The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Subjoined are two official documents, the
origin and authority of which will be explained
at once by their contents. They are false,
treacherous, tyrannical, barbarous, and stupid—
need we, then, add that they are of Russian
origin ? These state papers are—lst, a decree
of the Czar Nicholas, the just and merciful
subjugator of Poland, whereby certain political
offences there described are rendered amenable
to courtsmartial. Now, it must be recollected,
that the notorious " organic statute," published
in February, 1832, promised a special " law"
for the trial of offences against the state, which
law, during the long space of 18 months, has
never yet been promulgated, it being considered
of course, by an arbitrary and unlistening despot,
that the tribunal of the sabre was more trust-
worthy for his objects than any other not pre-
pared, by military recklessness of human life, to
shed as much blood as might be deemed an
acceptable sacrifice to the imperial vengeance.
But what was the organic statute itself—the
statute thus unblushingly evaded ? Through
that statute Poland was blotted out effectually
from the map of Europe, and the public law of
Europe, by which the rights and obligations of
all her great states had been solemnly defined and
sanctioned, was set aside as of no force or validity
because it interfered with the sovereign will of
Russia. By tile treaty of Vienna it was decreed
that Poland should not be incorporated with the
other dominions of the Russian empire, but
should possess her ancient name, with a crown
distinct and separate from that of Russia, al-
though to be worn by the same Prince. If the
transfer of the sovereignty to the Czar of Russia
was a stipulation favourable to that potentate, so
was the integrity and distinct existence of Po-
land, resolved upon by the rest of Europe as a
condition of the treaty, equally essential to
European interests, as the acquisition of the
crown so settled and limited was to the Empe-
ror Alexander himself. Europe did not bind
herself or become responsible that the Czar
should have a quiet time of it with the reluctant
Poles,, or that the gallant people whom it was
his own wish, not that of the Sates of Europe,
to subjugate, should be the most willing and
obedient subjects. Had the Czar been wise,
lie would have governed Poland so as to insure
her attachment ; but, beirg otherwise, he drove
her into rebellion ; and the question is, whether
Europe shall surrender her established right to
have Poland a distinct and independent state for
the sske of upholding the claim of Nicholas to
the personal enjoyment of the crown of Poland.
In our judgment there is no doubt whatever
that England and France, and the other parties
to the " settlement of Europe," have, so far as
principle goes, a complete right to interfere by
force, and to restore the national independence
of the Poles, which has been outraged and
destroyed by Nicholas, in contravention of the
most solemn treaties. The expediency of an
intantaneous war for such an object is a very
different question no doubt, but it is to be
hoped the powers of England and her allies to
assert the principle, whenever opportunity may
serve, will never be deliberately abandoned. The
second of these atrocious manifestations of
ussian tyranny is an official order to supersede
the Polish language, and actually to punish by
dismissal from office the Director and teachers
of the High School of Winnica, on pretence that
a secret society had been discovered among the
Polish youth for studying the Polish history
and language ! Good God ! was anything so
diabolical as this ever heard of ? Was ever the axe
laid with such cruel efficacy to the roots of national
existence ? Was there ever such sacrilege com-
mitted upon the continuity of any single nation
as this, whereby the means of converse between
men and their forefathers were to be at once cut
off ? The unhappy students who were thus found
guilty of " studying their native language and
history," have been draughted off to sundry re-
giments of the Russian line ; and, in fact, the
system of annihilating the Polish name and na-
tion is complete, while England, France, and
Europe look on and wonder that any one could
be so unreasonable as to expect them to enforce
by the only means left open to them the provi-
sions and the faith of treaties on which the
equipoise of European power and the main-
tenance of tranquillity were once supposed to be
dependent. The St. Petersburgh journal, the
Northern Bee, of the 19th of May, contains
thefollowing

" WARSAW, MAY 10.-His Majesty the Emperor
published the following decree, dated 231 of April :
We, Nicholas, &c., by reason of some persons appearing
in our Polish ezardom (not kingdom), who, by spreading
littlish rumours, endeavour to lead the inhabitants astray,
and excite new disturbances ; by reason that these machi-
nations, contrary to all law, and prejudicial to the public
welfare and safety of the peaceable Inhabitants, cannot be
tolerated, we have ordered, and do hereby order—.
" ' Art. 1. That, by virtue of the 10th paragraph* of
the ()Tulle statute, granted by us to the czardom of Pe.
land o❑ the 14th of February, 1832, until a special law
be enacted, all the political crimes mentioned in the above
paragraph apinst the Government shall be submitted to
the courtsmartial.
" ' 2. That the determination both of the kind of
offences which are to be judged by the courtsmartial, and
the nomination of the judges themseives who shall decide
upon the cases, shall rest with our Vice-Lieutenant.
" 3. That the execution of the present decree of ours,
in all its force and consequences, up to the time of the
new special law being enacted, concordant with the above
10 6 paragraph, be intrusted to our Vice• Lieutenant, in
cur tz,:rdoin of Poland.

" < NICHOLAS.
" Count STEPHEN GRABOWSKI,
" Minister S,cretary of State.'

"PonoLIA, JUNE 28.—1 t is worthy of notice,that since
the Polish revolution the Russian language has superseded
the Polish in all the scl ools of the ancient provinces of
Poland subject to Russia, and that all lessons are taught
only in the Russian language. In Podolia, however, it
appe .rs ti,ut the students of the Higb School at Winnica
bad formed an association with the view of exercising
themselves in the Polish language, which they were ac-
cusiorned to speak from their infancy. The Government
no sooner got notice of it than an imperial ukase was is•
sued to ti:e following effect :
.6( An Order of the Imperial University of Charkow
to the Curator of the Council of the High School of Win-
pica, dated September 16, 1832. No. 5229.
'" Pursuant to an inquiry made by the General Field
Marshal, Count de Sacken, touching the discovery of a
secret society formed among the students of the High
School at Winnica, under the pretence of studying the
Polish language and the Polish history, his Majesty the
Emperor has deigned to order—
" 'l. That M. Kowalewski, acting director, and M.
Bogatko, acting prefect at the High School, as well as
-Messrs. Baranowski, Koisak, and Ferron, teachers, who
were found guilty in this cause, be dismissed, and in future
be never adinitted to any public office within our empire.
" 2. That to Messrs. Swirski and Girardot, teachers,
a severe adii.oniticn be given, for that they, knowing
of the disorder existing among the students, did not in-
form the Government of it ! and
‘• 3. That of the students who have formed that se-
cret society, those under 15 years of age be enlisted in
the Dworanski regiment, and those above that age be sent
to the volunteer corps of the 14th and 16th divisions of
infantry.
" 'ln order that this supreme will of his Majesty the
Emperor be accomplished, I beg of you to make such ar-
e 'fhe 10th section of the " organic statute" referred to is as
follows The form of judicial inquests directed against su-
perior functionaries of the kingdom, and against persons accused
of high treason, shall be determined by a particular law, the
founuation of which shall be in accordance with the other laws
of the empire."_

rangementa as that Kotvalewski, the director, and Bogatko,
the prefect, as well as Boranowski, Korsak, and Ferron, the
teachers, be dismissed their office, stating at the same
time, in their testimonials, the reason of that removal;
and that Swirski and Girardot receive a wry severe ad-
monition, and have it inserted in the testimonials of their
service (stan stuzby).
" As for the students, in order that the supreme will of
the Emperor, with respect to them, may be strictly ac-
complished, the chief of his Majesty's general staff has
already made application on the subject to Field Marshal
Sacken ; and I herewith enclose the list of the names of
those students.

" ' Prince LIEVEN, General of Infantry,
" ' Minister of Public Instruc►tion.
" JAZ YKOFF, Director.'
" ' The students of the High school of Winnica, who
by the ukase of the Emperor are to be sent off to the re-
giments of the 14th and 16th divisions of infantry and the
Dworanski regiment are the following :—Kuroszynski,
Ulatowski, Dwernicki, Ku zanski, Dobrowolski, llofman,
Fronczkowski, Wiszniewski, Glowacki, Stubicki, Kocie-
jowski, Jaruszwicz, Komaroweki, John and Stanislaus
Dombrowski.

