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was eventually carried by 47 to 4.
The election for Common Council was then pro-
ceeded with.
From the resignation of Mr. G. Holmes and Mr.
J. Dixon there were five new candidates to fill such
vacancies, viz —Messrs. Bache, Webber, Bell, Sully,
and T. Smith.
The names of the respective candidates were then
put, when the show of hands gave the following
result :
Mr. George Brooke 63151r. E. Howard ......... 39
Mr. Snelling . ...... 56 Mr. S. Unwin (Deputy) 35
Mr. E. Shaw
*Mr. R. C. Bache sl'.lr. R. Ikil
Mr. H. Miller
48i Hr. T. Smith ............ 20
*Mr. C. Sully
The Alderman declared the election to have fallen
on the first eight names, %hen a poll was demanded
on behalf of AIL R. Bell, which was appointed to take
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S N 7 DECEMBER 23 1851
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said he
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Bond, Thomas Dakin,Towse, and John
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member
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corporation
Richard
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he had on several 'ltiofonwLaet their
neither in terms of praise or admiration, of
thoenadesoana-
perience of the last year had not tended to change hisb
Council.
who believed themselves to be immaculate,,afanbad
opinion • and long before the subject was t the public journals he had spoken of themaasen up
bodyby
their constitution was the perfection thit
wisdom. They really, indeed, fancied they could do
no wrong, and while they prided and plumed them-
selves on their own self-sufficiency they were totally
regardless of public opinion, which looked upon them
with ridicule and contempt, so much so that few
persons would take up their freedom but brokers
and others, who were positively compelled to do so
before this supreme body would grant them licenses
to pursue their honest calling. Nothing could
show so much the character of any corporate body as
an indisposition on the part of the public to become
members. The corporation of London purported to
represent the metropolis of the British empire, con-
taining 21 millions of inhabitants, with only 6,000
electors, being a decrease of 1,837 in the short space
of seven years ; so that it did not admit to the fran-
chise on-twentieth part of its population. The income
of the corporation for 1850 was 190,0001., exclusive
of the Irish estates. The expence of the magistracy
was 8,2311 ; for the administration. ofj ugtice, 9,058/. ;
for the civil government of the city, 30,6441 ; for
the magistracy of Southwark and the Borough Comp-
tor, 1,3571. ; making togetier 0,0904. But
independently of these charges hir cOunid one charge
t 1
among the items for a new entertaining robe for the
Lord Mayor, 751. ; gowns supplied for the use of the
magistrates, 387/. ; uniforms and hats for the barge-
master and watermen, 2121.; and uniforms for the
trumpeters, 791. They might call this upholding the
dignity of the city, but in all quarters it was spoken
of with derision. The police magistrates did their
duty at the metropolitan courts without any aldermen
and in a far more satisfactory manner, for how could
it be expected that gentlemen taken from a grocery
or upholstery warehouse, from an auctioneer's
office, or from any other professional or mercantile
occupation, could suddenly aequire the duties of a
magistrate by the accidental circumstance of becom-
ing an alderman ?—(Cheers.) Ho was aware that
the clerk sat by to guide and direct both at the
Guildhall and the Mansion-house. Then, what were
those clerks and their assistants, to whom they gave
about 2,0001. a year, but virtually the stipendiary
magistrates of the city of London, and the 26 alder-
men but so many mouthpieces to those clerks ?
(Laughter.) The sessions of the Old Bailey could
not be opened but with the presence of two aldermen,
while the judges opened the superior courts without
any such observance. After some observations re-
specting the proposed reform of the corporation of
London, Mr. Rowe said he wished to ask a few
questions about the Queen's late visit to the City, as
he understood that 500 tickets had been issued for the
use of the different wards on that occasion, and he was
not aware of any firm that had been considered of
sufficient eminence in that ward to be favoured with
one, or any of the constituency sufficiently respectable
to be entitled to this honour.
Mr. DARIN (chairman of the Royal Entertainment
Committee) said, the Municipal Corporation Reform
Bill was passed as far as the Common Council were
concerned, and he believed that it would be generally
admitted that the present constitution was not now
suited to the city of London. Residence at one time
in the city was as common as it was now the excep-
tion, and therefore he believed that the requirement
of a residence to give a qualification for the election of
alderman, or any other civic officer, ought to be
done away with. As regarded the tickets to the
Royal entertainment, he thought that men who gave
many months of their time to the public, and served
them with zeal and fidelity, might be allowed to use
this small amount of patronage, and that it might be
enjoyed by their relatives and friends.
The other members having addressed the meeting,
Sir G. CARROLL put the question, and declared the
election to have fallen upon Mr. Evans, Mr. Bond,
Mr. Blades, Mr. Dakin, Mr. J. 11. Elliott, and Mr.
Rowe.
A poll was then demanded on the part of Mr.
Towse, which will take place this day.
CHEAP.
This wardrnote was held in the vestry-room of the
church of St. Lawrence Jewry; Mr. Alderman
Thompson, M.P., presided.
Mr. Eugenius Fenning (deputy), Mr. Ed ward Wat-
son, Mr. Edward Hickson, Mr. George Oliver, Mr.
Robert George Pead, Mr. Jonathan Thorpe, Mr.
Eugenius Barnes, and Mr. Lucas Houghton, were
elected Common Councilmen for the year ensuing.
CORNIIILL.

