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THE_ SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, EVENING, JULT 1646:

Mr. HENLEY agreed with the Right Hon. Baronet, that
the question was better referred to the Criminal Law Com-
missioners, but wished to know what provision had been
made by the Bill in cases where the party might at first be
subject to a criminal prosecution, and afterwards to an action.
He did not think that the Bill had made any provision for
such a case.

After some further conversion, the question was postponed
until Monday next.
BATHS AND WASHHOUSES BILL.
Mr. I'. S. DUNCOMBE presented a petition, objecting to
the 36th clause of this Bill, by which provision was made
for the erection of baths for a higher class of persons than the
class the Bill and subscriptions were intended to benefit.
The remaining clauses were then agreed to, and the Bill
then passed through Committee. Report to-morrow.
ELECTION FOR DUNDALK.
On the motion of Mr. PARKER, a writ was ordered to be
issued for Dundalk, in the room of Mr. Reddington, who
had accepted the office of Under-Secretary to the Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland.

COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL (No. 2).
The further consideration of the report on this Bill was
postponed until Friday, in order that Lord Morpeth might
consult the other Commissioners of Woods and Forests with
re&pect to it.

SUGAR DUTIES.
Mr. PARKER brought in the Sugar Duties Conti-
nuance Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time to-morrow.
SABBATH TRADING.
Mr. HINDU:IT then rose to ask leave to introdcce a Bill
to amend the law with respect to Sunday trading, when
An HON. AlEmBEs remarked that there were not forty
Members present.
On the House being counted there were not twenty Ment-
b2rs, and the Speaker adjourned the House till to-morrow.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Room A.
CORNWALL.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
This witness was cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE, and
stated, with respect to the passenger traffic between St. Austell 11,,d
Truro, which is carried nn by vans, that these vans were used chiefly
by persons of" a low class." On being asked by the Learned Ser-
geant as to whether he had ever used this mode of conveyance. he
replied, " that he had never travelled this way himself, though he
believed barristers had."—(Considerable laughter.)
After hearing some further evidence in detail, Mr. Avery, mer-
chant, of Boscastle, Ns as examined by Mr. ROWE, and stated that he
did not believe that there was 40,0001. worth of property sent into
Cornwall during any ome year. There was a traffic carried on be-
tween Bristol and Hull, but it was very inconsiderable. In his opi-
nion there was not sufficient traffic to support a line from Plymouth
to Falmouth.
Some further evidence was then given, after which the Committee
adjourned.

Room B.
LEICESTER AND BEDFORD.
This Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock.
Some more evidence having been given in opposition to the line,
to the effect that there was not sufficient traffic to support the railway,
Mr. HmLYARD addressed the Committee on the part of the oppo-
nents to the Bill, col-dewing that the present ought to have been
the undertaking of the Midland Company, and not of an independent
company, which would alone render it a profitable speculation. He
also contended that the circumstance of Northampton not being pro-
vided with acbommodation by the proposed line was of itself suf-
ficient to disentitle the Bill to the favourable consideration of the
Committee.

Sergeant WRINGIIAM replied, and the Committee decided that the
preamble of the Bill was not proved.

Room C.
LONDON AND aL.a.csvrax.r. (WIDENING).
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
After some conversation between Mr. Forsyth and Mr Frelhfteld,
his client, the former stated that their only object was
to obtain equal accommodation and equal space, and obtaining
these they were quite ready to come to an accommcxlatton. They
proposed to the Blackwall Company nut to take their warehouses
without conveying certain property not in their possession, but which
they might possibly get either by pi ivate negotiation or a Bill next
year. _ _ _

To this Mr. Adams objected, and the parties retired to negotiate,
it having been agreed with their Lordships that they should
appear again in a quarter of an hour, but three quarters elapsed be-
fore re-entering the room, and then another quarter elapsed before
any statement was made, after which

kr. WHATELEY stated that an arrangement had been entered Into,
by which of fly a portion of the property of the Dock Company would
be taken, and the only question was about the introduction of a clause.
On Lord lIITHERTON'S intimation that he conceived that an
agreement was quite sal:Helen:, he was a party to several himself—
that were definitely decided upon.
31r. The, who is a director of the Globe Insurance Office, having
Spoken on that point,
the predmble was then allowed to be preyed, the clauses were
gone through, and the report was ordered to be brought up.