" JAZYKOFF, Director.
" Published and executed on the 16th of April, 1833."

The Bill for the removal of Jewish Disabili-
ties, was last night thrown out by the Lords.
For thiswe were not altogether unprepared, as the
Jews form so small a fraction of the community,
and the House of Lords seem determined to
yield to no measure of a liberal complexion, ex-
cept tinder the pressure of necessity. If the
Peers were wise, they would without the smallest
hesitation admit the Hebrews to all the privileges
of British citizens. In fact, the opponents of
the Bill in the House of Lords, evidently rest
their objections on the ground that the Jews are
not sufficiently numerous to make it necessary
to admit them to the privileges of the constitu-
tion. Why is it that a Bill which was carried
by large majorities through all its stages in the
House of Commons, was lost by a majority of
104 to 54 in the House of Lords ? Are the
Peers more alive to the interests of religion
than the representatives of the people ? Does
any man suppose that religion had the slightest
influence in determining the Peers to throw
out this Bill ? They must be credulous in••
deed who suppose that religion had the slightest
influence in deciding the Peers to throw out this
Bill. The whole question hinges on this. The Jews
are not so numerous and powerful as the Ca-
tholics and Dissenters, and, therefore, the Peers
think they may venture to indulge in their hatred
of liberal sentiments with regard to them. The
Duke of Wellington yielded to the claims of
the Catholics, not because he was more satisfied
of the justice of their claims, when he proposed
to admit the Catholics within the pale of the
Constitution, than lie was twenty years before,
but because the Catholics had become so pow-
erful that it would have been dangerous to have
longer refused to emancipate them. The Dis-
senters, in like manner, were only admitted to
the full privileges of citizens when it was no
longer safe to exclude them. But with respect
to the Jews, the House of Peers think they are
not sufficiently numerous to make it imperative
on any party to make their admission into the
pale of the Constitution a sine qua non, and
they wish to show their hostility to every thing
just and liberal, in a case in which they think
they can do so without any danger. The Duke
of Wellington, who has always shown him-
self utterly indifferent to anything like reli-
gious principle, and who would fight for the
Dalai Lama, the Pope, or any other standard
of expediency principle—naturally enough op-
posed the Jews, because he did not see how the
Jews could compel the Legislature to emanci-
pate them. The great argument with his
Grace, and politicians of his stamp, is State ne-
cessity. The Catholics compelled him to eman-
cipate them, and they had a good cause. The
Dissenters compelled him to emancipate them,
and they, too, had a good cause. The Ca-
tholics and Dissenters could have clogged the
State machine, and therefore it became neces-
sary to attend to them. The Duke of Wel-
lington makes no secret of his policy. " The
case of the Jews (said his Grace, last night)
stood on a very dlfferent footing to that of the
Catholics and other Dissenters, to whom re-
lief had been afforded. The Noble and
Learned Lord had referred to certain Acts of
Parliament, by which certain indulgences were
granted to Jews in the very words of the pre-
sent Bill. But these indulgences were granted
to Jews in the colonies—in Canada, Jamaica,
and Barbadoes—and what was the reason for
I his? \Vas there no State necessity for it ?
Certainly there was. European inhabitants were
required in the colonies, and English inha-
bitants especially, and it was in order to encou-
rage their settlement in Canada, that by the 7th
of George the Third (he believed) these relax-
ations were made in favour of the .Jews—relax-
ations which were also adopted in the other in-
stances alluded to.—(Hear, hear, hear.) But
no such necessity existed in the present instance."
In fact, the welfare of the community is altoge-
ther left out of consideration by his Grace. In
Canada and the other colonies, inhabitants are
wanted, and constitutional privileges are readily
granted. Why are Jews made citizens of Canada
if they cannot be made citizens of Great Bri-
tain ? Why should the Christian colonies
of Canada be deluged with Jews any more
than the citizens of England ? If the
Christian religion is essential to the welfare of a
community, why are the colonies to be opened
to another religion ? The truth is, this address
of his Grace clearly shows that the Jewish re-
ligion is to him the same as the Christian reli-
gion—that he cares nothing for the welfare of
the community, in determining what religion
ought or not to have privileges—but that Jews,
Greeks, Catholics, are all the same to him. If
the Christian religion were essential to the wel-
fare of a community, why should privileges be
given to the Jews in Canada and the other
colonies ? The enemies of the Peers rejoice
at this manifestation of illiberality. They say
this is a striking proof that the Peers and the
community must necessarily be opposed to each
other. The representatives of the people, who
have no separate interest, and who can have no
particular motives for espousing the cause of the
Jews, by a large majority agree to admit the
Jews to the ?till privileges of citizens. The
Lords, from the mere love of illiberality, and to
show that they have no sympathy with the rest
of the community, oppose the Jews. They
merely oppose the Jews, because they can do so
with impunity—because the Jews cannot kick
them. The opposition is characterized by base-
ness and cowardice.—Morning Chronicle.

