The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-20 00:00:00

REGULATION OF CITY RLFCTIONS.

Mr. Plume (chairman of the freedom committee)
called the attention of the Court to the consideration
of a subject about which they had been fighting for
the last twenty years, and which he trusted would be
quite set at rest by the report and Bill introduced by
the committee.

The report stated—" That the committee had duly
considered the subject referred to them, and had
agreed to several resolutions thereon, viz.:-
" That the constituency of this city, for the elec-
tion of aldermen, common councilmen, and ward
officers, should consist of freemen, being occupiers of
premises within the city, being rated to the police
rate.

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" That a suitable declaration for freemen be in-
serted in the draft of the Bill, instead of the present
oath.
" That with respect to the times for holding elec,
tions for aldermen, common councilmen, and ward
officers, there shall be one day for nomination and
election ; but, in the event of a poll being demanded,
the poll should IA taken and concluded on the day
following the day of nomination.
" That any alderman or common councilman should
be removed on bankruptcy, insolvency, by deed of
composition, by applying for or taking the benefit of
any insolvent Act, conviction of fraud, or who shall
abaent himself from his duty for six months without
reasonable cause.
"And the committee directed the Remembrancer
to prepare a Bill founded upon the foregoing resolu-
tions, and the Remembrancer had accordingly laid
before them the draft of a Bill whereby it would
appear that it was proposed to repeal so much of the
Act of the 2d George I. as regulated the right of
voting, and the time of polling at elections of alder-
men and common councilmen, and to substitute a
new qualification, and a more ample proof of such
qualification, and to restrict the polling to one day ;
and it was also proposed to substitute declarations
for the oaths required to be taken at ward elections
and on admission to the freedom of the City, and to
disqualify aldermen and common councilmen in cer- '
tain cases. That the committee having taken the
said draft Bill into consideration, and being of opinion
that the several changes thereby intended to be effected
in the qualification of the electors, the duration of
the poll, the substitution of declarations fbr oaths,
and the disqualification, in certain cases, of aldermen
and common ccaincilmen, would be of great advan-
tage to the citizens and inhabitants of this City, they
had approved thereof and submitted the same to the
Court, and recommended that they should be em-
powered to give the requisite notices of an application
to Parliament, in the next session, for leave to intro-
duce the said Bill."—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. ANDERTON said that a Bill of the kind, re-
commended by the committee, was the general pre-
cursor to St. Thomas's-day, so that if there were two
St. Thomas's-days in the year he had no doubt there
would be two Bills for enlarging the constituency
brought in—(A. laugh)—that as sure as his name
was James Anderton the Bill before them would no
more be heard of after St. Thomas's•day.—(A laugh,
and cries of dissent.) He believed, as he had often
stated, that reform of the corporation must proceed
from some other authority than itself; but still he did
not consider the case hopeless. He hoped that the
measure would meet with the approbation of Parlia-
ment.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BA.RCLAT considered that giving the privilege
to persons who were rated to the police-rate was but
a miserable boon to the citizens of London. If the
Court meant to act upon a liberal principle they would
assimilate the system to that which was adopted in
Parliamentary elections. There was no inducement
to the general body of the citizens of London to take
up their freedom —(Cries of " Oh, oh.") What
benefit had he derived from his freedom ?

Several Members—You are in this Court, and you
may be a sheriff or an alderman, which you could not
be if you were not free.
MY. BARCLAY protested that he coulil not Zee low

BIICTEIB.
On the 17th inst., at ilyde, the Hon. Mrs. Frederick 1101'
land, of a daughter.

On the 16th—inst., at Kensington, Mrs. J. Furze, of
On the 16th inst., at Leighton Buzzard, Ellen, the wife "
Francis Bassett, of twin sons. • f
On the 16th inst., at Rowdell-house, Sussex, the wife o
C. M. Chester, Esq., of a son.
At Heslington-house, Worthing, the lady of W. T. Agar'
Esq, of Elm-lodge, Camden-town, of a daughter.
wife of
On the 17th inst., at the Oaldands, Dursley, the wife
E. A. Freeman, Esq., of a daughter. 4 J,
On the 18th inst., at Hyde-park-gardens, the WI
Blyth, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., at Duncan-terrace, Islington,
Browning, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 17th inst., at Zeal Monachorum, Devon, lienrY,;(l.,i
Marshall, Esq, Captain, Madras Army, to Ellen, Li"—
daughter of the late Rev.- Thomas Robyns, vicar of
stow, Devon.
On the 17th inst., at Harlington, Beds, the Rev. Truell
Tanqueray, rector of Tingretb, Beds, to Harriott Elizabet
eldest daughter of G. Pearse, Esq., of Harlington.
On the 17th inst., at Oundle, Northamptonshire, the .-en.
C. H. Bingham, M.A., incumbent of Ramsey, klunting,dohn
shire, to Emma Sophia, second daughter of the late
Smith, Esq., of the Rectory, Oundle, Northamptonshire. Air.
On the 17th inst., at e the Scots Church, London-wall'ht
James Macandrew, merchant, to Eliza Hunter, only datig—
of T. Reynolds, Esq., of Albuquerque, Spain.
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On the 18th inst., at St. Matthew's Church, 131-1% 0
Anthony Carr, Esq., of Union-grove, Wandsworth-read, ds,
li;ary Jane, youngest daughter of the late John SYIOII
Esq., Brixton.

DIED.
On the 9th inst., at Dartford, Mr. J. ,-, Snowden, g.ecl74.d
On the 15th inst., at Manor-terrace, Brixton, Alr• '4ll
White, aged. 72. Jo
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On the 16th inst., at Dalston-rise, Dalston,
Leonathe rd, aged 74. or
On 16th inst., at Drummond-place, Edinburg'', NW
Jameson, aged 79.
On the 17th inst., Jeremiah Compton, Esq., at litableioll'
place, St. Pancras, late of Arkley-hall, Ridge, Herts. „opt
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