80 miles more. The Bristol and Gloucester Company had applied
to the Great Western Company fur increased accommodation for
the'r traffic to Statehouse and itlristol, which had been acceded to.
Considerable works were In progress for that purpose.
On the termination of this witness's cross-examination,
Mr. LANG said, that upon re-consideration ho was willing to save
the time of the Committee by accepting Mr. Austin's clause.
The preamble of the Bill was afterwards declared to be proved.
BLACKBURN AND PRESTON AND EAST

Their experiences of your tolent4 for public afhnitiis-
trati E
on inmirapoeem j In,i ireltfluj
lliversifild Interetits AS the
British your wisdom. an 4 fortitude,
and liberality of mind—,,f the munificence and kindn'ss
of your dispv.iition—of the courteousness of y our in-
tercourse with all ranks of society, prepared tht m tor
the signal successes which were achieved by you user
the social distractiors which existed in Jamaica, and
the difficult contentions which had beset the Govern-
ment of British America, when you were successively
summoned from your projected retirement by the dis-
crimination of her Majesty's Government. to new spheres
of most arduous as well as most honourable employ-
ment in those colonies.

We cordially congratulate your Lordship on the im-
provement in the happiness and prosperity of these
colonies which has attended your able and patriotic dis-
charge of the trust reposed in you, and oinhe dignity
which has been conferred on you by our gracious Sove-
reign, in approbation of your services to her Majesty's
Crown. . -

—We---have read with affectionate satisfaction and sym-
pathy the sentiments expressed towards you in London
on your return from Canada by the civil and military
servants of the eEast
personally connectedLidiaCompanyand with
others,
and we we and• gentlemenecho from the city of Calcutta the just tribute
to your great virtues presented to you in their address.
We beg to assare you that we cherish towards you a
profound regard ; that you will ever dwell in our
grateful remembrances ; and that we join in sincere
prayers to Almighty God for the restoration of your
health, and that you may long live to enjoy the appro-
bation and gratitude of your ccuntry.
To the Right Hon. Lord Metcalfe, G.C.B.
LETTER FROM LORD METCALFE TO THE EARL OF
AUCKLAND.

condition of infirmity and depression
Malshanger, Basingstoke, July 10.
My Lord—ln my
I cannot do more than acknowledge your Lordship's let-
ter, and express my utter hopelessness of doing justice
to the goodness which on this, and every other occasion,
I have had the honour of receiving from you.
I beg you to convey to the gentlemen associated with
your
Lordship
my heartfelt thanks fur their kindness,
and r
consideration which has induced the mode
(u for
rortdhe
adopted of transmitting the communication from Cal-
cutta.

I have the honour to be, with great respect, your
Lordship's most faithful servant,

METCALFE,
To the Right H. the Earl of Auckland, G.C.B.
LORD METCALFE'S REPLY TO THE -ADDRESS.

Malshanger, Basingstoke, July 10.
Sirs,—Scarcely possible as it would have been under
any circumstances to convey to you in adequate terms
my sense of the generosity of the communication which
I have received from you on the occasion of the opening
of the public building with which the inhabitants of
Calcutta have done me the honour to connect my
name, the difficulty is increased by the infirmities which
beset me, and the hopeless state of my health; I must,
therefore, confine myself to the expression of the fer-
vent thanks of a grateful heart, which is fully sensible
of your kindness, and of the honour conferred on me by
the association of my name with the edifice appropriated
to the several important public institutions and purposes
to which the use of the Metcalfe Hall is devoted. My
anxious hope that prosperity and every other blessing
may attend you will accompany me to the grave, which
is open at my feet. METCALFE.
To the inhabitants of Calcutta.

TUESDA Y NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, JULY 20, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, consti-
tuting and appointing the Right Honourable George
Earl of Auckland, G. C. B.; Vice-Admiral Sir Charles
Adam, K. C. B. ; Rear-Admiral James Whitley Deans
Dundas ; Maurice Frederick Fitzhardin-. A. e Bkelev,
Esq., Captain in the Royal Navy; Lord John Hay, C. 11.,
Captain in the Royal Navy; and the Hon. William Francis
Cowper, her Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office
of High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto
belonging.

CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 21.
MEMBERS RETURNED To SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Liskeard—Charlei Buller, jun., Esq., Judge
Advocate-General.

Stewartry of Kircudbright—Thomas Maitland, Rig., her
Majesty's Solicitor• General of Scotland.
County of Stafford, Southern Division—The Hon. George
Anson, Clerk of her Majesty's Ordnance.
West Riding of York—The Right Hon. George William
Frederick Howard, commonly called Viscount Morpeth,
First Commissioner of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Works,
and Buildings.

WAR-OFFICE, JULY 21.

11th Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon R. Dane, M.D.,
from the 29th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice West, deceased,
July 21.
12th Foot—Ensign G. R. Littlehales to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Holder, who retires; 11. A. Norris, Gent., to
ba Ensign, by purchase, vice Littlehales, July 21.
13th Foot—Capt. J. E. G. Ehnsall, from half pay Ist Dra-
goon Guards, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major H. C. Wade,
who exchanges; Lieut. D. Rattray to be Captain by pur-
chase, vice Elmsall, who retires; Ensign J. F. Woolhouse to
be Lieutenant, by parches., vice Rattray; R. Peel, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Woolhouse, July 21.
29th Foot.—A. M. Macbeth, Gent., to be Assistant Sur-
geon, vice Dane,-promoted in the 11th Foot, July 21.
34th Foot—Lieut. J. T. Still to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Dickenson, who retires; Ensign M. G. Best to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Still ; C. Thorold, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Best, July 21.
85th Foot—Lieut. D. Campbell, from half-pay 57th Foot,
to be Li, laenant, vice Marshall, appointed Paymaster; En-
sign S. Blake to be Lieutenant, py purchase, vice Campbell,
who retires; J. W. H. Williams, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Blake, July 21, 1846.

Ist West India Regiment—Ensign T. Clark to be Adjutant,
vice Bingham, who resigns the Adjutancy only, July 21.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant S. Blake,
from the 65th Foot, to be Lieutenant, •ice Knight, pro-
moted. July 22.
BnEvrr.—Captain J. E. G Elmsall, of the 13th Foot, to
be Major in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837.
lI.smTAL S rAFF.- To be Assistant Surgeons to the Forces
—W. Westall, M.D. ; T. Parr, Gent.; G. F. Fletcher, Gent. ;
July 21.

11 I:3lolLiNDU3L—Lieutenant John Pye Woolcock, of the
56th Foot, has been permitted to assume the surname of
" Pye," instead of that of " Woolcock," and should therefore
be styled, Lieutenant " John Pye c."
The Christian names of Ensigns Williams, of the 41st
Foot, are Flemming Gough Howell Gaines.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 18.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet Major J. Eyre to be
Lieutenant• Colonel, vice Smith, retired on full pay; Second
Captain F. Dunlop to be Captain, vice Eyre; First Lieutenant
A. H. Graham to be Second Captain, vice Dunlop ; Second
Lieutenant T. Lambert to be First Lieutenant, vice Graham,
July 8.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 15.
Corps of Royal Marines—Serjeant- Major T. Cooper to be
Quartermaster.

Commh:sions by the Queen.
Staffurshire Regiment of Militia.—Capt. W. Spring. to be
Adjutant, April 29.
West Essex Regiment of Militia—Capt. 11. Pearson, to he
Adjutant, June 27. _ _

.
Carnarvonsldre Militia—W. G. Griffith, Gent., to be Adju-
tant, with the Brevet rank of Captain, vice Chapman, re-
signed, June 30.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Dorsetshire.
J C. Mansel, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. July 30.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex.
The Right Hon. the Earl Fitzhardinge to be Dcput:,-
Lieutenant ; W. B. France, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant;
G. Hague, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; J. Laurie, Esq.,
to be Deputy-Lieutenant, July 11.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets.
The Queen's Own Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia—
L. S. Dickson, Esq., to be Major, vice Hawker, deceased ;
H. C. Curtis, to be Captain, vice Laxon, deceased ; J.
Scriven, Esq., to be Captain, vice Phillipson, deceased;
T. Vanhevthuysen. Esq., to be Captain, vice Nichol', de-
ceased; G. Mitchell, Esq., to be Captain, vice M-Namara,
superseded, .July 4.
Erratum in the Gnzette of the 26th ult.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—For T. St.
L. Alcock, Esq to be Major, vice Hilliard, resigned, read T.
St. L. Alcock, Major Unattached, to be Major, vice Hilliard,
resigned. _

