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PFI SUN) LONDON, WEDNESDAY._ EVENING, APRIL 22, 1846.

the French—an additional motive for declaring the sense
which her Majesty's subjects had, in common with the
population of France, of the providential escape of the
King.—(Cheers.) He wished to see the feeling perre•
tuated, and he considered that the Court ought at once
to express their great regret that any one could be found
in his Majesty's dominions capable of so diabolical a
crime as an attempt upon the life of a sovereign so de-
serving of the love and respect of his people, as well as
of the admiration of every civilised nation.—(Cheers.)
A member here asked whether there was any prece-
dent for such a proceeding as the one suggested ?
Alderman FAREBRoTHER said it did not signify
whether there existed any precedent or not.— (Hear.)
It was quite impossible for a moment to think of the
warm reception which the King of the French gave to
the Corporation upon the occasion of his Majesty's visit
to Queen Victoria, or to the members of that Court at
St. Cloud, with any feelings but those of the deepest ve-
neration and gratitude. Mr. Alderman Farebrother
then moved that an address be presented to the King of
the French, congratulating his Majesty upon his late
happy deliverance from the hand of an assassin.
Sir P. LAURIE seconded the motion. The King of the
French had derived as much gratification from the ad-
dress present( d to him by the Corporation of London as
from any circumstarce connected with his Majesty's
vist to this country. The escape of his Majesty was an
incident of a most providential character. He seemed to
have a charmed life—a li4e protected by an inscrutable
arrangement for the benefit of his own great country,
and fur the service of the whole European community.—
(Hear.) No man, in fact, had been so frequently
attacked or so wonderfully preserved.
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL said he had no doubt that
the other Court would adopt similar proceedings at the
next meeting, and both Courts would agree and co-op-
perate. Formerly there used to start up an injurious
Jealousy between the Court of Aldermen end Court of
Common Council, but that sort of fe, hog he rejoiced to
say no longer existed.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir GEORE CARRoLL said that Alderman Farebrcther
had anticipated him in moving the address to his most.
gracious Majesty the King of the French. It was im-
possible that any man conld be better entitled than he
(Sir G. Carroll) to join in a vote of congratulation to
the illustrious Sovereign, for he was one of those mem-
bers of the Court who had been treated in so distin-
guished a manner by his Majesty at the palace of St.
Cloud, where the King entertained them, together with
the members of the Royal Family with the greatest
respect and attention.—(Cheers.)
Alderman CHALLIS hoped the address would not be
' one of a cold and formal character, hut would appear as
if it came warm from the heart, and filled with generous
and grateful sentiments.—(Hear. hear.) Ile wished it
' to be communicated to the French people that anything
affecting their interests was an object of interest to this
country.—(Cheers.)
Alderman H. Humus suggested that the address
should be one of condolence as well as congratulation,
as the King, when attacked, was surrounded by his
family, whose terror must have been greatly excited by
the event, and with whom it would be proper for the
Court to sympathise. He thought the sympathy of the
Court should certainly be embodied in the address.—
: (Hear, hear.) The less formal and the more hearty
and unconstrained the address would be the better.

The suggestion of embodying the sympathy of the
Court in the address was adopted by generally expressed
consent.

After a few words from Alderman Wood, Alderman

Iluniphery, ai.d Alderman Sydney-, who agreed in every
sentiment which had been uttered in praise of the King
of t'.e French, the address was unanimously carried, and
amidst loud cheers.

The Court then adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.
On Monday afternoon Sergeant Brennan, of the G divi-
sion, accompanied by two of his men, apprehended John
Morris, a notorious character in the vicinity of Duck-lane,
in the act of coining. He was handcuffed, and the officers
were about removing him, when they were suddenly at-
tacked by a formidable gang, said to be upwards of fifty in
number, who beat the police off and rescued the prisoner,
made his escape in the handcuffs, the sergeant being severely
wounded in the head, besides which his men received other
severe injuries. Encouraged by their success on this occa-
sion, and obviously with a desire to intimidate the officers
from visiting the courts and alleys in this neighbourhood,
where robberies with violence are nightly committed, the
thieves determined upon another attack upon the constables
and carried it into effect, but fortunately with a result
the reverse of that they had anticipated, five of them being
captured.
The names of the accused were John Davison, Robert
Lawrence, John Wright, Richard Morris, John Smith. They
were ragged fellows, and all well-known thieves.
The circumstances of the case, as detailed in reference to
the last attack, are briefly these :—Police-constaWe John
Rounds, 210 B, was on duty at two o'clock yesterday morn-
ing in Orchard-street, when, as he passed a soup shop,
Davison, who was standing on the threshold of the door,
suddenly, and without a word having been said on either
side, or anything having occurred to justify such an
act, came behind him and struck him a violent blow
on the jaw, which dislocated it, with a lancewood bludgeon,
resembling in appearance the spoke of a gig wheel. The
fellow attempted to follow up his blow with a second, but
the constable receded a few steps, when Lawrence
suddenly made his appearance, but on the constable
springing his rattle, and other officers appearing iu sight,
the fellows ran off. The police pursued them down
Duck-lane, and into New-court, where the defendants, from
the windows of a house there, attacked them with bricks
and missiles of every description, a female holding a light
out in order that their operations might be carried on with
better effect. The officers, who were repeatedly struck,
entered the house and captured Lawrence, Wright, Morris,
and Smith, who used langtraxe of the most threatening de
scription, and called out for ,pistols. After the officers had
secured them, they returned to,the house in quest of Davison,
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whom they heard, as they a ended the stairs, throw some
heavy piece of wood down, an found him in a room with
s four bludgeons of the same f inidable character as we have
described. Davison made gre t resistance, wished he had a
knife or pistol, or some suet' thing, and added, that "he
should like to serve them as fie had done Brennan" (the ser-
geant of the G division).
Mr. Barfoot, an Inspector of the B division, asked for a
remand, in order that tte sergeant and constables who had
been attacked in the morning might attend, as he had no
doubt some of the accused were engaged in it.
Mr. BOND thought there could be but little doubt about
that, especially as regarded Davison, by what had fallen from
his own lips.
The whole of the prisoners pretended that they knew
nothing about the charge against them.
Mr. BOND observed that it was too serious a case for him
to deal with .summarily. He should remand them for
a week.