The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-24 00:00:00

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gether with a book of reference to such plans, containing the names
of the actual or reputed owners or lessees, and of the occupiers of
such lands and houses ; also, amended sections of so much of the
said railway from Bulverhithe to Ashford as lies in the Bahl parish
of Guestling between the points aforeslid, showing the levels thereof
as proposed to be altered ; and also amended sections of so much of
the said Railway from Tunbridge Wells to join the Rye and Ashford
Extension of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway, as lies in
the said parishes of Westfield and Guestling, between the points
aforesaid, showing the levels thereof as proposed to be altered ; and
also a copy of the notice for the Bill as published in the "London
Gazette," will be deposited for public inspection, on or before the
30th day of November instant, with the Clerk of the Peace for the
county of Sussex, at his office at Lewes ; and a copy of so much of
such plans and sections as relates to the several parishes in which
the said alterations are proposed to tie made, together with a copy of
such " Gazette " notice as aforesaid, will be deposited on or before
the said 30thday of November instant with the parish clerks of such
parishes respectively, at their respective residences.
And notice is hereby further given, that it is also Intended in the
said Bill to take powers to enable the said South-Eastern Railway
Company to contribute and subscribe, eith r out of their corporate
funds or out of any capital to be raised for such purposes, a sum or
SUMS of money towards the maintenance or establishment of steam
communication between the several ports ,f the counties of Kent and
Sussex approached or to be approached by the South-Eastern Rail-
way, or any present or future bra .ches thereof, and the various ports
on the Continent of Europe : ant also to charter or hire, purchase
or construct, ant to use, maintain, and work steam-boats, or other
vessels, and to enter into any contracts or :agreements with any
steam-packet company, or any other persons having, or making, and
navigating steam-boats and oth r vessels with reference to the es-
tablishment of steam .boats and packet communication with the Con-
tinent, and to take tolls and fares in respect of such steamboats or
other vessels.

And it is also proposed in the said Bill, and so far as may be
deemed requisite for the purposes thereof, to alter, amend, repeal,
enlarge, or extend the powers and provisions of the hereinbefore
mentioned Acts, and also of the several Acts of Parliament herein-
after mentioned (that is to say), the several Acts following, directly
or indirectly relating to or affecting the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany, which Acts (local and personal) are distinguished in the
Queen's printer's copies thereof as the Gth Wm. IV., cap. 75; Ist
Viet., cap. 93; 2d Vict., cap. 42 ; 2d and 3d Vict., cap. 79 ; 3d Viet..
cap. 46 ; sth Vict., seas. 2, cap. 3 ; 6th and 7th Vict., cap. 51 ; 6th and
9th Vict., zaps. 52 and 62; -7th Viet., cap. 25 ; 7th and Bth Vict.,
caps. 69 and 91 ; Bth and 9th Vict., caps. 167, 186, 197, and 200 ; 9th
Viet., caps. 55, 56, and G 4 ;- 9th and 10th Vict., caps. 305 and 339 ;
10111 and 11th Viet., caps. 104 and 230.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1848.
TILLEARD, SONS, and FREEMAN, Old Jewry.

carrying all or any such powers into execution out of the Borough
fund of the borough, er any rate to be made or levied in aid thereof.
And it Is also intended by the said 11111 or Bills to incor-
porate therein the several powers and provisions of " The
Commissioners' Clauses Consolidation Act, 1847 ;" " The
Lands' Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845;" " The Towns'
Improvement Clauses Act, 1847 ;" and ft The Towns' Police
clauses Act, 1847," or such of the powers and provisions of the said
Acts, or any of them, as may be deemed necessary or expedient.
And it is also intended to repeal, vary, or alter the powers or provi-
sions of any Act or Acts which it may be necessary to repeal, vary,
or alter, for effecting all or any of the objects and purposes aforesaid,
or the powers and provisions of which woul►i interfere with the exer-
cise of the powers to be conferred by the said Bill er Bills.
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to confer other
powers, rights, and privileges, and to alter, vary, and extinguish
existing rights and privileges.
Dated the tenth day of November, 1848.
E. W. SCOTT, Kendal,
Solicitor for the Bill.

DUKE, Mavoa.
A COMMON COUNCIL holden in the Cgam-
t ber of the OuiMilan of the City of London, on Tunasnsx, the
23l day of November, 1848,
Resolved unanimously,
That this Court, ever anxious to tender the due weed of praise to
those who have deserved well of their fellow-citizens, desires to re-
cord the high sense it entertains of the excellent manner in which
the Right Honourable John Kinuersley Hooper, late Lord Mayor
of this City, discharged the onerous and important duties of his ele-
vated office during the past eventful year.
That this Court has witnessed with the highest satisfaction the
anxiety evinced by the late Lord Mayor to forward all measures cal-
culated to promote the greater efficiency of our municipal institutions,
and his readiness at all times to give his aid and Influence in the con-
ference with her Majesty's Government upon various important
measures. And this Court has watched with similar satisfaction the
punctuality, patience, and impartiality displayed by his Lordship
when presiding over this Court, and his general courtesy and affabi-
lity to its members and officers on all occasions.
That this Court desires also to express its approbation of the firm-
ness and abi ity. displayed by the late Lord Mayor in the discharge
of his magisterial duties, particularly of his patience and diligence in
the investigation of cases in which the poor and ignorant had been
made the dupes of designing and artful impostors, and his desire, as
far as practicable, to administer justice with mercy.
And this Court especially refers with pride and admiration to the
calmness and decision exhibited by him in the judicious arrangements
adopted to prevent the contemplated disturbance of the public peace,
to secure the maintenance of authority and order, and to vindicate
the supremacy of the law, on the memorable 10th of April.
Nor can this Court fall to recognise the effectual support given
during his year of office to the charitable institutions of this city, not
only by his liberal contributions, but also by his willing co-operation
in presiding over their accustomed meetings.
And the Court has marked with much gratification the unostenta-
tious manner, whilst presiding at the Mansion House, in which the
late Lord Mayor dispensed the ancient hospitality of the City of Lon-
don, and also the courteous reception of his numerous and distin-
guished guests.