Co ,
mmissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Carnarvonshire.
The Hon. A. D. Willoughby to be Deputy Lieutenant;
C. G. Wynne, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, July /3.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Argyllshire.
Argyll and Bute Regiment of Militia—Sir A. Campbell,
Bait, to be Captain ; C. Campbell, Esq., to be Captain ;
M. Campbell, Esq., to be Captain ; D. Campbell, Esq., to be
Captain; A. Kerr, Gent., to be Lieutenant; J. Campbell,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; D. P. Campbell, Gent., to be
Ensign ; A. Maclaine, Gent., to be Ensign ; S. M. Eddington,
Gent., to be Ensign ; G. Macneill, to be Ensign, July 1.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
John Caines, farmer, Chilton Cantelo, Somersetshire.

J. Birkett, tanner, Cockerrnouth—flnsi div. of 4s. 10Ad,
In the pound, on any SAturday, at the °dice of Mr. Baker,
Neweastl a- u pon-Ty n o.
J. and J. Brooks, curricrs. Glastonbury—first div. of 4s. 2d.
in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Miller,
Bristol.

G. Robertson. J. Garrow, and .1. Alexander, ship chandlers,
Liverpool—final div. of lid. in the pound, on any Thursday,
at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool.
J. 13rooke, copper, Liverpool—first div. of ls. 43. in the
pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove,
Liverpool.
S. Vertue, merchant, Liverpool—first div. of is 6d. in the
pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove,
Liverpool.

J. Wallace, grocer, Sunderland—first div. of 23. in the
pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, New-
castle-upon-Tyne.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
IT. DI. Godwin and C. Leo, ship owners, Bishopsgate-
street, Within, Aug. 14, at twelve—W. Best and J. Snowden,
printers, Southampton.

In the Country.
R. Davies, grocer, Abercarne, Monmouthshire, Aug. 14,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—W. Menzies, draper,
Gloucester, Aug. 13, at twelyq, at the Bristol District Court
—T. Gales. W. J. Guest, J F. Naisby, and M. Kirtley,
ship builners, Aug. 13. at half-past eleven, at the Newcastle-
❑pon-Tyne District Court—J. Crabtree and W. Burnley,
woollen manufacturers, Tunstead, Lancashire. Aug. 14, at
one, at the Manchester District Court—J. Prior and H.
Brady, oil merchants, Hull, Aug. 12, at ten, at the Town-
hall, Hull—T. Marrian, common brewer, Sheffiekl, Aug. 14,
at eleven, et the Cutler's-hall, Sheffield.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown tc
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
W. and J. Sheffield, grocers, Lower Acton-place, Bagnigge
Wells-road, Aug. 13—J. R. Havard, commission agent,
Rhymney, Breconshire, Aug. 17—S. A. Bull, dyer, Frome
Selwood. Somersetshire, Aug. 17—R. Gatehouse, R. Darch,
and G. Wilkins, timber merchants, Lisson street, Aug. 11—
M. Chapman, painter and glazier, Devonport, Aug. 18—W.
Baldock, grocer, Nottisgbam,Aug. 14—W. Mallet, milliner,
Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Lancashire, Aug. 13—S. Hill, boiler
make, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, Aug. 12—J. Wilkinson,
grocer, Manchester, Aug. 18—T. Clay, merchant, Hudders-
field, Aug. 11—J. Godfrey, linendraper, Midsomer Norton,
Somersetshire, Aug. 11-0. Brady, commission agent, Aston,
Warwickshire, Aug. 11—G. Whitfield, soda-water manufuc •
hirer, Nottingham, Aug. 11—H. Walters, licensed victualler,
Birstol, Aug. 11.

