The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-23 00:00:00

BISHOPSGATE TVARD.

At the wardmoto held for the election of Common
Council and other ward officers, Alderman COPELAND
presided.
Mr. SPINGALL, before the election, wished to ask of
each of the Common Council two questions—first, whether
they had voted for the address to the King upon the abrupt
dismissal of his Minieters ; and, secondly, whether they had
voted for declaring his Majesty's answer that which they
well knew it was not, namely, a gracious answer.—( Cheers.)
In the course of his speech, Mr. Spingall was called to
order by the Alderman for introducing the name of the
King in a disrespectful manner ; the Alderman was sup-
ported by the meeting.
Mr. Deputy WESTON would answer the question without
delay—he had voted for the address, and he gloried in
doing so. These were times in which it was a man's duty
to speak out, and he should do so.—(Cheers.) The dis-
missal by his Majesty of his late Ministers, and calling to
his Councils the Tory faction, was enough to fill with
alarm the mind of every man who loved his country, and
desired to see her institutions preserved and improved.—
(Hear.) To suppose that the advantages the country had
a right to expect from the Reform Bill would be given to
the nation by the present Ministers, was absolute madness.
Sir WILLIAM RAWLINS and several other Members of
the Ward assured their constituents that they had voted in
favour of the address.
Mr. Deputy PEACOCK said, he had not only voted for it,
but had been up with it ; and, as was the case upon former
occasions, he had been treated most uncivilly by his Ma-
jesty for so doing.—( Hear.) He went up with the address
upon the occasion of the Manchester Massacre, when the
King told them to go home and mind their business, for
they knew nothing about the matter.--(A laugh.) The
Common Council were fairly runiped when they took to
the Throne an address respecting the Queen ; but they
cared not for that, for what they were doing was in the
cause of an injured woman, and they did what every man
who loved a woman ought to do—they stood by her in the
hour of adversity.—(Hear, hear.) The people beheld in
the late proceedings of the Court party, a desire to return
to the old corrupt system, and the people ought not to relax
in their opposition to Tory domination till they succeeded
in driving the bishops from the House of Lords—in dis-
solving the union of Church and State—(Hear, hear)—
and in giving the death-blow to priestcraft and kingcraft
too.—(Cheers and murmurs.)
Mr. STEVENS said it was unnecessary for him to say
that he had supported the address, as well as the omission
of the word " gracious" from the motion recording the an-
swer, for he had seconded both. He fully concurred in all
that had fallen from the last speaker—subject, however, to
a little explanation as to the meaning of the word " king-
craft ;" for although he disliked and would oppose as
staunchly as his colleague could do, the abuses which usual-
ly surrounded the Court of a kingly Government, he did
not hesitate to declare that he believed a well-regulated
Monarchy was the form of Government best adapted to the
wants and wishes of the English people.—(Cheers.) He
made no doubt but that his colleague used the term in this
sense.—(Hear.)

Mr. Under-Sheriff PEARSON then stepped forward, and
said that as he was then called upon by his constituents to
declare how he had acted in relation to the recent changes
in the Administration, he should candidly answer how he
voted, and boldly declare his reasons why he had done so.
—(Hear.) _Having the honour to fill an official situation
which would impose certain ministerial duties upon him at
the approaching election, he had thought it his duty not to
take any part in the meetings which he was delighted to find
were being held in every part of this vast metropolis, to en-
able the people to speak their sentiments upon the extra-
ordinary events which had recently taken place ; but upon
the day of their annual election the constituent body had a
right to call for the opinions of their representatives on passing
events, and he would freely deliver his.—(Cheers.) He had
not voted for the address, because he was necessarily ab-
sent from the Court, being in attendance on the Judges at
the Old Bailey.—(Hear, hear.) Had he been there he
would have voted for it ; he justified and defended every
part of it. He understood that the objectors to the ad-
dress did not found their objections so much upon its phra-
seology as they did upon the principle which it involved.
They objected to it because, as they said, it interfered with
one of the prerogatives of the Crown. It prayed his Ma-
jesty not to appoint a certain class of men, holding opinions
detrimental to the welfare of the nation, to preside over his
councils ; and the opponents of the measure say that the
Common Council should allow his Majesty to exercise his
prerogative, and appoint his Ministers first, and then peti-
tion him not to appoint them afterwards.--(Cheers and
laughter.) Would these praters about constitutional law
Predicate the same nonsense respecting any of the other
prerogatives of the Crown?—(Hear.) It was equally the
prerogative of the King to make war and peace ; and, ac-
cording to this doctrine, the numerous petitions of the Com-
mon Council, from 1800 to 1814, praying his Majesty to
make peace, and to stay the ravages of a war carried on to
put down the rising liberties of Europe, were all infringe-
ments of the King's prerogative, and ought not to have
been presented till peace was actually proclaimed.—
(Cheers.) If, in the exercise of the Royal prerogative, we
ascertained that his Majesty was about to plunge this na-
tion in such another sanguinary war, ought we to de-
lay our addresses and petitions till the sword was
drawn from the scabbard, and his Majesty's gracious
declaration of his Royal hostility should be dyed in human
blood ?—(Hear.) The prerogative of mercy was the King's
most cherished privilege—it was described to be the bright-
est jewel in the Monarch's crown ; yet because it was the

