The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-25 00:00:00

THE CORNIIILL BURGLARY.

A petition was presented by Mr. Homer, on the
part of Mr. John Walker, watchmaker, of Cornhill,
praying that the Court would supplement the grant
of £5O by a further sum of £lB9 odd, in considera-
tion of his losses by the burglary in his premises a
few years ago, from the money and property found
in possession of the thieves, who were afterwards
convicted.

The subject underwent some discussion, in the
course of which the City Solicitor (Mr. Nelson),
replying to a question by Alderman Besley, said in
effect that the money being what was called
" felons' goods," resulted to the sheriffs, under a
charter of the corporation 200 years old.
Mr. BEDFORD wished it to go forth that the cor-
poration derived no benefit whatever from such
money ; that they should be ashamed to receive it ;
and that if there was a probable owner of the money
they ought if possible to find him.
Mr. Alderman DAKIN, as one of the sheriffs at the
time, said it had been referred to a committee to
trace the ownership of the property, and to hand
parties who had any reasonable claim to it the
amount they could fairly claim. lie supported the
motion for so referring it, and that, having been
carried, the committee diligently inquired as to
whom the property belonged, and reported on the
subject. Some of it had been handed to those who
appeared to have a reasonable claim to it, and the
rest fell to the corporation. He had never soiled
his hands with it.

Mr, ui 13E$LET1 as the other Sheriff tho

time, said he had never touched a farthing of it, and
did not mean to touch it.

Eventually, on the motion of Mr. M'GEORGE, it
was referred to the law and parliamentary commit-
tee to examine, and report upon the subject.

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.

An animated discussion arose as to the character
which the civic pageant from Guildhall to West-
minster on the 9th November is to assume.
Mr. MoREY, a member of the entertainment com-
mittee who are charged with the duty of making
the arrangements, replying to a question, explained
that they were divided on the subject, especially
with regard to the state coach, and at their last
sitting they agreed to refer the matter to the Com-
mon Council. At the same time, they were dis-
posed to assent to some modification of the proces-
sion.

The Town CLERK, at the request of Mr. Alder-
man Wilson, read a resolution of the court passed
in 1777, in the time of Lord Mayor Halifax, to the
effect that the court, taking into consideration that
some of the chief magistrates of the City had not
then of late used the state coach in going to attend
the Courts of Aldermen, Common Council, and
Common Hall, desired that in future Lord Mayors
use it on the accustomed days. The Town Clerk
added that, notwithstanding that resolution, in his
time the state coach had not been used on many
which were called state occasions, with the excep-
tion of the 9th of November (Lord Mayor's day),
when it had always been used.

Mr. GOWER asked the Lord Mayor elect (Mr.
Alderman Allen) whether it was his intention to
use the state coach or not, on going from Guildhall
to Westminster to be presented to the Barons of
the Exchequer.
Mr. RUDKIN (interposing) submitted that it was
not competent for a member of the court to ask such
a question, and that the Lord Mayor elect might be
left to use his own discretion in the matter. (Hear,
hear.)

The LORD MAYOR (Sir Thomas Gabriel) re-
minded the court that there was no motion before
it, and that no notice whatever on this subject ap-
peared on the paper of business.

The Lord Mayor Elect (Mr. Alderman Allen)
said at the then stage of the discussion, and having
regard to the irregular manner in which it has been
brought on, he declined to answer the question.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. GOWER moved that, in accordance with the
resolution of 1777, the Lord Mayor Elect be re-
quested to use the state coach on the occasion of
his going to Westminster on the 9th of November
to be presented to the Barons of the Exchequer.
The motion was seconded by Mr. DRESSER
ROGERS.

The Chairman of the City Lands Committee (Mr.
STAPLETON) moved as an amendment, " That con-
sidering the increase of population, trade, and coin.
merco, the augmented inconvenience and risk
attending the stoppage and diversion of the public
streets, and the collection of vast crowds in the
thoroughfares of the metropolis consequent on the
procession on Lord Mayor's day ; looking also to
the hiddrance to traffic arising from the public
works which are in progress at the Holborn Valley,
Smithfield, the Mansion House-street, Blackfriars-
bridge, and elsewhere within the City, this court is
of opinion that it is desirable to modify the pro.
ceedings attendant upon the progress of the Lord
Mayor to be sworn before the Barons of the Exche-
quer at Westminster, and that it be left to the
Lord Mayor elect and the Sheriffs to use their own
unfettered judgment as to the most desirable means
of effecting their journey to 'Westminster on that
occasion." (Hear, hear.)
Mr. RTJDKIN seconded the amendment.

