The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

MUNICIPAL -ELECTIONS.
LICHFIELD.
Nov. 9.—Major Butler Morgan, Esq. (a Conservative),
was this day unanimously ehoAcn
Hi Mlyor for the ensue
su- ,
ing year, and Joseph Pitt, Req., gh Sheriff.
citizens entertain his worship at a public dinner at the
Swan Hotel this evening.
BIRMINGHAM.
Yesterday Robert Martineau, Esq.,brass-cock foun
r,
was unanimously elected Mayor of Birmingham. M.
Martineau is brother to Harriet Martineau, the celebrated
writer. •

NOR W IC
Nov. 9.—The town council met this day, of which
forty Whigs and ten Tories were pr.sent, for the
purpo:e of electing the May-or, She.riff, and other
officers, for the year ensuing. The choice of Mayor fell
upon our late Sheriff, Jeremiah Colman, Esq., of New-
market-road, in this city, and also of that respected firm
of J. and J. Colman, of Dowgate bill, London; he was
proposed by Sir Win. Foster, Bart., and carried unani-
mously; and that of Sheriff upon Charles Winter, Esq.,
who was proposed by S. S. Beare, Esq., and also carried
unanimously. The meeting was a very full one, and
after other appointments broke up, and appeared to have
given general satisfaction to the public in such appoint-
ments. Both gentlemen are Whigs.—From a Corre-
spondent.

POST-OFFICE MONEY ORDERS.

;TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sza,—Convinced it will be saving much disappoint-
ment and inconvenience when more generally known
and correctly adopted, will you permit me through your
columns to remind parties remitting by Post-office
orders, the necessity of strictly regarding the regulation
in respect to the " Christian and surname of those in
whose favour the order is obtained." For want of this
accuracy it not unfrequently happens that a money order
(however small the sum) may have to be presented two
or three times.—Your obedient servant,
121, Holborn-hill, Nov. 9. A. K. GIFFORD.

THE CITY OF LONDON STOCK-

BROKER'S BOND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
see by a copy of "The Broker's Bond" in The
Sun of yesterday, that the stockbroker is licensed by
the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London
to be " a sworn broker in public stock, funds, shares,
and other securities for money," and that by the bond
on admission as a broker he binds himself in the penalty
of one thousand pounds to fultil certain conditions
therein named. If such bond can be enforced in a
court of law it will be found to be a great protection to
the public in purchasing or selling " public stock, funds,
shares and, other securities for money;" but as to the
probability of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen recovering
the penalty from Mr. Rochas, I leave you and your
readers to judge, after having read the two following
extracts. The first I shall take from the same paper
wherein is the copy of "The Broker's Bond," viz., The
Sun of yesterday's date, folio 3, column 4:—
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 5.
(Sittings in Banco.)
KNIGHT V. BARBER.

This case was tried at Liverpool before Mr. Justice
Cresawell, the plaintiff was nonsuited upon the ground
that a certain document was not stamped, purporting
to be an agreement between the parties for the pur-
chase and sale of certain railway scrip or shares.
Mr. BAINES moved for a rule to show cause why the
verdict should not be set aside and a new trial granted;
he contended that the contract did not require a stamp,
inasmuch as it was an agreement for the sale of an
article which he contended came under the head of
merchandise, which, with goods and wares were specially
exempted from the operation of the Stamp Act.
The Loan CHIEF BARON stated it was his opinion
that the documet in question should have been stamped,
because it was impossib!e to suppose that scrip could be
considered as merchandise. The sale of scrip was
nothing morn than an agreement made between himself
and some company or companies ; it could not, there-
fore, be goods or merchandise, and not coming under the
exception contained in the Stamp Act, ought, therefore,
to have been stamped.
Mr. Baron PARKE was of the same opinion.
The rule for a new trial refused.

Now observe, the Lord Chief Blron and Mr. Baron
Parke both held that railway scrip was neither goods,
wares, nor merchandise. The second extract I take from
my common-place book, which itself was extracted from
The Sun, December 16th. 1849: