The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-21 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING,

(Cheers.) It seemed that there was in, the other
Court an unfortunate disagreement upon questione
with which the Court of COaAJIOII Council it td noth-
ing to do, but that disagreement would hay e no in-
ilvnce upon the decision to which we art 7ive.
Mr. BENNOCII—My Lord Mayor, I am neit her the
apologist nor the eulogist of aldermen, whether sit-
ting on the bench or on the cane chair. At the same
time it becomf-s me and every member of the.: Court
to maintain the dignity of every officer of seesponsi-
bility and power.—(Hear, hear.) Many of the ob-
servations made to-day go far to degrade r.be office
held to be so honourable, and which gentles ten who
presume to attack hold in veneration.—(Heaet, hear.)
I certainly have not received greater civilihices from
the late Lord liayor than other members of this
Court, but I never knew the chair occupi ed with
more dignity than when occupied by
h;en, and I
never heard any man declare that he did no t perform
his whole duties in a manner worthy of the character
of the first magistrate of the city of London.
hear.) One gentleman spoke of a dinner! Are we
to determine whether we shall give a, vote of
thanks to the late Lord Mayor because tie did not
entertain a member of this Court at his table in a
way that exactly suited the taste of the ge atleman
Are eating and drinking to constitute the cl Fief office
and functions of a Lord Mayor? They t ire consi-
dered by certain psrts of the press to be so, :and with
good reason too, when you find an honourabl E' gentle-
man get up and gravely declare that, on a c count of
some slight alteration in the mode of invieittion, be
will oppose a vote of thanks ?—(Hear, hear.) Had
it not been for the courtesy of the Lord Me;:vor, and
his attention to his public duties when tie a Great
Industrial Palace was open, this Court would %tot have
had a place there.—(Hear, hear.) I contia_er the
Lord Mayor in that respect not worthy of all censure,
but deserving of all praise ; and I consider t. hat what
Mr. De Jersey has said is a piece of unmistakable,
unmitigated cant.—(Loud laughter, and cries of
" Hear.") Dust gentleman opposes the vete of
thanks on account of the visit of the Lord I tlayor to
the waterworks at Versailles, on Sunday. N. my, I ask
him, whether he himself, or other Honours ale Gen-
tlemen connected with the Legislature, net, vr visited
Hyde-park, or any other place of reerea, ion on a
Sunday ?—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Clan—My Lord Mayor, in all Catholic
countries the Church service is in the mornir g. The
people attend their places of worship at save ti, eight,
nine, and eleven o'clock. In this country th e people
never think of commencing public Divine se. rvice till
eleven. In every part, of the Continent the :hurdles
are open every day, and the religious part a of the
communities thus go daily to church.—(ll 'ear.) 1
mention this for the purpose of showing wl tot 1 be-
lieve to be the fact, namely, that the Sabbath is quite
ac well if not better kept in France than it i e, in this
country.—(Hear, and a laugh.)
Mr. ANDERTOV—I need not state in this Cc rut that
I am proud of having the late Lord Meyo r as my
friend; and I should be ashamed of myself, either

in this or any other assembly, to hear that i ionour-
able gentleman calumniated, if I did not get ; up in
' my place to defend him.—(Cheers.) Observations
have been made by Mr. De Jersey with regar d to the
Lord Mayor's acceptance of the invitation given to him,
and those who accompanied him, and the public, tind the
English in general at Versailles on a Sunday. I Fe went
to his church in the morning, and did his duty i i sere 115
a Christian and a Protestant. His performance .of that
sacred duty delayed his attendance at Versail' ,es, and
drew down upon him not only the censure of tl le press
of England but some portion of the press of : ?ranee,
for keeping persons waiting.—(Hear.) The is to Lord
Mayor is kind, he is generous, he is obaritabl g, and a
man more religious or more observant of ti 1,3 Sab-

bath does not exist.—(Cheers.) Mr. Andert an, after
several other observations in commendation of the
whole course pursued by the late Lord :;Mayor,
thought it necessary, although not encourage c I to do
so by the Court, to read the items of the expo a iditure
in the past year, and from the statement it z p peared
that Sir John Musgrove had expended ver3 r consi-
derably mere than the sum allowed for su staining
the dignity of the office.
Mr. PHILLIPS hoped that the vote of thank 7; would
be unanimously passed.
Mr. GILPIN,—I have not been present dur' ing the
whole of the debate, but I wish to take this o pportu-
nity, and I took a similar opportunity two ye ,srs ago,
to express my conviction that there are no c ircum-
stances under which this Court exhibits much

littleness in the eyes of the world as when we .are en-
gaged in discussions of giving thanks or °the) r wise to
a chief magistrate of the City.—(Hear.) V J e hear
gentlemen who have never been chief mag strides,
and are never likely to be chief magistrages, finding
fault with a position of which they know not' S ing, or
next to nothing, of the trials and the difficult ies ; Ind
we hear those who have some chance of bell t g Lord
mayors flinging stones at their predecessors, because

of some fancied slight and some -peculiar occv crrences.
—(Hear, hear) My Lord Mayor, these thi 3gs sink
us, and deservedly sink us, in the estimati( ►.n of all
upright and sensible men.—(Hear, hear.'j Mr.
Gilpin then expressed himself perfectly satisl ied with
the mayoralty of last year, and concluded wii; th hop-
ing that the resolution of thanks would be carried

unanimously.
The question was then put, and there a rpeared
upon the division, which Mr. Anderton insis 31 upon
causing to be taken—
In favour of the vote of thanks .. jlB
Against it 8

Majority in favour of the vote .... 110
Mr. De Jersey's amendment not basil tg
been
econded, of course fell to the ground.

