The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-13 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

(Concluded from The Sun of yesterday.)
ELECTION OF A RECTOR.
The Court, previous to proceeding to the election of a
Rector of the United Parishes of St. Margaret Pattens and
St. Gabriel Fenchurch, unanimously agreed to a resolution
that the several candidates for the vacant Rectory be in-
formed that it is the expectation of the Court that the gen-
tleman who may be elected shall reside in the parsonage
house, and personally perform the duties of Rector, and
that in the event of his obtaining any other preferment
which shall render such residence and performance of duty
impracticable, he do resign the benefice : and that each
candidate be asked whether he is willing to go to the elec-
tion upon the faith that such shall be his conduct if
elected. The resolution was then communicated to the
two Reverend Gentleman who were candidates for the Rec-
Wry, in which they both readily acquiesced.
The poll was then proceeded on, and the scrutineers re-
ported the numbers to be, for
Rev. Mr. Grose 66
Rev. Mr. Newbury
whereupon the Lord Mayor declared the latter gentleman
duly elected.
The Court proceeded to consider a report from the City
Lands Committee for an application to Parliament in the
next Session for enlarging and improving Smithfield market.
The report was agreed to, except as to the site for the pro-
posed enlargement of the market, and it was referred to the
City Lands' Cammittee to further consider that subject,
and to confer with the New Street Committee thereon.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDIIALL.

Yesterday Mr. Nickolas Maillard, a gentleman who had
served Don Pedro, with the rank of Lieutenant, for twelve
months, during the occupation of Oporto, was brought
before Mr. Alderman VENABLES, charged with attempting
to extort money from Mr. Mendizabal, the financial agent
in London for the Portuguese Government, under the
threat of bringing upon that government the hatred of the
public ; and Thomas Williams, a poor man, was charged
with carrying two placards up and dowu Cornbill in aid of
the said attempt.
Mr. Alderman VENABLES would not sanction the placing
a man with these placards opposite Mr. Mendizabal's door,
but as the man had in this case walked up and down like
.the other placard-bearers he should dismiss the charge.
In reply to questions from the Alderman,
Mr. Maillard had been engaged in several actions, and
had his arm broken by the bursting of a shell in the bar-
racks. All his baggage had been detained for many
months, on account of a debt for freight due from the Por-
tuguese Government to a ship-agent at Portsmouth.
Mr. Alderman VENABLES hoped Mr. Mendizabal would
immediately redress this grievance.
The parties were then dismissed.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.
Pierre Le Maitre, a native of France, was held to bail
to keep the peace towards Mr. James Smith, tailor, in
Bond-street, whom he had annoyed in various ways, and
threatened to make a victim of, in consequence of his having
been discharged about a fortnight ago by Mr. Smith, in
whose employment he had been as a journeyman.

THAMES- OFFICE.
Yesterday Mark Brady, a seaman belonging to a New-
castle collier, who has been in custody for the last six weeks
on a charge of maliciously wounding Robert Dixon, his
shipmate, with intent to murder him, was brought before
Mr. Broderip for the fifth time for re-examination.
The wounded man, whose skull has been trepanned, has
since remained in the London Hospital, and his sufferings
have been very great. His ultimate recovery is even now
very doubtful. Yesterday, on the prisoner being put to the
bar, Sporle, a names police constable, stated that he had
just seen the man in the hospital, and he was not yet in a
fit state to give his deposition. He could not get in or out
of bed without assistance, and he understood that he would
have to undergo another painful operation.
Mr. BRODERIP said it was a most painful and distressing
case, and notwithstanding the length of time the prisoner
had been in custody he was afraid he must again remand
him. _ _

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The prisoner was then remanded for another fortnight.

We have been given to understand that the Duke
of Sussex attended the funeral of the late Duke of Gloucester,
though at great personal risk, at the express desire of the King.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.---On Thursday after-
noon, during the time that a party of labourers were engaged
in lowering cinnamon powder from a floor of an upper story
of a warehouse in Lower Thames-street, one of the bags,
weighing from three to four cwt , fell fmm the slings of the
crane upon a man employed below, and deprived him almost
instaritmleously of life.