Regarding the House of Lords as an im-
portant and useful branch of the Legislature, we
must say that we have witnessed with great pain
many of the proceedings of that Assembly
during the present session. In fact we should
be sorry to try its utility by the evidence
which the present session has afforded. The
same may be said of its dignity. A frequent
exhibition of the will, without the power, to
defeat popular measures, must have tended
materially w sink its character in that respect.
N o r will the decision to which their Lord-

ships came last night, of throwing out the
Bill for removing the civil disaUlities of the
Jews, add much to their reputation either for
power or for wisdom. This was not a Ca-
binet measure. There was, therefore, no exhi-
bition of power as against the Government m
the rejection of the measure by a majority of
50 Peers. On the contrary, when compared
with their conduct upon other occasions, it
placed their weakness in a stronger light, by
showing that conviction could have had no-
thing to do with their previous forbearance.
As for the wisdom of the proceeding, we may
rest our denial of it on the evidence of the
debate itself. From that evidence it appears,
not only that the advocates of the Jews an-
swered their opponents successfully, but that
their opponents answered themselves. This
was particularly apparent in the speech of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the first half of
which was an answer to the second. If we
had room to analyse the debate it would be
an amusing as well as an instructive task to ex-
pose its various inconsistencies. But they are
too glaring to escape detection. What we
chiefly regret is the injury likely to be visited on
the House itself in the loss of public opinion.
The principle involved in the discussion, though
defeated for the present by a vote, must ulti-
mately prevail. Truth can scarcely be said to
have suffered when every body is aware that it
is truth which has been wrongfully put down.—
Morning Herald.

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST.

(From the World of Fashion.)
LADIES'.

. -
MORNING AND DEJEUNEIL COSTUDIES.—A dress of
cream-coloured Indian silk, painted with detached bunches
of dahlia, the leaves being only pencilled in relief : Amadis
sleeves; corsage tight, and ornamented a la Sevigne,
with a double pelerine vandyked all round; under each
fall of points is placed a border of black lace. The
girdle is of the same material as the dress, fastened in
point with a black buckle. Collaret of black lace, trim-
med with blonde. The bonnet is composed of rice-straw ;
a low plume of several small pink feathers adorn the
crown : and the ribbon trimmings (which form a cap
front under the brim) are pink edged with blond lace.
A dress of white batiste, worked in a pattern of grapes
and vine.leaves round the top of the reverse ; the sleeves
en gigot. A very wide cut pelerine with falling collar is
sloped over the corsage, and confined by a girdle of pink
ribbon; the ends of this pelerine are square and reach al-
most to the knees, en tablier, trimmed with a single row
of work ; a triple row adorns it on the shoulders. The
colleret is black lace lined with rose-colour sartmet, reti-
cule to correspond. The bonnet is of pour de Soie, lined
with a slight spotted gros de Naples, and trimmed with
white ribbons ; a large bouquet of the rose and the acan-
thus is placed in the centre of the crown and partly on the
left side. The bonnet is tied on the right with a bow and
two ends ; no cap is visible, but the hair is arranged in
very full curls on the temples. White gloves, and half-
boots of slate-colour silk.