COURT or COMMON COUNCIL,
On Monday a Court was held, principally for the purpose of
discussing the motion of which \lr. An'erton had given notice
at the Court immediately preceding, " That it be a standing
order of the Court that the Chamberlain shall not pay out of
the Chambtr any sum of money for any charges or expenses
for any visitation or journey by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, or
any other branch of the Corporation, either for the purposes of
conservancy or otherwise, when such visit or journey shall be
beyond the boundary of the jurisdiction of the City, without
the previous authority of the Common Council upon a merlon
for that purpose." • The notice of motion brought together a
large number of the Commners, but the number of Alder-
men in the Court was very limited throughout the day.
A conversation took place upon the subject of the granting
of freedoms upon the presentation of the Chamberlain's list of
applications; but it was declared to be necessary that notice of
motion upon the question should be given previously to dis-
cussion, and Mr. Wire accordingly give notice.
THE INTENDED TRIP TO OXFORD.
This subject, which had been looked for with very great
interest, then came on.
Mr. ANDERTON commenced by alluding to what had taken
place at the late Court of Common Council, when it was stated
that the Court of Aldermen had determined that the Lord
Mayor should pay a visit to Oxford, and that the expenses
:hould be defrayed by the Corporation. The Chief Magistrate
had, he submitted to the Court, just as much right to go in his
conservancy capacity to Cambridge or Portsmouth, or any other
place in which his jurisdiction was not known. The ala3or of
any one of these places might as well come into the lower district
of the Thames to perform the duties of his office, and would not
excite more surprise by his intrusion. After having adverted
to the occasions on which conservancy visitations had been
nude within the last thirt, or forty years, Mr.- And rton
peremptorily denied the right of the Court to decide, that the
Lord Mayer had the power to take the City cash and treat
with it whom he pleased, where he pieased, and to what
amount he pleased.—( Hear, hear.) No advantage could pos-
sibly bo derived from any stretch made by his Lordship beyond
the boundaries of his own acknowledged jurisdiction at Staines.
The Corporation then were authorised by all the rules of com-
mon sense and common prudence to condemn the expenditure
or money on an useless expenditure, as wasteful and extravagant.
What practical good indeed, he would ask, resulted from any
view of the Thames taken by his Lordship at all ?—( A laugh,
and cries of s' Hear, hear.") There were many ready to
assert that the Court of Aldermen were altogether independent
of the Court of Common Council, and in no ot e point con-
trolable by that Court. He most distinctly denied that state-
ment. The Court of Common Council ha ,t passed a law pre.
venting the Court of Aldermen from appointing any de pity
who was not a member of the former.—( Hear, hear.) And
on several occasions an interference had been made, in which
the authority of the latter was shown to be subordinate. He
admitted that the Court of Aldermen had privileges not
capable of being invaded by the other branch of the Corpora -
tion, but over the City cash their worships certainly, in his
opinion, had no power, putting out of the question the on-
limited control which they assumed on the subject of the
projected visitation.—( Hear, hear.) He hoped the Court
would unit- imously adopt the motion. If it appeared that
notwithstanding the objections thus made to an unnecessary
expenditure the object of the Court of Aldermen were
likely to be attained, the Livery, who had an unquestion-
able power over the Chamberlain, was still to be applied
( Hear, hear.) The Lord Mayor could, and he had no doubt
would, go to Oxford, and treat all his visitors there and at
other places beyond his jurisdiction as a private gentleman, and
at his own expense, (for a more liberal man never presided in
the City of London), hut it was quite absurd to carry the
expenses of the mayoralty beyond the stone which masked the
City boundaries at Staines.--( Hear, hear.) Mr. Anderton
concluded by submitting the motion.
Sir PETER. LAURIE most cordially seconded the motion.
The subject was, he said, by no means a new one. He had
successfully opposed it in the late Mayoralty, when an attempt
was made to obtain permission to perform the agreeable cere-
mony. The first visitation within his memory was that made
by Sir C. S. Hunter, who was debbed Doctor of Law upon
tne occasion at Oxford.—(Laughter.) It would no doubt be
extremely agreeable to the present Lord Mayor's friends to see
him covered with the same sort of distiction, but his Lordship
was too independent to seek any honour at an expense which
proceeded from any other source than by his own pocket. It
was with mingled pride and regret he hacl to declare that upon
almost every occasion on which he advocated the cause of
economy, he found himself in a minority. —( Laughter. ) He
believed the present would be a decided exception.—(Cheers.)
He hoped so, for he did not wish to have it as an argument to
be handled by the versatile power of Lord Brougham, that the
Corporation of London yielded to so unjustifiable an expendi-
ture.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) It would be ridiculous to
attempt to keep the matter secret, but it would come as the
decisivebill of the Mercers Company came through the medium
of Lord Lyndhurst, and with comments as benevolently in-
tended.—( Hear, hear.) It was not to be wondered at that
Charitable Trusts' Bills were brought into Parliament when
Bills resembling that which the Noble Lord had taken under
his patronage, and introduced to the notice of the House of
Peers, were perpetrated,--( Hear, hear.) The motion of Mr,
Anderson was exceedingly temperate and moderate, and the
City were indebted to the Lord Mayor for having so promptly
called a Court for the discussion of a question of such vital
interest.
Deputy STEPHENS said he had no objection to see the Lord
Mayor and his party go beyond the boundaries, if they paid the
expenses incurred after they quitted his jurisdiction. If the
Corporation should at any time have any remaining after the
payment of the expenses of the prisons and the various contin-
gencies which were inseparable from its maintenance, the over-
plus ought to be given for the suort of charities and educa-
tional institutions.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir JAMES DUKE was not only opposed to the expenditure of
money beyond the limitsof the City jurisdiction, but he wished
that the expenses within the limits should be defined.—( Hear,
hear.) He wished them to be limitted to 1551.--( Hear, hear. )
Alderman Wiesore said he thought every real friend of the
city of London must very much regret to hear such a discus-
sion as the present in the Court of Common Council.—( Hear,
hear.) Had he consulted his own feelings he would have fol-
lowed the example of some of his brethen, and absented him-
self from the meeting ' • but he attended at much per-
sonal inconvience, lest his absence might be construed
into acquiescence in the truth of the observations and asser-
tions which had been made Ly some members of the Ceuncil
against the Court of Aldermen. With regard to the first
charge against the Court of Aldermen, a " breach of faith,"
he denied most positively that the Court of Aldermen had
acquiesced in a joint address to the King of the French, but
that two Aldermen had done so he would not deny, because
they admitted the fact. With regard to the motion then
before the Court, he begged it might be understood that he
did not attend as the representative of the Court of Alder-
men, but he spoke as a member of the Court of Common
Council, and he regretted that any member should have thought
it right to attack the Aldermen in their absence without
giving any notice of such intention, but assuming the plea of
breach of privilege as an authority for the scandal.—( Hear,
hear.) Hs should show that no Lord Mayor had ever been
more imperatively called upon to take the view his Lordship
had signified his intention to take than the present Chief Ma-
gistrate. He would then show that two or three, who were
the most noisy and clamorous against the Court of Aldermen,
ought to have been the very last persons to join in the unge-
nerous attack ; and, lastly, that if any portion of the freemen
and liverymen of London had cause to complain of a wanton
and wasteful expenditure, the Court of Common Council did
not form that portion.—(Laughter.). As to the necessity
which existed for the Lord Mayor's visit, any one who knew
anything of the lands and navigation must be aware that they
were in the very last extremity in consequence of .he comple-
tion ot the railways, and that it was only by adopting an in,.
peoved mode of navigation, by reducing the tolls, and by giving
to these traders advantages in the mode of towing and other
improvements, that sufficient income would be producable to
pay their expenses. As to any profit, that could hardly be
expected, now that the Corporation had raised a sum of
153,0001. for the purpose of improving the navigation of the
Thames, from which, in the year 1839, they derived an in-
come of 20,4191. Under the Act of Parliament they were
bound annually to pay off not less than 5001. in reducing the
debt. Owing to railroads, and other circumstances, the in-
come had fallen off in the last seven years 4,8651., and bat for
the reduction in the interest effected last year by the Committee
under a new Act of Parliament, they would not have been able
at the present time to pay off the 5001. of debt annually re-
quired. The great carriers of the canal, too, had complained
to the Committee of inability to pay the present high price of
