The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-20 00:00:00

COUR2 OF ALDERMEN.

Yesterday a meeting of the city magistrates was
held at Guildhall for the despatch of business—the
Lord Mayor presiding. After the transaction of
some routine work, on the motion of Mr. Alderman
Wilson, seconded by Mr. Alderman Dakin, it was
referred to the Gaol Committee to inquire into the
operation of the Act of Parliament for the Aboli-
tion of Imprisonment for Debt, and to report to the
Court any alterations that may be made in conse-
quence. It was also referred to the same conimi'tee
to inquire as to the admission of persons to visit
prisoners under sentence of death in Newgate prior
to execution, and to give such directions therein as
may appear desirable—Mr. Alderman Wilson stat-
ing that his motion was founded upon circum-
stances that had come to his knowledge as one of
the visiting magistrates at I\l;wgate iu reference to
the last convict who underwent the extreme penalty
of the law there. It was likewise referred t:, the
Committee for General Purposes to inquire into the
appointment of ushers of the courts of law, particu-
larly into an appointment made at the last court ;
the number of ushers, the dates of their appoint-
ments, their incenses. and from what sources paid.
The Court next proceeded to consider the petition
of Mr. W. 11. Bonuewell against the retur❑ of Mr.
James Brewster as a Common Councilman for the
Ward of Farringdon Without. In that Mr. Bonne-
well alleged that Mr. Brewster was not qualified for
the office of a Common Councilman in accordance
with the ancient customs and usages of the city of
London, which required that a common councilman
should be a householder and pay scot and lot in
the ward for which he was elected. The contention
eventually resolved itself into a question of rating,
and Mr. Bonnewell argued in effect that Mr.
Brewster was not a ratepayer in the ward for which
he had been elected. It appeared that he occupies
a shop, No. 70, in the New Meat Market, in Smith-
field, upon which he entered on the Ist of Decem-
ber, 1868 ; that afterwards a demand was made in
ordinary course upon the salesmen in the market
for the payment of rates in respect of their holdings
there, but resisted, on the ground that their rates
were included in the rent they paid to the Corpora-
tion, and so the matter seemed to have rested.
Mr. Bonnewell contended that up to the present
time Mr. Brewster had paid no rates in respect of
his shop in the market, that be was in the position

of a weekly tenant at a rent of so much per foot,
and that his sole qualification consisted in his oc-
cupying a stall in the market, which was not a
qualification within the meaning of the ancient
usages and customs of the city in reference to the
payment of scot and lot, and as to what constituted
a householder as interpreted by learned commenta-
tors, such as Mildmay, Pulling, and Norton. As a

matter of fact he also said that Mr. Brewster was
not even a householder in the ward for which he
had been elected. The Recorder told Mr. Bonne-
well he must prove that Mr. Brewster had been
discharged from the payment of rates. Upon that
the complainant called Mr. Scott, the Chamber-

lain of Loudon, as a witness, who stated that the
whole of the rates on the new market were paid in
his office, the Chamber of Loudon, in a lump sum,
by au order of the Court of Common Council. Re-
plying to Mr. Alderman Sidney, he added that the
occupants were weekly tenants of the Markets Im-
provement Committee of the Corporation; that
they paid no rates, and could be dismissed at a
week's notice. For the defence Mr. Leffler ap-
peared as counsel, instructed by Mr. Pontifex, the
vestry clerk of the Ward of Farringdou Without,
and cited the Act 32 and 33 Viet., cap. 41, passed
last year, the 7th section of which, he said, ex-
pressly provided that every payment of a rate by
the occupier, notwithstanding the amount might be
deducted from his rent, and every payment of a
rate by the owner, whether he was himself rated
instead of the occupier, or had agreed with the oc-
cupier or the overseers to pay such rates, and re-
gardless of any allowance or deduction the over-
seers were empowered to make from the rate, should
be deemed a payment of the full rate by the occupier
for the purpose of any qualification or franchise
which, as regards rating, depended upon the pay-
ment of the poor rate. The court was cleared for
a few minutes, and on the re-admission of strangers
the Recorder intimated in effect that the comrlaint
was not tenable and must fall to the ground. Mr.
Bonne well thereupon wanted to reopen the question
on another point, but the Recorder stopped him,
stating that his petition had been clearly confined
to the allegation as to non-payment of rates, and to
that the Act of Parliament quoted for the defence
was an answer. The petition was therefore dis-
missed.

The lumber trade of Michigan for 1869, it is re-
ported, has reached the value of thirty-four millions of
dollars. The lumber cut amounted to 2,029,372,255 feet,
valued at $30,293,325 ; to this is added $3,500,000 worth
of shingles, lath, and staves, making the sumlabove men-
tiosed. It is estimated that up to the close of 1869 there
have been manufactured in Michigan seven thousand two
hundred millions of feet of lumber, and that to obtain this
quantity there have been shipped one million nine hun-
dred and twenty thousand acres, or three thousand square
miles of pine land. It is calculated that four million acres
of land still remain unstripped, which will yield fifteen
or twenty
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be understood from the figures of 1869. During last year
that city received 27,000,000 bushels of wheat, 23,000,000
bushels of corn, and 12,000,000 bushels of other grains;
600,000 barrels of flour wore manufactured there. The
city received, since January Ist, 1868, about one billion
feet of lumber, over 600,000,000 shingles, and 121,000,000
laths. There were marketed during the same period
1,872,000 hogs and 400,000 cattle. The receipt of wool,
salt, seeds, broom corn, tallow, coal, wood, &c., was also
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