The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-14 00:00:00

"MUNICIPAL CORPORATIO N COM3LISSION......ENG LAND AND

WALES.
(Addressed to the Clerk of each Company.)

" Sir,—His Majesty having been pleased to issue a
Commission to inquire as to the existing state of the
several Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, I,
being one of the Commissioners, have to inform you that
we propose to be at the Guildhall of the City on the 10th
day of September, and request you to be prepared with
whattver information you can supply on the following
pints :

" 1. The local limits of the Corporation.
" 2. The Charters by which it is constituted.
3. The title of the Corporation, a copy of the govern-
ing Charter, and date of all the other Charters,
4. The several officers of the Corporation, how and by
whom elected or removed, the time for which they hold
their respective offices, their respective functions, privile-
ges, salaries, and incidental emoluments.
5. The mode by which persons become free, their
duties, privileges and ernolnnieuts, and the number of resi-
dent and non-resident freemen.

6. By whom and from whom the ruling hotly of the
Corporation is elected.

7. Fees paid on admission to the freedom, or any office
in the Corporation, and to whom paid.
8. Courts, criminal and civil, the officers or magistrates
presiding or otherwise acting in them ; the extent of their
jurisdiction, whether exclusive or otherwise ; the nature
of their process what fees paid in them, and to whom, and
tables of costs-

9. The juries, grand rnd petty, criminal and civil, by
whom and from whom selected.

10. The management of the local police, and the general
regulation of the (city or town, as it may be).
11. The superintendance of gaols, ;by whom exercised
and under what controol.

12. Fines imposed by the Corporation on their own
members or others.

13. The nature of the property ; the amount of the re-
ceipts of the Corporaticn; from thence derived ; by whom
received ; to what purpose, and by whom applied ; how
and to whom recounted for.

14. The patronage, ecclesiastical or other, exercised by
the Corporation, through whotn dispensed.
15. A schedule of the dates and titles of Local Acts of
Parliament relating to municipal government or local
taxation.

16. The general state and prospects of the (city or
town, as it may he), Your obedient servant,
(Signed by the Commissioners).
We understand that many of the wealthy Companies
in the city of Londo❑ were rather startled at receivining
this list of orders. The witnesses are examined upon oath.

ANOTHER DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY
IN SURREY.-Another highway robbery was committed in
Surrey on NVednesday evening. Mr. Hart, solicitor, re-
siding at Reigate, was, on his return from Epsom in
a four-wheeled chaise, stopped by three men; two darted
at the horse's head, and the third jumped into the
chaise ; all presented horse-pistols. Mr. H. gave his purse
containing two sovereigns and a half, when the tallest of
of the three, who was in the chaise, said, you have more.
Mr. H. recollected he hail, and took from his packet a
paper which contained four sovereigns, two half sove-
reigns, half-a-crown, two shillings, and a sixpence
(71. 15s. in the whole,) silver watch and pocket-book.
Mr. Hart had just crossed the road that leads from Ewell
common fields, on to the Downs, and was entering the
lane leading to Lords Arden's when his horse was seized,
as near seven o'clock as possible.
Last week a daring son of St. Crispin per-
formed the extraordinary feat of ascending Grantham
church-steeple, a height of 290 feet—whence he descended,
bearing a rook's nest, as a trophy of his prowess.
EXTRAdRDINARY SIMPLICITY.--On Wed-
nesday an errand boy, about 15, named Pegg, who was
acquitted at the Old Bailey on a charge of having de•
camped with the change of a check belonging to a lady, in
consequence of an informality in the indictment, called
upon policeman Smith, of the G division, to inquire
whom he was to thank for the inflamality ?" Smith
supposed be was joking, and directed him to Hatton-
garden Office, where the boy actually went and thanked
one of the clerks.

We shall always he proud of the progress which we have
made in this peaceful and fruitful work, with which the
riches of a country and the industry of its inhabitants must
ever be intimately connected, and by which the welfare
and civilization of one nation will promote the welfare and
civirzition of others.

England has given the example—who will follow it ?
Will France, whose Ministers make such a merit of spread..
ing their influence in Belgium, and who, when reciprocal
commercial advantages are proposed, refute our produc-
tions and treat our merchandize like Cossacks? Let no
more be said about influence. It can only be chimerical
without an alliance of commercial interests. 'We do not
see England, who is desirous of exercising an irflueuee
over Portugal, treating the productions of that country
with such illiberal severity.
But we must not despair. When people study, they
observe; and the genera movement will bring over even
the most obstinate. We shall then find Treaties concluded
by and for commerce itself. Such Treaties will prove of
more value than those of Vienna and London.