King's prerogative, must the people wait till it was actually
exercised before they made it the subject of address or pe-
tition ?—( Hear.) What would the friends of the poor
creatures in the condemned cells of Newgate think of any
one who would advise them that as mercy is the preroga-
tive of the Crown, it would be an indecent interference for
them to petition, and recommend them to wait until their
friends were either pardoned or hanged, and tell them that
when they were executed would be the proper time for a
remonstrance or address, as the Royal decision might hap-
pen to meet their expectations ?—(Cheers.) The right of
address, petition, and remonstrance was as valuable in its
exercise to the King as to the people—(Hear)—for the
Corporation of London upon all important occasions to em-
body the opinions of the people, and to address them re-
spectfully, but firmly, to the Royal ear, was to give to
Royalty a privilege which in no other country could be its
lot—(Hear)—the privilege of bearing the truth—(Cheers.)
Read from the page of history the fate of those kings who
have been fawned upon and flattered Until by the very same
individuals they have been forsaken and betrayed. Could
we but hear the bitter lamentations of fallen kings for not
having in the day of their greatness and power been told the
truth, we should know how to estimate the privileges which
gives to the King of England this inestimable advantage over
all the other monarchs of the earth—(Cheers.) The meet-
ing had been reminded by Mr. Stevens to attend the Tory
meeting at the London Tavern the next day ; he (Mr.
Pearson) had no doubt but that the recommendation would
be attended to.—( Hear.) At any rate, as the meeting was
in the Ward of Bishopsgate, there was one body of men
chosen that day who were bound, by their oath of office, to
attend ; he meant the inquest—(Hear)—for as they were
sworn to examine all weights and measures—and the mea-
sures of his Majesty's Ministers were to be discussed at
the meeting—they ought to be strictly examined—(Cheers
and laughter)—they must be asked what measure of re-
form they intended for the Church ?—(Hear)—what mea-
sure of relief they intended to give to the Dissenters ?
(Hear)—what measures of redress for unhappy Ireland ;
and what measures of substantial renovation and improve-
ment in all our social institution ?—(Cheers.) It was said
that we were to look now to measures, and not to men ;
but he begged to acquaint the Inquest, that they had the
power to punish, as well as the right to examine ; and if,

at the morning meeting, they should find the measures false
or defective, the authors of them would be at the Mansion-
house in the evening, dining with the Lerd Mayor, and
then they might be found to be rendered amenable to justice
for their offences.—(Cheers and liughter.) Mr. Pearson
then entered into a long and elaborate exposition of his
propositions for Corporation Reform ; and the other mem-
bers of the Common Council having, with the exception of
Mr. Day, expressed their concurrence in the principles of
the address, they were severally elected without opposition.
Thanks were unanimously voted to the Alderman ; after
which the Wardmote adjourned.

BREAD-STREET WARD.
The following is a list of the candidates put in nomina-
tion yesterday in this Ward. The names marked thus
are those of new candidates ,—Messrs. M'Lawrence, Wil-
liams, Thompson, Kipling, Deputy Mathie, Bridge,
Cracklow, Holmes, Davison, Lainson,* Maughan,# Har-
rild,* and Cope.

