The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-03 00:00:00

THE DINNER AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.

Cards of invitation for this splendid annual civic banquet
had been issued to upwards of seven hundred individuals.
At least four hundred and fifty guests sat down to dinner,
as is customary, in the round room, at the rear of the Man-
sion-house. A considerable number of military personages,
in their spledid uniforms, added much to the effect of the
scene. At half-past seven o'clock dinner-was announced
and in a few minutes afterwards the room was completely.
filled. Amongst those present we noticed,- Lords Rath-
down and Hawarden, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of
Kildare, Baron Sir William Smith, Colonel Badcock, 15th
Hussars ' • the Dean of Emly, General Luscombe, the Re-
corder of Dublin, Sir John K. James, Sir Coghill Coghill,
Captains Arthur, Huntley, and Teesdale, Colonel Vernor,
Major Maunsell, &c.

The dinner, wines, desert, &c., were of the most sump-
tuous description, and all the rarities of the stason were
profusely scattered over the table.

- A fei;, minutes after the cloth was removed, the Lord
Mayor gave, after the usual loyal toasts :--
" The House of Brunswick, may they never forget the
principles which placed them on the throne." Air, " When
order in this land commenced."

Next, " the health of his Excellency the Lord Lieut-
enant," was proposed, and received in the warmest manner.
Air " Wellesley's March."
" The Lord Mayor and City of Dublin." Air, " Hearts
of Oak."

The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. lie trusted that he
had performed his duty in a manner which merited the ap-
plause of his fellow-citizens. Before he sat down, he would
take the liberty of proposing a toast, which he was sure
would be congenial to all present. He meant
" The Glorious, Pious, and Immortal Memory"—(Great
cheering.) Air, " Should auld acquaintance be forgot."
Several other toasts were proposed and drank amid the
greatest enthusiasm.

SIR W. GossET.—We believe it is not his inten-
tion to proceed to the Continent, but, after a visit to the Lakes
of Killarney, he goes to the county of Mayo to enjoy some
shooting, and is not expected to be absent for more than three
weeks.—. Evening Packet.

Early on Thursday morning, a fire broke out in the
premises of Messrs. Francis Marsdon and Co., silk-winders,
of George-street, Spitalfields, owing, as is supposed, to the
fall of the snuff of a candle on the material which was being
worked on the machine. A great part of the stock, and many
portions of the machine, were utterly consumed, and the re-
mainder was materially damaged. The property is insured in
the Phoenix.—About eight o'clock the same night, the manu-
factory of Mr. Thomas Ramsden, practical chymist, of
Charles-street, Whitechapel, was discovered to be on fire, oc-
casioned, as is supposed, from some defect in the flue of the
drying-room, which is immediately under the store-room.
The fire first communicated to some bags of saltpetre, whence
it spread rapidly, and the entire building, with the stock
therein, was entirely destroyed. Besides a plentiful stock
of the drugs used in the manufacture, there was a valuable
bulk of oxalic acid and salt of sorrel. The stock and building
are fully insured in the Sun.

COURTS OF REQUESTS.—The Courts of Re-
quests, so useful for the recovery of small debts, differ from
the ancient Court bearing that name. The old ourt (Curia
Requisitionum) was originally a Court of Equity of the same
nature with the Court of Chancery, but inferior to it; princi-
pally instituted for the relief of such petitioners as addressed
themselves by supplication to the King. Of this Court. the
Lord Privy Seal was Chief Judge, assisted by the Masters of
Requests, and it had its beginning about the 9th of Henry
-VII., though Gwyn, in his " Readings," states that it began
with a Commission in the reign of Henry VIII. The Court
having assumed great power was adjudged, upon argument to
the hof
Henry London.
the Common Pleas, in the 41st of Elizabeth, to be no Court
of rre ;, Itoilby.ov statutes of the 16th and 17th of
Charles I. it was abolished.
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The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, by an Act, ap-
pointed two Aldermen and four discreet
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,issioners, who were to sitb
eide all claims under forty shillings. The Act of Common
Council was confirmed by several statutes in *he reign of
James I