The various officers were appointed, including the
following,
who were unanimously re-elected as mem-
bers of the Common Council :—Mr. D. Cook (deputy),
Mr. T. Symonds Mr. T. B. Simpson, and Mr. W.
, Simpson.

Mr. Alderman PORTSOKEN.
Upon the names of the several candidates being pro-
posed, the Alderman announced that he understood
an additional candidate was to be proposed. A citizen
therefore rose and submitted to the wardmote the
name of Mr. John Venablua (Spectaclemakers Com-
pany), but the show of handu being against him, a poll
was demanded on behalf of al! th—„ther candidates,
which poll will take place this day between the hours
of 10 A m. and 4 P.M.
Moon presided at the wardmote.

Q
Mr. Alderman Hooper presided in St. Michael's
, Queenhitlae. The following gentlemen were
elected as Common Councilmen
:—_Jr. W. Tyler
(deputy), Mr. William Ratbbone,
Mr. Andrew Rose,
Mr. Archibald M'Dougali, Mr. Thomas Burrow, and
Mr. George Rayment, in the room of Mr. Acocks,
retired.

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R;
at. the
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wardmoteT
School,
presided.
Seething-lane, Tower-street
In this ward there was a vacancy arising from the
death of James Wylie. Eight Common Coun-
cilmen were returned—viz., Mr. J. Briggs
(deputy), Mr. L. Redhead, Mr. T. Young, Mr. G.
Aitcheson, Mr. T. Turnbull, Mr. T. Barkley, Mr. IL
W. Wood, and Mr. *H. N. Nesson.
Thanks were severally returned. by them.
Mr. BARKLEY, in acknowledging the same, re-
marked that, as one of the Improvement. Committee
of the Common Council, he was happy to infra them
that in a short time it was the intention of the corpo-
ration to carry into effect the widening of Mark-lane,
at its junction with Tower-street. There was not a
more dangerous thoroughfare in London, as it
.svas
computed that about 250 carts and other vehicles
passed every hour.—(Hear.) When the alterations
wwears:OthrevveledEt
were effected at Haydon-square by the North-Western
Railway Company, there would be a more urgent
necessary for the improvement, as it was a direct pas-
sage to the docks.—(Hear.)
Thanks were voted to the Worthy Alderman,
who
replied, when the wardmote was dissolved.
VIN TRY.
The electors of Vintry Ward assembled at the
Ward Schools; Sir W. Magnay, Alderman, in the
chair.

There was one vacancy in consequence of the re-
signation of Mr. S. Lepard. The Common Council-
men elected were—Mr. W. Archer (deputy), Mr.W.
D. White, Mr. T. Sprague, Mr. G. Mason, Mr. J.
Coleman, and *Mr. T. J. Warwick (churchwarden).
Each having returned thanks for his election,
Mr. CONDER moved a vote of thanks for their ser-
vices during the past year, especially " for the inte-
rest manifested by them in extending the comfort and
usefulness of the ward schools."—Agreed to.
Thanks were voted to the chairman.
Sir W. MAGNAT replied, and the wardmote
separated.

(Those marked thus * are new candidates.)