Mr. Alderman WILSON regarded all the great hue
and cry against the Lord Mayor going in state to
Westminster as usual as mere bugbear. A corres-
pondent of a newspaper he observed, a tradesman in
the Strand, reckoned that he lost £2O on every
Lord Mayor's day. If such a person made £2O
every quarter of an hour during the six days of the
week, all he could say was that he might well afford
to suspend operations once a year while the Lord
Mayor's procession passed his door.
Mr. LAWLEY treated the present opposition to the
procession as an exemplification of the money-
grubbing spirit of the present day, and reminded
the Lord Mayor elect that when he was chosen to
office in the Guildhall he said ho was a Conserva-
tive, and was prepared to maintain the rights and
privileges of the Livery.

Mr. M'GEORGE, speaking from experience, said
there was little or no business, as a rule, done in
the City on Lord Mayor's day, in consequence of
the prevailing excitement. It was a well-known
fact that bankers' clerks, in particular, scarcely
dared to traverse the streets. For himself he never
sent money to his banker's on that day,
Mr. BEDFORD ridiculed the notion of bankers
and merchants memorialising the Lord Mayor elect
on the subject, seeing that on this as on most occa-
sions the pageant would not go near the quarter in
which they mostly carried on business.

After some further discussion the amendment of
Mr. Stapleton in favour of a modification of the
pageant on public grounds was put, and lost on a
division by 25 in a court of 57 members, and the
original motion, that in accordance with the resolu-
tion of 1777 the Lord Mayor elect be requested to
use the state coach on the forthcoming 9th of No-
vember, was adopted.

The court then adjourned until this day (Friday)
at one o'clock, when it will proceed to consider tho
question of a county rate for the City.

THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION.

. BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.
Yesterday the Assistant Boundary Commissioners,
Major-General Bainbrigge and W. Senior, Esq.,
barrister-at-law, attended at the Vestry-hall of the
parish of St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark, for
the purpose of adjusting and fixing the boundaries
of that borough. Several gentlemen cor.nected with
the borough were present, among whom were Mr.
Collinson, who represents the parish of St. George-
the-Martyr at the Metropolitan Board of Works,
and Mr. E. Dresser Rogers.
Major-General Bainbrigge remarked that as the
borough was surrounded by other boroughs, and as
the commissioners had no power to extend or cur-
tail its boundaries, nothing could be done in that
respect. If, however, there were any inaccuracies
on the Ordnance map which showed the present
boundaries they could adjust them, and thereby
make the boundary accurate.
Mr. Collinson said the boundaries as laid down
on the Ordnance map bad always been considered
by the district board within the borough, as well as
by the Metropolitan Board of Works, as accurate,
and those bodies had acted upon them accordingly.
He was not, therefore, prepared to point out any
inaccuracy ; neither, he believed, were any of the
parish officers.

General Bainbrigge said he observed that though
the borough was pretty well built over, still there
were some spaces available for building purposes.
Mr. Collinson said there were very few, and one
of them, a space of sixty 'acres, had been appro-
priated for the Southwark Park.
General Bainbrigge said a suggestion had been
made by a gentleman at Finsbury, when the com-
missioners were adjusting the boundaries of that
borough, that instead of appropriating one large
space for the purposes of a public park, the various
smaller places in different parts of the borough
should be appropriated, whero people could play at
cricket, and such like games, and otherwise enjoy
themselves. What did the people of Southwark
think of that suggestion ?
_ _

Mr. Collinsonconsiclered the suggestion a good
one, but in the borough there were no vacant spaces
that could be so appropriated. Some three years
ago the Metropolitan Board of Works instituted an
inquiry to ascertain whether such spaces could be
found in the different metropolitan boroughs, but
the result was that few spots were found which could
be so appropriated.
Mr. Dresser Rogers remarked that though the
commissioners could not extend or contract the
boundaries, it would be well for election purposes if
they could fix such boundaries by a street or road
so as to have them well defined.

