The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-20 00:00:00

CIVIC CRITICISM.

Previous to the election of Mr. Prigg to be Mayor of
Bury St. Edmund's, on .Monday, the usual compliments
were paid by his proposer and seconder as to his quali-
fications for the office. Captain Hubbard, however,
struck a discordant note, expressing himself as follows:—
He should be sorry (he said) to cast any reflection upon
the Mayor proposed, whose private character was be-
yond reproach; yet he felt bound to pass his opinion on
a person who was not capable of fulfilling the duties of
the office with efficiency. He did not refer to the edu-
cation of the gentleman proposed, but his objection ap-
plied to his impediment of speech.
A Voice—" Wretched taste."

They had heard the magistrates of the town men-
tioned—a body of the most respectable and honourable
men in the town—and he would ask if any of those ma-
gistrates could sit under a man who, in speaking, either
rendered himself ridiculous or inflicted pain. He him-
self could say it must be a most painful thing to hear
that gentleman deliver a judgment in any case. He
offered no opposition to Mr. Prigg, because of his abili-
ties, because he had understood that Mr. Prigg had
himself asked, " Why a tailor should not possess abili-
ties as well as any one else?"—(Laughter.)—But ho
(Captain Hubbard) would ask in return, if possessed of
abilities equal to taking the duties of first magistrate of
the borough, why a tailor?—(Laughter and interrup-
tion).—He opposed Mr. Prigg because of his natural
defect. It was very true, perhaps, Mr. Prigg was a good
tradesman, but a man of dignity was required, with
merits not only reflecting upon himself, but upon the
town also. If he had been asked the last man of the
council he should choose for Mayor, he should have an-
swered Mr. Prigg, in consequence of his defect of speech.
A Voice—" Horrid, horrid."
Mr. PRIGS, in returning thanks for his election, re-
marked that he was sorry in some respects that he had
been put forward, since it had caused some observation
to fall which could not be pleasurable. Some remarks
had fallen from one who would never be satisfied unless
he had the entire control. With respect to what had
fallen from Captain Hubbard about his (the Mayor's)
opinion of the abilities of tailors, be might simply
serve that he had never said any thing of the kind; and
Captain Hubbard had never heard it, and he would defy
him to produce any witnesses who ever heard such words
fall from his lips. It was a story of Captain Hubbard's
own make.—(Laughter.)

TEE EVERT •ONE-POR-HIMSELF PRINCIPLE.—No,
certainly, it was not to attain the ignoble and immoral,
every one for himself, that so many great men, holy
martyrs of thought, have shed from epoch to epoch,
from century to century, their souls' tears, the sweat
and blood of their bodies. Beings of devotedness
and love, they laboured and suffered for something
higher than the individual, for that humanity which
ought to be the object of all our efforts, and to
which we are all responsible. Before a generation
which scorned or persecuted them, they calmly
uttered their prophetic thoughts ; with an eye
fixed on the horizon of future times, speaking to
that collective being which ever lives, which
ever learns, and in which the divine idea is pro-
gressively realised, for that city of the human race, which
alone, by the association of all intellects, of all loves, of
all forces, can accomplish the providential design that
presided over our birth here below. We are all pledged
to one another. We all live for others ; the individual
for his family, the family for its country, the country for'
humanity. We all seek the law of our life, and with us
(as in all that exists), the law of the individual is found
only in the species. We are all climbing a pyramid,
whose base embraces the earth, and whose point rises
towards God : the ascent is slow and painful, and we can
accomplish it only by entwining all our hands, by aiding
ourselves with our united strength, by closing our ranks,
like the Macedonian phalanx, when any of us fall
exhausted by fatigue.—People's Journal
TRicxs or A JACKDAW. A few days ago, a
carriage arrived at Gilstrap's Hotel, Newark, for the
night. On the following morning, prior to starting, a
jackdaw belonging to the hotel resolved to convert the
same into an observatory. He was driven off, but John
having taken a liking to the carriage, or bent upon
having an excursion, found a hiding-place on the under-
works of the carriage; he remained unobserved, and on
arriving the following morning at the Red Lion Hotel,
Worksop, was recognised by the servant accompanying
the carriage, and by him and the hostler at the Red Lion
was driven off. He immediately mounted a " fir* in the
yard, and in a very amusing and commanding manner
called out for the " Boots.' He was packed up in a
hamper and sent back to his old quarters at 'Newark, an.d
appeared to be much gratified on his return.--Derr.
shire Courier.

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FISIL—The Highland and west coast :fishers seem
to have roused themselves up this season), as a greater
quantity of all kinds of fish is sent into market this
season than for many years bypast. The herring fish-
ing has sprung up again at 'farbert, in Lc chfine. The
fish are taken by the trawl net, and they • weigh about
half-a-pound each, and are very fine in V quality. The
fishing as very properous, and they are 'Benin," at three
for twopence, and two for three 'nttlf-r mce.—Greenock
Advertiser.
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