Mr. Shuttleworth and Dr. Degrave retired from the
office.

A show of hands was taken, which Alderman Ansley
declared in favour of the first twelve candidates on the
above list.

Mr. DIMES then demanded a poll on behalf of Mr. Cope,

CRIPPLEGA TE WITHOUT.

A WTardmote was held yesterday in St. Giles's church,
Fore-street, for the purpose of electing Common Council-
men, constables, &c., for the outer part of the Ward of
Cripplegate, for the year ensuing.
The chair was taken by Mr. Alderman WOOD, M.P.
Of the old members of the Court, Mr. Hulse and Mr.
Ebenezer Taylor retire ; and the following are the new
candidates :—Mr. Sweeting, linen-draper, of Fore-street ;
Mr. Horne, a gentleman liv.ing retired in Barbican ; Mr.
Baylis, carrier of Whitecross-street ; and Mr. Maskell,
attorney, of Fore-street.

The question being put to a show of hands, there ap-
pearkd for Mr. Baylis, 150 ; Mr. Jones, 120 ; Mr. Robin-
son, 120 ; Mr. Haines, 117 ; Mr. Sweeting, 114 ; Mr.
Atkinson, 104 ; Mr. Maskell, 92 ; Mr. Dixon, 90 ; Mr.
Alderman, 72 ; and Mr. Horne, 24.
The Alderman declared the first eight returned by the
show of hands.

A poll was immediately demanded on behalf of Mr. Al-
derman, and by Mr. Horne ; and the Court was adjourned
to the Workhouse for the same to take place.

