The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-02 00:00:00

THE_SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORN INCA, OCTOBER 2, 1846.

]able.—(Cheers.) The Learned Recorder had told the
Livery over and over again that they were met to exer-
cise one of their most invaluable privileges.—(C leers.)
He trusted that they would show that they valued those
privileges, and that nothing would induce them to part
with them.—(Cheers.)
The Hall was then adjourned till this morning at nine
o'clock.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.
At half-past ten o'clock on Wednesday morning the
Revising Barrister resumed the revision of the lists of
householders of the city of Loudon. The list for the day
consisted of the names of persons resident in the parish
of St. Botolph Without, Bishopsgate. Shortly after the
sitting of the court,
Mr. Browne wished to make an observation with re-
spect to Mr. Meyrick's case, which had been decided by
the Revising Barrister on Saturday. Mr. Meyrick had
no intention of appealing to the Court of Common Pleas,
but he wished to say that in the judgment given by the
Court th( re was a remark made which was not sustained
by the evidence read to Mr. Meyrick, and that was, that
he held this place tO have a vote for the City, awd that
was not the fact.
The BARRISTER said, he had this note in his book of
the statement made by Mrs. Sarah Baker, one of the
witnesses. She stated that Mr. Meyrick once said that
he kept the room for the purpose of protecting his vote.
Mr. Brown said, that Mr. Meyrick wished him to
state that that was not the case; that he did not occupy
the place for the purpose of protecting his vote, but that
he occupied it for use. That appeared to be the main
ground for disallowing the vote, and he called the atten-
tion of the Court to it for this purpose, that if the case
should be opened next year it should not have an in-
jurious effect.
Mr. Meyrick said that he did not recollect having
ever made the statement imputed to him by Sarah Baker.
The BARRISTER observed that he certainly thought
the point referred to by Mr. Browne was a strong fact in
the case, but he did not think it would alter the decision,
for he had made a similar decision in Mr. Smith's case,
in which there was not that fact. The real ground for
the decision was, that the place was not used or in-
tended to be used for the purpose of residence, but
merely for a temporary occupation when the party was
in town.
Mr. Browne said that if that point had not been so
severely commented upon by the Court he would take
a case to the Common Pleas at his own expense, for he
thought that without that there would be a qualification.
The I;st of the parish of St. Botolph was revised, thereby
finishing the ward of Bishopsgate. No case requiring
particular notice came before the Court. The following
is the result : Failed or
Sustained. Withdrawn
7 ... 26
154 72
67 ... 4
1. . 6

Liberal objections
Tory ditto
Double ditto ....
Liberal claims .... ,
Tory claims ,

WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL.
After a tedious and toilsome day's labour, the workmen
engaged at Constitution-hill, on Wednesday, succeeded
in safely placing this great statue on its pedestal. Up
to three o'clock, they were engaged in making all the
necessary arrangements, preparing all the machinery,
regulating the tackle, windlasses, &c., and properly affix-
ing the ropes and cable slings by which the immense
mass was to be perpendicularly raised to the desired
height. The ascent was accordingly commenced a little
after that hour. and although Mr. Green, in the Nassau
balloon, has often done the distance in a second, he could
hardly accomplish it more surely. However, four hours
had nearly elapsed before the statue had attained the
requisite elevation, during which it hung like Mahomet's
coffin, 'twixt heaven and earth, in, as it seemed to the
minds of the spectators, a rather perilous position.
Meantime the shades of evening were gathering round,
and subsequently night fell in, and it appeared as though
an adjournment of the proceedings sine die had occurred.
The moon soon after rose, and though clouded in the
commencement of her career, shone as brilliantly as a
young moon could, about half-past eight,
The riggers, who had for some time disappeared from
the scaffolding, now again began to mount the ladders
and " man the yards," and soon after, the large move-
able platform aloft, on which were the windlasses by
which the statue was carried up, commenced its horizon-
tal locomotive efforts, and before nine o'clock the plat-
form, statue, and all, had been backed westward, and the
precious burden fairly landed on its proposed site.
Having viewed it then through the various disadvantages
of imperfect moonlight, and intervening ropes and spars,
we are the more confirmed in our impression that, so far
from the statue being too large in its proportions for the
arch, if anything, the arch is too large for the statue.
But we honestly think the public will agree when a
proper time and opportunity for judging have been
allowed, that there could not be found in London a more
magnificent position for such a noble work of art as that
which the triumphal arch on Constitution-hill affords for
the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington.
A great concourse of visitors during the day, and to a
late hour of the night, thronged the neighbourhood of
Hyde Park•corner; and indeed the end of the Green Park
near Grosvenor-place, presented more the appearance o
a fair than anything else.