(From the Royal Ladies' Magazine.)
EVENING DRESS.—A dr; 94 of pink figured si;k with
satin stripes, the corsage is pointed in front. Pelerine of
Chantilly blond, with a double fall on the shoulders, and
confined to the body by small pink bows, the last how is
rather larger, and has two very long ends; a bow with
ends is placed on each shoulder. The hair is dressed with
gold ears of wheat.
OPERA DRESS. —A dress of pompadour satin, richly
figured in groups of natural flowers of the most brilliant
hues on a black ground ; a deep cape cut in three joints on
the shoulders, and edged with fringe, covers the bust ;
sleeves of white crepe aerophane, confined from the elbow
to the wrist with gold coloured riband interleaved. Hat
of black velvet, with a plume of ostrich feathers.
(From the Lady's Magazine.)

WALKING/ MM.-Hat of paille de Hi, ornamented
with two branches of Chinese hawthorn, placed high and
drooping one over the other in the centre of the front of
the calotte. A gauze riband is twisted over them in its
full width, and brought down at the sides to form the
brides. Another riband goes round the lower part of the
calotte in points, and finishes by a bow over the bavolet at
the back. The front of the hat is lined, and a wreath of
riband crosses the brow ; the blond metonniere meets under
the chin. Dress of gaze de soie, American green. The
corsage juste without draperies. Sleeves immensely full
at the top. This magazine gives a model of a new and
very elegant pelerine a pans, made of clear cambric, edged
with Valenciennes lace; it is double and very deep on the
shoulders. A second double garniture is put on where the
double collar :finishes and forms jockeis on the shoulders;
the ends in front are brought beneath the ceinture. Brode-
quins of lilac gros de Naples. White kid gloves. Pocket
handkerchief of Cambric, with a deep hem and a light
guirlande embroidered all round.

GENTLEMEN'S.
(From the Gentleman's Magazine.)
MORNING DaEss.—A maitarine blue coat, intended to
button up to the neck. The back is broad across the
shoulders to admit of an appearance of a full chest.
Sleeves with three buttons, awl without a cuff; broad and
short skirts. Blue glass buttons. Cossack trousers,
plaited into a band and buttoned up the front. Leg seam
strait, and no vents. .

. -
WALKING DRESS.-An olive morning lappelled coat,
collar and breast turned to tfe bottom. Bright metal
buttons. Sleeves one button only ; skirts broad across the
hips, and no flaps. Waistcoats of silk Marcella, made
single breasted, with a neat narrow rolling collar, edges
bound. Trousers to fit the waist, and across the hips,
tightly ; and in other respects the same as morning dress.
RIDING DREss.—A blue morning frock ; the fronts of
this but just meet at the waist, where it fastens with two
strong hooks and eyes. A rolling collar not too heavy,
covered with velvet or not, according to taste, but velvet
is the most fashionable. The collar should roll quite
down to the waist, and from the waist the skirts should
have a tendency to turn outwards to show the silk linings,
which ought to be of a lighter colour. Trousers cut full
from the top to the bottom, and straight round.

VANDYCK discovered his love for art when
at school, where it is said he saved a fellow-scholar from
a flogging by painting a human face on the seat of
honour; so that when the youth was about to be punished,
the toaster could not resist the ludicrous association, and
forgave the culprit.

Dumbarton burgh, it seems, is to be put under
trust. Tueschy a meeting of the creditors was held ; and
we understand that the Magistrates and Council then
agreed to convey the whole property of the burgh to five
trustees, for beboof of the creditors at large.—Caledonian
Mercury.

A grand regatta is to take place this day,
patronized by Messrs. BRISCOE, M.P., W. A. BEAU-
CLERK, M.P., C. TENNYSON, M.P., and B. HAWES,
M.P. It is to start from the buoys moored off the
Temple stairs, row through Vauxhall-bridge, and back
by the Surrey shore to a boat moored off the Temple.
It is to be in two heats, by seven boats, with two pair of
sculls in each. Sir E. CODRINOTON will start the boats
in the first heat, and Sir T. TROURRIDGE in the second.