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION AMENDMENT 'EI
Upon the mdtion of Mr. Deputy liAarov iN, the
Court proceeded with the adjourned considec.tation of
the proposed Bill for regulating elections vi t hin the
under cot
city of London, and for conferring, ELL.
ain re-
strictions, the rights and privileges of free'ven and
citizens of the said city upon persons occuP!riDg and
rated to premises therein. _ _ _

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Clause 1, repealing the 11th of George I-11
c. 18,
and the 12th and 13th of Victoria, c. 94, vras agreed
to without alteration.

Upon the second being proposed, which lxrovided
to any legal incapacity,
within the said city, or the " that every male person of full age, and Dot subject
period of a year and a day,sole either have icicourptiehde
liberties
thereof,
with any ether person or prs any houses count-
ing-house, warehouse, office, chambers, lbters, or stiop, and
shall, in the case of a solely or jointly
respect of such premises be tatted in
of the occupiers in or toin ahniscacrnuoPuanitonn'we, in.
To,r to an
amount of not less than ten pounds per annual., or, in
divided by the number of occupiers, shallbgicivil
the case of a joint occupation,P be rated is thee names
awshuemn
of not less than ten pounds per annum for each and
every such occupier t, any municipal, parliamentary,
or parochial rate, in respect of such premitas, and
shall hear lot, shall, whilst continuing to occupy the
same, be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of A
freeman and citizen, and subject
toall ths duties
thereof, and shall be entitled to vote as such in any
election for alderman, or common councilman, or
ward officer, for the ward in which such paemises
shall be situate, and also
at any election of mayor,
sheriffs, chamberlain, bridgemasters, auditiors of
chamberlain's and bridgemasters' accounts, and for
any and every other officer to be chosen in and for
the said city by the liverymen thereof."
Deputy CORNET proposed as an amendment that
the latter part of the clause, from the word " situate,"
should be omitted.
Alderman SIDNEY wished to take the earliest op-
portunity of setting his friend, Deputy Caney, right,
in the wrong conclusion to which he believed that
gentleman had arrived with reference to the parti-
cular part of the Bill then under review. Did they
(the promoters of the Bill) propose anything in that
clause by which the livery would be deprived of any
rights which they now possessed ? If so, let the ad-
vocates of the livery prove it.—(Hear.) This they
sought to do, to abolish monopoly, and throw open
still wider the franchises and privileges of the city to
bona fide citizens; for it was a fact that many of the
gentlemen connected with the companies of the pre-
sent day, neither resided among the real citizens of
London nor "bore lot with them."—(Hear, bear.)
Mr. BENNOCO thought that there was no necessity
for searching amongst musty documents to support
the extension sought by the promoters of the Bill.
The fact was, that the City companies had been
formed at a time when commerce iu this country was
in its swaddling clothes, when the land was fettered
by monopoly, and when they could not, even if they
wished, move so rapidly as in the times in which they
now lived. Such days, however, had gone by. As
to the amendment, it involved an absurdity, when
go with a good
Bill
t
compared with the principle of the Bill, which was
not think that the
for perfect freedom for the constituency. If they
0e m desiredcompanies
eo nonesgo caredt
to
atasingle
Parliament,Hjoet letadbi
do tu
the matter.henl
Mr. R. TAYLOR had for many years sanctioned an
enlargement of the franchise, and he believed that
nothing in the Corporation required reform more than
the elections in common hall.
Alderman LAWRENCE said that the object of the
clause was very simple; it was to give every citizen
the right of voting in common hall.
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR was in favour of enlarging the
constituency much, but he could not give to the Bill
that hearty support he would have willingly done had
not the Court, at their last sitting, struck out of it the
clause which provided that the election of Aldermen
should not be for life, but for a term of seven years.—
(Hear, hear.) By doing so, they had, as be believed,
rendered the Bill iutile, absurd, and most ridiculous.
Mr. BLAKE would support the clause as it stood.
Deputy Haunisora briefly spoke, after which the
question was put, and the amendment lost by a large
majority.
Mr. NORRIS then moved as a second amendment—
That the words in the same clause (2) shall be eu.

titled to all the benefits and privileges of a freeman
and citizen, and subject to all the duties thereof,' "
should be expunged. Ho thought it was right to
extend the francbie, hut not to grant with th;it the
additional privilege of fraedom from tolls, and parti-
cipation in pecuniary benefits, which might involve
serious legal difficulties.
Deputy HALE seconded the amendment.
Mr. T. H. HALL was in favour of the utmost ex-
tension both of the franchise and the privileges of the
Corporation.
After some further conversation, the amendment
was declared to be lost, and, after a division being
called for, the numbers were declared to be—

For the clause
For the amendment of the words
MsjDrity

Clauses 3,4, and 5 were then agreed to, verbal
amendments only being introduced. Upon clause 6
being proposed, Mr. Norris urged that tLere was in it
matter of much importance, when a member ob.
serving that 40 members were not present, the Court
was counted out.