The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-26 00:00:00

BOROUGH OF PETERSFIELD.

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ELECTION or A MAYOR.
The Borough of Petersfield, it would appear,
bids fair to rival that of Ilchester, which excited so much
Public attention, from the conduct of a certain gentleman, in
turning out his tenantry, who would not be subservient to his
'wishes at elections. On Monday last took place the annual
election of a Mayor of Petersfielct, whose only duty consists in
acting as returning dicer at elections of Members to serve in
Parliament. This Borough has, within a few years, become a
Place of considerable notoriety, and particularly from the result
of the last Election of Members having been submitted to two
Committees of the House of Commons, the last of which re-
stored to the Freeholders the elective franchise, which had
been partially lost to them for nearly a century past. In ad-
dition to this, several important constitutional questions
relative to the affairs of the Borough have lately been
agitated in the Courts of Law, and are now in progress to
tome before the House of Lords, where it will be decided whe,
ther or not the Steward of a Court Leet, appointed by the Lord
of a Manor, can exercise the functions of the Bailiff, who alone,
it is contended, ought to. warn all tesiants, and impartially take
from amongst them fit and proper persons to serve on the
Jury: instead of the Steward of the Lord and Patron of the
Borough, being allowed to pack a Jury, and select a Mayor,
with a view to answer a particular nurpose. as has been the case
many years in this BOrougli. On- the present occasion, this
system was continued; and a Mr. William Blunt, formerly a
baker, was returned as Mayor for the ensuing year. A natural
feeling of dissatisfaction having, for a long time, evinced
itself amongst the inhabitants, against the measures of
.Hylton Jaffe, Esq. 11.1. P. for the Borough. Lord of the Ma-
liaatr4 and Treasurer of Churcher's College (a 'Charity which has
te4 Y rustle so much noise, in consequence of the abuses de-
. ed. in its management, and a perversion of the benevolent
inientionA of its founder); that gentleman, we are informed,
has followed the example of the other at Ilchester, by serving'
notices, the day after the election of Mayor, on several of his
tenants, to quit their houses, &c. held under him, because they
',would not any longer submit to serve his party purposes. We
zic'Pe, however thy w not be i by such
hertsures, but perseveree in the course they have so nobly, anmea-
d ho, successfully pursued.—( Statesman.) i-

On Saturday the first general assemblage of
the Cabinet Ministers for the season, previous to the, meeting
Whit liament, took place at the Earl' of LIVERPOOL S House,
hall, the summonses for whieh were issued bout a fo-
Veit since. There were present, besides the Noble Earl, the
"'d Chancellor, the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl of Westmor-
ydfo, Mr Peel, Mr. Canning, Earl Bathurst, the Duke of
ellingto.n, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Mel-
tdville, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Huskisson, Lord Bexley, and Viscount
ruouth being the' whole of the Cabinet Ministers. The
Earsl (Liverpool) entertained the Ministers with a sump-
3tuous dinner The Duke of Wellington and the Chancellor
if Exchequer came from the Earl of Verulam's seat in
-enfeTtishire- lThe latter came in his travelling chariot 4n€l four film St. Albans to Whitehall. The Earl uf West-
fr,lorind
also arrived at Whitehall in his travelling chariot and
°u-,l,lrcnn his seat at Apthorpe, near Walmsford, Northamp-
Pl°rneB;„re• The Earl of Harrowby also came to town for the ex-
() rut'puse of attending the meeting, as summonsed.
'riday a board of the Lords of the Tree-
Ad Adw," held at the Treasury-office, Whitehall.
r --vices were received from Paris yesterday
Pterooon,
etersburgh,
stating that a courier had arrived from
that the /!:;n with the important information,
Emperor ALEXANDER had determined
1:0 tranfer the seat of his Government and the re-
"ence of the Court from Petersburgh
4 h
to Mos-
eland that his Imperial MAJESTY had signifi-
u intention never more to reside at the for-
me" city ! Should this resolution be carried into
"Feet, there can be no doubt that it is. connected
With some political views upon Turkey„ as the
trifling distance from Moscow to the Turkish frontier is
in comparison with that from St. Peters-
lurgh; We can only account for the removal of
F seat of Government in this way.--(British
'-ionitor of yesterday.)
Some extraordinary discoveries have been
clecently made at the East India House. A great
debtor
house has brought in the Nizam its
about seven hundred thousand pounds:—
tiil)" an investigation, it appeared that not more
4il three hundred thousand pounds had been
alle; and that the remainder of the sum
tita?7`-'
hoes be due, had been managed between
highl'ouersso e and the Ministers of the Nizam. A
now it"age is deeply implicated, and it is
paha, to pive,ro
c"tplation to impeach him. The pro-
sion of ev- the
late Governor-General a pen-
t thousm
tatived at ti d pounds per annum was ne-
'egret fro Court of Directors. This we
trecu ottl Lord Hastings' present narrowed
!Te ins tati.ees."--(Britisit Press.)
p*esutiinceding
Paragraph has excited great attention ; and the
Zgeovrry'r ,0 which it will probably give rise, will lead to a
t kinistr much interesting matter as connected with the
_Pt:44a ation of the Supreme-Government in India. Various
_ll,
o'ncoosa.re said to have taken place between different per-
nsideration in India, .
and a great Banking-house at
it'!‘ead, to which we
shall at present only allude .
ts evident to us that the crisis is rapidly approaching
'Nit li general review must take place of the civil, political, and
re establigh in • Asia.—We
th, sattsii • ments. the Bntish possessions.in
qt eu that there is not any truth whatever in the rumour,
.hepoit Y panicu lar individu
als have been permitted to receive
er Cent. on the loans they made to the Natives on
securityof their Jayhedars, and to other persons.