TVARD OF FARRINGDON WITHOUT.
The wardmote for the election of Common Councilmen
and other officers for the above Ward, for the ensuing year,
was held yesterday in the New Court, Old Bailey.
Mr. Alderman HARMER presided on the occasion, when
the following gentlemen were unanimously re-elected as the
representatives in the Court of Common Council for the in-
habitants of this Ward. For the north side, Mr. Deputy
Blackett, Mr. W. A. Beckwith, Mr. Vincent Figgins, Mr.
Alexander Galloway, Mr. Joshua Thomas Bedford,
Mr. Underwood Price, Mr. Richard Taylor, and
Mr. G. F. Harms. For the South side, Mr. Deputy
Tickner, Mr. Robert Obbard, Mr. Henry Burn, Mr. James
Ramshaw, Mr. Charles A. Savage, Mr. Joseph Charles,
Mr. Henry Marriott, and Mr. Henry Butterworth.
Mr. Duputy BLAcKET briefly returned thanks on be-
half of his colleagues and himself, for this renewal of the
confidence it had been their and his happiness heretofore
to enjoy.
Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR returned thanks. He could not
avoid reminding the Wardmote that the Court of Common
Council had been exposed to great obloquy and abuse, for
the exertions which they felt it their duty to make at the
present important and momentous crisis. The Court of
Common Council had been described, by a certain portion
of the press, as the representatives of all that was dis-
graceful and immoral in the city of London. He was per-
fectly indifferent to scurrility and abuse from persons who
now stood in the lowest state of political degradation that
could be imagined in a free and intelligent country—per-
sons who, without taking time to be convinced of their
errors by rational means, had all of a sudden wheeled round,
and declared themselves supporters of views and principles
which, but a few weeks before, they had held in the utmost
detestation and contempt.--(Hear.) Despite the frowns of
such individuals, he would ever be found ready fear-
lessly to assert the principles to which he had ever been at-
tached ; and he must say, that he considered the recent
change in the Ministry to be a serious national calamity.
It was a calamity only to be remedied by the manifestation
of the public spirit of the country. It was a delusion to
suppose that those reforms of abuses which the people an-
ticipated as the effects of the Reform Bill, would ever be
obtained through the instrumentality of the Administration
formed by the Duke of Wellington..—an Administration
composed of individuals who had ever been the foremost
opponents of every reform. He should think those delu-
sions which he knew had prevailed were completely re-
moved by Sir Robert Peel's address to the electors of
Tamworth. That address manifestly showed that the pre-
sent Addministration-was formed to put a stop to the move-
ment party, as it was called ; or, in other words, to the
progress of gradual, well-considered, moderate reforms.
The declaration of Sir Robert Peel, that he would resist to
the utmost the admission of Dissenters into the Universi-
ties, might be taken as a clue to the spirit upon which the
present Administration was based ; and this declaration was
made in the face of the opinion expressed last session by at
least four-fifths of the present House of Commons—an as-
sembly which he heard was about to be in a short time un-
ceremoniously dismissed, and without any sufficient reason
being assigned.—(Hear, hear.) It was said the King
could do no wrong ; but he would put a case. Suppose
his Majesty, in the exercise of his prerogative, had ap-
pointed to the Archbishopric of Canterbury his namesake,
the Rev. R. Taylor.—(Loud laughter.) He could not,
however, take so monstrous a case. Suppose that the
King, exercising his prerogative, bad appointed the pre-
sent Right Honourable the Lord Mayor to be Lord
High Chancellor of England.—(Renewed laughter.) The
Tories would say that the Sovereign had a right to
make such appointments ; but he would ask whether the
spirit of the country would not revolt from them, or whe-
ther they could be properly made in the absence of an
adviser, answerable and responsible to Parliament for the
advice which might have led to them ? In the present
case, the advisers were Wellington and Lyndhurst ; both
of whom, he contended, were answerable to the represen-
tatives of the people for the advice they mischievously gave
to their Monarch—(Hear, hear, hear.) Mr. Taylor con-
cluded by repeating his belief that no redress of grievances,
no removal of abuses from the institutions of the country,
in fine, that none of the results of the Reform Bill, could
be expected from the individuals now composing the go-
vernment of the realm—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. GALLOWAY returned thanks. He had been, in the
worst of times, a Reformer, and he was so now in these
the best of times, for such he considered them, as he did
not feel the slightest dismay at seeing the Duke of Wel-
lington arrive again at power. He placed entire confidence
in the understanding and spirit of the people at large-..
(Hear, hear.) Relying on the firmness, discretion, and
proper conduct of the people, he held it impossible that
any Ministry could exist that did not fully carry out the
principles of the Reform Bill, and accord to the people a
full, fair, and cheap government. He was sure that the
recent change would advance the cause of the people. In
the House of Commons the battle of the people would be
again fought, and there their triumph would be fully esta-
blished—(Hear, hear.)
The Inquest Jurors were then sworn in for the several
parishes of the Ward. 'Air. Brown complained of the

nuisance of some of the Sunday-paper publishing-offices,
and of the continuation of the nuisance occasioned by Car-
lile's exhibition of figures in Fleet-street.
Mr. RoßEars then proposed a vote of thanks to Mr.
Alderman Harmer for his impartiality as a Magistrate,
his urbanity as a fellow-citizen, for the humanity and
philanthropy with which he had filled the important office
of sheriff, and far his conduct in the chair that day.
Mr. NPLAUGHLAN moved, in addition to the vote, the
approbation of the Wardmote of the conduct of Mr. Al-
derman Harmer, as being the only Alderman who had ven-
tured to accompany the city address, which had been
lately laid before the King, on the subject of the recent
change in the Ministry.
Mr. R. TAYLOR seconded the motion, which was unani-
mously carried.
Mr. Alderman HARMER returned thanks.

On the motion of Mr. WILLIAMS, seconded by Mr.
BECK, a vote of thanks was passed to the Common Coun-
cil of the Ward for the manly and independent manner in
which they had, during the last year, discharged the duties
of their oiEce.

The ordinary oaths were then administered to the Com-
mon Council elect ; but when they were required 'to sub-
scribe the declaration provided by the statute 9th Geo. IV.
in lieu of the old form of sacramental test,
Mr. R. TAYLOR protested against the form of declara-
tion, and begged in subscribing to it to append the following
words :—" Not meaning, thereby, in any way, to deny or
question the undoubted right of Parliament to effect neces-
sary alterations and reforms in the Church establishment ;
nor to surrender his right as an elector, to endeavour to
obtain such reforms through 'Parliament."
The Wardmote was then dissolved.