The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-07 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING.

The Adelaide, Clark, fr, m H, bart Town, has arriv(4
in the Downs, sailed S-pt. 7.
Arrivals at Hobart Town—The Sir John R. Reid, from
London, the Atias, from Plymouth, and Cabotia, fro►n
Liverpool, Aug. 25 ; the Amnity, from the Fishery, 4 ;
the Stakesley, from Portsmouth, Sept. 4 ; the 111. try an t
Elizabeth, from New Zealand, 3.

Departures from Hobart Town—The Mars, for Basset
Straits, Aug. 20 ; the Harlequin, for New South Wale-,
and the Bee, for New South Wale., 24; the Enchantre,.,
fur Singapore, Sept. 3 ; the Blackbird, fa. Sydney, 3.
Arrival at Launceston—The Prince Regent, from
Hobart Town, Aug. 24.
Departure from Launceston—The Susannah, for Ntw
South Wales, Aug. 27.
Arrivals at Sydney—The Caroline, from Cork; the
Waterloo, Bussorah Merchant, and Richard Reyno!d.,
from London ; the Warrior, from Van Diemen's Land.
The Deveron, Cowie, with 100 tuns of oil on board,
foundered off the coast of New Holland in a gale; crew
saved.

The Margaret, Roper, from Liverpool to Bombay,
Sept. 3, in lat. 1. N., long. 23. W.

CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION
INQUIRY.

(Continued from The Sun of yesterday.)

Some conversation ensued as to the right of the
Common Council to grant the freedom of the city
independently of the Court of Aldermen.
Mr. Woodthorpe said that in one or two in-
stances the claim had been put forth by individual
Members of the Common Council; but he was not
aware that any person had been admitted to the
freedom of the city by the Common Council alone,
without the approbation and concurrence of the
Court of Aldermen.

Mr. Pritchard said the question had frequently
been mooted in the Court of Common Council,
and recently in the case of Mr. Crawford. On that
occasion a Common Council was summoned for the
purpose of conferring the freedom on Mr. Crawford,
which was necessary to make his election for the
city valid; but about an hour previous to the as-
sembling of the Court the Court of Aldermen con-
ferred the freedom upon that gentleman. The
Common Council passed a resolution declaring that
in consequence of Mr. Crawford having been ad-
mitted to the freedom, it was unnecessary to adopt
any proceedings in the matter.

Mr. Woocitiiorpe said it %vas an undecidefl question
whether a candidate to represent the city could
sit in Parliament unless he were a freeman at the
time of his return.

Mr. Woodthorpe here asked Mr. Franks,
through the Commissioners, whether the two hun-
dred persans summoned for the non-payment of
the poor rates in Cripplegate were freemen or not ?
_ _

Mr. Franks said he believed a considerable num-
ber were freemen.

Mr. Woodthorpe then begged to refer to the po-
pulation returns of 1821, to show that in the dis-
tricts adjoining Cripplegate, but out of the city, an
equal proportion of uninhabited houses was to be
found as in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, from which it
might be inferred that it was not the expense at-
tendant upon the taking up of the freedom which
caused the houses to be unoccupied in that parish.
In the first place it appeared from these returns,that
in 1821 the number of houses in St. Giles-without-
Cripplegate was 1,495, one in progress of building,
and 99 uninhabited, and the population was
13,038; in the Golden-lane liberty, which is im-
mediately adjoining St. Giles's, the number of
houses inhabited was 830, uninhabited 90, in pro-
gress of building six, population 6,061; in the Old-
street liberty, which is also adjoining St. Gies's,
Cripplegate, the number of houses inhabited was
769, none building, 24 uninhabited, population
6,373; in Whitecross-street Without, also adjoin-
ing Cripplegate, the number of inhabited houses
was 652, uninhabited GI, building 31, population
4,899.

Mr. Commissioner ELLIS observed that the pro-
portion of uninhabited houses in these districts, was
certainly as large as in St. Giles's, Cripplegate.
Mr. Woodthorpe said that circumstances would
show that the inference which Mr. Franks wished
the Commissioners to draw from the fact he had
stated in his evidence was incorrect.

Sir F. PALGRAVE asked Mr. Scott upon what
calculation he arrived at the fact which he stated on
Saturday—that the citizens of London were re-
lieved from a payment which would fall upon them
in the shape of a county-rate to the amount of
Is. 3d. or Is. 4d. in the pound on the rental ?
Mr. Scott said that a calculation was made in
the Chamberlain's-office a few years ago, which in-
volved the whole expenditure of the city for gaols,
improvements, &c., to which the corporation ap-
plied its funds, which amounted to a sum which,
compared with the rental of the city, taking it at
760,000/., would amount to Is. 3d. or Is. 4d. in
the pound. _ _ _

Mr. Commissioner ELLIS, referring to the fact
(stated on Saturday) that wholesale dealers were
exempt from the obligation of taking up their free.
dom, asked the ground of that fact.
Mr. Pritchard said, that no good ground existed
for the exemption, which was unjust and unequal.
Mr. Woodthorpe said it was a benefit to the city
to have wholesale dealers come with their goods,
but if such parties sold to non•freemen the goods
would be forfeited.

Mr. Pritchard said that this forfeiture was so
severe a penalty that it could not well be enforced,
but the corporation could establish other modes of
obliging those large wholesale dealers to take on
them the duties of citizenship. If they did so,
they would make the principal offices held by c tizens
much more in repute than they were at present.
Mr. Woodthorpe, in answer to a question from
a Commissioner, stated that no doubt the corpora-
tion could compel a banker re,itling in London to
take up his freedom. His office was in strictness a
banker's shop.

In answer to questions from the Commissioners,
Mr. Woodthorpe stated that freemen were exempt
from impressment, and had the privilege of hunting
in Middlesex.—(A laugh.) A freeman could not
give evidence in a court of law in any case in which
the corporation was a parry. In all such cases
it was necessary that the freeman, should be dis-
franchised, and he had himself been disfranchised
in order to give evidence.
At four o'clock the inquiry was adjourned to
Wednesday.

The new member for the borough of Morpeth,
the Hon. Edward George Howard, is the second surviving
son of the Earl of Carlisle, and a Lieutenant in the Navy.
He was recently serving on board his Majesty's ship
Pelican, 18 guns, in the Mediterranean, whence he has
just returned. The borough was formerly the property of
the Ord family.