Genereil Daiariggo said in the present emothey

could not do that. Ho believed the borough was
composed of whole parishes, and no doubt the
boundaries of these were well enough known. Their
object in coming there was to ascertain whether
there was any objection to, or inaccuracy in, the
present boundary as laid down on the Ordnance
map, and finding that there was none there was of
course an end of the matter.

The proceedings, which occupied a very short
time, then terminated.

THE WEST RIDING.

On Wednesday, General Sir R. Dacres and Mr.
Sergeant H. Tindal Atkinson, after going round the
boundaries of Wakefield, resumed the inquiry re-
sp;:cting the division of the West Riding, at Wake-
field.—Mr. J. C. Yewdall, of the firm of Messrs.
David Yewdall and Sons, cloth manufacturers, of
Calverley and Bromley, and having places of busi-
ness at Leeds and Ecelashill, gave evidence in favour
of East Morley wapentake being added to the nor-
thern division—in other words, he was in favour of
Mr. Beaumont's eastern division.—Mr. John Kaye,
of Clayburn West, objected to the Government
plan for the north and mid divisions, inasmuch as
the former would be handed over to the landowners,
and the mid to the manufacturing interest ; but, as
to the southern division, he thought in the Govern-
ment plan there would be a fair and equitable repre-
sentation of all interests. He objected also to Mr.
Thompson's plan, and the plan of Mr. Beaumont ho
considered the best and simplest, associating as it did
nearly every interest in each division, without giving
an undue preponderance to any. Bingley might,
f thought desirable, be given to the mid division.
—Mr. S. Bruce, barrister, 'Wakefield, said ho con-
sidered in this matter they should first endeavour to
find whether there were any fixed principles that
would naturally guide the commissioners ; and here
he said they must refer to the provisions of the
48th section of the recent act. From this it ap-
peared that it in the division of counties the legal
and natural boundaries were to be considered ; and
the question was what these were ? He thought that
they should, in deciding the matter, consider what
had been the course of English law and prece-
dent. In the Reform Act of 1831 Yorkshire was
divided into three constituencies—the North
Riding, the East Riding, and the West Riding—
and thus the ancient divisions of the county were
followed, the only exception being that Ainsty,
which belonged to the West Riding, was put in the
North. York naturally became the nomination
place for the North Riding, and Beverley for the
East Riding, and not Hull ; and Wakefield for the
West Riding, and not Leeds or Sheffield. These
facts, he considered, afforded some guide as to the
plan that would be adopted in future. When the
riding was divided into north and south similar prin-
ciples were followed. The wapentake divisions were
followed except in one instance, and the two in-
terests, agricultural and manufacturing, wore
equally divided. These were the principles
that had guided preceding divisions, and the
schedule of the act afforded evidence that Parlia-
ment intended the same principles to guide the divi-
sion of counties now, but allowing, where the .rote•
rests of a division really required it, the boundaries
of parishes to be taken, instead of those of wapen-
takes or hundreds. Having regard to this manifest
intention of Parliament, he considered the several
plans the commissioners had before them, and said
that, with regard to the claim of Barnsley to be the
nomination place for the southern division, it was
simply an attempt to induce the commissioners to
reverse the decisions and opinions of Parliament.
As to the plans for the division of the riding, he
considered Mr. Beaumont's preferable to all the rest.
The commissioners then adjourned to Sheffield, and
stated they would sit on Saturday at Wakefield.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

BRISTOL-THURSDAY.

On our market to-day there was a moderato supply of
English wheat, which was taken freely at a reduction of
is to 2s por qr. In foreign wheat, which mot with a fair
sale, prices wore as high as last week. Malting barley held
firm, but not much doing ; grinding sorts scarce, and high
currencies wore realised. Oats in dull demand, and prices
6d under previous rates. Beans and peas dull. Indian
corn slow, and 18 lower.