The Reformers in the provincial towns, by
the country papers, appear highly satisfied with the pros.
pest of Corporate Reform. We understand the Municipal
Commission will be opened at the end of this month, im-
mediately on the return of the Commissioners from the
Summer Circuit.

PECUNIARY QUALIFICATION.--The ab-
surdity of a property qualification, either for a member or
an elector, cannot be too much dwelt upon. Poverty can
be no more a proof of a man's dishonesty, than riches
would be of his honesty. It is not the wealthiest people
who are the most proof against bribery; and independence
does not depend so much upon a man's possessions as upon
his wants. One man may have a surplus with a hundred
pounds per annum, while another runs in debt with
*a hundred thousand. Andrew Marvell, with scarce
the means of living, was unimpeachably honest. Tire
scion of the house of Wellesley, with almost the wealth
So far from a
integrity, they are
of a fairy tale, has nevertheless plunged into enormous
is a proof that be
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therefore, that his
frequently only a p.roof that he loves money; and the
poverty of a studious man, whose talents might be
accumulationthanriochf.ews
;eaaltand,,.
integrity is most probably incorruptible by any of the
ordiary temptations which may assail him. Yet the
turned
values
wisdomt to the
more
riches of the former are held to make him eligible for a
in mber, while the poverty, caused by the moral and in-
tellectual pursuits of the latter, is held to be a proof that
he is ready to be put up for sale.—Junius Redivirus cis
the House of Cons:non F. ... . . Taies Magazine.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court was beld, for the purpose, more
especially, of receiving the great general report on the sub-
ject of London Bridge and its approaches.

THE MARSHALMEN.

A report was brought up from the Committee of
Officers and Clerks, relative to the city officers called
Marshalmen attendant upon the Lord Mayor and Alder-
men. The Report stated the opinion of the Committee,
that the situation of Marshalmao, vacant 'V the death of
Charles Herdfield, should be filled up ; but expressed dis-
approbation of the manner in which the duties of the
Marshalmen were performed, and urged tie propriety of
reducing their salaries, and making judicious arrangements,
in order to counterbahnce the defects of thi existing
system.

Alderman Woon said, that the Marshalnert were
utterly useless appendages to the Civic Magistr►cy. He
had had a great deal of experience of them, and he could
not help pronouncing them of no service wl ateer ; but,
on the contrary, as a nuisance.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. PRITCHARD having observed that the qmstion as
to the Court agreeing with the Committee in tl report,
was said to be carried in the affirmative, startet up and
declared, that such a mode of carrying a pint—in
which, he was sure, the common sense of the Gut did
not acquiesce—was extremely improper.—(Heat, hear.)
The negative, he said, bad never been put at all.

Alderman Woon said, it should be his care that the
public should not be sacrificed by the exaction of fees by
the Marshahnen, if it should be the opinion teat the
office should continue.

The Court then divided, and there appeared about three
to one against the report.
Some of the members were for printing and circulating
the report, although it was rejected, but the Lori Mayor
in vain demanded a precedent for such a course. A peti-
tion was then presented on behalt of one of the Marshalnaen
who had been suspended, but it was not entertained.
GENERAL REPORT RELATIVE TO LONDON
BRIDGE AND ITS APPROACHES.