Mr. Alderman Curter presided at this wardmote
in St. Michael's Church, Cornnill ; when the late
Councilmen were re•elected, viz. :—Mr. Edward
Harrison (deputy), Mr. James Waterlow, Mr.
Richard Cox Randall, Mr. Donald Nicoll, Mr. Henry
Hoppe, and Mr. Robert Johnston.

CORDWAINERS.
Alderman Salomons presided at this wardmote in
the vessry-room of the church of St. Mary-le-Bow,
Cheapside.

Mi. Lott (deputy), Mr. Croucher, Mr. Joyce, Mr.
H. L. Taylor, Mr. Richard Tress, and Mr. Anthony
Clarke, were elected Common Councilmen for the year
ensuing.
Mr. LAMBE wished to ask Mr. Taylor what had
been done about Smithfield-market.

Mr. TAYLOR replied, that after a determined strug-
gle with both Houses of Poirliament they had at
length been beaten. When the Government Bill was
passed they had given the corporation six months to
consider whether they would take charge of another
market in the suburbs of London, and on that point
they bad not come to a conclusion. The question
would remain in abeyance for two or three weeks be-
fore they would finally determine this question.
CRIPPLEGATE WITHOUT.

The annual wardmote was held at the Boys' School-
room, Red Cross-street ; Mr. Thomas Challis, alder-
man of the ward, presided.

The following gentlemen nominated at the pre-
cincts were proposed :—Mr. R. Lambert Jones, Mr.
G. Meadows, Mr. John Johnson, Mr. S. Read, Mr.
William King, Mr. John Eyke, Mr. G. Cuthbert,
and Mr. C. Watson (the last two were new candi-
dates, in the room of Mr. 1?. Sadler and Mr. T.
Eldred, who have resigned).
Mr. MASON then proposed, and Mr. CHEW seconded,
Mr. John Sewell.

Several gentlemen having made allusions to the
necessity of the adoption of the ballot, and observed
that they wished to know the opinions of the candi-
dates on the subject,
Mr. L. JONES said, he had represented the ward 32
years, and that no question could have been more
open than the ballot. It hal been used when be was
first in the Common Council, and had been continued
within the last six years, but it had been found to
work so badly that it was determined they should go
to the poll.—(Hear.) The electors might depend on
him that he would not vote for the ballot.—(" Bravo,"
and cheers.)
Mr. MEADOWS remarked that he entirely con-
curred with the opinion of Mr. Jones, in reference
to the ballot.

Mr. JOHNSON remarked that if he thought the vote
by ballot would do any good he would vote for it.
Mr. S. READ was in favour of the ballot, as were
Mr. Cuthbert, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Sewell.
Mr. KING objected to giving a pledge.
Alderman CHALLIS at the conclusion of the ad-
dresses of the several candidates, put the names seve-
rally to a show of hands, the result of which Was as
follows :
Mr. R. L. Jones 6O Mr. John Eyke ...... 52
Mr. G. Meadows
4o Sowell Wat50n.......
57 *Mr. G. Cuthber6o
Mr. John Johnson 4B
7 C.
Mr. S. ead
56
Mr. William King I Johnh
A pall was demanded for Mr. Watson, which
appointed to take place at ten o'clock this was
day, and to
close at four o'clock.

GrdAenTEp.resid
Alderman Sir R.IDV°. CWa
vestry-
room of the church of Allhallows theed in
Great, Upper
Thames-street. There
members of the Common
re-
tirement of
gentlemen the
.following theand
i,
Mr. J .Browwencr,eott
enelceliaclit-eeedad:u—espeu:tyrb.y;
Kebbel
(deputy), Mr. J. Harker, Mr. Thomas White, Mr.
latter in the place of Mr. Brown.)
George Fox
Gr Mr. H. H. Mortimer, and Mr.
ox (the andell,
LANGBOURN.
The annual wardmote took place at. Garraway's
Coffeelhouse, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Alderman
Cubitt presided.
A letter from Sir John Key, the late Alderman
of the ward, was read and ordered to be entered in
the minutes. It was dated from Brighton, December
10, acknowledging the vote of thanks awarded on
his becoming Alderman of Bridge-Without, after
having represented this (Langbourn) ward for 28
years, during which he twice filled the office of chief
magistrate in a period of political excitement.
Mr. WEBBER moved the following resolution :
, '' That the wardmote has learnt with deep regret that
the Alderman and Common Council of this ward have
assisted in rescinding that portion of the intended reform