The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-12 00:00:00

DESCRIPTION OF THONIIS ALLSOP.

Age about 60 ; height, 6 feet ; complexion fair,
eyes grey, hair thin, light audturninggrey, little;or
no whiskers, strong made, stoops as if round shoul-
dered, speaks quick ; dress, dark brown dress coat,
drab trowsers, and black hat. The said Thomas
Allsop was well known at Ginger's
IllinSt et"- briri ~pi Hotel, West
and at the Jamaica coffee-house,
Oornhill, Ci, y.
Information to be given at the police-station,
King-street, Westminster or at any of the metro-
politan p•lice-stations. '
Metropolitan Police-office, Whitehall-place,
February 11, 1858.

The following has reference to the above :--
ORSINI'S Fitraxn ALLSOP.—A correspondent fur-
nishes some further information relative to. this
gentleman. The writer says :—He was the friend
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived with him at
one time, and dined with him every Sunday for
years. He wrote a memoir of the poet and edited his
Table Talk. Landor,
Char:es Lamb, and others
were his friends. I knew him well, and believed
him a warm-hearted and erratic man, but of a ten-
clor heart and benevolent disposition. I cannot be-
lieve he had a guilty knowledge of the bloodyin-
tentions of Orsini and Pierri, but had been their
dupe. His wife Was a fashionable modiste, and
had several French milliners in her employ. Her
magasin des modes was 280, Regent-street, and
her connections were among the aristocracy.
Robert Owen was
an intimate friend of Ail-
sop, but the socialists of the latter was more of
the French type, Even in theological speculations
Allsop was more extreme than his aged friend.
I did not think,
however, that ho would harm a
worm, much less be the associate of Italian assassins.
We may add that our correspondent is probably
onngclor
right in identifying Mr. m
lsop,r.
of Regent-street
and Cornhill, L
Taylor's corre-
spondent and customer, as Orsini was certainly
intimate with the stockbroker. We can endorse
our correspondent's opinion of hie general character.
His country residence- was an open kouse for what
, Thomas Carlyle calls " political notabilities." Mr.
Richard ()ostler and Fcargus. O'Connor were. fre-
quent guests at lies table. One at least, if not both
of the latter gentlemen, in the hour of adversity
found in Mr. Tnenias Allsop, of the Stock Ex-
change, a warm-hearted and liberal friend. Such
a man, however erratic, is not likely to have assisted
in hatching a plot like that attributed—some say
unjustly—to
.Orsini, Pieria, and Rudio. —Man -
chater Examiner.

REYOBISI OE THE CITY CORPORATION.—Yesterday the
Court of Common Council sat and received a report
from a committee on the Government Corporation Re-
form Bill, A long discussion took place, arid eventually
it was agreed to refer to a committee of the whole court
to consider what measures it may
be desirable to take
h respect
by the Corporation in the following particulars. The
City is to be divided into 10 wards by a person ap-
pointed by the Secretary of State, instead of into 20
Government
differs from that promoted
by t. T
the two band report thereon to the
c h e to
wards divided by the Common Council. The num-
ber of alderman is to be 16 instead of 20, and
all the present aldermen are to go out of office. The
number of Common Councilmen is to be 96, instead of
150. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, instead of being
appointed by the livery and rate payers in Common Hall,
are to be appointed by the Common Council. The Court
of Alderman is to be abolished, and their functions vested
in the Common Council instead of being continued as a
court for magisterial and charitable purposes. The
accounts of the Corporation are to be annually trans-
mitted to the Secretary of State, and an abstract laid
before Parliament. The Common Csuncil are not to
have the power to sell, mortgage, or lease in certain cases
the property of the corporation without the consent of
the Government. The metage of corn French wares,
or merchandise is to be abolished, and all exclusive
rights of porterage. The admission and regulation of
brokers and the fees paid by them to be abolished. The
charters, with the grants by the crown of any market
within seven miles of the city, are to be repealed, but
not to affect the Metropolitan Market Act, 1857. Upon
the petition of the Common Council the Secretary of
of State may -appoint police magistrates for the City
of London, to be paid out of the corporate funds. The
Lord Mayor and aldermen are not to be judges of the
Centre' Crire.ioal Courts All officers whose offices are
abolished, or who are removed from their offices by the
operation of this act, are to be compensated by the cor-
poration, which may include the fellowship porters.