Mr. R. L. JONES (the Chairman to the London Bridge
Committee) presented to the Court a report, which ke
said was a continuance of the great general report *hid'
he had brought up some considerable time ago. It was,
he said, extremely agreeable to him to be able to inform
the Court that the actual cost of the approaches very ma-
terially fell short of the estimates made by scientifiz men
of that vast undertaking.—(Cheers.) He believec'that
the city would in consequence of such diminutict be
enabled to carry on all the grand contemplated improve-
ments in Moorfields, Princes-street, the narrow parts of
Tower Ward, and other places, and it was calculated that
the surplus over and above the charges for the imprve-
rnents already effected would be adequate to meet the ex-
penses of the projected alterations.—(Cheers.) The ,ext
great point to which the Committee intended to turn Heir
attention would be the plan of widening Coleman-tctoet,
where such inconveniences and annoyances were conatattly
occurring. It would be quite unnecessary to give my
description of the advantages which must inevitably ease
from the accomplishment of the plan of improvements. A
word or two relative to the extraordinary labours of he
clerk of the works : In 1829 that gentleman had e-
ceived 5001. as a recompense for his extra labour. Slice
that period nearly 300,0001. had been expended under lie
guidance, and the exertions used by him were beyond mei-
sure great. It would be for the Court to determine abott
any future compensation under such circumstances.
The report was then read, and cheered very mud
throughout. It stated that the opinions of eminent en.
gineers had been taken on the subject of the stability oil
the building, and they had declared that not the slightest
alteration had taken place in the levels of the bridge since
it had been opened to the public. Sir John Rennie having
certified that the contractors, Joliffe and Banks, had per-
formed the whole of their contracts, these gentlemen, as
well as Sir John Rennie, had been settled with. The
report next stated that the improvements in the neigh-
bourhood of Tower-street were going on rapidly ; a large
portion of the ground had been already cleared away. Wits
respect to the settlement of claims, the Committee bad
succeeded in settling claims to the amount of 173,7101.
19,.6d. for 34,332/.lBs.—(A laugh, and cries of " Hear,
hear")—and parties who estimated their own premises at
the sum of 382,0001. were brought down to the sum of
275,2751. while of 653 claims, no more were settled by
the intervention of juries than 84.—(Cheers.) The rest
of the report was a mere echo of the Chairman's speech.
Mr. JONES then moved that the report be printed and
circulated.
Mr. COPE said be bad en the former occasion been of
opinion that the Clerk of the Works bad no fair claim to
remuneration for extra labour. He now felt gratified in
being able to state that he bad committed an ergo, is et.! r-
taining that opinion, and most willingly retracted it, for
the exertions necessary to be made in takint, surveys of the
different premises, were so great, that Parliamentp could
never have entertained the notion of letting them pass
without gr lilting indemnification.
Mr. GALLOWAY could not exactly see what the
extraordinary duties were, and thought that before the
recompense was proposed, an investigation ought to take
place.

The motion was then unanimously agreed to.
A Committee's report was presented relative to a poor
aged man, named Moulder, who had by an accident lost
his situation of ale-conner on last Midsummer-day. The
candidates are elected by show of bands, and the petitioner
had neglected to gather together his friends, expecting
that, as is the custom, the old ale.conners, would be
elected to a certainty. A new candidate, however, hap-
pened to have more friends or acquaintances in the room,
and the Sheriffs declared the latter elected, but not
without expressing regret at the disagreeable accident.
The report advised that remuneration to the amount of
the salary should be given to Moulder, and the Court at
once acquiesced in the proposition.
Mr. R. L. JONES brought up the report of the
Committee appointed to inquire into the propriety of
establishing a Library at Guildhall. It recommended that
1,000 guineas should be given from the chamber, for the
purpose of preparing a place for a library, with an appa-
ratus for heat resembling that of the British Museum.
The Court then adjourned, and the LORD MAsoft. said
that he should not hold another Court until September.

THE HERTFORD TOXOPHOLITE

MEETING.

The Annual Fete of this distinguished Archery Society
was held the day before yesterday, at the grounds near
Hertford, and was honoured by the presence of a greater
number of distinguished persons than on any preceding oc-
casion. Amongst the company we noticed the families of
the Salisburys, Verulatns, Cowpers, Bridgewater, Gapes,
Sebrights, De Roue, Cowper, &c.
There were numerous marquees erected on the ground,
and the Members of the Society appeared in beautiful cos-
tumes of green and white, ornamented with silver fringe
and tassels, with hat and plumes. After the competition
for the several prizes, the company retired to the Town
Hall, where a sumptuous dejuene was provided for 125
persons. After the banquet, dancing commenced to the
music of Weippert's quadrille band, and was supported
with great spirit until midnight.