The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-21 00:00:00

COMMON COUNCIL.-THIS DAY.)

A Common Council was held this afternoon, at the Guild_
hall, at which the Lord Mayor, the Recorder of London, seven
Aldermen, the Sheriffs, and other City Authorities were present.
The Minutes of the last Court were read and confirmed.
SUNDAY TRADING.

APSLEY PELLATT, Esq., presented a petition praying
the Court to adopt measures to prevent the entire suppres_
sion of Sunday-trading, and addressed the Court at great
length, in stating the reasons which had urged him to petition
it upon the subject.
Mr. Taylor and Mr. Woods rose together, when the Lord
Mayor stated that the latter gentleman first caught his eye,
and Mr. Taylor resumed his seat.

Mr. \VOODS spoke at great length in support of the prayer
of the petition, and proposed that petitions be presented to
both Houses of Parliament, founded upon the draft of a peti-
tion he held in his hand, praying the Legislature to enact
more effectual measures to entirely suppress trading of every
description on the Lord's Day.
Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR expressed his surprise at the
manner in which the last speaker had availed himself of the
petition that had been read, to propose addressing the Legis-
lature upon the subject. This astonishment was greatly aug-
mented when he perceived that notice of a motion upon the
subject had been given by that gentleman, and the motion
stood the last upon the paper.
After considerable discussion, Mr. Woods consented to with-
draw his motion, as to the petitioning of the Legislature, and
the petition of A. Pellatt was ordered to be received.

Several persons were admitted to the freedom of the city,
and the petitions of others, praying to be reduced in the amount
of their rents, were referred to the Bridge-house Committee.
PERIODICAL ELECTION OF ALDERMEN, &c.
A petition was presented by several of the inhabitants of the
Ward of Cripplegate, praying the Court to take into considera-
tion the most expeditious measures to adopt to cause the Court
of Aldermen to be thrown open to the public, the Aldermen to
be periodically elected, and the constituency of the small
wards, whereby the Aldermen are created magistrates of the
whole city of London, to be increased.

Mr. NEWELL addressed the Court at great length upon
the importance of the object of the prayer of the petitioners.

Mr. DIXON strongly opposed the prayer of the petition.

Alderman VENABLES supported the petition,

Mr. TAYLOR and several other gentlemen followed on the
same side, and it was proposed that the petition be referred to a
select committee. But the question was not decided when our
reporter left.

EARL GREY'S COERCIVE MEASURES.-
Yesterday, a meeting of the requisitionists took place at the
Royal Hotel, College green, for the purpose of preparing
resolutions, petitions, and addresses, to be submitted to tie
public meeting of the citizens of Dublin, to be held to-
morrow, to express their sentiments relative to Lord GREY'S
measures of coercion. JAMES DWYER, Esq., in the chair.
Several gentlemen addressed the chair, explaining their
views on the occasion. A general sense of the deepest
indignation was expressed relative to the Bill introduced
for the subversion of the Irish Constitution, and a com-
mittee appointed to prepare the necessary resolutions, &c.
—Dublin Morning Register of Tuesday.

COURT OF CHANCERY._(TS DAY.)

EXTRAORDINAhI" CHANCERY FETE.

Sir EDWARD SUGDEN stated in a case in which a point
of practice arose—namely, whether the solicitor obtaining an
order that his opponents might answer exceptions and as
amendment at the same time, upon the payment of Os., prior
to obtaining a certificate that the exceptions had been allowed,
he had to call his Lordship's attention to one of the most
extraordinary fetes of expedition in Chancery proceedings that
had ever come before his notice. The solicitor had exhibited a
degree of activity and rapidity never before known, and which
it would be impossible for any one to believe had the facts
not been distinctly sworn to.

Mr. E. Bryant Garey, solicitor, of Southampton-buildings,
stated by his affidavit that on the 20—d of January last, he
attended a warrant before the Master of the Court of Chancery,
at half-past hi o'clock, on exceptions to the defendant's answer
to an original bill, and that three of the exceptions
were then allowed. That about two o'clock on the
same day lie obtained the Master's report on the
said exceptions, and that he immediately proceeded to
the Report-office for the purpose of filing that report,
but the office was closed, and there was no person in
attendance with whom he could file it. That he had, however,
regularly filed the report soon after the office opened in the
evening of the same day. That after he had obtained the
report from the Master, he caused a petition to be presented to
his Honour, the Master of the Rolls, praying that the plaintiffs
might be at liberty to amend their bill, and that the defendant
might be ordered to answer the amendments and the exceptions
at the same time. Finally, that the order to amend was made,
drawn up, passed, entered, and served upon the defendant on
the very same day on which the report of the Master was
signed and filed, namely, the 2.2 d of January ! The Learned
Counsel considered that such a degree of expedition might
well be put in the balance, and would, no doubt, far outweigh
many of the charges of delay that were from day to day brought
against this Court. After some discussion on both sides at the
bar, Sir E. Sugden contending that it was impossible to have
obtained the order to answer the amendments and exceptions
before the Master's report was obtained, allowing the excep-
tions, and Mr. Pepys, contra, arguing that the Court could
not look to a fraction of a day so as to ascertain whether the
report in the order was first obtained, the whole having been
gone through in one day, according to the affidavit of Mr. Garey.
His LORDSHIP said he would take the opportunity of
looking into the affidavit, and inquiring more particularly into
the practice before he decided the point.