toll, and made so good a case as to induce the Committee to
pass a resolution that the tolls should be reduced But that
would be of no avail unless the Commissioners of the upper
districts would unite and do the same. They had refused to
make the reduction, Now, it was well known, that in the
upper districts barges were frequently aground in such sea-
sons as the present for want of water, for which they were in a
great degree at the mercy of, the Corporation, and mill-
owners of that district, who would shut up, and withhold or
abstract the water as they pleased. It was necessary to the
navigation that the Lord Mayor should occasionally visit the
upper district, and ascertain what new dams, sluices, and other
alterations had been made. The Commissioners always re-
ceived the Lord Mayor most cordially, and readily listered to
any useful suggestion for the improvement of the
navigation, either above or below ; and it was
hoped that his Lordship would be able to convince them
of the propriety of concurring with the Committee on re-
ducing the tolls.—( Hear, hear.) To say that the Lord Mayor
was only to visit once in seven years, and pass over a time like
the present, when his presence might he the means of saving
the income of the navigation, was to say that his office, as
Conservator, was useless.—(Hear, hear.) With regard' to
the intention of the Lord Mayor to sleep at Oxford, it was
only reasonable that when his Lordship was obliged to leave
his home and his family, in the discharge of a public duty, he
should be allowed, if he found that better accommodation could
be obtained at Oxford than at &eines, to make his election.
Alderman Wilson then referred to the speech of Mr. Anderton
in which that gentleman spoke of wontonly expending the
City money, by eunketting at Oxford; and of the septennial
visit lip the River in 1839, the cost of which freak was
1,099/. 6s. ed. He denied that it was a septennial visit.
The upper district had not been visited for this teen years at
that period, and the Court should see who it was that took
upor himself to call the Court of Aldermen to account for
having expended in thirteen years, i n support of a great pri-
vilege, line tne- performance of a very important duty, the
average sum of 84/. 115, 2d. per annum, for that period. It
would have been but modest and fair if the mover had teed the
Court that he had been present himself, and had helped to
increase the amount, and how much enjoyment he had expee-
rienced.—(Laughter.) He had not the candour to tell the
Court that
Court that he was Deputy-Governor of the Irish Society; direct
he went to Ireland last year ; that instead
he took
to Londonderry, where the society's property lay, goingy
ntains; stayed
a most delightful tour over the Welsh fit
month, or six
some time in Dublin, was absent a
expended 300/
weeks ; and that the deputoartiotrhie
society to dine 'up:
addition to 527/. set apart 1
or spend as it pleased, and one dinner to the amount of 150/.'
given in the extreme of luxury.
Had he forgotten
annually sanctioned the thate hxper
e was
'
tore of a fixed sum
a member of a Court which
of 2,6701. in eating and drinking ?—(Loud
laughter)—Another _
. fixed sum of 00i. annually, in eating and
end dancing, and mtusic,_
hthicehir
vrtsvret snaontdcodraifiungelid-
drinking,
ters, on the river. a.nd. on par s of
to the limits of civic. jurisdiction ?—(Laughter. ) In fact, in
the Common Council, in eating and drinking last year—of
which the mover had, God knew, his share—there was ex-
pended the sum of 4,480/.; and the Hon. Gentleman had par-
ticipated in all these luxuries without seeming even to remem-
ber that such things had ever been. —( Laughter, and cries of
6' Hear, hear.") The worthy mover, at ti:e same time that he
attacked the Court of Aldermen, for expending, in 13 years,
1,0991. 6s. 6d., at the rate of 84/. 11s. 2 /d. per annum.,
knew well that he and the Irish Society were spending trust-
money at the rate of 12,0901. in tie same period.—( Hear,
hear, and murmurs.) He would next say a few words about
the Chairman of the London-bridge Approaches-fund, who
had also been a partaker of the good things of the Irish Society
without uttering one syllable of complaint—(Laughter)—and
who joined in the sally against the Court of Aldermen. It
would be an interesting document which contained an account
of the funds of the freemen of the City which had been ex-
pended in the delighted presence of that worthy gentleman, in
eating, and drinking, and music, and dancing, and entertain.
ments, splendid and multifarious, to ladies at Richmond and
Greenwich, and Blackwell, since his appointment as Chair.
man of the London-bridge approaches Committee.—( Laughter
and great murmuring). He had applied to the Chamberlain
for the returns, but that officer very courteously declined
giving it; very probably because he was ashamed to produce
such evidence. Under these circumstances he was obliged to

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