MEREWETHER.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause VULLIAMY v. VULLIAMI, the
Creditors of BENJAMIN VULLIAMY, late of Pall-mall, and of
Norland douse, Kensington, both in the county of Middlesex, clock
and watch maker, deceased (who died in the month of December,
1811), are, by their Solicitors, on or before the 27th day of January,
1849, to leave their claims of debts before N. W. SENIOR, one of the
Masters of the said Court, at his office in Southampton-
buildings, Chancery-lane, London, and are, on or before the 19th
day of February, 1849. to establish such claims before the said Mas-
ter; or in default. thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the
benefit of the said Decree and the general orders of the said Court.
HENRY WARD, Plaintiff's Solicitor,
51, Lincoln's Inn-fields.

TO the ELECTORS of the WEST RIDING
of YORKSII tRE.
Upper Brook-street, Nov. 23, 1848.
Gentlemen,—An invitation, as unexpected as it is gratifying, has
just been conveyed to me from a numerous body of electors, to ailpw
myself to be put in nomination to represent your Riding.
My first and overwhelming impression, on receiving such a com-
munication, has been one of personal unworthiness of such an
honour. Whatever bearing such an admission may have, it is right
to confess that, as a man whose property Iles out of your county,
though for a short time he represented one of your boroughs, and
who is unknown by sight to a, large proportion of •Yorkshiremen,
such an offer is calculated to produce feelings, in which gratitude Is
strongly blended with a disposition to decline the task.
Allow me, however, to state to you the circumstances which have
counteracted these first impressions. The grounds on which I have
come to the decisim to comply with the request to become a candi-
date are, to brief, those which have induced a large body of your-
selves to forget that my property is south and not north of the
Humber.

I have been asked to stand, and now consent to do so, because,
while there are three or four subjects on which I entertain strong
opinions, there is another en *which my views are so long cherished,
and so firmly held, that I hope there is scarcely any sacrifice which
I should not feel it my duty to make in order to secure their triumph.
The principle of entire freedom of commerce I desire to see carried
out to its fullest development,
laws. including a change in our navigation-

Economy in the public finances I desire to see effected, not so
much by petty reductions in subordinate offices, as by a bold and
manly review of the whole principle and details of our present expen-
diture. The charge on the Exchequer is greater now under a Whlg
Government than it was when the Duke of Wellington was in office.
I will not presume, in such a hasty address, to say in what exact
particulars of our military, naval, and civil services reductions ought
to be effected ; but of this I am certain, that a searching investiga-
tion of the whole of these departments is a duty which the distressed
condition of the country demands from your representatives.
With regard to our representative system, i am grateful for the
Reform Act as far as it goes, and if it had gone as far in practice as
its supporters anticipated in theory. I should be reluctant to dis-
turb a settlement arrived at after severe 4iontests. But 1 desire to
see the principle of the Reform Bill carried out. I wish to see elec-
tions the real expression of honest public opinion ' • and I have
witnessed so much of corruption and intimidation that I feel per-
suaded that we shall never have real representation without the
Ballot. fo the success of the Ballot I believe large constituencies to
be essential ; independently of which reason for extending the suf-
frage, I have a strong conviction that the wider can be made the
basis on which our franchise is founded, consistently with the due
qualification of the voter, the safer will be the superstructure of our
Constitution, and the better will it be able to resist those storms
which are threatening the old despotisms and novel constitutions of
the Continent.
To these economies and reforms peace is essential. It is scarcely
needful to say that both as a politician and as a Christian, I ardently
desire, and should strenuously labour for its maintenance.
But the point of all.others on which I feel it to be my duty to ad-
dress you, is the subject of further religious endowments by
the State. This is the question whichaddal)onperivinadtiuocenss.
omfe re-
linquish,ato
labours,
responsibilities fbicotimes.paraantidvea pmriavyacy, and to submit to the
Par-
liamentary life. Here I feel that my direct duty to God as
a Christian coincides with my lower duty as a politician and as
an Englishman. Putting aside for the moment the abstract
question of existing religious establi-hments, I protest against all
new religious endowments; involving as they do the putting of
truth and error on the same level, and the establishment of a pro-
vision for Romanist priests—the offspring of an insidious and un-
worthy expediency— side by side with Protestant institutions,which,
whatever may be their abstract propriety or the contrary, are at all
events based upon an acknowledgment of divine truth. To any
provision of any sort or kind for the Romish priests, to any transfer
of the property of the Irish establishment under any plea,
however plausible, to the adherents of Rome, I am conscien-
tiously, firmly, irrevocably opposed.
But while I thus object to the endowment of the religion of my
Romanist fellow-countrymen, I ana bound to add that I also object
to the flirther endowment of Protestantism ; desiring as I do that
the civil and ragious rights of one class of religionists in the State
should be as tenderly cherished and as firmly maintained as those of
another. _

The deputation who have waited upon me are this instant leav-
ing London, and I must abruptly close this communication. I hope to
fellow them to-morrow to Leeds, and speedily to have the honour of
addressing the electors in some of the chief towns of the West Riding.
In the meantime, I have the honour to be, gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
CULLING EARL/LEY EARD LEY.