Councilman, without allowing political bias to in-
' terfere with the functions of an office sof a municipal
nature.—( Hear, hear.) He regretted to perceive that
certain members in the Conservative interest had inter-
fered in the election—(Hear, bear, and a loud cry of
" Toni Jones's Gang," and loud laughter)—he re-
gretted to find that in the press encouragement was
given to the disposition to destroy the kindly feelieg
in the ward by exciting political animosities.--(Hear,
heal.) There was, he should have thought, quite
enough of political hostility existing in other matters
without introducing it amongst neighbours and friends,
in the eeercise of their municipal rights. He always
condemned any tendency to blend matters connected
with the Corporation with politics, and if such exer-
tions as he ascribed to the Conservatives upon this oc-
casion were to be sanctioned, the ward must become in
fact a political arena to the total ruin of the comfort.
and tranquillity which bad so long predominated. They
would be all one against the other in the fury of political
cedliet,--(Hear, htar, and a loud cry from a queer
voice in a ecener, " It's all Mr. Jones's gang, the
mushroom I") He wait sure that the Government were
auffesiently ready and inclined to take advantage of any
cii,pre.e in which the citiAens of London might be
solved. 'rhe disposition which had manilpsted itself to
interfere with civic privileges in the affair of the police,
was a strong testimony of the views of Government in
j that respect.—(Cheers.) He called upon the ward
j to abandon any course calculated to lead to further
interference, such as they all condemned, and he depre-
cated and detested the idea of mixing up political
feelings in the election which they assembled to carry
into effect.