The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.

A meeting of the friends of Alderman Wood was held
yesterday, at the Crown Tavern, Bow-lane, Cheap-
side, for the purpose of adopting the means necessary
to secure his election to the office of Lord Mayor for
the ensuing year.
Mr. Deputy MUDDLE was voted to the chair, and ex-
plained the object of the meeting, and stated also that
some difference of opinion existed between the friends of
Alderman Wood, with respect to his standing for the
Mayoralty this year, but that the majority were of
opinion that he should do so.
Alderman WooD here entered, and was unani-
mously applauded. The worthy Alderman en-
tered into a detail of the events connected with
his private character, and ,alluded to the manner in
which he had discharged the functions that had been
vested in him by his brother liverymen of the ward,
dwelling particularly on the way in which he distri-
buted the charities placed at his disposal by virtue of
his office.

Mr. Deputy LAKE then proposed, and Mr. WILSON
seconded, a resolution to the effect that every person
present should exert himself to the best of his ability to
secure the election of Alderman Wood to the civic
chair.

Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, after which
the meeting separated.

EXTRAORDINARY PRESERTATION.—A man nearly
seventy years of age, of the name of Walker, of Winslow,
a pensioner, got up into a tree in that parish, on Thurs-
day for the purpose of getting rotten wood. He slipped,
and one of his feet caught between two branches, whence
he was suspended with his head downwards. He was
in this state for twenty-two hours. When found the
blood was flowing from his mouth and ears. It is be-
lieved that he•would have been dead in a short time, but
it is thought he will recover. He was about fifteen feet
from the ground.
FOREIGN CATTLE, &C.—The latest arrivals Of
cattle and provisions at the port of Hull from the con-
tinental states have comprised the following list of
articles, and are important and interesting as compared
with the more extensive supplies to the port of London
from the same quarter, and which frequently appear at
full length in our columns:—The Emerald Isle, from
Rotterdam, brought 60 sheep, 64 cows, 2 bullocks, some
packages of butter, and 500 Edam cheeses; the Transit,
from Hamburgh, 3 firkins and 42 casks of butter, and
36 head of horned cattle; the Anne Kirstine, from
Odensee, Denmark, 99 casks of butter; the Archi-
medes,- from Hamburgh, 11 casks of butter, 2 calves,
and 14 oxen; the Catherina, from Leer (Holland), 50
casks of butter; the Queen of Scotland, from Ham-
burgh, 36 casks of butter, 18 swine, and 40 oxen; the
Monarch, from Antwerp, some live calves, a novelty
from Belgium; and the Leeds, from Hamburgh, 28 casks
of butter, 17 pigs, 30 oxen and cows, and
i other pro-
ductions. The arrivals mentioned took place n the course
of a week at the northern port named.
POST-OFFICE IMPROVEMENTS.—It is rumoured that
in consequence of the many earnest entreaties on the
part of the public for increased post-office accommodation,
in the course of a few days a series of improvements will
be adopted. Dispatches of letters and newspapers are to
be more numerous than they now are, both in town and
in the provinces, so that the letters to and from the
north of England, and those to and from Ireland and
Scotland, are to be accelerated. Extra post-offices are
already appointed in many towns and villages. Fees, of
all kinds, are to be abolished eventually, and the sub-
ordinate officers, who have hitherto been the chief reci-
pients of them, are to be paid according to length of
servitude, by a scale now before the Lords of her Ma-
jesty's Treasury of a most liberal and considerate cha-
racter. When the money-order office in Aldersgate-
steet is finished, the whole of the business of this im-
portant department will be transferred thither, and the
rooms now used to be taken into the district post-office,
which, in consequence of the increase of business, much
requires enlargement.
BOLTON-1i PON-DEARNE.—A potato has been brought
to our office of a very remarkable description, and grown
this season at. Bolton. On cutting it through the centre,
it was found to contain nine small potatoes of perfect
form and suite sound,—Doncaster Gazette.